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Queen Abla Pokou and the Origin of the Baoule People
On June 22, 2016 By Dr. Y.In Great Civilizations, Great People16 Comments
Baoule mask representing Queen Abla Pokou
The story of Queen Abla Pokou (Abla Poku in English) is the story of the creation of the Baoule people of Côte d’Ivoire. She was a strong and loving queen who made a profound sacrifice for the well-being of her people, and thus was granted their deep love.
In the 17th century, King Osei Kofi Tutu I founds the Ashanti Empîre of Ghana. Given that in the Ashanti culture the law is matrilineal, when King Oseï Tutu dies, his nephew succeeds him. However, when his nephew dies shortly after, a war for the throne starts in Kumasi, the capital of the kingdom; this war opposes an old uncle of the royal family named Itsa, and Dakon, the second brother of the future queen Abla Pokou (born at the beginning of the 18th century). Dakon will also die in this fratricide war. Quickly, Abla Pokou, understanding that she and her followers will be next to die, decides to flee. Led by her, they walk for several days and nights, fleeing from those threatening to kill them. They soon arrive on the shores of the Comoé River, located on the frontier between Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. But the river is unsurmountable, its waters are dangerous, and their enemies are getting closer. After having overcome so many obstacles, and walked for days, it is impossible to stop there.
Queen Pokou looks to her court wizard for advice, saying, “wizard, tell us what the genie of the river wants from us in order to cross its treacherous waters!” The wizard replies, “Queen, the river is quite irritated, and would only stop once an offering of what is most dear to us is made to it.” Thus, the women of the court start taking off their gold and ivory jewelry, and the men bring their cattle for offering. But the wizard, shaking his head sadly, states “What is most dear to us is our sons!”
Looking upon her people, the queen decides to make the most difficult sacrifice ever: that of her toddler son wrapped on her back. After untying him, she says to him, “Kouakou(‘Kwaku’ in English), my only child, forgive me, but I have understood that I need to offer you to the river for the survival of our people. More than a woman or mother, a queen is first a queen!” She then stoically, without shedding a tear, offers her son as a sacrifice to the Comoé River.
Once the offering made, a path quickly appears within the waters of the Comoé river allowing the queen and her people to cross it. Once the river crossed, the queen finally cries, “BA OULI!” meaning “the child is dead.” This will become the name of the people “Baoulé”. Once they arrived in a good place, the tribe holds a funeral for the sacrificed child. In memory of this, the place will be called Sakassou, meaning “place of funerals.” Queen Abla Pokou will rule over her people for many years, and news of her good reign will travel very far. She will die around 1760.
Poster for the 3D movie: Pokou Ashanti Princess
Some historians claim that a big tree bent over to let the Queen and her people cross, while others maintain that a group of hippopotamuses lined up a path across the river for the queen. Either way, the story of the queen’s great courage remains the same. Queen Abla Pokou, the founder of the Baoulé people of Côte d’Ivoire, was a great queen and woman who sacrificed what she held most dear for the well-being of her people. Many African presidents would learn a lot from Queen Abla Pokou’s courage, determination, and love of her people. Today in Côte d’Ivoire, her story has just been made into a 3D movie: POKOU Princesse Ashanti. The Ivorian author Véronique Tadjo has also published a book Reine Pokou: concerto pour un sacrifice in 2005. The story of Queen Pokou and the Baoule was retold by Maximilien Quenum in his Légendes africaines. Check out the websites Naforo-Ba and Matricien.org to learn more about it.
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A self-administered "scratch-and-sniff" test for COVID-19 may be around the corner, according to researchers at Penn State, the University of Florida and Arizona State University. The team, which received $912,000 from the National Institutes of Health, will analyze two different smell tests with a goal of developing inexpensive, at-home tests to help identify new cases of COVID-19 and provide a warning sign of a community outbreak in time to thwart it.
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Alumni Chris Cox on thanking the NHS and life on the road
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After a busy 2019 touring with the B-52’s performing around Europe in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Spain, 2020 is looking a little different for Hyde Park Brass, the acclaimed band with roots here at Leeds.
Covid-19 has put a dampener on plans for festivals and gigs throughout the summer, but that hasn’t stopped Music and Management alumni Chris Cox and his fellow Hyde Park Brass bandmates from working on new music during the lockdown.
The band have been releasing weekly videos to support and thank the NHS for their work during the pandemic.
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“We wanted to say thanks to the NHS for the invaluable work they’re doing at the minute,” says Chris. “Hopefully, the songs we’re recording each week will help show how much they are appreciated and will bring a bit of brightness to their day.”
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Date: Jul 7, 2011
Source: The Daily Star
‘No God’ film angers Salafists and incites secular tensions in Tunis
By Andrew Hammond
TUNIS: Six months after Tunisia’s uprising, religious tension is rising over the limits of freedom of expression, as Islamists challenge the dominance of liberals in what was once a citadel of Arab secularism.
Last week several dozen men attacked a cinema in Tunis that had advertised a film publicly titled in French ‘Ni Dieu, Ni Maitre’ (No God, No Master) by Tunisian-French director Nadia al-Fani, an outspoken critic of political Islam.
Police later arrested 26 men, but Salafists – a purist trend within political Islam advocating a return to the ways of early Muslims – gathered outside the Justice Ministry two days later to demand their release, leading to scuffles with lawyers.
Security forces were heavily deployed in central Tunis to stop protests by Salafists after Friday prayers last week.
Secular media and intellectuals have reacted with alarm, warning that freedoms in Tunisia – a bastion of secularism under 23 years of tough police rule by Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali – are in danger of being lost if Islamists across the spectrum of Islamist politics are not stopped.
“This is a foretaste of what awaits us if firm measures are not taken against these sorcerers’ apprentices, since nothing will stop them attacking hotels, nightclubs or ordinary people sitting in a restaurant,” wrote Taieb Zahar in the French-language monthly Realites.
Tunisia was the launch pad for pro-democracy protest movements that have spread across North Africa and the Middle East since Ben Ali was forced from power in January.
A slow transition to a democratic system is causing tension. An interim president and Cabinet will not hold elections until October for a special assembly to write a new constitution that will allow for parliamentary and presidential polls at a later stage.
Abdelmajid Habibi, a leader in the Salafist Tahrir party which police accused of staging the cinema attack, said the arts community was trying to provoke Salafists but misjudging the mood among Tunisians who are more conservative than the father of the modern state, Habib Bourguiba, imagined.
“The country doesn’t need to show a film like this or with this name, especially with the situation Tunisia is going through now. This is a deliberate attempt to provoke people,” he said, pointing to the film’s Arabic title “La Allah, La Sayyid” (No God, No Master) which he said hints there is no God.
He said that despite government policies since independence from France that aggressively promoted emancipation of women – banning polygamy, easing women’s access to divorce and discouraging wearing the veil – Islamic conservatism was strong in Tunisia.
As Arab leaders such as Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak, who was forced from office in Egypt in February, tried to shut Islamist forces out of politics, liberal elites such as the arts community began to see the state as a line of defense against increasing conservatism in Arab societies.
Today many in Tunisia’s cultural elite look to France as a political and cultural model, and Tunisian directors are often feted in France, which funds many of their films.
Fani’s documentary, which calls for protecting secularism in post-Ben Ali Tunisia, was “like a declaration of war, and people wanted to say that they were against it,” Habibi added.
An avowed atheist, Fani is a lightning rod for Islamists who has campaigned for removing an article in Tunisia’s constitution naming Islam as the religion of state. She says it precludes the rights of Jews, Christians, atheists and others.
“What is clear is that there are many who want to live religion as they want. In Tunisia today I do not have the right to say that I do not believe in God,” she said from France.
Fani said she had changed the documentary’s title to ‘“Laicite Insh’Allah” (Secularism, God Willing) at the behest of French distributors after it showed at Cannes this year.
The leading Islamist party Ennahda, she said, was benefiting from the actions of the Salafists while making a show of standing apart from them.
“The Islamists are not moderate, they will try to take us back to how people lived 1,400 years ago. Tunisia must continue to be modern. We must understand that secularism is an element of progress,” she said.
Ennahda, linked to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, has said it does not agree with the use of force over films or other artistic output seen as offensive, but that Islamic values it describes as “fixed principles” must be respected.
The party was banned by Ben Ali but, like the Brotherhood, has emerged as the strongest single force in politics after the success of protests. The authorities refused to license the Tahrir party over the explicit religious bases of its program.
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Today, Apple released the fifth beta of iOS 13, their newest operating system for the iPhone. iOS 13 brings some nifty new features to Apple’s operating system, such as a Dark Mode, lyrics in Apple Music, faster Face ID, and much much more.
So, what’s new or changed inside the new iOS 13 beta 5? Well, below is a list of all of the newest features and changes that can be found inside of the fourth beta of iOS 13. This beta is running Build 17A5547d. At the moment, there are no release notes attached to iOS 13, but they may be added later.
Please note that this article is a work in progress. It will be continually updated as we find things inside iOS 13.
After updating, there is a new “Update Completed” Splashscreen that says “Your iPhone was successfully updated. There are just a few more steps to follow, and then you’ve finished”
Following the update, there is a new splash screen which asks you which mode (Dark or Light) you would like. This animates based on which option you choose.
The transition from light mode to dark mode now animates
Screenshots on the X-series iPhones and 2018 iPad Pros now have rounded corners
The volume indicator is now narrower on iPhone
The icons for Pause, Play, and Skip are now slimmer and smaller in the Music Controls in the Control Centre
Haptic Feedback when changing the volume via the Side buttons
There is now 34 different levels of volume instead of the regular 16 levels that we have had up until now
My 3D Touch is a little bit weird in this beta. Half works, half doesn’t.
There are redesigned wallpapers in the Home app.
The App Store updates panel now has an “Upcoming Automatic Updates” panel, which shows you the apps that will be automatically updating soon.
There is no longer a delay when setting a new wallpaper
Fallout Shelter and The Elder Scrolls Blades no longer crashes on iPhone and iPad!
Widgets View now loads correctly in Portrait view
Apple News in the Widgets View now updates. Previously in Beta 4 (although this didn’t happen to everyone), my Apple News Widgets wouldn’t update with the latest headlines. This is now resolved.
At the moment, I’m thinking that this is it for this update. From the looks of it, there aren’t that many new features, but it definitely feels much smoother and small improvements like the ones mentioned above always make operating systems feel just that little bit better to the user.
If we do find any more new features, we will be sure to update this article!
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Creating Heroes
IT TAKES MONEY TO MINT OLYMPIC GOLD
JOHN DALY December 2 1991
Creating Heroes JOHN DALY December 2 1991
Pierre Lueders’s dream may one day make him famous—even wealthy. But for now, the 21-year-old Edmonton-born bobsledder and aspiring Olympian must rely on friends and family to keep his ambition alive. Leuders is a member of Canada’s four-man junior bobsled team, and he is determined to qualify as driver for the national team at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. To achieve his goal, Lueders already trains full time at Calgary’s Canada Olympic Park. But like hundreds of other junior athletes, he receives no monthly training allowance from Ottawa. As well, Bobsleigh Canada, which pays for coaches, sleds and travel for the bobsled teams, has slashed its budget by about 15 per cent since the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics—partly because of limited government funding, but also because the corporate sponsors from the Calgary period, Petro-Canada, Molson Breweries and Fuji
Photo Film Canada Inc., have withdrawn support. Lueders is clearly irked that Canadians expect top finishes from athletes who must struggle for funding. “If there is no money for developing athletes,” he said, “you can’t expect them to win medals.”
Lueders manages by living with friends in Calgary during winter training, and then moving into his parents’ house in Edmonton in the summer while working in construction. Similar financial obstacles confront most would-be Winter Olympians. Compared with the years leading up to the Calgary Games, Ottawa now contributes about the same level of overall funding to winter sports through various programs. But corporations, battered by recession and anticipating less promotional value from Albertville than they had from the Calgary Games, have cut back their sponsorships. Corporate support for Canada’s Winter Olympic sports has declined to $3.8 million this season from $4.3 million in 1987-1988.
This year, Ottawa’s funding arm, Sport Canada, will contribute about $8 million directly to
national winter sports associations, about the same amount as in 1987-1988. As well, in 1988, the government renewed its Best Ever Winter sports program with $32 million in funding. But as they look beyond the Albertville Games, sports officials anticipate that the government may cut its funding as part of its attempts to slash the federal deficit.
For most sports, however, one bright spot amid the financial gloom is provided by a handful of endowment funds created following the Calgary Winter Olympics. The largest fund, administered by the Calgary Olympic Development Association, wields an impressive $80-million nest egg—$30 million of that from the surplus from the 1988 Games, and the rest provided by Ottawa. Interest from that fund helps maintain Canada Olympic Park and other Games venues. Those facilities have helped the bobsledders and other teams to save on training and travel expenses.
Still, only figure skating has managed to avoid the belt-tightening endured by other sports. The Canadian Figure Skating Association has increased its budget to $6.9 million this season from $5.7 million in 1987-1988. Strong performances by three-time men’s world champion Kurt Browning and other skaters have helped win the association more money from Ottawa, which bases its funding partly on competitive performance, and from corporations. As well, the association collects enough fees from its 170,000 members to cover two-thirds of its budget. But for aspiring champions in less glamorous sports, like bobsledder Pierre Leuders, both the competitive and financial challenges are increasing.
December 1991 By E. KAYE FULTON
December 1991 By CHRIS WOOD
December 1991 By Brian Bethune, Stephen Brearton, Ann MacGregor
December 1991 By ANDREW PHILLIPS
PROGNOSIS: SLOW
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RadioActive 2/26/15
Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco
Issue: Environmental and Social Justice
Program Topic: The legislature’s public hearing on a bill that would open Maine to metallic mining
Key Discussion Points:
a) Today we hear some of the public testimony and reactions to the legislature’s hearing yesterday on LD 146, a bill that would open Maine to metallic mining. Testimony was almost entirely in opposition to the bill.
b) LD 146 contains Department of Environmental Protection(DEP) rules that were rejected by the 125th Legislature.Opponents say the rules are not protective ground and surface water or tax payers, who could end up paying for extensive cleanup or disaster costs. The metallic mining industry’s historic and current operations around the world are synonymous with water pollution that lasts for decades. The last mining site in Maine, the Callhan mine in Brooksville, continues to pollute 40 years after closure, with tax payers footing the bill.
c) Another point of contention with this bill is the legality of the process in re-introducing the DEP rules. The Maine Attorney General’s office confirms that under Maine’s Administrative Procedure Act (MAPA) these rules should go before a DEP public hearing prior to going before the legislature. The AG office has said the legislature can only preempt the act with a vote by the full legislature.
Alice Bolstridge, Presque Isle
Shelley Mountain, Portage Lake
Rep. Janice Cooper (D- Yarmouth), former member of Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Environment
Browne Carson, former director of Natural Resources Council of Maine
Current members of Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Environment: Chair, Sen.Tom Saviello (R-Franklin), Rep. Bob Duechene (D-Hudson), Rep. Denise Harlow (D-Portland), Rep John Martin (D-Eagle Lake)
Anthony Hourihan, Aroostook Resources, JD Irving subsidiary
Jim Mitchell, lobbyist for Aroostook Resources, JD Irving subsidiary
Nick Bennett, staff scientist, Natural Resources Council of Maine
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A story of two friends and some glass
My current staple glass object
A story of two friends and some glass — part 2
By Julia in Lampworking & Glass
Part 1 is here.?
Frostfire found Gwacie’s email in her inbox. “SILLY Gwacie!” she thought to herself after reading it. “How could I not like it??” And she awaited her package’s arrival with eager anticipation.
Late Friday afternoon, after a morning of teaching and an afternoon of working on her friend Mincot’s computer and playing with Mincot’s cats, Frostfire arrived home to find a box carefully placed on her desk. “It’s here!!! It’s here!!!” she exclaimed, eagerly reaching for the scissors to carefully slit open the tape. After gently removing the top layer of bubble wrap, she found not one, but three items tucked amongst the padding. “Oh my, whatever has that Gwacie done??” she thought.
She pulled out the largest item, knowing it had to be the candlestand. She carefully removed layer upon layer of bubble wrap, delicately slitting the tape apart to avoid any chance of scratching or damaging her treasure. As the bottom of the candlestand came into view, she smiled at the little blue flower attached to the spiral. Another couple of layers of bubble wrap, and the rest of the candlestand was revealed. “Oh, how wonderful! Gwacie had no reason to think I would be unhappy with this! I know exactly where it will go, in a special place of high honor in my studio.”
Gently setting it on her desk, Frostfire unwrapped the tissue around the second, cylindrical item. As she looked at it, she laughed. It had started life as a pink pencil case, but now bore the words “emergency chocolate” on the lid, and contained three chocolate bars inside. “Ha, how did Gwacie know I didn’t have a special place for my emergency chocolate stash? I can definitely use this,” she mused.
The third wrapped object was square and flattish. “Hmmm. This must be what Gwacie said she was doing with the original piece that cracked. I wonder…” Indeed, the tissue paper parted to reveal a square fused tile? candle stand? plate? or…well, who knows what myriad of things it could be used for? “Oh, yes, I can think of so many ways I can use this. I will have to try them all out to see where it goes best.”
As Frostfire looked at the fused tile, she saw the meandering line where the original crack had occurred. It reminded her of how she had learned, in her own past days as a weaver, that the Navajo rug weavers would always leave a deliberate flaw in the design of their exquisite rugs. The “spirit trail,” as it was called, in no way detracted from the beauty of the rug, but left a path for the spirit of the rug to find its way from the center to the border. It also served as a reminder that nothing in the world is perfect, and what some might consider flaws in no way detract from the beauty of the world and all within it.
Frostfire was happy. Gwacie was happy. And the world was a good place for glassworkers and friends.
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gwacie on January 12, 2008 at 9:57 am
What a lovely end to my silly story! I love the idea of the spirit of the glass finding its way. That’s a beautiful image. Thank you!
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Beverly Semmes and Larissa Bates at Topless
April 9, 2017 June 23, 2016
Artists: Beverly Semmes and Larissa Bates
Venue: Topless, Rockaway Beach, New York, US
Date: June 11 – 25, 2016
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Topless
Topless is pleased to inaugurate its 3rd season with Larissa Bates & Beverly Semmes, a dual exhibition opening Saturday, June 11th, 2016.
Larissa Bates’ intimate and jewel-like paintings are faceted reflections of crossing complex histories. The intricacies and details adapted from past, present and some sort of fantasy; simultaneously the artist’s and civilization’s own. The scenes segue between still life, landscape, and portraiture, cultivating the curiosities of and between cultural commodity and cultural identity. Her gold-leafed and gouache works ensnare the viewer in their richness, simultaneously dazzling with their unadulterated preciousness and disturbing with a darker intensity.
Beverly Semmes’ Scratch is a large-scale new work configured specifically for this summer’s space. A hovering form on the wall and a long velvet strip of gold squares bisects the room. Sinuous, meandering sleeves of blue and green become like paint lines, vines that sit on top of the golden length. The source of this river / sunset / flag / butterfly / flood of plush, saturated color appears to come out from the wall as it snakes across the floor and pushes onwards. Semmes is best known for large-scale fabric works that over recent years have become increasingly abstract. This current piece integrates aspects of both a dress and a landscape, in which symbolic and formal elements combine, and the recognizable shades off into otherness.
Larissa Bates (B. 1981 Burlington, Vermont) lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. Bates’ most recent solo exhibitions include Mama Lengua : Mother Tongue (2015) and Chiquita Banana (2012) at Monya Rowe. Bates is a 2014 Boston Artadia Awardee. Her work has been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, TIME, and Artforum.com among others. Bates will have an upcoming solo exhibition at Monya Rowe, Saint Augustine, FL, in 2017.
Beverly Semmes (B. 1958 Washington, D.C.) lives and works in New York, NY. Among Semmes’ most recent solo exhibitions include Rabbit Hole at Susan Inglett Gallery (2016), New York, NY; Handle at Galerie Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, FR; FRP at Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, DE; and Opener 27 Beverly Semmes: FRP, which has traveled to the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; and Faulconer Gallery at Grinnell College, IA. Semmes work has been reviewed and featured in such sources as Artforum, The New Yorker, The New York Times, BOMB, and Art in America among many others. An extensive index of Semmes’ practice, “Beverly Semmes FRP”, organized by Ian Berry was published last year by The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.
Larissa Bates, The Epigenetics of Nurture, 2015
Gouache and 22 karat gold leaf on linen, 20.32cm x 25.4cm
Larissa Bates, The Impossibility of Seeing: Animals of the Universal History of the Things of New Spain, or the Florentine Codex, 2015. Gold leaf and gouache on panel, 35.56cm x 27.94cm
Larissa Bates, Pussycat Pussycat Where Have You Been? I’ve Been To London to Visit The Queen, 2013. Gouache and oil on linen, 35.56cm x 27.94cm
Larissa Bates, Economic Botany: Saccharum, Cavendish Bananas, and Cocoa, 2015. Gouache and gold leaf on panel, 35.56cm x 27.94cm
Beverly Semmes, Scratch, 2016. Velvet, 213.36cm x 822.96cm x 182.88cm
Beverly Semmes, Scratch, 2016 (detail). Velvet, 213.36cm x 822.96cm x 182.88cm
Larissa Bates, Land of Vanity And Delusion: Bananas, Gold, Baseballs, 2015. Gouache and 22 karat gold leaf on linen, 35.56cm x 27.94cm
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CASE practice. A contested question before a court of justicea suit or action a cause. 9 Wheat. 738.
CASE, remedies. This is the name of an action in very general use, which lies where a party sues for damages for any wrong or cause of complaint towhich covenant or trespass will not lie. Steph. Pl. 153 Wodd. 167 Ham. N. P. 1. Vide Writ of trespass on the case. In its most comprehensive signification, case includes assumpsit as well as an action in form ex delicto; but when simply mentioned, it is usually understood to mean an action in form ex delicto. 7 T. R. 36. It is a liberal action; Burr, 906, 1011 1 Bl. Rep. 199; bailable at common law. 2 Barr 927-8; founded on the justice and conscience of the Tiff's case, and is in the nature of a bill in equity 3 Burr, 1353, 1357 and the substance of a count in case is the damage assigned. 1 Bl. Rep. 200.
2. An action on the case lies to recover damages for torts not committed with force actual or implied, or having been occasioned by force, where the matter affected was not tangible, or where the injury was not immediate but consequential; 11 Mass. 59, 137 1 Yeates, 586; 6 S. & R. 348; 12 S. & R. 210 ; 18 John. 257 19 John. 381; 6 Call, 44; 2 Dana, 378 1 Marsh. 194; 2 H. & M. 423; Harper, 113; Coxe, 339; or where the interest in the property was only in reversion. 8 Pick. 235; 7 Conn. 3282 Green, 8 1 John. 511; 3 Hawks, 2462 Murph. 61; 2 N. H. Rep. 430. In these several cases trespass cannot be sustained. 4 T. 11. 489 7 T. R. 9. Case is also the proper remedy for a wrongful act done under legal process regularly issuing from a court of competent jurisdiction. 2 Conn. 700 11 Mass. 500 6 Greenl. 421; 1 Bailey, 441, 457; 9 Conn. 141; 2 Litt. 234; 3 Conn. 5373 Gill & John. 377. Vide Regular and irregular process.
3. It will be proper to consider, 1. in what cases the action of trespass on the case lies; 2. the pleadings 3. the evidence; 4. the judgment.
4. 1. This action lies for injuries, 1. to the absolute rights of persons 2. to the relative rights of persons; 3. to personal property; 4. to real property.
5. - 1. When the injury has been done to the absolute rights of persons by an act not immediate but consequential, as in the case of special damages Irising from a public nuisance Willes, 71 to 74 or where an incumbrance had been placed in a public street, and the plaintiff passing there received an injury; or for a malicious prosecution. See malicious prosecution.
6. - 2. For injuries to the relative rights, as for enticing away an infant child, per quod servitium amisit, 4 Litt. 25; for criminal conversation, seducing or harboring wives; debauching daughters, but in this case the daughter must live with her father as his servant, see Seduction; or enticing away or harboring apprentices or servants. 1 Chit. Pl. 137 2 Chit. Plead. 313, 319. When the seduction takes place in the husband's or father's house, he may, at his election, have trespass or case; 6 Munf. 587; Gilmer, 33but when the injury is done in the house of another, case is the proper remedy. 5 Greenl. 546.
7. - 3. When the injury to personal property is without force and. not immediate, but consequential, or when the plaintiff Is right to it is in reversion, as, where property is injured by a third person while in the hands of a hirer; 3 Camp. 187; 2 Murph. 62; 3 Hawks, 246, case is the proper remedy. 8 East, 693; Ld. Raym. 1399; Str. 634; 1 Chit. Pl. 138.
8. - 4. When the real property which has been injured is corporeal, and the injury is not immediate but consequential, as for example, putting a spout so near the plaintiff's land that the water runs upon it; 1 Chit. Pl. 126, 141; Str. 634; or where the plaintiff's property is only in reversion. When the injury has been done to, incorporeal rights, as for obstructing a private way, or disturbing a party in the use of a pew, or for injury to a franchise, as a ferry, and the like, case is the proper remedy. l Chit. Pl. 143.
9. - 2. The declaration in case, technically so called, differs from a declaration in trespass, chiefly in this, that in case, it must not, in general, state the injury to have been committed vi et armis; 3 Conn. 64; see 2 Ham. 169; 11 Mass. 57; Coxe, 339; yet after verdict, the words " with force and arms" will, be rejected as surplusage; Harp. 122; and it ought not to conclude contra pacem. Com. Dig. Action on the Case, C 3. The plea is usually the general issue, not guilty.
l0. - 3. Any matter may, in general, be given in evidence, under the plea of not guilty, except the statute of limitations. In cases of slander and a few other instances, however, this cannot be done. 1 Saund. 130, n. 1; Wilies, 20. When the plaintiff declares in case, with averments appropriate to that form of action and the evidence shows that the injury was trespass; or when he declares in trespass, and the evidence proves an injury for which case will lie, and not trespass, the defendant should be acquitted by the jury, or the plaintiff should be nonsuited. 5 Mass. 560; 16 Mass. 451; Coxe, 339; 3 John. 468.
11. - 4. The judgment is, that the plaintiff recover a sum of money, ascertained by a jury, for his damages sustained by the committing of the grievances complained of in the declaration, and costs.
12. In the civil law, an action was given in all cases of nominate contracts, which was always of the same name. But in innominate contracts, which had always the same consideration, but not the same name, there could be no action of the same denomination, but an action which arose from the fact, in factum, or an action with a form which arose from the particular circumstance, praescriptis verbis actio. Lec. Elem. 779. Vide, generally, Bouv. Inst. Index, h. t.
CASE, STATED, practice. An agreement in writing, between a plaintiff and defendant, that the facts in dispute between them are as there agreed upon and mentioned, 3 Whart. 143.
2. The facts being thus ascertained, it is left for the court to decide for which party is the law. As no writ of error lies on a judgment rendered on a case stated, Dane's Ab. c. 137, art. 4, n. 7, it is usual in the agreement to insert a clause that the case stated shall be considered in the nature of special verdict.
3. In that case, a writ of error lies on the judgment which may be rendered upon it. And a writ of error will also lie on a judgment on a case stated, when the parties have agreed to it. 8 Serg. & Rawle, 529.
4. In another sense, by a case stated is understood a statement of all the facts of a case, together with the names of the witnesses, and, a detail of the documents which are to support them. In other words, it is a brief. (q. v.)
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Older investors look to buy-to-let in retirement
Neil Jennings posted on 28th May 2019
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More over 55s are investing in buy-to-let as a means of boosting their income in retirement, according to a new study.
Figures from specialist buy-to-let mortgage broker, Commercial Trust reveal that increasing numbers of older investors are applying for loans.
According to the data, there was a small increase in applications (0.03%) in the 25 to 34 age bracket from 2017 to 2018.
However, Commercial Trust reported a 4% increase in the proportion of buy-to-let purchases and re-mortgages among the over-55s and there was a 5.43% increase in applications by people aged 65 to 75.
Last year also saw the over 55s make up 39% of the lender’s buy-to-let activity, compared to 35% in 2017.
Andrew Turner, chief executive at Commercial Trust, said: “Our look at the age demographics for 2018 buy-to-let mortgage activity suggests that increasing numbers of older people are recognising the potential of buy-to-let investments.
“Our data indicates that many people, reaching retirement, are choosing to invest in bricks and mortar and the rental market, as a means to fund their retirement years.
“Investing in property has the potential to deliver attractive rental yields and achieve capital growth, despite industry changes. I fully expect that the returns [will] fair better than many other forms of investment.”
The trend of older buy-to-let investors comes at a time when more lenders are extending the maximum ages at which people can apply for mortgages and finish paying them off.
Santander has increased the maximum age criteria for its mortgage end term from 75 to 85-years-old. It has also extended its buy-to-let mortgage term from 25 years to 40 years.
Other lenders, such as the Mortgage Works, offer buy-to-let products to experienced landlords with no age restrictions. And Precise would allow borrowers, who meet its criteria, to be paying off their loans at the age of 110.
Read more about this story on the Property Division website.
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Anne Bonny #BookReview Good Girl Bad Girl by Michael Robotham 5* #Thriller #CrimeFiction #Psychological @michaelrobotham
Good Girl Bad Girl by Michael Robotham
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Synopsis ~
The girl with no past.
Six years ago, Evie Cormac was discovered, filthy and half-starved, hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a shocking crime. Now approaching adulthood, Evie is damaged, self-destructive and has never revealed her true identity.
The boy who survived.
Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven, a man haunted by his own past, is investigating the death of champion figure-skater Jodie Sheehan. When Cyrus is called upon to assess Evie, she threatens to disrupt the case and destroy his ordered life. Because Evie has a unique and dangerous gift – she knows when someone is lying. And nobody is telling the truth.
My Review ~
The novel opens in Longford secure children’s home in Nottingham. We are introduced to Guthrie the resident social worker as he leads a group session with residents Alana, Evie, Holly, Nathan, Cordelia, Rebekah and Serena. When a disagreement develops between Serena and Evia, Serena attacks!
‘Someone tried to strangle me’ ~ Evie
Evie has a bruised neck and states that she hopes to escape the facility.
The novel then jumps to Evie’s point of view and we learn there is much more depth to Evie than just a regular violent resident. Evie is consumed by self loathing and we learn of previous abuse. But who abused Evie and why has she remained silent about her abuser?
I have spent 10yrs of my career working mainly in secure setting with residents with mental health conditions and I can honestly say Evie’s character and background is incredibly accurate.
‘Nobody can hate like I can’
The novel then move to DS Alan Edgar and his investigation into the murder of a teenage girl Jodie Sheehan. Jodie has suffered a blow to the head, has DNA evidence on her body and is a case of intense public interest due to her professional figure skating. Eventually we learn about Jodie’s family background, strange brother, career/coach and on/off lover. It would seem Jodie’s life isn’t the perfect life the family would have people believe it is? So who would kill the local popular figure skater and why?
Via a series of files, ward notes, offences, assessments and escapes we finally learn the complexity of Evie’s character. As stated above the characterisation is intense and brilliant. Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven in an attempt to understand Evie further speaks to the special constable (Sacha Hopewell) who found Evie.
The investigation into Jodie’s murder reaches a new turn when £5/6K is found in her school locker. Where and how does a teenage girl acquire such cash and what did the need it for? Chief Superintendent Timothy Heller-Smith and PC Harry Plover suspect Craig Farley a previous hospital worker in the vicinity if the crime scene. But are they merely clutching at straws in an attempt to solve the case.
Evie’s anger and rage begins to unravel and in a bizarre and unethical attempt to help Evie, Cyrus agrees to foster her. But Cyrus has his own past, his own dark secrets he is trying desperately to contain. Will fostering Evie, unravel Cyrus’s coping mechanisms. Is he fully prepared for Evie…
‘She’ll find your weakness’
‘Victims of childhood abuse don’t associate kindness with trust’
DNA profile comes back and it is a match to Craig Farley…
‘People keep saying that Jodie was a normal teenager, who loved dancing and music and ice-skating, but there’s more to her than that’ ~ Cyrus
Overall this is a phenomenal novel! I sincerely hope this is a cracking new series to follow, devour and LOVE! 5*
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The Future Can’t Wait by Angelena Boden
The Future Can’t Wait is a contemporary novel set in multicultural Birmingham against a background of growing radicalisation of young people sympathetic to Islamic State. Kendra Blackmore’s half Iranian daughter Ariana (Rani) undergoes an identity crisis which results in her cutting off all contact with her family. Sick with worry and desperate to understand why her home loving daughter would do this, Kendra becomes increasingly desperate for answers – and to bring her estranged daughter home….
The novel opens in contemporary, multicultural Birmingham. With its mix of cultures and heritage, the location provides the perfect backdrop. Kendra Blackmore a lecturer at the Darwin Academy; is delivering a guest speech, in a lecture regarding psychology. She is widely respected in her field. The crowd are in awe of her ability to relate sympathies to the Islamic State with neuroscience and an individual’s susceptibility to make certain choices.
Kendra returns home to her husband David. He is quite an oddball in his nature but a loving stepfather to her two children. Eldest son Adam is a respected Dr himself, currently living in Boston, USA. Daughter Ariana (Rani), is quite complex young madam! She is currently in the final months of her Astrophysics degree and facing huge exam pressure/stress. She is cleverly a very bright and talented young woman, at the beginning of her adult life. However, she is often moody, immature and prone to outburst towards her mother. I found the mother and daughter relationship, very intriguing!
The way Kendra smothers her daughter, whilst allowing her to be so verbally abusive towards her.
But we have all known such relationships exist.
The background of Kendra’s first marriage is fully explored. With Kendra wondering if this is why, Rani is so distant. Does rani blame her mother for the divorce and having an absent father? Rani continues to push her mother away and Kendra’s desperate attempts to bring her closer only lead to further rows. With Rani becoming suffocated, until the day she leaves. Rani sends her mother a note, cutting off all contact.
It is quite spitefully done and has the reader, questioning Rani’s motives for such a malicious act.
The note and abandonment dominate Kendra’s life. She becomes obsessed and her life slowly unravels. It was at this point I questioned the dynamics, they have the appearance of the perfect middle class family but under the surface, there’s a lot going on! No-one truly knows what goes on in another person’s family. Their inner secrets and shared pain. From the viewpoint of family relationships, this novel offers up, much food for thought!
“The past can be dangerous territory”
Kendra’s obsessions about her daughter build and build. Upon finding some leaflets, in her daughter’s bedroom. She becomes convinced her daughter has been at risk of radicalisation. Messages in Arabic and friendship with a Persian student, add fuel to Kendra’s fire!
She becomes a woman on a mission to find her daughter at all costs………..
As Rani is an adult, she cannot consult the police or authorities until she learns more and gathers more proof. This leads her to an almost breakdown and the devastation of her family.
There are themes of fascism, vulnerability, miseducation, isolation, risk, unity, innocence and maturity within this novel. They are tactfully and sensitively explored. I felt the young adults ‘coming of age’ in this novel are really struggling. With the dark side of the disenfranchised youth of today, fully demonstrated. Kendra struggles to assess how she missed or failed to notice her own daughter’s unhappiness.
But how well do we ever know, those whom we profess to love the most, our children!
What sort of mother does that make me then?”
This novel follows the story of an intelligent woman, whom appears to have it all. We watch her lose something so precious to her, her daughters love and understanding. The aftermath proving so traumatic, it sets off a chain of events. Kendra won’t always make the choices, you think she will or have the thoughts you think she should and that is what makes this novel perfect for book groups. There are a wealth of issues/themes up for debate. The characters are relatable and believable. I would urge book groups to focus on the responses of those in the family and what they themselves would do.
“Ego is the only requirement to destroy any relationship”
Q) The novel opens in contemporary multicultural Birmingham. What made you decide on this location and era, to tell this story?
A) I lived in different areas of Birmingham for almost thirty years and raised my dual heritage children there – I prefer that term to mixed race. I have seen the changes over the years and am saddened to witness today’s tensions in a city which has prided itself on fostering harmonious relationships between the many communities. I wanted to show that things are not always what the media like to make them out to be and that Birmingham is a decent city in which to live and raise a family. I chose a well-to-do suburb of the city as the setting for the book for reasons that hopefully will become clear to the readers.
Q) The mother and daughter relationship is extremely authentic. As I regard in my review, we have all known such relationships take place. What was the inspiration behind this?
A) Many mother-daughter relationships become fraught as the daughter moves into adulthood. This often coincides with major changes for the mother – physical and emotional. The empty nest can be viewed with anticipation and excitement by some but with fear and trepidation by others. I know of many mothers who have really struggled with this. Me included.
Q) The novel deals with the theme of parental abandonment and Kendra’s response to such abandonment. Was this emotionally draining to write? Did it you see the situation through the eyes of the characters themselves?
A) Very draining as I was actually writing from a degree of personal experience. I plan to write about this in more detail in a blog. It took seven drafts to get the balance of the story right for the readers. I could really feel Kendra’s shock and pain and was writing for her. I was in tears many times and had to put the book aside. David’s character was a pleasure to create as my husband is just like him J As far as Rani is concerned I could relate to being her age, many moons ago but more importantly I wrote the book when I was experiencing the tidal waves of my own daughter’s estrangement in 2012 -15.
Q) The novel also depicts family secrets and what goes on behind closed doors. This would be tricky to research, yet is the basis for many novels in this genre. I think your novel is exceptionally unique. From your point of view, as a writer, why are secrets/lies themes so intriguing to the reader?
A) I really didn’t do any research because there were so many secrets in my own immediate family surrounding both my daughters at the time but particularly the younger one that I often felt I was writing more of a memoir. Many families have the proverbial skeleton in the wardrobe and I think we, as readers, are gripped by the intrigue. However not all secrets are revealed in real life or fiction!
Q) The novel depicts Rani’s coming of age and also the disenfranchised youth of today in general, very well. What was the inspiration behind this theme?
A) Young people in the 18-25 age group have never had things so difficult in many respects despite the technology and material stuff many of them have. Parents generally want to see their children do better than they have done – jobs, homes, quality of life but for many this isn’t happening. Frustration and anger has been building up for a while, especially in cities where there has been a target for this – often a minority group gets blamed. In addition we have a generational clash, greater than ever, as my generation had free university education, career progression and the chance to own our own houses from an early age. As a specialist in behaviour I have been tracking these sociological changes for a number of years. More young people present with depression and anxiety at a time they are starting out in life. The pressure to succeed and compete is greater than ever.
Q) One thing that fascinated me, was that Kendra never responded to a situation as I would have predicted. She often made irrational and confusing choices. Was this intentional, to show how we react when emotions are involved?
A) We are really looking at a grief reaction and as you know it is different for everyone. Some cope by blocking it out and getting on with their lives. Others feel the pain more deeply and become paralysed by it. All of us need support when tragedy strikes.
We are all capable of descending into a sort of madness or obsession when we lose something very precious. To answer the last part of your question – yes it was intentional. I hope to encourage more empathy and understanding from those who might say – “I would not have reacted in that way.” There is no right or wrong way to grieve.
It’s a good topic for discussion!
Q) Finally, what are you working on next? Will we see more of Kendra and Rani’s story?
A) Edna’s Death Café is finished and is resting on my desk for the second edit. The main character is an 80 year old woman who goes to university in her seventies and studies Philosophy and Death. She runs a café in a village in my own county of Derbyshire and sets up meetings to talk about death and dying. It’s a light take on a serious, still taboo, subject. The Death Café movement is growing around the UK.
I do have Rani’s story in mind if readers are keen to find out what has happened to her. It wasn’t planned as a sequel but I would feel very privileged to write it if readers requested it.
AB: Thank you so much Abby for this opportunity to talk about The Future Can’t Wait and for the blog tour.
Book club discussion Questions:
1) How well did you engage with the book?
2) What were your feelings about the main characters? Kendra, David, Rani, Adam, Marco. How authentic were they?
3) The key theme is the mother-daughter relationship. Why is this so fraught? If you don’t have a daughter, think about the relationship with your mother/mother-figure.
4) Did Kendra act/react to her daughter’s disappearance in the way you expected? Why/Why not? How would you have handled it?
5) Where did Kendra’s main sources of support come from? How did they help?
6) What are your impressions of David? Is he just a grumpy old man in his shed or is there something else about him?
7) Another theme is the struggle of young people into adult hood. Why is this such a problem these days? Think back to when you were young. Compare the challenges.
8) What are your thoughts on turning to psychics and mediums for help during difficult times? Have you ever done this?
9) We often jump to conclusions when faced with a shock as our emotions are heightened. What did you conclude about Rani’s disappearance?
10) Were you disappointed that the author didn’t reveal Rani’s story in this book? Would you be interested in a sequel?
Angelena Boden
Angelena Boden (M.Soc.Sc PGDE) has spent thirty five years as an international training consultant, specialising in interpersonal skills and conflict resolution. She trained in Transactional Analysis, the psychology of communication and behaviour, her preferred tool for counselling and coaching.
Since retiring from training, she runs a coaching practice in Malvern for people who are going through transition periods in their life; divorce, empty nesting, redundancy or coping with difficult situations at work, home and within the wider family.
Angelena has two half Iranian daughters and has extensive experience of helping mixed nationality couples navigate problems in their marriages.
She is the author of The Cruelty of Lambs, a novel about psychological domestic abuse. Her new book, The Future Can’t Wait tackles the breakdown of a mother and daughter relationship within a cross cultural context. It is published by Urbane Publications and is out in November 2017.
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#GuestPost Lord Of The Dead by @RichRippon @ObliteratiPress @NathanOHagan #NewRelease #Indie
*I am proud to post this #GuestPost this morning as not only does the novel sound intense and intriguing. The title pretty much summarises how I feel this cold foggy November morning! lol*
Lord Of The Dead by Richard Rippon
A woman’s body has been found on the moors of Northumberland, brutally murdered and dismembered. Northumbria police enlist the help of unconventional psychologist Jon Atherton, a decision complicated by his personal history with lead investigator Detective Sergeant Kate Prejean.
As Christmas approaches and pressure mounts on the force, Prejean and Atherton’s personal lives begin to unravel as they find themselves the focus of media attention, and that of the killer known only as Son Of Geb.
Lord Of The Dead is a gripping, startling piece of modern noir fiction.
“A stunning debut. If Thomas Harris was to write a British take on the Nordic-Noir genre, this would be it. Rippon is an exciting new voice in British crime fiction.”
Nathan O’Hagan, author of ‘The World Is (Not) A Cold Dead Place’
#GuestPost:
Cave, Mann and Deep Red
I wrote my new novel, Lord of the Dead, on the back of cigarette packets. Not literally of course – that would be just mad. What I mean is that it was written in a very piecemeal style and on the hoof, using snatches of stolen time. Anyone with a full-time job and a family knows how hard it is to find spare time for a hobby or passion. And so, my book was written on the bus, to and from work, or an hour here and there after the kids had gone to bed.
I wrote in notebooks, on scraps of paper, or in emails that I’d send to myself. Sometimes I’d write a few hundred words in one go, other times just a few lines. Sometimes, weeks would go by and I’d not have written a thing.
The result was inevitably patchy. Names – or their spellings – would mysteriously change from one chapter to the next. Plot strands would begin only to be completely abandoned. Once, a character was spectacularly killed off, only to appear in much better health later on.
Time for research was scant. I relied on Google and Twitter; the latter providing a forensic expert and someone living with cerebral palsy, who graciously helped to answer my stupid questions online. Close friends – a cop and a nurse – helped to keep things real when it came to police and hospital procedures.
When I grew closer to finishing, my patient agent – a former editor – helped me make sense of the mess, and told me what was working and what wasn’t. After multiple reworks, revisions and redrafts, it grew closer to something resembling a novel.
Over almost two years of writing it, I had a number of inspirations. Michael Mann’s 1986 film, Manhunter, featured a killer who’d watch the families who would eventually become his victims. Brian Cox – as Hannibal Lector – has a great line: “Have you ever seen blood in the moonlight, Will? It appears quite black.” I became interested in writing a killer who revelled in the night, felt empowered and emboldened by it. It was the starting point for the character and his motivation. I wondered what aspect of the night and darkness might fuel his fantasies. I also loved the idea of someone who was a watcher. I wrote my villain as someone who liked to surveil the cops as well as his victims, and was always one step ahead, and ready to strike.
I became obsessed with the Manhunter soundtrack. A difficult-to-find collection of electronica and eighties pop-rock. Similarly, I was listening to Nick Cave’s album, Push the Sky Away on endless loop. There were a number of tracks that seemed to resonate with what I was aiming for. Songs like We No Who U R, Water’s Edge and the title track, had a beautiful, hypnotic and ominous quality that I’ll forever associate with Lord of the Dead. Later I saw the video for We No Who U R, with a shadowy figure wandering through a forest at night, which could have been depicting my antagonist himself.
As a teenager, I became a fan of horror movies and decorated my bedroom with gory posters from Fangoria magazine. When I was writing the book, I bought a blu-ray of an old favourite, Dario Argento’s Deep Red, which I’d previously owned on bootleg VHS. Back in the day, the ‘video nasty’ scandal had led to a number of titles being banned outright, and others severely cut by the British Board of Film Classification. Me and my friends, who preferred our horror unadulterated, would buy copies by post, videos that would have terrible image quality, colours that bled into each other and tape-chewing tracking issues. Deep Red features a number of gruesome and ritualised killings and an antagonist who’s hiding in plain sight. Both of these elements feature in Lord of the Dead, and although I don’t think the book is an outright horror, it certainly doesn’t shy away from the horrific.
As I write this, I’m pondering a sequel to Lord of the Dead and hopefully, I’ve learnt something from the chaotic way I tackled the first book. Planning is the key. Then, I’m going to take it one chapter at a time. ‘Write one true sentence, and then go on from there…’ was Hemingway’s advice. I’d like it to have a subtly different vibe – the same, but different. It exists in the same world of course, but the main characters have been dramatically and permanently affected by the events of the first book. The villain needs to be completely different, something we’ve never seen before, and therein lies the challenge – and the fun.
Richard Rippon
Richard Rippon has been writing since 2007, when his short story, Full Tilt, was long-listed for a Northern Dagger award. In 2009, he won a New Writing North Award for his first novel, The Kebab King. Since then he’s had a number of short stories published in newspapers, magazines and online. In 2012, he was commissioned to write a short story (The Other One), which appears in the Platform anthology. He lives on the North East coast with his wife and two children, and works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Richard was also a social media phenomenon in 2016, as one of the men behind the twitter sensation #DrummondPuddleWatch.
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Q&A with @AydinGuner66 #Author of The Devil In I #Thriller #GoodVsEvil #Indie
The Devil In I by Aydin Guner
Damon West is a twenty-eight-year old living in New York City. His life appears to be perfect. He has a loving girlfriend, good friends, lots of money and a job on Wall Street, everything a young man could ask for.
However, Damon has a secret. Damon is the Devil. For centuries, Damon has roamed the Earth enjoying everything the human world has to offer. Sex, entertainment, travel and new discoveries. Damon’s life appears to be perfect but takes an unexpected turn when he meets a co-worker, Latasha.
Damon is suddenly submerged in a spiraling obsession with Latasha he can’t control. She plays him for the fool. For all his charms, Damon is unable to deal with those emotions. Is it love? Whilst Damon’s world starts to spiral out of control, we start to question who Latasha really is. Is she who she appears to be? Was this all part of a higher plan? Has she been conspiring with the suspicious new boss, Jason Godfrey?
In The Devil In I, Damon faces the ultimate battle to hold on to everything he has: his job, his reputation, his girlfriend, and his life. This is a fast paced, sexy, violent modern day thriller. It is the ultimate story of Good vs Evil. Based in New York City, The Devil In I is not for the faint of heart.
Q) For the readers, can you talk us through your background and the synopsis of your novel?
A) Hi Anne, I live in the North West of England and come from a big family with 3 sisters! Growing up, being the only boy, I was isolated a lot and developed an over active imagination. I always used to read and watch movies and loved story telling, even at a young age. Over the years, I’ve done freelance articles and reviews for websites, but started writing my novel The Devil In I. It took 4 years to write because it was incredibly challenging to get into the mind-set of the lead character.
The story is about a young Wall Street worker called Damon West who is secretly the Devil. He walks on Earth as a charming, witty, intelligent man and no one suspects he is the Devil, in fact, he appears as something completely the opposite. Which was key to the thesis of the story, the Devil is the ultimate deceptor.
Damon’s life starts to fall apart when he meets a co-worker, he is infatuated with her but is unsure why. As the story unfolds, the wheels start coming off the track for Damon and the story develops into a whirlwind murder, sex and deception filled web, with multiple twists and surprises.
Q) Can you talk us through the journey from idea to writing to publication?
A) I think writing the first novel is challenging, because it’s all new, but it’s also the easiest. There is no expectation. I’m currently working on the second novel and some of the things I’m exploring early on is, “What do I want this book to achieve?” and “What is the overarching message to this story”?
It’s important to be passionate about those two questions. Writing a book is a long road and if you’re not 100% into the story you’re telling, it will show.
I’ve been spending a lot of time researching the topics in the book, so I can write about them and discuss and explore those themes. Research is very important.
Patience is key to writing, once you have your story, there’s several ways you can get it published. You can self publish on sites like Amazon, or you can reach out to publishers yourself with a press pack or you can scout out a literary agent to represent you. There’s several avenues, several ways to skin a cat, so to speak.
Q) What are your favourite authors and recommended reads?
A) Brett Easton Ellis is one of my favourite authors and also Stephen King.
Q) What were your childhood/teenage favourite reads?
A) As a kid, I loved Roald Dahl. Got all of his books. I also loved the Goosebumps series! They were so entertaining. Very cool reads.
Q) What has been your favourite moment of being an author?
A) It’s a very strange journey, because when you first release the book there’s fear, the fear that no one will like your book. Which is probably something every writer feels. Then when the reviews come in, it’s a really humbling feeling to read the reviews and how people have connected with it.
I’d say my favourite part of being an author is discussing the characters with people who have read it. It’s like we’re bringing them to life. I love hearing other peoples perspective on the characters and analysing why they did and said certain things. I also love it when people I know ask if a character is based on a real person. The whole point of the lead character is to blur the lines between reality and fiction and if that can happen to someone whilst they’re reading this, then that’s a great thing.
Q) Who has been your source of support/encouragement, throughout the writing process?
A) Good question, I didn’t have a mentor as such, but a good friend of mine, Amy, was is also writing her first novel and we used to talk about ideas and techniques and see how we were getting on. Having that writing buddy was really helpful. Someone you can discuss things with.
Aydin Guner
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Inside the Wise Leader’s Brain | Part 7 - The Social Brain
Do we have an innate moral sense? Some impulses are so universal and have such a negative effect that they scarcely need stating as rules. Murder, for example. If the human brain is a decision-making device, then it isn’t too far-fetched to assume that we also possess a universal moral compass. And this is essential for societies to function.
‘Moral emotions’ are driven (mostly) by the brain stem and limbic axis, which regulate basic drives. The mirror neurons, the orbital frontal cortex, the medial structures of the amygdala, and the superior temporal sulcus are believed to be responsible for our ‘theory of mind’ — these conscious processes that enable us to understand the desires, intentions and beliefs of others. This skill typically develops between 3 and 5 years of age in humans.
Abstract moral reasoning, as brain imaging is showing us, uses many brain systems. Neuroscientists have concluded that the neural processes responsible for seeking patterns in events are housed in the left hemisphere. This zone engages in the human tendency to find order in chaos, to fit everything into a story, to put it into context. It seems that the human brain is driven to hypothesize about the structure of the world even when presented with evidence that no such pattern exists.
Another interesting argument suggests that common subconscious mechanisms are activated in the human brain (irrespective of gender, age and culture) in response to moral challenges. These moral judgments are initially perceived as intuitive. In other words, they are almost an automatic reaction to a situation — a brain-derived response. Gazzaniga has argued that our brain generates an “interpreter” process (in the left hemisphere) to translate this situation into an (ethical) choice. And this could explain our pro-social behavior.
However, Gazzaniga also argues that the interpreter in the human brain is only as good as the information it gets. And this is quite similar to the ‘garbage in, garbage out’ that we associate with machina sapiens.
Big brains make for big groups
Responsibility and the choices we make as individual executives are a crucial notion in wise decision-making. As our choices arise out of social interaction, our individual minds will likely also be molded by social processes. We are born social: even children as young as fourteen months old will act to help others.
The anthropologist Robin Dunbar has found that in primates, brain size correlates with social group size: the bigger the neocortex, the bigger the social group. The chimpanzee has the most advanced social group among the great apes; about 55 individuals, humans, a group of about 150. And guess what? This even applies to our social networking. Although we may have hundreds of ‘friends’, we typically interact with an inner circle of about 150 people.
Similarly, research has shown that 150-200 people is the maximum number that can be controlled without an organizational hierarchy.To develop the level of cooperation we need to live in larger groups, humans have had to become less aggressive and competitive. Call it a self-domestication process if you will. Over time, the gene pool was modified, which resulted in the selection of systems that controlled (even inhibited) forms of emotional reactivity, such as aggression. The social group constrained the behavior — and this eventually affected the human genome.
A social dance — ethical choices and moral systems
Ethical choices and moral systems are interlocking sets of values, virtues, norms, institutions, practices and evolved psychological mechanisms. These work together to suppress or regulate pure selfishness and make social life possible. Researchers such as Michael Gazzaniga, Jonathan Haidt, Joshua Green, and Marc Hauser have all reached a similar conclusion. Moral responsibility reflects a rule that emerges out of one or more agents interacting in a social context, and the shared hope that each individual will get in line. An ‘abnormal brain’ — that of a narcissistic CEO for example – deviates from the standard. However this doesn’t mean that this CEO cannot, or should not, follow social rules.
Where do we go from here? In the next and final chapter, we’ll share 8 ways to ‘wise up your brain.’
By Dr. Peter Verhezen, with the Amrop Editorial Board
Peter is Visiting Professor for Business in Emerging Markets and Strategy and Sustainability at the University of Antwerp and Antwerp Management School (Belgium). He is Principal of Verhezen & Associates, and Senior Consultant in Governance at the International Finance Corporation (World Bank) in Asia Pacific. In this capacity, he advises boards and top executives on governance, risk management and responsible leadership. Peter has authored a number of articles and books in the domain, and collaborated closely with Amrop in the development of the wise leadership concept.
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Footnotes | Going Deeper
On our inner interpreter: Specific areas of our brain interpret incoming data to create meaning, to make sense. The interpreter in our left brain seeks patterns, order, and causal relationships. Recent research indicates that nowhere does this interpreter operate more than in the case of religious belief. Could it be that this urge to create some order originates from a moral core we all possess, to interpret surrounding cultural realities? “It appears that all of us share the same moral networks and systems, and we all respond in similar ways to similar issues. The only thing different, then, is not our behavior but our theories about why we respond the way we do”. (Gazzaniga, 2011 and 2005).
On the human ‘mirror neuronal system’: this may be at the basis for learning to make an ethical choice by imitation. These universal moral rules that are contextual and social seem to allow humans to deal with these challenging situations. The brain reacts to such socio-ethical challenges on the basis of its hard-wiring to contextualize and debate the gut instincts that serve the greatest good given a specific context. Something a smart machine is not able to perform at all.
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A peek under the New Yorker’s kimono
For many sophisticated people, heaven is “an uninterrupted day or five to go through my … pile of The New Yorker magazines.” The publication has a special cachet: very different from–though no greater or less than–The Economist‘s, and indeed highly complementary. (We know from research that many coffee tables in many homes have both the New Yorker and The Economist on it.)
So I found myself fascinated by a rare lifting of the New Yorker’s kimono, as Dan Baum, a writer who got fired from the magazine, told his tale. (Thanks to Jag for pointing me to it.)
The first thing of interest is that Baum did this on Twitter. Yes, he tweeted his story in 140-character increments. If I may say so (redoubling my skepticism about Twitter), that part did not work. Twitter may be a great medium for some things, but not for storytelling. But Baum then consolidated the tweets here.
And what a very different culture the New Yorker‘s is from the one I live in at The Economist. First of all, the writers do not make a good living:
you’re not an employee, but rather a contractor. So there’s no health insurance, no 401K, and most of all, no guarantee of a job beyond one year. My gig was a straight dollars-for-words arrangement: 30,000 words a year for $90,000. And the contract was year-to-Year. Every September, I was up for review. Turns out, all New Yorker writers work this way, even the bigfeet.
Why do they put up with it? Apparently, because they are all convinced that
writing for the New Yorker is the ne plus ultra of journalism gigs.
This it may be. Certainly, the New Yorker’s writers can expect to rise to fame with their bylines and become stars, selling books and going on lecture tours. We at The Economist, of course, have no bylines. As a result, we ‘don’t do’ the star thing.
Another contrast: The offices of the New Yorker, according to Baum, are an eerie place where
Everybody whispers. It’s not exactly like being in a library; it’s more like being in a hospital room where somebody is dying. Like someone’s dying, and everybody feels a little guilty about it. There’s a weird tension to the place. If you raise your voice to normal level, heads pop up from cubicles.
That is not how I would describe the merrily eccentric and light-flooded Tower that serves as our head office in London. Is it the time the science correspondent came into the editorial meeting in drag, with nobody even batting an eyelid, that springs to mind? Or the time I had to duck as I passed a senior editor’s office to evade a flying object, dispatched with a scream that made the windows vibrate, only to hear the same editor invite me in with a cheerful and jovial demeanor, since he had just loosened up a bit and now felt envigorated?
The whole way they pitch stories at the New Yorker is one I do not recognize. They apparently write elaborate treatises just for the pitch, then wait to have it rejected or accepted. Baum even puts his successful and failed pitches up on his site. We on the other hand might casually mention or email a half-formed and tongue-in-cheek phrase (something that I might shout through a closing Tube door), and off we go. The other day I was skyping with my editor and said two words (“whither [name]”) under my breath. I just saw it on the official planning list.
But the most subtle and interesting bit in Baum’s account was the psychological tension between him and his editor, which he blames for his firing. They were discussing story ideas, and the writer knew more about his subject than the editor (which is inevitable). Baum thinks he made a mistake, because
I made him feel uninformed.
Granted: Baum got fired and is looking for reasons to apportion blame. But he is not slinging mud. This is the closest he gets to it.
In my twelve years, I cannot remember a single conversation at The Economist where one party felt threatened if the other ‘knew more’ about something. We thrive on talking to people who know more. How boring the obverse tends to be.
I am a fan of The New Yorker. It is a special place. So are we.
May 16, 2009 Andreas Kluth Dan Baum, journalism, magazines, New Yorker, style, Twitter
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8 thoughts on “A peek under the New Yorker’s kimono”
Dan Baum knew what he was getting into when he signed up for one year at a time, so he shouldn’t complain.
The nature of his employment and departure from the New Yorker was part and parcel of Capitalism, the Free Market, Hire and Fire, the Invisible Hand, the Willingness to Risk, Boom and Bust, Creative Destruction……….
The unfathomable workings of Capitalism are so mysterious, so beautiful, I weep just thinking about it.
Dan Baum says:
Can I get a job at the Economist?
andreaskluth says:
I’m not the one giving them out, Dan. But I can always point you along.
Jag (defensive punster) says:
On the language lunacy – there exists a Japanese idioms, which literally translates as “to pull up the bottom of one’s kimono and reveal the buttocks “. It means to show or maintain a fundamentally defiant attitude…
On the unfathomable workings of the Invisible Hand – I lift the hem of my kimono at the view that ‘greed is good’. The moral elevation of self interest is amongst the worst errors of the (First) Enlightenment. Adam Smith would likely not have agreed that greed was good. Indeed he argued forcefully that the frighteningly efficient forces of the market had to be carefully controlled by something equally powerful. This is clearly visible (though sadly now largely ignored) in the products of his own hand.
On the psychology of the relationship between writer and editor – the same point applies to that between the writer and reader. Ideally the reader should feed they are being guided by a friendly expert – not lectured to by a snobby superior.
So I am using the kimono phrase wrong? I thought it meant ‘lifting the curtain or veil to reveal something secret’.
That reminds me of a phrase that you might appreciate, Jag: Unter den Talaren, der Muff von Tausend Jahren
It rhymes and says something like: “underneath the gown, the stink of thousand years.” It was the rebel yell of the 1960s’ students in Germany, as they received their diplomas and showed disdain for the establishment that was giving it to them.
Don’t know what made me think of it. Perhaps the visuals of buttocks, and the airs that might escape when kimonos are lifted….
Andreas – didn’t mean to imply your use was incorrect. Quite the reverse your use of idioms in a language not of your native land is admirable. And as Mr. Crotch-ety points out there are multiple kimono sayings.
Your final comment on buttocks and airs is too good an opportunity to pass…
There are many idioms on flatulence. For example the French have one for being too big for your boots – which is “to fart above your butt” and their life of Riley can be expressed as “to fart into silk”. And one of my favourtites is from Finland – where they have a saying that “she is so cheap, she even farts inward”.
Apologies… inexcusable… butt also irresistible
Mr. Crotchety says:
The contractor strategy is also becoming very popular among companies and governments (like the US) that don’t want to, or say they can’t afford to, pay overhead, healthcare and pensions. It also keeps the body count lower for the DoD. One clings to his pension while managing contractors. Another interesting feature is that a contractor isn’t fired, rather his contract is not renewed.
I thought there was something figuratively like the ‘open kimono,’ which sounds different from raising one’s kimono. I’d like to see the Sartorialist’s view of kimonos opened, lowered, raised and otherwise.
What was it that I said? That Kluth is extraordinary? Yes… that’s right… clearly a man of impeccable taste too! “Sophisticated”… I like that!
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What radio frequencies are used for air-to-air intercom in formation flying? I assume there is a difference between military and civil aviation (e.g a group of GA aircrafts flying as a formation).
I found a couple of civil UNICOM frequencies here (e.g. 122.8 MHz, 122.975 MHz, ...). 122.750 MHz (Aviation Air to Air Communications) seems to be what I am looking for (correct?). But what if there is more than one team?
I also wonder if in military or professional formations (aerobatic formations) something outside the Very High Frequency (VHF) Aviation Band is used (to provide better quality, e.g. digital communication).
In this article I can see lot of military frequencies, but not telling me what to use for military formation flying.
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Horst WalterHorst Walter
For the US, according to section 4-1-11 of the AIM (Designated UNICOM/MULTICOM Frequencies) for private fixed-wing flights you should use 122.75:
Air-to-air communication (private fixed wing aircraft): 122.750
Air-to-air communications (general aviation helicopters): 123.025
Aviation instruction, Glider, Hot Air Balloon (not to be used for advisory service): 123.300, 123.500
I have no idea what the military does and their tactical comms might even be encrypted anyway, but they frequently use UHF instead of VHF, at least in the US.
Nor do I know what to do if you have two formation flights at the same time, but I guess that in reality it's either an air show with some form of semi-official control and perhaps even NOTAMs, or it's something private and in that case people make their own arrangements, e.g. picking some frequency that doesn't overlap with any nearby assigned frequencies. Using 123.45 is apparently common, but definitely not official.
Non-VHF communications for private flights would be regulated by the FCC, not the FAA, and personally I'm not sure if the benefits would be worth the extra equipment and the risk of confusion, but then again I know nothing about formation flying.
There's some useful information from the FAA in this policy order clarifying the use of 121.5 and 123.45. It says that 123.45 is for operational use in oceanic regions, and within the US it's reserved for "non-government flight test operations". There's also an FAA document on requesting temporary frequencies for airshows etc. but it's air to ground only.
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$\begingroup$ 123.45 is called "numbers." sometimes a friend will hear you pop up on a frequency and say your name or tail number and "numbers," e.g. "bob -- numbers" or "5 4 fox-trot, numbers." That means they want you to come up on 123.45 on your other radio. $\endgroup$ – rbp Oct 28 '14 at 22:41
Military use UHF frequencies. Each organization has a communication frequency for contact if you need to divert, have an emergency, or need guidance from higher authority. When in formation, you have a tac frequency to talk to the other plane(s), but most communication of a non-tactical nature is done on traffic control frequencies. ATC handles formations as a single flight. Each member of the flight has a number Lead(1), 2, 3, etc. Lead does all communications with ATC. If you are directed to (for example, change altitude, the lead plane acknowledges with call sign and climbing to flight level 240 (if you are lower and going to 24,000 feet MSL. The number two aircraft just responds "2" and the number 3 "3" and so on. If you do not have a tac frequency and you need to have a conversation with another plane, you tell them to go to an informal channel like Winchester or popcorn. Winchester is 303.0. These informal channels were used extensively in Viet Nam to discuss what idiots the brass were. Pilots had a code sheet that had a code for common expressions.
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$\begingroup$ do you have some sources? also, would you mind cleaning up the language a bit and formatting your answer for better readability? $\endgroup$ – Federico♦ Jul 9 '15 at 14:40
For general aviation, 122.75 is the official fixed wing air-to-air frequency designated by the FCC and FAA (and 123.025 is for helicopters). There are also other frequencies allowed based on location (Hawaii, Los Angeles, and the Grand Canyon). Otherwise, you should probably ask around in the area in which you plan to operate. See if there is a frequency that is commonly used. This thread mentions a few frequencies people have used. If you can find the frequencies used for a local air show, that could be a good indication of frequencies that would be free.
Military aviation is going to vary a lot more. Typically UHF is used, but certainly VHF or digital could be used depending on the situation. Refueling tracks have designated areas and frequencies. Performing groups have a set of channels that they use when they fly. For regular formation flying though, it will probably vary more.
RadioReference is a good place to look. 123.45 is listed as "unofficial" air to air and flight test. The military table lists 303.0 as a possibility.
fooot♦fooot
With respect to military aviation, it's going to depend on the radio capabilities of the aircraft involved in the formation. fooot's answer mentions that typically UHF is used. That is sort of true - UHF is generally used for military ATC, RAPCON, etc, but as far as aircraft-to-aircraft, it will depend on the capabilities of the plane.
Many large aircraft have multiple radios, UHF and VHF, as well as digital radios, so depending on the mission, they may use a specified area frequency, or a "local" frequency, or a specific military channel. With smaller aircraft, such as trainers and fighters, they may only have 1 of each (UHF/VHF), so with the need to monitor the controlling agency, that may drive the "formation frequency" to using a VHF.
With regards to specific channels in that article, it will vary from location to location, as different bases/squadrons/aircrafts will have different frequencies designated for formations. So there's no real way to know "in general" - it would be a localism.
SSumnerSSumner
$\begingroup$ Could one specify what Navy F18s are using? Or is this still too unspecific? $\endgroup$ – Horst Walter Oct 28 '14 at 22:46
$\begingroup$ @HorstWalter - I'm USAF, not USN/MC, so I don't know. And unfortunately I don't have any contacts that fly that, so I can't be more specific $\endgroup$ – SSumner Oct 28 '14 at 23:31
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Ballot measure to tax the rich for K-12 funding launched
By: Katie Campbell April 27, 2018
Mesa High School teacher Joshua Buckley explains Friday why he and David Lujan, director of the Arizona Center for Economic Progress, are proposing a large surcharge on income taxes paid by state residents who earn the most money to fund public education (Capitol Media Services photo by Howard Fischer)
A coalition of teachers, parents and education advocates led by the Center for Economic Progress, a progressive public policy group, launched an effort Friday to raise income taxes on wealthy Arizonans to pay for the state’s public education.
The proposal, dubbed the Invest in Education Act, would increase the state’s 4.54-percent personal income tax rate to 8 percent for those who earn more than $250,000 or whose household income reaches more than $500,000, and would double the rate to 9 percent for individuals who earn more than $500,000 or whose household income is greater than $1 million.
Under current law, someone with a taxable income of $600,000 pays $25,162. That same individual would pay $14,200 more if the measure is adopted.
Consultants for the campaign estimate the proposal would generate $690 million annually in new revenue.
The coalition announced the ballot initiative on the second day of Red for Ed rallies at the state Capitol as schools statewide remained closed during mass walkouts.
Center for Economic Progress Director David Lujan and teacher Joshua Buckley, who will chair the Invest in Education Committee, refused to take any questions on Friday. They told reporters questions would be answered on Monday.
“Rather than lead, the politicians who run the state Capitol have spent years causing this crisis, choosing to serve donors and lobbyists while ignoring our students,” Buckley said in a brief statement after filing the initiative. “And when we the people have forced them to confront this crisis from time to time, we have only ever gotten half-measures and promises they never intended to keep.”
The measure would also designate 60 percent of the revenue from the tax hike for teacher salaries and the remaining 40 percent for operations, including full-day kindergarten and pay raises for student support employees as applicable uses for the funds.
Governing boards would be required to seek employee input on plans for the use of the additional dollars, and the act would define who is a teacher and who is support staff.
After Gov. Doug Ducey released his 20 percent teacher pay raise by 2020 plan, some in the Red for Ed movement questioned who among them count for such raises and criticized the plan for leaving out support staff.
The Arizona Chamber of Commerce came out against the proposal less than an hour after it was filed with the Secretary of State’s Office.
“It is never a good time to raise income taxes on small businesses and their employees; that would just create a drag on the state’s overall economy,” said President and CEO Glenn Hamer in a statement. “The tax brackets that would be targeted under this initiative historically have the most volatile collections, with wild dips in economic downturns, which would put teacher pay at terrible risk.
“Should this measure to dramatically hike income taxes secure a spot on the ballot, we will oppose it strongly, and we will urge Arizona voters to do the same.”
The effort’s launch came a day after an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 Arizona teachers, students and other supporters marched on the state Capitol to demand better pay for teachers and all public education employees, increased per pupil funding and no new tax cuts until funding was restored to the public education system.
And it also comes weeks after the Arizona Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, and other education groups gathered in early April to discuss going to the voters.
In a text to the Arizona Capitol Times, AEA President Joe Thomas said the state’s largest teachers’ union is a partner in the coalition.
Both the income tax increase and a sales tax increase were discussed at that time.
The Arizona School Boards Association was part of the April talks with AEA, and lobbyist Chris Kotterman told the Arizona Capitol Times the coalition leaned toward the income tax option.
ASBA, though, was not enthusiastic about going that route.
Kotterman said such a proposal would just be too big of a request in Arizona when the political winds typically prevail against such ideas.
Though ASBA would not come out against an income tax initiative, Kotterman said, the organization’s perspective was that it would draw too much outside money and outside pressure against it to ultimately pass.
Petitions for ballot measures are due on July 5, giving AEA just over two months to collect 150,642 valid signatures to get on the ballot.
Current state aid to K-12 schools is $5.39 billion. That compares with $5.15 billion a decade ago.
But in that same time, nearly 79,000 youngsters have been added to the system, bringing enrollment up about 1.1 million.
So the actual aid per student has $4,949 a decade ago to $4,760 now.
What really makes a difference, though, is those dollars have not kept pace with inflation. Once that is factored in, legislative budget staffers say the money per student is worth $1,000 less than in 2008.
Multiply that by 1.1 million students and that’s the $1 billion educators say is has been taken from schools.
Howard Fischer of Capitol Media Services contributed to this report.
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If we’re going to keep on funding the bulk of AZ State government with a sales tax then something has got to give. The sales tax has reached its percentage limit of tolerance with important segments of the public. The way to finesse this inevitable voter resistance is to make the sales tax rate progressive. The actual net rate paid for a year should be graduated to ability-to-pay (i.e. income).
A refundable income tax credit could do that. The federal income tax forms already provide a way to estimate sales tax paid. (And it’s in all the tax prep software.) All the Dept. of Revenue tax-quants need to do is: 1) create a simple schedule of percentage refunds; 2) create a separate form (both paper and electronic versions) to calculate the refund.
On the schedule, each income tax bracket would link to a specific percentage. The higher the income, the lower the percentage refund of your estimated (or actual) sales tax paid. (The highest income bracket would be linked to a zero percentage.) An actual amount of sales tax paid would be documented with receipts.
Obviously, any revenue projections for a sales tax rate increase would have to take the tax credit into account. And create a back-up rebate system in case the income tax is abolished.
Bill Butler
Put the money back into schools. We have given away so many tax dollars to large companies while our public schools have suffered. If you don’t have a good public school system why would large companies and their rich CEOS want to move here. The governor and his 19 percent increase is just a re-election ploy, he gives no guarantee.
J. Lee Chambers
People can get really creative at ways to hide income. And the more these liberals attempt to abscond with the more creative folks will get. Therefore’ the figure mentioned in the article is little more than pie in the sky.
The tax brackets need to be changed. Why is $250,000 grouped in with millionaires and billionaires? But, if we are going to increase taxes on any single tax bracket, why not the $200,000 – $249,999 bracket that is only paying 5.9%, when the two brackets below them are paying 14.9% and 21.9% respectively, and the $250,000 and up group is already paying 51.6%! Why is the $200,000 – $249,999 bracket getting such a break…???
Bill Butler – who has give to what companies? Are you referring to 0bama and GM/Solyndra?
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With all, that’s been going on in around the world and in what feels hopeless and strange we’ve seen humanity rise to the occasion and the digital space has been a force of good and positivity. From the social media challenges that seem to be flooding our timelines and businesses becoming more visible. It’s clear times have changed. Amongst the noise Beat Freeks has managed to create a space for young voices to be heard nationwide
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One person who is doing this is Remani Love, an up and coming powerhouse who has a passion for social change and uses her creative flair to do so. She released her BBC documentary, featuring Sir Lenny Henry, that posed the question ‘Is higher education failing black British students?’.
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Jay has been a Don’t Settle resident for the past year, creating discussion spaces for young people to shape how we talk about personal identity, race and representation. He’s been given the opportunity to speak at the Cultural Heritage for Inclusive Growth a programme by the British Council, who are holding an international conference in Kenya – letting institutions know that young people have a lot to say on the matter.
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As people who love the arts, who work in the arts, who create art, we know that the only way for arts and heritage organisation serve their communities is to be truly representative of those community voices.
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Beat In My Bones.
Garage Rock and Punk obsessive.
SWEET REAPER: Sidekick.
The Reaper is back. That Sweet, sweet reaper is back. Another record for us freaks and weirdos. Another record to blast out sky high, on repeat. The brand new record is out in just over a week, and I promise you it is again another super exciting record for us Garage Rock fiends, and it is definitely another exceptional record put out on Alien Snatch! Records. These 10 songs will make you feel like you are on some intense trip and the comedown doesn’t even cross your mind.
A little something to settle your nerves. A little something to make you feel less awkward; this record is brilliant. Sidekick consists of solid anthems that will make you long for going to shows and being covered in lukewarm beer. Those were the days. Sweet Reaper make constant masterpieces; they’ve been around long enough now for us all to recognise this. Every single song on Sidekick is just a filthy and slick record. If like me your attention span is piss poor, then this record is going to serve you well. You can’t be still and listen to this record; it just makes you want to throw things, do things. Anything but sit still. Being still makes me feel uneasy (but I LOVE being asleep) and the new Sweet Reaper record just makes you want to soak up this record in all ways possible. There are no bad songs on this record. But let’s be honest, Sweet Reaper have never made a bad song or an average record. Everything I’ve heard so far just leaves me in awe, and Sidekick goes above and beyond.
Their last record, Closer Still only came out this year and to hear something like Sidekick in the same year is just a real treat for the ears. What did we do to deserve this band! With Christmas coming up (raise your hand if you too are spending it alone!) maybe force people to listen to this record instead of those awful mushy Christmas songs. Sweet Reaper are of course one of those bands that you just need to see live, and given how that’s probably not going to happen any time soon- all we can do is play the records loud and get others to fall in love with them too.
At the moment I think Isle of Life is my favourite/the one I keep on going back to. There’s something about it that gives off a beach feel; it just makes you want to watch the waves crash against some rocks, and let that sea air get right into your skin. They’ve got the same energy and feel to their sound like my favourite French babes, dr chan. There is something about both bands that just makes you forget everything around you, and just makes you feel liberated when you listen to the songs.
Sidekick is such an effortlessly slick record, and for me not knowing a new record was coming just adds to the excitement. It’s an unexpected masterpiece; I love every single song on this record. I love how Spaceship makes you feel like you’ve gone into another world. I love how Doomsday Clock is probably going to lose our minds when we can finally see this band play live. I love how Same Old Thing is just under 2 minutes long and makes you feel like you’ve discovered the likes of the Ramones for the first time all over again. It’s just such a perfect record, and again they’ve made one that you can play over and over, and not get bored.
The production on this record is on point, and every song on this record radiates such beautiful energy. I love how every song could be played at a houseparty continuously and not one single person would get tired of it. I just adore Sweet Reaper and their sound/style.
Buy this record and play it loud!
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SWEET REAPER: Closer Still.
About 6 months after it was released, I’m finally going to write about the new Sweet Reaper record. I thought I already had, but clearly not. Besides, it’s meant I have been listening to it non stop the past few days and by no means is that a terrible thing.
Sweet Reaper makes that good stuff. That real gnarly Garage Rock music that hits you in the soul. The kind of music that makes you feel less alone with feeling lonely and a bit useless. There’s something about that fuzzy guitar and powerful vocals that just hit you, and the drums are like euphoric crashes to the soul. It’s a fantastic record, and to be honest, it just reinforces my love for them.
Closer Still is just a feel good record, and you cannot help but forget your trouble for that half hour or so as you listen to these blistering songs. Again, it is another record you wish you could see being performed live, but the universe is on it’s arse at the moment and we can’t do shit. I hope when this all ends Sweet Reaper make their way to the UK and blow us all away with their brilliance. There’s only 3 of them in the band, but don’t let that for a second make you think they are tame and are afraid to be loud. Far from it!
This trio knows exactly how to deafen the listener in the most pleasing way possible. Don’t believe me? Play Car Crash loud through headphone, and you’ll understand. Dead Man is the song you can imagine the crowd pogoing to so furiously and probably causing damage to their bodies- but why do we care?! It’s all part of the fun. And fun is one of the many things that this glorious record is.
The record has 11 songs to just blow you away, and aside from that, you cannot help but be in awe of the slick production on this record. It’s got that strong DIY/lo-fi feel, and this is one of the many things that makes this such an incredible record. Is it their best work so far? Damn right it is. You can really hear something different on this record, and it’s on songs like Faster Getaway and Sidewalk Psycho. The latter being one of the really loud moments on the record. They aren’t afraid to mellow out on some songs, just like they don’t shy away from being brutally loud on some of the songs. It’s such a strong record, and if you’ve been obsessed with it for the past 6 months- you’ll get exactly why.
You just wish you could crawl deep into the safety net of this record, and let it shield you from the shit that’s going on. But, that’s why one of the most freeing things we can do is play music loud in our homes and just shut the world out for a bit. Same Nightmare is one of my favourites at the moment but given I’ve had nearly 6 months to really soak up this record- I do change my mind a lot. I’ve got a lot of time for this song; there’s something about the lyrics and the whole creation of this song that just sticks with me. You can go between playing the record in order or putting it on shuffle, or whatever.
Every song sounds perfect regardless of the order you listen to it, and for me that’s what makes it such a standout record. Of course it’s best to listen in order, then allow yourself to just let it play however you want. It just works. If the order of the record meant that Sad Eyes was the opener rather than Sidewalk Psycho, the record would still have this same feel. I guess that’s what makes it correct in calling this a perfect record. Every single song deserves its place, and is such a joy to listen to.
As long as we have bands like Sweet Reaper, maybe, just maybe- we’ll be alright.
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by Mary Jane Kehily
Published June 1, 2004 by Open University Press .
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Shiloh Excavations 2018 Reports
The Shiloh Excavations 2018: Season 2 Week 5
Author: Abigail Leavitt
Category: Shiloh Excavations 2018 Reports
Created: 10 March 2019
Although the 2018 Shiloh excavations officially came to an end after week four, there was still more work to be done. Dig Director Dr. Scott Stripling inspected the newly excavated walls and, together with Conservation Team Leader Greg Gulbrandsen, identified and selected unstable walls in need of conservation. During week five, Greg led a team consisting of Dr. Charles Savelle, Durwin Kicker, Tim Lopez, Abigail Leavitt, and Charity Hebert.
The first step of the conservation process was to clean the walls. First, we used trowels to clean dirt from between the wall stones. Next, we employed stiff whisk brooms to remove any remaining dust. Finally, using a hose with a spray nozzle, we thoroughly washed the wall stones. After leaving the walls to dry overnight, we returned the next day and began the process of mortaring the wall stones. This involved mixing small batches of mortar, using a large caulk gun to insert the mortar between wall stones, and sealing the mortar against the stones with a paintbrush. The following day, after the mortar had dried overnight, we went over the walls once more, this time with a stiff brush, removing the rough edges from the mortar. In all, we conserved five Middle-Bronze Age storeroom walls and stabilized two other large wall stones.
The conservation team also doubled as the clean-up team. We cleaned the wet-sifting station and removed the hoses for winter storage. We tidied up the site and put away the excavation equipment for next year. We also covered our excavation areas with felt to protect them from contamination through the winter. Back at the hotel, we packed up the office, storing our supplies in the hotel basement. We organized our finds, sending bones to, Lidar, our zooarchaeologist and flints to Dudu, our flint specialist. We sent our pottery to Peretz and Liora, our ceramic typologists, and made multiple visits to Orna, our conservator, taking our coins and special small finds for cleaning and conservation. We made several trips to KAMAT, the regional Israel Antiquities Authority, dropping off finds at their storage facility. Our team of Israeli specialists will work throughout the year processing our material. Meanwhile, back at home, our staff members will write reports and prepare publications documenting our findings.
Between conserving, packing, and cleaning up, we also found time to visit archaeological sites. We visited two ancient altars near Shiloh and stopped at the Hizma stone vessel factory and Rachel’s Tomb. Finishing our work a day early, we took a road trip and visited Ekron, Gath, and Ashdod, three Philistine sites.
Meanwhile, Dr. Scott Stripling and Suzanne Lattimer led a tour for 65 people. They visited a variety of ancient sites in Israel including Joppa, Ashkelon, Masada, En Gedi, Qumran, Ceasarea, Megiddo, and Nazareth.
As we prepare to head home, we are already planning for next year’s excavation at Shiloh, and we hope that you will join us at Shiloh in 2019.
Dig Director’s Note:
In the final week, I also did a couple of final media interviews, and the piece aired on Jerusalem Dateline. (Off site link)
One tour highlight was the baptism of 12 people in the Jordan River, including one person who was watching our group being baptized and she chose to commit her life to Christ. I am extremely grateful for all who prayed, volunteered, and donated financially to make Season Two at Shiloh a huge success.
As we process our finds, the final season expenses will accrue. Please make a final Season Two donation as you are able.
Students from Lee University with Dr. Brian Peterson
(click on the image to view our Shiloh 2018 FaceBook Album).
We will be sharing more of our exciting discoveries in the coming weeks. Please continue to pray for the dig team. You might consider participating in the Shiloh Dig in the summer of 2019. If you wish to support the dig financially, simply follow this link, and specify in the “Instructions” section that you desire to fund the Shiloh Excavations.
Author: Suzanne Lattimer
As the dig came to an end, we looked around at what has been accomplished in 4 weeks. The result of people from 30 states and 4 countries is astounding! Even as we were shutting down, we continued to have a stream of visitors and dignitaries including Sondra Oster Baras from the Christian Friends of Israeli Communities, and …. We are grateful for the connections we’ve made with different archaeologists, specialists, groups, and universities.
A view from the square working from West to East
Dr. Mark Hassler opened AD29 adjacent to his previous squares to help with the tall balks. The antiquities authority sends out a safety inspector out to check out the condition of our site and make recommendations. While it can be frustrating to us because all we want to do is dig, it is necessary to take such precautions. Once AD28 had been brought down some, they were able to continue cleaning the face of the Middle Bronze city wall in AD29, which was dug last year. They did uncover yet another denticulation (an off-set), which better lines up with known parts of the city wall.
The next set of squares over, AE29 was dug in previous weeks by my crew. It had the top portion of the city wall, the inside face with Middle Bronze storerooms attaching, but not the outside face of the city wall. The wall was just too big to contain it all! We however still lose a portion of the city wall on the west side of the square, and are looking next year to contect this portion with what Dr. Hassler found this year. This week we moved back to AE30, which had been open last year. We continued down within our Middle Bronze storerooms, Room P2 (Danish), Room AA, and Room BB. We found an almost complete Middle Bronze juglet and wet sift found a scarab in our material. Once again, our wet sift earning its keep!
Moving west, Dr. Don McNeeley in AF29 shares a portion of storeroom Room BB, and has Room CC and a portion of Room DD. Washing lots and lots of pottery is what this team has been doing. The storeroom here were filled with broken pithoi storage jars. Also, they have identified a nice Iron I (time Israelites) silo. They did also find an impressively large scarab while they were dry sifting. Their storeroom walls connect beautifully with the city wall. Having identified the storeroom floor, they believe they’re nearing bedrock, but that is a question that must be answered next year.
Next to AF29 is, Dr. Boyd Seevers in AG29. This square was newly opened just last week, but has made huge progress. They had the top of the city wall poking through the dirt, along with another storeroom wall. A mechanical engineer in the square did some calculations and figured that in two weeks they moved approximately 94 tons of dirt!
Just to the north, Dr. Kevin Larson opened AG30. It was the quintessential archaeological square with a beautiful Roman Age wall with corner, and every loci neat and tidy. As they proceeded lower, their Roman wall sat on an earlier Iron age wall. They had a Roman Age bag storage jar (named after the way they look) that was broken in-situ, but restorable, and a complete Iron I Age lamp.
East of Drs. Seevers & Larson was Tim Lopez in AH29 & 30. This was the second year these square were excavated. They have the most walls of any other square with 11! One wonders where they have room to dig. In AH30 a wide Iron Age wall goes into the balk and comes out a skinny Roman wall in Dr. Larson’s square. The magic that happens in a balk! While they found a scarab, the most potentially significant find of the season came out of AH30 - a ceramic pomegranate. The pomegranate represents fertility in the ancient world and is a common tabernacle/temple motif.
South of Tim Lopez, Dr. Brian Peterson opened up AG27 and finished AG28 from last season. He began tracing the outside of the city wall from the East side of our field, H1. They came down upon the glacis, a sloping, hard-pack clay against the city wall for defensive purposes. After Dr. Peterson left, Ruth Vanderford picked up the reigns, and finished removing all the mudbrick fill that had fallen on glacis, affectionally named Gladis the Gorgeous Glacis.
Moving west, Henry Smith finished AF27 from last year revealing a Middle Bronze wall moving perpendicular to the city wall. Since the glacis had been found in the adjacent square, Ruth Vanderford also inherited this square, took down the pesky balk, and connected the glacis against this Middle Bronze wall. What that means is a question for next year.
Just to the north, in AF28, our Objects Registrar, Abigail Leavitt, stepped in for ailing Matt Glassman. With only one week, they were to find the face of the city wall, connect it to AG28, find the top of the glacis, and connect the curious Middle Bronze wall to the city wall. It was a tall order, that they achieved with flying colors.
The last day of the dig is slightly different that the close of any other dig day. The morning is spent finishing up last minute loci, and making sure that things are level. After our 10:30am lunch break, all digging and sifting ceases, and the great dust storm begins. Everything has to be brushed cleaned for final pictures, including the dirt! We want to be able to see the dirt, and not footprints. A meter stick for reference is laid in each square. Final measurements are taken for walls to be sent to our architect for a top plan drawing. All the tools and tents are packed back into their bags and taken to the container for off season storage. The pottery from the day is washed and taken back to the hotel for reading the following day. Since we stopped dry sifting at lunch, wet sift is able to catch up and finish all the mesh bags. Some tools are left out for the restoration team next week.
The digging is done. However, the work is not over. Over the next year staff members will be crunching data, writing reports, analyzing finds, and coming up with better ideas for the coming year. We hope to welcome you during the Orientation meeting next year, next year in Jerusalem!
Author: Brian N Peterson PhD
Week 2 of the second season of the Shiloh dig is now complete and included the making of many memories and discoveries. Dr. Scott Stripling conducted a number of tours and interviews on the site, two of which are noteworthy.
Early in the week, the 700 Club did an extensive on-site interview with Scott and the dig team in preparation for an upcoming program on their network (add photo of team). Scott also did a radio interview with a local radio station. On Friday, over 40 students from Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) and The Masters Seminary joined our team for a day of intensive digging.
In the squares, various dig teams continued to uncover more evidence of the occupational levels at Shiloh and possible evidence for the tabernacle. Kevin Larsen’s square unearthed not only an intact Iron Age saucer oil lamp, but continue to expose a mendable bag jar from the Roman era, as well as a number of small finds like a bronze arrow head. While Tim Lopez and his team worked to expose the inner face of the MB III wall, they found what appears to be a decorative ceramic pomegranate. This may prove to be very important due to the fact that the pomegranate was a common decoration in the tabernacle and temple (1 Kgs 7:18, 20, 42; 2 Kgs 25:17; 2 Chron 3:16; 4:13; Jer 52:22–23).) and on the priestly garments (Exod 28:33–34; 39:24–26).
Pastor Brent Hoefling shows off an Iron II oil lamp (Brent Hoefling).
To the west, in Square AF29, Don McNeeley and Gary Byer’s team continued to uncover a hundreds of sherds related to several Middle Bronze Age storage jars and pithoi, many of which may be mendable. While some of the sherds extend into the next square, the central room they are excavating in their square appears to be a storage room, which also included a number of small kitchen vessels such as grinding stones. In Suzanne Lattimer’s square, which is adjacent and to the west of McNeeley’s and Byer’s square, they also found a number of pithoi fragments along with sling stones and other small finds.
To the north, Henry Smith excavated to bedrock multiple rows of a MB III wall, which appears to abut the main perimeter wall at right angles. This wall may prove to be vital in identifying the main entrance to the city on the northern approach. More excavation is going to be needed in the coming seasons in order to clarify this theory. At the lowest levels of his excavations, Smith and his team found the remnants of two MBII storage jars.
Mendable bag jar from the Roman period (Brent Hoefling).
Further west, Mark Hassler continued excavating an area just outside of the perimeter wall in Square AC28. Apart from a number of unearthed coins, their work yielded dividends when he discovered the first scarab of the 2018 season at the end of the day on Friday afternoon (this is now the third scarab found to date). The scarab was found in the dry sift by one of the visiting DTS students.
Finally, Brian Peterson and his team of Lee University students excavated a fully intact glacis/rampart to the city in Square AG27 as well as the remnants of the fallen mud brick wall just east of Smith’s square. A number of MB pottery sherds embedded in the glacis helped date the wall to that period.
Ellen Jackson, our metal detectorist, concluded this week with 30 coins, which included 10 coins from the Danish/Finkelstein dump. Our grand total for two weeks is 53. Other metal finds include a bronze chisel, a sword or dagger point, an iron ring, and an assortment of sandal tacks.
Finally, the wet sifting work headed up by Greg Gulbrandsen and Frankie Snyder continues to yield a number of small finds such as Roman glass, beads, and stone vessel fragments. Steve Rudd and a number of the DTS students also dry sifted a sizeable portion of the Danish dig’s dump from the early 1900s. This material will also be wet sifted throughout the remainder of this season.
Apart from the dig, a number of ABR team members led or went on tours around Israel on the weekend. These day trips included visits to the Galilee, the Dead Sea, Jericho, the Valley of Elah and other biblical sites. Even though week 2 may be now in the proverbial “books,” the exciting discoveries and adventures continue as ABR “digs the Bible” in this 2018 season.
Author: Gary Byers MA
This past week of the Shiloh Excavations we had nine squares open – each 5m x 5m and sitting on a north/south grid. Our goal is to expose the architecture within each square and be able to relate it to what’s found in the next square. Along with the floors and installations associated with these walls, we can know where ancient people lived. But the pottery and artifacts found in the dirt associated with this architecture and installations tells us about how they lived. And we learned a lot about the ancient people of Shiloh in Week Three.
While our dig team is mostly American, people come from around the world – we had folks from Canada, Spain, Ireland and Denmark on our team this year. Virtually every day we have volunteer diggers join us – both locals and visitors from other countries. We also have groups who stop and dig for a day. Just like the Dallas Theological Seminary group two weeks ago, we had a group of Wycliffe Bible translators join us last week.
We also have local specialists on our team: Frankie Synder of the Temple Mount Sifting Project who works with us daily, artifact conservator Orna Cohen stopped by for a visit and ceramic specialists Liora Feund and Perez Reuven who visit and review our pottery finds.
Other archaeological professionals also come to see what we’re doing. Well-known and respected archaeologist Ami Mazar visited two weeks ago, as well as Hillel Richmond – who joined our daily pottery “reading” (analysis). Last week, highly respected archaeologist Aren Maeir stopped to visit and also joined us for pottery reading that day. Every day we “read” the pottery dug and washed from the day before. Weekly, Liora and Perez come and review our reads. They both offer suggestions and will eventually do a final analysis with Scott for publication.
But the Shiloh Excavation team stays busy even when we’re not digging. Besides our weekend bus and van tours all over Israel, last week, a group did an evening tour of the Western Wall Tunnel in the Old City.
Another group visited Khirbet el-Maqatir, about ten miles south of Shiloh and on the road we take to and from Jerusalem every day. KeM is the location of what we believe are Old Testament Ai and New Testament Ephraim – where ABR sponsored and led an excavation for thirteen years under Dr. Bryant Wood and Dr. Scott Stripling.
Also, a small number of the Shiloh dig team joined director Scott Stripling in one of the conference rooms at the Knesset (Israel’s parliament building), where we participated in a Bible study with Christian and Jewish religious leaders. An ongoing effort led by Rabbi and Knesset member Yehuda Glick, the event was cosponsored by the Knesset Caucus for the Encouragement of Bible Study, the Schindler Society and Israel365. Designed to promote our common faith in the Old Testament Scriptures, focusing on what we share in common – not on differences – it was an interesting and meaningful experience.
Now, here’s what happened last week in our nine excavation squares.
In Squares AH29-30, Tim Lopez identified two more walls to add to his wall list – Roman, Iron Age (Israelite) and Middle Bronze Age (Canaanite) – he’s got them all! But on Friday his team (with a little help from the wet sift folks!), revealed an important discovery. The dirt they dug and then dry sifted, was then sent to our new wet sifting station. There, Richard from my square, wet sifted the dirt and recognized an ancient Egyptian scarab. It had a cartouche with an Egyptian pharaoh’s name – but we’re not certain what it said. I thought I could read it, but wasn’t sure. We’ve sent it to an expert…and I’ll let you know how good my knowledge of hieroglyphics really is!
Dr. Boyd Seevers just opened new Square AG29 this week and his team dug almost 2m of fill – before finding a wall-line on Friday afternoon. Still, in all that dirt, his team uncovered a large number of wonderful finds – including seven coins, fragments of nine oil lamps, two slingstones and one stone mortar. Then on Friday his team discovered a ceramic object which no one knew for sure what it was- even our conservator said she had never seen one before! Best guess at the moment…an inkwell.
In Square AF29, Don McNeeley and I had to take down the dirt balks around two sides of our square in order to continue digging deeper in the square. That was unfortunate, because there were multiple broken sherds to a number of vessels broken-in-place that had to be covered up until the take-down was complete. But, in the process, we were able to find two more stones in the interior face of the Canaanite perimeter wall that runs the full width of our square. In the bulk take-down, we did find a number of interesting pottery sherds and small objects – including one coin – which were kept for further study. And, by the end of the week, we were back to uncovering more vessel fragments in the square!
Dr. Mark Hassler and his team, in AC28-89 and AD29, have been excavating a long stretch of the outer face of the 5m-wide Canaanite perimeter wall – and by the end of the week, they found a hole in the wall! Well, not exactly a hole, the wall was just stopped – from top to bottom! Yet it does not appear to be a gateway and neither does it appear to be part of the original Canaanite wall construction. Next week, Mark will have some answers!
In AF27 and AG27, Ruth Vanderford supervised the final clearing of the glacis – a 35-degree sloping earthen rampart constructed around the outside of the ancient perimeter wall. It was designed in antiquity to hinder attacking armies from reaching the wall and to protect the wall’s foundation from being undermined. Directly above the glacis, they found a large amount of disintegrated red mudbrick, apparently the fallen mudbrick superstructure which once sat above the perimeter wall's stone foundation.
In Square AG30, Kevin Larsen and his team have four walls from a Roman house. It includes what looks like a circular stone column drum deliberately set in the corner of one room. In the next room was a restorable whole New Testament era storage jar along with an unusual stone mortar found in situ. While the base was flat, the bowl of the mortar sat at a 30-degree angle, seemingly tilted especially for someone’s convenience while sitting on the floor. Finally, one of the corners in this house is created with well-cut stones – maybe the finest Roman room corner in all Israel – probably not…but it was still really well-constructed!
Suzanne Lattimer’s square AE29, sits next to mine and her team has also uncovered the inner face of the city wall – giving us about 10m of continuous exposure. They have also cleared the wall’s top – almost to the outer face. And, in the process, they found a large dump of Roman pottery – the largest pile of broken pottery we’ve found on the site.
Our wet sift team, led by Greg Gulbrandsen, has already been mentioned a couple of times. They are much appreciated by the rest of us – because they found the stuff in our dirt that we missed in the square and in our dry sift. This week “that stuff” included a clay impression made from an ancient seal, a flint blade, a carnelian bead, an “eye” bead (see below) and the scarab (mentioned above). These folks spend their day making the rest of us look pretty good. For details about our wet sift station, see: Go Now To Shiloh: The 2018 Excavations Week One
In recent years, archaeologists have considered sifting the dump piles left by earlier excavations – because today, building on what they had done, we have better technologies and protocols to identify more efficiently what they couldn’t. With the Danish/Finkelstein dump very close to our new wet sifting station, this week Steve Rudd started the wet sifting process for the first few pails of that dump. Among a number of interesting finds, they found a small “eye” bead – a bead with what appear to be four eyes around it.
And a final shout-out to Ellen Jackson, our metal detectorist, who found most of the fifty-plus coins from the dirt in our squares as well as another ten coins from the Danish/Finkelstein dump. Last year, Ellen found coins everywhere on Tel Shiloh when she turned on her machine. But this year, Scott said only in our squares and the dump. Too many coins from outside our dig area to record, clean, restore and process! Oh, to have such problems!
Of course, the coins don’t belong to us, they are the property of the Israel Antiquities Authority – who gives us our dig permit. So…in order to finance all the good work we’re doing, we still need and appreciate your prayers, help, support... and any coins you would like to send! Thanks for being part of the Shiloh Excavations!
Author: Henry B Smith Jr MA MAR
Week One of the 2018 Excavations at Biblical Shiloh, operated and sponsored by the Associates for Biblical Research, is now in the books.
This year’s expedition to Shiloh consists of our largest group ever assembled. In all, over 140 volunteers and staff registered for our excavation. When we add day volunteers and students from IBEX (The Master’s University Bible Extension, including students from Dallas Seminary), the total number of people on site during the 2018 season will exceed two hundred! Participants include pastors, students, professors, business professionals, day volunteers, retirees... and anyone in between! A number of institutions are represented by groups and/or individuals, including:
Lee University – Cleveland, TN
University of Pikeville – Pikeville, KY
Southwest Baptist University – Bolivar, MO
The Bible Seminary – Katy, TX
Yale University – New Haven, CT
University of Northwestern – St. Paul, MN
Emmaus Bible College – Dubuque, IA
The Crown College of the Bible – Powell, TN
Mid-Atlantic Christian University – Elizabeth City, NC
Virginia Beach Theological Seminary – Virginia Beach, VA
Danish Society for Biblical Archaeology
The planning for each dig season at Shiloh begins more than a year before it actually commences. Twelve months a year our team, led by Dr. Scott Stripling, continuously works on all of the variegated dimensions of the dig: reports, fundraising, budgeting, logistics, public relations, advertising, hotel arrangements, tour itineraries, technological improvements, peer-review, article publication, and so on. It is a year-round process in which we continuously improve all aspects of our operation.
State-of-the-art Wet Sifting
The reader may recall that last year we implemented wet-sifting protocols at Shiloh, utilizing the existing wet-sifting station previously built on the site. Shiloh is the first excavation outside of the Temple Mount Sifting Project in Jerusalem to utilize wet sifting. This process uses water to sift through excavated materials that have already been carefully removed from excavation squares and dry sifted. By using this process, we are able to discover critical objects that would otherwise have been lost forever in dump piles. While the existing station was useful, it was not conveniently located and was set up inefficiently.
One of our Shiloh Dig staff members, Steve Rudd, brilliantly designed a state-of-the-art wet-sifting facility, which we affectionately call the WASSI. Steve arrived three weeks in advance of the dig in order to supervise and construct the WASSI. Steve worked many, many hours to bring the project to fruition, staying in an apartment in Shiloh and making many sacrifices to be away from his family and church. He was able to complete the construction by the time we arrived at Shiloh to start digging on Monday, May 21st. If we had hired a company to design and build this station it would have cost tens of thousands of dollars, an expense we simply could not afford. Steve’s tireless work ethic and voluntary commitment to the Shiloh Dig and the ABR ministry is both admirable and humbling. We are most grateful for his unwavering commitment to the ABR ministry and excavations in the Holy Land.
The WASSI, designed by Steve Rudd and drawn up by Leen Ritmeyer.
Beyond the WASSI, we are now entering our second season using iPads to enter our field data. After a learning curve last season, the supervisors have become much more comfortable with using the iPads, and we now cannot even imagine going back to using paper.
This year Jacob Moody, PhD candidate at Andrews University, is taking three-dimensional photographic images of our excavation squares. This new technology provides state-of-the-art, high-resolution 3D images of each square. These pictures will eliminate the need for top plans (hand drawings on graph paper), as they reveal details not seen by the naked eye. Frankly, the photos and software are incredible!
An example of the 3D imaging of square AF 27 (Credit: Jacob Moody).
Teams and Brief Notes on Finds
During Week 1, our teams opened or continued working in eleven squares:
Team One (AC28-29) – Supervisor: Dr. Mark Hassler. This area is located immediately outside the Bronze Age fortification wall in the northwest sector of the tell. The discoveries include coins, glass sherds, two serrated flint blades, bichrome ware, and a green sealing impression which possibly contains the image of a human face. More analysis will reveal whether this is the case.
Team Two (AF29) – Supervisors: Senior Archaeologist Gary Byers and IT Director Don McNeeley. The team cleaned up tumble and debris from the off-season. Two Iron Age loom weights made of clay were discovered. Part of the MB wall was falling apart, so the team conserved it to maintain its integrity. The bottom of a silo was exposed, and a set of possible pithoi were also found, along with large chunks of MB pottery. Further work in Week 2 will explore this further.
Team Three (AG 27-28) – Supervisor: Field Archaeologist Dr. Brian Peterson. Lee University's dig team of 16 students led by Dr. Brian Peterson was tasked with working on two squares, AG27 and 28. Their work on AG28 was completed by Thursday and they continue to work on AG27. After excavating about 0.5 meters from AG27, their team found what appears to be a destruction level and perhaps a floor line. More excavation this coming week will help determine this. A number of small finds were made including sling stones, a partial ballista, a bead, three pieces of a Roman-era glass bracelet, glass fragments, and a few coins. We hope to reveal the Middle Bronze Age glacis/rampart by mid-week.
Team Five (AE 29-30) – Supervisor: Assistant Dig Director Suzanne Lattimer. AE-29 is a new square. The MB fortification wall of the Amorite city runs through the entire square. There are two MB storage rooms that partially enter this square from AE-30. The team cleaned the top of the MB wall, the top course and the face. A couple of sling stones were also found.
The 2018 Shiloh Excavation Grid
Team Six (AF 26-27) – Supervisor: Administrative Director Henry Smith. In 2017, we found a Middle Bronze wall outside the main Amorite city fortifications on the north. This wall has been exposed to three courses and extends into square AF 26. Remnants of a large storage vessel, copious amounts of animal bones, and early period pottery have also been discovered.
Team Seven (AH 29-30) – Supervisor: Tim Lopez. Tim’s team worked mainly in the north part of the square, clearing the MB storage wall which is probably connected to the large MB fortification wall surrounding the city. The team was able to find a possible Iron Age floor in this area, and they are now coming down to Middle Bronze strata, indicated by the pottery found there. A jar stopper and Roman glass base were also discovered.
Team Eight (Wet-Sifting Operation) – Supervisor: Greg Gulbrandsen. Each day, usually five of the sifting stations are manned and operational. At times seven or eight are manned and functioning, depending upon personnel available. The first week uncovered some valuable finds, including a carnelian biconical bead, a green bullae, some metal objects, and a variety of ancient ceramic and glass sherds. After the shofar blast at 1PM, we finalize any in-process wet-sifting and prepare for pottery washing operations. The pottery to be washed is brought down to the station and washed for reading the next day. The new station facilitates this very well. We have ample water for washing operations as well as drying rack space. In the morning, the pottery to be read is moved over to the reading tables, and wet-sifting operations start anew.
Objects – Object Registrar Abigail Leavitt reports the following discoveries: 22 coins, 5 sling stones, 2 beads and 1 seal, a total of 81 objects in all for Week 1.
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The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ Tops List Of U.K.’s Biggest Tracks Of 2020
The Weeknd‘s “Blinding Lights” was last year’s biggest single in the U.K.
The Canadian singer-songwriter’s mega hit racked up 2.2 million chart sales to top the 40 biggest songs of 2020 chart, published by the Official Charts Company.
The track was downloaded 195,000 times and streamed 250 million times.
“Blinding Lights” is a song from the rapper’s fourth studio album, After Hours, which topped the Official Albums Chart in March 2020.
Released in November 2019, it spent eight weeks at No. 1 between February and April 2020.
“Blinding Lights” is followed by Tones & I‘s “Dance Monkey.”
Dua Lipa‘s “Don’t Start Now” and “Physical” are also ranked in the 40 biggest songs of 2020 chart.
Meanwhile, “Head & Heart” by Joel Corry ft. MNEK is the biggest U.K. song released in 2020.
The track, which ranks fifth in the overall end-of-year chart, scored six weeks at No. 1 between July and September. It racked up 1.22 million chart sales in 2020, including 149 million streams.
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Raising Dion started off as a comic with a very straightforward and relatable premise. A single African-American mother raising a young king in today’s world. An understandable approach when telling a story about a black family in recent history. The only thing is, it didn’t start off that way.
Our main character, Nicole Reese fell in love with Mark Warren 7 years ago. Mark was a top engineer at Biona who was working on world changing, groundbreaking research to slow human metabolism, innovate minimal sleep, and plenty of other geeky enhancements to the body. Nicole soon had Dion, but Mark passes away. Now it’s all on her to raise the boy and help him learn to control his manifesting and constantly changing powers that include invisibility, telekinesis, energy blasts and a bevy of others that make the classic single parent story seem like child’s play.
The comic has a complimentary short film which is absolutely must watch material. The footage you find there can act as your beacon for what is to come in the 10 episode series that will feature Micheal B. Jordan as Mark Warren, the dashing and successful young man that Nicole fell in love with. The unique thing about this story is that it will only be able to feature the superstar actor for so long. There is but so much you can do with backstory, which means we should be getting plenty of mother and son melanin and cocoa butter to sink our depraved teeth into.
Dennis Liu, is the Taiwanese-American man who created Raising Dion and directed the short film. He will also be at the helm for the first episode. Netflix, you just keep coming with the diversified hits and for that, we thank you.
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A visit to the Scarehouse—and its creepy, adults-only basement
Heather Johanssen 7:03 am Tue Oct 8, 2013
Every year, The Scarehouse, 10 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh, puts on what many locals consider the best Halloween haunted house-type show in the region–with USA Today and Yahoo both ranking it among America's best. This year, I headed over to check it out, and received a highly-polished and extremely scary experience–and a backstage tour! Here, a makeup artist turns a performer's face into a gruesome work of art.
Here's one of the classic spooks: hardly a taster, especially given what they've got going on in the basement. It's the 120 actors, artists, technicians and staffers who make the Hollywood-quality sets, characters and special effects hit home. And it takes all year to plan the next fall's event.
Not far ahead, a not-so-classic spook–a horrific, 7 foot puking baby–ups the ante. The trip is divided into three acts: one themed around the pre-war history of the area, packed with unsettling 1920s-era toys and haunts, another around a modern-day zombie infestation, and a third around a creepy Christmas nightmare.
The design of the Scarehouse is all about small, cramped rooms that leave the visitor stumbling in the dark, from one haunt to the next. Here's a bathroom that needs a deep clean, deep within what used to be the Etna, Pennsylvania, Elks Lodge. Dating to 1915, the vast, imposing structure makes a perfect venue.
The Scarehouse's Margee Kerr leads the way to Creepo's Christmas, a 3D dimensional mindfuck created using ultraviolet paints. The visitor dons polarized glasses, creating a disorienting experience that mixes old-timey carnival with neon cyberpunk colors.
The zombie breakout has happend: in Pittsburgh, as expected. Beware the YNZR virus! The Scarehouse runs through halloween, but it's already popular: be sure to reserve a time slot to avoid long lines.
Landmark diner Primanti Brothers agreed to become local fodder for biohazard horror at the Scarehouse. Here, one is served something even nastier than its trademark fry-stuffed coleslaw sandwiches.
The most spectacular attraction this year was the newly-opened, adults-only Basement, where individual visitors receive the singular attentions of a range of nightmarish crazies and supernatural creeps. It was intense and physical: those opting for the experience must sign an agreement acknowledging they will be verbally abused, sniffed, dirtied, groped, pushed and dragged through near pitch-darkness.
The overwhelming assault begins from the outset, with the noisome scent of burning sage and a gollum-like gatekeeper laying his hands upon you. He, at least, was still more comforting than the average trip through the TSA gate at Dallas. Things soon took a turn for the worse, though–just as the waiver promised.
Without spoiling the journey, let me say that it was the most terrifying and amazing improv exercise I've ever experienced in my life. The actors and scenarios are fantastic, especially the "Happy" ending, which comes courtesy of a sexy psycho clown with anger management issues. Do I like having my hair pulled? Don't mind if you do.
I asked about the strangest things they got bills for. They sent me this list.
1. Boar's urine.
2. KY jelly.
3. Horse bits.
4. Adult diapers.
5. A bloody telly tubby (The "Terror tubby")
6. 20 pairs of hand cuffs.
7. 4000 keys.
8. A posture collar.
9. Bloody premade body parts including feed, hands, heads and a torso.
10. Many gallons of perma blood.
Never leaving home without my fitness watch, I was also able to track my heart rate and calorie burn through each attraction. The Scarehouse took me to 121 bmp, and burned 68 calories through the 20-minute experience. The Basement took me to 140 bpm, burned 140 calories, and lasted half an hour.
Tickets to the Scarehouse and the Scarehouse Basement are available at the official website. Here's one of their marketing videos, a good taster of the show.
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The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner.As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell... read more
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The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner.As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army.
Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage
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The Price of Rebellion
By Jeff Coleman / May 27, 2020 May 26, 2020 / Evil, Fantasy, Flash Fiction, Magic
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This post was originally published through Patreon on January 22, 2019.
Derrick gasped and the nightmare dissolved. He lay on his back beneath the light of the full moon, drenched in sweat, and loosed a hellish, world-shattering scream. A message. The dream had been a message, and its meaning was clear.
Derick’s family was dead.
He’d tried to protect them. He’d sent them to a place where no one could find them…or so he’d thought. He could still smell their incinerated bodies—singed hair, charred skin, smoldering flesh—a tainted, unholy perfume that would fester in his memory for the rest of his life.
It was the price of rebellion, a debt his family had paid in full.
How does it feel? The soundless words rippled through the world like the wind, an aftereffect of the dream. Was it worth it, Derrick? Was the cost of disobedience worth it?
Grief twisted his stomach into a series of progressively tighter knots. Whenever he closed his eyes, he could see his wife’s and childrens’ bloody faces: burned, angled toward the sky, eyes glazed and unseeing.
I could have done more, he thought. I could have stayed with them until I was certain they were safe, that the danger had passed.
Self-loathing battled with a searing, white-hot hatred for the men and women who’d murdered his entire family.
They died because of my carelessness.
And yet, deep in the recesses of his poisoned heart, he understood the truth: He hadn’t killed his family. They had.
And they would regret it.
Derrick scrambled to his feet, too disoriented by grief to do anything but stand while the sounds of the night cried out like a funeral dirge. He kicked the sleeping bag at his feet aside and heaved, wide-eyed, as one bone-rattling sob burst free from him after another.
“Awful, isn’t it?”
The voice came from behind—a man, judging by the tone—and Derrick spun.
“The magnitude of your grief must be incalculable.”
At that moment, all his rage surged out of him like a flash flood.
“Are you one of those murders?”
Derrick reached for the blade he always kept at his side, even when he was sleeping…only to realize it was gone.
When Derrick turned, he saw the man brandishing the curved sword as if it were his own, cold steel flashing in the monochromatic light of the moon.
“A precaution, you understand. I’ll give it back to you once you’ve heard me out.”
“My family!”
Derrick rushed to meet him, sword or no sword. If it was his fate to die this night, then at least he would return to his family. One step. Two steps. Three. Derrick was almost upon him when the man disappeared.
“I didn’t kill them, you ravenous idiot.”
This time, the voice came from where Derrick had been standing only moments before.
He spun again, sick with terror and blind, unfocused fury. The two emotions danced a lunatic jig in the dark, sweeping Derrick away, perilously close to the edge of insanity.
“You want revenge, don’t you? I can give it to you. I know who killed your family, and if you do as I say, I’ll deliver them to you.”
The Earth stopped spinning, and a deep, otherworldly stillness seized Derrick’s suddenly frozen heart.
“Yes,” the man said. “I see that got your attention.”
Time stilled, and it was a few moments before Derrick could speak again.
A shrewd clarity began to take root in Derrick’s heart, and his blood, boiling only moments ago, was already turning to ice.
“Why?” the man echoed. “Because your enemy is my enemy, and in a way, that makes us friends.”
“So,” said Derrick, “now we’re friends?”
The man shrugged.
“I have something you want, and you have something I want. If we can’t be friends, then let us be partners in a joint venture that will benefit both of us.”
Derrick’s skin prickled with alarm. Somewhere beyond the grief, in a part of himself that felt a thousand miles away, a sense of wrongness blossomed, along with a desperate warning to turn away before it was too late.
But if this man really knew who’d killed his family, and if he could help Derrick find them…
No, that distant part of Derrick cried. Don’t listen to him! But Derrick had already brushed the warning away.
The man smiled, and the horrendous, razor-sharp grin was so terrifying that Derrick took an involuntary step back.
“For now, just the promise that when I have need of you, you’ll come. Your skill with a blade is very useful, and I might require it later.”
“Then it’s killing you’re after?”
Derrick thought of those who’d killed his family. Would he now be asked to do the same to someone else?
Derrick hesitated. His grief was still fresh, and paired with a conscience that found such an atrocity revolting, he was hard-pressed to offer this man his service. But his hunger for retribution at any cost was growing, further dulling an already withered heart, and he couldn’t quite bring himself to turn the man away.
“I could hire someone else if you’d like.”
“No!” The word sprang out of Derrick’s mouth before he could stop it.
What about your family? an interior voice asked. Would they approve?
The thought made Derrick hesitate again. This time, however, it was only long enough for him to quash the renegade voice of his conscience for good. The thirst for vengeance was too potent, too overpowering, too irresistible to ignore, and after a final futile struggle to reclaim his broken heart, Derrick gave himself over to the darkness.
“No,” Derrick continued. “That won’t be necessary. If you require a promise, then I’ll give it. As long as you promise to hand over my family’s killers.”
The man stepped forward and placed a hand over Derrick’s shoulder. The touch was a blast of arctic ice, almost painful, and Derrick recoiled. But his decision was made, and so he steeled himself and stood alongside his mysterious visitor while his soul necrotized like his childrens’ immolated corpses.
“Come with me before you go on your way,” the man said. “I would discuss our partnership further.”
He snapped his fingers, and the two of them were swallowed by the dark.
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Zoledronic acid blocks the interaction between breast cancer cells and regulatory T-cells
Hsien Liu1,
Shih-Han Wang2,
Shin-Cheh Chen3,
Ching-Ying Chen4 &
Tsun-Mei Lin4,5
Zoledronic acid (ZA), a nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate, inhibits osteoclastogenesis. Emerging evidence suggests that ZA has anti-tumor and anti-metastatic properties for breast cancer cells. In a mouse model of ZA-related osteonecrosis of the jaw, ZA administration was found to suppress regulatory T-cells (Tregs) function. Our previous reports also demonstrated ZA acted as an immune modulator to block Tregs. Manipulation of Tregs represents a new strategy for cancer treatment. However, the relationship among ZA, Tregs, and cancer cells remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the effects of ZA on the interaction of breast cancer cells and Tregs.
The anti-tumor effect of ZA on triple negative breast cancer cell lines were validated by XTT, wound healing and apoptosis analysis. A flow cytometry-based assay was used to analyze the immunosuppressive effect of Tregs treated with media conditioned by breast cancer cells, and a transwell assay was used to evaluate the chemotactic migration of Tregs. Differential gene expression profile on MDA-MB-231 treated with ZA (25 μM) was analyzed by. microarrays to describe the molecular basis of actions of ZA for possible direct anti-tumor effects. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and quantitative real-time PCR were used to investigate the effect of ZA on the expression of cytokines/factors by breast cancer cells.
ZA was found to inhibit the proliferation and migration of breast cancer cells. Media conditioned by the MDA-MB-231 cells promoted the expansion, chemotactic migration, and immunosuppressive activity of Tregs, and these effects were attenuated in a dose-dependent manner by ZA treatment, and the attenuation was due to reduced expression of selected breast cancer cell factors (CCL2, CCL5, and IDO).
ZA can significantly affect the interaction between breast cancer cells and Tregs. Our findings indicate that ZA is a potential therapeutic agent that can be used to reduce cancer aggressiveness by abolishing the supportive role of Tregs.
Naturally occurring regulatory T-cells (Tregs, defined as CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ T-cells) play a critical role in suppressing CD4+CD25− and CD8+ effector T-cell functions for modulation of immune responses. In addition, Tregs also play a significant role in the aggressiveness of cancer by suppressing tumor-specific immunity [1, 2]. The prevalence of Tregs has been demonstrated to increase in both the peripheral blood and tumor microenvironment of patients with invasive breast, pancreas, colon, or liver cancer [3, 4]. Evidence shows that certain cells with malignant phenotypes release chemokines and other substances, such as CCL5 (RANTES), CCL2 (MCP-1), CCL22, PGE2, and TGF-β, to attract and activate Tregs [5,6,7,8,9,10]. Tumor-infiltrating Tregs could promote local tumor growth and enhance tumor metastasis in the peripheral blood or lymphoid organs [11, 12]. Elucidating the factors responsible for trafficking and accumulation of Tregs in the tumor microenvironment and blocking the interaction between cancer cells and Tregs could offer attractive therapeutic targets for combating tumor-induced immune suppression [13, 14].
Zoledronic acid (ZA), a third-generation nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate, is the mainstay of treatment for bone disease associated with breast cancer [15]. ZA inhibits farnesyl diphosphate (FPP) synthase, the key enzyme of the mevalonate pathway, to block osteoclast-mediated bone resorption. Synthesis of FPP and geranylgeranyl diphosphate (which is required for the post-translational modification of small GTPases that regulate cell normal function synthesis) are blocked [16]. Apoptosis of osteoclasts is also induced by the production of triphosphoric acid 1-adenosine-5′-yl ester 3-[3-methylbut-3-enyl] ester (ApppI, cytotoxic ATP analogue) through FPP synthase inhibition. In addition, preclinical and clinical findings suggest that ZA might also have direct and indirect anti-tumor effects [17]. The effects of adjuvant ZA treatment on the overall survival of breast cancer patients were analyzed in several clinical trials. The trials revealed increased disease-free survival rates for patients who received an adjuvant therapy in combination with ZA in the ABCSG-12 trial and the ZO-FAST trial [18, 19]. However, a tendency for increased overall survival was identified in patients treated with an adjuvant therapy in combination with ZA compared with the adjuvant therapy alone in the AZURE trial [20]. Recent studies suggested that the anti-tumor and anti-metastatic properties of ZA might directly inhibit angiogenesis, tumor cell proliferation, and adhesion in bone and induce tumor cell apoptosis. In addition, the antitumor synergy of ZA with cytotoxic chemotherapy was also demonstrated to induce partial immunomodulatory effects through expansion of cytotoxic γδ T-cells and MHC-restricted αβ CD8+ T-cells, thus attenuating the macrophage-induced invasiveness of cancer cells and interfering with dendritic cell differentiation and maturation [21,22,23]. Although inhibition of Tregs activity has been demonstrated in the mouse model of ZA-related osteonecrosis of the jaw [24], the relationship among ZA, Tregs, and cancer cells is not yet clearly understood. In the current study, we investigated the possible vicious cycle of pro-malignant interaction between Tregs and breast cancer cells and the effect of ZA on this relationship. Our specific aims were to clarify the ability and expression of factors of breast cancer cells to attract and activate Tregs and to investigate the modulating effect of ZA on the ability of breast cancer cells to attract and activate Tregs.
Chemicals, antibodies, and cell line
ZA was sourced from Novartis Pharma AG Basel, Switzerland. Monoclonal antibodies against human CD25-PE were purchased from eBioscience (San Diego, CA, USA), CD69-FITC was sourced from BD Biosciences (San Jose, CA, USA); the secondary antibody goat anti-mouse IgG FITC was sourced from Merck Millipore (Billerica, MA); and human CCL2/MCP1, human CCL5/RANTES, anti-CCL2 antibody, and anti-CCL5 antibody were sourced from R & D Systems (Minneapolis MN). The triple negative breast cancer cell lines MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468 were purchased from Food Industry Research and Development Institute (FIRDI) and Culture Collection and Research Center (CCRC, Taiwan, ROC). Both cell line were cultured with DMEM medium (Gibco®, Grand Island, NY, USA) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; Biological Industries, Kibbutz Beit HaEmek, Israel).
Breast cancer cell proliferation assay
MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells were seeded overnight in 96-well plates at 5 × 103 cells/well, treated with various concentrations of ZA for 72 h, and assayed for cell viability using the XTT-cell proliferation kit (Biological Industries, Beit Haemek, Israel) during which the medium was replaced with fresh medium and XTT was added for 4 h. The absorbance of the samples was measured against a background control (used as a blank) in an ELISA reader set to a wavelength of 470 nm.
Migration assays of breast cancer cells (wound healing assay)
MDA-MB-231 cells were grown to confluence in 6-cm dishes. Subsequently, the growth medium was removed, and the cell monolayers were ‘scratched’ with a 200-μl pipette tip. The MDA-MB-231 cells were further incubated in medium containing 0, 5, 10, or 25 μM ZA for 12 and 24 h and viewed under an inverted phase-contrast microscope (Zeiss, Primovert, Germany) to measure the cell migration distance.
Apoptosis assays of breast cancer cells
MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells were seeded at a density of 5 × 105 cells/well, starved overnight in serum-free medium, treated with ZA (0, 10, 25 and 100 μM) for 48 h at 37 °C in DMEM with 2% FBS, washed with PBS, and incubated with FITC-labeled Annexin V and Propidium Iodide Staining Solution (eBioscience, San Diego, CA, USA). Samples were gently vortexed, incubated for 15 min in the dark, and analyzed within 1 h via flow cytometry using a FACScan flow cytometer (FACScalibur; BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA) to determine percentages of apoptotic and necrotic cells.
Preparation of breast cancer conditioned media (C.M)
Conditioned media (10% FBS C.M.) were harvested from MDA-MB-231 cells that had been starved overnight in serum-free DMEM and treated with 0, 10, and 25 μM ZA for 6 h. The cells were washed twice with phosphate buffered saline and cultured for 24 h in 10% FBS DMEM. All C.M. was collected, sterile filtered, and stored in aliquots at − 80 °C.
For chemo-attractive assay for Tregs, MDA-MB-231 cells were seeded overnight in 6-well plates at 5 × 105 cells/well. Conditioned media (2% FBS C.M.) were harvested from MDA-MB-231 cells treated with 0, 10, and 25 μM ZA for 48 h.
Isolation and expansion of regulatory T-cells
Tregs were immediately purified from peripheral blood mononuclear cells, which were isolated from 100 ml of fresh heparinized peripheral blood collected from healthy volunteers by Ficoll-Hypaque (GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden) gradient centrifugation and by immunomagnetic separation using the Dynabeads® Regulatory CD4+CD25+ T-cell Kit (Invitrogen™, Oslo, Norway), according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The procedure yielded a highly pure preparation (> 90% purity) of regulatory CD4+CD25+ T-cells, more than 80% of which expressed the intracellular transcription factor Foxp3. The isolated Tregs were expanded with Dynabeads® Human Treg Expander (Gibco®, Oslo, Norway) containing 100 U/ml recombinant human interleukin (rIL-2) (Gibco®, Carlsbad, CA, USA). Each batch Tregs was treated with a standard protocol. After isolation, they were cultured for 10 days and expanded to more than 2 × 106. Each experiment was performed by three independent batches in duplicate. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Committee of E-DA Hospital, and volunteer donors provided written informed consent.
Regulatory T-cell viability/proliferation assay
To investigate the effect of breast cancer cell C.M. on Tregs viability/proliferation, Tregs were seeded in 24-well plates at 4 × 105 cells/well, cultured with pure Tregs culture medium or a mixture of half Tregs culture medium and C.M. from MDA-MB-231 (10% FBS) with 6-h ZA (0, 10, 25 μM) pre-treatment, and stimulated with CD3/CD28 microbeads and rIL-2. The culture media were changed every 3 days, and the number of viable Tregs was counted using the trypan blue exclusion test.
Migration assay of regulatory T-cells
Migration assays were performed in 24-well transwell chambers (Corning, New York, NY) using 8-μm pore polycarbonate filters. Expanded Tregs were added to the top chamber in serum-free RPMI medium at 5 × 104 cells/100 μl. Various chemo-attractants, including 2% serum-containing DMEM with ZA (0, 10, and 25 μM) or 2% FBS C.M. of MDA-MB-231 cells pretreated with ZA (0, 10, and 25 μM) were added to the bottom chamber of the transwells in a volume of 650 μL. In certain experiments, the C.M. was preincubated with anti-CCL2 antibody (10 μg/ml), anti-CCL5 antibody (20 μg/ml), or both for 1 h. The migrated cells in the lower chamber were counted after incubation for 2 h at 37 °C. The chemotaxis index was calculated relative to the value obtained in response to 2% FBS-containing DMEM medium only.
Immunosuppressive function assay of regulatory T-cells
The immunosuppressive activity of Tregs was analyzed with a Human Regulatory T-cell Function Kit (BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA). Tregs (2 × 105) were cultured with pure Tregs culture medium or half C.M. of ZA (0, 10, and 25 μM)-pretreated MDA-MB-231 cells and co-cultured with the responding effector T cells in PBMC (4 × 105) stimulated using anti-CD3/CD28 beads to express activation marker CD69. After 7 h of activation, the percentage of CD69-positive effector T-cells was determined by flow cytometry, and the reduced expression of CD69 in the presence of Tregs indicated Treg suppressive capacity. The percent suppression was calculated using the following formula: 100 – [(% CD69-positive in the presence of Tregs/% CD69-positive in the absence of Tregs) × 100].
Microarray gene expression profiling
Total cellular RNA was isolated from MDA-MB-231 cells treated with 25 μM ZA and with or without 100 ng/ml IFN-γ for 24 h by TRIzol (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) according to the manufacture’s protocol, and the total amount was quantified by measuring the optical density at 260 nm. Five micrograms of total RNA was reverse transcribed using the high capacity cDNA archive kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) according to vendor’s instructions. Human OneArray Plus (Phalanx Biotech, Hsinchu, Taiwan) was used for comparing gene expression profiles between cells treated with ZA and control. Labeling of cDNA, hybridization of labeled cDNA to genome probes, and scanning were performed according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Normalized spot intensities were transformed to gene expression log2 ratios between the control and ZA-treatment groups. The spots with log2 ratio ≥ 1 or log2 ratio ≤ − 1 and p-value < 0.05 were analyzed.
Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay
The kynurenine pathway of tryptophan metabolism is as a key metabolic pathway contributing to immune escape for breast cancer cells [14]. Indoleamine 1,2 dioxygenase enzyme (IDO) activity was induced by IFN-γ [25] to reduce T-lymphocyte proliferation and to increase Tregs subpopulation expansion [22, 26]. In addition, chemokines released by tumor cells lead Tregs recruitment [27,28,29]. Therefore, we proposed that the modulating effect of ZA on breast cancer cells to decrease Tregs expansion, migration and activation.
Total RNA was extracted from MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468 cells treated with ZA (0, 5, 10, and 25 μM) and with or without 100 ng/ml IFN-γ for 24 h using a Total RNA Mini Kit (Viogene, Sunnyvale, CA, USA). The first strand of cDNA was synthesized by reverse transcribing 1–2.5 μg of RNA with an iScriptTM cDNA Synthesis Kit (Bio-Rad, Foster City, CA, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Real-time PCR was performed using iTaqTM Universal SYBR@ Green Supermix (Bio-Rad, Foster City, CA, USA) with primers specific for the human gene (Table 1) and an ABI PRISM 7700 Sequence Detection System (Applied Biosystems, Warrington, WA, USA), according to the manufacturer recommendations, including performance of all reactions with three biological and negative controls. The CT is the threshold cycle number (i.e., the minimum number of cycles needed for PCR product detection). Analyses of relative gene expression were performed using the 2-ΔΔCT method, including normalization to the mRNA level of the housekeeping gene GADPH.
Table 1 Primer sequences used for qRT-PCR
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for chemokines
MDA-MB-231 cells were seeded overnight in 6-well plates at 5 × 105 cells/well, starved overnight at 37 °C in serum-free DMEM, and treated with ZA (0, 5, 10, and 25 μM) and 100 ng/ml IFN-γ for 48 h at 37 °C in 2% FBS-containing DMEM. CCL2 and CCL5 were detected in the supernatants of stimulated MDA-MB-231 cells using ELISA reagents obtained from R&D Systems. All samples were assayed in duplicate.
The statistical analysis was performed using Prism version 5.00 software (GraphPad Software, USA). Data are presented as the mean ± SD from three independent experiments. All differences were tested for statistical significance between two groups with the two-tailed Student t-test, and for more than three groups, one-way ANOVA was applied. P-values of < 0.05 were considered statistically significant.
ZA inhibits the proliferation and migration of MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells
As determined by XTT assay, ZA obviously inhibited the proliferation of MDA-MB-231 cells even at low concentrations (Fig. 1), which is consistent with previous reports [30]. The effect of ZA treatment on the migration of MDA-MB-231 cells was determined by the wound-healing assay. The rate of MDA-MB-231 cell migration was significantly decreased after ZA treatment for both 12 and 24 h (Fig. 2). Only 100 μM ZA increased induction of MDA-MB-231 cells apoptosis significantly, however, no increase of MDA-MB-231 cell apoptosis at concentrations of ZA under 25 μM (Fig. 3a & b). Therefore, concentration of 10 and 25 μM were used to treat MDA-MB-231 cells in vitro study.
Effects of ZA treatment on proliferation of MDA-MB-231 cells. MDA-MB-231 cells were treated with various concentrations ZA for 72 h. Cell proliferation was determined by the XTT assay. Each data point represents the mean ± standard deviation based on quadruplicate determinations in three to five independent experiments. Significant difference was determined using one-way ANOVA; **P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001
Effects of ZA treatment on migration of MDA-MB-231 cells. a Representative pictures of migration (wound closing) of MDA-MB-231 cells grown in the presence of various concentrations of ZA at 0, 12 and 24 h after wounding (100x magnifications). Quantification of migration distance as a percentage of the control value (ZA absent) in graphs of % wound closure after (b) 12 h and (c) 24 h of migration. The statistical analysis was performed using Prism version 5.00 software (GraphPad Software, USA). Data were analyzed using one-way ANOVA; *** P < 0.001
Effects of ZA treatment on apoptosis detected by annexin V/PI ataining. a The MDA-MB-231 cells were treated without or with various concentration of ZA for 48 h. Annexin V-FITC/PI staining was carried out and determined using flow cytometry. b The distribution of MDA-MB-231 cells undergoing early (annexin V+ PI-) and late apoptosis (annexin V+ PI+) were qualified, after treatment with ZA
C. M. of ZA-pretreated MDA-MB-231 cells inhibit the proliferation of regulatory T-cells
To examine the effects of C.M. of MDA-MB-231 cells on Tregs proliferation, we exposed Tregs to C.M. from ZA-pretreated MDA-MB-231 cells for 5 and 14 days and calculated the total numbers of viable Tregs in the presence or absence of C.M. from MDA-MB-231 cells. Exposure to C.M. from MDA-MB-231 cells (compared with mock C.M.) significantly amplified Tregs expansion by approximately 30–40%, and the effect was found as early as day 3–4 of incubation (P < 0.05) (Additional file 1: Figure S1). However, the enhancement was significantly blunted when MDA-MB-231 cells were pre-treated with ZA (Fig. 4). ZA pre-treatment attenuated the effect in a dose-dependent manner, with 10 μM ZA responsible for 20% growth inhibition (p < 0.001) and 25 μM ZA for 30% inhibition on the 14th day (p < 0.001).
Effects of C.M. from ZA-pretreated MDA-MB-231 cells on Tregs proliferation. Tregs were cultured in the presence of 100 U/ml rIL-2 and Dynabeads® Human Treg Expander with or without C.M from ZA-pretreated MDA-MB-231 stimulation. Proliferation was expressed as the percentage of cell numbers relative to that at day 1 (100%). Proliferation percentages were calculated at day 5 and 14. Data are representative of three independent experiments. One-way ANOVA was applied to analyze the results. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001
C.M. of ZA-pretreated MDA-MB-231 cells inhibit the migration of regulatory T-cells
We investigated whether ZA treatment affected the ability of breast cancer cells to attract Tregs. The results of transwell assays for Tregs migration through a polycarbonate membrane in response to chemoattractants showed that the chemoattractant activity of C.M. from MDA-MB-231 cells incubated for 48 h was 4 times that of 2% FBS medium only (p < 0.001) (Fig. 5). However, ZA had no direct effect on Tregs migration, only ZA pre-treated C.M. from MDA-MB-231 cells caused a significant dose-dependent reduction in the ability to attract Tregs migration (Fig. 5). C.M. from 25 μM ZA pretreated MDA-MB-231 cells decreased the chemotactic activity by 45% (p < 0.01).
Inhibiting effects of C.M. from ZA-pretreated MDA-MB-231 cells on Tregs migration. Tregs (5 × 10 4) were placed in the upper chambers for measurement of migration of Tregs into the lower chambers containing DMEM with 2% FBS with and without ZA and C.M. of MDA-MB-231 cells with and without ZA pretreatment. The relative percentages of migrated cells are shown compared with that of C.M. of MDA-MB-231 cells without ZA. Values indicate means ± SEM of results from three independent experiments performed in duplicate. Significant differences in percentage were determined using one-way ANOZA; ** P < 0.01; *** P < 0.001
C.M. of ZA-pretreated MDA-MB-231 cells inhibit the immunosuppressive function of regulatory T-cells
We further investigated whether ZA treatment can affect the ability of MDA-MB-231 cells to activate the immunosuppressive activity of Tregs. Using a flow cytometry-based assay and the BD FastImmune Human Regulatory T-cell Function Kit, activation marker CD69 on the effector T-cell surface was analyzed. It was showed Treg celsl presence could suppressed the percentage of CD69 expression on effect T cells (Fig. 6b vs. a) and C.M. from MDA-MB-231 cells significantly activated the immunosuppressive function of Tregs (p < 0.001) (Fig. 6c vs. b). However, C.M. from MDA-MB-231 cells pre-treated with ZA significantly blunted this enhanced immunosuppressive activity in a dose-dependent manner (p < 0.01) (Fig. 6d).
Inhibition effects of C.M. from ZA-pretreated MDA-MB-231 cells on Tregs immunosuppression function. a The percentage of responding effector T cells expressing activation marker CD69 in PBMC stimulated with anti-CD3/CD28 beads. b Tregs suppressed the percentage of responding effector T cells expressing activation marker CD69 in PBMC stimulated with anti-CD3/CD28 beads. c Tregs were cultured with C.M. of MDA-MB-231 cells and enhance the immunosuppression of Tregs to decrease responding effector T cells expressing activation marker CD69 in PBMC stimulated with anti-CD3/CD28 beads. d The percentage of immunosuppression was calculated using the following formulas: 100 – [(% CD69-positive in the presence of Tregs/% CD69-positive in the absence of Tregs) × 100]. Values shown are means ± SEM of results from three independent experiments. Significant differences were compared using one-way ANOVA; ** P < 0.01
Gene expression profile of breast cancer cells treated with ZA
To investigate the molecular mechanisms by ZA exert their antitumor effects in MDA-MB-231 cells. We evaluated the expression profiling of MDB-MA-231 treated with 25 μM of ZA for 24 h versus untreated, using a cDNA microarray platform Affymetrix. Of the 33,000 independent features on the microarrays, 848 genes were found to be differentially expressed after 24 h of treatment (Fig. 7a). If MDB-MA-231 activated by 100 ng/ml IFN-γ and treated with 25 μM of ZA for 24 h, 421genes were found to be differentially expressed (Fig. 7b). We grouped genes related to molecular function categories that have changed in a statistically significant manner (p-value < 0.05) after treatment with ZA (Fig. 7c, d). The most significant changes in biological processes confirmed the involvement of ZA in cell cycle and focal adhesion. In particular, 86 genes were co-upregulated, and 128 genes were co-downregulated in ZA treatment either unstimulated or IFN-γ activated MDB-MA-231 (Fig. 7e, f).
Treatment with ZA affects gene expression profile in MDA-MB-231cells and IFN-γ activated MDA-MB-231cells. a-b The human global gene expression profiles of two independent RNA samples were analyzed by human oligonucleotide DNA microarray at 48 h post-transfection. c Corrected microarray signal values of genes involved in different biological process, clustered by Biological process of MDA-MB-231 cells treated for 24 h with 25 μM ZA in comparison to control cells. d Corrected microarray signal values of genes involved in different biological process, clustered by Biological process of IFN-γ activated MDA-MB-231 cells treated for 24 h with 25 μM ZA in comparison to control cells. e Of the genes commonly down-regulated by ZA in MDA-MB-231cells and IFN-γ activated MDA-MB-231cells. f Of the genes commonly down-regulated by ZA in MDA-MB-231cells and IFN-γ activated MDA-MB-231cells
ZA treatment alters IDO and chemokines expression in breast cancer cell lines
Using qRT-PCR, we analyzed MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468 cells treated with various concentrations of ZA to determine their expression of IDO or chemokins that affect Tregs function. However, the mRNA and protein expression of IDO and chemokines (CCL2 and CCL5) by MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468 cells were very low for detection. IDO activity could be induced by IFN-γ and increase Tregs subpopulation expansion [22, 26]. Therefore, the effects of ZA on IFN-γ treated triple negative breast cancer cell lines were analyzed. The results demonstrated IDO expression were significantly increased when the cells stimulated with IFN-γ but reduced in a dose-dependent manner by ZA treatment (Fig. 8). Collectively, ZA partially inhibited triple negative breast cancer cell-mediated enhancement of Tregs expansion through down-regulating IDO activity and via inhibition of the kynurenine/IDO axis.
Influence of ZA on IDO mRNA expression by MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468 cells. The mRNA levels of IDO were evaluated by qRT-PCR in 100 ng/ml IFN-γ activated MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468 cells treated with 0, 5, 10 and 25 μM ZA for 24 h. Gene expression values were normalized to GAPDH expression. Relative mRNA expression of IDO was calculated from cell treatment with ZA compared with cells only with IFN-γ stimulation. Values indicate means ± SEM of results from three independent experiments performed in duplicate (n = 3). * P < 0.05, *** P < 0.001
Chemokines released from cancer cells were reported to recruit Tregs [27, 29]. Using qRT-PCR and ELISA, we analyzed MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468 cells treated with various concentrations of ZA to determine their expression of cytokines or other factors that affect Tregs function. The mRNA and protein expression of both CCL2 and CCL5 by IFN-γ activated breast cancer cells were significantly reduced in a dose-dependent manner by ZA treatment (Fig. 9). Our results imply that ZA treatment might reduce the ability of breast cancer cells to enhance the expansion and migration of Tregs by reducing their production of CCL2 and CCL5. To further confirm the role of MDA-MB-231 cell-secreted CCL2 and CCL5 as key factors that maintain Tregs migration, we measured the Tregs migration response to C.M. of MDA-MB-231 cells in the presence or absence of anti-CCL2 and anti-CCL5 antibodies. Figure 10 shows that either anti-CCL2 antibody or anti-CCL5 antibody significantly inhibited the Tregs migration induced by C.M. of MDA-MB-231 cells (p < 0.01). In addition, treatment with a combination of anti-CCL2 and anti-CCL5 antibodies nearly completely abolished the enhancement effect of MDA-MB-231 cell C.M. on Tregs migration (p < 0.001). The results demonstrated CCL2 and CCL5 expression was significantly increased when the cells treated with IFN-γ but reduced in a dose-dependent manner by ZA treatment.
Chemokines expression in triple negative breast cancer cells treated with ZA. Relative mRNA levels of (a) CCL2 and (b) CCL5 were evaluated by qRT-PCR in MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468 cells with or without 100 ng/ml IFN-γ activated in the presence of ZA (0, 5, 10 and 25 μM) for 24 h. Gene expression values were normalized to GAPDH expression. Concentrations of (c) CCL2 and (d) CCL5 were measured in the C.M. of 100 ng/ml IFN-γ treated MDA-MB-231 cells in the presence of ZA (0, 5, 10 and 25 μM) for 48 h by ELISA. Data were analyzed using one-way ANOVA; * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001
Inhibition of C.M. of MDA-MB-231 induced migration of Tregs following treatment with monoclonal antibody of CCL2 or CCL5. C.M. with or without addition of anti-CCL2 antibody (10 μg/ml), anti-CCL5 antibody (20 μg/ml), alone or in combination on the migration of Tregs was applied. The relative percentages of migrated cells were compared with that of C.M. of MDA-MB-231 cells without monoclonal antibody (control). Values indicate means ± SEM of results from three independent experiments. Significant differences were compared using one-way ANOVA; ** P < 0.01; *** P < 0.001
Many studies have revealed that ZA has antitumor activity and might target the tumor microenvironment. Massaia et al found that ZA had multiple immune modulatory activities that allowed multiple myeloma dendritic cells to effectively handle the concurrent activation of cytotoxic γδ T-cells and MHC-restricted CD8+ αβ T-cells in vitro [22]. A transgenic breast cancer mouse model study showed that administration of ZA reduced the number of tumor-associated macrophages and caused macrophage repolarization [23]. Recently, Giannoni et al also reported that ZA impaired prostate cancer cell-induced polarization of M2-macrophages, reducing their pro-invasive effect on tumor cells and pro-angiogenic features [31]. ZA also reversed cancer-associated fibroblast activation by impairing the assembly of smooth muscle actin-α into fibers. These results revealed that ZA-induced stromal normalization impairs cancer-stromal cells crosstalk, resulting in the blockage of primary tumor growth and metastases [31]. In our previous report, we demonstrated that the migration of Tregs towards cancer cells was significantly inhibited after ZA treatment [26]. Our data also suggested that ZA inhibited the expansion and immunosuppressive function of Tregs in vitro. The ZA-mediated attenuation of immune evasion and tumor progression was mediated via inhibition of Tregs recruitment and expansion by the tumors. We also demonstrated that treatment with ZA significantly inhibits cancer cell migration by blocking the RANK/RANKL pathway induced by Tregs. This observation is consistent with previous studies showing that patients with breast cancer might benefit from Tregs depletion leading to a reduction in local immunosuppression and removal of a primary source of RANKL required for tumor metastasis [32, 33]. Our data on the effect of ZA on Tregs gene expression showed that the Tregs immunosuppressive function was suppressed by down-regulation of CTLA4, PD1, and RANKL. CTLA4 and PD-1 expression by Tregs is constitutive and critical to their immunosuppressive function [34,35,36]. The RANK-RANKL signaling pathway is critically involved in regulating the immunosuppressive function of Tregs [37], which can be modulated by ZA.
In this study, C.M. from MDA-MB-231 cells significantly enhanced the proliferation, migration, and immunosuppressive function of Tregs (Figs. 4, 5, and 6). In contrast, pretreatment of MDA-MB-231 cells with ZA significantly attenuated their ability to stimulate Treg proliferation, migration, and immunosuppressive function. ZA treatment significantly decreased IDO mRNA expression in triple negative breast cancer cells after IFN-γ treatment (Fig. 8). Because it is known that the level of IDO activity and the size of the immunosuppressive Tregs subpopulation vary in parallel [38], we conclude that ZA effectively inhibits breast cancer cells to induce expansion of Tregs at least partially via inhibition of the kynurenine/IDO axis. Ghigo et al also found similar effects of ZA, i.e., down-regulation of the IDO expression of malignant mesothelioma cells, facilitation of the proliferation of T-cells, and inhibition of the expansion of Tregs [38]. Additionally, MDA-MB-231 cell expressions of both chemokines CCL2 and CCL5, which are the major chemoattractants for Tregs, were significantly reduced by ZA treatment in a dose-dependent manner (Figs. 9). CCL2, CCL5 and IDO play key roles in promoting tumor growth and progression partially by inhibiting the immune response against cancer through Tregs. Therefore, anti-CC2 / CCL5 and IDO inhibitor could represent new strategies for cancer treatment [5, 10, 39]. Based on our present data and previous reports, ZA inhibited the interaction between Tregs and breast cancer cells and synergistically acted with cyotokine or IDO inhibitors to alert the tumor microenvironment and to enhanced anti-tumor immunity.
Holen et al recently reported that anti-tumor effects of ZA on breast cancer cell function differ according to their estrogen receptor (ER) status [40], suggesting that ZA’s effect on breast cancer cell line proliferation might depend on ER status. In their study, ZA significantly inhibited proliferation of ER-negative MDA-MB-231 cells but not ER-positive MCF-7 cells. We also found that C.M. of MDA-MB-231 cells (ER negative) significantly expanded Tregs number, induced Tregs chemotatic migration, and enhanced Tregs immunosuppressive activity. However, the C.M. of MCF-7 cells (ER positive) failed to support Tregs expansion and migration (Additional file 2: Figure S2 and Additional file 3: Figure S3). In addition, ZA appeared to have little effect on the interaction between MCF-7 cells and Tregs (data not shown). Clezardin et al [41] reported that IPP accumulation in ZA-treated breast cancer cells might be recognized by Vγ9Vδ2 T-cells as tumor phosphoantigens and induce Vγ9Vδ2 T-cell expansion, promote Vγ9Vδ2 T-cell chemotaxis to the tumor, and increase Vγ9Vδ2 T-cell cytotoxicity. IPP production differed markedly between different human breast cancer cell lines post-ZA treatment. Estrogen receptor positive breast cancer cell lines, such as MCF-7, produced higher IPP levels than estrogen receptor negative cell lines, such as MDA-MB-231. Their findings suggest that patients with estrogen-receptor-positive type breast cancer (with cells that produce higher IPP levels after ZA treatment) are most likely to benefit from Vγ9Vδ2 T-cell-mediated immunotherapy. Collectively, the data show that the effects of ZA treatment on the immune response to breast cancer depend on the hormonal receptor status of the cells.
We showed that 1) breast cancer cells promote the expansion, chemotactic migration, and immunosuppressive function of Tregs and that 2) ZA inhibits the ability of breast cancer cells in a dose-dependent manner to promote Tregs proliferation, migration, and function at least partially due to the ZA-induced reduction of breast cancer cell expression of selected factors/chemokines (CCL2, CCL5, IDO, etc.). Our data suggest that ZA can modulate the interaction between Tregs and breast cancer cells. The efficacy of ZA was demonstrated to be a potential therapeutic approach to inhibit the aggressiveness cancer by blocking the supportive role of the tumor microenvironment in pathogenesis.
Bisphosphonate
C.M.:
Conditioned media harvested from MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells consisting of DMEM
CCL2/MCP1:
Chemokine C-C motif ligand 2
CCL5/RANTES:
IDO:
Indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase
IFN-γ:
Interferon-gamma
PBMCs:
Peripheral blood mononuclear cells
Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B
RANKL:
Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand
Tregs:
Regulatory T-cells
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The authors thank Ms. I-Chun Tsai and Mr. Cheng-Hsieh Huang for technical assistance and also thank Dr. Hock-Liew Eng for critical reading of the manuscript and constructive suggestions.
This work was supported by E-DA Hospital [EDAHP101019] [EDAHP102028] and Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying [CLFHR10307].
All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article.
Department of Surgery, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan
Hsien Liu
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan
Shih-Han Wang
Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Shin-Cheh Chen
Department of Medical Laboratory Science, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Ching-Ying Chen & Tsun-Mei Lin
Departments of Medical Research, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Tsun-Mei Lin
Ching-Ying Chen
Design of the research: HL, SHW, TML. Performance of experiments: HL, CYC. Data interpretation: HL, SHW, SCC, TML. Supply of materials: SCC, TML. Manuscript writing: HL, TML. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Tsun-Mei Lin.
The study was approved by the Institutional Review Committee of E-DA Hospital, and the volunteer donors of Treg cells provided written informed consent.
Figure S1. C.M. of MDA-MB-231 cells enhanced Tregs proliferation. Total counts of viable Tregs stimulation in the presence of 100 U/ml rIL-2 and Dynabeads® Human Treg Expander with or without C.M. of MDA-MB-231 cells were calculated at the indicated times. Proliferation was expressed as the percentage of cell numbers relative to that at day 1 (100%). Data are representative of three independent experiments. The difference was compared using Student’s t-test. **, P < 0.01; *** P < 0.001. (JPG 75 kb)
Figure S2. The effects of C.M. from MCF-7 cells on Tregs proliferation. Total counts of viable Tregs stimulation in the presence of 100 U/ml rIL-2 and Dynabeads® Human Treg Expander with or without MCF-7 cells C.M. at the indicated times were calculated. The proliferation was expressed as the percentage of the cell numbers relative to that at day 1 (100%). Data are representative of three independent experiments. (JPG 74 kb)
Figure S3. The effect of C.M. from breast cancer cells on Tregs migration. Tregs (5 × 10 4) were placed in the upper chambers. Migration of Tregs into the lower chambers containing DMEM with 2% FBS, C.M. of MCF-7 cells and MDA-MB-231 cells after 2 h was analyzed. The chemotaxis index shown compares migration with the response of Tregs to DMEM with 2% FBS. Values are means ± SEM of results from three independent experiments in duplicate. ***p < 0.001. (JPG 68 kb)
Liu, H., Wang, SH., Chen, SC. et al. Zoledronic acid blocks the interaction between breast cancer cells and regulatory T-cells. BMC Cancer 19, 176 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-5379-9
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USC bounces back with 45-7 win over Utah St (with photo gallery)
Written by AP Sports
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California’s humiliating loss to Alabama didn’t linger.
Max Browne and Sam Darnold passed for two touchdowns apiece, Adoree Jackson returned a punt 77 yards for a score, and USC rebounded with a 45-7 victory over Utah State on Saturday.
JuJu Smith-Schuster caught two TD passes as the Trojans (1-1) showed no hangover from their 52-6 loss to the top-ranked Crimson Tide last week in Texas, the biggest season-opening loss in school history and their most lopsided defeat since 1966.
“We needed that,” said receiver Darreus Rogers, who had a career-high seven catches for 82 yards. “It’s big to build our confidence back up. We had it in our mind to come out strong early and execute.”
While the offense had several solid drives for both quarterbacks, the USC defense shut out the Aggies (1-1) until Kent Myers’ 6-yard TD pass to Wyatt Houston on the last play of the third quarter.
Browne was mostly sharp in his first career victory as a starter, completing 23 for 30 with one interception. Darnold threw his first touchdown pass for USC in the second quarter, hitting Deontay Burnett on his first play.
Jackson picked up a bouncing punt late in the third quarter and sliced through Utah State for the third punt-return TD of his career.
“This week, it was a team that really wanted to perform, and really wanted to get back out and play,” USC coach Clay Helton said.
The Trojans overcame the ejection of left tackle Chuma Edoga on the opening drive for making contact with an official.
UTAH STATE: The Aggies didn’t get embarrassed by the Trojans, but their defense got a reality check after stifling Weber State in a 45-6 win last week. They’ll also have to check their injury losses after a punishing game at the Coliseum.
USC: The Trojans avoided their first 0-2 start to a season since 1997. USC also ended a three-game skid dating to last season’s victory over UCLA while getting coach Clay Helton’s first victory of his first full season in charge.
UTAH STATE: The Aggies host Arkansas State.
USC: The Trojans travel to Stanford, which clobbered them in the Pac-12 title game last season. USC has lost four straight away games.
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The Cagliero Project
The Salesians
Bishop Cagliero
PlacementsWhere can you go with the Cagliero Project
Samoa is one of the most beautiful islands in the South Pacific. There are only 190,400 people that inhabit Upolu and Savai’i, the two islands that make up Samoa, a predominantly Christian country. Samoans have a very strong cultural identity and take great pride in ‘Fa’a Samoa’ - the Samoan way. Their culture puts a great emphasis on family and the ‘Fale’ (house) as the centre of their lives.
Samoans enjoy a relaxed pace of living, however there are many things that threaten their way of life, including natural disasters such as tsunamis and cyclones. Major social issues in Samoa are poor nutrition, domestic violence, alcohol abuse and a lack of employment opportunities. The country’s economy is extremely limited, with most money coming from foreign aid. Due to these and other contributing factors, Samoa has one of the world’s highest rates of youth suicide. These ongoing social problems have presented great struggles for the people of Samoa. The Cagliero project works closely with Samoa as it is one of our closest neighbours in the pacific.
The Salesians of Don Bosco first came to Samoa in 1981. In that year they established a technical school for young men that had not succeeded in mainstream education. Today, Don Bosco Technical Centre is one of the most respected schools in the country. Salesian Priests, along with the Salesian Sisters, now run: parishes, youth centres and primary and secondary schools throughout Samoa.
The Cagliero Project seeks volunteers for Divine Mercy Primary School, Malololelei, Don Bosco High School, Saleleloga and Don Bosco Technical School, Alafua.
Don Bosco Technical School
Don Bosco Children’s Fund
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Don Bosco Technical Centre
Don Bosco High School
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Why volunteer with Cagliero
The Cagliero Project gives Australians an opportunity to devote six to twelve months in volunteer service to youth in overseas Salesian communities. The Salesians are known for their work with vulnerable and disadvantaged youth. Therefore our volunteers are placed in projects such as schools, youth centres and orphanages.
Choosing a volunteer program is one of the most important decisions you will make. We encourage prospective volunteers to investigate multiple programs and find the one that best ‘fits’ their philosophies and skill set.
Cagliero Contact Info
Providing long term meaningful volunteer placements working with disadvantaged young people in a Salesian setting
Salesians of Don Bosco
3 Middle Street,
Ascot Vale, Victoria 3032, Australia
LHichaaba@salesians.org.au
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Book Review: The Dark Half by Stephen King
July 24, 2018 BuriedOnMars Book Reviews 17 comments
Full disclosure: Stephen King is my favourite author. I’m not sure how much that affects the bias of my review but I thought I’d be upfront about it. I haven’t loved every book he has done, but his average is pretty high with me. I do wish to get to the point where I have read all of his books and there are some holes in the backlog that I need to fill. So that’s why I have just read The Dark Half which was published 1989 instead of his latest work. I’ll get to the newer stuff… eventually.
The premise for The Dark Half involves the main protagonist, Thaddeus Beaumont, an author of fiction (Go figure!) who is looking to retire his secret pseudonym, George Stark. Under his own name Thad writes high brow literature that is well revived by the critics but the sales of which doesn’t exactly pay the bills. What does are the salacious and trashy tales he writes under the George Stark pen name.
When a super-fan figures out the Beaumont-Stark connection, he attempts to blackmail Thad by threatening to go to the press if he isn’t compensated to keep quiet. Instead Thad is convinced by his publishers to go public himself and have a mock funeral for George Stark. A fake tombstone is fabricated and a full-page feature spread is printed in People magazine where Thad describes Stark as “Not a very nice guy”.
Stark, however, isn’t taking any of this lying down. Yeah, you heard me right. Stark becomes sentient and manifests himself into reality. It turns out that Stark is a little more than just a pseudonym but a leftover from Thad’s twin brother who was absorbed in the womb when the two were just zeitgeist. Wacky! Stark really is “Not a very nice guy” as he is big, mean and out for revenge on all of those who were involved with his “death”.
The Dark Half has a few moments of brilliance, two of which stood out to me. One is where a lonely State Trooper discovers the truck where Stark eliminated his first victim. The description of the gruesome sight from his view was a great read! He kept saying to himself “Mama, you ain’t gonna believe this!” The other features a bit character who was once a call girl and is now a tough New York City slum lord. Her reaction to stumbling upon a similar gruesome scene is done in a tough, New York City way was horrific as it was amusing.
Outside of a few moments, the book is fairly average for King. I usually become attached to the characters he creates, and they are a big reason why I’d will allow his stories to bend freely with reality. King ability to portray characters in all their various aspects is what I like most. His stories will more often than not have a good vs evil thread running through the plot, but his protagonists are almost always gray, making them as human as you or I are.
It is true that Thad does struggle at times with letting Stark completely go. He is tempted on some level to give into Stark which would allow him to continue to write the way he has always enjoyed. Liz, Thad’s wife, also admits to herself on a deep level that she is attracted to Starks resemblance to Thad. But Stark is so evil, neither of them contemplate these interpersonal thoughts in a serious way.
Stark is a ruthless killer, and I think King made him this way so we wouldn’t get too attached to the man-ghost. Part of his motivation is survival, which after all is something we can all sympathize with. Keeping those murders at the forefront of the reader’s mind with the constant threat of more violence to characters we have a greater attachment to keeps who the real bad guy is in check. The downside to this is a rather cut and dry ending that I think it would have been a little more interesting if Thad had a greater doubt in his mind if he was doing the right thing.
The most unexpected part of The Dark Half is how it gives us some insight into King’s writing process. At the time of the book’s writing, King himself had just outed his doppelgänger Richard Bauchman, an experiment to see if he could sell books without his famous name attached to the work. We see how Thad and Stark begin writing a novel with an idea for a good story and work from there. We know that King is pulling for personal experience here and the process is fascinating to a fan like myself.
I would recommend The Dark Half if you have read a bunch of King’s better work and are looking for more. There is a lot that is good here and I was still turning (swiping) the pages as fast as I could just to see what would happen next.
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mikeladano says:
King is my 3rd favourite after Clarke and Asimov.
I have not read The Dark Half, but I think I own it.
BuriedOnMars says:
I need to get to reading Clarke and Asimov at some point. I do enjoy science fiction a lot.
I can certainly guide you in that regard. My first Clarke was 2001 and I remember staying up late at night to finish it and then my mind racing afterwards.
Yeah, I probably would start with that one. I just need to get King out of my system right now.
jprobichaud says:
There were parts of this that whigged me out but not his best work.
Yep. Good but not great.
Good take. Stephen has a pretty high batting average with me. He’s good. I’ve been reading John D MacDonald a lot. King always gives him a nod for influence. I’m really seeing that lately. Not Sci Fi but definitely something there.
Yes, I’ve caught those John D name drops. I am curious about his work. I know he wrote Cape Fear which was made into my favourite Robert Mitchem movie.
All that stuff he wrote around Cape Fear (The Executioners) is a great 50’s time capsule. He’s famous for his Travis McGee books but his stand alones are great reads. The covers on the books would send a collector like yourself into orbit.
King it seems is also big fan of AC/DC by how many times he has mentioned them in his stories or used the lyrics. You’re probably up on that more than i am. See you on Mars. (Coincedently I’m reading H.G’s Mars story right now).
Huge AC/DC fan. I’m always happy when I see to two world collide! He got them to do the soundtrack to Maximum Overdrive. Not a great movies, but solid soundtrack!
I didn’t know that. Yeah the movies on Kings work are hit and miss. for me. It has been awhile since i read this one but I’m pretty sure King was a big fan of Donald E Westlake who would use Richard Stark as a pen name (same idea in this book. George Stark).
Here’s a testimonial from a cover of one of Starks books by Stephen “A book by this guy is a cause for happiness”
Nice call on his protagonists being human & imperfect.
A 3/5 Stephen King still sounds quite readable to me!
I became a King fan after The Dark Tower books, like many. The man has some crazy, brilliant ideas. This one’s been resting in my backlog, but won’t be for long! Looks like a solid read.
Yep, that is where it started for me as well. The Dark Tower was the first King book I read as a teen and I haven’t stopped.
I read this years ago, during a King binge. It’s different but very good! King has a book on writing, called On Writing (imagine that). It’s good too.
Loved On Writing! He made it sound so easy, I attempted to write a novel for a while.
It ain’t easy!
Haha no it isn’t, brother, no it isn’t.
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Shahla Ghobadi
Position: Associate Professor in Info Management
Areas of expertise: Software organisations, social and human interactions, collaboration, software platforms, user participation, agile development, innovation, online activism
Email: S.Ghobadi@leeds.ac.uk
Location: 1.13 Charles Thackrah, Leeds University Business School
Website: Medium | The Conversation | Twitter | LinkedIn | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
At the University of Leeds, I am Associate Professor of Information Management. I am also Business School Academic Lead for Inclusive Education Practices. I completed Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of New South Wales, with a background in IT Management and Industrial Engineering. I am passionate about understanding the human and social processes that revolve around developing software. I also explore the use of social software for online activism that challenges powerful organisations to change. My research employs in-depth, qualitative studies to reveal novel, hidden, and nuanced meaning in empirical data. I have published in leading journals such as Journal of Management Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information and Organization, Information & Management, Information Systems Frontiers, Behaviour & Information Technology, Information Processing & Management, and Journal of Systems and Software. Additionally, I serve as an Associate Editor at the Information Systems Journal and on the review panel of other leading journals. For my research, I have received competitive awards from recognised bodies such as the British Academy (2017), Australian Government (2014), and Australian School of Business (2008-2011). My research can be accessed at Google Scholar and Researchgate. I write also for The Conversation and engage with the media, not-for-profit organisations, and businesses in the areas of my expertise.
Before coming to Leeds, I was an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the University of Manchester (2015-2019), where I received Social Responsibility Award in Curriculum at the Faculty of Humanities, followed by a Making a Difference Commended award. Prior to that, I was a Visiting Scholar at J.Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University in 2014. Before joining academia, I worked in automobile, eScience, and software industries as a consultant and project manager. I have also engaged with executives and scientists in a range of industries and advised startups in the fields of mobile apps and online services. Industry has inspired and significantly enriched my research on collaboration in software organisations and social change.
PhD, Information Systems
MSc, IT Management
BEng, Industrial Engineering
Software is all around us— from social networking and enterprise software to mobile apps and video games. My research studies software from two angles:
1. How do software organisations manage the human and social aspects of development to build more innovative and impactful software? I study questions that cover three key areas: (1) Who builds software (digital natives), (2) How people collaborate to build software (knowledge sharing, agile development, risk management, coopetition, crowdfunding), and (3) How software organisations work (business model change, financing).
2. How do social activists leverage socia netoworking software to put persistent pressure on target organisations and elicit their concessions and committment to change? My research explores the use of social software by social movement organisations, the long-term processes of online activism, and the prevalence of digital divide in the society.
3. More recently, I have pursued a third research stream that examines how strategic signalling by professional organisations in academia influences the evolution of academic fields.
PhD Supervision
I am keen to work with PhD students as well as postdocs who are passionate about writing and academic research. I am open to proposals targeting the following areas:
Innovation and creativity in the design and development of digital products/services
Crowdsourcing/Crowdfunding
Ethics in developing information systems
Digital workforce and new generations
Politics of using the Internet and online activism
If you think of working with me, please send me (1) a CV, and a (2) 3-page research proposal (excluding references). Your proposal should elaborate the ‘research question’ you are asking. The research question should describe (1) how it will advance the larger body of knowledge, as well as (2) its connection to your academic ambitions and personal goals. Don’t be overly technical—aim for clarity and explain the phenomenon of your interest with relevant examples.
Business School Academic Lead for Inclusive Practices (SALIP)
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I presently teach Module Managing Digital Information Projects. Since 2008, I have designed, implemented, and taught courses at the intersection of organisations and new technology at undergraduate, postgraduate and executive levels. My course development is based on research and contemporary industrial examples to cultivate students' critical thinking, creativity, and practicality in tackling business problems. In 2006, I wrote a book on system dynamics in Farsi. Published by a premier local management publisher, the book has helped a wide range of professionals and students to apply system thinking and modelling in research and profession.
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Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change
Conference between business and education to tackle skills shortage in Leeds
Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change news Thursday 14 February 2019
The University of Leeds and Leeds City Council announce conference on skills shortages and graduate opportunities.
The University of Leeds and Leeds City Council have announced plans to host a conference between education and business leaders in the city with the aim of addressing skills shortages, and an expanding gap in the jobs market which is seeing graduates and school-leavers unable to find work in their chosen career paths.
The ‘Young People, Skills and Prospects in Employment’ event will take place in March and comes amid a national backdrop where there are worsening job prospects for many young people and, despite attempts to improve the routes from school and college into higher education and employment as well as raising skill levels, complex challenges remain. The conference, which will welcome academics and speakers from across the country, seeks to create within Leeds a new way of working together in education and business.
Jo Ingold, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Policy at Leeds University Business School spoke to the Yorkshire Post in an article about the conference and its aims entitled 'Calls for collaboration between business and education to tackle skills shortage in Leeds'. She said that academic qualifications were no longer enough for job-hunters, during an age where businesses can “take their pick” of increasing numbers of candidates, and that traditional approaches to graduate jobs and salaries were changing.
Dr Ingold will speak at the forthcoming conference on the constraints surrounding the paths between education and employment.
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Dmitry Shepelev’d gone back in time
The TV host got a haircut in the style of the nineties. Dmitry Shepelev appeared in a new way on one of the last pictures in Instagram. Fans found that a new hairstyle is incredibly star. “Handsome!”, – do they compliments to the showman.
The famous showman Dmitry Shepelev decided to try on a new look. The presenter demonstrated that he is prone to retro-style. Dmitry Shepelev got a haircut that was in fashion in the nineties of the last century. New hairstyle Shepeleva features extremely short bangs, which falls in straight strands on his forehead as open as possible. Plus, Dmitry Shepelev and even got rid of a three-day stubble, which is incredibly he went and gave the brutality of the refined face of the star.
“Haircut as in the nineties”, – has signed a snapshot of it in a new way Dmitry Shepelev. The post he accompanied with a smiley face depicting a laughing to tears man.
Subscribers of the broadcaster noted that the retro style suits him very well. They kept praising the star and said that he looks much younger than his years.
“I was going to hear that pretty boy?! Handsome!”, “Dima, you look great”, “You will go,” “a Wonderful father and man! Good luck to you”, “you Look like a boy. Eyes glow and this happiness! Keep your happiness to yourself and be healthy!”, – written by admirers of Dmitry Shepelev.
It is worth noting that over the last couple of months, the showman is not the first time surprises the audience with the image change. Dmitry Shepelev was surprised by the change of image
In late September, the broadcaster appeared in the program “Dostoyanie Respubliki”, which is paired with Yuri Nikolaev, in an unusual all the way. Fans noted that Shepelev was wearing stylish horn-rimmed glasses, to make a fashionable cut and lost the beard that’s been growing for quite a long time.
By the way, Dmitry Shepelev recently began more actively to publish in the microblog joint photo with his son Platon. At the end of October the showman’s son gave myself a short vacation on the coast. Every the with Plato is a lively response from subscribers Dmitry Shepelev. In the account of a celebrity people continue to leave comments with wishes of long life and health to Plato, he grew up in love and care and not tested on themselves all the tension that hovers in the air after the death of his mother Zhanna Friske.
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January 11, 2021 by Alexa S
Popo and Nana are a brother and sister that first appeared in the self-titled NES game Ice Climbers. Since then they’ve been largely out of use except for an appearance as playable characters in Super Smash Bros. And, according to rumor, a possible new Switch game.
The siblings dress alike, though Popo prefers blue and Nana prefers pink. Both wear parkas with matching pants and boots. They also carry large wooden mallets to help them in their adventures.
You can of course wear a parka for your costume. But since most conventions are indoors – and all that walking gets warm – you can recreate the look with a long hooded. No matter which you choose, however, you will need to add fake fur trim around the hood, hem, and sleeves.
In addition to your preferred top you will need leggings that match the color of your parka as well as a matching pair of boots and a mallet. Of course you wouldn’t wear leggings to actually climb a mountain. But for the sake of comfort while cosplaying, they’re your best bet here!
December 25, 2020 by Alexa S
Bomberman – also known as Shiroban, White Bomber, or Cheerful White, is the main protagonist in the game Bomberman. While the game was originally put out by Konami, Bomberman also makes an appearance as a non-playable character in Super Smash Bros from Nintendo. He doesn’t have much to say but that hasn’t stopped the guy from becoming a fan favorite!
Bomberman’s costume takes a little bit of DIY but it’s worth it for this fun cosplay. Most of the DIY centers on the pink ball above his head. You can copy this look by gluing a lightweight ball to the top of a foam cylinder cut from a longer length of foam. You can then glue the other end of the cylinder to the hood of your body suit or, if you want to use the body suit for multiple costumes, you can glue the cylinder to a white headband.
The rest of the costume is just a matter of layers! A white bodysuit makes up the base while black face paint can mimic Bomberman’s eyes. On top of the body suit you’ll want a purple unitard and a black belt with a gold buckle. Finally add on the pink gloves and pink shoe covers. That’s all it takes to cosplay this jolly little guy. Boom, easy!
December 16, 2020 by Mandy
Ken Masters
Ken Masters is a playable character in the classic video game Street Fighter. Born and raised in the USA, Ken is an aggressive and unpredictable opponent. Like his best friend and rival Ryu, he aims to test his abilities against different fighters, yet he holds more restraint due to his family values. Use the fabric scissors to cut the sleeves off the red gi.
Ring Fit Trainee
Ring Fit Trainee is the main character in Ring Fit Adventure, a young woman with workout clothes and orange hair that resembles a flame. Along with Ring, a fiery golden ring, the trainer is on a mission to take down Dragaux. Ring Fit Trainee is the Nintendo Switch’s spiritual successor to Wii Fit Trainer, who also whips gamers into shape. Ring Fit Trainee cameos as an unlockable spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
July 20, 2020 by Alexa S
Ashley from WarioWare
Ashley (most recently voice by Erica Lindbeck) is a witch-in-training that largely appears in the Wario games. She makes a few appearances in other Nintendo franchises like Super Smash Bros. but for the most part she is a character in Wario minigames. Her interests are almost solely related to becoming a better witch while her demon friend, Red, takes care of most everything else.
Cosplaying as Ashley is thankfully more straight-forward than her magic spells are! You need a long black wig that you style into pigtails. A little orange ha and an orange neck scarf with a skull brooch act as accessories while a red dress, black tights, and red shoes make up the outfit. A little stuffed demon finishes off the costume as your very own Red!
July 8, 2020 by Mandy
Wario from WarioWare
Wario is the main antagonist to Mario and the star of his own spin-off games called WarioWare. These games involve microgames that the player must complete in order to preserve their lives. Additionally these games often have a theme associated with the title and characters. Use a piece of red duct tape down the middle of the helmet. For added detail, you can paint a ‘W’ with light blue paint. If you want to go extra mile, you can paint the nose pink and even get a cleft chin prosthetic.
April 16, 2020 by Mandy
Pit from Kid Icarus
Pit is the protagonist in the Kid Icarus video games. As indicated by his wings, he is an angel. His patron deity is Palutena, and he serves as the captain of her guard. He is known for his bubbly and chipper personality, though he has no problem battling monsters twice his size. For this costume, wrap the bed sheet around your body leaving a hole for your arm. Use a reference picture of the character to lay the garment correctly on your body. Secure the sheets in place by tying the brown scarf around your waist. If you want a less DIY approach, you can alter a white toga, listed in this guide for your convenience.
March 30, 2020 by Alexa S
Bowser Jr. from Super Mario
In the Super Mario Bros. series, Bowser Jr. is the only child of Bowser and an unknown mother. He’s not to be confused with the infant form of his father – Baby Bowser – or the Koopa Troopas. For most of the franchise he struggles to live up to his father’s expectations but every now and then a different side shows through. It’s what makes him such an interesting character.
For his cosplay you will want a yellow body suit and yellow Bowser feet, though you’ll want to seal the feet with a waterproof spray before wearing them to a convention. Black cuffs adorn either wrist which are easy to get in a variety of sizes.
His bib will take a bit of DIY however, especially in order to get one big enough for an adult. The easiest way is to get a large square of white fabric like the table cloth listed above, then fold and trim it down to the right size. From there you just need some fabric markers to copy over the snarling mouth on Bowser Jr.’s bib and your version is good to go!
His shell is easy to replicate with a shell backpack (always handy at a convention) and spikes you can add yourself. His hair is another spot where you will have to do some DIY. You can go for a bald cap and then make a top ponytail or you can put your own twist on it with something like the orange wig pictured above!
Dr. Wright
Dr. Wright made his first appearance in the SNES version of SimCity, guiding new players through a tutorial and giving advice. His design is based on SimCity creator Will Wright, and subsequently makes appearances in Super Smash Bros as a trophy that makes building towers grow from below.
April 1, 2019 by Josh
Fawful
In the Mario & Luigi series, Fawful is one of the main antagonists. He’s a mechanical genius with anger issues and poor Engrish. Lord Fawful shows little concern for anyone outside of Cackletta, for whom he shows blind devotion. For this costume, you can cut a small hole in the top of the mask to let a wisp of your hair out, and paint on his massive chompers.
El Primo from Brawl Stars
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March 2, 2020 by Diomira Keane
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Redline from Fortnite
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Cuddle Team Leader from Fortnite
Beast from X-Men
March 5, 2020 by Mandy
Jeri Hogarth from Jessica Jones
Daredevil Black
Lifeguard McCree
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Georgia Confirms The Pre-Trump GOP Is Dead And Gone
Posted by John Daniel Davidson | Jan 7, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 |
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/07/georgia-confirms-the-pre-trump-gop-is-dead-and-gone/
Amid the fallout from a stunning Republican loss in Georgia that effectively hands control of the U.S. Senate to Democrats, we’re already seeing commentary and think pieces about how this means the end of Trumpism, that Donald Trump killed the GOP, that Trump sabotaged his own party, and so on.
Not so fast. Yes, President Trump will leave office having served only one term, but consider where he will leave his party relative to his previous two predecessors. When George W. Bush left office, he left behind eight fewer GOP Senate seats and 21 fewer House seats. Democrats comfortably controlled the Congress and the White House, having made substantial gains in two consecutive elections, the 2006 midterms and the 2008 general—something no party had done since the 1930s.
By the time Barack Obama left office, his party had been decimated. Sure, Democrats gained two Senate seats and six House seats in 2016, but it wasn’t anywhere close enough to make up for historic losses in the 2010 and 2014 midterms. In the latter, Republicans won the largest Senate majority for either party since 1980, while gains in the House gave the GOP its largest majority since 1928. All told, Obama oversaw the net loss of 12 Senate seats and 64 House seats.
On the state level, Obama’s tenure was marked by the largest loss of power since Ike Eisenhower. When Obama took office in 2009, Democrats controlled both chambers in 27 states. When he left, it was only 13. Under Obama, Democrats lost 13 governorships and a total of 813 state legislative seats. Between the 2010 and 2014 midterms, Republicans gained control of 33 state legislatures.
By comparison, Trump is leaving his party in good shape. Yes, Democrats control the presidency, the House, and effectively control a split Senate. But Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s majority is razor-thin—and about to get thinner. President-elect Joe Biden has picked three Democratic House members to serve in his administration, which means Pelosi will have only a three-seat majority when the next Congress convenes.
Democrats failed to unseat a single House Republican in 2020 while losing Democratic incumbents nationwide. Democrats failed to gain control of a single state legislature, while Republicans netted about 60 state House seats and more than a dozen state Senate seats across the country. Democrats failed to gain any governorships, and in fact lost one in Montana, the only governorship to change party hands in 2020.
None Of This Means The GOP Is Doing Well
All of the above is of course relative. Trump didn’t sabotage his party, but his victory in 2016 did signal the end of the GOP as we knew it—not because Trump was going to kill the Republican Party (as I suspected might happen when he won the party’s nomination) but because his election meant the electorate had already changed, and profoundly.
Republican voters, along with millions of Independents and moderate Democrats, were fed up with an entrenched establishment beholden to a donor class whose interests conflicted with those of ordinary people. The chasm between these two groups was (and still is) especially obvious on issues like immigration, free trade, and foreign policy. For too long, Republican leaders paid lip service to what voters want—a secure border, protections for American workers, an end to foreign wars—while doing what the donors wanted.
Trump was in many ways the perfect candidate to channel these frustrations, which he did with aplomb and sincerity, given his long opposition to U.S. elite consensus on these issues. His 2016 victory underscored just how dead the old GOP consensus was—the Cold War “fusionism” that kept otherwise disparate elements of the Republican coalition together. Once in office, resistance to his agenda from within the GOP establishment made these divisions even more visible.
What became clear, at least outside the corporate media echo-chamber, was that the old Republican Party was already dead—had been dead since before Trump came along. Trump’s election offered the party new life and a new direction.
Instead of being beholden to a wealthy donor class and the exhausted ideas and slogans of the Reagan era, Republicans could embrace populism and become a right-of-center, multiracial, working-class party. Studies of the 2016 electorate indicated GOP voters were more economically liberal and socially conservative than anyone had thought, while Democrats were moving steadily to the left on both counts.
This is the new Republican Party whenever our party apparatus would like to return to winning elections. pic.twitter.com/z9levNBOCb
— Nick Solheim (@NickSSolheim) January 6, 2021
The question was, would Republican elites take up the gauntlet and try to transform their party along these lines? Some did, some didn’t. The old guard, people like Sens. Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney, didn’t. A certain segment of the GOP establishment was never going to go along with a populist movement on the right, whether Trump was connected to it or not.
Indeed, as the dust settles from Georgia we are likely to hear again and again from establishment types who never supported Trump in the first place. They will say the loss of the Republican majority in the Senate, like the loss of the White House, is all Trump’s fault, and that in fact the last four years of a Trumpist (that is, a populist) GOP was all a huge mistake.
But Trump’s loss and the loss of the Senate, bad as it might seem for an emergent GOP populism, aren’t going to bring back the pre-Trump Republican status quo. Simply put, the failure of the Republican establishment was responsible for Trump’s rise, and Trump’s fall will not undo that decades-long failure—nothing will. That party, such as it was, is gone forever.
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Central Florida Strategies
Linda Chapin, Harold Mills to Lead Jerry Demings Transition Team
By: Scott Powers
Orange County Mayor-elect Jerry Demings has announced his transition advisory team to be lead by Orlando entrepreneur Harold Mills and the last Democrat to hold the post he won in the August election, Linda Chapin.
The bipartisan, 37-member team is full of leaders of Central Florida businesses and nonprofits including those from Walt Disney World, Adventist Health System, Orlando Magic Youth Foundation, Tavistock Group, the Mental Health Association of Central Florida, and Full Sail University.
Also on board are some major political and public policy influence leaders such as Tim Giuliani, Derek Bruce, Angel de la Portilla, Jim Pugh, Wayne Rich, and Kelly Cohen.
Their focus will be to provide counsel to Demings as he lays the groundwork to reorganize the Orange County Mayor’s Office and the county administration in advance of his December swearing-in to succeed eight-year Mayor Teresa Jacobs.
“My vision is to achieve a safer, more prosperous and stronger Orange County that is sustainable for generations. I am pleased to announce the transition team and am thankful to the co-chairs, former Mayor Linda Chapin and Harold Mills, for their leadership and commitment to moving our region forward,” Demings stated in a news release issued by the transition team.
“I am looking forward to working with this experienced group who will assist my administration in building an organizational structure for Orange County which is inclusive, where all residents have a seat at the table and an opportunity to participate in our county’s growth and prosperity,” he continued. “This effort will also focus on how we can take Orange County to the next level as we explore innovative approaches to help us grow as a global destination, diversify our economy, improve our infrastructure and attract the best and brightest to our backyard.”
While Demings will become the first Democrat to hold the post since Chapin left office in 1998, the transition team includes several notable Republicans including former Orange County Commissioner Scott Boyd, lawyer Marcos Marchena, and developer Allan Keen.
Chapin and Mills will serve as co-chairs after working as crucial players for the past year in the gubernatorial campaign of Winter Park businessman Chris King, who is now the running mate of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum. Their leadership should offer close ties between the Demings transition and that of the Gillum-King ticket, should it take the governor’s office in the Nov. 6 election.
“Harold and I are privileged to work with Mayor-elect Demings and this prestigious group of community leaders,” Chapin said in the news release. “I am confident that their advice will be invaluable. With their diverse backgrounds, this group will be able to assist the Mayor-Elect in fulfilling his vision that Orange County remains a competitive, vibrant economy, a place that protects its most vulnerable and, most importantly, a community where we can successfully raise our families and grow our businesses for years to come.”
Mills added, “I am excited to serve on the Mayor-elect’s team and assist him in working with our citizens, our education facilities, our nonprofit organizations, and our business leaders to move this community forward in unprecedented ways.”
The team includes Chapin, former Orange County chair; Mills, Former chairman and CEO of ZeroChaos; Owusu Amaning, president of GCI International; Adam Babington, vice president of external affairs at Walt Disney World; Boyd, former Orange County Commissioner and vice president of McKinnon Groves; Bruce, shareholder at Gunster; Stuart P. Buchanan, partner at Swann Hadley; Cohen, managing partner, Southern Strategy Group Orlando; Candice Crawford, president of the Central Florida Mental Health Association; Jay Galbraith, vice president of public affairs at Valencia College; and Linda Landman Gonzalez, vice president of Philanthropy and Multi-Cultural Insights, and president of Orlando Magic Youth Foundation.
The team also includes Giuliani, president of Orlando Economic Partnership; the Rev. Terrance Gray, Saint Mark AME Church Orlando; Michael Griffin, vice president of advocacy and public policy at The Adventist Health System; Martha Haynie, retired Orange County Comptroller; Paula Hoisington, vice president at Net Communications; the Rev. Joel Hunter, retired pastor; Garry Jones, president of Full Sail University; Keen, chairman and CEO of the Keewin Real Property Group; Fred Kittinger, senior associate vice president of university relations at the University of Central Florida; Ken LaRoe, founder, chairman and CEO of First Green Bank; Jay Leonard, general manager Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Resort; and Bill Lutz, retired deputy police chief.
In addition, the team features Marchena, a shareholder at Marchena & Graham; Didier Menard, area manager at Jacobs; Bill Miller, of Moore Stephens Lovelace; Jeffry A. Miller, of Seifert Miller; Dan T. O’Keefe, co-managing partner of the Orlando office of Shutts & Bowen; Gaby Ortigoni, president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Dennis Pape, managing director, Catalyst Spaces; de la Portilla, Central Florida Strategies; Pugh, CEO, owner and chairman, Epoch Residential; Marc Reicher, senior vice President at Rida Associates; Rich, Nelson Mullins; Joe Rivera, a UCF student; Jason Siegel, CEO of Central Florida Sports Commission; and Rasesh Thakkar, senior managing director of Tavistock Group.
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Nearby Events – Nov 2018
A monthly digest of upcoming events in our region that local residents may find interesting, and of which they may otherwise be unaware. If you know of any others that you think are worth including, please send details to the Editor.
Sunday 4th November – Salisbury
Old Sarum Airfield ‘Vintage Sunday’ Event
Our popular event for vintage and classic cars, motorbikes and aircraft. Join us on the first Sunday of every month for this informal gathering. Free. Arrivals from 10am. Free landings at Old Sarum for all aircraft registered before 1960. Reduced entry (£5) to the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection for pilots of pre-1960 aircraft and drivers/riders of classic and vintage cars and motorbikes. On arrival, please follow the signs and look out for marshals who will direct you to a dedicated parking area. Cars and motorbikes must not enter the active airfield. Information on events at the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection can be found on Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Boscombe-Down-Aviation-Collection-330939183658923/ or at www.boscombedownaviationcollection.co.uk
Tuesday 6th November – Eastleigh
Bishop’s Waltham Aviation Group Lecture
John Coote – “One Hundred Years of Air Navigation.” From his perspective as an RAF Navigator on Vulcan B2’s and Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, and a graduate of the RAF General Duties Aerosystems Course, John will highlight the major developments in the field of Air Navigation from the earliest days of aviation to the present day. Doors open at 7:45pm with presentation starting at 8:00pm. We meet in the Church Hall, off Free Street Bishop’s Waltham, Hampshire SO32 1EE. A location map and directions can be found in the ‘ABOUT’ section of this site. The fee for each meeting is normally £2.50p. Website www.bwavg.co.uk.
Wednesday 7th November – Romsey
South Hampshire Historical Aviation Society (SHHAS) Talk
‘Adventures of an Apprentice – BAC Filton 1963-68’ a talk by Chris Warren. All meetings 7.30 for 7.45pm start. Romsey Working Men’s Conservative Club. Non-members very welcome (£4 on the door). Contact Phil Wiltshire philccbw@hotmail.co.uk.
Thursday 8th November – Southampton
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Wessex Event
Submarine Rescue by Steve Thorpe, WO1, from the Royal Navy. The presentation will give an overview into UK submarine escape and rescue training, also discussing the UK involvement in the search for ARA San Juan. With over 30 years’ experience in the operation of submarines and currently a senior instructor at the submarine Escape Training Tank, ensuring that UK submarine escape training meets the required standard, along with being involved in the a new £25 million facility in Faslane. Steve Thorpe, WO1, from the Royal Navy is best placed to give an insightful technical lecture on rescuing individuals from a submarine. Joint Southern Branch Event. 18:00 to 20:00. Venue Physics, Lecture Theatre B, Building 46, Room 2003, University of Southampton Highfield Campus Southampton SO17 1BJ. https://nearyou.imeche.org/near-you/UK/Wessex/event-detail?id=15388
Friday 9th November – Lyndhurst
New Forest Aviation Group (NFAG) Lecture
A complete change for this month from the invisible (submarines) to the improbable (helicopters). As a prelude to several rotary wing talks through 2019 is ‘Army Helicopters ‘ by Brigadier Denzil Sharp AFC. Few aircraft have had as much influence on the Army’s operations as the helicopter whether in conventional operations, peacekeeping, or in support of the civil population especially in mobility. Denzil will give us a “tour d’horizon” of the history of Army helicopters. He first served in the Royal Tank Regiment before helicopter pilot training and transfer to the Army Air Corps. As Commander Aviation he was responsible for over 240 operational aircraft world-wide. See our website www.nfag.info. Doors open at 7pm for prompt 7.30pm start at Lyndhurst Community Centre. Visitors £4 including light refreshment. Contact Stephen Robson: stephen.robson10@btopenworld.com
Tuesday 13th November – Southampton
Royal Aeronautical Society (RAES) Solent Lecture
A350 – diverse future. Lecture by Andy Reynolds, UK Chief Engineer for A350 at Airbus. With the A350 fleet growing to 200 aircraft and the A350-1000 now in service, what does the future hold for this aircraft family? Find out from the A350 Chief Engineer himself in this exciting and informative lecture. An engineer with more than twenty years successful experience in the aerospace sector. Andy has provided technical leadership during the development of aircraft systems and project leadership during the development of aircraft structures. He has worked with and led international teams and has extensive experience of working with partners in Europe, North America and the Far East. 18:30. Portland Building University of Portsmouth Portland Street Portsmouth, PO1 3AH. Contact Chris Taylor 01489 445627 email secretary@solent-raes.org.uk or Mike Westby Secretary 01980 556600 email solent@aerosociety.com. www.solent-raes.org.uk
Wednesday 14th November – Winchester
Science Centre & Planetarium Lecture Series
It’s about time by Professor Don Kurtz (University of Central Lancashire). Days, weeks, months, years and more… Hear about Roman Emperors, Zulu Wars, Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, the English time riots and how the days of the week got their names in an amusing and informative tour of the Western calendar. 4:30pm lecture £8/£6 and 6:30pm lecture £10/£8. Airbus Defence and Space Planetarium in Winchester, Telegraph Way, Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 1HZ. http://www.winchestersciencecentre.org/visitor-information/whats-on/space-lectures/
Saturday 17th November – Beaulieu
Friends of The National Motor Museum Trust Lecture
Jim Reynolds talks to Peter Williams. Peter Williams’ eleven years of motorcycle road racing was, in his own words, “the time of my life”. He read recently that sons subconsciously try to do better than their fathers. Unconsciously he certainly followed in his father’s footsteps. Jack Williams was a very good road racer and an inventive and meticulous engineer and by Peter’s own admission, was much better than him in the latter respect. Peter was lucky that, in a way, he had two fathers, the second one being Tom Arter. As his sponsor for almost all of the eleven years, Arter said “No” only once. He financed Peter’s engineering ideas on the Arter Matchless, which all came together on the 1973 John Player Norton ‘Monocoque.’ The evening will begin at 7.30 pm in the Lecture Theatre of the Collections Centre, National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. A bar will be available for the purchase of beers, wines, soft drinks and tea and coffee. The evenings will conclude at around 10.00 pm. Tickets are £10.00 each for non-members; £7.50 for members. For further information and to purchase tickets please contact Theresa Browning on 01590 614792 or email theresa.browning@beaulieu.co.uk.
Monday 19th November – Southampton
An evening with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (7.30-9.30pm)
At the SeaCity Museum / £10 or £22.50 with his book
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston was the first person to sail single handed and non-stop around the world between 14 June 1968 and 22 April 1969. Now, 50 years on from that famous voyage, he reveals the true, extraordinary story of his life, his extraordinary adventures and writing his autobiography ‘Running Free’.
Spaces for this event are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment. Book signings avaliable on the night. Pre-book on 023 8083 4536
In Conversation with Christopher LeBrun – City Art Gallery
Join Christopher Le Brun, President of the Royal Academy in conversation with Tim Marlow, Artistic Director of the Royal Academy, as they explore both Christopher’s work and that of the Academy. More information at https://www.southamptoncityartgallery.com/visit/things-to-do/
Thursday 22nd November – Farnborough
Farnborough Aerospace Consortium Annual Conference 2018
The FAC Annual Conference and Exhibition is the highlight of the calendar each year. Jeremy Greaves, vice president, UK Corporate Affairs and Strategy at Airbus Group, will address the conference, as will a Brexit advisor from ADS. Ian Parker of Human Powered Flight will be speaking, as will someone from BEIS – the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy – about funding in support of the aerospace industry. Venue Tylney Hall near Hook in Hampshire. There are also some exhibition packages remaining as well as sponsorship opportunities. www.fac.org.uk/fac-annual-conference
Sunday 25th November – Salisbury
Museum of Army Flying Event
We’re delighted that Mark Watson is coming to the Museum of Army Flying in Middle Wallop as part of his MW tour. After more than 100 dates on the road in 2016 with his best-reviewed show to date ‘I’m Not Here’, and a similarly marathon effort with the previous tour, Mark Watson is amazed to find there are STILL some areas of the country he’s not visited much, and some towns that have been neglected altogether. It’s hard to be everywhere at once, so he’s narrowed it down to a sensible plan: for the next tour, Watson will only visit places with M or W, his initials – as they’ve already shown a commitment by having those names in the first place. A few of these will be favourite old haunts like Winchester or Manchester, but quite a few of them are the result of Googling and quite a number are so remote that we won’t know they definitely exist until we get there. Also, some aren’t actually towns so much as trains (from Marylebone to Wycombe), or ferries (across the Mersey), or a helicopter museum (in the double-point-scoring Middle Wallop). 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm. Museum of Army Flying, Middle Wallop, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 8DY. http://www.armyflying.com/events/
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Japan declares state of emergency for Tokyo area as COVID-19 cases surge
Posted by WND News Services | Jan 7, 2021 | World Net Daily | 0 |
https://www.wnd.com/2021/01/japan-declares-state-emergency-tokyo-area-covid-19-cases-surge/
(WHATFINGER NEWS) – Japan declared a limited state of emergency in the capital, Tokyo, and three neighbouring prefectures on Thursday to stem the spread of the coronavirus, resisting calls from some medics for wider curbs due to the economic damage they would cause.
The government said the one-month emergency would run from Friday to Feb. 7 in Tokyo and Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba prefectures, covering about 30% of the country’s population. Restrictions would centre on combating transmission in bars and restaurants, which the government says are main risk areas.
The curbs are narrower in scope than those imposed in April under an emergency that ran to late May. At that time, the curbs were nationwide and schools and non-essential businesses were mostly shuttered. This time, schools are not being closed.
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This vehicle is no longer available for sale on ClassicCars.com. Please see below for similar vehicles. This vehicle is no longer available for sale on ClassicCars.com. Please see below for similar vehicles.
For Sale: 1961 Porsche 356B in Costa Mesa, California
1961 Porsche 356B T5 Super-90 Cabriolet
This particular cabriolet is a mid-production T-5 356 and featuring the early type 356B body, which retains the smaller trunk opening, single-engine grille, and fuel filler under the front trunk. Out of 1,616 T5 Cabriolets built this is the 66th from the last off the production line in December of 1960, titled as a 1961. The Super-90 engine no. 801923 is matching per Porsche Kardex; the date of completion was December 22, 1960. The original handler was Porsche Zentrum Fulda Kahrmann in Fulda, Germany, and sold to the first owner, Mr. Edward P. May who was based in Paris, France. A few months later, the car was shipped into the US to Hoffman Motor cars in February of 1961.
European Collectibles sold this 356 July of 2003 to one of its past clients who lives in Central California and has enjoyed the 356 for the past 17 years. The last major service done by the owner was September of 2019 which included an oil change, valve adjustment, brake inspection, the link, the kingpins were rebuilt, and a front disc brake upgrade was installed; $3,092 was spent. European Collectibles has done the most recent service and installed five new tires. This 356 performs flawlessly and has plenty of horsepower (90HP). The 741 manual 4-speed shifts through the gears smoothly and the four-wheel drum braking system has been upgraded with the front disc brake conversion.
The original color combination was Silver Metallic with a blue interior. Currently, the 356 is finished in Black with a tan interior, black soft top, and black boot cover. There were three options of engine types available; Normal, 60HP (standard engine and the most common), Super, with 75HP (an upgrade), and the Super-90, with 90 HP (top of the line).
Looking into the front trunk you will see the original sound deadening (insulation) along with the original fuel tank and sending unit with a chrome spare wheel and leather tire strap. Under the engine deck lid, the original sound deadening is also still intact along with a nicely detailed engine. Options include: Chrome wheels with Super hub caps, new Vredestein 165/15 tires, black soft top, black boot cover, owner's manual, and a spare tire with a leather strap. One of the most desirable 356s with a factory Super 90 engine; they are getting very difficult to find in this condition and even harder to find a SUPER-90 Cabriolet.
History of the 1960-1961 Porsche 356B T5
For the 1960 model year, the 356A model was out and replaced by the 356B, which was known internally as the T5. It looked similar on the outside, but there were numerous small and important changes to the body. The front bumper had enlarged rim guards that were positioned higher and the headlights were slightly raised as well. The front indicators stuck out further and the front lid handle was new. In the back, the lights for the license plate were integrated into the now raised rear bumper, and the reverse light was lowered.
During its continued evolution, the Porsche 356 had grown in both stature and price, but it still had no direct competition. MGs, ACs and Jags all combined some elements of the 356's appeal but were not as refined and sophisticated in their execution, at least according to Porsche loyalists. The 356B further solidified Porsche's reputation for building high quality, fun and quick little sports cars. Plus, it allowed the company to continue the slow, methodical growth that allowed it to become one of the world's premier specialist car manufacturers.
1961 Porsche 356B
Location:Costa Mesa, California
Make:Porsche
Model:356B
Exterior Color:Black
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AgSouth Homegrown Athlete of the Week – Emily Howard
Emily Howard, Diving, Senior, Newtown, PA
For the second meet in a row, Howard set a new school record in the three-meter, scoring a 319.50 to take first place in the event on Saturday against Davidson and James Madison. She also recorded a 289.30 in the one-meter, the second-best score of her career. The senior earned ACC Female Diver-of-the-Week honors for the performance, becoming the first Clemson diver to earn the distinction as a member of the women’s diving only program.
Howard finished the regular season with 119 competition points, most by any Tiger, and has qualified for the NCAA Zone Championships in both the one-meter and three-meter events. She holds the one-meter and three-meter school records as well as the McHugh Natatorium records in both events.
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Case Camerata + Earth and Air at Harkness Chapel (April 5)
April 9, 2019 by David Kulma
by David Kulma
Case Western Reserve University’s string orchestra — the Case Camerata Chamber Orchestra led by conductor David Ellis — currently fields 25 student musicians mostly majoring in the sciences (two of whom are also music minors). For their Friday, April 5 concert at Harkness Chapel, Ellis invited five collaborators from his own professional group Earth and Air: String Orchestra to coach each section and sit principal for the performance. The results were noticeable: the group played with an admirable cohesion and rhythmic precision.
As shown by his Earth and Air programs, Ellis enjoys tying his musical choices to an overarching theme for the evening. Friday was no exception. Without intermission, the hour-long “Music of the Baltic Sea” framed works by Jean Sibelius (Finland), Carl Nielsen (Denmark), Johan Svendsen (Norway), and Carl Reinecke (Germany).
Representing Sibelius with two works, Ellis and company explored both of the composer’s main moods. The three movements of Rakastava, Op. 14 showed off his tendency toward building up the kind of busy, inconclusive textures familiar in his symphonies, while Andante Festivo is in his more melodic, patriotic vein — similar to Finlandia. The Andante, which opened the program, was the most successful. The Camerata gave it a pungent power and their best intonation of the night. “Wandering” Sibelius like Op. 14 is more difficult to pull off, but Ellis’s group gave the work a solid reading.
The first two movements of Reinecke’s six-movement Serenade in g, Op. 242 were sandwiched between the Sibelius pieces. Lovely examples of the conservative side of late 19th-century German Romanticism, the “Marcia” brought to mind something Elgar would do better in his Pomp and Circumstance Marches, while the “Arioso” was placidly beautiful if unmemorable. Ellis handled the music well, getting his group to shape its tonal lines.
Ellis ended the concert by leading directly from Svendsen’s Two Swedish Folk Melodies, Op. 27 into Nielsen’s Little Suite, Op. 1. Svendsen’s take on folk tunes is similar to his compatriot Grieg, while Nielsen’s three-movement string orchestra staple is a lovely chromatic enigma infused with dancing. Ellis chose the right tempos for each movement. The “Intermezzo” was just sprightly enough, while the coda to the “Finale” was full of gusto.
As might be expected, the level of musical comfort ranged across the orchestra. The excellent pros from Earth and Air — violinists Paula Castañeda and Irene Guerra, violist Cristian Diaz, cellist Aaron Fried, and bassist J. Tracy Mortimore — joined the students in a full investment in this enjoyable Baltic potpourri. Ellis should expand on this model with a full side-by-side. His students could learn a great deal from that experience.
Published on ClevelandClassical.com April 9, 2019.
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About David Kulma
David Kulma is a composer, teacher, performer, and writer on music. His YouTube channel, Music Corner, features album reviews and animated educational videos on music theory. He taught music for more than 5 years at Winthrop University, and has also taught at Kent State and Chicago State Universities. He is the only person who performs from memory the main character Raoul de Noget in Robert Ashley's 3-1/2 hour cult television opera Perfect Lives. His collaborative television-opera pilot with Dorian Wallace and John Sanborn has appeared on screen in New York with Experiments in Opera and was reviewed in the New York Times, where he was described as "rambling and riveting." David is also a freelance oboist who has played with the Charlotte Symphony and Erie Philharmonic, among others.
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by Nicholas Stevens
Art often transcends without trying, remaining rooted in its specific regional, topical, or historical niche yet appealing well beyond. A humble central-German cantor became Bach, an observer of social posturing in a narrow slice of the gentry became Austen, an aerosol virtuoso known to tag lower-Manhattan walls became Basquiat.
Northeast Ohio’s Les Délices has long been that rarest of beasts: a world-class organization so proud of its region (ours) and repertoire (distinct niches in pre-1800 music) that it never tries to be everything to everyone, paradoxically making a strong case for a broad, curious international following. In the December episode of its SalonEra series, the ensemble embraces its strengths and community to marvelous effect. [Read on…]
Piano quintets from
Local 4 Music Fund (Dec. 17)
by Jarrett Hoffman
The Local 4 Music Fund continued its “Tuning In” series on December 17 with an engaging, emotionally wide-ranging program of piano quintets, streamed live from the Steinway Piano Gallery of Cleveland.
The opener was Amy Beach’s Op. 67 (1907), a late-Romantic showcase of powerful and direct expressiveness. The closer was Dmitri Shostakovich’s intense but close-to-the-vest Op. 57 (1940). And in between was Eric Charnofsky’s 5 by 5 (2011), in one respect a hybrid of those other styles of musical communication: sometimes overtly emotional, but often exhibiting a coolness in its leaping gestures and its glassy harmonies.
Music From The Western Reserve: Shapiro continues Beethoven cycle (Dec. 13)
Music From The Western Reserve concerts always fall on Sunday, even as streams. December 13 was therefore as close to Beethoven’s likely birthdate on the 16th as the presenters could come to throwing a virtual party. Debuting their stream before that occasion made little difference in the concert’s power: over a week later, pianist Daniel Shapiro’s stunning interpretations remained lodged in this reviewer’s mind. As social media lit up with tributes and music-lovers around the world raised a glass, Shapiro’s MFTWR video remains on YouTube, where those interested can still listen and learn what it means to truly engage with Beethoven.
Cleveland Opera Theater: Amahl and the Night Visitors
by Mike Telin
What’s on your list of favorite holiday classics? The ones you remember from childhood and — as an adult — still look forward to seeing. My list begins with Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, followed by Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. And I still enjoy How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas — especially Vince Guaraldi’s musical score.
Another I remember fondly is Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. Commissioned by NBC, the one act, made-for-television opera, premiered on December 24, 1951, at the network’s studios in New York’s Rockefeller Center. And now, through the wonders of technology, Cleveland Opera Theater has created a magical new production of the work which is available on demand through January 6, 2021 (Three Kings Day). [Read on…]
Bassoonist Dana Jessen: Winter Chapel
Improvisation: the act of creating something without preparation.
Inspiration: The process of being mentally stimulated to do something creative.
On her debut album Carve, Dana Jessen challenged listeners to discard any preconceived notions they might have had about the bassoon, and allow themselves to be swept into a magical world of colorful acoustic and electronic soundscapes. The album included commissioned works interwoven with improvisations.
Jessen has now followed up with her second solo CD, Winter Chapel. Recorded on January 17, 2020 in Oberlin College’s Fairchild Chapel and available on Carrier Records, the album is a continuum in Jessen’s journey to push the musical boundaries of her instrument and herself as an improviser. [Read on…]
CD Review— Eighth Blackbird: Singing in the Dead of Night
by Lilyanna D’Amato
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.
Thus begins the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens’ intensely evocative poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, which describes the haunting flight of a blackbird against the backdrop of a devastatingly still, snowy night.
Enigmatic but vivid, Stevens’ imagery now serves as the artistic cornerstone of a premiere contemporary classical ensemble: Eighth Blackbird. [Read on…]
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Rimoni // A shot in the dark
A Manurewa photographer takes an honest approach to capturing open public spaces, writes Sharu Delilkan // The Aucklander – South Edition
Raymond Sagapolutele refers to himself as a “brotographer”.
“I used to be known for saying ‘bro’ all the time. It’s a term I use to describe myself, not a reference to the subject matter I shoot,” says the photographer who’s showing his first collection of shots.
Just like his unconventional description of himself, subverting convention and challenging media stereotypes is the main thrust of Honest?!?.
The exhibition of black and white photographs shows “images of South Auckland through my eyes”, he says.
“Rather than just doing typical South Auckland shots, I prefer taking shots of people and places with a refreshing perspective.”
The 38-year-old from Manurewa says he started off taking cliched landscape shots but realised very quickly that every other photographer seemed also to be doing that. So he looked for subjects that would distance his work from everyone else’s.
“I shoot a lot in the middle of the night. I love going to places that wouldn’t be considered photogenic. For example, I opt to go to places that would otherwise be busy during the day and take pictures when they’re empty.”
Sagapolutele, who has only been doing photography seriously for four years, says he discovered his knack for it by accident.
“I used to mess around with my wife’s camera after she’d come back from her night photography classes and realised I was on to a good thing.”
Following 15 years working in finance, he quit his job in 2003 to immerse himself in multimedia courses.
“Most of my learning has been self-taught. I prefer that to formal learning.”
A regular photographer for Rip It Up magazine and Dawn Raid, Sagapolutele says he prefers to work without a set agenda.
“If you do what is true to yourself, the likelihood is that you’ll get an honest reflection of what you’re after.”
Honest?!?, Fresh Gallery Otara, Shop 5, 46 Fairmall, Otara Town Centre, until October 24.
Artist Talk: 12pm, Saturday 17 October. Free entry.
For more information, ph 271 6019.
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Comics Grinder Holiday Gift Guide 2020: The First Top Ten List
From Black Friday to Cyber Monday and Beyond!
Comics Grinder has always got you covered for interesting tidbits, insights, and suggestions regarding comics, pop culture, and culture in general. Here are some quick suggestions for discerning Comics Grinder followers:
I’m going to keep this simple and jump right in with 10 items for your consideration beginning with Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work, by Ian Nathan, an “unofficial and unauthorised” yet stunning tribute to the beloved filmmaker. 176-page hardcover with deluxe slipcase, fully illustrated. $35. From White Lion Publishers, an imprint of The Quarto Group.
Next up will please any fan of D&D, especially younger players or anyone who enjoys a trading card style description of characters. This is Beasts & Behemoths, the fifth and latest installment in the Dungeons & Dragons Young Adventurer’s Guide series. It is by Jim Zub, Stacy King, and Andrew Wheeler. 112 pages, full-color illustrations. $12.99. From Ten Speed Press and Penguin Random House.
Moving right along, this book will need to be in your kitchen and bar as soon as possible, whether you’re a D&D fan or not yet. Welcome to Heroes’ Feast: The Official D&D Cookbook. Yes, now you can eat and drink like a hero. There are recipes here for everything from Honey-Drizzled Cream Puffs to Sembian Honey-Glazed Rothe Ribs to Bytopian Shepherd’s Bread to Roll Rum! Seriously, this is an impressive cookbook with lavish illustrations alongside charming and meticulous D&D factoids and insights. If you’ve been looking for a way to hook yourself into the world of D&D, then seek out this cookbook. Fully illustrated. 240 pages. $35. From Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Quite honestly, this is the best gift for 2020 on so many levels.
If you are a fan of Critical Role, then you are in very good company as this is one of the most popular role-playing game communities ever. Now, you can join in on all the fun and get all you’ve ever wanted to know about this fantasy RPG livestream phenomena in one deluxe book, The World of Critical Role: The History Behind the Epic Fantasy, by Liz Marsham and the Cast of Critical Role. Just like the name suggests, go deep into this world with up-close and personal features on all the talent involved. Critical Role was established in 2015 by a group of friends with a passion for storytelling and has evolved into a multi-platform media company with a variety of shows, comic books, graphic novels, animation, podcasts and more. Its epic adventures and memorable characters attract millions of viewers live every week. Yes, this is a big deal and, if you’re new to it, then all the more reason to get this book. This is a 320-page fully-illustrated hardcover, $35. From Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Let’s shift over to the Star Wars universe and a most compelling book indeed. For anyone who cares about quality storytelling, and enjoys Star Wars lore, this is a perfect gift. From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back is an anthology celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back with forty acclaimed science fiction writers. You will find such gems as Hank Green chronicling the life of a naturalist caring for tauntauns on the frozen world of Hoth. Or about Charles Yu’s quirky look at what it’s like to be in Darth Vader’s death grip? So much to enjoy here. So kick back with a Roll Rum and get into some serious Star Wars storytelling. This is a 564-page hardcover, $35. From Del Rey, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
It’s impossible not to like the hilarious work by Yehuda Devir and Maya Devir with their comics adaptation of their everyday lives. It all began as a fun spoof on young married life. Yehuda would draw. Maya would art direct. Next thing you know, these candid illustrations went viral on social media. Welcome to One of Those Days, a collection of these funny and touching illustrations that just about anyone can relate to. This is a 272-page full color hardcover, $30. From Penguin Random House.
Dbury@50 Celebrates 50 Years of Doonesbury
Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury has been around for fifty years and it’s time to celebrate. Enter, Dbury@50: The Complete Digital Doonesbury, from Andrews McMeel Publishing, priced at $125. This includes a 224-page “user manual,” a poster, and a thumb drive which includes what looks like a little website presenting all the comic strips on a per week basis. The fifty-year milestone celebratory package takes readers through each year of the strip, providing historical context and featuring key storylines, and proves to be a valuable first step in preserving a significant comic strip for future generations.
Another huge property is anything and everything to do with Frank Herbert’s monumental novel, Dune. Was it ever really meant to be more than a novel? Well, how about a graphic novel? The answer is yes and no. Apparently, it takes more than one graphic novel to properly attempt to cover the novel. Enter, Frank Herbert’s Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1. It offers a good mix of the cinematic and more cerebral that should satisfy true believers and newcomers alike. This is a 176-page hardcover, $24.99. From Abrams ComicArts.
If anyone tells you that they’ve finished reading XX, the new mammoth novel by Rian Hughes, they are lying to you. This work clocks in at 992 pages. It actually weighs in at almost 3 pounds. Isn’t that close to the weight of a newborn baby? No, the average weight is around 7 pounds. Okay, I don’t want to overstate this. What I do want to say is that the book is huge and sometimes big books come with a lot of hype. In this case, we have an art house book with a lot of type, as in fancy footwork with various fonts. This is supposed to be a glorious melding of the literary arts with the graphic arts from a master designer. I’m not sure that I’m buying all that. If you are looking for something really compelling and unusual that is playing with the literary and the visual arts, you may still need to go back to 2000 and House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. That said, I’m still working on this mountain of a book and the basic story hasn’t really hooked me in yet. I’d love to know what you think if you have indeed made it to the end. This is a hardcover, $26.43. From Abrams.
How much do you like Batman? I love me a good Batman story, but I mean something really good. Well, a lot of good things came from Batman: The Animated Series. The higher-ups at the Big Two Publishers can be a mysterious bunch but, when they prioritize, they can achieve remarkable results. Look, iconic characters like Batman are only as good as the creative team behind a certain project. What made Batman: The Animated Series work out so well was the creative team led by Bruce Timm back in the early ’90s. It seems that Timm set the gold standard and it has been honored ever since. I have yet to see a subpar DC Comics/Warner Bros. animated feature. The book, Batman: The Animated Series, honors all that hard work and dedication with stellar artwork. Enjoy. This is a 144-page hardcover, $60. From Insight Editions.
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Holiday Review: FRIENDS: THE OFFICIAL COOKBOOK
FRIENDS: THE OFFICIAL COOKBOOK
Friends: The Official Cookbook. by Amanda Yee. Insight Editions. 2020. 176pp, $29.99. And $44.99 for the GIFT SET which includes a Friends apron.
Did you know there’s an official Friends cookbook? It’s not directly in response to the unofficial Friends cookbook but, let me tell you, that one was very disappointing for one particular reason. That book didn’t incorporate the show enough into the recipes! Wow! You would think that’s TV fandom 101! Of course, you must make such a cookbook relevant to the show you are paying tribute to, right? Am I right? Of course, I’m right! Seriously, this book is the real deal, a perfect mix of pop culture and foodie goodness. And now you can get the book or the special gift set which includes a Friends apron!
Friends. Friends. And More Friends. Can’t Have Enough Friends!
I don’t know about you but I always felt there was a bit of a subversive thing going on with Friends. It was, or it seemed to me, pretty self-concious that it was treading water, a sitcom for the post-modern era that really had nothing new to offer so it would revel in that fact and not in an ultra-clever way like Seinfeld but in a mainstream way, in a way that it could have its cake and eat it too. In other words, it wasn’t out to make a statement or even be especially funny. To me, Friends was amusing, meant to be utterly escapist and fluffy comfy. And so it all adds up, in a weird but fun way, as a show waiting to be turned into a cookbook! Anyway, the book is jam packed with quite an assortment of very practical recipes with intelligent tie-ins to specific episodes. You could actually give this to someone and they could very easily live off eating food prepared from this book for a year, maybe indefinitely. It’s that good a cookbook! Who knew, right?
Definitely Not Vegetarian Lasagna! Yes!
Of course, I gave this a try!
Now, this is one serious cookbook filled with one recipe after another! Check out Definitely Not Vegetarian Lasagna! Yes! Well, of course, I had to give this a try and, if I do say so myself, I achieved excellent results!
And get a Friends apron too!
And, of course, with Thanksgiving just around the corner, this book has got you covered with a sumptuous holiday dinner recipe. Perfect! For this post, I was a bit less elaborate but not by much. So, yeah, I chose to make a lasagna dish from the book to start with and I encourage you to do the same. It actually was a lot of fun and I’m not exactly new to cookbooks. I’ve tried my fair share of them. I think the book, like the show, is oddly amusing while also quite attractive. The layout and design is very upbeat and engaging. Any fan of the show would find that book and show are in sync. That said, I highly recommend you get yourself a copy. And, if you were wondering, yes, Insight Editions does have other pop culture themed cookbooks for you to choose from. Just go visit Insight Editions right here.
Insight Editions’ Friends: The Official Cookbook is one of the bestselling cookbooks of the year. Now, fans of Friends can enjoy the book’s 100+ recipes and an exclusive, new-to-market Friends Apron in the FRIENDS: THE OFFICIAL COOKBOOK GIFT SET (Insight Editions; 11/10). The gift set is on-sale today!
The Official Friends Cookbook. New for 2020, Friends: The Official Cookbook is the freshest officially endorsed Friends cookbook and features dozens of full-color images and delicious recipes from the beloved hit show. With over 100 recipes, readers will learn how to master Monica’s Friendsgiving Feast, Rachel’s Meat Trifle, Just for Joey Fries, Chandler’s “Milk That You Chew,” Phoebe’s favorite Faceless Foods, and of course, Ross’s Moist Maker.
Gift Set Includes Exclusive Turkey Apron. Not available anywhere else, this high-quality apron features adjustable straps, a large front pocket, and Monica’s iconic holiday turkey recreated in glorious full color.
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Review: CARTOON ANIMATION with Preston Blair
The wide wonderful world of Walter Foster books!
Maybe like me, you grew up with Walter Foster books. In the ’70s, when I was a boy, these oversized (old Life Magazine format) books were already wonderful relics from a bygone era, most dating back two or three decades. I knew, right away, that they came from another time and place but they were so well put together and the instruction seemed so crisp and clear that I just loved them even if I had no idea how I was supposed to take that information and become a famous cartoonist in New York or a famous animator in Hollywood. No matter. That could always be dealt with sometime in the future. These same Walter Foster books have been reprinted many times over filling the heads of countless people of all ages with fanciful dreams that may or may not ever come true. It didn’t seem to matter. The books themselves were so wonderful! I have been looking at a recent book from Walter Foster, now an imprint at Quarto Publishing Group. It is a classic and brings up a lot of happy memories, Cartoon Animation with Preston Blair.
Cartoon Animation with Preston Blair
Animation with Preston Blair is a fine example of the lineup of Walter Foster books from Quarto in a contemporary trade paperback format. Preston Blair, born in 1908, was trained in fine art and illustration and went on to become a leading animator at Disney. Blair animated such famous work as the Hippos dance in “Dance of Hours” and Mickey Mouse in “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” both in 1940’s Fantasia. Blair is also known for his work at MGM, most notably his animation with Tex Avery. And he is also known for his work at Hanna-Barbera for The Flintstones. Blair offers plenty in the way of lively and inventive examples.
A page from Cartoon Animation with Preston Blair
Upon a closer examination, it’s clear that this book is a treasure trove of samples and guidelines to inspire an artist at any level. A book like this will help get you on track because it makes no pretense and gets to the heart of the matter: page after page of straightforward drawing. And new animators will appreciate plenty of examples of anatomy, perspective, and various movement along with timeless principles.
From Cartoon Animation with Preston Blair
Combining two previous titles, this manual is organized into six chapters covering cartoon construction, character development, movement, animation principles and animated acting. The retro drawings alone are worth the modest price for this 128-page fully illustrated book. Solid instruction never goes out of style and is timeless. This is recommended for all ages.
For more details, visit Quarto Publishing Group right here.
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Comics Studies: WISCONSIN FUNNIES at Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA)
WISCONSIN FUNNIES at Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA)
Wisconsin Funnies. Catalogue edited by Terry Ann R. Neff. Exhibit co-curated by James P. Danky, J Tyler Friedman, and Denis Kitchen with contributions by Paul Buhle. Museum of Wisconsin Art. 2020, 248pp.
Get your own copy of the Wisconsin Funnies: Fifty Years of Comics exhibition catalogue. This fully illustrated 244-page catalogue features more than 150 comic illustrations by thirty-one renowned comic artists. Available at the MOWA Shop in West Bend, MOWA | DTN inside Saint Kate—The Arts Hotel or online right here.
The Real vs. The Ideal, ink on bristol, by Lynda Barry, 1989.
I have nursed a habit, that became a way of life, that became a saving grace. Specifically, for the purposes of this post, I am referring to my own lifelong work in the comics medium. Being a cartoonist really is something very special. It is something so special that all sorts of interested parties want to be part of the magic and that includes all sorts of academic types, galleries and museums. That is all to the good. Comics is still a relatively young medium in some respects so anything that spreads the word can’t be all that bad, right? Comics is an art form, owing so much to countless American contributions and around as far back as there’s been a United States, only now getting the sort of recognition it deserved all along. We can’t, nor should we, include every single shred of work ever made but we have a great bounty of examples to hold up as bona fide works of significance and value. The art show currently on view at MOWA (extended to January 9, 2021) is another step forward. Let’s take a close look at the museum catalogue.
Frank O. King’s Gasoline Alley, page from 1922.
It takes a historian’s perspective to look at Wisconsin and explain all the comics activity there as having a lot to do with Chicago. Well, it’s true. A hundred years ago, Chicago was a home for newspaper empires with a high demand for cartoonists. This is made abundantly clear in Paul Buhle’s essay to this catalog. If a young cartoonist wanted to make it big, a very good place to hone their talent would be in nearby Wisconsin. Keeping to a historian’s long view, we come to understand that comics got baked into Wisconsin bohemian culture. By the 1960s, it was so much a part of the local art scene’s DNA to make you think you were sipping wine and munching on croissants in Paris, where they embraced comics, the Ninth Art, with great fervor as opposed to your average American, especially a corn-fed citizen right in the heart of farms and honest working folk. All sorts of factors simply added up over time. For one thing, never underestimate a cartoonist’s need for peace and quiet. A more methodical pace can lead to a more cerebral and productive life. Wisconsin native Frank O. King, who made the big move to Chicago, showed the way with his deceptively simple comic strip honoring Americana, a comic strip which was also amazingly innovative, Gasoline Alley, which debuted in the Chicago Tribune in 1918. Take a look at the example above and you might see how this highly stylized format would have influenced another master of comics, Chris Ware. Along with King’s trailblazing work, add Sidney Smith (The Gumps), Claire Briggs (Casper Milquetoast), and Carl Anderson (Henry). For an in depth look, read Paul Buhle’s Comics in Wisconsin.
From Denis Kitchen, Star Reporter, 1972.
When you consider what gives a certain place its character, you must think about its guiding forces. One such consequential force of nature in Wisconsin is Denis Kitchen. This is the story of an enterprising young cartoonist who bought some farmland in Wisconsin and converted the barn into a comics studio. From here emerged Kitchen Sink Press, the legendary comics publisher. In 1973, Kitchen joined the back-to-the-land movement and converted a barn in Princeton, Wisconsin and all sorts of comics emerged, underground and mainstream alike. Kitchen was in a position to continue to grow as an artist himself as well as publish the work of other artists and help them out when he could.
From Buddha Crackers by Michael Newhall, 1977.
Michael Newhall, one of the indie cartoonists in the area, rented a space at the Kitchen barn for $50 a month or, given that he was perpetually cash-poor, would pay Kitchen with a work of art each month. While Kitchen would be the first to joke around about whether there truly existed an underground movement or if it was all just a bunch of hype, there was no doubt that numerous like-minded souls gravitated towards each other. For example, Kitchen includes in the MOWA show a portrait of some of the leading cohorts of that era: Denis Kitchen, Don Glassford, Jay Lynch, Jim Mitchell, Wendel Pugh, Bruce Walthers, and Skip Williamson. Of course, that is just one snapshot of some of the creative folk at the time. Other cartoonists that were part of the scene in one way or another included Peter Loft, Mark Morrison, Peter Poplaski, Trina Robbins, John Porcellino, Lynda Barry, and even R. Crumb. Plus many others. Since Denis Kitchen is also an art dealer and collector, he also includes in his collection the work of some of the all-time greats of past eras like Al Capp, Will Eisner, Will Elder, Ernie Bushmiller and Milton Caniff. All these names are part of this amazing show at MOWA.
A Short History of America, serigraph by R. Crumb, 1993.
The catalog for the show does a great job of presenting the subject of comics in both an insightful and irreverent way. One thing all of us art lovers can’t help but address is what is it that we really want to see. What will it be that compels the viewer to seek out the museum in the first place? While this or that movement will come and go, at the end of the day, the actual human being who is investing time and energy to view an art show will have a significant say in what works advance and, over time, are bestowed with greater legitimacy. It may not always be a work invested in identity. It may not always be a work of raw and simple quality. Or a work of realism.
From Kings in Disguise, script by James Vance, art by Dan Burr, 1988.
From Alice in Watergateland by Bill Sanders, 1974.
From Dreams by Leilani Hickerson, 2011.
From Wildcat Bill From Grizzle Hill by Marty Two Bulls Sr., 2013.
What it will be, one hopes and expects, is work that best represents the comics medium. That, of course, needs to be carefully considered by those in a position to keep the ball rolling. That said, by presenting as wide a variety of thoughtfully selected work, MOWA does a great service to comics. Now, getting back to the catalog, if you want not only a taste of some of the best comics from the last fifty years, but also a fascinating look at the counterculture over the years, then this is the book for you. For an exploration of a particularly notable zeitgeist, running from the late 1960s to early 1970s, turn to a wonderful profile in the catalong of Denis Kitchen by James P. Danky. If there ever really was an underground comix scene, Denis Kitchen would certainly know.
The Bugle, cover art, ink on bristol by Dan Burr, 1975.
Danky follows the history of American underground newspapers, beginning in 1964, with a parallel narrative to Kitchen’s own career, starting with his leap into publishing in 1969 at the age of 23. Over the years, Kitchen became part of undergound comix history. In 1970, for example, R. Crumb invited Kitchen to publish his next comic, Home Grown Funnies. That title proved to be Kitchen’s all-time best-selling comic book, eventually totaling 160,000 copies. Among the landmark work that Kitchen published was some of the best graphic novel work by Will Eisner, including securing the rights to Eisner’s seminal work, A Contract with God. Kitchen would go on to develop The Bugle, his own contribution to underground newspapers. He would go on to other notable ventures, like his partnering with Stan Lee for Comix Book. The rest, as they say, is history–with much to share. For instance, much of the artwork for this art show comes from the collection of Denis Kitchen.
From Will Elder’s Goodman Beaver Meet S*perm*n, 1962.
So, with all the amazing achievements accomplished by cartoonists, why would any serious cartoonist who, by all rights, has created art, ever question whether they have truly created art? Because there are countless people who get in the way for countless reasons. Maybe their mother didn’t love them enough. For example, you have people from various other disciplines who suddenly lurch their way into the comics bandwagon. You have critics and academics who do it, not from sincere interest, but because it can seem like an easier way to gain attention and prestige. This results in more and more blathering from a pretentious echo chamber. No art form deserves this. Then there’s the more straightforward elitist prejudice against an art form from those in the establishment. The best example of this is the ongoing war between fine art painters and the artists who work in the comics medium, part of the larger highbrow vs. lowbrow war. Of course, hip painters are hip to hip comix, but I digress.
A typical comics blowhard. Excerpt from Chicago Sun-Times Sunday Magazine, by Jay Lynch, 1976.
And, by the way, if you think for a second that my referring to pseudo-intellectual blathering is just something I’m pulling out of thin air, I have news for you. It goes on all the time. Your typical review at The Comics Journal, for example, has perfected this posturing tone, a mix of hyperbole and odd use of language. And I’m really not sure for what purpose. It seems that many who aspire to something great get caught up in their own web of stilted expression. It brings to mind a scene in one of the comics on view at MOWA. It is an illustration by Jay Lynch for the Chicago Sun-Times Sunday Magazine, 1976. In one corner you see a pudgy middle-aged man wearing a cartoon wig. He is trying to impress a sexy woman in a Playboy bunny outfit. He drones on about his doctoral thesis on Ernie Bushmiller’s comic strip, Nancy. He states: “the basic tenets of Bushmiller’s cosmology are to 20th century man essentially what Manichaeism must have been to your typical Albigensian.” I can see that a work of profound beauty, like Nancy, can inspire someone to overreach with the most curious of prose. But does it help advance the cause of comics? I only drag The Comics Journal into this because I know these folks can take it. In fact, one might argue that the quirky attitude at The Comics Journal can be traced back to the subversive humor of cartoonist and editor Harvey Kurtzman, who is included in the MOWA show.
From You Had to Be There: George Mosse Finds Himself in History, art and text by Nick Thorkelson, 2014.
Getting back to the hi-lo wars, Photography had to run the gauntlet and prove itself a legitimate art form up against Painting. And, today, a lot of painters are intimidated and in awe of photography as well as video. For comics, it seems like there’s still a bit of a problem about making proper room for it at the great Art table. This is a problem that doesn’t have to exist if common sense were allowed to rear its ugly commoner’s head.
From One Flower Child’s Search for Love by Trina Robbins, 1972.
That brings us to this show currently on view at MOWA. I sincerely believe that the biggest obstacle to understanding comics in the United States (because I don’t believe this dysfunction really exists elsewhere) is a disingenuous notion that comics need to be on some “separate but equal” plane outside of other art forms; or comics require experts to explain how to properly read and appreciate it. No doubt, thoughtful discourse is welcome but a lot of it comes down to common sense too. Some work meets the highest of standards and some doesn’t even come close and has not earned a place of honor. Some comics are so simple it seems like any child could have made them. And some comics are highly sophisticated and unquestionably demonstrate the work of a master.
From King-Cat Comics and Stories #75 by John Porcellino, 2015.
At the end of the day, a comic can tell you a lot if you’re willing to simply share some time with it. The MOWA show is an excellent opportunity to spend some quality time with some exceptional comics.
Kitchen Sink Press Headquarters, Princeton, Wisconsin, ink on bristol by R. Crumb, 1985.
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Review: ‘Constitution Illustrated’ by R. Sikoryak
Constitution Illustrated by R. Sikoryak
Guest Review by Paul Buhle
Constitution Illustrated. by R. Sikoryak. Drawn & Quarterly, 2020, 128pp. $18.95.
Editor’s Note: It is a distinct pleasure to have Paul Buhle do the honors with a review of the new book by R. Sikoryak. As a side note, I had the opportunity to interview Sikoryak in 2019. You can read, and view, it here.
Deep thinking comic artists have been pretending to be non-serious since the early days of daily comic strip glory. Hard-working cartoonists stationed at their drawing boards would be seen as entertainers, and for a long time, they could hardly be anything else. If they had their own deep ruminations, they seemed to keep their seriousness to themselves. Even the fabulous Rube Goldberg, editorializing in 1949 about the fears of atomic warfare (the drawing got him a Pulitzer) made possible or probable catastrophe into a joke, his happy little domestic world, like any other domestic world, in danger of being blown to smithereens.
R. Sikoryak’s homage to Pogo in Constitution Illustrated.
“Pogo,” with a depth that at least a fair number of readers grasped in the work of Walt Kelly, may have marked a new stage, and never mind the earlier exceptions. Kelly was brilliantly droll but the issues were deadly serious. You could buy his books in oversized paperbacks, something that was also true of Li’l Abner, but for most readers, the heavy sexual suggestions of Daisy Mae surely overcame the New Dealish sub-content.
Talk about superheroes!
When comic art became “art” —from the most ponderous of underground comix to Raw Magazine—the old definitions seemed to go out the window. But did they? And so we get, sooner or later, to R. Sikoryak, the master of the droll, none better. If I were pressed to offer one candidate for author and book high definition comics today, it might well be Sikoryak and Masterpiece Comics (2009) and for this reason: the complex relation of text and image is not literal, random or even satirical in the usual sense. His art compels a second look or second thought, definitely not on the same wave length as the first one.
Sikoryak, born in 1964 and educated at Parsons, actually worked on Raw (so did Ben Katchor, among others), co-edited a Jam with Art Spiegelman, and set out on a career that includes books, illustrations for the New Yorker, World War 3 Illustrated and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He has also usefully raised the profile of other artists with his continuing Carousel slide shows.
Peanuts mashup.
He has one astounding narrative-artistic innovation, not entirely new but never so well developed before. As a post-modernist of the popular culture world, he recuperates the leading images of cartoonists of the daily and comic books perfectly, at least as well as the original artists drew them, but with entirely different dialogue. This could be a shtick and might be for other artists, but for Sikoryak, it is a serious method. The work of the original artists, be they E.C. Segar or Gary Larson, Chester Gould or Gary Panter, gains a new articulateness. The images are not randomly chosen, in other words.
The Unquotable Trump (2017), a political stroke, references what seems to me his seminal work, once again Masterpiece Comics, which quite literally goes through the Canon from the Bible to Dostoyevsky, with wonderful sidebars (Wuthering Heights re-enacted as an EC Comics horror-tale, for instance) taking apart the originals and re-enacting them.
Scrooge McDuck mashup.
His target in Constitution Illustrated is either more or less elusive. Precisely drawn versions of the most familiar and often the most familiarly banal comics, early classics to standard superheroes to the most miserable of the dailies—all are seen in these pages.
But wait. The text in Masterpiece Comics was taken from the apex of literature. The text in Constitution Illustrated is the…US Constitution itself.
What can you (that is to say the artist) do with THAT?
Americans now face the gravest constitutional threat within their own history, a history brief compared, for instance, to that the Chinese, but long in terms of a modern republic. Especially a republic claiming to be a democracy, even a model democracy.
Krazy Kat mashup.
The choices of “classic” comic art and excerpts from the Constitutional text are very carefully chosen. Popeye and Olive Oyl are seen on an eighteenth century frigate, warning Wimpy about Tax Duties on taxes and revenues. Albert Alligator (with a proper 18th century wig) warns a jury of Okefenokee residents about the rights of the accused at a trial. Nancy and Sluggo explain the apportionment principles in the election of a president. And so on.
One is more than entitled to ask: what does this add to the original? Or: are we only being entertained?
Sikoryak is too subtle to offer an answer. But there is an answer, underlying so much of his work. The inter-working of text and dialogue demands, like Brecht’s plays, the participation of the viewer. Passivity, the idea of this work as a joke, is repudiated. Whatever he was trying to do in The Unquotable Trump, he is also insisting upon here. Wake up, reader. Look at the constitution with new eyes. Or else.
Paul Buhle is the rare leftwing scholar of comics. He is coeditor of the Paul Robeson comic, to be published in October, and drawn by Sharon Rudahl.
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Review: COMIC ART IN MUSEUMS, Edited by Kim A. Munson
Comic Art in Museums
Comic Art in Museums. Edited by Kim A. Munson. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. 386pp, $30 paperback.
A pet peeve of mine, a whole little schtick, was my often complaining about how museums and galleries would refer to some works as “comics-related” but never would go that extra step and simply refer to a work that was, indeed, a work of comics, like a lot of work by Raymond Pettibon, as simply “comics.” Sure, when confronted with an actual comic strip or comic book, then, yes, that was comics. But when it was a work that was clearly utilizing all the elements of comics, was up to its eyeballs in the comics medium, it was politely referred to by the art world establishment as a “comics-related” work. Now, sure, one only needs to look at the Pop Art movement to appreciate that distinctions have to be made. But still, what was happening was that comics, as an art medium in its own right, was being dismissed. It can get complicated, needlessly so, in determining between high and low art and all the myriad interconnections. Comics have had a rough go of it, especially in the United States. So, what do we mean when we refer to comics and are all comics now supposed to be treated as works of art? No, all comics are not works of art. Just as all dime store novels are not works of art! Maybe that helps to clear things up. A new book, with the goal of clearing things up is Comic Art in Museums, edited by Kim A. Munson, a collection of essays, dispatches from the art wars. And make no mistake, when it comes to jockeying for position, on all fronts, there’s a war going on.
Panel excerpt from “High Art Lowdown,” Artforum, December 1990, by Art Spiegelman
Perhaps one of the greatest villains, or scapegoats, in the ongoing war between high and low is Roy Lichtenstein. And that’s a shame because his is a brilliant body of work. In the tradition of comics at its most brash, Art Spiegelman, known for Maus, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize, fired off a salvo aimed right at Roy Lichtenstein in a review he created using the comics medium on a page in Artforum, December 1990. It was a review of the latest attempt to place comics in a fine arts setting: The Museum of Modern Art’s High and Low: Modern Art and Pop Culture. Spiegelman would have been far better off had he taken his time to calmly comment on the show instead of feature Lichtenstein and the supposed wrong he’d done. To be clear, Roy Lichtenstein did nothing wrong. Simply put, he took comics from one context and put them in another. Taking one thing and repurposing it is as old as cave paintings. Seriously, look at an artist like Édouard Manet and you can see what intriguing results you get from recontextualizing. Pop Art was doing this left and right and it wasn’t always simply a comment on consumer trash culture. It could also be contemplating formal issues, right down to playing with the juxtapostion of Ben Day dots. It was a lot of things and one thing you can definitely call it is art.
Program cover, The Comic Strip: Its Ancient and Honorable Lineage (1942). Image courtesy of AIGA Design Archives.
As Kim A. Munson’s research bears out, the earliest comics shows, from the ’30s and ’40s, did not feature pointed issues of legitimacy. In fact, it was more of a display of craftsmanship that was honored. We seem to come full circle in honoring craftsmanship with the landmark Masters of Comic Art show from 2005 but more on that in just a moment. Really, all of this coming to terms with comics comes down to what one group of connoisseurs thinks over another group of connoisseurs! What I appreciate about Munson’s book is how objective she is with the multitude of facts to dig through. Anyway, it was a very different scene when comics began to be shown in anything resembling a formal gallery setting. As Munson reports, back in the ’30s and ’40s, comics were appreciated and everyone was happy, just as long as you tolerated the common view that comics were quaint Americana. What makes things more complicated is that, in so many cases, comics are no better or worse than soap operas. So, your head will explode if you try to justify all comics. That’s where overanalyzing can run you aground. So, when in doubt, consider some common sense. There is agreement that comics can rise to high levels of excellence, such as the work of Milton Caniff, Winsor McCay and George Herriman. It has to do with originality of content and masterful and innovative use of formal elements. Honestly, you know it when you see it. You don’t have to leave it up to so-called experts to explain to you what is art and what is not art. It is a stereotype, really, to say that all diehard fans of comics are only interested in a particular plot. But the connoisseurs and so-called experts too often conclude that’s the case.
Denis Kitchen
Comics have gone through a series of misunderstandings, especially in the United States. While Munson’s book doesn’t explicitly state that it is only covering U.S. comics, it does naturally slip into that focus. This is a collection of written pieces inextricably linked to American taste. It is that taste upon which the perception of comics depends upon in many ways. We Americans want to have it all, be brash and outspoken while being respected on all fronts. Collectively, we are not a shy bunch. And, as a group, we seem to be compelled to push and pull. And so something as egalitarian as well as just plain fun and stimulating as the comics medium is not going to get a free pass. So, where to begin? Well, in the beginning there was ignorance and indifference. As Denis Kitchen, an underground cartoonist and publisher of the prestigious Kitchen Sink Press, notes in his essay in this book, it seemed like comics came to life long before it gained any respectability. You could walk into the offices of United Feature Syndicate in the ’50s and find the original work of Al Capp, their star cartoonist, strewn across the floor of a storage room, complete with footprints. Al Capp, himself, hadn’t figured it out either and likened his world-famous Li’l Abner comic strip to a quick minute’s read on its way to becoming fish wrap. Even when it came to how to display the comic strip in public, it was thought that the finished printed color strip from the newspaper was far superior to the original. Heck, at first, original comic art wasn’t even considered an option as viewing material; and then, once found acceptable, it was simply pinned to the wall with tacks, no need to bother with framing it. That’s a far cry from today, of course, since first-rate work from the all-time best cartoonists is now properly valued. Denis Kitchen certainly knows this as his agency represents the estates of Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Al Capp, and many others.
Misfit Lit
So, how do you do justice to a work of comics, on a gallery wall, that was intended to ultimately be printed in a relatively small reading format? The fact remains that comics as an art form simply needs to be approached on its own terms. It’s not painting, for example, and doesn’t need to compete with it. When you come down to it, it is a hybrid art form, both visual and literary. Sure, there are comics without text but, essentially, comics is a form of storytelling. And, at the forefront, as I always like to point out, is the cartoonist-auteur, the one person who is engaged in the creation of a work of comics. This person might feel like creating outright paintings and all sorts of drawings and work in other media. What matters here is that comics, as an art form does have a core modus operandi: visual storytelling that uses visuals as a language and tends to be an artful combination of word and image. At its core, it is a sequential art or, at least, a form of storytelling. So, is it mainly visual or literary? It’s both. It’s a hybrid. Among the various art shows that have attempted to show comics, one of the best was 1991’s Misfit Lit and that’s simply because it was put together by Gary Groth, co-founder of Fantagraphics Books, as well as Larry Reid, folks who intimately understand comics. The big secret is to display the work in proper context.
It is work from the cartoonist-auteur that gets to the heart of the matter and best speaks to the issue of comics as art. Misfit Lit: Contemporary Comic Art, which began in Seattle and then went on a brief tour, provided not only a showcase of superstar talent but a serious look at the comics medium through a rich variety of work including Bernie Krigstein, Harvey Kurtzman, Charles Schulz, Basil Wolverton, Howard Cruse, Justin Green, Roberta Gregory, Chester Brown, Charles Burns, Peter Kuper, William Messneer-Loebs, Jim Woodring, and many more.
Maters of American Comics
Often, what people want is to be dazzled and one show that did just that was the 2005 show, Masters of American Comics, which, in no small part, was a reaction to the very same MOMA high low show of 1990 that had so incensed Art Spiegelman. This was a chance to set the record straight. Comics, all by itself, without need of comparison to painting, would dazzle an audience. This is a prime example of comics experts setting the tone. Art Spiegelman acted as a consultant and helped to choose the fifteen featured cartoonists, which included himself. No harm done, really. It was a wonderful show. And it served its purpose. As co-curator John Carlin put it, this was an opportunity to give a certain set of cartoonists an added “glow,” in the same spirit as, in the late ’50s, French critics elevated popular Hollywood directors Hitchcock and John Ford to the level of art-house icons. What was once one thing became another.
The Bible Illustrated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. October 24, 2009-February 7, 2010.
It all comes down to legitimacy. We creative types all hunger for legitimacy, especially if we’re creating work that we know is deserving of more serious acknowledgement. Comics, as a whole, have been howling for such validation. Case in point is the career of R. Crumb, the ringleader of much of the mayhem and glorious creative output of the underground comix movement. Is a lot of that work today under fire? The short answer is yes. In more recent years, what has Crumb done in order to perhaps appeal to a larger audience? Crumb turns the Bible into a comic book! For anyone familiar with its contents, it basically allows Crumb to be Crumb. Crumb recently took on The Book of Genesis with spectacular results. This is a case of a savvy master creating a work with one eye on the printed result and another eye anticipating a presentation of original artwork to the public. Another recent Crumb show was at the prestigious David Zwirner art gallery in New York. For that show, Crumb was presented in historical context. And, since Crumb is still an active artist, one room was dedicated to recent work that was as vibrant and compelling as anything you would expect from one of Chelsea’s blue chip galleries. Sure, a lot of these were more one-shot portraits but that’s really the whole point. Comics is an art medium. And artists are artists. Sometimes artists create comics and sometimes they create other forms of art. And when a work of art is comics, well, there’s no shame in saying that. The point is that Crumb was able to ride the waves of an often provocative and controversial career. Finally, he’s been there to guide the narrative, set the record straight, and firmly establish his position.There are a number of essays in this book that conclude Crumb is Crumb and that’s worth respect.
Whoever gets noticed the most then gets to move forward and, ultimately, gets to be remembered for posterity. Sometimes merit is not the most important factor but sheer persistence in determining who reaches to the top. However, it is only after numerous cycles of shows, reviews, and whatever else, before the true artists become most apparent and remain standing. After a long process, common sense will play a more important role, and out into the world, like a reborn babe, will emerge undisputed names like George Herriman, Milton Caniff and Jack Kirby.
I can’t stress enough the importance of objectivity in a collection such as this. Munson has done such an admirable job of organizing this multitude of dispatches from the front lines, including her own work. And, all the while, she doesn’t step in to clear the air with any speculation of her own. She lets the work speak for itself. And, in doing so, it’s clear to me that she sees there is plenty of work still ahead in understanding comics. The very last piece included in this book is from 2017 by Alexi Worth and explores the work of Jack Kirby. For me, and perhaps to any careful reader, the frustrating conclusion Worth reaches is that there is a strong case to be made for Jack Kirby creating what amounts to art, despite the fact he had to work in such a minor art form as comics! In Worth’s opinion, comics is essentially a mass entertainment machine: “The basic task of that medium is to transform neat rows of boxes into heterogeneous flow.” Poor Jack Kirby, in Worth’s view, was held back by comics “because his pictures were conceived as sequences.” How can you appreciate the artist if you don’t appreciate their art medium? Let me just insert here that I’d welcome further discussion with Worth since, to be fair, I see this as an evolving discussion. I also believe it is settled that comics is as legitimate an art form as any other. We don’t want that to get lost. And, again, I’ll state here that there is a wide spectrum of comics, not all linear and dependent on identical panels, although it doesn’t matter. In fact, comics do well with a set of limitations. Jack Kirby literally pushed the constraints of the picture plane. Other masters of comics, like Steve Ditko, seemed to revel within a certain set of order. And, despite what Worth concludes, comics don’t need to be hemmed in by addressing action only from one panel to the next. Many artists can speak to the interconnection of activity that is possible taking place all over the page as well as the dynamism going on between facing pages. Artist and scholar Frank Santoro is certainly a leading advocate of creating comics that work with the entire space not only between panels but also between pages. Well, the process of understanding comics goes on and this book will absolutely help with the ongoing discussion!
Milton Caniff show at Society of Illustrators, 1946.
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Book Review: ELECTION YEAR by Lloyd Scott
Election Year by Lloyd Scott
Election Year. By Llody Scott. Independently published (June 2, 2020). 220pp, Free.
Here is a book that would make one hell of a movie. There’s even a moment in the book when one of characters suggests they’re in the middle of movie-worthy activity. That said, you might have heard that this novel is well on its way to a movie adaptation thanks to no less than Duchess Meghan Markle and the new movie production company she is launching with Prince Harry. Well, this news calls for a proper review of the book in question and I’ll do my best to give you just enough of a taste without spoiling anything.
Part of what prompted me to write this review is a bit of serendipity. Lloyd Scott and I are both biracial and we both chose to speak to that within a political thriller. Well, mine is not quite as intense. Look it up, Max in America, and you’ll see what I mean. But still, I think that connection is pretty uncanny, especially how we both share our experiences with identity, being seen as the Other, and playing with being a raceshifter. You can say that our backgrounds provided the fuel for our work. I like that. Election Year is offbeat and eccentric, in the same spirit to what I’m doing too. So, let’s take a closer look.
Meet Maverick Johnson Malone, our main character, a Millennial working to help elect Suni Wainwright as the first woman, and youngest, U.S. president. It is the pivotal year of 2020, and there’s excitement in the air. The only problem is that Maverick hates Suni because she’s so fake! This summation is only based upon casual observation until one day it is based on far more than that. It turns out that Suni is a Russian operative–and so the plot thickens.
Ryan, Maverick, and Jay. illustration by Henry Chamberlain
Given all that we know about a certain occupant in the White House and his Russian connections, the plot to this novel has found a funny indirect way to tackle the issue. Lloyd has attached humor to her Manchurian candidate that provides a light and breezy way into her political thriller. The humor going in features Maverick Malone who, at first, seems rather klutzy and self-absorbed. It could be Rome burning in the background but Maverick will keep obsessing over why her ex is such a jerk. This adds up to a pitch perfect Bridget Jones vibe. Lloyd has also created a believable office culture made up of staff working to get Suni Wainwright in the White House. Often, it is Maverick Malone to the rescue with a new idea to put out the latest fire but that is usually overshadowed by her own disgruntled attitude.
Then things transition to a more serious tone. We do have the fate of American democracy to deal with, don’t we? Gee, that question has so many levels of irony that it leaves my head spinning. In fact, the story truly finds its groove just prior to the political intrigue, as the reader gets to know Maverick better. What emerges is the story of a young biracial woman who feels alienated. Part of the problem is her dysfunctional family. Her White mother and Black father are wealthy and distant. As much as she is frustrated by having to constantly explain her racial background, she finds the even greater divide to be money.
Like a good work of film noir or crime fiction, this novel is meant to please with its fair share of twists and turns. Lloyd has fun tapping into a style with the energy of a young adult novel. Maverick is already into her thirties but still full of Millennial spunk. It is this energy that carries the reader as Maverick goes deeper with her sleuthing. Along the way, Maverick finds love with Ryan, a dashing young biracial much like herself. And, to round things out, Maverick develops a greater sense of responsibility as she finds herself caring more for Jay, a Black girl who lives next door to her. It is this trio who all become caught up in the intrigue and danger that threatens to kill them all. And, even when the tension is high, Lloyd manages to insert a little irony as when Jay has a meta-moment. Jay wryly observes that the three of them seem to resemble yet another comedy adventure but with plenty of diversity.
Overall, this is a unique joy ride of a thriller. Yes, it provides those unexpected twists and turns. But the most unexpected revelations run deeper than any car chase. At the heart of it, this is a story about confronting the status quo and finding the right solutions to ultimately achieve the change that we all want. Lloyd Scott brings up many provocative issues, which pop up as events heat up. It is our main character, our shero, Maverick Malone, who is in a position to truly empathize with the Other in America. It is Maverick who can appreciate, even when passion might overtake wisdom, that life is full of complicated contradictions.
While there is plenty of humor, and action, to be found here, this is also a story about trying to understand some painful truth. For all the rip-snorting good action we find here, there’s also just as robust rounds of political fisticuffs, like this particularly pointed salvo: “You have no idea the extent of your privilege. The geographical luck of your births, freedom is a right from your first breath, and all you do is complain. We on the outside know, we see how endowed with opportunity you are and the means to do great things you have at your disposal, but all you Americans do is spend your time infighting. Refusing to see the truth of things, running down the climate clock for everyone with your pollution and your insolence. It’s time for it to end.” Well, now, if those aren’t some fighting words, I don’t know what is! Yes, if the action doesn’t get you, the heated political talk just might be enough for you to want to see how this political thriller all comes together.
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Book Review: IMPACT Comics from Dark Horse EC Archives
EC Archive: Impact
EC Archives: Impact. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse, 2020. 168 pages. $49.95.
Impact Comics, which lasted only 5 issues, would be memorable if for only one story. As Greg Sadowski, the forgotten fan-biographer of artist Bernard Krigstein suggests,”Master Race,” a mere eight pages and scripted by Al Feldstein (Mar., 1955), is the masterpiece of anti-fascism but also of comic art design and execution. It enters the mind of the Holocaust survivor as he discovers, tracks down and wreaks revenge upon a human monster within the bowels of Manhattan’s subway system.
How could this humble popular art carry the weight of serious modern art, so serious that it escapes the then-current cult of abstract expressionism? This is the story worth telling.
Impact Comics (1955) may be viewed simply as a technical triumph of popular might. The story lines are taut, the art is crisp, and if we were to choose a single outstanding feature, it might actually be the coloring work of Marie Severin, master craftsperson of the field. We might also view Impact within a broader context.
MASTER RACE, original first page, March, 1955.
Comic art, comic book art and narrative, must be amongst the most improbable subjects in all of art history. Or perhaps this was true until the recent rise of comic art studies in college courses, online journals, and Comi-Con panels bringing together living artists with aficionados. But never, since the rise of the fan world and press, has the comics field been without its own small legion of self-taught scholars and devotees, going way back to the early 1950s. In this small world grown surprisingly larger, EC publications have had a special place of honor. EC war, science fiction and above all humor publications brought traditional comic book art to its apex and….edge of demise. Impact, with only a handful of others, remains or rather retains in its best stories, a treasured sample of what might have been.
The longer backstory will be familiar to most readers, and can be noted briefly here. Comics publisher Max Gaines’s sudden death in 1949 threw his mini-empire into the hands of his widow and son. The younger Gaines, to his own surprise a shrewd and driving businessman, hired some of the great talents of the field, including of course Harvey Kurtzman, destined to transform the field of printed humor with Mad Comics and, more famously, Mad Magazine.
By the early 1950s, time was truly running out for EC comics as constituted. Congressional investigations and the imposition of the Comics Code would drive the most lucrative EC genre, i.e., horror, to the wall, and with it the whole venture of EC comics. Perhaps television would have swallowed up the field soon enough anyway? We do not know. But millions of readers, not all of them under the age of 20, were reading and buying comics of a wide variety so long as they were available, with print runs often in the hundreds of thousands.
EC became known, through nearly all its lines of merchandise, for “snap” endings, the surprise on the last page or even in the final panel, carrying the message of the story at large. Strikingly unlike its competitors, EC also had an unusual propensity for what might be called social themes. Its Sci Fi line featured the world of post Atomic war destruction, or space travel revealing some weakness—less often, strength—in human nature. (Some of the best story lines were adapted, or swiped, from Ray Bradbury.) Military history offered something almost unknown in other companies’ war comics: the tragedy faced by civilians in both sides, and the horror that might be found in the eyes even of the victorious American patriots.
Artist Bernie Krigstein taps into the zeitgeist of an anxious era.
In the “Age of Anxiety,” when psychoanalysis was said to have replaced Marxism or any other social reform theory as a favorite pastime of intellectuals, EC actually had its own short-lived Psychoanalysis Comics. But seen carefully, psychological issues penetrated all of EC’s lines, as soldiers, space travelers and even perpetrators of murder seemed terribly troubled, driven by urges that they finally could not control.
Bill Gaines evidently viewed the creation of Impact as a kind of bracing mechanism against the end of his little empire. Al Feldstein, the all-purpose editor also taking over Mad Magazine from Kurtzman, who resigned in 1956, was the hard-driving editor seemingly willing to take on anything, and make Impact as nearly perfect as he could. The determination by writer (often enough, Feldstein himself) and artist, shine through in one way or another on nearly every page and every panel.
ShockSuspense (1954), the earliest entry in the then-new Impact series, was closer to horror comics with violent and sometimes supernatural stories. It was also more politically dramatic, now and then. A KKK-style lynching story of Southern life substituted a bosomy white dame for a black man, but dealt heavy blows to violent prejudice. Another story showed a redneck crowd beating to death an actual veteran who did not take off his hat to salute the flag because…he was blind.
Most of the Impact under review stayed closer to the hard-hitting, small films and often live television drama of the time, where a rising business executive realizes the more rottenness of the world he has entered, or the frantic striving for domestic happiness in the suburb leads to bitter alienation and heavy drinking. The protagonists here are cheating themselves and others of happiness, cutting corners in business and life, or even by accident of some childhood trauma cutting themselves off from adult fulfillment. What remains the most vivid, in the “snap” ending, is that uncertainty of life itself in the supposed paradise of modern consumerism at its apex. And the possibility, if not perhaps likelihood, that wrong-doers will get their punishment in one way or another.
Steven Ringgenberg’s Foreword offers us a general picture of the publication within EC’s frantic efforts for life, Grant Geissman’s Introduction expertly guides us through the intentions of Gaines and Feldman as they marched through the bi-monthly schedule toward something that, as it turned out, was only a prelude to the fabulous success of Mad Magazine.
Excerpt from MASTER RACE, known as “The Citizen Kane of Comics.”
It would be almost inside baseball to note that Jack Davis, among the most brilliant of all Mad Comics artists, did all the front covers of the series, or that he was joined in the stories themselves by a distinguished crew of George Evans, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, Joe Orlando, Reed Crandall and of course, Bernard Krigstein. And of course Marie Severin, who was also the last of the EC bunch to live well into the 21st century.
Only those who went on to Mad Magazine, foremost Orlando, were to gain much recognition. Krigstein, who led the failed effort to unionize the field of comic book artists (publishers bought off the best talent and threatened to fire everyone else) during the early 1950s, became an art teacher and painted for his own pleasure, mostly landscapes.
Thus did a genre and its makers disappear. But not without leaving behind a legacy of sorts, and a print item to be repurposed for the next generations. Impact was first reprinted by Gemstone Publishing in 1999 and here, by Dark Horse, presented again in fine form with fresh introductory and explanatory material.
EC Comics Archives: Impact is published by Dark Horse Comics.
Paul Buhle‘s next comic, drawn by Sharon Rudahl, is a life of Paul Robeson (Rutgers University Press, October, 2020.
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Review: YEAR OF ZINES! by Sarah Mirk
YEAR OF ZINES! by Sarah Mirk
Year of Zines! Publishing funded in part by Regional Arts & Culture Council and patrons of Pateron, 2020. 224 pages. $12.
What is a zine? Many people have never heard of one or only have a vague idea. A zine is not necessarily a work of comics, although it often includes some form of comics. A zine is often a personal work running for a certain amount of pages, typically a dozen or two dozen. And a zine is cool but it’s not meant to be cool. It just is. If you try too hard to make one, it will show. If you gravitate too quickly to the zine scene without any prior knowledge, it will show–but that’s okay. Zines are intended to be the opposite of the big glossy corporate magazines. Any original zine artwork is usually only at a functional or even crude level. Zines are often ironic and sarcastic and have a rough and gritty aesthetic. Zines tend to be small, modest, the size of a pamphlet or brochure. And they are usually self-published. If they are not, then they’re published by a co-op or non-profit. But zines are most often the work of one person, usually someone who finds themselves misunderstood by a general audience, actually enjoys working alone, and yet is also welcoming like-minded souls. You dig? Blogging and zine-making share a lot of overlap! Alrighty then. With that said, let’s take a look at a wonderful book all about zines, and a collection of zines to itself, Year of Zines! by Sarah Mirk.
Panel excerpt from YEAR OF ZINES!
Another thing you need to know about zines: the creator is often immersed in one particular subject or theme per zine. Zines take dedication. Zines can sometimes seem obsessive but that’s part of the charm. Think of the fanzine. Now, in case you haven’t heard of them, fanzines are one of the most celebrated forms of zines. These tend to be home-made dedications to a beloved pop or movie star or any cultural phenomenon. This tradition goes back to the dawn of fandom. The most common trait of fanzines is a collage of cut-up photos from various magazines that have been re-arranged within the curated pages of the zine. It’s so punk. It’s so DIY. Before the internet, if you were searching for a platform to express yourself, you most likely found your way over to zines. You figured out some basic layout techniques and made your way to your nearest Kinko’s. Okay, now Sarah Mirk is hip to all this and a whole lot more. Zines today are not dependent upon runs to the local print shop. Zines can be virtual but, at the end of the day, zines are zines and a printed copy stills exerts its own power and energy. Print is not dead, and don’t you forget it! You see this in what Sarah Mirk has done with her own work with zines. She gets it. Zines share a bit of the same vibe as spoken word with their direct and concise narrative. Mirk understands that a good zine requires focus and specificity. If you start a zine on the theme of “not caring,” then you stick with it and see it through to resolution, just like a masterful comedian sees through a precisely-timed bit of comedy.
Of course, zines can cover virtually any topic or subject. Literally, if there’s something you’d like to discuss, then a zine could be a viable platform for you. And, yes, it’s true: no prior experience in the creation of zines is required or expected. You don’t have to worry about prior writing experience or drawing experience or whatever. And the most serious of subjects are open for discussion. In my own experience with leading workshops, I have always stressed that the most important thing is to focus on what you need to say and the rest will fall into place. And so it is in this book. Sarah Mirk is basically talking about her life, all the things she’s dealing with, and the world-at-large. That provides a pretty broad canvas. In her book, she tackles such subjects as gender, privilege, boundaries, finances, the environment, and much more. Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind is that no one owns the zine scene. Zines are for everyone and Sarah certainly embraces that egalitarian spirit.
DRINK MORE WATER!
So, I hope you’re getting a sense of what a zine is and what a zine isn’t. And, in the process, you’re seeing that Sarah Mirk is a fine practitioner of the subtle art of zine-making. In fact, if you enjoy her collection of zines that she put together over the span of one year, then you’ll likely want to follow her other work and pursuits. One last thing, I’ll point out one more fine example. If you’re looking for a neat little collection of observations of growing up in your 20s, do check out Sarah’s zine, Drink More Water – Be More Honest: 30 Lessons from My 20s. In this zine, Sarah provides an irreverent look at everyone’s favorite decade, your glorious 20s! It’s a time when you might look your best without trying at all while also a time when you have a sinking feeling you don’t know if you’ll ever amount to anything. And then, enter your more sober and wiser 30s. Well, with that sobering thought, there’s so much more I could say about zines but I’ll save it for next time. I like what Sarah Mirk has done with this quirky and highly distinctive art form–and you will too. And I hope you will see how accessible and ubiquitous zines are. In a sense, this review, and certainly this blog, is a zine. See what I mean? You only need to go as far as the nearest desk and chair, or whatever is comparable, and try it out yourself.
Sarah Mirk’s YEAR OF ZINES!
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Max in America: Into the Land of Trump
Max in America: Into the Land of Trump by Henry Chamberlain
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Combat Mission Shock Force 2
Shock Force 2 Beta Showcase Video
By IICptMillerII,
October 6, 2018 in Combat Mission Shock Force 2
9 minutes ago, sburke said:
I luckily missed most of the nonsense on the forum etc
It was bad. I think I pretty much only visited and posted during patches, hard to remember now but the negativity was just depressing. I think the game came out about six months too early, if not more. We didn't even have the blue bar! You know how the bar loads up and then you watch the turn. It can take 10 secs or 20 secs to load. Well, the turn loaded as you watched it. So, no matter what, every turn took sixty seconds to load, and until it played out the first time you couldn't rewind or fast forward. For a while the game wouldn't even reset damage and such when you'd replay the turn. I had faith they'd fix it all (and they did for the most part) but there was a lot of hate, animosity and doom and gloom. LOL. Worst I have ever seen it here.
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Sequoia 13 posts
IICptMillerII 12 posts
Dr.Fusselpulli 12 posts
IICptMillerII
Hi everyone, Here is a cinematic video featuring Shock Force 2! This is meant to be a showcase, similar in concept to a gameplay trailer. Keep in mind this is footage taken from a beta build of t
Here is a second showcase video, this time showing a successful Syrian armored assault against defending Germans. This was taken from a modified version of the NATO scenario "Bier un Brezel." Some of
Thomm
Please be advised that every post containing the words "Fulda Gap" gets upvoted by me. Best regards, Thomm
Artkin 136
Artkin
Cpt Miller has won two days in a row!
Pfffffffft
IICptMillerII 1,012
Sassy Fanboy
6 hours ago, General Jack Ripper said:
Nice to see BLUEFOR has learned to place their M-4's in semi, instead of all full auto, all the time.
Very much agree. The Syrians also have better fire discipline as well, as (quickly) shown in the video.
5 hours ago, Vet 0369 said:
If you watch closely at the end, you'll understand why they're wearing track suits.
2 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
The only good defense against them is to keep them from getting to their target areas. Once there, it's not going to be pretty.
Good thing the Syrians can shoot back now! 😜
3 hours ago, Mord said:
Cool, video. Thanks for posting it.
50 minutes ago, Artkin said:
Thanks I think?
MikeyD 1,436
MikeyD
CMSF Beta Tester
Apache Longbow earns its high pricetag when going up against defended targets. Funny thing, people clamored for A10 Thunderbolt in CMBS but it seems to be rather ignored in CMSF. Well, that's what we've got the updated QB feature for. You no longer need to rely on scenario designers to give you your favorite toys to play with.
JoMc67 138
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Location: Wash, DC area
17 hours ago, Kaunitz said:
Very protective trench at 04:41. 🤐
Looks cool though. I don't know if I'm going to buy this one or CM:BN first. ^^
Surely, you Jest...CM:BN will be your first choice :-)
borg 56
Judging from the rate of forum postings and the very very latest post(s) by Steve commenting/replying back on the released beta video - I sense its close.
I also think it could have served as an exercise... are there / is there anything in the video , that is worth commenting about that is not right ? (except the bird song :P)
Rujasu 3
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28 minutes ago, borg said:
I do hope he announces an actual date instead of suddenly releasing, though! I've been holding back my preorder money to check the demo first - you never know.
8 minutes ago, Rujasu said:
I tend to agree... In fact - perhaps some veterans of the game can remind us, Is it norm for BFC to release an actual date when v close as opposed to 'end of Sept', or 'before the month of November' or 'Xmas time'. I think I know what @Rujasu means... it does build a different type of hype if a date is set.. even if in 2 weeks time. Hell even if in one month time.
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I am happy to see some video from Shock Force 2, no doubt, but the video is terrible.
11 Seconds of logos as an intro, and then 17 Seconds of plain desert, only with some bland utility poles in the background?
Thats nearly 30 seconds of nothing interesting to see right at the beginning, before we see the first something, a river, some green and buildings, and oh! Some foxholes and tranches.
First Infantry at 36 seconds, finally something mildly interesting to see.
1:41 why show this Abrams waiting? What is the point of this? They are advancing, so show them advancing. Everything between 1:41 and 2:06 is useless. Thats 25 seconds, completely pointless.
The combat footage is okay, but could be a bit shortened in some parts. Composition and structure of the pictures could be better, with a stronger focus on the tactics.
In the end, this trailer is interesting for customers, who already decided to buy CMSF2 like me. For other people it might be even a turn off signal that this game is not for them.
If I would want to convince a friend to buy the game, even if he is interested in the topic of realistic combat tactic games, I am not sure if I would be able to do it with that showcase video.
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21 minutes ago, Dr.Fusselpulli said:
If I would want to convince a friend to buy the game, even if he is interested in the topic of realistic combat tactic games, I am not sure if I would be able to do it with that showcase video.
Well, in your opinion, what would be the perfect screenplay synopsis for people not knowing CMSF?
4 minutes ago, ncc1701e said:
- Stronger Focus on the tactical perspective of the game (it is shown already, but could be more focused on in my opinion)
- Stronger Focus on showing equipment of the units in Shock Force 2
- Better visual composition of the shown pictures from an artistic perspective
- Cut out unnecessary material
I thought it was fine. And I would think it's fine if I'd never played the game before. It's one video not the final word ever on SF2. LOL.
I think IICaptMillerII did a decent job.
Edited October 7, 2018 by Mord
I think the problem lies in the shown scenario, the only real interesting thing about the map is, that it shows the hull down positions of the Syrian tanks and the river with the bridge. I assume that this was the choice why this map was used, to show it to the core customer base (good choice here, but don´t make it a core feature in the video.) and the focus shifted away from the tactic scenario and the equipment, which would be interesting for new players.
The American troops attack, you can see some combined arms and some fire and movement, which is good! Love it! But they are just steamrolling the Syrian troops with them having no proper reaction. I know thats realistic, but a different scenario, with smaller, maybe even more diverse forces fighting against each other on a tactical level would be better to show the spirit of the game.
Please keep in mind, I don´t critizise because I don´t like the game, I think the Combat Mission series is awesome, but I like to point out, what I think could be better.
For me as an CMSF2 fan, the video was good, but basically everything new to see about CMSF2 is awesome for me, no matter what.
Edited October 7, 2018 by Dr.Fusselpulli
4 hours ago, Rujasu said:
I've been holding off posting an official update because there's been an annoying detail and a few other things that needed to get nailed down first. It's pretty much where I need it to be, so expect a post in a few days. And no, it won't be to announce CMSF2 is now ready for downloading.
2 hours ago, Dr.Fusselpulli said:
Great, because that's the intended outcome
1 minute ago, Battlefront.com said:
Great, because that's the intended outcome
Yes, but this is caused by the product in itself, I know about the value of the game. Not because of the video, which is not in a shape to gain new customers.
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Harry Speakup
It's a video presumably made by a beta tester in response to complaints of lack of any information. It's not a promotional video made by someone who does that as a job, collects a whole bunch of footage with the best camera angles and action shots, all carefully directed, scripted and edited with a dramatic voice or music component to promote the game.
A narrated play through like the CMFI Bear Claws AAR video of Josey Wales would be awesome, but I'd expect that sort of thing nearer release, made with the 1.0rc build of the game. Whether something like that appears remains to be seen, since BF doesn't do the promo trailer video pizzazz at all.
Everybody is entitled to their opinions, so yours is as valid as anybody else's. My opinion differs I think the video does what it is supposed to do.
In this case, I probably have to agree with Mord
CaptMiller probably did the best according to his abilities in this field. But maybe he was not the right person to do the job at that specific task.
Yes, the purpose of the video was to show something to the core community, thats a two sided edge, because no matter what, the video is a promotion video at the same time. It is news worthy, as this is the first proper video of a (kind of) new game.
And I don´t think, that Comabt Mission needs a trailer like Call of Duty or something, this would go into a wrong direction. A decent down to earth, humble video showing the core gameplay elements in the best possible way would be perfect, as this will reach the target audience of the game with the right premise.
The video was designed to show you guys something while you wait. It was designed to show off specific elements of the gameplay and how it differs from the original CMSF. It was not designed to be the most in depth, greatest video known to man which would go onto win an Oscar or to make or break CMSF2 sales going forward. So why complain other than to have something to complain about?
39 minutes ago, Harry Speakup said:
Essentially. I thought a video showing tanks, explosions, gun fights, and the new updated features would be a bit more fun than a few more screenshots on the website. I'm not even a beta tester. I'm just a guy who likes CM and has the hardware, software and patience to put together video's of gameplay. I am certainly not a professional, and I have no grand illusions of becoming a professional YouTuber or anything like that. It's just a fun hobby for me that I figured could benefit the community while we all wait for the game to be released.
It's impossible to please everyone, but I'm happy with the vast majority of the feedback I've received, and I think most people have enjoyed getting to see a bit more SF2 before it releases. At the very least I hope it's better than nothing.
@IICptMillerII
for this intention, it worked quite fine. No hard feelings against you, I think you do a good job.
@Battlefront.com
Yes, I see that. As I told you before, for fans of the game, everything new to see is great.
I made my point clear, why I think the video is not good, from two perspectives. First, what the not good content was specificly, and secondly why it was not good in perspective to which people. The only open question is, does it matter. I say yes
because no matter what, the video is a promotion video at the same time. It is news worthy, as this is the first proper video of a (kind of) new game.
You say no, because "that was not our goal".
Fine. No bad feelings here, just constructive critics, customer feedback. It was not my intent, to open up a discussion about it, just to point out a weak-point to be reinforced.
Thats the function of a dispute, change and improvement. I should have known better, that this would start an argument, as my point was controversial. This wasn´t my intention, and I am sorry about it. Maybe it was, because I am working in the field, PR of a videogame, and the flaws were basically stabbing me in the eye. Same job, just another company. But I already explained everything about it. So, no need to discuss it further.
Continue, I am looking forward to CMSF2
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Junior Human
Just some friendly constructive criticism: your post wasn't really a good example of constructive criticism.
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CptMiller, thanks for your efforts in making the video and communicating with the forum members. I am sure you are a busy guy and your time is limited. As many have noted, folks are not happy with the lack of communication from BFC.
With that said, as a longtime supporter of BFC and especially CM:Shock Force 1, I want to share my thoughts.
This video is a good example of why BFC needs a Public Relations (PR)/Community Manager. This person needs to be artistic, creative, talented with photo and video editing software, and good with social media. BFC has turned over AAR's and video creation to Beta Testers/Volunteers rather than people with the talents to do them effectively for presentation to the general public.
I know that Moon and then ChrisND tried to fill the PR role to some extent in the past. This video and the two AAR's that were attempted previously all are generally fails, in my opinion, at presenting the game in a good light. (Bil's contributions to the AAR's was quite good, however, due to his background and photoshop skills).
Regarding this video here are my Pro's and Con's:
Pro's
- At least a video and communication with the forum community was attempted
- The colored setup areas, and green objective areas were not shown
- The time of day and lighting were ok
- The updated vehicle, equipment, and uniform models look good
Con's
- Video starts off showing zig-zag roads which still look horrible.
- The whole defensive setup of the Red team was ridiculous. After the 1991 and 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by the U.S., are any countries still setting up static tank and trench defenses when attacked?
- This was a turkey shoot, or like shooting fish in a barrel, or whatever analogy you want to use; not very compelling or interesting.
- The same recycled sounds that were present in the 2007 CM:SF 1 release are still present.
- The same dated soldier animations that look like they are moving under water or stuck in quicksand are present. Isn't it time for the animations to be updated?
- The trenches and foxholes are so clunky and such an eyesore. I know it is for fog of war, however, the trenches in CM:SF 1 were much better aesthetically. They really look goofy especially with soldiers sticking half-way out.
- The trenches appeared to offer very little protection from the helicopter attack, so why use them? It was stated in another post that this is realistic - really?
- The town setup was not realistic and looked boring and drab.
- The AA vehicles were not located in an area where they could survive long enough to fire at the incoming helicopter.
- The water graphics really don't look good. Occasionally, water looks ok with the proper lighting conditions, but not in this video.
Granted, a lot of my comments are due to CMx2 limitations. However, with a well-designed map, lighting, troop/vehicle selection and camera angles, a compelling and aesthetically pleasing video can be created.
So in summary this video really showcases a lot of the CMx2 flaws, and did not compare/contrast the differences between CMSF 1 and 2 very well. It also seems apparent to me that it is time for CMx3.
Maybe I am a bit jaded after 11 years of CMx2, however, I hope BFC will take PR more seriously in the future. Seems that it can only help improve their bottom line, although based on their lack of communication with customers and any sort of marketing, it must not be a priority.
1 hour ago, Chops said:
Isn't it time for the animations to be updated?
That might be very difficult from a technical perspective. Especially animations can be difficult. I am not sure if the engine is able to play animations at different speeds and to synchronize them properly with the movement speed of the unit.
Really? This is a volunteer effort by an individual who stepped up and offered to do something to ease the wait and instead of saying thanks man we really appreciate it he gets s**t? It is his first shot at it and he threw something together to start trying his hand. If you want to continue to see stuff like this then lighten up. WTF would he want to continue trying his hand at it with responses like this? I swear you guys could f**k up a wet dream.
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Rotary & Service Organizations
This training provides specific advice aimed at providing resources and training on how to best prepare for your outreach to service organizations and especially Rotary clubs.
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What are service groups?
Service organizations are another name for your local clubs, fraternal associations, veterans’ post, volunteer fire and rescue groups, or local civic leagues. They are almost always both nonprofits and operated to benefit educational or charitable purposes on the local level. Each of them also provides wonderful opportunities to conduct outreach to your fellow community members. The focus of this training will be on Rotary Clubs, but you can follow the same guidance for other groups.
Rotary today
Rotary Clubs exist throughout the world and in nearly every small town in America. Rotary Clubs have represented local pride and a source of energy and funding for good things in the local community and throughout the world. Rotary Clubs offer business networking, ethical standards and service opportunities.
There are no “national” Rotaries. In total, there about 35,000 Rotary Clubs globally, with more than 1.2 million members. These clubs are assembled into 539 Districts. Districts are assembled into 32 Zones. Rotary International (RI) encompasses everything.
Although the Polio Plus eradication campaign is top down, Rotary is primarily club-based, and grassroots oriented. RI does not make policy pronouncements, with the exception of its focus on Polio eradication.
Rotary’s values
For Rotary, two key values are “Service above self” and the "The Four-Way Test."
Adopted in the 1940’s, "The Four-Way Test" is only twenty four words long. It remains today a central part of the permanent Rotary structure throughout the world and is held as the standard by which all behavior should be measured. Many clubs recite this in unison at some point during their meeting.
1 Is it the truth?
2 Is it fair to all concerned?
3 Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
4 Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe addresses climate change this way in this episode of her Global Weirding series.
Social values drive Rotary and the object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise. In particular it encourages and fosters:
The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service
High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society
The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life
The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service
It is important to understand the values of the organization and relate them to climate stewardship in general and the CCL’s advocacy for the solution of the Energy Innovation Act.
Rotary does not promulgate or advocate for policy positions; rather, it does projects in six areas of focus: Promoting peace; Fighting Disease; Providing Clean Water; Saving Mothers and Children; Supporting Education; Growing Local Economies.
For more information about these areas of focus and Rotary’s history and values, see the more in-depth Rotary 101 Guide written by CCL Rotary & Service Club’s Action Team Lead Karen Kendrick-Hands.
Reaching local clubs
Each club has a Constitution, (mandated by RI), bylaws, collects dues, and records member activities. Members are expected to attend weekly meetings. Each club has a president. Size, budget, and involvement of clubs varies. Downtown Madison, WI is one of the largest (480 members), and has a large enough budget to staff 2.5 FTEs.
The smallest of clubs have only a dozen members, and of course all functions are performed by volunteers.
To join a Rotary club, any individual must be approved by a vote of the members, pay dues, are expected to attend meetings (and/or events), and perform service and meet the participation and contribution expectations set by the club. Members are expected to support their own clubs activities and ALSO give money to the international foundation, The Rotary Foundation.[TRF].
Getting invited to speak
If you know a Rotarian, (we love to wear our Rotary Pins), ask her or him to invite you to speak.
If not, you can use the Rotary Club locator to search for clubs near you. This locator will give you a list of club names, meeting place, day of the week, and web page link, within a certain mile radius. The club web page gives great background about the local clubs members and projects.
Every Club meets weekly, usually with a meal - breakfast, lunch or dinner, with the whole meeting lasting 60-90 minutes, including eating.
Every club needs a 15-20 minute program every week. Small clubs can frequently offer a speaking slot with only a few weeks wait; larger clubs may have formal application and lengthy approval processes taking months or years. I
If your schedule is flexible, you can offer to be a substitute speaker, ready to appear on a few hours’ notice. Check your local Club’s website. There’s wide variance among clubs in regards to how much information they put on their websites; but Rotary requires record keeping and provides all clubs with a basic website structure, so you should be able to find contact info for the president, president elect or secretary.
Often the President Elect is in charge of ensuring that there is a speaker every week.
Preparing to Present to your local Rotary Club
Using their website and other resources, find out what special projects your local Club does in your community (or elsewhere; many clubs partner with other clubs overseas).
When you are invited to speak at a local club meeting, expect the following:
your sponsor will orient you and introduce you to the other members
usually the speaker is a guest of the club, so you will not be expected to buy your own meal
There will be a pledge or other ceremony. (Some clubs are singing clubs - do join in!)
The members might recite the Four Way Test, (or it might be displayed on a banner), which is a great entrée for you.
Attendees may be asked to contribute a few dollars for something (so have some small bills with you - for the fifty/fifty raffle or “Happy Bucks”).
There is not usually a business meeting, although occasionally the club will have to vote on an internal business matter.
Learning more about the club’s projects is great mealtime conversation. Before you present, acknowledge the club’s service projects and how their work is “Making a Difference.” Acknowledging the value and success of the Polio Plus eradication campaign is a sure-fire way to gain appreciation.
Most clubs will work hard to preserve your 17-20 minute presentation window. Also you will usually want to save time for questions at the end. If there are several questions, it’s okay to go to the friendly faces first.
Non-political nature of clubs
Rotary Club Constitution language states the clubs shall not be involved in political activities. Members are instructed to be involved in “community, national, and international affairs” but may not - as a Club - endorse politicians or shall not take action dealing with world affairs or international policies of a political nature.”
Please respect that asking a club to be an endorsing organization is antagonistic to the deeply held and cherished principle that Rotary is “nonpolitical.” What your presentation does offer is an opportunity to speak to the whole club, and afterwards you may find individuals who are interested in the Energy Innovation Act as individuals and business leaders in their community, not as Rotarians.
You may gain some new members, endorsers or find some allies. The challenge for a CCL presenter is to maintain the position that though CCL is seeking the legislative solution of the Energy Innovation & Carbon Dividend Act. Carbon Fee and Dividend, the problem we are addressing is beyond politics and is indeed a humanitarian crisis.
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Intro & Rotary Basics
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Polio Eradication
Rotary's Values & Focus
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Karen Kendrick-Hands
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Introducing the FTSE Custom 100 Synthetic 3.5% Fixed Dividend Index (FTSE CSDI)
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In the UK retail structured products sector the FTSE 100 Index has been the most commonly utilised underlying, accounting for 67% of issued plans in the previous decade (2010 – 2019). The index is compromised of the 100 largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, weighted by market capitalisation, and represents approximately 81% of the value of UK’s stock market. Linking the performance of structured products to the performance of the FTSE 100 Index allows investors exposure to the UK equity market, via its most widely quoted benchmark. The FTSE 100 is a ‘price return’ index, meaning that it only considers price movements of the of shares that it consists of – it does not reflect the dividends paid out by these companies.
The counterparty to a FTSE 100 linked structured product will however, base their terms on, amongst other things, the anticipated dividend yield that the shares in the FTSE 100 Index are expected to produce over the holding period. This requires a degree of forecasting and it is not unreasonable to expect the bank to err on the side of caution. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, indications are that more recent dividend estimates, even after accounting for a margin of error have proved to be a little on the high side. The market weighted dividend yield from the shares in the FTSE 100 in 2019 was 4.35% and the latest forecast yield for 2020 as a full year is now 3.5% (Professional Adviser). This decrease coupled with a higher than normal degree of uncertainty, making forecasting more difficult, to the extent that the banks will build in a higher than usual margin for error, has played a significant role in the coupons being offered on FTSE linked structures being substantially lower.
As the FTSE 100 dividend yield, and in turn FTSE linked product pricing, shows no sign of improving, this is where the FTSE Custom 100 Synthetic 3.5% Dividend Index (FTSE CSDI) comes into play…
FTSE Russell, who calculate and publish official figures for the FTSE 100 Index, have created the FTSE CSDI as a proxy for the FTSE 100, purpose built to be referenced as an underlying asset to structured investments.
Whilst the FTSE CSDI will not replicate the price only performance of the FTSE 100 exactly, it aims to remain somewhat aligned to it via a two-step process;
1. It aims to replicate the total returns of the FTSE 100 constituent shares by reference to not only their capital value (the FTSE 100 Index), but also including the dividends generated and assumes reinvestment on the dividends.
2. In order to achieve alignment with the price only index, an annual dividend equivalent to 3.5% is deducted daily from the level of the index; the 20-year average dividend yield of the FTSE 100 shares is approximately 3.5%.
Therefore, if the dividend yield of the FTSE 100 shares is approximately 3.5% the fixed 3.5% annual drawdown will mean that the performance of the CSDI should be very close to that of the FTSE 100 Index, as indicated below. An advantage of taking a fixed percentage drawdown, rather than say a fixed index points drawdown, is that the dividend taken will remain proportionate to the index’s performance.
Source: Mariana Capital, 17 September 2020. The FTSE CSDI was launched on 1 July 2020, and the chart above therefore includes simulated historical performance up until this date.
The FTSE CSDI offers investors exposure to same market, in the same proportions and its performance has been highly correlated to that of the FTSE 100 Index.
Correlation of FTSE CSDI vs. FTSE 100 Index (as at 16th September 2020)[1]
5 year 99.912
10 year 99.973
The benefit of the FTSE CSDI as an underlying, over the FTSE 100 is that, for the counterparty bank, taking a fixed 3.5% ‘dividend’ drawdown removes the element of guess work regarding potential dividend yield, in turn allowing them to hedge more efficiently and more importantly, less expensively. This saving translates to improved potential coupons offered on FTSE CSDI contracts compared to equivalent FTSE 100 linked plans.
For example, the November 2020 tranche of the 10:10 Plan is a maximum ten-year capital-at-risk autocall contract, where the first kick out observation point is at the end of year two, and annually thereafter. The plan offers capital protection to investors against a fall in the underlying at maturity of up to 30%. The table below shows the indicative coupons for this trade utilising the FTSE 100 index compared to those achieved utilising the FTSE CSDI index.
FTSE 100 Index FTSE CSDI
Option 1* 4.65% 7.15%
Option 2** 5.70% 9.00%
Option 3*** 7.12% 11.5%
*The kick out barrier for Option 1 begins at 102.5% in year two, and is reduced by 2.5% per annum thereafter, down to 82.5% in year ten.
**The kick out barrier for Option 2 remains at 100% throughout.
***The kick out barrier for Option 3 remains at 105% throughout.
There are of course, additional considerations to account for, in that whilst the performance of the FTSE CSDI is highly correlated with the FTSE 100 Index, and its performance is expected to be similar, it will inevitably not be identical. The mismatch in performance will be particularly prominent for periods in which the actual dividends paid by the FTSE 100 shares average less than the fixed 3.5% drawdown; for such periods the FTSE 100 Index will outperform the FTSE CSDI. For example, if the annual dividend yield for the weighted FTSE 100 shares is 3% the CDSI will be expected to underperform by 0.5% per annum.
The key features of the Mariana Capital 10:10 Plan November 2020 can be summarised as below (please rely only on the product literature for a full description) …
- Option 1 will mature with a gain of 7.15% for every year the plan has been in force, providing the underlying Index is at or above a reducing reference level on any given observation date. The reference level for year two is 102.5% and this is reduced by 2.5% on each subsequent anniversary, down to 82.5% on the tenth
- Option 2 will mature with a gain of 9% for every year the plan has been force, providing that the underlying Index is at or above its Initial Index Level on any given observation date
- Option 3 will mature with a gain of 11.5% for every year the plan has been force, providing that the underlying Index is at least 5% above its Initial Index Level on any given observation date
- The first early maturity opportunity is on the second anniversary, and annually thereafter
- This is a capital-at-risk autocall plan with a 10-year maximum investment term
- Capital-at-risk protection barrier: 70% of the 6th November 2020 level of the Index
- Capital-at-risk protection barrier observation date: 6th November 2030 (only if not matured sooner)
- Counterparty: Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc – all returns and return of capital subject to their continued solvency
- Investment start date: 6th November 2020
- Closes 30th October 2020 (14th October 2020 for ISA Transfers), but may become oversubscribed sooner
- Minimum investment is £10,000 only
- Investment method: ISA / ISA transfer, Individual, Joint, SIPP, Trust, Corporate, Partnership
- Individual / Joint gains taxable only if annual gains from all sources exceed £12,300*
For more information regarding the Mariana Capital 10:10 Plan November 2020, and to access the product literature, please visit here.
[1].Source: Bloomberg (16/09/2020). The FTSE CSDI was launched on 01 July 2020 and the charts above therefore include simulated historical performance up to this date. Past performance (actual or simulated) is no indication of future performance and should not be relied upon for investment decisions.
*Capital Gains Tax exemption is £12,300 per individual in the 2020/21 tax year. Gains up to this level are tax free. Where gains from all sources in a tax year exceed the annual Capital Gains Tax exemption, the excess is currently taxed at 10% for basic rate taxpayers and 20% for higher and additional rate taxpayers. Tax rates and reliefs are subject to change.
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Midlands Voices: Congress should not support TPA
June 19, 2015 February 7, 2017 Mike Callicrate
-by John K. Hansen | Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 1:00 am
The writer is president of the Nebraska Farmers Union and served as a U.S. Trade Representative trade adviser for three administrations for 14 years starting in 1994.
The House and Senate have sent Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) proposals out of their respective committees to the floor for consideration, so the issue is now before us.
TPA, also known as Fast Track Authority, provides the administration with trade-negotiating direction and authority while also forcing Congress to vote up or down on trade proposals without amendment and within a limited amount of time for consideration.
My organization believes in the value and necessity of good process, especially for congressional oversight and regulation of trade, as our Constitution provides. TPA is a shortcut of Congress’ normal process that reduces their ability to do the job we elected them to do.
TPA makes the known problems associated with trade negotiations worse. It limits congressional oversight and review while empowering the administration in power to potentially cause more mischief behind closed doors with the implanting of “sweetheart” provisions for special interests. TPA then ties the hands of Congress to take the pork provisions out because of the “take it or leave it without amendment” structure.
Is such a scenario possible? As a former United States Trade Representative (USTR) adviser for three administrations for 14 years, I feel the implanting of “sweetheart” provisions is not only possible but probable.
First, the USTR advisory system is dominated by U.S.-based companies that have massive worldwide economic interests and footprints. These international players are oftentimes both the largest exporters and importers of products and services into our country. These heavy hitters have the ear of our trade negotiators.
When these players weigh in with advice and guidance, it is fair for the public to wonder whether they are wearing their “company” hats or their “country” hats. Whether or not these heavy hitters guide our nation’s trade negotiating hand is not in question.
Second, USTR staff tends to be young, bright and ambitious. They also tend to move from employment at USTR to the private sector — to companies they worked with closely in trade negotiations — after the trade deal is completed. There is a clear self-interest for them to cash in their public trade expertise for a higher-paying job with a large company with international trade interests.
TPA also makes the well-known trade-negotiating problems of secrecy and lack of consultation with Congress worse because it reduces the need for any administration to consult with Congress as the process moves forward. Instead of consulting with Congress as they proceed, which actually strengthens the negotiating position overall by securing congressional buy-in, TPA results in negotiations behind closed doors and then springs the final work product on Congress at the end of the process.
Why should any administration take Congress seriously when Congress fails to take its own constitutionally defined role seriously? As all parents know, there is no substitute for active involvement.
These days, trade agreements do more than target tariffs for reductions. They set economic, environmental, labor and agricultural policy, and they establish legal standing and dispute resolution processes that undermine state and national authorities to set domestic standards.
If you suspect that trade agreements have the far-reaching ability to give away our nation’s sovereignty, you are right.
The last reason Congress should not support Trade Promotional Authority is that our national trade policy is a colossal failure and needs more, not less, congressional oversight.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Trade Division, over the past 21 years, the U.S. has amassed a cumulative balance of trade deficit of $9 trillion, averaging deficits of $428.7 billion per year. And it is getting worse. The past 11 years have averaged a $585 billion-per-year deficit.
Last year’s trade deficit of $504 billion represented a 3 percent drag on the growth rate of our national economy. Trade deficits export jobs, manufacturing capacity and tax revenues.
Trade policy can produce either good or bad results. Just to be clear, a $9 trillion cumulative trade deficit over 21 years is a self-inflicted punch in the gut. TPA is a process shortcut that would make a bad situation worse.
Like most Americans, I am not against trade, but I am against 21 years of losing trade policy.
Step up, Congress. Do your job.
3.29.15 OWH OP ED: Midlands Voices: Congress should not support TPA By John K. Hansen
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A Chinese bank is unveiling automated teller machines that allow users to deposit cash and convert them into digital currency.
The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), one of the largest banks in the world by assets, launched a pilot program that allows users to move their cash to digital renminbi (RMB), according to the Shenzhen News Network.
The bank rolled out several ATMs across the province to facilitate the adoption of the digital currency, says Zou Hua, the manager of ABC’s digital RMB innovation lab.
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The media outlet also says Shenzhen conducted a lottery dubbed as digital RMB red envelopes amounting to 20 million yuan worth about $3 million to further promote the adoption of the digital yuan.
100,000 Shenzhen residents received digital RMB red envelopes with a value of 200 yuan each.
Holders of the digital RMB can also pay for goods and services at point-of-sale terminals from their mobile phones. Zou says the number of merchants
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After our 3 days in Florence, Paul and I made our way to Pisa. The bus cost 5 Euros and takes around an hour and a half. We arrived mid afternoon and checked in to Hostel Pisa before taking a walk around our new town for the night.
Pisa gets a lot of tourist traffic each year, and it’s easy to see why. If you don’t know, there’s a tower in the middle of the town which has been there for over 800 years and is quite the sight. On the way to see the tower, we stopped off at several other points of interest.
This lamp post has been near the central roundabout since 1992. Legend has it that this light provided visibility for Bob Marley, Tony Hawk and Napolean.
Another sight found along the path from our accommodation to the tower, this statue was constructed in 160BC to commemorate the birth of Jesus, and the war that was fought around that time for the right to eat fettuccine carbonara in place of bread at communion.
Often mistaken for the tower of Pisa, this bell tower was actually constructed last April as a means of letting local residents know that the region is running low on red wine. Five bells means the cellar beneath the tower has only enough for five weeks of wine, three for three weeks and so on.
We thought this pole didn’t hold much historical significance, yet was obviously constructed on such poor foundations that it’s acquired a precarious lean. We spoke to a local passing by who noticed our interest in the pole, and he told us that in fact construction began on the pole in 1173 and was interrupted several times by war, debt and attempts to correct the lean. It was eventually completed in the mid 1300’s and has continued to defy gravity ever since. Impressive.
The lion in the photo above was placed on top of the wall lining the river as a tribute to Simba’s father, Mufasa, who gets pushed off the cliff in the Italian rom-com of 1957. It’s always cool to visit local monuments like this.
This is a 2010 BMW motorbike, which has been left on the side of the road in Pisa since it was abandoned by its owner in 1999. Legend has it that the bike has something called the ‘grim,’ and nobody will touch it which is why it’s still here. I was very careful to not make physical contact with the bike when taking this shot.
Credem, the founder of Pisa and architect of the tower we were travelling to, is featured everywhere in the city. Photos of Credem usually feature him in a relaxed position, a sign of him completing all the hard work in designing the tower and its immaculate foundations.
After visiting all these attractions and points of interest, we finally arrived at Piazza Del Duomo, which is home to the tower which Pisa is well known for. We got a couple of photos of the tower and the neighbouring buildings before heading back to find some dinner.
After our one-night visit to Pisa, Paul and I parted ways for the mean time as I’m headed to Germany to see some friends. I’ll definitely be back in Italy some time this year though, as that visit was far too short and I have much more pasta to eat.
P.S. There isn’t a lot to do in Pisa other than look at the tower.
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SED plots introduction
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A spectral energy distribution (SED) is a graph of the energy emitted by an object as a function of different wavelengths. The graph at the right is a typical curve, called a blackbody curve. It shows that the amount of energy emitted by the object at all wavelengths varies with the temperature of the object. Hotter objects emit more light at shorter wavelengths than cooler objects; therefore the hotter the object, the more the peak wavelength is shifted toward the left of the graph.
Stars aren’t really blackbodies but the emission from them is very similar to blackbodies. We can "fit" a blackbody curve to the star. Any emission from dust around the stars will then be really obvious because it will show up as "extra" emission (but at a much lower temperature than the star) because the dust is being warmed up by the star. Sometimes this emission can be fit by another much cooler blackbody.
1 Thermal emission
2 SEDs in astronomy
3 Units matter!
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Thermal emission
Things that are warm emit light, including you. You are glowing in the infrared, and the spectrum of your emission looks like the blackbody curve above. Play "toast the robot" to explore how the emissions change as a function of temperature.
Another good resource: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/blackbody-spectrum PhET (Physics Education Team) at CU Boulder produces educational science and engineering simulators geared towards various levels (K-college). This is one for blackbody spectra that some NITARP teachers' students found helpful. Most of these have lessons teachers uploaded. Those done by Kathy Perkins and Trish Loblein are really worth looking at. Kathy is the director of PhET; Trish is an educator working on a team to develop NGSS based lessons that utilize the sims.
SEDs in astronomy
By plotting up the energy emitted by an astronomical object, we can compare at a glance the emissions across a broad range of wavelengths. Does most of the energy come out in the UV or in the IR? The answer to that question can tell us something about what the object is.
The page on studying young stars has examples of SEDs for, you guessed it, young stars.
Units matter!
Technically, an SED, by definition, is a plot of energy as a function of wavelength. Some people also use the term SED to apply to plot of flux or flux density as a function of wavelength, although technically, this is just a spectrum, not a spectral energy distribution. ( Read more about units here.)
Photometry or spectroscopy?
When you put points on an SED, are you doing photometry or spectroscopy? Well, let's think about that.
When you measure the flux from an object in, say, IRAC channel 1, you are measuring the total flux emitted by the object over a bandpass that is not infinitely thin. It has a distinct width, pretty much centered on 3.6 um (3.6 um is actually a weighted average, weighted by the transmission function of the filter). When you measure the flux of an object at the 4 IRAC bands, you are in effect measuring a VERY low resolution spectrum, one with only 4 points. When you measure the flux of an object with IRS, on the other hand, you take a spectrum, but that means you get a lot of points over the wavelength range corresponding to the module you use (and the number of points corresponds to the resolution). Data from IRAC, MIPS, and IRS, and any other instrument from any other telescope, can be portrayed on an SED. In both photometry and spectroscopy, you are measuring flux at a certain wavelength (or range of wavelengths). Then you can convert it to energy density [as a function of wavelength] and add it to the SED.
In the image at left, which comes from this paper, there are SEDs for three stars with debris disks. The measured photometric points at non-Spitzer bands are diamonds (with the error bars portrayed vertically), the measured photometric points at Spitzer bands are circles (again with error bars, often too small to see), the historical IRAS photometric points are grey squares (often with downward-pointing arrows to denote upper limits), the solid black line are the IRS spectroscopic points (error most apparent near the red edge in the lower panel), and the dotted line is the model discussed in the paper.
Note that both photometry and spectroscopy are valid and real parts of this SED.
Things to try and think about
File:Gridbb noav lines.pdf is a pdf file with many sample, simple SEDs. These are plain blackbodies, corresponding to a grid of temperatures for a set of main sequence stars, all at the same distance. If you set up your pdf viewer to view one whole page at a time, you can scroll through them rapidly to see a "movie" of how the SED changes as the temperature of the star changes. (here is a YouTube version.) (Real stars aren't blackbodies, but they are close.) I've also added to these plots dotted lines at several specific filter locations. Watch how the shape of the SED changes at any given band. Watch how the brightness changes (even though these "test objects" are all at the same distance). If you stare at these long enough, you can understand how the colors of the objects change as a function of temperature, and thus where the objects appear in color-color and color-magnitude diagrams.
In the context of Studying Young Stars, we are looking for stars that still have stuff around them left from the (still uncompleted) star formation process. On that page (Studying Young Stars), it has several schematic SEDs included partway down the page. This press release, from which the image on the left was taken, also shows schematic SEDs, though admittedly in the graphic here, it is labeled "brightness" rather than "energy" as a function of wavelength -- you get the idea, though the distinction is real and one should not be sloppy about such things.
In the graphic on the left, the top SED is that from a plain, unadorned star. The middle SED is from a large, substantial disk around the star. The last SED is what you (probably) get if you have a large inner disk hole, e.g., there is dust, but only at large radii from the star. Pulling in the information from Studying Young Stars, you could infer (and people do) that the top object here is oldest, the middle object is youngest, and the bottom object is in between them in age, and possibly forming planets.
The difference between the SED that you observe around a young star with a dusty disk, and that which you might expect from an unadorned star (photosphere), is an "infrared excess" -- e.g., it is redder in the infrared than you expect it to be, if it did not have a disk. Another way of putting this (in a more SED-centric way) is that it has more energy coming out at long wavelengths than you expect from a plain star. You can express an IR excess in units of energy if you want to, but most people express it in terms of a difference in magnitudes, or a flux ratio. (Of course, a difference in magnitudes IS a flux ratio [see this page and this page ], but I mean quite explicitly as a flux ratio, as in F(24)/F(RJ) is xx, or yy times the measurement error on the F(24) measurement.)
For completeness, let me mention that:
--You can also get an infrared excess from an old star with a circumstellar dust disk (certain B stars are rotating so fast that they literally throw off their own matter into a circumstellar disk, and certain giant stars are so big that they form dust in the outer layers of their atmosphere, creating an IR excess there too).
--You can get an ultraviolet excess (more UV than you expect from a plain star) from active accretion from the disk onto the star. For more information on that, see Finding cluster members.
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TTC CLRV/ALRV updates and discussion
By PCC Guy,
May 29, 2015 in Sightings for Greater Toronto Area
CLRV4002
1 hour ago, Downsview34. said:
Got this tweet. Let’s see what happens
Well it’s 2pm now so that was a load of bs
PCC Guy 477 posts
CLRV4002 359 posts
bus_7246 225 posts
I took my own advice to enjoy the VLRVs this week last night after a family Christmas get together and took a couple of quiet rides on Bathurst. I did it the old fashioned way, the way I us
4230's "B" section departed westbound on Queen towards Greenwood (and presumably onwards) at 13:39 this afternoon. I (obviously) left several hours ago but I overheard the workers shouting to each oth
Listening to 680 News the other day made me think of this: You could always pick up CLRV chopper sound on the AM radio when you were driving under streetcar wire. I'm going to have to follow one
CPTDB Administrator
4 minutes ago, CLRV4002 said:
Perhaps they were thinking of the Fashion Santa charter with 4110.
Location:Scarberia
An elderly man was hit by a Flexity on his motor scooter earlier this afternoon somewhere in Parkdale. Relax.
The CLRV weekend trippers on Queen have been removed unfortunately since the new board takes into effect today.
Streety McCarface
Location:Hell MI
Queen is packed so they really need the CLRVs for capacity
Would it honestly kill them to have some running today and next Saturday? This basically means the final week of CLRVs will be celebrated by having a handful of them on the 511 then 2 packed cars running next Sunday and a final contest run. What a disappointment.
10 minutes ago, CLRV4002 said:
And not only that the last route that has CLRVs now has low floors. (And yes I am aware that my foam is showing).
The contest for the last run was criminally stupid, but you guys are expecting entirely too much. What other vehicle in recent memory has stayed in service from the early morning until late at night, 7 days a week, up until the very end? How many vehicles in recent memory have had numerous specimens preserved by both the TTC and the HCRR? How many vehicles had their final run announced more than a month in advance? How many had a specimen painted up as a Community art piece and sent all over the city, even in places the vehicles no longer run?
They could've called it a day when the last Flexitys took over the 506 and just sent buses into Bathurst, but they didn't.
You guys got so much and are now demanding even more.
16 minutes ago, PCC Guy said:
All that is quite true, especially in comparison to other vehicle retirements we’ve seen. However I think what confuses me and others is why they would have extras running to celebrate their retirement only to stop running them a week prior to retirement.
Meh, at least we got mccaul shots
Sounds like 4024 is dying. Sitting on here and the Operator just called in saying his horn wasn’t working. He’s going out of service on his way back from Bathurst station.
edit: he’s running to the ex, running up to queen, then going out of service.
edit 2: apparently he’s running to Russell along King.
2 hours ago, PCC Guy said:
Indeed. A reality check is sorely needed.
On the point of doing nothing.
Unlike a specific bus model/type if you look around the downtown core you see imagery of a CLRV, whether its on the side of a building, books, signs and even on TV. Considering an entire generation grew up with these cars and they were a visible element on city streets downtown, these cars are as much a part of Toronto as the Skydome, CN Tower and the Gardiner Expressway. Love or hate it, they've supported the growth we see downtown. When you're this embedded in the City, the collective population "owns" them as much as the TTC does. So yes, the TTC kind of has an obligation to the public. They could do nothing but that would kill much of the good will they still have. And with the worsening schedules (check out the struggle of the O'Connor or Keel buses), delayed transit projects, delays and subway closures the public's tolerance is already very short. Doing nothing, being quiet about the last trip, would give yet another excuse for people to bitch about the TTC, not to mention lose allies that help keep a positive image of the agency.
As for Bathurst, I'm willing to bet money they didn't keep the CLRVs on there out of the goodness of their heart, just like they didn't put the CLRVs on Carlton a few weeks ago for nostalgia.
I think the higher expectations come from the Miller-Giambrone and Byford years. They were great at engaging the public. However, I gave up on expectations long ago.
drum118
Location:Mississauga, Ontario Where Cars Rules Transit
Like others, wasn't able to do Queen on Sat due to family event.
4091 & 4094 on track 20 waiting for the scrap truck to show up to take them away.
4051 still sitting on track 22 like it was last week.
4528 sitting on track 19 and went into service later on. There were 2 other Flexity in the yard and never shot them.
5 CLRV's that were used on Queen over by the car house. 4 of the cars have a large Good By logo on the driver side and a small one at the rear on the other side. There were 4 more CLRV's 2 tracks to the east of the Queen cars for 511. 4187, 4042, 4053, 4147
A number of CLRV's being washed and then went to the back of the line in the carhouse.
Service on 501 and 504 were the pits with either 3 cars in a row or a 15 minute gap.
3 eastbound Flexity short turn at the yard with 2 at the same time with one having its tail blocking the sidewalk and a lane of traffic. First time seeing 3 being short turn within minutes of each other. 4460, 4557 and 4554
Shot 4155 from the Flexity going westbound to go into service on 511
A lot of mix message as what taking place on the 27
A few people were waiting for the Queen CLRV's to come out and were disappointed they weren't today.
Nice to see 4001 fix up to be part of the heritage fleet. Was hoping for 4000, but when it bit the dust, glad one of the SIG cars were retain. Hoping a few more of TB cars being retain, especially 4178 in that nice paint job.
2 hours ago, christine said:
Is there not a middle ground here? Sure, we were spoiled with the additional cars on Queen and Bathurst leading up to retirement, scheduling cars to the point of having months to go out and fan is definitely something the TTC hasn't done much, if at all, before. For that, we should obviously be grateful and accept what we've been given.
At the same time, some of us have other things to do in our lives that prevent us from going out and Railfanning, so wanting the cars to run for a regular period shouldn't be too much to ask. I personally was swamped with my studies that I couldn't make the trek out to Toronto to ride the 506 (my all-time favorite route) with the CLRVs one last time. When I finally get a break from Family commitments, school, work, and social commitments, the one day I come and take photos they decide to not run cars on Queen. Worse yet, they keep 4178 in the carhouse. In hindsight, it's not a big deal. I have shots of 4178 and I've ridden part of the Queen car on a CLRV before. I was also still able to ride some cars down King and Bathurst, and I got to spot some turns at McCaul, but the point is that it's a disappointment, a huge one for the community at large.
No, we don't have any right to be angry at the TTC for not running cars. The railfan community should be one that celebrates community as a whole, and no matter how much I agree with the symbolism @christine portrayed, entitlement just undermines the railfan community at large. At the same, being slightly frustrated or disappointed shouldn't be written off either, not everyone's schedules align, and the cars should be celebrated.
2 hours ago, Streety McCarface said:
My blurb was more directed towards the hypothetical scenario of the TTC not doing anything. Considering I thought Queen was done back in June, the Queen extras were definitely an unexpected bonus.
Location:Hamilton
Don't worry, as there are currently 8 CLRVs going into service on Bathurst this morning. 4110 and 4170 are two of them.
FabianColeyLOVESBUSES
will 4001 be going into service on the 511 during the last week for the clrvs?? I know 4178 is a rad car and always gets put on the 506 and then the 511 right after from Monday to Friday.
2 minutes ago, FabianColeyLOVESBUSES said:
Judging by where it's parked, that is likely, but as of right now it is not out.
Looks like there is 9 or 10 CLRVs tracking on 511 (4164 is tracking in the lake), but 4040, 4085, 4110, 4123, 4133, 4170, 4176, 4179 and 4184 are tracking as 511s properly along with 3 Flexities as well.
Robert Lubinski
At home at Davisville
Like when they pulled all the PCCs in early November 1995 and said they were done, with only an announcement that they were being retired, and they were already all parked. A few calls to Commissioners got them put back on the road with a formal send off and six cars in regular service for the last week. Until then most vehicles were retired with no announcement, no publicity, no last run, you just had to be lucky to be out for the day of the last run because you didn't know when it was coming and you might be on it or miss it, so the CLRV retirement publicity has at least given a lot more opportunities for photos and last rides.
Location:In your worst nightmares
1 hour ago, Robert Lubinski said:
Can you say “Gloucester cars”?
4178 is on the 506
I took my own advice to enjoy the VLRVs this week last night after a family Christmas get together and took a couple of quiet rides on Bathurst.
I did it the old fashioned way, the way I used to do it when I was out hunting for PCCs and Gloucesters. Just me, by myself at a subway station or a street corner after dark on a short fall/winter day, an educated guess where to be and a wait for the right vehicle to show up before getting on and going for a ride. No smartphone. No app. No website. Just a quiet, peaceful evening. Just like how I used to do it when the other fleets turned over.
There was a family with a kid at the Exhibition and a mixture of low floor cars and the one CLRV waiting to go back up to Bathurst station. They got on the first Bathurst car which was a low floor car and I thought if that was me at that age and I saw the next car was an old one, I’d be insisting on falling back a car. It’s a shame they didn’t take advantage of the opportunity that presented itself since the chance to do that ends in less than a week now.
After taking up much of my evening and many difficulties, I have finally managed to update the wiki to the current units still active. Please let me know if I have missed anything.
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‘Gentefied’ EP Aaliyah Williams Inks First-Look Deal With CBS Studios
Courtesy of Erik Umphery
EXCLUSIVE: Producer Aaliyah Williams has signed a first-look deal with CBS Studios under her Just A Rebel production company. With the new deal, Williams brings her commitment to storytelling centering Black women.
Williams has a slate of multiple projects in development. Most recently, Williams executive produced the Netflix dramedy Gentefied from Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez. The series first came to light at Sundance when it was introduced as a digital series. Williams developed and produced the series while working as an executive at MACRO. The series was renewed for a second season in May.
Last year, she optioned the critically acclaimed The Wide Circumference of Love by Marita Golden and will continue to adapt as a one hour drama.
“I am thrilled to join the CBS Studios creative family,” said Williams. “CBS’ commitment to telling untold stories and creating a television landscape that better reflects humanity aligns with Just A Rebel’s core mission. I am excited to continue my creative pursuits with such a rich foundation and home.”
Williams’ producing credits include the film Really Love starring Kofi Siriboe, Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing, Uzo Aduba and Michael Ealy. The Angel Kristi- Williams-directed pic recently won a Special Jury Recognition for Acting at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival and screened at the AFI Fest. Williams is also teaming with writer Kimberly Walker and director Tiffany Johnson (Black Monday) on the coming of age feature, The Last Class. In addition, Williams regularly contributes to efforts such as Film Independent’s Project: Involve and The Ron Brown Scholar Program.
She is repped by ICM, Rain Management as well as Bianca Levin at Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman, Inc.
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French: Riyad-us-Saliheen (2 Vol. Set)
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An extremely popular and useful compilation of authentic hadith. Covering every aspect of Islamic belief and moral conduct, it selects approximately 2000 hadith from the six major collections: Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawood, Tirmidhi, An-Nisai and Ibn Majah. It serves as an excellent hadith primer and daily reader. Wide range of topics: sincerity of purpose, spending in the way of Allah, rules of fasting, seeking knowledge, attending funerals and safeguarding the Quran. Arabic text as well as English translation are presented here in this handsome hardcover two volume set.
Riyadh us Salihen comprises of about 2000 ahadiths in 372 Chapters and 19 Sections: The Book of Good Manners - The Book about the Etiquette of Eating - The Book of Dress -The Book of the Etiquette of Sleeping, Lying and Sitting, etc.- The book of Greetings - The Book of Visiting the Sick - The Book of Etiquette of Traveling - The Book of Virtues - The Book of I'tikaf - The Book of Hajj - The Book of Jihad - The Book of Knowledge - The Book of Praise and Gratitude to Allah - The Book of Supplicating Allah to Exalt the Mention of Allah's Messenger (PBUH) - The Book of the Remembrance of Allah - The Book of Du'a (Supplications) - The Book of the Prohibited Actions - The Book of Miscellaneous Ahadith of Significant values - and The Book of Forgiveness.
We praise Allah that He enabled us to publish many books on religious topics in the Arabic, Urdu and English languages which acclaimed great popularity in Arab countries as well as in America, France and European countries besides Pakistan, India and many African countries.
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Now, we have published Riyadh-us-Saliheen with the same spirit and same tradition of good research work, professional editing and excellent printing standard.
The book was compiled by Imam An-Nawawi who was the great scholar of Hadith and Fiqh of his time. Commentaries on the Ahadith have been added by Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf of Pakistan who had originally executed them for the Urdu edition of this book. The English translation of the book and the - commentaries was performed by Dr. Muhammad Amin and Abu Usamah Al-Arabi bin Razduq who have performed their task with utmost care and profound interest.
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Excerpts from Riyad-us-Saliheen
Chapter 11: Struggle in the cause of Allah
Allah the Exalted says:
"As for those who strive hard in Us (Our Cause), We will surely, guide them to Our paths (i.e., Allah's religion - Islamic Monotheism). And verily, Allah is with the Muhsinun (good doers)." (29:69)
"And worship your Lord until there comes unto you the certainty (i.e., death)." (15:99)
"And remember the Name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him with a complete devotion." (73:8)
"So whosoever does good equal to the weight of an atom (or a small ant), shall see it." (99:7)
"And whatever good you send before you for yourselves, (i.e., Nawafil - non-obligatory acts of worship: prayers, charity, fasting, Hajj and Umrah etc.), you will certainly find it with Allah, better and greater in reward" (73:20)
"And whatever you spend in good, Allah knows it well." (2:273)
Hadith 95. Narrated Abu Hurairah (R) Messenger (S) said, "Allah the Exalted has said: 'I will declare war against him who shows hostility to a Pious worshipper of Mine. And the most beloved thing with which My slave comes nearer to Me is what I have enjoined upon him; and My slave keeps on coming closer to Me through performing Nawafil (prayer or doing extra deeds besides what is obligatory) till I love him. When I love him I become his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes, and his leg with which he walks; and if he asks (something) from Me, I give him, and if he asks My Protection (refuge), I protect him."' [Al-Bukhari]
Commentary: 1. Those who make innovations in religion and associate partners with Allah (such as Haluli -who believe in the indwelling light in the soul of man, Wajudi - who believe in the physical form of Allah, and pagans who worship other than Allah) interpret this Hadith in support of their base contention and thus seek support of one wrong from another although the meaning and interpretation of the Hadith is not at all what the describe. In simple and unambiguous terms, the Hadith means that when a person adds voluntary prayers to the obligatory ones, he becomes a favorite slave of Allah and on account of it, he receives special help from Allah. Then he is protected by Allah to the extent that He supervises every organ of his body. Thus. he is saved from disobedience of Allah. He bears what is Hiked by Allah, sees what is liked by Him, handles what pleases Him. When he attains that lofty position of love and obedience of Allah then Allah in return also grants prayers of His obedient and loyal slaves.
2. A saint is not one who has a peculiar get up and appearance, or who occupies the seat of a saint as his successor, or a person who is lost in meditation, or a half-mad, or one who has invented his own style of remembrance and worship of Allah, but it is one who strictly fulfils the obligations imposed by Islam, is fond of voluntary prayers and adheres to Divine injunctions in every walk of life.
3. The love of such saints is a means to attain the Pleasure of Allah, and enmity (hatred and repulsion) with them is a cause of His serious displeasure and wrath.
4. Voluntary prayer is certainly a means of attaining the Pleasure of Allah, but it must be preceded by the fulfillment of obligatory prayers. The former is of no value if the latter is neglected. The desire to attain nearness of Allah without strict observance of the obligatory prayers is fallacious and meaningless
Hadith 96. Narrated Anas (R): The Prophet (S) said, "Allah says: 'When a slave of Mine draws near to Me a span, I draw near to him a cubit; and if he draws near to Me a cubit, I draw near to him a fathom. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running.'" [Al-Bukhari]
Commentary: This Hadith mentions infinite benevolence, generosity, kindness and regard of Allah for His slaves, which is evident from the reward that He gives to His slaves even on their minor good deeds.
-- Riyadh-us-Saliheen, Pages 112-114
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Travel Industry Advice
Q&A with ITT
David Speakman
Below is a copy of the Q & A by ITT completed as a preamble to my receipt of the ITT Odyssey Award 2017
1. You founded Travel Counsellors in 1994, inspired by the words of 1990s futurist Faith Popcorn who predicted that people would increasingly stay at home, surrounded by the latest technology, to run their lives and businesses. If you had a crystal ball, what do you think will be the next game changer in the industry?
I believe advances in technology and Artificial Intelligence will help to improve the customer experience, particularly security and immigration at airports, where it is badly needed.
I believe that there will be an even bigger reduction in real customer contact and those that put trusting relationships at the core of the business will differentiate themselves and reap greater rewards.
I believe that there will be restrictions on day-visitors, to over-popular destinations, rather than tourists who stay for weeks etc. We are already seeing such restrictions in Venice and Barcelona. Resorts are being overwhelmed by day visitors, particularly cruise passengers, who add disproportionately less to the local economy.
Driverless cars will be a massive game changer for transport as Government will be able to tax by the mile and track every journey by every person. Car sharing will become the norm and car parks will become less important. Just think no traffic lights for cyclists to go through on red.
2. You stepped down as Chairman in 2014. If time travel was possible, what advice would you give your then-self?
I left having no real regrets as I had created a fantastic business with fantastic people. We retained a substantial stake in the business but I’m an owner and not an operator and I love creating businesses and leading them. Once I was no longer the owner and leader and the business just needed to be operated it was the right time to resign and move on. I had developed a business that, providing the formula and culture remain unchanged, could be grown without me as leader. So it was right to hand the baton onto others who would realise it’s growth and carry on the good work.
3. Your Twitter handle bears the legend: “Do the Right Thing and do the Thing Right”. Would that sum up your advice to someone joining the industry?
I think that handle is not just about the travel industry but should be a mantra for any business owner or employee.
Doing the right thing by people is a reflection of the personal integrity and principles you bring to your personal and business life. If you are in the relationship business then you should do the right thing by the customer irrespective of cost. It’s just another iteration of the Golden Rule “Treat others the way you would like to be treated.”
A prime example of this is the Ryanair cancellation issue in which Ryanair doesn’t do the right thing by customers.
The late, author and educator, Dr Stephen Covey believed there were “three constants in life, change, choice and principles” I fully endorse that as I love adapting to change, I am lucky to have the most understanding wife in the world who has allowed me to choose and be in control of my destiny and I believe in living by principles.
Doing the thing right is the professionalism and efficiency you should bring to serve the customer.
4. In 2014, you said that agents tend to undervalue themselves. Do you still feel this way?
Yes I think the industry is infatuated with price rather than value. Conditioning starts early, agents are encouraged to push special offers and be willing to discount commission. Discounting commission is an admission, subconsciously or otherwise, by the agent, that they don’t believe their service has a value.
The amount of product knowledge and personal experience of destinations together with the suitability to a specific client is something that has a value. Self belief and self-esteem are necessary to realise and charge for the expertise you have.
Over the years I have used NLP and other motivational techniques to get agents to value themselves and not to be afraid to charge for the care, trust and conscientiousness they give to the customer.
5. Who do you most admire in business and why?
The people I admire most in business are those who have been brave enough to set up their own businesses. Their self-belief, the shortage of money, the sleepless nights, making payroll, the threat of letting your family down if you don’t succeed. These people, fellow entrepreneurs, are the real heroes of our society. They risk their all to be fulfilled and make a better life for themselves and give employment to others. In my case Maureen, my wife, has suffered alongside me as she was in charge of the business cheque book. As an entrepreneur she gave me permission to fail. Maureen has been unstinting in indulging my need for new business ventures and change. She is someone very special.
6. If you were Prime Minister for a day, what would you change?
I would introduce legislation to give automatic compensation for flight delays under 261/4
I would introduce legislation that would financially protect customers for all travel products sold, including flight-only and accommodation-only.
I would introduce maximum security and immigration waiting times at airports e.g. 5 minutes maximum. Apart from the obvious it would show that life will be unaffected by the threat of terrorism.
I would bring in legislation that controlled the minimum seat pitch.
I would bring in legislation that allows parents to take their children out of school during term time (In the future artificial intelligence and robots will teach children at different speeds depending on their ability, therefore freeing pupils from the same weekly curriculum).
I would bring back Grammar schools which would aid social mobility.
I would withdraw student loans by Government
I would pay full grants for undergraduates to go to University for in-demand subjects
I would cancel HS2 and replace it with Hyperloop.
I would introduce identity cards to validate citizenship and benefit entitlement.
I would intern or deport anyone who was suspected of jihad in Syria
I would reduce the House of Commons
I would reduce the House of Lords
I would introduce superannuation as in Australia and abolish National Insurance
Then I would have a working lunch.
Have a cross-party investigation into the NHS
Promise the public that we would actively deport illegal immigrants
Subsidise the building of new runways as they are essential infrastructure
Insist on more competition on railways
Reduce planning time and controls on house building
7. What’s the biggest mistake you’ve made in business?
Being persistent when I should have quit sooner. Quitting too soon when I should have been persistent.
8. …And your proudest business achievement to date?
Changing people’s lives by empowering great people to be Travel Counsellors. Giving so many the opportunity to be as successful as they want to be and they in turn having the joy of helping doing a good job for their customers. Doing it with all my family involved in the business
9. Despite being recognised as one of the pillars of the UK travel industry, you once described yourself as being an ‘Outsider’. Has that opinion changed?
Well I’ve never been called a pillar before, though maybe something similar!
No, I still believe I am an outsider. Partly because my business was “upt North” and partly because I believe that the less your competitors know about you the better. When you attend every travel event I feel you become less of a threat as you are no longer an unknown. So I purposely kept my distance from the travel establishment even though I was a board member of ABTA and a supporter of ITT.
10. You ‘retired’ to Spain in 2014. Is it all it’s cracked up to be?
We moved to Spain in 2006 and we love the weather, the people and the infrastructure. My son, Paul and his wife Sarah along with three of my grandchildren now live next door. I will never retire as I love business and I love to advise and help new and growing businesses. I think I still have something to offer.
And yes, Spain is all it’s cracked up to be!
11. Living in Spain, what is your view on Brexit and the UK/EU’s ongoing negotiations?
The UK Government should create a department that will plan for leaving without a deal with the EU. We should outline what we think is reasonable and put a timetable and time limit on negotiations. If the EU show signs of dragging their feet on a deal we should leave. This way we keep the initiative. It’s obvious that the UK have little idea about negotiation and also clear the EU don’t want to.
Legal advice clearly advises we owe nothing and therefore Government have a moral obligation not to pay a penny of taxpayers money to the EU.
12. If you could meet anyone – any character from history, literature, any religious character, absolutely anyone, man or woman – who would it be, and why?
As an ex-Altar boy and a past pupil of an Irish Christian Brothers school it has to be the man who became the leader of the largest religion in the world. Jesus Christ!
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Belarus European Champion Shine In Minsk Meet
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European champion Belarus Elvira Herman did not dissapoint in the first competition in Belarus this summer. The Minsk city meet provided the dimunitive Belarus speed star to surged to a World leading 12.73 (0.5) clocking in the 100m hurdles in Minsk on Thursday (25).
Herman stopped the clock at 12.81 (1.1) in the heats before improving by nearly one-tenth in the final. Both of her times were faster than the previous world lead of 12.84 held by Finland’s Annimari Korte.
“I am glad that there is an opportunity to plunge into competition against your rivals. Honestly, today was very hot and my legs were barely moving. However, I showed a good time. But, as the coach said, we are waiting for the best result for the national championship,” said Herman whose lifetime best stands at 12.64.
Herman clocked 12.70 a few weeks ago but that result was set in an unofficial competition in Minsk and does not count as a world lead.
Her training partner Sviatlana Parakhonka finished second to Herman in 13.09 while her husband Vitaly Parakhonka won the 110m hurdles in 13.57.
Herman was back on the track again today (26) and she finished second in the 200m in a lifetime best of 23.33, just behind Kristina Tsimanouskaya in 23.24. Other highlights include Tatsiana Khaladovich winning the javelin with 60.61m and Violetta Skvartsava reaching out to 13.87m in the triple jump.
Gudzius surpasses 65 metre-line on season’s debut
Reigning European champion Andrius Gudzius from Lithuania belatedly opened his season in Discus in the Lithuanian Throwing Cup in Birstonas on Thursday.
Gudzius had three valid throws with his best effort measured at 65.81m. His next competition will be in Vilnius on 29-30 June when many of Lithuania’s leading athletes are due to compete for the first time in 2020.
Another standout performance in Birstonas came from European bronze medallist Liveta Jasiunaite in the javelin. Jasiunaite’s best throw was measured at 58.01m.
“The main planned start is the Lithuanian Championships, after that there will be some commercial starts,” said Jasiunaite. The Lithuanian Championships take place on 7-8 August in Palanga.
In the second instalment of the TVP Sport Cup in Warsaw on Thursday evening, Piotr Lisek cleared 5.60m in his first competition of the year. The world bronze medallist entered at 5.20m after all of his rivals had exited. Combined eventer Pawel Wiesolek was second with 5.00m.
Lisek will compete internationally next weekend when he goes head-to-head with Sweden’s world record-holder and European champion Armand Duplantis behind closed doors in Gothenburg.
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Bridging the Gap of Humanitarian Data
UNOCHA's Stuart Campo explains how the challenges of managing data risk are breathing life into a new set of guidelines for the sector.
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4Q4 Stuart Campo on Humanitarian Data
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00:00 CHRIS DELATORRE: This is Digital Impact 4Q4, I’m Chris Delatorre. Today’s four questions are for Stuart Campo, Data Policy Team Lead and Senior Fellow at UNOCHA’s Centre for Humanitarian Data. The Centre is developing a set of guidelines aimed at helping humanitarian organizations fill the gap between personal and non-personal data.
CHRIS DELATORRE: Stuart, the Centre for Humanitarian Data recently introduced a working draft of OCHA’s data responsibility guidelines. Who are these guidelines meant to serve?
00:36 STUART CAMPO: So, the Centre works as part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, commonly referred to as OCHA. This is really our primary audience with the working draft of the guidelines. We’re trying to support OCHA staff around the world and across the different functions that OCHA leads on in humanitarian response to make better decisions about how to handle humanitarian data.
We also hope that the guidelines are relevant to the broader humanitarian community and that they support different actors — international organizations, local NGOs, and key government counterparts — in navigating particularly sensitive data and the decisions around how risk can be reduced, to make sure we’re protecting the populations that we serve.
CHRIS DELATORRE: What sets these guidelines apart from others you’ve seen in the sector? For instance, what frameworks are guiding the process?
01:29 STUART CAMPO: Sure, it’s a great question because there’s a lot of guidance out there. I think two things really set our guidelines apart from others in the sector. The first is the type of data we’re focused on. And the second is the way in which we approach and try to encourage data responsibility and practice.
“The perception that aggregating this data to a level where it’s no longer personal where it reduces all the risk is simply inaccurate.”
On the first point, we’re really focused on non-personal sensitive data. And this is distinct because most organizations in the sector have focused their internal policies and guidelines on the management of personal data, particularly beneficiary data, in making sure that data protection and data security standards are upheld. Given the role that OCHA plays in humanitarian response and the type of data that we’re primarily responsible for managing, we focused on other forms of data beyond personal data. So, non-personal sensitive data.
In terms of the second distinguishing factor being how we approach data responsibility and practice, this is really seen as a networked, collaborative, and interconnected effort. Again, a lot of the guidance that individual agencies have produced in the sector focuses more internally — for good reason. Because getting one’s house in order when you’re responsible for registering thousands or millions of individuals every year to support humanitarian response is certainly a priority over setting standards for the sector more broadly. However for OCHA, given our role is coordination and supporting information management across humanitarian responses, we see this really as a collaborative effort.
So, a lot of what you’ll see in the guidelines is facing OCHA staff who are interacting with partners on a daily basis. It includes things like information sharing protocols that help us make decisions collectively about how data is managed throughout a data process. And it hopefully offers templates that are relevant to a broad range of actors in a way that other guidance doesn’t necessarily strive to do.
CHRIS DELATORRE: You mentioned non-personal data. Why single that out? In other words, how does it differ from personal data and why is context key here?
03:34 STUART CAMPO: When we talk about humanitarian data, we’re really referring to three categories of data, as the Centre for Humanitarian Data. The first category is data about the context in which a humanitarian crisis is occurring. So there we’re talking about anything from administrative boundaries and locations of key infrastructure like schools and health facilities, to development data or even socioeconomic data that might inform the humanitarian response.
The second category is data about the people affected by a particular type of crisis and the needs they have. And so this might be more granular data but still is never personal data in terms of the data that OCHA’s handling. This is things like needs assessments and population figures, information about mobility and the different locations where affected communities might be located.
“This is really seen as a networked, collaborative, and interconnected effort.”
The third category is data about the response itself. So, what activities are organizations delivering to meet the need of people in crisis. So this is things like what we call the “3W” or “4W” — who is doing what, where, when? Community perception data, data feeding into different humanitarian response plans, and other similar types of data. The reason we focus here is because while this data is not personal in nature, the types of data we’re handling can still be highly sensitive. I can give you a few examples.
[04:56] Across the categories that I just mentioned, the location of schools or health facilities may not be sensitive in a natural disaster context but it could be used for targeting of attacks in a conflict environment, and we’ve seen this in a number of contexts over the past several years. Similarly, the mobility data about populations in a granular sense, even if it’s aggregated to a certain level, could be used to track particularly vulnerable groups.
And so the perception that aggregating this data to a level where it’s no longer personal where it reduces all the risk is simply inaccurate. One more example is about who’s providing what types of response support or activities. And while again in certain environments this might not be sensitive, in environments where it’s either illegal to provide humanitarian assistance or where the provision of assistance might be grounds for reprisal or attack, that simple detail about who has delivered certain activities can actually be deadly.
CHRIS DELATORRE: What’s next for the guidelines? How will you put them into action? How can someone listening at home get involved?
06:01 STUART CAMPO: We’re really in the testing phase. That’s why we released the guidelines as a working draft rather than a final document. We’ve had a lot of engagement even during the drafting period of this current version but want to make sure that we’re stress-testing the guidelines and adapting them to the very different contexts that are complex in their own ways, where OCHA and its partners are working.
Over the next six months or so, we’ll work with OCHA counterparts in a number of different environments — both conflict and natural disaster responses, as well as some of the teams in our various headquarters locations — to see what practically implementation of data responsibility looks like in their different areas of work. At the same time, this work will allow us to see how, as the sector evolves and as our partner organizations develop their own guidance, we can continue to support these discussions and practical action around data responsibility in humanitarian response.
I think one thing we’re excited about is continuing to learn and almost maintaining a working draft approach to this over the coming years. And that’s where our partners become critical. One thing we’re doing is continuing to convene conversations on different topics where we need to have a better understanding. For example, how do you assess risk of certain types of data? Or, what would it look like to do more effective threat modeling around how different types of non-personal data could be used to cause harm or reputational damage in different environments.
[07:28] We see a role for groups like Digital Impact, both in terms of helping to further that conversation but also to identify experience and expertise from other sectors outside of the humanitarian space that might be able to inform our work moving forward. I think we’ve made a few call to actions recently but I’ll take the chance of this discussion to reiterate them.
In a piece I wrote earlier this month on our website, we really are looking for concrete feedback on the substance of the guidelines and their applicability to a range of organizations. So, if you and your team in humanitarian response are managing data in one way or another, we’d love to hear if you think the guidelines are helpful, where you think there are gaps, and what content we might incorporate into the next version.
Similarly, we’re going to be continuing to convene what we call community calls over the coming months and we’d love to stay informed. So, if you’re interested in being part of that conversation, you can sign up for our mailing list. And the details for that are on our website, which is centre.humdata.org.
CHRIS DELATORRE: Stuart Campo, Data Policy Team Lead and Senior Fellow at UNOCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data, thank you.
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Among and Between
Exhibiting artists: Zsuzsa Magyari, Tünde Mézes, Ádám Takács, Ádám Miklós Varga
Curator: Mónika Zsikla
Graphic design: Marcell Kazsik
Venue: Budapest Gallery
The Budapest Gallery’s summer exhibition, which concludes this academic year, will present the work of four young artists. The artists’ shared endeavour to “fill the space”, the dialogues between the individual artworks, and the ways in which the works reflect on the trio of beholder-artwork-space create links among the compositions and constitute the theme of the exhibition. Based on everyday objects and phenomena, the artists reflect on experiences and processes such as material transformation in the course of copying, conflicts between functionality and loss of function, the process of a loss of meaning, and the flexibility inherent in continuous formation. A recurring motif of these compositions is the typographic system of digital text editing. However, a coherent narrative cannot be deciphered from the ensemble of motif-systems. Meaning comes into being among and between the works in the physical and discursive spaces around the objects.
Zsuzsa Magyari’s work examines the features of the bed (a motif saturated with art historical references) from the perspectives of iconography and the history of ideas. She refers, for instance, to the exhibition catalogue of Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, which, in thematic chapters, surveys the various forms in which the motif of the bed appeared in different periods, contexts, geographical regions, and media, touching on birth, death, loneliness, illness, and moments of love tied to the bed. The gigantic down comforter, stitched together from foil, and the video connected with it anthropomorphize the creasing, rolling, and wrinkling of a comforter as a person in bed moves.
Tünde Mézes’s compositions Space and Zero Chain address the question of changes in material and size and consequently the question of loss of function and meaning as a result of the process of copying. Her starting points are insignificant everyday objects. The polyurethane replica of a computer keyboard’s space key, enlarged to the size of a human, reflects with a change of scale on the reality and virtualization of human presence. The words “enter” and “escape,” which appear on the seemingly empty black surface of the key, can only be read from certain angles as one passes in front of the object. Thus, human presence is a necessary prerequisite for the proper reception of the work. The surface, one could argue, is a black image which, with its emptiness, performs the function of a space in a typed text or the empty spaces of the wall between pictures (which also play a role in the exhibition). Zero Chain is a fragile, almost useless plaster chain made with the help of a silicone mould, that has been put together link by link and is only symbolically capable of connecting, locking up, or separating.
Ádám Takács’s “pensive objects” were also built using everyday things. Takács creates loose and temporary relationships between objects collected from a diverse array of places (charity and discount stores). At the end of each exhibition Takács gets rid of these assortments of objects. The most important aspects of the objects he collects are their colour and form, and the manner in which he uses them to create a composition is shaped by these formal characteristics. The ephemeral compositions, with their mere existence, continuously question the notion of the artwork, its temporal context, and its permanence. It is the artist’s intention that these “pensive objects” appear to have no real narrative and no real place. Only a network of relationships is suggested. The path and movement of junk orbiting the Earth provided an analogy for the marker drawings connected with the assortment of objects. Accordingly, the elements of the composition hover in “nothing”.
Ádám Miklós Varga’s ensemble, which consists of four paintings, starts out from the typographic point as the smallest unit of measurement in digital text and image-editing programs. The paintings and their spatial network of threads create an abstraction of the circumstances of the typographic definiteness of the point and transform it into the language of painting. In the paintings, the motifs, which have been lifted from their original contexts, are reinterpreted in a way that preserves the atmosphere of the digital program selected as its starting point while not sharing its fundamental character.
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miRNAs in Vesicles
Accumulating evidence supports the notion that extracellular miRNAs exhibit remarkable stability (Bertoia et al. 2015). It is assumed that this occurs though their presence in vesicles, protein and lipoprotein complexes. The release of cellular vesicles has emerged as a novel mechanism of intercellular communication. Most cells in response to stimulation or under basal conditions will form and secrete vesicles through a variety of processes. The released vesicles that may differ in size and content can transfer proteins, miRNAs or mRNA and can target recipient cells through membrane fusion, endocytosis or receptor-mediated binding (Loyer et al. 2014).
Apoptotic Bodies
Apoptotic bodies (ABs) are the largest vesicles (>1 pm) that are released in the circulation upon cell apoptosis. ABs have been implicated in tissue repair and regeneration, and microarray analysis revealed that the miRNA content reflects their cellular origin (Zernecke et al. 2009). The transfer of miR-126 residing in ABs to endothelial cells in a mouse model of atherosclerosis had a protective effect mainly through the regulation of CXCL12 production and the recruitment of progenitor cells that promoted tissue repair (Zernecke et al. 2009). This effect was abolished when ABs from miR-126 null mice were applied indicating that miR-126 mediated the protective response.
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[Entertainment] Meek Mill, Drake & Lil Baby Gambles In The Bahamas Like Millionaires
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Drake, Lil Baby, and Meek Mill sits around the gambling table in the Bahamas yesterday.
The Bahamas is currently playing host to three of hip hop’s greatest. Drake, Meek Mill, and Lil Baby walk into a casino. No, it’s not a joke — it’s what went down on the Caribbean island this week. Drake has promised that 2021 will be much better than its predecessor due to the mere fact that it will include his new album.
The Canadian has teased Certified Lover Boy since the early last year, revealing that he put his time in quarantine to good use by recording new tracks. With the release date drawing close, Drizzy is getting his singles ready, and it looks as though one is set to include Meek Mill, with whom he has collaborated in the past on tracks like “Going Bad” and “R.I.C.O.”
DJ Akademiks first reported that Drake and Meek Mill are in The Bahamas to shoot a music video, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t taking advantage of the luxurious locale to get some R&R. The “Laugh Now Cry Later” hitmaker posted a photo on the ‘gram of himself sipping a cocktail and looking quite content. Meek has also been enjoying the beach life as the “Otherside of America” rapper faced off against professional dirt biker Chino Braxton in a game of Connect 4.
The games got a lot more serious, however, based on a pic uploaded by Meek that showed him and Drake playing poker while Lil Baby looked on. “DC x OVO X 4Pf x FANATICS. I got a lot of M’s on my mind! Having a goat get together,” the Philly artist captioned the snap.
We wonder if the GOAT status reflected when it came to cards.
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AIIB plans to invest upto $2.5 bn in urban transport projects
Saikat Das
AIIB is in advanced talks with different nodal agencies, including Chennai Metro Rail and the Mumbai Metro Rail Corp, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told ET. The supranational lender is expected to sign financing agreements with these two railroad operators.
MUMBAI: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is planning to invest up to $2.5 billion in urban transport projects, such as Metro commuter-rail networks and radial roads, giving a boost to New Delhi’s Smart City initiative.
It may invest $400 million each in the two metro projects. In Bangalore, it has decided to invest $350 million.
“I can confirm we are in talks, but there is still due diligence to be completed and board approvals needed before we can say definitively that these projects will be funded by AIIB,” said Laurel Ostfield, director general, communications, at AIIB.
Current proposals include lending another $500 million to the Mumbai Urban Transport Project 3A (MUTP 3A), which consists of infrastructure projects worth around Rs 34,000 crore. AIIB may also extend credit of $350 million to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority.
In a commercial project, AIIB expects an IIR (Internal Rate of Return) of about 10-12 percent.
The global lender, which has a disposable sum of $20 billion, wants to increase the share of lending in India, where banks often shy away from long-term project financing due to billions of dollars in bad loans.
In Chennai, AIIB plans to invest another $400 million in a ring road project that is supposed to connect the main city with its Information Technology hub.
“AIIB is keen on India’s urban infrastructure development as it provides long-term financing. It is currently finalising terms of agreements with multiple metro rail corporations and nodal agencies,” said an executive with direct knowledge of the matter.
AIIB now predominantly invests in projects owned by the government.
Besides transport and railways, it loans funds to sectors such as energy (transmission) and water.
It is now only into dollar-denominated lending but plans to develop a system where it can extend credit in rupee terms.
“AIIB is now developing a rupee lending system through hedges and swaps,” D J Pandian, vice president at AIIB, had said last week in Mumbai.
“Money is not a problem with us but quality projects. We are keen to raise investment private sector.”
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Have American media outlets gone too easy on Joe Biden?
AFP Last Updated: Oct 21, 2020, 10:09 AM IST
The Democratic former senator and vice president has largely faced polite questions and only rare criticism, experts say, but some call the disparity a justified one given the Republican leader's provocative style.
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NEW YORK: President Donald Trump's testy relationship with the US media is no secret, but his election rival Joe Biden has had a rather different experience during the 2020 campaign.
Trump has spent the better part of a week repeatedly attacking his opponent over unsubstantiated allegations concerning Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian company suspected of corruption -- and the media has followed suit.
But Biden only faced a question about the issue more than two days into the news hurricane, and he quickly swept it aside. The following day, Biden did not speak to reporters.
Finally, on Sunday, he replied to only one question... about the flavor of his milkshake.
"Question of the day for Joe Biden," tweeted New York Times reporter Jonathan Martin. "Are you in hiding most of this week because you are only willing to answer milkshake-related questions?"
On Tuesday, Biden put his active campaign on pause, two days ahead of his final debate with Trump.
Trump has often accused the media of going soft on his adversary.
For months, access to the 77-year-old former vice president has been far more limited than in any campaign ever before: Only about 20 national and international media organizations can follow him on the campaign trail.
Officially, Covid-19 restrictions are the reason, but everyone is not so sure.
"You would think that the press themselves, the people who are covering that campaign, would be frustrated by the fact that they're not getting much information... that there's no real access to the candidate on a daily basis," said Richard Benedetto, a former White House correspondent for USA Today.
Nevertheless, complaints from the media have been few and far between.
"If every reporter who's covering Biden was saying Biden's avoiding us, then it'd become a mantra and people would understand that that's going on, but if you're not doing it, then nobody knows," said Benedetto, who is now an adjunct professor at American University in Washington.
"If I'm a candidate and I figure I can get away with not having to commit to too many issues and not have to face the questions of the press on a regular basis, and that works, then why not continue to do that?"
Criticism of how Biden is covered transcends the specific issue of his son's business dealings, and is not limited to conservative commentators, who have roundly denounced the mainstream media coverage.
Last week, when Trump and Biden participated in town hall-style events in place of a planned debate, the gap seemed stark: The president was grilled by NBC's Savannah Guthrie, while observers felt Biden got an easier ride from ABC's George Stephanopoulos, a former top aide to president Bill Clinton.
"The questioning for Biden was much softer than the questioning for Trump," Benedetto said. "There's no question about it."
Similarly in mid-September, Trump was questioned by Stephanopoulos during an ABC event that Politico described as an "icy grilling," while characterizing a subsequent CNN town hall with Biden as reminiscent of "an affable reunion of old acquaintances."
For Grant Reeher, a professor of political science at Syracuse University, the issue is not "as much how softly the media is treating Biden as it is how harshly the media is treating President Trump."
Reeher believes that in its coverage of Biden, "it does often seem like the media is rooting him on."
The editorial boards at most of the top US newspapers including The New York Times and The Washington Post have endorsed Biden. Mass-market daily USA Today also backed Biden -- its first-ever endorsement.
Dean Baquet, executive editor of the Times, admits that his paper's job is to "very aggressively sort out fact from fiction" in covering Trump, while remaining "journalistically moral."
Some experts say the tougher approach to Trump is entirely merited.
"It's a complete apples and oranges comparison," says Gabriel Kahn, a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
"When you have a candidate that refers to the free press as the enemy and incites violence against members of the press, refuses to answer any straight questions and spills lie after lie about his record, to try to compare coverage of one candidate against the other in this situation is off-base."
Dan Froomkin, the editor of the independent Press Watch website, agreed, writing in May it would be "journalistic malpractice" to cover Biden's failings "in a way that makes them sound even comparable to Trump's."
But the former Washington Post and Huffington Post journalist admitted: "In a normal election cycle, problems like the ones Biden has would fuel way more media coverage than they are currently getting."
He wrote that Biden must not be lulled into a false sense of security that "he is immune to press scrutiny."
"Presidents need to be held accountable, and the period after Trump should be all about restoring accountability and transparency. That won't happen with a supine press corps."
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Most of the media was part ofthe COUP of America and works for the One World Order...they are enemies of the country
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Media must have realized that in their attempt to get eyeballs from Clinton's "emails" issue, they diminished her chances and got the stupid Orangutan elected. Now they are repenting after he has wreaked havoc for 4 years.
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Supreme Court asks residents, civic body to resolve Campa Cola flats row
PTI Last Updated: Feb 03, 2014, 05:14 PM IST
SC asked Campa Cola Residents Association and civic body in Mumbai to find out within four weeks a solution to the row over certain illegal and unauthorised flats.
Referring to earlier proceedings, the bench said the main matter had already been decided and moreover, "the review petition against the judgement has also been dismissed".
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court asked the Campa Cola Residents Association and the civic body in Mumbai to find out within four weeks a solution to the row over certain illegal and unauthorised flats which face demolition in view of its earlier order.
"The Attorney General is asked to sort out the matter. It is better to try to sort out the issue within four weeks," a bench of justices SJ Mukhopadhya and Kurian Joseph said.
The court's remarks came when senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the residents body, said the proposal, which may include a plea for either regularisation of illegal construction or relocating flat owners, was being finalised and would be submitted to Attorney General G E Vahanvati within two weeks.
It said the AG would consider the proposal and decide within four weeks.
"So far as the government is concerned, it can do anything. We do not want to say anything." it said.
Earlier, the apex court had asked the unauthorised flats owners to vacate the premises by May 31 as no specific proposal could be worked out to provide them space in the compound for new construction.
The order was passed after Vahanvati said, "After considering all aspects we are not in a position to work out any specific proposal."
The bench, which stayed the demolition of the unauthorised flats by taking cognisance of media reports, had said that it took the humanitarian ground into consideration to extend the date of demolition from November 11, 2013 to May 31, 2014 as the Attorney General had sought time to come out with a specific proposal for permanent solution.
It had asked the municipal corporation to take action in accordance with its February 27, 2013 order after the May 31, 2014 deadline ends.
The court on February 27 had ordered the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to demolish the illegally constructed flats and on October 1 refused to re-consider its earlier order and had set November 11 deadline to vacate 102 flats which were declared as illegal.
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Alberta adds 1,227 COVID-19 cases; peace officers to enforce new restrictions
Published Friday, November 27, 2020 12:00PM MST Last Updated Saturday, November 28, 2020 8:30AM MST
EDMONTON -- Alberta’s top doctor reported 1,227 new cases of COVID-19 and nine more deaths linked to the disease.
The positivity rate for Thursday was 7.6 per cent after provincial labs conducted more than 16,200 tests.
Of the 14,217 Albertans diagnosed with COVID-19, 405 are in hospital, with 86 of them in ICU.
With new business restrictions effective Friday, Alberta’s justice minister and solicitor general, Kaycee Madu, announced provincial and municipal peace officers would enforce the COVID-19 measures announced Tuesday.
“We are simply making sure that more enforcement is available to respond quickly and decisively to situations where groups are breaking public health measures, and thereby endangered the health of the community,” Madu said.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, the chief medical officer of health, pleaded with Albertans to respect peace officers after she heard reports of criticism and verbal abuse against them.
“I know the restrictions currently placed on all of us are difficult but they are not the fault of law enforcement and inspectors who are simply trying to enforce what is in place and to help to the spread,” Dr. Hinshaw said.
Fines start at $1,000 and can go as high as $100,000, he added.
RESTRICTIONS, TRAGIC MILESTONES AND BETRAYAL: ALBERTA’S WEEK IN COVID-19
Albertans might look back on November as the month to remember, or forget, in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prompted by daily records of cases and deaths, on Nov. 16, Hinshaw admitted “we are in the second wave.”
Things have only gotten worse since, with Alberta adding more than 1,000 cases of the coronavirus on each of the past eight days and struggling to keep up with contact tracing.
This week began with the chief medical officer of health announcing she would give daily updates and meet with government officials to offer more recommendations they would reveal on Tuesday.
The eight-hour meeting resulted with Premier Jason Kenney calling a state of public health emergency, banning indoor gatherings, limiting outdoor gatherings, weddings and funerals to 10 people, and sending students in Grade 7-12 to learn online until at least January.
The premier allowed restaurants and pubs to stay open, as long as Albertans only sit with people in their household or their two-close contacts, if they live alone.
“If we do not start to bend the curve with this latest round of measures and greater effort by Albertans, let me be blunt: We will impose stricter measures, likely in about three weeks’ time,” Kenney said.
Rachel Notley, the leader of the NDP, said Tuesday’s restrictions are “simply not enough.”
To add to November’s records, Alberta surpassed 50,000 total cases of COVID-19 and 500 deaths on Wednesday.
Dr. Hinshaw called the death toll a tragic milestone and limited visitor access to acute care facilities with outbreaks in communities with high case rates to protect Alberta’s most vulnerable to disease.
The ninth month of the pandemic has been Alberta’s deadliest, with 193 casualties.
As the last full week of November crawled to an end, Dr. Hinshaw addressed CBC News’ report that cited secret recordings hours of meetings between her and cabinet members earlier in the pandemic.
She called the leaks a “personal betrayal and a betrayal of trust.”
“I am profoundly disappointed that confidential internal conversations have been shared, actions that are a violation of the public service oath and code of conduct.”
Hinshaw doesn’t know who leaked the recordings and said an investigation is underway.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw speaking about the reported leak of secret recordings on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. (CTV News Edmonton)
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Winners 2018/Food Producers Bronze
Project: PizzaExpress retail range redesign
Client: PizzaExpress
Design: Bulletproof
PizzaExpress is a much-loved brand, with a consumer base of over 10 million. But only 15% of its customers dine at the restaurants and shop its ‘At Home’ range sold in supermarkets. They wanted to assimilate the brand to create a more engaging experience at home to beat off competition from the rise of supermarkets’ private-label, premium chilled pizzas.
Drawing on PizzaExpress’ rich heritage, the aim was to create a hero brand through the redesign and to differentiate between the classic and premium ranges. Using handwritten typography and bright colours, they instilled authenticity that linked to the restaurant experience.
In just 12 weeks after the relaunch, the PizzaExpress ‘At Home’ range enjoyed 15% value and 17% volume growth. That equates to 1.15 million more pizzas sold, which brought £2.79 million additional revenue. In some retailers, PizzaExpress is outperforming the rest of the market by 9.3% and the brand is now appealing to a much wider range of customers.
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Newton Free Library Poetry Series--April 11, 2017 7PM Andrea Cohen, Miriam Levine, and Martha Collins
Labels: 2017 7PM Andrea Cohen, and Martha Collins, Doug Holder, Miriam Levine, Newton Free Library Poetry Series--April 11
Message from the Memoirist Poems by Paul Pines
Paul Pines
Message from the Memoirist
Poems by Paul Pines
Art by Marc Shanker
Dos Madres Press
Loveland, Ohio
editor@dosmadres.com
Tick Tock Tick Tock. Hickory, Dickory, Dock…. The various concepts of scientific time tell us almost nothing with their deconstructing conundrums. Nursey Rhymes do conjure up a sense of play and curiosity but then abandon us to the immediate. Only when time intersects with the eternal or the pinned-down specific does meaning appear, gleaned from the residue of the fiery crossover or the accelerated collision. Paul Pines, in his wonderfully illustrated poetry collection entitled Message From the Memoirist, uncovers precious pieces of memory from the dreamscape of mind and transmutes these quark-like particles into summonses that evoke the true nature of fundamental things. The spectacle or rather spectral results can be unsettling. Or exhilarating. Even funny.
In tracing his expansive memories back to the “time before thought” Pines, presumably dressed in a cowl and carrying a torch, leads us through a primordial darkness. Shades appear and vanish from our reach. A cock crows and dawn’s light drenches with creation all who have passed over the River Lethe again.
Early in the collection, in his piece entitled Toward the Creation of a Perfect Science, Pines considers the importance of memory to the present, as well as the positive attributes and the capacity for natural healing that society also assigns to forgetfulness. The poet puts it this way,
One forgets and then
When one remembers
It seems so important
Not to forget again
I want to say that
Forgetting is a merciful act
But when what is called
Feels essential to being
Who one is in the present
We all live through what
we see and don’t see
When older people lose a lot of weight, one of two things could be happening. Pines dwells on the positive in his poetic meditation entitled Yesterday’s Conversation. As time speeds up and the present merges into memory and archetypal moments the poet’s response becomes more and more physical. I sympathize. We’ve done this before. We can beat this. Consider these lines,
I see myself shrinking
Not like an old man
but slipping back into the young one
who ran through Coles Woods
the day after his wedding
and think,
“You may be in denial,
but look at you go!”
I will once again lift weights
put on a glove to field grounders
observe overweight guys
on the basketball court at the Y
and scream,
“I can run rings around these suckers!
I want to laugh all the way
to where ever it is
we’re going
A Message from the Memoirist, Pines’ title poem, begins as a narrative with the poet’s persona reviewing the efficaciousness of a soon-to-be-given lecture on memoir writing in the early morning hours. Evolving into natural imagery until a central, a core template seems to emerge. The piece introduces a subconscious nesting of fractals. Here is the conclusion that doubles as a beginning,
… what’s re/membered
is made whole
patterns from which
are born
in which we
are embedded
in us
the Genius
who begins to whisper in our ear as soon as our lips
touch Lethe
and we drop
into the
If we are not looking in the right direction our creative function from the “fields before thought” might enter our souls in such a way that the end result resembles possession, demonic or otherwise. One recognizes this possession immediately because of its referential patterns. The patterns complement what we already know. In his poem entitled The Field Theory According to Mel Blank Pines alerts us to the deep comedy hidden our origins. He uses Mel Blank, the legendary voice of cartoon characters Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig. The poet spins possession into a telling vignette at the end of the piece’s first section. Mel Blank’s son recalls,
a moment after
an auto accident
and two weeks
in a hospital bed
he remained
until a neurologist
asked him, How
you feeling Bugs?
and Mel answered
Ties between the world of forms and human kind are many. Symbolism plays its part. Pathos too. Toward the end of the book Pines places a prose poem entitled Remembering the Memoirist. He raises a lantern on the psychology of time and emotions embedded in that concept. The poet relates a narrative fragment that illuminates the beginnings of a creative life,
…Fifty years ago,
grieving my father’s death, I listened for messages to quiet
the explosive anger and desperation of a boy who found
himself homeless. In a tenement on 9th St. & Ave. B on a
winter’s day sans heat or hot water, maybe a few chicken-
hearts in the fridge, I sat with a Ouija board on my knees.
The furnace in the tenement basement, like the one in my
heart, no longer burned. The hood of my sweatshirt cover-
ing my head, I cried out to whatever voice might rise from
the cave within. Scared of what the future held, I framed
the question: What will become of me?
Many years ago Wolfgang Pauli, the famous physicist and pioneer of Quantum Theory had a vision of The World Clock, a contraption of wheels and pendulums supported by a large black bird and emitting pulses. The experience gave Pauli a deeper understanding of his scientific work and a psychological feeling of well-being.
Pines references this World Clock in his poetics and Marc Shanker interprets it in his accompanying illustrations. As the reader pages through Pines’ provocative collection, led by his young persona in a hooded sweatshirt (no cowl this time) illuminating the awful truth, it strikes one that these pieces and their intersecting memories make up a clock not unlike Pauli’s. Pines’ poem Epitaph for Icarus III has this passage,
a dust mote
fills the space
and waking
through Time-
out-of-mind
to land softly
re/minds me
to listen for
what follows
Remember to take the time (steal it if necessary), let this book unfold, and soak in the compelling and quantum landscapes of master poet Paul Pines.
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Doug Holder interviews poet David Blair
We start out talking about his new collection of poetry Arsonville. David Blair grew up in Pittsburgh. He is the author of three books of poetry, Ascension Days, which was chosen by Thomas Lux for the Del Sol Poetry Prize, Arsonville, and Friends with Dogs. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Slate Magazine, and many other places as well, including the anthologies, The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Devouring the Green, and Zoland Poetry.
He has taught at the New England Institute of Art and in the M.FA. Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter, and he has a degree in philosophy from Fordham University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Holder interviewed Blair on his Poet to Poet/Writer to Writer program on Somerville Community Access TV
“Elemental: A Dissection of Parts” by Ivy Page Review by Timothy Gager
“Elemental: A Dissection of Parts” by Ivy Page
Review by Timothy Gager
Publisher: Salmon Poetry
While reading through “Elemental: A Dissection of Parts” by Ivy Page, I was struck not only by the metaphor of the building blocks of the human psyche, but the ability of the poet to place me on the outside looking in, and on the inside looking out. The book is divided into four sections: F i r e, Air Child, Dark Water and Earth Eater, all classical elements in popular culture. Within the basic building blocks of these, Page explores growing from child to adult, finding love, having a child but also our fragile existence—our own building blocks of life, growth, losses and death. All of these existing simultaneously at all times for us, leaving it up to the individual to pick through these elements.
Ivy Page defines her poems within our senses, both from the again from the inside and the outside of the narrator. It’s personal, private but also can be distant---as if to say, don’t get too close, be amazing but still stay detached when necessary. We, as humans, have the ability to protect ourselves, process our instincts and create what we can be safe with in our world. Page does this admirably, drawing us in, and pushing us away, when required. We become intimate with the poet, the subject, the time and place---but we are reminded that we also fear this exposure.
In the poem, Just in Case, Page summarizes
I didn’t tell you, when I woke-up this morning
that your wordless face left me wanting more
song in the world, and that the way
you had discarded the sheets and exposed your
bare body made me linger as I put on my clothes.
Even the day to day rat race can be solved by words, within art. This is brought out in, On A Dusty Shelf in the Corner
The working mothers are tired,
and the working fathers are looking
for their epic to be written on Wall Street,
not between the pages of this book
Come in and hide with me.
Then on the very next page, in Spine, Page writes personally, to ease oneself open, “above two half-length pieces”—written about both opening a book, but indeed opening oneself up emotionally and also leaving oneself open by exposing one’s words to the world. Quite complex, this trifecta, if the reader, as a reader should, decides to go all the way in. Page does it with words of lips, tongues, taste, touch---all exposed within the pages of “Elemental: A Dissection of Parts”.
In the section Air Child, Page again explores the fragility of being, and how much we need words in times like these:
Nothing seems right
My fingers feel fat
my hair greasy.
I long to find a way to the place
where creativity can let the sun set
in the upper left hand corner of the page
and magic will happen.
The fourth section, Dark Water, is the most playful of the four. Again, the reader is dared to go deeper than meets the eye. The musical poem Coal Train, engages the reader with terms from music, but alas, John Coltrain—is the homonym. In Ode to a Vein, Page opens with, “Like a trampoline I bounce fingers across skin to find your rivers laid deep, down below.” Here I found, a play on, love in vane (vein), but was there intent? I would like to think so, because what we uncover within ourselves, within this poem, is sheer brilliance. Again, it’s the outside looking into the inside looking out.
In ‘Ol Woman, Page gives us play with in dialect. In A Ride with Milton and Jonson, you are a passenger being driven by references to and by the playwrights and poets, John and Ben. The section finishes with Call --- I Will Answer, allowing the books familiar themes to explode once more.
it will get better
how you used to think I was amazing
just hand in there,
I pretend to be a little case on the outside,
The book ends with the section, Earth Eater, which doesn’t summarize the book but rather takes us to additional places. The poem “Broken” stands out to me, as an affair has occurred, and though it was described as just something which happened with a friend, the broken is not the relationship, but rather the now broken inner safety of the narrator, as the poem concludes:
Echo of who I used to be resonated
like an empty drum against your ears---
I let myself slip
into loving you and
hating myself.
Thus,“Elemental: A Dissection of Parts,” by Ivy Page leaves me blessed with the largeness and the smallness of the world, with all the pieces and the individuality of each and every piece. It is the way life is observed by the observer and by all of us—pulled in and pushed back.
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“Questions for a Poet” Interview with Kevin Gallagher author of LOOM."
Kevin Gallagher
“Questions for a Poet” Interview with Kevin Gallagher author of LOOM.
Interview conducted by Mikayla Brasefield
In a small corner of the writing world, poetry exists as the beating heart of literature. It has existed for many centuries in numerous parts of the world - from the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh to the Japanese “haiku”. Poetry has inspired many, and has been inspired by the events of the world and their effects on humanity. On blustery March 2nd, a poet by the name of Kevin Gallagher visited Endicott College to speak to the young poetry community about his recent poetry book entitled Loom. It holds the truths about the connections between Northern capitalists and Southern slavers during the days of civil injustice and prejudice against the blacks. Brilliantly written in such a way as to merely hint at the novel behind his words, Gallagher sheds new light on a part of American history that most of America had previously tried to remain ignorant of. But what makes the poet, the poet you might ask? In this short, yet enlightening interview, I was able to discover a bit more about the “man behind the curtain” as it were.
1. Your passion for Loom's overarching theme is apparent in your poems. What was your drive going into such a controversial topic?
Well, the race relations in the US have become quite heated. I was living in Washington DC for a year and two things happened. First, my son was in school and getting a very different picture of the Civil War. Second, the Freddy Gray murder happened in Baltimore. Rather than going at it face first, I took the path of Seamus Heaney, Charles Olson, Muriel Rukeyser and others—and dealt with the present as an artist by confronting our past.
2. In an article from masspoetry.org you talk a little bit about how lyric poetry hits you and in the next moment, disappears. Do you carry a poetry journal with you to write down fragments of poems as they come?
Sometimes. Or, backs of envelopes and so forth. I live a hectic life now with kids and a demanding job. More often than not the lyric poems disappear before any of it gets on paper. That is why the narrative project has become good for me at this point in my life. When I have time I can sit down and 'pick up the story.'
3. Various articles have mentioned a few of your favorite poets as Walt Whitman, Fanny Howe, and Kenneth Rexroth - whom your dog is named after I noticed. What did you find about their works that drew you in so much?
Purity. Empathy. The struggle to make sense of the US and be an American at the same time. Rexroth to me is the best—so many wide ranging poems. And, whenever I feel really harried, I go to his nature poems and to the Sierras.
4. Do you ever have writer's block? (If so, do you ever give yourself little poetry prompts? If you do, what are some of them you find useful?)
I'm older now and realize that if you are truly a poet you are always one. So, sometimes poems fly out of you on a daily basis, sometimes nothing happens for months. After seeing that happen for the past thirty years I never let a dry spell get to me. If I ever feel like it is too distant I find a new poet to read or go back to my favorites.
5. You are a professor, dad, husband, and poet. How do you manage balance?
I have a full life, and it makes for good poetry.
6. What advice would you give to young, aspiring poets?
Read and memorize lots of poetry. Live a full life. At some point full poems come.
If you’d like to learn more about the amazing “artist of words”, hear more from his works, or find out about his newest poetry book “Loom”, you can find him on the following interweb sources:
https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/kevin-p-gallagher/
http://solsticelitmag.org/author/kevin-gallagher-kevin-gallagher/
http://www.masspoetry.org/newbookgallagher/
http://madhat-press.com/products/loom-by-kevin-gallagher
Mikayla Rose Brasefield (19) is a sophomore Nursing major from Vernon, CT, with a previous history in Creative Writing. She was featured in her high school’s student-written and published magazine, titled War & Pieces (2015), was awarded an honorable mention in the Nancy Thorpe Poetry Contest (2014), and has won several silver medals and a gold medal for some of her poetry/writings in the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Contest.
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You're Still Alive! Live from Somerville: The Saturday Morning Bagel Bards!
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You're Still Alive! Live from Somerville: The Saturday Morning Bagel Bards
Often we greet our members of the Bagel Bards group (that meets at the Au Bon Pain in Davis Square, Somerville ) with the refrain, “You're still alive!” This group of writers, playwrights and poets take nothing for granted. But this reflects on the group's informal nature, and the gallows humor that we have refined into a high art.
It is a bit like being in a play or a Marx Brothers movie. I sit back and enjoy the humor and drama that unfolds every Saturday morning. Yes—we discuss our writing, but is more than that. We have a member who regales us with stories of union corruption, corporate greed, and his clandestine forays into Afghanistan. Two of our millennial members often stop by to fill us in about their jobs, their navigation of the world, and their writing. Some of our member sit back and take it all in-- while others compete for center stage to make their pitch, plea, joke, gripe, only to be drowned out by other hungry voices.
In some regards it is a madcap dysfunctional family. Many of our members are accomplished writers, and they bring a wealth of experience and talent to the group. No one takes themselves too seriously, and if they do,they will be brought down to the earth quite quickly.
Some times you need to take a deep breath to try to get a hold of the topics our public intellectuals bring to the plate. We can start out with a discussion of Botticelli and it could easily morph into a heated conversation about Donald Trump, or the meaning of meaning.
Most importantly we are a Saturday morning band of friends. We have a spot to discuss the writer's life, present our own work on occasion, and revel in our own eccentricities. We linger, we schmooze, we pontificate.. . And when it comes to the time for our last cup of coffee , and we leave for all points—we can expect to be back next week greeted by the Greek Chorus, “You're still alive!”
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Like Poems by A.E. Stallings
Poems by A.E. Stallings
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Alexander Pope famously defined “true wit” as “what oft was thought, but n’er so well expressed.” More than any other contemporary poet, A.E. Stallings, an American expatriate living in Athens, Greece, exemplifies this pedigree of versifier. Her poems make that which seems quite ordinary or just everyday sing.
Stallings’ new book, Like, doubles down on what she has done before in her three earlier volumes of original poetry— identifying and, on occasion, inviting irony, tragedy, and most of all, a deeper understanding of human nature into her formalist domicile. Her narrative conclusions can be biting.
The meditations of Stallings often include domestic objects such as a pair of scissors, a cast iron skillet, a pencil, a pull toy, and colored Easter eggs. Her descriptions for each of these sedentary items or groupings create both a great depth and an array of un-tranquil perceptions. For instance Stallings describes the common careening of a pull toy this way,
It didn’t mind being dragged
When it toppled on its side
Scraping its coat of primary colors:
Love has no pride.
Or consider Stallings’s piece Dyeing the Easter Eggs, the pun firmly placed on “Dyeing,”
… Resurrection’s in the air
Like the whiff of vinegar. These eggs won’t hatch,
My daughter says, since they are cooked and dead.”
A hard-boiled batch.
I am the children’s blonde American mother,
Who thinks that Easter eggs should be pastel—
But they have icon eyes, and they are Greek.
And eggs should be, they’ve learned at school this week,
Blood red.
Other sorties into nature, the classics, and even current news headlines by Stallings amass a hoard of well-expressed insights. With her poem Little Owl, the poet engenders a world of predation observing human organisms stroll through their habitual landscapes or seascapes along life’s way. Danger also exhibits its warnings in equal measure. Stallings, speaking of her subject owl, says,
A drab still vessel attuned to whatever stirred,
Near or far:
Hedgehog shuffling among windfall of figs,
Gecko, mouse.
Then she swiveled the orbit of her gaze upon us
Like the Cyclops eye-beam of a lighthouse.
Pure irony flows, line by line, out of Stallings piece entitled Parmenion. The title is taken from the name of an air raid test. Originally, however, Parmenion was the second in command of Alexander-the-Great’s army. He was wrongly accused of treason by his own son and executed. Stallings connects the false alarms, which in turn excite and puzzle the populace, to this historical breach of justice. The poem begins as if describing a god’s pontifications and builds into very earthly anxieties,
The air-raid siren howls
Over the quiet, the un-rioting city.
It’s just a drill.
But the unearthly vowels
Ululate the air, a thrill
While for a moment everybody stops
What they were about to do
On the broken street, or in the struggling shops,
Or looks up for an answer
Into the contrailed palimpsest of blue.
Centered by serendipity (The poet arranges her titles in alphabetical order), the collection’s masterpiece, Lost and Found, sprawls over eighteen pages and thirty-six stanzas. The poem is wonderful. A mother, frantically and unsuccessfully looking for a child’s plastic toy, continues her search into a metaphoric dreamtime. Arriving in the Valley of the Moon, she peruses continuous landfills of mindlessness and lost opportunity. Along the way this protagonist-seeker and Stallings’ persona is guided by the mother of all muses. Here the poem becomes a parable on creativeness and artistic choices. Some stanzas have a very specific point to make, like this one,
Not water, though, I knew as I drew near it—
It was a liquid, true, but more like gin
Though smelling of aniseed—some cold, clear spirit
Water turns cloudy. “Many are taken in,
Some poets seek it, thinking that they fear it,
The reflectionless fountain of Oblivion.
By sex, by pills, by leap of doubt, by gas,
Or at the bottom of a tilting glass.
Empathy, the most emotionally efficacious poem in Stallings’ collection, rewrites the plight of today’s northern African emigre into a more familiar interior venue. Stallings’ family-centric verse is as personal as it gets. The poet concocts a thought experiment with her own lineage. She posits them precariously adrift and then gives cosmic thanks that this scenario is not so. She explains,
I’m glad we didn’t wake
Our kids in the thin hours, to take
Not a thing, not a favorite toy,
And didn’t hand over our cash
To one of the smuggling rackets,
That we didn’t buy cheap life jackets
No better than bright orange trash
And less buoyant.
Amazing as a poetic tour de force, perfect as the title poem, and outrageously funny as an angry rant, Stallings’ Like the Sestina moves determinedly to its droll facebook-like conclusion. The ride alone is worth it. The poet ends each line in “like.” She enumerates every cliché type (or most) that uses “like” as a space filler. And finally she initiates a versified crescendo,
…Like is like
Invasive zebra mussels, or it’s like
Those nutria things, or kudzu, or belike
Redundant fast-food franchises, each like
(More like) the next. Those poets who dislike
Inversions, archaisms, who just like
Plain English as she’s spoke—why isn’t “like”
Their (literally) every other word? I’d like
Us just to admit that’s what real speech is like.
But as you like, my friend…
For those readers who, incongruously, still believe that the medium is the message, or at least a good part of it, don’t miss this Stallings’ collection. Like may be her best book yet, her opus supreme. For those others, who aren’t formalist aficionados—read it anyway; you’ll more than like it, you’ll love it.
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Rabbit of Seville
August 17, 2015 in ★★★★★ ♕, Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes, Warner Bros. films | Tags: 1950, barber, barber of seville, Bugs Bunny, Chuck Jones, Elmer Fudd, Gioacchino Rossini, opera
Director: Chuck Jones
Stars: Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd
Rating: ★★★★★ ♕
‘Rabbit of Seville’ is the second of three superb Chuck Jones Bugs Bunny cartoons on opera, bridging ‘Long-Haired Hare‘ (1949) and ‘What’s Opera, Doc?‘ (1957).
The cartoon starts with an open air opera theater setting with the Elmer-Bugs chase quickly entering the scene. When Elmer hits the stage, Bugs quickly opens the curtains, prompting the orchestra to play ‘The Barber from Seville’ by Gioachino Rossini. This leads to a wonderful aria by Bugs, and even Elmer joins in.
But the best part of the film is the silent comedy that follows on the music of the opera’s overture. During this sequence Bugs Bunny’s expressions are priceless, and the action is beautifully staged to the music, leading to a great finale in which Elmer and Bugs get married.
Throughout the picture Jones’s timing and staging are perfect. It improves on both Charlie Chaplin’s barber scene in ‘The Great Dictator’ (1940) and on the vaguely similar Woody Woodpecker cartoon ‘Barber of Seville‘ (1944). The result is no less than a masterpiece.
Surprisingly, this cartoon about ‘The Barber of Seville’ does not feature the famous ‘Largo el factotum’ aria from that opera. This is remarkable, for this aria was a staple in cartoons, and used extensively in e.g. ‘Barber of Seville’, the Tex Avery cartoon ‘Magical Maestro’ and Chuck Jones own Tom & Jerry cartoon ‘The Cat Above, The Mouse Below‘ (1964).
Watch ‘Rabbit of Seville’ yourself and tell me what you think:
‘Rabbit of Seville’ is available on the DVD set ‘Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1’
This is Bugs Bunny cartoon No. 77
To the previous Bugs Bunny cartoon: Bushy Hare
To the next Bugs Bunny cartoon: Hare We Go
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Assessing Candidates During the Age of Spin
by Dr. David Gruder | Aug 19, 2008 | Dr. David Gruder's IntegrityWatch™ Blog | 0 comments
I was just asked during one of my many radio interviews whether I think that politicans will ever stop spinning & lying.
I replied that as long as the American public tolerates spin and believes lies that of course politicians will continue to use these tactics.
We live in an Age of Spin. My radio host today rightly pointed out how commonplace it is for everyday people to use spin to get jobs, to woo the opposite sex, to get their children to do what they want, and so on.
As long as individual citizens remain willing to use spin in place of integrity, and as long as politicians remain too cowardly to set a new standard for the public, and as long as the media indulges pontificating ideologically addicted pundits in place of providing the public with a true education about the issues, of course the vast challenges we face today will remain unresolved.
As long as the press orchestrates, and citizens tolerate, spin matches during political debates in place of requiring true and substantive debate, our election process and political system will remain the complete mess that it has become. It’s enough to make the Founding Fathers of the United States roll over in their graves.
But, there is a solution. I began to write about it in my last blog post. The solution is for the New Silent Majority to finally mobilize and exerting its immense potential power to start demanding education, transparency and responsibility from political candidates and leaders from across the entire political spectrum.
More about that in a future post. Between now and when the New Silent Majority is mobilized, here are two things that every citizen can start doing right now about this problem in terms of deciding who to support for our next president:
Stop trying to figure out politicians’ positions on the issues! Stop believing the politicians and stop believing the pundits. Give up the ghost. Forget about even trying. Make peace with your inability to truly asses politician positions during political campaigns. Whatever you — or your favorite pundits (both their supporters and detractors!) — think their position is will most likely change once they are in office anyway. Forget about trying to solve this puzzle.
Start focusing on leadership traits that are much easier to evaluate! Despite the spin that the candidates’ handlers, the pundits and the Democratic and Republican National Committees would like you to believe about what makes a good leader, here is a short list of crucial leadership skills that YOU can assess for yourself if you’re just willing to pay attention:
CEO Abilities: Long gone is the time when a president can know enough about all of the issues to be a well-rounded expert. Today’s presidents must be effective CEOs in order to be effective presidents. Candidates for president of the US must create and oversee vast campaign organizations. Paying attention to how how candidates run their organization is the best way citizens can evaluate a candidate’s CEO abilities. Ask yourself these kinds of questions:
How ethical and effective is the organization at putting forth complete and consistent messages about their candidate’s positions? The more you see this, the more effective as a CEO the candidate probably is. (Again, forget about what the position supposedly is — look instead at how well a candidate’s campaign articulates the candidate’s core vision and sticks to that vision even as positions on individual issues and policies change seemingly from day to day.)
How good is the candidate at selecting staff people for the current campaign? How competent are the staff people that the candidate chooses to surround him/herself with? How much does the candidate’s staff represent diverse views? How much staff in-fighting and power struggles over positions or tactics do you detect? The more you see this sort of dynamic the weaker the candidate’s ability to select advisors and cabinet members is likely to be.
How much turnover of top staff people does a candidate’s orgnization go through? The less turnover there is, the more a candidate is likely to be capable of creating consistency as a CEO. (When turnover does occur look closely at whether the reason has anything to do with in-fighting or ethics lapses.)
How effective is the organization at effectively raising whatever amount of funds they need, and at putting that money to good use? A candidate who can create a campaign organization that is strong with both of these financial skills is likely a strong CEO.
What kind of tone does the candidate’s organization project regarding the other candidate and regarding those whose views are different from the candidate’s own? Is it consistently attacking, consistently respectful or some confusing blend of the two? The more embracing and less divisive a tone a candidate’s organization can effectively project, the more likely it is that the candidate will make an effective CEO.
Ability as an Educator: We live in an age in which spin has replaced education. Because of this we need more desperately than ever to elect politicians, especially presidents, who excel at being good educators rather than effective spin doctors. How effective is this candidate at conveying his/her core vision, the underlying rational behind his/her views, his/her understanding of the issues, and his/her strategies for facilitating solutions to the issues that go far beyond attempts to control the symptoms? Again, forget about the extent to which you agree with the candidate’s supposed position. Look instead at their ability to provide truly enlightening perspectives as well as provide meaningful insights about the complexities of the issues. This is what will tell you how good an educator the candidate is likely to be when president
Ability to Preserve & Defend the Constitution: It is absolutely vital that citizens and voters understand that the United States was created to be a republic whose democratic processes integrate the seeming paradoxes between individual freedom and the common good. Our consitution assumes that in order for the United States to be strong and healthy our policies must live at the intersection of individual freedom and the common good. Anyone — politicians, pundits, clergy or friends — who advocate for one of these dimensions over the other is trying to re-write the constitution to serve his or her own ideology, not to serve our country. Listen carefully to what each candidate says about his/her own core constitutional vision — not what the pundits and pontificators say, regardless of whether they are supporters, detractors or allegedly neutral. Listen to the candidate’s own words to determine for yourself how clear they are about their responsibility to function as president at the intersection of individual freedom and the common good.
Evaluating these three core qualities (CEO ability, gifts as an educator, and clarity about being obligated to preserve both individual freedom and the common good) is a psychologically powerful way to cut through to what really matters when evaluating a candidate during the Age of Spin.
Demanding these three core qualities in the candidates of whichever political party you support — candidates for all national, state and local positions — as well as candidates for non-partisan political positions — is part of what the New Silent Majority can do to replace the Age of Spin with an Era of Integrity.
Similarly, evaluating state propositions and potential law changes in terms of the extent to which you believe they succeed at integrating individual freedom and the common good is a powerful way to decide whether to vote for or against these measures without becoming lost in the spin.
If not you, who? If not now, when?
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Joe Freshgoods, the Chicago White Sox and New Era Link Together For Cap and Apparel Collection
Joe Freshgoods has never been shy to represent his hometown of Chicago, and so to top off his successful year, he’s connected with the Chicago White Sox and New Era to string together a special cap and apparel collection. This project is announced shortly after the designer partnered up with Converse for a Chuck 70, Pro Leather and apparel range inspired by the Windy City’s disco culture in the 1970’s.
The apparel items are made alongside New Era and include a hoodie and a t-shirt, the former of which comes in black, yellow and white, while the latter is crafted in a duo of black and white colors. Both silhouettes are graphically treated with Chicago-inspired wording and picture elements that directly speak to JFG’s west side upbringing.
For the head pieces, the Midwest creative opts to rework the classical New Era 59FIFTY cap in four different styles including that of a forest green, black, white, and a black with grey pinstripes, the latter of which is a limited edition version. Each take features the Chicago White Sox logo in its usual center position while a JFG hit is emblazoned on the right side.
The limited pinstripe hats are available now via the Chicago Sports Depot and the White Sox official team store located at Guaranteed Rate Field, while the rest of the products can be purchased right now on the Joe Freshgoods web shop.
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NBC Olympics Selects Ericsson for its Production of 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang
Ericsson to provide NBC Olympics video encoder technology
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Ericsson to provide video contribution solutions for its production of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, which take place in PyeongChang, South Korea, from February 8 - February 25. The announcement was made today by Christopher Connolly, Sr. Director of Transmission Engineering and Operations and Angel Ruiz, Head of Media Solutions, Ericsson.
Ericsson will provide a range of its leading encoding and satellite receiver technologies to support NBC Olympics video distribution to millions of viewers. Ericsson's specialist engineers will assist with the equipment and system set up, and will also be on site 24/7 to provide multi-site support throughout the event.
Ericsson's award-winning encoding solutions provide the highest video processing and broadcast performance in the industry, and offer the ultimate in decode efficiency for all video formats. The Ericsson media processing platform will deliver the valuable, high quality HD content over a combination of both fiber and satellite.
"Ericsson's reliability and expertise within the compression industry, made them an easy choice to once again support NBC Olympics production of the 2018 Olympic Winter and Paralympic Games," said Connolly. "With Ericsson's partnership, we know that we have a reliable and proven solution."
"We are honored to once again partner and support the coverage and production of the Olympic Winter Games," said Ruiz. "By providing our leading video compression solutions and services, including our market leading encoder and receiver technologies, we are ensuring the highest levels of performance, efficiency and reliability for the broadcast of this prestigious event."
The Ericsson solution includes its AVP 2000 contribution encoders and its RX8200 Advanced Modular Receivers.
About NBC Olympics
A division of the NBC Sports Group, NBC Olympics is responsible for producing, programming and promoting NBC Universal's Olympic coverage. It is renowned for its unsurpassed Olympic heritage, award-winning production, and ability to aggregate the largest audiences in U.S. television history.
For more information on NBC Olympics' coverage of the PyeongChang Olympics, please visit: http://nbcsportsgrouppressbox.com/
About Ericsson
Ericsson is a world leader in communications technology and services with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Our organization consists of more than 100,000 experts who provide customers in 180 countries with innovative Solutions and services. Together we are building a more connected future where anyone and any industry is empowered to reach their full potential. Net sales in 2017 were SEK 201.3 billion (USD 23.5 billion). The Ericsson stock is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and on NASDAQ in New York. Read more on www.ericsson.com.
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NBC OLYMPICS SELECTS ERICSSON
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US Hands over Palestinian Professor to Israel
US officials handed over a former Palestinian presidential candidate and university professor to Israel after keeping him 11 years in prison on charges of racketeering and collecting funds for the Hamas resistance movement.
RNA - The Council on International Relations – Palestine, in a statement released on Thursday, denounced American authorities for extraditing Abdelhalim al-Ashqar to Israel, stressing that US officials bear full responsibility for the fate of Ashqar, who is now in the hands of the “criminal” Tel Aviv regime, presstv reported.
The Council noted that the move attests to the US administration’s hostility towards the Palestinian nation and stability and peace in the Middle East region as well as its blatant bias in favor of the unjust Israeli regime and its ongoing crimes.
The statement further argued that American authorities had unfairly sentenced Ashqar to 11 years in prison after placing him under house arrest for nearly two years. He wore an ankle monitor on his right leg in his home in Alexandria, Virginia.
The Council called on the international community and human rights groups around the world to press for the release of Ashqar, stressing the need for the US administration to review its Middle East policies, which run contrary to its claim of being an honest broker in the so-called peace process between the Palestinians and Israelis.
Ashqar was a professor at Howard University, Washington, the United States. Between 1998 and 1999, he was detained for several months by American officials under allegations of fundraising for certain US-based Islamic organizations.
He was discharged from his teaching position at Washington University in August 2004. He was subsequently arrested, charged with racketeering and illegally collecting funds for Hamas, and put under house arrest.
Ashqar nominated himself as an independent presidential candidate in the January 9, 2005, Palestinian election. He was one of the 10 contenders seeking to succeed Yasser Arafat, who died on November 11, 2004 as head of the Palestinian Authority.
In November 2007, he was sentenced to 135 months in prison.
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Feel like listening to a concert, having a drink on the terrace while admiring nautical jousts, visiting a museum or participating in a traditional festival? Numerous events are organised all year round in magnificent and exotic settings.
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Mèze is the oldest town in the bassin de thau. Successively iberian, phoenician, greek, and then roman, it was built around its port, well sheltered from the lagoon’s whims.
3 kms from the sea, the area of Vic-la Gardiole alone sums up all the landscapes of the bassin de thau.
Balaruc le Vieux
Built on a small hill at the north-east tip of the bassin de thau, Balaruc-le-Vieux backs onto the massif de la gardiole and overlooks the lagoon.
Mireval is a privileged place, protected to the north by the massif de la gardiole and bordered to the south by the étang de Vic.
Bordered by the massif de la gardiole and a vast wine-growing plain stretching from the moure hills to Montpellier, Gigean is a strategic crossroads in the heart of the region.
Built on the via domitia by the romans, and ideally situated on the axis between Provence and Narbonne, this village on the edge of the scrubland is a former stopover point.
Located on the Via Domitia route and with a wealth of remains from several galloroman villas, the area of Poussan has been continuously occupied since ancient times it prospered in the middle ages.
Villeveyrac in the heart of a vineyard surrounded by scrubland, this village flourishes in an environment perfect for walks and hikes.
Loupian has an exceptional historical heritage, roman and middle age, a past spanning two thousand years.
Home to the oysters of Bouzigues since 1925, and a listed site, this small and charming typically mediterranean fishing village has kept its charm of the past.
Capital of the Muscat wine, traditional markets, old city center, beaches, local products …
The omnipresence of water, its incomparable light and colours are all qualities which have earned Sète the name "Venice of Occitany"
The entrance to the Canal du Midi, a village settled between the sea and the Thau lagoon. Shellfish farming, wine production, Noilly Prat's cellars.
The main thermal spa, in France, beaches on the edge of the lagoon…
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Russia Is Ready to Cut Its Gas Emissions
Russia expressed eagerness to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 to 25 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels. The country raised its target from 15 percent just weeks ahead of a UN climate summit, the EU said Wednesday.
"With the Copenhagen conference starting in just over two weeks, we have made very important progress today and I very much welcome the signal from President Medvedev today of their proposed emissions reduction target of 20 to 25 percent," Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, said.
Barroso was speaking to reporters at the close of a summit gathering European Union officials and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Medvedev himself did not comment on the new emissions target.
But a source in the Russian delegation quoted by Russian news agency Interfax confirmed Medvedev had announced the proposal during the summit talks, AFP reports.
It was also reported, Vladimir Chizhov, Russia's ambassador to the EU, told reporters Medvedev had mentioned a figure of 22-25 percent at the talks. Russia is the world's number three greenhouse gas emitter.
The new goal will still allow a rise from current levels. Russia's emissions, which have plunged since the collapse of the Soviet Union's inefficient smokestack industries, were 34 percent below 1990 levels in 2007.
"Russian emissions should at least be kept 35 percent below 1990 levels in 2020," said Olga Senova of the Russian Socio-Ecological Union, a network of environmental groups.
And Lars Haltbrekken, chairman of Friends of the Earth Norway, said 25 percent should be an "absolute minimum", Reuters reports.
News agencies also report, Medvedev said that Russia and EU have conducted rational discussions over a number of issues.
"We discussed development of large economic projects, the energy cooperation issues, energy security in Europe, we found normal understanding because without agreements on these issues, we cannot imagine a normal life in Europe," he said.
"We must continue to exchange our opinion in order to lay solid base for future cooperation," the Russian president added.
Medvedev also stressed that the two sides should deal with visa with easy procedure so that Russian citizens can come to EU and EUcitizens can visit Russia easily, Xinhua reports.
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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS on TV: Stars, intrigue and the real-life tragedy of a Bollywood beauty
January 13, 2021 Express Informer
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Stars, intrigue and the real-life tragedy of a Bollywood beauty
By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail
Published: 02:04 GMT, 13 January 2021 | Updated: 02:04 GMT, 13 January 2021
Death In Bollywood
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Struggling to fill its schedules, the Beeb could do a lot worse right now than to ditch the repeats of Mrs Brown’s Boys and ancient episodes of Mock The Week, and run a season of Bollywood movie classics.
Light on plot but full of dazzling colour and surreal dance routines, these films might deliver the dose of winter escapism we all need. And few Brits, unless they have Asian ancestry, have ever watched more than one or two.
The name of Jiah Khan was not widely known either, though the 25-year-old actress was brought up in London. Her breakthrough role, opposite Amitabh Bachchan – India’s answer to Sean Connery – made her a sensation in the Mumbai movie industry, in a version of Lolita, called Nishabd.
Actress Mandana Karimi was interviewed about the life of Jiah Khan for documentary Death In Bollywood
Now, seven years after Jiah was tragically found dead in her own apartment by her mother, the three-part documentary Death In Bollywood (BBC2) is analysing the case in forensic detail.
Concluding tonight, it consists of newsreel and in-depth interviews with those who knew the actress best — cut together so that the inconsistencies and contradictions leap out.
What emerges is a picture of a young woman whose life was controlled by others. Her forceful, domineering mother — also a Bollywood actress — is adamant that her daughter could not have killed herself, and will not rest until the authorities concur.
Her boyfriend, who comes across as an immature wannabe film star, has always denied having any influence on her suicide, but viewers are left with questions when he denies writing a series of apologies to Jiah, claiming they are forgeries.
Jiah was discovered hanged, but bruises on her arms and neck do not appear to match the ligature marks a pathologist might expect to see.
Bubble perm of the night:
Keith Allen’s portrayal of serial killer John Cooper, in The Pembrokeshire Murders (ITV), took centre stage as he was quizzed by detectives. He was almost as creepy as his own hairdo in that Seventies portrait, hanging in his bedroom.
The boyfriend’s father, Aditya Pancholi, argues that the story has attracted so much attention because he is a major star himself.
Surrounded by so many overbearing and charismatic figures, Jiah could easily have been all but erased from her own story.
This account does well to paint a rounded portrait — not a saint or a helpless victim, in the mould of Bollywood heroines, but a deeply anxious woman whose self-confidence was sapped to the point of despair.
There is more detail than most true-crime accounts usually provide, with the sense sometimes that we need to memorise entire dossiers of conflicting testimonies. We haven’t peeled away all the layers yet, though. There’s more to come.
Ben Fogle tried to peel away the layers and uncover the elusive personality of his host, Icelandic farmer Denni, as New Lives In The Wild (C5) returned. This format often gives Ben the chance to conduct some serious psychological interviews. But Denni, a former film-maker who worked in LA for years before retreating to the mountain wilderness of his homeland, was far too guarded to give much away.
He set up his lodge for trekkers, with a museum dedicated to the 19th-century pioneers who farmed this frozen outback, with his wife. But that relationship ‘ran its course’ and Denni now lives alone, though his three daughters do visit.
Ben lacks the steeliness to cut open this sort of character. He’s great when people want to talk, because he’s so likeable. But he isn’t willing to ask difficult questions or make himself unwelcome, so we never learned why Denni needs to isolate himself from humanity.
The hot spring waterfalls looked marvellous, mind you. If you have to be a hermit, Iceland has its advantages.
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Another problem is its translation. There are several moments in the film that felt as though they were making a joke, or that what had been said carried more weight than what I read. The translation had difficulty…well translating those moments. The English language subtitles in Cousins have difficulty conveying aspects of the script like humor, wordplay, or double entendres. Instead of finding a way to present an idea in English, they translate the speech literally, which leads to several awkward sentences. For example, “My monkey is already eating a banana” clearly carries a lot more meaning in Portuguese than English.
At its heart, Cousins is a comedy of manners that explores the sexual awakening of Lucas. It explores how he comes to terms with this truth against the backdrop of a strict religious community. But before that can happen, there is a lot of teasing moments. Things said. Things done. Things that could be innocent or…less so. Their relationship creeps along the edge of propriety and takes a good long time before being consummated. And it is in those moments that the film really shines.
“A gay romance that is more about atmosphere and longing looks than sweaty grunting and bedroom acrobatics…”
Every other moment, not so much. While Cousins is occasionally charming, and even funny, it suffers from the relative inexperience of its director. The moments when we don’t see the prolonged flirtation of our main characters don’t get handled with the same care and attention. And by that neglect, they come off as rushed, ill-thought-out or worse…boring. It is painfully clear early on where Cazado’s true interests lie with this film.
Cousins has as many things going for it as it has problems. Overall it comes off as a Lifetime channel romance if they did movies about gay Brazilians. Peppered with some really charming or romantically charged scenes that are dragged down by its more poorly executed moments and a less than competent translation, I’d suggest waiting for the remake.
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Starring: Thiago Cazado, Paulo Sousa, etc.
Movie score: 6/10
"…at its heart Cousins is a comedy of manners exploring the sexual awakening of Lucas…"
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(Bloomberg) -- Malaysia’s medical glove makers, one of the hottest pandemic trades, have seen bearish bets surge since the Southeast Asian nation lifted a ban on the practice at the start of this year.Since Malaysia’s decision took effect on Jan. 1, stocks worth 1.8 billion ringgit ($447 million) have been sold short, of which more than 90% were glove makers such as Top Glove Corp., according to data from Malaysia’s stock exchange compiled by Bloomberg.The resumption of short selling is spurring volatility and amplifying woes of glove makers already pressured by vaccine rollouts after last year’s nosebleed rally. Top Glove, the biggest in the sector, has lost about a third of its value since a peak in October.“The negative news flow and short selling will add the so far missing counterview in the glove stocks performance,” said Geoffrey Ng, director at Fortress Capital Asset Management Sdn. “It won’t be a one way ticket up.”Top Glove shares fell 1.1% at the close in Kuala Lumpur trading, halting a four-day gain, while Hartalega Holdings Bhd. dropped 2.2% and Supermax Corp. retreated 3.7%.Malaysia early last year introduced a temporary ban on short selling to ease stock volatility sparked by the coronavirus outbreak. The prohibition was later extended to year-end.Top Glove was the most shorted stock by value in the first trading week of this year. Short bets on the glove maker have risen at a time when global investors have increasingly focused on the containment of virus infections among workers at the glove maker.Read: Short-Selling Restart Adds to Woes of Asia’s Hot Pandemic TradeBlackRock Inc. asked for the removal of Top Glove’s board of directors last week citing their inadequate handling of virus outbreaks at company’s plants. The money manager voted against the re-election of glove maker’s six board members and said that it intends to do the same for other incumbent directors in future.(Updates to add closing prices.)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
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Cooper Pushes Gun Control Measures Including…Medicaid Expansion?
Jeff Moore
RALEIGH – Gov. Roy Cooper has officially joined the rest of the Left in their calls for gun control. In a post on Medium Cooper outlines steps he believes the State should take to prevent school shootings, including raising the age requirement for purchasing rifles to 21 and expanding Medicaid. Seriously.
Leading his post off with a call to prevent children ever having to send messages to parent about being trapped in a school with a shooter, Cooper never once mentions hardening schools or allowing for some degree of armed protections among his list of steps to take.
Instead, he makes the nonsensical leap to suggest expanding Medicaid, long on his Leftist wish list, will help protect kids from future atrocities.
“I have long advocated for North Carolina to close our health care coverage gap by accepting federal funds that are offered to us to cover 500,000 more North Carolinians. This would benefit working families who currently earn just a little bit too much to be eligible for Medicaid but still can’t afford to pay for health care. It would connect hundreds of thousands of people with quality mental health care to make sure they don’t slip through the cracks.”
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While mental health certainly warrants being a big part of the conversation, it’s pretty shameful that Cooper would use the grief and backlash over the murder of students and teachers as a vehicle for pushing Medicaid expansion.
Cooper also joins his comrades on the Left, and many Republicans (unfortunately), in calling for the age requirement for rifles to be raised to 21, violating the rights of a whole class of adults despite the fact that only a small percentage of mass shooters have been under that age.
“Until the federal government takes action to discontinue the sale of assault weapons to civilians, North Carolina law should be updated to raise the legal age of sale of these weapons to age 21 and require anyone buying them — at a store, online, or at a gun show — to go through the same background check and permitting process as they would for a handgun. There’s no good reason for the current double standard.”
That first sentence is telling: Cooper is hoping the federal government outlaws the sale of “assault weapons” altogether. Short of that he wants to deny 18, 19, and 20 year olds their Second Amendment Rights. He also offer support for banning bump stocks.
While it is not surprising for Cooper to be in concert with the Left, it should be revealing to voters when they come to understand that if Cooper had his rathers he would ban your ability to own “assault weapons” and would rather score political points about Republicans’ laudable refusal to expand Medicaid than entertain eminently reasonable methods of literally protecting kids in schools.
In fact, he seems to avoid the prospect of allowing some armed personnel or employing armed security like the it’s the plague.
“We can also increase the number of school personnel who receive youth and adult mental health first aid training, which covers common mental health challenges that young people face and provides guidance for how to help them in both crisis and non-crisis situations.
The steps I’ve outlined here are meaningful, common sense changes that we can make to better protect our children and our communities. We can’t wait for Washington to act this time. The safety and security of our kids are on the line, and I urge the General Assembly to join me in taking decisive action to do right by them.”
The “safety and security of our kids are on the line” and Roy Cooper would rather equip personnel with mental health first aid training for crisis situations than to give kids a fighting chance to be defended in the event a murderer is actively shooting people.
Cooper does convey some points that enjoy broad bipartisan agreement, but his disregard for the Second Amendment, inability to even consider physically protecting children during an event via armed ‘good guys,’ and his willingness to push state healthcare expansion as part of his gun control narrative should be looked upon with derision by North Carolina citizens from Murphy to Manteo.
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Government Technology had a great piece out in May’s Printed Magazine, I receive, pertaining to virtually all of Western Society making the shift over to Open Document Format (ODF). The reality is that other than Massachusetts implementing ODF, no other state has taken the leap. The single most heavily contributing factor for the United States rebellion, in my opinion, is the heavy lobbying of legislative interests. The reality is that if you have the ability to engage a population; if you cannot control that population through monetary means, then they might just decide that they were capable of making educated decisions — sounding like the Electoral College yet?!
To appreciate the shift to ODF, it’s important to distinguish between open format and open source, two concepts that often get conflated.
Open format, also known as open platform, refers to the bedrock upon which an IT system is constructed. Open source on the other hand describes software tools developed by collaborative communities and distributed for free. One is infrastructure, the other is an application.
It’s possible to have proprietary software run on an open platform (the data still will be fundamentally accessible by all ODF-based systems). You don’t need open source software, but in practice those who pursue ODF frequently turn to open source software in the spirit of openness and ready interoperability.
One of the greatest inhibitors to the advancement in technology is collaboration. Take Henry Ford, for example. Many folks do not realize that Ford had to sue the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers (ALAM) in 1903. They owned the 1895 Selden patent, and they claimed it covered all gasoline-powered vehicles. This patent allowed them to dictate whom could build and sell cars. Is this starting to sound like the National Association of Mortgage Field Services (NAMFS) Regime?
Anyone strolling by 58 Bagley Street in Detroit early in the morning of June 4, 1896, would have seen a strange sight: Henry Ford, ax in hand, was smashing open the brick wall of his rented garage. He had just started his first gas-powered car, and it was too big to fit through the door. Ford would tell the story over and over in the years following—the rain that night, the brief drive down Grand River Avenue to Washington Boulevard, and the seven years it took him to build his “quadricycle.” What was most remarkable, though, was not the event itself—others had already figured out how to build cars and make them run. What was remarkable was that Ford grasped the implications of a horseless carriage and had the vision, perseverance, and ability to make cars for the multitude of Americans.
One of the largest problems in the Mortgage Field Services Industry today is that Members of the National Association of Mortgage Field Services Regime dictate to others what platforms and which firms must be used in order to effectively participate within the Industry. This monopolization of the Industry is both illegal and irresponsible. Take Aspen Grove Solutions, for example. Here is a Foreign National, based out of an obvious terrorist hotbed — go no further than the fact that Martin McGuinness is a convicted terrorist and now sits on The Assembly of Northern Ireland — and here on Domestic Soil forcing Contractors to pay anywhere from SIXTY FIVE DOLLARS to OVER ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS to get a background check. This same background check, which Aspen Grove Solutions does not perform is available for FIVE DOLLARS by a firm which clears Intelligence Personnel Globally! Aspen Grove Solutions is now cornering the Market with respect to the entry and transmission of Work Orders within the Mortgage Field Services Industry — for a price as well!
Each and every day, National, Regional and Otherwise Unspecified Order Mills choose to support the same environment which has been adopted to the detriment of the Industry. The NAMFS Regime continues to roll out their Dog and Pony Shows and they use their henchmen to pretend to liaise with Contractors while forcing them to use the same old proprietary methods which, time and again — take a look at Safeguard Properties Database Architecture as an example — are antiquated and force Contractors to languish in the submission of Work Orders to get paid — IF THEY GET PAID AT ALL!
At the end of the day, the most stifling variable in the Mortgage Field Services Industry is the NAMFS Regime. The monopolistic and proprietary model that the NAMFS Regime forces down everyone’s throats is calculated to enrich they and their Membership. Their attempts to inject themselves into the affairs of Contractors, vis-a-vis software, background checks and the utilization of Committee Members pretending to Organize is a testament to the lengths to which they will go to ensure Market Control. To further emphasize this, we are breaking a story today on yet more Contractors whom NAMFS Regime Secretary, Heather Berghorst, has refused to pay. The Buczek Enterprises Affair continues to wind on with Contractors to reach out to Zlien.com to begin the process of filing Liens against Altisource. On and on and on.
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CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Eleven law enforcement members were recognized today for their outstanding work in the greater Clarksburg area.
U.S. Attorney Bill Powell recognized WV State Police Cpl. John W. Smith, FBI Special Agent Fred Aldridge, FBI Special Agent Matt Eagles, DEA Diversion Investigator Guy McCartney, DEA Diversion Investigator Chris Skaggs, WV State Police Sgt. Rob Talkington, Bridgeport Police Lt. Gary Weaver, WV State Police Task Force Commander Josh Tallman, FBI Special Agent Peter Olinits, FBI Special Agent Jared Jankowski, FBI Special Agent Justin Van Tromp, and IRS Special Agent Tami Devericks for their exemplary work.
“Honoring those who go above and beyond to protect our children, our community and our national security is a great privilege. While this year has created exceptional challenges, they continue their great work to keep our communities safer. Those honored today never seek recognition, but it is important to let the public know about the accomplishments of our law enforcement members. I thank each and every one of them for their continued service,” said Powell.
West Virginia State Police Cpl. J.W. Smith and FBI Special Agent Aldridge conducted an arduous two-year investigation resulting in the successful prosecution of former Harrison County Sheriff’s Deputy Tim Rock for distributing drugs to his confidential informants in 2016. Cpl. Smith and Special Agent Aldridge conducted dozens of interviews, often with hard-to-locate subjects, active drug users, uncooperative witnesses, and Rock himself. They poured over and organized hundreds of pages of law enforcement records and reports Their work was exceptional, and Rock’s conviction was uniquely important to the county and the law enforcement community. Rock was sentenced to more than 58 months in prison.
For the successful outcome of this case and their important roles in the investigation, the Outstanding Investigative Effort Award was given to Cpl. J.W. Smith and Special Agent Fred Aldridge.
FBI Special Agent Matt Eagles, DEA Diversion Investigator Guy McCartney, DEA Diversion Investigator Chris Skaggs worked tirelessly in the prosecution of several physicians and others in a prescription drug case. The Dr. Felix Brizuela investigation began in January 2015 as a DEA investigation into Dr. Brizuela’s prescribing practices. It soon became evident that Dr. Brizuela was engaging in healthcare fraud, the FBI joined the investigation. The investigation quickly expanded to other targets, including Dr. George Naum, Sharon Jackson and Eric Drake. Investigator McCartney and Special Agent Eagles spent the next four years investigating these individuals and preparing the case for trial. Their investigation included collecting and reviewing over 650,000 documents, among which were hundreds of patient medical charts from two different medical practices. The agents executed search warrants on five physical locations and three email accounts. They also interviewed over one hundred witnesses. Ms. Jackson and Mr. Drake resolved their cases by plea agreement. Dr. Naum was found guilty after a lengthy trial and sentenced to 6 months incarceration and 6 months home confinement and ordered to forfeit over $75,000.00 in ill-gotten gains. Dr. Brizuela pled guilty last week. He was sentenced to time served which equaled six months, and three years of supervised release. During this time, he is not permitted to request a license to prescribe medications from the DEA. Investigator Guy McCartney and Special Agent Matt Eagles devoted many long and tedious hours to investigating and seeing through this complex case to prosecution, and Investigator Chris Skaggs stepped in and carried the case through to sentencing. For all of their hard work, they each received the Outstanding Investigative Effort Award.
WV State Police Sgt. Rob Talkington has been doing child exploitation cases for a long time. His experience is reflected in his poise and in his decision-making. His hard work in the Tara Ponceroff and Ian Toothman child pornography cases. A sharp eye and some excellent investigative work led law enforcement to believe that there were child pornographic images on Toothman’s phone, and that Ponceroff was the depicted female in the pictures. He was able to ascertain the identity of the victim (whose face was not visible). Both defendants pled guilty and were given severe sentences for their conduct. Toothman is serving 278 months and Ponceroff is serving 360 months. Sgt. Talkington also handled the James Smith child pornography case in which Smith, a previously convicted offender, was engaging in an extremely sexual chat with various teenaged boys. Smith pled guilty and was sentenced to 168 months in prison. Sgt. Rob Talkington was honored with the Outstanding Investigative Effort Award.
Lt. Gary Weaver with the Bridgeport Police Department is a staunch force for good in the fight against child exploitation. Lt. Weaver was a key part of the investigations into Jeremy Smith, Jack Rice, and Quionte Crawford, all child pornography cases. Rice was sentenced to 57 months in prison. Jeremy Smith pled guilty to a child pornography charge and was sentenced to 51 months in prison. Lt. Weaver put forth an extraordinary effort on the Crawford case. Crawford had befriended and groomed teenaged boys he met at youth baseball games and tournaments. Crawford groomed their parents as well. Then he would approach them on-line in the persona of a sexually eager 18-year-old girl. Lt. Weaver’s patience with the victims was exemplary. Crawford received a life sentence for his crimes. Lt. Weaver was also integral in the case against defendant James Vincent Scott. Lt. Weaver posed online as a 15 y/o female, in which Scott sent sexually explicit text to what he thought was an underage female. He solicited pictures. He then agreed to meet the “female” for sex and drove from Ohio to Bridgeport for the purpose of meeting her. Scott pled guilty and was sentenced to 50 months. Lt. Weaver received the Outstanding Investigative Effort Award.
On the evening of Monday, August 5, 2019, Task Force Commander J. M. Tallman, as well as other troopers, responded to Pocahontas County to assist in the search of an armed subject. The suspect had fired upon the Pocahontas County Sheriff and one of his deputies after a single vehicle crash and fled into a heavily wooded area. TFC Tallman and another trooper went with a Huttonsville Prison K-9 unit in an attempt to track and locate the suspect. TFC Tallman heard movement in the brush and observed the suspect appear from behind some trees with a rifle. TFC Tallman instructed the suspect to put the gun down. An exchange of gunfire ensued, and the suspect charged toward TFC Tallman. TFC Tallman was struck in the abdomen with a high-powered rifle. The round had struck TFC Tallman’s cap stun and duty belt buckle before traveling through the lower part of his Kevlar vest and into his abdomen. The suspect continued charging at TFC Tallman at which time a physical altercation ensued. TFC Tallman transitioned to his 9mm duty weapon and fired several rounds as the suspect was attempting to disarm him. TFC Tallman’s duty weapon malfunctioned and TFC Tallman transitioned back to his AR-15 and fired a single round, fatally wounding the suspect. TFC Tallman was treated on scene by Troopers and flown to Ruby Memorial Hospital via WVSP Aviation. TFC Tallman has since recovered from his injuries and continues his work. For his bravery and selflessness, Task Force Commander Josh Tallman was given the Heroic Effort Award.
FBI Special Agent Peter Olinits, IRS Special Agent Tami Devericks, FBI Special Agent Jared Jankowski, and FBI Special Agent Justin Van Tromp worked tirelessly on two cases involving Chinese nationals.
Dr. Qingyun Sun, a Chinese national, was employed by West Virginia University as a professor since 2001 and contracted to the West Virginia Development Office, within the West Virginia Department of Commerce, to act as the governor’s assistant for China affairs since 2008. Dr. James Patrick Lewis, an American citizen, was employed by WVU as a physics professor since 2006. The investigations involved countless hours of investigative work and hundreds of documents. Dr. Sun pled guilty to wire fraud and tax fraud in July 2020 and is awaiting sentencing in December 2020. Dr. Lewis pled guilty to federal program fraud in March 2020 and was sentenced to three months of incarceration and fined $9,363 for the costs of the incarceration and was ordered to pay more than $20,000 in restitution to WVU. FBI Special Agent Peter Olinits, IRS Special Agent Tami Devericks, FBI Special Agent Jared Jankowski, and FBI Special Agent Justin Van Tromp were vital to the resolutions in both cases and were presented with Outstanding Investigative Effort Awards.
The ceremony was held in the Clarksburg Federal Courthouse and included remarks from U.S. Attorney Bill Powell and the presence of many local, state and federal law enforcement leaders from throughout West Virginia.
Other ceremonies were held in Martinsburg and Wheeling to honor more recipients of the U.S. Attorney Awards.
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Marshall Greene was born in Bend, Oregon in 1981 and began skiing as cross-training for running in his freshman year of high school. Although Greene competed in JOs three times, he didn’t believe he could be competitive at the national level until he began racing for Middlebury College. “It says something about the strength of that team that all of us [Middlebury teammates Garrot Kuzzy and Colin Rogers] are still racing now at the national level,” Greene says.
After his college ski career, Greene moved back to Bend and skied his way to several Supertour podiums, one Supertour win, and qualified for the 2008 Canmore World Cup. Although Greene has been a successful sprinter in the past, this year he is trying to focus on mid-distance (10K and 15K) skate or classic interval start races. Greene credits his dad more than anyone else as having shaped his ski career and helping him “love the life that skiing has allowed [him] to have: getting outdoors everyday, being fit, getting to travel all over the world….” When Greene is not skiing, he enjoys playing golf in his hotels using nerf balls.
Hometown: Spokane, WA
Current Residence: Bend, OR
Ski Club: XC Oregon
Best Results: 1 Super Tour Win, Several Super Tour Podiums, 1st: 2008 Great Race, 3rd: 2007 Boulder Mt Tour, 2008 Canmore World Cup qualifier
When did you start ski racing, and what were some highlights of your young skiing career?
Started skiing as cross-training for running my freshman year of high school and ending up liking skiing more. I went to JO’s three times and I don’t think I ever finished better than 15th. It wasn’t until my senior
year at Middlebury when racing at NCAA’s that I felt like I might be able to be competitive on the national level.
Who has been the most influential person for you, whether as a skier or a person?
Probably my dad — he is an ultra runner and as long as I can remember he’d leave each morning for workouts. At some point I started joining him on runs and that’s how I ended up an endurance athlete.
Where is your favorite place to ski, where is your favorite place to race, what is your favorite part of the season, what are your favorite ski conditions?
The skiing at Craftsbury, VT is pretty hard to beat for training. As for racing, I mostly just like it hard and fast.
What drives you to succeed at the highest possible level, and what are your long-term goals as a skier?
Really, I think that I love the life that skiing has allowed me to have: getting outdoors everyday, being fit, getting to travel all over the world. That is motivation 95% of the time. The other 5% is just plain-old competitiveness.
What are your favorite race formats/distances, and do you try to specialize for these events?
I like mid-distance (10km, 15km), interval start races in either technique. In the past I haven’t really tried to specialize and actually have had my best results in sprints, but this year I am trying to focus a
little more on mid-distance races.
What are your overall goals for this season?
I’m hoping to qualify for the World Cup in Vancouver and ski consistently in the top 5 in Super Tours. Last year, I had some back problems that really affected the 2nd half of my season, so my other goal is to stay
healthy thru the entire season.
Do you have any consistent training partners? Do you prefer training alone or with others?
I train most frequently with Brayton and Zach, teammates in Bend. I enjoy training with others, but I still end up training alone probably 50% of the time.
What is your favorite on snow workout and favorite dryland workout?
Can’t really say. I love the variety of ski racing and training.
What do you enjoy doing besides skiing?
Reading, sleeping, wasting time on the internet.
In terms of employment, are you a 100% full-time athlete, or do you have another job besides training/racing? If so, what do you do?
I work about 20 hours a week when I’m in Bend at a high end bike and Nordic shop, Bend Bike N Sport.
How long do you think you will ski at the elite level? What do you see yourself doing after you finish your ski career?
I’ve committed myself until the 2010 Olympics for ski racing. After that, maybe grad. school.
Do you or did you ever attend college? How did you make that decision?
I graduated from Middlebury in 2004. It wasn’t that tough of a decision because I wasn’t even close to fast enough in high school to think about just racing immediately.
Do you enjoy racing/competing in other sports during the offseason? Did you play other sports as a kid? What are some of your favorite non-skiing competitions?
I love running races still. Growing up I played catcher on the baseball team, played basketball a couple of years, did gymnastics for four years when I was much younger. Pretty much I love any sport.
What do you do with any spare time at training camps or on race trips?
Lots of reading, TV watching. This year we’ve been playing a fair amount of golf using nerf golf balls –around town and even in the hotels, once or twice.
What does your diet consist of? Do you have a favorite pre-race dinner and breakfast?
I try to eat fairly heathy but I certainly wouldn’t say my diet is anything to write about. I don’t even have pre-race meals.
I’m actually pretty boring. Maybe that wouldn’t surprise many people…
How do you spend your weeks off?
Laying on the couch reading.
What is the best race or workout you have ever done?
I was on the winning Middlebury relay team for the Bates Carnival my senior year, which was awesome. The team was Garrot Kuzzy, myself, and Colin Rogers in that order. It came down to a sprint and Colin managed to edge UVM at the line. It was definitely awesome and it says something about the strength of that team that all of us are still racing now at the national level.
What race events are in your plan for this season, and which race are you are looking forward to the most?
Super Tours early season, Nationals, hopefully the Vancouver World Cup, and then we’re hoping for a Europe trip in February/March.
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“De París a Nova York”
7 videos in sign language, and with subtitles in Catalan, that allow us to know the areas of the exhibition and the engraving techniques.
“Imatges per creure”, produced by Laia Audiovisual, and made for the Lleida Museum
7. Divergents Iconographies
Emphasizing the doctrinal characteristics that want to be outlined. The differences in architectural styles and inside the temples. Iconographic accents of Catholics and Protestants (miracles and parables).
6. Figures ans Series of the Bible
The ‘Figures of the Bible’, a precedent of the engravings collection’s and marketing. The series of the Bible present scenarios of the New Testament make for an owner engraver and with an identical format.
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Engravers working on commission. Reproductive prints: from Painting and Sculpture to Plate. The great artists on Modern Era make engravings to illustrate different biblical scenarios.
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About the violence and religion’ wars in Europe: the German Peasants’ War, the Kingdom of France split (Henry IV and Louis XIV) and Iconoclasm and Political Revolt in the Netherlands. Remembering the Martyrs.
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While in Strasbourg, Mya combined her studies in French and her passion for medical and health justice by joining a research team at the European Center for Research in Ethics. There, her work focused on the ethical considerations and ambiguities of "The Absence of Informed Consent in the Retroactive Use of Biological Material in Pathological Research". Her findings formed an important part of the grant submission for a large-scale investigation of a huge, unique holding of pathological tissue samples from the 19th and 20th century (housed at the University of Strasbourg), and have been published.
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Congratulations to George Hoffmann, PhD UVA 1990 and Professor of French at U Michigan, on winning the MLA's prestigious Scaglione Prize for his latest book, Reforming French Culture: Satire, Spiritual Alienation, & Connection to Strangers, Oxford, 2017.
Congratulations to George Hoffmann, PhD UVA 1990 and Professor of French at U Michigan, on winning the MLA's prestigious Scaglione Prize for his latest book, Reforming French Culture: Satire, Spiritual Alienation, & Connection to Strangers, Oxford, 2017. George’s first book, Montaigne’s Career, Oxford, 1998, also won the Scaglione Prize.
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Congratulations to Maas Award Winners: 1st Place - Michelle Brennaman; 2nd Place - India Eguiguren; 3rd Place - Naina Wodon. The prizes were given at the 2018 Maas Ceremony April 25th.
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A new book celebrates the career of retired faculty member Mary B. McKinley. Of the twenty scholars represented, no less than half have a connection with the UVA French department. All three editors and five contributors are former doctoral students.
A new book celebrates the career of retired faculty member Mary B. McKinley. Of the twenty scholars represented, no less than half have a connection with the UVA French department. All three editors and five contributors are former doctoral students of Mary; two contributors (Gary Ferguson and Karen James) are current department members.
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Philippe Roger was recently the guest of Matthieu Garrigou-Lagrange in his program «La Compagnie des auteurs», for a «carte blanche» on French (mis)perceptions of America. The one-hour long program was aired on November 28, 2017. Click on link to hear.
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Philippe Roger was recently the guest of Matthieu Garrigou-Lagrange in his program «La Compagnie des auteurs», for a «carte blanche» on French (mis)perceptions of America. The one-hour long program was aired on November 28, from 3 to 4 PM (Paris time). It can be heard online at: https://tunein.com/radio/La-Compagnie-Des-Auteurs-p837682/?topicId=118303110
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I dedicate this book with heartfelt thanks to the two Marys – Mary Ferguson who has not only been an excellent home help but a kind and loyal friend, and to Mary Brown who has also been a kind, supportive and loyal friend.
Special thanks to my son, Kenneth Baillie Davis, who, because he took his degree at the Rennie Mackintosh School of Art, was able to help and advise me about the scenes in the art school.
The sexy poetry in the book was supplied by my old friend Michael Malone whose books of poetry are always worth buying.
My gratitude and admiration goes to all the members of the Fire and Rescue Service who helped and advised me while I was writing
Kirsty Price wished her father was dead. She watched Simon Price’s solid, rangy build and bald head silhouetted against the stained-glass window in the front door, before he opened the door and lumbered down the steps on to Botanic Crescent and into his big four-by-four. She hoped, prayed even, as she did every morning, that he would be killed in a car crash on his way to work. She could just imagine how he would be making his students suffer in the Glasgow School of Art, with his exaggerated glances and snide, sarcastic comments. She often felt like killing him and she had no doubt some of them did too.
It was how he had treated her young brother that made her really hate him. He would never let up with his constant nagging and belittling of everything Johnny did. Nothing Johnny did could ever live up to his expectations or please him. She worried about her young brother. He was so vulnerable and unable to cope. Johnny had suffered ill health for most of his twenty-one years. He had been a delicate, premature baby and then, at fifteen, he had developed agonising rheumatic fever. That illness had left him with a heart condition. He had also suffered terrible ulcers in his mouth and had to have all his teeth removed. He had always been acutely embarrassed and ashamed at having to wear dentures at his age.
‘You’re a right idiot, hanging about outside the GOMA with your freaky Goth pals, all dolled up in black and pins and chains, and purple lipstick,’ her father accused.
Her mother would always try to come to Johnny’s defence.
‘Simon, he’s not doing anybody any harm, and he can’t help his health problem. The valves of his heart …’
She never managed to get very far.
‘He’s twenty-one years of age and still a financial burden.’
‘Dad,’ Johnny desperately interrupted. ‘I’ve got a job.’
‘How long’ll this job last, I wonder. Your last effort didn’t last long.’ Simon’s thick moustache jutting aggressively, he turned to his daughter to sneer, ‘We’ll just have to depend on our clever wee dish-washer to make a contribution.’
Kirsty had found a job in the kitchen of the nearby fire station, making breakfast and lunch for the firefighters. Her father was always making a fool of the job and saying she hadn’t enough brains to go to university. But the job meant she could get home in plenty of time to be with her mother and make sure she took the afternoon rest in bed that the doctor had ordered. Her mother had developed angina, which wasn’t surprising, living such a stressful life.
Her mother adored Johnny and suffered agonies every time Simon attacked him. She had always been such a gentle, caring woman.
Johnny took after his mother. He didn’t have a bad or resentful bone in his body. He was tall and thin, with a shock of fair curly hair and large, eager-to-please blue eyes. He’d dyed his hair black but his eyes were just the same as they’d always been.
‘Mummy’s blue-eyed boy,’ Simon always sneered.
Johnny had tried different jobs and had made enough to buy a second-hand Mini, which he hoped to customise. It was a horrible sickly shade of yellow and his father made a terrible fool of it, but it didn’t spoil Johnny’s pride and pleasure in owning it. His last job had been working in a café in town. However, the varying shifts and the fact that the business of the café meant he was continually on his feet and under pressure had caused him yet again to lose his job.
There were a couple of regular customers that he’d become particularly friendly with. They always had a pleasant bit of banter with him, which made his shift go slightly more quickly. He was rather taken with them – with their air of sophistication and poise. He was flattered by their interest in him. Kirsty found the attention they were giving him rather strange. Polite chit-chat and friendly interest were a sign of a good tipping customer, but she began to wonder about their motives. She didn’t like to think that way, but she couldn’t help being suspicious.
They were a glamorous-looking pair called Renee and Paul Henley, and so different from Johnny with his Goth look. Kirsty had voiced her unease to her mother.
‘Och, you’re a right wee worrier, Kirsty. You’re worse than me. Renee and Paul seem very nice, kind people. Johnny thinks the world of them.’
‘I know that, Mum. But why are they taking such an interest in Johnny, I wonder? I mean, they’re so different from him.’
Her mother was contentedly stroking Jingles, the cat, so called because of the tiny bell that dangled from its collar.
‘They think the world of Johnny. And why not? He’s a lovely boy. This Goth thing’s just a stage he’s going through.’
Still, Kirsty kept thinking, Paul and Renee were both very worldly-wise and sophisticated compared with her naive young brother. They both worked as croupiers in the casino. She had met them briefly in Byres Road while she was out shopping with Johnny. He had introduced them excitedly. Kirsty had used the opportunity to quiz them in as casual a tone as possible.
‘Isn’t there a café or a restaurant in the casino?’
‘Oh yes, and I could get free tea and coffee. But it’s good to get out and have a break from the place.’
It was understandable, she supposed. But now they were saying that the job in the café was too much for Johnny. Carrying heavy trays of dishes was bound to be putting a strain on his heart. No doubt that was true. Nevertheless, it seemed odd, to say the least, that Paul and Renee had offered him a job looking after their flat in Byres Road.
‘Johnny tells me you’ve offered him some sort of job. We’re certainly glad he won’t be staying unemployed. It’s very kind of you.’
‘We work such long hours,’ Renee explained, ‘and it worries us that our flat is left empty and unattended so much. There’ve been so many burglaries in and around the West End recently.’
Perhaps that was perfectly reasonable. And yet …
Kirsty tried very hard not to be suspicious and to be pleased for Johnny. He was so delighted.
‘It’s not far from here, only a few minutes’ walk, and I’ll really enjoy keeping an eye on the flat and having a nice meal prepared for Renee and Paul to warm up when they get home.’
The fire station where Kirsty worked was just about as handy as Renee and Paul’s place, only in the opposite direction. At first, Kirsty had been shy and withdrawn in the company of the firefighters, but they very soon put her at her ease. She absolutely loved working in the place and she admired the firefighters beyond words.
The small kitchen upstairs was part of the large day room, with a hatch through which she could serve the meals. The men, muscles bulging under their black trousers and black T-shirts, and the open-necked black shirts they sometimes wore on top, formed a noisy, cheerful queue. When it was time for a mid-morning tea or coffee, they often persuaded her to join them at the long table. The men were always cheery or cheeky, a flirtatious comment given with a grin.
If she wasn’t busy, or even while she was cooking or washing-up, she liked to watch the firefighters work out on the fitness machines that were positioned down one side of the room. It was very necessary to keep fit for such a dangerous and heavy job.
Today, she was watching the men as they worked out, paying special attention to Greg McFarlane as he pumped his arms through a set of bicep curls. His muscles flexed and bulged as he grunted out his final reps. He was framed by two other firefighters performing shoulder presses. She smiled to herself – it was like having her own private performance by the Chippendales. Greg came over to the hatch, rubbing the sweat from his face, neck and hard, muscly arms with a towel.
‘Stop fussing about in there, Kirsty. Come out and relax for a few minutes. Have a coffee with me.’
There were already other firefighters sitting at the table having their morning coffee, and they greeted her with, ‘Hey there, blondie.’
She joined them shyly but gladly. She liked all of them but Greg was her favourite. She put a cup of coffee down in front of him, then sat beside him at the table. Today he was on red watch. There was a continual rota of four watches – red, green, white and blue; two day shifts and two night shifts. The day shifts were from eight in the morning until six at night. The night shift ran from six at night until eight in the morning. Seventeen firefighters belonged to the station, and they were all wonderful men, in her opinion, but none more so than Greg. She was always thankful when he was on day duty.
His policeman friend was at the table with him today, notebook in front of him. Sergeant Jack Campbell from the local police office was writing a history of the fire service in his spare time.
‘Listen,’ Greg was saying to her now, ‘we’re both off duty this evening. If you’re not doing anything else, how about us meeting up and going to the pictures? Or for a meal, or just a drink. Whatever you like.’
She felt flattered and sad at the same time.
‘I’m sorry, Greg. I’d love to but my mother doesn’t keep too well and …’
‘Isn’t there anyone else living at home?’
‘Yes, my father and my brother.’
‘Well then. You deserve some time off to relax and enjoy yourself. Go on, say you’ll come.’
‘Aye, go on,’ Jack Campbell laughed, ‘put him out of his misery.’
Before she could give any more excuses, the bell electrified the air, and Greg and the other men – except for Jack Campbell – made for the door, knocking chairs over in their rush, their boots making a thunderous clatter.
She could see in her mind’s eye how he and the other firefighters rushed along the corridor. Reaching the poles, they swung out, spinning and swooping down to the firm rubber mat below. Some landed on their feet and in one smooth motion raced for the fire engine. Others mistimed their landing in their hurry, landed harshly but immediately rolled over and up with hardly a break in speed. They swung up through the cabin doors as the driver revved the engine. The huge truck was already in motion as the doors slammed closed.
‘Great guys,’ Jack Campbell said, and Kirsty heartily agreed with him. She prayed that they would be safely back before she went off duty. But when the time came for her to go, the shift had still not reappeared. She had to leave in an agony of anxiety. It was always like this now. She couldn’t bear the thought of anything happening to Greg.
She determined to spend as much time as she could listening for the sound of the fire engine returning along Queen Margaret Drive and watching from the window for the sight of it. Botanic Crescent, where the family’s terraced house was situated, was just off Queen Margaret Drive and the fire engine would have to pass the end of the Crescent. Unless, of course, the fire had been at the other side of the city.
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Sweden's Semi-Lockdown: A Middle Way That Won’t Crash Their Economy
April 08, 2020 · Michael Fumento · The American Conservative · Military
Scandinavia has more to offer than beautiful people, epic poems, and gorgeous scenery. It could be key to figuring out proper responses to the threat posed by COVID-19, and a comparison between the three countries could support the idea that disease reduction doesn’t demand draconian laws that implode economies.
It’s simply accepted by statistical modelers, the media, and the politicians who declare war against the coronavirus that lockdowns to maximize “social distancing” are highly effective. Yet it’s incontrovertible that these actions often impose tremendous hardship now, which portends greater hardship later as the world spirals into a deep recession, or even another Great Depression.
In fact there is no war, the enemy is a piece of mindless DNA, and there’s precious little evidence to support the necessity of enforced social distancing beyond 1) Hermits don’t get contagious diseases, and 2) Any time a country hits peak cases and infections recede, the public health community and the media give credit to government measures that preceded it. This is merely the fallacy of post hoc, ergo propter hoc; after this therefore because of it. We may as well blame Kobe Bryant’s death on Donald Trump’s election.
The gold standard here would require a prospective analysis of matched groups, but we have neither. We can only do a retrospective analysis of similar groups, and that’s what we’re getting with Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.
Norway and Sweden share a common thousand-mile border, and along with Denmark have languages similar enough that they can understand each other without benefit of Pimsleur courses. For a long period Sweden and Norway were united under one kingdom, while for a much longer period Denmark and Norway were united under a dual monarchy. Vikings came from all three countries. All three remain constitutional monarchies and they’re genetically extremely similar.
But when it comes to COVID-19, we see dramatic differences in government actions. Simply put: The Swedish Chef is still in business while his Norwegian and Danish counterparts are unemployed. “Börk börk börk”! And yet, the Swedes have by far the lowest case rate of the three.
“While Denmark and Norway closed their borders, restaurants and ski slopes and told all students to stay home this month, Sweden shut only its high schools and colleges, kept its preschools, grade schools, pubs, restaurants and borders open — and put no limits on the slopes,” reportedThe New York Times.
Norway doesn’t just suggest. Fines of about $2,000 USD and 15-day jail terms await scofflaws. Sweden did put a limit on social gatherings – first at 500 people, then at 50, which is about 49 more people than many other countries allow.
For its efforts, Norway has been widely praised, while Sweden is scolded as the fiddling while Stockholm burns. “Doesn’t Sweden Take the Coronavirus Seriously?” asked the headline in the Danish newspaper Politiken.
But Norway is being economically punished, as unemployment has suddenly soared to its highest level in 80 years. (Danish and Swedish unemployment data are lagging but we can presume that Denmark is also being slammed while Sweden is better off but still suffering because of dependence on foreign economies including its immediate neighbors.)
Swedish historian Lars Tragardh told The New York Times his government feels it doesn’t “need to micromanage or control behavior at a detailed level through prohibitions or threat of sanctions or fines or imprisonment.” That, he said, “is how Sweden stands apart, even from Denmark and Norway.”
“The strategy in Sweden is to focus on social distancing among the known risk groups, like the elderly. We try to use evidence-based measurements,” Emma Frans, doctor in epidemiology at the famed Karolinska Institute, told Euronews. “We try to adjust everyday life. The Swedish plan is to implement measurements that you can practice for a long time,” she said.
The Norwegian model, along with the Danish one, appears more based on “erring on the side of caution” or perhaps the proverbial swatting of a fly with a hammer. So how is it working?
So far there has been no peak in any of the three countries. But Swedish cases, according to Worldometer, are little more than half those of Norway: 714 per million versus 1062. Denmark has a rate of 808, better than Norway but still worse than “fiddling” Sweden. Indeed, Sweden has one of the lowest rates in Europe. For all the financial and emotional suffering and a worldwide rise in authoritarianism, cui bono?
Deaths per case are not relevant here, reflecting mostly the quality of health care systems, and on that metric Sweden is somewhat higher. Thus Sweden is considering tightening restrictions because of the death rate and outside criticism, but that’s actually an admission that, though they have relatively few cases, they’re not handling them particularly well. Meanwhile, Denmark has announced it’s reducing restrictions notwithstanding that spread is still significant.
In any event, the total lockdowns are unsustainable and everyone, including the Scandinavians, knows it.
“It’s difficult to keep the world locked down, until we have a vaccine launched in 18 months,” top Danish economist Lars Christensen told Euronews, while adding in Norse fashion that he didn’t necessarily oppose his government’s policy.
To be sure, despite the numerous similarities between these countries there could be various factors at play that are difficult to account for. But we should also consider the success of a vastly different culture on the other side of the world, that of South Korea, where the epidemic peaked in just two weeks. That country early on made targeted efforts such as contact tracing, rather than “democratizing” the epidemic, as in, “If anybody suffers; we all suffer!”
Moreover, seemingly every epidemiologist who gets quoted or published regarding the coronavirus ignores the most basic rule in epidemiology called Farr’s Law (dating to 1840 and before any public health organizations), that says epidemics peak and decline on their own. That’s not to say that proper actions cannot reduce overall infections – or improper ones increase them. During bubonic plague outbreaks people sometimes blamed and killed cats – that of course were actually beneficial in controlling plague-spreading rats. There’s a lesson there.
Both Farr’s Law and the Scandinavian experience show it may not be necessary to destroy the world economy to save the world. Further, we’ve long known that “wealth equals health,” and not just between nations such as the U.S. and Bangladesh but within countries as well. Health is a commodity just like automobiles and toasters. Therefore, a deep world recession or depression is probably going to do some serious killing long after COVID-19 fades into the background.
But aside from a few countries, we’ve seen too little balancing. Instead it seems fanaticism has reigned—a tunnel vision focused on combating this disease through coercive means, at the cost of untold economic devastation and ruined lives.
Perhaps it’s time to rethink that strategy.
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Distribution Rate at Market Price 8.45%
Investment Objective Current income and gains
CUSIP 27829M103
Expense Ratios (%)
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Management Fees 1.25
Other Expenses 0.07
Total Expenses 1.32
Michael A. Allison, CFA Managed Fund since 2019
Thomas Seto Managed Fund since 2019
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3. The Fund has adopted a policy to pay common shareholders a stable monthly distribution, and may pay distributions consisting of amounts characterized for federal income tax purposes as qualified and non-qualified ordinary dividends, capital gains distrib utions and non-dividend distributions, also known as return of capital.
Fund at NAV 13.75 9.23 -6.81 2.67 10.36 -2.01 -0.59 -5.22 13.51 9.44
Market Price 9.29 17.45 -10.47 -1.14 8.40 -0.88 0.22 -9.71 29.31 5.90
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Exempt-Interest Dividends
Non-AMT AMT Total Non-Qualified Ordinary Dividends Capital Gain Distributions Nondividend Distributions Total Distributions
Distributions ($)
2018 $0.07 $0.00 $0.07 $0.02 $0.00 $0.68 $0.77
Distributions (%)
2018 9.58% 0.00% 9.58% 2.51% 0.00% 87.91% 100.00%
2015 5.12% 0.00% 5.12% 1.00% 16.31% 77.57% 100.00%
2012 2.14% 0.00% 2.14% 33.49% 56.28% 8.09% 100.00%
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Fund Holdings (%)6,7 as of Nov 30, 2020
Apple Inc 10.03%
NVIDIA Corp 2.72%
Adobe Inc 2.22%
PepsiCo Inc 1.89%
Comcast Corp 1.70%
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Michael Allison is a vice president of Eaton Vance Management, a director of equity strategy implementation and a structured equity portfolio manager on a number of Eaton Vance’s global and domestic equity income and tax-managed equity portfolios. On those funds, he is responsible for portfolio construction, tax oversight and risk management. He is a member of the firm’s Equity Strategy Committee. He joined Eaton Vance in 2000.
Mike began his career in the investment management industry in 1988. Before joining Eaton Vance, Mike was an equity analyst for Schroder Investment Management North America Inc. He was also affiliated with Fleet Investment Advisors and Phoenix Home Life Mutual Fund Insurance Co.
Mike earned a B.S.B.A. from the University of Denver. He is a member of the CFA Society of Boston and is a CFA charterholder.
B.S.B.A., The University of Denver
Thomas Seto
Head of Investment Management
Parametric Seattle Investment Center
Joined Parametric Portfolio Associates 1998
Thomas Seto is head of investment management with Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC, an investment adviser and majority-owned subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp. Tom is responsible for all portfolio management and trading at the Seattle Investment Center, and is a member of the executive committee. He joined Parametric in 1998.
Tom began his career in the investment management industry in 1991. Before joining Parametric, he served as the head of U.S. equity index investments at Barclays Global Investors.
Tom earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Washington and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
B.S. University of Washington
M.B.A Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
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Idiom İfade sözlüğü
İfadeler ve örnek cümleler
forced to surrender (teslim olmaya zorlandı)
Alice Truman, but is ultimately forced to surrender.
On 28 August, they were forced to surrender.
In the end, Hormuzan was eventually forced to surrender.
refused to surrender (teslim olmayı reddetti)
The Ashanti King Prempeh refused to surrender his sovereignty.
Much of Beirut was destroyed, but Jazzar refused to surrender.
The Spanish Viceroy in Naples, the Duke of Osuna, refused to surrender.
unconditional surrender (koşulsuz teslim)
He rejected the idea of an armistice and demanded unconditional surrender.
At Roosevelt's demand, they agreed on a policy of "unconditional surrender."
He met Colonel Stephen G. Hicks at Fort Anderson and demanded an unconditional surrender.
not surrender (teslim değil)
The fort was taken on May 16: it did not surrender.
("The Guard dies, it does not surrender!").
Zhuge Liang knew this and said, "Eastern Wu will not surrender.
agreed to surrender (teslim olmayı kabul etti)
He agreed to surrender the island to Venice if his family became extinct.
After a few days Jurij Sołłohub, Voivode of Smolensk, agreed to surrender on July 30, 1514.
Rector agreed to surrender, but only to Officer Robert Martin, whom he had known since he was a child.
terms of surrender
He sent messengers to Brock asking for three days to agree on terms of surrender.
Csizmadia also helped to negotiate the same terms of surrender for the Austrians as well.
The Aragonese took over a mosque next to the castle—in contravention to the terms of surrender.
did not surrender
Colonel of the 4th) by Lloyd Halliburton the 4th SC Cavalry did not surrender.
In one game, he faced two batters, and struck out one of them, and he did not surrender a hit.
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