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Facebook Fans Say 'Coke Is It'
by Tanya Gazdik , October 19, 2011
Coca-Cola ranks as the world's No. 1 brand in a Covario study focusing on the Facebook health of 100 leading advertisers. Hyundai, MTV, Disney and Bayer round out the top most liked and Wal-Mart rates best for engagement.
With the number of global Facebook users exceeding 750 million, its importance as an advertising medium is undeniable and growing fast, according to Covario, Inc., a provider of global search marketing services and technology solutions. Coke has a huge following on Facebook with more than 34 million fans, which is growing at a monthly rate of nearly 3%. The brand also has strong fan engagement, typically posting seven items a month on its page with each garnering more than 235 comments and nearly 1,750 "likes."
The study, which included the top 100 spending advertisers, examined both reach and engagement. They do not necessarily go hand-in-hand, says the study’s co-author Craig Macdonald, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of San Diego-based Covario. "Several advertisers -- Bayer and SC Johnson -- have built followers, but their engagement statistics are relatively low,” Macdonald says. “This is a huge branding opportunity for the firms." AT&T, Wal-Mart, Dr. Pepper and Fox have excellent engagement, but lower than expected “reach” statistics, he adds.
Wal-Mart ranks on top for overall engagement. The nation's largest retailer has huge engagement with its Facebook fans, receiving an average of 7,390 comments and 726 "likes" on every post, which far exceeds all of the other advertisers in the study.
Apple is the only company among the nation's top 100 advertisers that does not have an official Facebook page. The top Apple listing is a user page with 188,000 followers.
The study broke out Facebook leaders by vertical industry segments, including automotive, consumer packaged goods -- sundries (Johnson & Johnson), consumer packaged goods -- food and beverage (Coca-Cola), entertainment and media (MTV/Viacom), financial services/insurance (American Express), pharmaceuticals (Bayer), restaurants (Wendy's), retailers (Victoria's Secret), technology (Hewlett Packard) and telecommunications (DirecTV).
Covario used a proprietary, weighted model to profile each brand's reach (number/ growth of followers), engagement (monthly posts, likes, comments and applications), technical aspects of its Facebook page (brand name usage, linkage to a brand's website) and reputation (particularly negative, user-generated Facebook sites about a brand).
Having many outbound posts is not an optimization factor, according to the white paper from Covario. Less is more with Facebook and quality is what counts. Quality is measured by the number of "likes" and comments received per post. The best brands at engagement obtain upwards of 750 comments and 1,500 "likes" per post. There is no magic to the type of posts being run by successful brand advertisers. While promotions are rampant in advertiser posts, often posting generalized questions is more successful than hard promotions, according to the white paper.
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Anthony Green from Optimal, October 20, 2011 at 11:44 a.m.
An unengaged fan is worth little to nothing. Engagement with fans via relevant and timely content drives a return and increases sales, and that's all the really matters.
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Flat Earth Quotes Nokola Tesla
“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.” ~Nikola Tesla
“I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.” ~Nikola Tesla
“Though free to think and act, we are held together like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them, each of us is only part of a whole.” ~Nikola Tesla
“An unalterable rotational velocity thru all phases of planetary evolution is manifestly impossible. The truth is, the so-called “axial rotation” of the moon is a phenomenon deceptive alike to the eye and mind and devoid of physical meaning. The moon does rotate, not on its own, but about an axis passing thru the center of the earth, the true and only one.” ~Nikola Tesla
“[Einstein’s theory of relativity is] a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king… its exponents are brilliant men, but they are meta-physicists rather than scientists.” ~ Nikola Tesla
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“To control the masses, heliocentrism must be introduced early and often, so that it becomes a deeply ingrained belief. While at the same time, belief in a flat earth is always portrayed by the educational authorities as evidence of abject ignorance and even insanity.”Edward Hendrie
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Privacy Policyuser2020-10-06T12:16:47+00:00
1.1This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) comprise all Services from:
MeetinVR ApS, CVR-no 38131249, Vermundsgade 13, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark (the ”Company”, “we”, “our”, “us”, etc.) to the Customers.
1.2This Privacy Policy describes the types of Personal Data we collect, how we process such Personal Data, and who you can contact, if you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy describes our processing of Personal Data as Data Controller of Personal Data connected to the Customer’s subscription to our Services or a free trial period. Our processing of Personal Data on behalf of Customers, as Data Processor, is regulated by the Data Processing Agreement entered into upon the Customer’s subscription to the Services or a free trial period. See also section 3 of this Privacy Policy.
1.3Protecting your Personal Data is our highest priority regardless of whether such Personal Data relates your use of our Services, website or other correspondence between you and the Company. You are welcome to contact us if you have any questions to this Privacy Policy or our processing of Personal Data in general. See section 13 for contact information.
1.4 Privacy Policy supplements our Terms of Service available on www.meetinvr.com. We encourage all our Customers to read this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service thoroughly before using our Services.
2DEFINITIONS
2.1Terms and expressions with capital first letters used in this Privacy Policy shall have the meanings set out in this section 2.
2.2“Customer”, “you”, “yours” etc. shall mean a free trial user or subscriber of Services provided by the Company.
2.3“Data Controller” and “Data Processor” shall mean “controller” and “processor” respectively as defined in the GDPR.
2.4“GDPR” shall mean the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons regarding the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. In Denmark, GDPR is supplemented by the Act on supplementary provisions to the regulation on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (Act No. 502 of 23 May 2018) (the “Data Protection Act”).
2.5“Personal Data” shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
2.6“Services” shall mean all services rendered by the Company to the Customer, including, but not limited to services located at www.meetinvr.com and our mobile/VR application “MeetinVR” and other apps, IT tools or software programs developed by the Company, hosting of data, support and helpdesk services etc.
2.7“Termsof Service” shall mean the Terms of Service made available from time to time on www.meetinvr.com.
3DATA PROCESSING AGREEMENT
3.1This Privacy Policy describes our processing of Personal Data as Data Controller of Personal Data connected to the Customer’s subscription to our Services or a free trial period. With respect to all Personal Data entered, transferred or stored on behalf of the Customers in the databases of the Company or a third-party supplier appointed by the Company, the Customer is the Data Controller and the Company is the Data Processor.
3.2Our processing of Personal Data on behalf of the Customer is regulated by the Data Processing Agreement, which is entered into upon the Customer’s subscription to the Services or a free trial period.
4CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA
4.1Personal Data includes information that can be used to identify you as an individual. If you sign up to our Services or a free trial, we will ask you to provide us with certain personal identifiable information that can be used to identify you, including:
a)Contact information, such as email address, telephone number first and last name
b)Username(s) of authorised users and IP address
c)Company information (for personally owned companies, including CVR-no.)
d)If you subscribe to our Services, we will ask you for your payment information, including bank account number
e)Information collected via www.meetinvr.com, including cookies and usage data (see section 10).
f)Additionally, when using the VR app some information is required to be processed for the basic functionality of the app and in some cases be stored. This information includes, but is not limited to, voice data and VR/AR tracking data.
4.2Voice data. When using the VR App, your voice data is transferred and processed through our secure servers with a secure connection for the purposes of voice communication with other users. Voice communication may be disabled in the app. In some cases, voice data may be recorded if requested by the user and will be explicitly indicated by the app. Voice recording are only stored securely in our databases and is only available to the user.
4.3VR/AR tracking data. To use the VR app positional data is required to position and pose your avatar in the virtual space. Tracking data is only transferred and processed through our secure servers with a secure connection. The data may be recorded when requested by you similarly to your voice data. Positional and voice data may be stored and processed together in some cases.
4.4As the clear main rule, we do not collect or process any sensitive Personal Data.
5PURPOSES AND LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
5.1We process the Personal Data we collect to:
g)Fulfil our agreement with you, including provide our Services to you or take steps on your request;
h)Notify you about changes in our Services, Terms and Conditions or this Privacy Policy;
i)Provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Website and IT tool.
j)Monitor the use of our website and Services;
k)To contact you for feedback about our services;
l)To contact you for our own marketing and promotional purposes, e.g. to provide you with our newsletter (provided that you have provided your consent);
m)Detect, prevent and mitigate technical issues;
n)Comply with legal obligations;
o)Establish, exercise or defend against legal claims and to protect and defend the rights or property of The Company;
p)Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our website or Services and protect the personal safety of users of our website or IT tool or the public.
5.2Our legal basis for processing of Personal Data is primarily based on the necessity of such processing to fulfil the subscription agreements we enter into with Customers to provide our Services. In some cases, our processing will be based on our legitimate interest of such processing or based on consent from the Customers. Processing of Personal Data may also be necessary for processing for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, e.g. bookkeeping requirements. In some cases, processing may be necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
5.3Our legal basis for Processing of Personal Data is especially article 6(1), litra a-c and f as well as article 9(2), litra a and f, in the GDPR, and article 6 (1) of the Danish Data Protection Act.
6TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA
6.1Personal Data is processed and stored in Belgium in Google’s datacentre. Some Personal Data and backup may be stored in the United States.
6.2Before transferring Personal Data to a third country or an international organization outside the EU/EEA, we will assess whether such transfer of Personal Data ensures an adequate level of protection of the Personal Data. We will ensure that the transfer is in accordance with rules on transfers of personal data to third countries or international organizations in the GDPR and the Danish Data Protection Act, including, where necessary, entering into data processing agreements with our Data Processors (see section 7 below) on the basis of the European Commission’s standard contractual sections for data transfers between EU and non-EU countries or according to the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework.
6.3We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your Personal Data and other information.
7OUR USE OF DATA PROCESSORS
7.1We may employ third-party suppliers located in the EU or the US to facilitate, service or analyse the use of our website or Services or for data hosting and storage, including backup.
7.2These third-party suppliers will only have access to your Personal Data if necessary to perform the agreed tasks. We will ensure that third parties with access to Personal Data are obligated not to disclose or use the Personal Data for any other purposes than to perform the agreed tasks.
7.3If the third-party suppliers act as Data Processors and process Personal Data on our behalf, we will make sure to enter into data processing agreements with the Data Processors before the Data Processors carry out any processing of Personal Data on our behalf.
8STORAGE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND DELETION
8.1In accordance with the general principles of storage limitation set out in the GDPR, we will only keep your Personal Data for as long as necessary. The storage (or retention) period depends on the nature of the information and the background for storage. It is therefore not possible to specify a specific time frame for deletion of Personal Data in each case in this Privacy Policy. However, we have described our general retention rules in section 9.2 below.
8.2Generally, we process Personal Data about Customers for a period of up to three (3) years from effective termination of the Customer’s use of our Services. However, Personal Data related to payments must be kept for five (5) years + the current calendar year after the end of the accounting year according to Danish rules on bookkeeping. Personal Data may be stored for a longer period if the Personal Data is needed to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim
9SECURITY MEASURES
9.1We have taken technical and organizational measures to prevent your information from being accidentally or illegally deleted, disclosed, lost, impaired, misused or otherwise violated by law.
9.2We use encryption of data which means that all data transmitted between your device and our servers is unreadable to outsiders. To access your account, you need your personal username and password and must go through our authentication process. All data is transmitted using secure protocols, such as HTTPS and WSS. We do not knowingly allow any unencrypted data to be exposed. All data is encrypted at rest at an underlying level. Extra sensitive information, such as login credentials have additional encryption at the application level. Very little data is stored on the user’s physical device, and only include low-risk information such as parameters used to display the user’s avatar.
9.3We host all data on up-to-date Google cluster servers that are protected against unauthorized access by a firewall. Somme data and backups are stored with Google Cloud Storage
9.4We have internal rules on information security and annual training session for all employees about best practices to secure themselves and the Company’s Personal Data. Our internal rules on information security contain instructions and measures to protect Personal Data from being destroyed, lost or modified, from unauthorized disclosure, and against unauthorized access or knowledge of them. We will ensure that collected Personal Data are treated with care and protected according to applicable safety standards. We have strict security procedures for collecting, storing and transferring Personal Data to prevent unauthorized access.
9.5The security of your Personal Data is very important to us, but remember that no online transmissions, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially validated means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
9.6We assess the risk of our processing of Personal Data on an ongoing basis.You can see the most commonly asked questions and answers to ourInformation Security measures in our FAQ available on www.meetinvr.com.
10COOKIES
10.1We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and IT tool. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from our website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information.
10.2You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.
10.3Consent to use of cookies
10.3.1When visiting our website www.meetinvr.com, you will be asked for your consent to the cookies used on the website (technically necessary cookies are applied automatically). If you have consented to the website’s use of cookies, but no longer wish to consent to the use of cookies, you can deselect and delete the cookies by modifying the settings in your browser (see section 10.8 on “Deletion of cookies”).
10.4Types of cookies
10.4.1Session cookies and persistent cookies.There are two types of cookies – session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are bits of information that are erased when you close your web browser. Persistent cookies are bits of information that are stored on your computer until they are erased. Persistent cookies erase themselves after a certain period of time but are renewed each time you visit www.meetinvr.com. Our website uses both session cookies and persistent cookies.
10.4.2“Own” cookies and third-party cookies. Cookies can be placed on www.meetinvr.com by the Company itself or by third parties such as Google or Facebook (see below for information about the use of Google Analytics).
10.5Purposes
10.5.1Session cookies. We use session cookies to operate this website and our IT tool.
10.5.2Persistent cookies. We use persistent cookies to remember your preferences and various settings and security cookies for security purposes. We also use persistent cookies for marketing purposes, such as Google Ads Remarketing (only with your consent).
10.6Google Analytics
10.6.1We use Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
10.7Social media. We use social media buttons to allow you to connect with your social network. For these to work the following social media sites Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
10.8Deletion of cookies
10.8.1Most browsers allow you to erase cookies from your hard drive via the browser settings, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. You must be aware that in such case services and features cannot be used by you because they require cookies to remember choices you make.
10.8.2You can opt-out of having made your activity on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page.
10.9Links to other websites
10.9.1Our website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by the Company. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit
10.9.2We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the contents, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
11YOUR RIGHTS
11.1You have certain rights related to our processing of your Personal Data according to the GDPR.
11.2In short, your rights include (see also Articles 15-22 in the GDPR):
11.2.1Right of access. You are entitled to be informed whether any Personal Data about the subject is being processed and if so, obtain access to the Personal Data.
11.2.2Right of data portability. You are entitled to receive Personal Data that you have provided to The Company (this data must be provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format).
11.2.3Right to rectification. You are entitled to obtain rectification of incorrect Personal Data.
11.2.4Right of deletion. You are (with certain limitations), entitled to request erasure of Personal Data by us without undue delay.
11.2.5Right to object. You are entitled to object to the processing of your personal data, namely if the processing of your personal data includes profiling or if the processing is based on the assessment of our interest in processing your personal data)
11.2.6Right to restriction of processing. You are entitled to obtain a restriction of the processing of your personal data, namely if you contest the accuracy of the personal data, or where a request to be deleted cannot be accommodated, e.g. due to The Company’ need to keep the personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
11.3Please note that the above-mentioned rights will only be individually fulfilled by The Company in relation to the cases where The Company is considered as the Data Controller. In situations where The Company is regarded as the data processor, the above-mentioned rights must be fulfilled by the data controller.
11.4Inquiries related to your rights according to GDPR can be made to: [email protected]
12CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
12.1We may update this Privacy Policy. If you have signed up for a free trial or subscribed to our Services, we will notify you of any significant changes.
12.2You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. The Privacy Policy available on our website (as updated from time to time) applies to our Services and use of our website.
13CONTACT INFORMATION
13.1If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, want to invoke your rights granted by GDPR, or if you feel that we are not abiding by Privacy Policy, please contact us:
a)By email: [email protected]
b)By phone number: +4593933123.
14SUPERVISION
14.1The Danish Data Protection Agency, inter alia, supervises the compliance with the applicable national regulation on Personal Data. The contact information for the Danish Data Protection Agency is:
14.2Datatilsynet
Carl Jacobsens Vej
DK-2500 Valby
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Senate confirms Robert Wilkie as next VA secretary, but with opposition
President Donald Trump shakes hands with then acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie at a White House event on May 18, 2018. The Senate confirmed Wilkie as the next permanent VA secretary on Monday. (Evan Vucci/AP)
WASHINGTON — Senators overwhelmingly approved Robert Wilkie as the next Veterans Affairs secretary on Monday, but the move came with political dissent for the first time in the department’s 30-year history.
The final vote of 86-9 wasn’t enough to seriously jeopardize Wilkie’s chances of taking over as the 10th VA secretary. But it did mark the first time since the agency became a Cabinet-level department that any senator has voted against a nominee for the top VA job — a post that usually rises above partisan congressional fights.
All of the opposition came from Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Earlier this month, Sanders said he would not support Wilkie’s nomination because of his distrust of President Donald Trump’s policies towards veterans medical care.
“Trump has been very clear about his desire to move to the privatization of the VA,” Sander said, “and I suspect any of his appointees will try and move the agency in that direction.”
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Robert Wilkie steps into a department which has seen multiple accomplishments and multiple headaches in recent months.
The threat of outsourcing VA medical responsibilities — and funding — has dominated much of the discussion over department policy since Trump took office. One of Wilkie’s biggest responsibilities in the next year will be crafting new community care rules allowing veterans more access to private-sector doctors, a process that is expected to spur even more heated debate.
Wilkie’s past work for former Sens. Jesse Helms and Trent Lott also drew questions at his confirmation hearing, particularly his involvement with controversial issues surrounding the Confederate flag, equality issues, and Trump’s military transgender policies. Wilkie defended much of the work as routine business, but that answer failed to reassure a number of Democratic opponents.
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Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee ranking member Jon Tester, D-Mont., has also expressed concerns about Trump’s intentions with VA, but took to the Senate floor before the vote to back Wilkie as a responsible nominee to guide the department into the future.
“Right now the VA does not have a confirmed secretary who is focused on the larger mission of serving veterans, implementing the reforms, and improving VA care and benefits,” he said. “Instead, we've had temporary political appointees in charge. They're more interested in picking political fights with people who are not their enemy.
“I believe we've lost sight of the VA mission. It will be up to Mr. Wilkie to right that ship.”
Republicans in the Senate were even freer with their praise. Committee chairman Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., called the nominee “the real deal” and an exemplary pick by the president.
“Robert Wilkie understands the needs of our veteran rural areas,” he said before the vote. “He understands the needs in large urban cities. He understands the threat of suicide and our need to get mental health accessible and available to our veterans at all times. He also knows that we've given him a quiver of arrows that he can use to root out the bad players and lift the good players.”
Wilkie’s confirmation ends four months of leadership turmoil at VA, a department that boasts a budget of nearly $200 billion and more than 350,000 employees.
In March, President Donald Trump fired then-Secretary David Shulkin amid infighting at the department, and allegations by Shulkin that political operatives were working to undermine VA health care programs.
Trump’s first pick to replace Shulkin, former White House physician Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, withdrew his name from consideration in April after allegations emerged about unprofessional behavior and medication mismanagement in his role as the administration’s top doctor.
Wilkie, 55, has been serving since last fall as the Defense Department’s under secretary for personnel and readiness. He also served as acting VA secretary for two months following the firing of Shulkin from the lead department job in March.
He has received generally positive reviews from veterans groups in recent months as a stabilizing force for a department that has seen significant turmoil since the start of 2018.
In a statement, American Legion National Commander Denise Rohan praised the move and said her staff is focused on working with the new secretary “to ensure America’s veterans receive the healthcare, education, and other benefits they have earned.”
Today's the day. AMVETS supports confirming Robert Wilkie as the next Secretary of the @DeptVetAffairs. https://t.co/PuDIrFujKe#WhatsNext | #HealAmericanVeterans pic.twitter.com/llHU5hjK8E
— AMVETS (@AMVETSHQ) July 23, 2018
Wilkie, 55, is an Air Force Reserve colonel who previously spent time in the Navy Reserve. He is the son of an Army artillery commander wounded in the Vietnam War, and has spoken frequently about growing up in a military family dealing with those serious injuries.
He served in the Pentagon under Defense Secretaries Robert Gates and Donald Rumsfeld as an assistant secretary, and previously was special assistant to President George W. Bush for national security affairs. Wilkie is also well known on Capitol Hill, most recently serving as a senior adviser to Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., prior to his recent Pentagon appointment.
The new secretary also outlined his top department priorities in that Senate event, promising to offer “world-class customer service” at VA, expanding veterans access to medical care outside the VA system, reducing disability claims backlogs and reforming human resources systems.
Wilkie is expected to be officially sworn into his new role later this week.
About Leo Shane III
Leo covers Congress, Veterans Affairs and the White House for Military Times. He has covered Washington, D.C. since 2004, focusing on military personnel and veterans policies. His work has earned numerous honors, including a 2009 Polk award, a 2010 National Headliner Award, the IAVA Leadership in Journalism award and the VFW News Media award.
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What is the reach and impact of sexual harassment?
Studies show that no segment of the college community is immune from sexual harassment. Anyone can be sexually harassed regardless of gender, age, appearance, or status. However, virtually every survey and study indicate that sexual harassment is directed at many more women than men.
Studies documenting sexual harassment of college students by faculty or staff indicate that between 20 to 30 percent of undergraduate women have experienced sexually harassing behavior.
In a few studies that have examined student-to-student harassment at colleges, as many as 90 percent of undergraduates women report at least one negative experience from male students.
The studies that have examined the incidence of college faculty experiencing sexual harassment show 20 to 50 percent of women faculty members reporting some form of sexual harassment in the workplace.
Data for non-academic employees in educational institutions is sparse. Workplace estimates of sexual harassment range from 40 to 75 percent, with some studies reporting higher numbers.
How is sexual harassment legally defined?
Both male and female students and employees are legally protected against sexual harassment. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits gender discrimination in employment. Federal Regulations provide that unwelcomed sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when:
(1) Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's employment.
(2) Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting that individual.
(3) Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.
Students are protected from sexual harassment under Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act of 1972. That law provides no person shall, because of his or her gender, be excluded from participation in or denied the benefits of any educational program or activity that receives federal funds. The Office of Civil Rights, in its 2001 "Revised Sexual Harassment Guidance," stated:
Sexual harassment is unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature. Sexual harassment can include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Sexual harassment of a student can deny or limit, on the basis of sex, the student's ability to participate in or to receive benefits, services, or opportunities in the school's program. sexual harassment of students is, therefore, a form of sexual discrimination prohibited by Title IX under the circumstances described in this guidance.
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What is the practical definition of sexual harassment?
In practical terms, there are two kinds of sexual harassment which may generally be described as follows:
Quid Pro Quo: In which employment or educational decisions or expectations (e.g., hiring decisions, promotions, salary increases, shift or work assignments, performance expectations, grades) are based on employee's/students' submission to unwelcome sexual advances. Examples of quid pro quo harassment:
Demanding sexual favors in exchange for a promotion, raise, or grade
Disciplining or firing a subordinate/student because of a romantic relationship
Changing performance expectations/grades after a subordinate/student refuses repeated requests for a date
Hostile Environment: In which verbal or non-verbal behavior in the workplace or academic environment
Focuses on the sexuality of another person or occurs because of the person's gender;
Is unwanted or unwelcomed; and
Is severe or pervasive enough to affect the person's work/academic environment
The following are examples that can create a hostile environment if unwanted, uninvited, and pervasive:
Off-color jokes or teasing
Comments about body parts or sex life
Suggestive pictures, posters, calendars or cartoons
Leering, stares, or inappropriate gestures
Repeated requests for dates
Excessive attention in the form of love letters, telephone calls, text messages, or gifts
Touching-brushes, pats, hugs, shoulder rubs or pinches
Can you be retaliated against for reporting sexual harassment?
Federal law and university policy prohibit retaliation against any individual reporting or opposing sexual harassment. The university is committed to the protection from retaliation of those making a complaint, inquiry, or reporting, and/or participating in university grievance procedures.
Why don't victims speak out?
Fear of loss of job opportunities.
Fear of rejection by co-workers.
Fear of being labeled a “trouble-maker” or a “feminist.”
Fear of not being considered a “team player.”
Fear of being accused of not having a “sense of humor.”
Fear of the “rumor mill.”
Fear of being labled “over-sensitive” or “mentally unstable.”
Fear of not being believed.
Fear of being “wrong.”
Where do you go for help?
For additional information on university policies and grievance procedures contact
103 Wells Hall
Murray, KY 42071-3318
(270) 809-3361 TDD
For general support and/or counseling contact
University Counseling
104C Oakley Applied Science Building
For general support and/or advocacy contact
To seek medical attention contact
On-Campus Health Services Provider
To report an incident of harassment or to file a complaint or grievance
Office of Diversity, Equity and Access
To report a criminal activity or to file a criminal charge contact
Murray State Police Department & Emergency Management
Corner of Chestnut and 16th Streets
Preparation of these web pages includes materials from: The Thompson Publishing Group, Inc. (1993-1994).Educator's Guide to Controlling Sexual Harassment. Washington, D.C.: Author; Quality Media Resources (1992). Subtle Sexual Harassment, "The Issue is Respect." Bellevue, Wash.: Author.
NOTE: The Office of Equal Opportunity transitioned to the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity & Access effective July 1, 2013 and the website is located at: murraystate.edu/idea. All references within campus-wide documents to the Office of Equal Opportunity should be considered analogous to the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Access.
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Chatham 2021 preview: Where do Cougars fit in crowded Mennen Division?
CHATHAM COUGARS
Head coach: Brendon Herr, 6th year. 64-50-9 career record.
Division: Mennen
Last year: Chatham went through an up-and-down season a year ago, in which it finished with an 11-10-2 overall record. It reached the semifinals of the Mennen Cup, and lost to Lakeland in the quarterfinals of the NJSIAA Public C tournament.
Key losses: Danny Mahoney, Jennifer Olnowich.
This year's squad: Chatham returns one of the better scorers in the area in senior forward Ryan Sordillo (15 g., 15 a.), who will be the centerpiece of the Cougars' forward group. Senior Declan Curry (7 g., 8 a.), sophomore Ronan Curry (2 g., 3 a.), junior Tommy Sennett (4 g., 1 a.), and senior Brandon Lupi (7 g., 4 a.) will all be counted on.
Defensively, Chatham will look to sophomore Doyle Curry (5 g., 3 a.), sophomore Jeffrey Burke (2 g., 2 a.), and senior Korey Kleinle .
In goal, senior Michael Park will take over as the starter this year after Jennifer Olnowich put together a solid season in net for the Cougars a year ago.
Outlook: Chatham has a lot of strong players returning from last season, which is certainly a big reason for optimism going into this season. The big question is simply, where do the Cougars fit into a crowded Mennen Division? With a Top 10 team in the state in Morristown-Beard, a state champion in Morris Knolls which returns most of its roster, an always tough Randolph (also a state champion) and a Morristown team on the upswing, the Mennen Division will be as strong as it has been in recent memory. If Chatham can get good goaltending from Park and its skaters can continue to develop, it should be as good as any team in this division.
Jan. 18 -- Kinnelon-Sparta-Jefferson (Mennen Arena), 10:30 a.m.
Jan. 22 -- Northern Highlands (Mennen Arena), 3:45 p.m.
Jan. 26 -- Morris Knolls-Hills (Mennen Arena), 6 p.m.
Jan. 30 -- Randolph (Mennen Arena), 6:15 p.m.
Feb. 1 -- Morristown (Mennen Arena), 4:30 p.m.
Feb. 2 -- Summit (Warinanco Park), 6:35. p.m.
Feb. 6 -- Morristown-Beard (Mennen Arena), 6:15 p.m.
Feb. 10 -- Morris Knolls-Hills (Mennen Arena), 5:45 p.m.
Feb. 20 -- Morristown (Mennen Arena), 6:15 p.m.
Feb. 23 -- Montville (Mennen Arena), 3 p.m.
Feb. 24 -- Randolph (Mennen Arena), 7:45 p.m.
Jan. 16 recap: High Point-WV rolls, Vernon and Gill St. Bernards tie, Mt. Olive earns shutout
HIGH POINT-WALLKILL VALLEY 5, NEWTON-LENAPE VALLEY 1 A four-goal second period helped propel High Point-Wallkill Valley to a big 5-1 win over Newton-Lenape Valley on Saturday at Skylands Ice World. Af
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How to Choose the Best Keyboard for Gaming
Best Gaming Keyboards: Top 10 Picks
Best Keyboards for Gaming
Which is the best budget keyboard under 50 bucks?
Are wireless keyboards worth considering?
How to choose the one that is silent, compact, and cheap?
Which is the best for for MMO games? For FPS?
Edited by Nataly Bogorad
Best Gaming Keyboards for 2020
Keyboard technology has come a long way towards making keyboards more than just a set of buttons that perform simple tasks and adapting them to the needs of different types of users, including gamers. The gaming process involves complex sets of key combinations, and the effectiveness of your gaming is highly dependent on how responsive your keyboard is to your actions and how comfortable the layout is.
Today, a powerful PC is no longer enough if you want to optimize your gaming. Skills need the right tools, and a keyboard and mouse combo is the first thing you need to think about after choosing a good gaming computer. We have already written about our top picks for gaming mice:
Best Gaming Mouse of 2020
In this article, we’ll be choosing the best gaming keyboard.
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Many factors come into play when you buy a gaming keyboard. There are so many brands and models… Membrane and mechanical, with RGB lighting and different kinds of switches... You’ll want to choose one that is affordable, but also quiet and ergonomic. It’s a challenging task if you don’t know what to look for and that’s why, before publishing our list of top-rated gaming keyboards, we’ll discuss some of the key criteria to keep in mind when choosing a keyboard if you don’t want to waste your money.
This is the simplest decision. With a few rare exceptions, it is better to not even consider membrane keyboards if you’re looking for the best keyboard for gaming. While mechanical keyboards have individual switches for each key, membrane keyboards have their keycaps mounted on a membrane sheath that translates the signal to a PCB below. Without going into details, let’s just say that membrane keyboards have won some people over with low prices, but they are simply less reliable. Considering that the average keyboard user performs something like 16 million keystrokes a year, it makes sense to spend a little extra money to get yourself a keyboard that will last.
This is entirely up to you, as RGB lighting has no practical value; it’s entirely an aesthetic decision related to combining the color of your gaming devices. But you can save yourself quite a few bucks if you go for a keyboard with a simple single-color backlight instead of putting on a light show with your keyboard.
Keyboard Types
The majority of gaming keyboards are all-purpose models, which means that they have a standard set of buttons with a few extra keys and, maybe, some complex backlighting. The important thing here is the responsiveness of the switches that underlie those keys and the software that goes with the device and lets you tweak a variety of gaming-friendly settings.
There are MMO keyboards that are significantly bigger than the standard ones, mostly because they contain one or more rows of macro keys, the number of which can be up to 18. These extra keys are designed to help you manage all aspects of the character skills and buffs, or all the control options in the various strategies. These keyboards can get very expensive and often include complex RGB lighting.
At the other end of the spectrum, there are the so-called tenkeyless models, which lack the numpad – these ten numbered keys at the right of standard keyboards. Tenkeyless models are cheaper and usually quite light; some even support wireless connections. These keyboards, often paired with a multi-buttoned mouse, are a good option if you often go to tournaments or lack desk space.
Pick a Switch
The switch is a component of the mechanical keyboard located under the keycaps and determines the keys’ actuation point (the height to which the key needs to be pressed before it sends a signal to the device), and the kind of feedback provided when pressed.
Keyboards use different types of switches. As in the case of RGB lighting, the choice depends on your personal preference, although here it does have a practical side – you need to choose the type that is most comfortable for you, because the comfort of gaming has an impact on your performance, while the lighting does not (if you don’t play at night with your lights off).
There are three basic types of switch: clicky, linear, and tactile. A clicky switch delivers an audible click with every press. A linear switch moves smoothly up and down, normally without any noise or tactile feedback. A tactile switch provides feedback in the form of a “bump”. No one type is better than any other, and there are switches that combine multiple feedback types, so you really have to try them out to decide which suits you best.
To give you an example and help you understand the keyboard descriptions below, here are the most popular switch models from Cherry MX:
Cherry MX Red is a linear switch with fast actuation and very little tactile feedback.
Cherry MX Black is also a linear switch, but a bit more resistant.
Cherry MX Silver, also known as Cherry MX Speed, is a linear switch with a lower actuation height and resistance than the Cherry MX Red.
Cherry MX Brown is a switch that actuates with a tactile bump.
Cherry MX Blue combines an audible click with even greater tactile feedback than the Cherry MX Brown.
In general, regardless of the type of switch, the quality controls the responsiveness of the keyboard, which is extremely important in gaming. So switch models are really worth paying attention to and investing your money in wisely.
Tenkeyless mechanical gaming keyboards start at around $80, while the full-size models with rows of macro buttons, special gaming software and full RGB lighting can cost up to $180. The golden mean that translates into a full-size mechanical keyboard backlit with a single color falls somewhere between $100 and $120.
While it is easier to choose a good gaming keyboard than a good gaming mouse, there are things to consider to ensure you spend your money wisely. Opt for a mechanical model, think hard about the number of extra keys you need, and don’t bother with a huge MMO keyboard if you’re an FPS gamer. Finally, choose a switch that you are used to and that feels comfortable, and check your wallet to see if there’s some extra money for fancy RGB lighting.
Roccat Vulcan 121 AIMO
This is one of the most futuristic-looking gaming keyboards out there, and a regular leader on the keyboard design charts. It looks really mesmerizing and unique in the way its switches are on the desk instead of under it, but the $160 price tag means that Roccat has to offer a lot more than spaceship-like shapes and pretty lighting to compete with the likes of Logitech, Razer, and Corsair.
First of all, the plastic case of the Vulcan’s predecessor, the Horde AIMO, has been replaced by a stunning aluminum top-plate with a dark metallic look. Although the body is slim and streamlined, the Vulcan is not as lightweight as it looks, and it doesn’t slide around on the desk in the heat of the game.
Roccat has stopped using the Cherry MX switches and designed its own, following the lead of Razer and Logitech. Roccat’s Titan switches are not too clicky but retain a tactile feel close to that of the Cherry MX Brown. The response is quick, the feedback is substantial, and the actuation distance is 1.8mm. Roccat seems to have found a happy medium between Cherry MX’s Speed and Red models.
There’s no need to state that the Vulcan is literally bathed in light that is completely customizable, offering rhythmic patterns like wave, snake, heartbeat, or breathing, and even per-key customization. The Roccat Swarm software is very straightforward, even letting you assign sound effects to keystrokes (what?!). Setting up macros is fairly easy, so the lack of a separate macros panel is not a big problem. Key spacing is good, the layout is comfortable, the buttons have a soft touch to them.
As for drawbacks, the strangest thing is that the Vulcan doesn’t have a USB passthrough, and the wrist rest, though slim and easily attached with magnets, is made of hard plastic and not very comfortable for long-term use.
The earlier Logitech G413 was many gamers’ favorite budget keyboard, and the G513, by raising the price to $110, means that this model has to compete in an altogether different weight category.
The keyboard is pretty small, with a plastic frame and a top-plate made of aircraft-grade 5052 aluminum. The large wrist rest padded with memory foam, is a really pleasant addition. Floating keycaps make cleaning the keyboard with compressed air a lot easier. The lighting, customizable on a per-key level, is vibrant, and the LightSync app will help you synchronize the lighting setup with all your Logitech devices.
Romer-G Linear switches are a real highlight of the G513. Firm, but not too resistant, they fall back into place in almost complete silence. According to Logitech, these new switches offer a 25% faster keystroke than their competitors. The silent, even actuation of each keypress distinguishes them in comparison with their closest rival, Cherry MX Red, and makes this keyboard a great choice not only for gaming but for typing, too.
It is a little disappointing that the G513 has no dedicated media buttons and the USB port is still a 2.0 type, even though USB 3.0 is now widely adopted among mid-range gaming keyboards, but the Romer-G switches really make up for it.
SteelSeries Apex Pro
Let’s skip the preliminaries and go straight to the feature SteelSeries Apex Pro is known for and that has, in many ways, revolutionized the way we look at keyboard actuation heights. The Apex Pro offers OmniPoint Adjustable Switches that let you change the actuation distance on the fly, from 0.4mm to 3.5mm. This idea is actually taking the main advantage of the mechanical keyboards – per-key switches – and pushing it to its limits. As a result, you have a versatile keyboard that adapts to your gaming, to your typing, and just to you.
But even without this extra-modern feature, the Apex Pro has all the bells and whistles that make it an advanced keyboard. A USB passthrough, a textured volume roller, a rubberized, detachable magnetic wrist rest, even an OLED screen at the top-right of the board that shows the settings when you change them; you can even place a logo or a gif on it, adding a unique twist to your set-up. LED lighting shines brightly through large lettering on the keycaps. The device is quite compact for a full-size keyboard, but there is also a tenkeyless version – the Apex Pro TKL.
As for the feeling, the switches are based on SteelSeries red switches, so the keys are light and springy to the touch – it is almost as if there is a magnetic force pushing the key back after you press it. All in all, using the keyboard is a unique and positive experience.
The SteelSeries’ Engine 3 software is where you change the actuation settings at the per-key level – yes, you heard me right. It also provides storage for up to five profiles and, of course, the complex lighting customization that has become a must-have in all such programs. It is true, though, that the Engine 3 has added some unique lighting patterns and reactions, such as the Pac-Man-inspired “Chasing Ghosts.”
Razer Huntsman Elite
Here’s another contender for the craziest switcher technology innovation award. The Huntsman Elite is the first model to use the new kind of switches called “opto-mechanical”. What this really means is that these switches use laser beams instead of metal parts to detect keypresses. In theory, this should boost the response time and the durability of the switches. They require less actuation force and provide a clicky feedback. The interesting thing about these switches is that you don’t need to wait for mechanical components to come back to the default position to be ready for the next keypress. The click is laser-triggered, making the key reset distance minimal and allowing for super quick presses.
The $200 price makes this the most expensive Razer keyboard, but keep in mind that a less “fancy” version without side lights and wrist rest will save you $50.
The keyboard is rather compact with a matte aluminium finish that is “fingerprint-proof” and also adds some weight, preventing it from sliding around the desk. Two flip-out legs under the board offer two positions, a good addition, and the wrist rest with memory foam is incredibly comfortable. The keys and the board itself (including the wrist rest) are lit from below. One small downside is that, while the keyboard itself has no USB ports, it requires two of them – one for the board and one to light up your wrist rest.
One of the best features of this device is a knurled metal dial at the top-right of the desk. While it is not compatible with the Windows Dial functionality, it is programmable. The default behaviour is sound control, but you can use it to swap between applications or even between weapons in games. Also, the dial is clickable. To the left of the dial, you’ll find three dedicated media controls.
Corsair K95 RGB Platinum
It seems that, at some point, every gaming brand takes the best of its creative ideas, tech inventions, and keyboard software, channels it all into one keyboard… then hangs a $200 price tag on it. Here’s another monster among gaming keyboards, this time from Corsair. On the web, we’ve seen it called the Ferrari or even the Rolls Royce of keyboards. Let’s see if this luxurious model is not just another marketing ploy.
The deck is made from aircraft-grade aluminium with a full-size keyboard complete with six programmable macro buttons and a wrist rest; it feels heavy but also substantial. This model, just like an expensive car, impresses with the sheer grandeur of its exterior. A super-vibrant array of LED lights reflects off the dark aluminum, suffusing the keyboard with light. A light bar with 19 programmable RGB zones runs along the top bezel of the device. To cut a long story short, the lighting quality is incredible and the customization possibilities are jaw-dropping: you can even produce circular lighting waves that start from the button you hit.
The keyboard is equipped with Cherry MX Speed switches with a 1.2mm actuation height, providing quick response that makes the K95 RGB Platinum perfectly suited for FPS. There are three extra buttons on the top-left of the deck: one to select user profiles, one to adjust brightness and one to lock the Windows key. On the right you’ll find a mute button, a metal roll-bar to control volume and a set of standard media keys. There is also a USB 2.0 passthrough and a rubberized wrist rest which you can flip to choose between smooth and textured grips. Unfortunately, the wrist rest is also terribly dust-friendly, attracting every small particle floating in the air.
The Corsair Utility Engine (CUE) software is some of the most intuitive you’ll find. It is also stylish and straightforward – everything is where you’d expect it to be, and the most complex lighting customization seems like a game. It is equally easy to record long-string macros, and even attach custom sounds to them.
Finally, swappable textured WASD keycaps are a big bonus for FPS gamers. Coupled with the Cherry MX Speed switches, they make the Corsair K95 RGB Platinum a near-perfect choice for Overwatch and CS:GO enthusiasts.
Razer Cynosa Chroma
We’ve finally climbed down from the dizzy heights of the $200 monsters, and now urn to a more affordable $60 keyboard that, despite its price, has made it to our list of best gaming keyboards.
Cynosa Chroma carries an impressive weight for its price category. The keycaps have a comfortable concave shape, are soft to the touch, and don’t feel cheap. The deck is “splash-resistant”, according to Razer, but that is a common feature for non-mechanical keyboards.
Yes, Cynosa is a membrane keyboard. “But you’ve told us to forget about membrane keyboards!” While that is true, it is also true that Cynosa is the perfect example of an exception that proves the rule. As a membrane keyboard, Cynosa provides softer and more silent key presses. The actuation height is greater than average, so the keys actually seem a bit too loose compared to similarly-priced competitors such as the Corsair K55. There is no wrist rest, nor any special media keys or macro buttons, which is a bit disappointing. Still, there is an on-the-fly macro recording key that gets the job done pretty well without you having to delve into specialized software.
Cynosa has a good RGB lighting system which is controllable at the per-key level, which is very rare among membrane keyboards in this price range. You can also pay another $20 and get a Pro version with underglow. As for the Razor’s Synapse 3 software, it is clean, if not as easy-to-navigate as some, and there are ready-made presets for those who don’t want to spend time figuring out all the configurations.
Finally, Cynosa offers a Hypershift functionality that basically allows you to double the number of customizable keys by swapping between two sets of macros with a single key press.
HyperX Alloy Elite RGB
As with other expensive gaming keyboards, the Alloy Elite RGB carries a substantial weight, yet is not overly cumbersome. Also, the wrist rest is detachable, allowing you to free up even more space if necessary. The keys have a soft finish and are slightly concave, and you’ll also find a set of textured silver replacement caps for the WASD keys, as well as silver caps the 1, 2, 3, 4 keys. At the top, there are dedicated media buttons and a scroll-bar to control volume. There arу also special buttons to adjust brightness, toggle “game mode” and switch lighting profiles.
The HyperX has stayed with the famous Cherry MX switches, and you can choose between Brown, Red and Blue types for your set. All in all, they consistently, so this keyboard is a good choice for those who are already used to these switches on other keyboards.
The device offers per-key RGB lighting, which looks great partly due to the floating keycaps design. You’ll find a USB 2.0 passthrough on the back of the keyboard, but, unfortunately, there are no macro keys.
We have to admit that the HyperX’s software is its weakest point. The design is rather uninviting, and the interface is quite messy.
Considering that it will take you a while to figure out the basic lighting settings, it is somewhat ironic that the name of the software is Ngenuity. It offers the usual presets and lighting customization options, as well as some game-specific lighting presets.
IOGear HVER Pro RGB
After the Razer Cynosa Chroma, this is our second contender for the best budget gaming keyboard. Most models in this price category cost a bit more or lack features like mechanical switches or RGB lighting, so that’s why HVER Pro RGB has drawn our attention.
First, we are impressed by the solid aluminum desk that isn’t easily bent and adds weight to the device.There are also four rubber grips that prevent the keyboard from sliding around the desk. You can choose from either tactile Brown or linear Red switches, but the strange thing is that we haven’t been able to find the actual switch manufacturer, nor the precise specs of the two types.
Seeing per-key RGB lighting with 18 lighting patterns on a keyboard at this price is surprising in a good way. As for the software, it is a bit tricky and instructions are lacking, so you’ll need to spend a bit of time figuring it out, but after that, you’ll see that it offers all the main options: setting up macro buttons and lighting, delay and polling rate adjustment, and so on.
As for the actual gaming experience, this keyboard withstands the most rigorous testing. The clicks are responsive and the greater resistance past the actuation point keeps you from unnecessary movements and saves your hands from getting tired. This is a very responsive keyboard – keypresses are registered almost instantly – and the device effectively prevents false or missed inputs.
Cooler Master MK850
The Cooler Master flagship gaming model MK850 looks impressive, with its dark chassis made of anodized brushed aluminum and black keys bathed in the underlying light. The keyboard uses “floating” keys, leaving the switches a little exposed. There are also light bars on the sides of the deck that accentuate the angular form of the device. On the rear of the board, you’ll find two USB 3.0 ports. The faux-leather magnetic wrist rest is really comfortable.
The main feature of the keyboard is in the eight analog Aimpad-type keys (QWERASDF). In contrast with other keyboards using the same technique, like Wooting One, the Aimpad functionality is added to the mechanical switches and doesn’t require optical switches.
Also, the travel distance is 4mm, which is twice as great as the Wooting model. Each Aimpad key includes an IR sensor with adjustable sensitivity that measures the force applied to each key. In short, you have a keyboard and a gamepad in one device. The keyboard does a great job of tricking games into thinking you’re using an actual gamepad whenever one of those eight buttons is pressed. You can smoothly accelerate and steer in racing games, and better creep behind your enemies in third-person action games.
The software that comes with the keyboard is one of the best there is, although the main benefit of the MK850 is actually the ease with which you can customize all kinds of settings on-the-fly, without even using this software.
Finally, the all-time classic Cherry MX Red switches do their job perfectly combined with the overall solid build of the keyboard.
We decided to finish our list with a real titan among keyboards, the best wireless keyboard we could get our hands on, the incredibly built – and incredibly high-priced – Logitech G915.
The keyboard looks stunning: it has the unassuming chic of the real treasure among heaps of glittering trash. The matte gunmetal top-deck, black keys with subtly illuminated lettering and almost no light “overspilling” from under the keycaps, stylish volume roller breaking the straight rectangular form... The keyboard is unbelievably thin but not light. The low-profile keycaps give it an unusual look for a gaming keyboard, but also save the G915 from cumbersome extra plastic.
Logitech partnered with Kailh to design the new GL switches: despite their reduced height, they offer an amazing 2.7mm of travel. They are triggered as quickly as the Cherry MX “speed switches” without the ultra-sensitivity of the latter that has annoyed many gamers. This makes the keyboard very responsive, which is, obviously, a great benefit in gaming. You can choose one of three switches: tactile, clicky or linear.
The wireless connection is impeccable, and you can also connect the G915 over Bluetooth. Logitech promises an astounding 135 days of use between charges if you turn off the RGB lighting.
A significant addition to the G HUB software is the possibility of creating animations. You have at your disposal a timeline, transitions and the ability to paint the lighting in as many as 70 frames. The key programming is simple, though only five macro keys are reprogrammable. Considering there are three profiles, in total you have 15 programmable buttons.
The bottom line is – Logitech G915 is the best wireless keyboard we’ve tested. Maybe you would want to have more programmable buttons and a wrist rest for your $250, but even as it stands, we think the keyboard is worth its price.
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K-Pop Group, Cravity Release “Cloud 9” Music Video
June 19, 2020 By MovieDebuts
[Credit: Starship Entertainment]
K-Pop Rookie boy band, CRAVITY, release a euphoric music video for “Cloud 9,” off their debut album CRAVITY SEASON1. [HIDEOUT: REMEMBER WHO WE ARE]. “Cloud 9” is meant to showcase a different side of the nine members to their fans, with its upbeat sound and fresh visuals, as opposed to their debut single “Break All The Rules,” which MTV News referred to as “electrifying” and “rebellious.”
“We made many great memories through this track during the hot summer days! Whenever I listen to this song, it makes me think of delightful moments where we spent time together practicing our choreography, shooting the photos and the music video. It’s like a treasure, which makes me extremely happy” says Vocalist Seongmin. Wonjin adds; “This track makes us laugh together and brings us lots of energy and happiness. It makes our bond stronger thus making our teamwork improve. It helps us to unite as one.”
CRAVITY 크래비티 ‘Cloud 9’ MV
The video for “Cloud 9” follows the release of CRAVITY’s debut album, which caused a wave of intrigue and excitement here in the states, with mentions in PAPER Magazine, Access, iHeart, J-14, MTV News, Earmilk, and Rolling Stone who referred to their title track as “An anthemic track from the K-pop rookies that combines 808-style riffs with the melodic sensibilities of early-2000s boybands (extended dance break included).” In addition to that, CRAVITY made a splash on social media, debuting at No. 12 on Billboard’s Social 50 chart for the week dated April 25.
Rapper and Leader Serim leaves us with a final statement; “It’s a great pleasure that we are able to show our fans our very refreshing track “Cloud 9.” It definitely has a different atmosphere from our title track “Break All The Rules,” so please look forward to it!”
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Meet our newest trainee solicitors
We’re delighted to have appointed two new trainee solicitors.
Caroline Wood and Sarah Addison started their two-year solicitor training with our Dispute Resolution Team and Banking & Finance Team, and will then join various specialist departments before completing their training and becoming fully qualified solicitors.
Caroline studied Law at Newcastle University and graduated in 2016, before continuing her studies on the Legal Practice Course at the University of Law in Manchester.
She said: “It’s quite a cliché, but I wanted to be a lawyer mainly because of the problem solving that comes with it. I have also enjoyed customer related elements of various part-time jobs I’ve had, so I am delighted to be starting my legal career in such a fantastic North East firm where the focus is all about meeting and building relationships with clients.”
Trainee solicitor Sarah Addison, originally from Durham, graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Spanish and French. Sarah returned home to complete her Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course at Northumbria University.
Sarah said: “I am absolutely delighted to return home to the region and to be able to join such a fantastic team at Muckle LLP. Everyone is so friendly and the company has such a fantastic culture that it truly deserves the Best Place to Work award it recently won!
Jason Wainwright, Managing Partner, said: “We’re delighted to welcome Sarah and Caroline to their respective teams here. They’re both settling in very well and, as talented, enthusiastic and committed individuals, they are already an important part of our team.
Click here to learn more about becoming a trainee at Muckle
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Mark Wahlberg donates 1.3M face masks to schools across the country
by: WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff and Nexstar Media Wire
POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – Actor Mark Wahlberg is aiding students and teachers across the nation in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Wahlberg’s activewear brand Performance Inspired recently partnered with the active lifestyle brand LifeToGo to donate 1.3 million disposable face masks to teachers and students across the nation, as announced in a press release.
Cities that have already received the donated 3-ply masks include Bentonville, Arkansas; Boise; Chicago; Cincinnati; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Minneapolis; Portland, Oregon; Quincy, Massachusetts; Rochester, New York; Salisbury, North Carolina; San Antonio; and Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
Mark Wahlberg’s brutal “Transformers” diet
Wahlberg posted a video message on social media thanking essential workers and teachers as they combat the pandemic.
“This has been a year of change and stress for everybody. But today, I want to thank our essential workers. You guys have kept us healthy, safe and supplied us with all of the necessities,” Wahlberg said in the video. “Every day brings a new challenge but we continue to pray for you and your families. And, please know your efforts are much appreciated.”
Former Louisiana lawmaker and wife died of COVID-19 on the same day
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Wolf, Levine Announce Lifting of Time Limited Mitigation on Jan. 4
December 31, 2020 December 31, 2020 - by MyChesCo
HARRISBURG, PA — Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine have announced that the time-limited COVID-19 mitigation orders, as written, will expire at 8 a.m., Jan. 4 …
Infectious Diseases / Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania To Receive 97,500 Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine Going To 87 Hospitals
HARRISBURG, PA — Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine announced that Pennsylvania is slated to receive 97,500 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for 66 counties, with Philadelphia County receiving …
Tips for Avoiding COVID-19 Vaccine Scams
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission has issued a new consumer education blog post with the National Association of Attorneys General, offering tips on how to recognize and avoid vaccine-related …
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Governor Wolf Announces Life Sciences Partnership to Create Jobs, Develop COVID-19 Vaccine
December 5, 2020 December 4, 2020 - by MyChesCo
HARRISBURG, PA — Governor Tom Wolf announced that U.S. Specialty Formulations (USSF), LLC, a pharmaceutical manufacturing company, will expand its operations in Allentown, Lehigh County to continue its work developing …
Health / Medical / National / Society
Tribal Health Programs and Urban Indian Organizations Choose How They Will Access the COVID-19 Vaccine
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Health and Human Services is laying the necessary groundwork for the distribution of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine by ensuring that all tribal …
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VA Recruiting Volunteers for COVID-19 Clinical Trials
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the department announced its nationwide effort to recruit volunteers for COVID-19 clinical …
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Trump Administration Partners with CVS and Walgreens to Provide COVID-19 Vaccine
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To meet the Trump Administration’s Operation Warp Speed (OWS) goals, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Defense (DoD) announced agreements with CVS and Walgreens to provide …
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Chester County Biopharma Company Receives $210,000 to Support Developing COVID-19 Therapies
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WEST CHESTER, PA — A Chester County biopharma company will receive more than $210,000 in grant funding to support the advancement of a treatment in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, …
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FDA Announces Advisory Committee Meeting to Discuss COVID-19 Vaccines
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that a public meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will be held on Oct. 22, 2020, to discuss the general matter …
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Wolf Administration Awards $10 Million to 23 Entities to Develop Effective COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments and Therapies
HARRISBURG, PA — Governor Tom Wolf announced that 23 awardees will receive $10 million in grant funding through the COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments and Therapies (CV-VTT) program to support the rapid …
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Brentford striker will get even better, says boss
UWE Rosler insists there's more to come from summer signing Farid El Alagui after he opened his account in Brentford's pre-season tour to Germany.
Jacob Murtagh
Farid El Alagui Image 2
The former Falkirk frontman failed to feature in the first two games of the trip due to injury, but scored twice in the 2-1 win against Lokomotiv Leipzig on Friday.
And Bees boss Rosler has been encouraged by the Moroccan's blossoming partnership with Clayton Donaldson .
He said: “Unfortunately, Farid missed the first couple of games but came back and scored two in 60 minutes.
“It's nice for him to open his account and he's showing a good understanding with Clayton as well.
“But it's still early days. They will get better the more they play together."
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest Brentford news.
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mySociety design tip: search box landing pages
Posted by Dave Whiteland 17th August 2012
Posted in International
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We use Google analytics to understand how people use, and find, our sites. This blog post is a summary of one deceptively simple way we use this information to get more people to use TheyWorkForYou, our UK parliamentary tracking website.
"Mallard landing" (at Slimbridge) by LHG Creative Photography (CC BY-NC-ND licensed from Flickr)
One technical term: landing pages are the pages on a website that a user first arrives on from a particular link or search result. In this case, we created explicit landing pages. That is, we made these pages solely to be the target of search results. They serve no other purpose in the structure of the site; they are like super-focussed homepages. If you’ve read the blog post about minimising clicks on the homepage you’ll see that this is a clear example of that principal in action.
We added two specific landing pages to TheyWorkForYou — here’s one of them: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/parliament/
This page exists for a simple reason: we know that someone who uses the word “parliament” when searching on Google is probably looking for something that TheyWorkForYou can help with. By creating the “parliament” landing page, we are able to offer a page that is more likely to serve them. Incidentally, we try to make sure that searches lead to the landing page by using Google Adwords, and encouraging the Google bots to associate the page with the keywords, and other things too — but those are not the details this tip is about. Instead, look what we’ve put on that page. You’ll see it includes a set of useful explanations about parliament (it’s very common for people not to know how their parliament works), as well as a search box.
That search box is the same one that appears on every other page on the website, in the top right-hand corner.
But on this landing page, we’ve changed the prominence of the search box by putting it right in front of your eyes. And we added the caption: “Search for any word or phrase – see if it’s been mentioned in Parliament”.
Yes, there’s no technical magic here. No special code. It’s our regular search box. The difference is that on this page we know the user is thinking about parliament, and that search box does indeed search extensive records of what’s been happening in parliament. If we didn’t do this, we could leave the user to figure it out for themselves. They might of course… or they might give up. As you’ll have noticed if you’ve read the previous design tips, we don’t want users to give up, ever.
We did it again for “Hansard”. What’s Hansard? It’s the name of the transcript of all UK parliamentary debates, published by Parliament itself. Someone who knows about Hansard might be searching for it (on Google, say) and not realise that TheyWorkForYou has the entire transcript available for search. So we added another landing page. Again, it’s the same search that’s on all the other TheyWorkForYou pages, but now — for a user who’s already identified as someone who knows that Hansard exists — it’s clear that the search will do what they expect.
Taggedadvice, DIY, real-life examples, usability
Alaveteli in Italy
Posted by Myfanwy 9th May 2012
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Romina Colman is, in her own words, a Freedom of Information activist from Buenos Aires. She did a great job of recording events at AlaveteliCon, what with blogging for Argentina’s national newspaper La Nacion, copious tweeting, and videos.
Here, Romina speaks to Andrea Menapace from Italy, co-founder of Diritto di Sapere.
In this short clip (1:15), Andrea explains the current situation with Freedom of Information in Italy, and what his nascent organisation hopes to achieve.
Together with Guido Romeo (science editor at Wired Italy) I am the founder of Diritto di Sapere, a brand new organisation working on the Right to Information and Transparency in Italy. I am a lawyer by training and I have been working as a researcher and project manager in human rights and humanitarian organizations. I am currently working as a consultant for international NGOs on digital media and civil society capacity building projects.
Find Andrea on Twitter.
Taggedalaveteli, DIY, italy, real-life examples, videos
Sites built on mySociety’s code
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DIY mySociety is all about making our code – and our experience – available to people who want to build similar websites in their own countries. We thought it would be helpful to list some examples of sites already using mySociety code, so you can see the variety of different possible outcomes.
It might seem like a simple task, but identifying sites in this way isn’t as straightforward as you might think – we don’t always know when people pick up our open source code! If we’ve missed any, please do comment below and we’ll add them.
There are also many sites around the world which were directly, or indirectly, “inspired by” ours. In these cases, the site’s owners have written their own code from scratch. That’s a subject – and a list – for another post. For now, here are all the international sites using mySociety’s code that we know about.
Alaveteli: our Right-to-Know Platform
WhatDoTheyKnow.com – our original Freedom of Information site
FYI.org.nz – New Zealand Freedom of Information site
Pravodaznam – Bosnia and Herzegovina Freedom of Information site
Queremossaber.br – Brazil Freedom of Information site
Informatazyrtare.org – Albania Freedom of Information site
Tuderechoasaber.es – Spain Freedom of Information site
AskTheEU – Europe Freedom of Information site
Get the Alaveteli code here.
FixMyStreet: our fault-reporting Platform
FixMyStreet.com – our original fault-reporting site
Fiksgatami – Norway FixMyStreet
FixOurCity – Chennai FixMyStreet
FixMyStreet.br – Brazil FixMyStreet, based on both our code and FixMyStreet.ca from Canada
Get the FixMyStreet code here
Parliamentary monitoring and access to elected representatives
TheyWorkForYou – our original parliamentary monitoring site
WriteToThem – our original ‘contact your representative’ site
Mzalendo – Kenya parliamentary monitoring site
Open Australia – Australia parliamentary monitoring site
Kildare Street – Ireland parliamentary monitoring site
Parlamany – Egypt parliamentary monitoring site
Mejlis – Tunisia parliamentary monitoring site
A community of people, waiting to help
Inspired by the examples above? If you’re thinking of going ahead and building your own site, we’re here to support you with our easy-to-understand guidebooks and our friendly mailing lists. In our online communities you’ll find many of the people who built the sites listed here. There’s no-one better to ask questions, because they’ve been through the process themselves, from early conception right up to completion.
If you are one of those people who has been through the whole process of building, launching and running a site like these (with or without our codebase), and lived to tell the tale, please shout in the comments below. And especially if you’re open to people approaching with questions. Perhaps add a note to say where you prefer to have those conversations – whether that’s via your favourite mailing lists, Twitter, email or simply in the comments to this post.
One last thought – it’s interesting to see that our code can be used for areas as small as a single city (FixMyStreet Chennai) or as large as a confederation of states (AskTheEU.org). In short, it’s scalable! How will you use it?
Image by Windell Oskay, used with thanks under the Creative Commons licence.
Taggedadvice, alaveteli, Components, DIY, fixmystreet, FOI, Meta, parliamentary monitoring, Platforms, real-life examples
Alaveteli in Serbia
Posted by Myfanwy 23rd April 2012
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Two good reasons to use Alaveteli: it’s flexible, and there’s a supportive, worldwide community. So says Danko Nikolic from Serbia in this half-minute clip.
Danko is one of the founders of the Zajecar Initiative (ZI). ZI has grown into a leading civil society organization working outside the capital of Belgrade. On behalf of ZI, he has developed, co-managed and managed projects funded by various donors, such as National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USA Embassy Democracy Commission, USAID, Fund for an Open Society and others.
Zajecar Initiative is now working on the Serbian version of WriteToThem, aiming to enable the citizens of Serbia to communicate with their local representatives and MPs.
Taggedalaveteli, DIY, real-life examples, Serbia, videos
Alaveteli in Brazil
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This is Daniela B. Silva from Transparência Hacker in Brazil. In this short clip, Daniela speaks about launching Queremossaber, a Freedom of Information website, into a country where the Right to Know is not yet an embedded part of civic life:
We know that these things are not going to come from Government so easily… you have to create a culture that’s not so based on secrecy; more based on dialogue.”
Transparência Hacker is an autonomous and decentralised community of more than 800 hackers and activists for transparency and openness in Brazil. Queremos Saber is the first Brazilian platform for access to information requests. Transparência Hacker also run the Ônibus Hacker, a bus to spread DIY culture in Brazilian localities – as well as many other projects.
Taggedalaveteli, Brazil, DIY, FOI, real-life examples, videos
Alaveteli in Spain
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Here’s David Cabo from Tuderechoasaber.es. In another minute-long chat, he explains the environment in Spain, into which the Alaveteli-powered site launched.
“No-one has done it before, so no-one knows how to start.”
David in his own words:
I’m vice-president of Pro Bono Publico – a Spanish association organizing the biggest Open Data hackathon in the country, AbreDatos – and creator of dondevanmisimpuestos.es, a web site for visualizing the annual budgets from Spanish public administrations, developed in collaboration with the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN). I worked with mySociety and Access Info Europe in the development of the EU access to information site, AsktheEU.org. I launched the transparency initiative #adoptaundiputado (Adopt an MP) to crowdsource the parsing of Spanish parliamentarians’ financial disclosure reports, and have collaborated with investigative journalists in the extraction and analysis of public records (Looting the Seas, ICIJ). I’m currently working on tuderechoasaber.es, an access to information site for Spain based on the Alaveteli software and funded by more than 150 small donors using the crowdfunding platform Goteo.
Taggedalaveteli, DIY, FOI, Platforms, real-life examples, Spain, videos
Alavetelicon: community, cakes, and black boxes
Posted in Events, International
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This is a cross-post from the Alaveteli blog. It was written by Seb Bacon, who organised the recent Alaveteli conference, bringing together people from many different countries to discuss building and running Access to Information websites on the Alaveteli Platform.
Alavetelicon 2012 has finished, the tweeting has subsided, and I think I’ve just about finished digesting the enormous conference dinner. It was a lot of fun, with a host of dedicated FOI activists and hackers who could only make it thanks to the generous funding provided by Open Society Foundation and Hivos.
The schedule was split into streams, and had lots of non-programmed time, so I only actually saw a small part of it. There are write-ups in various languages from other participants; here are some personal observations.
The main goal of the conference was to strengthen and build the community. At the time of the conference there were 7 installations of Alaveteli worldwide, but only a small amount interaction between these groups. So far, I’ve been the only person with a clear incentive to make sure people collaborate (I’m funded to do it!) This clearly isn’t sustainable; more people need to talk directly to each other. There’s no better way of building trust and understading that meeting face-to-face.
This certainly worked well for me. Of course, I had conversations with people about Freedom of Information and database architectures, but more importantly, I now know who has a new baby daughter, who is thinking about living in a co-housing project, and who loves British 80s electronic sensation Depeche Mode. I was really struck by what a friendly group of people this was.
Richard Hunt, who’s leading a project to launch an Alaveteli site in the Czech Republic, had some encouraging things to say about community. In his eloquent (and very quotable) presentation, he explained his journey towards using Alaveteli. At first, he wasn’t sure about using the software. He’d talked with developers who had looked at the code, and had felt it might be better to start from scratch. So Richard contacted developers who had already deployed Alaveteli sites directly, and got lots of very useful, friendly, and encouraging responses. His conclusion was that Alaveteli isn’t just a technical platform; “it is also about people — their dreams and ambitions of impeccable merit”.
For so long it was just a dream and idle talk on our side. Now we are nearly there, and we are part of a BIG movement. Feels great, doesn’t it?
This is encouraging, but the conversations started at the conference must continue if they are to bear fruit in the form of more international collaboration. Please join the new Alaveteli Users mailing list, and share ideas or ask questions there!
The future of Alaveteli
There was a lot of discussion of which new features should be added to Alaveteli next, some of which I’ve listed on the alaveteli-dev Google group. However, three general themes particularly struck a cord with me:
1. More collaboration, less confrontation
In the UK, we have been accused of encouraging a confrontational, points-scoring approach to FOI. At the conference, there were stories of how FOI actually frees people within a bureaucracy to speak directly to the requester — without having to go via a press office. We heard of various cases where ministries actively wanted to take part in Alaveteli pilots. In the UK, we have found that FOI officers take their jobs very seriously, and do want to work with the Alaveteli concept; yet they feel that sometimes it makes things unnecessarily hard for them.
I’m not sure what conclusion to take from this, exactly. It remains the case that Alaveteli must be able to deal with obstinate authorities that don’t want to play the game, and it is a prime virtue of the system that it remains well outside the bureaucracies that it aims to hold to account. However, I’m left with a sense that we should examine how we can continue to do this while providing more support to our allies within the System.
2. Cake and fireworks
Lots of people at the conference asked for more statistics to be made available on Alaveteli sites. mySociety has always been a little reluctant to release statistics, because they are so easy to spin or misinterpret. However, delegates repeatedly referred to their power for campaigning. The psychological impact of a big red cross next to your organisation’s name, which you can remedy through positive action, is a powerful motivator. One idea that was mooted was to award a real-life prize (a.k.a. Cake and Fireworks) to the “top” authorities in various categories each year. I think this is a great idea.
3. Black Box APIs
Acesso Inteligente is an FOI website in Chile that doesn’t use Alaveteli. In Chile, all FOI requests must be made via various different web forms. Accesso Inteligente is a tremendous technical achievement which automatically posts requests to the correct organisation’s form, and “screen scrapes” the results, giving Chilean citizens a uniform interface to make all FOI requests.
The team behind the website would love to use Alaveteli as their front end system. The concept they’ve come up with is deceptively simple: repackage their form-posting-and-scraping functionality as a “black box” which acts as if it’s an authority that accepts FOI requests by emails, and sends the answers by email. They can then install Alaveteli without any modifications, and configure it to send FOI requests to the relevant “black box” email addresses.
I love this concept for its simplicity, and I think it can easily be extended to support other use cases. For example, there’s a lot of talk of an Alaveteli system that supports paper requests and responses. This might best be implemented as a “black box” that receives and sends email, with an implementation that helps a human operator with printing and scanning tasks in the back office.
Taggedalaveteli, DIY, event, FOI, Platforms, real-life examples
Tuderechoasaber.es
A Right-to-Know site for Spain
Tuderechoasaber.es is Spain’s brand new Right-to-Know site, built on Alaveteli. The project is managed by David Cabo and Victoria Anderica, and it launches against a fascinating political background.
When the project was started, Spain was one of four EU countries with no Freedom of Information law. The subject was, however, on the political agenda – FOI had been promised, but not delivered, by the previous government in both 2004 and 2008. On election in December 2011, the new conservative ruling party again pledged to introduce Freedom of Information, within their first 100 days in office.
Anderica works at the organisation Access Info Europe, which had been campaigning, with the support of NGOs including Amnesty International and Greenpeace, for a Freedom of Information law. Cabo is one of the founders of Civio, a new organisation hoping to emulate the work of mySociety or the Sunlight Foundation, in Spain. The combination of Access Info and Civio’s knowledge – legal and technical – meant that Tuderechoasaber.es could become a reality.
There was such public thirst for these withheld rights that Cabo and Anderica were able to fund their website through crowdsourced donations. They raised €6,000 and the site was built.
Tuderechoasaber (“Your Right to Know”) launched on the 22nd of March 2012, just a day before the Government opened a public consultation on Freedom of Information (just inside that 100-day deadline). Their promise has now been fulfilled and Spain finally has its Right-to-Know law.
Meanwhile, Tuderechoasaber welcomed more than 11,000 visitors during the first two days it was live. 180 requests were sent – never mind that they slightly preceded the Freedom of Information law actually coming into existence.
Practicalities of launching a Right to Know site
Launching a site like Tuderechoasaber might seem an impressive task, and undoubtedly, much work has gone into it – and will continue to do so.
But it may be more achievable than you think. We asked David a few questions, and here are his thoughts on the matter:
How long did the Alaveteli installation/site build take?
It didn’t take long at all. I was familiar with Alaveteli, as I had developed AsktheEU.org already, so the whole technical work was done over a couple of weeks by myself, while campaigning and coordinating other stuff.
Setting up the server took a couple of days max, and I spent a few more days redesigning the front page and a few other things: we want/need to give the site a more dynamic look, including regular news and encouraging people to support other users’ requests. Most people in Spain don’t know what FOI is or how it’s used, and that includes the public servants, so we need to be more aggressive to get responses.
How simple or otherwise did you find it? What were the major hurdles (from a development point of view) that you had to overcome?
Easy. Development-wise there were no big issues; we’ve uncovered a few caching bugs, but that’s about it.
Adding the blog posts and pictures on the frontpage is a bit of a hack right now, but no big deal. 90% of our time has been talking to media and public bodies, before and after the crowdfunding. Oh, and coordinating the translations and volunteers.
How much time is the day-to-day running of the site taking at the moment, and how much time do you anticipate spending, after the initial publicity dies down?
Too early to know how it will look once it’s settled. It’s a week now since launch, and although the media focus has moved a bit away from FOI (there was a general strike today about job market reform) we’re now getting 2K users a day. So far we have 270 requests, which is way more than we expected.
There’re 8000 city councils in Spain, plus the regional and national bodies, so the day-to-day work now – which is taking two people a few hours a day – is finding more contact details. We expect to have a couple of part-time volunteers handling support, and two part-time journalists writing about what happens on the site.
Could anyone take the plunge and run a site like this, or are there certain qualities you think it’s necessary to have?
Legal understanding of the FOI situation in their country seems essential to me. We couldn’t have built this without Access Info. Apart from that, I don’t think the technical or operations requirements are too complex. Of course, being active in civil society and/or having a community of interested users definitely helps to get the site moving.
Would you mind being contacted by others considering building an Alaveteli site?
Sure, that’s fine, happy to talk about it by email or Twitter. [If you’d like to take David up on this generous offer, find him in the first instance on Twitter at @dcabo.]
What is Alaveteli?
Alaveteli is one of our Platforms. Install it, and you can create a Freedom of Information website like WhatDoTheyKnow.com, which we run in the UK.
Alaveteli websites work like this:
Users can contact public authorities with requests for information.
The sites publish those requests, and the resulting responses.
Or if there is no response, they make that fact known.
No right to Freedom of Information? Launch anyway
The right to Freedom of Information varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction: in many countries it is enshrined by law. In others, there is no such law.
In both scenarios, we encourage people to set up Alaveteli sites.
Why? Because one of the core tenets of running an Alaveteli site is that we believe it should reflect how the law should work, not how it does.
As an example, our site WhatDoTheyKnow.com allows users to contact several bodies which are not actually subject to the UK’s Freedom of Information Act – and many of them do reply to requests made through the site.
Additionally, when we launched the site, there was no prior example of putting responses to Freedom of Information requests into the public domain. Because we believe in the benefits of transparency, we went ahead and did so anyway.
WhatDoTheyKnow was launched in the context of the UK having a Freedom of Information law, but there is nothing to stop you from launching a site even where such a law does not exist.
Find out more about Tuderechoasaber
Visit the site itself
El Pais article in the original Spanish or translated into English
El Mundo article in the original Spanish or translated into English
Find out more about Alaveteli
Join the Alaveteli mailing list – a great place for asking questions if you’re thinking of setting up your own Right to Know website
Read our Guide to getting started with Alaveteli
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Hindu Gods
Lord Shiva
According to Hindu belief, everything in this universe goes through three stages in its life time; that is birth, life and death. After the death, a Hindu believe, that a thing takes re-birth depending on the amount of good or bad things that he/she/it did on these first two stages. A person, which completed its cycle of birth in this way, get salvation or moksha with no more birth, life and death.
To maintain this balance of nature Hindus have three principal Gods (known as Thrimurthis)- Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva. Lord Brahma is the Lord of creation, Lord Vishnu is the God of Protection and Lord Shiva is the God of destruction or death.
Lord Shiva had his origin from Lord Brahma’s lap. The legend goes like this; Lord Brahma asked his four sons- Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana and Sanalkumara to get married and fill this earth by their kith and kins. When they refused, he gave birth to a boy from his lap, using his divine powers. The newly born boy began to cry loud to get a name and a place to reside for him. Lord Brahma gave him the name Rudra. The boy cried six more times. Thus Lord Brahma gave him seven more names. The names are Bhava, Sarva, Isana, Pasupathi, Bhima, Ugra and Mahadeva respectively.
Thereafter, Lord Brahma got married these eight Rudras and they started a family life. It is believed, the kith and kins of these eight Rudras filled this universe in course of time.
Lord Shiva has two wives: Goddess Parvati and Goddess Ganga. It is believed, Goddess Ganga resides on his mat and generally worshiped as a holy river. Goddess Parvati is widely worshiped in human form throughout the country.
Lord Shiva worship is widespread all over the Indian sub-continent. In most of the cases, he is worshiped in Linga form. There is a legend behind the origin of Linga worship. When Goddess Sathi (wife of Lord Shiva) got immolated herself at Dakshayaga, Lord Shiva started wandering around the universe in grief. He reached Daruvana- a forest where many rishis are doing Yagnas, along with their wives and family.
Somehow, wives of these rishis got attracted to Lord Shiva. This made risihis irritated; they cursed Lord Shiva that his Linga be fallen on earth. The curse came true. Linga of Lord Shiva fell on the earth and he disappeared. The heat from that Linga became intolerable. So devas requested Lord Shiva to take back that Linga. After much persuasion Lord Shiva agreed; with a condition that he should be worshiped in Linga form thereafter.
Shivaratri (usually in February) is the most important festival in the name of Lord Shiva.
Hindu puranas have rich reference to Lord Shiva. Of these, following five legends are popular. In most of the cases any of these five stories form the basis to the origin of the famous Lord Shiva temples in India.
First is Dakshayagam story. Once Dakshaprajapathi (father-in-law of Lord Shiva) arranged a yagna at his palace. He invited all gods except Lord Shiva as he considered Lord Shiva as impure and unsuited to his status as Prajapathi.
Somehow, devi Sathi came to know about this yagna. She went to attend the yagna irrespective of Lord Shiva’s opposition. At the yagna place Daksha insulted Goddess Sathi, by abusing Lord Shiva in front of others. Devi could not bear it; so she immolated herself at the sacrificial fire. Hearing the news a furious Lord Shiva reached the spot; he started a Thandav Nrutya carrying the charred body of Devi Sathi.
The force of the dance was such that the entire universe began to shake. Other gods became weary. They approached Lord Vishnu for help. Lord Vishnu, in order to distract the attention of Lord Shiva, crushed the body of Devi using his Sudarsan chakra. The pieces of Sathi’s body fell into many places on earth.
Second popular legend is related to Lord Shiva getting inflicted with Brahmahatya curse. One day there aroused a dispute between Lord Vishnu and Lord Brahma over who is supreme among them. When the dispute got heated, a Shiva Linga suddenly appeared before them. A heavenly voice declared that whoever finds the edge of any of the edges first becomes supreme.
Thus, Lord Vishnu began to travel beneath the Shiva Linga for many many years to find its bottom edge; but failed. Finally, he came back and pleaded his inability to Lord Shiva.
Meanwhile, Lord Brahma, who traveled upward, had the same experience. Instead, he saw a rose petal coming down. When asked, the petal replied that she fell atop the Shiva Linga and is falling down for many years. This made Lord Brahma panic as he still needs to fly many thousand years to reach the top.
Lord Brahma befriended that petal and returned to Lord Vishnu. Sighting the evidence of that rose petal Lord Brahma took a false oath that he saw the upper edge of the Shivalinga and as such he became supreme. Lord Vishnu refused to believe this oath and requested Lord Shiva to show the truth.
Lord Shiva appeared before them. He revealed what was happened and cursed Lord Brahma that no one shall worship him anymore for taking false oath and cut-off one of his five heads out of anger.
When he cut-off Lord Brahma’s head, Lord Shiva got afflicted with Brahmahatya sin. So he wandered around this universe as a mendicant- with Lord Brahma’s skull on his hand, to alleviate his sin. Finally, he reached Varanasi. After having a dip in the holy river Ganga he got relieved of his Brahmahatya sin.
Third legend is associated with churning of palazhi or palazhimathan. Due to a curse from sage Durvasa, Devas lost their divine powers and got afflicted with diseases. So they prayed to Lord Vishnu for a solution. Lord Vishnu advised them to churn palazhi or milky ocean to get amruth or nectar; drinking it shall cure their problems. He asked them to get the help of Asuras as devas alone cannot do the job.
Thus, both devas and asuras began to churn the ocean using the divine serpent Vasuki as the rope. When the churning was in progress the serpent Vasuki began to vomit to Kalakutavisha- the deadly poisonous venom.
All became panic as the poisonous gas began to spread. They requested Lord Shiva to swallow the venom before it touching the earth. Lord Shiva agreed and started drinking the poison. Goddess Parvati immediately pressed hard the neck of the Lord to prevent it entering the stomach in order to save his life. At the same time, lord Vishnu closed the mouth of Lord Shiva to prevent returning the venom from Shiva’s neck. Thus the deadly poison got clotted at lord Shiva’s neck; it became bluish in colour.
There after Lord Shiva became Neelakanda- that is one with a blue neck.
Fourth legend is associated with Arjuna of Mahabharath. During the vanavasa period, the Pandava prince Arjun did a severe penance to please Lord Shiva.
In order to test the courage, dedication and also to subdue the false ego of Arjun, lord Shiva appeared before him as a Kirata (forest demon).
They had a tussle over a Pork which both claimed that they have hunted. In the tussle that followed Arjuna got severely injured.
Lord Shiva, along with Goddess Parvati, appeared in front of Arjun and blessed him with an arrow called Pasupatha.
The fifth legend is related to Ravan- the demon king of Lanka . He is an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva. There is a legend behind this devotion.
After getting many boons from Lord Brahma, Ravan thought he is above even Lord Shiva. So he challenged Lord Shiva and to show his strength he took the mount Kailas (abode of Lord Shiva) on his palm and began to shake it.
To punish Ravan, Lord Shiva pressed mount Kailas down with his foot fingers. Thus the palm of Ravan got pressed under the weight of mount Kailas. He could not move his palm for many years.
He apologized to Lord Shiva and prayed to him. Pleased by the devotion of the demon king Lord Shiva lifted mount Kailas and also gifted a sword- Chandrahas- to him. This sword made him even stronger.
Famous Lord Shiva temples of India
JyothirLinga Temples
Panchabhootha Temples
Gokarna Temple
Vadakkunnatha Temple
Lord Ayyappa Temple, Sabarimala
Goddess Parvati
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Following the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic to implement a new system of reservation for visa applications, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Kuala Lumpur, effective on the 1st of December 2017, introduces a telephone appointment system for visa application submissions.
The applicants must book their visit by calling the Embassy at +603 2166 1900 to make an appointment. The full name, passport number, date of birth and mobile contact will be required.
The booking for each month starts on the first Monday after the 18th of the previous month. In each phone call only one slot can be booked, with the exception of minors whose appointments can be booked together with their legal representative. The order is on the first come first served basis and the Embassy it not able to change it.
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KKR, Riverstone Create Barnett-Rich E&P
By Carolyn Davis
Two private equity giants are merging some energy assets to form Trinity River Energy LLC, an exploration and production (E&P) operator that would have a big presence in the venerable Barnett Shale.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP (KKR) is combining assets from KKR Natural Resources Fund with Riverstone Holdings’ Legend Production Holdings LLC. No financial information was disclosed.
Trinity would have 258 MMcf/d of Barnett gas output, as well as properties in the Permian Basin, East and South Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
“This is an opportunity to create a company with greater scale and a significant presence in the Barnett Shale, and thereby we hope to capture meaningful operational synergies as well as create incremental opportunities to generate additional value for our investors going forward,” said KKR’s Jonathan Smidt, who led the transaction.
Trinity would be headquartered in Fort Worth, TX, and led by Legend CEO Chris Hammack. Operations would be based in Fort Worth, with the finance, accounting and information technology arm in Houston.
“Following the combination, Trinity will have an impressive position in the Barnett Shale and a mix of highly prospective plays,” said Hammack. “We feel confident that our strong financial backing and experienced teams will allow us to build a highly successful company together.”
The transaction, set to close by the end of September, is one that makes sense, said KKR and Riverstone executives. Trinity would have “highly complementary producing properties and acreage positions,” they stated.
Legend, founded in 2001 and based in Houston, entered the Barnett three years ago after purchasing Range Resources Corp.’s estimated $900 million portfolio (see Shale Daily, March 7, 2011). At that time Legend also boosted its holdings in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas. The Barnett properties in 2011 included 390 producing wells and about 52,000 net acres, with output of 113 MMcfe/d, 86% weighted to gas. Legend was formed in 2009 to acquire and develop reserves in the U.S. onshore.
KKR’s presence in North America’s onshore has been growing. Since 2009 KKR has invested about $4.3 billion in the onshore and in March it completed a $2 billion fund focused on developing more unconventional resources (see Shale Daily, March 5).
In 2012, KKR and affiliates made their third purchase in the Barnett in a $306 million agreement with WPX Energy (see Shale Daily, April 3, 2012). That deal handed it about 27,000 net acres, interest in 320 wells, 91 miles of pipeline and 67,000 MMcf/d net. KKR also gained assets in the Arkoma Basin, including 66,000 net acres, stakes in 325 wells and 115 miles of pipe.
KKR also in late 2011 led a group in paying $7.2 billion for Samson Investment Co. of Tulsa, at the time one of the largest privately held E&Ps in the United States (see Shale Daily, Nov. 28, 2011). Samson provided interests in more than 10,000 wells, with key positions in the Bakken, Powder River, Green River, Granite Wash, Cana Woodford and Cotton Valley, and the Haynesville and Bossier gas shales.
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USS Kitty Hawk (CVA 63) Crew List
The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA 63). Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. If you also served aboard and you remember one of the people below you can click on the name to send an email to the respective sailor. Would you like to have such a crew list on your website?
There are 2716 crew members registered for the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA 63).
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Rodriguez, Kristopher E5 / AG2 Jan 1, 2006 – Jan 1, 2009 OA
Kelly, Dustin SH3 Jan 6, 2006 – Feb 2, 2009 S-3
Nazelrod, Jason EM1 Jan 6, 2006 – Oct 14, 2008 G-4
Thornbrugh, Adam AZ3 Jan 9, 2006 – Aug 8, 2008 AIMD/IM1 FIRST DUTY STATION FOR ME AND FIRST CARRIER AS WELL. I MET SOME REALLY GREAT FRIENDS THERE. IM GONNA MISS THEM. AND I WENT THROUGH ALOT OF BS ON THAT SHIP HAHA. BUT IM GONNA MISS BEING ON IT WITH THE PEOPLE.
Slifker, Robert SKSN Feb 2006 – May 2009 S-8
Ciotola, Tony AOAN Feb 1, 2006 – 2008 G-4
Davis, Travis CS3 Mar 2006 – Feb 2009 S-2 Supply I certainly miss being on board the USS Kitty Hawk. It was some of the best years of my life.
Gough, Christopher AO2(AW) Apr 2006 – Apr 5, 2008 G-4 This was my first and last ship i served on in the 14yrs of my Naval career. Was actually expecting the worst but it turned out to be not bad at all. I enjoyed it.
Adhikari, Anjan SK3 Apr 14, 2006 – Jan 31, 2009 S-8 Supply Whether it were good or bad, I will never forget those days. I had a great time.
Johnson, Christopher ABFAN Apr 19, 2006 – Sep 26, 2008 V-4 DC I miss the ship
Harris, Apprille LS1 Apr 30, 2006 – Mar 1, 2008 SUPPLY/MSC
Hopkins, Brian AO May 16, 2006 – I am the son of Bill Hopkins of VFA 161 anyone who wants to know bout ol hoppy. Im here following in his steps. id like to know bout my old man too.
Jones, Kris AWO2 Jun 1, 2006 – Jun 30, 2008 OX
Ramon, Jerome MA-2 Jun 5, 2006 – Dec 11, 2006
Morris, Cody, Lilmcm E-4 HT Jun 10, 2006 – Jan 31, 2009 Repair
Kelly, Robert MIDSHIPMAN 4/C Jun 26, 2006 – Jan 23, 2007 None I go to the Naval Academy. I'm only on here to find my Ex Brother in law Eric Kaijankoski. my email is m103324@usna.edu my cell is: 619-846-0045
Johnson, Alexander HM3 Jul 1, 2006 – Sep 1, 2008 Dental Department
White, Donald HMCS Jul 6, 2006 – May 30, 2008 Dental Last Ride on the Hawk! Great Ship!
Papin, Joseph AE2 Jul 26, 2006 – May 17, 2008 AIMD/IM1 Perm TAD CVW-5 ARS
Chudy, Jason MCC Aug 12, 2006 – Apr 2008 Media
Blount, Paul EM3 Aug 21, 2006 – Mar 30, 2008 E Division
Ozment, David E-3 BMSN Sep 20, 2006 – Aug 10, 2008 3rd Div. Deck Dept I miss being stationed onboard USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 because I loved Japan so much.
Ellis, Justin DCFN Sep 21, 2006 – Sep 30, 2008 Repair I was in the AFFF shop and the Filter shop for my time on the Hawk, as much as i hate it here i met some of my closest friends here and wouldn't trade it for the world.
John, Eason DC2(SW) Sep 28, 2006 – Oct 2, 2009 DC/R The ship was old but the people were very cool. Being in Japan was an interesting experience but I had a great time.
Corbin, Kevin OSCS Sep 30, 2006 – Sep 30, 2006 OPS I am looking for the CMC or the OIC
Digman, Mark A ABH2 (AW/SW) Oct 2006 – 2008 AIR DEPARTMENT V-3 Those days..
Hamilton, Corey HTFA Oct 2, 2006 – Oct 2, 2009 Repair
Chakma, Ashish ABH3 Nov 14, 2006 – Aug 10, 2008 AIR DEPARTMENT I LEFT THIS CARRIER AFTER 2008 RIMPAC. MY CURRENT COMMAND IS USS PELELIU-LHA5.
Lowry, John ABEAN Dec 13, 2006 – V-2 I'M THE SON OF GENE AND JUDY LOWERY AND I HAVE DONE MY PART ON THE KITTY HAWK
Toma, Chet CS2 Dec 13, 2006 – Feb 2, 2009 S-5 While I was on the KH, I hated it and thought nothing could be worse. I was wrong. I miss the KH greatly after spending 2 years on shore and one month on the USS Abraham Lincoln. I honestly miss the CV-63 crew.
Chadwick, Ryan ABEAN Dec 14, 2006 – V-2
Hollenbaugh, Jonathon ABEAA Dec 14, 2006 – Dec 14, 2009 V-2
Leonard, Eric AEAA 2007 – 2008 IM3
Russ, Matthias AWR1(NAC/AW/SW) Feb 23, 2007 – Aug 8, 2008 OX
Bibb, Jim MMC Mar 1, 2007 – Sep 1, 2009 P-1/3 Keep on steaming
Futrell, Shayla Apr 10, 2007 – Im looking for anyone that would know the personal email of AN Francois. He used to wrok in V3 I believe.
Kungu, Benson MM2 May 10, 2007 – Sep 2008 p-6 ABC shop
Ramirez, Chana EN3 Oct 21, 2007 – Oct 30, 2008 A Best times and Worst times..memories
Engdahl, Chris ABHAN Nov 6, 2007 – Feb 3, 2009 v-1
Perkins, Ryan AO3 Sep 2008 – Sep 2009 G-3
Bartholomew, John HT1 2010 – 2011 R-DIV GOOD SHIP
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Worms do calculus to find food
July 23, 2008, 10:51 PM UTC / Source: LiveScience
By By Greg Soltis
Like humans with a nose for the best restaurants, roundworms also use their senses of taste and smell to navigate. And now, researchers may have found how a worm's brain does this: It performs calculus.
Worms calculate how much the strength of different tastes is changing — equivalent to the process of taking a derivative in calculus — to figure out if they are on their way toward food or should change direction and look elsewhere, says University of Oregon biologist Shawn Lockery, who thinks humans and other animals do the same thing.
This research could one day benefit some of the more than 200,000 Americans who detect a foul smell or taste that is actually pleasant or have a weakened or depleted ability to appreciate the scent of a lilac or savor the flavor of a juicy burger.
"The more we know about how taste and smell function — not just at the level of primary sensory neurons, but downstream in the brain — the better prepared we will be to understand when the system is broken," Lockery says.
With the aid of salt and chili peppers, Lockery reached the calculating-worms conclusion by studying two anatomically identical neurons from the worm's brain that collectively regulate behavior. These two neurons function like "on" and "off" gates in a computer in response to changes in salt concentration levels. This dubiously delicious discovery, detailed in the July 3 issue of the journal Nature, hints at the method for smelling and tasting that is thought to be common among a wide variety of species, including humans.
Like human visual systems that respond to the presence and absence of light, Lockery and colleagues found that when the left neuron fires as salt concentrations increase, the roundworm continues crawling in the same direction. The right neuron responds when salt concentrations decrease, and the worm turns in search of a saltier location.
Lockery said this is similar to a game of hot-and-cold with a child. But there is one key difference: the worm doesn't need an observer to say if it's getting closer to or farther from the target — the worm calculates the change by itself.
Observing the worm responding to changes in concentration suggested an experiment to see if the worm's brain computes derivatives. The mathematical concept of a derivative indicates the rate at which something, such as salt concentration, changes at a given point in time and space. So Lockery tried to verify that these neurons recognize changes in salt concentration and then tell the worm where food is and where it is not.
To do so, he artificially activated each neuron with capsaicin, the spicy component in chili peppers, which worms naturally cannot detect. Worms with capsaicin applied to the left neuron crawled forward. When the worm's brain indicated that the current motion leads to increasing salt concentrations, it continues moving in its original direction. But when the worm's right neuron is activated by capsaicin, it is duped into thinking the salt levels are decreasing. So the worm changes direction, hoping to find salt elsewhere.
"We found a new way to do calculus with neurons," Lockery told LiveScience.
Previous studies have identified "on" and "off" cells in the brains of other chemosensory animals such as fruit flies, cockroaches, frogs, lobsters and rats. Given the strong similarities between the olfactory regions of the brains in rats and other mammals, Lockery says that humans should also be included in this list. So his work suggests that this circuit may be a universal derivative for smelling and tasting.
In response to the lingering mystery of why worms go toward salts in search of food, Lockery offers an untested theory that the decaying carcasses of invertebrates, like snails and earthworms, provide a common source of bacteria. Since animals are very salty inside, he thinks there could be a link between salt and bacteria in the wild.
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Jaguar leaps onto Windows networks
Aug. 26, 2002, 8:02 AM UTC / Source: msnbc.com
By REVIEW By Gary Krakow
I really like Apple’s OS X. I think Apple has done a wonderful job of combining the best of their user-friendly operating system with powerful Unix-based underpinnings. But previous versions of OS X haven’t been very helpful in allowing me to do work on the Microsoft network at my office. Apple says OS X Jaguar will change all that. I wanted to see if that was true.
InsertArt(1606023)FIRST, SOME BACKGROUND. OS X 10.2 (codenamed Jaguar) was released this past Friday night at Apple stores across the country. It is a major operating system release update. For $129 ($199 for a 5-computer family license), Jaguar offers half a gazillion or so improvements on an already terrific OS. Among the highlights:
iChat: an Internet messaging tool based on AOL’s AIM platform.
Mail: a newly updated mail program that can handle POP and IMAP messages, and includes a promising junk mail filtration system.
iTunes 3: an improved digital music player
Address Book: a new central depository for e-mail address and contact information.
Sherlock 3: a computer search engine turned Web search engine.
QuickTime 6: the latest version of Apple’s media standard now handles MPEG-4 files and AAC audio.
Finder: it’s newly improved and faster at everything
Rendezvous: an instant networking tool
Quartz Extreme: a super-charged Macintosh graphic windowing system. The better your computer’s processor and video card, the more improvement you’ll see.
Inkwell: Install a writing/drawing tablet and your Mac will now do handwriting recognition.
Consider this upgrade a MAJOR upgrade. OS X Jaguar took a really long time to load onto my two test platforms. I currently have a new-ish iMac on loan from Apple (G4, 15-inch flat-screen and 256MB of memory) and my trusty 2-year old iMac (G3, 1GB memory). On both machines, Jaguar took more than an hour to load, 70 minutes on the G4, 75 minutes on the G3.
Once everything was complete, I took both computers for a spin. Speed-wise, both iMacs were amazingly similar. Web pages opened at the same speed; downloads via my DSL line were virtually identical. Word, Excel, mp3 and QuickTime files seemed to be perfect on both hardware platforms.
So far, so good. But let’s get to the networking. As for Rendezvous, it works as advertised. My Windows computers could see what’s on my iMacs and vice versa. That’s very, very cool. But I was interested to see if I could connect from home to the MSNBC newsroom, read my e-mail and accomplish tasks that only a Windows computer can complete.
Not trying to make this test overly important, but Jaguar’s ability to connect and work with Microsoft networks has been made a very big deal. (MSNBC is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture.) Apple’s whole campaign is about getting Windows users to switch. That big ad campaign is kinda moot if the OS can’t live up to the hype.
THE VPN TEST So, how did it do? Better than I, a skeptic, expected. OS X Jaguar can VPN into other networks. VPN stands for Virtual Private Networking, a protocol which allows people to “dial-in” to their offices via a “secure” Internet connection. I won’t go into whether VPN is the best, secure method to do this, but it’s what I have to use to get to MSNBC.
I’ve tried some third-party VPN clients on previous versions of OS X with limited success. Jaguar’s VPN client works flawlessly. Once it is set up, it took 2 to 3 seconds for me to connect to MSNBC.
Next came trying to open a remote desktop connection. Many firms use this type of thing to do exactly what it says it does: open a desktop from work (with all your work applications and settings) on your remote computer. A number of companies offer slightly different software to do this, but Microsoft has just released their Remote Desktop Connection client for OS X. RDC is built into current versions of Windows.
I’ve tried the RDC for OS X on my computers before Jaguar was released. It worked one time out of fifty. I’ll blame those flaky third-party VPN connections for most of the problems. That’s because under Jaguar, RDC worked first-time, every time. I can’t tell you what a thrill it was to be able to get my Outlook e-mail and use many of the MSNBC applications that up until Saturday were available only on Windows computers. They’re still available only in Windows — it’s just that Jaguar, with some third-party software, is now capable of letting me simulate a Windows desktop on my Mac. One hint though, my G3 iMac has a 2-button mouse, allowing me to right-click Windows-style — something the beautiful Apple mouse is incapable of.
But alas, I did hit some snags when it came to Jaguar’s new Mail program. If you read the hype on Apple’s Web site you’ll see that Apple hints that Mail can act as your Outlook mail program. Quote: “To help you work remotely, the Mac OS X Mail client lets you connect better with a Microsoft Exchange mail server. Your INBOX can pretend to be an exact duplicate of what’s on your work machine, so you can check your mail, delete a few items, then leave other items for when you’re back in the office.”
That got my attention! Unfortunately, it didn’t do everything I wanted. Mail just couldn’t connect to my mail servers at work. First of all, Jaguar had a problem with DNS addresses on my network. The RDC software I wrote about above worked only after changing the name of the remote server to its IP address. That trick didn’t work for Outlook:mac. But, after a lot of fiddling around, I got Jaguar’s Mail program to receive my MSNBC mail. Receiving was quick and easy — but Mail doesn’t let me get into my inbox’s sub-folders despite using Mail’s IMAP settings. That cuts Jaguar Mail’s useablility in half. A major faux-pas as far as I’m concerned
Luckily, I can get all my e-mail and folders and everything else I need when using the Remote Desktop software so I can use my iMac to connect and complete office work from home. That’s a major accomplishment. Overall, the Apple people and the OS X Jaguar team in particular are to be commended for what they’ve done so far.
At the moment I’ll consider Jaguar (like every other software title ever written) a work in progress. And I’m not giving up when it comes to getting Jaguar to network seamlessly with my office. OS X is too good to quit on it. I’ve e-mailed the experts at Apple to see if there’s anything they can do to help. I’ll let you know as soon as there’s something to report.
REVIEW By Gary Krakow
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Airport security: You ain't seen nothing yet
In June, the IATA unveiled a mockup of the "checkpoint of the future" that includes three sensor-lined tunnels that divide passengers into high-, medium- and low-risk threats. Ten years after the 9/11 terror attacks, security experts question whether freedom, speed and personal space will one day return to air travel — while still maintaining high standards of safety. Wong Maye-E / AP
Aug. 18, 2011, 12:20 PM UTC / Source: msnbc.com contributor
By Bill Briggs
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks forever changed the way Americans fly.
Gone are the days when friends or family could kiss passengers goodbye at the gate, replaced by X-rayed shoes and confiscated shampoo bottles at security checkpoints.
Air travelers are increasingly subjected to revealing full-body scans or enhanced pat-downs — all in the name of keeping the skies safe.
As America prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of the worst terrorist attacks in the U.S., security experts question whether freedom, speed and personal space will one day return to air travel — while still maintaining high standards of safety.
Some security analysts foresee a bumper crop of futuristic detection methods — from biometrics to electronic fingerprinting to behavioral analysis — and predict smoother, nimbler and less-intrusive airport walkthroughs in the coming years.
Still others envision Big Brother’s even Bigger Brother: chip-embedded passports that someday tell the federal transportation watchdogs all about your daily commutes to work, the mall — even to parties.
Gazing into the future
And then there are experts like Ed Daly who peer into the next two decades of public travel and forecast two possible scenarios — breezy yet virtually bomb-proof security checkpoints or, depending on events yet to come, a far harsher reality that includes a welcome-to-the-airport greeting in the vein of: “Please drop your drawers if you want to get on this plane.”
“The future of transportation security will be gathering intelligence technologically while people are moving at the speed of life, not beginning at a point where passengers are queued up, delayed, stripped down and probed,” said Daly, director of intelligence-watch operations for iJet. The Annapolis, Md.-based firm offers risk-management solutions for more than 500 multinational corporations and government organizations.
Daly cites refinements in software that instantly read and catalog everything from faces to license plates and which, he says, must be expanded to airports, trains, subways and public buildings.
“[But] if technology fails to provide an adequate solution, the option in the face of future attacks would be further restrictions and potential for humiliating human-to-human interaction” rivaling a medical checkup, Daly said.
Full-body scanners
One doesn’t have to gaze into a crystal ball to see how airport security is already changing.
Nearly 500 advanced imaging technology machines, commonly referred to as full-body scanners, are used in 78 airports around the country. About half (247) use backscatter technology, which emits a small dose of X-ray radiation to present a detailed image of the body — and any concealed weapons or contraband a passenger might be carrying. The other scanners (241) are millimeter-wave machines, which use electromagnetic waves that also present a detailed body image.
Despite policies the TSA put in place — agents who inspect the detailed images sit in a room away from scanned passengers, and the TSA’s insistence that the images cannot be stored or shared — many travelers argue the full-body scanners are an invasion of privacy.
In response, the TSA has begun implementing software on the millimeter-wave machines that will highlight dangerous items but will not show detailed, passenger-specific images.
Meanwhile, other critics — including some scientists — claim the scanners are a health risk, and say there hasn’t been sufficient testing to ensure they won’t cause potential harm.
Behavioral questioning
The Transportation Security Administration is currently testing behavioral questioning at Boston’s Logan Airport. Behavior detection officers initiate conversations with all passengers passing through Terminal A, asking non-intrusive questions and watching for responses. Fliers who avoid eye contact or who wrestle to answer certain questions may be pulled out of line for extra scrutiny.
The pilot program is “modeled after a number of behavior-detection programs used by other security and law-enforcement agencies, but tailored to TSA’s specific mission,” said TSA spokesperson Greg Soule.
Frequent flier Andrew Schrage argues that this new approach “crosses into people’s (personal) lives.” “That leaves too much up to the subjectivity of the inquirer,” said Schrage, the Chicago-based editor of MoneyCrashers.com, a personal finance blog. He flies about 20 times per year. “It will also act as a further invasion into people’s privacy.” He anticipates that during the next few years airport security will grow “more and more cumbersome.”
Trusted travelers
The “known traveler program” will be tested this fall by the TSA at airports in Dallas, Miami, Atlanta and Detroit. At those hubs, the TSA will tap into the information ticket buyers have already provided the airlines, including their names, dates of birth and gender.
Ultimately, approved “known travelers” will have bar codes stamped on their boarding passes, authorizing TSA screeners to allow those passengers to skip shoe and laptop removals.
"Enhancing identity-based screening is another common sense step in the right direction as we continue to strengthen overall security and improve the passenger experience whenever possible," TSA Administrator John Pistole said in July.
One long-discussed hybrid of the “known traveler” program is the “Checkpoint of the Future,” a plan to make screening stops quicker and technologically “smarter,” freeing up TSA agents to “scan the crowd, looking for individuals that could pose an outright threat,” said Peter Kant, executive vice president of Rapiscan Systems, a Hawthorne, Calif., company that provides the TSA with passenger-screening equipment, including the backscatter machine.
In June, the International Air Transport Association unveiled a mockup of the idea — three sensor-lined tunnels that divide passengers into high, medium and low risks.
On Aug. 10, the TSA’s Pistole said such checkpoints “would allow you to keep your jacket and shoes on,” although he acknowledged the necessary technology is “not there yet.”
“Specifically, (when and if that machinery is someday implemented), passengers will notice a much more automated and more intuitive process,” said Rapiscan’s Kant. “Annoying divestiture of jackets, liquids and computers will no longer be required. Easy-to-use conveyors and bins will allow for swift scanning of bags and carry-ons.”
Think you’re embarrassed or annoyed now by those shoe-shedding, belt-removing pat-downs? If tomorrow’s security tools can’t pluck bad guys out of the traveling crowds, iJet’s Daly imagines security screenings that force fliers to swap their street clothes “for an assigned, simple outfit — not a gown, per se, but maybe a one-piece suit and sandals.” Travelers also may be banned from toting anything onboard “that could be adulterated, altered and weaponized.”
Conversely, more-fearful fliers likely will support tighter measures such as comprehensive, pre-boarding background checks — a layer of policing that could arrive within five years, said Vernon R. Herron, senior policy analyst at the Center for Health and Homeland Security. (CHHS, part of the University of Maryland, is a nonprofit consulting group).
“Criminal checks, fingerprinting and character references will be a standard process for all of us,” Herron said. Such background probes, he predicted, will be performed annually for all fliers, and a new government clearance will be created and granted to those “with no blemishes in our background.” He also believes a new federal agency will be formed to oversee such a program.
Furthermore, Herron predicts passengers will be assessed well before they arrive at the airport.
Within 30 years, biometric fingerprinting will give way to passports laced with computer chips. Your official travel document “will not only have information as to who you are and where you have traveled, but it will also ... allow government officials to track your travel not only in the air, but your daily travels to work, grocery stores and social events.”
The collected information will be stored in a database, Herron said, and the government will detain passengers who have “traveled to places that are suspicious in nature” once they enter an airport.
“All these measures seem extreme. However, after we declared a war on terror, we must be more proactive than reactive when it comes to airport security.”
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Employee-only mini store in Seattle raises potential for new venues, including hospitals and airports.
Russell Redman | Dec 14, 2018
Amazon.com Inc. has signaled another opportunity for expanding its cashierless Amazon Go stores with the opening of a 450-square-foot outlet in Seattle.
The mini store, which opened its doors Wednesday, is on the sixth floor of the Macy’s building at 300 Pine St. in downtown Seattle, Washington, where Amazon has an office. About a quarter of the size of previous Amazon Go locations, the new venue serves Amazon employees and their guests only.
Offerings include breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack items, similar to what’s available at other Amazon Go stores.
Amazon Go stores employ Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology. Overhead cameras, weight sensors and deep learning technology detect merchandise that shoppers take from or return to shelves and keep track of the items selected in a virtual cart. Shoppers use the Amazon Go mobile app to gain entry to the store through a turnstile. When customers leave the store, their Amazon accounts are automatically debited for the items they take, and a receipt is sent to the app.
Given the latest Amazon Go’s compact size, the format could work not only in office buildings but also in such settings as hospitals and airports, according to retail industry observers. The existing stores operate as stand-alone convenience stores. Earlier this month, a Wall Street Journal report said Amazon is testing cashierless checkout in larger store spaces.
An Amazon representative said the Macy’s building location marks a new concept for Amazon Go, but the company isn’t providing further details about expansion plans.
“We’re excited to introduce a new small-format Amazon Go that is freestanding and can be as compact as 450 square feet,” the representative said in a statement yesterday. “Our first of these stores opened today for Amazon employees and their visitors in Seattle.”
Including the new store, Amazon now has eight Amazon Go locations: four in Seattle; three in Chicago, Illinois; and one in San Francisco, California. The stores range from 1,200 to 2,300 square feet.
Three other Amazon Go outlets are being planned for San Francisco, Chicago and New York City. The San Francisco store is slated to open this winter, and the Chicago store in 2019. Amazon has confirmed plans for a New York location but declined to provide any details.
Bloomberg reported in September that Amazon may open as many as 3,000 Amazon Go stores by 2021, including 50 locations in key metro markets during 2019.
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News18» News»Lifestyle»Nike Unveils 14 National Kits in Women's World Cup Push
Nike Unveils 14 National Kits in Women's World Cup Push
The United States, Canada, France, England and Australia were among the teams whose kits were released at an event in Paris, graced by 28 of the world’s top women footballers.
Last Updated: March 12, 2019, 11:29 IST
Nike Inc unveiled soccer strips on Monday for 14 national teams ahead of this year’s Women’s World Cup in France and said it had signed a three-year promotion deal with UEFA Women’s Football, part of its growing focus on women’s sport.
🇫🇷 We're in Paris for @nikefootball's launch of their Women's World Cup kits and gear 👌Roll on the summer. 😎 #FIFAWWC pic.twitter.com/enIS0XayPW
— FourFourTwo ⚽️ (@FourFourTwo) March 11, 2019
Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, champion fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad and two-time Grand Slam winner Li Na also attended.
The Women’s World Cup will be held from June 7 to July 7.
We’re seeing incredible momentum in women’s sports right now,” Nike official Amy Montagne told Reuters ahead of the launch. “We see this as the next chapter to support, celebrate and elevate female athletes.”
In addition to new team uniform, the retail giant announced innovation across the womenswear category, launching new products such as a high-tech sports bra and World Cup-inspired apparel.
The company declined to give financial terms of the deal with European governing body UEFA, or the value of the individual national kit sponsorship deals.
"I think right now there is just incredible momentum in women's sports and we are excited to support and inspire this next generation of female athletes heading into this World Cup," Amy Montagne, Nike's vice president of global categories, told Business Insider.
Both, however, are the latest sign of the growing financial power of women’s sport for sports goods makers like Nike, Adidas and Under Armour.
In the second quarter of the 2019 financial year, women’s footwear and apparel alone counted for nearly a quarter of Nike’s total revenue and it has said the women’s footwear and apparel market is now 1.5 times bigger than that for men.
Unveiling 14 national team collections for the Women's World Cup in France today, Nike announced partnerships meant to expand female access to sport: a 3-year deal with UEFA Women’s Football and deals with the WNBA, FIBA, Chinese Basketball Association and 200 U.S. universities pic.twitter.com/mmxrapynDN
— Alicia Jessop (@RulingSports) March 11, 2019
Wall Street brokerage Bernstein calculates women’s sporting gear pulled in $7 billion for Nike last year.
As a part of the partnership with UEFA, Nike will supply the match ball for exclusive use in women’s competitions including the Women’s Champions League, Women’s Euro and junior tournaments.
Nadine Kessler, UEFA’s head of women’s football said the partnership across competitions and campaigns sends “a powerful message that the game is now being judged and supported on its own merits, it underlines also its important milestones beyond the field of play.”
Nike’s announcement of a partnership with UEFA comes three months after Visa signed a seven-year deal with European soccer’s governing body to sponsor the women’s game at all levels.
It also comes at a time when UEFA plans to increase its funding for women’s soccer development projects across Europe by 50 percent from 2020.
Global governing body FIFA, which has made women’s football a top priority, last year said it would look to double the number of female players to 60 million by 2026.
It also said it would raise the prize money for this year’s World Cup from $15 million to $30 million.
Nike said it would also invest at the grassroots level to encourage more female athletes.
“We believe this summer can be another turning point for the growth of women’s football,” Nike’s chief executive Mark Parker said in a statement.
Here are the kits they will be wearing:
#USWNT will have a distinctly American graphic on their red/away kit & honors the 20th anniversary of the ‘99ers on their white/home kit (all 50 states on back). pic.twitter.com/s1NIkPNk8F
— Heidi Burgett (@heidiburgett) March 11, 2019
France will wear the tricolore: bleu jersey, blanc shorts, rouge shorts. Away kit honors the hexagon-shaped country with a hexadot pattern. Rose gold details on both kits. pic.twitter.com/Jh0gszBYx9
England’s kit features a custom hand-drawn print highlighting specific flora native to the country’s counties. Dark red crush hue is exclusive to the Lionesses. pic.twitter.com/6gLSbHGLrT
Norway’s new home jersey features a pattern borrowed from traditional Norwegian ski sweaters. pic.twitter.com/2K7diPoLH3
The Matildas kit channels Melbourne’s street art scene. The golden wattle and shots of the Australian landscape coalesce in the graphic to encapsulate contemporary Australia. pic.twitter.com/NN1iw56IBT
For Brazil, the Seleçåo Feminina's away kit’s inspired by the constellation of stars in homage to the Brazilian indigenous warriors who by legend turned to stars. pic.twitter.com/bQZmsUKkWc
The Netherlands will have a retro Oranje vibe, but with a contemporary graphic of the country’s famed tulip. The Leeuwinnen also don a lioness crest that distinguishes the reigning European champs from their male counterparts. pic.twitter.com/u41Fi0WnbF
China’s Steel Roses will have an all-over phoenix print on their grey jerseys with hyper crimson accents. pic.twitter.com/FVVxzkNKk2
Nigeria have qualified for every @FIFAWWC tournament since 1991. The home kit is a subtle tribute to the men's '94 kit. They'll look to better their greatest ever performance in 1999 by going further than the quarterfinals. pic.twitter.com/ii9C4U3Uni
— MUNDIAL (@MundialMag) March 11, 2019
Chile have made it to their first ever @FIFAWWC finals. Their kit features the Andean Condor, while they have a custom typeface that pays homage to the street signs of Santiago and Chilean car number plates. pic.twitter.com/gCLYm0jLJN
New Zealand Football is one of the only associations in the world to give it's men and women teams pay parity across the board.The Football Ferns will wear the Māori silver fern into their fourth consecutive tournament this summer. pic.twitter.com/ELmcYZRNmg
Best Women's World Cup kit: Australia by a mile pic.twitter.com/5sW85cyffX
— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) March 11, 2019
With Inputs from Reuters
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Colette DuChanois, Web producer
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Father of 3 shot to death in vehicle on Jacksonville's Westside
28-year-old man killed outside sister's house in Duclay neighborhood
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 28-year-old father of three was found shot to death inside a vehicle Wednesday night outside his sister's home the Duclay area.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office responded about 8:30 p.m. to a report of a person shot on Westland Oaks Drive, just north of Collins Road. Arriving officers found Jonathan Rivera shot inside his car. He died at the scene.
A homicide detective said several shots were fired, but the investigation into who might have fired the shots has just begun.
His widow, Davianne Beepot, said Rivera loved his three sons, age 3, 5 and 9. She said he worked hard and made his children smile.
"He was always the hero of our family," Beepot said. "We had my oldest son early. He was always there for him and has been a good provider and role model and father figure for him."
Beepot said he enjoyed his job at SNI Technology and playing football for the Florida Football Alliance.
Family and neighbors said that Rivera had no enemies. A neighbor said he would often see Rivera helping his sister.
As of Thursday morning, police didn't have any suspect information. They were looking for witnesses or surveillance video to help them track down a gunman.
Neighbors are shocked to see police canvassing their neighborhood.
"It was frightening. I can’t understand it happening in this neighborhood," neighbor Tyrone Grant said. "We never have problems like this. I’ve been here since 2011, and we don’t have incidents."
Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at 904-630-0500. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS (8477).
Colette DuChanois
Jacksonville native and proud University of Florida graduate who joined News4Jax in March 2016.
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Babylon doctor convicted of child porn may do community service
Frank Pollaro, a Babylon doctor, leaves federal court in Central Islip. (April 16, 2013) Credit: James Carbone
By ROBERT E. KESSLER robert.kessler@newsday.com Updated April 16, 2013 9:03 PM
A Babylon doctor, who could have gone to prison for up to 10 years on child pornography charges, may not go behind bars at all after a federal judge Tuesday delayed sentencing for three years if the doctor volunteers full-time to care for the elderly and needy.
U.S. District Judge Leonard Wexler in federal court in Central Islip said he had "hope" that Frank Pollaro, a cardiologist, is capable of rehabilitation without being imprisoned. The community would benefit from his volunteer services, Wexler said, and taxpayers would not have to fund his prison time.
When Pollaro's attorney, Stephen Scaring of Garden City, said that it would be difficult for his client to support himself under those conditions, Wexler replied, "I know it's a hardship, but it's better than his being in jail."
Wexler said Pollaro could work for himself and get paid after putting in the 40 hours a week of community service.
The judge said Pollaro must work five years without pay, after which he would sentence him only to probation. The sentence was adjourned for three years, Wexler said, when he will assess Pollaro's performance.
Wexler said that Pollaro, while out on $1 million bond, had already spent the last year working as a doctor in community service without pay.
In a court filing, Scaring said that his client had performed more than 2,000 hours of unpaid service in the past 13 months, in a weekly schedule that includes caring for patients at a nursing home, an adult home, a drug rehabilitation center, and doing home visits for elderly patients of another doctor.
Pollaro pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of child pornography in 2011.
In court papers, Scaring said that his client began viewing "the hypersexualized world of Internet pornography" as an escape from depression because he had Marfans syndrome and had passed the genetic disease of the connective tissue on to his two young daughters.
Only "a small fraction" of Pollaro's viewing involved child pornography, Scaring said.
Symptoms of Marfans, which some historians believe Abraham Lincoln suffered from, include being exceptionally tall with long fingers, and a potentially fatal weakness of the aorta, which takes blood from the heart.
Wexler did not address the Marfans issue.
Scaring declined to comment afterward, as did federal prosecutor Allen Bode. Scaring said his client had no comment.
By ROBERT E. KESSLER robert.kessler@newsday.com
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New work-life satisfaction survey shows New Zealand's standard of living has slipped
Demelza Leslie
The CTU's annual work-life balance survey has found pay is not keeping up with the cost of living. Credits: Video - Newshub ; Image - Getty
As if the effects of COVID-19 weren't bad enough last year, it seems that 2020 also meant many people worked more and earned less.
A work-life satisfaction survey released today by the Council of Trade Unions (CTU) shows the standard of living has slipped.
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Is it possible to actually achieve work/life balance?
South Auckland cleaner Rose Kavapalu works 65 hours a week at two jobs, yet struggles to make ends meet.
"It is really hard but I don't have any choice. I have to do to look after my family," she says.
Her work ethic earned her a shout out from the Prime Minister in April.
"And even Rose, a cleaner at Otahuhu police station… I hope we continue to recognise them long after this pandemic has passed," Jacinda Ardern
Now Kavapalu has a message for the Prime Minister - introduce fair pay agreements as soon as possible.
"We really need it to improve the health of New Zealanders on low and minimum wage," she says.
Kavapalu is one of many workers finding they're having to work more, for less reward. The CTU's annual work-life balance survey has found pay is not keeping up with the cost of living.
"People talked a lot about their experience of particularly long work hours, in feeling like the work that they do just isn't valued in terms of how that is reflected in their pay packet," CTU secretary Melissa Ansell-Bridges says.
This sentiment echoed on the streets in Wellington.
"I know some people who took some paycuts and worked some longer hours, especially if you owned your own business," one person says.
"I think we have worked a lot harder last year and I think we are earning a lot less," another said.
In the survey of more than 1200 CTU supporters, 53 percent felt they were not paid fairly for their work, with their workload and hours worsening.
COVID-19 also had many fearing for their jobs.
"One of the things which would make a massive difference to these results is having a better sector bargaining-based framework," Ansell-Bridges says.
"That's what we are hoping to see with the fair pay agreement legislation which we would like to happen sometime this year."
The Government didn't respond to requests for comment.
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Premier League clubs and Facebook video: Quality scores every time
Phil Lynch August 17, 2018
The take-away from this post is that Premier League clubs achieve most of their fan engagement on Facebook with less than 50% of their video output. Want to understand why that is? Read on...
Ladies and gentleman, please take your seats, introducing…the best-performing video published by a Premier League club on Facebook this year. Manchester United’s unveiling of Alexis Sanchez in January has so far generated over 12 million views and 700k reactions from fans. The piano lessons have clearly paid off too. The Sanchez post shows the potential value of video to the Premier League clubs and sponsors. It also highlights how clubs can curate content intelligently to maximise the value of their video assets. Not every post by Manchester United achieves the same reach and engagement as the Sanchez video. So far in 2018
United has published almost 700 videos on Facebook. The average rate of interaction across United’s entire output is 24k fan engagements per video. Some videos grow big, others stay small. It's a similar story at the other Big Six clubs. Liverpool has released some stellar video content of its own this year. Highlights of the Legends game against Bayern Munich scored almost as many engagements as United’s Sanchez post. However, like United, there is plenty of blue water between Liverpool’s top-performing videos and the rest of the club’s output on Facebook. Activity this year The twenty Premier League clubs have published… read more »
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Hotel Schweizerhof Lucerne, Switzerland
Lucerne’s magnificent natural surroundings, temperate climate, city amenities, Old World charm, and easy access by road and rail has attracted travelers for over 200 years. Notably, when Queen Victoria visited in 1868 she called it the most charming city she ever visited. Little wonder it is one of the top tourist resorts in Switzerland.
view from bridge, Lucerne
A most convenient location
We arrived in Lucerne by train from Zurich, a journey of just under an hour. Our short walk to the 5-star Hotel Schweizerhof Luzern took us across a bridge lined with flowers to a lakefront promenade shaded by chestnut trees. The hotel is just across the road.
promenade, Schweizerhofquai, Lucerne, Switzerland
The best Historic Hotel in Europe
Hotel Schweizerhof was named the Best Historic Hotel in Europe by Historic Hotels Worldwide and the Best Hotel in Switzerland at the Condé Nast Traveler Reader’s Choice Awards.
lakefront promenade, Lucerne
History in every room
It was built around 1845 and has been owned by the same family for five generations. Its history is evident in every room. Our guest room was named for Mark Twain, who wrote about his stay at the hotel in “A Holiday in Lucerne,” which is part of his book “A Tramp Abroad.”
Mark Twain room, Hotel Schweizerhof, Lucerne
Twain wrote of a leisurely hike up Mt. Rigi and riding a paddle steamer to the chapel where legendary hero William Tell is said to have escaped from Bailiff Gessler. That book and an 1885 bottle of Rigi kirsch were under glass on the desk.
Mark Twain memorabilia, Hotel Schweizerhof Lucerne, Switzerland
Later, we flipped through another book called, “Where History Comes Alive.” It had stories of each of the notable guests for whom one of the 110 rooms is dedicated. The list included royalty, celebrities, politicians, industrialists, musicians and more.
“Where History Comes Alive” book in our guest room at the Hotel Schweizerhof, Lucerne
Even the hardware referenced its legacy. Doors had knobs and sensors in the shape of musical notes in tribute to Richard Wagner, who completed his opera “Tristan and Isolde” during his stay. This is also where he met with his patron, Ludwig II of Bavaria.
guest room door, Hotel Schweizerhof, Lucerne, Switzerland
musical note doorknobs, Hote; Schweizerhof, Lucerne, Switzerland
Leo Tolstoy and Hans Christian Anderson also found inspiration here. Neil Armstrong chose this hotel while in Lucerne for the opening of the Aviation and Space Travel Hall in the Swiss Museum of Transport, Switzerland’s most popular museum.
Old World elegance with modern amenities
Additionally, this palatial hotel has an elegant bar and function rooms.
bar, Hotel Schweizerhof, Lucerne, Switzerland
breakfast room, Hotel Schweizerhof, Lucerne, Switzerland
breakfast at the Hotel Schweizerhof
After a leisurely and bountiful breakfast we headed out of the Hotel Schweizerhof. We strolled past elegant displays of designer fashions and fine antiques. The twin Gothic towers of the 17th century Hofkirche came into view. We were right in the heart of the city.
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Maine Lawmakers Tackle Changes to Land Use Regulation Commission
Forests and Wildlife, Maine Environmental News, North Woods Protection & LUPC, State House Watch
Posted on January 10, 2012 by NRCM
by A.J. Higgins
MPBN news story
Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission is targeted for changes, and legislative leaders today were at work drafting a bill to reflect a new structure. Under the proposal, counties would get more say over land use decisions, and land use policies would focus more on conservation rather than preservation.
Conservation Commissioner Bill Beardsley arrived at a meeting of the Legislature’s Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Commission fully understanding that there is still plenty of apprehension among lawmakers about the revamping of the Land Use Regulation Commission. That commission reviews development proposals in Maine’s vast unorganized territories, sometimes known as the “UT” for short.
“There are strong polarized views concerning land use planning in the UT,” Beardsley said. “The reform commission has seen its task as reconciling these different and divergent views.”
The reform commission was created after lawmakers were unable to agree on how to proceed with the reorganization of LURC, which critics say takes overly-restrictive positions on all development projects — whether they’re submitted by business interests or private homeowners.
Proponents contend that LURC is needed to guarantee that Maine’s natural beauty will not be diminished by development.
Sarah Medina, of Dixmont, is the commission’s vice-chair. She says the panel wanted to set a different tone with its recommendations. As a result, her commission has replaced LURC references to “preservation” with the word “conservation.”
“Because a lot of times what’s happened over the last 40 years is, if you look at the purpose and scope and it says ‘preserve,’s that doesn’t give you any option to figure out what you might be able to do ecomomically without detracting from the environment–it just says ‘preserve,’s period, so you can’t do a lot of things,” Medina said.
Under the reform recommendations, LURC would actually grow—from seven to nine members—but its make-up would change. Right now, Maine’s governor appoints everyone who serves on LURC. Going forward, the governor would name just three members. The rest would be county commissioners from the six counties that have the most acreage within the Unorganized Territory.
Counties would also be able to oversee permitting decisions, now handled by LURC, for small projects, like renovations and new buildings. And counties would also have the option of withdrawing from the LURC process completely, if they create a planning board, come up with a comprehensive blueprint for development and meet other criteria.
Rep. Jeff McCabe, a Skowhegan Democrat, says because of the taxpayer-borne costs associated with those requirements, he has real problems with that provision.
“I don’t know how the citizens of the UT–let’s, for an example, say Somerset–would be able to pay another $100,000 or $200,000 dollars in property taxes,” McCabe says.
Although several Republicans and Democrats objected, committee chairs appeared intent Tuesday evening on framing the major points of the commission’s report for the purpose of drafting a bill. Lawmakers were still discussing the proposal at air time.
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Sri Lanka to remove all references to Ceylon
News Source: The Telegraph – Photo by Lakdiva.org
Ceylon gained independence from Britain in 1948 and changes its name to Sri Lanka when it became a republic in 1972.
The name Ceylon is a transliteration of Ceilao, the name of the country under Portugal, the islands first European colonial rulers. The adopted name, Sri Lanka, is much older and closer to the Sinhalese and Tamil names for the island.
Many state institutions, however, have continued to use the name, including the Bank of Ceylon, Ceylon Electricity Board, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation and Ceylon Fisheries Corporation.
Sri Lanka’s government released a statement late last week saying it wanted legislation authorising the changes. With the ruling party holding a large majority in parliament, approval of suggested bills are considered a formality.
Although the government did not announce a date for the name change, it is likely to be made as early as possible this year.
5 Responses to Sri Lanka to remove all references to Ceylon
Dayaratne Bandara says:
The government of Sri Lanka has nothing to do other than changing the name of the the country? That means now everything is ferfect and only thing the government has to do is to change the name of the country. Next time the government can change the name as Rajapakshaland. So it is same as Netherland, Switzerland, Deutsland(Germany), Icelnad and Ingland. There will be more and more nonsences will come in near future besause it is very easy pass the bill with one third majority in the prliament. The next time they will say say country should have three provinces like Ruhunu, Maya, and Pihity. Then later on the government will change it into Gota, Basil and Namal. We have to accept all these changes othervise we have to loose our life.
Dayaratne Bandara.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
dayartne says:
hey daya!
Changes want go ahead.Changes Is OK.We don’t agree Put in any name any one who’s reputation.But this change is practically correct. some other countries they know us call still Ceylon.I think this change is good for country future,documentation & our marketing..think be positive!!!!
Kalpani.Italy
Asees says:
Sri Lanka needs some positive changes. I dont see anything wrong with this change.
Mohamed Shareef Asees
This name change to ‘Sri Lanka’ should have taken place when the country was declared a republic. However, certain intitutions with colonial mentality held on to the old name ‘Ceylon’.
I am all for shedding this last vestige of colonial domination.
pillayan says:
srilanka is one the best peaceful country in the world,our srilanken countrymen fought for our srilanken rights,therefore we need some positive changes,And also my opinion is we have to have only singhala national anthem.
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Cartoonist Lynda Barry Shows You How to Draw Batman in Her UW-Madison Course, “Making Comics”
in Art, Comics/Cartoons, Creativity, Education | February 27th, 2015 Leave a Comment
How do you draw Batman?
Don’t say you don’t, or that you can’t. According to cartoonist and educator Lynda Barry, we’re all capable of getting Batman down on paper in one form or another.
He may not resemble Adam West or Michael Keaton or anything artists Frank Miller or Neal Adams might render, but so what?
You have the ability to create a recognizable Batman because Batman’s basic shape is universally agreed upon, much like that of a car or a cat. Whether you know it or not, you have internalized that basic shape. This alone confers a degree of proficiency.
As proof of that, Barry would ask you to draw him in 15 seconds. A time constraint of that order has no room for fretting and self doubt. Only frenzied scribbling.
It also levels the playing field a bit. At 15 seconds, a novice’s Batman can hold his own against that of a skilled draftsperson.
Try it. Did you get pointy ears? A cape? A mask of some sort? Legs?
I’ll bet you did.
Once you’ve proved to yourself that you can draw Batman, you’re ready to tackle a more complex assignment: perhaps a four panel strip in which Batman throws up and screams.
This is probably a lot easier than drawing him scaling the side of a building or battling the Joker. Why? Personal experience. Anybody who’s ever lost his or her lunch can draw on the cellular memory of that event.
Fold a piece of paper into quarters and give it a whirl.
Then reward yourself with the video up top, a collection of student-created work from the Making Comics class Barry taught last fall at the great University of Wisconsin.
You may notice that many of the Batmen therein sport big, round heads. Like the 15-second rule, this is the influence of Ivan Brunetti, author of Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice, a book Barry references in both her classes and the recently published Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor.
With everyone’s Batman rocking a Charlie Brown-sized noggin and simple rubber hose style limbs, there’s less temptation to get bogged down in comparisons.
Okay, so maybe some people are better than others when it comes to drawing toilets. No biggie. Keep at it. We improve through practice, and you can’t practice if you don’t start.
Once you’ve drawn Batman throwing up and screaming, there’s no end to the possibilities. Barry has an even bigger collection of student work (second video above), in which you’ll find the Caped Crusader doing laundry, using a laptop, calling in sick to work, reading Understanding Comics, eating Saltines… all the stuff one would expect given that part of the original assignment was to envision oneself as Batman.
More of Lynda Barry’s Batman-related drawing philosophy from Syllabus can be found above and down below:
No matter what anyone tells you (see below), there’s no right way to draw Batman!
Lynda Barry’s Wonderfully Illustrated Syllabus & Homework Assignments from Her UW-Madison Class, “The Unthinkable Mind”
Lynda Barry, Cartoonist Turned Professor, Gives Her Old Fashioned Take on the Future of Education
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Trump planning to “wreck” Fox News by starting new digital media outlet
Sources have been whispering to reporters for more than a week about Trump wanting to build a competitor to Fox after leaving office. This story ran on the morning of Election Day, *before* Fox committed the Ultimate Betrayal by calling Arizona for Joe Biden that evening. My guess is that the chatter about a Trump News outlet ever since has been mostly a matter of confidants trying to talk him into relinquishing power before things get ugly. “W-w-w-wouldn’t it be nice to leave all this behind and have your own media outlet, sir? You could take your hurt feelings over the election out on Fox for making its programming only 97 percent pro-Trump instead of the full 100.”
As I write this, the president is retweeting dozens of people complaining about Fox and promising a switch to Newsmax. Which I suppose represents progress relative to him tweeting about the election having been stolen.
No Doubt. fox news ran 24/7 in our home for the past 7 yrs. It has not been on the past 7 Days straight. @ News Max Is Where We Go All!!! FOX IS ALL ABOUT CELEBRITY LIKE JOURNALISM!!! AND EVERYONE HAS A BOOK. SMH
— B Boobers (@BoobersB) November 8, 2020
Like it or not Fox News tried to persuade an election. Wether they did or not I don’t know but the intent was definitely there. I’ll never watch the channel again.
— GiveHim6 (@d_nowell) November 8, 2020
I’ve been a loyal FOX viewer for many years, until now. Tucker, Hannity and Laura should leave while they can. FOX is pandering to left now and it’s ovvious.
— Mike Stout (@Michael_Stout) November 8, 2020
Newsmax shouldn’t get too excited. According to Axios, Trump really does have plans for his own venture:
President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the conservative-friendly network, sources tell Axios…
“He plans to wreck Fox. No doubt about it,” said a source with detailed knowledge of Trump’s intentions…
Trump is considering a digital media channel that would stream online, which would be cheaper and quicker to start.
Trump’s digital offering would likely charge a monthly fee to MAGA fans. Many are Fox News viewers, and he’d aim to replace the network — and the $5.99-a-month Fox Nation streaming service, which has an 85% conversion rate from free trials to paid subscribers — as their top destination.
Launching on cable television would be expensive, launching online much less so. And Axios notes that an online venture could leverage the gigantic email list that Trump’s campaign harvested from its donors. If you can’t cope with a reality in which Joe Biden is actually the duly elected president — a reality already acknowledged by Fox News — well, good news. Soon you won’t need to. Trump TV will be there to get you through the day.
I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, a Trump network is destined to be nasty, conspiratorial, even Orwellian in some of its programming, like its founder. It will accelerate the country’s ongoing civic deterioration and not just on its own airwaves. (Or broadband, I guess I should say.) Fox will inevitably feel itself dragged towards nastier, more conspiratorial content too to try to keep pace and not hemorrhage viewers. On Trump TV, a Trump-backed candidate will never fairly lose an election to a Democrat. Fox will need to reckon with that.
On the other hand, this is so richly deserved.
Donald Trump’s going to destroy Fox as a competitor.
Donald Trump’s going to run for President in 2024 crowding out the ambitions of Nikki, Marco, Cotton, et al.
Trumps kids are trying to take over the RNC.
Hope everyone is happy with their choices.
— Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) November 12, 2020
I made the same point a few days ago about how enjoyable it is to watch the 2024 hopefuls in the Senate, who toadied to Trump in hopes of ingratiating themselves with his coalition, suddenly find that the personality cult they’ve enabled may lock them out of what they truly want. The Cruzes, Hawleys, and Cottons of the world are facing the prospect of not being able to run for president in the next cycle after all, forced to bend the knee once again to Trump. There’s always 2028 — but who knows how successful Trump TV might end up being in promoting Donald Trump Jr or Tucker Carlson to the Republican base, making one of them a prohibitive frontrunner in future cycles?
They all deserve this, just like Fox deserves to be swallowed up by Trump’s media venture. Why, there’s an even a song about it.
Of course, what people deserve and what’s likely to happen are two different things:
Certainly some success with niche content, sports etc, but in terms of politically-oriented programming I can only think of cautionary tales. pic.twitter.com/Ogzzq2xszw
— Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) November 12, 2020
Fox isn’t going bankrupt anytime soon even if Trump follows through on a digital programming network. But an ex-president at the center of an enormous personality cult should have an unusually good chance of making a digital platform viable, creating real competition for mainstream behemoths like FNC. We may not see a huge stampede away from Fox but a dynamic where populist righties are watching it and Trump’s network every day and making comparisons. Which gets back to my point about Fox eventually being dragged towards taking a Trumpier tone in its own coverage.
Although I wouldn’t rule out a stampede either:
Over the summer, when I started to keep an eye on Newsmax’s Nielsen ratings, the channel was averaging about 25,000 viewers at any given time — a tiny number by any TV news standard. As the election was approaching, the audience ticked up, but it was still just a fly on the Fox elephant’s back. In the final week of October, Newsmax was averaging just 65,000 viewers at any given time.
Then came the election. Newsmax averaged 182,000 viewers during the election week that ended on Sunday. And it is growing even more this week. On Monday the channel averaged 347,000 viewers. On Tuesday, 437,000 viewers. Evening shows like “Spicer & Co” and “Greg Kelly Reports” are reaching 700,000 and 800,000 viewers. These shows struggled to hit 100,000 before the election! Something has changed.
Fox lost viewers because it called the election for Biden last weekend and called Arizona for Biden on election night. Which, by the way, turned out to be correct:
Decision Desk HQ Projects Biden (D) Has Won The State Of AZ And Its 11 Electoral Votes
Race Called At 10:29 PM EST
All Results: https://t.co/7CxbLsQ3gY
— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 12, 2020
It took nine days for Decision Desk to feel confident about the outcome in AZ, which strongly suggests that Fox’s election-night call really was reckless. But if you’re a bottom-line type of person, there’s the bottom line from DDHQ. Biden won Arizona. Fox was right.
Even so, here’s Trump’s latest tweet as of this morning:
.@FoxNews daytime ratings have completely collapsed. Weekend daytime even WORSE. Very sad to watch this happen, but they forgot what made them successful, what got them there. They forgot the Golden Goose. The biggest difference between the 2016 Election, and 2020, was @FoxNews!
I’m not sure what he means by the “difference” between the 2016 and 2020 elections since he wants the country to believe that he won both and actually got many more votes this time. (He did, in fact, get many more votes this time.) But it’s nonetheless ah-may-zing to see his quest for election scapegoats lead him to knocking the biggest Trump propaganda arm in American media for having failed him somehow. Loyalty isn’t enough; absolute loyalty is what’s demanded, and Fox failed to show that loyalty by … having Democrats on as guests? Correctly projecting Biden would win Arizona? Not giving the “Golden Goose” enough praise and airtime even though Fox’s mega-rated primetime line-up might as well work at the White House in terms of their relentless messaging on his behalf? I don’t know. But he’ll be laying his golden eggs somewhere else soon, it seems.
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1 dead, 1 wounded in car-to-car shooting in…
1 dead, 1 wounded in car-to-car shooting in Riverside
By Brian Rokos | brokos@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise
Riverside police are investigating a car-to-car shooting that killed one person the evening of Monday, Oct. 26.
The shooting was reported at about 9:30 p.m. at the intersection of Chicago and University avenues, said Officer Ryan Railsback, a department spokesman. Officers arrived to find two victims. Both were taken to a hospital, where one later died.
“It appears these two victims were in a car that exchanged gunfire with another car when they were struck. We don’t have information on the other vehicle or suspects at this time,” Railsback said.
Detectives from the department’s robbery-homicide and gang units are investigating.
In another investigation, detectives are looking into the discovery of a body at about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday under the Mission Inn Avenue bridge. The probe was in its early stages Tuesday afternoon and no other details were available, Railsback said.
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What Was Pebble Mill?
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All Memories Great and Small – part 5 John Williams
John Williams, cameraman
Excerpt from “All Memories Great & Small” by Oliver Crocker
Memories from John Williams (Film Cameraman):
‘For the lambing scenes, Wardrobe came up with the wonderful idea of mobile hand warmers, bags of something or other that stayed warm for long periods. Wardrobe never let the cast down, hence Peter Davison’s scarf wrapped around his head in the opening scenes. Christopher Barry was a good director who knew and understood the scripts, so he would work out the structure of what we had to get in the can and we had a relationship where he trusted me to get on with it. We couldn’t expect the animals to perform as directed, so I had to be aware of what specific shots were needed and just get them. Robert Hardy was very good, he had his work cut out working with these live wild animals, which could be difficult as they weren’t very predictable, so he didn’t have an easy time.’
60 cast and crew have shared their memories for this new book, which is available to preorder now from Miwk – http://bit.ly/2d7p5ts
Copyright resides with the original holder, no reproduction without permission
John Williams has also published his own memoirs, Shoot First, No Ordinary Life, which is A4, 216 pages full colour, 96,500 words; it is being sold at cost £14, plus postage or can be collected.If you would like a copy please contact John on john@willbriar.myzen.co
All Memories Great and Small
Oliver Crocker’s All Creatures book is now available to Pre-order.
BREAKING NEWS! NEW ALL CREATURES BOOK COMING SOON!
Released as part of the 100th birthday celebrations for James Herriot, a new book “All Memories Great & Small” is being released by Miwk Publishing as an ideal companion to the classic BBC series. Every episode is accompanied by exclusive memories, thanks to 60 new interviews with cast and crew.
THE REGULAR CAST
Christopher Timothy (James Herriot), Robert Hardy Esq, CBE, FSA (Siegfried Farnon), Peter Davison (Tristan Farnon), Carol Drinkwater (Helen Herriot), Andrea Gibb (Deirdre McEwan), Jean Heywood (Mrs Alton) and Ali Lewis (Rosie Herriot).
Peter Alexander (St. John), Lois Baxter (Margery Egerton), Paul Clayton (Brian Weeting), Fine Time Fontayne (George Forsyth/Joe Bentley), Gillian Hanna (Betty Sanders), Derek Hicks (Willie Bannister), Pete Ivatts (Mr. Blackburn/Tom Maxwell), Vivien Keene (Mary Trenholm), Ray Mangion (Franco Pedretti), Norman Mann (Richard Edmundson), Nicholas McArdle (Mr. Worley), Joanna McCallum (Lady Hulton), Elizabeth Millbank (Alice McTavish), Suzanne Neve (Joan Clifford), Jonathan Owen (Peter Gillard), David Quilter (Andrew Bruce), Pamela Salem (Zoe Bennett), Jessica Sewell (Mary Clarke), Madeline Smith (Angela Farmer/Anne Grantley), Amanda Waring (Elizabeth Rayner) and Susan Wooldridge (Daughter of Margaretta Scott).
Bob Blagden (Director), Sandy Byrne (Widow of Writer Johnny Byrne), Alex Christison (Film Sound), Carol Churchill (Make-up Designer), David Crozier (Designer), Nigel Curzon (Designer), Roger Davenport (Writer), Rowena Dean (Make-up Artist), Mike Duxbury (Film Editor), Paul Finch (Son of Writer Brian Finch), Graham Frake (Lighting Cameraman), Roderick Graham (Director), Joyce Hawkins (Costume Designer), Terry Hodgkinson (Writer), June Hudson (Costume Designer), David Hughes (Sound), William Humble (Writer), Brian Jones (Gaffer), Peter Loring (Film Cameraman), Richard Martin (Director), Christopher Penfold (Script Editor/Writer), Les Podraza (Scene Hand), Janice Rider (Costume Designer), Tony Redston (Production Associate), Michael Russell (Writer), Helen Scarsbrook (Wardrobe), Bill Sellars (Producer), Pip Short (Grip/AFM/Location Manager), Sam Snape (Writer), Maggie Thomas (Make-up Artist), David Tilley (Assistant Floor Manager), Tony Virgo (Director) and John Williams (Film Cameraman).
PRE-ORDER NOW http://bit.ly/2d7p5ts
Photos by Janice Rider and others, no reproduction without permission.
The black and white group shot dates from the 1989 series of ‘All Creatures Great and Small’. The other photos were taken by Janice Rider in her role as costume designer, as records of what the actors were wearing in particular scenes, for continuity reasons, so that interiors recorded in Studio A at Pebble Mill, would match with exteriors recorded in Askrigg, North Yorkshire.
‘All Creatures Great and Small’ was hosted at Pebble Mill.
The photos include Lynda Bellingham, Peter Davison, Robert Hardy, Christopher Timothy, John McGlynn (young actor in group shot), Andrea Gibb (played Deirdre) amongst others.
Kinsey, series 2 – photo from John Greening
Photograph from John Greening, no reproduction without permission.
The photo shows production manager, John Greening in the Bull ring in Malaga, Spain in 1992. The Malaga shoot featured in episode 4 of the series, entitled ‘Drop Shot’.
‘Kinsey 2’ was a six part series which went out on BBC 1 in Nov/Dec 1992. It starred Leigh Lawson, Peter Davison and Meera Syal. It was a Pebble Mill drama series about a Birmingham solicitor. Minnie Driver also had a small part in it.
Richard Standeven and Anthony Garner were the directors, Barry Hanson the executive producer and Carol Parks the producer. The script was written by Peter Gibbs.
The following comments were posted on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Midlands Today reporter, and now Head of Compliance at BBC Birmingham, Liz Munro remembers having a small part in ‘Kinsey’: ‘I was in Kinsey! Played myself as a tv reporter. Waited around all day to say my lines, but the pay was good. It was fab. I still have a copy of the script.’
Terry Powell (costume): ‘I loved this show, one of the best I worked on. I looked after Leigh Lawson for 2 years and still keep in touch after all these years!’
Ruth Kiosses (costume):’Remember Kinsey costumes very well. Wasn’t Minnie Driver in it before Hollywood beckoned? I bought some clothes she had worn at the end of filming (sure it was Kinsey).’
Dawn Trotman (film editor): ‘Remember Kinsey very well. Its where I meet my husband! But loads of people got sacked as I recall. At Eliot road where we edited it we had tape in the shape of bodies over the floor! As each person went down. Still enjoyed it though and got to know Carol Parks who was lovely. The cast were good as well.’
Ian Barber: ‘I remember sitting in a cottage in front of a log fire with Minnie Driver, whilst shooting Kinsey 2. Mark Williams (fast show & harry potter) was also in it as an office bod.’
Melissa Hallworth (nee Feather): ‘I remember there was an earthquake in LA where Leigh Lawson’s wife was staying (Twiggy) with their friend Dustin Hoffman, so I had to fax Dustin’s house to make sure Twiggy was ok on behalf of Leigh! great series, loved working on it! x’
Mark Heslop (editor): ‘Had fun on Kinsey. Mixed it at the old Ladbrokes theatre in Notting Hill with Aad Wirtz and a young Adrian Rhodes. Remember having a lovely meal with Carol in Covent Garden, had escargot for the first (and last) time. Made a great team with Dawn and Adam Trotman.’
Diana Lester (costume): ‘Kinsey had a very dramatic effect on my life !!! Met my husband whist filming it, and now nearly 20 years later….still happily married!!’
Anna of the Five Towns – photos by Willoughby Gullachsen
Photos by Willoughby Gullachsen, no reproduction without permission.
This 1985, 4 part drama series was directed at Pebble Mill by Martyn Friend, and produced by Colin Rogers. John Harvey wrote the adaptation of Arnold Bennett’s novel, set in the potteries in the 1890s. Bob Chaplin was the lighting director and Michael Edwards the production designer. Dave Baumber recorded sound (Dave is the one with the moustache and not a lot of hair in the close up photo). Sue Bennett-Urwin was the 1st A.D., and can be seen directing in the last black and white photo. Filming took place in the Isle of Man in 1984, amongst other places. This is where the photo of the cast and crew was taken. The black and white photos were taken at the Black Country Museum near Dudley.
The series starred Linsey Beauchamp as Anna Tellwright, Emrys James as Ephraim Tellwright, Peter Davison as Henry Mynors, Anton Lesser as Willie Price and Anna Cropper as Mrs Sutton.
I believe that Anna of the Five Towns was the first location drama at Pebble Mill to be recorded single camera on video tape. Please add a comment if you can confirm this, or can identify people in the photo of the cast and crew.
Group picture – either side of Jim Clelland (2nd on the left) are Dick Bentley (OB Lighting) and Ray Sperry (Engineer). Joyce Hawkins (Costume), Sally Englebach (Design) and Lesley Perry (Make-up) in the centre amongst others. Paul Woolston (Senior Cameraman) on right and also on camera in the tracking shot. From costume Terry Powell, Mark Ridley, Sally Pearson who sadly is not with us any more, Rachel Selby. The chap with the bald head and the moustache is Dave Baumber (sound), next to him is editor Ivor Williams and Steve Neilsen. Infront of Dave, I think is P.A. Sally Daniels.
(Thanks to Dave Bushell, Terry Powell, Stuart Gandy, Jane Clement, Annie Gumbley and Russell Parker for their help in identifying people).
WWII planes over Pebble Mill by Bhasker Solanki
Brian Parker
Pebble Mill at One, Studio C
My Top Five Plays for Today from Pebble Mill
Telly Addicts Clock
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B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth Volume 5
Written by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi
Illustrated by Laurence Campbell
Dark Horse Comics | Dark Horse Books
6.91"W x 10.45"H x 1.28"D | 49 oz | 10 per carton
On sale Apr 02, 2019 | 416 Pages | 978-1-5067-0815-7
Pop Culture > Graphic Novels
Pop Culture > Manga
This hardcover edition collects B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth volumes 12-13, and 15 plus bonus material.
Hell on Earth comes to an end when the B.P.R.D. must defend earth from one of the mythical Ogdru Jahad, the dragon believed to bring about the end of the world. The agents must destroy the dragon and the countless monsters it creates. Elsewhere, Russian occult director seeks help from a demon as he follows her through Hell.
Mike Mignola's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse. There are thirteen Hellboy graphic novels (with more on the way), several spin-off titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder), prose books, animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). Mike's books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries. Mike lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat. Learn more about Mike Mignola
John Arcudi is a comic book writer and creator from Buffalo, New York. Arcudi has more than 300 titles to his name, some of the most prominent being Abe Sapien, B.P.R.D., The Creep, Dark Horse Presents, and Predator. Arcudi was educated at Columbia University. Learn more about John Arcudi
Laurence Campbell is a comic book artist, penciller, and inker. He is known for his work on B.P.R.D., Sledgehammer 44, Punisher, Wolverine, Judge Dredd, Deadpool, and other comic book titles.
You can find out more about Campbell and his work at getcampbell.com/home. Learn more about Laurence Campbell
Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, John Arcudi, Max Fiumara, Tyler Crook
Hellboy Universe Essentials: Hellboy
Mike Mignola, Various
Hellboy Universe: The Secret Histories
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952-1954
Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Dave Stewart, Guy Davis, Tyler Crook
B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know Omnibus
Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Dave Stewart, Christopher Mitten, Laurence Campbell
Mike Mignola: The Quarantine Sketchbook
Witchfinder Volume 6: The Reign of Darkness
Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Michelle Madsen, Christopher Mitten, Clem Robins
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Beast of Vargu and Others
Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Christopher Mitten, Duncan Fegredo, Adam Hughes
Baltimore Omnibus Volume 2
Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Ben Stenbeck, Dave Stewart, Peter Bergting
B.P.R.D.: 1946-1948
Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Joshua Dysart, Gabriel Ba, Fabio Moon
Joe Golem: Occult Detective Volume 4--The Conjurors
Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Michelle Madsen, Peter Bergting
Witchfinder Omnibus Volume 1
Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Maura McHugh, John Severin, Beck Steinbeck
Our Encounters with Evil: Adventures of Professor J.T. Meinhardt and His Assistant Mr. Knox
Mike Mignola, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell
Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Ben Stenbeck, Dave Stewart, Clem Robins
Mike Mignola, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Jill Thompson, Benjamin Dewey
John Arcudi, Evan Dorkin, Gary Erskine, Doug Mahnke, Peter Gross
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956
Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Michael Avon Oeming, Mike Norton, Yishan Li
B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know Volume 3-Ragna Rok
Mike Mignola, Dave Stewart, Laurence Campbell, Clem Robins
Crimson Lotus
John Arcudi, Michelle Madsen, Mindy Lee, Clem Robins
Hellboy: 25 Years of Covers
Mike Mignola, Dave Stewart
Joe Golem: Occult Detective Volume 3--The Drowning City
Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Michelle Madsen, Peter Bergting, Clem Robins
John Arcudi, Doug Mahnke
B.P.R.D.: Vampire (Second Edition)
Mike Mignola, Gabriel Ba, Fabio Moon, Dave Stewart, Clem Robins
Mike Mignola, James Harren, Chris Roberson, John Arcudi
Witchfinder Volume 5: The Gates of Heaven
Mike Mignola, Kristen Gudsnuk
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt (2nd Edition)
Mike Mignola, Dave Stewart, Duncan Fegredo
Koshchei the Deathless
Mike Mignola, Ben Stenbeck, Dave Stewart, Clem Robins
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 4: Hellboy in Hell
Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 2
Mike Mignola, P. Craig Russel, Richard Corben, Scott Hampton
Rasputin: The Voice of the Dragon
Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Dave Stewart, Christopher Mitten
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 3: The Wild Hunt
Mike Mignola, Dave Stewart, Duncan Fegredo, Robins Robins
Abe Sapien: The Drowning and Other Stories
Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Patric Reynolds, Jason Shawn Alexander, Peter Snejbjerg
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 2: Strange Places
Mike Mignola, Dave Stewart, Richard Corben, Gary Gianni
Mike Mignola, Richard Corben, Duncan Fegredo, Mick McMahon
Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Paolo Rivera, Brian Churilla, Shawn Martinbrough
Jenny Finn
Mike Mignola, Troy Nixey, Dave Stewart, Farel Dalrymple
Joe Golem: Occult Detective Volume 2--The Outer Dark
Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Dave Stewart, Patric Reynolds
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction
Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Dave Stewart, Mark Chiarello
B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know Volume 1 - Messiah
Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Dave Stewart, Laurence Campbell
Abe Sapien: Dark and Terrible Volume 2
Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Sebastian Fiumara, Max Fiumara, Tyler Crook
Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Patric Reynolds, Brian Churilla, Stephen Green
Lobster Johnson Volume 5: The Pirate's Ghost and Metal Monsters of Midtown
Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Dave Stewart, Tonci Zonjic
Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, John Arcudi, Sebastian Fiumara, Max Fiumara
Mr. Higgins Comes Home
Mike Mignola, Warwick Johnson Cadwell
Hellboy in Hell Library Edition
The Terminator: The Original Comics Series-Tempest and One Shot
John Arcudi, Chris Warner, Matt Wagner, James A. Robinson
The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed
Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Paul Grist, Bill Crabtree
Dead Inside Volume 1
John Arcudi, Toni Fejzula, Andre May
Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors
Mike Mignola, Chris Priestly
Abe Sapien Volume 9
Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea
Mike Mignola, Gary Gianni, Dave Stewart
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth Volume 14: The Exorcist
Mike Mignola, Cameron Stewart, Chris Roberson, Mike Norton
Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Paolo Rivera, Ben Stenbeck, Dave Stewart
Joe Golem Occult Detective Volume 1- The Rat Catcher and The Sunken Dead
Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Dave Stewart, Patric Reynolds, David Palumbo
Abe Sapien Volume 7: The Secret Fire
Mike Mignola, Scott Allie
B.P.R.D Hell On Earth Volume 12 : Metamorphosis
Mike Mignola, Ben Stenbeck
B.P.R.D Hell On Earth Volume 11: Flesh and Stone
Mike Mignola, John Arcudi
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: 1952
Mike Mignola, Alex Maleev
Abe Sapien Volume 6: A Darkness So Great
Mike Mignola, Max Fiumara
B.P.R.D: Plague of Frogs Volume 4
Mike Mignola, Guy Davis
Witchfinder Volume 3 The Mysteries of Unland
Mike Mignola, Kim Newman
B.P.R.D Hell on Earth Volume 10: The Devils Wings
Mike Mignola, Laurence Campbell
B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs Volume 2
Lobster Johnson Volume 4: Get the Lobster
Mike Mignola, Tonci Zonjic
Baltimore Volume 4: Chapel of Bones
Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Ben Stenbeck, Dave Stewart
Hellboy in Hell Volume 1: The Descent
Abe Sapien Volume 3: Dark and Terrible and the New Race of Man
Mike Mignola, Sebastian Fiumara
Baltimore Volume 3: A Passing Stranger and Other Stories
Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Dave Stewart, Various
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth Volume 6: The Return of the Master
Mike Mignola, Dave Stewart, Various
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth Volume 5: The Pickens County Horror and Others
Hellboy Library Edition Volume 6: The Storm and the Fury and The Bride of Hell
Hellboy Library Edition Volume 5: Darkness Calls and The Wild Hunt
Hellboy Library Volume 4: The Crooked Man and The Troll Witch
Baltimore Volume 1: The Plague Ships
Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Ben Stenbeck
Hellboy: Masks and Monsters
Mike Mignola, Dave Stewart, Scott Benefiel
B.P.R.D. Volume 12: War on Frogs
Hellboy Library Volume 3: Conqueror Worm and Strange Places
Hellboy Library Volume 2: The Chained Coffin and The Right Hand of Doom
Abe Sapien Volume 1: The Drowning
Lobster Johnson Volume 1: The Iron Prometheus
Hellboy Library Volume 1: Seed of Destruction and Wake the Devil
Hellboy: The Art of Hellboy
Hellboy Volume 1: Seed of Destruction
Hellboy Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others (2nd edition)
The Mask Strikes Back
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Driver dead, 14 passengers injured after van goes off road and crashes, N.J. police say
State police on Rt 24 Eastbound near exit 2A for a van crash in Hanover, N.J. January, 13, 2021Ed Murray | NJ Advance Media for
By Chris Sheldon | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The driver of a van died Wednesday morning and 14 passengers were injured after the vehicle drove off a Morris County highway and crashed, police said.
The 61-year-old Plainfield man, who was not identified Wednesday night, was driving a 2000 Ford E350 passenger van east on Route 24 in Hanover shortly after 10 a.m. when the crash happened, New Jersey State Police Trooper Charles Marchan told NJ Advance Media.
The van went off the right side of the road, struck a guardrail and overturned, Marchan said. It then hit a second guardrail, went down an embankment and hit several trees.
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene and the 14 passengers were taken to local hospitals for treatment, he said. The severity of their injuries were unclear.
The cause of the accident remained under investigation Wednesday night.
Thank you for relying on us to provide the journalism you can trust. Please consider supporting NJ.com with a voluntary subscription.
Chris Sheldon may be reached at csheldon@njadvancemedia.com.
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Home > Resources > Webinars
A-Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Staying up-to-date on the latest assessment developments is what sets you apart—and helps set your students and clients up for success. PAR’s informative webinars are listed below.
Pandemics, Trauma, and Emotional Disturbance
Virtual, January 20
11:00 a.m.- noon ET SESSION FULL
NEW SESSION ADDED: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. ET
Presenter(s): Theo Miron, PsyS, and Carrie Champ Morera, PsyD
Description: Earn 1 hour of NASP CPD credit* at a FREE webinar and live Q&A. The learning outcomes of this webinar are:
Understand the history and definition of an Emotional Disturbance (ED)
Examine the features of ED including associated DSM-V disorders
Explore trends in (ED) identification and discuss possible explanations
Define and understand trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
Describe the current COVID-19 pandemic’s influence on trauma/ACEs
Examine the overlap of ED criteria with the emotional/behavioral difficulties that may manifest through significant and prolonged trauma
Explore the structure and value of using the EDDT to assess for the presence or absence of ED
Registration link for 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. session: Register here
Qual level required for attendees: B
*Participants wishing to receive NASP continuing professional development credit must attend the entire live webinar and complete the post-webinar evaluation form. PAR is approved by the National Association of School Psychologists to provide continuing education for psychologists. PAR maintains responsibility for the program and its content. PAR’s NASP APS Provider Number is 1051.
Assessing the Multiple Causes of Trauma Across the Age Span
Presenter(s): Melissa Milanak, PhD and Kevin Lauer, PhD
Description: Attendees of this webinar will learn about the following trauma instruments:
Detailed Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress (DAPS)
Trauma Symptom Inventory–2 (TSI-2)
Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSCC)
Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children (TSCYC)
Pandemic Anxiety Screener for Students—12: Research Edition (PASS-12)
Registration link: Register here
RIAS-2 Remote Administration: What’s a School Psych To Do?
Virtual, January 14 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Presenter(s): Terri Sisson, EdS, Carrie Champ Morera, PsyD
Description: In this webinar, you will:
Understand the difference between Remote and In-Person e-administration
Understand the equivalency of the RIAS-2 when administered face-to-face and remotely
Understand how to give the RIAS-2 remotely using videoconferencing software and the whiteboard feature
Qual level required for attendees: C
PARiConnect Advanced Tips and Tricks—For Experienced Users
Virtual, January 8 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Presenter(s): Daniel McFadden, MBA
Description: A real time tour of some of the lesser-known features of PARiConnect, including tips and tricks to help save you time. Designed for users who are already comfortable with the platform, but would like to know more!
Learn about the resources currently available
Discover time-saving shortcuts and other inside information
Understand various settings and options
Qual level required for attendees: A
Introduction to PARiConnect—For New Users
Description: A real time tour of PARiConnect, including tips for new users and demonstration of the different administration options. Perfect for new users just getting started.
Learn how to purchase and manage your inventory
Understand how to assign assessments by email or in-office
Learn how to generate and save reports
Overview of the Feifer Family of Products
Virtual, December 17 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Presenter(s): Steven G. Feifer, DEd, NCSP, ABSNP, and Terri Sisson, EdS
Description: Earn 1 hour of NASP CPD credit* at a FREE webinar and live Q&A on Thursday, December 17 at 11 a.m. ET and listen to Steven G. Feifer, DEd, NCSP, ABSNP, present the Feifer family of products. Attendees of this webinar will be able to:
Understand the basics of how neuropsychology impacts academic achievement
Learn how the Feifer products measure the neuropsychological processes of reading, math, and writing
Gain awareness of the specific areas of dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia
There will be a live question & answer after the presentation.
Overview of the RAIT and the TOGRA
Description: Melissa Milanak, PhD and Kevin Lauer, PhD will provide an overview of subset, scoring, and normative sample and index comparisons on:
The Reynolds Adaptable Intelligence Test (RAIT)
The Test of General Reasoning Ability (TOGRA)
Considerations for remote administration
Review of digital and remote assessment instruments available through PAR
Executive Functions & ADHD: Evidence-Based Assessment with the BRIEF2
Virtual, December 1 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Presenter(s): Peter K. Isquith, PhD
Description: Earn 1 hour of NASP CPD credit* at a FREE webinar and live Q&A on Tuesday, December 1 at 11am ET to learn more about the BRIEF2 ADHD Form. BRIEF2 coauthor Peter K. Isquith, PhD will review how to increase the expertise in identifying students with ADHD subtypes using evidence-based assessment with the BRIEF2. After this workshop, participants will have a better understanding of how to:
Explain the relationship between executive functions and ADHD diagnoses
Compare BRIEF2 profiles with established profiles in students with ADHD subtypes
Use classification tables to estimate the likelihood of ADHD diagnosis
Executive Function & ADHD: A View From the Conductor
Virtual, November 24 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Description: Earn 1 hour of NASP CPD credit* at a FREE webinar and live Q&A on Tuesday, November 24 at 11am ET to learn more about executive functions and ADHD. BRIEF2 coauthor Peter K. Isquith, PhD will discuss how to improve expertise in understanding and assessing executive functioning in students diagnosed with ADHD. After this workshop, participants will have a better understanding of how to:
Define executive function & ADHD
Describe methods of assessing EF
Articulate the relationship between EF & ADHD
Registration link: Visit partrainingportal.com and log in or create an account to view the presentation.
Virtual, November 17 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Trauma and COVID-19: What School Professionals Can Do to Help
Presenter(s): Terri Sisson, EdS and Carrie Champ Morera, PsyD, NCSP, LP
Description: When children are able to return to the classroom, they, teachers, and school professionals will be facing an unprecedented situation. The learning outcome of this webinar will be:
To prepare school staff by providing a brief history of trauma
A review of the effects of quarantine on children
A discussion of what issues staff can expect when children return to school
FAW Administration and Scoring Tips
Presenter(s): Sue Trujillo, MS
Description: Join us as we examine the Feifer Assessment of Writing (FAW) Administration and Scoring Guide, a unique tool packed with information, tips, and examples. There will be a live Q&A after the presentation. Topics covered in this session include:
Highlights of each section of the FAW Administration and Scoring Guide
How to score writing samples for the Executive Working Memory, Expository Writing, and Story Mapping subtests
A review of the nuances of scoring the Motor Planning Subtest
Digital and Remote Assessments
Virtual, November 5 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Presenter(s): Sierra Iwanicki, PhD, and Melissa E. Milanak, PhD
Description: Each session will discuss:
How to use digital and remote assessments while retaining integrity and security
Potential concerns when administering tests via telehealth technologies
The performance of paper-and-pencil vs. digital/remote administration of various instruments
The benefits of using PARiConnect, our online administration platform
PAI Plus Training Webinar
Virtual, October 29 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Presenter(s): Sierra Iwanicki, PhD, and Kevin Lauer, PhD
Description: Join us to learn more about the Personality Assessment Inventory and the updates that are now available in the PAI Plus.
Development and overview of the PAI
Goals for PAI Plus and new features
Description: A real-time tour of some of the lesser-known features of PARiConnect, including tips and tricks to help save you time. Designed for users who are already comfortable with the platform, but would like to know more!
Description: A real-time tour of PARiConnect, including tips for new users and demonstration of the different administration options. Perfect for new users just getting started. In this session, you will:
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Latino voters' impact varied by region
Sat, Nov 6th 2010 @ 1:01 pm EDT
A hard-line immigration stance has become almost standard for GOP candidates nationally, as an older generation that backed immigration reform is pushed out by conservative activists. Even though it wasn't the centerpiece of their agenda, GOP candidates weren't shy about talking about the need to secure the border or their backing of Arizona's controversial new immigration law.
The election pushed Congress sharply to the right on immigration matters. Numbers USA, which advocates tougher immigration restrictions, estimates that 40 congressional representatives and senators who favored some sort of legal residency for illegal immigrants were replaced by hardliners this election.http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-latino-vote-20101107,0,7094098.story
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Ondo Poll: Shooting at Ondo APC Secretariat as party crisis worsens
Commercial activities in Akure, the Ondo state capital, was on Thursday disrupted following a clash between members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who are loyal to the state chairman of the party, Hon. Isaac Kekemeke and some aggrieved members who want to take over the office.
The secretariat, which is located along the ever busy Oyemekun road, became deserted as shop owners, passersby and motorists ran for dear life, as the groups exchanged gun shots.
Since Tuesday, APC office has witnessed unrest following an invasion of some members under the aegis of ‘Movement against Imposition’, who sealed off the office.
The group, which quickly sacked Kekemeke and also set up a factional Executives led by Saka Yusuf Ogunleye, accused Kekemeke of anti-party activities, manipulation of delegates’ list for the primary election and attempt to impose a particular aspirant as candidate, among others.
Kekemeke’s men were said to have reopened the Secretariat on Wednesday by chasing away those aggrieved members.
The situation took another twist on Thursday when the aggrieved members reinforced to the party secretariat but were repelled, as those loyal to the party chairman allegedly exchanged gun shots with their opposition by shooting sporadically.
Normalcy was returned when security operatives led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Edward Ajogun, stormed the scene and chased away the miscreants.
Kekemeke later arrived the party secretariat with his Secretary, Rotimi Raham and the Central Senatorial Chairman, Adegboyega Adedipe to address reporters.
The Chairman urged the Saka Yusuf-led executive members to retrace their step and return to his fold and work for the party.
He alleged that those behind the crisis are those who believe that their governorship ambition is threatened.
Kekemeke assured the aspirants, party members and delegates on the primary election that the list of delegates to be used would be as produced by the Femi Pedro Congress Committee and as had been amended by the Chief Aro Lambo Congress Appeal Committee.
He insisted that the party primary election, slated for August 27, would be conducted by the national headquarters of the party.
He added that the process involved sales of forms, through screening, to the appointment of officials; from issuance of delegates list, through the conduct of the primary election to the announcement of results.
He said, “as for endorsement, it should be clear to all by now that “endorsement is not synonymous with imposition”. It has been sufficiently explained that endorsement is consistent and compatible with best democratic practices even in the most advanced democracies and does not in any way impair free, fair and transparent primaries.
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Arizona State Parks & Trails Partners with the Department Of Child Safety to Provide 10,000 Parks Passes to Foster Families
PHOENIX – Foster families will soon have free access to explore Arizona’s state parks, thanks to a new partnership between the Department of Child Safety (DCS) and Arizona State Parks and Trails.
“Offering free admission to foster families is just a small way to recognize them for the loving care they provide to many of Arizona’s most vulnerable kids,” said Governor Ducey. “I thank Arizona State Parks and the Department of Child Safety for teaming up on this innovative partnership to bring families together.”
Arizona State Parks and Trails is providing a free, annual pass for every licensed and kinship foster family in the state.
“We’re thrilled to partner with the Department of Child Safety to help get families out to our parks,” said Parks Executive Director Bob Broscheid. “We want to ensure that everyone has the chance to have an adventure in our parks – including the foster families who do so much."
DCS has started mailing the exclusive passes to roughly 7,000 foster families statewide.
The day passes will allow foster families day-use admission to more than 30 state parks across Arizona and are good for one year from the date of first use.
“Every day our foster families make sacrifices to help protect and heal our most vulnerable children,” said DCS Director Greg McKay. “This is a profound expression of gratitude I know Arizona’s foster families will truly appreciate and enjoy. We are honored to team up with Parks and Trails to provide this gift just in time for Foster Care Awareness month in May."
Foster families can receive a new pass annually to continue exploring.
"Managing and conserving Arizona's natural, cultural and recreational resources for the benefit of the people, both in our parks and through our partners."
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Dame Elizabeth Taylor will be remembered for many things. Her award-winning films, her numerous husbands, her fabulous diamonds. But her most important legacy might be her contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS. At the beginning of the epidemic, when few people (especially celebrities) dared to speak on behalf of people living with the virus, Taylor brought national attention to the growing epidemic. She cofounded the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation and raised millions of dollars for the cause. Taylor leveraged her celebrity, beauty and fame to educate the world. “It’s bad enough that people are dying of AIDS,” she once said, “but no one should die of ignorance.” Her awareness efforts led to lifesaving treatments and greater compassion toward people living with HIV/AIDS. May her passion inspire us as we continue to fight ignorance and search for a cure for AIDS.
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These Photos Depict Life With HIV Today—and They’re Free to Use
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ViiV Healthcare teams with stock photography provider Shutterstock to offer a stigma-busting gallery of images.
December 14, 2020 • By Trenton Straube
The online photo gallery HIV in View shows real people living and thriving with HIV. Not only do the images aim to break down negative stereotypes of HIV, but they’re also available for the public to download through Shutterstock, a stock photography provider.
Launched on World AIDS Day, December 1, the gallery is a collaborative effort between Shutterstock and ViiV Healthcare, a pharmaceutical company focused on HIV treatment that’s a joint venture of Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Shionogi.
You can view and download the entire collection of royalty-free images on this page at Shutterstock.com. The page includes a three-minute video featuring participants in the gallery that you can watch above; sample images from the gallery are posted throughout this article.
“There is always a need for authentic and fresh imagery accurately depicting what it’s like to live with HIV,” said Shutterstock general manager Michael Carfagnini in a press release about the gallery. “ViiV Healthcare’s work in continuing to fight HIV-related stigma until people living with HIV are understood and accepted sparked a unique opportunity for Shutterstock to collaborate through powerful visuals.”
The images were curated with the input of people living with HIV and include folks in the United Kingdom, Kenya, Uruguay and Portugal. “Until the world sees HIV for what it really is, we are not going to make the progress we need to disrupt stereotypes of what it’s like to live with HIV,” said Doreen Moracha, of Kenya, who was photographed for the gallery. “If my photographs can change just one person’s opinion of what it means to live with HIV today, I will know we are a step closer to reaching this goal.”
ViiV Healthcare CEO Deborah Waterhouse said the company is pledging to “use images of real people living with HIV across all our platforms, where applicable, moving forward, and we encourage others to do the same.”
She added that ViiV’s mission “is to leave no person living with HIV behind and reducing HIV-related stigma is key to achieving this. For too long, the public has been presented with outdated representations of what it is to live with HIV. Working with Shutterstock has underlined how a lack of widely accessible, present-day HIV imagery continues to hold us back. With the launch of the HIV in View gallery, people across the world can now download authentic photography for free.”
Shutterstock notes that the images in the HIV in View gallery are free under its standard use license. She also notes that users who need an enhanced license (which allows a greater number of reproductions, among other benefits) will be charged a fee but that 100% of proceeds go to (RED), the global nonprofit rock star Bono launched in 2006 to raise HIV funds.
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Just a few years ago, search-engine optimization was widely considered a specialized knowledge of how to manipulate Google’s search rankings with clever, secret tactics. While that was an accurate assessment then, the SEO industry has matured. It is now a dynamic, multifaceted online-marketing discipline that transcends clever trickery, and has become an essential requirement of expertise for every online marketer.
Google has facilitated and accelerated this shift by changing the game in ways that help users find information faster and in a manner that emphasizes the giant's own products. So how is SEO evolving, and what is Google’s goal? What can online-marketing professionals learn about the future best practices of the SEO industry by studying Google’s present pattern of changes? Read on.
1. SEO is now more about building a brand than trickery.
Changes over the past two years already have shifted our perception of search-engine optimization. We're no longer talking about just links, keywords and PageRank. Instead, we're discussing branding and content strategy. But building a brand and publishing high-quality content are not new concepts, they’ve always been key parts of inbound marketing. So why the sudden shift in buzz within the SEO industry?
Google’s launch of its Penguin and Panda algorithm updates sent a clear message to webmasters and marketing professionals: Google will not tolerate manipulative tactics or low-quality content in its search results. The result? A strategic, quality content strategy became the only option to achieve visibility in search results.
A content strategy is only effective, however, when executed by a strong brand, otherwise, that content achieves little reach, viewership or audience. Simultaneously, an effective content strategy is the road to building a brand. As a result, the focus is now on content and branding rather than manipulation and trickery.
2. Google is no longer just a search engine.
Yes, Google started as a search engine and it continues to serve that function. But Google has also become the leader in consumer-facing, data-oriented projects. Knowledge Graph, which attempts to figure out what searchers want, quickly supply the information and anticipate the next questions, is one example.
Many searches are location-based. “Vegan restaurants in Brooklyn”, “Spas in Brisbane”, “Where do I get designer shoes in Milan?” All these queries return search results that are peppered with extra information, from reviews to price ranges to maps. Throw in paid ads, which dominate the top spots in the rankings, and the top-ranking organic search result now appears a few hundred pixels down the page. That number-one ranking has lost a significant amount of value and visibility.
3. Links are key, but for a different reason.
Currently, it’s widely thought that the quantity and quality of inbound links to your domain and individual pages on your site are the primary factors in the ranking algorithm. Because of the resulting market for link buying and selling (which Google hates), Google might be tweaking its algorithms to give lower algorithmic weight to inbound links. However, even if links become irrelevant for SEO purposes, that doesn’t mean they won’t still be vital for your online-marketing campaign.
Before anyone knew what SEO was, they tried to get other websites to link to theirs for a different reason: referral traffic. How does John Doe discover your website if not via Google? Maybe he sees it mentioned on a blog. Maybe he found you on Twitter or Facebook. Or maybe he saw a sign you put up in the offline world. In every case, he arrived at your website through a “link.”
Ask yourself: If Google were not in the picture, would marketers still need to build links? If you’re in it for the long term, the answer is yes.
4. The future is “Now.”
Google Now is more than a mobile voice search challenging Apple’s Siri. It’s an entirely different mindset that pulls answers from geolocation, search history and preferences, as well as recent activity on Google products and other places.
It can search your calendar for birthday reminders. It can find your travel itinerary in your Gmail and spit out a weather report for where you’re headed. The emphasis is on serving answers, not webpage results. The challenge is making yourself relevant enough in people’s lives so that you show up in search results.
Because most of this takes place on mobile devices, SEO also means optimizing websites to be mobile-friendly.
5. Approach online marketing with a “product” perspective.
If you have a bad product, you can sell a few units through excellent marketing. But this strategy not only won’t last long -- it’ll kill your brand as the word spreads. This is why you should treat every aspect of your inbound marketing campaign as a product.
Consider content as your chief product. Content can be a blog post, an ebook, a video, an email newsletter, an infographic or just about anything that's going to be consumed by an audience.
As marketers and advertisers, we tend to value campaigns (the process) over the product. But the opposite philosophy is your ticket to long-lasting success. Apple has created great marketing campaigns, but their focus is always on creating the best products.
The irony is that many folks who try hard to get that number-one ranking in the search results often fail, while brands and marketers who patiently and systematically follow these steps not only reach their goals, but stay there over the long haul.
Google has carefully crafted its strategy to encourage strong, quality content publication so its users don’t have to see the spammy content that used to litter its search results. Google’s future moves will be to further encourage this trend of quality and branding instead of manipulation and trickery.
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How well you know of Netflix series Paradise PD?
Test your knowledge by answering these 10 questions!!! The animation movies and web series are one of the most liked Genre of the young audience. If you are animation lover and wants to conquer more of this world, then Paradise PD is for you. Paradise PD is an American adult animation web series created for Netflix. The first trailer of the web series was released on July 25, 2018 and the season was premiered on Netflix ON August 30, 2018. Up till now, there is only one season of it having 10 episodes. The voice characters of the Paradise PD are almost the same as of the Brickleberry show. This series is all about the small town police force department of incompetent and inept officers. Paradise PD has been given a category of adult due to its mature and sexual content, abusive language, violence, drug use and sexual acts in it. This web series targeted audience is surely and adult ones. The main character of the series are Kevin Crawford, his father Randall Crawford, bullet (Dog) and Gina Jabowski (Sole female officer). They are being described as worst responders of the team. There were speculations and rumors that the 2nd season will not be made. But it was reported that season 2 of this comedy web series is already in its post-production phase and will be released soon in the late 2019. If you really want to take a joy Ride of this animation web series and wants to know more, then you should surely take this quiz. Have Fun.
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Home Sports Headlines Knicks feel ‘less inclined’ to trade for Russell Westbrook and his massive salary, looking for long-term cap flexibility
Knicks feel ‘less inclined’ to trade for Russell Westbrook and his massive salary, looking for long-term cap flexibility
After three days of free agency, the Knicks still have $18 million in cap space. And it doesn’t seem like they’re in a hurry to use it.
Even after Sunday’s Ed Davis trade, teams were under the impression that the Knicks remain open to providing cap relief to general managers looking to offload salary.
They’ve already done it twice in separate transactions with veteran Ed Davis, acquiring three second-round picks and two young players (Jacob Evans and Omari Spellman).
Depending on how the Charlotte-Gordon Hayward signing plays out, the Knicks could help the Hornets shed any salary needed to complete the transaction via sign-and-trade. Of course, New York would want to acquire an asset from either Charlotte or Boston in exchange for providing the cap relief.
The Knicks could also sit tight during the rest of the free agency period and use the cap space at the trade deadline to absorb a contract from a team looking to clear money in free agency.
In 2019, the Knicks were the team looking to offload salary. They traded Kristaps Porzingis to Dallas and included the contracts of Tim Hardaway Jr. and Courtney Lee in the deal. That gave them enough cap space to sign two max free agents. (Which didn’t’ work out so well.)
The 2021 free agent class is a deep one. So at least one team should be looking looking to shed salary at the deadline.
Will New York spend the $18 million in cap space on a free agent? It could happen. Things change quickly in free agency.
But opposing teams are under the impression that they’re in no rush to do so.
They already have 16 players under contract.
There’s still the possibility of a Russell Westbrook trade. But New York signed Elfrid Payton and Austin Rivers (who can play on and off the ball) in free agency. The Knicks also have Dennis Smith Jr., Frank Ntilikina and Immanuel Quickley on the roster.
That roster composition suggests that they aren’t interested in a Westbrook trade.
And some people in touch with the Knicks recently got the sense that they were less inclined to take on a significant salary like Westbrook’s, which would impact their future cap space (*that sense aligns with their hesitancy to match Charlotte’s 4-year, $120 million offer to Hayward).
The way things unfolded in free agency, it seems like maintaining financial flexibility was important for New York in Leon Rose’s first offseason.
You may hate the approach. You may appreciate it. But when the dust settled, Rose didn’t feel that the time was right to make a long-term financial commitment to a player in his prime like Hayward or, presumably, Westbrook.
Based on what we’ve seen over the past few days, New York is taking a patient approach in Year 1 under Rose. That could mean another long season for the Knicks in 2020-21. Based on current roster composition, it seems like the young Knicks (RJ Barrett, Mitchell Robinson, etc.) will have an opportunity to play a ton and learn on the job. That hasn’t been the case in year’s past.
Obviously, fans looking for a big acquisition in the 2020 offseason were disappointed with the first few days of free agency. The Knicks should have another chance to land a star in the summer of 2021. New York can have significant cap space that summer and will have two first-round picks in what should be a strong draft. (In all, they have eight first-round picks and 11 second-round picks in the next six drafts)
So the waiting game may continue for long-suffering Knicks fans. But Rose & Co. didn’t do anything in free agency that the franchise may regret in a couple years. That alone seems like a step in the right direction.
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Buffy Season 5 Episode 16 "The Body"
Thread: Buffy Season 5 Episode 16 "The Body"
With regard to the episode (The Body) in the thread title, it's a terrific bit of TV. Great acting/writing. But not something I could watch too often.
Nor is Seeing Red in the following series...that was tough, even though I knew (I'd seen a spoiler some time before...I'm almost glad I did!) what was coming.
Jerjo
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I like the episode with The Gentlemen. That was the spookiest thing they ever did.
Also, I can watch that scene with the rocket launcher in the mall over and over and over again.
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Originally Posted by Jerjo
Hush. The scene where you see why The Gentlemen did that voicebox spell is pretty scary. I also loved the funny slideshow scene. Despite having the weakest 'big bad' villain, that fourth series had some of the best individual episodes of all.
Originally Posted by roylayer
Angel is well worth watching too!
I've seen the whole first series. It was good, but the first series of Angel didn't seem as thematically rich as its parent show was, from the start. I did enjoy the episodes with Buffy and Faith a lot. The episode Hero with main character Doyle getting killed off was another strong one.
There's a long way to go...another four series!
TheLoony
The ending of Angel was prompted by it's firing but they had enough time to figure out how to send them off in splendid fashion, IMO. Total Illuminati conspiracy theorists wet dream, just in a world of demons and such. Spike and Angel arguing about spacemen vs. a caveman is one of my favorite scenes ever, and the whole Strada(street) episode chasing after Buffy is way too much fun. Demon mafia, it's just too good.
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I suspect I won't get to the end of Angel until some time into next year!
My issue with the last series of Buffy is that the core of the last couple of episodes were great, but there was so much unnecessary filler in this series. Too much arguing, too many bolted-on cast members and original cast members acting out of character.
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I'm still finishing S6! Loved the musical episode.
^Once More, With Feeling was great. When I heard there was a musical episode, 'WTF' came to mind, but it worked. You don't have to be a 'all singing/dancing' musical theatre fan to like it...a fair amount of the songs are solo numbers.
I'm now getting to the end of the second series of Angel. It's better than the first series and occasionally great, but still not up to the level of BTVS. Good enough for me to keep watching though.
Trust me on this..........
Who would win in a fight....
You guys haven't gotten there yet
So looking forward to your responses.
Major Buffy fan here, even if I now think Joss Whedon is a world-class asshole and hypocrite. As a long-time member of the whedonesque world I wrote extensively on Buffy for many years, See this: https://deird1.livejournal.com/182556.html
SPOILERS FOR ANGEL (AND BUFFY) BELOW
I began watching Angel and could not make it past its third season. I just could not. The entire structure is radically different. Buffy begins as "high-school is hell" and tracks the development of a bunch of teenagers finding themselves. Angel is about living in the adult world and working in corporate culture. It just did not resonate at all for me. Even though I am male, I could identify with Willow in the Buffy series, but in Angel there was no one with whom to identify- and by then the writers were relying on tricks long overused in Buffy- deaths of beloved characters (Tara in Buffy, Fred in Angel), characters going evil (Willow, Wesley), characters being redeemed (Spike, Faith and Cordelia). I have all 5 seasons of Angel, but will never watch S4 with its stupidity, and do not much care about S5 when they get to own the company.
I'm not lazy. I just work so fast I'm always done.
I thought the 'Dark Willow' episodes which closed Series 6 were terrific, but Tara's murder doesn't sit well with me- for one thing, she was so nice! Arguably the nicest person in the show. And when it happened was horrible as well.
Angel suffers from comparison with its parent show. Weirdly the episodes Whedon wrote have been some of the weakest.
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Just started rewatching the series, loved it back in the day, The Body and Hush were two stand out episodes.
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
^Those are brilliant, so is Once More, With Feeling which I've gathered are the three most popular episodes. I was hooked early in the run but for me it was, oh this is an amazing show around halfway into Series 2 (Surprise/Innocence, Passion, I Only Have Eyes For You etc.). New Moon Rising and Who Are You were other favourites.
I loath Season 6 of Buffy more than I can ever say.
Seeing Red is one of the greatest violations of story every put on TV. Completely foul in every way. From Spike's AR of Buffy to Tara's death, Whedon violated the trust of his viewers in ways he is paying for today. That was the episode in which they added Amber Benson to the credits as a full cast member. Steve DeKnight- a Buffy writer- had just told fans that Tara was not going anywhere, in public and on the The Bronze posting board. A pure example of the "kill your lesbian" trope that Whedon tried to push away by claiming he had to kill Tara to advance Willow's story, that no one was safe. He effectively cut off his entire LGBT audience, plus more. Entire posting boards were created in defiance of that, such as the Kitten Board. Robert Black wrote long articles about how Whedon could have gotten the same story without killing a gay character- and creating another example of the "evil, dead lesbian" trope as well. And then he and Marti Noxon had conversations in S7 about keeping Willow gay or not- and ended up with Kennedy as a poor man's sop. That was a shitty as it gets. It took nearly 20 years for Noxon to admit they made a mistake; Whedon never has. Amber Benson really never had anything more to do with Whedon- who ran into all sorts of problems when it turned out that the great feminist was sleeping with his stars while married to his wife.
Until he had Cordelia sleep with her own son in S4 of Angel, that is.
Here is my hot take- watch Wynonna Earp. Emily Andras, the showrunner, will never violate your trust and her program is so damned good it hurts.
I liked that 6th series as a whole but as I said at the top of the page, Seeing Red is an episode I would dread when I re-watch. And for completely different reasons to The Body, obviously.
I did love Willow and Tara together. (By comparison, all of Buffy's relationships were a total horror-show. Poor girl!) Willow and Kennedy, no- there was nothing 'there' on screen. Rushed and forced.
The overall best series was the 3rd one, I'd say. One of the best I've seen of any show.
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Ouch, some of those quotes from the writers are really bad (all 'we won't ever do that' and then the show did it!). I hadn't seen any of those.
Yep. Then check out this book, entirely about S6 and 7:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...uffy-goes-dark
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Just like my insistence that there is not a third Godfather film, a fourth Indiana Jones film, and only two Alien movies, Buffy ended after season five. It's my world and I like the weather in it.
I just found that Buffy streams free for Amazon Prime members (not sure if that is only in the US). My wife wants to watch seasons four and five again.
I think I'd have issues with The Gift as it stands as a final end. It was an absolutely brilliant episode, but I don't think that Buffy's 'death' was registered enough. There's another scene literally right at the end of Angel S2 where Willow goes to Angel in LA to let him know about it, but that's only a few seconds as well.
I'm still watching Angel, am about halfway through S4. I like it- Alexis Denisof as Wesley is superb in this series- but not anything to do whiny, creepy Connor. Happily, the next episode up has Willow in it. I just love Willow!
Looking forward to your thoughts on Angel S5. It has a dark, yet hopeful, ending but as a whole there's so much great humor in there. Bringing Harmony back was a load of fun.
Lot of humor in the whole series, I'm thinking of Numfar and the Dance of Joy.
Okay, in S4, only the appearance of Willow saves anything. By that time, Alyson Hannigan was just gorgeous; hard to believe she is now 46 and doing Penn and Teller Fool us and cooking shows, along with some voiceover work for animated cartoons. Though she enjoyed working with her husband there (Denisof).
In Angel, really, to me the best episode was Five by Five back in S1, with Faith.
Willow is definitely my favourite character. Not only is she wonderfully written and played but yes, Alyson Hannigan in those later series...and well, I'm human!
I'm trying to block out anything to do with Connor and Cordelia- really awful. Connor is easily the worst character in either show. But the rest of S4 has some great things- Wesley, the 'slight returns' of Faith and Angelus. Lorne is a lot of fun as a character too.
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That whole Pylea thing in S2 was kind of odd. I can't say it was bad, but it came out of left field. I was really hooked on the dark Wolfram and Hart/Darla/Drusilla story, but then it all disappeared and we got this campy Pylea arc (where Fred was rescued from).
I thought Pylea was pretty stupid, really save for the Dance of Numfar- back when Whedon was still cool and not yet known as a serial adulterer and abuser on film sets. And Connnor Cordy- nope, nope nope. Incest, much?
They aren't blood-related (Connor is Angel and Darla's baby) but yeah, it's definitely still 'icky', as Fred put it. And Connor is more than a bit creepy himself.
In S3 of Angel, on a personal level I got tired of Holtz saying 'Angelus' with what Wesley called his 'low scary voice'. It was a good series on the whole, although I didn't think the series finale was the greatest...a bit muted.
I think structurally, Angel is different to Buffy, which had a different villainous presence in each new series. In Angel, it's basically the crooked law firm Wolfram and Hart pulling the strings throughout, although Lilah has now been killed off (by a possessed Cordelia). So this means the series finales don't have the same impact. I gather that the Angel Investigations team soon gain control of W&H themselves, but I haven't got that far yet.
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Surrender firearms, dangerous weapons in your custody or face consequence - Police warn hoodlums in Oyo
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Oyo State Police command, on Tuesday, appealed to residents of the state who are in custody of illegal arms and ammunition to surrender th...
Oyo State Police command, on Tuesday, appealed to residents of the state who are in custody of illegal arms and ammunition to surrender them with immediate effect.
Police Commissioner, Mr. Joe Enwonwu, made this appeal via a statement.
Enwonwu in the statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of the command, Olugbenga Fadeyi, frowned at the rate of fire arms that are being used by some hoodlums illegally.
The police commissioner, while urging those who are in possession of illegal arms to surrender them without wasting more time, appealed to the people of the state not to hesitate to assist the police in bringing such elements to book.
Enwonwu in the statement added that perpetrators of jungle justice in the state would not be spared.
He said, “It has come to the attention of the Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Command, CP Joe Nwachukwu Enwonwu, the rate at which firearms are being owned and used at liberty without license or authorization by some persons as against the executive order of his Excellency the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces and President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR signed on May 22nd, 2019, with effect from June 1st 2019, revoking the right of private individuals’ licenses on fire arms or short guns in Nigeria, calling for submission to the nearest police station across the length and breadth of the nation without the exception of Oyo State.
“The CP wishes to urge the good people of Oyo State not to hesitate to assist the Police in bringing such elements to book vis-a-vis the sharing of timely, concise and accurate information about any unauthorized person(s) or group of persons found in possession of firearms.
“The Commissioner of Police wishes to inform the law-abiding people of the state that measures have been put in place to ensure that the menace of ‘Jungle Justice’ is nipped in the bud and beyond these, strategic developments have been put in place to ensure the protection of life and order is at its peak, as officers and men have been motivated and encouraged to stand up to the effective discharge of their duties.
“The CP wishes to state emphatically that perpetrators will not be spared and will be made to face the full wrath of the law.”
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Lead Generation Manager
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Apia engulfed by floodwaters; residents fearful
Some areas around town heavily flooded (Photo: Vaitogi A. Matafeo)
By Adel Fruean, 06/01/2021
Having only been struck by flash flooding less than a month ago, Apia was engulfed by rising waters again on Wednesday, as the Meteorological Division issued a nation-wide flood and heavy rain warning.
Families who live in Apia's low-lying areas - who had to be evacuated from their homes less than a month ago following flash flooding last year on 18 December - are now living in fear of having to go through the same experience again.
Villages hit by flooding include Fugalei, Alamagoto, Taufusi, Vaimea, Sinamoga and Lelata.
Flooding in the town area caused long queues of vehicles trying to navigate their way through brown murky waters while other areas became inaccessible for motorists.
One resident living at Vaimea, Sina Matalasi, told the Samoa Observer that it was heartbreaking to see flooding occur again so soon.
“It’s the start of a new year yet, I did not expect that with only a small amount of time it has led to another flood,” she said.
Ms. Matalasi also said that the flooding around parts of her village made it inaccessible to reach their homes by car.
“As a car owner, the flooding will have impacts on our vehicle which is another disadvantage because it comes with costs which we cannot afford," she said.
“The previous flood left us with a lot of problems because it was one of the worst ones ever but now it has happened again.
"I fear that our home will also get flooded if the rain continues, this is not a good start for another year."
Another resident from Alamagoto, Ioane Latai, said that they are shocked their roads are now flooded: “The floods will only make everything worse and complicate things.”
A small shop owner in town, Pele Sami, also expressed her disappointment about the sudden inundation which began suddenly on Wednesday afternoon.
“With the flooding not only it will decrease the numbers of our customers but it would also mean us having to close the shop altogether,” she said.
“I think now we have to pray it does not have to get worse because we are all just recovering the previous flood.”
A weather update issued by the Meteorological Division at 5 pm on Wednesday, said developing clouds and rain with gusty wind conditions were slowly entering the island from the north. Those conditions were accompanied by the arrival of an active trough and an associated convergence zone.
“These systems will provide wet and gusty weather state across the Samoa island chain on Wednesday evening towards Thursday morning,” the weather bulletin states.
“Hence the heavy rain warning now being valid for all of Samoa and a flood warning is enforced for all rivers and vulnerable areas.
“Furthermore, the potential Impacts: heavy downpours with poor visibility, gusty winds, foggy and slippery roads over mountain passes and ranges, pooling near roadsides and waterways. River overflows and landslides.”
The Meteorological Division also issued a marine advisory, stating that the latest wave observation on Wednesday afternoon showed waves and swells below two metres.
In an interview on Tuesday, the Meteorological Division forecasted more “above normal” rainfall for January with a possibility of a repeat of the 18 December 2020 flash floods in the event of continuous rain.
The Samoa Water Authority on Wednesday appealed to its consumers to store rainwater for consumption due to heavy rain causing rivers to overflow, leading to the risk that dirty sediment may affect water quality at Fuluasou, Alaoa, Vailele, and Fagalii.
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Stranded citizens' waiting list hits 2,000
The first repatriation flight this year will return home stranded sailors around the world (Photo: Aufai Areta Areta)
The backlog in the number of Samoan citizens wanting to return home has hit 2,000 and the number is expected to increase in the coming weeks.
The National Emergency Operation Centre (N.E.O.C.) Interim Chairman, Agafili Shem Leo, confirmed the backlog after announcing several repatriations flights later this month.
In a press conference on Thursday, Agafili said preparations are underway for the repatriation flights enroute to New Zealand commencing 22 January 2021.
“The Committee can confirm that the number of citizens wanting to return has reached 2,000 on the list at the moment,” he revealed. “We are talking about this on 7th January at 10am and by next week it will probably go up to 2,500 people, the number doesn’t drop – it goes up.”
The first repatriation flight of the new year on 22 January has been prioritised for 296 sailors, who are stranded all over the world and were initially scheduled to fly in around December last year.
Agafili has assured that the shipping agencies employing the sailors have been informed about health requirements that the men have to comply with before they board.
All travelers into Samoa are now required to have a negative RT-PCR covid test within 72 hours before boarding from the last port, a medical clearance and blood serology for COVID-19 antibody test within five days prior to boarding. Passengers are also expected to spend 21 days in managed quarantine isolation.
The interim Chairman said the repatriation flights are spread out to allow the 21 days quarantine period between each flight. After the 22 January flight, there are three separate trips from New Zealand starting on 12 February to accommodate 900 returning seasonal workers.
The workers that had their contracts extended last year, according to Agafili, will fly in on 12 February, 5 March and 26 March and are required to go through the 21 days quarantine.
While the seasonal workers who have ended their contracts return home, another 600-plus of them will be on a charter flight to New Zealand to continue the temporary work.
“The charter flights to take the 600-plus workers for the scheme to work in New Zealand will not bring any passengers [in Samoa],” said the interim Chairman. “The charter flight is paid for by the companies in New Zealand that are employing our people.”
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Once a disciplinary warning lapses, can it be relied upon in subsequent disciplinary proceedings ?
The ACAS Code of Conduct states that disciplinary warnings should be disregarded after a fixed period of time, normally not more than one year.
In Diosynth Ltd v Thomson [2006] Mr Thompson was given a written warning for a safety violation, which was to remain on his record for 12 months. After the written warning had expired, there was a fatal explosion at the plant and it emerged that Mr Thompson was one of the people responsible. His employer dismissed him, taking into account the previous warning as they thought him unlikely to improve despite the training he had received.
Mr Thompson claimed unfair dismissal and the (Scottish) Court of Session agreed with him. The expiry provision in the ACAS Code of Practice is there for a good reason; an expired warning should not hang over an employee indefinitely. In this particular instance the employers had said that they would not have dismissed Mr Thompson if he had not received the earlier warning. His dismissal was therefore unfair.
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As CEO of Seegrid, it’s important to me that we always take a customer-centric approach to every decision we make, whether it’s regarding the right investments, software solutions, or advancements in delivering the most cutting-edge technology. The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the need for and benefits of our end-to-end automation solutions, both in keeping global supply chains up and running and in providing a safer, more productive, and cost-effective way to do business. The world’s largest manufacturing, logistics, and e-commerce companies trust Seegrid to provide the best solutions for automating material flow in their facilities. Seegrid’s autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) have driven more than four million miles in live production environments without a single personnel safety incident. Our core values as a company guide our actions and align with the needs of our customers, chief among them safety, integrity, passion, authenticity, focus, growth mindset, and teamwork. Demonstrating these values through our work has never been more important. These principals help ensure that we deliver on the company’s core purpose and envisioned future. We operate under the notion of working and winning together.
How have you seen warehouse logistics and automation evolve and companies adapt during COVID-19? Can you share a success story with us?
While the adoption of automation technology has been steadily growing, the pandemic accelerated the trend. Now more than ever before, supply chains are under enormous pressure to move material faster, better, and for less. The pandemic accelerated the pace of industrial automation adoption and emphasized the importance of these technologies. With social distancing measures and public health guidelines now in place, automation has become an even more essential solution for seamless material handling. For example, at a customer site, Seegrid AMRs allowed for a 50 percent reduction in operator touches over the course of one shift by automating payload exchanges. Additionally, they allowed for a 100 percent decrease in direct contact between associates working in different functional areas. Supply chains are relying on automation to effectively adapt to fluctuating demand levels, new safety protocols, and shrinking labor pools. The need to operate efficiently, safely, and productively with less people is critical for today and also for success in the future.
As the retail landscape has evolved, what are the key learnings businesses should focus on to improve logistics operations moving forward?
Before COVID-19, many of our customers would experience peak demand levels around the holidays; now companies are experiencing peak demand levels daily since March with no signs of slowing down. With this in mind, businesses must turn to material handling automation to alleviate the pressure of the always-on peak demand season. Automation increases throughput productivity, improves employee and facility safety, reduces labor and operational costs, and drives continuous efficiencies.
As we navigate the holiday season, what is needed to meet increased demand over the next few months, especially with the rise in online shopping?
In order to meet increased demand, especially during this busy holiday season and with the rise in online shopping, retailers must focus on how they can improve outputs while maintaining the safety of their employees. To do this they must invest in automated solutions like Seegrid’s autonomous mobile robots, which help organizations adapt to new operational demands and evolving workflows by autonomously transporting materials so humans can focus on highly cognitive tasks, such as measuring impact and performance of the automation solution itself. Flexible automation solutions like Seegrid AMRs allow companies to quickly and easily make changes to meet evolving needs without sacrificing downtime, whether it’s redeploying vehicles to a different shift, task, or facility. Supply chains need to ensure they are set up to adjust quickly, decisively, and effectively.
Do you see this move to automation being a permanent shift or will this fade following the Pandemic?
Robotics and automation are clearly the future of material handling, and the pandemic has pushed us past a tipping point in the industry. Before COVID-19, the rise in demand for automation was underway, but the pandemic highlighted the benefits of automation primarily making warehouses and distribution facilities safer and more productive. The adoption of automation will only further accelerate, and humans working safely alongside robots will become even more commonplace. Flexible automation solutions like Seegrid autonomous mobile robots facilitate continuous improvement. The pressures to move material for faster, better, and for less continue to escalate. To remain competitive, meet customer expectations, and deliver exceptional service, material handling automation is essential.
What technology is going to have the biggest impact and be most disruptive in 2021 or over the next few years?
To stay ahead of the competition and optimize workflow, manufacturing, distribution, and logistics sectors require a complete automation solution which includes a comprehensive view of operations. Looking ahead, autonomous mobile robots are going to continue maturing in their capabilities. By collecting comprehensive information and then prioritizing and filtering data, the robots will gain more human-like situational awareness—increasing their understanding of the world around them enables the AMRs to do more tasks and further increase safety and productivity on the facility floor. Combining this advanced robotics technology with actionable analytics will help businesses fine-tune material handling strategies, empowering companies to achieve Industry 4.0 goals with greater precision and at a faster pace.
About Jim Rock
Jim Rock is Seegrid's Chief Executive Officer. A progressive leader of growth-stage technology companies, Jim’s expertise spans 25+ years in hi-tech industries, including artificial intelligence software, voice recognition technology, acoustic semiconductors for mobile devices, and enterprise-grade software. Prior to joining Seegrid, Jim served as President of Vocollect Healthcare, Inc. (acquired by Honeywell), Co-Founder and CEO of Akustica, Inc. (acquired by Bosch), SVP at Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc. (acquired by Novell), and VP at Carnegie Group. Jim holds a BS in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from Penn State University.
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First urban growth partnership signed
New Zealand’s first urban growth partnership between the Government, local councils and mana whenua was signed at a meeting of mayors, chairs and ministers in Hampton Downs today.
Urban Development and Transport Minister Phil Twyford said the Hamilton-Auckland Corridor initiative is an example of the Government’s strong commitment to working in partnership with councils, iwi and the private sector to improve the way our towns and cities grow and develop.
“Under this new partnership, we will strategically manage development between New Zealand’s fastest two growing metropolitan areas in innovative new ways.
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In 2012 the process of moving tenants from earthquake-prone homes on the site began and in 2015 the houses were demolished.
Two years later on the campaign trail then Labour leader Andrew Little visited the site to announce plans for 400 KiwiBuilds in Lower Hutt costing up to $350,000 each.
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There are plans for a large 400-section development on the outskirts of Oakura in the pipeline and battlelines have been drawn.
On one side is developer Mike McKie who says it's what the town needs. The 25-hectare lifestyle area is backed by the Taranaki Equestrian Network, which says there is a need for more lifestyle properties. There are those who don't think it's such a bad idea.
One the other side is hundreds of residents who submitted against the proposal and say it's a monstrosity that will take over their village.
An independent hearing commissioner has a recommendation to make to the council, who hold the final say, but that will be months away. The hearing is currently adjourned and procedural memorandums have been filed.
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Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size, Status and Forecast 2020-2026
Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) market is segmented by company, region (country), by Type, and by Application. Players, stakeholders, and other participants in the global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) market will be able to gain the upper hand as they use the report as a powerful resource. The segmental analysis focuses on revenue and forecast by Type and by Application in terms of revenue and forecast for the period 2015-2026.
- Cloud Based
- Web Based
- Large Enterprises
- SMEs
Based on regional and country-level analysis, the Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) market has been segmented as follows:
- U.K.
- Nordic
- Japan
- South Korea
- Southeast Asia
- Brazil
- Saudi Arabia
- UAE
In the competitive analysis section of the report, leading as well as prominent players of the global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) market are broadly studied on the basis of key factors. The report offers comprehensive analysis and accurate statistics on revenue by the player for the period 2015-2020. It also offers detailed analysis supported by reliable statistics on price and revenue (global level) by player for the period 2015-2020.
- SAP
- Okta
- Azure Active Directory
- Ping Identity
- OneLogin
- Idaptive
- Salesforce
- Rippling
- CA Identity Suite
- Auth0
- Avatier
- Bitium
- AWS
- IBM
- BeyondTrust
- Janrain
- HashiCorp
- Silverfort
- ForgeRock
1.3.1 Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size Growth Rate by Type: 2020 VS 2026
1.3.2 Cloud Based
1.3.3 Web Based
1.4.1 Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Application: 2020 VS 2026
1.4.2 Large Enterprises
1.4.3 SMEs
2.1 Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Perspective (2015-2026)
2.2 Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Growth Trends by Regions
2.2.1 Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Regions: 2015 VS 2020 VS 2026
2.2.2 Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Historic Market Share by Regions (2015-2020)
2.2.3 Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Forecasted Market Size by Regions (2021-2026)
2.3 Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Industry Dynamic
2.3.1 Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Trends
2.3.2 Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Drivers
2.3.3 Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Challenges
2.3.4 Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Restraints
3 Competition Landscape by Key Players
3.1 Global Top Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Players by Market Size
3.1.1 Global Top Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Players by Revenue (2015-2020)
3.1.2 Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Revenue Market Share by Players (2015-2020)
3.2 Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Company Type (Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3)
3.3 Players Covered: Ranking by Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Revenue
3.4 Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Concentration Ratio
3.4.1 Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Concentration Ratio (CR5 and HHI)
3.4.2 Global Top 10 and Top 5 Companies by Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Revenue in 2019
3.5 Key Players Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Area Served
3.6 Key Players Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product Solution and Service
3.7 Date of Enter into Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market
4 Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Breakdown Data by Type
4.1 Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Historic Market Size by Type (2015-2020)
4.2 Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Forecasted Market Size by Type (2021-2026)
5 Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Breakdown Data by Application
5.1 Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Historic Market Size by Application (2015-2020)
5.2 Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Forecasted Market Size by Application (2021-2026)
6.1 North America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size (2015-2026)
6.2 North America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Type (2015-2020)
6.3 North America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Application (2015-2020)
6.4 North America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Country (2015-2020)
6.4.1 United States
7.1 Europe Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size (2015-2026)
7.2 Europe Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Type (2015-2020)
7.3 Europe Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Application (2015-2020)
7.4 Europe Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Country (2015-2020)
7.4.6 Nordic
8 Asia-Pacific
8.1 Asia-Pacific Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size (2015-2026)
8.2 Asia-Pacific Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Type (2015-2020)
8.3 Asia-Pacific Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Application (2015-2020)
8.4 Asia-Pacific Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Region (2015-2020)
9 Latin America
9.1 Latin America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size (2015-2026)
9.2 Latin America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Type (2015-2020)
9.3 Latin America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Application (2015-2020)
9.4 Latin America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Country (2015-2020)
10 Middle East & Africa
10.1 Middle East & Africa Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size (2015-2026)
10.2 Middle East & Africa Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Type (2015-2020)
10.3 Middle East & Africa Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Application (2015-2020)
10.4 Middle East & Africa Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Country (2015-2020)
10.4.1 Turkey
10.4.2 Saudi Arabia
10.4.3 UAE
11Key Players Profiles
11.1 SAP
11.1.1 SAP Company Details
11.1.2 SAP Business Overview
11.1.3 SAP Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
11.1.4 SAP Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020))
11.1.5 SAP Recent Development
11.2 Oracle
11.2.1 Oracle Company Details
11.2.2 Oracle Business Overview
11.2.3 Oracle Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
11.2.4 Oracle Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
11.2.5 Oracle Recent Development
11.3 Okta
11.3.1 Okta Company Details
11.3.2 Okta Business Overview
11.3.3 Okta Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
11.3.4 Okta Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
11.3.5 Okta Recent Development
11.4 Azure Active Directory
11.4.1 Azure Active Directory Company Details
11.4.2 Azure Active Directory Business Overview
11.4.3 Azure Active Directory Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
11.4.4 Azure Active Directory Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
11.4.5 Azure Active Directory Recent Development
11.5 Ping Identity
11.5.1 Ping Identity Company Details
11.5.2 Ping Identity Business Overview
11.5.3 Ping Identity Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
11.5.4 Ping Identity Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
11.5.5 Ping Identity Recent Development
11.6 OneLogin
11.6.1 OneLogin Company Details
11.6.2 OneLogin Business Overview
11.6.3 OneLogin Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
11.6.4 OneLogin Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
11.6.5 OneLogin Recent Development
11.7 Idaptive
11.7.1 Idaptive Company Details
11.7.2 Idaptive Business Overview
11.7.3 Idaptive Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
11.7.4 Idaptive Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
11.7.5 Idaptive Recent Development
11.8 Salesforce
11.8.1 Salesforce Company Details
11.8.2 Salesforce Business Overview
11.8.3 Salesforce Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
11.8.4 Salesforce Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
11.8.5 Salesforce Recent Development
11.9 Rippling
11.9.1 Rippling Company Details
11.9.2 Rippling Business Overview
11.9.3 Rippling Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
11.9.4 Rippling Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
11.9.5 Rippling Recent Development
11.10 CA Identity Suite
11.10.1 CA Identity Suite Company Details
11.10.2 CA Identity Suite Business Overview
11.10.3 CA Identity Suite Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
11.10.4 CA Identity Suite Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
11.10.5 CA Identity Suite Recent Development
11.11 Auth0
10.11.1 Auth0 Company Details
10.11.2 Auth0 Business Overview
10.11.3 Auth0 Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
10.11.4 Auth0 Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
10.11.5 Auth0 Recent Development
11.12 Avatier
10.12.1 Avatier Company Details
10.12.2 Avatier Business Overview
10.12.3 Avatier Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
10.12.4 Avatier Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
10.12.5 Avatier Recent Development
11.13 Bitium
10.13.1 Bitium Company Details
10.13.2 Bitium Business Overview
10.13.3 Bitium Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
10.13.4 Bitium Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
10.13.5 Bitium Recent Development
11.14 AWS
10.14.1 AWS Company Details
10.14.2 AWS Business Overview
10.14.3 AWS Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
10.14.4 AWS Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
10.14.5 AWS Recent Development
11.15 IBM
10.15.1 IBM Company Details
10.15.2 IBM Business Overview
10.15.3 IBM Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
10.15.4 IBM Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
10.15.5 IBM Recent Development
11.16 BeyondTrust
10.16.1 BeyondTrust Company Details
10.16.2 BeyondTrust Business Overview
10.16.3 BeyondTrust Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
10.16.4 BeyondTrust Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
10.16.5 BeyondTrust Recent Development
11.17 Janrain
10.17.1 Janrain Company Details
10.17.2 Janrain Business Overview
10.17.3 Janrain Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
10.17.4 Janrain Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
10.17.5 Janrain Recent Development
11.18 HashiCorp
10.18.1 HashiCorp Company Details
10.18.2 HashiCorp Business Overview
10.18.3 HashiCorp Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
10.18.4 HashiCorp Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
10.18.5 HashiCorp Recent Development
11.19 Silverfort
10.19.1 Silverfort Company Details
10.19.2 Silverfort Business Overview
10.19.3 Silverfort Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
10.19.4 Silverfort Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
10.19.5 Silverfort Recent Development
11.20 ForgeRock
10.20.1 ForgeRock Company Details
10.20.2 ForgeRock Business Overview
10.20.3 ForgeRock Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
10.20.4 ForgeRock Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
10.20.5 ForgeRock Recent Development
11.21 IdentityNow
10.21.1 IdentityNow Company Details
10.21.2 IdentityNow Business Overview
10.21.3 IdentityNow Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Introduction
10.21.4 IdentityNow Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
10.21.5 IdentityNow Recent Development
12Analyst's Viewpoints/Conclusions
13Appendix
Table 1. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size Growth Rate by Type (US$ Million): 2020 VS 2026
Table 2. Key Players of Cloud Based
Table 3. Key Players of Web Based
Table 4. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size Growth by Application (US$ Million): 2020 VS 2026
Table 5. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Regions (US$ Million): 2020 VS 2026
Table 6. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Regions (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 7. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Regions (2015-2020)
Table 8. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Forecasted Market Size by Regions (2021-2026) (US$ Million)
Table 10. Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Market Trends
Table 11. Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Drivers
Table 12. Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Challenges
Table 13. Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Restraints
Table 14. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Revenue by Players (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 15. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Players (2015-2020)
Table 16. Global Top Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Players by Company Type (Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3) (based on the Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) as of 2019)
Table 17. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) by Players Market Concentration Ratio (CR5 and HHI)
Table 18. Key Players Headquarters and Area Served
Table 19. Key Players Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product Solution and Service
Table 20. Mergers & Acquisitions, Expansion Plans
Table 21. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Type (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 22. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Revenue Market Share by Type (2015-2020)
Table 23. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Forecasted Market Size by Type (2021-2026) (US$ Million)
Table 24. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size Share by Application (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 25. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Revenue Market Share by Application (2015-2020)
Table 26. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Forecasted Market Size by Application (2021-2026) (US$ Million)
Table 27. North America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Type (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 28. North America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Type (2015-2020)
Table 29. North America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Application (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 30. North America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Application (2015-2020)
Table 31. North America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Country (US$ Million) (2015-2020)
Table 32. North America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Country (2015-2020)
Table 33. Europe Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Type (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 34. Europe Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Type (2015-2020)
Table 35. Europe Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Application (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 36. Europe Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Application (2015-2020)
Table 37. Europe Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Country (US$ Million) (2015-2020)
Table 38. Europe Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Country (2015-2020)
Table 39. Asia-Pacific Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Type (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 40. Asia-Pacific Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Type (2015-2020)
Table 41. Asia-Pacific Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Application (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 42. Asia-Pacific Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Application (2015-2020)
Table 43. Asia-Pacific Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Region (US$ Million) (2015-2020)
Table 44. Asia-Pacific Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Region (2015-2020)
Table 45. Latin America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Type (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 46. Latin America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Type (2015-2020)
Table 47. Latin America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Application (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 48. Latin America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Application (2015-2020)
Table 49. Latin America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Country (US$ Million) (2015-2020)
Table 50. Latin America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Country (2015-2020)
Table 51. Middle East & Africa Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Type (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 52. Middle East & Africa Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Type (2015-2020)
Table 53. Middle East & Africa Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Application (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 54. Middle East & Africa Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Application (2015-2020)
Table 55. Middle East & Africa Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size by Country (US$ Million) (2015-2020)
Table 56. Middle East & Africa Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Country (2015-2020)
Table 57. SAP Company Details
Table 58. SAP Business Overview
Table 59. SAP Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 60. SAP Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 61. SAP Recent Development
Table 62. Oracle Company Details
Table 63. Oracle Business Overview
Table 64. Oracle Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 65. Oracle Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 66. Oracle Recent Development
Table 67. Okta Company Details
Table 68. Okta Business Overview
Table 69. Okta Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 70. Okta Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 71. Okta Recent Development
Table 72. Azure Active Directory Company Details
Table 73. Azure Active Directory Business Overview
Table 74. Azure Active Directory Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 75. Azure Active Directory Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 76. Azure Active Directory Recent Development
Table 77. Ping Identity Company Details
Table 78. Ping Identity Business Overview
Table 79. Ping Identity Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 80. Ping Identity Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 81. Ping Identity Recent Development
Table 82. OneLogin Company Details
Table 83. OneLogin Business Overview
Table 84. OneLogin Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 85. OneLogin Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 86. OneLogin Recent Development
Table 87. Idaptive Company Details
Table 88. Idaptive Business Overview
Table 89. Idaptive Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 90. Idaptive Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 91. Idaptive Recent Development
Table 92. Salesforce Business Overview
Table 93. Salesforce Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 94. Salesforce Company Details
Table 95. Salesforce Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 96. Salesforce Recent Development
Table 97. Rippling Company Details
Table 98. Rippling Business Overview
Table 99. Rippling Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 100. Rippling Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 101. Rippling Recent Development
Table 102. CA Identity Suite Company Details
Table 103. CA Identity Suite Business Overview
Table 104. CA Identity Suite Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 105. CA Identity Suite Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 106. CA Identity Suite Recent Development
Table 107. Auth0 Company Details
Table 108. Auth0 Business Overview
Table 109. Auth0 Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 110. Auth0 Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 111. Auth0 Recent Development
Table 112. Avatier Company Details
Table 113. Avatier Business Overview
Table 114. Avatier Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 115. Avatier Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 116. Avatier Recent Development
Table 117. Bitium Company Details
Table 118. Bitium Business Overview
Table 119. Bitium Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 120. Bitium Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 121. Bitium Recent Development
Table 122. AWS Company Details
Table 123. AWS Business Overview
Table 124. AWS Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 125. AWS Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 126. AWS Recent Development
Table 127. IBM Company Details
Table 128. IBM Business Overview
Table 129. IBM Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 130. IBM Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 131. IBM Recent Development
Table 132. BeyondTrust Company Details
Table 133. BeyondTrust Business Overview
Table 134. BeyondTrust Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 135. BeyondTrust Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 136. BeyondTrust Recent Development
Table 137. Janrain Company Details
Table 138. Janrain Business Overview
Table 139. Janrain Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 140. Janrain Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 141. Janrain Recent Development
Table 142. HashiCorp Company Details
Table 143. HashiCorp Business Overview
Table 144. HashiCorp Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 145. HashiCorp Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 146. HashiCorp Recent Development
Table 147. Silverfort Company Details
Table 148. Silverfort Business Overview
Table 149. Silverfort Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 150. Silverfort Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 151. Silverfort Recent Development
Table 152. ForgeRock Company Details
Table 153. ForgeRock Business Overview
Table 154. ForgeRock Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 155. ForgeRock Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 156. ForgeRock Recent Development
Table 157. IdentityNow Company Details
Table 158. IdentityNow Business Overview
Table 159. IdentityNow Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Product
Table 160. IdentityNow Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020) (US$ Million)
Table 161. IdentityNow Recent Development
Figure 1. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Type: 2020 VS 2026
Figure 2. Cloud Based Features
Figure 3. Web Based Features
Figure 4. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Application: 2020 VS 2026
Figure 5. Large Enterprises Case Studies
Figure 6. SMEs Case Studies
Figure 7. Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Report Years Considered
Figure 8. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size (US$ Million), YoY Growth 2015-2026
Figure 9. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Regions: 2020 VS 2026
Figure 10. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Regions (2021-2026)
Figure 11. Global Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Share by Players in 2019
Figure 12. Global Top Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Players by Company Type (Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3) (based on the Revenue in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) as of 2019
Figure 13. The Top 10 and 5 Players Market Share by Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Revenue in 2019
Figure 14. North America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 15. United States Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 16. Canada Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 17. Europe Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 18. Germany Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 19. France Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 20. U.K. Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 21. Italy Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 22. Russia Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 23. Nordic Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 24. Asia-Pacific Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 25. China Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 26. Japan Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 27. South Korea Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 28. Southeast Asia Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 29. India Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 30. Australia Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 31. Rest of Asia-Pacific Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 32. Latin America Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 33. Mexico Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 34. Brazil Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 35. Middle East & Africa Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 36. Turkey Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 37. Saudi Arabia Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 38. UAE Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Market Size YoY Growth (2015-2026) & (US$ Million)
Figure 39. SAP Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 40. Oracle Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 41. Okta Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 42. Azure Active Directory Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 43. Ping Identity Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 44. OneLogin Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 45. Idaptive Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 46. Salesforce Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 47. Rippling Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 48. CA Identity Suite Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 49. Auth0 Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 50. Avatier Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 51. Bitium Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 52. AWS Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 53. IBM Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 54. BeyondTrust Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 55. Janrain Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 56. HashiCorp Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 57. Silverfort Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 58. ForgeRock Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
Figure 59. IdentityNow Revenue Growth Rate in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Business (2015-2020)
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Hand IQ Celebrates National Handwashing Awareness Week by Launching World’s First Smart Handwashing Assistant
New Life-Saving Solution Is the First of Its Kind – and Comes to Market at the Ideal Time
Los Angeles, CA (RestaurantNews.com) The first full week in December each year is National Handwashing Awareness Week, a national advocacy week dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. Health and wellness tech company Hand IQ is celebrating National Handwashing Awareness Week, December 6 – 12, by bringing to market a smart handwashing assistant at a time in which handwashing is one of humanity’s best tools for combating the global coronavirus pandemic.
According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the number one way to stop deadly diseases like COVID-19 from spreading is to wash or sanitize your hands frequently. Handwashing with soap and water can prevent one in three people from getting sick with diarrhea and one in five people from getting a respiratory illness. Handwashing is especially important at key times such as after using the bathroom, when preparing food, before eating, and after coughing, sneezing, or blowing your nose. If everyone routinely washed their hands, 1,000,000 deaths a year could be prevented.
The Hand IQ assistant, which attaches to soap or sanitizing dispensers, uses sensors and Bluetooth technology to anonymously detect an individual’s presence in a shared area, like a bathroom, kitchen, or conference room. It reminds people to wash their hands and guides them through the process of how to thoroughly do that. Hand IQ’s mobile app reinforces team and individual accountability through compliance data dashboards and real-time reporting. And businesses can leverage “clean hands verified by Hand IQ signage and digital marketing materials, which are especially valuable resources for businesses such as restaurants. A recent Datassential study notes “safety trumps everything” when it comes to restaurant re-openings.
“National Handwashing Awareness Week is Hand IQ’s favorite week of the year. Our mission is to save lives by building a culture of clean hands through the global use of our smart handwashing assistant,” says Sean Podvent, Hand IQ’s Founder/CEO. “When we first started developing the technology for hospitals back in 2017, we wanted to find a way to take something mundane like handwashing and make it fun. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, we’ve been focusing on bringing our tool to the industry segment that needs it most right now: restaurants.”
The spread of germs from the hands of food workers to food is the most common cause of foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurants. Each year, 48 million Americans become sick from foodborne illness. The cost of a single foodborne illness outbreak at a fast-casual establishment could cost up to $2.1 million. America’s food industry has a $55.5 billion food safety problem. Almost 90% of foodborne illnesses in restaurants could be prevented with proper handwashing. Hand IQ offers a high-tech, low-cost solution for restaurants and businesses to signal their commitment to the safety of both their customers and their employees, and to continue raising awareness about the importance of handwashing–not just during National Handwashing Awareness Week, but every day of the year.
Hand IQ is in pilot tests and discussions with Kitchen United Mix, Del Taco, and other undisclosed quick service and fast-casual restaurant chains. The smart handwashing assistant is also suitable for healthcare, retail environments and the consumer home. Hand IQ is now accepting orders for the devices, which will ship in volume starting in the first quarter of 2021.
Hand IQ, a health and wellness tech company based in Los Angeles, CA, has created the world’s first smart handwashing assistant – a device that attaches to soap or sanitizing dispensers to ensure healthy handwashing habits, verify clean hands in shared spaces, and improve overall health and wellness in businesses, communities and homes. Hand IQ’s mission is to save lives by building a culture of clean hands through the global use of our device. An initial 2018 pilot with AdventHealth, a 46-hospital system, improved handwashing compliance from 83% to 99.8% over a five-month period and earned the company a system-wide clinical innovation award. Learn more about Hand IQ.
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Video: Christian Bale Arrives In Australia To Film ‘Thor: Love And Thunder’
As the world continues to try and get back to normal, so does Hollywood and the film industry. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is one such entity trying to get their ambitious Phase 4 slate back on track. With 2020 being the giant dumpster fire from Hell that it’s been, it also marks the first year without an MCU theatrical release in over ten years. So, looking to 2021 to get the train moving, many MCU films are rearing to go. One such film, Thor: Love and Thunder is set to begin filming at the beginning of the upcoming year. With any film, though, especially a comic book movie of this scale, there is rehearsals, costume fittings and stunt/fight training necessary before principal photography can start. It would seem that one of the film’s biggest secrets, Christian Bale, has arrived in Australia to begin his prep work.
The YouTube channel, KobieThatcher, shared a video of Bale arriving in Sydney, Australia via a late night flight. Now, Australia still has very strict COVID-19 quarantine laws in place, so Bale will likely be quarantined for two weeks before he can actually do anything related to the film. After that, however, Bale could be getting the full gambit of pre-production work, especially if any prosthetics are involved. This will also give Bale two months of stunt training prior to principal filming, which should give the actor ample time to figure out exactly how to bring whatever character he is playing to life to the best of his abilities.
It is still unclear exactly who Bale will be playing in this film, although we do know that he is the villain of the movie. We earlier covered a leak that stated that Bale would be playing Minotaur, aka Dario Agger, the CEO of Roxxon. Bringing in Bale as this particular villain could mean that he will survive past this film. Roxxon is a terrible company that is one of the biggest in Marvel. So, it’s unlikely that their CEO is killed off in his first appearance, and Bale is an actor you want to keep around for as long as possible. Hopefully, more details come out soon as filming will begin at the start of 2021.
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Will we go back? From Seattle’s homeless ‘emergency’ to airline fees, the coronavirus is making a new reality.
March 27, 2020 at 6:00 pm Updated March 28, 2020 at 8:50 pm
Officials announced plans to open a homeless shelter on Harbor Island because of the coronavirus pandemic; where has the urgency been since homelessness was declared an emergency more than four years ago? (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times, 2015)
This past week, the leaders of Seattle and King County announced they’re rushing to open a slew of emergency shelters for the homeless — including one, as caught my eye, in the port industrial area down on Harbor Island.
“In the last three weeks, the City of Seattle and King County have worked quickly to rapidly create almost 1,900 spaces for individuals experiencing homelessness, so we can slow the spread of COVID-19,” Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said.
This is a good and necessary development, so I’m not criticizing it. But it did give me pause — because of how officials had declared a homelessness emergency in our region due to lack of shelter more than four years ago.
In fact a slew of public health experts called for the rapid deployment of temporary shelter just like this, including possible FEMA-like tents down on Harbor Island, due to a “public health disaster” in Seattle’s unauthorized encampments way back in … 2018.
They didn’t do it then. Yet the 1,900 spaces created just in the past three weeks is nearly double the total emergency shelter beds put up by Seattle and King County in more than four years of responding to the emergency that they declared in November 2015, according to their websites.
The new emergency seems to have made that old emergency more … emergent.
Some of the new shelter is in places that it couldn’t have gone before, such as community centers (which are temporarily on coronavirus shutdown). But I was struck by how a Seattle Times story said the main purpose of the 1,900 new spaces is to ease often intense crowding at the existing shelters — where social distancing is impossible, as people can be crammed together, on mats on the floor, much closer than 6 feet apart.
It’s one of the many times in the past few weeks I’ve caught myself wondering: Why, before coronavirus, were we tolerating it like that in the first place? Yet that’s the way we’ve been doing many emergency shelters for decades.
Ditto with the jail. King County announced it temporarily won’t confine people suspected of minor, nonviolent offenses, to avoid stuffing multiple prisoners into each cell — again due to COVID-19. But was it sound policy to be doing that anyway?
Nobody knows where the coronavirus is headed. But it already has exposed some uncomfortable realities — directly in front of our noses to the point that we could no longer see them.
Take, say, the digital divide — the online haves and have-nots in our schools. It’s been talked about as a serious problem for decades, but nobody ever does much about it. That’s why I was so impressed, in my last column, that Los Angeles is trying to convert its entire school district to online learning during the coronavirus lockdown (so are New York, Miami, and many other big urban school districts, but so far not Seattle).
It probably won’t work that well, in the short term. But Los Angeles is not going after the present crisis so much as that other entrenched one. The goal is to figure out how the digital gap might be bridged, the educational culture changed once and for all, after the coronavirus has passed. (Maybe municipal broadband would help?)
Here’s a more trivial example: Airline change fees. I was rebooking a $160 flight home from college for my daughter recently when the agent said “oh, of course there’s a $200 change fee, but we’re waiving that due to the coronavirus.” As if the airline was doing me one giant pandemic favor.
But why do we ever allow any business to levy a fee that, in this case, amounted to 125% of the original charge? It’s usurious and ought to be restricted, pandemic or no — especially now that we taxpayers are bailing out the airlines.
“All over America, the coronavirus is revealing, or at least reminding us, just how much of contemporary American life is (expletive), with power structures built on punishment and fear as opposed to our best interest,” wrote Dan Kois in a great essay at Slate.com. I would add “inertia” to his list of reasons, but he’s on to something.
His example was how the feds had suddenly allowed passengers to bring 12-ounce bottles of hand sanitizer onto planes — without apparent concern about planes getting blown up. It’s “because the (liquid carry-on) limit was always arbitrary,” Kois writes. “Just one of the countless rituals of security theater to which air passengers are subjected every day.”
The question is, when this is over: Will we go back ? Back to the absurd, gouging rules and to numbly looking the other way at crises in plain view like homelessness? Given the theater rituals of modern life, probably we will. But we are being temporarily jarred, at least, to see.
Speaking of being jarred, my idea that every bored, quarantined Seattle high schooler read the same book got tons of response — a lot of it slagging my pick for the book (“Lord of the Flies”).
“Your reading recommendation is sorely out of date. Seriously,” one teacher wrote.
She suggested “The Marrow Thieves,” by Cherie Dimaline — about a contagion of sorts that only afflicts white people. Other picks for our new Quarantine Book Club were Albert Camus’ “The Plague,” “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,” “A Journal of the Plague Year,” “Station Eleven” (about a swine flu outbreak), “Severance” (a “zombie pandemic” novel I’m currently reading) and a 1024-page Italian masterpiece called “The Decameron” (about the Black Death, and written in 1353!).
A great dystopia book that relates to everything in today’s column is “Blindness,” by José Saramago. It’s about the descent into madness of a society that suddenly goes blind. Can it relearn how — and more importantly what — to see? A school district could do worse than to discuss this for the next few weeks.
Danny Westneat: dwestneat@seattletimes.com; Danny Westneat takes an opinionated look at the Puget Sound region's news, people and politics.
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Album Review- Maren Morris’s “GIRL”
The concerns and conflicts surrounding the encroachment of pop into country music constitute a battle of evermore. Ever since country music became a going concern worth cataloguing, pop styles and commercial sensibilities immediately began to present themselves within the genre, along with the criticism from concerned parties about the implications they may have on the music moving forward. As a music art form that was commissioned from the very beginning to preserve and pay forward the historical narrative of America’s agrarian and rural population, the concern for its ongoing integrity is not a triviality. It’s at the heart of what makes country unique in the panoramic of popular American music genres.
Maren Morris certainly isn’t the first, will most definitely not be the last, and can’t even be described as the worst to ply pop elements in country either in part or predominantly. It is certainly true from any honest and objective perspective that Maren Morris’s second record, GIRL, is one of the most exclusively pop albums to ever be released in the country format, setting up immediate conflict in a way that is both preordained and spectacularly predictable. But that doesn’t mean it’s effort is unprecedented in country music history, or that the music is rendered horrible simply from this original sin of miscategorization.
GIRL can be analyzed with excruciating detail, combed over, decomposed and splayed out into its most essential elements, and still not even a modicum of anything that could be construed as “country” by even the most liberal of interpretations of that term can be procured. This is not the case for other often highly criticized commercial country performers and their respective records, including the most grievous offenders of genre mischaracterization such as Sam Hunt, Kane Brown, Florida Georgia Line, or Walker Hayes. Even these projects will feature tokenary banjo, or maybe fiddle, or perhaps agrarian themes in the lyricism. But GIRL can’t even claim these perfunctory homages to country.
What GIRL can claim is sensible, fun, amicable, and safe pop songs that play well to a wide demographic. And despite the damning characterization of the songs and this album as country, they are not nearly as offensive as some or many albums and songs that might by definition be more country, but are addled by other adverse elements or notions offered in poor taste irrespective of genre. In fact one of the surprising aspects of GIRL it’s just how placid and elementary it is. Even though Maren Morris couches herself and is characterized by the media as some sort of political raconteur and dynamic groundbreaker in both country and popular culture, GIRL ultimately reveals itself as just more generic pop music, fawning for radio play and wide commercial acceptance.
Maren Morris boasts of her creative alacrity and ingenuity in the song “Flavor,” saying in part, “If it ain’t familiar, it’s ’cause you ain’t had it yet.” Yet the underlying takeaway from GIRL is its raging familiarity in the way it leans on pop tropes, safe composition, and simple melodies to garner its appeal. Even applying such efforts to country isn’t original, as explained above. Maren’s supposed courageousness against those individuals and institutions that would inhibit her apparent creativity is just self-affirming bluster that has no bearing on the outcome of GIRL. However Maren and this record do work to erode the unique “flavor” of country music, supplanting it with the same pop flavor that is prevailing over all popular music in the onset of the monogenre.
This album is just some playful and infectious formulaic pop songs that are easy to fall for such as “The Feels” and “All My Favorite People Do,” mixed with some rather tired but inoffensive adult contemporary fare speaking to her relationship with fellow performer Ryan Hurd—efforts like “Great Ones,” “To Hell & Back,” and “The Bones.”
About the only song that offers interesting discussion points is her collaboration with Brandi Carlile on the song “Common.” Yet here, Carlile’s inspired vocal performance and an interesting song idea are lost in clunky execution that takes a song that is supposed to speak to our commonality as one that can easily be interpreted as blasphemy by all of those who believe in a higher power no matter the origin. Brothers Osborne offer some interesting texture and a cool guitar solo to “All My Favorite People,” but even this attempt at resuscitation only results in a fun but pretty customary pop song.
As pop, Maren Morris’s GIRL probably works pretty well, and may even excel or be an above average effort in that realm when balancing it out against peer examples. And even as a country fan, you may favor a song from GIRL coming over the radio compared to the latest offering from some Bro-Country holdover tractor rapping about a date rape in a corn field. Young girls will find favor with this music, and their parents will tolerate it when it comes over shared speakers, and may even find themselves humming along to a few of the tunes.
But Maren Morris and GIRL are still not country, setting up the inevitable conflict seen since the beginning of the genre, and resulting in much of the unfortunate unpleasantness that comes with it. Some fans and media members knowing down in their hearts what a misnomer it is to call this music country will side step the issue in the effort to enhance the prospects of a woman in a genre they feel is too bereft of them. Of course women should have their place in country music, and that place continues to constrict in concerning ways. But there should also be a place for country in country music, and it happens to be that Maren Morris and GIRL pose a threat to both these concerns for women and country by shading out actual female country stars, and usurping important radio slots, awards, and other opportunities from them.
The sooner Maren Morris moves on from country—which she already has partially with the Target commercial/pop smash “The Middle”—the sooner country music can get back to offering what makes it unique in the tapestry of popular American music genres, the women of country can begin to thrive again instead of being beset by the incursion of pop, and Maren Morris can be free of the criticism that appears to concern her greatly.
Pop will always have its place in country music, and there’s nothing wrong with it as an art form. But music and artists that are unwilling to dignify the country genre with even a shred of appreciation or homage to the roots—while at the same time exploiting country music’s opportunities to be heard by the masses for their own personal gain—should never be allowed to reside within country music’s borders unchecked, especially when these carpetbaggers and interlopers thumb their nose at the idea of country music having borders in the first place.
1 1/2 Guns DOWN (3/10)
Brandi Carlile, Brothers Osborne, Girl, Maren Morris, Review, Ryan Hurd
tucker33585
March 15, 2019 @ 10:34 am
There are rock albums that are more country than this
Set of Lampasas
These days the majority of good country can easily be classified as rock/country rock
March 19, 2019 @ 1:01 am
Blackberry Smoke comes to mind.
Seth of Lampasas
Any artist who has the backing of MSM like the Simpsons, Prices, Ballerinis, and Bryans of the world, are just tools for an agenda.
There are Pirate Metal albums more country than this.
We are here to steal your beer and drink your rum …
PeterD
We can take solace in that this is likely to be her last album in the genre.
Melissa W
After hearing the song RICH there is no way I’d ever give Marren’s music my time anymore. She’s gone too far from country music for my taste. I really enjoyed MY CHURCH but that’s about it from her.
Less attractive version of Rachel Bilson.
Again, the attacks on the appearance of Maren Morris only work to erode the very real concerns about the implications of her music. They are inappropriate and unhelpful.
Does that qualify as an “attack?” Rachel Bilson is regarded as attractive. I’ve been told I’m a less attractive version of Matthew McConaughey, which means I’m doing ok for myself. She is purposefully trying to sex herself up. That leaves her open to comments about her appearance. Her music sucks, but we already knew that. If you aren’t seeking attention, then don’t release pictures of yourself in your bra in a seductive pose.
The Original WTF Guy
March 15, 2019 @ 1:49 pm
We are almost all a less attractive version of Matthew McConaughey. 🙂
Furthermore, does your rule only apply to women? I’ve read countless articles that you have posted where you make snide comments about male artists. You relentlessly chastised Shooter Jennings for those old pictures of him in glam metal gear.
Shooter Jennings wearing glam metal gear is a choice, similar to Maren Morris wearing crop tops she knows will bring her criticism, or some Bro Country star’s dumb haircut. But looks are something none of us have control over. I’m not going to say I haven’t criticized some dude’s looks in the past because I probably have. But in this instance, it is unhelpful, and not only do you have to deal with the concerns over it, I do, and am, from people who are using comments like these to attempt to undercut the important concerns with Maren Morris.
You have a right to say whatever you want. I’m just pointing out the implications.
“I’m not going to say I haven’t criticized some dude’s looks in the past because I probably have.”
You have. Many times. But, mostly only guys. Which proves my point. You could criticize a man’s looks any day of the week and no one would care, unless they were some other favored minority, as well. I’ll stand down, but I don’t know why you care about comments you get from PC fuck sticks. You own the website, You can say whatever you want. Take Adam Carolla’s advice. You own a pirate ship. Tell those people to fuck off.
I’m intrigued, how is Trigger’s suggestion that discussing an artist’s physical appearance in the context of an album review, with an eye looking at the prospects of country music as a genre, is “unhelpful” caring about comments from “PC fucking sticks”?
There are differences between a man and a woman, and the implications of insulting physical appearance, and we all know that.
I can tell people to “fuck off” all day, but if people are using comments in this comments section attacking Maren’s appearance to erode my thought-out, well-articulated, and objective opinions, then it doesn’t matter that it’s “my website,” it matters the result, which is saying the entire operation of criticizing Maren Morris is nothing more than bullying.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. So, there you go.
Lugnut
Had to look to see who Rachel Bilson was. Tru dat.
Bill Weiler
10:1 odds this gets four times the comments than the previous review on Townes Van Zandt. And that folks, is why we can’t have nice things.
Kevin C
I wonder if/when Maren Morris will finally pull a Taylor Swift and explicitly describe her music as pop and not country
Michelle Anderson
Maybe she calls herself “country” because she doesn’t feel she can compete in the pop world? Just wondering.
Saving Bro Country Music
When there’s a sense that the “country” label is more hindrance than help.
Whether you want to call it pure strategy or an honest artistic expression, “going pop” allowed Taylor to shake the “novelty”/”crossover” perception and make an album full of unabashedly commercial pop songs. Both increased the odds of consistently scoring big, global pop smashes.
She was able to make this change because the potential upside of scoring a steady stream of pop hits greatly outweighed the guaranteed downside of losing country radio (which was already starting to lose interest in Taylor) and any country fans that could apparently tolerate “I Knew You Were Trouble” and “22” but not “Shake It Off” and “Blank Space.”
To put it another way, Taylor wanted to put herself in better position to get more “I Knew You Were Troubles,” even if it meant DEFINITELY giving up more “Begin Agains.”
With Maren, she’s still irrefutably benefiting from the country label. She has a degree of built-in support at radio. She gets guaranteed press as a country artist (and extra press as one of the genre’s top female artists) and draws plenty of support from self-identified “country fans.”
We don’t really know how well she’d do at pop because The Middle wasn’t “her” song and though her album may seem more poppy than country, it doesn’t exactly sound like what’s on pop radio right now either. For as big and well-liked as The Middle was, none of that shine seemed to spill over into Maren’s own music. That strongly suggests that she, as of right now, does not have the songs to achieve definite success in the pop world.
So for her – the downside of ditching the country label is still too significant to endure.
This album rules. 8/10
Great vocals and hooks everywhere. Literally all i care about. It ain’t country, but it’s really good.
I’m happy to be one of the very few fans of hers that post regularly here. What i love about her music is she takes her very obvious pop influence and infuses it with her rock, soul, and country influences, too. Hell there’s even a little r&B on this record.
Not everything has to be Connie Smith.
She’s got the support of Dolly, Amanda Shires, Brandi Carlile, Brothers Osborne, and other good artists, so don’t act like she’s some pop shill.
Keep going, Maren. You’re doing great.
Benny Lee
You said it yourself: “It ain’t country”.
It’s perfectly fine to like this album in a generalized, non-country, popular music sense. But it should not be labeled as country and should not be played on country radio stations and playlists.
“It ain’t country”.
March 15, 2019 @ 12:45 pm
It doesn’t bother me that she’s played on country radio considering what other music is played on it. That’s a battle you, or anyone here is NOT going to win, no matter how much you bitch and moan about it. And they play too few women as it stands, so they can play Maren as much as they want. It’s not like I listen to the radio, anyway, so whatever.
hear ya BB …and I’m a fan of maren’t talents as well . more power to her as an artist first , and a pop artist in particular .
but ( get ready for the SAME OL’ ARGUMENT ) every play a straight-up POP artist gets on mainstream ‘ country ‘ radio is one less play an honest COUNTRY artist is availed of and one less chance listeners have to be reminded of /introduced to/ enlightened or inspired by COUNTRY music in all its narrative , vocal , instrumental and traditional glory .THAT , to my mind is THE issue . We are steadily losing every hallmark of COUNTRY music and listeners are being indoctrinated to something only CALLED COUNTRY music without ANY of the elements of the genre .
The thing is , from a craft perspective, REAL country music has a unique way of making a statement , telling a story , showcasing an honest country artist’s unique talents and crafting a lyric . Its a different approach altogether from the way POP music ‘ crafts ‘ a lyric . It’s smarter , its accessible , its honest , its clever and the best country music is steeped in emotion which the BEST country singer can wring from that lyric AND from ANY listener with a pulse willing to pay attention .
This is the stuff that is missing from most contemporary country fare as it attempts to become more fluff-centric and pop-like.
Look at the lyric for THE MIDDLE . Its pretty awful …..cryptic at best , writes to a rhyme not a sentiment .etc…
Take a seat right over there, sat on the stairs
Stay or leave, the cabinets are bare and I’m unaware
Of just how we got into this mess, got so aggressive
I know we meant all good intentions
So pull me closer
Why don’t you pull me close?
Why don’t you come on over?
I can’t just let you go
Oh baby, why don’t you just meet me in the middle?
I’m losing my mind just a little
So why don’t you just meet me in the middle?
Baby, why don’t you just meet me in the middle?
In the middle, oh
Take a step back for a minute, into the kitchen
Floors are wet and taps are still running, dishes are broken
How did we get into this mess? Got so aggressive
I can’t just let you go, oh
Looking at you, I can’t lie
Just pouring out admission
Regardless of my objection, oh
And it’s not about my pride
I need you on my skin
Just come over, pull me in, just
Oh, baby, why don’t you just meet me in the middle?
In the middle, no no
Baby, why don’t you just meet me in the middle? Oh Yeah
So why don’t you just meet me in the middle? Oh
Baby, why don’t you just meet me in the middle, baby?
So why don’t you just meet me in the middle, middle?
In the middle, middle
Its was pop song of the year on i Heart . BECAUSE NONE OF THAT CRAFTING STUFF MATTERS to pop listeners whereas GREAT country music is ALL ABOUT CRAFTING a GREAT lyric …and accessible lyric , a thoughful , smart and clever lyric that will stand the test of time .
Maren is terrific …a talent to be reckoned with …..FINALLY ! I’m sick of Swifts , Jepsons, Carlis, and people who just have NO vocal talents . Maybe Maren changes that for POP music ….and she should . But she displays , at this point , no concern for the issues confronting REAL country music in these times . She is NOT a country artist and shouldn’t be afforded access to the benefits of being one when those same benefits aren’t afforded to artists who actually ARE COUNTRY .
SwingingAxe
If i heard this on the Top 40 station i would probably leave it on it and maybe enjoy it. On country radio I would change stations. To label something like this country only hurts actual country artists. And to play it on country radio in place of an actual country female artist is not helping females of country music. It is suffocating them.
dukeroberts
Well, what Trigger said is that the music is pretty good, but it’s certainly not country, so there is no reason for her to be considered as such or take up valuable country radio airplay.
North Woods Country
Their support means nothing. Bad music is bad music. Her music sucks, her politics are a perfect liberal stencil, and her supposed perspectives are all undone by her own decisions. She’s a damn joke.
You literally think “It’s Been A While” is one of the best songs in the post-grunge era, so like, i wouldn’t go talking about taste. Lmao
You’ll have to fill me in on what’s so bad about that song, because I can’t find much wrong with it.
I’m just messing with you. I mean I think it sucks donkey dick the same way you dislike Maren Moriss’ Music. Different strokes
Don’t get me wrong, I remember how overplayed it was. It’s Staind’s “Enter Sandman” or “Photograph.” That being said, it captured emotions that many people have felt with the lyrics and the heavy, crushing guitar in the chorus. I don’t know. It was perfect in a lot of ways, especially for anyone who has bouts of depression.
Nevertheless, perhaps I should clarify my stance. I said I think it is arguably the best post-grunge song. I stand by that. My favorite post-grunge song, however, is undoubtedly “I Don’t Care” by Tantric. If you aren’t familiar, take a listen and thank me later.
On Maren Morris. I gave her as much rope as a could, but “Rich” becoming a massive single snapped the thing. My tolerance for her is pretty much zero. That doesn’t mean I couldn’t appreciate a song like “Dear Hate.” In the end, I just find her commentary and persona nauseating, and her music so far below what she’s capable of.
63Guild
Maren Morris: talks about the sexualization of women in country and gender bias
Also Maren Morris: let me sexualize my album cover
Is country music that which uses a fiddle, pedal steel and an acoustic guitar? Or is it the music made by (and often for) people from certain regions of the country?
I struggle with this all the time. It seems like the former came after as a result of southern music’s industrialisation. Therefore, the strict musical definition is pretty artificial.
If the latter, this album still isn’t country. As it’s clearly made with a global/urban audience in mind.
I don’t know man. This stuff makes my head hurt. Indifference is the best way to deal with this I think – something like … I don’t know Maren, i don’t think about Maren and I’ve never heard her music.
Everybody’s definition of what country music is varies, and it has always been that way. However there is universal consensus around the fact that Maren Morris is not country. Even Black Boots who’s defending her in this comments section admits this. Even Maren’s fans admit this, say, “It’s just good music. Why do we need labels?” Nobody would ever defend this as country because it’s impossible. So instead they defend any criticism of it by screaming “sexism.”
Maren Morris is not country.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
Country Music requires either:
a fiddle, banjo, steel guitar/dobro or mandolin
in some instances a piano or plural number of fiddles is acceptable
Country fiddling as a style generally uses fewer slides and double-stops than Bluegrass but uses a characteristic hop as an introduction to phrases and a unison note usually of two identical Ds, As, or Es and Country fiddling double stops are often the third and fifth note of the chord. Cajun fiddling is usually lower pitched by a whole step
while the harmonica as an instrument is acceptable certain styles of playing it are exclusively Country
in the absence of these things the lyrics must be agrarian and/or vintage in theme and not relevant to any current trend
the vocalization of the lyrics is often a major benchpost for measuring its countryness
high notes are often hit with increased emphasis, long notes are slid into and often
“hitched” or bent
in the absence of bends, slides, and “hitches” the vocals must be presented in a straight and measured manner
The “double-slide” is usually associated with bluegrass (“I’m Ju-ust a we-eary hobo”)
there can be no instance of electronic drums or autotune
the rhythms MUST be either swung, staggered, shuffled or three-quartered
Alternative rhythms include the “train” beat and the off-beat emphasized chuck often associated with Bluegrass
vocal harmonies can consist of two parts in thirds, fifths or octaves, three parts in low third, lead, and high third, or four parts consisting of the three thirds and an octave bass OR high leading tone
Country-style drumming usually is heavy on the snare and high-hat with very little striking on the toms, crashes or rides except as an intro to verses/choruses.
Country-style chords are usually open chords with few minors, even fewer sevenths and almost no diminished or augmented chords. in slower songs without drums then more complex bar chords may be used
The bass player will always alternate between the tonic note and the fourth below the tonic note of each chord and will not “Slap” the instrument as is common in bluegrass
more complex bass progressions may be played on the bass guitar, which is to be buried more in the mix than the upright bass
Hope this helps as a guidepost for what commonly is and isn’t Country Music
As always there are exceptions and variations but these are some pretty general rules that cover most of the bases
F2S …..I gave up a corporate position in I.T. with less company ‘policy’ than this…lol.
But Ok ….this is a solid guideline for the uninitiated …..albeit far more technical than your average non-musician listener could even hope to understand.
A valiant effort for the cause , nonetheless . Wikipedia would be proud .
Hey wait a minute…….this isn’t FROM Wikipedia ..is it ???
I think it was all fairly summed up by Linda Ronstadt (she who would know) in her February 7th interview in Rolling Stone:
“I like old country music, when it still came out of the country. What they call country music now is what I call Midwest mall-crawler music. You go into big-box stores and come out with huge pushcarts of things. It’s not an agrarian form anymore. When it comes out of the country, it’s not farmers or woodsmen, or whatever. It doesn’t make much sense. It’s just suburban music.””
In other words, the practitioners of country music should pay more than mere lip service to the rural culture that gave rise to it. I don’t think Maren does that, at least not on this project of hers; but then the Bros (Aldean; Bryan; FGL) aren’t all that much better. In fact, I’d argue that they are far worse because of the way they do it.
That said, however, while I’m not defending what she did here, I’m also not going to attack her, since that’s for others. I would only say what I said on the last post on Maren, that she should go listen to Linda’s classic 1970s country-rock albums (and the two TRIO albums she did with Dolly and Emmylou), and make her next album along those lines, throwing aside any considerations as to whether it’ll sell to any “focus group”.
“Raise Your Horns” by Amon Amarth is more country than this.
Lunatic of God”s Creation by Deicide is more country than this!!
Why ride a horse when you can ride a dragon!
p Kelly
I am a fan of country music, but mainly a fan of music in general. My favorite album of 2017 was the Lorde album, and last year I loved the Boygenius EP. I was also a huge fan of the Kesha Rainbow record in 2017.
I don’t think it’s fair that this site judges this album, because it is not a country album, it is a pop album with some country influence, similar to Kesha’s Rainbow, honestly. I think Common and The Bones are tremendous pop songs, but all in all I thought the album was a bit disappointing.
But, like i said, your not going to review a Kesha album or a Kelly Clarkson album, or even an indie artist like Sharon Van Etten (who has the best album of the year so far IMO) or whatever and say, this isn’t country so it’s not good! This site should just ignore it.
Maren Morris has a CMA Award, an ACM Award, and a Grammy, all in country categories. She has been nominated for many more, including three country Grammy awards in the last Grammy cycle. I can’t just ignore when an artist who is purely pop is taking awards and other accolades that directly stimulated economic activity from country artists.
Lady Gaga’s last record, Kesha’s last record, and other pop record are MORE country than “GIRL.” If Maren Morris doesn’t want her music criticized as country music, leave the country format, and quit lying to the public.
For what it’s worth – the list of artists appreciated on here who are in vocal support of Maren and her work include:
Natalie Hemby
& many more
I think the point is that we need to be saying that if Maren Morris is dominating the radio – that’s a good thing for American music. At least better than Post Malone, Maroon 5, and trap garbage.
Talent recognizes talent.
L- O- Fucking-L.
Yes, none of those names are talented.
What are you implying? Her music is somehow automatically less garbage bc she sometimes associates w/ people who have talent? I don’t understand your point. It’s fine if you like her stuff but quit acting like she’s anything more than what she is, another flash in the pan faceless voice pumping out the hot garbage for the people who don’t require substance with their music. You’re the problem as much as she is, you should feel bad.
“It’s fine if you like her stuff”
“You’re the problem, and you should feel bad”
Haha, you’re a gem, Adam.
Also, in 5 years when she’s on album 4 and more than likely still doing incredibly well, i’ll say wussup to you, pal.
And my point wasn’t that she “associates” with them, that they’re vocal fans of hers, Brandi and Amanda have her in their band, The Highwomen, and lots of great songwriters stand by her music and talent. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s bad. Far from it.
So they’ve met her and like her personally? You can’t convince me Jason Isbell’s At-Home playlist has a single song from Maren Morris on it lol.
I mean, Jason and Dave Cobb are producing music that Maren is making with Jason’s wife, Amanda Shires.
I’m sure a song or two from that album will be on Jason’s at home playlist.
He called this album “triumphant” take that how you mean it.want.
Did he? I see a tweet from yesterday where he congratulated her on “a triumphant night (and new album)!”
Jason Isbell has also been chummy with Florida Georgia Line on multiple occasions. He’s a nice guy. Sure, when some legend endorses the music of an up-and-comer, it can be pretty cool. But just because Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires like something doesn’t mean we should too. And as a critic, if I let their opinions influence mine, I would be bias. Besides, the last review I wrote for Jason Isbell was a negative one.
As for the Highwomen, I was optimistic when it was first announced, and now that I know Maren is involved, I’m less optimistic. But I’m not going to run down something I haven’t heard yet. I hope it’s good. I hope Maren Morris impresses me. But I don’t review names, I review music.
RWP
Right on Trig. I keep seeing that crap. “Jason,Amanda,Brandi and __________ likes her so she must be AWESOME”!
Screw that. I think if those same artists told their fans to eat a bag of shit and listen to Sam Hunt all day they would run and do it.Sad!
I bet you really want to believe that, RWP. It might be true for some bandwagon listeners who probably aren’t all that passionate and might be “politics first” when it comes to music, but no way is it true for their music lover fans.
The album is not country, Maren Morris is not country & i don’t care about Brandi Carlile or the Brothers Osborne songs. It’s still not country.
Much Better New Music:
Hayley Marsten – “Wendy”
Logan Brill – “Walk Of Shame”
Kree Harrison – “I Love The Lie”
Casey Baker – “It Was Only Me”
Kathryn Legendre – “Sit Here & Cry”
Kris Bradley – “Sad Songs & Cigarettes”
Dee White feat. Ashley McBride – “Road That Goes Both Ways”
Reba McEntire – “Tammy Wynette Kind Of Pain”
So I assume the following albums are also 0/10:
Sgt. Pepper’s
Exile on Main Street
Led Zeppelin IV
None of those I consider country albums either, therefore they are 0/10
No P Kelly, those albums did not ever claim to be something they’re not. We’re all music fans first. Then our tastes and loyalties fall down genre lines. I can, and have reviewed pop as pop, and rock as rock at certain times. Maren released her album as country, and so thus it’s judged.
Take it easy, Mr. Hurd. We think your music sucks too.
You must not understand how things are reviewed here. It’s not just reviewing music, it’s reviewing country music. If you had a teacher tell you to write an autobiography, and you wrote a story about aliens flying to China and taking over, no matter how good thay story was, you would fail. Because it wasn’t an autobiography. Does it make sense? For what it’s worth, I tried listening to the album because I heard so many people like it, and even going into it knowing it was a pop album, I still hated it.
I forced myself to listen to that whole thing so that I would be qualified to comment. Mostly I was bored. Only one song remotely hinted at country music on the whole thing and that seemed jarring and out of place. That’s fine if she wants to market the album somewhere else! Jennifer Nettles did some nice pop stuff. People can be multi talented; I don’t hate her for it, but don’t insult our intelligence by calling this one Country.
As to her appearance, if it should be brought up at all, why focus just on her? Kacey Musgraves in her current pop phase has put much racier stuff on social media, like the naked behind the guitar pose and the Demi Moore-inspired Striptease pose, and she forgets to wear pants frequently on stage. Amanda Shires doesn’t put on much clothing either.
Blackh4t
True, but in Kaceys case it comes across as a bit of fun; she’s up on stage so why can’t she be a bit of eye candy?
With Maren it feels like she’s trying to be provocative, trying to see how far she can undress before she gets to tell off guys for looking.
Yes, this shouldn’t influence my opinion of her music, but part of enjoying an artist is an element of respect and she hasn’t got mine.
Meanwhile, Kacey can could walk around naked if she felt like it and i still respect her because it would still be music first and dress ups/downs just for fun.
Atomic Zombie Redneck
It’s a shame to hear a good voice wasted on generic mall pop, but there’s plenty of more talented female vocalists ready and willing to take her place. That is, if country radio will pass on Maren’s name recognition and give them a chance. But that’s a big and unlikely “if”.
Does anybody else find this album cover to be rather creepy? It looks like something you’d expect to find in a pedophile’s stash. Yikes.
OMFS88
Nobody mentioning her involvement in Highwomen?!?
The problem I have with this album is the outright arrogance she has. There’s a thin line between arrogance and confidence and she’s on the side of arrogance.
Saying “shut up and sing, hell no” is just plain stupid to me. No one ever asked her to shut up and sing, if memory serves me right people only asked her to shut the f**k up. She’ll never achieve half the acclaim Dixie Chicks attained so to use their words sounds like attention seeking considering the context.
NB: this is another pop album marketed as country, but hey who’s counting.
new_to_country
Who determines what constitutes country music? Who is the person responsible for labeling the Girl album as country? Who places it on the country charts? Who tells country radio program managers to put it into regular rotation?
the same question can be asked about Rexha’s Meant to Be song. Who said “this is country music”?
JB-Chicago
The Row says……….and they control……..The radio………..which controls……….The Sheeple…..that control………The money.
I think GIRL is a good pop album, better than a lot of pop music out there. I liked Hero more and thought it had more natural energy, but that could be a sophomore album thing. I think GIRL was a weak lead single for pop and I’m not sure how it’s country. I follow some general music fans on sm and no one’s really excited about this album, they just liked The Middle and it just won big at the iHeart awards.
I see how artists want to explore, but I also see the problem that all music is starting to sound the same and carry that same generic pop production. Pop songs are fun, but they shouldn’t make other genres of music disappear. That’s not being adventurous or crossing boundaries. That’s pushing a superstore that runs all the local businesses out of town.
I think some of the criticism Maren gets is unfair and sexist. But I think some of the criticism is fair. My biggest issue with Maren, though, is that she’s deliberately marketing herself through a hip version of feminism that I find restrictive as a woman in my 20s. It’s like being a GIRL means girl power, bitches. It means tattoos and cursing and talking about your hot yoga and beer on instagram. It means having a body most girls could never hope to have. It means having 100% a certain kind of politics, or else. Anything that deviates from that mold means you’re religious or conservative or a lousy person. It feels like an exclusive GIRLS’ club that I’ll never fit into. But she’s building her career by displaying an inspirational feminism that I think I’m supposed to admire. I don’t feel inspired. I just feel judged if I’m not the GIRL kind of girl.
Wild Billy
Trig, perhaps you could educate me. Who is really at fault here? Is it Maren personally? It it her management? Label execs? – Someone is sitting down, listening to this obvious pop record, and looking radio program managers in the face and saying “this is country, because we say its country” – Hey, I like “Girl” , it is a completely playable pop song. It just feels like a few people told a big fat lie, and now the rest of the world is stuck with it. — And before someone says it “doesn’t matter” , IT DOES MATTER because every spin, chart position, nomination and award win that Maren takes for this album is taking away from Ashley McBryde , or another person who is simmering just below the surface that we are missing out on.
That is a good question, and there’s not really an easy answer. I think it’s a combination of things. I think the reason artists like Maren Morris and Sam Hunt claim to be country is because they see an easier avenue to stardom through it than pop. Labels see that same opportunity, and take advantage of it. Most of these pop country artists wouldn’t stand a chance in the pop world because they’re too derivative. But in country, they can be portrayed as “pushing boundaries” and such. Ultimately it’s up to fans, the industry, and other artists to police the music, let their grievances be heard, and now cower from misguided claims of “sexism” and other rebukes that have nothing to do with the issue.
Ashley McBryde is a great example. As soon as Maren Morris released “Girl” to radio, Ashley McBryde’s “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” began to falter after a solid start. It’s not a hypothetical that Maren Morris is stealing precious spins from actual country artists. It can be verified in the data.
I still don’t get the argument, that it is easier to sell pop music to country audiences than to pop audiences. Even if it is supposed to be “bad” pop music (a judgement not much worth coming from country experts), it makes the country audience extra dumb, falling for it!?
On the other hand, strict genre seperation keeps people from even hearing certain music. “The Middle” was played all over the world, because it was a pop – song. Maren’s current album will not, because it is placed in the country genre and therefore not being touched by anyone outside of that segment. Sounds like extra-dumb somehow to release a non-country album for the country market …
Dennixx
Her record sucks and she’s somewhat attractive.
Hope I haven’t crossed any boundaries here.
Maren attempts to be one who is going to lift and liberate women of country, but what she doesn’t realize is she further proves why many females who enter country music’s door to grace the room of pop have not achieved the status they desire. She willingly, or unwillingly, stepped right into the same muck and mire that she fancies herself smart enough to get out of.
It’s a shame when a hammer doesn’t realize that there is a hand controlling it. And Maren, you are not the hand. Just a tool.
Keepin it Country
She has a good voice. BUT she is a pop artist. I wouldn’t even consider this crossover. All I can is DAMN talk about Murder on Music Row. I don’t like her music or her attitude about anyone that doesn’t like her is a sexist. As for her appearance I feel I have a right to criticize as she is literally showing it off on the front of her album. All I’ll say as a male in high school, I guess I’ll have to start wearing a bra.
A Country-Pop Fan
Damn good voice wasted on generic pop. Should’ve released a full-on RnB or blues album instead. That fits her voice better
PS: If pop music is the only genre left on earth and I wanna listen to some country-ish music, I’d choose Lady Gaga’s Joanne, Kesha’s Rainbow and Miley Cyrus’ Younger Now over this
Ralph McGinnis
I’m listening to the song “Girl” and she does sound more bluesy than traditional country. The question is why Sony Music Nashville signed her instead of one of Sony Music’s New York or Los Angeles labels? Does Randy Goodman, the Chairman/CEO of Sony Music Nashville, have the mandate from higher up to sign anybody, even if not country? Just because a Nashville label signs an artist doesn’t make the artist automatically country. But it seems that Nashville will only market a person as country.
SONDRA Toscano
I don’t consider Maren Morris to be of the country music genre, but apparently Brandi Carlile and Amanda Shires are taking her seriously because they just formed a group with her called The Highwomen.
We know. Maybe they know something that’s not obvious to those of us who only know her through her recorded work.
handsomepureolboybrady65
Yeah,but likely Ms. Morris feels that affecting a pop stance is one of the few ways a female Country artist can receive airplay in 2019 .
Corncaster
Interchangeable. Placeless. Uninteresting.
Michigan Country Man
The pop beach head of country is expanding as the likes of Maren Morris, Thomas Rhett and others find success with their big moves towards pop from country sounds. Have you accidentally turned on CMT and seen what passes as country on there?! Yikes.
Add in the acceptance of generic electric drums, finger snaps and this is why so many of us clutch our pearls when it comes to country music.
“… the latest offering from some Bro-Country holdover tractor rapping about a date rape in a corn field.”
The above line is classic Trigger wordsmithery.
Christian H.
I also laughed out loud at that line!
I don’t have stats , of course , but I’d guess that for every ‘country’ singer that seriously chased pop fans and pop acceptance , only a very very small percentage succeeded in doing so ON POP’S TERMS . ON POP’S TERMS !!!!
You can argue that Rondstadt , Dolly , Reba and even Emmy-Lou and certainly Patsy Cline and Lorretta ……Willie , Kenny Rogers , Glen Campbell , Cash etc..have pretty-much a become household pop music names as well as country music icons . But I’d argue that the reason they have done so is that they did NOT forsake ‘ what brought ’em to the dance ‘. In fact , for the most-part they seem to have relied on that element to set them apart from the trend-chasing pop-sters who litter the roadside of the genre .
The Ballerieni’s , the Band Perrys, the Swifts and the Maren Morrises , the Zak Browns , Hunter Hayes , etc take a big gamble in turning their backs on their established fan bases to disguise themselves as something else in order to become more successful financially . We’ve seen what happens to MOST of these artists . Band Perry is , of course , the best example of not knowing or respecting who you are as an artist and opting for a chameleon-like approach to the business . Doesn’t work . People see the ploy and don’t play along .
For most artists who launch careers in a country market , it not only behooves them to remain somewhat true and respectful of the genre , their own hearts , and the fan base that supported them initially …but , I firmly believe , it helps them to stand apart and maintain a character musically when they attempt to ‘go pop ‘ . Do you want fickle pop fans to love you for a minute cuz you sound like Dua Lipa this week ?….or love you for your whole career because you DON’T ? How ’bout we ask Dolly that question .
How ’bout for a second we look at Garth . Sure he may have rocked up country music a little bit . But I thing even folks who detest the man and his ego would agree that in his crusade to become king of the world musically the man has never forsaken country music the way the Rhetts , the Luke Bryans and a sea of other fakes have.
All of these ‘country’ acts charting today could learn a lesson here. Stapleton chased nothing outside of a great country ( Ok bluesey country ) song and garnered a pop following that included Timberlake and , no doubt , many Timberlake fans .
There are still lots of music lovers , no matter the genre, but in particular , I’d argue , country music fans , for whom trend , pop sonics, arrangements , style and ‘cool’ take a back-back seat to an artist honest to herself and her gut .
Taylor Swift jumped ship ( thank the good Lord ) and has sentenced herself to a life of chasing pop trend including rap influences and image , if she even remains popular for a lifetime .
Willie , Stapleton , Reba , Loretta , Dolly, Garth have remained true to the genre that they love and have and will continue to be successful in that genre LONG after the Band Perrys , the Rhetts, the FGLs and the like are long gone .
I rest my ( guitar ) case
I feel like the only reason she is considered “country” anymore is because pop music has shifted towards hip hop and become garbage. So country is shifting toward what pop used to be to fill the void it left
I have listened to it. It’s pretty good. Nothing on it gets on my nerves like say, Rich did. A couple of times, I was reminded of Caitlyn Smith, but very, very fleetingly. There are no songs that I have a strong urge to revisit, like I absolutely did on Golden Hour (e.g., Slow Burn, Love is a Wild Thing, Mother, Rainbow), which on the whole wasn’t in my wheelhouse. I enjoy it about as much as I enjoy Carrie Underwood, which basically means “better this than something worse.”
Off-topic but I want to read your comments about women and country radio. The fact is women aren’t played as much as men. If the reason is sexist thinking by radio programmers, executives, and members of boards of directors and they don’t want to change their thinking then the most important, if not the only, thing to do is to remove them from their positions and replace them with others. The only way I can figure out to do it is to start by buying shares in the radio companies that are public so as to get enough votes to choose the directors. I know it’s easier said than done but I can think of only one other way and that is to take away the radio stations’ licenses and I don’t see that happening, at least anytime soon.
Not really liking the album even though it has some great snap/clap tracks.
That being said, I have been listening to Crystal Gayle and 70’s Dolly Parton this morning (country fans of the day probably thought their music wasn’t country) and thinking in 40 years this Maren Morris album is going to sound country as hell to folks my age.
Album sucks balls.
TheOutlawArtist
While I prefer her previous album as a whole, I don’t see her bailing on the Country genre anytime soon, as she and Amanda’s Shires have joined Brandi Carlile for The Highwomen project.
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Saving Country Music’s 2017 Essential Albums List
2017 was a bumper crop year for great country and roots records, and this is reflected in Saving Country Music’s 2017 Essential Albums list, which has expanded once again to include a total of 65 albums, each of which was reviewed in-depth during the year, and each which can be seen with a summation of the review below. Along with that are included other albums that were reviewed with a positive grade in 2017, along with a list of other records that are either awaiting review, are “on the radar,” or should otherwise be considered worth checking out.
A few ground rules:
This does NOT include the Album of the Year Nominees since they’ve already had a spotlight shined on them through the nomination process. In the spirit of highlighting what was overlooked and not what is obvious, they are not included here. Consider those 1o nominees also “Essential.” Every year people overlook this rule and say, “Hey, where’s so and so?” and we all point to this rule.
There is no specific order to the list, aside from the first 11 albums being considered the “Most Essential,” or albums that just missed the bubble to be considered Album of the Year nominees.
These are not all the albums that will eventually end up on the Essential Albums List. More albums will be reviewed before the end of the year, and into the first few weeks of January, and potentially beyond that period if appropriate. Just because something is not included here doesn’t mean it won’t be in the future. Once again, Saving Country Music reviewed more albums than the previous year, so please don’t complain that something was overlooked, be thankful this free resource to music listeners continues to be offered and expanded year after year.
As always, suggestions of additional albums, lists of your essential albums, and opinions about this list are encouraged, and can be shared in the comments section. Just no “Hey, this list is entirely bunk because so and so wasn’t included!” or “so and so WAS included.”
MOST ESSENTIAL – Dori Freeman – Letters Never Read
In such busy and cluttered times as these, when all information and music seems filled with acrid sentiments and divisive tones, Dori Freeman is separating herself from the gaggle of country’s most encouraging prospects by mining the simple beauty from Appalachian dialect and tone, taking deprecated compositions in outmoded tongues and making them feel more relevant than the most modernized hip-hop beats, and then contribution her own original expressions in tastefully and intelligently arranged moments, ushering the listener away to a place apart from the constant friction of modern, stifling noise.
With her self-titled debut in 2016, Dori announced herself as an immediate attention-getter in the Appalachian country space. But there was a still a timidness present, especially in her live show. She was unwilling to participate in social media, or expound on personal information like the fact that she was a single mom. A year has done wonders for her confidence. Her consent to share the inspiration behind her songs now makes them even more personal to her audience. And as Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn, and Emmylou Harris before her, she’s proven that bearing young is not the death sentence on a musical career the patriarchal society often decrees, it can be the impetus and inspiration for creative exploration and the pursuit of personal goals. (read review)
MOST ESSENTIAL – Jason Eady – Self-Titled
Jason Eady can do what they can do, but they can’t do what Jason Eady does, which is strip it all back and have the appeal for the music rest entirely on the written composition of a song. Even the most minimalist of performers have to rely a little bit on style, groove, or some sort of window dressing. But for Jason Eady, it’s almost like a type of Zen to him—trying to find the slimmest, most fragile accompaniment to his words as possible where you can’t help but allow the theater of the mind to take over, and your thoughts be submerged in the story and message.
What comes across most starkly on this record is Jason Eady’s use of perspective in his writing. To put himself in the shoes of the man let free so Jesus could be crucified involves a depth of insight most of us just don’t have the discipline to explore. The timely “Black Jesus” pulls a similar maneuver, only more involved. This song is only capable from someone with a knack for seeing the world through someone else’s eyes, but exhibiting even more dexterity of perspective, Eady then looks back at himself through that same pair of foreign eyes to gain a whole new level of insight on his own original perspective not just to see the differences, but to espouse on the universal similarities. (read review)
MOST ESSENTIAL – Colter Wall – Self-Titled
Like opening an old chest long ago stashed away in an attic or crawl space and ages forgotten, but once it’s cracked and the odoriferous concoctions emanating from its bowels mix with the memories tied to the contents in an overwhelming waff almost too much to behold, the yawning of Colter Wall’s vocal aperture is like the spontaneous appearance of a hoary portal into the past where the present day escapes the mind and you find yourself amidst the ghosts of a by-gone epoch.
Colter Wall’s voice is truly a thing to behold. No descriptor or accolade employed to convey its powers of conjuration can be accused of embellishment. The only detriment is that future generations will be burdened to find fresh adjectives to describe it, while us currently present in its audience have the unfair opportunity to attempt to recount its effects while it’s still being presented in its nascent state. (read review)
MOST ESSENTIAL – Rodney Crowell – Close Ties
Crowell has not been caught napping in the last few years—releasing a couple of well-received duet albums with Emmylou Harris while pumping out original records as well. But Close Ties feels like something much more calculated, purposeful, and inspired, like he’s been saving up material, and waiting for the right time when the wounds aren’t so fresh, but the memory and sense of loss is still ablaze in his mind.
Close Ties finds Rodney Crowell getting incredibly personal, naming names, and using candid language with incredible honesty and a colloquial candor most artists are too inhibited to communicate. Rodney Crowell is one of the very few people who can refer to the great Susanna Clark as a “bitch,” because that’s how close he was to her. If you or I tried that, he’d kick our asses, and for good reason. (read review)
MOST ESSENTIAL – Valerie June – The Order of Time
The songs of The Order of Time are delicately crafted and incredibly deliberate. Though Valerie June’s music has been naturally slated into this whole soul roots revival thing that we’ve seen carried forth by folks like Leon Bridges, Anderson East, and even Sturgill Simpson, there’s a primitive country element here that goes overlooked and misunderstood. The almost monotone and stripped-down “Man Done Wrong” and the beginning whisper vocals on the autobiographical “Long Lonely Road” are not the type of thing the slick roots hipsters are likely to comprehend, at least at the beginning.
Valerie June is a niche performer who’s found a wider acceptance—the fate we pray will befall many of our favorite niche performers in hopes to improve music for the general population and not just ourselves. But unlike some of those niche performers, Valerie June was able to hold onto herself while finding a bigger audience. This means she will remain misunderstood by some, which might be a sign of quality in itself. But The Order of Time finds new ways to express old things, which is the hardest task for old music in the new era. (read review)
MOST ESSENTIAL – JD McPherson – UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL
All you east Nashville hipsters with your weak-ass white boy throwback soul records stretching to capture even a modicum of the spirit of the Muscle Shoals era after you decided country wasn’t cool anymore, and thinking horn sections alone would be enough to get your songs placed in hip ads for iPhones or The Gap, step aside and vacate the stage because one of the masters of our generation at drilling down to the essence of old school music and revitalizing its spirit has just released a new album, and taken your ass to school.
That is what McPherson has done on UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL. Just as the title and all the tracks are capitalized in the metadata like your crazy uncle does in his Facebook posts, this record is JD McPherson fearlessly asserting his vision on what modern old school rock and soul music should be, not necessarily trying to re-interpret those sounds and relying simply on nostalgia to find appeal with an audience, but trying to put himself in the shoes of the old soul greats and ask what they would sing and play if they were still around, and still had enough fire in their belly to do it. (read review)
MOST ESSENTIAL – Willie Nelson – God’s Problem Child
Willie Nelson has always been one to defy his nature. His performing career didn’t take off until he was nearly 40. His youthful indiscretions were replaced by his transformation into an iconic health nut. Willie has stated that he wants to die on stage, and that very well may happen. But there’s something about Willie’s aura that makes you believe he will live forever. That’s why it’s a little strange to hear him pondering on the next stage of life, and singing about losing faculties like on “Old Timer” about coming to grips with one’s own age, or the slow and reflecting “It Gets Easier” about breaking commitments as opposed to defying odds to keep them. Even “Butterfly” from God’s Problem Child seems to be about trying to capture something later in life that always remains elusive.
However Willie’s voice remains strong on this recording, and his guitar playing is spirited. Willie also has a little fun in “Still Not Dead Again Today” with the fact that as one of the world’s most revered characters, even outside of music, internet hucksters have likely made millions via ad revenue from fake death stories and other internet exploitations surrounding embellished takes on Willie’s health status. Willie is one of the very last of an era, and this is never made more clear than when he sings the tribute to his late friend Merle Haggard written by Gary Nicholson, “He Won’t Ever Be Gone.” (read review)
MOST ESSENTIAL – Sam Outlaw – Tenderheart
What you’ll hear most about Sam Outlaw’s new record Tenderheart is that it’s California country, yet more Laurel Canyon than Bakersfield; more Gram Parsons than Buck Owens. This all may be true, and it’s not like Sam Outlaw’s debut record Angeleno was some hard country shit kicker, but this only tells part of the story. Tenderheart has 13 tracks, and Sam Outlaw uses every one of them. Instead of some change of direction or softening of Sam Outlaw’s sound, the best way to describe Tenderheart is more like two albums merged together.
Sam Outlaw and his music have always been a lot more complex than what you can preface in a few sentences of bio information, or fit in a summation of his music. The guy is his own animal. A country fan may half expect to hate this record, not for what it is, but for what it isn’t. But as an unapologetic country fan, I found everything I wanted from this record, while someone who self-identifies as more of a folk rock fan may feel the same. That’s not a sign of confusion from Sam or a lack of cohesiveness, it’s just shows that Sam decided to be himself on this record, and for him that requires satiating a wider swath of West Coast roots. (read review)
MOST ESSENTIAL – The Brother Brothers – Tugboats
Based out of Brooklyn, The Brother Brothers is the closest thing you can find to Simon & Garfunkel in this century, yet with a primitive country sound. Incredible singing, some of the sweetest fiddle playing and cello accompaniment I’ve heard, and songs that are amazing in both their simplicity, and their ability to put rhyme and reason to complex human emotions.
All we have at the moment is an EP, but in six songs and 18 minutes, The Brother Brothers accomplish what entire folk labels and festival lineups struggle to not accomplish, which is honing in on something so timeless and carnal to the musical intellect, the music resonates in the soul like echoing within the walls of a great cavern. The notes, and the words are not enough. You must have chemistry. And that’s what The Brother Brothers have in bushel baskets. Enough can’t be said positively about The Brother Brothers and Tugboats. (read review)
MOST ESSENTIAL – Shinyribs – I’ve Got Your Medicine
I don’t give a shit what you call it, Shinyribs and I’ve Got Your Medicine is just a damn good time. It’s a jambalaya of influences. Country, Dixieland, and other herbs and spices are certainly in there, but the main ingredient is that Louisiana soul that has somehow found a vessel in Kevin Russell and can’t be contained. And this music isn’t just presentation and fluff. Russell writes all but three of the twelve songs on this record, and of all the other assets to it, songwriting might ultimately be its strongest.
What I’ve Got Your Medicine does best is to sell you on the idea that Shinyribs is something that you should be a connoisseur of. The first part of this record is not all wild-assed like much of their live show. Kevin Russell really takes the time to hone in on his singing to ingratiate this music to you without all the visual aids and antics of the live experience. You think of Russell as an A-list performer, but not an A-list singer necessarily, though not to knock him. Yet this record really pulls out the best of his singing talents, allowing him to focus all that energy of performance into producing recorded magic. (read review)
MOST ESSENTIAL – Parker McCollum – Probably Wrong
Strikingly brilliant of composition, richly diverse, both progressive and traditional, a tour de force of songwriting, and incredibly textured with strong instrumentation, Probably Wrong has just about everything you could want from any record, whether you count yourself a country fan, more of an Americana type, a country rocker, or whatever may be in between, man or woman, young or old. Whatever your roots music persuasion, Parker McCollum seems to have you covered, as long as you’re willing to open your heart to a new name, and a forward-thinking approach to a powerful expression of country music.
The argument is often made how country music must evolve to stay relevant. This reasoning is often employed to justify some of the most egregious examples of country perversion ever subjected to the human ear which are often much more akin to devolution than forward progress. That argument also discounts all the artists in bluegrass, Texas country, and Americana who actually are actively moving the music forward by bridging more contemporary sounds with a staunch adherence and appreciation of country’s roots. There might not be a better example of attempting to define country music’s creative horizon and pushing the possibilities of country forward than Parker McCollum’s Probably Wrong. (read review)
MOST ESSENTIAL – Sarah Shook & The Disarmers – Sidelong
***NOTE: Saving Country Music originally reviewed this album in 2015. It is included here since it was reissued by Bloodshot Records in 2017.
Sometimes it takes a bad seed to make good country music. That’s just the way it is. Just how bad Sarah Shook is probably depends on your perspective, but she was born into a good Christian home and raised in a wholesome manner that taught her to do everything in virtually the exact opposite way she eventually did it. Home schooled and only exposed to worship music at an early age, Sarah rebelled when she got the chance and her first band was named “Sarah Shook & The Devil.” Sorry mom and dad, but there was something inside Sarah that had to come out, and though this isn’t devil music by any stretch, it’s certainly not scriptures.
Who knows what whims govern the exiled ghost of authentic country as it scans the fruited plain looking for souls to possess? But it found Sarah Shook in North Carolina, and her destiny was inescapable. Sidelong may find itself in a dark and troubled place much of the time, but it’s good old country music at its heart. (read review)
***REMEMBER: Album of the Year Nominees are not included on this list***
Whitney Rose – Rule 62
Whitney Rose could be a candidate for one of these throwback ultra-stylized mod classic country fashion plates with her beehive haircuts and vintage hot pants and short skirts. Don’t think I’m complaining about her fashion sense; I’m a man with a beating pulse no different as any, and predisposed to find favor with how old clothes denote old souls. But you don’t watch a record, and Whitney Rose elevates herself by writing and selecting songs that do what all the best classic country artists did: say something in a way that’s never been said before, giving perspective to universal emotions and moments, and making you feel something deeper than simple nostalgia.
Whitney Rose and Rule 62 don’t adhere as much to genre as they do to era. The heart is definitely classic country, but Whitney is also willing to get a little jangly and classic rock and roll in songs. Having Raul Malo on board, who is so fluent in the era Whitney looks to evoke, as well as players who understand the textures of this time period, make the transitions feel fluid and organic. (read review)
Country Side of Harmonica Sam – A Drink After Midnight
If Country Side of Harmonica Sam had been around in the 50’s, they’d be in the Hall of Fame right now, and rival the other old greats in the influence they forged simply from the quality of the songs and performances. Just like the songs of the old greats, these offerings are short, to the point, quick and catchy, leaving you looking for the repeat button. Yes, it’s more of an interpretation of an era than an original expression. But the precision and success of that interpretation deserves elevated recognition in itself.
Making the whole enterprise of Country Side of Harmonica Sam that much more astounding is that this is not even a North American band. Harmonica Sam and his band are from Sweden of all places, but you would never be clued into this by listening to the music from the incredible expertise the entire band evidences in recreating the old sounds. “Shocking” is really the only appropriate word here when you behold what they’re capable of. For those that feel marooned in the modern world, or just love the simple, by-gone nature of classic country, Country Side of Harmonica Sam is a marvel, and a welcome treat to the senses. (read review)
Rhonda Vincent & Daryle Singletary – American Grandstand
Take a good hard think on it and ask yourself, do we we really need yet another version of “Above and Beyond” floating out there in the world, or especially the incredibly worn-out “Louisiana Woman Mississippi Man” that’s been rung through the ringer in drunk sarcasm by off-key singers in every karaoke bar from hell to breakfast? The answer is a pretty resounding and unilateral “no.” The music world is so cluttered with releases these days, better to focus on original material than once again rehashing once great compositions rendered lifeless by incessant, tired renditions.
But there’s just something about certain pairs of voices that makes it imperative they collaborate, and all rules and worries get thrown out the window. Rhonda Vincent and Daryle Singletary is one of those pairs of voices. It’s almost criminal to contemplate them not collaborating, and specifically on some of the most iconic country music duets of all time, if for no other reason than to have their particular versions cataloged in the annals of the genre. If there’s any concern here, it might be why it took these two so damn long to pull this together, and if they’ll stop here. (read review)
The Secret Sisters – You Don’t Own Me Anymore
The purest kernel of what is true country music, is pairs or groups of family members singing together for the edification of each other, often in the form of ancient melodies and songs passed down through generations. The point of country music has always been to carry those traditions on from previous generations to the present day, and that is why some get so sideways when the term “country” is employed for music that couldn’t be farther afield from those picking parties on family farms and back porch gatherings in mountain hollers. When it comes to neotraditional singing duos, The Secret Sisters are regarded at the very top of the discipline.
You Don’t Own Me Anymore is sad, pleading, powerful, and poignant. Yes, it’s an album of empowerment, but the stains and bruises of repression and heartbreak are still what are top of mind, and need to be sung out through verse to have their pain expelled, similar to how settlers sang starkly of the death, loss, heartbreak and fear that surrounded them in early America. (read review)
Hellbound Glory – Pinball
Pinball is for Republicans who like to party, and for those that like to go along for the ride, either personally or vicariously. Yet don’t think this implies that the articulation is any less intelligent than the more genteel, hoity toity Americana fare. The way Leroy Virgil can weave a phrase is incredible. It’s just his subject matter is often about crushed prescription drugs mixed with rural aphorisms. He speaks to the fallen angels of society and victims of the American dream forgotten in the Heartland and beyond the city limits, proud of being scumbags because there’s no other resort. This is the real America that you won’t find represented in a Luke Bryan song. It’s Hank Williams Jr. on Adderall; it’s anthemic affirmations for the age of the opioid epidemic.
Pinball is a fun record, featuring really enthralling songwriting at times, with a few selections worthy to be installed in Leroy Virgil’s resume as top flight material. Scumbags need heroes too, and people to sing about their lives uninhibited by the uptight norms that keep country music a space apart from the reality that some find themselves living amongst. Leroy Virgil and Hellbound Glory are those heroes. (read review)
The Wild Reeds – The World We Built
Never has confusion and indecision been graced with such articulate, yet poetic explanation, and accompanied by such melodic aptitude. The Wild Reeds are a collection of ill-fitting parts that happen to fit perfectly together. They don’t fit together well because of their lack of flaws, but because of them. They each fill in right where the next one fails until they make for a smooth, shiny, dazzling object, devoid of flaws from a surface inspection. Yet it’s the imperfections in the interior that give rise to the inspiration to their music.
The Wild Reeds and The World We Built is wide, sweeping, bold, expansive, and exploritative in the way they skip right over the same old verse/chorus 1-4-5 structures, and would rather craft these quiet moments leading into soaring crescendos that do more justice to the emotional roller coaster present in the lyrics, and in life. Though The Wild Reeds are comprised of three primary songwriters, it’s challenging to pick out the individual composers of each song in the way their styles meld just as well as their singing voices. (read review)
Billy Strings – Turmoil & Tinfoil
While some try to sell you on the idea that adhering to certain genres or traditional instrumentation is a severe limitation on creativity, some of the most brilliant musicians are the ones who are able to work within the confines of severe limitations and still tap into originality and undiscovered musical vistas that dazzle the spirit in unique ways. This is what come of age prodigy and revered bluegrass player Billy Strings does in his debut solo LP Turmoil & Tinfoil. Having worked alongside fiddle and mandolin player Don Julin along with other apprenticeships in the past, this new album is Billy Strings spreading his own wings for the first time, and soaring.
Bluegrass, just like all of music, must evolve to stay relevant to modern ears. Yet doing so within the discipline where the roots of the music remain in tact is the trick that takes an additional level of ingenuity and passion to accomplish. And this is what Billy Strings does with Turmoil & Tinfoil. (read review)
John Baumann – Proving Grounds
Both sides of Texas country are well-represented in upcoming artist John Baumann’s third official release, Proving Grounds. You don’t have to go digging for a bio on Baumann to find out what he’s all about, it’s all articulated right there in his songs. Hailing from all over Texas, including San Antonio, Lubbock, Amarillo, and now Austin, he speaks from the experience of growing up with the music in the album’s opening track, “Here I Come” about being inspired by those flatland legends like Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Joe Ely, and looking at the photos at Floore’s Country Store or Gruene Hall and wanting to emulate the success and songs of those founders of the Texas sound.
John Baumann has plenty of songs that get the blood pumping and the alcohol flowing. As fun as some of these songs can be, they will not be the indelible mark of John Baumann’s career, though they may be the gateway drug for many to get there. It will be his deeper material that will keep the fans he makes begging for more like “Pontiacs,” “Old Stone Church,” and “Lonely in Bars.” (read review)
Justin Townes Earle – Kids in the Street
Kids In The Street can claim consistency throughout, and for more than 30 minutes of music, which is something Earle has struggled to deliver in the past. There’s a good variety of emotions and textures here. Justin Townes Earle sounds healthy, focused, and engaged. The music is peppy when it needs to be, and morose when that fits the mood. It might deliver his most across-the-board quality performance yet.
Justin Townes Earle will not get the press buzzing with Kids In The Street. He won’t have Music Row shaking in their boots about what the record symbolizes for the future. But he does deliver a consistent and heartfelt effort that should remind folks that the gains in country roots were not earned overnight, and are deeper than the few names the press continuously harps on. Earle has been offering a healthier alternative for 10 years now. He helped turn the tide when the heroes under 40 were few. And he has a musical catalog that is strong and worthy of attention. (read review)
Lindi Ortega – Til The Goin’ Gets Gone
With Lindi Ortega’s Til The Goin’ Gets Gone, the idea to go EP is just about perfect. Go longer, and the mood that Lindi captures for the time and places she’s in at the moment would have risk getting diluted. Wait for the next project to come along and put these songs on it, and perhaps the emotional potions that inspired these compositions and performances would not be as potent. Til The Goin’ Gets Gone is like an exhalation from Ortega’s time in Nashville, and an honest take about the dark head space she found herself in when she nearly decided to walk away from it all.
Many more albums will be released in 2017 that required much more effort to produce than Til The Goin’ Gets Gone. It’s is a sparse, four song affair recorded in parts in a bathroom and rushed to market to coincide with Ortega’s exit back to Canada. But it also does what every great piece of art requires—whether it’s a photo, sculpture, painting, film, or audio recording. It captures the bubbling up of an emotion-filled moment that one never wants to forget, even if the pain is unbearable, because it reminds one they’re still alive. (read review)
Mapache –Self-Titled
For those fans of The Louvin Brothers and the Cactus Blossoms, those keen on intricate harmonies and acoustic textures who don’t need to be told why The Everly Brothers are one of the most important acts in American music and deserve every square inch they occupy in the Country Music Hall of Fame, here comes a duo from Southern California called Mapache that will put you right back in that warm spot all those excellent old country and folk records did, only with the ownership of discovering and loving them in your own time.
With only two people and one mic, Mapache can fill up a room with more soul soaring harmony than most symphonic assemblies, carried to great heights by melodies that are incredibly supple and bursting with delight, timeless in their textures and delivery, yet with subtle new turns that give Mapache the benefit of originality to go along with the nostalgic yearning. (read review)
Emily Herring – Gliding
Emily Herring shouldn’t be considered exclusively a Western Swing performer. Though a few tracks would beg to differ, it’s more appropriate to call her Western Swing influenced. Overall, the impression of Emily Herring and Gliding is much more individualized than any one country subgenre. In fact listening to the opening title track, you may find yourself a little worried she has gone a bit more contemporary than you might wish. But when she leans into an incredible original Western Swing tune like “Balmorhea,” or the hard-stomping honky tonk tribute “Last of the Houston Honky Tonk Heroes,” all of a sudden you hear why Emily’s contemporaries in Austin sing her praises.
Some of Emily’s best songs are when she takes those old school influences and expounds on them with her own individual experiences, like she does in the sweet, waterfalling melodies of “Best Thing I’ve Seen Yet,” or in the pining of “Yellow Mailbox.” Still, some will gravitate immediately to some of Herring’s classic covers, like the blazing take on “All the Millers in Milwaukee,” or Commander Cody’s “Semi Truck.” (read review)
Cody Jinks – Less Wise (Modified Reissue)
Less Wise was recently re-released in a remixed and remastered form called Less Wise Modified, which includes a couple of alternative takes of original songs and a cover of Hank Jr.’s “Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound.” The original recording was sort of a no budget affair according to Cody, leaving a bit to be desired when it came to the final production quality. It’s also probably fair to state that Less Wise doesn’t have the same spice musically that subsequent releases would. The upgrades and bonus tracks in the new version are nice additions to an album that’s already legendary in the minds of Cody Jinks fans. But if you’re jumping in mid stream to the whole Cody Jinks thing, these additions are not where your focus should be.
It is mostly the result of two very important songs that would make Less Wise the record that would resonate so deeply with fans, Cody Jinks could circumvent all need for “scene,” he wouldn’t have to compromise by soliciting for industry help, or kowtow to the press to find the traction he needed. And these two songs have since become standards of Cody’s live shows, and some of the most streamed songs from his catalog right beside the bigger tracks from his more recent and better-promoted projects. (read review)
Lee Ann Womack – The Lonely, The Lonesome and the Gone
Lee Ann Womack’s latest album The Lonely, The Lonesome, & the Gone has more co-writes from Womack than any other album she’s ever released, arguably making it her most personal. It also feels like the spreading of wings a bit in the stylistic approach. But moreover it is Lee Ann doing what has made her a favorite among many, which is finding the songs that somehow have sifted through the fingers of the rest of Music Row with its skewed priorities, and singing the bejesus out of them with a voice that has been raised to the level of the iconic from how many recordings its graced that have gone on to become the definitive version of a composition.
There’s a reason why Miranda Lambert—who shares many of the same songwriters and the same producer as Lee Ann—decided she needed to release two discs instead of one for her last album. During an era in country music when some of the best songs are being overlooked by Music Row, and it seems like a severe risk that this material maybe be resigned to demo tapes and legal pads for eternity, Lee Ann Womack is stepping up to give these songs breath and life, and contributing her own words more than ever, benefiting from the rest of country music’s shortsightedness. The rest of us benefit too when a record like The Lonely, The Lonesome, & the Gone gets pressed. (read review)
Robyn Ludwick – This Tall to Ride
Strap yourself in, buckle up, and mentally prepare yourself as best you can, because there isn’t anywhere Robyn Ludwick won’t go on This Tall To Ride. Unabashedly exploring the dark underbelly of life where cocaine and sex are the ruling currency, and creatures of the night cuddle up with each other for comfort while attempting to coax upstanding citizens to explore their vices in the gutters of life, This Tall To Ride is like a docudrama looking into American addiction and debauchery, yet told in poetic pentameter.
There’s a saying, “Dance like nobody’s watching.” Robyn Ludwick writes like nobody will listen and judge her personally. Let’s hope she never has to stand before a judge and explain why so many of her songs reference cocaine and sex via solicitation. She takes a devil may care attitude about it all, because these are the textures and hues she feels are her best medium. And she wouldn’t be wrong in that assessment listening to the results. Whether it’s the escapism, the intrigue, or perhaps the ability to relate to the material for some, Robyn Ludwick’s songs command your rapt attention, and repeated spins. (read review)
The greatest artists never settle. And it feels like From A Room: Volume 1 is Stapleton settling on a sound, on an approach, on not getting the proper resources from his label, and on what worked in the past. It just happens to be that Chris Stapleton can fall out of bed and still out sing any male country artist, and many artists beyond country, and knows how a write a song to prove it. And this just might be enough to continue the wave of momentum he’s been swept up in, despite everything else.
The appeal for Chris Stapleton is his voice, and that is the focus of the new From A Room: Volume 1. Moving forward with the confidence that Chris Stapleton could sing the phone book, they found nine compositions in Chris Stapleton’s vast song library that compliment his voice in separate ways. One of the biggest challenges for any singer is to write songs in a way that showcases their vocal talent and challenges their range. For Stapleton, this is his greatest asset. (read review)
Charlie Parr – Dog
Dog is just one of now fourteen Charlie Parr records, but it’s almost as if you forget just what an exceptional player and lyricist Parr is in between. Surrounding himself with the most lowly, sustenance experiences of life, Parr is really able to burrow deep down through all the layers of comfort and bullshit to get to the raw human emotions that ultimately infer us all through our daily lives: loneliness, self-doubt, a desire for love, a longing for something bigger than ourselves, and ponderances on the nature of the soul.
On this particular record, Parr uses the mirror of man’s best friend to convey those emotions and thoughts, and a lesson on the sameness of all living creatures. “A soul is a soul is a soul is a soul” is not a redundant statement from a stammering musician, it’s a necessary reminder about the universal bonds we are all a part of, no matter how much we want to remove ourselves from it, or try to shield ourselves from it via wealth, security, and walls to rid our world of what are supposed to be shared experiences of mankind. When you see the look in a homeless person’s eye when you’re handing them over the food to survive, there are no divisions in wealth or class. When you see the scared look in a dog’s eyes when they’ve lost their way, you’re stricken by how human that emotion feels. (read review)
Natalie Hemby – Puxico
Puxico meanders through a small town perspective, sometimes lovingly, sometimes frustratingly, but always authentically when it comes to Natalie Hemby’s case. “Time Honored Tradition” sets the record off with a folky, stripped-down country vibe that immediately lets you know this isn’t going to be a repository for Hemby’s commercial material that didn’t sell, but the record she’s always wanted to make. Puxico IS Natalie Hemby—her places, her people, her stories and perspective set to rhythm and melody like a breathing, beating memory.
This record is an assemblage of what feels like Natalie Hemby’s most heartfelt material compiled over years, with each song holding a deep importance, and each conveying an expression that is dependent on the others, however subtly, to paint a picture that exists in her mind so wound up in memory and emotion she feels an imperative to share it. Puxico is for Natalie Hemby, but as is often the case with a personal work, the result was something that resonates personally for others as well. (read review)
Moot Davis – Hierarchy of Crows
Part rockabilly maven, part honky tonk shit kicker, part heroin-era Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers revivalist, for going on 16 years now the moniker ‘Moot Davis’ has been synonymous with the top shelf of cool in the underground country and roots scene with those smart enough to know where to look to find the best stuff that the mainstream doesn’t want you to hear about, and holds up through repeated spins.
Moot is just as important to the formation of underground roots as just about anybody, and specifically in the Northeast where he’s been swimming upstream for years trying to convince the locals on the virtues of the honky tonk sound and the moan of the steel guitar, and succeeding through his infectious grooves, vintage songwriting chops, and smooth, effortless style. Hierarchy of Crows finds Moot with a decidedly heavier sound than his previous efforts, flirting with that line between rockabilly and straight up rock, and at times inching his big toe just every slightly over it, but never to the point where it puts the roots revivalist spirit of his music in peril. (read review)
Porter Union – Self-Titled
Somewhere, the spirit of the country music duo got lost. This isn’t just about the conjoining of two voices. It’s about the mixing of two perspectives on the same theme, telling a story from two angles, making the yearning in the heart that much more aching by adding two sob stories, or uplifting joy that is magnified that much more because it’s shared with someone else.
This is the spirit with which the duo Porter Union from Springfield, Missouri approaches their craft. Consisting of Cole Michael Porter and Kendra Porter, the pair dives headlong into the lost art of the country music duo in their debut, self-titled album. Though there are some efforts that would be fair to characterize as more solo in nature, most of this album features the intertwining of voices and points-of-view in ways many modern songwriters struggle to capture. You can’t just take a song and have two people sing on it, or have someone else sing one verse and call it an authentic country music duet. It must be a truly a collaborative effort like you have with Porter Union. (read review)
Charley Crockett – Lil’ G.L.’s Honky Tonk Jubilee
A collection of songs from Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker, Roy Acuff, Webb Pierce, and others, the 16 tracks of the album find Charley Crockett interpreting timeless compositions with such love, you would have thought they were his own. Not just your average traditional covers album, the Honky Tonk Jubilee is Charley building a country music foundation, and proving his studious discipline and appreciation for the past greats before he ventures to contribute his own compositions to the American songbook in earnest.
Though the songs might be familiar, it’s Charlie Crockett’s signature voice that makes the compositions come alive anew. Heretofore, Charley Crockett has been thought of just as much as a blues singer as a country one, but in Honky Tonk Jubilee he draws lines between America’s roots cousins and proves they’re not as different as some would like to think. And even though you’ll hear the New Orleans influence in his voice, Honky Tonk Jubilee is doggedly traditional country. (read review)
Bobby Bare – Things Change
There have been many true country music “Outlaws” over the years, and many more that claim to be. But there can be only one original Outlaw, and that is Bobby Bare. Without Bobby Bare, there may be no Waylon Jennings. When Bare discovered Waylon in Phoenix, AZ in 1964, Waylon was still very much a regional act. It was Bobby Bare that introduced Waylon to Chet Atkins at RCA in Nashville, and helped bring Waylon’s career to the national stage.
Now at 82, and with his name already enshrined in the Country Music Hall of Fame, Bobby Bare doesn’t owe anything to anybody. Unlike Willie and some older artists, he doesn’t seem to have the desire to die on stage. But he does have the desire to keep moving forward as long as his energy allows, and the crowds assemble to see him. Bobby Bare’s days of hit records and heavy influence in the music industry are over, but life goes on, and so does the music. Things change, but Bobby Bare’s legacy will remained cemented in time. (read review)
Steve Earle – So You Wanna Be an Outlaw
Steve Earle isn’t just your average aging thinning-hair post-mainstream relevancy Americana dude who was kind of big in the 80’s. At 62-years-old, he’s probably the youngest guy who can legitimately claim honest ties to the original country music Outlaw movement of the 70’s. As an understudy of Guy Clark and Rodney Crowell, whose fresh face and stringy hair can be seen sitting around Guy Clark’s kitchen table in the iconic Heartworn Highways documentary, the Texas native wasn’t there when it all went down, but he arrived shortly thereafter, and took the spirit of shaking up Nashville.
Steve Earle is one of these characters who makes you accept the good with the bad. He doesn’t make it easy for you to be a fan and sometimes it’s messy, but some people love to sift through rubble in hopes of finding that shimmering gem, however unpolished. Most artists worth their salt are a little messy. They’re just usually better at hiding it than Earle. Steve doesn’t give a shit what anyone else thinks, like the rest of us wish we could. And that’s why when it’s bad, it’s easier to ignore it. And when it’s good, you pump your fist a little bit harder for him. He’s Americana’s anti-hero: hard to love, easy to hate, and happy to oblige his fans and enemies alike. But he’s got your attention, and sometimes that’s what matters the most. (read review)
Sarah Jane Scouten – When The Bloom Falls From The Rose
From British Columbia’s Bowen Island, Scouten was born into a household where she was exposed to the music of Hank Williams and Canadian folk singers such as Stan Rogers from an early age, and those influences have gone on to infer her strong roots-based style that has been recognized in independent country and folks circles alike in Western Canada for a few years now. Her songwriting is stark, often reminiscing back to the frontier era with its more primitive narratives, and often intertwined with the brambles and underbrush of North American natural history in the way that nature’s bounty, wonder, and cruelty offer such seductive illustrations for the emotions and moments inherent in the human experience, underscored by the title of this new album.
When The Bloom Falls from The Rose doesn’t represent just one, but many reasons why music styles from the past can hold just as much sway on the modern heart in the present tense, whether the themes are the plight of rural people and workers, nursing a broken heart, or trying to find that one person or thing that gives you meaning and speaks to your sensibilities in a world listing in a sea of sameness. (read review)
Richard Lynch – Mending Fences
If you enjoy the 80’s era of traditional country from artists like George Strait, Randy Travis, and Moe Bandy, then Richard Lynch will be right down your alley. Traditional country, but told from a more modern perspective, and with hints of more classic-era influences and even a little bit of Outlaw, Richard Lynch is like a blast from the past for those old soul country fans, but with a strange newness only possible from an artist you’ve just discovered.
Richard Lynch resides in the country music world you might see featured on RFD-TV. This is classic, wholesome, values-based traditional country, not your young hipster throwback retro stuff focused more on style than substance. Richard writes and sings songs from his own perspective as a rural dweller from Waynesville, Ohio. The quality of both the songs and the recordings is shockingly good. Songs like “Mending Fences” and “In Over My Heart” remind you of a much simpler time and perspective. It’s like a warm breeze and fishing out on a lake, and the music carries not just quality efforts in the songwriting, but a moral and message missing from most modern country. (read review)
Kody West – Green
The title of this record is Kody West fessing up to his 21-year-old status as an up-and-coming Texas singer and songwriter, and isn’t it refreshing to see a young performer acknowledging their naivete as opposed to puffing their chest out and telling anyone in their way they’re old and part of the problem?
Yet listening to the songwriting and the developed sound on Green, this record feels anything but freshmen. It has a maturity in the subject matter well beyond Kody’s 21 years, and beyond the output of many artists who are nearly twice his age. Isn’t that the beauty of self-awareness. When you’re able to see yourself as the rest of the world does, and when you look up as opposed to look down at the elders and heroes you’re surrounded by and came before you, all of a sudden a lack of real-world experience isn’t as much of a burden, it can even be an asset. (read review)
Ira Wolf – The Closest Thing to Home
John Steinbeck is best known for writing The Grapes of Wrath, but Travels with Charley was also well-loved and influential in its time. And though there are an incredible amount of songs about wanderlust and road life in the annals of country and classic rock, a true travel album articulated just as much as a journal as a work of fiction is hard to come by.
That’s what you get with singer and songwriter Ira Wolf’s The Closest Thing to Home. An inspiring collection of stories that highlight her superb songwriting, it is bound together by Ira’s real life travels in a Volkswagen named Ruby. Though the theme is travel, this album will feel as comforting as home to anyone who spent a portion of their youth roaming the West or the world’s other forgotten spaces, or those that dreamed about doing so, and still hold onto those dreams today. (read review)
Justin Dean Payne – Coal Camp
These aren’t the bleeding heart moans of a privileged intellectual looking to earn brownie points with the poor by interpreting their plight through mimicked characters composed via research on the internet, or resuscitations of some hipster looking to revitalize some by-gone style because it’s retro cool in their gentrified community. As an honest to goodness coal miner in the infamous Boone County portion of West Virginia, the songs of Justin Dean Payne’s Coal Camp EP are the everyday itineraries of a true working man set to rhyme. He makes his money from the coal mine so he can music for the music itself.
The story of coal in America may be more in the past than in the future, and possibly for fair reasons as technology offers alternatives that treat both humans and their homes with higher regard. But it’s an embarrassment how the hardships of the coal region are often cited for political gain, while the growing concerns of the region remain unresolved. At least it has resulted in some meaningful music, from the very formations of the country music genre in the early settlement of the Appalachia region, to some of the most important songwriters and performers of today. The story of coal and country music are intertwined, yet they may have never been more intimately conjoined as they are in the music of Justin Dean Payne. (read review)
Aaron Vance – My Own Way
Aaron Vance is from Mississippi, and the son of a preacher. You can bet that making country music never came across as a foreign endeavor to him. When you hear Vance sing, you know it’s his true calling, and what he was born to do. His passion for authentic country is articulated right there in his original songs.
It may be a stretch to call My Own Way Aaron Vance’s “Outlaw” album, but he certainly uses it as his opportunity to tell Nashville, his fans, and maybe himself that he’s not changing for anything. He came to Music City to make country music, and that’s what he’s going to do. He’s not changing course, or shifting what the term “country” means just to make his way easier. What good is living the country music dream if you’re not making country when you get there? If you come to town with ideals and tell yourself you’ll just compromise a little to get ahead, next thing you know you’re sliding down a slippery slope, and end up sounding like a knock off of Luke Bryan. (read review)
Old 97’s – Graveyard Whistling
Graveyard Whistling is just about what you would expect from the Old 97’s, in a good way. For those bred in the roots scene from more recent sounds emanating from east Nashville that are a little more neotraditional or Muscle Shoals in nature, the Old 97’s might sound a little dated because the band’s germination point was the mid 90’s. But for those Gen X’ers still holding onto some of that angst, it’s sounds about right when the kiddos are in bed, and you want to crank some tunes.
The Old 97’s are what they are, and still remain so, which is an influential and often overlooked alt-country band who gets your bobbing your head, and not feeling self-conscious about it. They’re never going to be the darlings of Americana like they once were for alt-country, but they’re still providing a very necessary sound fusing country, folk, and rock, and Rhett Miller deserves equal billing right beside Ryan Adams, Jeff Tweedy, and Jay Farrar as founders of one of country music’s most important and influential subgenres. (read review)
Eric Strickland – Black and White and Blue
This new album Black and White and Blue isn’t just about Eric Strickland making a bluegrass record, it is about Eric exerting his desire to not be pigeon holed, and pulling away from the whole “Outlaw” moniker that has become so compromised in recent years, co-opted by the mainstream, and used to peddle subpar music that only takes shallow observances from the careers of Waylon, Paycheck, and Coe, missing all the sentimentality and moral. And what better way to do that than by saying “screw it all, I’ll make a bluegrass record.”
Bluegrass these days has its own set of dilemmas, including how it sometimes feels more like a skills competition as opposed to a musical art form. But Strickland returns the music to the back porch style as opposed to the pentatonic acrobatics of most modern bluegrass. Don’t expect a bunch of songs about foggy mountain bottom tops or a crazy uncle’s moonshinin’. Black and White and Blue is 12 songs you would expect to hear from Strickland, only with acoustic tones and no drums. Just like Strickland’s other records, it was produced by the well-respected Clyde Mattocks, who also plays dobro on the album. (read review)
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real – Self-Titled
In simple musical skills, the talent of Lukas might even surpass that of his famous sire. Of course songwriting and style are a bit harder to tabulate, but Lukas is no slouch in these departments either. Yet nearly 10 years into the performing game now, and Lukas Nelson still feels like he’s attempting to find his footing. The issue is not his talent, or his ability to tell a story through song. If anything, it’s astounding how still under-the-radar Lukas Nelson is when measuring these attributes. It’s his inability to choose or discover a definable lane for his career that keeps him curiously obscure when compared to his skill set.
In certain respects you see this indecision play out in his new, self-titled album with The Promise of the Real. The album showcases everything that makes Lukas Nelson an exceptional performer, and worthy of praise for a name all his own, completely divested from his famous father. But Lukas Nelson is not country, until he is, and he’s rock and blues, until he isn’t. Naturally country audiences want to gravitate towards him, but he’s not the traditionalist they may hope to find. The psychedelic nature of some of his cuts attract a younger audience, but Lukas also feels like an old soul, implementing steel guitar and backup singers on certain tracks. (read review)
Angaleena Presley – Wrangled
Angaleena calls this her “F-you record,” and it is certainly that if nothing else. Close followers of the Pistol Annies and of Presley’s writing—including her debut record American Middle Class—know that the Annie with the darkest wings has always been Angaleena. It’s just now she’s able to spread them in full flight.
Uncaged, unhinged, and at times even inappropriate, Wrangled is Angaleena Presley making the record she wants to, be damned of the bridges left aflame and the apple carts upset. It is an unusual record, in both sound production and theme. But it also remains solidly country, Angaleena country, where no recess of the unsettled mind is off limits, and at times little psychotic voices like from demons perched on one’s shoulder get eerily uttered through bullhorn filters in the background. (read review)
Sons of the Palomino – Self-Titled
When the famed Palomino Club in Los Angeles closed its doors for good in 1995, it symbolized the end of an era for many in the area, and for country music itself. After the rise of the “Class of ’89” and the robust commercialization and popification of country, a lot of the old guard was getting lost in the shuffle. Some lasted into the 2000’s, but most of the outliers have now given way to Bro-Country songwriters and performers, and synthesized “producers” who sit behind a computer rendering many of the musicians who made the most memorable recordings in country music irrelevant.
So Jeffrey Steele started The Sons of the Palomino, expressly because it covers the era and the style of country music that doesn’t really seem to be getting championed by anyone, yet still has incredible value to the people who listened to it, grew up on it, or participated in its creation during its native era. Having played bass for seven years as part of Ronnie Mack’s Barn Dance on Tuesday nights at the Palomino Club where it wasn’t unusual to see folks as far ranging as Dale Watson to Dwight Yoakam stop by, or witness Redd Volkaert or Jim Launderdale sit in with the band, the Palomino was ground zero for the country music universe for Steele and so many others. They were all “Sons of the Palomino” because the venerable club helped them get their start and forge their country music identity. (read review)
Slaid Cleaves – Ghost on the Car Radio
On Ghost on the Car Radio, the songs take you down a mournful road bemoaning the shifting world that seems bound and determined to leave the old of soul behind. It’s a little bit of nostalgia, but more of an epitaph for an era when neighbors knew neighbors, family businesses spanned generations, and the world seem well-ordered to a set of priorities that put people first. Ghost on the Car Radio is about folks landlocked from an eternally local perspective, and all they have left is reflecting on the the past, and perhaps some good old country songs to get them through the rest of a life where all dreaming has been exhausted, and the inevitable inches nearer every day.
Yet Cleaves uses the perspective of world-wearied small town locals not as a wet blanket on the spirit, but as a way to uplift their existence, to canonize and commemorate their incredible perseverance to not acquiesce to the outside world, and to be content with who they are, even as everything they care about crumbles around them like Rome falling. (read review)
Dead Man Winter – Furnace
Instead of the marriage of song and story, it’s almost the contrast of them—the bright and upbeat music mixed with the emotional toil of the lyric—that makes this Dead Man Winter album work.
Furnace is about Dave Simonett’s (Trampled By Turtles) divorce, and more about Simonett’s divorce. And what is interesting is how he resists the temptation of doing anything other than blaming himself. For an album with such a singular theme inspired by a breakup, there is no true bitterness or vitriol that gets communicated, or if it is, it’s too subtle for the anger to be palpable in these songs. The music is rock or folk rock, maybe alt-country at most, maybe even pop rock at times, but the power of the songwriting and the sensible but still intelligent arrangements keep you engaged. (read review)
Whitney Rose – South Texas Suite
Listening to Whitney Rose’s South Texas Suite can elicit a magical image of what the Texas music scene is all about. In truth, many of the honky tonks are under siege, the musicians are being forced to leave, and a lot of what makes the region special is getting trampled under foot. Sometimes it takes a bulldozer digging its blade into the side of a building, or an imminent domain notice to appreciate the history and character of places that are slowly getting lost through time. The truth is Austin is not like what is portrayed on the South Texas Suite. That only still exists in tiny little enclaves dotted throughout the city as the encroachment of boxy, prefabricated high rise developments casts shadows over these dying institutions, and the people that love them.
All the more reason to experience them while you can, put that love into song, and preserve the memory while these moments last. This is what Whitney Rose does on South Texas Suite. (read review)
Left Lane Cruiser – Claw Machine Wizard
Think the blues is a tired old fuddy duddy art form not fit for doing much more than influencing later forms of music like country and rock & roll? Then apparently you’ve never gotten a snoot full of the deep blues scene’s surviving members Left Lane Cruiser from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Call it deep blues, call it punk-inspired—Left Lane Cruiser prefers the term “gut bucket blues.” But no matter what your wording, it’s a head-banging, chest-pounding damn good time.
Exhibiting growth while sticking to your roots and the heart of your sound is something every artist and band struggles with, and where many ultimately stumble. But on Claw Machine Wizard, Left Lane Cruiser walks that line with authority, and the result is maybe their most forward-thinking and accessible album yet, while leaving plenty of meat on the bones for those hardcore followers. (read review)
Liz Rose – Swimming Alone
The fact that Liz Rose is still around and writing relevant songs is a testament to her resolve and the respect she commands from the industry. Say what you want about her output, Liz Rose has figured out how to do what 90% of her other professional songwriter peers couldn’t, which was simply survive.
What’s really great about Swimming Alone is it has this sort of 80’s, early 90’s simplicity and sweetness to it that is so critically missing from today’s country. It’s pure nostalgia. Liz sings about working in at the family-owned Five & Dime store, and sneaking away at 13. The songs on Swimming Alone aren’t just incredibly personal, they’re true-to-life autobiographical. You find out that Liz Rose was a bit of a wild child, but with a simple country heart and perspective on the world. (read review)
Dalton Domino – Corners
Out of the ranks of Texas music artists is not the most expected place to witness the emergence of someone that takes the foundation of country themes and modes, and greatly expands them in a way that is only fair to couch as “evolutionary,” but that is the case for songwriter and performer Dalton Domino. For his sophomore album Corners, he doesn’t slowly try to acclimate you to the idea of going in a different direction, he drops you right into the deep end and tells you to sink or swim.
Songs are at the foundation of what makes Dalton Domino’s Corners so stunning. Written mostly by Dalton himself amidst a move to sobriety, it captures the moments during a transitional phase in life that go on to define us as people, set the stage for the rest of time, and stick out in memory no matter what else fades away. These periods are when the juices of life are at their most robust, and if you can capture them in song, and do so with honesty and eloquence, the result can be something compelling. (read review)
Ags Connolly – Nothin’ Unexpected
Nothin’ Unexpected isn’t just a traditional country album, it should be considered a songwriter album first, and a heartbreak album. Many of the songs are stripped of excess instrumentation as to be fair to categorize them in most any roots genre, or to just call it singer/songwriter material. Similarly to how Ags has meticulously studied true country music, his tireless work at purifying his songcraft results in tunes that are compelling and impressive.
Nothin’ Unexpected is an album of songs that Ags has slaved over and seriously thought out, yet even the songs may not be the most impressive ingredient. That may fall to how this singer from Oxfordshire is able to sing on some of these tracks with such natural timing and tone. “Neon Jail” is mind-blowing in how it’s sung. All that nuance and subtlety most U.K. country singers miss is exactly what Ags includes in this song. There’s no telling where or how the Holy Ghost of country music finds its souls to inhabit, but with results like this, it’s hard to argue that it hasn’t found a home in Ags Conolly. (read review)
Pete Schlegel – J-Town
Think of Pete Schlegel and J-Town like a cross between Don Williams and Mark Chesnutt. The themes are centered around reinforcing the most important things in life like family, and how to value time and love over money. It’s refreshing to hear any music these days from a mostly adult perspective. J-Town isn’t for the kids, it’s about the kids and for the adults. Yes, most humans actually grow up and get married, and some of them even cherish their parental and adult moments as opposed to constantly harking back to high school.
Taking catchy, repetitive beats and laying lists of buzzwords over them to immediately attract the ear is the easy way to make music. It takes keen skill to purposely limit yourself to traditional country parameters, stick to themes that pertain to actual country people, and still make something that feels new and fresh. Pete Schlegel and J-Town prove you can be traditional, but not be tired. (read review)
Madison Lewis – Back to the Blue
The music of Madison Lewis ranges from primitive country, to authentic blues, to old-time jazz and rag time influences, and is anchored by her billowy voice. Like all great artists are able to do, she understands the mood that her voice evokes, and writes her music and styles it accordingly. Listening to Madison Lewis is a fully-enveloping experience, not requiring any need to suspend disbelief as it transports you to a different time and place. Whenever Madison Lewis is singing, it feels dark outside, and you’re within a dim tavern, taking in the music with other forlorn souls searching for comfort in song. But styling aside, it’s the songwriting which comes across as the most spellbinding in its development for any age.
With Madison Lewis, it almost feels insulting to bring up her age in the context of her music because she’s so skilled and mature. But it also helps enhance the marvel at what she was able to accomplish on Back to the Blue. (read review)
Chris Stapleton – From A Room Vol. 2
Despite all the obvious concerns for the sameness of the music released in such a short period, From A Room: Vol. 2 remains pretty great when taken with an honest assessment. It takes a pretty staunch cynic and hard heart not to hear the distorted kick from Stapleton’s Fender Jazzmaster and his Kentucky coal country yawp at the beginning of “Midnight Train to Memphis” and not get the adrenaline pumping, or feel the steam begin to build around the eyes in the throes of the sincere and sad “Drunkard’s Prayer.”
Chris Stapleton remains a master at his craft. Similar to a magician, perhaps the same tricks tend to get old if you watch them too many times, but that doesn’t make the slight of hand any less deft. You want to take Chris Stapleton for granted? Just go watch Sam Hunt or Thomas Rhett. Is Stapleton not country enough for you? Ditto. How quickly some have lost sight of the time when it was Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line setting all the records and winning all the awards, and just how remarkable it is that Stapleton is receiving this level of recognition, acclaim, and widespread acceptance. And that his talents are quite worthy of it. (read review)
Randy Howard – A Pair of Knees
On June 9th, 2015, country music songwriter and performer Randy Howard made national news, but it wasn’t for his country career he’d spent his entire life cultivating. While laying in bed in his home in Lynchburg, TN, the 65-year-old who was once signed to a major label, and shared the stage with the likes of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Charlie Daniels throughout his country music tenure, was killed by unlicensed bounty hunters who entered his home to serve a bench warrant.
In the months before his death, Randy Howard was working on a Gospel record named A Pair Of Knees after one of his original Gospel compositions. Randy’s career was best known for penning country songs with salty language, and for railing against the Music Row establishment. There was a lot of humor in Randy’s approach to country, but like so many musicians over the years, the demons Randy struggled with in life were real, and he leaned on the strength of Gospel music to help overcome his personal struggles.
In this era of acrid opinions and judgemental mindsets that too often look down at the religious, what is often overlooked is the role that faith and Gospel music can play for some to help give them the strength to persevere over personal issues and hardship. It’s a shame that at a time when Randy Howard was renewing his faith through Gospel music that his life was taken from him in a senseless act over an incidental issue. But it’s also fortunate that his final breaths in music were captured in moments of faith and servitude before he passed on. (read review)
Lost Bayou Ramblers – Kalenda
It’s the forward-thinking textures throughout Kalenda that make it more than just another Cajun record. At times the band is willing to go on ambient journeys not traditionally allowed in the genre, and broach subject matter beyond Cajun’s established borders. Yet it is still so darn traditional and authentic at its heart, it’s hard to characterize it as some version of progressive music. Moving forward while preserving the past—that’s the challenge every roots artist faces, and the one the Lost Bayou Ramblers accomplish admirably on this record.
Kalenda is quite striking, harsh in its tones and message sometimes, and certainly not for everyone. But in a genre lost in time and oft forgotten in popular music, yet so essential as a building block to melodies and modes that bubble up through most all popular music today, a musical journey with the Lost Bayou Ramblers—for those brave enough and willing of spirit—can be a fulfilling, enjoyable trek, however fey some of the twists and turns may feel. (read review)
Sallie Ford – Soul Sick
Once considered rockabilly by some since most of her music carries an old-school backbeat and 50’s styling, it’s probably more relevant now to call Sallie Ford just plain rock, yet with a decidedly strong bent towards vintage modes which allows it to slither right into the soundscape of all old souls looking for something more their speed than the present day noise.
The music of Sallie Ford is endearingly silly, catchy yet smart, cleverly stupid in places, just kitschy enough without overdoing it, and cool in a dorky way. It’s fairly straightforward music with a throwback vibe, and Sallie’s unabashed, sometimes clumsy, yet curiously fetching vocal delivery takes a little warming up to, but ultimately becomes an asset. It’s like a high school band that is extremely good by accident, and you just love to root for because they remind you of your own awkward self. (read review)
Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers – After You’ve Gone
Most great art, regardless of the medium, is the stuff that is able to suspend a deep, roiling human emotion in a captured moment. After You’ve Gone is inspired by the heartbreak of JD Wilkes, and takes a decidedly Shack Shakers approach to extricating the pain from Col. JD’s rib cage in blistering, candid honesty that needs little to no road map to understand its origins. Nine records deep into a career, you can easily question, “What’s next?” Frankly the band’s last album, 2015’s The Southern Surreal felt like “just another” Shack Shakers album. But After You’ve Gone gets personal, and finds the outfit in top form.
This is vintage Shack Shakers in the way the cork is unscrewed, and blood and sweat come shooting out of blues guitar riffs with a punk overdrive, and crazy harmonica runs punctuate punches to the gut. There’s also a surprising amount of piano on this record. JD Wilkes has always been a fearless venturer into the depths of the human id, exorcising what may evidence itself in sidewinding showmanship, but these bursts of energy and expression have exhalations of the spirit behind them that borders on the religious. (read review)
AJ Hobbs – Too Much Is Never Enough
AJ Hobbs has a little more grey in his muzzle than you might expect from someone peddling a debut album, but he’s actually been around for a while, sometimes performing under the pseudonym Cal King. Growing up in a small California desert town, the ghosts of Bakersfield country haunted him from an early age, and hearing all the greats on the radio never left him. After getting married and getting sober, he’s ready give the whole music thing a try, even though an inversion of that plan is usually how these things go in the business.
They say you have your life to write your first album, and there is a lifetime’s worth of stories and experiences in the very personal Too Much Is Never Enough. Adding backup singers and a hot shit band behind him only helps to enhance it all without denting the grease and authenticity of the record. (read review)
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Tell The Devil I’m Getting There As Fast As I Can
Ray Wylie Hubbard says himself on this record that ain’t nobody in the halls of commercial enterprise looking for his style of arcane country folk blues. But that’s okay, it just means more heaping helpings for the rest of us who don’t want to partake in whatever is being served up by the evildoers programming pop culture. Ray Wylie Hubbard is just the type of stripped back, served raw, powerful and potent stuff that true roots music fans seek out.
Complain all day this music is not relevant. But there is a reason acts like Eric Church and The Cadillac Three are name dropping Ray Wylie Hubbard and asking him to share the stage with them. It’s because when you start digging deeper into the modes and styles of American music, you discover crusty old criminally-overlooked guys like Ray infer even the most popular stuff. Ray is the kind of cool everyone wants to be, but few have the cred, stories, and skins on the wall to capture. (read review)
Gregg Allamn – Southern Blood
I don’t know if Gregg Allman’s final album Southern Blood will go on to birth any iconic songs like his efforts with the Allman Brothers did, or even some of his solo stuff like “I’m No Angel” and the second coming of “Midnight Rider.” If nothing else, we get a really great Gregg Allman version of Little Feat’s “Willin”. But nonetheless, Southern Blood makes for just about the perfect epitaph for a legendary man of music. Executed with incredibly-rich tones and compositions, and capturing Gregg’s voice without a single hint of weakness or pain aside from when those emotions that are meant to come through the lyrics, Gregg Allman takes his final bow not with a whimper, but with a resounding exhale.
Gregg Allman’s legacy was well secured before even a note was sung or played on Southern Blood. He didn’t owe us anything more. But like he did for half a century, Gregg Allman delivered, and not just for himself, but for one final hurrah of The Allman Brothers legacy that now has a life of its own, beyond Gregg and Duane, influencing artists, and entertaining fans for many more half centuries to come. (read review)
Wheeler Walker Jr. – Ol’ Wheeler
It was said by many after the release of Wheeler Walker Jr.’s first album Redneck Shit, “Okay, that was fun. But where do you go next?” Give all credit in the world to Ben Hoffman for seeing a gaping hole in the country music market, having the insight and skills to fill it by writing incredibly witty songs, and playing guitar, singing quite well—including recording his own harmonies which isn’t always easy—all while learning how to be a professional musician on the fly. But the problem with joke songs is that just like a joke, you hear the punch line, laugh, and move on. The next question from the audience is, “What else you got for me?”
Wheeler Walker Jr. has an entirely new album’s worth of songs. That’s what he’s got. And he’s got ’em in a pretty short turnaround, and they’re just as funny and wit-filled as the first, if not more. The shock has now worn off, and we know what to expect, yet he still splits your ribs not just from the ribald verbiage, but from the way he uses it—his turn of phrase. (read review)
Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires – Youth Detention
Lee Bains and the Glory Fires don’t do anything half assed, and throwing 17 tracks at you, including six with exclamation points in the titles, Youth Detention is attention getting if nothing else. It’s still more punk than country or roots, yet it’s still immersed very much in the Southern experience. Southern punk rock maybe is the best descriptor, without attempting to box them into anything. They’ll get quiet on you though, and when Lee Bains wants to sing pretty, this is when he can be at his best.
Youth Detention is definitely raw, and in moments constitutes a bellicose racket set to Southern-inflected rock styles. But it’s also expansive, and slightly conceptualized, with some tracks bleeding into others, or certain themes or audio elements becoming recurrent. There’s the shouting and the loud guitars that made Deconstructed so destabilized. But it’s still an infectious and forward-thinking music project with enough Southern ties to at least pay attention to it as a roots fan, and should put Lee Bains and the Glory Fires back on the radar as one of this generation’s foremost Southern rock troupes. (read review)
John Prine – Beyond Words (book)
True to its title, there’s not a lot of verbiage in Beyond Words. Even when Prine adds little notes about pictures or songs, it’s two or three sentences tops.
What Beyond Words does have is some amazing photos of Prine’s career, and not just of Prine himself, but many of the other famous music folks he hobnobbed with over his tenure. There’s Prine with folks like Kristofferson and “Cowboy” Jack Clement of course, but there’s also some unexpected photos, like the picture of John with a very young, and very cute Bonnie Raitt, and an ultra-suave and hungry Tom Waits all hanging out together at the Grand Ole Opry House in 1973 or ’74. It’s photos like these, along the family shots and scans of what would become iconic songs scribbled on pieces of paper that really help put into perspective just what a charmed and storied life Prine has lived. (read review)
Other Albums Receiving a Positive Grade:
Alex Williams – Better Than Myself (read review)
Margo Price – American Made (read review)
Brad Paisley – Love & War (read review)
Kip Moore – Slowheart (read review)
Aaron Watson – Vaquero (read review)
Zac Brown Band – Welcome Home (read review)
Dale Watson & Ray Benson – Dale & Ray (read review)
Blake Shelton – Texoma Shore (read review)
Koe Wetzel – Noise Complaint (read review)
Other Albums Waiting For Review / On The Radar / Worth Checking Out:
The Steel Woods – Straw in the Wind
Eilen Jewell – Down Hearted Blues
David Rawlings – Poor David’s Almanac
Alison Krauss – Windy City
Garry Braddy – His Way Back Home
Grant Malloy Smith – Dust Bowl: American Stories
The White Buffalo – The Darkest Darks, The Lightest Lights
Neon Moon – 6:53
Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys – Long Shot of Hard Stuff
Jeremy Pinnell – Ties of Blood and Affection
The Mavericks – Brand New Day
Radney Foster – For You to See The Stars
Drew Kennedy – At Home in the Big Lonesome
Travis Meadows – First Cigarette
Willie Nelson – Willie and the Boys: Willie’s Stash Vol. 2
Daniel Antopolsky – Old-Timey, Soulful, Hippy-Dippy Flower Child Songs from the Cosmos
Kendell Marvel – Lowdown & Lonesome
Chris Hillman – Bidin’ My Time
Ryan Koenig – Two Different Worlds
Rhiannon Giddens- Freedom Highway
Petunia & The Vipers – Lonesome & Heavy and Lonesome
Gethen Jenkins – Where the Honkytonk Belongs
Jillette Johnson – All I Ever See in You Is Me
Charley Pride – Music in My Heart
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Matsfan/Jatsfan
So much good music; I did not hear a lot of these that Trigger mentioned and a few others didn’t quite make my list. These were my favorites from 2017; obviously not all country:
Turnpike Troubadours – A Long Way From Your Heart
Willie Nelson – God’s Problem Child
Chris Stapleton – From A Room Vol 1 & 2
The Replacements – Live At Maxwell’s 1986
Cheap Trick – Christmas Christmas
Cody Jinks – Less Wise
Jason Isbell – Nashville Sound
Gregg Allman – Southern Blood
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers – Sidelong
Thanks for the great list and the work you do!
Clap clap for The Mats…
Will Hoge’s “Anchors” and Jeremy Pinnell’s “Ties of Blood and Affection”.
No Infamous Stringdusters?
hoptowntiger94
The following is my final, final:
1. Tyler Childers – Purgatory
2. Dead Man Winter – Furnace
3. Hellbound Glory – Pinball
4. Lee Ann Womack – The Lonely, The Lonesome, & The Gone
5. Turnpike Troubadours – A Long Way From Your Heart
6. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – The Nashville Sound
7. Bob Wayne – Bad Hombre
8. Colter Wall – Colter Wall
9. Rod Melancon – Southern Gothic
10. Steve Earle & The Dukes – So You Wannabe An Outlaw
11. Joseph Huber – The Suffering Stage
12. Deer Tick – Deer Tick Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
13. Chris Stapleton – From A Room: Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
14. Lukas Nelson – Promise of the Real
15. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Way Out West
16. Margo Price – All American Made
17. Eric Strickland – Black And White And Blue
18. David Rawlings – Poor David’s Almanack
Many of there are SCM artists. Often times I go to shows and get to talking to the artist/band and they ask how I discovered them and I always reply, “Trig at Saving Country Music.” So, thank you for all your hard work.
Have you ever thought of selling a Saving Country Music t-shirt?
I’m also including my concert rankings for the year (I remember when you did the same in the early years). It got a lot of feedback when I posted it last week (maybe because of the ending) ….
1. Cody Jinks
Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA – June 29, 2017
I didn’t even hear the two songs I most wanted to hear (“Dirt,” “Heavy Load”) and still left satisfied.
2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, PA – June 9, 2017
My last Tom Petty concert.
3. Outlaw Music Fest: Willie Nelson, The Avett Brothers, Sheryl Crow, Blackberry Smoke
Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH – September 15, 2017
Of the three Willie shows, this was the one he played the longest. And the Avett Bros. lit the stage on fire during their only moonlight performance of the run.
4. Old Crow Medicine Show “50 Years of Blonde on Blonde”
Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA – May 30, 2017
It’s no small feat to pull this off – playing an entire Dylan double album in its entirety with an intermission. Even the encore was more Dylan songs (Knockin’ on Heavens Door, Quinn the Eskimo). But OCMS did it and it was wildly entertaining.
5. Farm AID 32: Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Sheryl Crow, Jack Johnson, Nathaniel Rateliff, Jamey Johnson, Avett Brothers, Margo Price, Blackberry Smoke
KeyBank Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA – September 16, 2017
6. Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters
Howlers, Pittsburgh, PA – October 19, 2017
7. Mountain Stage: Margo Price, Solas, Dead Man Winter, The Company Stores, Johnny Fritz
Charleston Civic Center Little Theater, Charleston, WV – February 26, 2017
8. Outlaw Music Festival: Willie Nelson, Van Morrison, Sheryl Crow, The Avett Brothers
Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA – September 10, 2017
This was the dumpiest venue I’ve ever been to for a concert. It’s literally a high school football stadium with high school stadium amenities in the middle of a freaking amusement park.
9. A homeless man humming “Amazing Grace” on Carson Street
10. A kid with a baseball card placed in the spokes of his bicycle riding down Bellecrest Ave.
11. Turnpike Troubadours
The Mill & Mine, Knoxville, Tennessee /April 23, 2017
At least you have a sense of humor regarding concert #11. I do like your album listing, too.
GREAT idea Hoptown ….
Trigger ?……
Saving Country Music does not sell merch, and this is a policy that has been in place from the start. I would rather people spend their money on the bands, artists, live events, and festivals highlighted here as opposed to the middle man. Also, something tells me that as soon as I start stamping my logo on stuff, it will show up being burned in effigy. Going merch free helps keep the site independent.
That said, about 5 or so years ago I traded some work for a small batch of shirts that has been sitting at Saving Country Music headquarters ever since. I may do a short-run sale at some point very soon just to get them out of my hair.
There is a lot of stuff going on behind-the-scenes at the moment, working on shoring up the site for the future, and adding some new features. Stay tuned.
Glad to hear that. Love this site man, not one of the many hours I have spent here have been wasted. Thanks for your work
I get that, but you built a community – or a small army. When I was at Nick Dittmeier, I looked around and wondered how many people in attendance were readers of SCM. It would be a cool way to identify ourselves. Plus, this started off as a movement; enjoy the fruits of your labor!
I think the t-shirts would sell well. It might help offset the cost of maintaining the site. I would proudly wear one.
Triggerman, you know i’m one of the good guys..how much for a 2XL?
Old Brett
I can attest that Hersheypark Stadium is just as dumpy for high school football as it is for a concert.
Nice list, I’ve heard most of these, but I’ve still got a bit of listening to do. Thank you for all your hard work in seeking all this stuff out and also making a list this detailed and comprehensive. Some more albums I can add, for people seeking good music:
Kasey Chambers — Dragonfly
Suzanne Santo — Ruby Red
Nikki Lane — Highway Queen
Crystal Bowersox — Alive
Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters (self-titled)
Rod Melancon — Southern Gothic
Gretchen Wilson — Ready to Get Rowdy (terrible title, but actually a pretty good album)
Glad to see The Steel woods and Charley Pride mentioned up there in the additional albums, as those two also come well recommended.
And I’d further add…
Christian Lopez – ‘Red Arrow’
Ned LeDoux – ‘Sagebrush’
Steelism – ‘Ism’
Charlie Worsham – ‘Beginning of Things’
The Whiskey Gentry – ‘Dead Ringer’
Joey McGee – ‘Terlingua Taproot’
Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers – ‘The Long Awaited Album’
Erin Enderlin – ‘Whiskeytown Crier’
The Whiskey Shivers – ‘Some Part of Something’
BUUUUTTT I don’t want to discount the albums above either 🙂 just throwing more out in the open!
Yes. Erin Enderlin. THANK YOU!
“You Don’t Know Jack” literally brings me to tears each time I listen to it . IMO it is one the THE BEST COUNTRY SONGS EVER WRITTEN . Unfortunately it would up on a Luke Bryan record and I’d bet my firstborn that his fans just would not appreciate how incredible it is .
What a low all caps opinion you have to bet your firstborn on anything to do with country music. But whatever lowercase bert, to each his own.
The Dot
Loved Red Arrow. Christian Lopez is amazing.
Actually, I hit Post Comment and then remembered Sagebrush, Whiskeytown Crier, and dead Ringer, so thanks for adding them 😀 also:
Flatt Lonesome — Silence in These Walls
Beat Crazy
Gretchen Wilson — Ready to Get Rowdy is an Ass kicking release! It has not been getting the cred it deserves.
What about Sweet Southern Sugar by Kid Rock?
I think it was left off the list for a reason.
Obviously you can’t include every good album on this list, or it’d probably be the size of “War And Peace”. However, just for the heck of it:
ECHO CANYON–Alice Wallace: This album got a rave review and rightly so, especially for the title track, a bit of evocative Western imagery in a C&W/rock context, and Alice (sounding a bit like Trisha Yearwood) catching that old-school (Linda Ronstadt/Emmylou Harris) vibe.
STITCH OF THE WORLD–Tift Merritt: This is my album of the year in terms of female artists, and one of the best of 2017 overall. Tift has been my favorite female singer in any genre to come along in this century, and this is confirmed with such tracks as the bluesy twang of “Dusty Old Man”, the country-rock track “Heartache Is An Uphill Climb”, and “Something Came Over Me”.
“Echo Canyon” was just a lead song. I think Allice Wallace is planning to release the record for it in 2018.
I had Tift Merritt’s song “My Boat” on the Top 25 Current Playlist for a good long while. Still may review the album.
My mistake re. Alice Wallace.
Only thing about Tift’s album is that it was released back in January of this year. But please review it, Trigger, if you want to.
KentuckyRON
Trigger have you listened to kyle fields new album?
The Kyle Fields record is on my radar.
I liken him to what Josh Ward was maybe 5 years ago. He’s got a ways to go before being a contender. Just my opinion ion of course.
Forewarning, many of these albums are definitively not country. Still highly recommend.
1. Mutoid Man – War Moans
2. Golden Pelicans – Disciples Of Blood
3. Queens Of The Stone Age – Villains
4. Chris Stapleton – From A Room – Volume 1
5. Mastodon – Emperor Of Sand
6. LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
7. Tyler Childers – Purgatory
8. Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now
9. Thee Oh Sees – Orc
10. The Yawpers – Boy In A Well
11. Dead Cross – Dead Cross
12. Midland – On The Rocks
13. JD McPherson – Undivided Hearth & Soul
14. Turnpike Troubadours – A Long Way From Your Heart
15. Whitney Rose – Rule 62
16. At The Drive-In – Internalia
17. Japandroids – Near To The Wild Heart Of Life
18. Crystal Fairy – Crystal Fairy
19. Spoon – Hot Thoughts
20. St. Vincent – Masseducation
21. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – The Nashville Sound
22. Converge – The Dusk In Us
23. Chris Stapleton – From A Room – Volume 2
24. Sheer Mag – Need To Feel Your Love
25. Ty Segall – Ty Segall
26. Sheer Mag – Compilation LP
EW in DFW
I didn’t know The Yawpers had a new album out. I saw them in Dallas after American Man came out. They were great. So good live that I wished they had not played a few covers because I wanted to hear more of their music.
I know you hate Midland but their “On The Rocks” album should be on the list. Are you doing a separate “mainstream” album list? Regardless of your feelings towards their fabricated backstory, it’s hard to not admit their album was one of the best mainstream releases this year.
Yes, separate mainstream list coming. You’ll just have to wait and see if Midland makes it 🙂 .
VMC_Mike
Straw in the Wind was one of my absolute favorite albums of the past year and I’m very much looking forward to the full review.
Thank you Trigger for all the work you put in this year! I’ve purchased several of these albums after reading your reviews.
Sam Cody
Please. Any essential country list without Beeyonsay on it, is just a joke..
Seriously though, nice list!
steve petrik
Sunny Sweeney’s Trophy is on all kinds of Top 10 lists for 2017 and it’s absent here. Did you just overlook it Trigger, or did you feel like it didn’t make the grade?
I forgot Trophy on my own list above; definitely belongs there. Probably DBT American Band too.
Steve, Trophy was on Trigger’s Album of the Year list…
Well, when I went back and read the rules for this post, I realized it wasn’t on here because it was an Album of the Year contender and on that list. My mistake.
Lots of great stuff here, including some of my faves. 🙂
My top picks (bought or received as gifts):
Rhiannon Giddens, ‘Freedom Highway’
Angaleena Presley, ‘Wrangled’ (just got this on CD for Christmas)
Hurray for the Riff Raff, ‘The Navigator’
Valerie June, ‘The Order of Time’
Chris Stapleton, ‘From A Room,’ vol. 1 and 2
Ray Davies, ‘Americana’
Alison Krauss, ‘Windy City’
Joan Osborne, ‘Songs of Bob Dylan’
Sheryl Crow, ‘Be Myself’ (fun throwback to her ’90s sound)
Others I’ve heard:
Lee Ann Womack, ‘The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone’ (next on my wish list)
The Mavericks, ‘Brand New Day’
Dori Freeman, ‘Letter Never Read’
Rodney Crowell, ‘Close Ties’
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, ‘The Nashville Sound’
Zephaniah Ohora, ‘This Highway’
Jim Lauderdale, ‘London Southern’
Tift Merritt, ‘Stitch of the World’
Natalie Hemby, ‘Puxico’
Margo Price, ‘All American Made’
Randy Hayford
Thank you Trigger for including Richard Lynch’s Mending Fences in this incredible list ! We are honored !
Gethen Jenkins is doing some really good stuff. He has a cover of “When I get my wings” on YouTube and it’s one of the best things I have heard.
My Essential Album List 2017:
Fanny Lumsden – Real Class Act (Australian alt-country artist)
Donna Ulisse – Breakin’ Easy (Award winning Bluegrass Singer/Songwriter…music for the soul)
Richard Lynch – Mending Fences (The best George Strait album never recorded by George Strait)
Gretta Ziller – Queen Of Boomtown (Australian alt-country artist with my Song Of The Year 2017)
Adam Harvey & Beccy Cole – The Great Country Songbook Vol.II (Duets, Duets, Duets)
Rhonda Vincent & Daryle Singletary – American Grandstand (Duets, Duets, Duets)
Liam Kennedy-Clark & Cassi Hilbers – Duo (Duets, Duets….well…Duets)
Tania Kernaghan – All Australian Girl (All-australian country music)
Emily Herring – Gliding (Great artist, great music)
Angus Gill – Nomad (Young aussie with talent & unique voice)
Courtney Lynn – Pretty Things (Some great songs…some not so great songs…one artist i want to hear more in the future)
Tom Curtain – Territory Time (“Never Never Land”!)
James Blundell – Campfire (With a sugar-sweet cover version of Madonnas “True Blue” – a duet with Tania Kernaghan)
Lee Ann Womack – The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone (My album of 2017 & a future classic)
The only albums on Triggers list i have to disagree are Ol’ Wheeler (Wheeler Walker Jr.) & the new Margo Price album. American Made (Margo Price) is a disappointment (maybe THE disappointment of the year) & Ol’ Wheeler…meh.
Dr. Bootsy
Prediction: 2018 list… Jason James’!
Stringbuzz
nice list.
absolutely love the sarah shook album..
Saw her live this year too and that was great.
Another great album, although no new material, but a live set, was the Brandy Clark Live in LA.
Blake Shelton? Positive grade? Is that the album with that ‘fajitas and margaritas’ song on it? Please tell me it’s a misprint!! Otherwise, it’s like People magazine blindly giving faux country bro the ‘sexiest man of the year’. Good lord, I wonder what blind person approved that mess?
In other news – Troubadors should be here, unless they were in contention for AOTY?
One of my favorite releases this year was Red Arrow by Christian Lopez. His first big release was overproduced by Dave Cobb. This year’s was a bit more pop, but had some amazing songs on it, including some that would be right at home at the Opry. Suggest listening to “Still on Its Feet”, which has beautiful lead guitar by Vince Gill, or “All the Time”, which is about choices you make as a young man becoming an adult.
Blake Shelton may have release the best record in the mainstream this year, and I’m not even joking. Every album has a right to a fair trial.
Turnpike Troubadours were nominated for Album of the Year.
Thanks Trigger. I used to like Shelton, but every flipping song sounds the same. So, you didn’t like the fajitas and margaritas song? I feel better about the world now. 🙂
NO, it’s not that Blake Shelton album.
I hate this Shelton album as well, though, have to agree, actually like the album you’re speaking of better in parts.
Don’t insult blind people in that way.
Think I said this elsewhere, but one of the best albums I heard this year was George Jones and The Smokey Mountain Boys, from the 70s but only just released. It’s a complete joy, and absolutely worth picking up if you haven’t already!
J, I agree with you, a really great release from the Possum’s vault that got a lot of airplay at my house.
Here’s one I know isn’t on your radar that’s worth checking out: Lloyd McCarter and the Honky Tonk Revival – Immortal for Now.
A Nebraska-based band that’s heavily influenced by old school honky-tonk.
I agree, I saw them when I was in college at the Community Hall in Cuba, KS. I got their previous album and like what I heard on their new one.
71dude
Band of Heathens – Duende
Blitzen Trapper – Wild & Reckless
Cale Tyson – Careless Soul
Chris Blevins – Better Than Alone
James Carothers – Relapse
Little Steven – Soulfire
Nobody made a better record than Little Steven’s Soulfire. Criminally underrated.
I wish Josh Ritter got more credit. His album “Gathering” was top notch.
ShadeGrown
Scott H Biram – “The Bad Testament”.
Trig, love the list and own a lot of it, thanks to you, so appreciate all the leads on new music… however, I will admit to some disappointment regarding three notable omissions:
Nikki Lane-Highway Queen
Lillie Mae- Forever and Then Some
Hayley Thompson King- Psychotic Melancholia
I am still digging Biscuit’s album of the year, Way Out West. Thanks for your work this year Trig, Happy New Year!
This was my Favorite Albums of 2017 list, not all would be mentioned on SCM, but many were on your AOTY & Essentials list.
1. Ha Ha Tonka – Heart Shaped Mountain
2. The Afghan Whigs – In Spades
3. Richard Edwards – Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset
4. Cory Branan – Adios
5. Jason Isbell – The Nashville Sound
6. John Moreland – Big Bad Luv
7. Old 97’s – Graveyard Whistling
8. Nikki Lane – Highway Queen
9. Knox Hamilton – The Heights
10. The Lone Bellow – Walk Into A Storm
11. Margo Price – All American Made
12. matt pond PA- Still Summer
13. The National – Sleep Well Beast
14. Cody Fry – Flying
15. Andy Suzuki & The Method – The Glass Hour
16. Tyler Childers – Purgatory
Runners-up:
Sarah Shook, Banditos, Drew Holcomb, Dale & Ray, Will Hoge
Wesley Gray
great list! very happy to see Payne and Dori in this post. those are two more of my favorite releases this year. 👍
Ulysses McCaskill
Colter and Eady put out awesome projects this year. Just the other day I heard Eady’s song “Rain”, which if I recall correctly I either didn’t like much at the time I purchased it or simply skipped over without giving it it’s due. I’ve had that song on near-repeat for the last 24-36 hours…the fiddle just gives me goosebumps.
On Colter’s album, I like most of the songs well enough, but it’s the most sparse and simple track “Bald Butte” that takes the cake for me. Something about the way it tells a story plus the fact that it sounds so hauntingly old fashioned and authentic. Makes you feel like you’re in the old west.
Then you mentioned Justin Payne. I got acquainted with him through W.B. Walker’s radio show. That last track on the Coal Camp EP called “The Mines” has been on that same repeat loop with Eady’s Rain for a couple days now. I can thank an old episode of WB Walker’s show for introducing me to that one and reintroducing me to “Rain”.
Damn I love country music and the folks who work their asses off (like Trigger and WB) to bring it to the attention of regular folks like us.
Love Country Music
Hey Trigger, I’d like to see you do an album review over Teea Goans’ “Swing Shuffle and Sway” album! She’s a great new traditionalist! I’d like to see promotion in her music her as well!
Wow this is a very comprehensive list of artists and albums from 2017. If only this was the pool of artists that was being played on country radio instead of the current stuff.
Dustin Kennedy
The White Buffalo’s “Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights” is awesome. His whole discography is terrific and worth checking out if you really like good songwriting driven by heavy acoustic guitar. The White Buffalo definitely deserves more exposure.
I’ll add one more that Trigger told us was coming, and I really like:
Porter and the Bluebonnett Rattlesnakes: It’s Gonna Get Weird Without You
Obviously released after Chris Porter’s tragic death. He sounds so much like Mike Cooley of DBT and I have always loved Cooley’s voice.
Mike Blackwell
Great list, Trigger, and my utmost thanks for you opening my eyes to so much incredible new music this year. Shinyribs, Furnace, Robyn Ludwick and many of the others above were off my radar until you introduced me. I’m also a huge J.D. fan and can’t say enough good things about UNDIVIDED HEART AND SOUL. Just wondering, though, who specifically you refer to in your comment about East Nashvillians with the horn sections and retro-soul commercial sounds. I have somebody in mind, with mixed feelings about his work, but his paychecks are coming from a company not named Apple or The Gap. Happy 2018 and keep up the solid writing.
George Ross
A forgotten gem, their second album, the self-entitled Tattletail Saints. All original songs, Cy Winstanley, who does all the writing, and Vanessa McGowan, who adds vocals and bass, have a folk-country feel. My favorites: Little Richard Is Alive Well in Nashville, TN 🎹🎼Seabird 🐦 Sonoma County Wine 🍷 and Kathleen 👧.
eckiezZ
My Essentials playlist keeps growing.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9x40WkKYiAQ-p9vUmYk9DoZ_DyNBSuIe
I suggest that anyone who loves Americana check out Black Irish by Shannon McNally. Produced by Rodney Crowell. It hits all the bases. Blues, R&B, Country, Rockabilly and straight ahead Rock N Roll. Shannon is a superior singer and every song is dripping with soul.
Lazydawg
I learn something every time I come to this website. Thanks for the list. Two of the artists are right here in my back yard, Strickland from Four Oaks (Johnston County is full of great musicians) and Shook from Pittsboro. I hadn’t heard of either until I started following SCM. After reading about Shook I was over at the home of a great friends son and low and behold he had Shook on the turntable!
WINDY CITY- Alison Kraus did the unthinkable
She made the best damn country album of the year.
I’ve played “I Never Cared For You” over 600 Times.
Vaquero and Womack have also been highlights this year
When the drums began the song had to come to an end
I remember when Scott H Biram was a big deal around here
The Deslondes are the most under rated band out there. Those guys are incredible and their album Hurry Home should be on this list.
Chris Lewis "Louie"
If anyone is interested. Here is a youtube playlist of my favorite music videos from 2017. This includes most of the artists included in this list and some others I felt are missed. Most of this is country/Americana but does include some Americana, Texas/Red Dirt, Bluegrass, Blues, and some rock.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH3NKsB1DGwVX7HOn04pX5TReLMXxAKHf
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“It was a good passage of play that saw us get the goal. We couldn’t have done it a lot more than we did – especially in the first-half. It was a good cross by Shaun, good awareness by Scott to pick out Josh.
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Misuse of SMSF funds sees adviser convicted
Miranda Brownlee
19 June 2018 — 1 minute read
After a history of non-compliance, a former financial adviser has been convicted for engaging in dishonest conduct with investor funds, including money from SMSFs.
In a public statement, ASIC stated that former financial adviser Gabriel Nakhl has been convicted in the District Court of New South Wales on 8 June 2018 on eight charges brought by ASIC of engaging in dishonest conduct with investor funds.
Mr Nakhl, of Illawong, NSW, pleaded guilty to being knowingly engaged in dishonest conduct in relation to 12 investors, ASIC said.
ASIC stated the conduct occurred between March 2009 and March 2011 when Mr Nakhl was an authorised representative of Australian Financial Services Limited, now in liquidation, and from about March 2011 to about September 2013 when he was the sole director of SydFA Pty Ltd, now in liquidation.
In November 2013, ASIC accepted an enforceable undertaking from Mr Nakhl after it identified concerns that Mr Nakhl gave unauthorised financial product advice and gave financial product advice without a reasonable basis.
The investigation also found that Mr Nakhl made false and misleading statements and engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct, including making statements about the returns clients could expect and the risks of the investments he promoted.
“Specifically, Mr Nakhl advised some clients, including those in self-managed superannuation funds, to advance money to him so that he could invest it in a high-interest rate account on their behalf and pay them a fixed return,” ASIC said in an earlier statement.
“ASIC is concerned Mr Nakhl instead spent the money, among other things, on his private sports car and motorbike hire business and himself.”
ASIC deputy chairman Peter Kell said Mr Nakhl “breached the trust many investors placed in him”.
“Setting up an SMSF is one of the most significant steps an investor can take, and where an individual or company’s conduct unlawfully puts that investment at risk, ASIC will take action.”
Miranda Brownlee is the deputy editor of SMSF Adviser, which is the leading source of news, strategy and educational content for professionals working in the SMSF sector.
Since joining the team in 2014, Miranda has been responsible for breaking some of the biggest superannuation stories in Australia, and has reported extensively on technical strategy and legislative updates. Miranda has also directed SMSF Adviser's print publication for several years.
Miranda also has broad business and financial services reporting experience, having written for titles including Investor Daily, ifa and Accountants Daily.
You can email Miranda on: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Last Updated: 19 June 2018 Published: 19 June 2018
Written by Miranda Brownlee
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September 14, 2019 David
Man Utd., Premier League
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Unimpressed With Manchester United Win
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer delivered an honest assessment of his Manchester United side after a crucial win against Leicester City. Marcus Rashford’s eighth-minute penalty eased the pressure on the Norwegian and lifted his side into the top four.
But United’s manager admitted a 1-0 was far from convincing against a Leicester side that dominated possession for long periods at Old Trafford.
Solskjaer said: “Let’s not kid ourselves, we didn’t play a great game. The first 25 minutes were fantastic, but we gradually lost control. Then towards the end we were in control.
“Today was probably the first time this season, apart from spells against Chelsea, where we’ve had to defend as a team for longer periods, so the clean sheet is pleasing.
“We don’t get carried away when we win a game we didn’t deserve to win because performances have been miles better than this.
“Today we have to accept three points and tomorrow relax a bit and look forward to next week.”
Leicester were widely tipped to take advantage of a United team missing Paul Pogba, Anthony Martial, Jesse Lingard and Luke Shaw.
Victory would have seen Brendan Rodgers’ side open up a six-point lead of their hosts.
Despite being critical of United’s performance, Solskjaer hailed the attitude of his players.
“I think you can say team spirit, character and trusting our principles (were there). Sometimes you play against teams that give you problems and we rode the game out well.
“In the end performances don’t give you points if you don’t score goals.
“If Leicester had won we’d have been too far behind. With a win at least we’re in there and not having to put our minds in doubt on whether we are we doing the right things. The boys will get loads of confidence today.”
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S&Ds put consumer interests first in collective redress vote
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For several years, and following harmful scandals such as Dieselgate, the S&D Group in the European Parliament has championed the need to improve consumer rights through an EU-wide system of collective redress.
Today’s vote will make the S&Ds’ hard-fought position a reality. Throughout the EU, regardless of where somebody lives or where defective products were bought, consumers will be able to come together to take collective legal action.
Lara Wolters MEP, S&D spokesperson on collective redress, said:
“The S&D Group has always been committed to putting consumer interests first and today’s vote will mark a major step forward taking consumer protection to levels that go beyond national borders. With the new laws, we have made sure consumers all over Europe have access to justice, with people being able to join forces and seek EU-wide redress for harm done by big companies.
"We have made sure that passenger rights violations, for instance due to delays or poor service, are not left off the hook either. Despite fierce resistance from national and industry interests, we managed to get passenger rights fully in the scope of this law."
Tiemo Wölken MEP, S&D spokesperson on legal affairs, said:
“This landmark legislation on collective redress is about putting consumers first. People that have suffered at the hands of rule-breaking companies will now have access to a collective redress throughout the entire EU. The new rules also mean member states will need to dismantle any barriers that consumer representation bodies might face, like limited financial resources, so that consumers are not prevented from joining forces either at home or across national borders.
“Increased transparency is always important and people need to know they are not alone in fighting for their rights. That is why we pushed to guarantee all information on ongoing collective actions is publicly available for everyone to see.”
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No picture or TV displays a NO SIGNAL message
There are a variety of reasons your TV doesn't display a picture or receive a signal. The most common reasons are listed below:
IMPORTANT: Check if your TV operates normally after completing each step. Refer to the supplied manual for model-specific information.
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An Audio/Video source device may not be connected properly:
No picture on the TV when connected to an Audio/Video (A/V) device.
Rescan the active channels if your TV is using direct cable or an over-the-air antenna.
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If you are using a satellite receiver, or other set-top box, your TV must be set to the base channel, which is Channel 3 or 4. After your TV displays a signal, use the remote control of the connected device to change the programs.
The connected device may be turned off or in standby mode. Turn the device on.
The selected channel may not be live or the media playing may be blank. Change the channel or try a different input device or movie.
The received signal may be weak.
If your TV uses an over-the-air antenna, you may need to adjust the antenna to improve the signal quality.
If your TV uses a cable or satellite box, you may need to contact your service provider for further assistance in improving the signal strength.
An optional distribution amplifier may help improve a weak signal. Visit your local electronics retailer for more information or to purchase a distribution amplifier.
The steps above should resolve the issue. If the problems persist, repair may be required. Go to Product Repair.
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Human Spaceflights
Earth Views from Space Station Star in Stunning Time-Lapse Video
By Miriam Kramer 13 December 2013
Astronauts have beamed down their views of the Earth from the International Space Station for years, but a new video shows their unique sights in a new light. David Peterson crafted the video, called "The World Outside My Window," using photography captured by astronauts on the space station and set it to music. The result: A beautiful and occasionally emotional depiction of what Earth looks like from above.
Peterson treats his audience to some of the most stunning shots ever taken from the station including a time-lapse of the entire Earth turning below the cupola — a huge window that gives space station residents a panoramic view of the planet. He also incorporates some images of lightning flashing in clouds over the surface of the planet. Some of former space station astronaut Don Pettit's images are on display as well as a great shot of Comet Lovejoy above Australia about two minutes into the two minute and 30 second clip. [Photos: Exquisite Star Trails Captured by Astronaut Don Pettit]
This isn't Peterson's first time using footage from the International Space Station. In 2011, he crafted another two minute and 30 second video titled "All Alone in the Night" that uses imagery of Earth at night as seen from the station. That video "highlighted night sequences and spectacular aurora light shows and intended to give a feeling of flying through space," Peterson said in a description.
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'Bumblebee gravity' could explain why the universe is expanding so quickly
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Speak Up Campaign
Supporting Perin’s call for ‘a line in the sand’
NSW Nationals’ Senator Perin Davey has been described as “possibly the last hope” for achieving balanced water policy that support the region’s food producers.
Senator Davey has called for an investigation into “how to better manage our precious resources so we can get more sustainable outcomes for farmers without compromising and environment and vice versa”.
Speak Up Campaign deputy chairman Lachlan Marshall, who has had recent discussions with Senator Davey, said it was imperative that she keeps up the fight on behalf of struggling food producers in her region.
“Senator Davey last week highlighted concerns from the Independent Social and Economic Panel which has found river communities are suffering. We have had numerous other reports calling for changes to the Basin Plan, yet they keep falling on deaf ears.
“We have no doubt the Murray-Darling Basin Authority is desperately trying to save its very existence, but this organisation is not implementing the fair and balanced Basin Plan that we were promised. We were told it would be flexible and adaptive, but that is certainly not the case.
“We welcome the support from Senator Davey and we understand that it will be extremely difficult for her to convince National Party colleagues that they must start standing up for our communities.
“But I think she is probably our last hope,” Mr Marshall said.
He added it was obvious our reason was not going to get support from Liberal Party Member for Farrer Sussan Ley, who is content to toe the party line rather than cause disruption and call out the Basin Plan for the disaster that it is.
“Nor do we expect support from former Water Minister David Littleproud, who has let us down in the past.
“It is quite obvious to this point that new Water Minister Keith Pitt lacks an understanding of the complex water issue, so we are hoping Senator Davey can bring him to this region for a visit that allows time to talk with our local organisations and discuss the solutions we know exist.
“Senator Davey has a long history in water policy and management and probably more knowledge in this area that all her parliamentary colleagues combined, so they need to take note of what she is saying.
“We need the problems solved, however for this to be achieved we must have a Commonwealth Government with the courage to admit that the Basin Plan’s implementation has not gone well, with many unintended consequences, so change is necessary.
“As Senator Davey said last week, it’s time to ‘draw a line in the sand’, and we must ‘support all of those communities’ along the river system.
“We are relying on Senator Davey to convince her parliamentary colleagues that the ‘line in the sand’ must be drawn immediately, before more damage to these communities. The starting point should be adopting the Productivity Commission recommendation and splitting up the MDBA. We need to scrap this organisation and start again, demanding that our bureaucrats protect the nation’s food producing interests,” Mr Marshall said.
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How Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease Causes Pain and Other Symptoms
By John Shim, MD, FACS
When a cervical disc starts losing hydration and stiffening, there are several ways in which neck pain and associated symptoms can develop. Here are the common ones.
Pain from a Degenerating Disc
Most people who have a disc tear do not experience pain from it. The exact reason is unknown, but most experts suspect it has something to do with how the disc’s innervation and pain sensory can vary from person to person. For example, some people might have nerves that naturally go deeper into the disc, while some people might simply have a higher threshold for sensing pain.
When a degenerating disc causes neck pain, it is likely from one or both of the following:
Discogenic pain. This pain occurs in the disc itself and can range from mild to severe. The disc’s gel-like interior, called the nucleus pulposus, contains proteins that can cause painful inflammation if they come in contact with nerves located in the outer layer of the disc.
In a healthy adult cervical disc, nerves only go into the outer third of the disc’s protective outer layer, called the annulus fibrosus. However, if the disc’s outer layer gets a tear, then nerves can start to grow deeper into the disc in an attempt to heal itself. The soft inner portion of the disc can leak into the outer rings and come into contact with the small nerves, which can become painful. Some studies have even shown nerves growing all the way into the center of the nucleus pulposus in a painful disc that had gone through significant degeneration.
Micro-motion instability. When the disc’s tough outer layer wears down and no longer provides adequate shock absorption and stability, the vertebrae above and below the disc may move more than usual and surrounding muscles can go into painful spasms in an attempt to limit that abnormal movement.
Pain from a degenerating disc can range anywhere from a dull ache to something so intense that it limits movement and activities. In most cases, the pain will subside within a few weeks or months as chemical inflammation of the disc material starts to subside, and/or the disc stabilizes into it new stable position.
See Causes of Degenerative Disc Disease Pain
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Other Conditions Associated with a Degenerating Disc
Cervical degenerative disc disease is often present with other spinal conditions, either developing at the same time or in some cases one causes the other. Some common examples include:
Herniated Cervical Disc. A degenerating disc can have its nucleus wedge into tears in the annulus fibrosus. If the nucleus pulposus eventually passes through the annulus fibrosus, then the disc is considered herniated.
Conversely, a traumatic injury, such as a fall, or other issues could cause a herniated disc that eventually speeds up the disc’s degeneration and leads to cervical degenerative disc disease.
Cervical osteoarthritis. As the disc degenerates and the disc space within the vertebral column starts to collapse, the facet joints may abnormally move or sublux and cause wear of the cartilage, as well as develop bone spurs in the neck.
See Cervical Osteoarthritis (Neck Arthritis)
Cervical spinal stenosis. This condition occurs when there is a narrowing of the spinal canal (where the spinal cord runs through) or foramina (where the spinal nerve runs through), due to bone spurs, as described in the arthritis scenario above.
As an example, disc degeneration could eventually lead to osteoarthritis, which could eventually lead to spinal stenosis. For some patients, they are born with a congenital form of cervical stenosis and do not need to have disc degeneration to develop symptoms.
Watch Cervical Spinal Stenosis Video
Radicular pain may be a symptom of several conditions that occur in the cervical spine, including a herniated disc, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, and osteoarthritis.
Cervical radiculopathy—symptoms of pain, tingling, numbness, and/or weakness radiating down the shoulder into the arm and hand—can result when one or more of the neck’s spinal roots becomes pinched or irritated. For example, a herniated disc or bone spur could pinch a nerve root in the C6-C7 segment that might cause weakness in the triceps and forearms, wrist drop, and altered sensation in the middle fingers or fingertips.
See What Is Cervical Radiculopathy? and C6-C7 Treatment
If the spinal cord at the neck level becomes compressed by spinal stenosis, such as from bone spurs or a disc bulge, then myelopathy can develop. Possible symptoms of pain, tingling, numbness, and/or weakness could be felt at that level in the neck and anywhere below. For example, a person could have tingling or weakness in the legs, balance problems, or even difficulty with bowel and bladder control.
It is important to get a medical evaluation if there are symptoms of myelopathy, as the condition may progress and without treatment it is possible to eventually develop paralysis of multiple limbs and body functions.
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Business Cricket
Match-fixing Ashraful: “Please all forgive me”
Bangladesh batsman and former captain Mohammad Ashraful has admitted to fixing cricket games and has asked for forgiveness after the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) suspended him.
ECB proposes to host county cricket overseas
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is reportedly proposing to host county cricket overseas in March to avoid a busy schedule and early-season weather issues.
Two top BCCI officials resign
Two top Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) officials, honorary secretary Sanjay Jagdale and treasurer Ajay Shirke, have resigned from their posts in the wake of the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing and betting scandals.
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Sri Lanka Cricket scores record sponsorship deal
Dialog Axiata has sealed a three-year deal with Sri Lanka Cricket, representing the country’s biggest sponsorship deal, according to the Daily Financial Times newspaper.
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2019 Cricket World Cup venues limited to ten slots
Venues across England and Wales will be competing for ten available hosting slots following yesterday's award of the 2019 Cricket World Cup to the region.
Kent’s historic home to change name under Shepherd Neame deal
Kent County Cricket Club has agreed a naming rights deal with Shepherd Neame to rebrand its home ground.
Sreesanth proclaims spot-fixing innocence
Arrested Rajasthan Royals cricketer S. Sreesanth has proclaimed his innocence, despite reports last week of the bowler admitting to spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Pune Warriors pull out of IPL
Sahara Group-owned Pune Warriors has withdrawn from the scandal-hit Indian Premier League (IPL), following a dispute over franchise fees.
ECB unveils ambitious initiative
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has today unveiled plans to develop the game at all levels through its Champion Counties initiative.
Royals bowlers appear in court
Rajasthan Royals bowlers S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan will appear in court today over spot-fixing allegations.
Indian government plans match-fixing law
The Indian government is planning to pass legislation that will enforce a heavy penalty for match-fixing, following the Indian Premier League (IPL)’s recent spot-fixing cricket scandal.
Rajasthan Royals cricketers admit spot-fixing – report
Rajasthan Royals bowlers S. Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan have confessed to spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League, according to a Delhi police official.
Cricket Australia denies Tait spot-fixing
Cricket Australia (CA) has defended paceman Shaun Tait against claims that he was involved in the recent sport-fixing scandal that has come to light in the Indian Premier League.
Three IPL players arrested for suspected spot-fixing
Former India test bowler, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, and two other players have been arrested by Delhi police today on suspicion of spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
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Since its founding, Assembledge+ has been pursuing an architecture that is driven by a commitment to collaboration and craftsmanship with the goal of creating enduring environments that are user-focused, innovative, and sustainable. Following in the tradition of Southern California modernist design, the practice seeks to create elegant and seamless connections between indoor and outdoor spaces, establishing a program that integrates aesthetic and contextual imperatives.
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Remembering Star Trek Stuntman Kim Robert Koscki, 1964-2014
StarTrek.com Staff
StarTrek.com is saddened to report the death of veteran stuntman and stunt coordinator Kim Robert Koscki, who passed away on October 9 as a result of injuries suffered several days earlier in a non-work-related motorcycle accident. Koscki, who was 50, doubled Ethan Phillips in Star Trek: First Contact and Jeffrey Combs in the Enterprise episodes "The Andorian Incident," "United" and "The Aenar." He also appeared as an Andorian officer in the "Babel One" episode of Enterprise and played a Starfleet official who was visible in the attack sequence on the Daystrom Conference Room -- and resulting group stunt -- in Star Trek Into Darkness.
In addition to his Star Trek work, Koscki's many other credits included The Lost Boys, Hook, Forrest Gump, all three Austin Powers movies (as Mike Myers' double), Contact, Ghosts of Mars, Lost, Piranha 3D, Sonny with a Chance, Olympus Has Fallen, True Blood and the upcoming films Loaded and The Grounds. He was working on Wizardream, a sci-fi film starring Malcolm McDowell (Soran in Star Trek Generations), at the time of his accident.
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South Korea's quiet #MeToo trailblazer embraces tough fight
Ms Seo Ji-hyun was repeatedly groped by a senior colleague at the funeral of another co-worker's father.PHOTO: AFP
Sep 27, 2018, 11:33 am SGT
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SEOUL (AFP) - The woman who started South Korea's #MeToo movement has a shy demeanour and a whispery voice, but Ms Seo Ji-hyun's actions have had a resounding impact on the lives of her countrywomen.
A prosecutor in Seoul, Ms Seo was repeatedly groped by a senior colleague at the funeral of another co-worker's father.
After she complained, she suffered years of career setbacks in an institution that is traditionalist even by the South's conservative standards.
Finally she went public with a tearful live television interview in January, her voice trembling as she defied convention to detail her experiences.
An unprecedented move in a society where patriarchal values remain deeply ingrained despite economic and technological advances, Ms Seo's courage opened the floodgates.
Countless South Korean women have since come forward to accuse powerful figures in the arts, education, politics and religion of rape and other sexual misconduct.
The disgraced figures include a former presidential contender, a top film director who has swept awards worldwide, actors well known across Asia and a widely respected poet regularly nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature.
Her professional role had made her situation even more humiliating, Ms Seo, 45, told AFP in a rare foreign media interview.
"It felt so shameful that as a prosecutor whose job is to seek justice, I could not even speak out about this criminal act," she said.
"I couldn't bear it any more. When I decided to speak out on TV - which amounts to social suicide - I was ready to resign and become a recluse for the rest of my life."
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Ms Seo's story exemplifies the plight of many South Korean women - well-educated and hard-working, yet discriminated against and mistreated by their employers - as well as their frustration at the slow pace of social change.
Even though South Korean women generally outscore men at school and in the entry-level job market, the country consistently ranks at the bottom of OECD surveys on gender pay gaps or female presence in senior positions.
Many women have experienced workplace sexual harassment, but those who speak out are often castigated for "causing a stir", marginalised, and sometimes fired.
Ms Seo's case showed that even an elite prosecutor was no exception.
She regularly faced verbal or physical harassment by bosses or male colleagues after joining the prosecution agency in 2004, she said.
After the groping at the funeral, Ms Seo consulted senior prosecutors who promised to persuade the man she accused, Mr Ahn Tae-geun, to apologise personally.
The apology never came. Instead, Ms Seo was reprimanded and reassigned to a relatively junior position in distant Tongyeong, a small town on the country's south coast, despite having previously received ministerial awards for her performance.
Suspecting Mr Ahn might be behind the move, she lodged a series of formal complaints, only to be scolded for rattling the agency, a deeply hierarchical organisation where loyalty is highly valued.
Women account for 30 per cent of prosecutors, but occupy only eight per cent of senior positions at the agency, and a government survey this year showed 70 per cent of female prosecutors had reported experiencing sexual harassment or abuse.
Most stayed silent because they feared professional setbacks.
More widely, a survey by the Korea Women Workers' Association showed nearly 65 per cent of women who complained about workplace harassment suffered damage to their careers.
It took Ms Seo - who is married with one son - eight years to muster the bravery to go public.
Afterwards, she said, "many women thanked me, saying they took courage from my move because my case made them realise that it was not their fault that they could not dare to speak out after being abused - it was society's fault."
Ms Seo's television interview triggered an outpouring of support for her as well as a deluge of accusations by other women.
Mr Ahn - who was separately fired for corruption last year - could not be charged with sex abuse because the one-year statute of limitations had expired.
However, he was indicted for abuse of power, accused of using his position to pressure senior prosecutors to reassign Ms Seo to a junior position in revenge.
He denies the sexual abuse accusations, maintaining he was too drunk to remember what happened at the 2010 funeral, and a verdict in his closely watched trial is expected later this year.
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In other cases, victims have been shamed for coming forward and subjected to vicious personal attacks.
Former presidential contender Ahn Hee-jung was acquitted last month of repeatedly raping a female aide with the court saying she had not shown "victim-like" behaviour because she had not quit the job.
One of the politician's male aides was recently caught posting more than 1,000 anonymous online diatribes against the woman.
Ms Seo has not been exempt from paying what she describes as "a hefty price for speaking out".
She has been on sick leave since the television interview and does not expect ever to return to the prosecutor's office.
"But I don't regret what I did," she said. "The long history of blaming, shaming and muzzling victims of sex abuse - instead of perpetrators - should stop here, now."
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by Digital Muse on December 15th 2012, 7:27 pm
“Look, I’m not doing this.” Jubal Lazarre, better known as Entropy, whispered harshly to his companions. He roughly brushed his light brown hair back from his eyes. “I never signed on for something like this.” The imposing wall of the bank building just across the alley from their hiding place seemed to loom above them.
A rough hand shoved Jublal’s shoulder. “Shut the hell up. You’re the one that came to me for a score.” The hand shoved him again, “Now move your ass or else.” The voice was low and hard.
Jubal glared at Slick, a gap-toothed ganger only a couple years older than Jubal was. He looked hunched in his black leather jacket that was several sizes too big for him. “Or else what?” Jubal snarled. “Did you forget who you’re talking to?”
Slick’s lips pulled back into a feral grin, “No, I didn’t, Freak. And I didn’t forget where you live, neither.”
The pair stared at one another for what seemed like an eternity before one of the other 3 gangster wannabes swore. “Both you bitches shut up and move. We’re running out of time.”
Jubal looked away first, That sunuvabitch threatened my family. He cursed under his breath. Aloud, he hissed, “This ain’t over, Slick.” His threat was met with a contemptuous snort. Looking around the deserted street, Jubal didn’t see any cars or stray pedestrians, so he headed across the alley to the First Chicago Bank and Trust. On the bank’s east wall there was a gap of 3 feet between it and the café next to it. Jubal worked himself into the gap and about 15 feet in he stopped and looked back at his companions. Buddah would never fit into the gap, the kid weighted upwards of 400 pounds. So he’d been set with the task of keeping watch from across the alley.
Slick and Devon squeezed into the tiny space between the buildings behind Jubal. “Alright. We’re in and out. Let’s just get this over with.” Jubal said and lifted his hand to place his palm flat against the brick of the wall. A dark nimbus of energy formed around his hand and almost instantly the brick began to crumble and turn to dust. Very quickly, the palm-size hole in the wall grew to almost 4 feet in diameter. Jubal puffed out a small breath and the energy surrounding his hand changed from a nebulous black to a vibrant orange. Creaking was heard as the decaying of the bricks stopped and the crumbled edges turned dark and slick-looking. Jubal peeked inside, but saw nothing in the dim interior. “Looks clear.” He whispered.
Jubal was about to pull back when he was shoved roughly again. “Get your ass inside. You’re not done yet.” Slick growled.
Jubal shoved Slick’s offending hand away, “Get your hands off me, Slick.” Again the pair stared each other down until the other two gangers swore and pushed past Slick and Jubal to crawl through the hole in the bank’s wall. Jubal followed and then Slick joined them. The beams of their flashlights flicked around the office they found themselves in and the 4 slipped to the door to peer out to the lobby. No one was in sight, so Slick shouldered past the others and stalked out toward the vault.
Following behind Slick, Jubal and the other two gang members headed toward the huge, old-fashioned steel vault door. They all parted to allow Jubal access to the huge door. Rather than moving to the massive door, Jubal went to the wall beside it instead. “What the hell are you…?” Slick started. Jubal held up a hand to silence him. “That door is probably 3 feet thick. The wall isn’t.”
Seething, Slick fell quiet. Jubal placed his palm flat against the wall and as before, it became engulfed in a black energy. The drywall disappeared nearly instantly. The steel behind it, however, took much longer to effect. Rust appeared on the surface, then it became pitted and the pits grew into holes which eventually spread to connect together. It took 3 minutes to see through to the vault. Jubal kept his head bent and poured more energy into the hole, expanding it little by little.
Slick and the other 2 gang-bangers fidgeted and grew anxious as the minutes passed. Suddenly, a man in the uniform of a security guard appeared from down the hallway on his usual route through the building. For the briefest moment, the guard and the gangsters simply stared in shock at one another. Slick recovered first and hauled a 9 mm from the back waistband of his jeans and simply fired. The guard went down hard, crying out in pain. Without even stopping, Slick marched up to the prone guard and fired down at him 4 more times, killing him.
The other two gangers started shouting at once. “What the hell, man!”
“Where’d he come from? We gotta get the hell out of here!”
“You didn’t say nothin’ about no gun, man!”
Jubal had jerked reflexively when the gun had gone off, his hold on his entropic powers flickering out instantly. Standing away from the wall of the vault, he stared wide-eyed at the guard whose blood continued to spread in a pool around his body. “Oh my god” Jubal whispered in shock. In a sudden rage, Jubal rushed forward meaning to grab Slick and beat him senseless.
Slick sensed things were getting out of hand and he whipped the gun up, hammering Jubal across the temple with it and dropping him to the floor, dazed. He crouched next to Jubal and growled at him, “You listen to me, you freak. You say a word about this, your family gonna die. You hear?” Slick shoved Jubal’s head harshly to the floor and turned to his friends, “Let’s get the hell out of here. Leave this bitch here.” Slick and the other two gangers raced for the hole in the wall and disappeared into the night.
Jubal lay on the floor dazed and bleeding from a slight cut at his temple. His mind was screaming for him to move, to run. But, his body seemed too heavy and his limbs didn’t seem to work right. Eventually he pushed himself to his feet and staggered to the hole in the wall, practically falling through it. Pressing himself against the opposite wall, he staggered toward the alley as fast as his wobbly legs would carry him.
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by Mist on December 16th 2012, 12:04 pm
Max pulled his rebuilt blue 1975 Camaro up behind Slick's black 1989 Chevrolet Caprice. All of his group and the newbie, Jubal, exited the vehicle. Just why she had gotten mixed with the group, she didn't know. She supposed part of it was a lack of knowing where to go in life. She knew Mr. Khan, her foster father, wouldn't want this for her. But she didn't want him to die, either. Slick and his cohorts walked over to the structure to begin their attempt to break into the facility while Max and Amy stayed outside looking for any sign of cops or trouble.
"Think he's gonna pull it off?" Amy asked Max who kept his hands on the wheel. She reached into the pocket on his flannel shirt for a bent cigarette and put it in her mouth. Grasping a lighter out of the cup holder on the vehicle, she put it up to the end of the cigarette and lit it, coaxing the embers to grow with her breath. Max frowned before responding.
"If he doesn't, that's why you're here." he replied. Amy looked to him with a glare with her icy blue eyes behind her long black bangs. She didn't like being used by Slick for her powers. The guy was always looking for an easy way to get what he wanted. Pretty soon, more metahumans like her were bound to show up.
"That's not gonna happen." Amy snarled as she turned her face towards the building they were breaking into. Seems the boy was as useful as he stated. She let the cigarette roll to the left side of her mouth as she inhaled another breath.
"What else ya think yer here for? Stealin' smokes?" Max taunted. "Eye Candy?" He continued, reaching his arm over and moving in on her. A lightning quick hand sprang up and chopped him in the neck, causing him to gag. She didn't even turn around to see where she was aiming the swing, she just knew. Max struggled to gasp breaths of air, as Amy continued to watch the group get into the structure. They were now out of sight. Turning to Max, he looked like he had something he wanted to say, but it just took a few seconds before it came.
"The hell you do that for! Now yer in trouble." Max put his foot on the seat and attempted to throw himself on her. It didn't take a rocket scientist to realize what he was after. She could have used her powers but she didn't really have to. Her elbow jabbed him in the eye, causing him to stop dead in his tracks. She shifted her body to allow her legs freedom to kick him in the face again, causing him to reel back into the driver-side door. Using the toe of her boot, she opened the handle as Max fell out of the vehicle. She hopped over to the driver seat and closed the door behind him, locking it.
Max sprang up to his feet with his hand over his eye. Amy gave him a grin with her teeth clenching the burning cigarette. He then stormed off to Slick's car. He didn't want to deal with her anymore, which suited her just fine. A gunshot rang in the Chicago Bank and Trust. She didn't think he would use the gun. She stared as they all ran out and into Slick's car. Except the newbie, Jubal, wasn't with them. Slick's car took off, seems they didn't even get anything. It was over too quick. She waited a few moments to see what would happen. Sure enough, Jubal came stumbling out of the opening he had made with blood streaming down his forehead. Amy started the car up, put the Camaro in first gear and pulled it up to block Jubal's path to the alleyway.
"Get in." She said, with cop sirens echoing in the distance. It wouldn't be long before they came.
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by Forceaus on December 17th 2012, 12:05 am
Little by little and day by day the recent string of complete lack of stability in his everyday life were starting to bother him quite a bit.John was never spoiled or uptight in the slightest.In fact he was usually well adapted into dealing with situations when they arise.The thing was though that he always before had something consistent to fall back on.Recently however he did not feel like he had anything.Normal life was just plain chaotic as best, his ventures into being a superhero were getting out of control and it was hard.
Here and now in Chicago he was.A midwestern metropolis he had been too on only three previous occasions.Each one rather short.The longest was a mere two weeks.He had arrived just yesterday and within hours of doing so got into a brief scuffle with a couple of would be gangsters.The situation he developed with them had barely not become an all out brawl or something along those lines.Could have turned out pretty bad.It seemed to be mainly due to the presence of so many people in the area at the time that nothing major wound up happening.That and it seemed like those guys had something else on their minds to even focus on anything but that even though they did not seem like the brightest of fellows.
As of now John waited around outside of a bank in line in order to use the atm machine.He had completely forgotten to withdraw any from before and now he was down to just a few dollars, most of which was in change.It was cold and windy that day and he altogether was not dressed that well for such weather so it was getting to him a bit.He shivered a little as he waited trying to focus not on the cold but on something else so it wouldn't be as bad as it is now.Despite few people being around at the moment he still had to wait for nearly ten minutes before finally getting his turn.As quickly as he could simply because he did not want to force others to wait on him for too long, he logged into his account and withdrew $40 and finished his transaction.He then walked away from the machine and as he was walking away from the bank noticed something out of the corner of his eye.
It was a few older teens standing around in the alleyway next to the bank.John would have primarily dismissed this entirely but wound up not able to.He had been looking for only a couple of seconds and yet had managed to recognize a couple of them.It was those two gangsters he had unfortunately ran into yesterday.He quickly stepped back and was now hiding behind the wall and out of their sight because he did not want them to see him for the second day in a row.Now as much as this was a strange coincidence it was seeing them again what bothered him was what they could be doing in that alleyway.John doubted it was anything good.Sure enough within seconds of thinking that something bad did happen.
One of them, one he did not recognize from yesterday at all had placed one of his hands on the wall.A seemingly meaningless thing to do until his hand started to glow.He could not tell from this angle what was going on but it seemed something major had for all four of them soon seemed to disappear into the wall itself.Now that was just odd to him so he quietly snuck into the alley and looked at where they had disappeared.A hole stood there in the wall.It led into the bank itself.Well, now he knew what they had been doing in the alleyway.
All in all considering the situation he did not want to exactly get involved in this at all.It wasn't like he had much reason to but his slowly developing samaritan syndrome was being very demanding of such a thing.After these thoughts all went through his head he had his costume ready but started to walk away again only to hear gunshots.Apparently they'd been found out.John got out of there really quickly.He ran across the street and hid in the shadows of another alleyway.Looking back to the bank he saw three people reemerge from that alleyway where the hole in the bank's wall was.From the looks of it the one who had created the hole was not with them.Maybe he had been hit by the gunfire that had gone off.It could be.Was probably most likely.He was about to put on the mask and pursue them but didn't have much chance.They were already entering into a getaway vehicle.His chances of doing anything to stop them were slim to none at this rate.
He leaned back up against the wall and just sighed.He put the costume away again and just stood there hidden until he heard a car's engine.Said car suddenly pulled up to the bank.The kid who made the hole in the wall was emerging from the bank and looked wounded.The car was now parked near him.Looks like he was alive after all.
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by Digital Muse on December 20th 2012, 12:42 pm
Jubal got his legs to obey him and brushed the rivulet of blood from his face as he aimed for the alley. He had to get away from the bank and… Just then the blue Camaro that had followed them to the back pulled up to block his way. He growled and put his hands up prepared to trash the car right around whoever was driving it. But, instead of being jumped the girl that had been along threw open the passenger door and shouted for him to get inside.
Jubal narrowed his eyes at the girl, suspicious for just a moment. He quickly got over it, after all, the time to be suspicious and cautious was days ago. He ran around the front of the car and practically threw himself into the passenger seat. “He killed a guard. That bastard killed a guard. For no reason!” He seethed as he glanced at the girl. He’d only seen her through the window of the car. He didn’t even know her name for sure. Tammy? Amy? It really didn’t matter at the moment.
Jubal reached up to gingerly touch at the small wound at his temple. Wincing, he stopped prodding and looked at the girl as she drove. “Why’d you stay behind?” He asked, his tone more harsh than he might have intended. “To make sure I didn’t go after Slick?”
by Mist on December 20th 2012, 8:57 pm
As soon as Jubal entered the vehicle, she let go of the clutch and laid her foot on the gas pedal while it was still in first gear. She didn't give him time to even close the door before the car was in motion. Amy upshifted the vehicle to second gear moments later, pushing the vehicle to climb at a faster rate. Jubal seemed steamed. Well, he should be. Someone clubbed him in the head hard enough to split it open a bit. Without taking her eyes off the road, Amy reached over his lap and opened the glove box, then returned her hands to the gear stick. Some fast food restaurant napkins were stuffed in it. Unknown to Amy, though, they were covering a loaded revolver with six chambers.
"I noticed you got left behind, it wasn't like I was going to wait long. I don't leave people behi-." She began to respond, but was cut off by a bullet sailing through the back window, shattering it. Her instinctive response was to duck her head down, even though it was far too late to dodge any bullets. Amy raised her head back up and adjusted her rear view mirror. A security guard from the bank had fired at them. They knew what vehicle she was in. Approaching an intersection, she cut the wheel, causing the rear end of the Camaro to swing around the turn. They were out of the bank guard's line of sight, but she knew that it was a matter of time before he relayed the vehicle's description to the police and they would come looking for them. Thankfully, it was Max's car. She rolled the window down and flicked the used cigarette out of the vehicle, blowing the last puff of air out of the corner of her mouth away from Jubal.
"And why would you be going after Slick?" she continued the conversation as if nothing had changed. Maybe he didn't realize it, but Jubal said plenty while trying to interrogate her. He revealed that he might want to go after the scumbag. Everything that occurred in the bank all added up in her head though, minus the threat on Jubal's family. So she asked a question she already knew the answer to. "Did he give you that little old bump on your head?"
by Digital Muse on December 23rd 2012, 12:04 pm
As the girl drove away, a bullet smashed through the back window making them both flinch instinctively. “Sunuvabitch!” Jubal yelled. Looking back, he saw a guard firing at the rapidly retreating car. Unfortunately, the guard had seen the car. The girl slew the Camaro around a corner putting them out of the guard’s line of sight.
And then the girl just kept talking as if getting shot at was an everyday occurrence. [color:c887=gold”]Why would you be going after Slick? Did he give you that little old bump on your head?”
Jubal gave the girl a withering look. He hated the idea that Slick had taken him out so easily. He wasn’t even a Meta! Jubal snarled softly, “Because he shot a guard for no reason. He made us all accessories. I’m not going to prison for murder for that bastard.” Jubal took a look through the shattered rear window, but saw nothing to alarm him. Yet. “Look. What the hell is your name, anyway?” He asked, slightly frustrated. After a moment, he added, “We have to ditch the car, too.”
(Sorry for the wait. Holidays.)
Accessories? Well it certainly did seem that way. She would have a difficult time proving she wasn't involved after that guard had seen Jubal jump into the car. If she didn't pick him up, she would have been in the clear. Nobody would have even been suspicious if she casually drove off, letting Jubal wander until the guard caught up with him and attempted to subdue him. He was armed, after all. She wasn't sure if Jubal was the type to give up or fight in that kind of situation.
"Wrong, Slick made you an accessory. They're only after the car because you're in it. I'm clean. They probably have your face all over the security tapes." She wasn't sure if Jubal had concealed his face or not. But if it were her, she would have definitely concealed hers. Amy had opened the glove box so Jubal could clean the blood off of his face with the napkins. But it seemed he ignored it completely. It didn't matter to her that much if he wanted to keep it as a momento of the event.
"My name?" She glanced over to Jubal for a moment before returning her eyes to the road. "It's Amy. But pretty soon it won't matter anyway if we get caught now." she responded to him after he asked for a name. If they did get caught, she was unsure whether or not to put all the blame on Jubal. Claiming that he threatened her to drive him off the scene. That would be the cheap way of getting out of the situation. If they were caught, after all, Jubal would be getting the blame no matter what. One thing Jubal said was true, they had to ditch the car. The Camaro wasn't that common of a car where they could blend into their environment. It was a restored muscle car. The second reason was because their rear window was knocked out by the guard's pistol. He probably told the police about it. It was all red flags that told her to ditch the car.
She cut the wheel again, spinning the car to the right. It came to a halt about a foot away from the front end hitting a street light. Shifting the car into reverse, she pulled the car down a back alley and flicked the headlights off. It wouldn't hide the vehicle completely, but they were off the roads. It wouldn't take long before the cops came patrolling down them, looking for the vehicle. She got out of the driver side door and slammed the car door shut.
"You got a knife on you?" Amy asked Jubal, walking away from the vehicle and reaching into her hand bag and pulling out a red scarf. Amy just assumed all guys carried one on them.
"Wrong, Slick made you an accessory. They're only after the car because you're in it. I'm clean. They probably have your face all over the security tapes." The girl stated baldly. Jubal just gaped at her. “You were there too. Like it or not, you’re involved.” He muttered under his breath angrily, “Welcome to my world.” He finally looked down at the blood on his finger tips from his prior exploration of the small wound on his temple. In his line of sight was the open glove box with some napkins. He reached in to grab a few when his hand closed over something very unyielding. Gingerly, he pulled the napkins aside and saw the telltale bluing of a revolver. Sweet Jesus. Jubal thought in mild panic. Did everyone have a damned gun? He tried not to let on that he’d seen the gun.
“A-Amy.” He nodded as he dabbed at his temple. He’d remembered her name at least. The blood was already starting to dry there. Taking his words to heart, apparently, she slammed on the breaks, backed the Camaro into a narrow alleyway and then flipped off the lights. Without preamble, she climbed out of the car quickly, asking if he had a knife. He looked back at the glove box toward the covered gun again, but knew better than to even think of taking it with him as he climbed out of the car too..
“What?” He asked her confusedly. “A …yeah. Yeah.” He frowned, but dug into his pocket for a fair-sized pocket knife. Walking around the back end of the Camaro, he glanced from her to the scarf suspiciously before passing the closed pocket knife to her. “What are you doing?” He couldn’t help it, his body tensed as he stood there looking at her. Pretty? Yes. Trust her? Not a damned bit.
Grasping the handle of the knife, she flipped out the blade. Centering it on the scarf, she cut it evenly in half with a simple twist of her wrist. Locking the blade back into its safe position, she handed the blade and half her scarf over to Jubal. She then proceeded to wrap the piece of cloth around her mouth, concealing the lower half her face, what Jubal should have done in the first place before robbing the bank.
"Now if they catch up with us, they won't be able to at least identify me unless they can catch me. And that won't happen. Let's get out of their search radius. I'm tempted to hotwire a new car. Getting out of here on foot won't exactly be the easiest route." She smirked behind her veiled makeshift mask. She was literally one of the hardest people to capture out there. Her evasive metahuman abilities, inhuman reflexes, and intellect made her untouchable to the average man or woman. A police vehicle came patrolling down the street, as expected. They needed to get miles away from here before being noticed. Then the search would become too distant to pursue. The larger the radius the police had to search, the more spread thin their forces would be, and there would be less patrol vehicles. Though, looking for a murderer, they would be extra persistent.
The police began flashing their searchlight down alleyway after alleyway, fast approaching the ones that Jubal and Amy were positioned at. She began searching for ways to evade the first car. But there was most assuredly more to come. For now it was best to avoid them instead of engage them. Though, whether Jubal knew that or not was another story. There was a door leading to the back entrance of a building alongside the alley walls. Though, it had a padlock on it. She wasn't sure what Jubal's power was exactly but it was what Slick was depending on to get into the bank. Super strength, energy blasts like Mr. Khan? Whatever. She just needed them to get in that door and out of sight. Before they spotted them with the Camaro. She threw her back against the wall next to the door, trying to be as thin as paper so they didn't see the duo.
"Here come the cops, think fast pretty boy. Got anything to get us through this door that got you through that bank?" she whispered. She could use her powers to get through, but he didn't know about that yet. He was too new. If she had to, she could get them both in the door last second before the cops shined their light down the alleyway. But she didn't want Jubal to know anything about her powers just yet. She'd kept it a secret except to two people for this long.
by Digital Muse on January 1st 2013, 12:14 pm
Jubal watched Amy tie a scarf around the lower half of her face with a quirked brow. “You don’t think that’s suspicious?” He rolled his eyes momentarily as he shoved the knife back into his pocket. “We need to get away from the car, right? No fingerprints, even better. Right?” Jubal placed his hand on the back spoiler of the Camaro with a frown of concentration.
Almost immediately a dark nimbus of energy surrounded his hand. Spreading from where Jubal touched the car, rust and pitting began to eat away at the car and crawled along the body as if it was being eaten where it stood. Whole chunks began to dissolve away right before Amy’s eyes. Jubal walked over to join Amy at the pad-locked door. “It’ll be nothing but a handful of dust in a couple of minutes.” He couldn’t help but smirk. Just a little.
Jubal sobered quickly, though. He should have thought ahead before going into the bank at all. He was in deep shit and now was not the time to be showing off. Just then, a powerful spotlight shined down the alleyway. Amy flattened herself against the door instantly. Jubal quickly ducked behind a dumpster. The car was little more than a frame and tires at this point. Jubal willed the disintegration to move faster. It ignored him. The spot lingered on the car frame for a time and then flickered around the far end of the alley.
Finally, the police car moved on. Jubal blew out a breath he hadn’t realized he’d been holding and cursed under his breath. He rejoined Amy and grasped the padlock roughly. Again, dark energy surrounded his hand and the padlock fell to dust in his grip. Throwing the hasp open, Jubal opened the door and jerked his chin inside for Amy to slip under his arm to the building’s dark interior before joining her as quickly as he could.
The interior was so dark that Jubal could barely tell up from down. He didn’t want to move for fear of falling down a stairwell or smashing his head into something. Rummaging around in his pocket, he found his cigarette lighter. Flicking it to light provided a very meager puddle of light, but it was better than nothing. The building was apparently a storehouse for some retail store and filled with display shelves, mannequins and packing crates. Except in the middle of the huge main room; there, Jubal could make out a wooden table and chair, a money counting machine and a pile of empty plastic bags. “Oh great.” He groaned. “Drug house? Really?”
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Political junkies who have felt adrift since the end of the presidential campaign should make their way to Dallas this month, where three exhibits will help fill the void. At Southern Methodist University’s Bridwell Library until January 20, “From George to George: Presidential Elections in the United States From 1789 to the Present” puts to rest questions like what the average length of a soundbite is (7.2 seconds) and why Jimmy Carter’s advisers resisted campaign buttons (leisure suits had no lapels—and besides, it was cheaper). Through January 30 at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, “The Living Room Candidate: A History of Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952—2004” presents the most effective, and notorious, political ads ever made, such as the “daisy girl” commercial from LBJ’s 1964 campaign. And at the Women’s Museum through February 13, “First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image” charts the shifting definitions of womanhood in the White House through artifacts like Mary Todd Lincoln’s tea service and one of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s signature black pantsuits. PAMELA COLLOFF
See Dallas: Museums/Galleries for details and directions.
“Something Has To Change” By Tyler Hicks
Gladden Pappin Wants to Make Conservatism Great Again By Daniel Oppenheimer
Salaryman Permanently Closes as Chef Justin Holt Fights Leukemia By Patricia Sharpe
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In one tweet, a Labour MP just tore down Tory coronavirus policy
Steve Topple
The Tory government is in the midst of more chaos. Nothing new there, obviously. But this time its coronavirus (Covid-19) policies are even more contradictory than usual. Enter a Labour MP, who in one tweet brought the government’s approach to the pandemic crashing down.
Tweet of the day?
Ian Lavery is Labour’s MP for Wansbeck. Under Jeremy Corbyn, he was the party chairman. But even after leaving the role in April, he’s still setting fire to the Tories.
Lavery tweeted on Sunday 20 September that:
Is this threat of a £10k fine not a massive deterrent to seek a test if indeed your heading towards financial hardship due the withdrawal of furlough ?
— Ian Lavery MP (@IanLaveryMP) September 20, 2020
A new group is raising the voices of ‘Young Socialists’, and it couldn’t come at a better time
If you were looking for a summing-up of the problems with the Tories’ coronavirus plan, then that’s the tweet. Because it seems that ‘joined-up thinking’ is not part of the government’s strategy.
£10k fines
First, and as ITV News reported, the Tories are threatening us with up to £10,000 fines. These are if the government tells us to self-isolate and we ignore it. ITV News noted that:
Coronavirus rule breakers in England could soon face a minimum £1000 fine as it becomes law for those who test positive, or are contacted by Test and Trace, to self-isolate.
Under the new rules, repeat offences – and the most serious breaches – could be punished with fines of up to £10,000.
So the Tories will sting us with a £10k bill if we breach self-isolation rules. But as Lavery implied, another Tory policy (or rather the lack of one) could impact this.
Furlough who?
BBC News reported that the furlough scheme is ending. It said:
Since March, almost 10 million people have been placed on the furlough scheme, which pays the wages of those who cannot work because of coronavirus.
Businesses now have to contribute towards the salaries of their furloughed staff and the scheme is due to end on 31 October.
It also said that:
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has repeatedly ruled out extending the scheme.
So, as Lavery said, people who are already hard up may not want to even know if they have coronavirus. Because having to self-isolate could lead to even more financial distress.
And all this is without other policies.
Policy chaos
For example, the Guardian reported that the ban on evictions that’s been in place is ending on 21 September. As it wrote:
As many as 55,000 private renters are thought to have been given an eviction notice between March and August
These people are now at risk. But as Shelter tweeted, thousands more renters could also be at risk:
Over 300,000 private renters have fallen behind on their rent since the pandemic hit.
With the eviction ban lifting today, emergency funds to clear Covid-arrears are the best shot the government can give struggling renters to keep hold of their homes.https://t.co/mV9NhKOy8j
— Shelter (@Shelter) September 20, 2020
If you’re already struggling with rent, are you going to risk a fine, too? Probably not. So again, Lavery’s point about coronavirus test avoidance could ring true.
As The Canary‘s Maryam Jameela reported, there’s also growing concern about universities reopening. But students, some of whom are financially struggling, are also put in a difficult situation by this policy: risk a fine and keep up with their education, or self-isolate and fall behind.
Wealth before health
The government’s way of thinking is a joke. Fining people when they can’t work due to government rules seems ridiculous. As Andrew Fisher said:
People will self-isolate if you give them the money to survive while they do.
We need #FullSickPayNow for all.https://t.co/eFU8Ybwohk
— Andrew Fisher (@FisherAndrew79) September 20, 2020
But of course, when you have a government more concerned with wealth and not health – prioritising the economy over people’s lives – that’s unlikely to happen.
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themagicmancunian100 says:
And why is Starmer incapable of such incisive interventions?
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Gibsonnut says:
21st September 2020 at 6:34 pm
Because he is the establishment and a red Tory. Not content with American food, TV and ways being forced upon us we now have the same political system as well. So you can for for this right wing party or that right wing party but the outcome stays the same, we represent you by taking cash for favours from rich corporations and of course treat all our citizens equally it’s just that some are a lot more equal than others
Shakehands says:
21st September 2020 at 11:30 pm
“Bring back Corbyn” …..dreams Johnson.
Keep up Boris’ campaign work, that Blue Wall will need you come the next election.
Six young people are a step closer to taking most of Europe to court
Irish republican prisoners in Belfast go on hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinian activist
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The government’s implosion over Brexit has handed the Labour Party a massive ‘gift’
It’s been a rocky week for the government. After the cabinet reportedly agreed a plan for Brexit, the government was hit by infighting. Resignations came thick and fast.
First to go was David Davis, who resigned saying he didn’t “believe” in the plan. Then it was Boris Johnson, who said Theresa May’s plan “sticks in the throat”. Some junior ministers followed suit, with Steve Baker arguing the Brexit department had been “blindsided” by the plan.
But Labour appears to have been reaping the benefits of the infighting.
Labour capitalise on government infighting
Three new opinion polls put Labour ahead of the Conservatives. Two of these polls were conducted after the resignations took place. This suggests the resignations and infighting could be impacting on public opinion.
In its latest poll, published on 15 July, Opinium found 40% of people intend to vote Labour and 36% Conservative. New pollster Delta Poll has also found a similar lead. Its poll, reported in the Sun on Sunday on 15 July, put Labour on 42% and the Conservatives on 37%. These two follow the trend of the YouGov poll published on 11 July which gave Labour a 2 point lead.
These polls are good news for the Labour Party. It is leading in an Opinium poll for the first time since December 2017. And the last time it led by 4 or more points with the pollster was in June 2017 in the aftermath of the election.
Meanwhile, Labour has had a large lead in polls by other companies. This includes a seven-point lead in a poll conducted by Survation in March.
The divisive nature of Tory rhetoric about the ‘left behind white working-class’
The Tory government just made a mockery of a second Brexit-related promise
UKIP resurgence?
Some argue that the Conservatives’ drop in the polls is due to the fallout from their Brexit plan. And that is borne out a little below the headline figures. UKIP’s vote appears to be on the rise once again.
YouGov found 6% of people plan to vote UKIP. Opinium found it to be 8%. UKIP haven’t polled at 8% since May 2017.
If the latest shift in public opinion is down to government infighting over Brexit, Labour faces a big challenge. The Conservative government’s Brexit woes are unlikely to disappear any time soon. But Labour needs to make sure UKIP aren’t the ones to benefit from disaffection with the government if it wants to translate Conservative infighting into a consistent poll lead for Jeremy Corbyn’s party.
Either way, these polls are bad news for the government, and for Theresa May.
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New York’s Most ‘Undateable’ Guy Won’t Get a Bad-Date Do-over, Thank God
By Lisa Ryan@lisarya
Billy Peck’s bad date. Photo: Courtesy of Twitter/thejoannac
Earlier this summer, Billy Peck was dubbed the most “undateable” man in New York City by “Page Six,” after his particularly cringeworthy appearance in a Time Out blind date column went viral. The magazine initially agreed to give Peck a “do-over” to redeem himself, but apparently changed its tune after he made a number of over-the-top demands.
Back in June, Peck — an actor — participated in Time Out’s The Undateables column, in which two people go on a date and separately assess it for the magazine. He described himself as a Disney prince, yet presented himself as a jerk, and proceeded to insult his date for how she ordered her steak and saying the evening felt “like I just took two hours of my time and burned it.”
His date went viral after Vanity Fair writer Maya Kosoff tweeted about it (and then he, of course, DM’d her to explain his side of the story). Shortly after, “Page Six” ran an item about Peck’s bad date behavior — and noted that Time Out agreed to set him up on another date.
Bet Billy lifts weights too heavy for him then throws them with screaming grunts to show how much of a man he is #Undateables pic.twitter.com/OrVOWrYOKU
— Joanna Carpenter (@thejoannac) June 29, 2017
However, Time Out editor Jill Anthony recently told “Page Six” that Peck made excessively hefty demands of his second chance: “He provided a list of requests that included (among other things) the type of restaurant he wanted to go to; that the interview be published to align with his upcoming television appearance [on Fox’s Love Connection]; and the physical attributes of the type of woman he preferred to be set up with.” He also requested the post-date interview to be done in person and recorded.
Time Out was fine with his interview criteria, but “we couldn’t say the same for some of the rest of his requests,” according to Anthony. So glad we were spared from having to witness this guy inevitably insult another date.
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High streets in 'spiral of decline' as more than a third of shops are empty
By Sean Poulter for the Daily Mail
Updated: 03:24 EST, 7 February 2012
More than a third of shops are lying empty in some town centres, a report shows.
An estimated 48,000 retail sites are vacant around the country – a total expected to grow because of the rise of online shopping and out-of-town malls.
The Local Data Company and the British Property Federation, which jointly commissioned the study, said urgent action was needed to rescue town centres from a ‘spiral of decline’.
High Street in decline: Boarded up shops have become common place
Although nationally one in seven stores is empty the situation is much worse in places such as Margate in Kent and Leigh Park, Hampshire, which have a 36 per cent vacancy rate.
Figures of 30 per cent were recorded in Wandsworth in South-West London and Eccles in Greater Manchester.
Government launches £1m Mary Portas pilot scheme to revive town centres
Matthew Hopkinson of the LDC said: ‘The reality is that the odds are stacked against a positive take up of shops and as such the new reality of 48,000 empty shops is here to stay unless an alternative use or purpose can be found.
‘Technology is driving consumer behaviour to a world of engagement, entertainment and the ability to shop where, how and when we like.
The rise of internet shopping and out-of-town malls have been blamed for the decline of the High Street in the UK
‘Town centres need to adapt to this changing environment if they are to survive and thrive.’ The proportion of consumer spending captured by the high street has fallen from 49.4 per cent in 2000 to 42.5 per cent today and is expected to fall below 40 per cent within two years.
Financial troubles at chains including Barratts and Peacocks have forced dozens of shop closures.
In its report, the LDC said that the rise of online retailing was the greatest threat to town centres.
‘All these trends point to less expenditure being available to high streets in the future which, in turn, indicates that there will be, if not already, too many shops on the high street,’ it said.
A recent government review by retail guru Mary Portas found there was an excess of shops in town centres.
48,000 retail sites are now vacant around the country, and the number is expected to grow
She suggested high streets could be boosted by market days, gyms, libraries and schools. Liz Peace, of the British Property Federation, said: ‘Bringing empty shops back into use by allowing conversion to residential is one [measure] that could be implemented quickly and easily.’
In Nottingham the high street vacancy rate is 30 per cent, with the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre especially badly hit.
Many big names have pulled out of the landmark 1972 building, to be replaced by a series of discount stores such as Poundland.
Many retailers moved out ahead of a revamp that has never taken place.
Figures published by the British Retail Consortium show store sales in January were down by 0.3 per cent on last year – the second worst showing since 1995.
BRC director general Stephen Robertson said: ‘Reality has bitten again as concerns about jobs, wages and household costs reassert themselves.’
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Bexley council vote limits Jeffrey Mansion's rental policy, events with alcohol
CHRIS BOURNEA THISWEEKNEWS.COM @thisweeknews
Apr 2, 2019 at 6:35 PM Apr 3, 2019 at 2:17 PM
In a 6-1 vote March 26, Bexley City Council approved a resolution that requires weekend rental events where alcohol is served at a new space to be built at Jeffrey Mansion, 165 N. Parkview Ave., to end by 11:30 p.m.
The legislation also limits such events to one a month, for a total of 12 events per year in the first year that the new space is open, and up to 24 events per year in the second year.
Council President Lori Ann Feibel and council members Mary Gottesman, Monique Lampke, Steve Keyes, Troy Markham and Richard Sharp voted for the legislation.
Tim Madison cast the sole dissenting vote. He said it places too many restrictions on Jeffrey Mansion event rentals.
"It's an underutilization of Jeffrey Mansion," Madison said. "I think that this new space, if it gets built, should be able to be used at least one time per week during the months when people want to use it."
Feibel said the city should take into account the needs of those who rent the facility for events and others who use the mansion's park space.
"We're trying really hard to make sure that the entire park and the event space is open and accessible to everyone," Feibel said.
"I would hate to think that every time that somebody had an opportunity to take their child out for a swing on a Saturday night, there's going to be a huge event there."
Bexley Mayor Ben Kessler said the guidelines for the new space originally were drafted by the Jeffrey Mansion Master Plan Refresh Committee. Last year, the committee held a series of public meetings and updated the 2008 Jeffrey Mansion Master Plan in anticipation of a planned expansion of the facility that is set to begin in 2020.
"All of us were very comfortable having a public process to make sure we had adequate public input to make sure what the Jeffrey Mansion plan might look like," Kessler said.
The Jeffrey Mansion Master Plan Refresh Committee recommended that rental events involving alcohol in the new space would be allowed once a month and end by 10 p.m.
The city's Recreation Board earlier this year revised that recommendation to 11 p.m. but upheld the once-a-month restriction.
Council members revised the guidelines further, allowing weekend events to end by 11:30 p.m.
Events that will be held Mondays through Thursdays must end by 11 p.m. and may be held only 12 times per year in the first year and 24 times per year in the second year.
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Endothermic Reaction Demonstration
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Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D.
Chemistry Expert
Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
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Dr. Helmenstine holds a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences and is a science writer, educator, and consultant. She has taught science courses at the high school, college, and graduate levels.
An endothermic process or reaction absorbs energy in the form of heat (endergonic processes or reactions absorb energy, not necessarily as heat). Examples of endothermic processes include the melting of ice and the depressurization of a pressurized can.
In both processes, heat is absorbed from the environment. You could record the temperature change using a thermometer or by feeling the reaction with your hand. The reaction between citric acid and baking soda is a highly safe example of an endothermic reaction, commonly used as a chemistry demonstration.
Do you want a colder reaction? Solid barium hydroxide reacted with solid ammonium thiocyanate produces barium thiocyanate, ammonia gas, and liquid water. This reaction gets down to -20°C or -30°C, which is more than cold enough to freeze water. It's also cold enough to give you frostbite, so be careful! The reaction proceeds according to the following equation:
Ba(OH)2.8H2O (s) + 2 NH4SCN (s) --> Ba(SCN)2 (s) + 10 H2O (l) + 2 NH3 (g)
32g barium hydroxide octahydrate
17g ammonium thiocyanate (or could use ammonium nitrate or ammonium chloride)
125-ml flask
Stirring rod
Pour the barium hydroxide and ammonium thiocyanate into the flask.
Stir the mixture.
The odor of ammonia should become evident within about 30 seconds. If you hold a piece of dampened litmus paper over the reaction you can watch a color change showing that the gas produced by the reaction is basic.
Liquid will be produced, which will freeze into slush as the reaction proceeds.
If you set the flask on a damp block of wood or piece of cardboard while performing the reaction you can freeze the bottom of the flask to the wood or paper. You can touch the outside of the flask, but don't hold it in your hand while performing the reaction.
After the demonstration is completed, the contents of the flask can be washed down the drain with water. Do not drink the contents of the flask. Avoid skin contact. If you get any solution on your skin, rinse it off with water.
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Volleyball club serves notice of potential
Special to the Tribune
If there was any rust, the Lake Tahoe Volleyball Club left it at home while participating in its first 1999 tournament last Sunday in Yuba City, Calif.
The one-day tournament hosted 10 teams from the Central Valley, including two teams from Lake Tahoe. The girls worked their way up through the day to the championship match behind the play of captain Carlye Johnson.
Coach Dan McLaughlin’s goal for the day was to, “get a lot of games in and learn how to work as a team.” Well, that’s what they achieved, playing five matches to earn the right to play in the finals.
“As the matches went on, the team, which you might have expected to get tired, only got stronger and better!” said club coach Dan McLaughlin.
Erin Silver and Jessika Purdy served up “peas” all day. Stephanie Evans and Ashley Berns were passing and diving for balls all day, keeping the ball “alive” for an opportunity to win the point.
“Their inspiration was passed on to the other members of the team, which made them step up their game to a new height,” McLaughlin said. Jamie Borge, the tallest player on the team at 5-foot-10, played much bigger than that all-day long with her great play.
The finals came down to Lake Tahoe and a team from Red Bluff, Calif., a big and talented team. Johnson stepped up her outstanding play in the finals.
“If I was giving out letter grades for performance, Carlye would have received an “A” for all around outstanding play,” McLaughlin said.
Team Tahoe won the first game and lost the second. The score was 13-13 in the final game when Red Bluff came up with a couple of fantastic shots to close out the championship.
“It’s going to be a whole lot of fun playing tournaments this year,” McLaughlin said “The talent, chemistry and enthusiasm these girls have are going to make them a great team!”
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TARDIS Traveller Reviews
Doctor Who: A Heart on Both Sides - Review
I'm not going to pretend to be unbiased, but this short story shows off why I am so very fond of Sarah Sutton as Nyssa. I was very surprised to find this was exactly the sort of thing I was hoping for when Big Finish announced this story.
Taking place somewhere in the fifty year gap between Terminus and Cobwebs, Nyssa managed to get her hands on a beat-up spaceship called the Traken and continues her work as an outerspace Florence Nightingale. Many of Nyssa's fans have imagined that it is this she is doing, so it is satisfying for all the canon. What is a little more awkward is fitting the Time War in the gap between her leaving the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough and her meeting them again. But the story is worth it.
As so often happened before, Nyssa is deposited in some grubby industrial complex, completely unlike the beautiful gardens she was used to on her homeworld. On this new planet she is drawn into a minor skirmish in the early years of the Time War. Someone is threatening the lives of her patients and her own as well as everyone else on the planet. In the process of learning the truth, she learns some uncomfortable truths about her old friend and his race, which she thought she understood.
The Eighth Doctor puts in a clever little cameo which is entirely within keeping of his character. Sarah Sutton had obviously done her homework, just as she had perfectly voiced Doctors 1-5 in The Toy, she captures the spirit of Paul McGann's offhanded but earnest style of performance.
While this story is just another who-dunnit story for Nyssa, there are some nice and touching moments for her and the Doctor. There are plenty of callbacks to the Fifth Doctor era to justify having the 80s theme music, despite the Eighth Doctor's grittier material. There is even a nicely veiled nod to the Doctor wearing a stick of celery.
A Heart on Both Sides is not only a glimpse of Nyssa's live after leaving the Doctor's world but also a glimpse at the Eighth Doctor who is trying to navigate the morals of the Time War. It is little wonder then that he finds himself drawn back to one of the most moral people he ever knew...
Doctor Who: Battlefield - Review
Battlefield sees Doctor Who take on the whole mythology surrounding Merlin and it should have been epic but instead, they managed to make a right dogs-dinner of it! Now I'm pretty certain that back in the day, this was one of the first Doctor Who adventures I ever owned on video and I remember loving every second of it! I remember loving all the talk about Merlin and Excalibur mixed with crashed spaceships, alien knights and also being confused as to why everyone was referring to the Doctor as Merlin, wondering if a chalk circle would really protect you from an all powerful sorceress and cheering as the Brigadier shot the Destroyer, despite having absolutely no idea who this bloke was! However, watching it back recently for the first time in yonks, it is clear that no matter what my younger mind thought, Battlefield just amasses to a load of tosh. It is pretty clear the series' budget went into producing the epic, Curse of Fenric and Ghost Light , leaving Battl
Legends of Tomorrow: Season 3 Episode 2: Freakshow - Review
I've said it a lot before but I really love how Legends of Tomorrow is happy to embrace its own silliness. On paper, the idea of the Legends meeting P.T. Barnum, played by Billy Zane seems pretty pedestrian but in practice, this episode really leans into what makes the Legends dysfunctional as a team and you can't help but be entertained by the results. The whole point of this episode is to prove that the Legends simply can't just do a little job without making much, much, worse before it gets better. As much as I found Rip Hunters treatment of the Legends weird in the premier, you can't help but sympathise with characters viewpoints like Agent Sharpe's. Why is Rip putting so much faith in a team who muck things up badly? Sharpe is quickly developing into a fun antagonist for the Legends and Sara in particular. She is a jerk but you really can't blame her for wanting more accountability for the Legends' actions. The brawl between Sharpe and Sara prove
Star Trek Picard: Season 1 Episode 8: Broken Pieces - Review
In my review for the previous episode Nepenthe , I said that I don't like shows to take breathers when they are reaching their conclusions and the pace is really picking up. However, Nepenthe had a lot going for it, including the return of Will Riker and Deanna Troi. Broken Pieces , which is another breather-episode despite being only two episodes from the end, doesn't have much going for it and while it should have been picking up the pace, it seemed much happier keeping things confined to a few sets and not really advancing the plot. It was a bottle episode, but it didn't try to hide it. What Broken Pieces did do though was show us the new status quo for Picard. All the characters are finally where they are meant to be with Soji finally aboard La Sirena, alongside most of the main cast and its the first time she's joined them for any reasonable length of time, though she hasn't met Elnor in any meaningful way, despite a scene a few episodes ago where he re
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When is Google I/O 2020?
When is Google's annual developer conference?
Pixel 4a and Android 11 looking likely for 12 May announcement
By Marie Black, Editor In Chief | 23 Mar 2020
Google I/O, originally planned to be held on 12-14 May, was later moved to an online-only event due to COVID-19 concerns. The conference has now been cancelled completely, though Google says it will find ways to share updates with the developer community.
Previously expected to be held at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, three days of developer conferences were planned to kick off with a keynote from Sundar Pichai. It is in this presentation that we are usually treated to new product announcements, such as Android 10 and the Pixel 3a that were covered in the 2019 keynote.
A Pixel 4a is rumoured to be on its way, potentially alongside XL and 5G variants, with the latter particularly interesting as a potentially affordable 5G phone.
We have also seen the first Developer Preview of Android 11, and though the final release won't come until July or August, Google I/O is typically used to announce the consumer beta.
You can relive last year's I/O keynote below:
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Bots Strike Again: How Sneaker-Buying Bots Stole (Almost) All the RTX 3090s
By Michelle Ehrhardt 24 September 2020
Reseller bots continue to expand beyond sneakers as the 3090 launch meets the same fate as the 3080's.
(Image credit: Best Buy)
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card launched earlier today, and despite promises from Nvidia that its store would be more secure after bots snatched up most of the RTX 3080 launch stock, the reseller bots seem to have struck again. Within seconds of launch, the cards sold out across all major retailers, with some disappointed would-be customers taking to Twitter to complain about the suspiciously fast purchases.
For a brief moment I saw one 3090 on newegg switch to "in stock" but the second I added to cart, it removed from cart and went back to out of stock. 3080 launch all over again which we kinda saw coming. lameSeptember 24, 2020
Even professional tech writers had difficulty buying the cards. PC Perspective writer Josh Walrath said he and 7 of his co-workers all coordinated to try to get 3090s the instant they went live. Walrath saw five cards become available and instantly added them to his cart, only for them to get removed just as fast due to no stock being available.
We had about 8 people from my work all coordinate to attempt to get these cards for our ML endeavors. No joy. I saw 5 cards become available and added instantly. Removed from cart due to no stock. Those bots are fast. https://t.co/7D5sSjkpdVSeptember 24, 2020
The culprit here seems to be, as with the RTX 3080 launch, bots run by scalpers. In fact, the only place you can buy an RTX 3090 right now is the secondhand market, with eBay “pre-order” listings reaching as high as $70,000.
That’s a ridiculous markup over the official $1,500 price, of course, but there’s also plenty of "more reasonable" listings that are running closer to anywhere from $3000 to $6000. A lot of these are up on stockX, a site primarily known for aftermarket designer sneaker sales. Which makes sense- most of the more common scalper bots you can find right now come from the sneaker market, which portends a dark future for tech if they take over here as well.
When the RTX 3080 launched to a similar immediate buyout, PC Mag reached out to bot group Bounce Alerts, who initially hail from the sneaker market and had members admitting both in private and on Twitter to using the service to buy RTX 3080s.
“Our job at Bounce Alerts was to ensure our customers were able to purchase the product for their needs,” the group told the publication. “When given the chance, I’m sure most people would purchase more than 10+ units if they have the capital and look to make upwards of $25,000+ in one single day from [the] secondary market.”
Bounce Alerts charges $75 a month for membership, which is fairly standard among sneaker bot groups. Bigger players in the market, such as Cybersole, charge £300 for your initial six months of service (with a £100 renewal fee required every six months afterwards). With such high membership prices, there’s clearly a market for...buying things, with most of the biggest bot services running Twitter accounts where they mostly retweet customers who freely admit to scalping.
profited $1500 in 5 minutes with @BounceAlerts unreal 🥵September 24, 2020
The lack of shame here might surprise tech buyers, but botting has been a standard, if contentious, practice in fashion and entertainment for a while now. In 2017, Ticketmaster sued Prestige Entertainment for allegedly using a bot network to buy 30,000 Hamilton tickets before anyone else could, and there’s a thriving ~19,000 member sneaker bot subreddit with a comprehensive guide on how to set up bots and work around verification systems like Captcha. They even have their own slang- cook groups, for instance, are the discord servers where botters gather and trade tips.
Most of the bot services I could find, like KodaiAIO and Project Destroyer, don’t currently list major tech websites like Best Buy, Newegg or Nvidia as being supported yet. Instead, their official pages seem to still be focused solely on sneakers. They’re also all closed off to new members right now. But with this being the second new graphics card to sell out suspiciously fast at launch, and two console pre-orders also having met similar fates since the RTX 3080 debacle, it seems like the scalpers might have their eyes set on more than sneakers now. Some gamers are turning towards open-source bot solutions of their own to fight back, but even that foretells a troubling future.
It might not be long until having a bot is mandatory if you want to buy tech products at launch, even if you don't intend to resell them. Which means that people who don't want to use the either expensive or finicky bots will have to buy their goods at a markup for at least for the first few months after release. Yeezy fans already know this pain, and even if a few lucky souls are still able to get the new best graphics cards at launch, Nvidia fans could be joining them soon.
We’ve reached out to Bounce Alerts, which is the only bot service we could find that claims to have helped its members buy RTX graphics cards, for comment. We’ll update this story with more information as it becomes available.
RealBeast 24 September 2020 18:41
The RTX 3090 will be my next card. By the time that they are abundant in stock will be about the same time that I can afford one. ;)
XxDarkMario20xX 24 September 2020 18:43
Hopefuly i can get 3090 or 3080 before 5th october because did pre order them and website says there expecting evga cards on 25th/29th and delivery 30th-2nd so hope my card comes in those days
ThatMouse 24 September 2020 20:06
It's the new wild west for ecommerce as security has gone to pot. The sellers are getting scammed by other scammers. As an individual seller you are not protected like you are with a credit card. Your account shows the buyer has payed, but they can still back out or say they didn't receive it. It's not just graphics cards, but other high ticket items. It's a real mess.
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theyinsanez 24 September 2020 20:20
they should take them offline u want one go get it from store get in line 1 per customer the old way
ThunderJoe 24 September 2020 20:45
Well, it completely sucks that people are so greedy, but it's how the system is set up right now - scammers gonna scam, scalpers gonna scalp. The only way to make it not pay is to NOT buy the scalpers ill-gotten hardware. If they get stuck sitting on a bunch of cards they bought on credit hoping to scalp people, well, maybe it won't happen as much - so - don't buy off eBay or other secondary markets and only pay retail or less.
I'm actually MORE angry at nVidia for not waiting until they had a sufficient supply of cards - this limited-release stuff is utter crap, but again, seems to be par for the course. This may just be the Universe's way of making us wait and see what AMD has to offer next month. I've always been an nVidia guy, but if they keep up this limited supply garbage, I might just jump ship (and for the record, I'm a content creator first and a gamer second - I'm much more interested in the boost in my workflow speed).
bigdragon 24 September 2020 21:31
There needs to be a way to verify that GPUs are going to the people who will actually use them. It needs to become standard practice -- at launch time -- to screen buyers. Same should apply to game consoles and other hot tech products. Relax the restrictions and scrutiny months after launch when the supply is far less likely to be manipulated.
My jerk scalper coworker no longer talks about what he's buying and selling. HR must have done something.
Blacksad999 24 September 2020 22:44
Just write some Malware which targets the bot programs specifically, imo.
I'm sure if someone joined one of these groups and downloaded their bot, they could easily see the code and engineer a way to destroy them from within.
Thomas Wells 24 September 2020 22:48
Blacksad999 said:
That would require them to join the group, they would see how much they are making from the dumbasses who buy from the scalpers and just bot for themselves. There are no more robin hoods, just hoods.
Olle P 25 September 2020 09:36
I followed the sales at one of the major Swedish etailers. They started out with 15 - 20 cards or so in stock, spread over about half a dozen models.
Took about 30 seconds for them all to get noted as out of stock, and the site didn't seem to have any problems.
RealBeast said:
... By the time that they are abundant in stock will be about the same time that I can afford one. ;)
Yes, there will be plenty of them in stock when they get obsolete... ;)
UnCertainty08 25 September 2020 21:03
I can't believe the company is bragging about helping their "customers" buy product. It is straight scalping. Should be illegal. But as with many crimes the law is behind the criminals in making new laws to police scammers. This is definition price gouging. The problem is PC Gamers as a community have no voice. We don't have lobbyists to influence law makers to protect us from these criminals. Face the truth, whether there is an anti scalping law for computer hardware or not, these are crimes. The people facilitating and committing these acts are criminals. It is clear price gouging, scalping and market manipulation.
What really surprises me is that Nvidia and AIB don't have a bigger problem with this and take it much more seriously. It can't be that hard to take better steps to stop this. One obvious step they should have taken is changing the check out process for the launch. So the bot makers don't know what they have to over come before hand. Steve from GamersNexus said the same thing in a recent video about 3000 series release. Obviously it doesn't matter what you do, if they know about it they can beat it.
I have 30 years as a PC Gamer, I'm a Nvidia fan because I truly they make the best cards and drivers, I've had AMD/ATI. I speak from experience not ignorance. Right now I have a 49" 1440p 120Hz ultra wide monitor so I really want a 3080 but this all upsets me enough that now I'll hold out until I see what AMD has for us.
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Jaguar ready to release continuation units of Lightweight E-Type
The remaining 6 units
In May, Jaguar announced that it would continue the production of the last six units of its aluminum-bodied Lightweight E-Type, 50 years after it stopped the car's production with only 12 of the planned 18-unit run having been
Jaguar to complete production of lightweight E-Type after 50 years
Last one was assembled in 1964
Fifty years after Jaguar produced the 12th aluminum-bodied Lightweight E-Type in 1964, the British carmaker is finally completing the planned 18-car run by assembling the so-called "missing" six units.With the six designated chassis numbers previously lying dormant,
Have you seen a stretched Jaguar E-Type complete with a trailer?
Longer by 4.5 inches
The Jaguar E-Type is arguably the most beautiful car ever built, consistently placing high (if not first) on various lists that pay tribute to the most stylish rides in the car kingdom. No wonder that it is a favorite among collectors
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Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn to Star in True Detective Season 2!
by Tyler Johnson at September 23, 2014 3:09 pm .
It's an exciting day for fans or eerie crime drama and boozy, philosophical bromances.
After months of rumors we've finally learned that the second season of HBO's acclaimed cop anthology True Detective will star Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn in two of the lead roles.
If it feels as though time is a flat circle and you've heard all this before, well you may have:
Farrell was cast way back in June, but kept the role under his hat until yesterday. Naturally, rumors abounded on the web, regardless.
Similarly, we reported in August Vaughn would star in season 2, but motor-mouth Vince had been uncharacteristically tight-lipped prior to confirming the news today.
According to the the network's description of the new season, Farrell and Vaughn won't be partnered up on an investigation a la McConaughey and Harrelson, but will instead play a veteran cop and a career criminal, respectively.
Also, unlike the first season, the second iteration of TD will reportedly be more of an ensemble drama will one of the lead investigator roles being played by a woman.
Sadly, it looks as though the second season will not include any of the hilarious casting combos in the gallery below, nor any Alexandra Daddario nude scenes.
Worse, the series is tentatively scheduled for summer of 2015. Fortunately, you can watch True Detective online at TV Fanatic to hold you over until then.
So grab a sixer of Lone Stars and your notebook full of Yellow King theories, because this is one series that definitely stands up to multiple viewings.
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Tennessee Senate Committee Approves Freeway Speed Cameras
Tennessee authorizes interstate work zone speed cameras under the guise of a ban.
The Tennessee state Senate Transportation Committee on Tuesday voted 9-0 to authorize the use of speed cameras in so-called "work zones" on interstate highways. The vote was unusual in that state Senator Tim Burchett (R-Knoxville) presented his legislation as if it would prohibit the use of speed cameras, even though the actual legislative text has the opposite effect.
"The amendment basically just says surveillance cameras shall not be permitted on federal interstate highways," Burchett explained to the committee. "Except for department of transportation designated work zones."
The exception grants permission to any local or state governmental entity to deploy speed cameras anywhere on an interstate highway where a sign designates construction work, regardless of whether any workers are actually present. This is not the first time that Burchett, with the support of Committee Chairman Jim Tracy (R-Shelbyville), has promoted photo enforcement while saying that he is personally opposed to it. Last year Burchett offered a bill that authorized the widespread use of red light cameras and speed cameras throughout the state. The bill became law on July 1, 2008.
In discussing the freeway camera bill in committee, Senators Mae Beavers (R-Mt. Juliet), Ken Yager (R-Harriman) and Doug Jackson (D-Dickson) expressed interest in amending the bill so that it banned speed cameras on state highways, but Burchett and Tracy blocked attempts to change the bill. Tracy said that the issue was "complicated" and that the committee would consider bills addressing the question in the near future.
"Well, point out which lobbyist is opposed," Jackson said, jokingly.
Next Tuesday, the committee is scheduled to discuss Senate Bill 768 which, as currently written, would strike a blow to the use of red light cameras by requiring photo-enforced intersections to have a yellow time of no less than five seconds. Provisions mandating longer yellows in Georgia and Ohio have eliminated eighty percent of violations in cities that complied with the law. Senate Bill 1502 would have had the same effect before the chairman's amendment turned the bill into an authorization of work zone cameras.
Article Excerpt:
Tennessee General Assembly 2009
Senate Bill No. 1502 / House Bill No. 1202*
By deleting all of the language after the enacting clause and by substituting instead the following:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 55-8-198, is amended by adding a new subsection thereto, as follows:
(e) Surveillance cameras shall not be permitted on federal interstate highways except for department of transportation designated work zones.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
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The Panther Tech > Blog > Entertainment > Riverdale Spinoff Show Katy Keene Canceled By The CW
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Riverdale Spinoff Show Katy Keene Canceled By The CW
Posted by Aliza Fatyma July 3, 2020
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Riverdale has been the center of attention of people since 2017. The show got famous because of its mesmerizing cast and often non-sense dialogues.
However, the show has a very huge fan following. The show is based on Archie Comics of the same name. There are other shows as well that are based on Archie comics. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is one of the examples. The show is quite famous on Netflix as well.
People enjoy this kind of teenage show that is why CW decided to create a spinoff show of Riverdale. They were quite excited to create Katy Keene.
Riverdale ‘s Ashleigh Murray ( pussycats band ) was included in Katy Keene
The show is basically about the Pussycat band (Ashleigh Murray) and Lucy hale’s character Katy Keene. She is a designer and designs clothes for her friends.
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There are other characters in the show as well. These characters made the show colorful and it was an emotional journey for all the cast as well.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was so excited about the show. He even said this in an interview:
“We definitely will be seeing the Pussycats, but probably not in the way you expect,” he said.
Of course, just because Josie might be in the big city, doesn’t mean she can escape her mom.
“We love Robin Givens who plays Sierra McCoy,” said Grassi. “She will come to visit for sure.”
Why Katy Keene is canceled?
Katy Keene had a good rating of 6.1. It was a good rating for the show like this. CW announced which shows are going to be on air for the next season. But, sadly Katy Keene was not on that list and it is canceled. However, the real reason the show is canceled is because of the views.
Even though according to a website the show had 480k views but it got canceled anyway. There is no official news on why they had to cancel the show. It seems like it was not getting as much hype as Riverdale.
Other CW shows like The Batwoman are doing fine. Batwoman is going to have another season. Even though Ruby Rose left the show.
The CW has cancelled ‘Riverdale’ spin-off ‘Katy Keene’ after one season – But Warner Bros. TV is exploring options to keep the show going elsewhere
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— Fandom (@getFANDOM) July 3, 2020
There are rumors that the show was going to air on HBO max for season 2.
Reactions of the cast
The whole cast was very emotional. Lucy Hale added an emotional video on her Instagram account.
A post shared by Lucy Hale (@lucyhale)
Other canceled shows
It’s not only CW which cancels the shows. Netflix has a reputation for canceling shows as well. Netflix recently canceled “V Wars” and even Girl Boss. The list goes on and on. The real question is why these shows get canceled?
Most people do not like sequels and spinoffs. However, sometimes people do not appreciate and like to see actors doing new roles and characters. The same happened with lucy Hale and even Nina Dobrev.
People hated Ian’s character on V wars as well. It happens when an actor plays the same role for years.
However, who knows the show might be back? Lucifer was saved by Netflix so fingers crossed.
Tags: Katy Keene Riverdale
Aliza Fatyma July 3, 2020
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Our Picks for the 11 Best Trader Joe’s Frozen Foods (Each Is Less Than $5)
by Stephanie Bolling
The Matcha Green Tea Mochi Ice Cream from Trader Joe's costs $4.49. Chris Zuppa/The Penny Hoarder
There’s no doubt that Trader Joe’s has some loyal fans.
In the three years that data science company dunnhumby has published its Retailer Preference Index — based on both customer preference and financial performance — Trader Joe’s has claimed the No. 1 or 2 spot every year.
The California-based grocery store chain has stores in 42 states, selling mostly its own branded grocery items that attract budget-conscious foodies.
And although the chain attracts a lot of attention for its Two-Buck Chuck (a line of cheap wines that currently sells for $2.99) and varied-but-limited seasonal items (if they sell out of the pumpkin spice coffee, you’ll just have to wait until next year), we end up filling our baskets in the frozen foods aisles.
Not only are most options convenient and simple to prepare, they’re also also easy on the wallet (all of our picks cost less than $5).
And if you’re trying to dress up a dinner without a lot of effort, TJ’s frozen foods are easily customizable. So if you dress up chili lime burgers with sprouts and avocado, and no guesses that the burger recipe isn’t your own, then your secret is safe with us.
Here’s our top 11 picks for frozen foods from Trader Joe’s.
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We don’t pretend that our list is based on rigorous scientific research — we polled the staff for their favorites and tried them. But we’ve tried to include enough variety for all kinds of foodies, so everyone can find a frozen option for them.
1. Mandarin Orange Chicken: $4.99
There’s no surprise that this easy-bake, already battered chicken took the top slot. It’s Trader Joe’s No. 1 seller and an all-around favorite. Eat it alone, or spice up a meal with the tangy orange and ginger deliciousness.
2. Matcha Green Tea Mochi Ice Cream: $4.49
This sweet treat is vegan, and it’s also soy-, dairy- and gluten-free. Frankly, that doesn’t matter to our panel — everyone across the food spectrum voted for these. The green nuggets balance coconut with trendy matcha flavors for a mouthful of rich and creamy dessert dreams.
3. Chili Lime Chicken Burgers: $3.69
The zesty patties are 150 calories each, and you get four for less than $4. How’s that for Penny Hoarding? There are only six ingredients, and they make great meals for lunch or dinner. They have a lot of flavor and cook well on the grill or stovetop, plus they’re Whole30 compliant.
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4. Vegan Tikka Masala: $3.69
If you haven’t branched out into the Trader Joe’s frozen Indian cuisine, you’re totally doing it wrong. Get chicken, vegan or vegetarian: They’re all there, although the vegan option was the office favorite. The Indian selections are cheap and convenient, plus they have a nice balance of proteins, fats and low carbs. (And they taste GOOD.)
5. Mac and Cheese Bites: $3.99
These little devils get gobbled up in less time than the 10 minutes it takes to make them. They’re great for parties, an afternoon snack or as a comfort-food side to any meal. Take the cheesy indulgence a step further and dip ’em in barbecue sauce, ranch or honey.
6. Vegetable Fried Rice: $2.49
The Japanese-style fried rice was a close second, but the vegetable one won us over. It’s great by itself or paired with another dish. Hack it any way you like — with eggs, chicken or tofu. You win in a matter of minutes either way.
7. Gnocchi al Gorgonzola: $3.29
A meal in a bag for $3, and it tastes gourmet? Sold. These pillowy delights are a product of Italy, so we know we’re getting the real deal. They can easily serve two and heat up fast. Top with some cracked pepper or toss in some peas. Just don’t overcook them.
8. Pork Gyoza Potstickers: $3.29
These dumplings combine pork and onions in a savory pocket. The bite-sized gyoza can stand alone as a side or spice up a soup. You can make your own dipping sauce or save time by serving them with the Trader Joe’s gyoza dipping sauce.
9. Organic Brown Rice: $3.79
Sometimes we just don’t have 45 minutes to prepare brown rice for a meal. With this, we can have it ready in three minutes, since it’s already precooked and frozen. You don’t lose quality, and you gain back time. Try serving it with the Mandarin orange chicken. Win-win.
10. Spanakopita: $3.99
Get a slice of Greece without getting on a plane. This traditional spinach-and-cheese pie comes precut and ready to bake, so you can enjoy the taste without the fuss. It’s a great appetizer to share with friends and the perfect party side dish.
11. Burrata, Prosciutto and Arugula Flatbread: $4.99
This thin-crust appetizer is a pizza in disguise. You add the cured meats after the flatbread bakes. It’s enough for two but could go down easily for one person. The ingredients are decent for the price, and it’s a safe bet to keep in the freezer when you need a quick bite.
Stephanie Bolling is a former staff writer at The Penny Hoarder. Staff writer/editor Tiffany Wendeln Connors updated this post for 2020.
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Smart ArM team develops prosthetics to compete in Cybathlon 2020 Global Edition
By maxon motors | December 5, 2020
Assistive technologies include robotics, wearable devices, and the latest advances in artificial intelligence and motion control. Last month, 51 teams from 20 countries competed in the Cybathlon 2020 Global Edition. The fourth year of the contest focused on inclusion and advancing assistive technologies including motorized wheelchairs, exoskeletons, and prostheses such as the Smart ArM.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the teams conducted their demonstrations in their home bases, and the competition was broadcast live. Out of the teams competing, one in four used products from maxon.
Among the teams were researchers at from the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) in Paris. They developed the Smart ArM, a prosthesis for transhumeral amputees (above the elbow). The Smart ArM’s design is the result of several years of research, because the creation of a prosthetic elbow presented a real challenge.
Meeting the needs of people with a particular disability
Less common than forearm or hand amputation, arm amputation has remained relatively unstudied for a long time. It is referred to as above-the-elbow amputation, or total forearm agenesis, which is an absence since birth. Even though this impairment mainly concerns young people who wish to be fitted with a prosthesis, there are currently few suitable prosthetics available.
A team from the ISIR launched a project in 2014. Grouped within the AGATHE team (Assistance au Geste et Applications thérapeutiques), the researchers said they have obtained promising results in upper limb prostheses.
“After attending the first edition of the Cybathlon in 2016 as spectators, we wanted to set up a team to promote our vision and our innovations,” said Nathanaël Jarrassé, ISIR research officer and manager of the Smart ArM project.
The Smart ArM prosthesis is designed for transhumeral amputees (above the elbow). Source: maxon
Smart ArM joins man and machine
The researchers had difficulty finding the ideal candidate. The team found a pilot after a discussion between a collaborator of maxon, a partner of the Cybathlon, and a supplier of engines for the ISIR. They met Christophe Huchet, a former manager of Parisian restaurants who now coaches small and midsize enterprise managers. Born with an agenesis of the right forearm, he was also a multiple champion of handisport swimming, as well as able-bodied competitions.
“This project puts me back into competitive sport and the associated dynamics that I have known well in my swimming career, but this time in the service of a strong cause: helping others and advancing technology and society,” Huchet said. “It is also important for me to take part in this event, which wants to change the way people with braces look at people with braces, to show the extraordinary side of the ‘user-prosthesis’ couple and to promote this alliance of the body and technology which makes the disability beautiful in a way.”
To take part in the Cybathlon, the Smart ArM team was created in 2018. It included a pilot, a manager, a technical team of 11 people from the ISIR and the ISM-Univ Aix-Marseille, as well as a medical team. The project brought together very different fields of research, from mechatronics to computer science, including neuroscience and physiology, to properly interface the prosthesis with the body.
“Our participation in the Cybathlon was motivated by several objectives, including the promotion of ISIR’s technological innovations, tested in the intense context of a competition,” explained Jarrassé. “We also wanted to draw the attention of the general public to these particular disabilities, while communicating the real possibilities and limits of robotic assistive technologies. The Smart ArM project highlights the major role played by humans in the ‘man-machine’ coupling, [since] we often tend to believe that success is due to technology alone.”
Christophe Huchet was the pilot for the ISIR’s Smart ArM team. Source: maxon
Smart ArM team overcomes multiple design difficulties
The Smart ArM team faced several difficulties in getting its pilot off the ground. The biggest one consisted in developing a prosthetic elbow joint known as an “exo-skeletal” that was compatible with Huchet’s anatomy.
The Smart ArM team had to work in a small space. Source: maxon
“Contrary to a residual limb of an arm amputee — generally shortened by the amputation act — his arm is the length of a normal arm and therefore leaves very little room for the installation of a classic endoskeletal elbow prosthetic joint,” Jarrassé said.
The researchers chose to offset the actuation laterally in order to place the axis of the prosthetic elbow joint in an optimal way.
But this was far from being the only challenge posed by the Smart ArM prosthesis. Since it was designed to take part in the Cybathlon, the prototype had to be able to withstand extensive and intense use outside the laboratory. It was therefore necessary to build a robust and fully embedded device.
High motorization constraints
The choice of the prototype’s motorization was crucial, and several parameters had to be considered. The gear motors in the prototype used intermittently but intensely, with worm-wheel transmission for the elbow joint with low efficiency and high dry friction, making starting difficult.
In addition, the developers had to factor in high fluctuations in the supply voltages, as well as shock and vibration because the prototype would be carried by a subject who was running and walking all the time.
Six months of work was necessary to develop the exoskeletal elbow joint of the Smart ArM prosthesis. To operate it, the team chose to use a maxon motor. The ISIR has relied on maxon motors in the past to equip robotic prototypes.
DCX motors. Source: maxon
“A human elbow generates approximately 15N/m of torque with speeds above 150°/s,” said Jarrassé. “To reproduce such characteristics with a small joint and battery operation, we were looking for an extremely high-performance, small-diameter geared motor. That’s why we turned to maxon’s DCX-GPX motor gearbox range.”
“The advantage of maxon products is that they offer a very wide range of small-diameter actuators and market motors with perfectly identified characteristics, which allows optimal dimensioning of our devices during the preliminary design phases,” Jarrassé said. The research teams at the Sorbonne particularly appreciated the ability to build and customize the actuator online, he noted, and maxon’s expert engineers provided technical support.
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Learning from the Cybathlon
Although it didn’t win a final prize, the Smart ArM team hopes that the demonstration of its know-how during the Cybathlon 2020 will enable development to proceed to commercial products. Jarrassé said he is confident that its innovative approach to prosthesis control, based on body movements, will convince manufacturers to enter into partnerships that would allow the greatest number of people to benefit.
“Developing technology to help people with disabilities, despite the many challenges, is extremely stimulating and exciting,” said Jarrassé. Throughout the project, the Smart ArM team was committed to developing a useful, acceptable and appropriate tool for people who want to be fitted with devices.”
The winners of the Cybathlon 2020 Global Edition, which was conducted by ETH Zurich, included the following:
Krunoslav Mihic, Team Maker Hand (Croatia) – Powered Arm Prosthesis Race
Sander Koomen, Team PULSE Racing (Netherlands) – Functional Electrical Stimulation Bike Race
Florian Hauser, Team HSR enhanced (Switzerland) – Powered Wheelchair Race
Kim Byeong-Uk, Team Angel Robotics 1 (South Korea) – Powered Exoskeleton Race
Francesco Bettella, Team WHi (Italy) – Brain-Computer Interface Race
Andre Frei, Team Circleg (Switzerland) – Powered Leg Prosthesis Race
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