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FUCK the USTA — Again
By Kieran on September 7, 2017 • ( 6 Comments )
It’s the US Open mother fuckers, time to celebrate tennis. But I just had to go to the usopen.org website and fucking ruin it.
It’s that same fucking bland blue background from the United States Tennis Association (USTA) that years of Pavlovian training have taught me to hate.
Loads like a piece of shit, you can’t find anything, and it circumnavigates you to the “home” page with useless giant pictures of smiling teenagers. Get those fucking happy kids off my screen, and let me fill out the fucking registration form.
Within a day of that shit storm, I had to sign up for my fall USTA tennis league in Tucson on the piece of shit usta.com site. I’d rather wade through a neck deep pool of puke naked.
This goddamn time, the shit site told me I had to “update” my account to the “web account”.
The page replaced the hated blue with white and a simple form – no pictures. This new site could actually work. I had almost a full second of hope – a glimpse of happiness.
But then the shit site wouldn’t recognize my password. It didn’t recognize my email or let me update the fucking email account.
I had to use the forgot password link from hell. It sent me back to an email account I hadn’t used in 8 years. I didn’t know the password to that fucking email account, so I had to use the forgot password on that fucking email site.
That sent me to an older email account from a previous job for a company that no longer exists. Fortunately that tied back to a Qwest account (another former employers that doesn’t exist — I’m killing corporate America all by myself — one company at a time).
I get the three emails, update all the accounts and get the fucking reset password link to the new “web account” for the USTA site.
The clean white page with no pictures disappears. Slowly, that fucking blue background loads with those 1000×1000 pictures of some happy fucking kids…
Here come all the same old confusing menus, broken links and contradictory crap.
God-damn it, I hate you people.
You put a false fucking white front on the same piece of shit website, and made me register all over again like it’s a goddamn Wells Fargo bank account.
30 minutes and $25 later, I’m registered for my team. There’s 30 of us on the team list. I’m the 4th one to register. My teammates must be a bunch of lazy shit-heads.
On second thought, I’m guessing they are afraid to use that vaginal fart of a website too.
Later that day, I’m watching the open on TV. Venus Williams and Kavitova (however the fuck you spell it) are hitting winners and the crowd is really into it. I’m getting into it.
They pan to the audience and there is Kristina Adams, the head of USTA, sitting with Voldemort, I mean the new NBA commissioner – what’s-his-fuck-face. They are smiling. Fucking smiling…
Pan back a few rows, and there are empty rows of “corporate” seats all around them. The noise is coming from the upper deck. Because our goddamn tennis overlords sold off the good seats to the corporate sponsors who don’t give a fuck about tennis.
In the meantime, these fucking USTA “leaders” are lining their own pockets with my fucking dues… Even the New York Times says so.
Don’t get me started on the Honey Deuce drinks they sell at this rip off event. http://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/drinks/news/a3646/honey-deuce-us-open-cocktail-recipe/
$16 fucking bucks because it has a couple of “melon balls.” Charging that much takes balls – especially for a drink named Honey Deuce – like they looked down in the toilet at their own yellow shit and said: “Eureka — Honey Deuce it is.”
Once when I was a kid, I drank 3 blue slurpee’s from 7-11 in 10 minutes. Later that day, I could have look down in the bowl and screamed: “Eureka – It’s the USTA website.”
This is my second rant about the USTA, and I doubt it will be the last. Fuck those guys.
PS: Original rant is here: https://kieranbullshit.com/2017/03/03/fuck-the-usta/
And that links to this discussion:
https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/usta-shady-practices-why-us-tennis-sucks.510416/
Which linked to this article:
https://deadspin.com/report-tax-exempt-u-s-t-a-funnels-millions-to-board-m-1625590250
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/sports/tennis/intersecting-interests-at-the-top-of-us-tennis.html
Note: In the original post I said the Honey Deuce were $12, but Larry told me they are $16, for fuck’s sake.
Tagged as: douchebaggery, tennis, Third-world Racquet Club, USTA
Copyright Storm Troopers -Updated
Sean D. Layton says:
I feel your pain. I just tried to sign into a website I’d forgotten my password and wasn’t sure which email I’d used – and I had a high fever while doing it.
That USTA site will give you a high fever… Had a friend say he keeps an old computer with an old version of IE alive just to make it easier to create a tennis team on that site…
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Influence of the crossover effect on X-ray tube voltage dependence of quantum mottle
H. Arimura, T. Okawa, T. Ikari, M. Okamoto, H. Kubota, M. Matsumoto, A. Takigawa, N. Nakamori, H. Kanamori
The influence of the crossover effect on the tube voltage dependence of the quantum mottle for the front and back emulsion has been investigated. A new method is proposed for separating the Wiener spectra of the screen mottle for the front and back emulsions with the crossover effect into those of the quantum mottle and the structure mottle and a method for obtaining the detective quantum efficiency (DQE) and the noise-equivalent number of quanta (NEQ). The numbers of incident X-ray photons with the crossover effect were smaller than those without the effect for all tube voltages studied. However, at tube voltages below about 75 or 80 kV, the Wiener spectral values of the quantum mottle with the crossover effect at 0 mm-1 were smaller than those without the effect. The Wiener spectral value increased with the tube voltage and, at tube voltages above about 75 or 80 kV, exceeded that without the effect. Because the Wiener spectrum of the quantum mottle is proportional to the reciprocal of the NEQ, these phenomena are explained using the tube voltage dependence of the NEQ. From these phenomena, it was found that if the crossover effect was appropriately included in the radiographs, the patient exposure and the quantum mottle could be reduced at low tube voltages.
Journal of Photographic Science
https://doi.org/10.1080/00223638.1996.11737659
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Arimura, H., Okawa, T., Ikari, T., Okamoto, M., Kubota, H., Matsumoto, M., Takigawa, A., Nakamori, N., & Kanamori, H. (1996). Influence of the crossover effect on X-ray tube voltage dependence of quantum mottle. Journal of Photographic Science, 44(6), 178-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223638.1996.11737659
Influence of the crossover effect on X-ray tube voltage dependence of quantum mottle. / Arimura, H.; Okawa, T.; Ikari, T.; Okamoto, M.; Kubota, H.; Matsumoto, M.; Takigawa, A.; Nakamori, N.; Kanamori, H.
In: Journal of Photographic Science, Vol. 44, No. 6, 1996, p. 178-186.
Arimura, H, Okawa, T, Ikari, T, Okamoto, M, Kubota, H, Matsumoto, M, Takigawa, A, Nakamori, N & Kanamori, H 1996, 'Influence of the crossover effect on X-ray tube voltage dependence of quantum mottle', Journal of Photographic Science, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 178-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223638.1996.11737659
Arimura H, Okawa T, Ikari T, Okamoto M, Kubota H, Matsumoto M et al. Influence of the crossover effect on X-ray tube voltage dependence of quantum mottle. Journal of Photographic Science. 1996;44(6):178-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223638.1996.11737659
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Nuclear quantum effects of light and heavy water studied by all-electron first principles path integral simulations
Masahiko Machida, Koichiro Kato, Motoyuki Shiga
Molecular Information Chemistry
The isotopologs of liquid water, H2O, D2O, and T2O, are studied systematically by first principles PIMD simulations, in which the whole entity of the electrons and nuclei are treated quantum mechanically. The simulation results are in reasonable agreement with available experimental data on isotope effects, in particular, on the peak shift in the radial distributions of H2O and D2O and the shift in the evaporation energies. It is found that, due to differences in nuclear quantum effects, the H atoms in the OH bonds more easily access the dissociative region up to the hydrogen bond center than the D (T) atoms in the OD (OT) bonds. The accuracy and limitation in the use of the current density-functional-theory-based first principles PIMD simulations are also discussed. It is argued that the inclusion of the dispersion correction or relevant improvements in the density functionals are required for the quantitative estimation of isotope effects.
Journal of Chemical Physics
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Machida, M., Kato, K., & Shiga, M. (2018). Nuclear quantum effects of light and heavy water studied by all-electron first principles path integral simulations. Journal of Chemical Physics, 148(10), [102324]. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5000091
Nuclear quantum effects of light and heavy water studied by all-electron first principles path integral simulations. / Machida, Masahiko; Kato, Koichiro; Shiga, Motoyuki.
In: Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 148, No. 10, 102324, 14.03.2018.
Machida, M, Kato, K & Shiga, M 2018, 'Nuclear quantum effects of light and heavy water studied by all-electron first principles path integral simulations', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 148, no. 10, 102324. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5000091
Machida M, Kato K, Shiga M. Nuclear quantum effects of light and heavy water studied by all-electron first principles path integral simulations. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2018 Mar 14;148(10). 102324. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5000091
Machida, Masahiko ; Kato, Koichiro ; Shiga, Motoyuki. / Nuclear quantum effects of light and heavy water studied by all-electron first principles path integral simulations. In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 2018 ; Vol. 148, No. 10.
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Kitty Coburn & The Creative Collective
OUT TODAY! NHS CHARITY CHRISTMAS SINGLE
Help raise funds for the NHS by downloading & streaming our poignant cover of Ordinary World and donating via our JustGiving page. Watch the video below...
CREATIVE COLLECTIVE BRINGS MUSIC & DANCE TOGETHER FOR AN NHS FUND RAISER
To mark the significant transitional moment in time that Covid-19 has brought for all of us, we are releasing a cover of the 80s track Ordinary World while raising much needed funds for a group of NHS hospitals.
Creatives from across the industry came together to form the Creative Collective and to produce a poignant and striking video to express the new normal that Covid has brought upon us. The choreography is set to an ethereal cover of Duran Duran’s 1980s hit, ‘Ordinary World’. Although written over 30 years ago, the song has a poignancy that reflects today’s new world with a hook line that asks, “Where is the world that I recognise? Gone away” - a sentiment that is shared by many people, young and old, across the globe as we navigate our way in this new world.
Please support this initiative by donating to the Ordinary World Just giving page https://justgiving.com/ordinaryworld
None of this would have been possible without the incredible support and help of friends and creatives who have given their time and expertise for free to help put this together. The list is long, but would like to thank the creatives (please see their bios), the NHS team and everyone else who has been involved:
Michael O'Donnell, Neil Gordon, Guy Pearson, Corin Campbell Hill, Laura Gordon, Juliette Otterburn Hall, Darcel Osei, Francisco "Chico" Lins, Callum Smith, Sarah Simons, Katy Metcalfe, Sean Hargreaves, Cedric Torossian, Jean Hall, Elisabeth O'Donnell, Sally Cooper, Dougal Oldfield, Joggs Camfield, Cat Hockley, Jon Webster, Diane Glynn, Sean Hargreaves, Will Hall, Jenny Todd, Robin Meltzer, Paul O'Meara, Philippa Hutchinson, Wendy Laister and of course Duran Duran for writing the wonderful track and for approving our cover.
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Nygren Promoted To Full-Time Cheer and Dance Coach
kiwa January 6, 2021 January 6, 2021
Orange City, Iowa — Northwestern College and Vice President for Athletics Dr. Micah Parker announce that Taylor Nygren’s position of head cheer and dance coach will be expanded to full-time status in an effort to strengthen those competitive programs and enhance the game environment for football and basketball.
“Red Raider athletics is excited to welcome Taylor as a full-time coach,” commented Dr. Parker. “Our commitment to her will help us grow programs that have a big impact on game environment and help us compete for championships in the GPAC.”
Nygren is in her fifth year as the head of the cheer program at Northwestern. Last season, Northwestern finished fourth in the GPAC Cheer Championship and fifth at the Northwest Regional Qualifier. Two members of the 2019-20 team received all-conference honors, Marcus Tucker and Abby Petersen.
This will be her third year as the head of the Raiders dance program. Northwestern placed fourth at the conference championship, seventh in regionals, and Julia Goodburn claimed all-conference honors.
“I am extremely excited to build and grow our cheer and dance programs here at Northwestern,” stated Nygren. “Over the course of the last five seasons we have really grown from a club activity to a demanding sport. This will bring new and exciting opportunities for many students on campus and future athletes.”
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Thursday, May 21, 2020 | History
6 edition of Beyond the Black Stump found in the catalog.
Beyond the Black Stump
by Nevil Shute
Published December 1992 by Chivers Audio Books .
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Beyond the Black Stump satisfies this craving, describing life in frontier sheep grazing portions of the country as seen from the eyes of an American geologist traveling there to explore for oil.
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Aug 08, · Beyond the Black Stump [Nevil Shute] on gama-uk.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Stanton Laird comes to the Australian outback to search for oil. There he meets and falls in love with Mollie. However cultural differences between Stanton and Mollie's world force the two lovers to make difficult gama-uk.com by: 3.
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The origin of the expression, especially in its evolved use as an imaginary marker in the landscape, is contested. The various claims are discussed below. In "Beyond The Black Stump" he weaves a fascinating story of a particular part of Australia revealing the enormity of its wide spaces of land and the diversity of the people who live there.
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It’s unlimited what the universe can bring when you understand the great secret that thoughts become things5/5. The story concerns a young American geologist, Stanton Laird, working in the Australian outback in the field of oil exploration.
Although he is in a very remote location - beyond the black stump - in a region called "the Lunatic" in Western Australia, he is part of a crew that has a well-appointed mobile facility.
He is befriended by a local farming family, the Regans, and develops a. Jan 01, · "Beyond the Black Stump" may be the weakest of the novels set in Australia, but it is still an enjoyable book to read. There are no mystical elements here ("In the Wet") nor has his ability to write dialogue for American English improved gama-uk.com by: 3.
Beyond Black Stump-Can by Nevil Shute and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at gama-uk.com The Wet Hat and other stories from Beyond the Black Stump by Loder, Ann and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at gama-uk.com Welcome back to Beyond the Black Stump, the Podcast for the risk, resilience and BC community.
G'day, this is Ken Simpson and thanks for tuning in to Episode 11 of the show. This week's show is the second part of my chat with David Lindstedt and Mark Armour about their Continuity manifesto. The expression “beyond the black stump” refers to the deepest, darkest wilds of the Australian outback, the setting for Nevil Shute’s novel of a romance tested by cultural difference.
Stanton Laird is an American geologist sent to hunt oil in a remote part of Western Australia/5(3). Nevil Shute was a wonderful author and "On the Beach" was a seminal book for me, as a young person raised in the "Drop and Cover" bomb raid trials every school in Los Angeles practiced.
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Oct 18, · In his book “A Million Wild Acres” Eric Rolls states that ” Joe Launt, a poddy-dodger (stealer of unbranded calves) had come with his sons about from a run north of Coolah called the Black Swamp He never paid the licence fees on the Black Swamp and under later holders the name passed into Australian tradition as the Black Stump.
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If somewhere is 'beyond the black stump' it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. This is the sun-baked setting for Nevil Shute's novel of a romance that is tested by the differences between two young people's home lives. Home» Nevil Shute» Beyond the Black Stump.
Home. Beyond the black stump, p.1 Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in book form in Great Britain by William Heinemann Ltd., London and in the United States by William Morrow & Co.
Inc., 4/5(32).Well done to Ken Simpson and beyond the black stump! Book Club Andy Osborne - author of 4 books for the Risk/BC community This is a chat I have been looking forward to - I have been trying to get Andy on the show for some time.Located in Balclutha in the Otago region, Beyond the Black Stump has accommodations with free private parking.
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ripples without water (or, this drought stinks)
The only reason I haven’t curled up in a fetal position and yielded to California’s 500-year drought is there’s at least a few days of trout fishing on the horizon.
It’ll be good news and bad news situation. The good news being that low water will allow access to most streams and rivers during my limited time fishing this month. The bad news is that the water may be gone when I can next venture into the Sierras.
As a native Californian, most of the drought news is the “usual” hue and cry about the fight to bring water to farmers, efforts to save water, dwindling city supplies and wildfires resulting from the record heat, as well as the not-so-usual and so-called Bay Delta Conservation Plan.
But the stories that truly illustrate the far-reaching impact of The Great Drought are smaller in scope and often just as alarming.
Spring fishing in the Sierra Nevadas usually means fewer people and rattlesnakes. This year, at least the rattlesnakes will be more numerous.
Wildlife experts from the high Sierra to Southern California report that snake sightings are up, largely due to the warm, dry weather that has gripped much of the West. Rattlesnakes, like many animals, have been drawn out of their wintertime dormancy earlier this year because of the mild conditions that have accompanied the drought, experts say.
Shrinking agricultural employment is affecting school attendance.
It’s not just fish that depend on insects — which often reproduce in water — but birds. The tricolored blackbird may make the endangered species list with help from the drought.
Reproduction declines have been noticed since 2007, before the drought, Meese said, but recent counts have shown even steeper declines. A statewide survey of tricolored blackbirds, known for their red shoulder patch with a bright white stripe, was recently concluded and the results are due out in three weeks.
At issue for the birds is a lack of insects since female birds require insects in their diet to form eggs. Also, young birds require insects during the first nine days of life, when they cannot digest plant material. Meese contends that the effects of the drought have created lower populations of insects, as well as less-extensive wetlands from which blackbirds can feed.
Even before the full effect of the drought can be felt, food prices are on the upswing. The $200 million cherry crop is expected to be up to half of normal. http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/05/13/light-california-cherry-season-thanks-to-warm-winter-expect-higher-prices/
…the warm, dry winter threw cherry trees off their game all over the state. California usually delivers the nation’s early season cherries, but with yields down around a third of what they usually are you can expect to pay a whole lot more at the market.
What the trees want is a wet, chilly winter with fog that keeps the daytime temperatures under 55 degrees.
But, clearly, the trees aren’t getting what they want.
California honey prices are being pushed to new highs. California was at the top of the list of honey-producing states a couple of years ago. Not anymore. This third year of drought could cut production to its lowest since 1981.
Suction dredge mining remains an issue for our rivers but, apparently, now is the time to shut down those machines and pick up a pan in the search for gold. Accessibility is creating a mini-gold rush in the Sierra foothills.
If there’s a silver lining, it’s that the severity of this drought has shifted the discussion on fracking.
Fracking a single oil well in California last year took 87 percent of the water consumed in a year by a family of four, according to the Western States Petroleum Association, an industry lobbying group. That amount — a modest one by national standards, the oil industry argues — has become an increasingly delicate topic since a drought was officially declared early this year in the state.
The drought, combined with a recent set of powerful earthquakes, has provided the momentum for about a dozen local governments across California, the third-largest oil producing state, to vote to restrict or prohibit fracking in their jurisdictions, as concerns over environmental effects and water usage have grown.
At the same time, a bill that would declare a statewide moratorium on fracking has been gathering support in the State Senate, a year after a similar effort failed.
The frail nature of our infrastructure — arrogantly designed to fight Mother Nature’s wisdom — is certain to be tested in the many months between now and the next rainfall. A switch to ignoble warm water species might salve the itch to fish, but at what cost to one’s pride?
Categories: Bass, California, Drought, Fish, Fishing, Fly Fishing, General Discourse, San Francisco Bay Area, Sierra Nevada, Trout | Tags: bass, California, drought, fishing, fly fishing, Sierra Nevada, water, weather | Permalink.
by Patrick Konoske 1 Comment
how to be a hero (or, hey, leave those fish alone)
It’s clear that nature’s dewatering of California this year will leave the trout that can be found skittish and stressed. I suppose that only the most thoughtful fishermen will leave them well enough alone as the summer wears on, or perhaps cross to the dark side of warm water species.
Opening Day may mark the beginning of the few weeks during which decent trout fishing may be found not too far away, while fish mortality is at a minimum. After that, it’s unlikely you’ll find solitude at a high alpine stream, creek or lake. The same climate change pushing wildlife to higher altitudes will similarly affect their human hunters.
This summer and fall — when still-flowing rivers will only offer skinny water — will be seasons of small fly rods and even smaller flies. A few small wild trout fisheries I hold dear (and of which I also hold a delusion that only I know about them) won’t withstand much molestation, meaning I’ll also be somewhere else.
It’s been proposed that “heroic measures” will be needed to save California’s salmon runs. As the weather warms up and naturally flowing water is scarce, it’ll be just as heroic to leave alone those fish that have nowhere else to go.
Categories: Bass, Brook Trout, Brown Trout, California, Conservation, Drought, Eagle Lake Rainbow, Eastern Sierra, Fish, Fishing, Fly Fishing, Golden Trout, Rainbow Trout, Salmon, Sierra Nevada, Trout, Weather, Wild Trout | Tags: brook trout, brown trout, California, drought, Eagle Lake rainbow trout, fishing, fly fishing, outdoors, rainbow trout, Sierra Nevada, trout, weather, wild trout | Permalink.
is one California too much, or how do you feel about buying multiple fishing licenses?
Though it’s a remote possibility that the proposal by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper to divide California into six states would make it over the many required hurdles — from gathering signatures of 807,615 registered voters to put the measure on the ballot to final congressional approval — it presents a conundrum for a native Californian.
This is a big state, one of diversity. Every once and a while that diversity bubbles to the surface; one example is the Jefferson state movement that is revisited every decade or so. Boards of supervisors in Modoc and Siskiyou counties, which are near the Oregon border, approved measures in support of the Jefferson state declaration. Tehama County, one county south of Modoc and Siskiyou, has placed a similar measure on the ballot.
California is one of the few places where five major climate types can be in close proximity. From my home, it’s a four-hour drive to the high Sierras, the Humboldt redwoods or the southern coastline. The same goes with fishing: steelhead to the north, Striped bass to the east, trout to the northeast and southeast, saltwater fish to the west.
Setting aside all the pros and cons about and difficulties of creating smaller California state, it raises the possibility, just to fish for trout in place I enjoy, that I’d have to buy three separate licenses. Saltwater fishing could require a fourth. This may be an accepted part of living in smaller states, but not something I look forward to.
One upside might be the possibility that the proposed state I would live in, “North California,” could regain its water rights. I’m sure we’d set a fair price for all that water needed down south.
Categories: Bass, California, Crowley Lake, Eagle Lake, Eastern Sierra, Fishing, Fly Fishing, General Discourse, Government, Hot Creek, Lake Tahoe, Oregon, Palm Desert, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Sierra Nevada, Trout, Tuolumne Meadows, Tuolumne River, Twain Harte, Walker Watershed, Yosemite | Tags: California, Eastern Sierra, outdoors, trout, Yosemite | Permalink.
by Patrick Konoske 3 Comments
finding a fly fishing fix not far away (and why a 3 wt. was a poor choice)
I usually eyeball them through jaundiced eyes. Though instinctively taking inventory of every feature — shelter, shade, structure — I’d normally pass up a puddle made even more unappealing by strategically placed CalTrans-orange barrier netting.
But I missed Opening Day of trout season last Saturday. So, while a preference for good hygiene precluded any thought of sullying waders in the tepid water, it was hard the next day to pass up an opportunity to soak a line to test a presumption that life might be found beneath the surface.
My son’s tales of casting spinners to willing small bass brought me to this containment pond, barely five minutes from the house. Not much more than 50 feet across, there was nothing remarkable about it. The setting was serene enough, being that it is behind a [location redacted]. Trees line the south bank, providing a bit of shade and shelter. Reeds sprout near a corrugated culvert pipe and a darkness that comes with depth suggested a smaller drop off about five feet from shore.
“Nothing much over eight inches,” he had said.
Parked on a nearby street, I returned the 5 wt. to the trunk, selecting the 3 wt., thinking the smaller rod would offer a more sporting fight. We hiked over sidewalk and up a dirt embankment to get there.
Lacking any need for sophisticated assembly of a rod or the puzzling about the appropriate fly, my son and his girlfriend were soon throwing spinners and eliciting strikes. I maintained a semblance of dignity, but it’s a bit unsettling to publicly rig a fly rod while visitors to the [redacted] came and went by, while the sound of compression braking floated up from a nearby Bay Area highway. Being predisposed to size 20 Parachute Adams and even smaller nymphs, my choice of suitable flies was limited. A bluegill-ish streamer pattern was the ultimate choice.
The superiority advantage of fly fishing was immediately apparent. After three casts I managed to land the “largest” fish my son had seen pulled from this urban lagoon. All of 10 inches, it was a fun match for the 3 wt. This pattern continued, with more fish missed than hooked.
Previous encounters with bass — actually, lack thereof — left me a bit dismissive and a bit underprepared, but playing these little fish helped reduce a twitch developed during a winter devoid of any fishing. But the contentment that snuck up on me vanished in an in-your-face demonstration of the circle of life; a demonstration of an oft-told fish story that I had never personally experienced.
Like any of the half dozen other six-, eight- or 10-inchers, this small bass offered up a small tussle, until a large shadow shot forward and engulfed it. Any leader that was visible quickly disappeared as the shadow returned to the depths. A short tug of war ensued. Just as quickly, my line and rod went limp. It was more than I bargained for, but a welcome reminder why I enjoy this sport.
Big bass from a small pond.
In a cloud of optimism but without any expectations, my box of streamers was re-examined and a heavier, bead-head yellow woolly bugger tied on. The smaller bass paid a bit more attention to this fly, though it was equal to at least a quarter of their body length. After a few casts, I remembered to let it settle a bit, hoping that might present the fly to the fish a bit longer. This tactic worked well enough, and I landed about 24 inches of bass six to eight inches at time.
The wind made casting a bit of a chore with a big fly on such a small rod, but soon enough I was more consistently hitting promising water. Finally the fly landed where directed. I paused; stripped in line, paused again, stripped. The line stopped in mid-strip. Being more accustomed to embedding a hook in an underwater log or moss-encrusted rock, it wasn’t until my line shivered that I realized there was a big(ger) fish on the other end. The choice of a small 3 wt. rod and reel was quickly called into question; the reel’s drag screaming painfully and the rod bending into an uncomfortable semiellipse.
There’s no gingerly playing a big fish on a small rod. Do so and you’ll probably lose this fish. Horse a fish too much and you’ll probably break equipment.
Without a net, I was unprepared for a fish of any size. But the fishing gods must have been smiling on me. Time seemed to slip away, eventually the fight ebbed and a lip was gripped.
In the end, I found my temporary fix last weekend far from clear, cool streams in which I’ll be wading when you read this.
An anatomy of urban fly fishing.
Categories: Bass, Casting, Fishing, Fly Fishing, Home, San Francisco Bay Area, What We See | Tags: bass, catch and release, fly fishing, fly rod | Permalink.
on “the movie” and stuff
I was correcting a co-worker who thought “A River Runs Through It” involved the pursuit of bass…
…and after suppressing my laughter, then dispensing a quick education on the differences between bucketmouths and trout; a thought occurred to me. The credits for the movie list more than a dozen categories of fish wranglers. The fish were farm-raised stunt doubles, “harmlessly tethered” and not hooked. So, did these fish earn SAG…um…scale?
Death from above?
I’m not much for bass, likely because bass haven’t had much more to offer me besides more refusals than I care to count…
…now there’s another seventh reason to avoid Peacock Bass, at least in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Researchers at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco have discovered a new species of porcupine that lives in one the country’s most endangered forest ecosystem. It lives in trees. (I don’t know about you, but I have had things fall on me while fishing. Thankfully, nothing alive…yet.) This species joins the six known porcupine species in the region…
Categories: Bass, General Discourse, Trout | Tags: casting, catch and release, fly fishing, outdoors, trout | Permalink.
can calling it a native fish make it so? or: how you can learn to stop worrying and love the fish that eats a fly
This week, I might be stepping into quicksand. If nothing else, it’ll be entertaining for the rest of you to watch.
While a good many local anglers applauded the California Fish & Game Commission’s decision at its Feb. 2, 2012 meeting to strike down proposed changes to striped bass regulations, changes that, at the very least, would degrade the quality of a fishery that supports considerable segments of the local economy, there was a curious footnote to the proceedings.
A desire to declare striped bass, introduced from the East Coast, as a ‘native’ California species.
California Fish & Game Commission’s then-Director Daniel W. Richards summed up the issue:
Another great comment that I heard today was this issue of what is native. [California Department of Fish & Game] Director Bonham and I had great conversation just yesterday about this. We are regularly, and just several months we were being challenged with a frogs and turtles matter of non-native species…it’s controversial and there’s both sides to it, and these striped bass have been here for 130 years. At what point in time do we…and some of the analogies we gave I thought were terrific, especially when you take it down to the human level, who’s a native Californian and who’s not. I thought it was really very apropos. I mean, they’ve been here 130 years, that’s, I don’t know, what is that, that’s three or four generations I think you’d probably call that. [Striped bass] starts to be fairly native to me.
After that, then-President Jim Kellogg, after pointing out that he worked on the first pump station on the Delta (1966-’69) and saw the numbers of fish those unscreened pumps dumped into the canal announced in his last act as president:
…because nobody’s got an answer as to how this is done, or who declares it or something like that, I’m going to declare the striped bass a native species in the state of California.
Central to the proponents of the new regulations painted striped bass — asking it be considered an invasive species — as largely responsible for the decline of the state’s salmon stocks. Opponents cited striped bass’ long history in the California Delta (declared a sport fish in 1935) and its coexistence with salmon and Delta smelt over that time. (The definition of ‘coexistence’ may be considered ill-defined in the absence of any hard, long-term, historical data.)
While most will agree that these proposed changes to the striper regulations was a thinly veiled water grab, it does bring to light a conflict that can arise between native and now wild populations of introduced fish, particularly without a firm scientific understanding that can overwhelm any argument from either side of the debate. And while the predation of introduced species changes ecosystems, there’s no scientific model to predict the consequences of eliminating such a long-entrenched species.
In the short span of our lives, does ‘native’ becomes anything that was here before us? Big brown trout and competitive rainbows have so well supplanted Lahontan cutthroat trout — it and the Eagle Lake Rainbow were once the only trout in the Easter Sierra — that rarely does one hear of an angler landing a decent Lahontan, expect those in Crowley Lake and the Upper Owens River. And it’ll be a shame when Lahontan cutthroat no longer exist in California, which is likely to happen.
But it’s hard to label the non-native trout that provide us so much recreation as ‘invasive.’
In any case, might these naturally reproducing fish populations better fit a status similar to that of ‘historical (living) landmark?’ Is there an appropriate measure of time before anyone can declare an introduced species to be a ‘naturalized citizen?’ And will the difference between native and naturalized fish populations eventually become indistinguishable, legally or otherwise?
Regardless of the answers, I’ll be the one overlooking the illegal immigration status of the trout that eats my fly.
If you’re interested, the video recording of the meeting can be found here; click on the link for Feb 2, 2012 and fast forward to about 1:35:00 for the start of the striper discussion.
Categories: Bass, Conservation, Fly Fishing, General Discourse, Government, Salmon | Tags: California, California Dept. of Fish & Game, conservation, Eagle Lake rainbow trout, fly fishing, rainbow trout, salmon, Sierra Nevada, striped bass | Permalink.
start them lying fishing young
From well-known outdoor writer Tom Stienstra in the San Francisco Chronicle today, presented without comment:
Tall tale about giant bass
Word came from Pleasanton last week that a 13-year-old boy had landed a record 18-pound, 9-ounce largemouth bass at Shadow Cliffs Lake. It seemed too good to believe. Unfortunately, it was.
At Shadow Cliffs, park rangers say several people saw the boy wade into the lake and scoop up a large dead fish. Park officials said they do not acknowledge the fish as a record.
When the story first emerged, the boy said he caught the fish with a lure, that the giant bass did not fight much, and he gave it to a friend to eat. A photo of the fish I was provided showed that its eyes had turned white and its body had a layer of slime, similar to that of a fish that has been dead for some time.
This is yet more proof that, while all people are born honest, by the time they go fishing they usually get over it.
Categories: Bass, California, San Francisco Bay Area, What We See | Tags: bass, California, fishing, lying fishermen, outdoors | Permalink.
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Aids medication: German Federal Court confirms compulsory license
German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) concurs with the Federal Patent Court’s judgement of September 1st 2016 and therefore allows the continued distribution of the Aids medication “Isentress” meaning the preliminarily compulsory license for the HIV drug remains. The main lawsuit is still unsettled.
The German Federal Court of Justice (“Bundesgerichtshof”, BGH) has confirmed (main lawsuit is filed under 3 Li 1/16 (EP)) with its July 11th 2017 decision the Federal Patent Court’s judgement which has issued a preliminarily compulsory license for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany concerning a patent property right. Thanks to this Merck (applicant) may continue distributing the Aids medicament “Isentress” containing the active drug “Raltegravir”. But: Settlement talks in the main proceedings concerning a specific license agreement and corresponding licensing fees for the patent right’s use were as of yet unsuccessful and have been postponed.
Money-spinner Raltegravir-patent – Shionogi calls upon Düsseldorf’s Regional Court
For 15 years now the pharmaceutical companies Shionogi (Japan, applicant) and Merck (USA, doing business in Germany as MSD) are in dispute. At the time the Japanese filed a patent application incorporating the active drug Raltagravir in particular.
However Merck has kept busy as well and filed a patent application in 2007, incorporating the active drug Raltagravir, too. Shionogi sued Merck to cease and desist at Düsseldorf’s Regional Court claiming patent infringement. Meck fought back at and filed an application to grant a compulsory license with the Federal Patent Court.
The Japanese’s European Patent was upheld with restricted scope after objection proceedings. The final judgement on the objection by the European Patent Office’s Technical Board of Appeal as part of the main lawsuit is still pending.
The public’s health care is paramount – compulsory license remains
In short: Federal Patent Court agrees with Merck’s arguments because the company complies with two mandatory conditions with Section 24 paragraph 1 of the German Patent Act:
On the one hand Merck offered Shionogi to pay a fee of ten million Dollar for a global license and on the other hand there was public interest because pregnant women, children and longtime HIV-infected benefit from the medicine. Tolerability wise including possible side effect Isentress is the recommended medicine of choice.
Thanks to the decision before, the BPatG allowed the distribution of “Isentress” even though the Japanese group had registered the patent for the active substance in Europe.
Compulsory license for a patent right: These lessons might be learned from the case
The significance of the topic of “compulsory license for patent rights” has significantly risen, especially concerning the pharmaceutical market, although compulsory license in preliminary proceedings are still uncommon. Federal Patent Court’s decision or rather the German Federal Court of Justice’s decision to uphold this judgement sets a clear example: the public’s health care (“public interest”) has of large significance with the courts, especially concerning a disease – as with this case – that is hard to treat.
The public’s health care predominates the patent right protection and justifies patent use via compulsory license.
For patent proprietors finding themselves in a similar situation this case is of importance as well, because it shows that pharmaceutical companies especially have to expect that third parties will resume their business (distribution) even if infringing patent rights. Important: In the case of Merck vs. Shionogi there was despite Merck’s attempts no mutual consent was found. 10 million USD was not enough for the Japanese company.
This stubbornness in connection with the large significance of the “public’s health care” culminated towards Shionogi’s destiny. Nevertheless the case has not find its conclusion yet. Shionogi will still proceed in front of the Federal Patent Court in mid-June and Düsseldorf’s Regional Court as well because there is still a final decision for the main lawsuit pending.
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Text: Press Release by the German Federal Court of Justice
Picture: MSD Sharp & Dohme GmbH
Patent Law, Licenses § 24 PatG, § 85 PatG, 1 422 218, 3 Li 1/16 (EP), 4b O 48/15, 5 207 392, X ZB 2/17
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The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End now continues with Ken Follett's magnificent, gripping A Column of Fire. Christmas 1558, and young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to find his world has changed. The ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn by religious hatred. Europe is in turmoil as high principles clash bloodily with friendship, loyalty and love, and Ned soon finds himself on the opposite side from the girl he longs to marry, Margery Fitzgerald. Then Elizabeth Tudor becomes queen and all of Europe turns against England. The shrewd, determined young monarch sets up the country's first secret service to give her early warning of assassination plots, rebellions and invasion plans. Elizabeth knows that alluring, headstrong Mary Queen of Scots lies in wait in Paris. Part of a brutally ambitious French family, Mary has been proclaimed the rightful ruler of England, with her own supporters scheming to get rid of the new queen. Over a turbulent half-century, the love between Ned and Margery seems doomed, as extremism sparks violence from Edinburgh to Geneva. With Elizabeth clinging precariously to her throne and her principles, protected by a small, dedicated group of resourceful spies and courageous secret agents, it becomes clear that the real enemies - then as now - are not the rival religions. The true battle pitches those who believe in tolerance and compromise against the tyrants who would impose their ideas on everyone else - no matter the cost.show more
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Virender Sehwag and Samir Kochhar present ‘Power Play with Champions’ on Flipkart Video
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· Each day, this interactive show will have a new episode based on the next day’s match
· As hosts, Sehwag and Samir will provide critical analysis of previous games and performances
· Informed by their expert opinions, users will need to answer 6 predictive questions in a bid to win rewards
· All you have to do is, go to the Flipkart app, tap on the Video button at the bottom right of the screen, click on ‘Power Play with Champions’ and get playing
The wait is over. The most exciting season of cricket is finally here! While we’re gearing up to watch our favourite players and teams on screen, Flipkart Video is giving cricket fans an opportunity to put their cricketing insights to good use and win prizes. Launching on 18th September, cricket legend Virender Sehwag and popular cricket show host Samir Kochhar will come together to present an interactive cricket show, Power Play with Champions on the Flipkart app.
The action-packed show will bring together Sehwag’s expertise and Samir’s repartee, as they discuss India’s favourite cricket series, while providing audiences a chance to use their cricketing knowledge to predict different aspects of the match and win many prizes. As hosts, the duo will engage in fun banter, narrate interesting incidents and share exciting cricket trivia, through the innovative format of the show.
Speaking about the show and the upcoming matches, Virender Sehwag said, “This year has been unlike anything in the past, for all of us and for the sport. Technology has played an important role in keeping us together through these times. Flipkart Video has combined technology with the burning passion that India shares for cricket, to create an interesting offering like Power Play with Champions. Personally, I miss the thrill of being on the field with the crowds cheering, and a show like this gives me an opportunity to engage with the audience. It also builds a sense of community, especially during this time. I am eager to be back on screen with Samir and I am looking forward to a very promising season of cricket. I wish all the teams the best of luck.”
“I’ve had a longstanding association with cricket, and I enjoy the sport as much as any other fan. I couldn’t be more excited about hosting this interactive show with Flipkart Video, this time talking about the one thing I truly enjoy with none other than Viru paaji! We’ve all eagerly waited for this tournament to begin and what better way to sweeten the deal than to allow people to win prizes while enjoying the game. And while I’m going to miss the action in person, it makes me happy that I still get to keep people entertained,” said Samir Kochhar.
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Power Play with Champions will give the users a chance to play the quiz every day. Guided by the expert opinions shared by Sehwag and Samir, the 6 predictive questions will challenge the users’ knowledge and predictive skills related to the game. Users will be tested on various parameters of the game, the teams, players, runs to be made, and wickets that will be taken. Viewers who get 3 of the 6 questions correct once the match is over will be declared winners and win exciting prizes.
‘Swashbuckling opener’ Virender Sehwag has had an iconic cricket run, holding several ODI and Test records. As a seasoned player and former Captain of the Indian team, he brings decades of expertise and a deep understanding of the strategy involved in the game. Samir Kochhar has been hosting cricket shows for over a decade and will bring his mass appeal along with his enthusiasm for the sport.
Power Play with Champions by Flipkart Video launches on the Flipkart app on Friday, 18th September. Users can access the show by clicking on the Video icon at the bottom right of the Flipkartapp’s homepage.
You can download the Flipkart App here:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flipkart.android&hl=en_IN
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/flipkart-online-shopping-app/id742044692
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Ki Tissa: Second Chances?
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Written by: Rabbi Richard Address on March 1, 2018.
This week’s portion, “Ki Tissa” (Exodus [30:11]-[34:35]) contains a multitude of issues and events. We have the incident of the “golden calf” (Exodus 32) and the challenge to the authority of Moses and the seeming capitulation to the demands of the people by Aaron. This text also can be seen in light of the text in I Kings [12:25]-33, which tells the story of King Jeroboam, in a flight for control with his brother Rheheboam after the death of Solomon, erects 2 calf gods at the shrines of Beth El and Dan. Could the Exodus story be a re-writing to show that this is NOT acceptable?
Likewise, another famous part of the portion is from the very end, in Exodus [34:29]. Moses, now having created the 2d set of tablets, comes back down the mountain and his face is “radiant”. The Hebrew here is the word “ka’ran”. The letters also form the word “horn” and in a mis reading/translation of this word we have the issue of the horns on Moses which we see on Michelangelo’s Moses and which led “coupled with the notion of Satan’s horns, to the anti-semitic belief that Jews have horns” (Jewish Study Bible. p.182)
So many things to discuss. However, let us go to that passage in 34 when God tells Moses to go back up Sinai to carve a second set of tablets in order to replace the ones he broke when seeing the calf god. Moses is instructed to go alone and in the process described in 34, renews the Covenant and we also see a formula of God’s attributes that reappear in our Shabbat Torah service. Moses looses his temper and throws down the first set of tablets and gets a second chance.
I was thinking a bit about this chapter. How many of us get a second chance? How many of us make that big mistake, or have a life situation change our life and present challenges that we never thought we could overcome? Maybe this story from Exodus can serve as a symbol of what Judaism can teach us about the give and take of life. If Moses was given a second chance, why not each of us? If Moses is a symbol of human life, the ups and down, the challenges to leadership and the search for some “promised land” of the self and soul, then why not each of us? We know instances of people who, seemingly at the depths of depression and travail, overcame hardship and gave themselves that “second chance”. Moses, you will notice, is called to up the mountain again by himself. Yes, he had a community. But, he had to make that climb himself, he had to confront God and God’s anger at the stiff-necked people and their actions. It took time. Yet, Moses, as many of us, emerged radiant, enlightened and, in a sense, changed. The text can teach us here that we can be open to our second chances, that life is a constant unfolding and that we need always need to be open to the possible.
Shabbat shalom
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Weinstein, Trump, and the nature of power
October 7, 2017 October 7, 2017 ~ Jim Eltringham ~ 7 Comments
During a Twitter back-and-forth with CNN’s Chris Cillizza, singer John Legend made a point about the recent Harvey Weinstein scandal in the context of President Donald Trump’s own checkered past with women.
Holding a movie exec and the leader of the free world to the same standard is ludicrous.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) October 6, 2017
In that second tweet, Legend appears to suggest we ought to expect more from elected leaders; at face value that’s not particularly controversial. A completely acceptable and probably right thing to say.
Setting aside the particulars of Weinstein’s sins and Trumps unacceptable language for now, think about the nature of the Presidency. In most cases have eight years to promote and enact their philosophy before someone of the opposing party jumps in and undoes all the hard work. They toil in the world of politics – a world of little interest to most Americans.
Weinstein? He boasts a much longer shelf life. His film production career stretches back about four decades. His hands have touched a range of work as a producer or executive producer, from the boundary-pushing Pulp Fiction to the family-friendly Air Bud; he has been connected to some of the most influential independent/art house films but had plenty of commercial successes in between. He has been influential, and think how influential television and movies are in shaping culture.
Trump will be gone in either three or seven years, depending on how 2020 goes. Some will surely blame him for lowering American political discourse or making discussions crass, but only those who haven’t been watching for the past 20 years or so. Outside of launching a nuclear war (stay tuned?) what lasting legacy will Trump have in politics?
Obviously, Trump is a public figure and role model, so how he treats or talks about women naturally reflects something about our society. Weinstein has been on the cutting edge of Hollywood for four decades. John Legend had a point: We should aspire to elect leaders who represent the best of what we imagine our society can be. But people like Weinstein are the ones shaping our imaginations. As Andrew Breitbart is so often quoted as saying, “Politics is downstream from culture.”
ESPN’s bad week
In a post at Medium, I reacted to Jayson Stark’s long piece assuming that America needed baseball players to speak out on politics. The short version: We disagree. More than that, his assumption – that political rifts have created wounds in need of healing – show disconnection from the broader public who, honestly, just doesn’t care about politics.
Then came this week’s news: ESPN expects to lay off a good on-air talent. The two stories have a common thread.
It would be tempting for anyone on the center right to point to ESPN’s socially progressive programming choices and blame that for alienating its core viewership, but the reasons are a bit more nuanced. ESPN’s tunnel vision and lack of self-awareness has prevented it from adapting to a new media environment. Once the sole source of 24 hour sports on TV, ESPN’s networks now compete with national sports channels run by Fox and NBC, regional sports networks, and – notably – networks run by sports leagues themselves. On top of that, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, and the National Basketball Association all offer direct-to-consumer online packages.
That ESPN missed these changes suggests they overestimated their value in consumers’ minds. Like Jayson Stark, they’ve misread the public vibe.
Getting out of the bubble
NBC’s 90th anniversary show last weekend featured a heavy dose of former and current stars sharing memories of how certain shows were so “important” or “ground-breaking.”
“Come on,” I found myself thinking at various times. “This is television. This is passive entertainment we watch because it’s easier than reading and we don’t feel like putting on pants and going out.”
On Medium, I wrote about NBC’s inflated perspective – and how such a mentality might bleed over into the news division. But it isn’t hard to see how this would happen – and it doesn’t come from a place of arrogance. Anyone who works in a field, or in a given place, runs the risk of an altered perspective. People who work at NBC for years, and develop an understanding of its history, could be excused for over-inflating its importance (especially on a program designed to showcase the network’s programming). Similarly, it’s understandable why someone in the news division might conflate any attack on a media outlet as a full-on assault on the First Amendment.
Cultural bubbles exist. And while they may not pop easily, you can at least see outside of them, if you’re looking. For reporters, that’s going to become even more important in the coming years.
That’s not to say that television shows have not had meaningful cultural impact, nor that criticisms of the press could devolve into the erosion of press freedoms. It just means that the occasional dose of bubble-popping perspective is healthy and necessary.
Disney princess study shows people have too much time on their hands
January 29, 2016 January 29, 2016 ~ Jim Eltringham ~ Leave a comment
Linguistic researchers have logged hours upon hours of dialogue from Disney movies, and found that in the most recent ones, male characters speak three times as often than female characters:
And yet, in one respect, “The Little Mermaid” represented a backward step in the princess genre… The plot of “The Little Mermaid,” of course, involves Ariel literally losing her voice — but in the five Disney princess movies that followed, the women speak even less. On average in those films, men have three times as many lines as women.
The data come from linguists Carmen Fought and Karen Eisenhauer, who have been working on a project to analyze all the dialogue from the Disney princess franchise. Because so many young girls watch these movies — often on constant repeat — it’s worth examining what the films are teaching about gender roles.
Dangerous right? Let your dughters watch Disney movies at their peril. The researchers divide the Disney princesses into two “eras”; Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty are classics, and the modern era is from The Little Mermaid on. In the classic era, female characters speak as much or more than males; outside of Tangled and Brave, no Disney princess movie from the past half-century has more than about 40% of its dialogue spoken by women.
At Acculturated, Carrie Lukas notes that many of the loquacious gents in these movies are side characters (“the modern-day Jiminy Crickets such as Sebastian inThe Little Mermaid or Olaf in Frozen”) who aren’t even human, and whose gender may not be super clear in the traditional sense.
But there’s something else afoot. Ask yourself, Who are the bad guys in these movies?
Snow White had her Evil Queen. Cinderella had her wicked stepmother and two moronic stepsisters. Aurora, which is apparently Sleeping Beauty’s given name, had Maleficent. Sure, Ariel had Ursula, but Ariel also didn’t have a voice for much of the movie. Since then, most of Disney’s big bads have been boys. After Ursula, the next major bad gal was Rapunzel’s stepmother in Tangled. And surprise: That would be the next movie where female dialogue eclipsed males. (The “bad guy” in Brave was a bear, I think, so it’s a different case.)
(Sidebar: though Jafar serves to underscore this theory, I’m throwing Aladdin out as a “princess movie.” Though Jasmine is marketed heavily as part of the pantheon of “Disney Princesses,” Aladdin is not a princess movie. You can tell because it is named after the male protagonist. This is a hint. You might as well kvetch about Nala not getting enough lines as the “princess” in The Lion King. Also, how much of the 90% of the male dialogue in Aladdin came from Robin Williams?)
Many of the non-protagonist male characters that hog the script serve as either the evil-doers or as buffoonish comic relief. Neither is a particularly favorable image. Would Frozen have been a better movie for women if the slow-witted Snowman had been voiced by Melissa McCarthy? (By the way that could have been hilarious.) That is the answer to the “problems” these researchers have found, and it isn’t clear that it improves the messages these movies send to young girls.
What is clear is that someone got paid to watch an awful lot of Disney movies.
Distrust and Trump
December 11, 2015 December 11, 2015 ~ Jim Eltringham ~ 1 Comment
It’s funny to watch talking heads on television news ponder why Donald Trump enjoys apparent popular support, even while making controversial comments that draw criticism from across the political spectrum.
Victor Davis Hanson has as good an analysis as anyone:
The first reaction of Attorney General Loretta Lynch after the recent San Bernardino terrorist attack was to warn the country about Islamophobia. Her implicit message to the families of the dead was not that the government missed a terrorist cadre or let Islamic State sympathizers carry out a massacre. Instead, she worried more about Americans being angry at the inability of the tight-knit Muslim community to ferret out the extremists in its midst…
The government reports that a record 94.4 million Americans are not in the labor force. That is almost a third of the country. How can the same government declare that the official unemployment rate is only 5 percent?
Aside from a government so obviously unmoored from reality, most people watch a 24-hour cable news media where facts are equally alien. Consider that in the 16 hours after the San Bernardino shooting, early Twitter-fueled reports the attack on misguided anti-Planned Parenthood activists, white supremecists, and a workplace dispute, before the facts actually came out. The need for speed has surpassed the need for accuracy.
There’s also a willful tone-deafness to opposing views which creates distrust. Megan McArdle got it right in a column about the public discussion about Syrian refugees that sprang up right after the Paris attacks. McArdle, who supports taking in more refugees, had plenty of criticism for the holier-than-thou voices from her own side of the argument:
Perfectly reasonable people are worried that a small number of terrorists could pretend to be refugees in order to get into the U.S. for an attack. One response to these reasonable people has been: “How dare you say people fleeing terrorism are terrorists!” This is deeply silly. Obama administration officials have admitted that they can’t be sure of screening terrorists out from asylum seekers.
As a result, media and politicians wringing their hands over Trump lack any moral authority to do so. It’s no wonder negative news stories and condemnations from his oppoenents don’t affect this guy’s polling numbers.
(Sidebar: There’s also the whole question about whether the poll numbers translate into a viable campaign. Some media outles have started asking those questions now. Why now? Why wasn’t that considered relevant four months ago?)
Happy Birthday, Golden Girls!
September 15, 2015 September 22, 2015 ~ Jim Eltringham ~ Leave a comment
Since it’s the 30th anniversary of the premiere of The Golden Girls, this week’s Crummy Little Podcast is devoted to the sitcom. The guest is Dave Swindle, West Coast Editor for Liberty Island.
Crummy Little Podcast Episode 4: FUBU on a Klansman?
August 11, 2015 ~ Jim Eltringham ~ Leave a comment
George Chidi, who is responsible for this hilarious video of a Klansman wearing FUBU sneakers, is this week’s guest on the Crummy Little Podcast.
George got some attention for that video, as you might expect, but what’s been missed was his coverage of the confederate flag rally from which that video came. He also spent a week covering a shady soccer stadium deal in DeKalb County, outside of Atlanta. It’s a long podcast, but it was a great conversation about news reporting, media, where it’s at and where it’s going. It probably could have been two shows, but I liked the flow of it.
This was an especially fun episode for me because George and I go back a ways. Long before I had a crummy little podcast, I had a crummy little radio show back at UMass on campus station WMUA. George was the news director at that station for a time, and even guest-hosted my show at least once (and did a better job than me, if I remember right). Needless to say, he’s done our alma mater proud since.
Mike Pence might have something here
There’s some understandable bristling at Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s announcement of a “state-run” news service. called “Just IN.” It sounds like an memo from Vladimir Putin’s desk, not an initiative launch by a erstwhile darling of the conservative movement. The idea of government feeding the media, rather than the institutions having a healthy and mutual skepticism, doesn’t sit well.
But maybe this is where media is going. The other night, I watched reruns of Ken Burns’s 1994 documentary Baseball. It originally aired on PBS, but now it’s home is, appropriately enough, the MLB Network. Last Saturday, the NFL Network aired highlight shows for each Super Bowl up to this year. (I tuned in just as Plaxico Burress was scoring a game winner and not shooting himself in the leg.) The New York Yankees, the NBA, the NHL, and several major college sports conferences have staked out their own spot on the dial; Disney and Oprah Winfrey have done the same. Netflix, Amazon, heck even Overstock produce their own entertainment programming. More and more, those who produce the content want to control the delivery channels as well.
Additionally, Just IN gives Pence a direct conduit to the people outside of the filter of any bias from reporters, producers, or media outlets.
Creating a state-run news agency immediately conjures images of Soviet-style Propaganda. In reality, Pence may simply be ahead of the times in an evolving media landscape.
A Matter of Trust
May 7, 2013 May 7, 2013 ~ Jim Eltringham ~ Leave a comment
The catchy headline is that more people trust a guy who talked to an empty chair than the President of the United States, but that’s the Reader’s Digest account of the Reader’s Digest poll on the celebrities we trust the most.
Consider the top five: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, and Maya Angelou. This poll is probably fun to report on, but did the respondents really give it that much thought?
If Hanks knocks on your door at 11:00 p.m. dressed in drag and imploring you to help him move Peter Scoleri’s lifeless corpse, that trust would likely wear off pretty quick.
Calling these people trustworthy is a version of the word association game. It’s a knee-jerk reaction, and not necessarily rational. It’s fleeting, but it helps contextualize what we read or ear about them – even the bad stuff – so long as we are distant from it.
On the other hand, 45% seems low for a sitting President, and it seems like a number that could get beaten down – maybe with a steady drumbeat of stories about Benghazi. Not a deluge of Republican arm-waving and histrionics, but a steady drip of stories about inconsistencies in testimony or incompetencies in strategy will keep the idea alive that the President is not 100% forthcoming. The reverberations could extend into his legislative agenda and clip his wings as he tries to foist Speaker Pelosi back onto the country.
Benghazi probably won’t drive him from office, but as long as the story has legs it will whittle away the President’s shrinking cache of trust.
The Rutgers Mess: 1,000 words x 24 frames per second
April 3, 2013 April 3, 2013 ~ Jim Eltringham ~ Leave a comment
Rutgers fired their abusive basketball coach for, as Deadspin notes, being a public embarrassment rather than a private one.
The cynics are right on this one: there’s no doubt that Mike Rice’s firing came only because the video of him verbally and physically intimidating his players was on ESPN. But that does up the ante for the scandal. Describing what Rice did to his players might be damning, but having a clickable, watchable, shareable video takes it to another level.
Any players Rice would have recruited in the future would have seen that video, and it would have been the first question any parent asked during those all-important living room conversations with a prospective coach. Rutgers is already in a tough media market, would Rice have managed to be a darling of WFAN?
As another Rutgers alum knows well, video tells a story like no other medium can. In this case, it blew up what Rutgers had clearly hoped would be a private affair.
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Ring is seeking an experienced, self-motivated Sr. Product Manager - Technical possessing a balance of Security and Technical Product Management skills to join our Security Product Team. In this Senior role with a wide scope, you will work with cross-functional teams of technical and non-technical key stakeholders to advance strategy, create new features, develop requirements, plan for dependencies, and interpret, communicate, and drive full lifecycle product development. You will partner with Technical Program Management teams and Engineering teams to implement, maintain and execute security and privacy features and services. If you enjoy working in a rapidly changing environment, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity.
Develop Product Requirements for security and privacy features, including user stories, requirements, acceptance criteria and metrics
Conduct analysis to determine the competitive landscape for security features
Work with Design, Legal and relevant business owners to refine and align the key stakeholders around features
Work with Technical Program Managers, Engineering and QA teams to ensure delivery and execution of features
Work with Marketing, PR, Legal, Customer Support, Operations, Community, and other stakeholders to communicate features and participate in go-to-market planning and execution
Conduct security and privacy reviews of product features
Work with the security and privacy teams to implement new security and privacy processes, programs and features
Write documents to communicate the strategy to senior leadership and other stakeholders Bachelor's Degree
5+ years of experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology
Experience with end to end product delivery
Experience overseeing roadmap strategy and definition
Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
5+ years of Information Security and/or Privacy experience
Senior-level written and verbal communication skills
Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units
Excellent leadership, teamwork and collaboration skills
Experience in generating automated metrics to measure IT security effectiveness and consistency
Experience with service-oriented architectures and web services security
Experience in analyzing large data sets
Experience driving large scale enterprise projects as a Technical Program Manager
Experience working in industry standards groups, influencing external technology & business leaders
Experience with cloud technologies
Technical knowledge in multiple security domain areas such as authentication and authorization, security protocols, applications, system and network security
Knowledge of privacy frameworks and compliance requirements
Skilled in risk management, business risk analysis and making complex business/risk trade-off recommendations and decisions
Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions
Solid foundation in software design and engineering principles
High sense of ownership, urgency and drive
About Ring
Since its founding in 2013, Ring has been on a mission to make neighborhoods safer. From the video doorbell, to Ring Alarm, which was named #1 in Customer Satisfaction for DIY Home Security Systems by J.D. Power, Ring's smart home security product line, as well as the Neighbors App, offer users affordable whole-home and neighborhood security. At Ring, we are committed to making home and neighborhood security accessible and effective for everyone -- while working hard to bring communities together. Ring is an Amazon company. For more information, visitwww.ring.com. With Ring, you're always home.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us//.
Sr Product Manager Technical
VIEW JOBS 1/6/2021 12:00:00 AM 2021-04-06T00:00 Ring is seeking an experienced, self-motivated Sr. Product Manager - Technical possessing a balance of Security and Technical Product Management skills to join our Security Product Team. In this Senior role with a wide scope, you will work with cross-functional teams of technical and non-technical key stakeholders to advance strategy, create new features, develop requirements, plan for dependencies, and interpret, communicate, and drive full lifecycle product development. You will partner with Technical Program Management teams and Engineering teams to implement, maintain and execute security and privacy features and services. If you enjoy working in a rapidly changing environment, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity. Responsibilities: * Develop Product Requirements for security and privacy features, including user stories, requirements, acceptance criteria and metrics * Conduct analysis to determine the competitive landscape for security features * Work with Design, Legal and relevant business owners to refine and align the key stakeholders around features * Work with Technical Program Managers, Engineering and QA teams to ensure delivery and execution of features * Work with Marketing, PR, Legal, Customer Support, Operations, Community, and other stakeholders to communicate features and participate in go-to-market planning and execution * Conduct security and privacy reviews of product features * Work with the security and privacy teams to implement new security and privacy processes, programs and features * Write documents to communicate the strategy to senior leadership and other stakeholders * Bachelor's Degree * 5+ years of experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology * Experience with end to end product delivery * Experience overseeing roadmap strategy and definition * Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product * Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product * Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field * 5+ years of Information Security and/or Privacy experience * Senior-level written and verbal communication skills * Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units * Excellent leadership, teamwork and collaboration skills * Experience in generating automated metrics to measure IT security effectiveness and consistency * Experience with service-oriented architectures and web services security * Experience in analyzing large data sets * Experience driving large scale enterprise projects as a Technical Program Manager * Experience working in industry standards groups, influencing external technology & business leaders * Experience with cloud technologies * Technical knowledge in multiple security domain areas such as authentication and authorization, security protocols, applications, system and network security * Knowledge of privacy frameworks and compliance requirements * Skilled in risk management, business risk analysis and making complex business/risk trade-off recommendations and decisions * Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions * Solid foundation in software design and engineering principles * High sense of ownership, urgency and drive About Ring Since its founding in 2013, Ring has been on a mission to make neighborhoods safer. From the video doorbell, to Ring Alarm, which was named #1 in Customer Satisfaction for DIY Home Security Systems by J.D. Power, Ring's smart home security product line, as well as the Neighbors App, offer users affordable whole-home and neighborhood security. At Ring, we are committed to making home and neighborhood security accessible and effective for everyone -- while working hard to bring communities together. Ring is an Amazon company. For more information, visitwww.ring.com. With Ring, you're always home. Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us//. Amazon.Com, Inc. Hawthorne CA
Sr Technical Program Manager Security
VIEW JOBS 1/6/2021 12:00:00 AM 2021-04-06T00:00 Ring is seeking a senior technical program manager to mange the development of the Always Home Cam. In this role, you will have the opportunity to define and lead cross-disciplinary development work on security related to smart home products. The ideal candidate will be technical, creative, a strong communicator, able to orchestrate a development team and drive solutions in collaboration with other teams and stakeholders. You must be fully competent in project management tools, methodologies and techniques for all phases of the project lifecycle and have demonstrated proficiency on core project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality and risk management, reporting and metric development/tracking. The Ring Always Home Cam is a new consumer technology innovation from Ring, coming in 2021. This autonomously flying indoor security camera will fly to chosen, personalized viewpoints and lets users easily check in on things to give them peace of mind. Ring Always Home Cam charts a new path forward in whole home security by providing multiple viewpoints in the home with one, single device - no matter what's happening, you're always home. Key Responsibilities * Work with engineering and product management to translate business requirements into technical/functional specifications. * Build project plans, balancing business needs with project risks and resource availability. * Drive engineering project execution, make technical trade-offs, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues. * Coordinate cross-team efforts spanning our varied and diverse teams and stakeholders. * 7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams * Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules * 5+ years of technical program management experience * 5+ years of experience with encryption, authentication and other security-related matters. * 5+ years of experience with end-to-end product delivery. * Experience with managing the development of robotics products. * Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills with an ability to motivate teams and deliver results. * Strong verbal and written communication skills. * Experience with Jira and Confluence. About Ring Since its founding in 2013, Ring has been on a mission to make neighborhoods safer. From the video doorbell, to Ring Alarm, which was named #1 in Customer Satisfaction for DIY Home Security Systems by J.D. Power, Ring's smart home security product line, as well as the Neighbors App, offer users affordable whole-home and neighborhood security. At Ring, we are committed to making home and neighborhood security accessible and effective for everyone -- while working hard to bring communities together. Ring is an Amazon company. For more information, visitwww.ring.com. With Ring, you're always home. Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us//. Amazon.Com, Inc. Hawthorne CA
Principal Technical Program Manager
VIEW JOBS 1/7/2021 12:00:00 AM 2021-04-07T00:00 Ring is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to help manage the development of Always Home Cam. In this role, you will have the opportunity to define and lead cross-discipline development work on smart home products. The ideal candidate will be technical, creative, a strong communicator, and able to orchestrate a development team and drive solutions in collaboration with other teams and stakeholders. You must be competent in project management tools, methodologies and techniques for all phases of the project lifecycle and have demonstrated proficiency on core project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality and risk management, reporting and metric development/tracking. The Ring Always Home Cam is a new consumer technology innovation from Ring, coming in 2021. This autonomously flying indoor security camera will fly to chosen, personalized viewpoints and lets users easily check in on things to give them peace of mind. Ring Always Home Cam charts a new path forward in whole home security by providing multiple viewpoints in the home with one, single device - no matter what's happening, you're always home. Key Responsibilities * Work with engineering and product management to translate business requirements into technical/functional specifications. * Build project plans, balancing business needs with project risks and resource availability. * Drive engineering project execution, make technical trade-offs, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues. * Coordinate cross-team efforts spanning our varied and diverse partner teams and stakeholders. * Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules * 10+ years of relevant engineering experience * 7+ years of technical program management experience· 10+ years in technical project management. * 10+ years of experience with end-to-end product delivery * 10+ years of experience with Jira and Confluence. * Experience with managing the development of robotics products. * Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills with an ability to motivate teams and deliver results. * Strong verbal and written communication skills. About Ring Since its founding in 2013, Ring has been on a mission to make neighborhoods safer. From the video doorbell, to Ring Alarm, which was named #1 in Customer Satisfaction for DIY Home Security Systems by J.D. Power, Ring's smart home security product line, as well as the Neighbors App, offer users affordable whole-home and neighborhood security. At Ring, we are committed to making home and neighborhood security accessible and effective for everyone -- while working hard to bring communities together. Ring is an Amazon company. For more information, visitwww.ring.com. With Ring, you're always home. Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us//. Ring Hawthorne CA
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Creepy | November 3, 2013
10 Terrifying Monster Attacks
Nolan Moore
Horror flicks are full of grisly monster attacks. Freddy Krueger chops up teenagers, Godzilla burns down cities, Dracula sucks blood, and the Gill-man carries off lovely ladies. But it’s all good fun because it’s just fiction . . . right? Perhaps. Throughout history, thousands of people, wide-eyed with terror, have claimed they were attacked by monsters, demons, and things with very sharp teeth. Maybe they were lying, confused, or just drunk. Or maybe they were telling the truth.
10The Nameless Thing Of Berkeley Square
As we’ve seen before, 50 Berkeley Square is the most haunted house in London. This infamous home is supposedly full of spirits, but what if there’s something worse crawling through its halls? Ever since the 1840s, there have been stories of a nameless horror lurking in the upper floors. While some claim the “thing” is a violent ghost, others believe Berkeley Square is home to a real-life eldritch abomination.
In the 1840s, paranormal skeptic Sir Robert Warboys accepted the challenge of spending a night in the second story of London’s hell house. At the nervous landlord’s insistence, Warboys armed himself with a candle and a pistol and was ordered to yank the bell pull if anything strange happened. At 12:45, the landlord was jolted from his sleep by the ringing of the bell and the roar of a gunshot. He charged up the stairs and burst into Warboy’s room to find the young man huddled in a corner, smoking pistol in hand, and very much dead. There was no sign of an intruder, but the landlord could tell by the look left on Warboy’s pale face that he’d seen something horrible.
The second encounter took place in 1943, when two sailors named Martin and Blunden, both broke after a night of carousing, decided to spend the night in the abandoned house. They found a relatively dry and rat-free room upstairs, made a nice little fire and fell asleep on the floor. But after midnight, Blunden woke to the sound of creaking hinges and sat up to see the bedroom door slowly opening. Petrified, he woke up Martin, and that’s when they heard something wet, something slimy, dragging its way across the floor, slowly oozing towards them. Martin saw the creature, something he could only describe as a “hideous monstrosity” (perhaps because it was too awful for the human mind to comprehend), and it was blocking the door.
The monster suddenly sprang toward Blunden, wrapping around the man’s throat, choking the life out of him. Martin took off screaming and found a police officer patrolling the neighborhood. The cop was skeptical of Martin’s story, but after searching the house, he found Blunden’s body in the basement. The sailor’s neck was broken, and his eyes were bulging out of his head. Obviously, a more plausible scenario would be that Martin murdered his friend, but then why would he make up such a preposterous story? And what about numerous other sightings where witnesses described seeing a massive, viscous blob armed with tentacles? There are things man was not meant to know, and it might be that one of them lives in 50 Berkeley Square.
9Lhakpa Dolma And The Yeti
Despite Monsters, Inc., the yeti isn’t adorable—not if Lhakpa Dolma is telling the truth. In 1974, 14-year-old Lhakpa was tending her yaks in the cold Nepalese mountains when something came charging down the mountainside. A yeti grabbed the girl and hurled her into a stream. Scared but unhurt, Lhakpa watched as the creature turned its attention towards her livestock.
According to Lhakpa, the monster was dark brown with a wrinkly face and long nails, and it walked on both its hind legs and all fours. She also said it was about 1.5 meters (5 feet) tall, meaning the yeti is the same height as Danny DeVito. But what the yeti lacked in height, it made up for in muscles. It punched the yaks, and like a psychotic cowboy, grabbed their horns and twisted until their necks snapped. After killing three, the rampaging snowman ate their brains.
Lhakpa was traumatized, and her family found her in tears. They notified the police, who found strange bite marks on the yaks and odd footprints in the snow. So could a yeti actually have attacked Lhakpa Dolma? Whatever the culprit, it certainly was abominable.
8The Converse Werewolf
Believe it or not, the Lone Star State is full of werewolves. In 1958, Mrs. Delburt Gregg of Greggton awoke to find a wolf-man staring through her window. According to one old tale, settler and tombstone carver N.Q. Patterson of Kimble County etched the gruesome face of a local lycanthrope into the limestone rocks near his home. And in San Antonio, the Crimson Blood Wolf Pack is a group of self-proclaimed teenage werewolves who wear fake fangs, slit-iris contacts, and animal tails.
But the most terrifying Texas tale is the legend of the Converse Werewolf. The story goes that an old rancher armed his son with a rifle and sent him into the woods to shoot a deer and prove himself a man. When the boy didn’t return after several days, the rancher formed a search party and set out to find him.
As the rancher made his way through the underbrush, he heard a strange noise in the distance. Hoping it was his lost son, he tore through the trees and found his boy . . . being eaten by a gigantic wolf monster. Horrified, the rancher shot the beast, which dropped its prey and ran away. But the rancher was too late—the boy’s body had been ripped to shreds. After the werewolf encounter, the rancher lost his grip. He shut himself inside his cabin, refused to eat, and died a lonely death. It’s like H.P. Lovecraft wrote a western.
7The Dragon Of Lake Chelan
Located in the North Cascades National Forest, the beautiful waters of Lake Chelan certainly look inviting. But there’s something dangerous lurking beneath “Washington’s Playground.” According to one legend, Native Americans discovered a devil living in its depths and tried to kill the beast by damming the lake. But, like any good horror movie monster, it survived.
The creature resurfaced in 1892. According to a local newspaper, an unidentified young man was bathing in the lake when some very sharp jaws locked onto his legs. The man screamed for help, and two of his friends tried to pull him out. But the hungry monster had other plans. After a life-and-death game of tug-of-war, the men dragged their friend onto the beach—with the creature still clamped onto his legs.
The thing had the legs and body of an alligator, the head and eyes of a snake, a scaly tail, and bat wings. And though its skin was “soft as velvet,” the beast was impossible to kill. The men attacked the monster with knives, rocks, and sticks to no avail. The creature wasn’t letting go. Eventually, they built a fire and dragged the dragon over the flames. That got a reaction—a bad one. The dragon flapped its wings and soared into the air, with the man still in its mouth. Suddenly, it dived into the lake, disappearing along with its victim.
6The Hellhound Of Suffolk
Let’s say you’re being chased by a demon. Your first instinct is to run to a church because evil beings can’t step foot on holy ground, right? Well, that rule doesn’t apply to hellhounds. These black canines have been spotted across the world, and while some think they’re Satan’s attack dogs, others say they’re the devil incarnate. And despite their hellish nature, churches offer no sanctuary.
The most infamous hellhound attack took place on Sunday, August 4, 1577 in Suffolk, England. As the citizens of Bungay prayed inside St. Mary’s Church, a thunderstorm rocked the countryside. Hail pelted the church, and lightning flashed outside its walls, when suddenly a giant dog appeared. The canine leaped into the congregation and began ripping out throats. Just the heat emanating from the beast vaporized anyone who got too close. Some even say it used its front paws to strangle worshipers. By the time it was done, the hellhound had killed three churchgoers, but the night was still young! The black dog ran towards Blythburgh Church where it continued its carnage, claiming more souls before disappearing into the night.
So did a hellhound really attack Bungay and Blythburgh? Records show there was a thunderstorm on August 4, 1577, and that St. Mary’s steeple was struck by lightning. Further, the Churchwarden’s records indicate that two men died in the belfry that night. So was it a natural occurrence? Perhaps. But an old verse claims, “All down the church in the midst of fire, the hellish monster flew. And, passing onward to the quire, he many people slew.” And if you visit Blythburgh, you can still see where the hellhound supposedly scorched the church door.
5Henri Van Heerdan And The Santu Sakai
The Santu Sakai of Malaysia are half-human, half-animal creatures with a nasty habit of raiding villages and carrying people off as midnight snacks. Their name translates into “mouth men,” probably because they have butcher knife fangs and a penchant for eating humans.
Of course, most don’t believe in the Santu Sakai. They sound like a bad dream you’d have after eating spicy food while watching Beowulf. But Henri Van Heerdan would disagree. In 1967, he was hunting in a forest near Kuala Lumpur when he heard growling and screaming coming from the trees. As a hunter, Van Heerdan was used to such noises, but these unnerved him, and he ran.
As he ran, Van Heerdan looked back to see two gruesome ogres barreling straight at him. They were big, blocky, and armed with very sharp teeth. Van Heerdan decided to shoot them down, but before he could aim his shotgun, the Santu Sakai were all over him, knocking his weapon away. Desperate, Van Heerdan clubbed the beasts with a rock and staggered into his car. As he fumbled with his keys, one demon tried smashing through the rear window while the other mounted the hood. Finally, Van Heerdan got the motor running and ditched Thing One, but Thing Two was still battering the windshield. So Van Heerdan hit the brakes, sending the monster sprawling. Then he sped toward civilization, leaving the mouth men to choke in his dust.
4The Story Of Edward Brian McCleary
Purchase a copy of the May 1965 issue of Fate Magazine, and you’ll find a chilling story titled “My Escape From a Sea Monster” by Edward Brian McCleary. McCleary was just 19 when he and his four teenage friends (Warren Salley, Eric Ruyle, Larry Bill, and Brad Rice) said they were attacked by a prehistoric beast.
On March 24, 1962, the five friends decided to check out the USS Massachusetts. The navy had sunk the decommissioned ship off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, and the boys thought it would be the perfect place to scuba dive. Adventurous teenagers, creepy location, evil monster—you see where this is going.
As the boys sailed towards the battleship in a rubber raft, they hit a fierce storm. After being tossed around by strong winds, they found themselves lost in the fog. While they didn’t run across undead pirates, they did find something worse. As the sun sank, the boys heard something splashing nearby. It was then they smelled the stench of rot . . . and heard something hissing.
McCleary claims he then saw something like a 3 meter (10 ft) pole, or a very long neck, coming straight at them. Panicking, the teens ditched their raft and swam for the battleship, but as they paddled, McCleary saw the monster pull Eric Ruyle under the water. Then he heard Warren Salley shout, “It’s got Brad!” A few moments later, Salley screamed in pain, and Larry Bill vanished into the fog.
McCleary swam to shore, where was discovered by a rescue crew. Three years later, he sold his story to the magazine and sketched an image of the beast that supposedly killed his friends. The illustration bears a striking resemblance to a plesiosaurus. But is there any truth to McCleary’s tale? According to the website “Cryptomundo,” Brad Rice really did wash ashore dead, but the fate of the others remains unclear.
3La Bruja De Guadalupe
Leonardo Samaniego isn’t your typical monster attack victim. Aside from being a police officer, Samaniego didn’t encounter the standard apeman or sea serpent. Instead, Samaniego claims he was attacked by a “bruja” (Spanish for “witch”).
Officer Samaniego was patrolling the streets of Guadalupe, Mexico on January 16, 2004, when he noticed something jump down from a nearby tree. Curious, Samaniego flicked on his brights to get a better look, and saw a woman clad in a black cape, cloak, and pointy hat. This witchy woman had solid black eyes (no moon in there), no eyelids, and most importantly, her feet weren’t touching the ground. Without warning, the bruja soared toward the car, landing on the hood and glaring at Samaniego with her soulless eyes. As the terrified officer threw his car in reverse, the witch pounded on the windshield, trying to break through and grab Samaniego. Samaniego radioed for backup, but suddenly hit a wall, knocking himself unconscious.
Samaniego awoke inside an ambulance and was tested for drugs and alcohol, both of which turned up negative. He passed all psychological tests, and he’d never had hallucinations before. When reporters arrived, the frightened officer stuck to his story. After his tale went public, hundreds of people reported seeing a woman flying across the sky. Had Samaniego’s story sparked mass hysteria? Or did something really attack his cruiser? If you ever visit Guadalupe, maybe you should take a bucket of water for protection.
2The Bauman Incident
The uber-spooky tale of Bauman the mountain man was transcribed by none other than Teddy Roosevelt himself. The story comes from Roosevelt’s 1892 book The Wilderness Hunter, and Bauman’s tale is as creepy as they come.
Bauman and his partner were beaver trappers who’d set up camp and built a lean-to near Montana’s Wisdom River. Leaving their bags behind, they went to set traps, returning as night fell. But when they came back, they found something had torn down their shelter and emptied their packs. Bauman assumed it had been a bear, but his partner was uneasy. Using a torch, he carefully inspected the tracks. “Bauman,” his partner said, “that bear has been walking on two legs.”
That night, as the two slept in a newly built lean-to, Bauman awoke to see a giant standing in the opening. He panicked and shot the intruder, which then took off into the forest. For the rest of the night, the two men sat by the fire, cradling their guns, watching the trees.
The creature returned the next day, wrecking their campsite again while they were trapping. And that night, the men heard the beast howling in the woods. When the sun rose, Bauman and his friend decided it was time to pack up and go. But first, they had to collect their traps, and they made the all-time classic mistake. They split up. Bauman went to the river while his partner stayed to pack their gear.
When Bauman returned to camp, he noticed their fire had gone out. All their belongings were packed, but where was his partner? Bauman called for him, but there was no answer. And then he saw the body. His partner was sprawled on the ground, his neck broken, his throat covered with puncture wounds, and there were giant footprints everywhere. Terrified, Bauman took off running through the forest, leaving behind everything except his gun.
So what was the creature? Bauman believed it was a goblin. Modern cryptozoologists think it was Bigfoot. But Roosevelt was undecided. Perhaps it was just an animal . . . but then again, perhaps not. As he put it, “No man can say.”
1The Fred Beck Story
Near Mount St. Helens is a narrow gorge called Ape Canyon, and if Fred Beck is telling the truth, its inhabitants don’t care for visitors. In 1924, Beck and four friends were mining for gold near the canyon when weird things started happening. For a week, they’d been hearing strange noises, whistling, and loud booms, like something beating its chest. One day, when Beck and a buddy went to fetch water, they saw a hairy hominid step out of the woods. Perhaps it just wanted to say hi, but Beck’s friend panicked and shot at the creature, driving it into the canyon.
Naturally, the miners were spooked and planned to leave the following morning. The Bigfoot had other plans. That night, the miners were sleeping when something crashed against their cabin. Beck jumped out of bed and heard things, very big things, running around outside. As the cabin had no windows, one of the miners peered through a gap in the logs and saw at least three monsters plotting an attack. The monsters began hurling rocks at the cabin, and they pushed against the door and climbed onto the roof, looking for an entrance. The miners began shooting back, firing through the roof and through gaps in the logs.
The attack continued through the night, with the creatures pummeling the cabin. One of the miners was so afraid that he sang in hopes of appeasing the “Mountain Devils.” But when the sun rose, the beasts melted into the forest. The miners quickly packed and then bolted out the door toward their car. After the miners made it to safety, they told their wild story to several newspapers. When reporters investigated the site, they found mysterious footprints but no Bigfoot, not even dead ones. Obviously, most believe the story was a hoax, and one man even took credit. In 1982, a man named Rant Mullens claimed that not only had he been faking Bigfoot tracks since the ’30s, but that he’d rolled rocks onto Fred Beck’s cabin that night in 1924. So the whole thing was probably a twisted prank . . . but this author still won’t ever spend a night near Ape Canyon.
Nolan Moore doesn’t believe in monsters but keeps the night light on just in case.
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Comprehensive Analysis of Thirty Years of Land Change in Georgia: Patterns, Carbon Dynamics and Drivers
Project Call:
LCLUC-2016
Science Theme:
Detection and Monitoring of LCLUC
Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycle Impacts
Regional Initiative:
Northern Eurasian Earth Science Partnership Initiative
Solicitation:
Distribution of Project Team Members Institutions
Principal Investigator Co-Investigator Collaborator Postdoc Researcher Graduate Student Researcher Other
Person role on project
Pontus Olofsson Principal Investigator Boston University, Boston, United States
Curtis Woodcock Co-Investigator Boston University, Boston, United States
Rachael Garrett Co-Investigator Boston University, ,
Paata Torchinava Collaborator Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
Georgia, a former Soviet Union Republic, has experienced more political, economic and social change in the last 30 years than most countries. But the environmental implications of these extreme events remain largely unknown - the region is understudied, no national forest inventory has been completed in 15 years, and previous research in the area conducted by the proposal team is now outdated. In this proposal, we outline a plan for a comprehensive analysis of Georgia’s land change patterns and terrestrial carbon dynamics during its dramatic modern history. We will analyze the impacts of shifting policies, globalization, and economic and political turmoil by mining the rich archives of satellite observations from NASA and other space agencies, as well as national census data and local inventories. The research will be implemented in close collaboration with local collaborators. An investigation based on time series analysis of satellite observations of surface reflectance that allows us to track the pixel-level land dynamics over the last 30 years will provide a comprehensive understanding of how Georgia’s dramatic modern history has impacted land use. Based on the history of land use, we will model the associated carbon dynamics using a spatiotemporal carbon bookkeeping model. Panel regression models will explore how local and global socioeconomic change has influenced land change. These analyses, together with estimates of potentially available cropland, will inform projections of future forest and cropland dynamics under different socioeconomic and climate scenarios. Using these data, local collaboration and implementation will aim at informing policy for more sustainable land use. We expect the proposed research to provide much needed environmental and societal information about Georgia that currently does not exist. It will result in a marked increase of Georgia’s UNFCCC reporting capabilities and for the first time, fully explore the postSoviet land change patterns and their implications. At the heart of the proposed investigation are time series of all surface reflectance observations collected over Georgia by the Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellites at spatial resolutions of 10 to 30 meters. By continuously monitor the land surface using these observations, we can readily capture and identify the gradual processes driven by small scale activities that are so characteristic of the post-Soviet Georgian landscape. Processes that are difficult or impossible to identify using more traditional change detection approaches focused on mapping categorical losses and gains of land cover.
Project Research Area:
Pontus Olofsson
NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation Comprehensive Analysis of Thirty Years of Land Change in Georgia: Patterns, Carbon Dynamics and Drivers
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New world record set for most Big Mac's eaten by one person
BURGER WARS: Macca’s fires up at Aussie burger chain
by Ben Graham
14th Oct 2020 12:18 PM
McDonald's is threatening an Aussie restaurant chain with legal action after the release of a burger that the fast food giant claims is a copy of its famous Big Mac.
The owners of Rashays have now been slapped with a cease-and-desist order for their new 'Big MacJac' burger
The burger contains two Wagyu beef patties, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, and a special sauce.
Rashays founder Rami Ykmour says that although Macca's has been threatening legal action, the burger was created with the intention of being tongue-in-cheek.
"There's nothing more Aussie than having a bit of a laugh at their expense," he told Pedestrian.
"We can't believe in these tough times where we are struggling to survive through a global pandemic, one big giant is fighting with another, wasting time over a burger."
Rashays founder Rami Ykmour said his burger was created with the intention of being tongue-in-cheek.
The news comes as McDonald's goes head-to-head with Hungry Jack's in a very similar legal battle.
The two fast food operators were in the Federal Court in October for the preliminary hearing of a trademark battle over the Big Mac burger.
McDonald's has held the 'Big Mac' trademark since 1973 and claims Hungry Jack's used "flagrant or wilful disregard" in promoting their "Big Jack" burger.
It wants the trademark cancelled because it is "likely to deceive or cause confusion" for customers.
However, Hungry Jack's does not seem too concerned. Last month it released a TV advert poking fun at the incident.
"The Big Jack has 25 per cent more Australian beef. Aussies know you can't get smaller pan fried American burgers at our restaurants. We flame grill our beef and that's why the burgers are better at Hungry Jack's," said a spokesman for Hungry Jack's.
Hungry Jacks says it is entitled to use the Big Jack trademark. Picture: Tertius Pickard/NCA NewsWire
"The Big Jack is flame grilled and only available at Hungry Jack's restaurants."
According to the Brisbane Times, Hungry Jack's is claiming it is entitled to use the Big Jack trademark, which played on the company's name and the name of "its founder and current owner, Jack Cowin".
The word Jack was "closely associated by consumers with Hungry Jack's' goods and services", the company's lawyers said, adding that McDonald's "do not have a trademark, or any other enforceable intellectual property right in the appearance, build and/or ingredients of the Big Mac burger".
The claim the Big Jack burger differed in appearance, build, size, taste and cooking method.
The two parties will meet again in court at a later date.
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J'Nai Bridges, Harolyn Blackwell, and More Opera Stars to Pay Tribute to Jessye Norman
Classic Arts News J'Nai Bridges, Harolyn Blackwell, and More Opera Stars to Pay Tribute to Jessye Norman
By Ryan McPhee
The event, presented by Black Opera Productions, will stream September 15—what would have been the late soprano's 75th birthday.
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Black Opera Productions, the company behind the upcoming documentary Black Opera and the ongoing Black Opera Live! series, will present a virtual gala in honor of Jessye Norman. The 90-minute stream will take place September 15—what would have been the late soprano's 75th birthday.
The event, produced in partnership with the Norman estate, will feature such opera stars and musicians as J'Nai Bridges, Harolyn Blackwell, Martina Arroyo, Simon Estes, Damien Sneed, George Shirley, Measha Brueggergosman, Krysty Swann, Karen Slack, Chauncey Packer, John Holiday, Audrey DuBois-Harris, Sidney Outlaw, Justin Austin, Brandie Sutton, and Russell Thomas, plus Norman's family and students from the Jessye Norman School of the Arts. Kenneth Overton will host.
The event will be free to stream on YouTube, though suggested donations will benefit Norman's namesake estate and school, as well as continued development of the company's documentary.
WATCH: 5 Unforgettable Performances From the Late, Never ‘Pigeonholed’ Jessye Norman
Norman died September 30 last year at 74. She is remembered for her varied repertoire that included (but was not limited to) opera roles that defied convention and rousing renditions of spirituals.
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MBDA Completes Sea Venom / ANL Missile Qualification Firing Trials
The Sea Venom/ANL anti-ship missile has completed its qualification firings trials, with a successful final firing at the French Armament General Directorate (DGA) test site at Ile du Levant on November 17th 2020.
Soon to start equipping the Royal Navy’s AW159 Wildcat and Marine Nationale’s H160M Guépard shipborne helicopters, the Sea Venom/ANL anti-ship missile is a co-operation project developed under the Lancaster House treaty between France and the United Kingdom. The Sea Venom/ANL missile is the first program to take full advantage of the cross-border centers of excellence on missile technologies launched by the Lancaster House treaty, which celebrated its 10-year anniversary this month.
The final qualification trial tested the missile’s advanced target discrimination within a complex and cluttered naval scenario.
Éric Béranger, MBDA CEO, said: “I want to congratulate the UK-French teams across both MBDA and our governments for the commitment they have shown in meeting this qualification milestone amid the disruption caused by Covid-19. Together they have proven that through co-operation we can jointly overcome adversity and deliver leading edge military capabilities.”
Previous trials have tested the missiles launch envelope, release envelope, and engagement modes, such as its low-altitude sea-skimming flight, lock on after launch (LOAL), lock on before launch (LOBL), operator-in-the-loop, and aimpoint refinement.
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These 7 LGBTQ+ sites are using their platforms to show solidarity
Marisa Abeyta / June 10, 2020
From time to time, an industry or subject inspires us to create a best-of list. These are sites that produce out-of-this-world coverage in a crowded arena. In case you’ve missed some, you can find them here. If you think your site should be considered, give us a holler and tell us why.
June is #PrideMonth, and even though celebrations like Pride continue to be affected by current events, there are many positives to take away from them. Take the Black Lives Matter protests against injustice, for example; intersectionality and solidarity have jumped to the forefront of the LGBTQ+ community and Pride celebrations this year.
This year, Pride Month isn’t “business as usual.” The LGBTQ+ community has a unique position to stand in solidarity with the black community in support of one another. After all, it was the Stonewall riots — the historical uprising in response to a police raid on the morning of June 28, 1969 — that birthed the global gay rights movement.
In honor of solidarity and the fight against racism, check out these LGBTQ+ news sites that stand with the black community against injustice and racism.
1. The Advocate
The Advocate presents trending news on gay politics, elections, commentary, culture, and photography.
The Advocate also has hundreds of free podcasts covering legislation related to marriage equality and same-sex adoption, and other issues that impact the LGBTQ+ community.
Stories to read right now: Justice Smith Comes Out as Queer in Solidarity For Black LGBTQ+ Lives; and podcast Writer Kimberly Drew on the Relationship Between Art and Activism.
2. Pink News
Pink News covers world news topics on politics, education, entertainment, religion, sports, dating, parenting, and much more. It’s a global community of people who want to stay informed, inspired, and empowered to be themselves.
The organization launched an initiative this month named #PrideForAll, which advocates for LGBTQ+ human rights and led to a virtual march in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement last weekend.
Stories to read right now: Queer activists explain why Pride Month is so vital this year: ‘People are fighting for their freedom’; and 7 essential self-care tips for queer Black people feeling the weight of Black suffering.
3 LGBTQ Nation
LGBTQ Nation is an online news magazine that covers LGBTQ-related topics on politics, life, health, and elections.
LGBTQ Nation is one of the few news sites on this list that has a news section dedicated solely to LGBTQ Pride – the banner reads: “Pride is the spirit that bolsters LGBTQ rights movements throughout the world.” The LGBTQ Pride section is packed full of diverse stories for everyone to discover.
Stories to read right now: Indianapolis honors LGBTQ people of color in Pride proclamation; and LA Pride announces Black Lives Matter protest march will replace Pride parade.
4. Out
Out is a news outlet that features editor’s picks on topics such as fashion, entertainment, news and opinion, and television. The site also has a section called Popnography, a “one-stop shop for all aspects of LGBT entertainment and culture.”
Out features some of the most well-known voices of the LGBTQ+ community — Jesse Archer and Tammy Baldwin, to name a few — who share opinions on gay news.
Stories to read right now: How We Can End the Violence Against Trans Women of Color; and Grindr Is Disabling Its Ethnicity Filter to Fight Racism.
5. Pride.com
Pride.com covers trending topics and tags such as #BlackLivesMatter, #Geek, #Movies, #TV, #Interviews, #Music, #ComingOut, and #Activism.
Pride.com mostly focuses on the entertainment industry’s reaction to gay news and politics. The news site values social justice and includes some of the most influential celebrity voices in the gay activist community.
Stories to read right now: Lady Gaga, Lizzo, & Selena Use Insta to Spotlight Racial Justice Orgs; and Don’t Forget: The First Pride Was a Riot.
6. Autostraddle
Since 2009, Autostraddle has been covering topics on television, arts and pop culture, sex and dating, politics, community, and more.
The site is “an intelligent, hilarious and provocative voice and a progressively feminist online community for multiple generations of kick-ass lesbian, bisexual and otherwise inclined ladies (and their friends).”
Stories to read right now: A Black Feminist, Queer History of Prison Abolition and the Never-Ending Fight for Black Liberation; and Support Black Community With Your Money: A Living Index of Local Mutual Aid Efforts.
7. Washington Blade
Washington Blade is an award-winning news source “covering the LGBT Community since 1969,” making it the most senior news site on the list.
Washington Blade covers politics, opinions, arts and entertainment, lifestyle, health, and sports. The publication just celebrated its 50-year anniversary — it sprung from a gay community in Washington, D.C,. in 1969, just after the Stonewall riots.
Stories to read right now: ‘It means giving up some privilege’: Black leaders on how gays can fight racism; and Baltimore group holds Black Trans Lives Matter rally, march.
Make sure to check out previous posts recognizing outstanding LGBTQ+ blogs and news sites:
Blog Profiles: LGBTQ+ Parenting Blogs (2020)
Loud and Proud: 13 LGBTQ+ Blogs You Need to Start Following this Pride Month (2019)
This PRIDE month, we applaud these 10 influencers, who advance the LGBTQ story. (2018)
Here are 10 news sites we love for vibrant coverage of the LGBT community — for pride month and beyond (2017)
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The chapter opens with a definition of audio description (AD) – an accessible form of audiovisual translation for the blind and visually impaired people (VIPs). It describes the primary target audience of AD emphasizing its heterogeneity and diversified needs. It then tracks the history of AD both as a professional practice and as an academic discipline and focuses on AD guidelines in order to show the commonalities and the difference between the ones on the market, and to illustrate the change in perspective that took place over the last few years and that brought to the formulation of new user-centred and flexible recommendations in opposition to the former rigid norms that have governed the AD professional practice till recently. A brief overview of some of the most relevant aspects of the language of AD is offered based on corpus-based research, as well as an overview on the stylistic properties of AD and the unresolved debate on interpretation in AD. The chapter closes with an overview of the most relevant findings of reception research that has been carried out both on VIPs and on sighted viewers.
Elisa Perego is is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Trieste, Italy. Her research focuses on audiovisual translation accessibility and reception; subtitling and audio description; and empirical and cross-national research methodology. She is currently the coordinator of the European project ADLAB PRO (2016–2019) on audio description.
The Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation Studies provides an authoritative and straightforward overview of the field through thirty-two specially commissioned chapters written by leading scholars in the field.
This state-of-the-art reference work is divided in four sections. The first part focuses on established and emerging audiovisual translation modalities, explores the changing contexts in which they have been and continue to be used, and examine how cultural and technological changes are directing their future trajectories. The second part explores the interface between audiovisual translation and a range of theoretical models that have proved particularly productive in steering research in audiovisual translation studies. Some of these models are associated with disciplines that have long intersected with audiovisual translation, while others are drawn from areas of knowledge that are only now beginning to make their presence felt in the audiovisual translation literature. The third part surveys a range of methodological approaches supporting traditional and innovative ways of interrogating audiovisual translation data. The final part addresses a range of themes pertaining to the place of audiovisual translation in society: these include the institutionalization, academization and technologization of audiovisual translation, as well as its role as a force for social change, both within and outside the industry. This Handbook gives audiovisual translation studies the voice it needs to make its presence felt within the Humanities research landscape.
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Walz will let stay-at-home order expire; shops can open May 18, bars, restaurants, salons June 1
Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday night that Minnesota's stay-at-home order, which has long been the cornerstone of the state's Covid-19 response, will finally expire on May 18. A replacement order called "Stay Safe MN" will go into effect May 18. That order will allow for social gatherings of less than 10 people and the reopening of stores, malls and other non-essential small businesses if those businesses can follow social distancing guidelines. Walz said he expects to have a similar set of guidelines… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - May 14, 2020 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Carrigan Miller Source Type: news
Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday night that Minnesota's stay-at-home order, which has long been the cornerstone of the state's Covid-19 response, will finally expire on May 18. A replacement order called "Stay Safe MN" will go into effect May 18. That order will allow for social gatherings of less than 10 people and the reopening of stores, malls and other non-essential small businesses if those businesses can follow social distancing guidelines. Walz said he expects to have a similar set of guidelines… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - May 14, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Carrigan Miller Source Type: news
Perspective helps this father and Seattle small business co-owner cope
The co-owners of the young physical therapy practice are trying to stay present and have faith that this will end eventually. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
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The co-owners of the young physical therapy practice are trying to stay present and have faith that this will end eventually. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - May 11, 2020 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Marc Stiles Source Type: news
Boston Considers Expanding Sidewalks, More Outdoor Dining As Coronavirus Precautions
BOSTON (CBS) – With Massachusetts announcing its plan to begin a phased reopening of the economy, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said the city is working on coronavirus precautions that could include expanded sidewalks and more outdoor dining options. Walsh spoke about potential changes for businesses during his daily press briefing on Monday. “As summer approaches, and as the weather brings more people outdoors, and as we prepare for a phased reopening, we want to make sure that we have enough space for safe distancing,” said Walsh. The mayor said potential options include more sidewalk room in business distri...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - May 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Syndicated Local Boston Mayor Marty Walsh Coronavirus Source Type: news
Women Taking Charge during COVID-19
A Rohingya woman crosses the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh near the village of Anzuman Para in Palong Khali. Credit: UNHCR/Roger ArnoldBy Fairuz AhmedNEW YORK, May 11 2020 (IPS) As the COVID-19 mayhem carries on in most countries, the role of mothers, daughters, and female caregivers have been affected the most. Besides looking after the household and home schooling children, they are also working on the front lines, actively or passively caring for their respective communities. Globally, women make up the majority of workers in the health and social welfare sectors. Nearly one in three women work in agriculture and...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Fairuz Ahmed Tags: Aid Asia-Pacific Economy & Trade Education Food & Agriculture Gender Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Labour Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Source Type: news
Millions of Americans who may qualify for unemployment struggle to file
Millions of people who are out of work right now are self-employed or run small businesses and normally wouldn't qualify for unemployment. But in many states, they're now eligible for help under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - May 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Trump's "zombie economy" scheme that pays workers to stay home and NOT work while small businesses get crushed is the dumbest economic experiment ever attempted
(Natural News) The Trump administration is paying huge numbers of people more money to not work than they used to make at their jobs, so even as economies attempt to reopen, small businesses can’t find anyone who wants to work. Why should they work, after all, when they’re collecting more money to not work? How... (Source: NaturalNews.com)
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SBA: Business Loan Program Temporary Changes; Paycheck Protection Program-Nondiscrimination and Additional Eligibility Criteria
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has issued an interim final rule for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to supplement the previously posted interim final rules by providing guidance on nondiscrimination obligations and additional eligibility requirements. Comments on the changes are due by June 8, 2020. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
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NRHA and the U.S. Small Business Administration Present "Rural Providers and the Paycheck Protection Program"
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) partnered to present a series of regional webinars highlighting funding available to rural healthcare providers through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). A total of six webinars will be presented on May 11 and May 12, 2020. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
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Overlooked small businesses are finally getting federal loans. Challenges remain
Many can now meet payroll for a few weeks – but then what? (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
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How Small Physician Practices are Struggling to Survive During Coronavirus Pandemic
As visits plummet because of the coronavirus, small physician practices are struggling to survive. (Source: NYT)
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Argentina Responds Boldly to Coronavirus Crisis
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 2020 (IPS) Like much of the West, Argentina did not take many early precautionary actions after the Covid-19 epidemic was confirmed in January, but became the first Latin American country to act decisively with a 12 March public health emergency declaration. The presidential decree came a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic, just over a week after the first case was detected in the republic on 3 March. Anis ChowdhuryLockdown to ‘flatten the curve’ With neither vaccine nor cure available, Argentina dec...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Economy & Trade Financial Crisis Health Humanitarian Emergencies Latin America & the Caribbean TerraViva United Nations Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news
High Demand Caused by COVID-19 Helps Baxter Beat 1Q20 Expectations
Baxter International is experiencing significant revenue growth because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Because of the virus’s impact, the Deerfield, IL-based company beat Wall Street expectations for its 1Q20 earnings. Baxter reported results of $2.8 billion, a 6% increase from the $2.6 billion reported in 1Q19. The results beat out consensus, which came in at about $2.7 billion. Higher demand for Baxter’s continuous renal placement therapy line, generic injectables and parenteral nutrition therapies, and intravenous solutions contributed to sales growth. Executives estimated that ...
Source: MDDI - May 4, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Omar Ford Tags: COVID-19 Business Source Type: news
PPP loans put some workers and business owners in tough positions
The new Payroll Protection Program has processed more than $500 billion in loans to help small businesses survive the coronavirus lockdown, but critics say the PPP isn't doing what it was meant to. The loans will be forgiven only if businesses spend 75% of the money on their employees in just eight weeks. But, Ed O'Keefe reports that some workers have concerns about going back to work. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Big government fail: Publicly traded companies snagged $1 billion in coronavirus relief funds meant for small businesses
(Natural News) If you ever needed another example of why it’s foolish to rely on big government to ‘solve our problems,’ this should do the trick. As most readers know, in late March Congress passed a “coronavirus stimulus package” worth some $2.2 trillion, and part of that money was supposed to be spent keeping small... (Source: NaturalNews.com)
SBA: Business Loan Program Temporary Changes; Paycheck Protection Program-Requirements-Corporate Groups and Non-Bank and Non-Insured Depository Institution Lenders
The Small Business Administration has issued an interim final rule to supercede all earlier versions of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) interim final rule. Changes to the rule are effective May 4, 2020 and concern limitations on the amount of PPP loans that any single corporate group may receive and provide guidance on the criteria for non-bank lender participation in the program. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
SBA: Business Loan Program Temporary Changes; Paycheck Protection Program-Requirements-Disbursements
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has issued an interim final rule for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to supplement the previously posted interim final rules with additional guidance to provide clarity on program requirements. This interim final rule supplements SBA's implementation of the Act and requests public comment by June 3, 2020. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Africa: Africa - When Closed Borders Become a Problem
[DW] Many African states have closed their borders due to COVID-19. The movement of goods continues, albeit slowly. For people, transiting countries is difficult and the consequences for workers and small businesses are dire. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
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Newsom teases announcement in 'days, not weeks' on reopening California
The governor has described the next phase of his stay-at-home order to prevent the spread of coronavirus as allowing some lower-risk businesses to reopen in communities across California, including retail locations, manufacturing sites and small businesses. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - May 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Taryn Luna, Phil Willon, John Myers Source Type: news
Malawi: Govt Rolls Out U.S.$51,9 Million Cash Handouts to Combat COVID-19 Impact
[Nyasa Times] Malawi government on Thursday officially launched an emergency cash transfer programme targeting about 1 million people and small businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic, which President Arthur Peter Mutharika announced on Tuesday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Lipo-ImmunoTech receives grant to develop a novel cancer immunotherapy technology
(Medical University of South Carolina) Lipo-ImmunoTech, LLC, a startup based in Charleston, South Carolina, recently received a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant of just over $224,000 to continue to develop its novel adoptive cell therapy technology for cancer. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
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Famous D.C. restaurant fights to stay open during coronavirus outbreak
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Trump and Fauci at odds on reopening economy
President Trump claimed the U.S. will soon be conducting 5 million coronavirus tests per day, but the current number sits around 200,000 per day. At a White House event for small businesses, Mr. Trump said the worst of the pandemic is behind us. Dr. Anthony Fauci, however, warned that rushing to reopen the country could lead to a rebound. Ben Tracy breaks down the mixed messages coming from the White House. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
NSF provides more support for drug discovery platform for hard-to-treat cancers
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SBA: Business Loan Program Temporary Changes; Paycheck Protection Program: Requirements: Promissory Notes, Authorizations, Affiliation, and Eligibility
Notice of interim final rule and comment request from the Small Business Administration related to applications submitted under the Paycheck Protection Program through June 30, 2020, or until funds are exhausted. Provides clarification on loan eligibility for hospitals owned by governmental entities, among other things. The interim final rule is effective on April 28, 2020. Comments are due by May 28, 2020. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Small-business loan program resumes with new funding as the Lakers return money received in first tranche
Despite early glitches and overwhelming demand, the Small Business Administration processed more than 100,000 Paycheck Protection Program loans by more than 4,000 lenders. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
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Small business loan website crashes minutes after launch as many are still without stimulus checks
The government website handling applications for the second round of small business funding crashed minutes after it went online. It's the latest frustration for people trying to survive during the pandemic. Janet Shamlian reports. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Congress Passes Fourth Coronavirus Stimulus
A fourth coronavirus stimulus package, the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, was passed by Congress on April 23, 2020, and signed by the President on April 24. The $484 billion relief package replenishes a small-business loan program and provides aid to hospitals and health-care providers and funds for coronavirus testing. The measure provides $310 billion in new funding to replenish the Paycheck Protection Program, which was created under the CARES Act and ran out of funding last week. The measure also includes $60 billion for small business emergency loans and grants; $75 billion to reimburse ...
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Public Inspection: SBA: List of Rules to be Reviewed Pursuant to the Regulatory Flexibility Act
Pre-publication notice from the Small Business Administration (SBA) publishing a list of rules to be reviewed pursuant to section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act. SBA is seeking comment on whether the rules should be continued without change, amended, or rescinded to minimize any significant economic impact of the rules upon a substantial number of small entities. Comments are due 90 days after publication of this notice in the Federal Register, which is scheduled for April 28, 2020. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
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Jeiri Flores is normally a busy, upbeat 29-year-old. But amid the COVID-19 pandemic, her go-to thought has been dark. “If I get this,” she thinks, “I’m gonna die.” This is not an unfounded fear. Flores has cerebral palsy, uses a wheelchair and needs assistance with everyday tasks, including making food and getting dressed. Her disability means it’s tougher for her immune system to kick illnesses; she’s still recovering from a bout of pneumonia she had in January. So beating COVID-19 could easily mean a protracted battle and months in a hospital—a prospect that comes with a c...
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Death Toll Climbs in California; House Passes Aid Package
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Watch live: Coronavirus Task Force gives update on response
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DC Gets its Freak on with the Doom Patrol
On September 5, 2017 By Mark PerigardIn Comics
Negative Man! Elasti-Girl! Automaton? The Doom Patrol debuted in ‘My Greatest Adventure’ No. 80.
Like many fabulous things, the Doom Patrol was born out of desperation.
It was late 1962, and DC’s “My Greatest Adventure” faced cancellation.
Started in 1955, “My Greatest Adventure” was one of DC’s many anthology books that ran amok with weird sci-fi tales, such as “I Was the Hunted Man-Bird of Mystery Mesa!” (in issue No. 75) and “Cure Our Robot Ruler – or Die” (in issue No. 77).
Gee, you’d think with stories like that, the comics would be flying off the shelves.
But no. Editor Murray Boltinoff turned to freelance scripter Arnold Drake, who had been toiling on such titles as “Unexpected,” “House of Mystery” and “Challengers of the Unknown,” with a request: Get him some new superheroes for the title.
This was a Thursday.
He had until Tuesday.
(Drake explains all this in his introduction to “The Doom Patrol Archives: Volume One.” )
The Incredible Growing Gal: Elasti-Girl shocks her film crew.
So with help from his pal Bob Haney, Drake created the most unusual group of Silver Age heroes for DC Comics: The mysterious wheelchair-bound Chief; Robotman – Cliff Steele, race car driver whose body was burned to ashes in a crash and whose brain was transplanted into a metal body; Elasti-Girl – Rita Farr, Hollywood starlet whose exposure to weird jungle gases gave her the ability to shrink or grow to dramatic sizes; and Negative Man – Larry Trainor, an ace pilot whose chance encounter with radiation gave him the power to release a dark energy being, but only for 60 seconds.
Making their debut in the story “The Doom Patrol” in “My Greatest Adventure” No. 80, cover date June 1963, ” written by Drake and Haney and illustrated by Bruno Premiani, the Chief dropped some tough love onto the strangers.
Yes, they had suffered – but they had to stop feeling sorry for themselves. There were “catastrophes to be checked … evil to be stopped … people to be helped!”
Negative Man makes for one of the best, most distinctive visuals in the DCU.
Under the Chief’s direction, Robotman (called Automaton on the cover), Elasti-Girl and Negative Man investigate an alien spacecraft that crashed on the planet and run afoul of one of the Chief’s oldest and greatest foes, General Immortus.
In a universe filled with bright, soaring gods – Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman – the Doom Patrol stood out.
They were misfits. Outcasts. They hated their powers. Unlike the sunny personalities of the 1960s DCU, they bickered constantly. They wanted more than anything to recapture their old lives.
Their foes were the weirdest villains in the DCU, including: The Brain (literally a brain encased in fluid in a large tube); his partner Monsieur Mallah, an intelligent gorilla wearing a French beret; and the Animal-Mineral-Vegetable Man, whose name really tells you everything.
(And I just got an idea for an epic showdown between AVM and the Legion of Super-Heroes’ Matter-Eater Lad. Hey, Geoff Johns, call me!)
Robotman – wearing clothes. He would get over that.
Avid readers are quick to note the similarities between the Doom Patrol and the X-Men.
Both bragged of having the strangest heroes ever, hated and feared by humanity.(Let’s be honest: In their civvies, the original X-Men lineup with Scott, Jean, Bobby, Hank and Warren looked like a Young Republican Club.)
Both were lead by wheelchair-bound brainiacs. The Doom Patrol battled the Brotherhood of Evil; the X-Men tussled with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Drake didn’t think so, arguing at one point that Marvel head honcho Stan Lee must have stolen the idea from DC.
Doom Patrol launched three months before the X-Men.
If they are fighting with each other, all is right in the world.
Here’s the strange thing: Hide the company logo and you could be convinced you were reading a Marvel comic book.
Much like the Fantastic Four or the Avengers, “Doom Patrol” crackled with interpersonal skirmishes and banter.
“Doom Patrol” was a DC book ahead of its time.
I first encountered the Doom Patrol in the back of a barbershop.
The local barber kept a thick stack of DC comics on hand for customers to read as they waited. Whenever my father would take my brother and me for our cuts, we would both compete – to remain the longest in the waiting area. We zoomed through books. I just speed-read as much DC greatness as I could. For a kid with no money, the trip to the barber was better than a dozen visits to the library.
Among the worn titles on that afternoon: “The War Over Beast Boy,” “Doom Patrol” No. 107, cover date November 1966, in which the robot Ultimax gases a giant-sized Elasti-Girl down to microscopic oblivion.
So it seems.
She’s actually fighting for her life on a subatomic world within a molecule on Robotman’s hand.
My first “Doom Patrol”: Look at that insane cover. How could you not fall in love?
It was so kooky and far-out.
I was hooked.
I was in love.
It was a continued story.
Do you know how many years I had to wait to read the conclusion?
By the time I started getting my own comics, “Doom Patrol” had long been cancelled, in 1968, in a classic story in which our mighty misfits seemingly sacrifice themselves to save the lives of the elderly residents of a tiny Maine town.
Sales, you see, had dropped to about 250,000 copies a month.
Can you imagine any comic selling so many issues today?
When comic book shops started springing up over New England in the 1980s, the first title I set out to collect was “Doom Patrol.”
It took me a long time, but I finally found out what happened to Rita on that weird world.
Grant Morrison’s lasting contribution to the Doom Patrol: the heart-breaking and scary Crazy Jane.
Over the years, “Doom Patrol” has had more reboots than members, from creators as varied as Paul Kupperberg, John Byrne and Keith Giffen.
Perhaps the most successful was the Grant Morrison revamp in the 1980s that featured Robotman, a biracial hermaphrodite negative energy creature and a woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder with almost as many powers as personalities.
I have huge affection for that run, which came at a pivotal point in my life.
DC is once again publishing a “Doom Patrol” comic. It’s another reboot without Rita. It’s another version that misses the point. Maybe.
I have all the issues on my slush pile, but I haven’t had the heart to read them.
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“250,000 copies a month”
Wow, most titles would kill for half that these days.
Mark Perigard
It really is crazy and sad how sales have cratered over the years. But comics used to be sold everywhere. When I was a kid, I bought mine at a couple of drugstores and at an Air Force base commisary. Now you have to go a specialty shop. And pay $4 for a 20-page story that is being serialized for a trade.
Yeah, I’d pick up copies of JLoA and Green Lantern at a local newsagent; only trouble was, they had no control over what they had delivered to them or when. Over here in the UK, in the early 80s, American comics were basically used as fillers in crates holding larger consignments and then just distributed almost at random.
So while I found a handful of Crisis on Infinite Earths issues in a newsagent, it took me years to get the rest of the series!
That sounds insanely frustrating, Gary. Some titles are worth the hunt, and Crisis was certainly one of them. Can’t say that for a lot other ’80s titles.
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World Hepatitis Day 2019: 1.4 million lives lost since last year
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Today, 28 July, is World Hepatitis Day 2019.
Since the day was marked in 2018, another 1.4 million people have died from Hepatitis, despite the viruses being treatable or curable.
That’s 1.4 million partners, mothers, children, grandparents and friends being mourned when they could be still be spending time with their loved ones. If these people were still alive they would fill the world’s largest football stadium, 10 times over. It makes Hepatitis “the second major killer infectious disease” according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The medicines exist to save and improve the lives of people living with the viruses, but from our community-based experience we believe there are two main barriers: Stigma and the over-pricing of drugs.
Whole person, half the treatment
Temo, from Tbilisi, Georgia, is living with both Hep B and Hep C. He has treatment for one virus but not the other. “I’m not being treated as a whole person,” he says. His dual diagnosis also requires a dual response – tackling the overly punitive laws on drug use and making medicines affordable.
Temo, and wife Mariam, Tbilisi, Georgia.
“On one hand the government says ‘we’re going to help, we have a Hep C elimination program’ but on the other hand they make it difficult for you, by continuing to criminalise drug users, a key group who need the treatment. People are essentially hiding from the government – and risking their lives.” Temo has supported people to access treatment, including his wife’s father. “I know people who died before they could get to start the programme. Friends of mine lost their lives. Too many.”
Temo receives Hep C treatment free of charge through an ‘elimination program’, which on the face of it could seem like a good thing. But, as activists drew attention to at the 10th International Conference on HV in Science in Mexico (IAS 2019), so-called ‘access strategies’ employed by pharmaceutical corporations, such as tiered pricing, voluntary licences or drug donations, are designed to maximise profits, eliminate competitors and to give Big Pharma a much-needed public relations boost to divert public attention and scrutiny away from their real actions.
“While it’s good news for the third of people in need who have accessed Hep C treatment [in Georgia], we need to see this addressed systematically through lower prices and a patent system that prioritizes public health over profits. It is not sustainable for pharmaceutical companies to act as a ‘benefactor’ on isolated treatment. It does not solve the underlying need for fairer, affordable pricing of all drugs,” says Marina Chokheli, Public Health Program Coordinator, at Open Society Georgia Foundation (OSGF) (our campaign partner in Georgia).
Read Temo’s story in full.
Challenging unmerited, or unlawful, patents
Unmerited monopolies enable corporations to set high prices arbitrarily, based on what they anticipate they can demand a country to pay.
Make Medicines Affordable’s partners around the world have built a successful track record in opposing patents that do not meet patenting criteria, to prevent such monopolies. Gilead Sciences has repeatedly filed patents for its Hep C drug, sofosbuvir, including 14 applications in Argentina alone, which if granted would breach the country’s patent laws.
Our partner, Fundación GEP, has filed an opposition on Gilead’s latest application: “It is crucial that people with Hepatitis C have access to the treatment that cures the infection. According to our patent law, [this latest] application, over the combination sofosbuvir + velpatasvir, must be rejected… [so we can] guarantee access for all people who urgently need the treatment,” states Lorena Di Giano, Executive Director of FGEP.
The work of our campaign partners has previously yielded the right result, with patent applications for sofosbuvir rejected, including in Argentina, and in Brazil and Ukraine.
‘First resort’ for high prices
When costly monopolies have been granted and countries are faced with over-pricing of essential medicines, preventing governments from being able to treat everyone in need, a ‘compulsory’ or ‘government’ license should be an option as a first course of action.
This is certainly the case for sofosbuvir across the world -Gilead’s headline-making ‘$1,000 pill’, which is ‘making a mockery of … efforts to rein in prices’.
In 2017, Malaysia issued a compulsory license on sofosbuvir, which we described an “historic decision”, one which could pave the way for other countries the follow suit. Compulsory licenses are viewed by some as ‘a last resort’ because of the pressure exerted by pharma companies on governments when they have planned to issue licenses in the past. Malaysia’s decision was historic in withstanding the pressure, and other countries facing the same unaffordable situation should indeed follow suit.
As Othoman Mellouk, ITPC’s Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines Lead explains: “The use of compulsory licenses is neither new nor radical. Compulsory licenses are nationally and internationally recognized legal mechanisms that allow a country to protect public health by authorizing generic competition for a medicine even if there is a patent on that medicine. Compulsory licenses should not be a last resort – governments may use them as and when required, including if prices are deemed too high.”
At IAS 2019, activists demanded #Science4All: “We want governments to revoke unfair secondary patents and issue compulsory licenses to make sure we can access lower-cost generics now!” said Mellouk.
Urgent action needs to be taken by all countries to stop these patent games – and ensure that on World Hepatitis Day 2020 the headlines have changed.
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Cuomo Prods U.S. for Test Supplies Ahead of Meeting With Trump
Hours before meeting President Donald Trump, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that while it may be states’ responsibility to organize virus testing, the federal government needs to be handling international supply-chain issues.
His comments address a touchy subject between the two politicians. Trump has repeatedly said that states should be in charge of the testing needed to reopen their economies. Cuomo said he plans to ask Trump to take charge of getting manufacturers to provide testing supplies and feeding them to the states, and the states can take it from there.
“Let the federal government figure out international supply issues,” Cuomo said at his Tuesday press briefing. “That’s the intelligent distribution of responsibility.”
Cuomo held his briefing earlier than usual in light of his afternoon meeting with Trump at the White House. The governor said testing will be the topic of the day, including “how can the federal government work in partnership with the states.”
Asked about Trump’s statements about it being states’ responsibility, he responded:
“I get the instinct to distance yourself from it,” Cuomo said. “But it’s a situation where you need to understand, who’s in a better position to do what.”
Cuomo’s virus briefings, which include a mix of facts and personal stories, have become a daily comfort not just for New Yorkers but for many across the nation. New York is the epicenter of the nation’s outbreak with more than 250,000 cases and nearly 15,000 fatalities.
New York has passed the peak of the outbreak and is making plans to reopen, though Cuomo says that won’t happen until a testing and tracing protocol is place.
Cuomo’s ability to remain calm and take decisive action during the crisis has helped boost his national profile, earning him the title of “America’s governor,” and his name has even been thrown out by some as a potential presidential nominee. The governor has said he has no plans to run for the White House.
“Everything is a fine line,” Cuomo said of his relationship with Trump. Neither have a problem telling each other what’s on their mind, the governor said.
The Trump administration, though critical of Cuomo, provided help from FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build temporary hospitals. The president also sent the U.S. Navy Ship Comfort to further build hospital capacity.
Just days ago, the two Queens natives had their sharpest exchange yet, exchanging blows in real time. About a half-hour into Cuomo’s April 17 briefing, Trump posted on Twitter that the governor should spend more time “doing” and less time “complaining” about the help its needs from Washington. Cuomo fired back, saying the president should “get up and go to work” instead of watching the governor’s briefing, and that Trump cared more about helping big businesses than states.
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On July 6, 2018 July 5, 2018 By mikebhopkinsIn Plasma Technology, Uncategorized
Plasma is the ‘hidden champion’ of industrial innovation – Prof. Christian Oehr
In a recent inteview with Professor Christian Oehr, head of the interfacial engineering and materials science department at Fraunhofer IGB in Stuttgart, Germany, refers to plasma as the hidden champion.
When asked what a plasma is, Prof. Oehr explained that Plasma is created when an electric spark excites gas to produce free electrons and ions. This mix of ions, electrons and gas molecules can become a plasma if the charged density is large enough.
Why are plasma so useful, the electron bombardment that excites gas molecules together with ions, electronically excited molecules and radicals, will bombard any material that you bring into contact with the plasma. This energy applied to the material’s surface can modify its chemistry or purify a material surface by destroying undesired organic contaminants.
What are the current uses of plasma? Plasma are used for a wide range of applications such as etching silicon, depositing insulators and metal conductors in the manufacture of semiconductors. Light sources such neon tubes contain plasma and he says that plasma technologies started more than 100 years ago with lamps(Phillips). However, Prof. Oehr, missed a major plasma application, in 1857 when Siemens proposed a novel type of electrical gas discharge that could generate ozone from atmospheric pressure oxygen or air. Plasma applications have in fact been part of industry for over 150 years.
“The main application of plasma today is surface treatment — you can deposit different minuscule nano-structures on materials to change their properties, for example, modifying plastics so that they will bond with each other, or to coat metals to minimize corrosion or scratching. Almost every kind of industry has an application for plasma, it’s a hidden champion.’ Explains Prof. Oehr. In a way we are used to thinking about the cost of a material being based whole material where it is usually only the surface that matters in many applications. Therefore making an expensive surface on a cheap material is a very efficient way on increasing the value of products. An area where German industry have been leaders.
Prof. Oehr explains his own interests in water treatment.
‘So here you have water passing through in a thin film, which is in contact with a plasma and will be treated by reactive species out of the discharge, destroying toxic contaminants in the water and purifying it. With the unit we developed, this works well but the throughput is not so high — up to 250 litres per hour. So at this point, it would be suited only to special situations with limited volume, like purifying hospital wastewater which contains medication contaminants that cannot be destroyed with normal wastewater treatment.’
The article goes on the explain Prof. Oehr’s own research interests and exciting areas in plasma research.
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How Texas Killed Hemp: The Tragic Story of George Trout and the Death of the Texas Hemp Industry
by NHA | Aug 27, 2017 | Hemp History, HEMP NEWS
He died a broken man, heartbroken and betrayed, his name dragged through the mud in the press, a lone star crushed by the state of Texas.
His intentions were good. He went about doing everything the right way, in fact exactly as he should have. He was going to bring back hemp to Texas in a big way, create jobs, kick start an industry and contribute to the economy and overall wellbeing of East Texas.
Trout was an optimistic man, a hard worker and a true innovator. His story needs to be told and understood. He stood at the crossroads of an important point in history. Texas missed their chance at something big because of an irrational fear and a drastic misunderstanding. Texas now stands at another important crossroad in time.
Now, if you know anything about hemp you know there’s two kinds – the field hemp, you know, the kind that has about no THC content and is grown for industrial products – and then you have high grade cannabis, the stuff they called marihuana down in Mexico. Texas has a long history with both, and that seems to be where the confusion came in and caused all sorts of fear and alarm and such a fuss.
There seemed to be a lot of energy and enthusiasm for reviving the hemp industry in the mid 1930’s all around the country. Innovators were planning many advanced and modern uses for the plant. Something had turned though. The country was gripped in the era that we know now as “reefer madness”.
Texas was not deterred. Enter into the story, George Trout.
On October 23 of 1936 George Trout gave a speech to the Raymondville Kiwanis Club. He spoke on the culture of hemp in the Raymondville area.
A week later Trout announced that hemp production was about to proceed on a large scale. The price of hemp processing equipment that had been described as the only barrier to the industry was met by George Trout’s personal investment of $15,000 into the new machinery. Trout had already taken the machine through a test run on the first hemp crop raised.
On November 1, 1936, the excitement started to build with a new industry promised for Willacy County and a great opportunity for the farmers there. They talked about the many uses of hemp and were especially excited about the potential of hemp’s cellulose materials to make products such as cellophane.
The decortication plant was being built about five miles outside of Raymondville by George Trout’s Texas Hemp Association. The plans were to grow a large acreage of hemp in the area and then establish similar plants throughout the Lower Rio Grande Valley. It was promised that hemp would be the supreme money crop of the valley.
Raymondville was exuberant. An editorial didn’t try to hide their enthusiastic optimism. They hailed the introduction of the hemp decortication plant as one of the string of industries coming to the valley in a fortunate break for the town and the area. They asked, “Honestly… do you see how they can keep the old place down now?”
1937 started off optimistically. The headline on February 21 said that Willacy farmers were seeking larger production of hemp and would increase acreage.
It was announced that 33,000 pounds of seed had been received and 700 acres contracted out. They said that this first major attempt was underway after two previous years of trials. George Trout and his partner, G.C. Wakefield had been in the area for some time working with farmers and making arrangements for the hemp plantings.
What was going on was nothing short of an agricultural and industrial revolution. The hemp decortication plant built by George Trout and his Texas Hemp Association solved an age old problem of fiber processing that had in olden time been accomplished with vast human labor. There was justifiably intense interest in this new emerging industry.
All of this was unfolding in an era of innovation. There was a phenomenon called chemurgy, the process of transforming agricultural commodities into industrial products. Texas was said to be at the vanguard of the chemurgical movement. At a meeting in Dallas in June industrial leaders discussed making car bumpers out of hemp and all sorts of interesting possibilities. All of this to give money to the farmers, bring unprecedented industrial development to the south and promote general industrial decentralization
Things seemed to be chugging along quite nicely like a train on greased tracks. Wait, what? Did someone say something about industrial decentralization? Can’t have that, time to inject some hysteria…
On June 23, 1937, it was announced in the headlines that “Marijuana Being Grown in Willacy for Hemp”.
Despite the misleading headline it was explained that hemp was a non-narcotic variety.
The Texas Hemp Corporation had $100,000 laid up in stock. The article said that the corporation was working with the United States experiment station to determine whether new varieties of hemp can flourish in Texas.
The whole thing was about to blow up with irrational fears. That same day, June 23, 1937 the Brownsville Herald ran the headlines “Narcotic Use of Marihuana Crop Refuted: Corpus Sheriff Asks Governor to Act On Large Crop Grown Near Raymondville”
Trout acknowledged that it was a species of “marihuana” but that they cultivated it with a permit and for commercial purposes only.
Trout said that 500 acres pf hemp had been planted but 375 acres were plowed under because of lack of rain, leaving them with 125 acres.
The Texas Hemp Corporation had the exclusive rights to use the specific hemp processing machinery in the state of Texas and also the exclusive right to the machinery for making hemp products.
They were operating under the supervision of the Texas State Department of Public Health. They were still promising a big industry for the valley. It was reported that other communities were experimenting with hemp but commercialization would take some time because more experimentation was required.
The next day, on June 24, 1937 the Brownsville Herald ran the headlines “New Industry for Valley Seen in Hemp Growing: State Ranger Force Pushes Investigation Into ‘Marijuana’ Production in Fields Close to Raymondville”.
The article said that Ranger Captain Bill McMurray was being sent to Raymondville to investigate. They said that he had previously investigated many foes of peace and order and was now investigating another foe – “marihuana”. He had been asked by Texas Governor Allred after the governor heard reports of patches of marihuana thriving in the valley.
George Trout was quoted as saying, “It would be as ridiculous to destroy this hemp because a few persons steal some stalks to smoke as to forbid the raising of wheat, rye and other cereals because they are used in making whiskey”.
Trout pointed out that he was trying to introduce a cash crop that would make an excellent rotation crop with cotton and that it thrived in the valley growing 12 feet in 60 days.
It was noted that in the past hemp was hindered by lack of modern processing machinery but that now finally with new machinery America could finally compete with the foreign producers of hemp.
It was announced that the Texas Rangers had begun their investigation into reports of widespread cultivation of marihuana in the Rio Grande Valley and that Trout had come under fire.
Why were they investigating the hemp fields? Because they arrested a man who had a cotton sack full of hemp blossoms they determined to be marihuana. While they were transporting the prisoner they saw a field of hemp growing and suspected that the man had stolen the hemp blossoms from the field.
The article contained a photograph of George Trout standing happily and proud at the edge of his hemp field, the hemp towering over his head. You can almost see the vision in his eyes
An article the same day in the McAllen Daily Press asked in their headline, “Is it Marihuana or Hemp? Officers Conducting a Probe”
Still another paper, The Monitor published a picture of Trout’s hemp machine in work with the caption “Valley-Grown Hemp (Marihuana) Shown”
They noted that federal authorities had inspected and approved his operation and that there was no federal law against marihuana and that it was a necessary industry. They did urge caution though so that marihuana did not get into the wrong hands.
It was announced that 12 arrests had been made in Edinburgh and two arrests in Raymondville in connection with possession of marihuana believed to have been stolen from the fields belonging to or being grown for the Texas Hemp Corporation. It was said the hemp had only mild narcotic properties when in bloom right before harvest
The Herald ran an article “Rangers Inspect Hemp Production; Growing Found in Accord With State Law”. The article said that Texas Rangers had inspected the local hemp experiment and then contacted farmers and told them they were in compliance. George Trout guided the Rangers through the plant and demonstrated its operation. They said everything was legit. Confused yet?
On June 28 the Valley Morning Star announced “Rangers Arrive: Dope Smuggling Is Probed”. They said that “reliable sources that recent activity by smugglers which drew the hemp production industry into controversy, was to be thoroughly probed”
On July 1 the Brownsville ran the headline, “Hemp Growers Assured Cultivation Here Legal”.
The article started out, “Farmers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley need have no fear about growing commercial hemp, declared Colonel H.H. Carmichael, chief of the state public safety department in an interview exclusive with Texas Capitol News Service. He is today turning over samples received from Ranger Captain Bill McMurray to a state laboratory for analysis.”
The article mentioned the hemp being grown in fields around the state and excitedly told about the hemp hats and other beautiful objects they were making out of the hemp besides rope.
On July 4th, Valley Morning Star readers again read “Hemp Crop Approved”. It said “Willacy County farmers were assured by state officers that they might continue growing the commercial crop, whether or not tests showed narcotic content”
The next day the news hit, “Arrests Made In Willacy Hemp Probe: Topped Plant Found By Officers”. They announced a third arrest of someone who said they had hemp cut from the fields.
On July 16, the Brownsville Herald published this editorial:
“The Willacy County News feels that injustice has been done the county as a result of the publicity surrounding the charges that marihuana was being grown commercially and illegally in the county.
With which the News proceeds to explain how the hemp fiber plantation happened to be established in the county.
“Some time ago,” says the News, “Mr. Geo. H. Trout was invited to come to Willacy County and use certain lands for the experiment of raising hemp for industrial use. Before doing this, it was necessary for the Texas Hemp Corporation, of which Mr. Trout is the president, to secure from the federal government a special permit to grow this product.”
“Federal authorities readily granted this permit and this company at a tremendous expense set up equipment on the Clark orchards and within a radius certain lands were contracted for and agreements were made with the growers of that section to experiment with the raising of this product. The experiment has been carried on according to the rules of the permit granted this company.”
“This company,” continues the News, “has endeavored to place a new industry in Willacy County. It has spent considerable money to make the venture a success and establish an industry in Willacy County, which is badly needed.
“It might be said that anyone raising corn in Willacy County was violating the law, since corn whiskey can be manufactured from corn, or other alcoholic beverages manufactured from certain products grown on the farm. Nevertheless, all of these were overlooked and the growing of hemp seemed to be the target of the public officials.
“It might be an excellent idea for the party who started all the fuss about Willacy County to clean his own backyard first and rid his county seat of gambling devices and other unlawful activities before starting in on a county which does not concern him in any way.”
Two days later there was a brief report that explained that one of the Rangers sent to Willacy County to investigate the hemp situation was suspended after being found guilty of a contempt charge.
The steady stream of bad press and undue hysteria became too much. Finally, the whole thing broke and that was that. The hemp industry was over.
On July 26, 1937, the Brownsville Herald ran the headline “Governor Bans Hemp Crop in Valley”
Under the main headline the story declared in bold “Orders Crop Destroyed in Willacy Area; Permits to be Denied by State; Dangers Of Narcotic Use Cited In Official Move”.
The governor was quoted as saying “From the days of the Persians of old marihuana has been one of the most dangerous and deadly narcotics. I am much more interested in a crop of humanity than a fiber crop”.
A total of 475 acres of hemp had been plowed under and another 220 acres of hemp had been cut and burned under orders from the governor. Trout promised to cooperate but was sadly quoted as saying “Now that the culture of hemp known as ‘Cannabis Sativa’ has been outlawed in Texas, the future of the Texas Hemp Corporation is indefinite; I don’t know what we are going to do.”
He was told that because it was impossible to establish a system to protect the “marihuana fields” from theft if Trout wanted to stay in business the company would have to depend on foreign countries for their source of hemp.
Can you imagine that? An American businessman, a Texan, was told that the country would rather rely on a foreign product that could easily be produced and manufactured in America!
Governor Allred said in a conference call that all hemp growing in the Lower Valley have been destroyed and no more permits would be issued again.
The article repeated the insane propaganda, “Hemp, according to the governor, is the same as marihuana, which is the same as the notorious East Indian drug, hasheesh.”
The governor said that George Trout and the Texas Hemp Corporation were mistaken when they believed that they had a permit. He urged law enforcement to strictly enforce the new narcotic law the termination of all hemp growing. He warned that anyone who cultivated the plant would face ten years in prison. Governor Allred said, “The marihuana menace far outweighs any benefits to be derived from commercial hemp production.”
A month went by without much more news on the situation. Finally, on September 10 The Hearn Democrat published the following editorial titled “Hemp in Texas” that perfectly summarized what had just unfolded in the preceding months. It read:
“Hemp, an East Indian plant, the fiber of which may be easily separated from the stalk, has long been used in the far East for making cord and course textile fabrics. For many years it has been grown in Kentucky and some other states, for its fiber, which is valuable in the textile industry.
At Raymondville, in Willacy County, Texas, the Texas Hemp Corporation built a factory for processing the plant to get its fiber, and 30 or 40 farmers in the community went to growing it and found a ready sale for it at a comparatively good price.
Our legislature has recently passed a law making it a felony punishable by two to ten years in the penitentiary to grow any narcotic plant in Texas without a permit. Our governor says no permit will be issued to growers of hemp. The powerful drug hasheesh, similar in its effects to marihuana, may be extracted from it. Acting under orders from the Department of Public Safety, the farmers near Raymondville have destroyed all their hemp and will plant no more. Officers throughout the state have been instructed to ferret out any small patch that may exist and destroy it.
The Willacy County farmers have our sympathy. Hemp has been grown elsewhere in the United States and no questions raised. However, it was grown for fiber, not for production of a drug. Growers have had to make a great sacrifice because the plant can be put to a bad use by those evilly disposed. Hemp-raising might have developed into a great Texas industry. But, considering the general welfare, our legislature was probably justified in passing a law to make more difficult the obtaining of a plant that can be used to degrade men and women”
Sigh. Poor George Trout. Can you imagine what that man must have been going through? He spent $15,000 to build the decortication plant and had $100,000 invested overall. He signed up farmers, did experiments and all due diligence in putting into effect a hope that many people had for many years – to bring industrial hemp as a fiber industry in a big way to Texas. Everything was going good and then all this blew up and got out of hand, this irrational fear and misunderstanding revolving around the mistaken belief that hemp was the same thing as “marihuana”.
How hard it must have been on him! How it must have worn him down, exhausted him emotionally and physically, not to mention the loss of his entire investment as well. How long can a man go on after that? How does a man recover from that blow?
Well, in the case of George Trout, sadly, on Friday, October 1, 1937, he died. The whole ordeal must have killed him.
He died, just like that, a few weeks shy of a year from his first appearance in this story with his speech to the Kiwanis Club on October 23, 1936 and just four months after the whole controversy over his crop and his business erupted when the sheriff of Corpus Christi sent his letter to the governor and asked him to intervene. He died less than two and a half months after hemp was crushed and banished from Texas forever.
What an ironic day to die. On the day that George Trout died American history changed forever. On the day of his death on October 1, 1937 the Marihuana Tax Act went into effect. It had been signed into law on August 2, 1937. Now, the state of Texas could bring both barrels down on anyone growing, selling or possessing cannabis or even industrial hemp.
What a tragic time to be starting a hemp business. If you were going to ever start a hemp business in the United States, 1937 was the worst year to do it.
On the same day as the obituary of George Trout, the Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light carried the news of the new federal law. The first three paragraphs read:
“Marihuana, the wicked weed that arms cowards with a false and fleeting bravery, came today under severe restriction of the federal narcotic laws.
The marihuana tax act of 1937 went into effect, hanging a maximum fine of $2,000 , imprisonment for five years or both, over the heads of those convicted of violating any one of its 17 sections. In Texas, it backed up a state law virtually banning the narcotic, in which the terms of imprisonment upon conviction is from two to ten years with no provision for a suspended sentence.
Marihuana is a derivative of Indian hemp and its effects are as varied as they are vicious.”
After a few paragraphs of typical era reefer madness, in which they give an awesome description of the smell of cannabis – “like a wet bale of alfalfa hay mixed with molasses” – they say that the state law controlling hemp allows cultivation of hemp under permit but that no permits would be issued because there was no way to keep people from using it illegally.”
On November 24, the Valley Morning Star published an editorial. They said they were glad to learn of the new war on marihuana. They said that a unified drive would do the job and get it done quickly. They said it was a member of the hemp family, it grew well and all over the southwest and that its users often went insane and ran amok and killed people.
A couple weeks later more exaggerated hysteria emerged. The hemp was growing wild all over the place. They claimed the farmers had thought they were growing tall fiber hemp varieties but it turned out to be 18 “ marihuana varieties, an outright lie or drastic misrepresentation of the facts. We have pictures of the hemp so we know it was a lie.
George Trout must have been rolling in his grave.
In fairness, the Lower Rio Grande was flooded with “marihuana” back in those days. Tons of it was coming over the border and through the valley. From descriptions back then, it seems it was as common as it is now in society. I can guarantee one thing though – they sure as heck weren’t getting it from the hemp farmers, no way.
For a lot of people, it must have seemed like the whole world was turning upside down. What the heck was going on? Hemp? The crop that had been growing in America for the last 400 years? Texas wasn’t the only place that was confused. All over America hemp farmers were being arrested. Just for one example, take this headline from Michigan, called “Dopey Chicks Thrive On Hot Marihuana”.
Flash forward about four years to 1942. Here’s the second part of the story and where it gets interesting. All of a sudden hemp was back. Japan had invaded the Philippines and cut off our supply of Manila hemp. As many of you know a few hundred thousand acres were grown throughout the Midwest at the encouragement of the federal government.
Suddenly on March 25, 1942, farmers in Texas were told that they could grow hemp. The state agricultural commissioner had asked the state attorney general and he made it official. He noted that Texas and especially the Rio Grande Valley could produce great quantities.
The times were definitely changing. Hemp was now a war crop and it was considered highly patriotic to grow it. The government had big plans for hemp and they were asking patriotic farmers to grow it.
And then, on the last day of 1942, our story comes full circle around again. The headline in the Brownsville Herald was “Hemp Crop For Valley Seen Possible – Plant Grows Well In Valley, But Was Halted By Texas Rangers.
The article started out:
“News received from Washington today that the government is launching a huge marijuana plant production program in six mid-west states renewed hopes in the Valley that permission would be granted to grow marijuana here, and revive an industry that was nipped by Texas Rangers in the 30’s.”
They went on to explain the desperate wartime situation with hemp and the dire necessity of raising the American crop.
Enter into our story one last time, George Trout, the Texas hemp hero, his name revived. It breaks my heart to read their account of him and his work. Such a good, fine man of decency. He was ruined by an out of control state acting on ignorance and misinformation. Here is what they said on that last day of 1942:
“Marijuana grows wild in the Valley, and several years ago George Trout, who had grown hemp successfully in South America, invested over $100,000 in Willacy County to develop it there.
He obtained permission from the State Department of Agriculture to plant between 400 and 500 acres of the plant, and installed elaborate machinery in a large building on the Clark Orchard five miles from Raymondville.
He made a thorough investigation of conditions here, and found that hemp of a very fine quality could be grown successfully.
Rangers Destroy Crop
He planted his crop, and had harvested part of it when the government ordered Texas Rangers to step in and destroy the plants, charging that natives were invading the field and making marijuana.
From the portion of the crop that had been harvested before the Rangers acted, Trout had succeeded in making an exceptionally high grade of hemp. It was so fine that linen handkerchiefs and cloth was made from it in his plant, which still stands idle and rusty north of Raymondville.
After his field was destroyed and he was ordered to not to plant any more hemp, Trout went before the state legislature seeking to recover his $100,000 investment, but failed.
He died shortly afterwards, broken in health and in finances.
Machinery Still There
The machinery still stands in Willacy County, and hopes were expressed today that it would be repaired and put to use again to help the war effort.
Attempts will be made to obtain permission to grow hemp, it was said, even if the Commodity Credit Corporation does not aid in financing.”
So there you have it, the story of how Texas destroyed the hope of hemp and wrecked the life of a good man, George Trout and caused him to die a saddened and broken man.
Texas has a chance to correct their mistake. We can’t hang on to 1937. We have to be more like the end of 1942, get some of that patriotic spirit back and bring another great industry back to Texas.
We know more in 2017 than we did in 1937. We need to correct our past mistakes with our current knowledge. Industrial hemp is NOT “marijuana” and can never be used as a drug. We can finally lay the genuine concerns of the previous generation to rest.
A statute should be erected in honor and loving memory of George H. Trout, a true American hemp hero and pioneer for the future of Texas.
~Les Stark
Les Stark is a hemp historian and author of Hempstone Heritage, a book about the history of hemp in Pennsylvania. He is the executive director of the Keystone Cannabis Coalition, board member of the Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council and volunteer of the National Hemp Association.
(C) 2017 Les Stark, All Rights Reserved.
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The Center for Public Integrity, December 11, PPP Loans Were supposed to Prioritize Low-income Areas During The Pandemic. They Didn’t.
Congress wanted the U.S. Small Business Administration to ensure that PPP loans prioritized small businesses in “underserved” markets, a term that includes low-income communities, rural areas and businesses owned by people of color, women and veterans. But the SBA’s inspector general warned in early May that it could find no evidence the SBA told lenders to do that. By the time the agency sent a memo to that effect in mid-June, nearly all the loans had been issued.
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Days like Christmas and Easter only come around once a year, pretty much like our birthdays we suppose. However, there will only be one more Carl Cox birthday celebration occurring at Space Ibiza and it takes place tomorrow night.
Having officially opened the doors to his residency at Space Ibiza for The Final Chapter last month in June, we are now officially six weeks into Carl Cox’s 15th and final summer as resident for the world’s most famous clubbing structure.
Names like Joseph Capriati, Luciano, Nic Fanciulli, Adam Beyer back-to-back with Ida Engberg and more have all appeared and graced the stage alongside the acid house veteran and as he gets ready to celebrate his 54th birthday, this champion of techno music will be joined by a host of the party capital’s biggest names on offer.
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LIST: Quebec reports 19,279 cumulative COVID-19 cases across 2,341 schools so far this academic year
Published Tuesday, September 15, 2020 12:26PM EDT Last Updated Thursday, December 17, 2020 1:20PM EST
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QUEBEC CITY -- There are now 2,341 Quebec schools that have reported at least one confirmed case of COVID-19 since the start of the school year, according to the latest government data from Dec. 15 Of them, 1,228 are dealing with active cases.
The figures published by the education ministry concern pre-school, elementary, high schools both in the public and private sectors -- and vocational and adult education centres.
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The total number of diagnosed infections among students and staff since the start of the pandemic now stands at 19,279 , with 5,087 active cases -- 4,289 of which are in the public sector and 798 in private education.
The vast majority of cases so far have been in the public sector with 16,586 of the cumulative total, while there have been 2,693 cases in the private sector. Since the beginning of the school year, 15,656 students have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and 3,623 teachers.
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While we are still waiting on the full 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival line-up to be announced, TCM did drop a few more announcements today on special events and special guests.
Angela Lansbury is going to be in Los Angeles for a screening of The Manchurian Candidate, which was released on Blu-ray by Criterion last month.
Rita Moreno will give us a chance to be in the presence of an EGOT Club Member. She’s introducing The King And I.
Billy Dee Williams, the coolest man in the galaxy, will do an introduction for the 1971 TV movie Brian’s Song.
As a journalist, I’m really excited that Carl Bernstein and Spotlight collaborators Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer will be attending the screening of All The President’s Men. Unfortunately, it’s the gala opening film and I only have a Classic Pass.
Thankfully, Singer and McCarthy will be doing a special Club TCM session called “From Headlines To Ticket Lines,” which will also feature Mary Mapes (played by Cate Blanchett in Truth) and Ben Bradlee Jr. (who was played by John Slattery in Spotlight). I wish Sacha Pfeiffer (played by Rachel McAdams in Spiolight) would be there so I could meet her in person. I interviewed her for TheCelebrityCafe.com in February over the phone.
Another Club TCM session is “Man’s Best Friend: Dogs in Film,” which is, of course, about the important roles dogs have played in films. Special guests include Marley & Me‘s Clyde and Modern Family‘s Brigitte.
Interestingly, Rocky was still not announced. Social media has been buzzing about the Sylvester Stallone-starrer playing at TCMFF, since Balboa is featured on one of the passes and on a poster seen on Hollywood Boulevard. My only hypothesis for it not being announced already is that TCM couldn’t get Stallone to be there for a 40th anniversary screening, so the screening won’t be a special event.
The festival kicks off on April 28, so we’ll hear about the full schedule soon. In the meantime, here’s Charlie Tabesh’s Tweet for you to investigate.
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Donor Unknown: Adventures in the Sperm Trade
Sperm donation is an ethical and emotional minefield. It’s one of those sensitive issues with equally passionate and valid views on both sides of the debate. Even bystanders not directly involved or affected will have a strong opinion on its morality. The consequences and motivations of such anonymous, industrial giving of life can be dissected and analysed again and again, for positives and negatives. Endless reams could be written on the subject without resolving the issue one way or another.
It’s also one of those topics that often only interests people when looked at from monstrous and extreme angles. For example a few years ago a documentary called “The Sperminator” about a man running a clinic who provided all the samples himself, when he told prospective parents that there was an extensive bank to meet their specific requests and requirements, caused a lot of controversy and generated a lot of interest. People enjoy being shocked by grotesque scandals such as this, simultaneously intrigued and repulsed by the potential for ignorant incest. The human side of this relatively new phenomenon is usually overlooked.
Donor Unknown is almost exclusively about the very human effects of sperm donation. It’s an extremely admirable and accomplished piece of filmmaking. Over the course of its engaging and economical 78 minute runtime, this film gradually and thoroughly explores the sperm trade by maintaining a tight human focus. Hollywood blockbusters lack both the heart and surprising plot twists of Donor Unknown and it deserves a grander home than TV screens. With its editing and pacing and diverse locations across America, this is a film that shows off the art of documentary storytelling at its best.
Much of the film is seen through the lens of JoEllen, a girl on the cusp of pretty womanhood, who has come to terms with her lack of a father throughout childhood. Her mother has always been honest about the way in which she was conceived, with a little help from “donor 150”. But although she’s grown up with the affection of a loving family and lived a privileged, seemingly happy existence, there is always something missing. A great big “what if” is constantly nagging at JoEllen’s wellbeing and sense of identity.
Meanwhile on Venice Beach in LA, Jeffrey lives with his four dogs and the occasional pigeon. He’s quite clearly a hippy, living a simple life in a RV, loving his dogs and being kind to those he meets. With his long hair and tanned, excess wearied face, it’s difficult to imagine he was once a muscular model in Playgirl who once made a living from stripping. He explains that he was asked by a woman he met at the hairdresser’s during those years of his prime, whether or not he’d like to donate sperm so she could have a baby. Obviously he was taken aback but after speaking to a close friend who was a loving mother, he decided to give this relative stranger the opportunity of motherhood and hope that fate rewarded him for his good deed.
Donor Unknown also talks to the staff at the Californian Cryogenic Centre, that aims to have the largest collection of sperm donors in the world. We see the specimens stored in huge vats and we have numbers like 200 billion fired at us. We’re assured that this centre alone could repopulate the world in the event of some disaster making such measures necessary. We’re shown the “masturbatory emporiums” with walls colourfully adorned to aid the donation process, with the more sample provided the better. The chambers increase in eroticism along the corridor, we’re told.
And so we are eased gently into sperm donation, with a balance of real human effects and the technology involved. JoEllen’s hole in her existence is contrasted with the motivation of mothers to turn to donors like Jeffrey, along with his reasons for helping out.
Then we’re hit with the bombshell of JoEllen finding a sibling. Her half sister lives in New York and they meet after discovering each other via an online register, where you simply register your donor number. Her identity issues are even deeper than JoEllen’s because she has been lied to until the age of about 14. She resents her parents for the deception and feels immensely confused and hurt. As a teenager it’s a lot to take onboard and extremely destabilising. Desperate for a link to a missing 50% of her, she finds JoEllen and then gets a story onto the front of the New York Times, without her parents’ knowledge.
At this point Donor Unknown becomes extremely uplifting, as more and more siblings come forward who were fathered by “donor 150”. Via the internet an unconventional patchwork family forms across America’s very different states, bringing absent intimacy, connection and love into the lives of more than a dozen children. JoEllen methodically keeps track of all her lost brothers and sisters, meeting most of them and forming attachments, filling in the missing side of her family tree slightly. The genetic quirks and likenesses are touching and fascinating to behold, as the screen flits rapidly through the faces and mannerisms of all the “150” siblings.
But then Donor Unknown changes gear to look at yet another aspect of the trade. After gently gaining your attention and emotional investment, we finally come to the really dark side of sperm donation. One of the siblings, Rachelle, expresses her constant doubts and worries about dating. She has specifically stuck to foreign guys or people that for other reasons definitely could not be related. An interview with the founder of the online register, a mother of a donor child herself, reveals that there are no limits on the number of children a donor can father, despite the claims of clinics.
The Californian Cryogenic Centre is also at pains to point out their range of choice and the extensive information they offer. But the answers of donor questions can be as misleading as they are informative. Jeffrey for example, said he was a dancer when he was a stripper and said he studied philosophy when he spent little time in college. His spiritual waffle won over scores of prospective parents but he is in reality something of a waster, an idealistic hippy and eccentric weirdo. He believes in worrying conspiracy theories and has an unnatural attachment to animals after a troubled childhood.
Beneath it all though he is a kind man and the ending to Donor Unknown is unquestionably back in the uplifting zone. Whatever the dangers and wrongs of the sperm industry, it has the power to create the amazing gift of life. Without the fakery of actors to bring it down, Donor Unknown soars to interesting and touching heights, telling the modern, interconnecting tales of real people.
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3D Cinema Review – Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
You can rely on Disney’s well known Pirate franchise for one of the universal laws of cinema. As sure as night follows day and the tide washes in and out, each successive film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series will be worse than the last. Like a basket of juicy fruit left to rot on a sunny beach, the individual ingredients that made the first film so fun gradually lose their enjoyment. You can also bet your house that in increasingly more desperate attempts to recapture the magic of the Black Pearl’s virgin voyage, the plots will acquire more baffling layers with each new instalment. And this film’s ending proves once again that there will always be room for yet another adventure.
However this film does break some new ground. For example for the first time ever, the title is as confusing and vague as the many competing strands of the story. The tides are certainly no more or less important than before and there is nothing strange about the film; within Captain Jack’s world at least mermaids and myths are pretty standard fare.
Things get off to a familiar but promising start. Our beloved scallywag Jack Sparrow is in London to rescue sidekick Mr Gibbs from a trial, which would be swiftly followed by a hanging if the bloodthirsty crowd had their way. After some costumed shenanigans and typically camp stalking about, Jack and Gibbs find themselves at the King’s palace. The crown wish to find the fountain of youth before the crafty Catholics in Spain and they’ve heard Sparrow knows the way.
Jack gets an audience with the King in a sumptuous room and Depp gets ample opportunity to showcase the physical comedy and wordplay audiences have come to love. The King is played by Richard Griffiths in a delightful cameo. Needless to say Jack manages an escape. Later in the film Geoffrey Rush’s Barbossa takes the time to mentally plan an escape route, presuming that’s what Depp’s madcap Sparrow does, only for Jack to reply that he sometimes “improvises”. The running and jumping through an impressive CGI London in the film’s opening segment, is ad hoc Jack Sparrow action at its best.
Sadly the film simply cannot maintain the entertainment levels as chase follows chase and sword fight follows sword fight. Most of the action is surprisingly inventive, especially since we’ve had three films already but at times even Jack’s luck over judgment leaps of faith enter ridiculous territory. The stunts become monotonous by the end because of the film’s relentless opening barrage, tarnishing the drama of the finale. There are no explosive cannon battles for those who love their ships and nautical duels. Instead of boarding we get an awful lot of trekking through the jungle.
Having said this, two standout scenes are exciting and engaging. I’ve already mentioned Captain Jack prancing his way around London but the first mermaid attack scene is also terrific. Only the Pirates franchise could deliver such a scene. It’s got frights and bites, fangs and bangs. The mermaids are less interesting by the end, but here they are introduced in a lengthy scene as seductive and dangerous. The attack comes as a real shock and well managed change in pace after they are lured in to enchant some pirates left as bait.
The mermaid battle is an epic, long scene and the film is so long that it loses much of its epic feel. Sub plots like a half formed romance between a mermaid and clergy man could have been slimmed considerably or dropped altogether .The runtime is literally bladder bursting, as a friend of mine dashed from the room as soon as the credits rolled. I was content to sit and watch the names of the cast fly at me in 3D however, because of Hans Zimmer’s magnificent music, which remains the best thing about the Pirates of the Caribbean. There are some nice variations and new additions to the main theme in this instalment but I can’t help feeling it’s time he focused his talents on new projects, rather than continually recycling one stunning track.
Hang on though; surely this is still worth seeing just for another outing from Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow? Isn’t he the single most important pillar upon which the blockbusters are based? I always assumed, like many critics, that the romantic pairing of Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley in the previous films was holding back Depp’s brilliance. But having seen On Stranger Tides, in which Depp must mostly steer proceedings alone, his performance is somehow less effective without them.
He is at his best in this film when dancing around other characters, making light of them. Penelope Cruz is suitably sassy and sexy as a pirate, albeit with an unrealistically attractive cleavage for a hardened sailor, and she and Depp have some fun exchanges, but putting Sparrow at the heart of a love story doesn’t work. Even the filmmakers realise this by backing out of it somewhat at the end. Captain Jack Sparrow is not the emotional type. And what made him so attractive to audiences, was the way he mocked the clichéd relationship between Bloom and Knightley. Making him part of the conventional storyline robs his performance of some of its power.
Depp is still fantastic fun at points though, rising above an overcomplicated script with a bizarre fascination for throwing in random and rubbish rhymes. This film may just go through the motions and it may be far too long, but it’s undeniably grand and fairly pleasing despite the odd yawn.
Rather than fork out for its occasional 3D gimmicks of a sword jutting out of the screen though, I would recommend ditching the high seas for inner city London and Joe Cornish’s critically acclaimed directorial debut, Attack the Block. I saw this just hours before Pirates 4 and without adding anything new to the chorus of praise around it, I will just say go and see it. It is funnier and more thrilling than Rob Marshall’s blockbuster and doesn’t deserve to sink.
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I was keen to see A History of Violence, but I also sat down to watch it with trepidation. The title of this film had me envisaging a brutal compilation of some of history’s goriest moments or something similarly horrific like a serial killer’s holiday snaps. Director David Cronenberg had a reputation from what I’d heard, as he followed up the success of this film with hard-hitting gangster story Eastern Promises, containing its own controversial fight scenes. I haven’t much stomach for excessive blood and guts.
The opening scene was indeed chilling; brilliantly so. From the very start A History of Violence declares itself to be a film that will give its actors room to act, its story room to grow and unsettle, and yet with a runtime of 96 minutes it’s no tedious slow-burner. The action kicks-off at detailed walking pace, with two shady but calm types loitering outside a motel. They exchange perfectly ordinary, mundane words. One of them disappears inside whilst the other moves the car a little further along. Then we see which man wears the trousers as the driver’s ordered to go and get water from the cooler in reception.
Inside he dawdles, the camera slowly following his casual, deliberate movements. Then he nonchalantly passes the bloody scene of carnage behind the counter to fill up his container with water. By this point the tension’s been skilfully raised to breaking point. A crying girl appears, clutching a soft toy. The man freezes. The gentle manner he adopts to reassure her, to stop her running or screaming, makes you wonder if he’s a reluctant pawn in a criminal world. Or at least he has enough heart to keep children out of his messy business. But then he gradually reaches for his gun.
The next scene starts with a girl waking from a bad dream, worrying about monsters. Viggo Mortensen appears to comfort his child, instantly establishing himself in the caring everyman role he played so well in The Road. He tells her: “There’s no such thing as monsters”. And yet the inhuman calculating coolness we saw in the preceding scene lingers hauntingly, encouraging the audience to feel differently.
The first twenty minutes of A History of Violence following its disturbing opening scene, caught me off guard for their ordinariness. Mortensen’s character Tom Stall is a simple country soul, running his store and looking out for his family. Far from being dull these establishing scenes are touching and add to the meaning of later events. Stall’s relationship with his wife, played by Maria Bello, is tenderly romantic and loving despite the length of the marriage. His daughter is cute, his friends and colleagues kind and his teenage son remarkably perceptive and intelligent for his age.
But then a handful of fleeting moments change everything. The thugs we saw at the start of the film turn up at Stall’s diner and proceed to terrorise his staff and customers. Reacting instinctively Stall intervenes to save everyone and inadvertently catapults himself to fame. His picture covers the town’s paper alongside the headline, “Local Hero”.
At this point A History of Violence’s title starts to make sense, as the film becomes a meditation on the consequences and ethics of violence. We’ve already seen some High School moments in which Stall’s son, played by Ashton Holmes, rose above the aggressive taunts of the sports hot-shot. Now Stall tries to deal with the accompanying trauma of killing a man, two men, in unforgettable close-up fashion. His family and the community rally round to comfort him. We never see the reasons behind the thugs’ killings. Cronenberg is careful to make most of the violence purely about how it makes a deep, repressed part of some people feel; how it satisfies them.
With the unwelcome arrival of more mobsters to Stall’s quiet town, the plot takes another unexpected twist. The story shifts from a thoughtful exploration of the nature of violence, to tense suffocation as the gangsters stalk Stall’s family, to suspicion and confusion as ghosts surface from Stall’s past. It’s all marvellously subtle, but hints from earlier in the film begin to make sense. Those establishing scenes really were good as you hope with Stall’s family that the demons go away. But of course they don’t.
The acting is superb. Mortensen and Bello are not just excellent as a couple early on in the idyllic stages, but wonderfully convincing and captivating later as destructive events unravel. There are memorable cameos from William Hurt and Ed Harris. The way the performers completely inhabit their characters ensures A History of Violence works masterfully as a gripping, suspenseful and action packed thriller, as well as an insightful film questioning ideas like the American Dream, identity, relationships, humanity and the past.
And the cherry on top of a filling, tasty and sumptuous slice of movie cake is a final scene as stylish, patient, subtle and moving as the opening one. If you haven’t seen A History of Violence, do so soon. It was not at all what I expected it to be and well worth a watch. Don’t be put off by the title or the 18 certificate because ultimately it’s a first-rate and surprising story. It won’t mentally scar you, merely make you think.
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A humanitarian catastrophe is underway in northeastern Nigeria’s war-torn Borno State, where at least 500,000 people are in urgent need of food, medical care, water, and shelter. Médecins Sans Frontières Australia's Executive Director Paul McPhun discusses the desperate situation currently playing out in Borno State, Nigeria.
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Star Wars Thread: The Rise of running out of witty titles
Star Wars Thread: The Rise of running out of witty titles (Read 282159 times)
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Re: Disney acquires Lucasfilm for 4.05 billion. New Star Wars film in the works.
#21 November 01, 2012, 01:29:33 AM
next disney will buy greece. 4.05 billion not a bad deal imo.
I'm not standing out. This isn't weird at all.
Nanashi_1337 said, October 31, 2012, 05:21:51 PM
AJS made a video describing the consequences of this, and he makes some good points. Here's the video:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU7v_Ju3djI[/youtube]
Bad Nanashi, bad! No Pissed Jose Angry Joe!
Titiln
i tried to watch that fucking retard but because of his general stupidity, bad gimmick, motivational images and a fucking family guy clip i stopped
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God. Dammit. As long as Lucas isn't allowed to touch the main story anymore, then I'm good.
I'll only fully backing this if anything taking place after Episode VI is adapted directly from the Extended Universe.
Hopefully this doesn't hamper the Star Wars fan community. Otherwise Stars Wars Revisited is gonna go up in flames
require medical strips
so sonic wave
Niko the Majin said, November 01, 2012, 03:06:12 AM
Rumor has it that they are gonna make it so far into the future that it won't screw with the current continuity (ie. The Extended U).
SO it's going to be present day.
stevla83
I read online that the story of the new star wars will pick up 39 or 40 years into the future after return of the jedi with luke in his sixies passing on his knowledge to another genration but it's basiced on fantime line of the other movies like here's a link to a starwars wikia http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sequel_trilogy but hopefully if they do that it follows the comics story will anakin and luke's descendants
Bastard Wolf
#29 November 02, 2012, 03:12:53 PM
Does this look like the face of mercy?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-deal-george-lucas-will-384947
By the end of the year, the $4.05 billion sale of Lucasfilm to Disney should be finalized. And since George Lucas owns 100 percent of his company - which has little to no debt - all that money goes to him. After that, Lucas plans to quickly put the bulk of the money into a foundation which will primarily focus on educational issues, a spokesperson for Lucasfilm tells THR. "George Lucas has expressed his intention, in the event the deal closes, to donate the majority of the proceeds to his philanthropic endeavors."
"For 41 years, the majority of my time and money has been put into the company," Lucas said in a statement Wednesday. "As I start a new chapter in my life, it is gratifying that I have the opportunity to devote more time and resources to philanthropy."
The spokesperson noted that this "announcement continues a commitment that Lucas made in 2010 to The Giving Pledge where he stated, "I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future--and the first step begins with social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt--as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.'"
i guess we can now take back anything bad we ever said about george lucas
Hey I'm just exercising my First Amendment rights here ya fuckin' communist.
Ricepigeon
Gaps? Where we're going, we don't need gaps...
Jangie Boogie said, November 01, 2012, 04:40:58 AM
http://swrevisited.wordpress.com/ said:
Here’s what Adywan had to say on Facebook:
It is a dark time for Star Wars fan editors and will most likely be the end of the revisited saga………
As you have probably heard , Disney have purchased Lucasfilm and the complete Star Wars franchise. Disney are well known for not taking kindly to anyone touching anything they own. So i expect a cease and desist notice any time soon. Hopefully this will not be the case, but it looms a lot closer than when George owned the franchise. This news couldn’t have come at a worse time as i am nowhere near finishing the house or even being able to start the workroom thanks to my finances running out due to extra work i have had to do. With Christmas coming up along with the new arrival of my gorgeous grandson on the 27th October, there is no way i can restart work on ESB:R until after Xmas when i have paid off a few of the bills. I’m now preying that the bad news doesn’t come my way at any time in the near future, hopefully never.
So i think we may now need to prepare for some bad news
Let me (doubleofive) reiterate that we have not heard from any lawyers, and there are existing fan edits of other Disney franchises (Pirates, Marvel) that are available, so it’s not all doom and gloom just yet. We doubt Disney will take Lucas’ apparent lack of caring point of view on fan edits, but I’m sure they’ll be so focused on NEW ways to get your money that they won’t notice the non-existent loss fan edits cause.
Also, it’s possible they may restore and release the original theatrical cuts that Lucas refused to do just to placate us older fans! Personally, I’m not looking forward to the expansions of the Saga, maybe not having Lucas directly in charge will help (see Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), maybe it will hinder. We just don’t know at this point.
We will just keep working until we hear otherwise.
Nothing yet but looks like they're preparing in the event it does.
Does Lucas' statement about using his wealth to help improve education mean he's going to build a Jedi Academy?!
Lord Kain
Vae Victus!
This geek sounds like hes got a hard on, Jesus chill the fuck out bro!
"Given the choice; whether to rule a corrupt and failing empire or to challenge the Fates for another throw a better throw against one's destiny... what was a king to do?
I'm Agent Norman Jayden, FBI.
You don't know enehthin.
You know, i'm sure there are some fans that are worried that they are going to ruin the franchise with this move. But c'mon guys. Disney doesn't make bad movies. There's no way it can get any worse than it has already.
Gameboy Scorpion - 4%
SUPER SECRET STAGE - 0%
Lord Kain said, November 09, 2012, 12:30:50 AM
It's Angry Joe's persona. I don't get why he calls himself Angry Joe if he keeps orgasming on-screen over games/this. Well except for his response to getting shut down at that Spike video game awards show.
Person Man
This is going to be very entertaining.
ICONIC space villain Darth Vader is to be brought back from the dead for a new trilogy of Star Wars films.
Following news that Disney has bought the rights to the lucrative sci-fi franchise and plans to make at least three more movies, industry insiders say the evil Vader will grace the big screen again.
“He’s an integral part of the franchise. Replacing him is virtually impossible,” explains a film mole. “The plan is for him to return and play a significant role in the new films.”
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/357610/Darth-Vader-to-be-resurrected
So much for Disney saving the franchise.
why would you believe that
My reaction in a nutshell
It could work if, say, he was a vision brought back by Luke's memories, kinda like that one extra-terrible Pokemon "movie" where Pikachu fights Mewtwo again even after they reconciled, since his memories were being manifested. However that movie was terrible and was only made to test the new dub voice actors, although the concept was kinda cool.
That or an army of Darth Vaders ala Robo-Ky in Guilty Gear, which would be hilarious in too many ways to describe
Last Edit: November 13, 2012, 05:47:03 AM by JMO
Super Old Bitter Dude
Or the new trilogy could just be Episode 3.25, 3.5, 3.75.
Last Edit: November 13, 2012, 05:53:11 AM by SNT
the fucking link said:
Fellow old favourites Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia – played by Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher – have already been tipped to reprise their respective roles.
While Vader seemingly met his end in the 1983 film The Return Of The Jedi it seems this will not stop his comeback.
“This is science fiction remember,” we’re told. “Darth Vader will rise from the ashes.”
So much for that theory, SNT
Spinsters sometimes use language like that to guarantee headlines. Vader rising from the ashes could just refer to him coming back to movie screens, not necessarily coming back to life in an Episode 7. Or at least I hope it doesn't mean that, it doesn't make any sense at all. Even if Vader was alive, he'd come to peace with himself, he'd effectively renounced Sith.
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Range Selection within note input mode.
antonjazzsax
• May 25, 2020 - 11:24
Since there was quite a discussion about a feature request that would allow to do a quick range selection out of note input mode, and no clear agreement was achieved I would like to start a separate topic here to brainstorm some more advanced possibilities.
So here are some use cases for which this could be beneficial:
When inputing few notes, chords, or measures, it is common to do one of the following things
note input a passage _ range select _ then:
add a slur to a phrase, or
add articulations to notes, or
copy paste the passage, or
make a passage into a second voice, or
change noteheads type, or
toggle slash notation
make small,
add tremolos
add a pin, or any other element from "linels" palette, like 1st or 2nd ending, 8vb , etc.
add an interval
change properties in inspector
add arpeggiato to chords
delete (yes sometimes we change our mind)
change (most often diminish) note durations of selected notes using numbers
With the current note input behaviour, you have to first exit note input than do a range selection. Then possibly reenter note input mode and so on.
With this many different use cases It would be good to have a more efficient way to do it.
I would like to have a possibility to make a range selection right after I've entered the last note of the passage.
My ideas:
There were basically two possibilities discussed in the linked thread:
1. Allow a range selection command (currently "shift+arrow") to exit the note input and make a range selection at once.
2. Create some kind of hybrid note input mode, with the range selection functionality.
The first option seems like a quick and easy solution, with some drawbacks.
The second solution looks like would have to be built up from scratch.
So I see two possible routes (not necessarily excluding each other)
Implement an extra command that would allow a "silly billy" exiting of note input mode and making a range selection at once. Leaving it a freely assignable to any shortcut (including a possibility to reassig it to "shift + arrow" thus replacing the current "swap notes" command in the note input mode )
Since muse score already has few different options under the "N" enter notes menu,
I can imagine adding another one:
an extra hybrid note input mode, which would allow making a range selection, while remaining in an active note input mode.
That means a range selection can be made without exiting a note input mode.
Use scenario
enter the last note of the passage, make a range selection of a passage, apply articulation, hairpin 8va__ , for the lenfth of the passage. Then continue a note input as usual. No exiting, no reentry of note input mode. I believe there are no conflicts between commands in range selection and commands of note input mode (except for the "shift + arrow" which to point is what caused this discussion). Once the note input went on, the range selection is dismissed automatically. And so on. This might have the same disadvantages as the first solution option (potential confusion between note input and range selection functionality). However I think any of the options could be introduced as a n extra feature without radically affecting the familiar behaviour.
Below is the link to original thread, which can be linked to this one.
https://musescore.org/en/node/304903
SteveBlower
Interestingly, "Add stave above to selection" (Shift+up) and "Add stave below to selection" (Shift+down) do work in note input mode. So we already can extend range selections vertically to do things like add staccato to all notes on beat 1 in all staves. It would certainly make sense to me to be able to do the same horizontally. Indeed, that use case rather than vertical extension is probably more likely to be useful.
In reply to Interestingly, "Add stave… by SteveBlower
Well, this is generally a critique point I have for musescore. That a LOT of features are just partially implemented. So naturally users want full implementation of the features that are already there. I guess it's a peculiarity of community based development though. I have to say I'm really happy with what musescore is capable of at this point. But the consistency of feature behaviour and coherency should be seriously considered so that program's behaivior doesn't feel "sloppy" and "weird", especially for the new users. There is simply no reason to keep features partial it just makes getting used to the workflow longer, especially for those who "migrate" from paid software.
In reply to Well, this is generally a… by antonjazzsax
Not sure which features strike you as half-implemented. I guess you mean things like wishing "R" worked on more selection types. but I think characterizing it as "half-implemented" is unproductive. It's simply an opportunity to extend the feature in a way that wasn't originally conceived of.
Certainly the fact that range selection isn't implemented in note input mode doesn't mean anything is half-implemented. Again, it's just an opportunity to extend the original design in a way that no one has conceived of before. And this one is an extremely complex topic, so dismissing it as "half implemented" is especially unproductive.
That said, there are a very small number of features that truly are only half implemented in the sense that there are things that clearly could be done but weren't: local time signatures being one main example. The ability to associate linked parts with individual voices is another, but this is being addressed for 3.5.
Also, it is important to keep in mind that every notation program has its own set of features, and migrating from any program to any will make one aware at first of what is "missing" in comparison. Each of the major notation programs has features none of the others have.
In reply to Not sure which features… by Marc Sabatella
Dear Marc. I didn't mean to sound unproductive. In fact even calling it a "critique" point I do so because I see a potential in what musescore can bring, what the others cannot. And I do appreciate an open structure of the design, as it indeed makes new design solutions possible. I just share what I consider worth mentioning from the user perspective. I guess it's not a right thing for me being not a programmer to talk about half-implementation (although i used less harsh wording then "half- implemented") since I simply don't know the specifics and possible use terms not in a correct way, but I'll try to choose the words better. I believe it would not be wrong for me to say, that from user perspective I miss certain consistency in behaviour. Meaning: it's normal to expect the same command to do the same thing in all applicable situations and use cases. It's confusing when you can do a certain thing in one situation, but not in the other for no apparent reason for the user. It's normal for a user to rely on habits and "similarity" of behaviour, when the same command works the same way in all applicable situations and it sucks, when this is not the case in a small things like I was posting about lately. I think it's important to ensure such UI consistency in this aspect, to eliminate confusion and dissatisfaction during the learning process. Something you rightly seem to care about from the last thread about range selection. Now I hope you can accept this as an excuse and maybe we can exchange about the the the topic of this thread a little more.
In reply to Dear Marc. I didn't mean to… by antonjazzsax
Thanks for the clarification, and sorry for coming as a grouchy.
To me this meta-discussion is good to have, though, because there really is an important distinction to be made between things where anyone might reasonably expect a certain behavior, and expectations that are formed primarily because of prior familiarity with one particular program that happens to do things a particular way. People accustomed to how they did things in program X might expect one behavior, while people who were accustomed to program Y instead might expect something quite different, and people with no prior notation program experience might expect something else still. Balancing all of these is a complex thing.
And while, sure, consistency is good, the whole point of having separate modes in a program is as a way of clarifying the fact that certain things can be done in one mode whereas other things can be done in another, and this in itself is supposed to help set expectations. But, it seems to be an area where there is some disagreement among design experts - some are convinced modes are the best way to do this, others are convinced modes should be avoided at all costs. I don't actually have a horse in that race, but I do share your implied concern that forcing people into changing modes when not necessary is not a good thing.
I know Dorico has gone full-on with a mode-based approach and for the most part people seem to be responding well to it, and it does seem there is much to learn what they are doing. I'm not sure if you've checked out any of Tantacrul's videos - that's Martin Keary, who is now our head of design - but I highly recommend checking out his Dorico review to get an idea of where some of his thinking is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3wEC6Fj_8
Martin is actively working on new designs for MuseScore 4, with an emphasis on adding more playback-related features, and I have to believe the subject of modes is going to come up, whether we go that way or not.
So to me these larger issues are definitely worth discussing and getting handle on, really before we start talking too much about specifics. Not that looking at specifics can't also be useful, but it really is vital I think to not start out by looking only at the details but to see the bigger picture.
In reply to Thanks for the clarification… by Marc Sabatella
Aw.. that video :D!!!! too funny.
Anyway, here is what I wanted to share from my "first time" use experience with musescore.
I believe that music notation program has a lot in common with text editor. And despite all the fancy musical "speciality", we should not forget , that essentially it's a musical "typewriter" in the first place. To me Sibelius is something like a Microsoft Word of music notation. It has introduced some breakthrough workflow routines that work extremely well. It's strongest points to me is its note input/editing workflow + interactive layout adjustment. I'm a saxophonist, so I have a similar analogy. When "Selmer" sax company introduced introduced their particular design of key mechanics back in the 50s, eventually all manufactures copied it, because it just worked so well, and Selmers were at that time the most popular. Although every company had their "unique" mechanics (which is a pain getting used to), today literally every modern sax uses that same design, making it so much easier to switch. I think the first company who decided to copy it, made the wisest decision for business and for user-friendliness. Now it is pretty much a standard, and no one cares, where it came from. Same with Microsoft Word and Photoshop. To me Musescore leans much more towards Sib. in terms of workflow (input, editing, layout) than to any other major program. When I first used Musescore I could clearly see it. And to the point that I would start wondering, why not to finally to nail down, and avoid making an impression of a week Sib copy? Having something so similar, but not quite as consistent and convenient made no sense to me. And to be clear, I don't mean the things that are a particular design ideas of a musescore (most of which I find excellent, even if not fully matured). I mean small things that are like a cogwheels, that you don't care about, as long as they work smoothly, but when they don't you scratch your head. Like "R" command, one sided ties, copy paste of list selected notes, making all elements on the staff small (and not noteheads and rests separately), adding intervals, and some other. To me they are just too common and insignificant, to try to invent them anew. For the most parts, these things are being adressed already, but sometimes I was a bit surprised, how difficult it was to suggest things that just work and give no trouble. Maybe I'm biased, but seriously we are talking about the succesfull design of the software that is used by a huge chunk of users globally and from which musescore has obviously taken a lot. So why not to make those cogwheels run properly and then concentrate on the things that musescore could be unique at? It looks just like a matter of taking advantage of what has been done already. And for the most part it has already been taken. I think that is exactly the weakness of Dorico. Because obviously Dorico team was too concerned to do things differently than sibelius, even though they themselves created it. As the result its workflow is much less fluent and while the program is nice, it looks like it is not going to be a go-to software for the majority of users. Dorico's target audience seems to be a rather narrow group of engraving professionals and "serious" composers. My feeling is, it would be wise of Musescore developers to take as many "good things" from Sibelius as they possibly can, and make that workflow run just as smoothly, even if it would mean copying Sibelius (which is often the case anyway). And then "boldly" take all advantage of SMuFL while slowly growing up and maturing its own design developments and features. After Sib. has dropped the ball few times in the last years with some questionable design decisions and discouraging subscription policy, it would be "neglecting an opportunity" to not try to lure some of its users. But for that Musescore would have to become at least as good at things that Sibelius nailed.
The idea of being able to make a range selection in note input mode is interesting, and has some obvious benefits, such as those you have highlighted.
In theory, it's probably not that hard to implement the ability to make selections in note input. But there would be a number of difficult design problems to solve, though.
One is the question of how the "selection" will relate to the "cursor" in terms of, for example, where the next note is entered if you press a letter key. This is already a very delicate relationship that has been tuned over the years based on feedback. We also try to maintain a sense of the "active" note/rest when making selections by keyboard in normal mode (the one whose position is used as a basis for the behavior of Shift+left/right/up/down). This has also been tuned over the years but my sense is there plenty of room for improvement here. So it would be important to work through exactly what happens to both the input cursor and the "active" note/rest in a variety of scenarios.
Another obvious question involves the people - a large majority, I would imagine - who don't use the keyboard to make selections at all. If range selection in note input mode is to be a thing, it shouldn't be something available only to the minority who use keyboard shortcuts heavily. And that becomes trickier, because the idea of clicking to enter notes is pretty heavily ingrained and forms a big part of many users' expectations.
Example of how other programs handle these issues would be interesting.
In reply to The idea of being able to… by Marc Sabatella
"One is the question of how the "selection" will relate to the "cursor" in terms of, for example, where the next note is entered if you press a letter key."
If there is a hybrid mode, then a range selection doesn't affect the cursor (the one that's on the staff, about the mouse/note cursor see below.) The blue staff cursor stays where it was and pressing a letter creates the note there, where it would be created in a normal note input. And the "active note" would corresponds to to the last note that was entered, as it anyway stays blue in note input behind the cursor.
"If range selection in note input mode is to be a thing, it shouldn't be something available only to the minority who use keyboard shortcuts heavily."
For that i imagine holding Shift key could be used, as it is so universally associated with selection. not just in music notation, but in MS Word etc. So pressing shift key in the "hybrid" mode would make the "mouse note cursor" become a normal mouse cursor, allowing to do a range selection by clicking on the staff space., and the "staff cursor" would remain intact.
"Example of how other programs handle these issues would be interesting"
I don't think this particular idea of "hybrid" was implemented by famous notation program, however it is commonly used in DAWs like Logic, Cakewalk aka "smart tool", where the cursor changes appearance.
In reply to "One is the question of how… by antonjazzsax
Unfortunately Shift already has a specific meaning in note input mode, to replace notes rather than build chords (or vice versa for MIDI input). So further redesign would be required to accommodate use of Shift for selection.
"a large majority, I would imagine - who don't use the keyboard to make selection"
I'm sure there are a lot of mouse users out there and it's important to consider both habits.
For me personally there are just couple of common sense reasons, why I personally would never prefer a mouse input in the long run and at the certain volume of music production.
1. Although it is no doubt can be quite fast also, the keyboard input is still a bit faster.l for the "raw" input speed.
2. Not so insignificant to me: With keyboard shortcuts input you have a chance to give your eyes a little break from the screen here and there, as you can use a little bit of the blind "typing" technique . Something you can't possibly do with the mouse as a main tool. plus visual changes made in the design of the new version of the program don't throw you out as much. So arguably keyboard is a more sustainable method in the long run (as long as we are stuck with computer displays). Of course that is just a part of the users base, but not so insignificant.
In reply to "a large majority, I would… by antonjazzsax
You're preaching to the choir regarding keyboard control :-). But even so, I recognize that from a design perspective, to accommodate all users, not just "power" users, we need designs that are easily discoverable and that make sense to people who don't already have preconceived notions of how notation programs should work based on experience with Sibelius, Finale, or Dorico. This idea of discoverability is actually one of the main focuses (foci, I know) of the usability testing that has been happening on conjunction with the new designs being produced already.
In reply to You're preaching to the… by Marc Sabatella
So do you mean only those users who don't have a previous notation program experience would suit the criteria for usability testing? :)
Like people who always wrote by hand, or only children? Or those who have no previous experience with music notation, or no experience with computer, or only hobby musicians? Where is the "waterline" ? I think it's just an illusion distincting power users from non power users, as every person will likely have some experience to relate to. The question is really who should be the reference point?, what kind of professionals or artists? I think you'll be hard pressed to find it among those who are not completely inexperienced and ignorant, but have no notions about what the program should be like in 2020. And everyone has to learn, just like a musical instrument. But even relatively easy to lern Instrument will still relate to some kind of "professionals" in that field to suit them.
There are basically just two main variables: 1. is the amount of learning worth the reward in terms of possibilities the instrument gives and consequently I f there is something that can be done to allow achieving the result easier without sacrificing quality. 2. What the "ideal" functionality on various levels of complexity should be like? And that inevitably brings back to the collective experience of other programs. Like the design of a piano mechanic would not exist in its current form without all its predecessors, whose design contributed to the modern instrument. So if we talk about something sustainable, that hopefully should stick around for a while I think it should really be thought in terms of something that is less influenced by the computer-era hype. Where you have to relearn the software every few years, although it still does the same thing it did 10 years ago. Because sheet music has been there much longer than computers and audio recording and likely will stay for a while. The real evolution could be for example in how well it translates music from xml, or pdf , or how well it merges with the DAW. But music notes will likely look much the same in 20 -30 years. So why not try to establish the routine, like of the Microsoft Word or any other text processor. It's all QWERTY and and is quite established.
In reply to So do you mean only those… by antonjazzsax
All kinds of users are looked at in usability testing. My point here is, it isn't only former Sibelius users we try to make things seem "intuitive" to. It's important to look at the big picture and somehow balance the different expectation had by different users, rather than assuming our own expectations will always translate to everyone else.
The idea of making analogy to word processor makes sense sometimes, but not other times, as there are many many ways where music is nothing like words. Words have no concept of time or measures where removing a word has to ask what should happen to the subsequent words. That is, there is no situation where it ever makes sense to not shift them left to close up the space. Words have no concept of multiple voices, or for that matter multiple staves, or even chords. They are completely linear, so no issues of say multiple markings on a single note. And so on.
So we do try to use that analogy where it makes sense, but there are many places where it simply falls apart once you look closely. And that's why no WYSIWYG notation program follows this to any great extreme. You use that model where it makes sense, and you don't where it doesn't. Sometimes the line is hard to draw cleanly, and everyone will see that differently, and that's OK.
Anyhow, we certainly appreciate your input regarding your own personal experience and how it is has shaped your own unique set of expectations. It's all useful data. I'm just addressing specific points that seem to call for response.
In reply to All kinds of users are… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you. I'm glad if it is of some value. And even if it may seem like I'm pushing my ideas, that's really not what I'm interested in. I just feel there is more potential in this project than what the others software could have. Hope you'll find a good idea for the for the "range selection" matter of this topic too
In reply to Thank you. I'm glad if it is… by antonjazzsax
I am pleased that this proposal is receiving serious consideration. I can see its advantage if implemented correctly. To help things along, I did a little more experimentation with the existing behaviour of selecting "vertically" while remaining in input mode. In particular I looked at what happens when you try to enter a note after using the selection.
Suppose you have four staves and are currently entering notes in stave 3. You can use Shift+Up twice to select notes/rests at the same time slot in staves 2 and 1. Press Shift+S and you add staccato dots to the selection. If you now press a note key, the selection is cancelled, like pressing Esc and the note is entered at the next position that would have been used if you hadn't made the selection and added staccato. This seems very sensible and understandable behaviour.
I also looked at what actions are possible while a vertical selection is active. I found that most things work. You can add articulations and ornaments. You can add accidentals from the pallet but not from a shortcut. You can add most lines, but not a slur. You can add dynamics. You can't add stave text as you get a "No note selected" warning. Trying to add a tied note using the + shortcut gives quite surprising results. You get the tied note on stave 3 but you also get the notes in staves 1 and 2 added to the tied-to note in stave 3 to make a chord. This is perhaps clearer by reference to this screenshot.
I was working in stave 3 and after entering the G on beat 2 of bar 2, while still in note entry mode, I pressed Shift+Up twice to produce a selection including the E in stave 1, the C in stave 2 and the G in stave 3. Then I pressed + and you see the result: a tied G on beat 3 of stave 3 but the notes from beat 2 of staves 1 and 2 have been added to it to make a chord. Perhaps less surprisingly, the C on beat 2 of stave 2 has been tied to the C on beat 4.
A few thoughts on implementing “range selection within note input mode”:
The fact that vertical ranges can be selected while in note input mode suggests that extending the implementation to horizontal ranges may be more a question of removing a restriction that prevents making a horizontal range selection while in note input mode, rather than implementing something wholly new. But not being at all familiar with what goes on under the hood I may be grossly underestimating what is needed. One current difficulty is that the obvious short cuts for making a horizontal selection are already by default allocated to shifting the last-entered note. But as I noted earlier, I feel that this shift behaviour would not be missed by many users if the shortcuts Shift+Left/Right were re-allocated.
The behaviour when resuming note input after using a vertical range – carry on as if the range selection had just been cancelled - seems sensible and could be retained for horizontal range selections.
If the ability to make and use horizontal selections in note input made is implemented, thought needs to be given to what should and what should not be possible from those range selections. Ideally there should be no difference between what happens in and out of note input mode. But do all operations that are possible outside note input mode make sense while in note input mode?
Forward selections from the current note input position are probably much less useful than backwards selections as if you are entering music left to right, there is probably not much to select in the forward direction. Perhaps only backwards selections should be allowed.
The current behaviour when adding ties with vertical selections while in note input mode is bizarre and should be made the same as when out of note input mode.
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In reply to I did a little more… by SteveBlower
Oh great! So you've actually tried it!
" making a horizontal range selection while in note input mode, rather than implementing something wholly new"
1. That's what it seemed to me. An idea of a "hybrid" extra was just an idea of precaution, but I would not mind at all having it in usual Note input.
"Perhaps only backwards selections should be allowed."
While the point is true....
Ehm..... It might be a good idea to give just a little extra permissiveness on that one. You never know, how users might end up doing things. Full range sel. functionality would not seem to hurt. Unwillingly remembered that fragment of Tantacrul's video about vertical hairpin movement behaviour in Dorico :D!!! Let's not risk that.
Cool! so maybe we could draw some attention of developers to this then!
In reply to Oh great! So you've actually… by antonjazzsax
"So you've actually tried it".
Well, I have tried what I said in my post which is to see what happens when you press shift+up/down when in note input mode. No, I haven't tried to implement making a selection by pressing shift+left/right when in note input mode. I have just made some suggestions about what such an implementation might look like to a user.
It's frankly a bug that Shift+Up/Down seems to work in note input mode currently, but it's a convenient bug for this purpose, because it allows testing some things that otherwise would require someone to actually prototype something,
So I definitely encourage more experimentation with this to see if you like the current behavior in a variety of different scenarios. Be careful, as I would not be surprised if some operations crash, as there are implicit assumptions in the code that range selections won't happen in note input mode.
In reply to It's frankly a bug that… by Marc Sabatella
Dear Marc. Thank you for your response. I have a question, Is there a possibility to make a rough change to the program code (a draft for testing so to say). Since there is no need to make anything new, except for disabling the "swap notes" command and removing what limits selection to the left and right. Any chance someone who knows the code of the program could assist with that? Again just a quick tweak for a personal testing? So we could have a run on that. Many thanks
In reply to Dear Marc. Thank you for… by antonjazzsax
It's probably possible, but likely to be more than a little work to make sure we handle enough cases that it doesn't crash. I wouldn't consider it worthwhile without more design thought into how this could really work - again, a feature that only works via shortcut might as well not exist for most users. Meanwhile, you can test using Shift+Up/Down.
Or maybe someone else has more spare time on their hands and doesn't mind spending a few days or whatever on doing a trial implementation of this.
In reply to It's probably possible, but… by Marc Sabatella
If using shift is not possible , it could also be holding "alt" key or a ctrl/command keys (mac/pc respectively) and then clicking the staff space (or a note). So holding a key could make a note cursor icon dissapear and thus allow selection. I know I'm risking to be arrested by the "step-input" police , but hey, why not? This is a fairly common behaviour for many DAWs, so maybe it could be borrowed.
In reply to If holding shift is not… by antonjazzsax
Having to hold down a key other than Shift for making selections is not a step in the direction of discoverability, however.
A related issue to ponder is how to one makes selections in normal mode. Currently, MuseScore moves the score if you try to drag-select. I do think many people eventually figure out (or are told) that Shift allows you to drag-select, but this is not the epitome of discoverability. Plus, people find immediately that the drag moves the score, then they fail to look for and discover the much better ways (eg, mouse scroll wheel or two finger swipe), and instead grumble about the lack of scroll bars and spend way longer than necessary dragging the score around and accidentally dragging elements to boot.
I'd just as soon see us make plain drag do a select, and Shift+drag to the scroll. But that would not work in note input mode any better, because the click for plain drag would insert a note. Unless it didn't, of course, so we could play games with things like, only adding the note on mouse release instead of on press.
These are the sort of things that all need to be looked at together when designing new interfaces, particularly when trying to replace one that actually works quite well and has been refined over the years based on lots of input from users and millions are now used to.
In reply to Having to hold down a key… by Marc Sabatella
Well but that leaves us kind of empty handed then, as there is no way to address the issue other than making those operations more complicated than they already are. Come on...
No feature for keyboard shortcut, because mouse users cannot take advantage of it, no "silly-billy" because it might scare someone. So then at the end lots of posts and little chance for the feature to be implemented. It would be just good to see where this can go..
In reply to Well but that leaves us kind… by antonjazzsax
Spending a bunch of time implementing a feature that the vast majority of users will never use is a bad idea, if we could be spending that same time figuring out how to design it to actually be useful to everyone. This is why I say some good design work is needed. There are probably solutions out there, but it takes work to come up with them. It does no one any good to cobble together an application out of hundreds of unrelated ideas that seem good on their own but don't mesh together well and end up being undiscoverable to the average user. You end up with an application that makes no sense to anyone, a mess of non-intuitive inconsistencies.
That's always the danger we face and what we are trying to avoid and why we've gone to the trouble of hiring Martin to help focus design efforts going forward.
I posted my previous response before your edit.
No one is saying it's not going to be implemented. I don't know how you get from "more design work is needed to make sure we do a good job of it" to "not going to be implemented". That is not it at all. Please don't put words into my mouth. When I say more design work is needed, it isn't to say it won't be implemented - it's to encourage the sort of discussion that will lead to it actually being implemented well, designed in a way useful to all.
So you know, MuseScore 3.5 is imminent. There won't be any major changes to how the modes work or how selection works. Although I have implemented a few useful tweaks that hopefully will make it in, like "R" for single notes in normal mode, click/shift+click to select similar elements in a range, and ctrl+click to add/remove elements from a range selection. Those were all doable without changing any basic use models.
But MuseScore 4 is going to be the next "big" release, where quite a lot will change, precisely because of the ton of design work going into it. And to me that's where this discussion should be focused - making sure it gets considered in that design work, not arguing about whether or not it's worth spending time on a half-baked version in the interim that would likely need to be thrown away once a better design is created.
In reply to I posted my previous… by Marc Sabatella
Sorry, sometimes I get discouraged when I hear "no" a lot of times:) Of course you are right. So just to sum it up a little before taking a step back from this:
- we have a "bug" with vertical selection, that either can grow into a feature, or should be removed, but in any case should be addressed.
- we have lot's of use cases where simultaneous note input + range selection could be useful, but there is an overlapping command for both a keyboard input and for a mouse input scenarios.
Now after having played a little bit with applied vertical selection while in note input I have few observations:
- that feature would likely be more powerful but somewhat more advanced to use, than Sibelius's way of handling it and therefore probably something you would have to watch the video about. One would have to understand both modes quite well first in order to be able to combine them effectively and develop some routine.
- but It could speed up the process significantly, as you are potentially saving the need for exiting and reentering note input mode every time.
- it encourages a different way of working - i.e more multitasking, and possibility to write everything at once , rather then having to come back to edit elements. This feels in a way more natural and similar to how one would write music by hand bar after bar. It could be really powerful as you can remain in a "flow".
- feels especially useful for things like line palette elements , but also for tremolos, arpeggiates and slurs. You can add hairpins, slurs, slides, trills, piano pedal marks, repeat endings etc. And all that while continuously inputing notes.
- potential confusion point is obviously the fact that things are applied at multiple places of the passage, and one might forget about the staff cursor.
- For the mouse input scenario it feels that some kind of "smart tool" approach would be most appropriate. For example smart tool in Logic Pro, when holding certain key (which is assignable) changes a mouse tool, or Cakewalks's type, where the mouse tool changes depending on which part of a region you are hovering it over. It could be also be a drag selection, if adapted accordingly.
- selection behaviour in itself has some issues, that first should be addressed independently to have a clearer view on the combined behaviour of these modes.But that's a separate topic, which seems to be discussed somewhere else already.
- another potential issue is that it's not possible to convert selected passages into a 2nd voice if range selection is applied in the note input mode. That is something that feels as a discrepancy with the regular selection mode, which is not so cool.
In reply to Sorry, sometimes I get… by antonjazzsax
I would agree the ability to use Shift+Up/Down in range selection is a bug, but a very minor one, unless you can easily make MsueScore crash by exploiting it. But if it is decided to eventually implement a range selection facility within note input mode, it might be just as well to not bother fixing it as we'd just have to un-fix it later.
In any case, it should be submitted formally to the issue tracker so it can be prioritized and dealt with accordingly.
Regarding "Sibelius' way of handling it", I'm confused, I thought you said they don't support this? What video do you mean?
Regarding "selection behaviour in itself has some issues", not sure what you mean by that, unless you mean the confusion between creating list selections and range selections and how the Select context menu vs the Selection Filter play into this. That's definitely a known area where we'd like to eventually come up with improved designs, Martin has made the same point although I don't know that it is a top priority right now.
Anyhow, I do think this is a promising idea and agree with you regarding the ways it could help. It's just still not entirely clear to me if there is actually an opportunity to do even more to blur the distinction between normal and note input modes.
• Jun 5, 2020 - 15:08
In reply to I would agree the ability to… by Marc Sabatella
Regarding "selection behaviour in itself has some issues", not sure what you mean by that
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mkgham0gtq4rdci/0-02-0a-c4fea9449ed1e5273c5fd…
Hi Marc, I've recorded a little video showing, what doesn't seem to me quite right about current range selection behaviour. And I think that might become more exposed if the discussed range sel. functionality in note input mode gets implemented.
To me the logical behaviour would be, if the whole bar is selected, then extending selection down the staff below should always select the whole bar as well. If let's say only the quarter note gets selected, than pressing arrow down or up can create the selection of the similar duration. That's fine. The program should attempt to do it as far as possible, but when it isn't possible anymore, because for example the lower staff contains the whole note, or whole note rest, then the whole bar selection should be created instead and selecting all the lower staves should continue creating whole measure selection.
I see no reason, why the empty bars don't get selected when pressing shift Arrow down, likewise it doesn't make sense to me that the notes get selected, then deselected than selected again, as it feels confusing.
"Regarding "Sibelius' way of handling it", I'm confused, I thought you said they don't support this?"
Ah, Nevermind, Sibelius just allows you to create range selection by pressing shift arrow instantaneously, which I find practical. But in Sib. those are still two separate modes.
"It's just still not entirely clear to me if there is actually an opportunity to do even more to blur the distinction between normal and note input modes"
What do you see the use of having modes more "blurred" and what would such blurring look like?
"Anyhow, I do think this is a promising idea"
So what should be the next steps?
In reply to Regarding "selection… by antonjazzsax
The behavior of Shoft+Up/Down has been refined much over the years based on discussions here. The basic question is, what should happen if the different staves (same issue for multiple voices, BTW, independently of Shift+Up/Down) have different rhythms. The current behavior does simplify one particular very common use case - wanting to select just a single note in each measure so you can, for example, apply a dynamic to all of them at once. And it's simply enough to use Ctrl+Shift+Right to quickly extend to the whole measure again if that is your goal. But indeed, no matter which use case we optimize for, there is another that suffers for it.
Not sure what you mean about empty measures, those do get selected. FWIW, it's much easier to discuss these things from actual sample score and written steps to reproduce an issue, so we can "play along". Videos are much harder to deal with,, except when discussing some sort of on-screen glitch that wouldn't be reproducible unless we have the same screen resolution, window size, canvas position, etc.
As for what blurred modes would look like, I don't know, basically the idea that you wouldn't have so many commands that work in one mode but not the other, or that work differently. But that's a big discussion, should take place between lots of people, including the design team.
Next steps would just be to try to get more people interested in discussing this here or elsewhere so it can be considered in the design plans for MuseScore 4.
In reply to The behavior of Shoft+Up… by Marc Sabatella
"The current behavior does simplify one particular very common use case - wanting to select just a single note in each measure so you can, for example, apply a dynamic to all of them at once. "
Sorry, but that is exactly what ISN'T possible with the current behaviour, unless you all the notes you select vertically are of the same duration. And this "selection/deselection" behaviour, I just don't see the point of it.
Ok I've attached the score and here are the steps to reproduce:
Select a first notehead with the mouseclick (list selection) in the "Flute 1" staff on beat one (a dotted quarter)
hold shift + arrow down - range selects the dotted quarter in flute one and the 16th note in "Flute 2"
hold shift + arrow down - range selects the empty measure in "Oboe 1" now all notes in all three staves are selected
hold shift + arrow down - extends selection to "Oboe 2", but now everything from beat 2. becomes deselected in all four staves (except for the empty measure in "oboe 1" and a dotted quarter in "Flute 1").
hold shift + arrow down - extends selection to "Clarinet 1" - now again only the first notes (various durations on beat one) on all 5 staves are selected
hold shift + arrow down - extends selection to "Clarinet 2" now again everything from beat 2. becomes deselected like in step 4
Now here is another one:
select a whole 1st measure on "Flute 1" (either by clicking on the staff, or by extending range selection to the right)
hold shift + arrow down - extends range selection to "Flute 2", EXCEPT the last 16th note in "Flute 2" staff
hold shift + arrow down - DOES NOT extend selection to "Oboe 1", which has an empty measure
At this point you cannot continue selection to the lower staves, as the "empty measure" seems to block it.
So this is quite a bit of inconsistency in there. And it seems to be some issue with vertical selection of the rests that causes that.
Therefore a suggestion would be:
- always allow extending selection down or up, and fix the "rests selection" as well as selection/deselection behaviour as described above.
As far as how exactly should the vertical selection be extended.
Sibelius does the following
- it always selects the "first notes" beneath or above, but never extends range selection horizontally, even if the duration below, or above is larger. But when you copy paste it will paste all the selected notes of different durations aligned vertically. So essentially it works similar to "step 2" of the first example.
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In reply to "The current behavior does… by antonjazzsax
I think in this particular case, somehow the rests are indeed getting in the way. I guess the code intended to deal with this doesn't handle something about that particular case. Worth submitting a but report. Two, actually - one for the fact that the selection in the first scenario isn't exactly as expected, another for the fact that the full measure seems to block the extension of the selection at all in the second.
But try having a whole note on one staff, two halves on the next, four quarters on the next, eight eighths on the next. Click the whole, then Shift+Down three times. Selection is now exactly as you'd want for the purpose of adding a dynamic to the first note of each staff. That was my point - reducing the selection to the shortest of the different durations, rather than expanding it to the longest, ends up being the right thing here.
Linking to #306380: Extending range selection vertically - issue with rests
"As for what blurred modes would look like, I don't know, basically the idea that you wouldn't have so many commands that work in one mode but not the other, or that work differently"
To be honest I cannot come up with the situation, where having all the commands working in all modes would not be helpful. I honestly tried, but just don't see it. Do you have a specific use cases in mind, where you want that some commands don't work in some mode? There might be some exceptions for sure, but maybe let's try to them first?
In reply to "As for what blurred modes… by antonjazzsax
Mostly it's about mouse interaction, not keyboard, but yes, I'd say most mouse interactions should be expected to work differently. When it comes to keyboard, only a few: things like what a number key or dot does in terms of duration, or the shortcuts to select voice, enable accidental, etc. But those are pretty significant.
In reply to Mostly it's about mouse… by Marc Sabatella
Mouse interaction yes for sure, although it is in a way predefined by the mouse cursor appearance. I meant keyboard shortcuts commands. The numbers and dots - true - although it is specifics of the note input mode that you first "prepare" the duration and then enter it, unlike in normal mode, so it still does the same in a way, that in normal mode and in note input mode pressing number selects the duration in the panel and that feels logical.
About the "shortcuts to select voice" - to me that's two different commands done with the same shortcut, because in note input mode you aren't really selecting anything by pressing that shortcut. it just enables second voice entry. To me that is not exactly intuitive, but not as bad as "swapping notes" and probably that is a valid exception.
However, even in the normal mode that shortcut "ctrl+alt+number" isn't making a selection, it makes the selected range into 2nd voice. It looks like we are actually missing the real "select 2nd voice" command shortcut. In fact correct me if I'm wrong, but there seems to be no such thing as "select 2nd voice from the range selection" exactly. Selection filter "subtracts", and "select similar" doesn't do exactly that either.
In reply to Mouse interaction yes for… by antonjazzsax
I'm not quite understanding the distinction you are making between selecting voice 2 and excluding voice 1. Or if Select / More / Same voice is what you are looking for. A real world example would help.
In reply to I'm not quite understanding… by Marc Sabatella
I think I said it before. Just to be clear: There is nothing in Musescore that one CAN'T do. At this point pretty much everything is about HOW it can be done. The thing is at the more subtle aspects of workflow, there is apparently a limitation of what can be discussed in the format of this forum. Honestly I can't. Would be too much. I just know what works better for the purpose and write it where possible. The video from Martin on Dorico is a great example of how design gets a "reality check" and it is great that he is doing that job. I guess that way of presentation is more effective. It does seem however that graphic interaction design of MS as a whole is better backed than the keyboard workflow at this point. At least that "roasting" video was mostly about that, but TBH there is probably an hour worth of video to be done on the keyboard editing in MS as well.
Dear Marc, in your last comment you mentioned some of specific issues that need to be addressed on a more objective scope of usability, not just to please former Sibelius users :). I believe you were relating to those asked in this comment above about range selection implementation in note input.
"How "selection" will relate to the "cursor" in terms of, for example, where the next note is entered if you press a letter key."
(looks like I can't answer your comment directly). Is that so, ot did you mean something else? It would be good to have your feedback on the specific suggestions that were made in this thread by Steve and myself in the posts below. Whether some of those meet your criteria to some degree. Thanks a lot.
In reply to Dear Marc, in your last… by antonjazzsax
I've responded above to some specifics. Let me know if there are others I missed.
I should note, I'm not the design guru here, I'm just one of the people who ends up implementing and documenting things, and also supporting the users who are confused when they can't figure something out or things don't go as expect or - worse - when something that used to work a particular way and people have relied on for years suddenly changes. So I try to be sensitive to all those concerns when giving input into the design process, to try make sure proposed designs don't cause problems that were not originally foreseen.
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Morrissey: Ryman Auditorium / Nashville TN / May 28, 2014
June 4, 2014 · by mbodayle · in Concert Reviews · Leave a comment
I totally let the music of Morrissey–both solo and with his earlier band The Smiths–slip by me. The somber sounds and depressing lyrics never interested me. Curiosity recently got the better of me, so I decided to listen (via greatest hits records of both) and later attend Morrissey’s show at the Ryman. Despite being twice delayed for health reasons, the show finally happened and I was quite pleased that I went.
In all my years, I can’t think of an artist who I can compare to Morrissey. His looks, his style, and all his quirks make him a rather untypical rock performer. Really incomparable, though, are his fans. I have never seen a group more obsessed and devoted to a performer as I witnessed this night at the Ryman.
The rather rigid Ryman seating rules got thrown out the window before the show even got started: Fans took positions on the edge of the stage as soon as the door opened. The Ryman staff objected at first but finally gave in, keeping the unseated mass somewhat contained to the very front. Another logistical Ryman first were the addition of six outside security guards lining the front of the stage throughout the performance.
Musically for 90 minutes, I was blown away by the power and precision of the black garbed backup band. Starting with the chilling, mesmerizing sonic sounds of the opening Smith’s number “How Soon Is Now?” I was totally drawn in. The night’s set included three Smiths songs plus three from a forthcoming solo album. The main set ended with The Smith’s “Meat is Murder” during which Morrissey made his pitch for going veggie by showing some very grotesque slaughterhouse footage.
He sang against a backdrop of two large photos of American author and poet Maya Angelou who had died earlier that day. At one time he asked why she couldn’t have been president of the United States. That query led to the first of a few “what does the audience think” moments where he handed the mike to let some folks down in front say a few words.
He makes the best of what he has vocally and comes across as a rather entertaining crooner. As Elvis Costello said, however, “Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.” True. I had no idea what the guy was singing about, but look at those titles!
All evening long there were shouts from grown men and women telling Morrissey that they loved him and just longed to touch him. Then there was the surreal moment when he went bare skinned throwing his shirt into the crowd. Although it went cleanly into one fellow’s hands, this other guy thought he still had a chance. His attempt at extraction was immediately shut down by a stern threat that physical harm would ensue. I then watched the lucky guy savor his treasure as if it were the most valuable possession in his life.
And finally, there were the hugs. I had heard about the tradition of fans climbing on stage at the end of the show to hug Morrissey. I had also heard about how he recently cut a show short in San Jose when someone hugged him too long. No such thing tonight. During the final number, two members of his road crew coordinated some synchronized-hugging in which they pulled people out of the crowd for hug opportunities without ever letting go. It kept each hug to a minimum. What a sight to see!
The show has certainly heightened my appreciation of Morrissey’s music, and I now regret never having seen him with legendary guitarist Johnny Marr in The Smiths. Yet, I don’t think that I’m quite ready for a hug.
How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths)
Ganglord
I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
World Peace Is None of Your Business
One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell
Certain People I Know
Let Me Kiss You
Life Is a Pigsty
The Bullfighter Dies
Yes, I Am Blind
Earth Is the Loneliest Planet
Meat Is Murder (The Smiths)
The National Front Disco
Asleep (The Smiths)
First of the Gang to Die
Morrissey—Lead Vocals
Boz Boorer—Guitar
Jesse Tobias—Guitar
Matt Walker—Drums
Solomon Walker—Bass
Gustavo Manzur—Keyboards, Accordion & Percussion
Tags: Morrissey, Ryman Auditorium, The Smiths
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15. Ooh Mother (Single Version) 1
16. I'll Believe in You (The Hymn) 1
17. Take It Easy 1
18. Weekend 1
19. Ferry Boat 2
20. He's Got Pride 2
21. Keep on Going 2
22. Too Many Crooks 2
23. Bullseye Bill 2
24. Disco Dancer 2
25. Easy 2
26. No Way Out of Here 2
27. In the Mood 2
28. So Far Away 2
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31. He's Got Pride (Live Radio Studio Session 1975) 3
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34. Have You Ever Seen the Rain 3
35. New Shoes 3
36. Slow Dancing 3
37. Get Along Fine 3
38. British Rail Romance 3
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40. One More Tomorrow 4
41. So Hard to Get Through 4
42. I'm Alright (When I'm with You) 4
43. The Night 4
44. The Way It Goes 4
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46. Give and Take 4
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49. Keep on Going (Live Radio Studio Session 1975) 5
50. Rio de Janeiro 5
51. Don't Tell Me I Know 5
52. All Crazy People 5
53. Come a Long Way 5
54. Billy the Kid 5
55. The Man in Me 5
56. Hold on 5
57. Loving You 5
58. Don't Turn Away 5
59. This Old World 6
60. The Sweeter Life 6
61. Look Into Your Mirror 6
62. Boney Fingers (Live in the USA 1974) 6
63. Corrina Corrina (Live in the USA 1974) 6
64. Nashville West (Live in the USA 1974) 6
65. Lenny Dee 6
66. In the Gym 6
67. Get Along Fine (Alternate Mix) 6
68. Man in the Fog 6
69. You Angel You 7
70. One More Tomorrow (Demo) 7
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The Hunters | Jägarna – Season 1
NEWS | SEASON 1
When local mining contractor Markus is attacked by what is thought to be a militant environmentalist, he appeals to former police officer Erik for help in tracking down the perpetrator. Meanwhile, Erik’s nephew Peter is a trainee police officer who is also involved in the investigation.
When Johanne’s body is found, the police believe it to be a tragic accident, but Peter goes to Erik with his own suspicions. Erik thinks that it could be murder but, before he can secure any evidence, all traces are destroyed by an explosion.
Erik wakes up in hospital, but it’s not long before he’s on a bear hunt with Markus and his South African guests. When they are attacked at the hunting lodge, Erik realises that Benjamin might have proof of Markus’ involvement in the murder.
Erik finds himself culpable of burglary as he searches for Benjamin’s computer, but is caught by drug-induced Karl who is full of rage. Erik knocks Karl unconscious so Peter implores his uncle to give himself up to the police.
The analysis of Benjamin’s computer is complete and there is no doubt about the results. Markus is put under pressure during interrogation and will go to any lengths to avoid prosecution. Peter succeeds in persuading Sanna to listen to Erik’s testimony.
Peter realises that Erik didn’t leave of his own accord so takes Erik’s dog Bella to help track him down. Meanwhile, there is a violent showdown in the woods and Erik must fight for his life.
Rolf Lassgård Returns To Jägarna Next Month
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Laura Veirs - My Echo - New Ltd Pink LP
Format: New Ltd Pink LP Label: Bella Union Cat. No: BELLA1059V Barcode: 5400863036959 Released: 23/10/2020
New Ltd 180gm transparent pink vinyl
Laura Veirs releases her eleventh solo album My Echo via Bella Union. The album features guest appearances from Jim James, Bill Frisell, Karl Blau, Matt Ward and others.
“My Echo is my 11th solo album. It’s my ‘my songs knew I was getting divorced before I did’ album. My conscious mind was trying as hard as I could to keep my family together but my subconscious mind was working on the difficult struggles in my marital life. I was part of a “Secret Poetry Group” that met and wrote poems monthly for a year during the writing of this record. Many of my poems turned into songs for this album. By the time the album was being mixed last fall, my ex-husband / producer Tucker Martine and I had decided to go our separate ways. We were a great musical team for many years but we struggled to be compatible in our marriage and family life and that struggle is reflected in this album. In this new batch of songs I imagine escaping from some sort of prison or cage. Advancing age, the confines of domesticity, our oppressive government and the threat of the apocalypse permeate these songs. In these songs my heart craves certainty and permanence but none is to be found. It’s an album about disintegration. It reveals my artist’s intuition at work. Although these songs were written before quarantine they are strangely relevant to times in which we find ourselves currently. You will find me staring at the walls (Turquoise Walls). You will find me feeling grateful to be alive (Memaloose Island). You will find me accepting the ephemeral nature of life (Vapor Trails and All the Things). You will find me searching for personal freedom while feeling trapped (Freedom Feeling). You will find me trying to accept that sometimes the best thing to do is to sit still and do nothing at all (Another Space and Time). Produced by Tucker Martine in the summer and fall of 2019 in Portland, OR. Includes appearances from Jim James, Bill Frisell, Karl Blau, Matt Ward.
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Bob Hope Airport (BUR)
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There are 4 ways to get to Los Angeles from Bob Hope Airport.
Bob Hope (BUR) is located 19 km from the city centre and getting to Los Angeles typically takes anywhere from 19 min to 67 min. The recommended transport option is the Train by Metrolink Trains which for $5 can bring you to L. A. Union Station station. You can be pretty sure to get there in approximately 24 min. Uber is always a very convenient option costing $61 less than traditional taxis and bringing you to any destination in Los Angeles . If you are two of you it will cost $4 more than the Train. Reaching in particular Hill / 1st, L. A. Union Station station is pretty convenient by taking the Metro Los Angeles, Metrolink Trains which can bring you directly there from the airport.
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Nick Saban Has Strong Words For Playoff Polls
The polls are out and controversy has already begun.
The College Football Playoff Committee released its initial rankings for the 2017 season, giving the media plenty to dissect.
Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban is furious over the polls, but not for the reason you might think.
Despite being number 1 in both the AP and Coaches’ poll, Alabama found itself ranked 2nd behind Georgia in the initial playoff poll.
Some might consider that a sign of disrespect, especially considering Alabama’s and Saban’s track record, but Saban couldn’t care less.
Saban believes polls and media hoopla are “rat poison.”
From ESPN:
It’s safe to say that Nick Saban isn’t looking forward to the first release of the College Football Playoff Rankings this week.
Alabama is No. 1 in both the AP and Coaches polls and is a strong candidate to be in the top spot when the College Football Playoff Committee’s rankings come out Tuesday night.
“I could care less about the poll,” Saban said. “What significance does a poll have right now? All we’re talking about right here is the challenge of our season, and where are we going to be in the poll if we don’t play well in the next four games? So I’m focused on the next four games. I could care less about the poll. You won’t see me waste any time watching TV or who is 1 and who is 2. It doesn’t really matter. What really matters is how you play the rest of the season.”
“If our players think anything of [the poll], then that could be an issue,” Saban said. “These are the things we try to categorize as poison that you really don’t want your players to be focused on.”
He grinned and added, “But I appreciate you asking so I could get that off my chest.”
Saban, who has seen his team go wire-to-wire as the No. 1 team in the country this season, made headlines earlier this month when he likened the positive coverage of Alabama to that of “rat poison.”
Coaches are constantly fighting to keep their players properly motivated and focused on the upcoming opponent.
The media likes to tally wins ahead of time, but coaches despise that mentality. It’s why they implore their players to avoid the press clippings.
Saban, known for his irascibility, takes it to another level. He routinely goes on post-game rants after his team just won by four touchdowns because he wants his players to maintain an edge.
Whatever Saban’s doing, it’s working. When Alabama isn’t ranked number one, it becomes a story. Since Saban’s arrival in Tuscaloosa 10 years ago, the Crimson Tide have won four national championships, and been close three other times.
Here’s a look at the initial playoff rankings:
CFBPlayoff on Twitter
First Rankings: Top 2️⃣5️⃣
With a month to go and conferences races tightening up, the media will have a field day.
But coaches like Saban will be sternly focused on Saturday.
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Most of the Time, You’re Watching What YouTube Wants You to See
By Brian Feldman@bafeldman
Logan Paul. Photo: D Dipasupil/Getty Images
Earlier this year, which we’re only 11 days into, Logan Paul got in trouble for posting something very stupid on YouTube. He went to a forest in Japan that’s well-known for the suicides that take place there and filmed the aftermath of a recent one. Predictably, and understandably, he got in trouble for it. Yesterday, Google dropped him from their top tier of advertising (where the biggest clients are) and put on hold productions that he was involved in for its subscription service, YouTube Red.
Last week, I argued that the Logan Paul controversy was a watershed moment for YouTube, and that as more scrutiny is applied to these unfathomably large information distributors and social networks — Facebook, Twitter, Google, among others — YouTube is now getting its time under the microscope. YouTube is not going away. It’s too big, too central to the modern internet. But it is going to change fundamentally, as the behavior of its biggest stars and the glut of unmoderated content continue to attract concern.
The media fervor over what Logan Paul did would lead you to believe that he is the disease, and not merely a symptom of it. As my colleague Madison Malone Kircher wrote last week, the culture of the megapopular YouTube influencer was always headed in this direction. The internet’s freedom (and relative freedom from consequence) has allowed people to embarrass themselves online for decades. Why stop now?
So, sure, the popular kids at the top of the YouTube food chain bear some responsibility. The other party, reluctant to take responsibility, is YouTube the company. YouTube is not just people getting into feuds and trying to one-up each other. The entire culture is powered by a confluence of search algorithms and computer-determined recommendations.
5 of the Most Notorious YouTube Scandals
That YouTube is powered by technology that is ruthlessly efficient at holding attention shouldn’t surprise anyone. At CES this week, the company explained just how effective it actually is. Speaking on a panel, as reported by CNET, chief product officer Neal Mohan threw out a few stats. On mobile, viewing sessions on YouTube last more than 60 minutes. That’s a fraction of the five hours the average American spends watching TV every day, but YouTube viewership skews young, and presumably, demographic and industry changes will lead to online video taking the place of traditional TV at some point.
Mohan threw out another even more important stat: According to its data, 70 percent of time spent on YouTube is determined by automated recommendations. In other words, the videos that the site compels users to watch, and keeps them on the site and watching, are chosen by algorithmic means. For the majority of their time spent on YouTube, users aren’t directing the viewing experience — YouTube is.
It’s a situation analogous to the algorithmically sorted Facebook News Feed, a system that keeps you coming back to see things that it believes you want to see, making choices about what you see and what you don’t.
Just like Facebook, YouTube seems to want all of the benefits without any of the responsibility. It derives ad revenue from its most popular users, and its automated systems are, on most occasions, responsible for determining what users watch. This effectively incentivizes YouTube to recommend videos that have the most lucrative advertisers attached to them. That would explain why, according to Bloomberg, YouTube recently conceived of a plan to vet content specifically made by popular creators.
On the other hand, YouTube doesn’t want to get into the business of moderating its platform or determining what users can or can’t say or depict. To do so is costly, and counter to the company’s eventual goal of eliminating human feedback entirely (though the company did announce its intent to hire 10,000 more people to review content on the site, a PR tactic that’s become a regular occurrence in the last year). To compare it to standard television, YouTube wants to determine what makes it to air, but not what gets green-lit.
The point is: YouTube is responsible for the systems it has put in place. It is still (understandably) boasting about these systems’ ability to determine what people see, hear, and experience on a site that young people are spending hours on every day. It is not difficult to argue YouTube’s ability to influence its audience’s thought and debate and morality and perception of truth — the company has practically admitted so itself.
Most of Your Time Spent on YouTube Is Dictated by YouTube
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Don’t Mess With Senator Tina*
Photo: Nathaniel Brooks/New York Times/Redux
• Speaks Mandarin and French
• 13 Hours: The length of a marathon House session she left (to a standing ovation) the day before her second child was born.
• Learned From Hillary: Hired Clintonista Howard Wolfson for her first congressional run (in 2006).
• Gained nickname “Tracey Flick” from some in Congress.
• 100: Rating with the ACLU (and the NRA)
• Co-sponsored bill to “encourage participation in hunting and fishing.”
• Her mother traditionally shot their thanksgiving turkey.
• 4:10:15: The best of her two times running the New York City Marathon (in 1992).
• Kids’ Names: Theodore Ignatius, (b. 2004), after Teddy Roosevelt. Henry Nelson, (b. 2008), in honor of British admiral Horatio Nelson, who won the Battle of Trafalgar.
• Husband didn’t vote for her (he’s a British citizen).
• How He Proposed: “I gave her a snowball with a ring in it, and she was about to throw it, and I screamed, ‘No!— open it up.’ ” “I did almost throw it at a squirrel,” she said.
• 4 Years: How long she represented Philip Morris as a lawyer.
• $4,700,000 raised on her way to a blowout victory in 2008 over a wealthy GOP challenger.
• Record: Voted with the Democrats 93.8% of the time (still, rated least liberal Dem rep from N.Y. in 2007).
• Her dad, Douglas Rutnik, was close to state GOP bigs, including Senator Al D’Amato and state party chief Bill Powers. He also dated Zenia Mucha, a top aide to George Pataki.
• She was an intern in D’Amato’s office during college at Dartmouth.
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Painting the Cities Red
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“All for the People and all Through the People” — Programma
Revolution had been bleeding red on the tongues of Russian citizens for a least a decade before the fateful Autumn of 1917 when the Bolsheviks seized power from Tsar Nicholas II, ending the 300 year monarchy of the Romanov family. Through a series of unanticipated events – seeming impossible and shockingly intertwined – the headstrong leftist Socialist revolutionaries took control of the Imperial government and captured the Winter Palace and became the world’s first socialist country. One hundred years later, we remember the Russian Revolution through the words of comrades, dissidents and descendants in a series of books found in our very own collection.
By the early 20th century another revolution had already swept across Europe, Asia and the United States. The industrial market was booming. Yet Imperial Russia found itself far behind in comparison to the surrounding, developing economies. In addition to newfound economic struggles, the country was becoming more difficult to govern as the population sprawled across 8.6 million square miles – nearly 1/6 of the earth’s landmass. Between the deadly winters and the barren soil, anyone outside the upper classes struggled to make a living and even struggled to live.
It was the contention between the different economic classes that became a fundamental component of Bolshevik strategy – aligning the proletariat with the peasantry to fight against the bourgeois leaders who controlled and exploited their working class citizens. Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, the founding fathers of the Russian revolution, organized and educated the masses, inspiring everyday people to stand up and fight for equality and human rights. During the year of revolt, an outline called “Programma” was printed in Odessa by the Social-Democratic Labour Party, detailing the social, political and economic issues at hand, and its method to finally reclaim the country for the people.
Progamma
Trudovaia (narodno-sotsialisticheskaia) Partiia
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“All citizens of Russia, without distinction of sex, preoccupation and disposition, should be equal before the law. In this way – a man and a woman, a Russian, a Pole, an Armenian, a Tatar, an Orthodox Jew, a Catholic, a Lutheran, a Mohammedan, an old believer, a stuntman – all should get the same rights …”
Unfortunately not all of Russia’s citizens were given the same opportunity to participate with the increasingly fashionable revolutionaries. In fact, of the 170 million people who lived in the vast territory, 3/4 had been labeled ‘peasants’ and most among them could not read. While the participation of the peasantry was crucial to overthrowing the Tsarist rule, many of these rural villagers suffered greatly in the coming months and years as dramatic changes in urban governments left their communities incredibly destabilized. Once Bolshevik power had been gained, it became quickly noticeable that the Revolution, according to both Lenin and Trotsky, would benefit neither the bourgeoisie nor the peasants of Russia – the rewards of Revolution were given solely to the working classes, and even then, at quite the cost.
Amid the riots and marches that had become common since February and March of 1917, writers and artists were compiling their own narratives about what was going on in the streets. Some were critical of the violence and looting. Maxim Gorky and Marina Tsvetaeva were two such writers who depicted the chaos of the ‘wine riots’ where the cities cellars were taken over by citizens and Bolsheviks alike. The Bolsheviks saw an enemy among their drunk comrades and “replied with machine-guns pouring lead into the bottles… [destroying] three million rubles’ worth of vintage in the vaults of the winter palace.” Tsvetaeva, who changed allegiances over time, was concerned over the newfound ‘freedom’ and her poems often reflected musings about humanity, growing mobs and the unstable political state. In her poem, “To Tsar, on Easter” Tsvetaeva addresses Tsar Nicholas II and imagines the fall of the Russian Empire. Just three months after her poem was written, the Tsar was forced to abdicate the throne, leaving power in the hands of a provisional government.
Poezija Revolutsiooni Moskvy
Il’ia Erenburg (1891-1967)
Berlin: 1922
PG3505 M7 P64
To Tsar, on Easter
Open, Open,
The gates of the tsar!
Darkness dimmed and poured out far.
With clean heat
Burns the altar –
Resurrect, Christ,
Yesterday’s tsar!
Without glory fell
Two-headed eagle.
Tsar – you were wrong.
He’ll remember inheritance
Many more times –
Byzantine sacrilege
Of your clear eyes.
Your judges –
Lightning and wave!
Tsar! God sought
You, not men.
But now there’s Easter
In all the land,
Sleep in your village
With a calm mind,
Don’t dream of
The banners red.
Tsar! Descendants
And ancestors – sleep.
There is a knapsack since
A throne you won’t keep.
– April 1917 (Translated by Ilya Shambat)
Although power had been stripped from the Tsar, the revolution was far from over. It would not be until October that the Bolsheviks would officially seize power. Behind the front lines many writers and artists worked to help deliver the party’s propaganda. By 1917, Vladimir Mayakovsky, renowned Russian Futurist, had already been a major player of the socialist cause for ten years. Tied to the political left, the Futurists often contributed to underground journals and protests, but they had their own agenda: seeking to reject the symbolic and romantic ideas enforced by an imperial Russia. Rather than conform to the stringent structures of literature developed by their renowned predecessors, they proposed a return to the earth and the primeval spirit of the Russian language. In doing so, writers and artists collaborated to develop books of poetry written in a style they passionately declared as Zaum. In the immediate aftermath of the October Revolution, Mayakovsky wrote “Our March” – a reflection on the frenzy and madness that had been taking place. Mayakovsky’s and Tsvetaeva’s poems were both included in a small collection of Revolutionary poetry published in Berlin, 1922.
Our March
Let the squares ring to the tramp of revolt!
Lift your heads’ glorious mountain range higher!
We’ll cleanse all the cities around the world
With a flood even greater than Noah’s.
The days’ bull’s pied.
The years’ cart creaks.
Our god is speed.
Our heart’s drum beats.
Is our treasure, our gold not the loftiest thing?
Can we ever be stung by the wasp of a bullet?
Our weapon’s the songs that we sing.
Our voices are our gold bullion.
Lay yourself down, grass,
Cushion the days’ tread.
Rainbow, yoke the years’
Galloping steeds’ heads.
Look up! The skyful of stars is bored!
We weave our songs without the sky.
Hey, you there! Yes, you, Great Bear!
Demand we be taken to heaven alive.
Drink up the joy! Sing!
The veins’ spring’s sprung.
Heart! Fight! Ring!
Our breasts are the copper of kettledrums.
– December 1917 (Translated by James Womack)
With the Social-Democratic Labour Party officially in control, there was now the question of who among the party’s officials would take the role of leadership, Lenin or Trotsky. Leninism and Trotskyism became the two dominant perspectives of the socialist movement and, while similar in many ways, the debate between two caused major conflict within the party. Allegiances were made and votes were taken. Trotsky came before a Communist Party court, consisting of Lev Kamenev and Joseph Stalin, to defend his positions. In the end, Lenin would eventually take power in 1922, and Trotsky would be banished to exile yet again just five years later. During his ongoing split from the party, Trotsky’s commentary on the differences between ‘Leninism’ and ‘Trotskyism’ was published in Berlin, 1925. Written in two parts, Trotsky first details the fateful events of the October Revolution before giving his final response to the court. Ultimately, it was Stalin who arranged his assassination.
Trotskii pered sudom kommunisticheskoii partii: Uroki Oktiabria… Kamenev i Stalin. Leninizm ili trotskizm? Otvet Trotskomu
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
DK265 T6 T73
Lenin had a different fate. While his reign over the country only lasted seven years, his influence over the people remained for much longer. He was the face of the Revolution, and subsequently, the face of freedom for many people. Unlike Stalin’s violent wrath, Lenin embodied a hope which, perhaps, is still sought-after to this day. Images of Lenin still remain throughout Russia and other Eastern European countries, and his revolutionary prowess even crossed the seas into countries such as Cuba. It could be argued that he has transcended the role of mere politician to a sort of religious icon. 100 years after the October Revolution, you can still visit his resting body, preserved in a massive mausoleum in Moscow – in a way, for the Russian people, he is ‘always alive.’ In a way, the Revolution is ongoing.
Vechno Zhivoi : fotoalʹbom
Egor Iakovlev. 1977
Moscow: 1977
DK254 L4 V43
For the Voice
Vladimir Mayakovsky and El Lissitzky
PG3476 M3 D5713 2000
Inside the Rainbow : Russian children’s literature, 1920-35
Julian Rothenstein and Olga Budashevskaya
PG3190 I5 2013
1917 : Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution
Boris Dralyuk
PG3213 A15 2016
Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art
PG3065 F8 P47 2016
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If my sister had a mat
Why making time & space to cultivate your mental & emotional wellness matters
My sister & I
Today is my sister’s birthday. She died on February 11, 2019.
As a sister, you are kinda obligated NOT to air out your sister’s dirty laundry. You know — out of respect for your sibling and family pride. However, as I reflect upon her life, I’d like to share pieces of her story that I think she, being open hearted and very generous, may be ok with others knowing if it would help someone.
Sherilyn “Bootsie” Joyce Scott was a spirited, fiesty, fun, smart and very pretty girl in North Memphis (Tennessee). A high school majorette with legs for days in a 2–parent household, she even got a car at age 16 (pretty cool for a black girl in the 1960s) and was quite the desire of the many boys.
After high school, she packed up her little Toyota Corolla and headed off to Tennessee State University. She aborted the college mission and returned home after one year. She worked and got her own place. As a little girl, I knew her to be a beautiful big sister, who spoiled me and her goddaughter Bonnie with candy, kept me overnight at her place, taught me how to do hair & nails, and while in cosmetology school used our hair/heads as her school manicans for new hairstyles & perms (OMG did we get many scalp burns from those trials). Her friends — Julia Mae, Ida, Ann, Miss Chris and Miss Michael were all so cool. It was through her that I gained my appreciation of LGBTQ+ folks and culture. She loved widely. And I felt pretty special when she made me pretend to be her daughter to get special favor as needed. It’s the story of many little sisters.
Bootsie & her spoiled little sister Livi
We were born 20 years apart separated by eras & decades, yet born by the same mother, and raised by the same father. Yet as is often with siblings, even with similar privilege, our lives played out pretty differently.
In the 1980s, crack cocaine hit the country hard, especially black neighborhoods and black cities like our hometown Memphis. Our middle-class family was tried and shattered by my sister’s addiction. My mother’s guilt and shame resulted in depression. And after my mother & father adopted her son at 5 years old, she ultimately lost her apartment and moved in with us.
Now, many families with addiction have stories of theft. We did not. She had a code. A line if you will. Nothing was ever missing (except our mother’s car keys). And the collective family prayer was just for her to return every day, alive. Too many nights she wouldn’t return. Others, when we didn’t hear the doorbell, she’d rap on my window for me to let her in— a lingering sound in the night that still touches me to this day. As a teenager, her “foolishness” annoyed me. Why couldn’t she get it together? I wanted her so badly to get it together and give me candy again (or something like it).
But, different forces had taken over her life. She struggled with substance abuse for approximately 40 years. Our Bootsie experienced a suboptimal life, subsisting beneath her intelligence and creative talents. In and out of prison for years for mostly petty theft crimes related to drug acquisition and consumption. Raped and misused by men often. Her life had disintegrated into mere fragments. She’d gotten pretty deep into a life over which she felt she had no control.
Growing up observing this, I had two goals: 1) To get out of Memphis, and 2) To restore joy in my mother’s spirit. Memphis at that point equaled pain. And I wanted out. My mother wanted me out. So, I left Memphis at 17 for the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1991. My mother forbid my sister to have my phone number while I was in college (something I didn’t understand at the time — but later understood to be protection). So, Boots wrote me letters, many from prison. I don’t think I wrote her back much. I was busy creating a new life. I was angry. Angry at what had happened to our family. Our parents separated, mother was severely depressed and sister just not the sister I knew, loved or understood.
Post my Mizzou ’95 graduation, I moved to Chicago for my first advertising job. I was 21, had friends and what seemed like a good start for a career & life. But, I longed for a relationship with my sister. Siblings are never far in spirit from one another. So, I somehow got in touch with her. By this point, she wasn’t easy to find and wasn’t always staying with my mother. We were always sisters, just didn’t know much about one another and I believed there was more to my sister than her being an addict — the black sheep of the family. There had to be more — she was my sister afterall. So, one day during a phone conversation, I asked her, “where did this all go wrong? we had the same schooling. same parents. what happened?”
Bootsie: High School Graduation + Debutante Ball
She was 100% sober that day. And confided in me two life events that pushed her into her addiction, one which I shall take to the grave, and one was becoming pregnant. She shared that she never wanted children — the responsibility of them. And that when she became pregnant with her first child Justin (1984)— my mother threatened not speak to her again if she aborted. So, my sister said “Can you imagine your mother saying she would never speak to you again?, so I had the baby. And I went on into drugs as postpartum. I did not want children.”
Sherilyn’s children: Justin & Jasmine
Honestly, I was skeptical — is she really blaming her addiction on pregnancy? But, given the sincerity and seriousness of the conversation coupled with her super free-spirited nature, I believed her then—and now. Given what I’ve heard, post-partum is real. Crack was cheap and very easily accessible in North Memphis. So, I get it, now.
Yet, I wonder today—what if instead of drugs, instead of anything harmful to herself, she could have looked inside, and trusted her inner beauty, her divine, her specialness. What if she could have been stronger and made the life choice with her child that she thought was best for her life?
As time went on, my sister had a second child Jasmine (1990) and continued to struggle with addiction — for years. She got close to breaking free around 2013–2014 when she finally had an apartment of her own and was living independently. But, life happened again. In 2015, my 4'11, 100 lb sister was hit by a car as a pedestrian in a hit and run accident and this set her back even more. I understand from acquaintances she was with at the time of the accident, that she was under the influence. Which pissed me off. How many more years of this will I have to endure (selfishly)? How many more years can her body deal with this? But, as the resilient one that she is, she recovered after a near-death coma resulting from multiple broken bones, shattered ribs resulting from her suspension into the air upon the car’s impact landed her on the road’s gravel, she fought her way back and re-learned how to walk & talk, I questioned less why she was careless with her life and gained profound respect for her fight in this life. Even if she had been under the influence, she was a fighter.
Three years post-accident, in August 2018, Bootsie had recovered most of her bodily functions and was independent enough to move back on her own in a cute Southeast Memphis apartment. She was thrilled! She’d wanted my financial assistance with this move and I repeatedly said no (this time). Our dad, and our sister Jeanna and our niece Erika extended a gracious helping hand. I chose not to contribute this time because I was exhausted of the years of addiction and I’d hoped that in not doing so that she would find confidence in knowing she could stand on her own two feet.
We spoke AFTER she was settled in, and she commented about how much she loved her place, how much at peace she was, and then she cried and said “I’m sitting in an apartment full of furniture, none of which I bought — I guess I must not be all that bad.” She sobbed. I comforted her with “Of course you’re not. Why would you say that??” And I realized that over the 40+ years of addiction and all the shame, guilt, judgment (by self and others) and loss of self-esteem, that SHE thought she was bad. She no longer thought her life was worthwhile. She’d finally kicked cocaine, but there were prescription pills in her life.
We had so many honest conversations around her birthday when she shared that she wanted to get better, and to not give up on her. And I didn’t. Every year, I would tell her that if God still had her on this earth, she could turn it around. But I think she stopped believing a long time ago. She no longer believed she mattered. Upon clearing her things after her fatal heart attack last year, I found a notebook in which she’d written a word of a specific mental illness. And it all clicked for me. Addiction can lead to mental illness, and mental illness can lead to addiction. There is a cycle of behaviors that can leave one trapped in a life of self-destruction if we don’t take the time to release ourselves. We must prioritize peace of mind to free ourselves.
Life is hard. Period. For some, like my sister, it’s really hard. But, life can be more tolerable when we commit to our self-value and prioritize our mental health and wellness. There has to be an internal place, and an external place too where we can all go to reconnect with who we are and to help us course correct. For many people, they have given up hope. Society has told them they don’t matter, or there are clues from others that they don’t matter as much which over time denigrates self worth and esteem. Which is why we have to find the space to implore upon ourselves our own value.
When I created a self-care experience (Freedom At The Mat) for women, I briefly toyed with making the class unisex, but inspired by my sister and so many other women who doubt themselves and their worth, I’m resolute in my decision to dedicate a sacred space for them. Although Boots was curious about yoga and would tell me “I should try that,” she didn’t get the opportunity to in this lifetime. So, I dedicate my Freedom At The Mat women-only practice to Bootsie and all the women who are not free from society’s judgments, their pasts, and their own fears and shame and need a small place (a yoga mat) and time to be supported by other women in a non judgemental way, while also getting a dose of physical and mental exercise.
A life lived, is a life loved and a life worth remembering. My deepest desire is that in sharing this story of my sister that each person — especially women — push through their past, their shame or their perceived lack of self-worth to believe that they matter, and that their existence matters and work to create their fullest life maximizing their gifts.
And I hope that in sharing her story that you will extend grace to others instead of judgment. For many of us, we judge without knowing more of their life story, as I did with my sister for so many years. Loving addicts and those in need is hard. I know. But often there’s something much deeper that’s driving them to the addiction, so if you’re the free one, how can you help?
Wishing Bootsie all the joy in her freedom from this life’s cares. And feeling grateful for our journey together for it has made me who I am today.
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Nostalgia May Have Harmful Impact on Those With Negative Past, Says Rutgers–Camden Study
By Tom McLaughlin
In a series of prior studies, Rutgers University–Camden researcher Andrew Abeyta discovered that nostalgic reflection of personal, social events can give people a temporary boost of confidence and, in turn, encourage them to become more committed to growing and improving their relationships.
Abeyta says evidence shows that nostalgic reflection may push avoidant people further away from goals of closeness and intimacy.
In his latest research, however, the assistant professor of psychology finds that nostalgia does not have the same positive psychological benefits for those with a negative past.
The study – conducted by Abeyta and North Dakota State University researchers Taylor Nelson and Clay Routledge – examined whether individual differences in attachment-related avoidance mitigate the ability of nostalgia to energize social pursuits.
The findings, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, showed that, for highly avoidant people, nostalgia did not have the same positive impact of encouraging commitment to adaptive social goals.
“In other words, nostalgia did not change avoidant people’s general reluctance to trust others and their reduced desire to build intimacy and closeness in their relationships,” says Abeyta, a Cherry Hill resident.
In addition, explains the Rutgers University–Camden researcher, there was also some evidence that nostalgic reflection may push avoidant people further away from goals of closeness and intimacy.
“I was pretty surprised by this,” says Abeyta. “I have typically found that nostalgia pushes people toward the interpersonal domain, but this was the one of the first contexts where we saw evidence that nostalgia could push people away from the social domain. Highly avoidant people were showing less interest in interpersonal closeness following nostalgia.”
The Rutgers–Camden researcher says that he was surprised by the new finding, noting it was one of the first contexts where they saw evidence that nostalgia could push people away from the social domain.
According to the Rutgers–Camden researcher, attachment-related avoidance describes the approach to interpersonal relationships where people are reluctant to get close to and trust others.
“People high in attachment-related avoidance typically want to keep their relationship partners at a distance, limit intimacy in relationships, and when things start getting too serious are more apt to move on,” says Abeyta.
This interpersonal disposition, he explains, is thought to start in childhood and result from caregivers who are unavailable and/or unreliable when it comes to providing social comfort and support.
“Basically, a child who gets scared or injured runs to a parent, but the parent is not always available or not very comforting or supportive,” he explains. “These type of kids learn very quickly to rely on themselves and not trust others too much, and these tendencies follow them through adulthood and impact adult friendships and romantic relationships.”
He adds that attachment-related avoidance doesn’t always stem from a negative past, but it is universally recognized as a less productive way of being in relationships and is associated with negative relational outcomes.
In contrast, says Abeyta, people low in attachment-related avoidance do not have any problems getting close to others and view intimacy in relationships as something positive, to be desired. These individuals are also more trusting and generally believe that they can rely on their loved ones for support.
Abeyta notes that the new finding has important implications for the use of nostalgia in interventions for its ability to promote social belonging and goals of connecting with others for those who are lonely or having trouble connecting.
He says that an important step in building interventions around nostalgia is to identify the “boundaries of nostalgia” – determining when it can and cannot be effective.
“This study suggests that nostalgia may not be effective in helping people who generally approach relationship with low trust and avoid intimacy in relationships,” he says. “Nostalgia may actually makes things worse, meaning that more research is needed in this area.”
Moreover, says the Rutgers–Camden researcher, the finding suggests that it is important to understand peoples’ interpersonal pasts to determine whether nostalgia will be useful in helping them connect with others. The research suggests that nostalgia might actually reinforce maladaptive tendencies of avoiding interpersonal closeness and intimacy and being less trustful of others, which have built up over time.
“It might be necessary to work on these avoidant tendencies first,” he says, “before throwing nostalgia into the mix or find a different approach altogether.”
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Neutrinos make a splash in SciBath detector at Fermilab
November 4, 2011 | Brad Hooker
The internal components of SciBath, a neutron and neutrino detector, include liquid scintillator and wavelength-shifting fibers. Photo courtesy of Rex Tayloe, Indiana.
The latest underground dweller in the MINOS tunnel is SciBath, a neutron and neutrino detector designed and built by an Indiana University team. Scientists are using the detector cube, which is about the size of a mini fridge, to track neutrons and neutrinos more effectively and economically.
Originally a prototype for a 10-ton version called FINeSSE, SciBath has taken center stage for the project. It’s mounted to a cart that has been craned into the MINOS tunnel, 100 meters underground.
“SciBath is the first experiment to combine liquid scintillator and wavelength-shifting fibers in an open volume to get tracking precision,” said Rex Tayloe, associate professor in neutrino and nuclear physics. “We’ve put two ideas together into one to get an improved detector to track charged particles.”
When a neutron created in Fermilab’s NuMi neutrino beam reaches the SciBath cube, it hits 70 kilograms of liquid scintillator. If the neutron strikes a charged particle like a proton, the scintillator transforms the energy into light that can be detected by the highly sensitive wavelength-shifting fibers. The fibers, 768 in all, capture blue light emitted from the interaction and shift it to a green wavelength that can be read by the phototubes. Specially designed readout boards record the information. Analysis software will then reconstruct the neutrino track within an innovative 3D grid.
“The purpose of SciBath is threefold,” said graduate student Lance Garrison. He is one member of the SciBath research team, which also includes postdoc Robert Cooper and graduate students Lori Rebenitsch and Tyler Thornton.
For one, the detector will demonstrate 3D reconstructions of neutrino events through a similar process as the neutron interactions.
The experiment will also detect background signals from cosmic-induced neutrons, which occur naturally in the universe.
The third aspect of the experiment will measure the poorly understood flux caused by fast neutrons emitted from the neutrino beam. The challenge in detecting fast neutrons is that the signal is often overshadowed by existing gamma rays. The neutrons, as they scatter off nuclei, could give insights into background dark matter and double beta decay, the rarest known type of radioactive decay.
SciBath has been in the MINOS tunnel for more than a month, and the plans are for it to stay through December, depending on its success. So far, it’s performing well.
Garrison hopes the detection method will increase the price-to-performance ratio for neutrino detectors, lowering the cost of large-scale detectors while incorporating a higher-precision tracking method.
“If everything goes as planned, and we expect it to,” Garrison said. “We hope to go underground with an experiment that needs background neutron detection.”
After proving itself at Fermilab, the team would like to see the SciBath technology used to understand neutron fluxes in low-background experiments like neutrino and dark matter searches and to ultimately be scaled up for a larger role in neutrino detection.
—Brad Hooker
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Sorcerer: A Strategy Card Game is set in what the company describes as a grim, gaslamp lit world full of fantastic, mythical creatures and sorcery. Designed for two to four players, the game pits two ancient beings of great power against one another to determine which of their lineage are strongest. The players use sorcery to conjure minions, cast minions, and wield enchanted items to reach the game's goal of conquering three battlefields.
The game uses a simple resource system of "energy" that is determined randomly by a dice-roll at the beginning of each round, to make sure no round is the same. However, the outcome being the same for both players, the game balance stays even. This energy is then used in the Action Phase for conjuring minions from your hand on any of three battlefields, casting possessions that can improve your minion's traits and abilities; or sorcery cards with various direct effects. Also as an action you can add more energy to your Energy Pool, draw more cards, move minions to another battlefield etc. The choice is yours, it is just about your pure skill to handle the battle preparation!
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As the United States and the rest of the world strive for a more fuel efficient future, aluminum is a big part of the solution. Lightweight, strong and highly recyclable, value-added aluminum products can lower energy costs and carbon emissions in dozens of applications. Coated aluminum roofs reflect 95 percent of sunlight, dramatically increasing building energy efficiency. Highly recycled and lightweight aluminum packaging reduces shipping costs and carbon emissions for beverage makers. And independent studies have confirmed that aluminum has 20 percent smaller life cycle energy consumption than steel in transportation. From light-weighting to recycling, the aluminum industry is a solution to the world’s energy needs.
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Is there a black and white physical filter?
I am wondering if there is a physical filter that would allow a camera to make black and white pictures without using any software effect/filtering?
filters black-and-white color-filters
edited Aug 15 '16 at 9:55
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You've got actual answers to this, but I'm wondering what problem you're trying to solve here? – Philip Kendall♦ Aug 15 '16 at 9:55
No, IR filters do not "replace" colors. They pass different wavelengths. – Carl Witthoft Aug 15 '16 at 11:10
If you're talking digital cameras, you can't make any picture without using software. It'd be difficult to draw a clear line between interpreting data from a sensor to create an image and applying an "effect," which in many cases is just a different interpretation of the same data. So you're kinda talking semantics here. – Caleb Aug 15 '16 at 16:52
You can find a monochromatic filter that only passes one color of light, so your image would be "black and red" or "black and green", but that's the closest you can get. – JPhi1618 Aug 15 '16 at 18:08
There's a really simple way to accomplish this actually: Use black-and-white film. – thanby Aug 16 '16 at 19:50
It is not possible to create a physical filter that can completely "De-saturate" incoming light.
The only way to achieve this without post-processing is at the film / sensor level.
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I think it's theoretically possible, using beam-splitters and monochromatic filters tuned to the colors of the camera sensor's pixel bins... – Hao Ye Aug 15 '16 at 19:12
@HaoYe you can never remove the frequency component of the light, so you can never make it black and white. – Brandon Dube Aug 15 '16 at 19:35
Exactly, you can't create an optical filter that will only pass luminosity regardless of frequency. – Digital Lightcraft Aug 15 '16 at 19:37
@HaoYe: Consider an example: bright green monochromatic light. Your filter has to transform that into white light, so the sensors detect equal levels of red, green, and blue (equal after taking their sensitivity into account). Introducing new frequencies is not possible with traditional optics, AFAIK. It may be theoretically possible with quantum effects, like absorbing an re-emitting light, but probably not while preserving the direction of photons. (A photon has energy and momentum that depend on wavelength...) – Peter Cordes Aug 15 '16 at 20:48
What you have described there is almost exactly how a night-vision light amplifier works. But its not a "filter" ie a pass-through single element. – Digital Lightcraft Aug 16 '16 at 7:11
Pardon me while I get a little metaphysical for a bit. "Color" as we understand it isn't a real property of anything in the universe. It's something created by our vision system — a complicated interaction in our eyes and brains. It's useful for things like "don't eat the poison berries", "look at that tiger over in the grass", and, more recently, "stopping our vehicles at intersections".
This sense is based on something which is a real property of objects in the universe: different materials scatter, reflect, and absorb different wavelengths of light in different ways. Our eyes have receptors which are differently-sensitive to different wavelengths of light, and the vision system translates that to what we call color.
Color itself can be thought of in a lot of different ways. One way which is helpful in this circumstance is to break it down into chromaticity and luminance — luminance is basically "brightness", and chromaticity is... the other color stuff — hue (red, orange, yellow, green, blue...) and saturation or colorfulness. Dividing the concept of color in this way works nicely with our mental model — but isn't actually immediately translatable back to the physical universe.
A filter which resulted in black and white would need to filter out the chromaticity and pass through only the luminance, because that's what a "black and white" photo basically is — just a record of the brightnesses, without all the other "color stuff".
But, I don't know of any way to do that. It certainly isn't possible with something similar to the kind of filters we normally use. Those just block either certain wavelengths (in the case of color filters or UV or infrared filters) or generally all wavelengths to a small degree (in the case of neutral-density filters). A "filter" which converted to black and white would have to actually transform the wavelength in some way (since light with no wavelength is ... darkness), rather than filtering it. This would probably involve some kind of nonlinear metamaterial and nothing I can explain with my high-school-level knowledge of physics. And it would have to convert all different wavelengths to the same wavelength, or else scatter them randomly so the result would be white light; this seems like it's probably preposterous. I feel safe in saying that even if it were possible, the result wouldn't be something you can attach to a camera and carry around.
On the other hand, one can certainly record just the brightness. That's what black and white film does, and it's actually what digital photosites do, too. They're inherently just measures of brightness, but today's digital cameras use filters to record brightness only in certain wavelengths, measuring blue, green, and red separately. (This roughly matches how human vision works, so we can combine that back to make a full-color image.) If you have one of the few cameras made without these filters (like the Leica M Monochrom), you just get a black and white image.
Of course, another approach is to filter out everything except one specific wavelength. You can see this in Jerry Coffin's answer here, or in this other question involving an almost-monochromatic sodium-vapor light. That's black-and-some-single-color rather than black-and-white, but may be close to you want. Of course, that cuts out quite a lot of light, and the other downside is that it also cuts out brightness levels from other colors — so you'll just see variance in green (or whatever selected color) and nuances of shade in the other colors won't register at all.
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Mattdm... the philosopher :o) – Rafael Aug 16 '16 at 8:13
Color filters do not block everything except the color of the filter. Some of the entire visible spectrum gets through each of all three color filters. It's just that more, often much more, of the colors closest to the color of each filter gets through. A good bit of red gets through the green filter and vice-versa. Some green gets through the blue filter and vice-versa. Even a small amount of blue and red get through the other colored filters. That is the way human vision works, that is the way color film works, and that is the way digital cameras work. – Michael C Jun 22 '17 at 13:40
Anyone who has used color filters in front of B&W film understands this intuitively. A red filter doesn't block all light except red. It just lets less of the other colors through, so in the resulting photo things that are those other colors look a darker shade of gray compared to red objects that were the same brightness in the scene. – Michael C Jun 22 '17 at 13:44
Sure; we perceive pure-wavelength yellow light because that activates both the "red" and "green" cones, and record it because it passes through both the red and green filters. But I think the simplification is perfectly adequate for the explanation here. It certainly doesn't affect the basic point about a "black and white" filter. – mattdm Jun 22 '17 at 15:37
All color is a result of software processing. The only thing a sensor, be it film or semiconductor, can do is change state in response to incoming photons. Yes, a digital camera has color filters, but all they do is restrict the wavelengths which are passed to the sensing pixels. The output of each pixel is simply a bunch of electrons, which are then converted to a voltage, which in turn is measured and reported as a digital number.
How you choose to interpret those numbers is entirely up to you. A couple examples:
Load a RAW file into a math tool such as R or MATLAB, and you can generate a monochrome image based on the numeric values in the array.
Load an RGB file similarly. It consists (generally) of three equally-sized arrays of numbers which have been tagged as "R,G,B" layers. You can generate a monochrome image of each, or assign whatever hue & chromaticity you wish to each layer before combining into a color image.
Again, the important thing to understand is that your original question is in error: whether through digital data processing or thru use of developer chemicals and color vs. B&W print paper, the camera and its sensor know nothing whatsoever about color. It's how you process the data (digital or analog).
You can't add a physical filter, but you can remove a physical filter to convert any digital camera to a strictly monochrome camera.
The actual sensor on any DSLR knows nothing about color - each pixel records the total luminosity in all the wavelengths it's sensitive to. The way color is introduced is by adding a Bayer filter, which is basically small pieces of differently colored glass for each pixel: Now some pixels can only see blue, others only red, and the rest can only see green.
By removing the Bayer filter, you camera will go back to being monochrome, as some people have actually done:
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There are also monochrome cameras on the market – Hagen von Eitzen Aug 16 '16 at 21:37
I only know about the Leica M Monochrome which is a bit pricey for me personally, sadly. – Josef says Reinstate Monica Aug 17 '16 at 12:52
Each colour camera has three types of sensitive material - pixels in digital cameras, pixel layers in Foveon sensors, layers in colour film. Image being monochrome means that all those types produce response with constant chromaticity with any incident light and that is NOT possible because they are engineered to produce different chromaticities.
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Semi-true but misleading. Can you edit to read "...engineered to produce responses to different chromaticities" ? – Carl Witthoft Aug 15 '16 at 12:33
@carl-witthoft: do you mean that it is possible to interpret that as "each layer produces own chromaticity"? – Euri Pinhollow Aug 15 '16 at 14:14
Each layer records a bunch of photons whose wavelength allows them to pass thru the color filter (and fall within the detection range of the pixel, of course). The end user can assign whatever color to that layer he wishes. – Carl Witthoft Aug 15 '16 at 14:30
@carl-witthoft: does not answer my question. I cannot understand the idea behind "engineered to produce responses to different chromaticities". – Euri Pinhollow Aug 15 '16 at 14:43
Well, yes -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromaticity . You can't get chromaticity from a single color filter. What each color filter does is integrate spectral input over a defined wavelength range, with varying transmissivity across that bandwidth. How you map that to an axis of a CIE map is up to the user. – Carl Witthoft Aug 15 '16 at 14:45
It's sort of theoretically possible, but not it's not generally practical.
To do it, you need a relatively narrow band-pass filter that restricts the light that passes through to the point that only one color of the (usually) three detected by the sensor will be affected (at least to a degree that it has visible effects on the picture you take).
Such narrow-band filters have been built and are in regular use--for example, they're used on a regular basis in wave division multiplexing, which is used to send multiple signals over an optical fiber simultaneously. On the transmitting end, you take a number of signals, encode each as a single color of light, and mix the light together before transmitting.
On the receiving end you run that light through the same number of narrow band-pass filters so you can reconstruct the original data streams.
As to why it's not practical: two reasons. First of all, such filters can be fairly large and expensive. Second, (probably more important for photographic purposes) as you get a narrow band that's passed, you also typically get a fair amount of attenuation in the pass band. That is to say, along with getting rid of the light you don't want, you also typically lose quite a lot of the light you do want.
On a typical camera you're dealing with only three colors of sensors, distributed pretty widely in the spectrum. You'd typically want to keep the green light because 1) that's the range where people's eyes are normally the most sensitive, and 2) on a typical sensor, you have twice as many green sensor wells as either red or blue sensor wells.
Astronomers also use fairly narrow band-pass filters on a fairly regular basis. To be specific, one type of emission nebula emits light due to triply-ionized oxygen (aka "oxygen III"). The light emitted is at 496nm and 501nm, both of which are pretty close to the middle of the green range:
So, if we insert a filter to pass only those wavelengths of light, and stop essentially everything else, we get pictures that are pretty close to purely monochrome, regardless of the camera/sensor/film used to sense the light. Such filters are easily available (Googling for oxygen-III filter will turn up many choices). Just for an example, here's the response curve for one of these filters:
This particular one is a hydrogen-beta filter, but oxygen-III filters with similarly narrow band-pass are available. A few slightly wider band-pass filters (still usually called "narrow-band") are "tuned" to allow both hydrogen-beta emission (486 nm) and Oxygen-III emissions (496 and 501 nm). This one, however, would filter out most emission at 496 nm and essentially all of it at 501 nm, even though to most people's eyes all three colors are very similar (deep gree with just a hint of blue).
These filters, however, are generally designed for use on telescopes, not cameras. They're typically in the sizes (e.g., 2 inch) used for telescope eye pieces. They also block a lot of visible light, so they're typically recommended only for use on relatively large telescopes--at least 8 or 10 inches is the usual minimum for them to be of much use.
Even assuming you could get the filter mounted and could live with the amount of light being transmitted, you'd be left with one problem: although your picture would be (almost entirely) monochrome, unless you did some pre-processing, it wouldn't show up as shades of grey, it would show up as shades of green.
I can see one final problem to use of these filters: what you'd get probably wouldn't work well for most types of photography. Early black and white film had a fairly broad range of sensitivity, but was affected the most strongly by blue light, and only quite weakly by red light.
Later black and white file ("panchromatic film") was adjusted to have sensitivity across the visible spectrum that corresponded much more closely to normal vision. This was enough of an improvement that it fairly quickly replaced orthochromatic film for most typical photography.
In this case, you'd be detecting a much narrower range of light that orthochromatic film though--to the point that you probably would not be able to get results that were of much use for most typical purposes.
On the other hand, there are also a few up-sides to using such narrow-band filters under some circumstances. For one example, since the lens only has to focus one wavelength of light, chromatic aberration becomes essentially irrelevant. This can improve resolution (though the exact improvement will depend on how much chromatic aberration the lens had to start with).
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Astronomers also, apparently, do this first. – wizzwizz4 Aug 16 '16 at 8:47
@wizzwizz4: Really serious astronomers mostly start with purpose-built cameras (e.g. that have coolers for the sensor to reduce noise). Some casual astronomers take pictures with unmodified cameras. And yes, some who are in between modify a normal camera. – Jerry Coffin Aug 16 '16 at 14:18
Many cooled astronomical cameras (dedicated ones for use connected to a laptop, not self contained units) are monochrome - as are some astronomical video cameras. Using a monochrome sensor increases sensitivity for luminance shots (since each pixel gets the full range of wavelengths) and allows higher colour resolution when combining multiple shots through R,G,B or different narrowband filters. – JerryTheC Mar 28 '17 at 0:39
The usual reason for modifying a DSLR for astronomical use is that the built in Infrared blocking filter also blocks around 80% of the deep red hydrogen alpha light - which is the red part of emission nebula images. Replacing the filter with one that passes h-alpha light greatly increases sensitivity to this, but gives a red cast to normal photos - which can be compensated for by a custom colour balance, or by using a suitable front of lens filter. – JerryTheC Mar 28 '17 at 0:54
To expand on that concept: filter out several narrow bands in parallel, and then coerce them all into the same output wavelength by either flourescence or heterodyning.... – rackandboneman Mar 18 '19 at 14:58
It's not a filter--not removable and definitely not reversible--but any digital camera can be converted to greyscale by scraping the color filters off the sensor and processing the RAW image. Without the color filters, the sensor only collects brightness information. The camera will continue to process the pixels as if the color filter matrix was still there, so you have to capture the RAW images and process them yourself. Never tried it myself, but I heard about it when CVS (US pharmacy chain) first started selling use-and-return digital cameras.
Thread with examples: http://photo.net/digital-camera-forum/00CM0R
More about the color filter matrix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
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In cameras the incident light is filtered to three coordinates of RGB spectra and then captured using chemical reaction (film cameras), CCD or CMOS chip (digital cameras).
The only way how you can physically disable the camera to capture colour images is to use monochromatic film or remove the filter mask from the CMOS chip. This procedure will kill your camera 999 999 times of 1 000 000 attempts.
When you set your camera to monochromatic capture it "ignores" the filtering and sums up the signal from all 3 channels. In postprocessing, the program will calculate the mean value from the channels.
If you want to capture IR images you have to have IR-compatible optics and IR sensitive detector. You will, probably, get brand new chip and customized AF sensors.
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No. You have to understand that there is no such thing as the wavelength of the white light, so there is no physical property on which such filter could be based.
If you don't like physics, think of a logical example: white light is a wider set which includes lights of all other colours as subsets. So your question effectively sounds as
Is there a filter that can extract fruits from apples?
Again, the answer is NO.
Dmitry GrigoryevDmitry Grigoryev
I'd suggest: Is there a filter which can extract fruits from apples, oranges, and cherries? or similar. – mattdm Aug 17 '16 at 16:55
You could extract a generic "mixed fruit juice" from apples, oranges and cherries though :) – rackandboneman Mar 18 '19 at 14:55
I'm going to go against the grain, and say YES, WE CAN... if you expand the meaning of "physical filter" as follows:
The filter is an active camera which displays its output in black and white on its own display (by having no colour filters on its sensor, desaturating in software, using a monochrome display etc), perhaps with some optics to simulate a focus farther away.
Your camera then takes a photo of the filter's display, thinking that it's the real world. And it's in black and white :-)
If that sounds outrageous, consider that in 2011, the movie Olive was reported as being the first film to be shot entirely on Smartphone. But how did they get the wonderful bokeh and depth of field? By filming the image projected on ground glass by an $800 Canon L Series 24-70mm lens! Cheating?
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en.bugemos.com/?q=node/12 – Crowley Aug 18 '16 at 7:32
I agree with you, I don't understand how can a filter add colours (bayer filter) and why there shouldn't be an exact opposite filter to remove them. – MeV Aug 18 '16 at 14:27
@Mev: See my answer. The Bayer filter array does not add colors. It actually removes everything but certain (broad swaths) of wavelengths in a pattern which makes it possible to reconstruct full-color information in a way that roughly matches to the human vision system. Since we're showing the results to humans, this works out. – mattdm Jun 21 '17 at 20:17
And for this answer itself: I don't think it's meaningful or helpful to expand the meaning of "physical filter" in this way. – mattdm Jun 21 '17 at 20:19
Color filters do not remove everything except the color of the filter. Some of the entire visible spectrum gets through each of all three color filters. It's just that more, often much more, of the colors closest to the color of each filter gets through. A good bit of red gets through the green filter and vice-versa. Some green gets through the blue filter and vice-versa. Even a small amount of blue and red get through the other colored filters. That is the way human vision works, that is the way color film works, and that is the way digital cameras work. – Michael C Jun 22 '17 at 13:39
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“A large part of the victim’s money is spent on attorney’s fees and guardian’s fees. As long as there is ample money in the victim’s guardianship account, the guardian and her attorney cohorts will file motion upon motion after motion to the courts,”
STEP ONE—“EMINENT DANGER”—THE INITIAL COURT PETITION
The professional guardian, with the assistance of her attorneys, commences the embezzlement process by filing an emergency petition in the probate courts to become the “emergency” “temporary” guardian
Florida guardianship statutes, like many states, (Chapter 744) require that there be an “eminent danger” in order for the petitioner to become the “emergency temporary guardian.”
The guardian oftentimes fabricates the “eminent danger” by , stating that there is a neighbor or relative or stranger who is taking advantage of the elderly person. In some cases, this may be a somewhat true statement, albeit an exaggerated claim. In most cases, upon further investigation, there has been no “eminent danger” whatsoever.
Step One takes away all of the victim’s civil rights and therefore gives the guardian and her attorneys full control over the victim and his or her assets.
STEP TWO—THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE
Once the professional guardian has taken control of the victim on a temporary basis (the emergency temporary guardianship order expires in 60 days) an examining committee of three medical “professionals” steps in to verify the allegation of mental incapacity. Oftentimes, the victim is administered a cocktail of psychotropic drugs to enhance the claims that he or she is incompetent.
“Ward” Elizabeth Faye Arnold, for instance, stated, “They put me on drugs that made me feel very drunk. I couldn’t even remember my name. Now that they have all my money, they don’t medicate me that way anymore.” One of the three medical professionals must be a psychiatrist and the victim is generally always found to be mentally incapacitated. The guardian usually has her own set of medical professionals that she utilizes on a regular basis.
Back in the courtroom, soon after the three medical professionals file their reports, there is a capacity hearing. The victim seldom is permitted to attend this hearing. The judge quickly scans the medical examinations that “verify” that the victim is “mentally and/or physically incapacitated.” The judge then signs an order that gives the professional guardian full and permanent legal authority over the victim’s person and property.
STEP THREE—THE “FEAST” BEGINS
Property is sold for below market value and the deeds switch and switch several times. (kick backs are suspected) Bank accounts, annuities, stocks, and CDs are liquidated into one big guardianship account.
Out of this large bank account, the guardian is expected to pay all the victim’s, but bills oftentimes go unpaid.
HOW THE VICTIM’S MONEY IS SPENT
1. ATTORNEY’S FEES AND GUARDIANSHIP FEES FOR “SERVICES RENDERED TO ‘BENEFIT’ THE ‘WARD’”
A large part of the victim’s money is spent on attorney’s fees and guardian’s fees. As long as there is ample money in the victim’s guardianship account, the guardian and her attorney cohorts will file motion upon motion after motion to the courts, such as:
–A motion to sell the ward’s furniture
–A motion to liquidate stocks and CDs
–A motion to transfer the ward to a different nursing home
–A motion to sell the ward’s homesteaded house
–A motion to open up a safety deposit box
Each motion can cost the “ward” in excess of $2,000.00 because the motion must be written, researched, filed, and then a hearing is scheduled. Oftentimes, the motions cost more than what is being petitioned for.
2. PUFFING THE MONTHLY BUDGET—The guardian frequently doubles the monthly expenses then keeps the remainder.
3. SELLING THE “WARD’S” PERSONAL BELONGINGS FOR BELOW MARKET VALUE THEN POCKETING THE DIFFERENCE—The guardian underestimates the amount of the sale of personal items, such as jewelry, paintings, and antiques, for the purpose of the court record inventories, then is free to keep the difference. There is little court oversight.
4. BILLS ARE SIMPLY NOT PAID
Oftentimes, the bills of the “ward” are not even paid. When the “ward” dies, the guardian simply places an ad in an obscure newspaper, if there is money left for an estate to be probated. Assuming creditors do not see the ad and file a claim against the estate within 30 days, their claims are forever barred and so the guardian was able to fool creditors and abscond with the money and not have to pay any of the bills. If she is caught, she simply pays the bills of the creditors who caught her. This frequently includes Medicaid.
5. ACCOUNTING IS NOT ACCURATE
The guardian can claim a much lower amount of liquid assets than what the victim is actually worth and then pocket the rest.
EXAMPLE: Julie Sweeten–$400,000.00 estate with an alleged $80,000.00 remaining when Sweeten died. More than $300,000.00 was spent in three years.
Louise A. Falvo started off with approximately $800,000.00. Two months into the guardianship, Fierle filed an accounting with the court stating that Falvo was worth only $672,000.00. Shortly thereafter, a bank statement from Bank of America stated that Falvo now had $449,000 after all accounts had been liquidated. So, approximately $200,000 turned up missing.
6. FAKE WILLS: In this scenario, the guardian claimed that Julie Sweeten desired to leave her estate to her bank. A forged will was entered into the record. Wachovia Bank trustee was then given $80,000.00 from the uncontested, probated estate.
STEP FOUR: THE MYSTERIOUS DEATHS
Once the funds have been spent, the “ward” oftentimes suddenly dies.
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The “ward” dies when there is still plenty of money — if a huge probate battle can commence, thereby further enriching the attorneys and guardian.
Examples: Carlisle Bosworth died soon after his $250,000 had been spent.
James Deaton–$5 million, three years in probate–$3 million in attorney’s fees with a pittance finally paid out to his family members.
LOUISE A. FALVO—suspected morphine sulphate overdose as cause of death; huge probate battle to enrich attorneys ensued even though
LOUISE A. FALVO’s bank accounts were all POD/ITF to her daughter, so probate should have been completely unnecessary.
NASGA, National Association to Stop Guardianship Abuse, has adopted a three part theme to succinctly describe the legally sanctioned exploitative guardianship process: “Isolate, Medicate, Take the Estate.”
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d101046.pdf
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/10/27/elderly.abuse/index.html?iref=allsearch
*All court records are available for verification of the facts.
Michael J McDermott
How can I lookup mysel, to see if I was placed on an LPS while I was in jail?
Joanne Lyons
my sister was stealing from our other mother with dementia. i reached out to senior services for help. i was told a court appointec guardian could sort it all out and since i brought all documents it would only be temporary. my worst nightmare began 300.00 an hour incompetent lawyer fiing motion after motion the system failed my mother i begged the judge to look at the facts and the BILLABLE hours and was told is would take it under advisement. i have no respect for the system my mom was a victim of her disease then my sister and finally this corrupt sysem.
Anyone posting about writing to senators and giving similar advice, are you going through it right now? Because we have been battling this for several years and the corruption goes as high as our state supreme court and state attorney general. Greed. How much money is enough for these people?
The only solution is to unite families under guardianship and have them attend each other’s hearings by flooding the courtrooms. We did meet another family after court recently with the same guardian. We compared notes and found specific patterns such as under-reporting the sale of homes. We’re sitting ducks without the strength of other families united with us.
As I write this, my dad is being drugged to death by the guardian and her attorney who pocketed nearly 200k off the sale of his home and no one is allowed to see or speak to him. I’ve spent days dodging a process server for the guardian’s attorney. Maybe the attorney’s children will inherit that greedy nature and turn on her as she nears the end of HER life. Sometimes karma is the only justice.
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Tim Bennett
Write a letter to your lawmakers tell them to end abusive guardianship hold the judges and court appointed guardians responsible for their actions disrupt the court proceedings have the judge investigated and the guardian too
One example is a young named Alyssa glider hus had suffered an ruptured brain aeurysm about two earlier her parents were unhappy with the care she was receiving in the rehabilitation unit hospital staffers went to two adult protection agencies to gain guardianship of her it’s not just the elderly and disabled victims of the corrupt court system her mother had mental health issues the mother said she had no mental illness they Alyssa couldn’t make decisions for herself it proves hospitals have no right to keep somebody prisoner the police back off the judicial system is broken them yo clinic staff was in the wrong they should face severe displicinary action for their bad judgement
The judges and court appointed attorneys are crooked they don’t care about the ward they want every thing they can get to drain the victims of their money this needs to stop now it’s corruption in the court system the psychriatisc system is a fraud too the ward is a victim of the unjust court system the elderly and disabled are victims the disabled victims are put in group homes and sent to sheltered workshops to be exploited for cheap labor i know i was about become a ward of the state someone came to our house talking to me and my brother telling him to call corporation of guardianship call industrial services I’m thinking I don’t want to live in a group home go to a sheltered workshop and become a slave for cheap labor it’s wrong write your local state house and senate tell them to stop the abuse of the elderly and disabled and the u.s. House and senate lawmakers.guardianship abuse has become more and more as a result of the dishonest court system the judges and court appointed attorneys are taking bribes so they can write it off on their taxes it’s time to have the judges and court appointed guardians locked away in a mental ward have them drugged up take away their hiomes seize their bank accounts sell everything they own
Siv.
Hello fellow Public Guardian/Trustee & Health/Aged Care victims.
I want to say,
medical, legal & judicial dept’s or anyone “reasoning” to in a matter of months end the life of drugged up/drug assaulted/dissabled public guardian/trustee & aged care victims because they are FORCED into an UNRESPONSIVE condition WHEN they could of been saved to live a long able life should be thinking about saving these victims.
The ones who have stopped their loved ones poisoning abuses have to walk a fine fence because their loved one are NOT PROTECTED being held by Public guardian/trustee & aged care accomplices and could be aggressively poisoned/disabled but my point is they are still alive after many years of captivity as those around them are being poisoned & killed within a matter of months.
You all know what i mean & it has to be acknowledged & stopped.
Yes there’s a way to stop these judges and court appointed guardians ask the state attorney general to look into the corruption of guardianship the elderly are not the only ones who are the victims of the corrupt court system the disabled are are victims too the judges and court appointed attorneys are accepting from the mental health system it’s time to reform the system expose the judges and court appointed guardians for corruption in the court system write a letter to your elected official and tell them to end guardianship abuse have the judges and court appointed guardians committed to a mental hospital. And have drain their bank accounts and auction their homes and other personal property have them drugged and keep them locked up forever
Every victim of Public Guardian/Trustee abuse know’s this beginning statement.
The Public Guardian promotes the rights and interests of people with disabilities/lets stop there.
That word they use disabilities is backed up with poisoned victims.
I think poison substance’s assaulted victims would be more accurate.
We all know Public Guardian/Yeustee Dept’s don’t act alone & have what i discribe as criminal violent drs & nurses who disregard poison overexposing, adsaulting, injuring & disabling their victims to ensure the “disabled” symptom’s.
Mabe exposing these co-corrupt legal/medical accomplices together will change the publics view about these Public Guardian Dept’s & what their really there for?
Silvio Valastro
Can’t we just indicte these homicide poisoning corrupt medical & hospice personnel who use a double standard & hide behind perverting the course of justice public guardian/trustee accomplices for TARGETING, KIDNAPPING, POISON ASSAULT INJURING/PURPOSELY DISABLING, ROBBING and MURDERING the public/malpractice victims?
The courts are corrupt and the judges and court appointed guardians are crooks as well it’s time to have the judges and court appointed guardians committed to a mental hospital and take away their homes and seize their bank accounts have them drugged against their will put them in a padded room with no windows the judges and court appointed guardians are a danger to the public it’s time to stop guardianship abuse now
sivtiger
May 17, 2018 @ 03:47:31
I think this is the tip of the iceburg.
MORE surviving victims & their families of pharmaceutical toxins pushing GP, hospital & aged care facility doctors & nurses who use co-corrupt public NCAT/guardian/trustee attorney’s & supreme court judges must expose these corrupt criminals for committing a host of medical/legal/justice scamming, poison assaulting/damaging/incapacitating, robbing and killing the public crimes for NONE of their victims had an illness & their victims chances of recovery was brutally taken away.
All the “medical/legal powers” they have/use is to justify & enforce poison damaging/assaulting & incapacertating the public to match their fabrecated diagnosis & produce symptoms to “treat” with more drugs which increases their victims injuries/symptoms.
Without being able to indescrimently poison assault/damage, there wouldn’t be so many poison assaulted victims/bodies for these criminals to procure & rob from.
You corrupt drs/nurses must also go down with your co-corrupt public NCAT/guardian & trustee attorney’s & supreme court judges for abusing your positions/licences & for daring to medically scam, poison assault/toxins harm/incapacitate, rob & kill the public while perverting the course of justice.
I would like to add this Australian ABC/Lateline report everyone here might find interesting.
Up to 6,000 elderly people could be dying prematurely each year because of widespread over-prescription of powerful drugs to dementia patients in nursing homes.
Experts say anti-psychotic drugs can leave patients immobilised and unable to speak and are often used unnecessarily to keep dementia sufferers quiet for overworked staff.
But the drugs can increase the risk of death by 50 per cent, and family members are often left in the dark about their use.
John Burns’ family thought they were doing the best thing for their father when they booked him in to a nearby nursing home in Adelaide offering specialist dementia care.
Just 63 years old, he had severe symptoms such as disinhibited sexual behaviour. He never hurt anyone but his lewd remarks and wandering put him at risk of harm.
What then happened to Mr Burns, while extreme, is not uncommon, according to experts.
He walked into the nursing home able to feed and clean himself and able to converse with his family.
Within 24 hours he was so doped up they could barely wake him, within a week he was unable to sit upright or converse at all, and within 12 days, he was dead.
Jody Playford knows now that her father had a stroke.
She also knows that during his short time in the nursing home, he was massively dosed with dangerous anti-psychotic drugs that can heighten the risk of stroke and death.
“I don’t think in your worst nightmares you could have every imagined it could have gone so wrong,” she said.
“I went down to the lounge room only to find Dad sitting in the lounge room in his own urine and he had jelly in his eyes, his eyes had turned to jelly and the jelly was coming out of his eyes.
“And he was away with the fairies. He didn’t know me and we hadn’t had that problem with dementia, so I was rubbing his hand, saying, ‘Dad, it’s Jody, it’s Jody!'”
Soon after arriving at the nursing home, Mr Burns had tried to leave.
He guessed the security code and wandered outside the locked dementia wing. He also made sexual remarks to staff, raised his fist and touched a female staff member’s breast.
None of this is unusual behaviour for dementia patients who often become agitated when adjusting to new environments.
No one was hurt. And each time he had become compliant again.
But some staff were worried enough to call a doctor who prescribed the powerful anti-psychotic haloperidol, which he was given repeatedly in large doses.
“This was a level four chemical restraint, which means your life’s in danger, the client’s life is in danger. It drops them to the floor instantly,” Ms Playford said.
High doses of potent drugs
One of South Australia’s leading geriatric experts, Dr Craig Whitehead, testified at a coronial hearing into Mr Burns’ death that he believed the overall dose over the next five days was excessive.
“He did have a very high dose of halperidol, which is a very potent anti-psychotic… I think he had about 35 milligrams,” he told the hearing.
“I would ordinarily give, in that circumstance, at best, 5 [milligrams] orally.”
In fact, Mr Burns was given 45 milligrams in five days, as well as other anti-psychotics and sedatives.
The coroner heard that sometimes he was drugged because he was restless or wanting to go for a quiet walk in the corridor at night.
“And even the coroner said, ‘Well, what else is the man meant to do in the facility? What’s wrong with going for a walk?'” Ms Playford said.
The coronial inquest heard the doctor believed he had given an appropriate dose and that he was concerned for the safety of nursing home staff because Mr Burns had become aggressive and abusive.
South Australian Coroner Mark Johns found last year that Mr Burns died of a stroke in 2006.
He did not link it to anti-psychotic drugs, but he noted that Dr Whitehead’s expert concerns that haloperidol played a role “may well be correct”.
“Essentially the man died of a stroke and that had been acquired after what seemed in my mind significant prescription or over-prescription of anti-psychotics to treat his behaviour,” Dr Whitehead told Lateline.
“I thought it was a really important example of how these medications we give to people with dementia, a very common problem, and behavioural disturbance in dementia is a very common problem, have serious and high risk effects. And it was clear to me that the family had never been engaged in a discussion about that.”
Dr Whitehead says while there are many excellent nursing homes, he is concerned about a lack of properly trained staff to care for the 140,000 dementia patients who now dominate residential care – and whose numbers are set to explode.
“I think there is a sense that the aged care industry is less tolerant to patients with behavioural disturbance,” he said.
“There is a tendency to gravitate towards blaming the person for their behaviour.”
Ms Playford was at her father’s bedside when the doctor who had prescribed the anti-psychotics arrived.
“Mum and I couldn’t quite believe it. Because he looked at Dad and said, ‘You know what you did, Mr Burns. We’re not going to tolerate that sort of behaviour here and you know what’s going to happen if you continue to do this,'” she said.
‘Massive amounts of drugs’
Many of the same issues were faced by Beverley Harvey and her family when their mother went into a Gold Coast nursing home late last year suffering dementia.
Even though she was 93 years old, Annetta Mackay was mobile and could converse with her family. But within two months she had lost 16 kilograms and was hard to wake.
“We walked in and our mother looked dead,” Ms Harvey told Lateline.
“I suspected she was heavily drugged. So that’s why I spoke to the doctor. He said, ‘Your mother is on massive amounts of drugs.'”
Ms Harvey and her family were told their mother was calling out at night and using vulgar language that upset other residents.
Once the sedation began, it did not seem to stop.
“They were still drugging her even though she was well and truly comatose, not eating, not drinking, just sleeping,” Ms Harvey said.
Experts interviewed by Lateline say the science is clear: anti-psychotics are not beneficial for the vast majority of dementia patients whose behaviour can often be managed by better trained staff.
“We also have some limited evidence that stopping those medications improves those outcomes, improves their behaviour and improves their cognition,” Professor David Le Couteur from the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists said.
“From my perspective, the correct management of behavioural problems in dementia is nearly always reducing medications, not starting them.”
The anti-psychotic drugs were stopped when Ms Harvey’s mother went to hospital and suddenly Ms Mackay was able to chat to her family again.
But she then returned to the nursing home.
“She was like a zombie,” Ms Harvey recalls.
“The last day, I put my arm around her and said, ‘We’re going now,’ and she didn’t open her eyes, she just made sure I kept there.
“She was sort of holding me in, and said, ‘Beverley, don’t leave me here.'”
Her family managed to have the anti-psychotics and sedatives stopped in January, after four months. Ms Mackay died in April.
Thousands affected
Up to 60 per cent of nursing home residents are on psychiatric drugs, and up to 30 per cent are on powerful anti-psychotics.
Professor Le Couteur says in many cases doctors are treating people with dementia in order to make life easier for the carers and the health workers.
He calculated how many patients are dying six to 12 months prematurely each year because of the over-use of anti-psychotics, and got figures ranging from 500 to 6000.
“I think the answer is thousands,” he told Lateline.
“I think there are probably thousands of deaths where can attribute to these medications.
He said he was not aware the figure would be so high.
“I was shocked, very sad for the elderly people,” he said.
“People with dementia are human beings and they need to be treated with respect and sedating them because of their behaviour just feels wrong as a human being.”
While not commenting on specific cases, Queensland specialist geriatric psychiatrist Professor Gerard Byrne says there are likely to be hundreds of premature deaths each year with thousands more adversely affected.
“I think it’s likely to be hundreds, if not, thousands severely adversely affected each year in this country,” he said.
“I have certainly seen on a fairly regular basis, older people with dementia that have been prescribed antipsychotic medication either inappropriately, or in excessive dose or for too long a period.
“The problem is that they seem to be used indiscriminately and significantly overused, really.”
Minister concerned
Federal Minister for Mental Health and Ageing Mark Butler says he has asked for detailed information about the issue from health groups and the National Prescribing Service.
He says he has heard the claims before and will investigate them.
“When you go to issues like consent, when you go to issues like the proper prescription of medications before non-pharmalogical methods have been proven to fail, I think this is arguably seen as a human rights issue,” he said.
I hope this puts into perspective what i and other witnesses have said here and how corrupt NCAT, public guardian/trustee attorneys, supreme court judges & medical/care personnel are perrverting the course of justice of these poisoned to addiction/toxic injuries & an early death victims & their famies are being mistreated & robbed.
They must all pay for decieving & comitting a host of poisoning, assault, neglect & robbery crimes against the people/the elderly.
The judges and court appointed guardians are greedy low life’s who should sentenced to life in prison without parole for life or have them committed to a psychiatric hospital and drugged against their will seize their bank accounts cars and homes they’re incompetent I’m in favor having the guardian court system shut down the court system is corrupt and dishonest the judges are the problem they don’t care about the person who becomes a ward of the state cruel heartless judges and court appointed guardians are nothing but criminals it’s time to end guardianship abuse put a end to the for profit system
The court has no right to appoint a guardian and take the victims money the judges and court appointed guardians are nothing but greedy dishonest and corrupt this abuse needs to end now the ward isn’t permitted to attend the hearing in the court once the guardian starts telling lies the judge signs the papers it’s a violation of the persons right there is sexual abuse in group homes the guardian turns a deaf ear to what goes on in group homes the system has not only failed the elderly the disabled as well it’s time to end the legal abduction of these victims the judges are corrupt and greedy they take bribes time to investigate the court appointed guardians and the judges group homes are prisons too
Something has to be done.
It’s disgusting that a cut of the peoples taxes isn’t enought for a corrupt/dishonest govt & their co-corrupt/dishonest medical, legal & judicial/justice accomplices who all abuse their positions to avoid being criminally charged as they conspire excuses/reasons/laws to enforce targeting/poison assaulting & poison damaging/abducting & incapacitating the people, is very disgusting.
All behind medical fabrecated illnesse/disease & disorder names which is supported/enforced with more poisoning assaults as an excuse/reason to after the fact seize, liquidate & money launder the people’s savings & assetts between themselves which rightfully belongs to the people & family.
In other words, if their not all corruption/dishonesty exposed & incarcerated ASAP, it will just be a matter of time before you & your family becomes their next victim & trust me, seeing these corrupt/decieving & intrusive strangers relish in poisoning/abducting/robbing & killing your loved one who didn’t have to be robbed or die if they were given the chance to detoxify/recover all for your loved ones savings & assetts, will leave you & your family psycologically broken, finantially robbed & broken apart.
The people have the power, not the corrupt.
The corrupt justify & comit/enforce violence & poisoning criminal acts against the people for robbing the people purposes.
Vigorously protect your love ones and vigorously attack/expose all the accomplices that have poison assaulted & robbed from your family.
The court system is corrupt and unjust the judges and court appointed guardians are criminals 5 years ago a Florida man was in the hospital for a minor surgery someone goes to this judge appoints herself as his guardian he is taken to a nursing home locked up in a isolation ward for people with dementia it took 6 months to get him released from the facility it’s time to have the court appointed guardians and judges locked away in a mental hospital take away their bank accounts homes and anything else they own have them drugged against their will the court system is corrupt it’s time to stop the corruption now
All these victims & witnesses stroies/testimonies about their own corrupt med/legal & judicial abuses, IS SHOCKING.
Are honest lawyers going to let these corrupt supreme court judges, guardianship/trustee attorneys & med personnel continue to abuse their positions & threaten to ban you from probate courts IF you or your legal partners start to protect/represent & defend state poisoned/abducted/robbed victims & their families?
They are very afraid of being exposed/arrested for having a dishonest poisoning & robbing the people, money laundering corrupt partnership.
I’ve noticed that everyone who has been decieved by & has been poisoned by corrupt medical personnel & who can’t afford their own legal protection/defence have all been forced into & through the same corrupt guardianship/trustee department & supreme court abusive formalities who, protect the poisoning assailants for a cut of the profits & who pervert the course of justice of the corruption poisoned/robbed victims & their abused families.
I think you good/concerned lawyers can not only publically expose these corrupt judges/lawyers & med personnel for abusing their positions & for threatening you & the public, i think you can have them all arrested, banned & incarcerated.
Their past & current victims lists is growing.
We must stop these corrupt people, for good.
32 years ago I almost became a ward of the state someone came to our house talking to me and my brother told him to call corporation of guardianship call industrial services I’m sitting there thinking I don’t want to go to the sheltered workshop live in a group home guardianship has become a $3 billion a year industry the judges and court appointed guardian are corrupt and dishonest they take bribes from each other the court system is corrupt and dishonest courts have failed to protect the elderly and disabled from these criminals the judges and court appointed guardians are the new gestapo
The poisoning & robbing the public/the elderly dependant corrupt, have no place or future in todays anticorrupt global community
HONEST President’s & Prime Minister’s who expose/prosecute the dishonest/corrupt should be writing two Presidential/Prime Minestral Directive’s to protect the people.
Firstly, for Federal/Local Police to protect malpractice/corruption victims/”patients” from “medical excuse” poisoning assailant’s & their abducting /concealing malpractice/corruption victims legal/judicial abuses.
Secondly, for Federal/Local police to start INVESTIGATING/ARRESTING & PROSECUTING these dishonest & corrupt medical, legal, judicial and justice/political accomplices who excuses justify & who oversee/enforce/order the abduction, poison/toxin’s assaulting, injuring, debilitating & after the fact robbery/homicide murder of elderly civilians, for THEIR income’s/a living.
Guardianship is a $3,000,000,000./year industry
Once the judge signs the papers the victim is taken away by the gestapo to a group home the staff are in it for the money the judges and lawyers bribe each other there is corruption in the court system the judges and lawyers in the guardian court are criminals they need to be committed to a mental hospital and have them drugged against their will lock them up in a padded room and put them in straitjacket over medicate them sell their homes cars seize their bank accounts auction their homes
It seems,
“probate court” is a dishonest means to after the fact profit off corruption poisoned, assaulted, raped & poisoned to death victims money which you can’t do,
The court system is corrupt and full of dishonest judges and lawyers they don’t care what happens to the person who is about to become a ward of the state 32 years ago I was about become a ward of the state someone came to our house talking to me and my brother she said call corporation of guardian ship call industrial services I sit there thinking I don’t want to live in a group home they’re run by by the state and there have been reports of abuse in these group homes lacerations broken bones and death they’re run like psycheitric wards the staff are criminals and molestation goes in these facilities the staff won’t do anything there was a case back in2012 where a 37 old man named Bert Powell he had been molested for seven years what does the staff do nothing
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tim bennett (@timbenn93985944)
guardianship is a $1 billion a year business the system is corrupt the judges and attorneys are criminals the victim becomes a ward of the state because of the injustice of the justice system they don’t care group homes are like psychiatric hospitals and nursing homes the family can’t have contact with their loved ones the court appointed attorney has a panel of experts one being psychiatrist and a nurse they declare the victim incapacitated a danger to themselves and others the court system is full of corrupt judges and other criminals the eminent danger the petition to the court to have taken against his or her will write your lawmaker tell them to do away with article 81 which is a legal way to kidnap someone and take away their rights
Just like common criminals,
ALL senet, tribunal, med center/hospital, aged care, legal & judicial conspiring/coached accomplices prognosis/diagnosis/ & law swindeling, poison/assaults assaulting, raping & organ harvesting vulnerable/defencessless/alone & weak constitutes with corrupt statutes, legislation & policies,
have to be treason fraud, poisoning/violence/negelect, raping & homicide robbery related crimes charged & arrested with ANYONY supporting or bias to their criminal activities also profiting off assaulted constituates money.
My malpractice assaults abducted & assaults trafficked vulnerable mother as well as meny simular assaulted victims haven’t escaped yet from,
corrupt senet, tribunal, health/medical, aged care, legal & judicial conspiring accomplices prognosis/diagnosis and law swindeling, poisoning, assaulting, raping & organ harvesting constitutes/civillians and families with,
corruption conspired/inspired/violently enfroced statutes, legislations & policies untill their,
transparency arrested for corruption criminal treason, fraud, raping/pedophlia, homicide poisoning/assaulting/neglecting & murder robbery related crimes to answer to.
How to file corruption assault, murder & abuse of licence & position criminal charges against money embezzling politicians, mental & health care drs, nurses & public guardian attorneys involved in medical/legal swindeling, assault, robbery & homicide poisoning criminal activities?
Glad you escaped this. I agree..we should do to lawyers, guardians and judges what they have planned for us.
the court system is corrupt and unjust the judges and court appointed attorneys are criminals and get away with it they should be locked away in a prison for crooked and dishonest judges and attorneys i have read horror stories of the elderly and disabled abused the courts have no right to tell them they are going to be a ward of the state it’s time to make the judges and court appointed attorneys to be declared mentally unstable and put them in mental hospitals and have them drugged and take their money and every thing taken away from them i oppose guardianship it’s wrong i almost became a victim of the predatory court system
in 2015 north carolina passed a law called bert’s law to protect the disabled from sexual abuse by group home staff he told his parents he was molested by a group home staff member it went on for 7 years the group home didn’t do anything about they kept quiet about one of their staff molesting him the caregiver staff member was in his 60’s he died before the trial began it goes to show the injustice of the probate courts the court appointed guardians who puts the ward in a bad place it’s time for group homes to be closed for good the guardians are not guardian angels they are the gestapo
Renee parry
What rights do spouses have if sister to spouse forces him to sign conservatorship & made him make his will behind my back & make him lie about it? Then the icing on the cake…she made him sign divorce papers & spend over 17,000.00 of his money on divorce he does not want. We’ve been married 12 & 1/2 years she was not a part of our lives until he became severely mentally ill. Then his 1st of approximately 25+ seizures began. He is & has been on various combinations of anti seizure meds. For going on 17 months now, none of which have helped what so ever he is worse. It got so bad I kept telling his neurologist this & was told in not so many words to shut up he’s not complaining!! He can’t he is horrifically over medicated. He is barely able to walk now & cannot communicate without offending the sister in charge. He is afraid of her. She bullies him, takes him to attorneys all doped up & has him sign legal documents that he has no idea what he signed? And what kind of attorney would allow that? She has my husband convinced I am bulaying him when she is the one. She tells him I spend his money & steal it too. I have NO ACCESS to any of his many bank accounts. If he tells her he doesn’t feel well she tEllis him he is fine. She also has his neurologist working with her telling him also he is fine!! And yes the wife is a bully creating problems…because I speak up for my husband who is NOT ABLE TO, She has gone as far as had a restraining order on Me & has filed legal seperation pending a divorce on his behalf even though thats not what he wants he is so afraid of her its beyond pathetic. He says he cannot question or challenge her because their father made her the executor of his trust,she has denied him copy of father’s will 2 separate occasions. She & my husband are the only heirs of a multi million dollar trust. He has no idea what was left to him, and because of that, HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE HAD TO BEGIN WITH IN 2011….LET ALONE HOW MUCH SHE HAS SPENT OF HIS ( SO CALLED INHERITANCE.) If you don’t know how much you began with, how would you EVER know how much is GONE? She refuses access everything. We are aware he can get a copy but now with restrainino order & with 24 hour home care I can’t even take him to court house or an attorney. Today he told me he is dying I believe him, he is 65 looks 95 can hardly speak or walk they sister & Dr. tell him ” YOU’RE FINE!.” HE IS NOT FINE & HASN’T BEEN FOR THE LAST 15 MONTHS YOU CAN TELL JUST BY LOOKING AT HIM HE IS A SHELL OF A HUMAN WHO WAS ONCE FULL OF LIFE, HIS neurologist had the nerve to send notice to D.M.V. stating he has not had any seizures in 2017. That is completely a lie. I have the kaiser & ambulance bills, there were 4 so far this year all documented by kaiser. How is this Dr. able to do that???? How are the attorneys allowing him to sign legal documents especially excluding me entirely from any inheritance from him, remind you we are legally separated not divorced, AND she tells him what he wants to hear, knowing full well he did not read the papers he trusted her word. Nor is he able to comprehend what he is doing? How can such OBVIOUS ABUSE be legal & why are the doctors & lawyers allowed to abuse him so severely when they can see with their own eyes while he signs legal documents that he is severely over medicated & has a far away ou gaze in his eyes????? He is being taken advantage of & abused by both his sister and the entire Medical system at kaiser in California not to mention the monthly dues that are astronomical for a senior citizen he cannot even get the medical help he needs & DESERVES so badly? I am at my wits end no place to turn. I am & have also become sick over all of this torture & abuse that I have a stomach ache everyday & can’t sleep many many nights having to stand by & watch the mental anguish my husband suffers EVERYDAY ALONG WITH HIS SEIZURES just about every 2 weeks maybe 3 sometimes 4 weeks in between seizures. He was hospitalized more than a dozen closers to two dozen in the year 2016, and I CAN DO NOTHING…NOT EVEN SPEAK, yet I was the fUll TIME caregiver that lives to this day with him? ALSO how did a judge grant a restraining order YET IT ALLOWS ME TO CONTINUE TO RESIDE IN OUR HOME TOGETHER???? FYI sister lives 40 minutes away. She is fully aware of what she is doing while pushing the blame on me. And i firmly believe she had this completely & totally planned from the onset of his diminished mental capacity which began 12/26/15. She can see hown badly & rapidly diminishing as well as I can!!! Just a small example of her torture, she talked my husband into buying a new 50,000.00 truck which will arrive this Monday. HE HAS NO DRIVERS LICENSE WAS MEDICALLY SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY LEGALLY he cannot register it or insure it LET ALONE DRIVE IT. And you ask yourself why would she do that? Because it will have to be in her name only on titlle & the only insured driver. THAT MEANS SHE JUST GOT A FREE 50,000.00 TRUCK FREE. FREE I SAID!! THAT’S WHY. MY HANDS AND MOUTH ARE TIED. My heart breaks for him & me not being able to do anything at all for him is killing me too. Is there anyone who can help me, offer advice or point me in the right direction or is it just a lost cause.? I can be reached by phone PST 510 943 8445 my name is Renee. I DO NOT HAVE E ……. E MAIL even though I put it there i no longer have access. If you can help or would like to respond PLEASE CALL MY CELL PHONE. Thanks so very much, soon to be ex wife by his abusers choice NOT OURS. THANKS AGAIN. 510 943 8445 CALIFORNIA TIME. NO E MAIL ACCESS.t
Hi fellow Public Guardian victims.
It’s silvio again.
Here’s a more clearer series of events that can ONLY be described as pure evil & criminal in the extreem!
At the beginning.
This is about what i witnessed our GP dr George Sayher using his accomplice chemit son & other chemists do with accomplice hospital & nursing home colluges after being a 10 year + carer that kickback malpractice tortured my mothe & harmed her brain they claim is an illness when it’s something more sinister.
My mother has been poisoned by our GP dr, his chemist son/other chemists & hospital colluges & has been brutally assaulted at home by a COMPACS nurse & in two separate nursing homes! ALL REPORTED TO POLICE & ONLY ONE NURING HOME NURSE WAS CHARGED!
My mother is currently suffering duty of care criminal breaches as the current nursing home she’s in misuse their medical equipment & prescription drugs on drs orders as an excuse to harm & keep her there under false pretenses.
They are hiding she fidn’t need all those KICKBACK drugs & isn’t incohetent & is very aware and have ILLEGALLY stolen her Power of Attorney with my psychotic ststers who conspired with her GP Dr, Nepean, Mt druitt & Blacktown hospital social workers & drs & the NSW Public Guardiandhip board members.
They are making claims in the high court using Zucker Legal/Tamworth on the 14 of april that i didn’t pay my water bills, bord or land rates for many years AFTER I PERSONALLY REQUESTED (there’s phone recorded records they conceal) Trustee and Guardian to forword MY water untility, bord & land rates invoices which they never did/refused only sending my gas & electricity invoices & have now SET ME UP through Zucker Legal to make ME look like a criminal when i’m not!
Who else here has been set up like that?
Anyway, all to descredit my honest/trustworthy & kind character & what i have witnessed & who is involved, to stop me testifying against their criminal activities/syndicate.
I’m barely getting by as it is and i can’t afford the thousands of dollars they “claim” i owe. I wont even be able to pay it off as i live day to day so their next step will be to paint me as a crminal & criminally charge me and send me to jail. ALL set up by NSW Public Guardian & Trusee & Guardian with the Hammondville nursing home drs/nurses/managers/staff & my sisters ALL GOING AGAINST MY MOTHERS DECISIONS!
I can tell you, ME & MOM ARE VERY VULNERABLE & VERY VERY SCARRED!
NOT ONLY ARE ME AND MOM ALONE, her house i’m trying to protect for her so she can return to her own home is going to be robbed by the fraudulent syndicate scamming nursing home (Hammondville Nursing Home), NSW publc guardian & Trusttee & Guardian & my sisters who only go there to see if she has degraded and DON’T CARE SHENEEDS AUTHORITIES& INJURY ATTORNEYS/PROSECUTORS PROTECTION!
I wonder why?
For my sisters to attack/discredit me after mom & me told them how she was poisoned & assaulted resulted in them attacking me & mom on behalf of our abusers & HAVE ABANDONED US TO JOIN OUR ABUSERS hurt both mom & me VERY DEEPLY & its all just to hide they were conspiring with my mothers malpractice dr AFTER he was BUSTED giving her prrscriptions she didn”t need & damaged her occipital lobe & were having meetings with & illegally supplying her or taking her to get the same prescription drugs that were harming her through my mothers, criminal violent GP Dr & his many colleuge accomplices.
All they want is to make shore mom or me can’t whistleblow/testify against our malpractice GP dr, his hospital & nursing home accomplices & NSW public guardian, trustee & guardian & my sisters.
My VULNERABLE mother is suffering kickback poisoning injuries they want to ILLEGALLY increase, physical assaults & pressure wounds to dibilitate her for the purposes of hide her illnesses are malpractice caused/supported by drugs for the purposes of robbing her & her family.
Her 18 carot bracelet was stolen/disaspeared, not that long ago!
Anything i say/report to the nursing home drs/managers or if i report it to medical or legal agencies, MY CHARACTER IS ATTACKED & IT’S MY VULNERABLE MOTHER WHO IS THE ONE WHO SUFFERS VIOLENT REPREMANDS FROM THESE MEDICAL/LEGAL SCAMMING/ROBBING, SYNDICATE CRIMINALS!
It is making me crazy & KILLING MY VULNERABLE MOTHER!
All because she was malpractice harmed and i witnessed it & tried to report it & these criminals act as if their above the law. They even ABUSE/DECIEVE & LIE TO HONERABLE POLICE OFFICERS & SPECIAL AGENTS to protect them & work for them.
Me & my hostage held mother really need someones ongoing legal protection/defence or we are FINISHED HERE IN AUSTRALIA/NSW/SYDNEY/ST CLAIR!
I want to say A MASSIVE THANKYOU to Angela V. Woodhill, Ph. D for having the intelligence & foresight to see through their criminal scamming syndicates with,
HOW A FRAUDULENT GUARDIANSHIP COMMENCES & CONTINUES.
It describes EXACTLY, who these Legal/medical fraudulent SYNDICATE perpetrators are and what their doing to our loved ones, us and our families.
I PRAY/HOPE somehow, some sort of assistance/aid will come our way because at the moment without any legal/medical protection, after they go through their syndicate criminal scamming process, THEY’LL MURDER MY MOTHER FOR SURE!
ALL BECAUSE SHE IS A MALPRACTICE VICTIM!
What do i do to save/protect my mother & us when THEY HOLD ALL THE ADVANTAGES/CARDS?
Silvio.
I live in Australia/Sydney & this is about what i witnessed our dr with accomplice hospitals & nursing home colluges & Public Guardian attorneys do after being a 10 year + carer snd witnessed my kickback tortured mother’s brain injury they claim is dementia when it’s something more sinister.
My mother has been poisoned & assaulted by our dr & at home by a nurse & in two separste nursing homes. She is currently suffering care of duty criminal bresches & pressure wound assaults as the current nursing home misuse the medical equipment on drs orders as an excuse to harm & keep her there.
They are hiding she isn’t as ill as they claim, she is not incohetent & very aware & have defrauded medical & legal documents to STEAL her Power of Attorney on my psychotic ststers orders who conspire with the NSW Public Guardian.
They are making claims in the high court using Zucker Legal on the 14 of april that i am a criminal to descredit what i witnessed and who is involved.
I can tell you, I AM VERY SCARRED!
NOT ONLY ARE ME AND MOM ALONE, the house i’m trying to protect for her so she can return home is going to be robbed by the medical scamming nursing home, my sisters & these public guardian attorneys!
For my sisters to attack/discredit me after me & mom told them how mom was treated & VIOLENTLY attacked only hurt both of us very much but it was just to hide they were conspiring with my mothers malpractice dr when other families defends theirs.
All they want is to make shore i or my mother does not whistleblow/TESTIFY AGAINST our UNSCREWPULOUS malpractice dr, his hospital accomplices, my sisters these violent nursing homes & public guardian attorneys.
My mother has suffered kickback poisoning, discrediting insults, threats, assaults & pressure wounds to dibilitate her for the purpises of robbing her. Her 18 carot bracelet was stolen/disaspeared not that long ago too!
Anything i say to them or report eksewhere ONLY has MY MOM SUFFERING VIOLENT REPREMANDS!
This is ment to drivie me & mom crazy. All because she was malpractice harmed and i witnessed/tried to report it!
Me & mom really need your protection & help.
Please help us?
I got this web page from my friend who told me about this site and at the moment this time I am visiting this web site and reading very informative posts at
this place.
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the probate court system is corrupt and greedy the court appointed guardians and judges are like vultures they don’t care about the ward who is the victim of the low life court system
Guardianship will open the door to the horrors of the probate system. Guardianship as a legal move is unnecessary. A power of Attorney will do just fine while preserving all her rights and property.
Joni Hannigan
Predators are all over. A family member who lives in public housing has no direct relatives and is 81 years old. After a month in the hospital, a desk clerk finally called me after the hospital asked if there were any emergency contacts listed. Until that point, no one had thought to offer/ask. My first call to the hospital was to let me know that my aunt had been brought in at some point (no dates), for an unknown reason. Second call was from a doctor who told me in broken English my aunt had severe dementia, was anorexic and needed to be put into a hospice on palliative care. I almost fell over. When I flew out to where she was, she had most of her faculties, was weak from being slammed in bed after a fall in her apartment and was in no way ready for hospice. I have no idea if people thought they were going to benefit by her death or what, but for sure, this is just sad, sad. This woman is a Korean War veteran as well. But they were ready to write her off. I’m trying to get legal guardianship now. After all the issues, I was told I would just need a power of attorney, but then the nurses balked and said, no, I needed guardianship.
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the court appointed guardian acts like the gestapo they take away the victim’s rights it’s wrong they make the victims a ward of the state i have no trust in the mental health system they are quack salvers social control freaks and criminals they work with the judge and the court appointed guardian to have the victim declared incompentent they abuse the elderly and disabled and have them drugged against their will they act like gestapo officers mental health laws need to be changed they need to be changed effective now the so called doctors are nothing but fraudelent crooks they need to be commited to a mental institution and drugged up against their will a shrink at mental health said i was a danger to society that’s a lie i’m not a danger to myself or to others that was an excuse to have me put in a mental prison i was unjustly imprisoned 3 in a mental hospital a fruitcake ward the file they have on me marked confidential i’m gong to get my file and destroy it
Yes they are Tim. One of the most notorious cases being that Of Tracey Miller and her brother who was shot many years ago. The abuse her brother has endured as insurance money’s of all kinds were sought after by numerous professional predators who have all abused, exploited and other wise used this man as a medical ATM machine is one of the most incredibly tragic stories of abuse I have ever known
not only are the elderly victims of abuse the disabled are victims as well the court appointed guardian the judge and the lawyers are vultures they don’t care
ppj gazette you’re right about guardianship nearly 30 years ago they tried to make me a ward of the state someone came to our house talking to me and brother about calling corparation of guardianship and call industrial services i’m sitting there thinking i’m not going to become a ward of the state they’re often the victim of a court system which is corrupt the judge and the court appointed guardian assigned to the victim are friends they don’t care about the person they’re taking away that person’s rights it’s a civil rights violation the mental health health system is corrupt and greedy they have so called mental to declare the victim incomepentent mental health yuo’re nothing but a fraud shame on the court system vocational rehabilitation had a file on me i met with the counselor judy lockhart april 28 th 1986 my brother asked how much will i make based on productivity they with held information from me i was referred to goodwill industries for$1.00/hour one day i was assembling spindle adapters for measly pennies piece rate pay they paid me by the piece i didn’t have no physical or mental disability it’s time for guardianship to end for victims who are a ward of the state and cut funding to guardian courts and guradianship systems guardians are not guardian angels they are gestapo officers the judges are like adolph hitler
29 years ago i worked for goodwill industries of central north carolina the vocational rehabilitaon counselor judy lockhart referred me to goodwill industries my brother asked her how much will he make it depends on his productivity they with held information from i make subminimum wage $1.00/hour at goodwill industries one day they have me assembling spindle adapters for 0.08 pennies apiece it’s piece rate pay they paid me by the piece based on how many i could assemble in 1 hour i didn’t have a physical or mental disability the mental health system is a fraud too the counselor had a file on me marked confidential they would not tell me nothing over a year earlier they were going to send me to industrial services of guilford a sheltered if any one goes to a goodwill industries retail store the employees bring donated items to be sold go in where the disabled non disabled work it’s a sheltered workshop they do boring stuff on the bulletin board a piece of paper industrial services subcontracts the disabled/ non disabled are being used to do cheap labor because of some dumb legal loophole congress passed in 1938 section 14c states they can pay below minimum wage to the disabled non disabled it’s wrong goodwill industries is a non profit charity they claim under section 510c3 of the irs tax code they don’t pay taxes the ceo’s make $280.00/hour while the disabled/non disabled get paid penny wages don’t make a monetary donation to goodwill
They still do this Tim. Glad you escaped the system.
about 30 years ago someone cane to our house talking to my brother telling call corparation of guardianship industrial services they wanted to make me a ward of the state put me in a group and force me to work at the sheltered workshop i told my brother i don’t want to go to industrial services and work there the guardian court system is wrong and illegal
Debra Little
PPJ Gazette is straight forward in speaking the truth about predatory guardians. Their agenda is Isolate, Medicate, Take the Estate. My daughter’s money is gone, half alone went to bond the attorney to watch over the other half, she clearly is isolated as in over three years none of her friends from home…. 30 miles away have been allowed to see her; and rarely anyone from the maternal side of her family. The medicate part… she falls asleep often in the middle of the day….so you tell me if they are accomplishing their goals? I have tried repeatedly to get her freedom back (as per her own request to me)… impossible to do when court officials do not abide by ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) My daughter is 33 (15-18 cognitively) with diagnosis of MR/DD and the court said ON RECORD that they were in compliance as they have an elevator and wheel chair ramp. However, they refused to allow her to attend her own hearing…. and just stared at me without reply when I quoted all her ADA rights to attend her own hearing with a cognitive interpreter. She has (HAD) hopes and dreams… her own jewelry business and is an artist also. The guardian moved her 30 miles from home and isolates her. She is in a day care 30 hours/week where emotionally impaired young men threaten to gang rape her. She had a psychotic break under the guardian’s care…. a ruptured ear drum…. and they refuse to investigate her allegations of improper behavior by a male family member … they continue to send her there unsupervised. I am stressed… overwhelmed…. barely able to get through each day knowing she is slowly being destroyed on all levels… physical, emotional… her hopes destroyed. I have hired an attorney only to have them go through all my funds before we even got to court. Without my daughter in court… all I would testify to regarding her statements to me would be hearsay… inadmissible. Without the medical records I requested I cannot prove the neglect and negligence on the part of the guardian. I was allowed to have those records twice yearly and only asked once in three years. The guardian refused… and the court official just stared at me when I asked if this wasn’t contempt of court as it was written as an order in Nov 2011 that I could request records. Some days the depression is so intense and then I realize it is even worse for my daughter.
Know a individual who has guardianship of another, and that person lives in another state, and the Guardian collects this persons SSI check monthly for over 3 years , help me stop this now! Thank you.
this is sick, but it all comes out in the wash. i never had money to take but if someone did this to me i’d press criminal charges and civil laws a civil suit. i dont feel anyone could justify being my guardian, there is no need.
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Linda H
i dont know what happened to Mircea Fersedy, simply called Mike. He vanished. I wonder if he was taken by the guardianship ..Anyone heart from him, let me know, thanks.
Sara (@braveheartny)
It is family and as familes we always don’t get along. The world is not perfect. Kathleen, your right. It does not mean or should happen that a judge appoints a complete stranger to come in and take over. For the professional’s or lack thereof it is about the revenues they get from the estate, and from the reimbursement state and federal funding they get from these so-called professional entity’s. There is no check and balance even though there supposedly is, our courts and elected officals. They all turn deaf ear to the problem.
Many of the judges are just letting the guardians do whatever they want. If someone is found incompetent and there is family that want to care for them then that is what it should be even if siblings disagree…. if the so-called imcompetent person wants to be with a competent family member no professional guardian should be appointed. This entire guardianship is one big scam ! just a way to legally steal from people!
We need to pass the ELDER jUSTICE ACT..Will protect those justly against forced guardianship. We need to join forces and band together and make the voices heard, and put an end to this..Linda H,
Yes its true,I know Mrcea Fersedy called Mike over 30 yrs now. Linda H.
Holly Peffer
Angella,Are you familiar with the Ginger Franklin story? Is your neighbor released with a clean bill of health from her doctor?
I’m in Broward County, FL trying to help my 44 year old neighbor (who has recovered from a brain aneurysm for over 6 months now) released from her psychologically abusive sister-in-law and brother. They had her declared incompetent a year ago when she had only just been released from the hospital. It’s a long story… Can someone help me help her? I’m at a loss…
Gary Hollis
Its all designed to catch people in old age when in many cases after a life time of work this will be wealthiest we will ever be, have paid our mortgages and saved for pensions in the belief this will give us security in old age.
In many cases the professional predatory guardians are professional probate practitioning maggots. This area of law has become the very lucrative pizzo for the legal profession who have the expertise to know they can cut them selves into our estates before our Last Wills are recognised by the Legal establishment. [s24, 1837 Wills Act. (UK)]
victim of Article 81
This full case is a scam!!! Who wants this property???? And what do they need it for???
Fersedy is very Competent.How can someone more competent than 90% of the public have this happened to them??? Because if you are deemed incompetent you can’t sell the building on your own. Someone wants control of this building and does not want him selling it . They want control over the sale and the price!!!
Wow in NYC you can loose everything to a 3 min interview on the side walk by a psychiatrist who uses a vague diagnoses of having a PIPE DREAM!!! What does this mean??
This building is Fersedy’s There is no Mortgage because its all paid up. All the Taxes are paid on time!!! So at the very min he can pick up money for the sale of the property . This is no Pipe Dream. And he had his windows broken by rocks on many multiple occasions on both sides of his house and bebe guns shots through windows also!!! This is a PIPE DREAM.The Police told him to buy bullet proof glass!!! Who put all the graffiti on the front of his building?? and the bias graffiti on the front door! Wow looks a lot more involved than the writer or neighbor Mancuso wants to paint. Maybe this is why the Psychiatrist never asked Fersedy of the pertinent questions in the street only 3 min interview pertaining to his cognizance.Why because Fersedy is Extremely Competent period. Where are the Police. Why did he have to continually replace windows at his property?? Where was Council person Peter Vallone?? Why was all these attacks on his building not investigated by Vallone or the Police? Wow This article Stinks to High Heaven I challenge every one to meet Mr. Fersedy and see for yourself. This is why now they are going to try to force him into a facility to get him drugged out of his conscientiousness to protect the building to the ones who want it and the fraudulent report of the Psychiatrist. America the Home of the Free and the Brave..
Mr. Fersedy’s building is assessed at $700,000 so why is he now homeless and a guardianship agency now in charge of this house!!! Its all about the house . Maybe they want to build a highrise in the three properties and he is the middle property??? Don’t believe everything you read in the press Go meet Mr. Fersedy. This case is a very big scam and we will fight to keep Fersedy out of any institution for the purpose to drug and Mame him into a psychotic state!!! I challenge every one to get talk with him . This could happen to you, if you have anything in New York State. Article 81 can take all your rights away and a guardian can have all control over your body and your assets. Sham on you NY Post for writing such a one sided article. Why did you not tell the truth!!!!
Tuya Vizacrrondo
I too, am a victim of guardianship corruption. Only I’m not diasbled. There’s a short video of me on you tube. Type, justice for tuya, in the search box if anyone wants to see and hear me. I took a slum lord to housing court. His lawyers team adjourned my case, to take me to supreme court to have a permanant guardianship agency appointed, for believe it or not, rent arrears, and nusance odors. It didn’t matter that I had 10 years of rent reciepts, and a positive notice from the board of health. The abusive guardian was appointed in a 10 min. bench trial, I was denied a jury trial. Or the right to cross examine anyone. The guardian, had me falsey imprisioned in the suicide ward, with still more corrupt judges and psychiatrists. While trying to get myself released, the guardian cleared out the apt. Destroying/stealing everything. Paid unproven rent arrears. And the landlord rented the apt to another tenant,
I am with all of you guys and gals, i want to be an advocate for anyone who becomes a victim of what I called ” forced guardianship ” because that is what it is” forced” all they seem to care about is our money , and i believe that we all can agree on that , but yes that is what i’d like perhaps my new profession to be, and i see here that some of you have included your addy, and that person who said that we all need to stand up and help one another in anyway possible even if it just means for emotional support because I too am under forced guardianship and i hate it very much, because i know how competent and very intelligent i am, but they think that i still need a guardian, and this just goes to show that all of this that is sadly happening to us and to those whom we love that this is all about ” the money” so we need to stand firm to our many protests and say ” no more”, we all are coming together because we are fed up with being bullied by those who think that they have the right the legal right to destory us and take our good earn cash ” No More !!!!!” colleenjensen2011@hotmail.com
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I moved to Georgia to be with my brother and family, my mother came along because I was here.
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Linda Ryals
Totally in shock at these stories Im reading, Ive been married to a man for 16 years and his adult daughter has come in an took over our entire life, our bank account is overdrawn, light bill two months behind due to be turned off any day. She filed for Emergency Temp Guardian and also filed a incapacitated, my husband or I was never notified that this was going on until about 5 days after and found out by getting a overdraft notice with the daughter/emergency temp guardian on it have not even seen the daughter since way before all of this happened?? And to top this off I’m holding a DPA that can not be used because of the guardian case being filed. There should be laws that make someone have to notify spouse or other children before things like this happen. Would like to hear from anyone that has gone through this. Thanks
If any of our readers see a possible adversarial guardianship coming up, you may save yourself much grief and suffering by moving the person, so at risk, to a much friendlier state.
Read the various state codes on guardianship and go from there.
Many of the elderly victims do have means and SS to lend to their support. That is easily transportable.
After reading the many of the many horrible gurdianship stories as posted on NASGA, it is clear by now that many states and their respective courts can not be trusted.
This happened to my 90 year old Aunt. $200,000 ended up missing from the estate. Her 300k home sold for well under 200k. And the process was so slick and well oiled, that a local law firm and the nursing home had to be in on the scam. The conservator charges $80 bucks an hour, and is often out of state on vacations funded by victims.
This website is a real eye opener for me.
My mother who is a domiciliary of Pennsylvania went to visit her son in Volusia County Florida with my sister. Some may use the term “kidnapped” because although medical records state mother was incapaciated by dementia one year prior to this Florida visit, mother has been held in a Florida nursing home by a “professional guardian,” against mothers wishes and that of her families.
Mother has no one protecting her against her abuser. She is alone, scared & drugged, while asking how she can be forced to stay there. She was born and raised in Erie Pa and was a domiciliary of PA her entire life.
Her estate is currently being depleted by a professional guardian and her attorneys while mother is slowly murdered with dangerous, non-approved and unnecessary anti-psychotic drugs.
If anyone can help us get our mother home to live her “golden years” surrounded by her loving family please contact me at hlpeffer@yahoo.com
Thank you for reading my post and PLEASE spread the word of the danger for seniors who visit the state of Florida.
We say, “Their ain’t no Sunshine in the Sunshine State”
How a Fraudulaent Guardianship Commences and Continues | NwoDaily.com
Mircea Fersedy
I am 63 years old, USA Senior Citizen, Alone, supposed to Inherit Good Assets from My Parents, Now HOMELESS!
Despite being in Good Sound Mental Health, a Very Dishonest, Corrupt Judge – Charles J. Thomas of Supreme Court Queens, New York City, did issue a False Court Order against me, 100% all lies, Declaring me Mentally Ill and Hence Incompetent, Enforcing Guardianship against me, although I NEVER Had any Mental Illness all my Life, in spite of the fact that there are Documents and Witnesses Proving, Confirming My Good Sound Mental Health:
Psychiatrist ( other than Court :Appointed” one), Psychologist, Psychiatric Nurses, Clergy, Church Leaders, Neighbours, Friends, Medical Doctor, No Criminal Record! etc.
Judge Charles J Thomas did Never, Ever Talk to me, did Not even See me. The so called Trial and “legall” proceedings have been conducted with No Due Process of Law, Without Witnesses, in My Absence and “Defending” Lawyer – Steven Whimheimer, Missleading me, Providing No Defense, etc.
After trial, so Called My Lawyer – Steven Whimpheimer, told me, Qoute “YOU MUST LIVE with it”, unquote, yet, Demanding 8,980.26 dollars from My SSI Money of 761 dollars a Month For “Defending” Me, actually Failing, Despite the Fact that such SSI Money were Already Taken Away (Federal Felony!) by The Temporary “Guardian “The Jewish Association for Services to Adults (JASA!)
The Permanent Guardian – Self Help Community Guardians – another Jewish Organization, already did Marshall The House of My Parents, Despite The Fact I am not The Owner of it, Cut Off all My Rights, Gradually stealing it, under The Guise, Name of Charges to “Protect” me, Despite they, in two years, Never, Ever Provided not one Single Help, Service, Except Exhibiting The Worst Hideous Criminality, as They Do Continue to keep me HOMELESS – out of my Parents House in The View of Selling it, out of Any Rights!.
Please HELP my Have a Defending Lawyer to Reverse said Criminal Guardianship and all its implications, as I dod not have No Money, No RIGHTS Anymore!
Waiting for your Help,
Mircea Fersedy 347 499 9317
fersedy@aol.com
We need to be aware that a professional guardian may also be on an “examing committee.” Perhaps they have taken a 40 hr. class at the local community college or an on-line class… that’s all it takes.
Recently I found two “professional guardians,” Edith Myett of Ormond Beach and Jetta Getty of Port Orange in Volusia County Florida, are both able to serve on examing committees. This information is in the public, on-line, court records at http://www.clerk.org
I also found an interesting case.
Case No. 2007-32213-CICI states the following:
THIS COURT FINDS:
16. “………. This Court does not believe that any scenerio advanced by MYETT or JETTA GETTY as to the …………is believable. The alleged Addition to Proposal is hereby deemed a forgery and this Court finds that Myett knew it to be a forgery………”
It goes on to say,
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that:
“………………, shall recover from Edith M. Myett fees and damages in the amount of ………………..for a total of $111,917.59………..”
(Google her name and you’ll see a Mug Shot.)
This certainly appears to be white collar crime. The reason I found this particular case so interesting is because my mother who is/was a resident and domiciliary of Pennsylvania, while vacationing in Volusia County Florida with my sister, fell prey to a guardianship.
I have spent the last three years trying to get my mother home while Jetta Getty holds her in Florida using what appears to be “chemical constraints.” Oh, did I mention Getty has paid Edith Myett thousands of dollars of my mothers estate for various things? Well she has!
Now just think of the possibilities if two or more professional guardians worked together. They could declare an “emergency guardianship” then get their friends on the examining committee to attest the person is incompetent. It’s a done deal! You have a elder person under the complete control of a corrupt guardian. This guardian has the power to lock the elderly person up, drug them, issolate them from there family, steal their estate and slowly kill them, all this with protection from a state court.
My mother continues to say, “How can they keep me here?” “What did I do?” “I didn’t break any laws.” “I didn’t hurt anyone.” Her physical health has been excellent, there is no reason she can’t go home except Jetta Getty says so.
Maybe when they are done exploiting her, she can!
Ain’t no Sunshine in the Sunshine State!
Determined in NY
Oh Boy Mr. mdsanchez That is a toughy. No one seems to care and I have and still going down that road. Except my issues are with APS. My husband is a victim of this sort. I have been fighting for years to get my husband home and away from the isolation he is forced to live. They even tried to end his life. I wish I had some answers for you to protect the husband.
They are vultures whether they are family, freinds or strangers. What we all should do is protest like they did in Washington DC. There are many guardianship organizations out there they are trying to help. I suggest that he try one of these.
No attorney wants to take the case because the money is gone. Your in my prayers and I will let some people know who may be able to help.
http://stopguardianabuse.org/
http://www.stopelderabuse.net/index_files/NOTEGAMission.htm
http://danielalert.org/
Anthony Clifton
Texas is over run with these vultures, this makes the 20th year as an Enemy of the State. Multiple violations of law, and a mass murder case, yet still I am Alive. The Law says no statue of limitations on Murder. Fraud artists, Sodomite shysters and crooked “Judges”…will not have to worry about cold weather for a very long time.
Victim of Guardian Predators
Everything you said in your article is true
Thank you immensely for posting it to Rense.com.
Please send to all the websites you can. It is important to do so.
The American public must become aware that every human right is violated and raped by the guardianship process gone very very bad. These cases clearly reveal the court-appointed guardians are like the nannies that are actually demonic entities in the movies. You have seen those movies, haven’t you?! They lie, manipulate, go against the very people who are close to the mother because they are in the way.
They corrupt all family relationships and feed off of the tremendous emotional pain they cause, acting in the name of the mother, doing things she never would have done, going against all her legal directives. It is a form of identity theft. I am very frightened and can not write more.
Scams everywhere! My friend was trapped in a 72-hour “suicide watch” thanks to a neurotic mom and was promptly dosed with a drug that causes seizures when rapidly withdrawn; then they rapidly withdrew him from the drug so as to induce seizures; then they declared that he was having seizures and would need to stay on; then they kept him under “observation” in a heavily medicated state until the last day covered by his family’s insurance policy. Then (surprise!) they declared him all better & let him go. This defines the word “care” for the 21st Century. Let’s start looking out for each other and by all means find a way to intercede against these actions. Isn’t it possible to go to a court with evidence of a criminal pattern? Oh wait, what am I saying… go to a court… I’m talking like a sucker again…
LibertyTreeBud
truly, I weep.
The TRIBE is at it’s work again.
mike deburcher
Crooks and fraudsters, like this need to be publicly hung. I have seen first hand how these parasites work. Does anyone remember Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, that is exactly what her husband does for a living. He was found guilty and received a slap on the wrist and to the best of my knowledge practicing law again.
We need to re-instate public hangings for this type of crime and increase survalliance on these criminals and leave the innocent and unsuspecting public alone, (no more strip searches of children in the airports).
Once the Yid’s discover an easy way of leaglly stealing your money, they will continue until we the people impose a severe sanction upon the perpetrtators.
anadianant
What callous times we live in. Callous callous times.
Sick. Money sure is a blinder of conscience.
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/the-callousness-of-pornography/
To mdsanchez: “Tony Soprano justice” sounds like the only thing that could give the poor husband any type of recourse and/or gratification out of this travesty! What a bunch of vulture whores! This sort of thing makes me sick!
mdsanchez
Ok, lets say Wife (71), who is in good health, unexpectedly suffers cardiac arrest. Although she survives the episode, doctors find that she has lost all of her motor skills, however, she is aware of what is going on around her and what is being said. And, although now she cannot speak, she is able to communicate using the “blinking” method, but is unable to care for herself and requires 24-hour care. She has health insurance that will cover the necessary medical care, be it in a medical/assisted living facility or at home where she would be more comfortable, now becomes the center of a guardianship/conservatorship battle. Now enters Husband (80), who, with the assistance of a wheelchair but is not confined thereto, is able to make sound decisions and conduct business as usual, and does drive, becomes victimized by Wife’s estranged son, bi-polar grandson, vindictive older [adopted] sister and the greedy healthcare facility/appt’d conservator. All of whom conspire (with their attorneys) to strip him of every right afforded him by law or by constitutional or civil right, by making him look so dilusionally eccentric and uncooperative before the probate court, so that the court does not allow him to participate in any of the proceedings, despite Husband’s several attempts. Approx one and a half years later, Wife dies after the “parties” decide to pull the plug when she comes down with pnemonia; husband is not consulted. On the 6th day after her passing, step-son files an emergency petition in state court requesting he be appointed PR and SA, begins moving, getting rid of, and dictating ownership of property before the court orders approval to do so, and before anyone can take a breath, petitions the court to allow the sale of the marital residence and all personal property, although he has already placed some of Husband’s personal effects with a consignment store…Husband, even with the help of friends, is still unable to locate an attorney willing to represent him due to rumored [judicial] threats that anyone who does will never practice in probate court again, thus, making matters worse because he now has to try and locate an attorney outside of his county to represent him. What would this legal community suggest he do to protect 26 years of assests, etc.?
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Jeff Vogel's RPG hating rant
Topic: Jeff Vogel's RPG hating rant
Ladonna
written Monday, April 23 2007 06:35 Profile #0
http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/782/782155p1.html
After reading this I could only think 'wow'....
However, its quite easy to see where Jeff has gone wrong. WoW and Final Fantasy? lol
Jeff, if you don't like level grinding, why on earth do you pick RPG's that make this very mechanic you hate so much the biggest parts of their games?
Have you played Teudogar and the Alliance with Rome by Wolf Mittag? Have you played Fallout? Arcanum? Yes, you didn't mention those, so I take it that you haven't....
Please do so, and stay clear of level grinding garbage like the RPG's (sic) that you mentioned. And please steal some ideas from the above games I mentioned, there are many more excellent RPG's out there that you could also flog ideas from, and they are evidently not the ones you are playing (Or have sworn off playing).
Instead of fighting the 500 wolves, perhaps you could introduce many new types of low level monsters, with interesting quests to make this a better system? Perhaps bring in an ability to talk your way through the Goblin caves (With a superior charisma based skill) or find a secret tunnel, and get through some nasty traps, sneaking past sentries (A stealth, lock picking, thief based way).
There are plenty of ways to get experience in a good RPG. And there should always be more than one way to proceed through a quest. Your the maker so I will leave that part to you, just wanted to stimulate your jaded senses and make you realise that for all the bad games you have been playing, there are plenty of good ones just waiting to soak up your time.
Looking forward to Nethergate V1.5 ;)
Posts: 20 | Registered: Wednesday, April 18 2007 07:00
dagorkan
I think Jeff's paid to write rants so he needs something to rant about.Cynical ranting is apparently his 'style' and they wouldn't have hired him if it wasn't.
Negativity is cool...
Posts: 2 | Registered: Monday, April 23 2007 07:00
Dikiyoba
Councilor
written Monday, April 23 2007 07:14 Profile Homepage #2
Finally, part 2! Dikiyoba was half-afraid it would be part 1 again.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Lack of Vision
It has been a really long time since I've posted a message, but this is a topic of interest to me, so I'll stop lurking - for the moment at least.
My first piece of advice is try to understand the argument being made before criticizing it, or dismissing it. Jeff may be a lot of things, but stupid is not one of them.
As near as I can tell, the argument is as follows:
(1) RPGs artificially inflate their content by including lots of pointless battles, quests or wandering;
(2) The true content of an RPG is not enhanced by this pointless filler, it is just lengthened;
(3) The pointless filler, being pointless, introduces its own problems, such as starting you off as a pitiful peon, barely able to get out of bed without fainting, in order for you to kill fantastically boring creatures (like goblin toddlers) and perform mundane activities (like returned books to the library) in order to get strong enough to do something cool; and
(4) Jeff's had it with this nonesense (a sentiment which which I fully agree).
The first part of Jeff's article was criticized so unfairly, I fear a nation of straw men has suffered genocide.
Jeff is not criticizing leveling up per se.
Jeff is not saying you need to start out with a vorpal broad mop of smiting +132, so you can kill the boss immediately.
Jeff IS saying your game should be fun. Take BG2, you start trapped in a dangerous dungeon and must fight your way out. It accomplishes the task of getting your character some starting equipment, introduces other important characters, etc., and does so by being anything but boring.
BG1, on the other hand, starts you off fetching arrows for some jackass and playing the Orkin Man (incidentally, does anyone really believe the most efficient way to get rid of a rat problem is to send in someone with an axe?).
In both cases, the same goal accomplished, but one is fun and exciting and memorable, the other is tedious and silly.
Or to use an example that may hit closer to home, in A4 you spend a horrid about of time fighting the same goddamn bugs over and over again in the Eastern Gallary. Compare that to the tutorial of G4 (the tutorial!), in which you're running past some silly-powerful creations that are killing the characters you've just met.
Jeff's point is that many (perhaps even most) RPGs rely on the crutch of grinding combat and leveling to extend a game without adding anything interesting. I agree! Why should I waste my time with 3 hours of boring crap in order to get to the one cool fight? Why not make the whole thing cool? Or, if you can't make the whole thing cool, just cut out the filler 3 hours of wasted time? Mostly, the whole thing isn't cool because it is hard and takes time to make. So Jeff's voting with his wallet and not rewarding most RPGs with his business.
On a follow-up note, one of Jeff's biggest influences is Fallout. I think anyone who has played Fallout and the Geneforge series can see the influence.
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Posts: 186 | Registered: Thursday, February 27 2003 08:00
The Abridged Series
I get it. I do. I played World of Warcraft(I refuse to use it's popularized abbreviation) and hated it because all it was was doing a bunch of retardo quests that make the Naruto D Missions look like something more meaningful than the illegal immigrant work they actually are. Fighting wave after wave of trivial bad-guys in the way games like Chatcraft do, is more boring than Diablo 2. Random encounters are the most annoying aspect of fantasy games and when the game only revolves them and several mediocre pseudo boss fights, while not really do much for plot, it's just not worth playing.
Edit: Woot for games with a good plot and decent game-play, though they aren't as numerous as they should be.
[ Monday, April 23, 2007 10:14: Message edited by: LF ]
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Posts: 1918 | Registered: Sunday, October 13 2002 07:00
Random encounters can be interesting, though it's very rare these days. The original Final Fantasy title from 1987, which was almost entirely random encounters, is a prime example of this.
ArchMage81
I have played many mmorpgs, and most of them is just about killing monster to increase lvl and get better equipment to kill bigger monsters. There is no real plot on the game, meanwhile Avernum has a nice plot and storyline,thats why i bought it.
Posts: 25 | Registered: Monday, April 23 2007 07:00
Mysterious Man
Veteran*
I'm looking for a date. Interested Ladonna?
Posts: 455 | Registered: Tuesday, May 17 2005 07:00
Or else o'erleap.
Law Bringer
Jeff has said that one of his favorite RPGs is Planescape: Torment. That's definitely not a game about grinding. I also think his objection is mostly to wastes of time, not many weak enemies. Having to hack through five hundred mooks with a spoon over the course of twenty minutes is boring. Killing five hundred mooks with a bomb in ten seconds is rather cool, actually.
Part of the reason I, and I think others, like Spiderweb games is the way combat doesn't bog down. Everything in the game moves quickly. There are no loading times. There are no long animations. Enemies may do damage, but there's an increasing tendency for either you or your foes to die in only a few rounds of fighting. Even going through a goblin cave isn't so boring because you make steady progress and get to see new and often silly or disgusting things constantly.
Originally written by Ladonna:
RPG's (sic)
—Alorael, who doesn't understand the [sic] there. Jeff spelled RPGs without the apostrophe. That's now an acceptable pluralization of acronyms, but even if it weren't you can't put [sic] by your own writing. That's bizarre.
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Originally written by The Monitor:
Enraged Slith
written Monday, April 23 2007 15:31 Profile #10
The only random encounter systems I've ever enjoyed were in the Pokemon games. There's something magical about enslaving little creatures and forcing them to beat up their friends.
It's such a shame that many games dwell on quantity over quality. When the focus shifts from completing new and challenging objectives to leveling up, there's a problem with the game. The best games, the gems, usually only last a maximum of 6-8 hours on a thorough playthrough, but always throw a new challenge at you around every corner. Resident Evil 4 is my favorite example of this.
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Posts: 1233 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Resident Evil 4, that was a game I was saddened by not getting to beat.
Another surprisingly good game for action was Saint's Row. Start off as tough as you'll always be. There isn't that much you really need as far as equipment is concerned. Sure, you had to do the sidequests(missions) to be allowed to advance the story, but a lot of those had nice comic relief in them, so they weren't as bad as just killing some rats or solving the over-tedious yet simple box puzzle.
Arancaytar
written Monday, April 23 2007 22:18 Profile Homepage #12
Domain name doesn't resolve here... is the link in the first post correct?
Also, I would like to plug Puzzle Pirates here. One of the MMORPGs where "grinding" has no meaning in the traditional sense. Since all the "skills" are determined by how good you (the player) are at solving a certain time-killing puzzle (jigsaw, something vaguely similar to tetris and four-in-a-row), the only grinding you do is training yourself instead of a number that grows larger no matter what. :P
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Originally written by Zorro:
vorpal broad mop of smiting +132
Totally going to make an appearance in a scenario… :P
Originally written by dagorkan:
Anyway, the best games are those in which you could go either way. I have to be honest, I don't mind level grinding. But I'm also a freak…
Prime example is one of my favorite games of all time, Final Fantasy Tactics. While it's easy enough to beat the game without leveling up at all, there are some features that can only be explored by training until you're grossly overleveled (that's mainly Calculators, for those of you who have played it).
Bear in mind, playing this game until five or more party members are level 99 and all of their job classes are mastered has pretty much forced me to have a sick amount of patience for such things. WARNING: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!
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Posts: 743 | Registered: Friday, September 29 2006 07:00
written Tuesday, April 24 2007 00:02 Profile #14
Daddy always said not to talk to Mysterious men :P
Number 5 eh? You must be Jeff's Brother or something.
Alorael, who doesn't understand sarcasm ;) . To me, the two RPG's that Jeff wrote about are absolute craphouse RPG's, hence the 'sic'.
Anyway, I feel that Jeff stacked the deck by discussing the ****e of the RPG world. If he had brought in other, good games into the discussion, his hate would be effectively neutralised. I would have agreed with him if he said that the current crop of RPG's totally suck, but that isn't what he said. Its just that most companies have stopped making good RPG's.
I personally think Jeff has contracted an online RPG disease. Lots of rest, chicken soup, programming his next game and some time playing a decent RPG will have him cured in no time. ;)
I haven't actually played the Geneforge games yet. The slowdown prob I am currently having with number 1 doesn't bode well, but I am attempting to find a solution. The Exile games and Avernum4 certainly don't point towards Fallout though, more like the earlier 80's RPG's. I don't mind that kind of game, especially considering the lack of competition anywhere else.
[ Tuesday, April 24, 2007 00:07: Message edited by: Ladonna ]
written Tuesday, April 24 2007 01:16 Profile Homepage #15
FF Tactics was a real gem. But level-grinding there was interesting because the stronger you got, the more paths were open to you, the more ways you could combine abilities, the more cool stuff you could try. Also, you generally got increasing returns as you levelled. This is the exact opposite of the Avernum/Geneforge level-up metholodology, where you tend to use a handful of skills and get diminishing returns on them.
[QB]
Uh...
Your explanation just added a dose of bizarreness to your previous comment. (SIC) means, in Latin, thus in the source text. It is used when quoting from a text which uses an alternative spelling or has a misspelling. Hence the bizarreness of your original use and the incoherence of your explanation.
Sorry to harp on this, but it wouldn't be Spiderweb's Message Boards if someone didn't.
But by that line of logic, Terror's Martyr (number 4) would be even more closely related to Jeff. And that is a scary thought.
It is used when quoting from a text which uses an alternative spelling or has a misspelling
Misspelling. Not RPG's. Wrong word. Sarcasm.I can tell you are a literal thinker, not a lateral thinker. ;)
But your post count is +1....
Do tell. What is the story with Terror's Martyr?
And who is 2 and 3?
2 is Krizsan, which is Spidweb #2, pretty much. 3 is Schrodinger.
Trust me, I ain't Jeff's brother. If I was, he'd prolly disown me anyways.
FF Tactics... Wow... Just wow. Popular game, but if you ever did have to lv grind on it, pull up a cot & a pillow and get comfortable, cause those fights took for-freaking-ever. Even longer than Fire Emblem's.
Originally written by Come on Pilgrim #4:
That's very true. The JP system in FFT was pretty ingenious, in that, not only was there a skill which doubled your JP gain, but as you gained job levels, you got more and more JP. Plus there was the spillover JP… *rant rant rant*
Originally written by LF:
Eh. You just gotta have a method. And a crapload of time and patience on your hands.
Level grinding isn't necessary by any means, but for some reason I've had all my characters at level 99 by the time I finished every game, except the last one (wanted to try something new :P ).
Oh. And Calculators can cause the battles to take about 15-20 seconds, if you do it right.
[ Tuesday, April 24, 2007 09:58: Message edited by: Nemesis. ]
Personally, I like 5's set up better than tactic's cheap knock-off. but both were better than 3's. Dear god that one sucks...
WoW and Final Fantasy are the iconic MMORPG and iconic single-player CRPG (or more specifically Japanese CRPG), respectively. You can complain that they're no good and inflict countless imitators that are equally bad on us, but you can't redefine RPG.
—Alorael, who has argued before and will doubtless argue again that RPGs are not, in fact, based on playing a role. They're defined by system mechanics, and WoW and Final Fantasy both have RPG mechanics. Levels are a good indicator, although not every game with levels is an RPG and not all RPGs use levels.
Calculators were ridiculous. But they were possibly less ridiculous than Orlandu, who himself was possibly less ridiculous than Beowulf. CHICKEN!!!!
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J. Heffner
Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery
Copyright © The IETF Trust (2007).
This document describes a robust method for Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD) that relies on TCP or some other Packetization Layer to probe an Internet path with progressively larger packets. This method is described as an extension to RFC 1191 and RFC 1981, which specify ICMP-based Path MTU Discovery for IP versions 4 and 6, respectively.
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3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5. Layering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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6. Common Packetization Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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7.1. Packet Size Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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7.3. Selecting Probe Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7.4. Probing Preconditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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7.6. Response to Probe Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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7.6.2. Probe Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.6.3. Probe Timeout Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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8. Host Fragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
9. Application Probing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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10.3. Probing Method for IP Fragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . 26
10.4. Probing Method Using Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
11. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Appendix A. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
This document describes a method for Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (PLPMTUD), which is an extension to existing Path MTU Discovery methods described in [RFC1191] and [RFC1981]. In the absence of ICMP messages, the proper MTU is determined by starting with small packets and probing with successively larger packets. The bulk of the algorithm is implemented above IP, in the transport layer (e.g., TCP) or other "Packetization Protocol" that is responsible for determining packet boundaries.
This document does not update RFC 1191 or RFC 1981; however, since it supports correct operation without ICMP, it implicitly relaxes some of the requirements for the algorithms specified in those documents.
The methods described in this document rely on features of existing protocols. They apply to many transport protocols over IPv4 and IPv6. They do not require cooperation from the lower layers (except that they are consistent about which packet sizes are acceptable) or from peers. As the methods apply only to senders, variants in implementations will not cause interoperability problems.
For sake of clarity, we uniformly prefer TCP and IPv6 terminology. In the terminology section, we also present the analogous IPv4 terms and concepts for the IPv6 terminology. In a few situations, we describe specific details that are different between IPv4 and IPv6.
This document is a product of the Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD) working group of the IETF and draws heavily on RFC 1191 and RFC 1981 for terminology, ideas, and some of the text.
Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (PLPMTUD) is a method for TCP or other Packetization Protocols to dynamically discover the MTU of a path by probing with progressively larger packets. It is most efficient when used in conjunction with the ICMP-based Path MTU Discovery mechanism as specified in RFC 1191 and RFC 1981, but resolves many of the robustness problems of the classical techniques since it does not depend on the delivery of ICMP messages.
This method is applicable to TCP and other transport- or application- level protocols that are responsible for choosing packet boundaries (e.g., segment sizes) and have an acknowledgment structure that delivers to the sender accurate and timely indications of which packets were lost.
The general strategy is for the Packetization Layer to find an appropriate Path MTU by probing the path with progressively larger packets. If a probe packet is successfully delivered, then the effective Path MTU is raised to the probe size.
The isolated loss of a probe packet (with or without an ICMP Packet Too Big message) is treated as an indication of an MTU limit, and not as a congestion indicator. In this case alone, the Packetization Protocol is permitted to retransmit any missing data without adjusting the congestion window.
If there is a timeout or additional packets are lost during the probing process, the probe is considered to be inconclusive (e.g., the lost probe does not necessarily indicate that the probe exceeded the Path MTU). Furthermore, the losses are treated like any other congestion indication: window or rate adjustments are mandatory per the relevant congestion control standards [RFC2914]. Probing can resume after a delay that is determined by the nature of the detected failure.
PLPMTUD uses a searching technique to find the Path MTU. Each conclusive probe narrows the MTU search range, either by raising the lower limit on a successful probe or lowering the upper limit on a failed probe, converging toward the true Path MTU. For most transport layers, the search should be stopped once the range is narrow enough that the benefit of a larger effective Path MTU is smaller than the search overhead of finding it.
The most likely (and least serious) probe failure is due to the link experiencing congestion-related losses while probing. In this case, it is appropriate to retry a probe of the same size as soon as the Packetization Layer has fully adapted to the congestion and recovered from the losses. In other cases, additional losses or timeouts indicate problems with the link or Packetization Layer. In these situations, it is desirable to use longer delays depending on the severity of the error.
An optional verification process can be used to detect situations where raising the MTU raises the packet loss rate. For example, if a link is striped across multiple physical channels with inconsistent MTUs, it is possible that a probe will be delivered even if it is too large for some of the physical channels. In such cases, raising the Path MTU to the probe size can cause severe packet loss and abysmal performance. After raising the MTU, the new MTU size can be verified by monitoring the loss rate.
Packetization Layer PMTUD (PLPMTUD) introduces some flexibility in the implementation of classical Path MTU Discovery. It can be configured to perform just ICMP black hole recovery to increase the robustness of classical Path MTU Discovery, or at the other extreme, all ICMP processing can be disabled and PLPMTUD can completely replace classical Path MTU Discovery.
Classical Path MTU Discovery is subject to protocol failures (connection hangs) if ICMP Packet Too Big (PTB) messages are not delivered or processed for some reason [RFC2923]. With PLPMTUD, classical Path MTU Discovery can be modified to include additional consistency checks without increasing the risk of connection hangs due to spurious failures of the additional checks. Such changes to classical Path MTU Discovery are beyond the scope of this document.
In the limiting case, all ICMP PTB messages might be unconditionally ignored, and PLPMTUD can be used as the sole method to discover the Path MTU. In this configuration, PLPMTUD parallels congestion control. An end-to-end transport protocol adjusts properties of the data stream (window size or packet size) while using packet losses to deduce the appropriateness of the adjustments. This technique seems to be more philosophically consistent with the end-to-end principle of the Internet than relying on ICMP messages containing transcribed headers of multiple protocol layers.
Most of the difficulty in implementing PLPMTUD arises because it needs to be implemented in several different places within a single node. In general, each Packetization Protocol needs to have its own implementation of PLPMTUD. Furthermore, the natural mechanism to share Path MTU information between concurrent or subsequent connections is a path information cache in the IP layer. The various Packetization Protocols need to have the means to access and update the shared cache in the IP layer. This memo describes PLPMTUD in terms of its primary subsystems without fully describing how they are assembled into a complete implementation.
The vast majority of the implementation details described in this document are recommendations based on experiences with earlier versions of Path MTU Discovery. These recommendations are motivated by a desire to maximize robustness of PLPMTUD in the presence of less than ideal network conditions as they exist in the field.
This document does not contain a complete description of an implementation. It only sketches details that do not affect interoperability with other implementations and have strong externally imposed optimality criteria (e.g., the MTU searching and caching heuristics). Other details are explicitly included because there is an obvious alternative implementation that doesn't work well in some (possibly subtle) case.
Section 3 provides a complete glossary of terms.
Section 4 describes the details of PLPMTUD that affect interoperability with other standards or Internet protocols.
Section 5 describes how to partition PLPMTUD into layers, and how to manage the path information cache in the IP layer.
Section 6 describes the general Packetization Layer properties and features needed to implement PLPMTUD.
Section 7 describes how to use probes to search for the Path MTU.
Section 8 recommends using IPv4 fragmentation in a configuration that mimics IPv6 functionality, to minimize future problems migrating to IPv6.
Section 9 describes a programming interface for implementing PLPMTUD in applications that choose their own packet boundaries and for tools to be able to diagnose path problems that interfere with Path MTU Discovery.
Section 10 discusses implementation details for specific protocols, including TCP.
We use the following terms in this document:
IP: Either IPv4 [RFC0791] or IPv6 [RFC2460].
Node: A device that implements IP.
Upper layer: A protocol layer immediately above IP. Examples are
transport protocols such as TCP and UDP, control protocols such as
ICMP, routing protocols such as OSPF, and Internet or lower-layer
protocols being "tunneled" over (i.e., encapsulated in) IP such as
IPX, AppleTalk, or IP itself.
Link: A communication facility or medium over which nodes can
communicate at the link layer, i.e., the layer immediately below
IP. Examples are Ethernets (simple or bridged); PPP links; X.25,
Frame Relay, or Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks; and Internet (or higher) layer "tunnels", such as tunnels over IPv4 or IPv6. Occasionally we use the slightly more general term "lower layer" for this concept.
Interface: A node's attachment to a link.
Address: An IP layer identifier for an interface or a set of
interfaces.
Packet: An IP header plus payload.
MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit, the size in bytes of the largest IP
packet, including the IP header and payload, that can be
transmitted on a link or path. Note that this could more properly
be called the IP MTU, to be consistent with how other standards
organizations use the acronym MTU.
Link MTU: The Maximum Transmission Unit, i.e., maximum IP packet
size in bytes, that can be conveyed in one piece over a link. Be
aware that this definition is different from the definition used
by other standards organizations.
For IETF documents, link MTU is uniformly defined as the IP MTU over the link. This includes the IP header, but excludes link layer headers and other framing that is not part of IP or the IP payload.
Be aware that other standards organizations generally define link MTU to include the link layer headers.
Path: The set of links traversed by a packet between a source node
and a destination node.
Path MTU, or PMTU: The minimum link MTU of all the links in a path
between a source node and a destination node.
Classical Path MTU Discovery: Process described in RFC 1191 and RFC
1981, in which nodes rely on ICMP Packet Too Big (PTB) messages to
learn the MTU of a path.
Packetization Layer: The layer of the network stack that segments
data into packets.
Effective PMTU: The current estimated value for PMTU used by a
Packetization Layer for segmentation.
PLPMTUD: Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery, the method
described in this document, which is an extension to classical
PMTU Discovery.
PTB (Packet Too Big) message: An ICMP message reporting that an IP
packet is too large to forward. This is the IPv6 term that
corresponds to the IPv4 ICMP "Fragmentation Needed and DF Set"
Flow: A context in which MTU Discovery algorithms can be invoked.
This is naturally an instance of a Packetization Protocol, for
example, one side of a TCP connection.
MSS: The TCP Maximum Segment Size [RFC0793], the maximum payload
size available to the TCP layer. This is typically the Path MTU
minus the size of the IP and TCP headers.
Probe packet: A packet that is being used to test a path for a
larger MTU.
Probe size: The size of a packet being used to probe for a larger
MTU, including IP headers.
Probe gap: The payload data that will be lost and need to be
retransmitted if the probe is not delivered.
Leading window: Any unacknowledged data in a flow at the time a
probe is sent.
Trailing window: Any data in a flow sent after a probe, but before
the probe is acknowledged.
Search strategy: The heuristics used to choose successive probe
sizes to converge on the proper Path MTU, as described in
Full-stop timeout: A timeout where none of the packets transmitted
after some event are acknowledged by the receiver, including any
retransmissions. This is taken as an indication of some failure
condition in the network, such as a routing change onto a link
with a smaller MTU. This is described in more detail in
All links MUST enforce their MTU: links that might non- deterministically deliver packets that are larger than their rated MTU MUST consistently discard such packets.
In the distant past, there were a small number of network devices that did not enforce MTU, but could not reliably deliver oversized packets. For example, some early bit-wise Ethernet repeaters would forward arbitrarily sized packets, but could not do so reliably due to finite hardware data clock stability. This is the only requirement that PLPMTUD places on lower layers. It is important that this requirement be explicit to forestall the future standardization or deployment of technologies that might be incompatible with PLPMTUD.
All hosts SHOULD use IPv4 fragmentation in a mode that mimics IPv6 functionality. All fragmentation SHOULD be done on the host, and all IPv4 packets, including fragments, SHOULD have the DF bit set such that they will not be fragmented (again) in the network. See Section 8.
The requirements below only apply to those implementations that include PLPMTUD.
To use PLPMTUD, a Packetization Layer MUST have a loss reporting mechanism that provides the sender with timely and accurate indications of which packets were lost in the network.
Normal congestion control algorithms MUST remain in effect under all conditions except when only an isolated probe packet is detected as lost. In this case alone, the normal congestion (window or data rate) reduction SHOULD be suppressed. If any other data loss is detected, standard congestion control MUST take place.
Suppressed congestion control MUST be rate limited such that it occurs less frequently than the worst-case loss rate for TCP congestion control at a comparable data rate over the same path (i.e., less than the "TCP-friendly" loss rate [tcp-friendly]). This SHOULD be enforced by requiring a minimum headway between a suppressed congestion adjustment (due to a failed probe) and the next attempted probe, which is equal to one round-trip time for each packet permitted by the congestion window. This is discussed further in Section 7.6.2.
Whenever the MTU is raised, the congestion state variables MUST be rescaled so as not to raise the window size in bytes (or data rate in bytes per seconds).
Whenever the MTU is reduced (e.g., when processing ICMP PTB messages), the congestion state variable SHOULD be rescaled so as not to raise the window size in packets.
If PLPMTUD updates the MTU for a particular path, all Packetization Layer sessions that share the path representation (as described in Section 5.2) SHOULD be notified to make use of the new MTU and make the required congestion control adjustments.
All implementations MUST include mechanisms for applications to selectively transmit packets larger than the current effective Path MTU, but smaller than the first-hop link MTU. This is necessary to implement PLPMTUD using a connectionless protocol within an application and to implement diagnostic tools that do not rely on the operating system's implementation of Path MTU Discovery. See Section 9 for further discussion.
Implementations MAY use different heuristics to select the initial effective Path MTU for each protocol. Connectionless protocols and protocols that do not support PLPMTUD SHOULD have their own default value for the initial effective Path MTU, which can be set to a more conservative (smaller) value than the initial value used by TCP and other protocols that are well suited to PLPMTUD. There SHOULD be per-protocol and per-route limits on the initial effective Path MTU (eff_pmtu) and the upper searching limit (search_high). See Section 7.2 for further discussion.
5. Layering
Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery is most easily implemented by splitting its functions between layers. The IP layer is the best place to keep shared state, collect the ICMP messages, track IP header sizes, and manage MTU information provided by the link layer interfaces. However, the procedures that PLPMTUD uses for probing and verification of the Path MTU are very tightly coupled to features of the Packetization Layers, such as data recovery and congestion control state machines.
Note that this layering approach is a direct extension of the advice in the current PMTUD specifications in RFC 1191 and RFC 1981.
5.1. Accounting for Header Sizes
The way in which PLPMTUD operates across multiple layers requires a mechanism for accounting header sizes at all layers between IP and the Packetization Layer (inclusive). When transmitting non-probe packets, it is sufficient for the Packetization Layer to ensure an upper bound on final IP packet size, so as not to exceed the current effective Path MTU. All Packetization Layers participating in classical Path MTU Discovery have this requirement already. When conducting a probe, the Packetization Layer MUST determine the probe packet's final size including IP headers. This requirement is specific to PLPMTUD, and satisfying it may require additional inter- layer communication in existing implementations.
5.2. Storing PMTU Information
This memo uses the concept of a "flow" to define the scope of the Path MTU Discovery algorithms. For many implementations, a flow would naturally correspond to an instance of each protocol (i.e., each connection or session). In such implementations, the algorithms described in this document are performed within each session for each protocol. The observed PMTU (eff_pmtu in Section 7.1) MAY be shared between different flows with a common path representation.
Alternatively, PLPMTUD could be implemented such that its complete state is associated with the path representations. Such an implementation could use multiple connections or sessions for each probe sequence. This approach is likely to converge much more quickly in some environments, such as where an application uses many small connections, each of which is too short to complete the Path MTU Discovery process.
Within a single implementation, different protocols can use either of these two approaches. Due to protocol specific differences in constraints on generating probes (Section 6.2) and the MTU searching algorithm (Section 7.3), it may not be feasible for different Packetization Layer protocols to share PLPMTUD state. This suggests that it may be possible for some protocols to share probing state, but other protocols can only share observed PMTU. In this case, the different protocols will have different PMTU convergence properties.
The IP layer SHOULD be used to store the cached PMTU value and other shared state such as MTU values reported by ICMP PTB messages. Ideally, this shared state should be associated with a specific path traversed by packets exchanged between the source and destination nodes. However, in most cases a node will not have enough information to completely and accurately identify such a path. Rather, a node must associate a PMTU value with some local representation of a path. It is left to the implementation to select the local representation of a path.
An implementation MAY use the destination address as the local representation of a path. The PMTU value associated with a destination would be the minimum PMTU learned across the set of all paths in use to that destination. The set of paths in use to a particular destination is expected to be small, in many cases consisting of a single path. This approach will result in the use of optimally sized packets on a per-destination basis, and integrates nicely with the conceptual model of a host as described in [RFC2461]: a PMTU value could be stored with the corresponding entry in the destination cache. Since Network Address Translators (NATs) and other forms of middle boxes may exhibit differing PMTUs simultaneously at a single IP address, the minimum value SHOULD be stored.
Network or subnet numbers MUST NOT be used as representations of a path, because there is not a general mechanism to determine the network mask at the remote host.
For source-routed packets (i.e., packets containing an IPv6 routing header, or IPv4 Loose Source and Record Route (LSRR) or Strict Source and Record Route (SSRR) options), the source route MAY further qualify the local representation of a path. An implementation MAY use source route information in the local representation of a path.
If IPv6 flows are in use, an implementation MAY use the 3-tuple of the Flow label and the source and destination addresses [RFC2460][RFC3697] as the local representation of a path. Such an approach could theoretically result in the use of optimally sized packets on a per-flow basis, providing finer granularity than MTU values maintained on a per-destination basis.
5.3. Accounting for IPsec
This document does not take a stance on the placement of IP Security (IPsec) [RFC2401], which logically sits between IP and the Packetization Layer. A PLPMTUD implementation can treat IPsec either as part of IP or as part of the Packetization Layer, as long as the accounting is consistent within the implementation. If IPsec is treated as part of the IP layer, then each security association to a remote node may need to be treated as a separate path. If IPsec is treated as part of the Packetization Layer, the IPsec header size MUST be included in the Packetization Layer's header size calculations.
5.4. Multicast
In the case of a multicast destination address, copies of a packet may traverse many different paths to reach many different nodes. The local representation of the "path" to a multicast destination must in fact represent a potentially large set of paths.
Minimally, an implementation MAY maintain a single MTU value to be used for all multicast packets originated from the node. This MTU SHOULD be sufficiently small that it is expected to be less than the Path MTU of all paths comprising the multicast tree. If a Path MTU of less than the configured multicast MTU is learned via unicast means, the multicast MTU MAY be reduced to this value. This approach is likely to result in the use of smaller packets than is necessary for many paths.
If the application using multicast gets complete delivery reports (unlikely since this requirement has poor scaling properties), PLPMTUD MAY be implemented in multicast protocols such that the smallest path MTU learned across a group becomes the effective MTU for that group.
6. Common Packetization Properties
This section describes general Packetization Layer properties and characteristics needed to implement PLPMTUD. It also describes some implementation issues that are common to all Packetization Layers.
6.1. Mechanism to Detect Loss
It is important that the Packetization Layer has a timely and robust mechanism for detecting and reporting losses. PLPMTUD makes MTU adjustments on the basis of detected losses. Any delays or inaccuracy in loss notification is likely to result in incorrect MTU decisions or slow convergence. It is important that the mechanism can robustly distinguish between the isolated loss of just a probe and other losses in the probe's leading and trailing windows.
It is best if Packetization Protocols use an explicit loss detection mechanism such as a Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) scoreboard [RFC3517] or ACK Vector [RFC4340] to distinguish real losses from reordered data, although implicit mechanisms such as TCP Reno style duplicate acknowledgments counting are sufficient.
PLPMTUD can also be implemented in protocols that rely on timeouts as their primary mechanism for loss recovery; however, timeouts SHOULD NOT be used as the primary mechanism for loss indication unless there are no other alternatives.
6.2. Generating Probes
There are several possible ways to alter Packetization Layers to generate probes. The different techniques incur different overheads in three areas: difficulty in generating the probe packet (in terms of Packetization Layer implementation complexity and extra data motion), possible additional network capacity consumed by the probes, and the overhead of recovering from failed probes (both network and protocol overheads).
Some protocols might be extended to allow arbitrary padding with dummy data. This greatly simplifies the implementation because the probing can be performed without participation from higher layers and if the probe fails, the missing data (the "probe gap") is ensured to fit within the current MTU when it is retransmitted. This is probably the most appropriate method for protocols that support arbitrary length options or multiplexing within the protocol itself.
Many Packetization Layer protocols can carry pure control messages (without any data from higher protocol layers), which can be padded to arbitrary lengths. For example, the SCTP PAD chunk can be used in this manner (see Section 10.2). This approach has the advantage that nothing needs to be retransmitted if the probe is lost.
These techniques do not work for TCP, because there is not a separate length field or other mechanism to differentiate between padding and real payload data. With TCP the only approach is to send additional payload data in an over-sized segment. There are at least two variants of this approach, discussed in Section 10.1.
In a few cases, there may be no reasonable mechanisms to generate probes within the Packetization Layer protocol itself. As a last resort, it may be possible to rely on an adjunct protocol, such as ICMP ECHO ("ping"), to send probe packets. See Section 10.3 for further discussion of this approach.
7. The Probing Method
This section describes the details of the MTU probing method, including how to send probes and process error indications necessary to search for the Path MTU.
7.1. Packet Size Ranges
This document describes the probing method using three state variables:
search_low: The smallest useful probe size, minus one. The network
is expected to be able to deliver packets of size search_low.
search_high: The greatest useful probe size. Packets of size
search_high are expected to be too large for the network to
eff_pmtu: The effective PMTU for this flow. This is the largest
non-probe packet permitted by PLPMTUD for the path.
search_low eff_pmtu search_high
| | |
...------------------------->
non-probe size range
<-------------------------------------->
probe size range
When transmitting non-probes, the Packetization Layer SHOULD create packets of a size less than or equal to eff_pmtu.
When transmitting probes, the Packetization Layer MUST select a probe size that is larger than search_low and smaller than or equal to search_high.
When probing upward, eff_pmtu always equals search_low. In other states, such as initial conditions, after ICMP PTB message processing or following PLPMTUD on another flow sharing the same path representation, eff_pmtu may be different from search_low. Normally, eff_pmtu will be greater than or equal to search_low and less than search_high. It is generally expected but not required that probe size will be greater than eff_pmtu.
For initial conditions when there is no information about the path, eff_pmtu may be greater than search_low. The initial value of search_low SHOULD be conservatively low, but performance may be better if eff_pmtu starts at a higher, less conservative, value. See Section 7.2.
If eff_pmtu is larger than search_low, it is explicitly permitted to send non-probe packets larger than search_low. When such a packet is acknowledged, it is effectively an "implicit probe" and search_low SHOULD be raised to the size of the acknowledged packet. However, if an "implicit probe" is lost, it MUST NOT be treated as a probe failure as a true probe would be. If eff_pmtu is too large, this condition will only be detected with ICMP PTB messages or black hole discovery (see Section 7.7).
7.2. Selecting Initial Values
The initial value for search_high SHOULD be the largest possible packet that might be supported by the flow. This may be limited by the local interface MTU, by an explicit protocol mechanism such as the TCP MSS option, or by an intrinsic limit such as the size of a protocol length field. In addition, the initial value for search_high MAY be limited by a configuration option to prevent probing above some maximum size. Search_high is likely to be the same as the initial Path MTU as computed by the classical Path MTU Discovery algorithm.
It is RECOMMENDED that search_low be initially set to an MTU size that is likely to work over a very wide range of environments. Given today's technologies, a value of 1024 bytes is probably safe enough. The initial value for search_low SHOULD be configurable.
Properly functioning Path MTU Discovery is critical to the robust and efficient operation of the Internet. Any major change (as described in this document) has the potential to be very disruptive if it causes any unexpected changes in protocol behaviors. The selection of the initial value for eff_pmtu determines to what extent a PLPMTUD implementation's behavior resembles classical PMTUD in cases where the classical method is sufficient.
A conservative configuration would be to set eff_pmtu to search_high, and rely on ICMP PTB messages to set the eff_pmtu down as appropriate. In this configuration, classical PMTUD is fully functional and PLPMTUD is only invoked to recover from ICMP black holes through the procedure described in Section 7.7.
In some cases, where it is known that classical PMTUD is likely to fail (for example, if ICMP PTB messages are administratively disabled for security reasons), using a small initial eff_pmtu will avoid the costly timeouts required for black hole detection. The trade-off is that using a smaller than necessary initial eff_pmtu might cause reduced performance.
Note that the initial eff_pmtu can be any value in the range search_low to search_high. An initial eff_pmtu of 1400 bytes might be a good compromise because it would be safe for nearly all tunnels over all common networking gear, and yet close to the optimal MTU for the majority of paths in the Internet today. This might be improved by using some statistics of other recent flows: for example, the initial eff_pmtu for a flow might be set to the median of the probe size for all recent successful probes.
Since the cost of PLPMTUD is dominated by the protocol specific overheads of generating and processing probes, it is probably desirable for each protocol to have its own heuristics to select the initial eff_pmtu. It is especially important that connectionless protocols and other protocols that may not receive clear indications of ICMP black holes use conservative (smaller) initial values for eff_pmtu, as described in Section 10.3.
There SHOULD be per-protocol and per-route configuration options to override initial values for eff_pmtu and other PLPMTUD state variables.
7.3. Selecting Probe Size
The probe may have a size anywhere in the "probe size range" described above. However, a number of factors affect the selection of an appropriate size. A simple strategy might be to do a binary search halving the probe size range with each probe. However, for some protocols, such as TCP, failed probes are more expensive than successful ones, since data in a failed probe will need to be retransmitted. For such protocols, a strategy that raises the probe size in smaller increments might have lower overhead. For many protocols, both at and above the Packetization Layer, the benefit of increasing MTU sizes may follow a step function such that it is not advantageous to probe within certain regions at all.
As an optimization, it may be appropriate to probe at certain common or expected MTU sizes, for example, 1500 bytes for standard Ethernet, or 1500 bytes minus header sizes for tunnel protocols.
Some protocols may use other mechanisms to choose the probe sizes. For example, protocols that have certain natural data block sizes might simply assemble messages from a number of blocks until the total size is smaller than search_high, and if possible larger than search_low.
Each Packetization Layer MUST determine when probing has converged, that is, when the probe size range is small enough that further probing is no longer worth its cost. When probing has converged, a timer SHOULD be set. When the timer expires, search_high should be reset to its initial value (described above) so that probing can resume. Thus, if the path changes, increasing the Path MTU, then the flow will eventually take advantage of it. The value for this timer MUST NOT be less than 5 minutes and is recommended to be 10 minutes, per RFC 1981.
7.4. Probing Preconditions
Before sending a probe, the flow MUST meet at least the following conditions:
It has no outstanding probes or losses.
If the last probe failed or was inconclusive, then the probe timeout has expired (see Section 7.6.2).
The available window is greater than the probe size.
For a protocol using in-band data for probing, enough data is available to send the probe.
In addition, the timely loss detection algorithms in most protocols have pre-conditions that SHOULD be satisfied before sending a probe. For example, TCP Fast Retransmit is not robust unless there are sufficient segments following a probe; that is, the sender SHOULD have enough data queued and sufficient receiver window to send the probe plus at least Tcprexmtthresh [RFC2760] additional segments. This restriction may inhibit probing in some protocol states, such as too close to the end of a connection, or when the window is too small.
Protocols MAY delay sending non-probes in order to accumulate enough data to meet the pre-conditions for probing. The delayed sending algorithm SHOULD use some self-scaling technique to appropriately limit the time that the data is delayed. For example, the returning ACKs can be used to prevent the window from falling by more than the amount of data needed for the probe.
7.5. Conducting a Probe
Once a probe size in the appropriate range has been selected, and the above preconditions have been met, the Packetization Layer MAY conduct a probe. To do so, it creates a probe packet such that its size, including the outermost IP headers, is equal to the probe size. After sending the probe it awaits a response, which will have one of the following results:
Success: The probe is acknowledged as having been received by the
remote host.
Failure: A protocol mechanism indicates that the probe was lost, but
no packets in the leading or trailing window were lost.
Timeout failure: A protocol mechanism indicates that the probe was
lost, and no packets in the leading window were lost, but is
unable to determine whether any packets in the trailing window
were lost. For example, loss is detected by a timeout, and
go-back-n retransmission is used.
Inconclusive: The probe was lost in addition to other packets in the
leading or trailing windows.
7.6. Response to Probe Results
When a probe has completed, the result SHOULD be processed as follows, categorized by the probe's result type.
7.6.1. Probe Success
When the probe is delivered, it is an indication that the Path MTU is at least as large as the probe size. Set search_low to the probe size. If the probe size is larger than the eff_pmtu, raise eff_pmtu to the probe size. The probe size might be smaller than the eff_pmtu if the flow has not been using the full MTU of the path because it is subject to some other limitation, such as available data in an interactive session.
Note that if a flow's packets are routed via multiple paths, or over a path with a non-deterministic MTU, delivery of a single probe packet does not indicate that all packets of that size will be delivered. To be robust in such a case, the Packetization Layer SHOULD conduct MTU verification as described in Section 7.8.
7.6.2. Probe Failure
When only the probe is lost, it is treated as an indication that the Path MTU is smaller than the probe size. In this case alone, the loss SHOULD NOT be interpreted as congestion signal.
In the absence of other indications, set search_high to the probe size minus one. The eff_pmtu might be larger than the probe size if the flow has not been using the full MTU of the path because it is subject to some other limitation, such as available data in an interactive session. If eff_pmtu is larger than the probe size, eff_pmtu MUST be reduced to no larger than search_high, and SHOULD be reduced to search_low, as the eff_pmtu has been determined to be invalid, similar to after a full-stop timeout (see Section 7.7).
If an ICMP PTB message is received matching the probe packet, then search_high and eff_pmtu MAY be set from the MTU value indicated in the message. Note that the ICMP message may be received either before or after the protocol loss indication.
A probe failure event is the one situation under which the Packetization Layer SHOULD ignore loss as a congestion signal. Because there is some small risk that suppressing congestion control might have unanticipated consequences (even for one isolated loss), it is REQUIRED that probe failure events be less frequent than the normal period for losses under standard congestion control. Specifically, after a probe failure event and suppressed congestion control, PLPMTUD MUST NOT probe again until an interval that is larger than the expected interval between congestion control events. See Section 4 for details. The simplest estimate of the interval to the next congestion event is the same number of round trips as the current congestion window in packets.
7.6.3. Probe Timeout Failure
If the loss was detected with a timeout and repaired with go-back-n retransmission, then congestion window reduction will be necessary. The relatively high price of a failed probe in this case may merit a longer time interval until the next probe. A time interval that is five times the non-timeout failure case (Section 7.6.2) is RECOMMENDED.
7.6.4. Probe Inconclusive
The presence of other losses near the loss of the probe may indicate that the probe was lost due to congestion rather than due to an MTU limitation. In this case, the state variables eff_pmtu, search_low, and search_high SHOULD NOT be updated, and the same-sized probe SHOULD be attempted again as soon as the probing preconditions are met (i.e., once the packetization layer has no outstanding unrecovered losses). At this point, it is particularly appropriate to re-probe since the flow's congestion window will be at its lowest point, minimizing the probability of congestive losses.
7.7. Full-Stop Timeout
Under all conditions, a full-stop timeout (also known as a "persistent timeout" in other documents) SHOULD be taken as an indication of some significantly disruptive event in the network, such as a router failure or a routing change to a path with a smaller MTU. For TCP, this occurs when the R1 timeout threshold described by [RFC1122] expires.
If there is a full-stop timeout and there was not an ICMP message indicating a reason (PTB, Net unreachable, etc., or the ICMP message was ignored for some reason), the RECOMMENDED first recovery action is to treat this as a detected ICMP black hole as defined in [RFC2923].
The response to a detected black hole depends on the current values for search_low and eff_pmtu. If eff_pmtu is larger than search_low, set eff_pmtu to search_low. Otherwise, set both eff_pmtu and search_low to the initial value for search_low. Upon additional successive timeouts, search_low and eff_pmtu SHOULD be halved, with a lower bound of 68 bytes for IPv4 and 1280 bytes for IPv6. Even lower lower bounds MAY be permitted to support limited operation over links with MTUs that are smaller than permitted by the IP specifications.
7.8. MTU Verification
It is possible for a flow to simultaneously traverse multiple paths, but an implementation will only be able to keep a single path representation for the flow. If the paths have different MTUs, storing the minimum MTU of all paths in the flow's path representation will result in correct behavior. If ICMP PTB messages are delivered, then classical PMTUD will work correctly in this situation.
If ICMP delivery fails, breaking classical PMTUD, the connection will rely solely on PLPMTUD. In this case, PLPMTUD may fail as well since it assumes a flow traverses a path with a single MTU. A probe with a size greater than the minimum but smaller than the maximum of the Path MTUs may be successful. However, upon raising the flow's effective PMTU, the loss rate will significantly increase. The flow may still make progress, but the resultant loss rate is likely to be unacceptable. For example, when using two-way round-robin striping, 50% of full-sized packets would be dropped.
Striping in this manner is often operationally undesirable for other reasons (e.g., due to packet reordering) and is usually avoided by hashing each flow to a single path. However, to increase robustness, an implementation SHOULD implement some form of MTU verification, such that if increasing eff_pmtu results in a sharp increase in loss rate, it will fall back to using a lower MTU.
A RECOMMENDED strategy would be to save the value of eff_pmtu before raising it. Then, if loss rate rises above a threshold for a period of time (e.g., loss rate is higher than 10% over multiple retransmission timeout (RTO) intervals), then the new MTU is considered incorrect. The saved value of eff_pmtu SHOULD be restored, and search_high reduced in the same manner as in a probe failure. PLPMTUD implementations SHOULD implement MTU verification.
8. Host Fragmentation
Packetization Layers SHOULD avoid sending messages that will require fragmentation [Kent87] [frag-errors]. However, entirely preventing fragmentation is not always possible. Some Packetization Layers, such as a UDP application outside the kernel, may be unable to change the size of messages it sends, resulting in datagram sizes that exceed the Path MTU.
IPv4 permitted such applications to send packets without the DF bit set. Oversized packets without the DF bit set would be fragmented in the network or sending host when they encountered a link with an MTU smaller than the packet. In some case, packets could be fragmented more than once if there were cascaded links with progressively smaller MTUs. This approach is NOT RECOMMENDED.
It is RECOMMENDED that IPv4 implementations use a strategy that mimics IPv6 functionality. When an application sends datagrams that are larger than the effective Path MTU, they SHOULD be fragmented to the Path MTU in the host IP layer even if they are smaller than the MTU of the first link, directly attached to the host. The DF bit SHOULD be set on the fragments, so they will not be fragmented again in the network. This technique will minimize the likelihood that applications will rely on IPv4 fragmentation in a way that cannot be implemented in IPv6. At least one major operating system already uses this strategy. Section 9 describes some exceptions to this rule when the application is sending oversized packets for probing or diagnostic purposes.
Since protocols that do not implement PLPMTUD are still subject to problems due to ICMP black holes, it may be desirable to limit to these protocols to "safe" MTUs likely to work on any path (e.g., 1280 bytes). Allow any protocol implementing PLPMTUD to operate over the full range supported by the lower layer.
Note that IP fragmentation divides data into packets, so it is minimally a Packetization Layer. However, it does not have a mechanism to detect lost packets, so it cannot support a native implementation of PLPMTUD. Fragmentation-based PLPMTUD requires an adjunct protocol as described in Section 10.3.
9. Application Probing
All implementations MUST include a mechanism where applications using connectionless protocols can send their own probes. This is necessary to implement PLPMTUD in an application protocol as described in Section 10.4 or to implement diagnostic tools for debugging problems with PMTUD. There MUST be a mechanism that permits an application to send datagrams that are larger than eff_pmtu, the operating systems estimate of the Path MTU, without being fragmented. If these are IPv4 packets, they MUST have the DF bit set.
At this time, most operating systems support two modes for sending datagrams: one that silently fragments packets that are too large, and another that rejects packets that are too large. Neither of these modes is suitable for implementing PLPMTUD in an application or diagnosing problems with Path MTU Discovery. A third mode is REQUIRED where the datagram is sent even if it is larger than the current estimate of the Path MTU.
Implementing PLPMTUD in an application also requires a mechanism where the application can inform the operating system about the outcome of the probe as described in Section 7.6, or directly update search_low, search_high, and eff_pmtu, described in Section 7.1.
Diagnostic applications are useful for finding PMTUD problems, such as those that might be caused by a defective router that returns ICMP PTB messages with incorrect size information. Such problems can be most quickly located with a tool that can send probes of any specified size, and collect and display all returned ICMP PTB messages.
10. Specific Packetization Layers
All Packetization Layer protocols must consider all of the issues discussed in Section 6. For many protocols, it is straightforward to address these issues. This section discusses specific details for implementing PLPMTUD with a couple of protocols. It is hoped that the descriptions here will be sufficient illustration for implementers to adapt to additional protocols.
10.1. Probing Method Using TCP
TCP has no mechanism to distinguish in-band data from padding. Therefore, TCP must generate probes by appropriately segmenting data. There are two approaches to segmentation: overlapping and non- overlapping.
In the non-overlapping method, data is segmented such that the probe and any subsequent segments contain no overlapping data. If the probe is lost, the "probe gap" will be a full probe size minus headers. Data in the probe gap will need to be retransmitted with multiple smaller segments.
TCP sequence number
t <---->
i <--------> (probe)
m <---->
. (probe lost)
<----> (probe gap retransmitted)
An alternate approach is to send subsequent data overlapping the probe such that the probe gap is equal in length to the current MSS. In the case of a successful probe, this has added overhead in that it will send some data twice, but it will have to retransmit only one segment after a lost probe. When a probe succeeds, there will likely be some duplicate acknowledgments generated due to the duplicate data sent. It is important that these duplicate acknowledgments not trigger Fast Retransmit. As such, an implementation using this approach SHOULD limit the probe size to three times the current MSS (causing at most 2 duplicate acknowledgments), or appropriately adjust its duplicate acknowledgment threshold for data immediately after a successful probe.
m <---->
e <---->
The choice of which segmentation method to use should be based on what is simplest and most efficient for a given TCP implementation.
10.2. Probing Method Using SCTP
In the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) [RFC2960], the application writes messages to SCTP, which divides the data into smaller "chunks" suitable for transmission through the network. Each chunk is assigned a Transmission Sequence Number (TSN). Once a TSN has been transmitted, SCTP cannot change the chunk size. SCTP multi- path support normally requires SCTP to choose a chunk size such that its messages to fit the smallest PMTU of all paths. Although not required, implementations may bundle multiple data chunks together to make larger IP packets to send on paths with a larger PMTU. Note that SCTP must independently probe the PMTU on each path to the peer.
The RECOMMENDED method for generating probes is to add a chunk consisting only of padding to an SCTP message. The PAD chunk defined in [RFC4820] SHOULD be attached to a minimum length HEARTBEAT (HB) chunk to build a probe packet. This method is fully compatible with all current SCTP implementations.
SCTP MAY also probe with a method similar to TCP's described above, using inline data. Using such a method has the advantage that successful probes have no additional overhead; however, failed probes will require retransmission of data, which may impact flow performance.
10.3. Probing Method for IP Fragmentation
There are a few protocols and applications that normally send large datagrams and rely on IP fragmentation to deliver them. It has been known for a long time that this has some undesirable consequences [Kent87]. More recently, it has come to light that IPv4 fragmentation is not sufficiently robust for general use in today's Internet. The 16-bit IP identification field is not large enough to prevent frequent mis-associated IP fragments, and the TCP and UDP checksums are insufficient to prevent the resulting corrupted data from being delivered to higher protocol layers [frag-errors].
As mentioned in Section 8, datagram protocols (such as UDP) might rely on IP fragmentation as a Packetization Layer. However, using IP fragmentation to implement PLPMTUD is problematic because the IP layer has no mechanism to determine whether the packets are ultimately delivered to the far node, without direct participation by the application.
To support IP fragmentation as a Packetization Layer under an unmodified application, an implementation SHOULD rely on the Path MTU sharing described in Section 5.2 plus an adjunct protocol to probe the Path MTU. There are a number of protocols that might be used for the purpose, such as ICMP ECHO and ECHO REPLY, or "traceroute" style UDP datagrams that trigger ICMP messages. Use of ICMP ECHO and ECHO REPLY will probe both forward and return paths, so the sender will only be able to take advantage of the minimum of the two. Other methods that probe only the forward path are preferred if available.
All of these approaches have a number of potential robustness problems. The most likely failures are due to losses unrelated to MTU (e.g., nodes that discard some protocol types). These non-MTU- related losses can prevent PLPMTUD from raising the MTU, forcing IP fragmentation to use a smaller MTU than necessary. Since these failures are not likely to cause interoperability problems they are relatively benign.
However, other more serious failure modes do exist, such as might be caused by middle boxes or upper-layer routers that choose different paths for different protocol types or sessions. In such environments, adjunct protocols may legitimately experience a different Path MTU than the primary protocol. If the adjunct protocol finds a larger MTU than the primary protocol, PLPMTUD may select an MTU that is not usable by the primary protocol. Although this is a potentially serious problem, this sort of situation is likely to be viewed as incorrect by a large number of observers, and thus there will be strong motivation to correct it.
Since connectionless protocols might not keep enough state to effectively diagnose MTU black holes, it would be more robust to err on the side of using too small of an initial MTU (e.g., 1 kByte or less) prior to probing a path to measure the MTU. For this reason, implementations that use IP fragmentation SHOULD use an initial eff_pmtu, which is selected as described in Section 7.2, except using a separate global control for the default initial eff_mtu for connectionless protocols.
Connectionless protocols also introduce an additional problem with maintaining the path information cache: there are no events corresponding to connection establishment and tear-down to use to manage the cache itself. A natural approach would be to keep an immutable cache entry for the "default path", which has a eff_pmtu that is fixed at the initial value for connectionless protocols. The adjunct Path MTU Discovery protocol would be invoked once the number of fragmented datagrams to any particular destination reaches some configurable threshold (e.g., 5 datagrams). A new path cache entry would be created when the adjunct protocol updates eff_pmtu, and deleted on the basis of a timer or a Least Recently Used cache replacement algorithm.
10.4. Probing Method Using Applications
The disadvantages of relying on IP fragmentation and an adjunct protocol to perform Path MTU Discovery can be overcome by implementing Path MTU Discovery within the application itself, using the application's own protocol. The application must have some suitable method for generating probes and have an accurate and timely mechanism to determine whether the probes were lost.
Ideally, the application protocol includes a lightweight echo function that confirms message delivery, plus a mechanism for padding the messages out to the desired probe size, such that the padding is not echoed. This combination (akin to the SCTP HB plus PAD) is RECOMMENDED because an application can separately measure the MTU of each direction on a path with asymmetrical MTUs.
For protocols that cannot implement PLPMTUD with "echo plus pad", there are often alternate methods for generating probes. For example, the protocol may have a variable length echo that effectively measures minimum MTU of both the forward and return path's, or there may be a way to add padding to regular messages carrying real application data. There may also be alternate ways to segment application data to generate probes, or as a last resort, it may be feasible to extend the protocol with new message types specifically to support MTU discovery.
Note that if it is necessary to add new message types to support PLPMTUD, the most general approach is to add ECHO and PAD messages, which permit the greatest possible latitude in how an application- specific implementation of PLPMTUD interacts with other applications and protocols on the same end system.
All application probing techniques require the ability to send messages that are larger than the current eff_pmtu described in Section 9.
11. Security Considerations
Under all conditions, the PLPMTUD procedures described in this document are at least as secure as the current standard Path MTU Discovery procedures described in RFC 1191 and RFC 1981.
Since PLPMTUD is designed for robust operation without any ICMP or other messages from the network, it can be configured to ignore all ICMP messages, either globally or on a per-application basis. In such a configuration, it cannot be attacked unless the attacker can identify and cause probe packets to be lost. Attacking PLPMTUD reduces performance, but not as much as attacking congestion control by causing arbitrary packets to be lost. Such an attacker might do far more damage by completely disrupting specific protocols, such as DNS.
Since packetization protocols may share state with each other, if one packetization protocol (particularly an application) were hostile to other protocols on the same host, it could harm performance in the other protocols by reducing the effective MTU. If a packetization protocol is untrusted, it should not be allowed to write to shared state.
12. References
12.1. Normative References
[RFC0791] Postel, J., "Internet Protocol", STD 5, RFC 791,
[RFC1191] Mogul, J. and S. Deering, "Path MTU discovery",
RFC 1191, November 1990.
[RFC1981] McCann, J., Deering, S., and J. Mogul, "Path MTU
Discovery for IP version 6", RFC 1981, August 1996.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
[RFC2460] Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol,
Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", RFC 2460,
[RFC0793] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7,
RFC 793, September 1981.
[RFC3697] Rajahalme, J., Conta, A., Carpenter, B., and S.
Deering, "IPv6 Flow Label Specification", RFC 3697,
[RFC2960] Stewart, R., Xie, Q., Morneault, K., Sharp, C.,
Schwarzbauer, H., Taylor, T., Rytina, I., Kalla, M.,
Zhang, L., and V. Paxson, "Stream Control
Transmission Protocol", RFC 2960, October 2000.
[RFC4820] Tuexen, M., Stewart, R., and P. Lei, "Padding Chunk
and Parameter for the Stream Control Transmission
Protocol (SCTP)", RFC 4820, March 2007.
12.2. Informative References
[RFC2760] Allman, M., Dawkins, S., Glover, D., Griner, J.,
Tran, D., Henderson, T., Heidemann, J., Touch, J.,
Kruse, H., Ostermann, S., Scott, K., and J. Semke,
"Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites",
[RFC1122] Braden, R., "Requirements for Internet Hosts -
Communication Layers", STD 3, RFC 1122, October 1989.
[RFC2923] Lahey, K., "TCP Problems with Path MTU Discovery",
RFC 2923, September 2000.
[RFC2401] Kent, S. and R. Atkinson, "Security Architecture for
the Internet Protocol", RFC 2401, November 1998.
[RFC2914] Floyd, S., "Congestion Control Principles", BCP 41,
[RFC2461] Narten, T., Nordmark, E., and W. Simpson, "Neighbor
Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 2461,
[RFC3517] Blanton, E., Allman, M., Fall, K., and L. Wang, "A
Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based
Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP", RFC 3517,
[RFC4340] Kohler, E., Handley, M., and S. Floyd, "Datagram
Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)", RFC 4340,
[Kent87] Kent, C. and J. Mogul, "Fragmentation considered
harmful", Proc. SIGCOMM '87 vol. 17, No. 5,
[tcp-friendly] Mahdavi, J. and S. Floyd, "TCP-Friendly Unicast Rate-
Based Flow Control", Technical note sent to the
end2end-interest mailing list , January 1997, <http:/
/www.psc.edu/networking/papers/tcp_friendly.html>.
[frag-errors] Heffner, J., "IPv4 Reassembly Errors at High Data
Rates", Work in Progress, December 2007.
Appendix A. Acknowledgments
Many ideas and even some of the text come directly from RFC 1191 and RFC 1981.
Many people made significant contributions to this document, including: Randall Stewart for SCTP text, Michael Richardson for material from an earlier ID on tunnels that ignore DF, Stanislav Shalunov for the idea that pure PLPMTUD parallels congestion control, and Matt Zekauskas for maintaining focus during the meetings. Thanks to the early implementors: Kevin Lahey, John Heffner, and Rao Shoaib, who provided concrete feedback on weaknesses in earlier versions. Thanks also to all of the people who made constructive comments in the working group meetings and on the mailing list. We are sure we have missed many deserving people.
Matt Mathis and John Heffner are supported in this work by a grant from Cisco Systems, Inc.
Matt Mathis
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
EMail: mathis@psc.edu
John W. Heffner
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::: Nant Ffrancon by petertee (307)
The Nant Ffrancon Pass carries the A5 road from London to Holyhead through the North Wales mountains. The A5 can be seen on the far side of the valley at the edge of steep ground. An archetypal glaciated valley with U-shaped cross-section, it appears suddenly below when crossing the bridge over the Afon Ogwen at the end of Llyn Ogwen.
Visible alongside the old road in the foreground is an unusual fence made from long narrow slabs of slate. Slate is quarried the otherside of the hill behind me, in the Penrhyn Quarry, and a quicker and cheaper way of restraining stock than painstakingly building the usual drystone wall. Penyrolwen is the mountain ranged along the valley with Tryfan peering darkly over her shoulder.
Some adjustment of levels to lose some of the frequent gloom of these valleys.
dharbott (1894) 2005-07-07 6:19
I was there last weekend - rotten weather in the Crafnant Valley!
I've been trying to work out exactly where this photo was taken from...
The lead-lines take you right out the photo Peter!
Is that Tryfan just peeking through on the far right? I want to see more.
Nice colours and definition.
aferrao (1145) 2005-07-07 10:25
I like the photo and the way the lines takes us to the same point. It would be better if the angle was a litle more open so that the lines could cross in the background, but I like it anyway!
Greatings, Artur Ferrăo.
HalloweenHJB (152) 2005-07-07 11:59
Beautiful! Just as I imagine the rugged beauty of Wales to look like. The burst of sun left of center is quite dramatic. If you have more photos from Wales, I would love to see them! (My ancestors came to the US from all over the UK and it's fun to see where they came from...) Cheers, Herbert in Indianapolis
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Home Features Beyond Hillary: By Invitation Only
Beyond Hillary: By Invitation Only
Prominent women are one-third less likely to be encouraged to run for office than prominent men.
by Ezra Klein
It's never easy, amid the chaos and colliding variables of a campaign, to determine which factors really decide a close election. Politicians have their theories, though. As this year's primary season drew to a close, Hillary Clinton began blaming sexism for her campaign's troubles. But what of her Iraq War vote, infighting advisers, mouthy spouse, and decision to skip the caucus states? What of Obama? In an election this long and this tight, there are countless plausible explanations for Obama's narrow margin (a mere percentage point or two in the popular vote and a couple hundred delegates). In tallying sexism's electoral toll, Clinton's defeat is hardly the best example we can adduce.
We can do better. In January of 2008, Jennifer Lawless and Kathryn Pearson published an article in The Journal of Politics analyzing how female politicians fare in primary elections. Lawless and Pearson looked at every primary for the U.S. House of Representatives held between 1958 and 200 -- a staggering 19,221 primary contests involving 33,094 candidates. Just 2,648 women competed in those primaries, however -- a mere 8 percent of the total. This would make sense, hypothesized Lawless and Pearson, given the assumed bias of the electorate. If women are less likely to win primaries, they will also be less likely to enter them.
But the facts didn't fit the theory. "Contrary to our expectations," concluded Lawless and Pearson, "women's primary victory rates and vote margins are not significantly lower than those of their male counterparts." In other words, women win just as frequently as men. Indeed, in Democratic primaries since 1990, a woman won in 60 percent of districts where at least one competed.
The problem, it turns out, is less underperformance than underrepresentation. When women run, they perform at least as well as men. But they don't run nearly so often, and our country -- with its weak party system and aversion to quotas-does nothing to specifically redress the resulting disparity. This might be why the percentage of women in Congress puts us in 68th place worldwide, nestled right between Bolivia and El Salvador, and only a couple of spots beneath famously feminist Tajikistan.
For some time, many assumed that this imbalance would right itself naturally and that the distortion just reflected the power of incumbency. What was needed was not gender favoritism, they argued, but structural reforms that would lead to a more competitive political culture. Public financing was to pave the road, providing money to nontraditional candidates who might lack support from traditional party structures. But political scientists Timothy Werner and Kenneth Mayer, who examined the effects of public financing on candidate gender in the October 2007 issue of PS: Political Science and Politics, found that though women did avail themselves of public-funding options at a higher rate than men, this had no effect on "the overall composition of the candidate pool." Similarly, term limits, by ending the careers of (disproportionately male) longtime officeholders, were expected to increase women's political representation without explicitly favoring either gender. The problem is that term limits actually reduced the number of women in office, while states without such limits saw female representation rise. In some cases, the limits termed out women, and men replaced many of them. "The logic was impeccable," sighed political scientist Gary Moncrief. "The problem is there aren't as many women running as we expected."
The common failure of these reforms is that they focused on helping candidates who are already running, when the problem for women is that they don't enter primaries in the first place. To examine why, Jennifer Lawless partnered with political scientist Richard Fox to conduct the Citizen Political Ambition Study, which polled nearly 4,000 prominent lawyers, business leaders, executives, educators, and political activists on their attitudes toward electoral service. Lawless and Fox found that women were far less likely than men to evince interest in running for office. Women were much more likely than men to cite family obligations, negative feelings toward the process of campaigning, and a belief that they weren't qualified. But the most powerful finding was that the women surveyed were far less likely to be recruited to run for office.
In an entrepreneurial political culture like our own, an expression of institutional support or confidence can be a huge factor in whether a potential candidate decides to announce an actual candidacy. But the women Lawless and Fox surveyed were one-third less likely than the men to have ever been recruited by a party leader, elected official, or political activist. Yet when women do receive this encouragement, they are just as likely to respond positively as men. "Potential candidates who receive the suggestion to run for office are more than four times as likely as those who receive no such support to think seriously about a candidacy," writes Lawless.
When it comes to convincing women to run for office, it turns out that among the most powerful things we can do is simply ... ask.
Check out the rest of the articles in our package on women in politics:
Beyond Hillary: Strength in Numbers by Ann Friedman
Woman Versus Machine by Harold Meyerson
7 Democratic Women to Watch
Janet Napolitano and the New Third Way by Dana Goldstein
Issue: Beyond Hillary
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox.
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Texas rules in favor of wind and solar
Texas regulators have ruled that any renewable generation source connected to the state’s HVAC grid does not have to account for marginal losses, as the market turbulence it would cause isn’t worth the benefit, and it would go against the original spirit of the project.
January 30, 2019 John Weaver
Texas chose to build the nation’s only high voltage alternating current (HVAC) power line network, along with its competitive renewable energy zones (CREZ), whose express purpose was expanding renewable energy. This network was built to accommodate 18.5 GW of wind at a cost of $6.8 billion, with specific goals of lowering curtailment and transmission congestion.
When the grid was built, it was stated that any electricity generator would be able to connect at any point, and be able to move electricity anywhere else along the power grid at no additional costs. This has led to Texas becoming the United State’s largest wind electricity producer, and – if Texas were its own country – the sixth largest globally.
In the early summer of 2018, a Review of the Inclusion of Marginal Losses in Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch was filed with Public Utility Commission (PUC) of Texas. The document was submitted as major energy generators thought that the massive wind farms (and solar as well) ought to have to account for marginal losses of electricity as West and North Texas complete their transformation to regions where energy production dominates other land uses.
On January 17, the PUC ruled against the the motion. The PUC Chair – DeAnn T. Walker – submitting her thoughts (pdf) on the topic in a memorandum:
Although assigning marginal transmission losses is common in other markets and an efficient way to account for losses, I do not believe that the incremental benefit of applying marginal losses in the ERCOT market is worth the implementation cost and market disruption.
One major driver of this policy push is that historically, fossil generators heavily depended on the high demand periods during summer months. And now with heavy solar coming, it looks like that opportunity might be fading.
This past summer some peak of those prices hit, however, instead of prices holding at high numbers – wind power production was higher than predicted in certain moments:
Wind coming in quite above forecasts as @ERCOT_ISO moves into peak hours. Load still on track to set new all-time system-wide peak demand record.https://t.co/dSwp7kVNpK pic.twitter.com/qfraI0CrQL
— Joshua Rhodes (@joshdr83) July 23, 2018
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The suggested structure would see hundreds of millions in annual revenue shift from renewable generators to fossil generators, and more importantly, per modeling from SEIA, NextEra and others, would significantly slow the roll out of solar and wind across the state over the next decade as small shifts in revenue would have an outsized affect in the state’s very competitive generation market.
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Response to the letter to the editor by Drs Merchant and Federman
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S.S.G. Perumal (Shyam), T.A.B. Dollevoet (Twan), D. Huisman (Dennis), R.M. Lusby (Richard), J. Larsen (Jesper) and M. Riis (Morten)
Solution Approaches for Vehicle and Crew Scheduling with Electric Buses
The use of electric buses is expected to rise due to its environmental benefits. However, electric vehicles are less exible than conventional diesel buses due to their limited driving range and longer recharging times. Therefore, scheduling electric vehicles adds further operational dificulties. Additionally, various labor regulations challenge public transport companies to find a cost-effcient crew schedule. Vehicle and crew scheduling problems essentially define the cost of operations. In practice, these two problems are often solved sequentially. In this paper, we introduce the integrated electric vehicle and crew scheduling problem (E-VCSP). Given a set of timetabled trips and recharging stations, the E-VCSP is concerned with finding vehicle and crew schedules that cover the timetabled trips and satisfy operational constraints, such as limited driving range of electric vehicles and labor regulations for the crew while minimizing total operational cost. An adaptive large neighborhood search that utilizes branch-and-price heuristics is proposed to tackle the E-VCSP. The proposed method is tested on real-life instances from public transport companies in Denmark and Sweden that contain up to 1,109 timetabled trips. The heuristic approach provides evidence of improving efficiency of transport systems when the electric vehicle and crew scheduling aspects are considered simultaneously. By comparing to the traditional sequential approach, the heuristic finds improvements in the range of 1.17-4.37% on average. A sensitivity analysis of the electric bus technology is carried out to indicate its implications for the crew schedule and the total operational cost. The analysis shows that the operational cost decreases with increasing driving range (120 to 250 kilometers) of electric vehicles.
Keywords Public Transportation, Integrated Planning, Column Generation, Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search
Series Econometric Institute Research Papers
Organisation Erasmus School of Economics
Perumal, S.S.G, Dollevoet, T.A.B, Huisman, D, Lusby, R.M, Larsen, J, & Riis, M. (2020, January). Solution Approaches for Vehicle and Crew Scheduling with Electric Buses. Econometric Institute Research Papers. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/123963
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How do face masks affect speech?
Posted on June 25, 2020 by Ryan M. Corey
This post from June describes our initial experiments on face mask acoustics, which have since been expanded and published.
Please see our new post with updated results!
The original post is preserved below.
Face masks are a powerful tool to prevent COVID-19 transmission, but they also make it more difficult to hear. Many businesses and schools will require face coverings for workers, customers, teachers, and students as they return to in-person operations. Everyone, but especially people with hearing loss, will have to endure months of frustration as they try to talk to each other through masks. Because a pandemic is stressful enough already, we decided to study the ways that face masks affect speech and look for ways to make it easier to communicate while wearing one.
There are two ways that masks make it harder to understand speech. First, they muffle speech sounds, especially the higher frequencies that help us distinguish between similar sounds. Second, they block visual cues, including facial expressions and lip positions that help us understand speech. It is unclear which of these effects is most harmful, and it is difficult to quantify the effects of visual cues. However, we can measure the acoustic effects of face masks on speech sounds using some unique equipment in the Illinois Augmented Listening Laboratory.
Last year, industrial design student Uriah Jones built a head-shaped loudspeaker designed to imitate the acoustics of human speech. While we planned to use it to study hearing aids, it is also perfect for measuring mask acoustics. We set up the speaker in our acoustically treated laboratory and equipped it with ten different face coverings, including medical masks, cloth masks, and scarves. For each mask, we made recordings of both a frequency-sweep test signal and a set of speech clips from the open-source VCTK data set with several microphones.
Mask Measurements
To compare the acoustic effects of different masks, we recorded audio with a microphone at head height about six feet away from the speaker. The plot below shows how sound was attenuated with different masks compared to the same signal with no mask. The masks had virtually no effect below 1 kHz because at those frequencies, sound wavelengths are much larger than any dimension of the mask. The masks do block sound at higher frequencies, which are important for understanding certain speech cues. Hearing loss usually affects these higher frequencies more than lower frequencies, making masks especially harmful for hearing-impaired listeners. The acoustic effect of a face mask is equivalent to a slight high-frequency hearing loss.
Effect of different face coverings on sound at a distant microphone
The different face coverings have different effects on the speech signal. The medical masks attenuate higher frequencies by around 5 dB, which is enough to be noticeable but not too detrimental by itself. Though the plot only shows a polypropylene and N95 mask, we also tested the easier-to-find KN95 and found that it performs similarly to the N95. The light scarf, which is so thinly woven that one can easily see through it, has almost no effect on the sound (but it probably offers little protection against droplets!). The heavy winter scarf is thick enough to absorb high-frequency sound waves, so it muffles the sound severely.
Cloth face masks, which are widely used and are likely to be worn in schools this fall, showed surprising results: the thick black mask blocks less sound than the thin gray mask. To understand the differences between cloth masks, we compared several more with different materials and weaves, as shown in the plot below. It appears that the weave of the fabric may be more important than the thickness or number of layers for sound propagation. They masks with finer fibers and tighter weaves, like bedsheets, blocked more sound than looser fabrics, like t-shirt cotton. We plan to perform more experiments to understand the acoustics of different fabrics.
Effect of cloth face masks on sound at distant microphone
Sound Reinforcement
Since we will probably be wearing masks for a long time, how can we help people to communicate better while their faces are covered? In some environments, such as classrooms, sound reinforcement systems might help. A microphone is placed on or near the talker, such as a teacher, and the signal is amplified and played back through loudspeakers. Many classrooms already feature sound reinforcement or wireless transmission systems for students with hearing loss. Could these systems work with face masks, and if so, where should the microphone be placed?
To find out, we placed four microphones on and near the head-shaped loudspeaker: One on the cheek, one on the forehead, one underneath the chin—where a lapel microphone would be if our “talker” had a lapel—and one just in front of the mouth, like a headset. The plot below shows the difference in sound level at each microphone between no mask and the gray cotton mask. The “headset” microphone in front of the mouth experienced about the same attenuation as the microphone at the listening position, but the other three had less. In fact, low-frequency sound was slightly amplified for the cheek and forehead microphones.
Effect of a two-layer cotton/spandex face mask on sound captured by microphones on and near the face
There is a simple acoustic explanation for this effect. Face masks are too thin to absorb sound energy the way a thick pillow would; instead, they block sound by reflecting it. Thus, less sound gets through to the front of the mask, but more sound comes out the sides. This observation could also explain why the weave of the fabric appears to matter more than its thickness: tightly woven fabric may be more reflective. We will need to do more experiments to understand how sound propagates through and around face masks.
It appears that lapel microphones should work well for sound reinforcement. The “lapel” microphone in our setup experienced a small, uniform drop in sound level across all frequencies and for all types of mask, so existing lapel-microphone systems will likely work with little modification. Cheek and forehead microphones are also viable but may need to be equalized to balance the effects of the mask. Microphones placed in front of the mask may be less effective and will require extra high-frequency amplification. To verify these results, we will need to repeat this experiment with a live human talker wearing more types of microphone.
This experiment offers some useful takeaways for anyone planning to work, teach, or just go about their life while wearing a face covering:
Face masks attenuate high-frequency speech sounds enough to affect hearing, but the acoustic effect is mild enough that the loss of visual cues might be a larger problem.
Medical face masks (polypropylene and N95) perform well acoustically. Since they are also effective against the virus, they are a good choice if you can get them.
For cloth masks, it appears that loosely woven fabrics are better acoustically than tightly woven fabrics, regardless of the thickness or number of layers. (But make sure your mask is effective at blocking droplet transmission!)
Lapel microphones should work normally with all kinds of face mask and can be used for sound reinforcement.
We plan to continue this research by conducting experiments with live human subjects, studying more types of fabric, and testing transparent face coverings such as shields. We also hope to correlate our findings about mask acoustics with research about droplet transmission to find a mask that can block the virus but that does not interfere too much with speech. Please reach out to us if you have questions or suggestions about this project!
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Suicidal ideation in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth in Scotland: the role of defeat and entrapment
Kirsten Russell, Susan Rasmussen, Simon Hunter
Introduction: LGBT youth are disproportionally affected by suicidal ideation and behaviours. However, the psychological processes driving this association are not yet known. Aim: The current study aimed to test predictions, informed by the Integrated Motivational-Volitional Model of Suicidal Behaviour, concerning the role of feelings of defeat, entrapment, and suicidal ideation within an LGBT population. More specifically, the study aimed to 1) Determine whether LGBT young people in Scotland are at an increased risk of suicidal ideation relative to heterosexual adolescents 2) Investigate differences in levels in defeat and entrapment between LGBT and non-LGBT youth and 3) Test a hypothesised multi-step pathway between LGBT identity and suicidal ideation via perceptions of defeat and entrapment. Methods: 565 high school students (aged 15-17; 54.2% female) from Scottish secondary schools completed an anonymous self-report survey assessing sexual orientation and gender identity, suicidal ideation, and feelings of defeat and entrapment. Results: Of the young people who took part in the survey, 20.1% reported a history of suicidal ideation. LGBT youth demonstrated an increased likelihood of reporting suicidal ideation (OR=6.38, 95% CI: 2.74, 14.84, p<0.001) compared to their heterosexual peers (58.2% LGBT youth vs. 17.6% heterosexual youth). Perceptions of defeat were elevated in the LGBT group (M=27.05, SD=16.85) relative to young people who did not identify as LGBT (M=15.40, SD= 12.13). Perceptions of entrapment were also significantly higher in LGBT youth (20.72, SD=16.09) than young people who identified as heterosexual (M=8.57, SD=12.17). LGBT status was significantly associated with suicidal ideation indirectly through defeat and entrapment. Conclusion: These results support the hypothesised role of defeat and entrapment in explaining the psychological pathway to suicidal ideation in LGBT youth and provide novel insights into this relationship. Notably, suicide risk assessment, prevention and intervention efforts aimed at young people should consider defeat and entrapment as important modifiable clinical targets in young people identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
Published - 7 Sep 2018
17th European Symposium on Suicide & Suicidal Behaviour - Ghent, Belgium
https://www.esssb17.org/
17th European Symposium on Suicide & Suicidal Behaviour
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Gift of grouse: their propaganda exposed
Tags: gamekeeper, Gift of Grouse, Glenogil Estate, Glenturret Estate, Invermark Estate, scottish gamekeepers association
The Gift of Grouse – a campaign run by the Scottish grouse-shooting industry to promote the so-called ‘benefits’ of driven grouse shooting, have been well and truly caught with their pants down.
(Gift of Grouse for you anagram fans: to fog figures]
Some of you may remember a story from last year, where the Gift of Grouse made great claims about the number of bird species that had been recorded on three driven grouse moors – Invermark & Glenogil (both in the Angus Glens) and Glenturret in Perthshire. We blogged about these claims (here) and have since made repeated requests to see the actual data/reports (as have others – e.g. Andy Wightman here), but all to no avail. The Gift of Grouse refused to publish the reports and instead pointed everyone to a summary, written by The Gift of Grouse and not by the ecological consultants who had conducted the surveys.
Pay attention to some of the specific claims made in that Gift of Grouse summary about the survey undertaken on Invermark Estate:
The consultants “used a variety of techniques to record birds, butterflies, mammals and other species across 80 sq km of upland habitats which are specifically managed for grouse“.
“…..with an overall total of 81 bird species recorded as either breeding on the site or using the area as a valuable feeding resource“.
The clear intention from these statements was for people to believe that these three driven grouse moors support a wide range of avian biodiversity.
Indeed, on the back of these apparent survey results, the Gift of Grouse even held a prestigious Parliamentary reception at Holyrood, hosted by Graeme Dey MSP on 23 November 2015, with wide media coverage, to “celebrate diversity through grouse moor management“. Here’s a photo of them at that parliamentary reception, including Alex Hogg (SGA), Graeme Dey MSP and a load of gamekeeepers including some from the Angus Glens and some from the Lammermuirs.
The Gift of Grouse have been pumping out this so-called success for a year now, and only the other day they referred to these survey results in another press release (here) when they claimed that ‘raptors are thriving on Scottish grouse moors’ – a press release that was dismissed by RSPB Scotland as “a pile of risible, make-believe tosh” (see here).
Well guess what? It turns out that the Gift of Grouse had good reason not to release the actual survey report from Invermark Estate because if they had, their misinterpretation (we’re being kind) of the data would have been exposed.
Unfortunately for the Gift of Grouse, a new summary report, written by the ecological consultants (Taylor Wildlife) has now been published and it makes for very interesting reading indeed.
Download it here: invermark-wildlife-audit-2015-and-2016
According to the Taylor Wildlife report, there were NOT “81 bird species recorded as either breeding on the site or using the area as a valuable feeding resource” in 2015 as the Gift of Grouse had claimed. There were actually only “52 species considered to be breeding on site, 19 additional species noted during surveys as flying over and 10 species documented as incidental sightings“. How on earth can birds recorded as “flying over” a site be listed as “either breeding on the site or using the area as a valuable feeding resource“?!
Furthermore, the survey was not conducted “across 80 sq km of upland habitats which are specifically managed for grouse” as the Gift of Grouse had claimed. According to the Taylor Wildlife report, the habitats surveyed included “blanket bog, bracken, broadleaved and mixed woodland, coniferous woodland, dwarf shrub heath, improved grassland, inland rock and montane heath“. Since when has broadleaved and mixed woodland, coniferous woodland, improved grassland and inland rock been “managed specifically for grouse“?!
That RSPB Scotland quote, “a pile of risible, make-believe tosh” springs to mind.
It looks very much like the Gift of Grouse have misled everyone, including Graeme Dey MSP, doesn’t it? You can make up your own minds whether this misinterpretation of the Invermark survey results was a deliberate and cynical ploy to portray driven grouse shooting in a favourable environmental light, or whether it was just an honest inability to grasp the simple interpretation of bird survey data.
As an aside, it’s also interesting to note that these surveys were conducted as a requirement of the estate claiming Basic Payments. Funny that. Didn’t the grouse shooting industry claim that no public subsidies were used to support driven grouse shooting?
We should make it clear here that we are not having a go at Taylor Wildlife. On the contrary, we thank them for publishing this summary report. This morning, Andrew Whitelee, one of the ecological consultants involved in the survey, wrote a comment on one of our earlier blogs. We’re reproducing it here:
I work for Taylor Wildlife, who have been subject to a lot of speculation on this website recently. As with any other ecological consultancy, client confidentiality would normally prevent us from discussing specific surveys and data. However, in this instance the client (Invermark) have made the data public which means I can take this opportunity to clarify a few points. The Taylor Wildlife summary report can be found on this link.
Over the past two field seasons (2015 and 2016) Taylor Wildlife staff have been surveying on the Invermark Estate as part of the Basic Payment Scheme Farm Environment Surveys. This Government scheme requires us to undertake bird surveys using a modified version of the Brown and Shepherd methodology. This methodology is usually used for recording upland waders but for the purposes of the scheme we are required to record all species we encounter on surveys. We are not required to disturb the nests of Schedule 1 birds and our surveyors work completely within the law. The SGRPID/SNH guidelines we (and any other consultancy undertaking surveys) are bound by for the scheme are on the link below (page down to Annex A).
https://www.ruralpayments.org/publicsite/futures/topics/all-schemes/basic-payment-scheme/basic-payment-scheme-full-guidance/eligible-hectares-and-minimum-activity—bps/
As I am sure you will all appreciate, we have no control over how our data is interpreted by others once it is published, so I would ask you to take a look and make up your own mind. At the end of each survey season we are required to submit our data and report to SNH/SGRPID for review. We also give our data to the relevant organisations such as Butterfly Conservation, The Mammal Society or Birdtrack (via the bulk upload option).
There seems to be a misconception that Taylor Wildlife provided the majority of the data used in the Gift of Grouse statement. However, we only collected data on Invermark so that is the only part I can pass comment on. Two years of Invermark data starts to give us a baseline, more data collected in the coming years may help us to identify trends and hopefully provide useful data for informed land management decisions in the future. In my opinion the more data collected in upland environments the better.
If anyone wants to contact me to discuss the above, then please feel free to do so, my email address is andrew@taylorwildlife.co.uk
Andrew Whitelee
Senior Ecologist
Taylor Wildlife
29 Responses to “Gift of grouse: their propaganda exposed”
1 Sabrina Lancaster
I think they meant 81 birds in total rather than 81 species, and they were only there because they were unable to fly, XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX
[Ed: comment edited as potentially defamatory]
2 Robert Moss
‘Since when has broadleaved and mixed woodland, coniferous woodland, improved grassland and inland rock been “managed specifically for grouse”?!’
Predators are killed in woodlands and other ground adjacent to grouse moors. So “management for grouse” can extend well beyond the heather moors themselves. In my experience, this has included the setting of snares for foxes that incidentally kill capercaillie and other “non-target” species.
[Ed: fair point, thank you]
3 Alex Milne
Many thanks to RPUK and Taylor Wildlife.
Here is the clincher:
“These are birds which were observed flying over the site, but are not necessarily associated with the habitat they were initially observed flying over, and are not known to be breeding on the site. These records include raptors such as Osprey (Padion haliaetus), Peregrine (Falco peregrinus), White-tailed Eagle (Haliaetus albicilla), Merlin (Falco columbarius) and Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus), as well as the red-listed wader, the Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus).” Golden Eagle are also listed only as flyovers, but not on the list I quote. I wonder why. Perhaps there is a breeding pair away from the transepts?
I’m surprised that Merlin are not listed as breeding suspects because as far as I know they are not grouse predators, and I would have expected them to be allowed to breed, but perhaps not.
Caveat – I’m no ornithologist.
I think the summary that the “Gift of Grouse” issued should simply have stated that there were no breeding raptors on the estates surveyed, and that there were good number of waders but I don’t suppose that the truth interests them.
[Ed: Invermark Estate has hosted breeding golden eagles for a number of years, with high productivity (3 chicks at 1 nest)]
Thanks for the clarification, which makes clear my suspicion, and shows how well the report was written.
In that case, thanks to Invermark Estate, for allowing this to be made public and for allowing Golden Eagles to nest. I hope that they are now sufficiently enlightened to ensure that other raptors are allowed to nest in future, or perhaps they already are, but other estates’ actions make that impossible.
Anyone in the Angus glens ready to try diversionary feeding, yet, or does RPUK have to keep banging on until the government takes action?
The Gift of Grouse, they are not kidding me, or anyone else interested in the truth.
5 Andrew
Eh, thank Invermark for allowing Golden Eagles to nest; I don’t think so! Will you also be thanking Ronnie Biggs for showing restraint and not robbing your local bank?
I feel that the nesting of Golden Eagles on the Invermark Estate shows that there are shades of guilt on the part of estates. I am happy to thank Invermark, and the few other estates in the NE of Scotland who allow some raptors.
That there have been no Hen Harriers since 2005 in the Angus glens suggests that xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx but I would happily welcome anyone breaking ranks with the “kill them all” syndrome, and those estates who would welcome raptors are definitely to be praised.
7 Dylanben
I look forward to seeing a balanced and unambiguous explanation from The Gift of Grouse – but I’m not holding my breath! Pity this information was not available for yesterday’s Petition Committee session.
[Ed: It is a shame the report wasn’t available for yesterday’s evidence session. The good news is, it is available for the Environment, Climate Change & Land Reform Committee when they consider the issue in the new year]
That’s a good point!. No doubt yesterday’s wrigglers and squirmers will deny any connection with GOG.
9 RaptorPersecutionUK
Tim (Kim) Baynes will have a hard time denying any connection with Gift of Grouse – he’s directly involved via the Scottish Moorland Group!
10 Grey Sage
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
I think i have got this.
1. Buzzard, Kestrel and Short-eared Owl were ‘considered to be breeding’
2. Hen Harrier, Peregrine were seen as flyovers during the surveys (both over heath).
3. Osprey, Merlin, Red Kite, Golden Eagle, White-tailed Eagle and Ravens were only seen as ‘incidental sightings recorded outside of specific bird surveys’.
4. Those absent from all list includes Sparrowhawk! That says it all.
5. Those absent from the ‘considered to be breeding’ list includes Raven. That says even more.
Presumably this level of breeding detail and the dates are within the SGRPID/SNH guidelines by professional consultants but it is way short of the mostly amateur BTO standards for the national atlases.
12 Marco McGinty
From what I have gleaned from the Taylor Wildlife report, I would have to agree with your belief that only Buzzard and Kestrel were considered to be breeding, and that all other raptor species were recorded as flyover species. This then begs the question that if these sightings were submitted by the gamekeeping team, how can we be sure that they did not make up some of these observations, in an attempt to enhance the poor figures and portray grouse moors as important areas for raptors? Let’s face it, the industry has a long, long history of deception, and the Gift of Grouse has just added to that list of lies.
Furthermore, as a result of such lies, we are frequently led to believe that grouse moors are the greatest examples of land management, boasting of a tremendous variety of birdlife, with breeding populations and diversity far exceeding those of RSPB nature reserves, and other areas, however if Table 1 in the Taylor Wildlife report is a true representation of breeding numbers and species, then I’m glad that my local patch is not managed by anyone from that most irresponsible and destructive industry.
Considering that the table gives a summary of all sightings of these species, from the mix of habitats on the estate, then it is patently clear that their idea that “all wildlife benefits” is most fanciful.
A quick look at the common passerine species will have you wincing at the pitiful maximum totals – 12 Robins, 2 Great Tits, 9 Blackbirds, 5 Coal Tits – and no Blue Tits!
It would appear, that their belief that they are somehow bringing about a “balance” to the natural world, is utterly bereft of scientific understanding. Ecological degradation and environmental destruction would be far closer to the truth.
What about the 1 Willow Warbler on the Broadleaved and Mixed Woodland habitat list for 2015?
To me that just shows the lack of experience of the recorders.
In a mostly mixed woodland tetrad beside moorland for the breeding atlas i recorded 22 in 2 hours on the early visit and 33 on the late.
I was prepared to let that one go, perhaps as a result of a late visit. It could be down to an inexperienced surveyor, but it could easily be attributed to the fact that the shooting industry is wholly reliant o lies and deception, and that these areas are simply not as good for wildlife.
Similarly, we’re forever being told of the great work the industry does for waders, which just happens to be a coincidental byproduct of the zero tolerance approach to all things predatory, but these figures tell a very different story.
Golden Plovers at -28%
Dunlin at -31%
Curlew at -50%
Woodcock at -50%
Snipe at -53%
Lapwing at -87.5%
All of those declines in just one year! Add to that all of the local songbird extinctions in the same time frame – Bullfinch, Goldfinch, Linnet, Reed Bunting and Rook, as well as Black Grouse. Not a very pretty picture! (As the shooting industry wanted to manipulate the figures from the report, I thought I would have a bit of fun, and show how easy it is).
However, I know that you cannot make any clear comparisons in such a short time period, but it could easily hint that all is not well and good in these areas.
15 circusmaxim
This is a shooting estate- presumably that includes the woodlands. Could be that we are seeing the impact of release pheasants depressing low/ground nesters….
16 Les Wallace
One of the moorland fb groups in Yorkshire posted that they had been on a trip to one of their grouse moors and happened to see a wonderful array of raptors which included marsh harrier and hobby! They claimed they had photographed them – when I asked for the images to be displayed on their fb page they said that they weren’t ready yet. Must still be using old photgraphic film in Yorkshire then!
17 Tim Dixon
As a keen countryman I like to list the birds that I have seen from my modest country estate. So far, amongst others, I have noted Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Merlin, Peregrine, Kestrel, Hobby, Ring Ouzel, Meadow Pipit, Skylark, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Redshank and Golden Plover. I’m sure that they must all be nesting but I have signally failed to track them down yet. I have suspected for some time that I must be living on a grouse moor (particularly since I have yet to see a Hen Harrier) but no I live just south of Worcester. I suppose that the lack of Stone Curlews should have alerted me to the fact that I was not in “Grouse Country” but just the inhabitant of a small rural house in middle England. Silly me. However I remain convinced , having had a flyover Gannet, that there is a hitherto undiscovered seabird colony somewhere in the Malvern Hills – if anyone finds it can they let me know please.
18 Iain Gibson
That’s useful clarification from Taylor Wildlife, but in a sense the damage has been done, by their clients issuing a summary which will sound authoritative to many people with influence, including MSPs. To me that is one of the more important lessons to be learned from the Parliamentary grouse shooting debate. When two groups of “experts” disagree, it often leads to inaction or a fudged verdict by the adjudicators, as it’s just our opinion versus the grouse shooters’ opinions. This is an often used diversionary tactic by the dishonest people we are confronting, and unfortunately it appears to be successful more often than not. We need to expose the unreliable nature of the shooting industry’s evidence, and thanks to RPUK, progress is being made in this field.
As an Ornithological Recorder who is often frustrated by consultants not providing records to the system, it was at least mildly refreshing that Taylor Wildlife follow IEEM guidelines and report their findings to the various official recording bodies. Too often private consultants withhold records on the basis of “client confidentiality”, which is largely a myth perpetuated as a marketing point rather than an accepted principle. Transparency is essential throughout the process, particularly where a Public Local Inquiry is involved.
I was curious to see how this compares with my my BTO surveys.
For the last atlas in one 10×10 km square of moorland with a small mixed woodland and coastline and 8 tertads surveyed which is less area than the Invermark survey especially as nearly half of the square is in the sea.
Total was 120 species in the breeding season which it would be fair to ignore because of seabirds which i can’t be bothered to deduct.
Confirmed breeding species was 73 with a further 19 probably breeding. I assume that would be an equivalent of 92 ‘considered to be breeding’.
My one BBS square is all conifer plantation in various stages.
My total is 47 in the breeding season along a 2km walk.
So if i’m supposed to be impressed by Invermark’s 52 ‘considered to be breeding’, i’m not.
20 Gary Prescott
Contact details to question Graeme Day here :- http://www.parliament.scot/msps/currentmsps/graeme-dey-msp.aspx
21 Dylanben
What with this business and the BASC Chairman related North Yorkshire gamekeeper court case, also covered by RPUK, who needs to fork out to go to a Christmas Pantomime? All we need is a title. Any suggestions?
It was quite a while ago but I had an argument on-line with one of these guys, they had a film with some lapwing on it and claimed it showed abundant waders on a grouse moor. They were very angry when I pointed out that it was in-by land and not a grouse moor.
I know this is anecdotal, I helped the BTO upland wader survey this year on Derbyshire in-by land. The areas I was able to access consisted of land held mainly by two farmers, the vast majority of the quadrant I surveyed was run by this one guy who was ploughing it up for crops in rotation with silage. There were very few birds on his fields. There was one very small farm abutting the moor which was receiving money from the environmental stewardship scheme because of some very beautiful wet meadows he had on the land, which he fed sheep on. Here there were plentiful lapwings on the site especially where the meadows were. Talking to the farmer, who was very proud of his farm, he described how the lapwings has fared over the years, and had consistently had good numbers of chicks on his fields, except over a two year period when a pheasant shoot opened just down the road. Then buzzards turned up and started to take the lapwing chicks, until it seemed the lapwings learned how to deal with them ie mob them. Then chick survival rates went back up again. The problem is that this was the last three small fields in a very big area. When I went back in July I counted 90 or so lapwings on the site.
Yes I’ve noticed this too, they show video of waders, but there’s actually no heather in sight. Most notorious example was a pro grouse moor video where the near deafening call of waders on the moor was almost certainly dubbed on.
24 Doug Malpus
I am an active blogger on a site for my real passion, canoeing. At present we have an angling troll telling us how bad canoeing on a river is to the fish in the river. In the digression of discussion a Canadian blogger said how different the fish are in the UK and now how different the birds are, re driven grouse shooting. The Canadian had no understanding of the mass killing carried out in the name of sport. So I explained the situation for overseas benefit. I attach it below.
Quote from a Canadian:
Really?? Coz your birds are apparently just as different as your fish! Here, grouse seek the deepest thickest coverts they can find & getting ’em out & up in the air, even with the dog, is flippin’ near impossible. And when they do fly, the cover is so thick that more than half the time you get no shot at all. (that’s what makes ’em SO much fun!! ) So either the birds are different, or Brit shooters are really really lazy buggers…..
My Answer to explain:
No, I don’t see your comments anything to do with derailing but here is an insight into mass killing for fun, done by mindless people with too much money and too little brain. It is sickeningly different to the killing of the occasional bird or animal for the pot done by folk like you. Your shooting is acceptable their mass killing is not.
The red grouse the “sport of choice for those with too much money and little brain” are raised on moorland where heather grows (red grouse eat heather). The moorland is cleared of all predators including our protected birds of prey, illegally. The production of these “wild” birds is crowded and excessive which leads to problems with parasites and illnesses. They are medicated with chemicals and drugs to keep alive the increased population.
On 12 August (called the glorious 12th by those with too much money and little brain) and for several months after, they are blasted out of the sky by hoards of, yep you’ve guessed it! In order to do this with little effort they hide behind screens called butts while minions of poor folk waving flags and blowing whistles chase “drive” the grouse across the moor towards the guns. The shooters have gun loaders doing just that to allow as many shots to be fired as possible. Hundreds of the “precious” grouse are killed and maimed and the shooters have a “jolly good time” get back in their 4×4 vehicles and driven back to some grand house to brag about the fine sport they have had. The grouse are mostly wasted, few are eaten and a few sold but this is rare because these shooters still use lead shot. The heaps of corpses are surrounded by snares to catch unwary foxes. This is what the gentry call sport and the country decimation that goes with it is supported by our government, they even get huge “farming?” subsidies gathered from our taxes to ease the burden on the rich’s pocket?
If this all seems far fetched, sorry but it is true. This mindless activity is clearly demonstrated here video showing all the skill of the fairground along with the stupid mentality, also look out for the army of minions driving the birds by waving flags and blowing whistles. How they avoid killing each other is disappointing. These shooters also do the same with pheasants (hand reared in pens, at about 40million per year to be shot and mostly wasted), partridges too. Costing each shooter over £1000 (1700 Canadian dollars) per day.
I have no objection against shooting for the pot but the idle rich in the UK consider this mass slaughter “Sport”. Prehistoric man did it to live, these folk do it for what???
Sadly, most of these people have too much power over us. The current government is full of those that love mindless killing.
A sad, sad world.
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Chapter 43: Treachery
On May 22, 2019 By ErraticErrata
“Habitually treacherous enemies are accomplices to their own destruction.”
– King Henry Fairfax, the Landless
I breathed in.
Fear drifted into my lungs along with the rotten scent in the air, the poisonous odour of thousands of hellspawn and one of the oldest beasts of the Chain of Hunger. Death, decay and a fight that would have been hard business even with an army at my back. Gods, but it’d been a long night and the dawn of it was not yet in sight. It’d been one thing to stare down armies when I’d been Named, when I’d been in the deepest throes of Winter, but now I was painfully aware this could all end as simply as my throat being opened by some lucky devil. The knowing of that almost numbed my limbs, when it sunk it so suddenly: I could die, in these few coming heartbeats. I could have died at any time on the way here, and even if we survived the closing jaws of this trap I might still die before the night was over. It was an arresting though, one that had my palms prickling.
I breathed out.
Fear is an old friend, I thought. Fear was the pain in my leg, the whispering tune of mistake and mortality and needing to always do better lest if all fall apart. How could it cow me, when I leant on it like a pilgrim’s staff? I let that tenet straighten my back and took a look at my opposition. Devils, alas, in the thousands. Walin-falme and akalibsa, as we had fought before, but this was a disparate horde and there seemed no end to the assortment. It made gauging numbers difficult, given the wild variation of shape and size in the swarming throng, but it could be no less than two thousand. We moved, from there, to threats in the singular. The undead Horned Lord known as the Skein was nesting among the ruins of the courtyard and attending hall, its darkly furred strangely humanoid body folded inwards as if it were a beast at rest. Great antlers of bone jutted from the top of its head, set above golden eyes made even more vivid by the deep red gouges beneath them. It was a creature gifted with foresight, near impossible to damage and wielding at least one aspect I knew to be capable of unmaking its mistakes – Spool, it had called it in Keter. At its feet stood two silhouettes, veiled to me until a sliver of Night saw to that mundane frailty.
Yet more trouble, and my fingers harshly coiled. My predictions had come up short in two different ways and quite visibly so, for I now looked upon two men: one whose frayed tabard bore the twin bells of House Fairfax, the other whose pale green eyes watched all unfolding with open interest. The man who had once been the Good King Edward Fairfax, Seventh of His Name, bore old and intricate plate over which a tabard in the gold and blue of the royal line of Callow hung. He wore no helm, laying bare the face of a man in his late forties with sparse white hair and the eternal beginnings of a beard, and in his hand he held a longsword for which there seemed to be no sheath. To his side, the soul of Amadeus of the Green Stretch had been put in slender silvery stocks, his hands too far kept to reach the gag that had been put over his mouth. My teacher looked much like his physical body did, though there were dark rings around his eyes and a sort of haggard look to him I found deeply unsettling. Black had always been near obsessively neat in his grooming, but his soul laid bare was in disarray. That boded ill, though at least the sharpness in his gaze had not been dulled. A bag had been absent-mindedly tossed between the two of them, one I had with my own hand filled with crowns. That left only…
Kairos Theodosian, Tyrant of Helike, sat draped over the gaudy throne his gargoyles were keeping aloft unevenly. Though he’d quite brazenly betrayed us, the odd-eyed villain had yet to bother with foibles such as armour or a blade. No that he needed them, with a flock of enchanted gargoyles obeying his every whim and a treasure trove of lethal artefacts at his disposal – to which, he’d added the casting rod of the Rogue Sorcerer, which he was currently toying with as he grinned a pearly white grin. This was all of it, I thought. Our enemy, against which stood three: the Rogue Sorcerer, roughed up and stripped of tools, the now twice-winded Saint of Swords and myself. This was not a fight we would win with swords, I thought, given the disparity in strength there. The best that could be hoped for was delay. We did, however, have one advantage over our foes. The foundations of their side were unsteady, while as long as there such a common enemy before us my own triumvirate would stand united. How can I take your strengths and turn them against you? Four heartbeats had passed, and as the fifth reached us Laurence de Montfort sighed. Not out of disappointment, I decided, or sadness. It was the same sigh I’d heard dockworkers in Laure make when some merchant had filled the hold with no eye to taking out the goods out and an hour-long job was going to end up taking twice as long. The Saint spat to the side, then rested her blade against her shoulder.
“That’s going to take a while,” she said, sounding irked.
“That’s mine, you loathsome turncoat,” the Rogue Sorcerer yelled at Kairos.
“I prefer to think of it as ours,” the Tyrant jauntily replied. “Although, if you truly want me to return it…”
So, the sharper was about to blow and the moment the three of us were separated by the horde then there would be no more planning. This was it, all I had to scheme.
“Saint, how long can you buy me?” I asked.
“You got a way to win?” the old woman casually asked.
“Then however long you need, Foundling,” the Saint of Swords told me with a hard smile.
I supposed she could be counted on to be a reliable whirlwind of destruction to anything she faced even when she was on my side, which was somewhat comforting.
“Keep them off me,” I said. “I’ll handle the Tyrant.”
“Figures you’d go for the cripple,” Laurence de Montfort said.
A helpful reminder that ‘on my side’ didn’t mean friendly or any less generally horrid, I noted. A heartbeat later Kairos got the casting rod he’d stolen working and streaks of flame that looked fluid as water shot out towards the Rogue Sorcerer, who took off running towards them. Godsdamnit, Roland. It didn’t matter if he could handle the sorcery being thrown at him, Kairos had hundreds of bloody gargoyles to throw at him and however good the hero’s set of mail it didn’t cover his face or throat or neck. I let the Night course through me and flicked my wrist, spinning a hooked chain that caught the wayward hero by the back of the coat and dragged him back forcefully. The Sorcerer had been about to reach the edge of demolished second story room we were still standing on, but the force I used in pulling him back had him half-tripping backwards. And also narrowly avoiding the knife-wielding gargoyles that popped right up from where they’d been hanging off the edge awaiting to scythe through Roland’s ankles, because because Kairos being a chatty jackass didn’t mean he wasn’t clever. The streaks of flame I left him to deal with as I advanced – he snarled something in a language I didn’t recognize, still tripping backwards, and some sort of swirling eddy of air caught them in a spin until the fires gutted out – and dismissed the chains. The gargoyles that’d come over the top milled uncertainly, knives extended into nothing, and did not even manage to chatter before I’d sent twin needles of Night through their torsos. They blew a moment later, and I met Kairos Theodosian’s uneven eyes as I came to stand by the edge of the drop.
“So,” I said, beginning to reach for my pipe, “how firmly rooted would you say your current allegiances are?”
It was theatrics, not directly asking what it was the Dead King had offered, just like reaching for a smoke in the middle of battlefield. I could not show weakness in the face of the Tyrant of Helike, lest he decide we were spent and that the Dead King’s victory was assured. Calm, control and even a smidgen of nonchalance. Anything less and I would not have gotten that keen glint in his good eye, the one that delighted in there still being a game afoot. For though Kairos Theodosian enjoyed a good bout of treachery, he would not commit to it without purpose and would never climb into a sinking ship. In that sense, I understood him in a way that few people could: like me, he had reached his current heights climbing over a tottering pile of victories. Like me, he knew it only took one hard defeat for it to all come tumbling down on his head.
“We are close as kin, our trust boundless and fondness without peer,” Kairos soulfully said.
“Kill them,” the Skein snarled, head suddenly rising up. “Kill them all.”
I passed my palm over the head of my pipe, allowing a flicker of black flame to light it before pulling at the wakeleaf unhurriedly. I sighed in pleasure, feeling the Tyrant’s gaze unwavering on me.
“Shouldn’t you see to that?” Kairos amusedly asked, moving his head towards the courtyard.
Devils, Revenant, the closest thing I’d ever have to a father. A fight I could not win. Calm, control, never miss a beat.
“That’s what heroes are for,” I said.
I glimpsed, from the corner of my eye, the Saint of Swords landing in the midst of a sea of devils with her sword raised high. Screaming followed, none of it hers. So, Kairos hadn’t taken the unspoken invitation I’d given to imply he was open to further treachery. Which meant Neshamah had bought him with a prize that was significant enough the Tyrant didn’t believe I’d be able to match it. He wasn’t refusing the prospect of turning on the Hidden Horror, that wasn’t his way, but he was making it known the bidding had started high and would only get higher. So what did he offer you? I wondered. Given that Kairos’ ambitions were still bound, as far as I knew, to the peace conference he’d forced then it had to involve the survival of the armies below. Or at least his, I corrected, for Iserre was made into a tremendous butcher’s yard by the Tyrant’s hand then the only the threat of utter annihilation could possibly bring either Hasenbach or myself to negotiate with him ever again. Couldn’t be just being spared, though, because the Grand Alliance would be crippled by losing the armies below and so far Kairos had gone out of his way to avoid accomplishing that. I was missing something, because I could see no way in which the Dead King taking this realm benefitted the Tyrant. My fingers tightened, beneath cover of my sleeves. Was it that simple? When I’d irritated the Hidden Horror, he’d said something that now sounded anew in my mind: when I have taken what I wish from this ruin I will forsake it as well. If after he got what he’d come after Neshamah had no use for this place, what would he lose by promising it to the Tyrant of Helike?
I inhaled smoke and blew it outwards towards Kairos, whose nose wrinkled at the acrid smell. I couldn’t beat that offer. It was a way for the Tyrant to get everything he wanted, so long as the Hidden Horror got it too. Which was, I realized, my angle. Kairos Theodosian could not, as I’d thought earlier, afford a single hard defeat. And he had to be achingly aware here that he’d made a bargain with an entity his superior in every way, including perhaps even treachery, and that if he was crossed then he had no real way to strike back. Not alone, anyway, and when it came to opposing the Dead King then there was only one game in town.
“Well, he’s lying to at least one of us,” I pensively said. “Did you offer something worth more than a hundred-year truce?”
“You jest,” the Tyrant grinned.
A little too quickly, I thought.
“I’m deadly serious,” I said. “Kairos, I’ll be blunt here because if he’s actually sold this place to you instead of me I’ll need to cut my losses and break it. Which is going to be damned hard to do a messy besides, so I haven’t the time to dawdle. I got my win here in exchange for backing his envoy at the conference when the truce offer comes. One of us got peddled goods already sold, obviously, so which of us is it?”
“A truce,” the Tyrant skeptically said.
“Don’t be daft,” I frowned. “You know what it’s meant for. I’m willing to take the bet, because I’ll get this continent ready for war on Keter even if I have to kill and raise every ruler myself, but I’m hardly blind to the risks.”
A hundred years was a long time. Time to prepare, yes, but also for the continent to come apart. A truce meant no armies, not absence of schemes, and the most brutal blow the Hidden Horror might yet deal was to let that century come to pass and then do nothing. To let every willing sacrifice turn into bitter recrimination, to let his opponents devour themselves from the inside without sending a single soldier across the border. If I’d tried to weave a lie out of thin air, I thought, the Tyrant might just have sniffed me out. But this? If I were Kairos Theodosian, I’d believe it. Because I would afraid I’d been double-crossed, yes, but also because of who it was I was looking at. A woman who’d bargained with the King of Winter and Sve Noc, when the cliff’s edge was reached, and Hells hadn’t I headed to Keter to make another deal not so long ago? The Tyrant of Helike watched me with an inscrutable expression his face, and the simple fact that he was no longer grinning like a lunatic told me I’d drawn blood. I thought, for a moment, of feigning impatience and trying to hurry him along – an announcement it was time to cut my losses, cryptic action begun – but I stilled my tongue. On real stakes I would not gamble this way. And the more I actually lied, the more I risked this exceedingly more skilled liar catching me out.
“Speak to me, then, Black Queen,” the Tyrant coolly said.
Not victory, this, but it was an opening.
“I’m not going to bribe you,” I snorted. “You just knifed us, Kairos. You want back on this side? Make it worth my while to keep the heroes from putting your head on a pike. I’m willing to deal because I’d rather you sell me this place than the Dead King, but don’t mistake that for actual need.”
For a terrible moment, I thought I’d overplayed my hand. That the bluster had been too much, that I’d been seen through because I’d refused to bend my neck even if in that situation it would have been my words exact. Instead I was interrupted by a flock of steel-clad devils, whose leathery wings beat loud as they descended towards me with raised spears. My muscles began to tense and it was all I could do not to reach for the Night. But I had appearances to maintain, and Gods I was so close to flipping the Tyrant I could almost taste it. The walin-falme hit a hastily slapped down ward like birds hitting a window, as the Rogue Sorcerer came through for me. I did not even grin, instead pulling at my pipe as I continued matching gazes with Kairos. Look at how in control I am, I thought. Wouldn’t I have to be a lunatic, to stick to a bluff so stubbornly when the situation is this dire? Airily tossing aside the Sorcerer’s casting rod – Roland distantly screamed in a furious voice about it being irreplaceable and worth a fortune – and extending an open palm, Kairos was handed his jeweled sceptre by a chitter gargoyle and used it to thoughtfully scratch his chin.
“Are you lying?” the Tyrant of Helike asked, cocking his head to the side.
I grinned, all teeth and malice.
“I don’t know,” I said. “Am I?”
A heartbeat passed, both stares unflinching.
“I think, Catherine,” Kairos Theodosian fondly said, “that you are lying through your teeth. But I still can’t tell, and so it seems were are still allies.”
Calmly I inhaled a mouthful of wakeleaf, and waited for the – there it is, I thought as the Skein’s hulking shape obscured the sky, rising behind the Tyrant and myself. The stench of it was horrid, though spitting out the smoke in front of my face took the edge off of it.
“Spool,” the Skein snarled.
And just like that/
/the Tyrant of Helike sneered.
“Fate is a tug of war, you raggedy old thing,” Kairos Theodosian said, and there was something sharp in his tone I’d never heard there before. “Do you think the wishes of the conquered matter more than those of contenders?”
“You die laughing,” the Skein hissed. “Or. You flee. Or. I am broken. Or. Everything burns. Or. Or. Why does it keep changing?”
“There’s more than one reason I picked him out for this band,” I amusedly said.
Was Kairos Theodosian a treacherous, unpredictable and murderous madman? Yes. Obviously. But against a particular kind of foe – say, an oracle who’d spin our of new thread of prediction from his every whim as the lunatic committed to them with ironclad will unhesitatingly – that had its uses.
“Spool,” the Skein snarled again and/
/“Do you think yourself above even the Gods, you presumptuous relic?” the Tyrant of Helike snarled back. “Do you think you can erase me like chalk on a slate? Learn your place.”
“Shouldn’t have done that,” I told the Revenant, pulling at my pipe.
“It will kill you,” the Skein cackled, its laughter like rumbling thunder. “Wish, wish into the grave. How many years can you spend?”
I winced. I’d fought enough Named to recognize when one’s bottom line was being crossed, and the continued attempts of the Revenant to use its aspect were definitely whipping Kairos into a proper frenzy. I could only guess at what was the cause of it, but the rage in that crimson bloodshot eye and the wildly shaking hands struck me as too raw to be a lie.
“I will confess,” the Tyrant of Helike said, tone eerily calm, “that you have rather offended me. You may attend to other matters, Black Queen. This one will be settled by my hand.”
“And now,” I said, “for my next trick.”
Because if I were an undead sorcerer with my personal Hell and forever ahead of me, if I’d taken to snatching Named and making them into my vanguard in Creation – which would mean, most of the time, that they’d be far from me and exposed to all sorts of aspects and sorceries – then there was one thing I’d make sure of. The Skein went still as the corpse it was, and pale gold eyes shone with something eldritch.
“You have been fooled, Tyrant,” the Dead King spoke through his puppet. “I struck no bargain with the Black Queen.”
And there it was, I thought. The gap between the man the Hidden Horror had once been and the man the Tyrant was. Neshamah had been a brilliant, sharp-sighted sorcerer whose apotheosis had been achieved over decades of careful planning with nary an opening left open. Even in undeath the heart of that man remained, made stiffer perhaps but undiminished. And the thing was, he had that same flaw that my father sometimes did. Gods, clever as they were they forgot anyone else could see the world in a different way they did. Forgot to see, I supposed, or simply didn’t care. Why would they? Victors that they were, they’d gotten their way so often. But Kairos Theodosian, now that was a man of a different breed. He was Tyrant of Helike not because he wanted to change the world, to shift borders on a map or leave behind a name that would ring through the ages. Kairos, he was villain. He was a partisan of Below, not a warlord or a theft of godhead, and his faith was the same ruinous red thing that had rent the Wasteland asunder for more than a millennium. And so the Dead King, brilliant monster that he was, had just made his first blunder of the night. Because the moment he’d made an effort to not be at odds with the Tyrant of Helike, he’d made every lie I’d spoken irrelevant. Because, in the eyes of the Tyrant, he would only be worth appeasing if he was a threat. And given the choice between successfully crossing me or the Dead King? Well, one of them was worthier prayer than the other.
I met the Dead King’s eyes.
“Mistake,” I said in Ashkaran.
“Rend,” Kairos Theodosian laughed, and all Hells broke loose.
Chapter 42: Twined
Chapter 44: Small Slights
262 thoughts on “Chapter 43: Treachery”
Tyrant really is the best Villain, after Cat and Black. He’s just so unapologetic about it, it’s almost endearing.
No love for Traitorous and Irritant?
Malicia also has a sense of competence and dignity I quite appreciate.
Irritant wasn’t a villain. He was just glorious.
Seeing as he was a Dread Emperor, I must respectfully disagree.
That’s why he abdicated. No longer Dread Emperor, heroes no longer have any reason to kill him.
Did he? What chapter is that from?
Epigraph from Book 4 Chapter 68: Poised
“Obviously you can’t kill me now: your enmity is with the Dread Emperor of Praes, and I’ve already abdicated. I am now but a humble shoemaker, and what kind of hero slays a shoemaker?”
– Dread Emperor Irritant, the Oddly Successful. Later noted to have made surprisingly nice shoes during his three abdications.
Also, he did keep the villainous status.
Are you slandering this humble shoemaker?
A truly gifted humble shoemaker, please.
I think it’s because he remembers that the most important thing about being Evil is to have fun. As much as the Diabolist got some good mileage out of the whole classic villain schtick she took herself way too seriously and never stopped to smell the roses. Kairos is the walking, talking embodiment of “fuck it” which I think is a big part of why he’s so awsome. Honestly if there has been one good argument against Black and Cat’s “practical” style of Evil and for the classic one it has been the amount of fun the Tyrant seems to have been having ever since his debut.
In other word, he’s this trope incarnate:
And one the best examples besides IMO. Also, I love Trope Talk, I hope Red makes more videos soon.
…Neshamah acts like he isn’t but he really is, Kairos acts like he is but he really isn’t. Fucking beautiful.
Kairos is definitely heavily based on the trope even if there’s mix and match :3
…and also Guide defies the “third act breakdown” trope altogether. Villains know they lose at the end, and they go down manically cackling “and I never gave a shit in the first place!”
Hmm. If anyone actually DOES get a genuine “I never saw this coming” third act breakdown it’s Neshamah, because he DOES think he’s cheated the system. If that’s ever subverted, well,
Ah, my colleague, you are so. Right.
Love that tyrants style.
He isn’t. The first core trait is “backstory doesn’t matter to their motivation” and like… did you see how Kairos reacted to Skein talking shit about his mortality? Kairos is 100% backstory driven. He’s not that trope.
He’s going to forever act like he is and take offense to any indication he isn’t. But he isn’t.
Neshamah is, though :3
oooooooooooooo
I watched further into the video and
‘pure chaos, which is a very similar archetype to pure evil but moves in different directions’
this is Kairos vs Neshamah
sutortyrannus
>I think it’s because he remembers that the most important thing about being Evil is to have fun.
“The most important part of any summary execution is to remember to have fun and be yourself.” – Dread Empress Malevolent II
A statement I’m sure Kairos would wholeheartedly agree with.
Kairos embodies the proper disagreement between Evil and Good: not of means, but of ends. His ends are those for which what Evil offers really is best, and the only argument against him standing Evil could be “is this what you really want?”
Because he believes he does.
As soon as Skein tried to rewrite him I knew he was solidly in Catherine’s camp again.
solid and fluid are very much the same when speaking about the tyrant I think.
Just look how he treats his former allies he was close as kin whom he trusted boundless…
> solid and fluid are very much the same when speaking about the tyrant I think.
He actually is kinda like a non-Newtonian fluid (oobleck etc): Try to be gentle and he oozes away. If you just smack him, then suddenly it’s easy to pick him up and move him… as long as you keep handling him roughly!
That makes a surprising amount of sense.
Sooooo, brooks had theodosian liquified for their original DNA cushioning material? No wonder they switched to cheap foam, theodosian fluid ran out :p
As I’ve said before, Kairos’ treachery is so reliable that Cat can just work it into her plans.
A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
Mikasi
It’s always the honest ones you have to watch out for. Never know when they might start lying to you.
“Honestly, it is the honest men you need to watch out for, ’cause you never know when they’ll do something really stupid”
Yup. Kairos stands by one principles: to have active choices (even bad ones) matter.
Also, loved he Dead King pressing his other button; more worthy and much more difficult (but, apparently, takeable — who knew?) target sighted.
oooooo this is a really good summation
Jeffery Wells
Tyrant is a real villain’s villain. He’s got goals and plans, but the most important thing about those goals and plans is that they are the most villainous things he can think of at the time. Best way to fuck up with him is to accidentally give him an opportunity to be even more villainous.
We all know that Cat can trust her good friend Kairos to stand by her side
I mean, why would anyone doubt the Tyrant’s eternal friendship? It’s obvious from the very start that Kairos would help the Black Queen forever and ever. Clearly this turn of events is very much predictable and EE should rewrite this chapter.
A Big Ol Rat
Kairos will always be right behind her, ready to stab anyone trying to sneak at her back.
/anyone else 😉
Hahahaha! I love that it’s this moment where Cat pulls out the truth that she can speak Ashkaran. It’s the perfect moment because this is the one time she’s truly gotten one up on the Dead King. It shows her growth at being able to handle the two biggest threats we know about. The Bard and the Dead King. And here in this moment I think he’s realizing just how right he might’ve been when he said that Cat could “Some day be a peer.” And he might be regretting those words right about now.
He probably knew. He’s had access to Masego’s memories, plus he invited Cat and co. to visit him through Arcadia, knowing their capabilities. That that probably planted the idea of this whole endeavor in Masego’s mind is probably not a complete coincidence, either.
Odinski
He did know, but Cat has refused to admit it untill this moment despite them both knowing that she knows that he knows.
Yeah, Cat pretending to not know Ashkaran was Kairos brand level of shameless alternate reality ❤ ❤ ❤
Chasing ahead blindly out of emotion? Tsk, tsk, Rogue Sorcerer. That’s how you get killed. Now you owe Cat your life.
Kairos … interesting, but did you really think that the Dead King would keep his word without secretly attaching strings or a suicide pill?
He did block the devils from tearing her open just after, though.
A hook and chain to yank Roland back? Seriously?
Nope, not seriously. Comedy. She tossed Roland a jester’s cap to match the Tyrant’s, offering him the protections of the heroic comic relief.
Meanwhile, Neshamah got completely snared by Cat’s banter with Kairos… which is odd. Did his “influence” over Masego perhaps backfire upon DK? Because golden eyes or not, this is more how Masego might have responded!
I think Cat’s analysis is spot on. Do note she predicted exactly what would happen to the degree of employing dramatic smugness around it ❤
Ah. If Kairos can pull a win over Bard whom Dead Dude has never won against, of course he can win against Dead Dude.
Has he not? His apotheosis itself was a massive win, of greater impact than Kairos’s. Plus she’s thrown him a bone or two over the years, like the Spellblade. Something like respect, there.
I can’t remember what chapter it was, but it was also mentioned that he managed to capture the Bard and vivisect her. How he managed that I have no idea, especially with Bard’s teleport away from danger aspect.
Ιούλιος Καίσαρας
I believe it’s against Mortal danger. He “just” made it sure that her life wouldn’t be in any danger whatsoever.
* away from death, not danger 🙂
I wonder, is that confirmed to be how the Bard’s power works? We have never seen her take damage except from auto-inflicted wounds, but not ALL wounds are even potentially lethal. Are we certain it is death-based?
Well, that’s what Neshamah said in that explanation???
It just doesn’t make too much sense.
I mean, when you think about it, that isn’t THAT powerful a failsafe. All it takes is for someone to know you have it, and then they throw you in a cell. If you are too restrained to kill yourself and force-fed, you are stuck forever? I mean, obviously someone is going to make a mistake sooner or later, but that seems to easy a counter for the Intercessor. There must be more at play.
Wander would likely drag her away to some other place after some time. I’m guessing she COULD get stuck like this for a while, just not for long.
Never have her life be at risk during the process, for starters.
Dead King’s Apotheosis is a trap for him. He made no mistakes, left no openings, so he was forced into a state which he cannot escape. Not only he has to be invited to the Creation, he is bound to Serenity and has everyone as his enemies.
still big improvement over being plain dead 🙂
Not at all, those restrictions are self-imposed. DK can step out of Serenity and drown the continent in undead whenever he want, he just know how this particular story end and avoid it.
I am pretty sure the only binding is one of his choosing. By never leaving unless invited, he accrues no risk, which seems to be his modus operandi.
(Because then the villain of the story becomes whoever invited him, so the narrative doesn’t really support the Dead King being ended or something of the sort.)
Is Mistake officially a Cat catch-phrase? It’s not as catchy as lesser lesser footrest, but I like it still.
It’s an inheritance from her father.
I must say I didn’t quite follow when she started using it. Felt like I was missing some sort of character development in between.
Croelty
I honestly have been trying to recall for a while now when exactly Cat started to refer to Black as her father, without much success. That also seems like a character moment I missed out on.
When she dumped Killian, went to chat with him instead of her friends at the campfire, and ended the night dozing off as “her father” put a blanket over her.
That is quite recent, and I don’t think we got a real moment for it either. I think it started on book 5.
Actually in Book 4 she gobsmacked me with it during her talk with Andronike. The exact quote was something like “I was angry with my father, for being so much less than he could be”.
I was not surprised afterwards :3
True! Still came a bit suddenly, though I guess it happening during an introspective moment is kind of better.
I just feel a moment like that needed more oomph?
That moment had all the oomph it needed as far as I’m concerned
do keep in mind it was followup to Second Liesse already, which was the culmination of the entire book 3, the first serious beat of the ‘yes hes her dad’ arc was Epilogue II and the first mention of it as a possibility was Book 1 Chapter Fall
Sure. I guess it’s down to personal taste? In the middle of all that for me it got overshadowed by all the other conflict going on, plus the human thing.
I guess I could chalk the sudden decision to trauma, but I still feel there could have been more struggle with the concept. I will add it to the “List of things I feel the skip between books 4 and 5 robbed me of”.
The struggle was all of Books 2 and 3 😀 you’re better off listing it among things that Cat being Wintered robbed you of
…I mean I’m not telling you how to enjoy the story, some part of it is def down to personal taste
Don’t know, I just feel it was not enough. And yes, Winter was something of a hiatus in her character development. Considering that arc was so very long, it makes sense that it drove the density of emotional investigation down sharply.
Still, we barely got to see Cat deal with readopting her humanity. All that, presumably, happened during the skip between books.
I mean the way I’m reading it, dealing with it is precisely what’s happening onscreen in front of us. The fear fragment’s part of it. The increasing mentions of ‘father’ is another.
It’s been developing smoothly since the beginning, from “hah, he’d be a wierd-ass father figure” through “the closest thing I have to a father” to claiming him as such at least internally, and iirc she’s actually said so to some of the closest in her “family”.
Yeah lmao the first one had been in Book 1 on the balcony ❤ ❤ ❤
Only became a noticeable catchphrase in book 5.
Coincidentally around the same time that she freed herself of Winter and realized her sharpest weapon was her mind, not her sword.
It was a pretty noticeable bit of character development since the end of book 4 was the first turning point where she stopped ruining herself to win battles, and started giving up battles to avoid ruin
Sure. It’s just that having that just start with the new book, with no explicit build-up to it, feels a bit jarring.
There’s been a lot of explicit build-up. She’s been referring to him internally as her father since partway through Book III. The frequency has stepped up a bit in Book V but that’s the only real change there.
She didn’t really do so without reserve like she’s been doing, as far as I remember. She called him “almost my father” or something like it, I think, but never this much recognition. Again, if I recall correctly.
Bk III Ch 57 (https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2018/01/08/chapter-57-revolve/), last sentence: “The last part I remembered of that night was my father’s hands putting a blanket over me.”
She’s been doing this for a while. The tempo and ease of the references to Amadeus as her father have increased, but the precedent was set a long time ago now.
Ayyy replied to completely the wrong thing/completely misintepreted you. PLEASE IGNORE ME
Uh, what?
I replied on the premise that you were saying there was no explicit buildup to Cat calling Black her father, but then I looked again and saw that you were replying to the comment about Cat starting to say “mistake” like Black does. So I thought that was what you were talking about when you said there was no explicit buildup. But I guess you actually were talking about her calling Amadeus her father?
…yes? I am *very* confused.
As was I, clearly. I think we’re both talking about the same thing now though.
IT WAS IN BOOK 4 AND I DIED WHEN IT WAS
Now the question is: Is undead Liliet still Liliet?
is undead Akua still Akua? 😀
Who knows.
Everdark, which was ironic since they were the farthest apart. Black also had lost his soul at this point fighting an illegal war against Procer(most likely for Chat to distract crusade)
An illegal war? According to whose laws? Having an international regulation of… well, anything, is sort of the point of the story.
Only the people may declare war
I didn’t know you read the serial, Anaxares! Shout-out from a fan!
A Cat-chphrase, if you will.
…this is a bad idea but eh, fuck it.
CatXKairos. I’ll ship it.
Impossible, I know. But there’s weirder ships out there in the sea.
Honestly I ship it too. They play off each other pretty well.
One of them would be a widow by the end of the first hour.
It would be a glorious hour though.
It would bring the Red Wedding to shame.
Honestly, I ship them too. She’s probably one of the only people in the world that really understands what he’s about and he could probably get her to lighten up a little. They’d both probably be planning on how to best murder eachother but Kairos would probably view that as a great couple activity.
nah, they’d be a terrible match bc the minute Cat learned of Kairos’s tragic backstory she’d be too distracted dealing with sudden sympathy to be any fun for him anymore
Eh. Old Akua and Kairos was my ship. Malicia should have arranged the political union to make them big ass targets for Heroes throughout Calernia. It’d have brought her more tangible Intelligence assets on Heroic capabilities & weaknesses as well as political time than Akua’s Folly as a big stick to play whack-a-mole.
Maybe, I’ve always been a sucker for a good ol’ opposites attract couple though.
Opposites, as in “my deepest desire is to burn the world to see how high the pyre reaches and yours is for people not to do that anymore” opposites?
Your ships need counseling, sir.
I never claimed my ships were overly stable in the long-term.
Kelthor
Eh I kinda just want them to be best buds. Not saying married people can’t be best buds, but it feels like it would change the dynamic between the two.
I’m currently shipping CatXAkua.
My fleet:
CatAkua (without skipping any steps or changing their current dynamic, let them do what they are doing, I ship THAT)/CatIndrani/IndraniAkua/IndraniMasego (qp)
CatRozala
(crack) CatCordelia
major friend ships that get my heart aflutter also:
Cat/Juniper
Cat/Laurence (yes I’m serious)
At this point I am not sure you are a shipper anymore, at this point I feel like you are running a fucking port.
I’m the aro ace poly dockmaster!
Whiteeyes
“How dare you try to predict my actions! I can’t predict my actions, who gave you the right to try!?”
I’m pretty sure that was his exact thought process.
More to the point, though, the Tyrant’s whole thing is the defiance of Fate – it’s the whole reason he became a Villain in the first place, and the driving reason behind why he does what he does.
Kairos came into his Name by beating Fate and making the prophecy of his death into a lie, so he is among the best-equipped people to fight an oracle.
That also means that fighting someone pretending to use Fate against him, Kairos will take the matter VERY seriously and personal.
More like “go ahead and predict my actions, i DARE you to try”
Skein: “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
Catherine: “challenge accepted”
Tyrant is a very simple man. He see a opening, he stab.
If that’s so, he should get acquainted with Robber.
The typos made this chapter slightly harder to follow, but my word the chapter itself was great. Cat saying mistake in Ashkaran is one of the crowning highlights of this series. How many times can one sass the fucking Dead King.
Also more insightful readers, was Kairos unraveling Spool by using his Wish aspect? He doesn’t say it out loud but the Skeins line about Wish all you want makes me think so
That, plus he seems to better at the Maddened Fields strategy than Cat was.
Yeah, he doesn’t even need to try, his mind is just naturally like that ;u;
Plus I bet he made special study of the woman who “defeated” his most famous predecessor.
Probably. I think the only time you have to say an aspect is the first time you use it.
Yeah, Kairos outright says it when Skein first uses Spool.
“Do you think the wishes of the conquered matter more than those of contenders?”
It’s interesting how Wish is working here, it’s not reading Skein’s heart and wishes, it’s turning his spooling back of time into wishful thinking, an immaterial thing. That’s almost going Meta, but I guess the fact that Kairos came into his Name by beating a prophecy might be giving him an edge against time/fate-related abilities.
Overcoming Fate is the very beginning of Kairos’ story, an Oracle is screwed against him.
It could also be that the aspect here is reading the Tyrants own wishes and makes them reality. He wished to stay in this “timeline”, so it can’t be changed by the Skein.
I think it’s not that meta and much more straightforward: Wish allows Kairos to “make a wish” and have it come true, at the cost of years of his life (which pissed him off for Skein to bring up / try to use against him). Wish in DnD can mimic the effect of any spell iirc; in this case it was Counterspell to Skein’s Spool :3
How does years of his life work I wonder? Don’t Villains have an endless life span? Maybe it twists Fate so that no matter what he’ll reach a violent end faster
I like this theory, but I wonder how it STARTED. I mean, I’d think this was his first aspect, as it was needed to overcome the prophecy and make the rest possible, but at that point Kairos didn’t have a lifespan. Or rather, it was a very, very short one.
If his fate was originally to die at age 13, and he’s older than that now, maybe the only way to kill him is to de-age him.
I think while that’s true for villains in general it might not be true for Kairos
I took it as something more complicated — like he was determined to use Wish to wish to do something the Skein hadn’t foreseen. So instead of seeing one, or a few, clear threads forward, the Skein kept seeing more and more possibilities — it couldn’t lock one down because as soon as it saw one possibility, Wish made that not what Kairos would choose to do in the actual coming future.
Oh, I like that interpretation.
He wouldn’t need Wish for that, it’s his natural thought process 😀 😀 😀
On one hand, this was *awesome*. On the other, seeing Neshamah outwitted like this is a bit anticlimactic. If he truly has been, I mean.
Now to picture Black’s soul laughing at what Cat just said… he most likely can’t understand Ashkaran, but surely he knows what she said.
I’m sure he can tell, because at that moment she probably has the punchably smug face that he would do in the same situation.
Y’know, just like when Nauk pointed out she make ‘the face’ that usually means they’ll win.
And I think it was Hellhound that explains she has basically the grinch’s evil smile in that moment.
Don’t remember when it was, but probably long before Arcadia.
Battle of Three Hills. Backs against the river, outnumbered by the Silver Spears, and Cat starts smiling. So Nauk relaxes, certain in their victory.
Well Black’s thing is that he *wouldn’t* smile or gloat so hard he’d underflow the humility and cross right back into smug territory. But yeah, Cat’s probably got that smile right now.
I actually bet he can’t guess what she said bc he wouldn’t expect her to use HIS catchphrase :3
Also, no wonder Neshamah got outwitted: this is Catherine’s chosen battlefield, hearts and minds of allies :3
I also wouldn’t be surprised if getting beaten by Catherine here wasn’t actually Neshamah’s preferred outcome: sure he loses a short term opportunity, but he gains a long term rival/peer 😀
What is even long term when you are the Dead King? Cat has extended lifespan, but she’s still dust in the wind.
That’s not what he’s saying!
Yes, he minimized the lifespan difference when he was trying to argue her into accepting a bad gamble. It was in his interest that she think she would still be around in a hundred years, and that she think herself a threat to him then. I am not saying he lied – he didn’t tell her she’d live forever – but it was in his interest to frame his answer in such a way.
I just get general narrative vibes for “like fuck Cat’s dying in a mere single human lifespan”, too ;u;
I could see some kind of final sacrifice ending for her. Because as much as she says so, I don’t see her moving to The Garden and becoming a farmer after her deeds are done.
Of course not, are you kidding me? She walks off into sunset (probably to another continent, to wander with Indrani) and Callow knows her as the Queen who will return in their darkest hour 😀
Maybe. I wonder whether she can, though, embroiled with Sve Noc as she is.
I’m sure they won’t mind once she’s set them up ❤
“Outwitted” it’s a stretch, I feel. this is a tiny, tiny part of all the DK is doing. Heck, even this “meteor Arcadia unto my enemies’ armies” is a small part of all he’s doing.
He is the Enemy, the Hidden Horror, the Adversary. He is the mind on his side fighting the war, and he is winning.
Recruiting the Tyrant and sending the Skein were two moves in this clash with the heroes in this particular battle.
Outplayed? Peraphs, good sir, but not outmaneuvered.
Not yet, and not by a long shot.
I guess this does fit within his MO: sure, she outplayed him, but he hasn’t really lost much… well, except for a few revenants.
Until we understand what he has done to Masego we can’t begin to understand this fight.
True. My argument, however, is that the DK doesn’t do climatic battles. He controls the field. He will have to be outmaneuvered A LOT to be forced into a decisive confrontation, because he, like Cat, understands how that story ends.
So he plays it safe. Set so many irons in the fire that it doesn’t matter if the heroes turn some of them.
> seeing Neshamah outwitted like this is a bit anticlimactic.
Oh, the show ain’t over ’till the fat lady sings. But for the first time, Cat has maneuvered DK into a misstep, instead of jumping through his hoops. She really is a contender.
M0och
I think this series has turned into my religion…
Because gods, how can a series be this f*cking awesome in every aspect!
Damn. Tricking the Dead King into showing some skin so that the Tyrant couldn’t help but stab him in it. For a relatively improvised plot that was brilliant (assuming it was part of the plan). The fight is still young though.
Neshamah’s Folly
I think that the moment that Cat stops feeling fear, is the moment that she dies.
I think Cat agrees with you XD
Get scolded in your own dead tongue. Catherine’s been showing her mind and her words are sharper than any blade tonight. How many people could trash the dead king in an encounter, let alone with just words? The intercessor? Points for sheer power and style.
I’m not understanding something here; why would the Dead King showing up make him not a threat to the Tyrant?
Kai Merah
It’s not that it doesn’t make him a threat, it’s that if you’re trying to appease your enemies/underlings or trying to prevent conflict between yourself and your enemy/underling, clearly, you’re only doing so because you consider said enemy/underling a threat. To Kairos, Dead King showing up means Kairos is important/threatening enough to need appeasement. So he thinks he can stand a chance of double-crossing the Dead King now, since the Dead King considers him a worthy opponent/threat. And between double-crossing Cat, and double-crossing Dead King, it’s clearly a more awesome feat to successfully double-cross and beat Dead King.
Because he makes the move to step in to try to re-establish his control over his chained tiger. Tyrant is so ingrained in his role, that he simply cannot ignore the chance to turn on his ‘superior’
It’s the Way of the Starscream: why be content in just backstabbing Galvatron when you can target Megatron? Or, you know, both?
How soon until Tyrant back stabs himself though?
He does that every time he uses Wish :3
You’re mixing up the pronouns in this bit (understandably, there’s a lot of “he” in there):
“Because the moment he’d made an effort to not be at odds with the Tyrant of Helike, he’d made every lie I’d spoken irrelevant. Because, in the eyes of the Tyrant, he would only be worth appeasing if he was a threat.”
Kairos isn’t being convinced that the Dead King is a threat. Kairos is realizing that the Dead King doesn’t consider HIM to be a threat, based on the Dead King addressing him as an ally.
See, Kairos doesn’t want to be an ally who works with you to achieve your mutual goals, he wants to be the enemy who you have to have to pay off to achieve your goal even though it’s his goal, too. He’s not happy making any deal that strikes your as fair, and if he finds out you think his deal is fair then he’s going to try to start over and extort you harder. If you’re not offering him a deal you hate so that he’ll work with you, he thinks you don’t properly appreciate how much you’d hate to have him working against you.
He’s taking this chance to fuck the Dead King over so that *next time* he’s given the opportunity to sell out the Grand Alliance (and/or the fate of Calernia), that undead bastard will *pay him what’s he worth*.
You’re reading this wrong too.
“Because the moment he’d [The Dead King] made an effort to not be at odds with the Tyrant of Helike, he’d [the Dead King] made every lie I’d spoken irrelevant. Because, in the eyes of the Tyrant, he [The Tyrant] would only be worth appeasing if he [The Tyrant] was a threat.”
The Dead King revealed that the Trant was in fact a threat to the Dead King, and so a betrayal of the Dead King would have actual weight. Making it impossible to pass up.
Among all the replies I like yours best.
It doesn’t. What it does is show that the Tyrant can be a threat to the Dead King, and that was a mistake, because a chance to effectively betray the Dead King is so amazing that the Tyrant cannot pass it up.
So Karios is more and more becoming one of my favorite charcter in general.
I almost wish the armies below could be seeing this, could you imagine how each army would be reacting? Also i loved how badass the Tyrant was in this chapter, and Cat too of course, i can imagine how Laurence will react but it will be interesting to see anyway.
Also as soon as i saw the title i had to go to youtube and listen to the bleach soundtrack Treachery, you guys should try too xD
More_Dakka
The armies are watching on giant projected screens on the night sky. Every few minutes the betting odds for who out of the band survives changes and money changes hands. Cat remains the favorite and Tyrant’s odds look like a heartbeat graph
Thank you. That image made me smile. 🙂 🙂 🙂
It’s all going to be about who’s standing to tell the stories.
Cat &co. aren’t merely making history with this mission, they’re making mythology for future generations.
YE A H
Has anybody considered that Cat might be wrong and Neshamah didn’t misread Kairos? That everything’s still within his plans? He must have some idea to dodge the Party of Five.
Very unlikely.
Neshamah isn’t THAT committed here, he’s just going for an opportunity. He can’t legit utilize all the resources he could or he’d expose himself to a narrative vulnerability.
So when Cat picked the battlefield, he met her on it. And it’s the battlefield Catherine WINS on.
Correction, it’s the field Catherine is better on. Remember that the DK is all about never being vulnerable, His losses are always things that don’t ultimately hurt him. You can put him back in the bottle but he’ll always come back. It’s important because I don’t think the game he’s playing is what we see.
Yeah, Cat’s best case outcome here is ‘I win and DK doesn’t win but doesn’t lose either’ bc she can’t make him lose.
As I said elsewhere, I wouldn’t be surprised if “Catherine outwits me in this fairly simple scheme that gives her a huge advantage by nature of battlefield and circumstances” was actually his preferred outcome here.
Catherine is still fucking awesome.
“And now, for my next trick”
She does have pretty good stagecraft these days; I also liked the finger-snap when ToS got herself destroyed. (I originally wrote “auto-Darwinated”, but on further consideration, Darwin doesn’t apply here. 😉 )
“Not exactly my doing, but given the opportunity to pretend otherwise, why wouldn’t I?”
It’s not completely new, but she has come a step beyond her early “<blink> I meant to do that” moments. 😉
After the ‘now for my next trick’ I can’t stop picturing Cat as a stage magician. You KNOW she’d love it.
so uh about our earlier bard discussion
in DnD bards can have any kind of Perfomance skill, not just music: dance, oratory, comedy, whatever
Cat’s got Perfomance (stage magician)
She’s been going for it ever since “The answer to this question may surprise you!” but she only started succeeding recently ;u;
I wonder if Cat can pull a trick with the Night to give Black’s soul a temporary body to use once she gets him loose, the same way she used Winter to give Akua’s soul a temporary body to use.
That’s my guess, yeah. The most obvious thing to do here.
Brilliant chapter. ❤ Cat demonstrates once again how important it is to truly understand other players.
Well done to everyone who guessed that King Edward and Amadeus would make an appearance.
Black has to be watching this like a proud father.
“That’s my daughter that just manipulated the Hidden Fucking Horror into making a narrative that she can win with”
I was just thinking myself he was probably shedding a quiet little soul-tear of liquid pride…
Well played, Cat, now that you’ve stirred the pot, can you fish a decent victory from it? You’ve always had a talent for it, but the Dead King is old, old, Old.
Vin reisling
So every time he uses wish he spends lifespan? Very fitting for the tyrant.
How did you come to that conclusion?
Skein said that?
oh yeah whoops. I kind of hopped over that sentence it seems.
And less overpowered.
It sounded vaguely like that, but it doesn’t make sense — Kairos has already lived past his fated span, and Villains never grow old.
thearpox23
He doesn’t AGE. How much “lifeforce” he’s still got in him is still anybody’s guess.
I’m sure if Masego was around he’d be able to provide some pedantic commentary on the nature of using your own lifeforce to power your spells or aspects.
There is a lot of uncertainty, but it is not hard to imagien his Naming to go something like:
– Kairos is dying and won’t make it past the year because sickness and prophecy.
– Kairos becomes the Tyrant and can’t get sick/die of sickness anymore.
– Kairos gets an aspect that allows him to cheat prophecies, odds, logic and probably trigonometry.
– the aspect is powerful and versatile, but comes with a finite amount of uses that do not replenish.
– When Kairos runs out of uses, he dies.
I think Kairos tricked Djinny (metaphorical, but given how many artifacts Theodosians acquired during the years he might as well had one chained somewhere) into granting him a Final Wish before death, and Kairos somehow used it not to die. A deal a lot like Cat’s acquisition of Winter dukedom and then queenship, only that it’s less pure chaos and more belief and backstabbing, madmen getting wings and all that.
Maybe that’s why he needs to always be a villain.
Interesting idea, but not sure how that works when villains are immortal.
Villains are not immortal. They die, just not of old age or normal disease.
That’s actually what ‘immortality’ is often presented as. 😉
Not being un-killable, but simply not aging and not dying of diseases, but only dying when getting killed by a foe (which is mostly still a hard thing to do). Being a mortal, as the corresponding parallel, meaning you age, get sick etc. and can be killed rather easily. The difference between gods and mortals.
But yeah, there is also the version where “immortal” means “unkillable”, no matter what. (Which is not the same as ‘cannot be imprisoned and/or suffer’.)
I’m no longer sure which of these versions is the original one. *shrugs
I loved how Skein prompted to attack the band not when Saint go on about like a powergamer, not when Sorcerer joined the fray but when Cat started a nonchalant chat with Tyrant…
Well, that’s when the future changed in his vision 😀
Yeah: spot the real crisis point. *waggles eyebrows*
Cat showing up was the crisis point! 😉
Does Rend destroy all manners of illusions, including Arcadia and Hells? Like clearing a path to destination or something. He pulled Dead King’s real self (which was speaking) through Skein’s body, possibly destroying poor rat in the process?
Or, more likely, he just dropped Skein to Creation into the loving embrace of three armies.
Oooooouch that’s going to be bad for those armies.
Skein might be able to do some damage just as a big-ass fighter, but his time-power won’t help him much — even without Cat, the Legions alone have Juniper and other legendary generals running them. There is no path where he beats them.
Skein is 60 ft tall.
On a plain against an unprepared army thats one sated ratling and one very dead army.
The Callowan side has fought demons, and some of the Procerans have fought Ratlings before. They have mages and siege engines.
And most damning, the Skein would be detached from their own story, thus drained of all narrative support.
That says… the Skein isn’t necessarily relevant, because it just got possessed by the Dead King himself! What happens if (he might resist) he gets dumped in the middle of those armies, some of which have experience fighting his undead and perhaps even monsters… and *still* without narrative weight?
I think DK can stop possessing Skein any time he wants to.
Which then reverts to Skein vs. everybody, with the added handicap of having been discarded by his maker.
Skein’s story is absolutely army devourer pls
it’s a Horned Lord
it’s a monster from the kind of godzilla/nge story where the army just serves as a first course to show how tough it is
The problem is, it’s out of its story — leagues away from the warrens it came from, dropped into a bunch of armies all of whom were waiting for a far more important story to play out. I figure that demotes it at least to “monster of the week”, where immense size just means easy targeting. Even if DK stays with it, any time he spends fighting the army is time he spends outside the shard and leaving the initiative to the party.
their PRIMARY objective here is to preserve the armies though
Skein is 60 ft tall, but he would be surrounded by a lot of magic users and trained soldiers with siege weapons (also, is it day right now? Because otherwise we can add a lot of Mighty).
Granted, he would do some damage, but as soon as the side gets its shit together he’s done. He’s not a demon and doesn’t have auras of corruption or anything that prevents him from getting hit by a lot of fire at the same time. He is powerful, he heals, but still. He vs everyone is not a good bet.
sure maybe he won’t wreck the entire army, just like 60% or so of it
given Cat was like ‘no more than 15% losses’,
I feel like you are overexagerating its power. Skein was the stuff of nightmare, but he plays that role as a leader of ratlings, not as a one-man army. Other Horned Lord, perhaps, could play that role, but he is the schemer among them. Schemers don’t shine when thrown on a different plane and into a battle.
Also, your argument about a godzilla story has merit in a vacuum in this setting, but that is not the story currently being told: Skein is not the Big Bad, it is the instrument discarded by its maker (as pointed out by Mental Mouse) to cut its losses, at least presumably. Skein is not the main antagonist, is not even the most relevant instrument here (I suspect Old Fairfax is going to be the next attempt by the DK). There really isn’t enough of neither narrative weight or physical might to threaten THREE ARMIES.
Quite frankly, if there was, the war would be irrelevant. If one revenant can bring that much destruction, what does the DK even care if they can craft a path to pop these guys north? He has 50 KNOWN revenants.
that’s why fortifications matter
I’m talking about the scenario where Skein is dropped right in the camp 😡
Depends on how long in Creation the party has been in the Arcadia/Liesse Shard. Time shenanigans being a thing with stuff related to Arcadia.
If it hasn’t been that long in Creation, it will technically be day, but Fall will still be in effect, enabling the Mighty.
If it’s been a bit longer in Creation, it’ll be regular daylight. Longer still, and regular night may have arrived.
At any rate, the Army of Callow will still have their fortifications.
Also, there’s the distinct possibility that Andronike and/or Komena will be present and find the Skien offensive. Or just aggravating enough to do something about if it starts popping off Spool or other Aspects in their immediate vicinity.
Plus, the Alliance forces still have most of their Levantine combat priests.
Actual Wizard
I’m really liking Cat’s new catchphrase of “Mistake.”
It really helps to show how much she has internalized her narrative perception and character insight.
Oh, that’s not what it shows.
It’s her father’s.
Using Rend in a unstable realm soon to crash into creation that is also connected to multiple hells.
I think everything going to hell is an understatement. Everything is going to *Fun*.
Satchrd
Wait did he take the cotton candy from the clowns?
Man no props in the comments for the Saint? I don’t like her, but when she is committed to your side (even when she hates your guts), she doesn’t mess around. She just basically committed to fighting 2000+ devils until either she is dead (and the Band loses), or Cat wins.
MAN YEAH
everything else was distracting but LAURENCE DE MONTFORT IS HARDCORE & BADASS AND THE BEST
you know when Cat’s starting to find her comforting the tides are shifting 😀
Speaking about shifting tides… I was really interested in the following exchange
A helpful reminder that ‘on my side’ didn’t mean friendly or any less generally horrid, I noted.
I found the last line jarring because I assumed Laurence was trying for gentle sass rather than cutting words. Is this Cat being too wedded to her current view of Laurence? Or hasn’t Laurence shifted as much as I thought she might have?
Maybe that’s just how she talks and she can’t help it.
I think it’s a combination of two factors
– Catherine is absolutely going with the worst view of Laurence she can out of inertia
– while Laurence is most definitely trying for quipping / friendly teasing, that’s not an easy tone to nail down and she ain’t the most socially graceful person around, so… the joke fell flat, sharp needle up
This chapter was a blast, and the conclusion was perfect. Cat and Kairos, whispering a word each to turn a desperate situation on its head? The Black Queen whispering but an obscure reference, and sounding more deadly with that than the Tyrant unleashing his full regalia?
That’s the good stuff. More, please. You have provvided over four books worth of this, and I have not yet had enough. Not nearly.
On the side of Heroes, quite a bit to consider.
Saint keeps to her turn into ally of the month, not simply because she stands alone against the Horde (it’s not really a surprise, coming from her) but becaus eshe keeps interacting with Cat in a very different way.
And I am really curious to find out what has started this. Many suggests it is Archer’s revelation of being in love, but I can’t say I’m convinced.
I’m looking forward to our getting confirmation or being revealed her thought process.
As for RS.. I’ve long being suspecting Amadeus soul was in there, but I’ll admit now I’m feeling unconvinced. It isn’t that we see Amadeus captive (could be an illusion, could be a trick, could be his soul was spliced, could be he left a trace in RS…), it’s more that RS blunders a lot in this chapter in a non-Amadeus way, and I don’t feel like it is required to keep up appearances or anything of the sort. The theory seems weaker now.
Which makes it more likely his olive branch to Cat was genuine, which is good for them both?
Amadeus doesn’t need to actually possess someone to influence them. Compare to his effect on Pilgrim.
Granted, but the theory was that Amadeus was actually driving the show from within. Having influenced RS out of screen is not quite the same.
You may very well be right, but the possession theory has been crippled IMO.
Actually, my guess was that he’d followed Cat’s example and had a discussion with the spirit.
The possession theory was always annoying, having an actually sane new hero was far more interesting. And is!
Yeah ❤ ❤ ❤
RE: Laurence’s shifting perspective, I held a similar mindset to you but Liliet and I had a long chat about it after the last chapter and they managed to convince me that Laurence had shifted more than I thought. You can check it out https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2019/05/20/chapter-42-twined/#comment-42554
I do agree with you though that it would be good to get some PoV confirmation.
RE: Amadeus and the Rogue Sorcerer. I no longer think Black was/is influencing RS but if he was then I’m sure it will be confirmed by the text at some stage.
I saw that discussion, and you can in fact find my own thoughts scrolling down.
I can’t say I’m currently convinced by those arguments, but hey, I’ve been wrong often before.
So have I. Many times. 🙂
Somehow people still insist on the misconception that Villains are somehow immortal. It was explicitly stated within the first two books, that Heroes get the OPTION/POSSIBILITY of true resurection (no undead nonsense, the actual real deal), while Villains get to always be at their physical prime. That means that they do not age, but like most Named, their end is violent and they do not tend to live longer then the average Hero. No Named gets sick due to less then extrem circumstances, Heros just have to deal with getting physically slower and weaker as time goes on as well.
liate7
Immortal is often used for unaging, not just for unkillable. For example, Tolkien elves are general considered immortal (evidence the wikipedia page), even they decidedly are killable.
I thought that too, annoying as that linguistic imprecision is, there are however regular comments that from context give me the impression that people consider lack of aging as genuine immortality.
Just to lay it out, for me agelessnes means that getting your head chopped of kills you, immortal means that somebody can take your body apart molecule by molecule, atom by atom (Cloud of Desintegration for example), and that all you have to do is just find or make a new body for yourself. That of course does not include phylacteries or other soulcontainers being involved, that would merely be undeath.
I know, some may say that is splitting haires, in a world where there are things such as ghosts and other undead, demons, angels, faires that are regularily reborn, elfs that can bend how reality works as well as gods and Gods, it does matter in my opinion. Considering how much precision is involved in Names and Aspects in the Guidverse, means it matters a great deal.
Immunity to aging/disease/natural causes while still being killable is in some sources/series referred to as being immortal (lowercase “i”), while having those immunities while not being killable/inherent automatic respawn/resurrection is referred to as being Immortal (uppercase/capital “I”).
It gets complicated. And potentially confusing.
On the other hand, I’m not sure that there’s a good term (especially a widely known one) that’s explicitly “immune to aging, diseases, or other forms of death by natural causes, but can be killed”.
But everybody knows that if you say that somebody/something is “immortal”, aging and natural causes are not something they need to worry about, even though their killability is unclear. That’s when you get phrases like “immortal until killed”.
The big thing to realize is that in the Guideverse, the human condition is rather more negotiable than in our own. Villains get some protection from aging, all Named get protection from disease and similar “boring story” threats. And, of course, each Named gets a unique selection of magical powers! In the text, Named are occasionally contrasted to “mortals”, usually in the context of a Named tearing through ranks of un-Named soldiers.
Even so, there’s a definite presence of “gods in the world” (as distinguished from Above and Below), which are basically exempt from the “human condition” altogether. They’re not necessarily unkillable, as demonstrated by the one that Captain “broke”, but they simply don’t have to deal with the ordinary concerns of the living — not just aging, but even food, air, or any injury short of the outright fatal. The fae fall under that description, so the most powerful of them are commonly described as gods, and have even been worshipped. The power level of gods seems to overlap with the upper reaches of Named power, but can extend well beyond that — especially after they renounce mortal concerns… like Cat didn’t.
Great chapter, but there seem to be more typos than usual. I don’t like to complain because you’re giving us a great story at an insanely fast pace, but the portion in the middle where Cat and the Tyrant talk was honestly hard to read.
Great chapter, but there were more typos than usual. I don’t like to complain b/c you’re giving us a great story at an insanely fast pace, but the part in the middle where Cat and Kairos bargain was a little hard to read.
The absolute contrast between the Dead King and the Tyrant is really quite remarkable. They are arguably the most Villainous Villains on the Continent, but are polar opposites in just about everything. The Dead King doesn’t do anything without meticulous planning, minimizing risk, pulling back at the slightest hint of danger and seems to keep and place importance on deals. He’s an ageless existance and determined to stay that way. The Tyrant on the other hand is flying by the seat of his pants, positively high diving into danger and quite possibly burning up his life force as he goes. They’re just nothing alike, but still follow the same ideals religiously.
And they don’t, at that.
Kairos does.
Neshamah ‘bit the hand that fed him’ :3
You’re kidding, right? Kairos has been all “hands are yummy!” from Day 1.
ah wait I got it. Well, Kairos is defintely doing something close to that, but he’s still following the philosophy while Neshamah’s got his own :3
I know I’m a little late for this kinda comment, but about the Rogue Sorcerer. All of y’all are assuming he’s a stealthy magic user, but may I pose this question? What happens when an agent goes Rogue?
Let’s look at what he’s done so far. RS has carried the soul of the (arguably) greatest Villain of the Age, led an army /safely/through incredibly hostile territory (the Arcadian Fragment), got thrown off a Cliff by a Traitorous Villain, has publicly sided /With/ Cat (the Arch-Heretic) against the Grey Pilgrim and the Saint of Swords, and has most recently been seen subverting/negating magics intended to impede/harm him.
The Rogue Sorcerer isn’t the hiding type, he’s the Practical type, even if that means going rogue.
Yes. I think RS will turn out to be a useful ally to Cat.
Kwabena Yiadom
I remember the chapter on how he acheived his apotheosis ended with the bard laughing much like the twin gods. Can it be called a win if she practically celebrated it?
I love this story, but the typos really bother me. I decided that I couldn’t handle them any more. I’ll be posting an edited version of the chapter as soon as I can from now on.
Here is this one! None of that
I don’t know what would possibly make you think this was all right, but don’t do that again. I’ll be contacting you by email.
It’s a bit late, but in my reread I turned up “original text” supporting Cat’s crown:
> But I was in charge in their eyes, wasn’t I? The legalities we’d been quibbling about all day didn’t mean dust in the eyes of the Gods. … Which meant that if I made a choice, Above took that as a choice for all of Callow.
From the end of https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/chapter-21-tug-of-war/ .
oh my god that was so good
it’s rigid and inflexible asshole winter Cat but it’s still one of her best moments ;u;
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When Love Came Calling
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Can you ever forget that one perfect relationship you had? Anjali knows who she wants, she wants Aman. Aman too knows who he wants, he wants Shruti. Shruti and Aman were once inseparable. Theirs was a love that would last forever and more. Then, out of the blue, Shruti left Aman. A devastated Aman moved abroad in the hope of forgetting Shruti and to heal. Shruti married Rishabh. Now Aman is back in India and looking for a fresh start. But he is still haunted by memories of his love. Can he ever break free from it? His head tells him to move on, to find love with Anjali, but his heart won’t listen. No matter what he does, Shruti’s shadow looms large. Can there be a happily-ever-after for any of them? A straight-from-the-heart modern-day romance of unrequited love, of complicated relationships and about moving on when you realise that there will always be the one you cannot have.
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Don Lemon Rips Into Jeffrey Lord for Describing Trump as “MLK of Health Care”
The CNN commentator refused to apologize for the controversial remarks.
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CNN commentator Jeffrey Lord drew instant outrage on Thursday after he described President Donald Trump as the “Martin Luther King of health care,” while supporting Trump’s reported plan to cut subsidies to the poor in order to force Democrats into negotiating on a health care bill. According to Lord, the two were comparable because they were willing to put “people in the street in harm’s way” to pass legislation.
By evening, the conservative pundit was still defending the outrageous remarks. During a segment with Don Lemon, Lord repeatedly refused to apologize and dismissed Lemon’s claim that the comparison was insulting. Lord even attempted to tell an anecdote about his father losing employment after defending a black waitress, before Lemon swiftly cut him off.
“Don’t take me to some before-the-war crap,” Lemon said. “I want to hear what you’re saying to the coworkers you work with now, Jeffrey. Answer the question now.”
“I want to hear now to the coworkers, to the people of color you work with on this network every single day, who were offended by your remarks.”
Lord responded by claiming, “We don’t judge people by color in this country.”
WATCH: And here we have my boy @donlemon saying enough is enough to Jeffrey Lord. So proud of you Don. https://t.co/6JATc7cBTC
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Romney’s New Spanish-Language Ad Says Absolutely Nothing
Before Mitt Romney was dodging questions about his tax returns and his role at Bain Capital, he was was trying to squirm out of stating a coherent immigration policy. In a new Spanish-language ad, Romney carefully avoids taking an actual position on immigration policy, substituting gauzy platitudes about bipartisan solutions and America being a “nation of immigrants” instead of saying what he’d actually do. That’s probably because most Latino voters wouldn’t like it if Romney said what he’d actually do.
The ad, which is narrated by Romney’s son Craig, also touts the fact that Mitt Romney’s father was born in Mexico:
The spot isn’t only vague—it’s also misleading. As Huffington Post‘s Elise Foley notes, Craig Romney says, “As president, my father will work on a permanent solution to the immigration system, working with leaders of both parties.” Typically that has meant comprehensive immigration reform, which Romney has opposed or supported over the years based on which part of the Republican base he’s trying to appeal to.
During the GOP primary, Romney campaigned as an immigration restrictionist, hammering his colleagues for supporting “amnesty” and talking up “self deportation.” He promised to veto the DREAM Act, though he won’t say where he stands on Obama’s decision not to deport the undocumented immigrants who might benefit from it. Now he’s attempting to soften his record on immigration—not by shifting from his hardline positions, but by moderating his rhetoric. It’s easy to understand why—the latest Latino Decisions poll shows President Barack Obama with 70 percent of the Latino vote to Romney’s twenty-two percent. Romney doesn’t have to win the Latino vote to make it to the White House, but those kind of numbers certainly hurt his chances.
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The US Is One of the Top Executioners in the World
A new report looks at the global state of the death penalty.
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The global death penalty rate is skyrocketing. According to the latest tallies, published today by Amnesty International, at least 1,634 people were put to death last year, a 54 percent increase from the previous year. That’s the highest number of recorded executions in more than a quarter century, and it’s not even counting deaths in China, the world’s top executioner, where death penalty data is treated as a state secret.
Most of those deaths were in the Middle East: Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia accounted for nearly 90 percent of all executions in 2015. The vast majority of Iran’s executions were for drug-related crimes, while Pakistan lifted a moratorium on civilian executions in 2014 to more aggressively punish suspected terrorists. In Saudi Arabia, the justice system is so opaque that it’s hard to know what’s driving executions, but since the new king came to power last year, the country has drawn increasing international condemnation for its crackdown on dissidents.
While executions surged in those three countries, the trend elsewhere was more heartening. Four more countries abolished the death penalty last year, which means that for the first time ever, more than half of all nations have legally abolished it. (Other countries have abandoned it in practice, after not executing anyone for at least a decade.)
And where does the United States stand? Just like in 2014, it ranked fifth on the list of the world’s top executioners last year. The country recorded 28 executions, its lowest annual amount since 1991, and 52 new death sentences, the lowest since 1977. Since 1846, 19 states have abolished the death penalty, but even though lethal punishment here is on the decline, we’re still the only country in the Americas to execute people.
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NEXT LEVEL: Stanford volleyball team pays tribute to Sam Wopat
Sam Wopat will continue to be a part of the Stanford women?s volleyball team.
Wopat, a former Dos Pueblos High star, passed away on March 25. She was entering her junior year with the Cardinal.
As a tribute to Sam, the volleyball team will have her initials ?SW? embroidered onto its uniforms.
“It has and will continue to impact this team,” Stanford coach John Dunning of Sam?s passing. “It is one of those things you don’t get past, but you learn to move forward together and keep her memory with you. There is no question that Sam is going to be with this team this year. We are going to put her initials on our uniform as a tribute to her and as a way to bring her onto the court with us every time we play.”
Sam?s twin sister, Carly, is a returning All-American for the Cardinal, who were ranked sixth in the country in the American Volleyball Coaches Association preseason poll.
Carly Wopat told the Web site volleywood.net that Sam inspires her and her teammates to play at the highest level.
?Sam is definitely involved with the team this season,? Carly said. ?The whole team is thinking of her. We?re holding her locker in the locker room. We have her initials on our spandex, so every time we step on the court, she?ll be in our thoughts. Personally, Sam is always in my heart and in my mind. Every point, every game, every match, I?ll be playing for her.?
Carly started all 30 matches at middle blocker last season and led the Pac-12 and ranked second in the nation with 1.63 blocks per set, which was fourth all-time on Stanford’s single season list. She finished with 184 blocks, fifth-most in a single season by a Stanford player, and her .383 hitting percentage ranked third in the conference.
She started her junior year strong, leading Stanford with 10 kills on 15 attempts with just one error and had a match-high six blocks to go along with four digs in a three-set sweep of St. Mary?s at the Rainbow Wahine Invitational in Hawaii. She earned all-tournament honors.
BROWN STARTING FOR IRISH: Sammie Brown, who played with the Wopat sisters at Dos Pueblos, is the starting setter for the Notre Dame women?s volleyball team. Brown dished out 25 assists and collected five digs in a four-set loss to top-ranked UCLA at the Nebraska Tournament.
She led the team with 16 assists in a 3-0 sweep over Saint Louis.
DONS AT BOSTON U: Former Santa Barbara High soccer standouts Kai Miller and Sanford Spivey are starting their second year playing for the Terriers.
Miller had a couple of shots for the BU women?s team in a 2-1 loss to Dayton in a Fox Soccer Channel Game of the Week broadcast on Thursday. Miller was a substitute.
Spivey started for the men?s team in a 3-0 loss to St. John?s.
Last season, he was of only three Terriers to appear in all 18 games, and he was named to the America East All-Rookie Team.
Spivey and the Terriers face a demanding schedule that includes UConn, Providence, Boston College, Wake Forest and defending national champion North Carolina.
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By fax: (781) 238-7055.
By e-mail: 9-ane-adcomment@faa.gov.
Contact General Electric Company via Lockheed Martin Technology Services, 10525 Chester Road, Suite C, Cincinnati, Ohio 45215, telephone (513) 672-8400, fax (513) 672-8422, for the service information identified in this AD.
You may examine the AD docket, by appointment, at the FAA, New England Region, Office of the Regional Counsel, 12 New England Executive Park, Burlington, MA. You may examine the service information, by appointment, at the FAA, New England Region, Office of the Regional Counsel, 12 New England Executive Park, Burlington, MA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Lawrence, Aerospace Engineer, Engine Certification Office, FAA, Engine and Propeller Directorate, 12 New England Executive Park, Burlington, MA 01803; telephone: (781) 238- 7176, fax: (781) 238-7199.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 13, 2004, we issued AD 2004-04- 07, Amendment 39-13488 (69 FR 38; February 26, 2004). That AD requires an initial inspection as a qualification for the mandatory rework procedures for certain disks, and repetitive inspections only for certain disks for which the rework procedures were not required. That action also requires reworking certain disks before further flight. That AD was the result of the manufacturer's investigation and development of a rework procedure to chamfer the aft breakedge of the dovetail slot bottom to reduce stresses. That condition, if not corrected, could result in cracks in the bottoms of the dovetail slots that could propagate to failure of the disk and cause an uncontained engine failure.
Actions Since AD 2004-04-07 Was Issued
Since AD 2004-04-07 was issued, a CF6-80A turbofan engine, installed on a Boeing 767 airplane, experienced an uncontained stage 1 HPT disk failure on June 2, 2006. The disk failure resulted in a fire and significant damage to the airplane. The event occurred during an on-ground maintenance operation.
Relevant Service Information
We reviewed and approved the technical contents of the following GE Service Bulletins (SBs) and Alert Service Bulletin (ASB) that describe procedures for removing, inspecting, and reworking certain stage 1 HPT rotor disks:
SB No. CF6-80E1 S/B 72-0251, dated January 22, 2004;
SB No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0779, Revision 1, dated January 22, 2004;
SB No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0788, Revision 3, dated July 20, 2006;
SB No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0822, dated July 20, 2006;
ASB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-A1026, Revision 2, dated January 22, 2004;
SB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-1089, Revision 3, dated July 20, 2006;
SB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-1217, dated July 20, 2006.
FAA's Determination and Requirements of This AD
The unsafe condition described previously is likely to exist or develop on other GE CF6-80 series turbofan engines of the same type design. This AD requires rework of the dovetail slot bottom of certain stage 1 rotor disks. The disks must pass an inspection to qualify for the rework. This AD also requires removal from service of certain disks for which the rework procedures were not previously required. This AD also tightens the compliance schedule for HPT disks that have not been previously inspected using AD 2004-04-07. Operators must use the compliance schedule carried forward from AD 2004-04-07 or the new compliance schedule below, whichever occurs first:
For stage 1 HPT rotor disks with 9,000 or more cycles- since-new (CSN) on the effective date of this AD, within 250 cycles-in- service (CIS) after the effective date of this AD, or by March 31, 2007, whichever occurs first.
For stage 1 HPT rotor disks with 6,900 or more but fewer than 9,000 CSN on the effective date of this AD, within 500 CIS after the effective date of this AD, or before accumulating 9,250 CSN, or by December 31, 2007, whichever occurs first.
For stage 1 HPT rotor disk with fewer than 6,900 CSN on the effective date of this AD, before accumulating 7,400 CSN, or by December 31, 2008, whichever occurs first.
This AD also removes from service certain CF6-80E1 series disks. You must use the service information described previously to perform the actions required by this AD.
FAA's Determination of the Effective Date
Since an unsafe condition exists that requires the immediate adoption of this AD, we have found that notice and opportunity for public comment before issuing this AD are impracticable, and that good cause exists for making this amendment effective in less than 30 days.
Comments Invited
This AD is a final rule that involves requirements affecting flight safety and was not preceded by notice and an opportunity for public comment; however, we invite you to submit any written relevant data, views, or arguments regarding this AD. Send your comments to an address listed under ADDRESSES. Include ``AD Docket No. 2004-NE-05-D'' in the subject line of your comments. If you want us to acknowledge receipt of your mailed comments, send us a self-addressed, stamped postcard with the docket number written on it; we will date-stamp your postcard and mail it back to you. We specifically invite comments on the overall regulatory, economic, environmental, and energy aspects of the rule that might suggest a need to modify it. If a person contacts us verbally, and that contact relates to a substantive part of this AD, we will summarize the contact and place the summary in the docket. We will consider all comments received by the closing date and may amend the AD in light of those comments.
Examining the AD Docket
You may examine the AD Docket (including any comments and service information), by appointment, between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. See ADDRESSES for the location.
Authority for This Rulemaking
Title 49 of the United States Code specifies the FAA's authority to issue rules on aviation safety. Subtitle I, section 106, describes the authority of the FAA Administrator. Subtitle VII, Aviation Programs, describes in more detail the scope of the Agency's authority.
We are issuing this rulemaking under the authority described in subtitle VII, part A, subpart III, section 44701, ``General requirements.'' Under that section, Congress charges the FAA with promoting safe flight of civil aircraft in air commerce by prescribing regulations for practices, methods, and procedures the Administrator finds necessary for safety in air commerce. This regulation is within the scope of that authority because it addresses an unsafe condition that is likely to exist or develop on products identified in this rulemaking action.
Regulatory Findings
We have determined that this AD will not have federalism implications under Executive Order 13132. This AD will not have a substantial direct effect on the States, on the relationship between the National Government and the States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of government.
For the reasons discussed above, I certify that the regulation:
Is not a ``significant regulatory action'' under Executive Order 12866;
Is not a ``significant rule'' under the DOT Regulatory Policies and Procedures (44 FR 11034, February 26, 1979); and
Will not have a significant economic impact, positive or negative, on a substantial number of small entities under the criteria of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.
We prepared a summary of the costs to comply with this AD and placed it in the AD Docket. You may get a copy of this summary by sending a request to us at the address listed under ADDRESSES. Include ``AD Docket No. 2004-NE-05-AD'' in your request.
List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 39
Air transportation, Aircraft, Aviation safety, Incorporation by reference, Safety.
Adoption of the Amendment
0 Accordingly, under the authority delegated to me by the Administrator, the Federal Aviation Administration amends part 39 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR part 39) as follows:
PART 39--AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES
0 1. The authority citation for part 39 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701.
Sec. 39.13 [Amended]
0 2. The FAA amends Sec. 39.13 by removing Amendment 39-13488 (69 FR 8801; February 26, 2004), and by adding a new airworthiness directive, Amendment 39-14706, to read as follows:
2006-16-06 General Electric Company: Amendment 39-14706. Docket No. 2004-NE-05-AD.
(a) This airworthiness directive (AD) becomes effective September 5, 2006.
Affected ADs
(b) This AD supersedes AD 2004-04-07 (69 FR 8801; February 26, 2004).
(c) This AD applies to the General Electric Company (GE) CF6-80 turbofan engine models listed in the following Table 1:
Table 1.--Applicability Models, Part Numbers, Airplanes
Stage 1 high pressure turbine Engines installed Models
(HPT) rotor disk on but not limited part numbers (P/
to Ns)
CF6-80A, CF6-80A1, CF6-80A2, CF6- 9234M67G22/G24/G25/ Airbus A310 and 80A3.
G26, 9362M58G02/ Boeing 767 G06/G07/G09,
airplanes. 9367M45G02/G04/ G09. CF6-80C2A1, CF6-80C2A2, CF6- 1862M23G01,
Airbus A300, A310, 80C2A3, CF6-80C2A5, CF6-80C2A8, 9392M23G10/G12/ Boeing 747, 767, CF6-80C2A5F, CF6-80C2B1, CF6- G21, 1531M84G02/ and McDonnell 80C2B2, CF6-80C2B4, CF6-80C2B6, G06/G08/G10/G12. Douglas MD11 CF6-80C2B1F, CF6-80C2B2F, CF6-
airplanes. 80C2B4F, CF6-80C2B5F, CF6- 80C2B6F, CF6-80C2B6FA, CF6- 80C2B7F, CF6-80C2D1F. CF6-80E1A2, CF6-80E1A4.......... 1639M41P04........ Airbus A330 airplanes.
These engines are installed on, but not limited to, the airplanes listed in Table 1 of this AD.
Unsafe Condition
(d) This AD results from a recent report of an uncontained failure of a stage 1 HPT disk. The actions specified in this AD are intended to detect and prevent cracks in the bottoms of the dovetail slots that could propagate to
failure of the disk and cause an uncontained engine failure.
(e) You are responsible for having the actions required by this AD performed within the compliance times specified unless the actions have already been done.
CF6-80A, -80A1, -80A2, and -80A3 Engines
Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/N 9362M58G09, With Chamfered Breakedges
(f) At the next piece-part exposure, for stage 1 HPT rotor disks, P/N 9362M58G09, with serial numbers (SNs) listed in Table 2 of this AD, do the following, unless already done using superseded AD 2004-04-07:
Table 2.--SNs of CF6-80A Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disk P/N 9362M58G09-- With Chamfered Breakedges
GWN03RD7 GWN03TKG GWN03TKH GWN03TKJ GWN03W3M GWN03W3N GWN03W3R GWN042J3 GWN04FW2 GWN04FW3 GWN04FW4 GWN04FW5 GWN04H0M GWN04HRA GWN04HRD GWN04HRE GWN04HRF GWN04HRG GWN04HRH GWN04K8N GWN04M9J GWN04M9K GWN04M9L GWN04M9M GWN04M9R GWN04M9T GWN04M9W
(1) Visually inspect the rotor disks for the presence of a chamfer on the aft breakedges of the dovetail slot bottoms. Use paragraph 3.A. of GE Service Bulletin (SB) No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0822, dated July 20, 2006, to do the inspection.
(2) For disks that have the chamfered breakedges, re-mark, fluorescent penetrant inspect (FPI), and eddy current inspect (ECI) the rotor disk. Use paragraph 3.A.(1) of the Accomplishment Instructions of GE SB No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0822, dated July 20, 2006, to re-mark and inspect the rotor disk and remove from service as necessary.
(3) For disks that do not have the chamfered breakedges, remove the disk from service. Use paragraph 3.A(2) of the Accomplishment Instructions of GE SB No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0822, dated July 20, 2006.
Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/Ns 9234M67G22, G24, G25, G26, 9367M45G04, G09, 9362M58G02, G06, G07, and 9362M58G09 with SNs not listed in Table 2 of this AD
(g) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks, P/Ns 9234M67G22, G24, G25, G26, 9367M45G04, G09, 9362M58G02, G06, G07, and 9362M58G09 with SNs not listed in Table 2 of this AD, inspect, rework, and re-mark the disks using paragraphs 3.A.(1) through 3.A.(2) of Accomplishment Instructions of GE SB No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0788, Revision 3, dated July 20, 2006, at the following, unless already done using superseded AD 2004-04-07:
(1) For both new and used stage 1 HPT rotor disks not installed in engines, inspect, rework, re-mark, and remove from service as necessary before further flight.
(2) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks that have been inspected using any version of GE SB No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0779, inspect, rework, re- mark, and remove from service as necessary at the next Engine Shop Visit (ESV) using the compliance times in the following Table 3:
Table 3.--Compliance Times for Inspection and Rework of CF6-80A Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/Ns 9234M67G22, G24, G25, G26, 9367M45G04, G09, 9362M58G02, G06, G07, and 9362M58G09 With SNs Not Listed in Table 2 of This AD--Previously Inspected
Stage 1 HPT rotor disk cycles-since- last-inspection (CSLI) on March 12, Compliance time for inspection 2004 (effective date of superseded AD
and rework 2004-04-07)
(i) More than 1,500 CSLI............... At the next ESV after March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07), but not to exceed 4,500 CSLI. (ii) 1,500 CSLI or fewer............... At the next ESV after March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07), but not to exceed 3,500 CSLI.
(3) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks which have not been inspected using any version of GE SB No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0779, inspect, rework, re-mark, and remove from service as necessary using the following Table 4 or Table 4A compliance times, whichever occurs first:
Table 4.--Compliance Times for Inspection and Rework of CF6-80A Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/Ns 9234M67G22, G24, G25, G26, 9367M45G04, G09, 9362M58G02, G06, G07, and 9362M58G09 With SNs Not Listed in Table 2 of This AD--Not Previously Inspected
Stage 1 HPT rotor disk cycles-since-new Compliance time for inspection (CSN) on the effective date of this AD
and rework
(i) 9,000 or more CSN.................. Within 250 cycles-in-service (CIS) after the effective date of this AD, or by March 31, 2007, whichever occurs first. (ii) 6,900 or more but fewer than 9,000 Within 500 CIS after the CSN.
effective date of this AD, but before accumulating 9,250 CSN, or by December 31, 2007, whichever occurs first. (iii) Fewer than 6,900 CSN............. Before accumulating 7,400 CSN, or by December 31, 2008, whichever occurs first.
Table 4A.--Compliance Times for Inspection and Rework of CF6-80A Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/Ns 9234M67G22, G24, G25, G26, 9367M45G04, G09, 9362M58G02, G06, G07, and 9362M58G09 With SNs Not Listed in Table 2 of This AD--Not Previously Inspected
Stage 1 HPT rotor disk CSN on March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD Compliance time for inspection 2004-04-07)
(i) 10,000 or more CSN................. At the next ESV or within 1,000 CIS after March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07), whichever occurs first. (ii) 5,000 or more CSN but fewer than At the next ESV or within 2,400 10,000 CSN.
CIS after March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07), whichever occurs first, but before accumulating 11,000 CSN. (iii) Fewer than 5,000 CSN............. At the next ESV or within 3,500 CIS after March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07), whichever occurs first, but before accumulating 7,400 CSN.
Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/N 9367M45G02
(h) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks, P/N 9367M45G02, remove the disk from service at the following times:
(1) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks not installed in engines, remove from service before further flight.
(2) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks that have been inspected before the effective date of this AD using any version of GE SB No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0779, and had more than zero CSN at the time of that inspection, remove from service at next ESV.
(3) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks that have not been inspected, or were only inspected with zero CSN before the effective date of this AD using any version of GE SB No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0779, remove from service using the following Table 5 or Table 5A compliance times, whichever occurs first:
Table 5.--Compliance Times for Removal of CF6-80A Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/N 9367M45G02--Not Previously Inspected
Stage 1 HPT rotor disk CSN on the effective date of this AD
Compliance time for removal
(i) 9,000 or more CSN.................. Within 250 CIS after the effective date of this AD, or by March 31, 2007, whichever occurs first. (ii) 6,900 or more but fewer than 9,000 Within 500 CIS after the CSN.
Table 5A.--Compliance Times for Removal of CF6-80A Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/N 9367M45G02--Not Previously Inspected
Stage 1 HPT rotor disk CSN on March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD Compliance time for removal 2004-04-07)
CF6-80C2 Series Engines
Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/N 1531M84G10, With Chamfered Breakedges, Group 1
(i) At the next piece-part exposure, for stage 1 HPT rotor disks, P/N 1531M84G10, with SNs listed in Table 6 (Group 1) of this AD, do the following, unless already done using superseded AD 2004- 04-07:
Table 6.--SNs of CF6-80C2 Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/N 1531M84G10, With Chamfered Breakedges, Group 1
GWN03111 GWN03114 GWN031N2 GWN031N3 GWN031N4 GWN031N5 GWN031N6 GWN031N7 GWN031N8 GWN031N9 GWN031NA GWN031NC GWN032G1 GWN032G2 GWN032G3 GWN032G4 GWN032G5 GWN032G6 GWN032G7 GWN032G8 GWN032G9 GWN032GE GWN0335P GWN0335R GWN033C5 GWN034KR GWN034KT GWN03501 GWN0350M GWN0350N GWN0350P
GWN0350R GWN0350T GWN0350W GWN035M5 GWN035M6 GWN035M7 GWN035M8 GWN035M9 GWN035MA GWN035MC GWN035MD GWN035TH GWN035TJ GWN035TK GWN035TL GWN035TM GWN03699 GWN0369A GWN0369C GWN0369D GWN0369E GWN0369G GWN0369H GWN0369J GWN036JG GWN036JH GWN036JJ GWN036JK GWN036JL GWN036JM GWN036JN GWN03752 GWN03753 GWN03754 GWN03755 GWN03756 GWN03757 GWN03759 GWN0375A GWN0375C GWN0375D GWN0375E GWN037H2 GWN03981 GWN03982 GWN03983 GWN03984 GWN03985 GWN03986 GWN03987 GWN03988 GWN03989 GWN0398A GWN0398C GWN039PF GWN039PG GWN039PH GWN039PJ GWN039PK GWN039PL GWN039PM GWN039PN GWN03A4J GWN03A4K GWN03A4L GWN03A4M GWN03A4N GWN03A4P GWN03A4R GWN03A4T GWN03A4W GWN03C12 GWN03C13 GWN03C14 GWN03CA0 GWN03DC9 GWN03DCA GWN03DCC GWN03DCD GWN03DCE GWN03DCF GWN03DCG GWN03DCH GWN03DCJ GWN03DCK GWN03DCL GWN03DCM GWN03DCN GWN03DCP GWN03DCR GWN03DME GWN03DMF GWN03ER7 GWN03ER8 GWN03ER9 GWN03ERA GWN03FTN GWN03FTP GWN03FTR GWN03FTT GWN03FTW GWN03FW0 GWN03H56 GWN03H57 GWN03H58 GWN03HTL GWN03HTM GWN03HTN GWN03HTP GWN03HTR GWN03HTT GWN03J8T GWN03J8W GWN03J91 GWN03J92 GWN03JNN GWN03JNP GWN03K3C GWN03K3D GWN03K3F GWN03K3G GWN03K3H GWN03K3K GWN03K3L GWN03K3M GWN03K3N GWN03K3T GWN03K3W GWN03K40 GWN03K7R GWN03KR1 GWN03KR3 GWN03KR4 GWN03KR6 GWN03KR7 GWN03KR8 GWN03KRC GWN03L2D GWN03L2E GWN03L2F GWN03LNF GWN03LNJ GWN03LNK GWN03M88 GWN03M8C GWN03M8E GWN03M8J GWN03M8K GWN03NHN GWN03NHP GWN03NHR GWN03R74 GWN03R76 GWN03R78 GWN03R7E GWN03R7F GWN03R9G GWN03R9H GWN03R9M GWN03R9P GWN03R9T GWN03RA2 GWN03RA3 GWN03RA5 GWN03RA8 GWN03RPA GWN03RPC GWN03RPD GWN04026 GWN0402A GWN0402F GWN0402L GWN040R5 GWN04189 GWN0418A GWN0418D GWN0418E GWN0418F GWN0418H GWN0418J GWN0418L GWN0418N GWN0418R GWN04366 GWN044DP GWN0454H GWN0454M GWN0454N GWN045T0 GWN045T2 GWN045T8 GWN045TD GWN045TG GWN04722 GWN04729 GWN047LK GWN048CD GWN048CF GWN048CH GWN048CJ GWN048CK GWN049GJ GWN049M8 GWN049M9 GWN04AER GWN04ALR GWN04AM1 GWN04CGJ GWN04CGN GWN04CGT GWN04CGW GWN04CH3 GWN04CH5
GWN04CH8 GWN04CH9 GWN04D52 GWN04D54 GWN04D56 GWN04D57 GWN04D58 GWN04D59 GWN04DPW GWN04E9K GWN04E9L GWN04E9M GWN04EMA GWN04EMK GWN04EML GWN04EMM GWN04FTL GWN04FTM GWN04FTN
(1) Visually inspect the rotor disks for the presence of a chamfer on the aft breakedges of the dovetail slot bottoms. Use paragraph 3.A. of GE SB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-1217, dated July 20, 2006, to do the inspection.
(2) For disks that have the chamfered breakedges, re-mark, FPI, and ECI the rotor disk. Use paragraph 3.A.(1) of the Accomplishment Instructions of GE SB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-1217, dated July 20, 2006, to re-mark and inspect the rotor disk, and remove from service as necessary.
(3) For disks that do not have the chamfered breakedges, remove the disk from service. Use paragraph 3.A.(4) of the Accomplishment Instructions of GE SB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-1217, dated July 20, 2006.
(j) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks, P/N 1531M84G10, with SNs listed in Table 6A of this AD, with chamfered breakedges, (Group 2):
(1) With more than 6,900 CSN, perform paragraphs (j)(3) through (j)(5) as applicable, at the next ESV, but within 500 CIS after the effective date of this AD, unless already done using superseded AD 2004-04-07.
(2) With 6,900 CSN or fewer, perform paragraphs (j)(3) through (j)(5) as applicable, at the next ESV, but before accumulating 7,400 CSN, unless already done using superseded AD 2004-04-07.
Table 6A.--SNs of CF6-80C2 Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/N 1531M84G10, With Chamfered Breakedges, Group 2
GWN03J90 GWN03K3R GWN03K6J GWN03K7T GWN03KR2 GWN03KR5 GWN03KRA GWN03KRD GWN03M89 GWN03M8D GWN03M8F GWN03NHT GWN03R73 GWN03R75 GWN03R77 GWN03R79 GWN03R7A GWN03R7C GWN03R7D GWN03R7G GWN03R7H GWN03R9J GWN03R9K GWN03R9L GWN03R9N GWN03R9R GWN03R9W GWN03RA0 GWN03RA1 GWN03RA4 GWN03RA6 GWN03RA7 GWN03RP7 GWN03RP9 GWN03RPE GWN03RPF GWN03RPG GWN04027 GWN04028 GWN04029 GWN0402E GWN0402G GWN0402H GWN0402J GWN0402K GWN0402M GWN0402N GWN0402P GWN0418C GWN0418G GWN0418K GWN0418M GWN0418P GWN0418T GWN0418W GWN04190 GWN04191 GWN0454E GWN0454F GWN0454G GWN0454J GWN0454K GWN0454L GWN045T1 GWN045T3 GWN045T4 GWN045T5 GWN045T6 GWN045T7 GWN045T9 GWN045TA GWN045TC GWN045TE GWN045TF GWN045TH GWN046F6 GWN046F7 GWN046F8 GWN04726 GWN047LG GWN047LH GWN047LJ GWN047LL GWN048CG GWN048CM GWN048CN GWN048CP GWN048CR GWN049GH GWN049GK GWN049JL GWN049JM GWN049M7 GWN04AEP GWN04AET GWN04ALT GWN04ALW GWN04AM0 GWN04AM2 GWN04AM3 GWN04AM4 GWN04CGL GWN04CHA GWN04CHC GWN04D55 GWN04DR4 GWN04DR9 GWN04DRE GWN04DRJ GWN04E9N GWN04EM5 GWN04F8N GWN04F8P GWN04FTJ
(k) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks, P/N 1531M84G12, with SNs listed in Table 6B of this AD, with chamfered breakedges:
(1) With more than 6,900 CSN, perform paragraph (k)(3) at the next ESV, but not to exceed 500 cycles after the effective date of this AD.
(2) With 6,900 CSN or fewer, perform paragraph (k)(3) at the next ESV, but before accumulating 7,400 CSN.
Table 6B.--SNs of CF6-80C2 Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/N 1531M84G12, With Chamfered Breakedges
GWN04CH6 GWN04G5H GWN04M03
(3) FPI and ECI the rotor disk. Use paragraph 3.A.(3) of the Accomplishment Instructions of GE SB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-1217, dated July 20, 2006, to re-mark and inspect the rotor disk, and remove from service as necessary.
Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/Ns 9392M23G10, G12, G21, 1531M84G02, G06, G08, and 1531M84G10 with SNs not listed in Table 6 and Table 6A of this AD
(l) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks, P/Ns 9392M23G10, G12, G21, 1531M84G02, G06, G08, and 1531M84G10 with SNs not listed in Table 6 and Table 6A of this AD, inspect, rework, and re-mark the disks using paragraphs 3.A.(1) through 3.A.(2) of Accomplishment Instructions of GE SB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-1089, Revision 3, dated July 20, 2006, at the following, unless already done using superseded AD 2004-04-07:
(2) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks that have been inspected before March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07) using GE ASB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-A1024, Revision 1, dated November 3, 2000, or any version of GE ASB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-A1026, inspect, rework, re-mark, and remove from service as necessary using the compliance times in the following Table 7:
Table 7.--Compliance Times for Inspection and Rework of CF6-80C2 Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/Ns 9392M23G10, G12, G21, 1531M84G02, G06, G08, and 1531M84G10 With SNs Not Listed in Table 6 and Table 6A of This AD--Previously Inspected
(3) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks that have not been inspected before March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07) using GE ASB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-A1024, Revision 1, dated November 3, 2000, or any version of GE ASB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-A1026, inspect, rework, re-mark, and remove from service as necessary using the following Table 8 or Table 8A compliance times, whichever occurs first:
Table 8.--Compliance Times for Inspection and Rework of CF6-80C2 Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/Ns 9392M23G10, G12, G21, 1531M84G02, G06, G08, and 1531M84G10 With SNs Not Listed in Table 6 and Table 6A of This AD--Not Previously Inspected
Table 8A.--Compliance Times for Inspection and Rework of CF6-80C2 Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/Ns 9392M23G10, G12, G21, 1531M84G02, G06, G08, and 1531M84G10 With SNs Not Listed in Table 6 and Table 6A of This AD--Not Previously Inspected
CIS after March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07), but before accumulating 11,000 CSN. (iii) Fewer than 5,000 CSN............. At the next ESV or within 3,500 CIS after March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07), whichever occurs first, but before accumulating 7,400 CSN.
(m) For stage 1 HPT rotor disk, P/N 1862M23G01, remove the disk from service at the following times:
(1) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks not installed in engines, remove from service as necessary before further flight.
(2) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks that have been inspected before March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07), using any version of GE ASB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-A1026, and had more than zero CSN at the time of that inspection, remove from service at next ESV.
(3) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks that have not been inspected, or were only inspected with zero CSN before March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07), using any version of GE ASB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-A1026, remove from service
using the following Table 9 or Table 9A compliance times, whichever occurs first:
Table 9.--Compliance Times for Removal of CF6-80C2 Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/N 1862M23G01--Not Previously Inspected
Table 9A.--Compliance Times for Removal of CF6-80C2 Series Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/N 1862M23G01--Not Previously Inspected
CF6-80E1A2, A4 Engines
Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/N 1639M41P04
(n) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks, P/N 1639M41P04, remove the rotor disks from service using paragraphs 3.A.(1) through 3.A.(2) of Accomplishment Instructions of GE SB No. CF6-80E1 S/B 72-0251, dated January 22, 2004, at the following times:
(1) For stage 1 HPT rotor disks currently in service, remove the disk using the compliance times in the following Table 10 or Table 10A compliance times, whichever occurs first:
Table 10.--Compliance Times for Removal of CF6-80E1 Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/N 1639M41P04
Table 10A.--Compliance Times for Removal of CF6-80E1 Stage 1 HPT Rotor Disks, P/N 1639M41P04
Stage 1 HPT rotor disk CSN on the March 12, 2004 ( effective date of superseded Compliance time for removal AD 2004-04-07)
(i) More than 10,000 CSN............... At the next ESV or within 600 CIS after March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07), whichever occurs first. (ii) More than 5,000 CSN but fewer than At the next ESV or within 2,500 or equal to 10,000 CSN.
CIS after March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07), whichever occurs first, but before accumulating 10,600 CSN. (iii) Fewer than or equal to 5,000 CSN. At the next ESV or within 3,500 CIS after March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004-04-07), whichever occurs first, but before accumulating 7,500 CSN.
(2) After March 12, 2004 (effective date of superseded AD 2004- 04-07), do not install any stage 1 HPT rotor disk, P/N 1639M41P04, into any engine.
(o) For the purpose of this AD, the following definitions apply:
(1) An engine shop visit (ESV) is when the engine is removed from an aircraft for maintenance and a major engine flange is disassembled. For stage 1 HPT rotor disks that have been inspected using any version of GE SB No. CF6-80A SB 72-0779 or any version of GE ASB No. CF6-80C2 ASB 72-A1026 or GE SB No. CF6-80C2 SB 72-A1024, Revision 1, dated November 3, 2000 or are listed in Table 6A or Table 6B, the following actions, either separately or in combination with each other, are not considered ESVs for the purpose of this AD:
(i) The removal of the upper compressor stator case solely for airfoil maintenance.
(ii) The module level inspection of the high-pressure compressor rotor 3-9 spool.
(iii) The replacement of stage 5 high-pressure compressor variable stator vane bushings or lever arms.
(2) Piece-part exposure is when according to the manufacturer's engine manual or other FAA-approved engine manual the stage 1 HPT rotor disk is considered completely disassembled.
(p) Within five calendar days of the inspection, report the results of inspections that equal or exceed the reject criteria to: Engine Certification Office, FAA, Engine and Propeller Directorate, 12 New England Executive Park, Burlington, MA 01803; telephone (781) 238-7176; fax (781) 238-7199. Reporting requirements have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget and assigned OMB control number 2120-0056. Be sure to include the following information:
(1) Engine model in which the stage 1 HPT rotor disk was installed.
(2) Part Number.
(3) Serial Number.
(4) Part CSN.
(5) Part CSLI.
(6) Date and location where inspection was done.
(q) We request that you record the inspection information and results on GE Form 1653-1, entitled CF6-80A/80C Stage 1 HPT Disk Dovetail Slot Bottom Inspection. This form is available in any version of GE SB CF6-80A S/B 72-0779, or GE ASB CF6-80C2 S/B 72- A1026. We also request that a copy of the data be sent to GE Airline Support Engineering, General Electric Aircraft Engines, Customer Support Center, 1 Neumann Way, Mail Drop RM285, Cincinnati, OH 45215.
Alternative Methods of Compliance
(r) The manager, Engine Certification Office, has the authority to approve alternative methods of compliance for this AD if requested using the procedures found in 14 CFR 39.19.
Material Incorporated by Reference
(s) You must use the service information specified in Table 11 to perform the actions required by this AD. The Director of the Federal Register previously approved the incorporation by reference of General Electric Service Bulletins No. CF6-80E1 S/B 72-0251, dated January 22, 2004 and No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0779, Revision 1, dated January 22, 2004, and Alert Service Bulletin No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-A1026, Revision 2, dated January 22, 2004, as of March 12, 2004 (69 FR 8801, February 26, 2004). The Director of the Federal Register approved the incorporation by reference of the other documents listed in Table 11 of this AD in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51. You can get a copy from General Electric Company via Lockheed Martin Technology Services, 10525 Chester Road, Suite C, Cincinnati, Ohio 45215, telephone (513) 672-8400, fax (513) 672-8422. You may review copies at the FAA, New England Region, Office of the Regional Counsel, 12 New England Executive Park, Burlington, MA; or at the Office of the Federal Register, 800 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC. Table 11 follows:
Table 11.--Incorporation by Reference
Service Bulletin No.
GE SB No. CF6-80E1 S/B 72-0251... All.................. Original............. January 22, 2004.
Total Pages: 4 GE SB No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0779.... ALL.................. 1.................... January 22, 2004.
Total Pages: 34 GE SB No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0788.... ALL.................. 3.................... July 20, 2006.
Total Pages: 11 GE ASB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-A1026. ALL.................. 2.................... January 22, 2004.
Total Pages: 38 GE SB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-1089... ALL.................. 3.................... July 20, 2006.
Total Pages: 11 GE SB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-1217... ALL.................. Original............. July 20, 2006.
Total Pages: 12 GE SB No. CF6-80A S/B 72-0822.... ALL.................. Original............. July 20, 2006.
Total Pages: 10
(t) GE ASB No. CF6-80C2 S/B 72-A1024, Revision 1, dated November 3, 2000 also pertains to the subject of this AD.
Issued in Burlington, Massachusetts, on August 10, 2006. Francis A. Favara, Manager, Engine and Propeller Directorate, Aircraft Certification Service. [FR Doc. E6-13437 Filed 8-17-06; 8:45 am]
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PIERS MORGAN PREMIERES MONDAY JAN 17th
January 16, 2011 in broadcast news | Tags: "A Beautiful Mind", ABC News, Arizona shooting, Candy Crowley, Charlie Gibson, China, CNN, Columbia, Diane Sawyer, Dr. Fred Frese, Dr. John Nash, Fareed Zakaria, Gabrielle Giffords, Howie Kurtz, Martin Luther King Day, NPR, Oprah, Piers Morgan, President Hu, psych wards, schizophrenia, space shuttle disaster, Tuscon shooting, Western Reserve Psychiatric Hospital | by Shelley Ross dailyXpress | 1 comment
One Day Left to Bag the Canned Oprah Intv, Replace it With a Real Newsmaker
Piers Morgan's launch statement: Oprah interview
From the moment it was first announced that Oprah would be the first guest for the launch of Piers Morgan Tonight, I feared it would be a problem. What if a really big news story captured the imagination of the entire nation?
What if that news story sparked a unflinching dialog that crossed political parties, all generations, one story that involved the entire spectrum of modern debate: gun control, mental health resources, parental responsibility, anti-Semitism, marijuana, free speech, the presidency and more.
My “what if” happened on January 8th in Tuscon, Arizona and CNN’s coverage today, eight days later, remains riveting and relevant.
WILL ANYONE ELSE CHALLENGE “OPRAH” ON THE FIRST SHOW?
This morning, Fareed Zakaria analyzed America’s gun culture and toxic political rhetoric, but first looked forward to next week’s White House guest, the president of China. (I will try to resist any references to “Hu’s on first.)
Up next, Howie Kurtz reviewed the role of mainstream media which, he noted for the second week, got in wrong from the beginning when NPR, ABC News and others reported that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been shot and killed. Kurtz went on to discuss the rhetoric and the media’s role and responsibility in covering the president, Sarah Palin and more.
Dr. Fred Frese and his "beautiful mind": a great guest for Piers Morgan?
The most riveting of all CNN’s coverage was Candy Crowley’s hour with a father of an adult schizophrenic and a truly amazing man named Fred Frese III, who is director of psychology at Western Reserve Psychiatric Hospital. To call Dr. Frese’s 30-year career distinguished is an understatement. Once an officer in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, Frese had numerous involuntary hospitalizations in state, private and military psych wards. Despite a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, he pursued a medical degree and earned a doctorate in psychology from Ohio University.
I had more of my questions about the Arizona shooting answered by this hour on CNN than any other. Dr. Frese, with all his twitchy charm, explained schizophrenia — its real threats, challenges and treatments — like no other. He began by invoking the pride his (schizophrenia) community had in Dr. John Nash, the nobel laureate portrayed by Russell Crowe in “A Beautiful Mind.” The mental health community should have equal pride in Dr. Frese who, in the most disarming way, explains that as with alcoholics where there are happy drunks and mean ones, he’s a happy schizophrenic. Dr. Frese, for one, would make a great first guest for Piers Morgan. After that, someone should open up on-air phone lines for Dr. Frese, for about three hours.
In between all these better-than-usual CNN hours: Piers Morgan’s promo with Oprah who says, “Whew, that was the toughest interview I’ve had in 20 years.”
If that’s really true, then it will hold. Of all people, Oprah will understand. It’s more important for Morgan to show he’s more nimble than safe, more relevant than star struck. Read the rest of this entry »
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Highly energoholding installation
F25B19 - Machines, plant, or systems, with a single mode of operation, not covered by groups ; F25B0001000000-F25B0017000000
F02G1/043 -
F02C6 - Plural gas-turbine plants; Combinations of gas-turbine plants with other apparatus (aspects predominantly concerning such apparatus, see the relevant classes for the apparatus);;Adaptations of gas-turbine plants for special use
The invention relates to the field of energy and is designed to produce mechanical or electrical energy, as well as the production of cold. Liquefied natural gas from the tank through the control valve on the supply line of the fuel fed into the gasifier, where through the throttle valve in the refrigerating chamber, cools the internal environment of the refrigerating chamber, in this heat with increasing pressure. Then in the vortex tube, the gas is divided into two streams, cold and warm, while the backbone of the cold stream is sent again into the cooling chamber, and highway warm flow through the heater into the turbine, where the expansion of the gas allows you to get extra power for the consumer. Exhaust gases from the engine Stirling highway exhaust gases pass through the heater. The purpose of cooling the Stirling engine is provided by the cooling system with coolant, in which the heat transfer with the environment (e.g., atmospheric air), and the pump, and the cooling system passes through the gasifier. The invention improves the efficiency. inverter direct cycle energoholding installation and poltinnik machines, operating on the Stirling cycle, is designed to produce mechanical or electrical energy and cold energy devices, stationary and transport Autonomous objects.
Known technical solutions for using liquefied natural gas as fuel in motor vehicles with internal combustion engines (ice), which includes the engine and the heat-insulated container with cryogenic liquid fuel. However, the transition to natural gas in internal combustion engines results in a drop in efficiency and the deterioration of the starting properties engines (Kershenbaum C. J., Falk C. E. Horizons transport equipment. M, Transport, 1988, page 109).
The well-known scheme of the refrigeration unit with vortex tube comprising a source of gas with higher pressure (compressor), a vortex tube, mainline warm flow with throttle valve, a line of cold flow (Theoretical fundamentals of heat and hladotehnika. H. 1. Engineering thermodynamics. Uch. the manual is edited by Professor E. I., great hotel. L. 1974, page 265).
Known power unit with Stirling engine and low fuel, comprising a container of liquefied gas.
Known energoholding installation, the supply line fuel heater, associated with the expansion turbine with the consumer power on the same shaft, and directed in a Stirling engine having a cooling system with a pump associated with the gasifier (EN 96116770 A1, F 02 C 1/04, 20.11.1998). However, in this device, the heater of the Stirling engine is placed in the combustion chamber, which reduces the durability of this node when operating on hydrogen fuel.
The technical result, which can be obtained by carrying out the invention is to improve the efficiency of the Converter direct cycle energoholding installation and additional useful energy.
To achieve this technical result highly effective energoholding installation, which includes the inverter direct cycle, thermally insulated tank with cryogenic fuel, such as liquefied natural gas), the supply line fuel shutoff and solenoid valves, throttle valve and the cooler (evaporator), supplied as a Converter direct cycle Stirling engine, cooling system, engine cooling associated with the environment, and the pump and line fuel supply, comprising regulating CL is on the highway cold and heat flows, the backbone of the cold stream is directed into the cooling chamber, and highway warm stream, consisting of a heater, an expansion turbine with the consumer power on the same shaft and the expansion tank is directed into the engine, while the exhaust gases from the engine flow through the heater and the cooling system of the engine through the gasifier.
The introduction of the highly effective energoholding installation of the Stirling engine, cooling system which is associated with the gasifier liquefied gas vortex tube with mains cold and warm streams, the first of which is directed into the cooling chamber, and the second - in is further provided with a heater and turbine with consumer power allows you to get a new property, consisting in the use of low-temperature fuel, first for partial cooling of the engine, and then to cool the refrigerating chamber, and after heat exchange with exhaust gases of the engine, as the working fluid to the expansion turbine, with additional energy.
The drawing shows a highly energoholding installation.
Energoholding installation consists of a tank with until 5, the refrigerating chamber 6, a vortex tube 7, the highway cold stream 8, line warm stream 9 with heater 10, the expansion turbine 11, which is located on the same shaft with the consumer power 12 and the surge tank 13, the Stirling engine 14, line of exhaust gases 15 passing through the heater 10. The Stirling engine 14 includes a refrigerator 16, the combustion chamber 17 and the cooling system 18 consisting of a cooler 19, associated with the environment, and pump 20.
Highly energoholding installation operates as follows.
Liquid cooling system 18 of the engine 14 is fed to the gasifier 4 line, fuel 2, in which, through the control valve 3 is supplied liquefied gas insulated from the tank 1. Transferring latent heat of vaporization of the coolant of the cooling system 18 in the gasifier 4, liquefied gas evaporates, expanding, throttled in valve 5 and is fed into the cooling chamber 6, where it cools the internal environment of the chamber 6 to the desired temperature, the heated pressure increase. From the cooling chamber 6, the gas enters the vortex tube 7, which is divided into two streams: cold and warm. Cold pogrebets to high temperature with increasing pressure due to heat exchange with exhaust gases of the Stirling engine 14. After the heater 10, the gas flows into the turbine 11, which, extending, doing more useful work to be passed to the consumer power of 12, and then through the expansion tank 13 is fed into the combustion chamber 17 of the engine 14. The exhaust gases through line 15 passes through the heater 10 and are removed from the environment. The purpose of cooling the Stirling engine 14 is provided, the cooling system 18. In this system, heated from the working fluid of the engine 14, the coolant from the cooler 16 by a pump 20 is supplied to the cooler 19, where the heat exchange with the environment (e.g., atmospheric air), while the coolant is cooled to ambient temperature. The liquid is then fed into the gasifier 4, where it is cooled to a temperature below the ambient temperature due to heat exchange with liquefied gas and is fed again into the refrigerator 16. Due to the heat exchange of the coolant with a low temperature and the working fluid of the engine 14 is reduced lower temperature cycle Stirling engine 14, which leads to increased efficiency.
1. Kershenbaum C. J., Falk C. E. Horizons transport equipment. M, Transport, 1988, page 109.
3. RF application N 96115098, bull. N 29 from 20.10.98, page 200.
4. RF patent N 2053434, bull. N 3 from 27.01.96. the prototype.
Highly energoholding installation, which includes the inverter direct cycle, thermally insulated tank with cryogenic fuel, such as liquefied natural gas), the supply line of the fuel, which includes the heater and the expansion turbine with the consumer power on the same shaft and aimed in a Stirling engine having a cooling system with a pump associated with the gasifier, wherein the supply line fuel contains consistently set the throttle valve and the refrigerating chamber, and a vortex tube, the separating line of the fuel on the highway cold and warm streams, and highway cold stream is directed into the cooling chamber, and the backbone of the heat flow in the heater, expansion turbine, and an expansion tank connected with the engine, while the exhaust gases from the engine flow through the heater and the cooling system of the engine is connected with the environment through the cooler.
Energoholding installation with low-temperature fuel // 2166704
The invention relates to energy and is designed to produce mechanical or electrical energy, as well as the production of cold
Energoholding installation of cryogenic // 2164648
Energoholding installation with liquefied natural gas // 2163706
The invention relates to the field of energy and gas regenerative machines and is designed to produce mechanical or electrical energy, as well as cold
Refrigeration installation // 2140614
Device for cooling heat-insulated body autorefrigerators // 2122691
The invention relates to gas networks, as well as to the field of refrigeration and can be used in cooling systems, where the liquefied mixture of hydrocarbons (e.g. propane and butane) is under pressure, serves simultaneously as a fuel for automotive engine and cooling agent for the refrigeration unit to cool the heat-insulated body autorefrigerators
The system combined use of liquefied, for example, gas in the refrigeration installation of the vehicle // 2120090
The invention relates to gas networks, as well as refrigeration and can be used in systems of the combined use of liquid (such as oil, under pressure) hydrocarbon gas (propane, propane-butane mixture), which serves simultaneously as a fuel for motor vehicles and the refrigerant for the refrigeration unit designed for cooling the insulated body autorefrigerators, cab driver, separate compartments of motor vehicles, vehicle air conditioning systems
The invention relates to refrigeration
Method of cooling products or products, refrigeration installation for its implementation and the distribution manifold of this installation // 2083933
The invention relates to refrigeration, and more particularly to a method of cooling installations for their implementation and distribution to collectors of such facilities), in which different products or articles in a confined space cooled with cryogenic liquid supplied in this volume, heated, evaporated and forming gas environment in the volume of circulating paths, washer placed in the volume of products
The path of heat transfer // 2067267
The system combined use of liquefied, for example, natural gas in the refrigeration installation of the vehicle // 2053434
Heat and power installation // 2164615
The invention relates to the field of power engineering and energy converters, direct cycle (e.g., Stirling engines or internal combustion engines), is intended as a stand-alone power plants for stationary and mobile objects with the simultaneous production of electricity and heat
Autonomous thermal power plant with a stirling engine // 2164614
The invention relates to a power system and Stirling engines, is designed as a stand-alone power plants for special stationary and mobile objects
Combined thermal power plant based on a stirling engine // 2164613
Offline combined plant for the simultaneous production of electricity and heat // 2163684
The invention relates to a power system, relates to power converters direct cycle (for example, internal combustion engines, Stirling engines) and is intended as a stand-alone power plants for stationary and mobile objects with the simultaneous production of electricity and heat
Offline steam cogeneration power plant // 2162535
The invention relates to the field of power engineering and energy converters, direct cycle (for example, internal combustion engines, Stirling engines), is intended as a stand-alone power plants for stationary and mobile objects with the simultaneous production of electricity and heat
Autonomous cogeneration power plant // 2162534
Autonomous heating system for the simultaneous production of electricity and heat // 2162533
Autonomous stirling-plant for the simultaneous production of electricity and heat // 2162532
The invention relates to the field of heat and Stirling engines, is designed as a stand-alone power plants for stationary and mobile objects with the simultaneous production of electricity and heat
Thermoenergetics machine having a moving regenerator // 2161261
The invention relates to thermoenergetics machine for receiving mechanical power from solar energy
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Succession returns in Augest
July 29, 2019 RynoLeave a comment
The second season of Succession, the bitingly funny, acclaimed drama series that explores the themes of power, politics and family, launches express from the US in two weeks time.
Blending high drama with sharp humour, the Emmy-nominated series centres around a rich and dysfunctional family whose patriarch, Logan Roy (Brian Cox), is CEO of Waystar Royco, one of the world’s largest media and entertainment conglomerates. In addition to Cox, Successionalso stars Kieran Culkin, Alan Ruck, Sarah Snook and Jeremy Strong as the four Roy siblings.
Beginning where season one dramatically left off, season two follows the Roys as they struggle to retain control of their empire amidst internal and external threats. While the future looks increasingly uncertain, it is the past that portends to ultimately destroy them, as each of Logan’s four children remains focused on personal agendas that may or may not sync with those of their siblings.
Succession is created by Oscar nominee Jesse Armstrong and executive produced by Armstrong; Adam McKay (Oscar-winner for The Big Short); Frank Rich (three-time Emmy-winner for Veep); Kevin Messick (Oscar nominee for Vice), Will Ferrell (Emmy nominee for SNL)); Jane Tranter (Emmy nominee for The Night Of); Mark Mylod (Emmy nominee for Entourage); and Tony Roche (Emmy winner for Veep).
Succession Season Two premieres Monday, August 12 at 8.30pm AEST on Fox Showcase
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The 2019-20 school year finished with huge $23 million surplus after originally projecting a $12.3 million deficit, a turnaround of $35.5 million
This marks the eighth consecutive year of grossly inaccurate budget projections by SCUSD administrators
Reserve fund hits highest mark ever at $93 million
SACRAMENTO — The Chief Business Officer of the Sacramento City Unified School District, Rose Ramos, will report to the district’s board of education today that the Sac City schools finished the 2019-20 school year with a large surplus of cash and record reserves. Only last month, SCUSD leaders were predicting that the district, which educates 40,000 students in California’s capital city, would run a deficit, be out of cash in February 2021 and face state takeover next year.
Contrary to the bleak forecasts presented to the public in August, the “2019-20 Year End Financial Unaudited Actuals” report documents that SCUSD ended the 2019-20 school year with a surplus of $23,113,422.98. In July 2019, the district projected it would end the 2019-20 school year with a $12,344,416.83 deficit — a $35.5 million turnaround from the district’s dire predictions. Just as significantly, SCUSD now has $93,048,610.81 in its reserve fund, $82 million more than the minimum reserve fund required by the state.
“Parents, teachers and business leaders have been bombarded with ‘the sky is falling in’ messages coming out of the budget office that are parroted by both the school board and the Sacramento County Office of Education year after year,” said Sacramento City Teachers Association President David Fisher, who also is a SCUSD parent. “Every year SCUSD goes through this exercise of telling the public that it is running out of cash and better cut programs, only to end with ‘never mind, we actually ran a surplus.’”
It is the eighth year in a row that the district financial projections have been wildly inaccurate, falsely painting a picture of SCUSD on the brink of fiscal insolvency. Among other accounting problems, a budget officer previously hired by the school board based on recommendations from Superintendent Jorge Aguilar, was forced to step down in 2019 when it was revealed SCUSD forgot to count five of the district’s schools, a $25-million mistake.
“With a surplus of $23 million from last school year and a reserve fund that now exceeds $93 million, it’s time to focus on the positive and determine how we can best redirect those resources back to the classroom,” said Fisher. “Especially now, with the added educational challenges that the pandemic brings, we need to employ more school nurses, lower class sizes, improve special education services and provide help so that our teachers can tailor virtual learning to the needs of each student.”
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Drastic fall in steel stocks worry investors
SGI Thứ Năm, 17/10/2019 06:34
The steel industry has long been considered the “spine” of the industrial sector because it has a direct impact on the field of construction, real estate and the turnover of imports, exports and trade.
Illustrative photo.
But now investors are being burdened with heavy risks such as surplus in supply, pressure from competition and huge loans, because steel share prices are continuing to fall drastically in the last two to three years.
Pressure from surplus supply
The biggest risk the steel companies are facing as of now is a surplus in supplies as several companies, especially the big ones, have been increasing their volume of production. For instance, Hoa Phat Group (HPG) has doubled its production volume for the period 2019-2020. It is estimated that the total amount of long steel products have been increased by 20-25% in 2019, mainly from HPG and Pomina Steel Corporation (POM). The amount of flat steel products from Hoa Sen Group (HSG) and Nam Kim Group (NKG) are estimated to have risen by 25-30% in 2019.
In order to carry out their production expansion plans, HSG and NKG are making big investments, and raising the debt-to-equity ratio in their two companies by three or four times. Therefore, in addition to the pressure of excessive supply, the companies are also under huge pressure for cash flow to maintain sales and for buying more required raw materials. Another difficulty has arisen from their main source of steel consumption in the real property sector. There are signs of slow sales of civil and commercial real estate property at the moment and expected to continue in coming years, making competition among the companies all the more intense.
However, these are not all the risks the domestic steel companies are facing. According to economic experts, a lot more difficulties for the steel sector are lying ahead, especially when the period of anti-dumping expires on 22 March 2020. After that, cheap steel products from China are expected to flood the Vietnamese market. Just behind the Republic of Korea, Vietnam is now the second biggest importer of Chinese steel products, making up 10% of its total exports.
Although the anti-dumping period is not over, domestic steel companies are under too much pressure from the Chinese market because the sales of steel products for the making of automobiles in China have not reached their targets for last fourteen consecutive months, and the excess amounts are flooding some Southeast Asian countries, including Vietnam. Apart from the domestic market, the Vietnamese steel products for exports are facing lots of trade charges, now accounting to 35 out of 142 investigations against Vietnamese products.
Negative business performance
Along with all the elements above, and with increased prices of raw materials over the past few months, listed steel companies are facing negative effects on their business performance, including all the major companies. According to the 2019 bi-annual financial statement, most of the steel companies have seen less positive business performance, with increased sales but decreased profits.
Take HPG for example, its sales increased by 11%, reaching VND 30,263 bn, but its net profit fell by 12.77%, at VND 3,860 bn. Most notably, SMC Trading Investment Joint Stock Company (SMC) saw its sales rise by 9% at VND 8,669 bn, but its gross profit dropped by 50% to VND 158 bn.
Although HSG, the most prominent steel company in the market, has cut down on its expenses, it still shows a year-on-year decrease in profits. According to the 3rd quarterly financial statement (2001-2019 fiscal period), HSG sales and net profit reached VND 21,685 bn (falling 16%) and VND 277 bn (plunging 46%), respectively. The company could achieve such a result because it managed to reduce VND3,300 bn of loans and whittle away about 100 branches throughout the country. Previously, HSG suffered a loss of over VND 100 bn in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year of 2017-2018.
The gloomy business performance in the first months of 2019 has left a negative effect on share price of steel companies. Most of the shares are being traded at the bottom in the past 2-3 months.
Similarly, in the business plan for 2019, NKG cuts down on several expenses, and plans to transfer a number of projects, restructure production, and sell off its shares at Nam Kim Corea Project in VSIP II-A, some plating plants and the Nam Kim 1 Plant that is producing 500,000 tons/year. Particularly, the Board of Management of NKG has planned to transfer its land use rights at My Xuan B IP project in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, a piece of land of almost 33ha. Through transfer transactions, NKG is expected to get back about VND 850 bn and use it to reduce its medium term debts. In fact, the withdrawal of capital from projects has enabled NKG escape losses in the second quarter, while it suffered a loss of nearly VND 102 bn in the first quarter.
The situation is much worse for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Dana-Y Steel JSC (DNY) is among the businesses with the biggest losses on the securities market. According to the 2019 bi-annual financial statement, DNY reported a loss of over VND 171 bn, with an accumulated loss of almost VND 233 bn over the last three quarters. POM also saw a record loss of VND 132 bn. This figure is so disappointing in comparison with its plan to make a profit of VND 400 bn this year.
As explained by POM, it has made a loss because the company is conducting two projects of electroplating and blast furnace, increasing its year-on-year loan interest by 59%. Vietnam Italy Steel JSC (VIS) recorded a loss of nearly VND 66 bn, due to a decrease in selling price in the second quarter while it has had to raise commission for retailers because of competition in this sector.
The year 2019 is considered a watershed for restructuring plans to restore growth in the steel companies in coming years. For powerhouses like HPG, strategies to expand production and launch a new product (hot rolled steel sheets) will increase its added value for segments of straight steel (steel pipes and plated steel sheets).
Due to financial weaknesses, HSG will focus on improving its core business activities and reduce its speculation activities. Once the core business activities have established their advantage, the financial health will improve, heightening the market attitude towards HSG share prices, which have fallen rather low.
For SMBs, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) could be a great choice in their restructuring plans. SMC investment in NKG is a good example. In July, after the two companies announced their strengthened ties, SMC completed its acquisition of 6.3 million NKG shares, raising its ownership percentage to 5% and officially becoming biggest shareholder at NKG.
Previously in 2017, SMC bought NKG shares when NKG issued 30 million shares, which is about 30% of the company’s charter capital under resolution approved at the NKG General Shareholders Meeting. SMC said it wanted to strengthen its business relations and partnership with its strategic partner in the future. In fact, the business performance in the second quarter somehow indicated the changes at NKG after SMC got involved in the management.
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Developing a new brand identity is an exciting journey. But how do you share the vision with your team and ultimately create internal brand ambassadors? Here are our top tips for crafting a memorable internal campaign.
A shiny new brand is certainly something to shout about. The big idea, once an unpolished notepad sketch, has been transformed into a visual stamp you can proudly share with the world. The brand marque is ready, the proposition is clear and the strategy has been defined.
So, what’s next?
The logical step for some would be to market your brand to your customers, and indeed this is important. But what about internal marketing? Sharing your journey, and revealing the grand finale to your employees communicates the importance of the brand, and could have a bigger impact than you’d think.
1. Plan your campaign.
Often overlooked, an internal campaign is just as important as external activity. The aim is to create an emotional connection between your employees and your brand. Sending an email to the team with a presentation attached is unlikely to inspire employees, but a personal delivery will have a far higher chance of engagement. Employees need to become invested and a part of the new identity. Without this involvement, there may be issues with brand pride, consistency and principles, which can weaken the brand and create a disjointed visual and strategic identity.
2. Share the vision.
Pick the right moment to launch your new brand internally. Get the team together to share the journey, explaining your initial decision to rebrand and the path you took to get there. Think about the key messages you want your team to take away – your company’s mission, vision and tone of voice – are these remaining the same or have they evolved? Looking at these as a starting point can help to strengthen your delivery and lay the foundations before unveiling the new visual identity.
3. Talk them through the visuals.
Your brand’s visual journey is important. Logo design, colour palettes, fonts, and applications are all essential elements that can help transform and unite employee thinking, and ensure everyone understands how you want to present the company. Think about the first time you were taken through the strategy behind the new creative route – can you recreate that for them? Or can you ask the designer to come in and take them on that creative journey for you?
4. Create some hype.
Moleskin notebooks, mugs, pens, shirts, posters… They may seem like gimmicks but new collateral gives your team something tangible that allows them to start using and owning the new brand immediately. They will act as brand guardians and need to get to grips with it as quickly as possible. And who doesn’t love a new notebook?
5. It’s a team effort.
Get the team onside. Give employees the chance to ask questions, to absorb the information you’ve shared and to get acquainted with the new brand guidelines. All of this will provide valuable insights and feed into the external launch campaign plan.
In the real world.
We supported Consortiq, a global business specialising in integrated drone solutions, in unveiling their new visual and strategic identity to a team of over 50 employees.
The re-brand came at a critical point in the company’s growth and helped prepare them for the next phase of their international strategy. With a fast-growing team, many of whom work remotely in offices across the UK and the US, the need for all staff to understand and embrace the refined identity was a belief shared unanimously by the board.
The leadership team chose to launch their brand internally at their AGM. Many employees were aware of exciting developments happening behind closed doors so the promise of a big unveil was an eagerly awaited event.
Consortiq’s new visual identity was born from in-depth strategy work that focused on defining a clear vision, position and unique proposition in the market. This included a workshop which played a key role in informing the creative brief and guided a go-to-market strategy in which messaging, content and brand applications were directed towards sector-specific launch campaigns.
There were many elements to the story that helped Consortiq explain to their team how the brand had arrived at the final creative articulation. And it was important to take them on that journey.
Our Strategy Director, Daniel, and Design Manager, Dan, went to Consortiq HQ to help present the new and improved visual identity, paying close attention to the steps taken along the way.
The branding was kept under wraps throughout design phase, and the leadership team worked with us to establish a range of internal collateral and branded goodies for the team to take away. These ranged from practical tools to fun, personalised items.
All in all, the unveiling was well received and ignited the unity and passion desired to launch Consortiq’s new brand.
“Our new brand launch was an extremely exciting time not just for the Marketing team, but for the entire company. It meant new beginnings, and getting people excited about it from the beginning was important. Our unveiling of the brand created a buzz amongst everyone. It brought to life the core values of the company and showed that we mean business and we’re here to stay.”
Shea O’Donnell, Marketing Manager, Consortiq
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A redneck officer leads a squad of African-American troops on a mission against the Nazis in this intriguing feature from director George McCowan (Frogs, The Magnificent Seven Ride!). Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Stephen Boyd, Robert Hooks, NFL star Roosevelt Grier, and one of Hollywoods great character actors Paul Stewart, fill out the cast. Co-written and produced by television legend Aaron Spelling as a pilot for a possible series, this forgotten war drama will strike you as being much more than a garden variety Blaxploitation flick.
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Checking the facts in Romney's foreign policy speech
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivered highly publicized remarks on foreign policy Monday afternoon, two weeks before facing President Barack Obama in a security focused debate. The former governor took every opportunity in his 20-minute speech at the Virginia Military Institute to point out the perceived failures of the Obama administration. CNN conducted fact checks on several of Romney’s assertions to gauge their validity.
Fact check: Did Obama say he wants 'daylight' between U.S., Israel?
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Trying to equate the U.S. Navy's size to Obama administration policies, Romney also said the fleet was as small as it was around World War I and vowed he'd boost its size if he became president. In an effort to augment the force and power of the Navy, he suggested bolstering the Navy overall by building 15 ships a year, including three submarines.
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The author used the words "Mitt RoMoney" and "Facts" in the same sentence! Hahahahahahahahahhaha
If Romney comes to power he would double the drone strikes on Pakistan. He might send army inside Pakistan or help Baluchi separatists. Mitt Romney is a friend of India and Israel. Defeat Romney in election.
We know Indians, we have worked with Indians, we have watched Indians and India is no friend of Israel. So don't put India in same league with Israel. We don't trust you and never will. Another reason why we don't trust Indians is as follows.
"It is no secret that Hitler and his Nazi cronies sought inspiration from Indian extremist groups including the branding of his Nazi Party by adopting the Swastika, a traditionally Hindu symbol and representation of Hindu god Ganesha, as its marketing tool. The thesis being that like the Norwegian massacre the Jewish holocaust orchestrated by Hitler was inspired by the inherently violent cult of Indian Hindus and the manifesto of its then extremist/terrorist groups still in existence today. These groups are now the successors to and carrying out the vision of Al Qaeda all over the world albeit in a clandestine manner."
Let me quote another instance of this disgraceful disposition:
It is no secret that Mahatma Gandhi (Hindu leader) was a pedophile. What is very disturbing is his relationship (!) and friendship with Hitler. He is known to have offered advice and encouragement to Hitler and his Nazi Party to undertake the Jewish Holocaust."
A few months ago an auction was being arranged in Europe of Gandhi's letters and other artifacts corroborating the foregoing. Apparently, the Indian government with assistance from expatriate Indian businessmen muscled the auctioneers and put a stop to this auction.
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LIPSTICK ON A PIG: The Story of India
Indian Hindus are the slimiest of them all
The way you let the Shadows Play
You'd think my hair was getting Gray.
What's that, you say? A double chin?
Nah, that's the way the light comes in.
Self Denial....is the Hindu play
Maybe catharsis is another way.
Shamsu the bengali
There is only so much one can do to make a pig look pretty
Slapping some lipstick is the epitomy.
India is mired in sewage and poverty.
GDP growth GDP growth
Has done nothing but made the people loathe.
Lipstick on a Pig is the Indian way
Either nukes will soon blow it away.
Or an implosion can perhaps ease the sway.
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WE SALUTE YOU, PAKISTAN......The Americans acknowledge the innumerable sacrifices made by Pakistanis in this ongoing war. The Americans appreciate the bullets taken on the chest by the Pakistanis in fighting the enemy. The Americans appreciate the ultimate sacrifices made by Pakistanis in sacrificing their lives while trying to make America and the world safe.
Tip of the hat for you pakistan. Much thanks
I am getting bad vibes reading about Hindus and Indians and their culture. I have read up on them as well and don't like what I see. How can our government be supporting India, a culture so brutal and anti women, children and minorities. I have put in a call to our congressional delegation and emailed them as well opposing any further financial aid/support of any kind to India. We Americans cannot condone such archaic cultures. I urge all Americans to contact their congress people and voice their concerns regarding India.
George J
We are well aware of the deep rooted connections of Hindu Terror Groups headquartered in India to International Terror Groups such as Al Qaeda. These groups have an extremist philosophy, Neo Nazi bent and are the torch bearers/successors to Al Qaeda.
We have invested a lot of resources in India over the past two decades and given a lot of aid to prop it up. There has been no investment on this return. Instead India has squandered all the resources in building nuclear weapons while poverty remains rampant in the country. We need to revisit our relationship with India. American taxpayers will not tolerate this anymore. We need to take care of our own populace going forward. We cannot be exporting jobs to India or giving it financial or technical handouts.It has become too big to govern or create any value for western countries or even for its own population. India needs to be carved up into smaller independent states to be a viable economically and geo politically.
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Give them the shaft
Amit-Atlanta-USA.
Taj Mahal (purely by connotation, not size) reminds one of the saying of our dear architect friend Mies Van Der Rohe that “Less is More” and its application to India geo-politically. The recent economic bubble burst and minority backlash in India point to the necessity of imploding India in a controlled manner to make it more manageable administratively, before it ruptures chaotically. The Moghals may have left behind a legacy of regality in India but it was Mies that has given Indians a political concept that may give Indian Hindus a chance at survival albeit in a fragmented form.
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It is no secret that Mahatma Gandhi (Hindu leader) was a pedophile. What is very disturbing is his relationship (!) and friendship with Hitler. He is known to have offered advice and encouragement to Hitler and his Nazi Party to undertake the Jewish Holocaust.
No Hindus In My Backyard Please
India can drape itself with an American flag, hide behind the American skirts, try to shed its communist skin and sweep the genocide in Kashmir and atrocities against minorities under the rug. But those who understand the Indians and have kicked the tires know well that it is a country that garners no respect and is not to be trusted. Indian Hindus are like termites that appear harmless but will eat you up to the core at the first chance they get. Therefore, from people who know them, they will never ever get any respect. That is one of the biggest character traits that has kept this country from progressing and amounting to much.
Romney is a joke when it comes to Foreign policy... a legitimate joke... he acts like the US foreign policy should just be to give Israel more support and invade or bomb 3 or 4 Middle Eastern Countries... what an absolute dip!@#$ ... he doesn't have a clue... the guy can't even go overseas without angering even our allies... just an absolute moron.... worst possible candidate the Repubs could have come up with outside of maybe Donald Trump.
Mr. Presidential Candidate Romney...
I am an independent reporter from Pakistan. Let me present to you what your South Asian Foreign Policy stance should be.
The American war on terror in Afghanistan brought to the forefront the irrelevance of Pakistan as a nation. With a population of over 180 millions people there was no value that this nation could bring to the table. Their soldiers (ragtag) few hundred thousands continue hiding in the trenches scared from Taliban. A few teenage Taliban invaded the country's most secured army base and held it hostage for days on end showing how useless Pakistani army is. It was embarrassing for the world to observe this humiliation of a nation that was being touted as a front line ally on War on Terror (WOT). The Taliban brought them down in a few days with some water guns. It is all over for Pakistan. Its demise is in process and should be completed with Afghanistan withdrawal.
The bottom line is that the only way to have peace in Afghanistan and lessen regional tension is split Pakistan into pieces, give Balochi people a place to hang their turbans. It has become too big of a terrorist headache in Pakistan to control or create any value for western countries or even for its own population. You have invested a lot of resources in Pakistan, in forms of foreign aid and military packages, over the past two decades and given a lot of aid to prop it up. There has been no investment on this return. Instead Pakistan has squandered all the resources in building nuclear weapons while poverty remains rampant in the country. Mr Romney you need to revisit your relationship with Pakistan. American taxpayers should not tolerate this anymore, and may ask you in your debates with President Obama. You need to take care of your own populace going forward. You cannot be syphon American tax dollars to Pakistan or giving it financial or technical handouts.
Kareem Chamar
With such "Dark Age" culture still in existence in India how can the world be healthy and the neighbors prosperous. India poses a grave danger to the world and its deities and leaders set a bad example. Mahatma Gandhi, a pedophile, needs to be exposed and tried posthumously for his child molestation crimes just like the Penn State crowd Sandusky et al. Gandhi's statutes need to be knocked down everywhere they have been put in USA. The hindu deities need to be shattered and trashed. Disgusting figurines of ugly and scary looking characters with demonic personalities. How can hindu children grow up mentally stable looking at such atrocious representations of evil in its most heinous form.
Abdullah Al Hindi
We welcome your rise as the new regional military power. God Speed.
Kaiser Safi
What a stupid comment. I don't believe that @krm1007 has written this one as his comments are very insightful, original and brilliant. This is probably case of stolen ID.
Once again Romney is telling us wonderful thigns he wants to do, but not giving us any information on how he would accomplish this.
I just don't feel comfortable trusting that Romney will somehow magically fix problems. He frankly has not earned anything near that level of trust.
Please give us details, not just dreams.
I've flushed things down the toilet that have move "values" than a republican.
Exactly what would one expect this bozo Mitt Romney to say? As expected, he says he'll kill more people than Obama did during the last 4 years! Both candidates this year are right-wing fanatics when it comes to killing people. Enough of this right-wing mumbo-jumbo already! How old it gets!!!
Well put, George. Like you, I too am very sick and tired of all this sickening right-wing drivel. We need a moderate in the White House and how!
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4 Books to Help You Make Sense of the World
The past few months for me since November’s election results in the US have been a time of feeling bewildered, confused, angry, despondent and fiercely determined. Reading has been a way to make sense of my confusion, and here are four books that have helped me make sense of the world.
These four books are:
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla
Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
Watch the video below for my take-aways from each book!
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There is No American Dream – On Reading “Homegoing” By Yaa Gyasi
“Yaw nodded. He sat in his chair at the front of the room and looked at all the young men.”This is the problem of history. We cannot know that which we were not there to see and hear and experience for ourselves. We must rely upon the words of others. Those who were there in the olden days, they told stories to the children so that the children would know, so that the children would tell stories to their children. And so on, and so on. But now we come upon the problem of conflicting stories. Kojo Nyarko says that when the warriors came to the village their coats were red, but Kwame Adu says that they were blue. Whose story do we believe then?”
The boys were silent. They started at him, waiting.
“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”(Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi, 2016, p.226)
“How could he explain to Marjorie that he wasn’t supposed to be here? Alive. Free. That the fact that he had been born, that he wasn’t in a jail cell somewhere, was not by dint of his pulling himself up by the bootstraps, not by hard work or belief in the American Dream, but by mere chance. He had only heard talk of his great- grandpa H from Ma Willie, but those stories were enough to make him weep and to fill him with pride. Two Shovel H they had called him. But what had they called his father or his father before him? What of the mothers? They had been products of their time, and walking in Birmingham now, Marcus was an accumulation of these times. That was the point.” ((Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi, 2016, p.296)
There are some books that shake the very foundation of your being, and “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi is one of those books for me. This book is an unexpected jewel. I started reading “Homegoing” yesterday and finished it today, because every time I put the book down my hands were eager to pick the book up again. The book is about two half sisters named Esi and Effia who do not know each other and who live in different villages. Effia is married off to the British governor James Collins and lives in the Cape Coast castle, Esi is kidnapped and sent to the Cape Coast castle dungeons before being sold into slavery. In the Cape Coast castle slaves are received and sold, and during Effia’s first night in the castle, she asks her husband about the crying she hears, and asks if there are people below. She quickly realises that this is not something she is allowed to talk or ask about. From the stories of these two sisters, “Homegoing” follows the two families of these two sisters, generation after generation, in Ghana and in America, through slavery, through the slave trade in Ghana, through the official end of slavery, through the actual continuation of slavery, through segregation, until the present day.
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Psychology Theses and Dissertations
Disaggregating Within- and Between-Person Variation in the Prospective Relations between Acculturation Gap-Distress and Psychological Adjustment
Savannah PhamFollow
According to acculturation gap-distress theory, parent-offspring differences in cultural orientations set the stage for intergenerational cultural conflict, which may contribute to poor psychological adjustment among Asian American offspring. Although cross-sectional research has demonstrated robust links between intergenerational cultural conflict and poor psychological adjustment, a small number of longitudinal studies have yielded mixed evidence for the theorized pathway of acculturation gap-distress. To address limitations of existing research, I aimed to examine between- and within-person associations between intergenerational cultural conflict and psychological adjustment in a three-wave longitudinal panel study. Participants were Asian American first-year college students (N = 475; 55.6% women; Mage = 18.00; 70.7% U.S.-born) who reported their frequency of intergenerational cultural conflict, neuroticism, and internalizing symptoms, subjective well-being, and self-esteem across three measurement occasions. Latent growth curve modeling was used to examine the changes in intergenerational cultural conflict over time. Using multilevel modeling, I examined the prospective within- and between-person associations between intergenerational cultural conflict and psychological adjustment, and the extent to which neuroticism and gender moderated the within-person associations. The frequency of intergenerational cultural conflict decreased across measurement occasions. There were significant between-person associations between intergenerational cultural conflict and psychological adjustment in the hypothesized direction. There were significant within-person associations between education and career-related intergenerational cultural conflict and internalizing symptoms over time. Neither neuroticism nor gender moderated the within-person associations between intergenerational cultural conflict and psychological adjustment. Data supported acculturation gap-distress theory among Asian American college students. Theoretical implications are discussed.
P. Priscilla Lui
Psychology, Clinical
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Pham, Savannah, "Disaggregating Within- and Between-Person Variation in the Prospective Relations between Acculturation Gap-Distress and Psychological Adjustment" (2020). Psychology Theses and Dissertations. 26.
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Commonwealth PhD Scholarships are for candidates from least developed countries and fragile states in the Commonwealth, to undertake full-time doctoral study at a UK university.
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Hots Scots for the New Year? #HistoricalRomance
I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful holiday season! Like last year, 2021 is all about variety when it comes to my upcoming releases. I’ve contributed to The Lyon’s Den Interconnected World with my first Regency Romance, To Tame the Lyon coming in March then it’s only to time travel fantasy releases with my Viking Ancestors: Forged in Fire series.
Before all that, though, I’m thrilled to announce the last book in my Highlander’s Pact series (medieval historical romance) is finally available. Teagan and Greer really touched my heart with the obstacles they faced and how they ‘healed’ together. Hope you enjoy spending time with them as much as I did! For those who love all-things-MacLomain, you won't want to miss this one. There might just be a crossover character or two who pops in. ;-)
A widowed Englishwoman with a difficult past and a battle-weary broken Highlander come together in a tale of redemption.
Haunted by a dark past and resolved to a loveless future, Greer Hastings has accepted her lot in life. She will marry a man of her uncle’s choosing to better their family’s station. First, however, she will see her friend and her children freed from her uncle’s clutches. An impossible feat. Or so it seems until her long-lost mother returns alongside a Scotsman who makes an offer she can’t refuse.
Teagan MacLauchlin will do whatever it takes to see through the pact he made with his brothers. Marry to fill the clan’s coffers. What he doesn’t expect is a lass as broken as he on the other side of that bargain. Someone truly in need of saving. Determined to free Greer from her greedy uncle and depraved fiancé, he’ll do anything to get her out of there. Even if it means bringing the wrath of two English barons down on his head.
Embarking on a dangerous rescue mission in hostile territory, Teagan and Greer navigate the treacherous English-Scottish border on an adventure for the ages. One fraught with not just the monsters chasing them but the demons from their past.
Can two damaged hearts come together amidst so much turmoil? Or will what haunts them ultimately drive them apart?
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In case you missed it along the way, here's a bit more about my Highlander's Pact series. The two short stories shared afterward are holiday spin-offs.
After fighting on behalf of Scotland’s Auld Alliance with France, then battling alongside King David II in England, Malcolm MacLauchlin and his brothers return home. Like many, their people have suffered beneath the weight of illness, poverty, and ongoing attacks. If that isn’t enough, skirmishes continue between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England, as rebels rise up in the wake of Scotland’s defeat at Neville’s Cross.
Meanwhile, unrest prevails amongst the clans. Discontent that makes battle-worn, broken men do unthinkable things. Men like the MacLauchlin brothers who will do whatever it takes to see their clan restored to its former glory. Even if it means betraying allies, befriending enemies, and seducing high-born Scottish lasses, Frenchwomen, or even Sassenach ‘ladies’ into their beds.
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Sams House Ready For Busy Month In May
By Space Coast Daily // April 28, 2012
A host of unique activities are planned throughout May at Sams House at Pine Island. (Image courtesy of Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Land Program)
BREVARD COUNTY • MERRITT ISLAND, FLORIDA – In recognition of National Endangered Species Month and National Kids to Parks Day, the Sams House at Pine Island will offer a variety of free activities in May.
Here’s a quick rundown of events throughout May at Sams House at Pine Island:
• Donna Oddy of Innovative Health Applications presents “The Beach Mouse That Helps Protect Your House” from 2 to 3:30 p.m. May 4. The southeastern beach mouse is a threatened species that lives in coastal dunes, strand and scrub.
• From 10 a.m. to noon May 5 a presentation called “Lagoon Art” will focus on animals of the Indian River Lagoon.
• Live bats and their importance and threats they face highlights “Beneficial; Bats,” is a presentation from 10 a.m. to noon May 12.
• From 2 to 3:30 p.m. May 12, “Young Birders Brevard” celebrates International Migratory Bird Day.
• On May 19, there will be a family friendly presentation regarding the North Atlantic Right Whale from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
• May 19 also is National Kids to Parks Day which encourages children to visit parks. The first 10 visitors at Sams House that day between the ages of 2 to 17 will receive a free gift.
• Al McKinley of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge will give a presentation from 10 to 11:30 a.m. May 26 about “The Bald Eagle in Florida” and guests will be able to hike to an eagles nest viewing area.
The Sams House at Pine Island is at 6195 North Tropical Trail on Merritt Island.
It is owned and managed by the Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays to Saturdays.
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‘Indian River Lagoon Day’ Set Saturday, Nov. 14 at Front Street Park in Melbourne
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Caladenia arrecta
Taxonavigation: Asparagales
Tribus: Diurideae
Subtribus: Caladeniinae
Genus: Caladenia
Species: Caladenia arrecta
Caladenia arrecta Hopper & A.P.Br., Nuytsia 14: 50 (2001)
Synonymy[edit]
Arachnorchis arrecta (Hopper & A.P.Br.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem., Orchadian 13: 451 (2002)
Calonemorchis arrecta (Hopper & A.P.Br.) Szlach. & Rutk., Richardiana 3: 94 (2003)
Distribution[edit]
Native distribution areas:
Western Australia.
References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
Primary references[edit]
Hopper, S.D. & Brown, A.P. 2001. Nuytsia 14: 50.
Additional references[edit]
Hopper, S.D. & Brown, A.P. 2004. Robert Brown's Caladenia revisited, including a revision of its sister genera Cyanicula, Ericksonella and Pheladenia (Caladeniinae: Orchidaceae), Australian Systematic Botany 17(2): 171 - 240. DOI: 10.1071/SB03002 Full text PDF from ResearchGate Reference page.
Links[edit]
Emonocot.org 2018. Caladenia arrecta in The Orders and Families of Monocotyledons. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 October 15.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Caladenia arrecta in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 October 15. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Caladenia arrecta. Published online. Accessed 15 October 2018.
The Plant List 2013. Caladenia arrecta in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 October 15.
Tropicos.org 2018. Caladenia arrecta. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 October 15.
English: Reaching spider orchid
فارسی: ارکیده عنکبوتی یازنده
For more multimedia, look at Caladenia arrecta on Wikimedia Commons.
Retrieved from "https://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caladenia_arrecta&oldid=3888612"
Stephen Donald Hopper taxa
Andrew Phillip Brown taxa
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How To: Create a data dictionary of a file geodatabase using the X-Ray for ArcCatalog add-in
Data dictionary is a catalog or table containing information about the datasets stored in a database. The data dictionary might contain the full names of attributes, meanings of codes, scale of the source data, accuracy of locations, and map projections used. Creating a data dictionary allows other users in an organization to view the information about the data.
Data dictionaries are also available online such as this version of Data Dictionary for the Local Government Information Model (LGIM). However, at times users are not using the latest version, therefore the database schema is different. The X-Ray for ArcCatalog add-in provides the tools to create an HTML document of the data dictionary for any database.
The following instructions describe how to create a data dictionary of a file geodatabase using the X-Ray for ArcCatalog add-in.
The X-Ray for ArcCatalog add-in requires an ArcGIS Desktop Standard or Advanced license.
Ensure data is in a file geodatabase before creating a data dictionary and the extension for X-Ray Extension for Geodatabases is enabled. For more details, refer to the following documentation: Install add-ins.
In ArcCatalog, click the X-Ray window button to open the X-Ray for Geodatabases window.
In Catalog Tree, select the file geodatabase for the data dictionary creation. This populates the geodatabase field in the X-Ray for Geodatabases window.
Click the Export GDB to XML Workspace button.
Click the View menu > Data Dictionary.
The HTML file of the geodatabase documentation is opened in a web browser.
ArcGIS Add-In: X-Ray for ArcCatalog
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Last Published: 7/6/2020
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