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LG V20 REVIEW
October 1, 2016 PhonesApple, G5, galaxy, Galaxy note, galaxy note 5, iphone, IPHONE 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, LG, LG G5, LG V20, Note 5, Review, Samsung
The LG V10 was a big, brutish, and brilliant phone from last year, but it didn’t appeal to everyone in the same way Samsung’s Galaxy Note 5, or Apple’s iPhone 6S Plus did. It was a bit too ugly and bulky for most people. Now we have the LG V20 and it couldn’t look more different. The unusual textures, challenging body shape, and massive weight that singled the V10 out have all gone. We’re left with a svelte, lightweight stunner more in keeping with LG’s recent minimalist obsession that started with the LG G5.
LG really needs a phone that people adore, and want to rush out and buy. The G5 is just a bit too subtle, and its modular system of add-on components is not quite fully able to wow the masses. Can the LG V20 step up to the plate and hit a homerun for LG? We’ve spent a couple of weeks with it to find out.
Read full post here:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cell-phone-reviews/lg-v20-review/
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September 2020 Digital Treasure Hunt Clue 3 Answers 8952
Clue 3 Answers
Answers are written in red.
Click out of 3D mode and into 2D by clicking on the 2D icon in the bottom right corner just once.
Zoom out your view to a height of 10,000m / 10km.
Follow this road inland and through some of the cities most famous neighbourhoods.
Notice where it bears right and sets on a east west course.
At this point stop
Look in the area which is north of this road and boxed in by the hills to the north & west and the 101 highway to the east.
Find the only American sports field in this area.
Tip - zoom in and out on any suspect locations.
What sport is played on this field? We are looking for the 2 words which is internationally commonly used describe this sport.
Did you know - why this sports field looks like this?
This sport was essentially rugby until 1882, when new rules were established that gave each team three tries to advance the ball five yards. That’s also why the field looks like a gridiron. Lines had to be established so teams knew how far they had to go.
Zoom into a height of 200m above the western end of this sports field.
Scan northwards and stop at the first main road running east west (the one with multiple lanes in each direction and shares its name with this famous area).
The building on the other side of this street is very famous in regards to films.
Click into street view mode by clicking once on the human icon and identify the blue circle shown here:
Click once on this blue circle so you enter the photo.
In this photo you will see white arrows like this:
Answer the following 2 questions, each correct answer will provide you with a single word - ensure you make a note of this word.
Click once on the white arrow pointing west
Look around this photo at the names written in the stars. Who here fits this criteria?
They were born in 1958 in Indiana.
They have been in the news for good and bad reasons.
They died in 2009 in Los Angeles.
Click once on the white arrow pointing back east
In the next photo there will be 2 arrows pointing east, click once on the upper east arrow.
In the next photo there will again be 2 arrows pointing east, click once on the lower east arrow.
Look around this photo at celebrity hand prints. Who here fits this criteria?
They were born in New York in 1946.
Amongst other films they have starred in a famous action movie franchise.
Did you know - why the stars, why the hand prints and why the Chinese Theatre?
TCL Chinese Theatre
The original Chinese Theatre opened in 1927 by Sid Grauman was commissioned following the success of the nearby Grauman's Egyptian Theatre. Both are in Exotic Revival style architecture inspired by Gauman's trip around the world where he was inspired by Chinese and Egyptian architecture.
The Forecourt of the Stars (Hand prints in front of the Chinese Theatre)
The tradition began by accident, while the finishing touches were being put on the Chinese Theatre, an actress stepped in the wet cement on her way to see Sid Grauman's new building. Grauman decided it was a wonderful way to have a permanent record of the stars, and began inviting selected film personalities to put their hand and footprints in concrete. Grauman himself made the choices; the tradition continued after his death using a secret system for choosing celebrities. Today there are so many that they are displayed in the forecourt on a rotation system with the rest stored within the theatre.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame
The idea originated in 1953 from the then president of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as a means to "maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamour and excitement in the four corners of the world." Today there are over 2500 names on a 1.3 mile stretch and to get one you first need to be nominated.
Type the 2 words revealed from the correct answers in the Google Earth search bar. Bring up the search bar by clicking on this magnifying glass icon .
Typing this in will bring up a series of options under 'Places' click on the top one.
This will move your screen to a nearby famous location and set it spinning around it in 3D.
An information box on the landmark will appear, close this by clicking on the X.
Click onto street view mode by clicking once on the human icon.
Click into the closest photo south west of the landmark.
This will bring you into an aerial photo of this landmark (if you are not in this photo then re-do the previous steps until you are).
Look around this photo and answer the following question, use the answer as the password to access the next clue.
Start by looking at the Hollywood sign, spin around in a clockwise direction and find the following locations. The password is the number of times you pass back past the Hollywood sign in doing this - remember to always continue in a clockwise motion and count as you pass back around the sign.
Did you know - why the Hollywood sign was built?
The sign was erected in 1923 and originally read "HOLLYWOODLAND". Its purpose was to advertise the name of a new segregated housing development in the hills above the Hollywood district of Los Angeles:
After the rise of cinema in L.A during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the sign became an internationally recognised symbol and was left there.
Rotate clockwise from the Hollywood sign until you find the Hollywood Bowl:
Did you know - The Hollywood bowls first ever concert was performed on a barn door?
A piano concert by Gertrude Ross and Anna Ruzena Sprotte in 1920 was the first event ever held at the Hollywood Bowl. The duo used an old barn door as the stage, as show here:
Continue clockwise from here until you find the LA financial district:
Did you know - the tallest building in LA?
Is the Wilshire Grand Centre built in 2017, located in the financial district. At 340m it is also the tallest building in California ahead of San Francisco's Salesforce Tower of 330m.
Continue clockwise from here until you spot this snow capped mountain in the San Gabriel Mountain Range:
Did you know - San Gabriel mountain range?
These mountains separate the basin of Los Angeles in the south from the Mojave Desert in the north. Mount San Antonio is the highest point in the mountains range, standing 10,064 feet (3,067 m) tall.
How many times have you past the Hollywood sign? Don't count the starting point.
Use this as the password to access the next clue.
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The story of a slain NYPD officer's son joins the force, where he works with his father's former colleagues. He has to pass many challenges what takes to be rogue.
Actors: Robert Wisdom,
Robert Wisdom 14 September 1953, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.,
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. 6 April 1940, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Javier Carrasquillo,
Javier Carrasquillo
Danny A. Abeckaser,
Douglas M. Griffin,
Douglas M. Griffin 17 November 1966, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Roger Edwards,
Roger Edwards 14 December 1981, Oakland, California, USA
Michael McGrady,
Amin Joseph,
Amin Joseph
Ambyr Childers,
Craig Leydecker,
Craig Leydecker
Dana Delany,
Dana Delany 13 March 1956, New York City, New York, USA
Director: Jessy Terrero
Jessy Terrero 3 July 1975, Dominican Republic
Keywords: #50 Cent #Cheetah Vision #Emmett Furla Films #Forest Whitaker #Freelancers #Grindstone Entertainment Group #Jessy Terrero #Robert De Niro
The Bag Man
Being Flynn
DIRECTORS OF "Freelancers"
3 July 1975, Dominican Republic
CREATORS OF "Freelancers"
L. Philippe Casseus
ACTORS OF "Freelancers"
14 September 1953, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
6 April 1940, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Douglas M. Griffin
17 November 1966, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Roger Edwards
14 December 1981, Oakland, California, USA
13 March 1956, New York City, New York, USA
Malcolm Goodwin
28 December 1982, Beverly Hills, California, USA
Ryan O'Nan
Phil Laak
1972, Dublin, Ireland
18 July 1968, Bronx, New York, USA
15 July 1961, Longview, Texas, USA
Shantel Jackson
Antonio Esfandiari
8 December 1978, Tehran, Iran
5 January 1965, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
LaJessie Smith
Matt Gerald
17 January 1968, Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Hilary Cruz
4 December 1988, Louisville, Colorado, USA
17 August 1943, New York City, New York, USA
Dominique DuVernay
20 April 1989, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Raeden Greer
Anabelle Acosta
6 July 1975, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
HEROES OF "Freelancers"
Joe Sarcone
Young Malo
CRITICS OF "Freelancers"
This is a film with no heroes, no narrative rhythm, and characters with no morals. As a result, it is also a film with no sense of purpose, no authenticity and no life.
Truth is, [Curtis] Jackson is not a good actor; not in the slightest.
Freelancers is a dull, lifeless cop drama built on cliches, powered by throwaway supporting performances from Forest Whitaker and Robert De Niro.
"Freelancers" is De Niro's second-worst film of 2012 after "Red Lights." God help us; he's got two more to go.
GALLERY OF "Freelancers"
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FLASHBACK: New York Times Feature, ‘How Far Will Sean Hannity Go?’
The New York Times found themselves in hot-water this week after abruptly yielding to far-left pressure on social media; altering a major headline following President Trump’s address to the nation after two mass shootings.
Tomorrow's NYT print edition.
Not sure "TRUMP URGES UNITY VS. RACISM" is how I would have framed the story. pic.twitter.com/quOibXsp32
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 6, 2019
The Times is no stranger to controversy regarding prominent conservatives; featuring Fox News’ Sean Hannity in November 2017.
“A few hours later, I found Hannity in his greenroom at Fox News headquarters, dressed like a mismatched Ken doll: Up top, a suit jacket and shirt and tie, and down below, where the camera lens wouldn’t find them, jeans and loafers,” writes the Times.
Read the full feature here.
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Sean Hannity’s extensive coverage of the historic Singapore Summit “steamrolled” the competition this week, with the Fox News host “dominating” the entire marketplace with nearly 6 million viewers.
“The highest rated of Fox News’ coverage was Hannity’s program, which dominated all of television with 5.9 million total viewers, beating out all of broadcast primetime and all of cable,” writes the Daily Wire.
FNC’s “Hannity” (5.9 million P2+ and 1.486 million A25-54) beat ABC’s “The Bachelorette” (5.493 million P2+ and 2.023 million A25-54), and CBS’s “Mom” (4.812 million P2+ and 1.411 million A25-54).
The ratings bonanza comes as the Fox News channel continues to lead the pack, beating “every other network in basic cable for 23 months straight.”
“Fox News had 10 of the top 15 shows in cable news, with Sean Hannity taking the title of highest-rated host in cable news,” writes Forbes Magazine.
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Donald Trump traveled to the United Kingdom for the first time as President of the United States of America this week, sparking a fierce backlash from left-wing Londoners and their leader Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Sean Hannity’s team was in the UK Capital to witness the liberal demonstrations first hand Friday as thousands of protesters hit the streets to show their opposition to the President’s “racist” and “xenophobic” policies.
The Mayor of London raised international headlines earlier this year when he urged British Prime Minister Theresa May to disinvite Trump to the United Kingdom, saying he “was not welcome” in the capital.
View some of the shocking photos below:
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Anderson Paak Reveals Dr. Dre Is Working On New Music
Written By Latifah Muhammad
Dr. Dre’s relationship with albums has been one of ups and down. Some 16 years after Dre’s 2001 debuted, and all hope was lost for Detox, the tech mogul delivered Compton last year.
Only his third studio album since 1992, Compton could very well be the inspiration Dre needed to get back in motion. According to newly-signed Aftermath artist, Anderson Paak, Dre is indeed putting together new material.
Speaking to BBC Radio 1Xtra this week, Paak casually revealed that the Doc is “doing a lot of working right,” but kept the details short. “I can’t really speak on it.”
Dre and Paak have forged a friendship in addition to their business dealing. Prior to Paak’s interview, he received a congratulatory phone call from Dre. “I don’t know too many dudes in [his] positions that still really care about the music.”
Check out the interview clip below.
Photo: Alberto Reyes/WENN.com
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Crusaders and Zionists
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By Uri Avnery / Antiwar.com
“When you were writing your book, did you ever think about the similarities between the Crusaders and the modern Zionists?” [the author inquired.]
“Actually, I hardly thought about anything else. I wanted to subtitle the book ‘A Guidebook For the Zionist About How Not To Do It,’ but my Jewish friends advised me to abstain from doing so.”
— British Historian Seven Runciman
A few days ago I found myself in Caesarea, sitting in a restaurant and looking out over the sea. The sunbeams were dancing on the little waves, the mysterious ruins of the ancient town arrayed behind me. It was hot, but not too hot, and I was thinking about the crusaders.
Caesarea was built by King Herod some 2000 years ago and named after his Roman master, Augustus Caesar. It once again became an important town under the Crusaders, who fortified it. These fortifications are what now makes the place a tourist attraction.
For some years in my life I was obsessed with the Crusaders. It started during the 1948 “War of Independence,” when I chanced to read a book about the crusaders and found that they had occupied the same locations opposite the Gaza strip which my battalion was occupying. It took the crusaders several decades to conquer the strip, which at the time extended to Ashkelon. Today it is still there in Muslim hands.
After the war, I read everything I could about these Crusaders. The more I read, the more fascinated I became. So much so, that I did something I have never done before or after: I wrote a letter to the author of the most authoritative book about the period, the British historian Steven Runciman.
To my surprise, I received a handwritten reply by return of post, inviting me to come and see him when I happened to be in London. I happened to be in London a few weeks later and called him up. He insisted I come over immediately.
Like almost everyone who fought against the British in Palestine, I was an anglophile. Runciman, a typical British aristocrat with all the quaint idiosyncrasies that go with it, was very likable.
We talked for hours, and continued the conversation when my wife and I visited him later in an ancient Scottish fortress on the border with England. Rachel, who was even more anglophile than I, almost fell in love with him.
What we talked about was a subject I brought up at the very start of our first meeting: “When you were writing your book, did you ever think about the similarities between the Crusaders and the modern Zionists?”
Runciman answered: “Actually, I hardly thought about anything else. I wanted to subtitle the book A Guidebook For the Zionist About How Not To Do It.” And after a short laugh: “But my Jewish friends advised me to abstain from doing so.”
Indeed, it is almost taboo in Israel to talk about the crusades.
[Read the full article here . . . ]
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New Blu-ray Releases: Captain Marvel, OITNB S6, Fast and Furious 4k & more!
It’s another great week for Blu-ray! This Tuesday, June 11 there are plenty of new titles to choose from including a mix of new home media releases and older, remastered movies on 4k Blu-ray.
At the top of the most popular movies this week is Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel releasing to Blu-ray, 4k Blu-ray, DVD, as well as exclusive Blu-ray editions from Best Buy and Target. You might also check out Five Feet Apart (2019), The Mustang (2019), and Season 6 of Orange Is The New Black.
On 4k Blu-ray, you can pick up Ghostbusters/Ghostbusters II 35th Anniversary Steelbook edition, the Fast & Furious 8-Movie Collection, Fast and Furious (2009) and Fast Five (2011), and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.
New on Blu-ray & 4k Blu-ray, June. 11, 2019
Captain Marvel (Best Buy Steelbook)
Captain Marvel (Target Exclusive)
Ghostbusters/Ghostbusters II 35th Anniversary Steelbook
Fast & Furious 8-Movie Collection
Fast Five (2011)
Fast and Furious (2009)
Orange Is The New Black Season 6
Jonny Quest: The Complete Original Series
The Mustang (2019)
Captive State (2019)
I am the Night (2019)
Norm of the North: King Sized Adventure (2019)
Leprechaun Returns (2018)
Sinatra in Palm Springs: The Place He Called Home (2018)
Sanitatum (2018)
From Core to Sun (2018)
The Concessionaires Must Die! (2017)
Kill Order (2017)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
The 27 Club (2008)
Mutual Appreciation (2005)
Final Stab (2001)
The Entity (1982) – Collector’s Edition
Can’t Stop The Music (1980)
Piranha (1978) Steelbook
Devil’s Kiss (1976)
My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie (1975)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Steelbook
The Girl Most Likely To… (1973)
Pursuit (1972)
Kidnapped (1971)
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) – Collector’s Edition
None But the Brave (1965) – Warner Archive
Swing Time (1936) – Criterion Collection
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Productive Margins: Regulation for Engagement
Lead Research Organisation: University of Bristol
Department Name: Law
The ways in which we regulate for engagement need a radical re-design. When businesses, professionals and policy-makers set up forums to 'allow' communities to participate in decision-making all too frequently community members' voices are not heard. Academic approaches to regulation are stuck in a cul-de-sac of co-regulation, which only enables relatively powerful actors to be engaged. We start from a different place. We ask: How can we harness the expertise, knowledge and passions of communities to design more effective systems for community engagement? In doing so, we aim to turn the academic and policy-maker dialogue around, from regulation of engagement to regulating for engagement.
This programme will bring together a wide range of experts to investigate and challenge how and where community engagement takes place. The experts are drawn from
- People working within communities
- Academic researchers
Researchers and communities will work together to co-produce the research programme. Together they will decide what is to be researched and design the ways in which research is carried out. Community members will be involved in doing the research and getting the research ideas out to other communities, policy-makers, service providers and businesses.
We will interact through
- A Programme Website and other digital social media to generate research ideas that meet community needs and discussion concerning the nature of engagement
- The Productive Communities Research Forum which will decide on the research agenda and design projects
- Half-yearly Festivals to get our ideas out to a wider audience of communities, policy-makers and business.
The strength of the partnership between Bristol and Cardiff universities lies in the diversity of communities we work with, from de-industrialised south Wales' valleys, to inner-city ethnic minority communities and social enterprises experimenting with alternative ways of organising. Research projects co-produced by those working in communities and academic researchers will be focused around three themes which reflect the expertise of the academic researchers:
- Mobilising neighbourhoods: examining how law, geography and the social make-up of neighbourhoods offer bridges and / or create barriers to communities engaging with policy-makers, government and business
- Harnessing digital space: experimentation with websites, social media and mobile phone technologies to create digital spaces that allow communities to harness existing expertise and develop new skills to engage in policy-making and politics
- Spaces of dissent: working in collaboration with key organisations and activists, we will identify how new understandings and practices are developed when groups offer resistance, exploring if and how these practices create new ways of engaging
Our 'cross-border' collaboration between communities and academics in southwest England and south Wales will enable us to contrast the different ways that community engagement is enabled and controlled in two nations of the devolved UK. These insights will allow us, together, to create new bottom-up experiments in community engagement.
Planned Impact
Professional, government and business organisations
The programme will directly impact upon the concerns of policy and practice communities. By mapping the terrain and rules of engagement from the perspective of communities at the margins, it will influence the dispositions of a wide range of organisations. Our work will influence local government in designing mechanisms to involve citizens in decision-making on e.g. planning, use of public space, the users of housing or care services. Businesses producing digital technologies will benefit from community expertise on how technology can be utilised by previously excluded groups, producing new markets (e.g. the recent collaboration of Glynnoch Community Centre with Spacehive). Universities and teaching institutions will gain new insights into the ways in which teaching and learning can develop knowledge, confidence and expertise in diverse communities and their ability to engage as active citizens. Scientists will be able to develop new ways for scientific and community knowledges to be interwoven to challenge proposals e.g. for open-cast mining or new superstores. We expect that the Legal Services Commission and Solicitors Regulation Authority will be assisted in developing guidance on regulation relating to Deaf and hard of hearing people. The arts, such as National Theatre Wales and Bristol Old Vic will gain access to new interdisciplinary insight on engaging with communities and on place-making through theatre.
Community and 3rd sector organisations
The research programme will enable community and third sector organisations to impact upon research, engage in as well as shape the ways in which they are regulated, and to benefit from the transfer of knowledge and skills. The opening demonstration projects are devised with these purposes in mind and the knowledges they and the other projects produce will be filtered through to other organisations (for example, through the Festivals and placements). A particular focus of the organisations which attended the preliminary forum meeting was on the "legacy" of research, whether that be (for example) through enhancing their infrastructural abilities or developing softer research and developmental skills. We are committed to developing this legacy element of the research, which will be organisationally specific. Here we set out a thematic sample of the many organisations, beyond the community partners named in the Case for Support, who could be drawn into the programme through Festivals and by joining the Forum (though each may well be involved in more than one theme):
Harnessing Digital Space: Knowle West Media Centre; Bristol CAB; Citizens Advice SW; Citizens Advice (England and Wales); Action on Hearing Loss; British Deaf Association; Deaf Access Cymru
Neighbourhood and Locality: Bristol Council of Mosques, Somali Development Group, Malcolm X Centre; Racial Equality Council (Bath); Centre for Regeneration in Wales
Spaces of Dissent:Golden Oldies; Creativity works; Bath People First; Wilts and Swindon Users network; 'Silai for Skills' women's project; Barton Hill Settlement; Bristol Radical History; Bristol Refugee Rights; Bristol Hospitality Network; Bristol Energy Network; Centre for Sustainable Energy
Apr 13 - Jun 18
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Morag Ann McDermont
Demography & human geography
Info. & commun. Technol.
Law & legal studies
Human Communication in ICT
Socio Legal Studies
University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Collaboration, Lead Research Organisation)
AHRC, United Kingdom (Co-funder)
Unite the Union (Collaboration)
Refugee Women of Bristol (Collaboration)
Age UK, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
Citizens UK (Collaboration)
Stand + Stare (Collaboration)
Children's Commissioner for Wales (Collaboration)
Welsh Assembly (Collaboration)
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
University of Nottingham (Collaboration)
Up Our Street (Collaboration)
National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (Collaboration)
Bristol Ageing Better (Collaboration)
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (Collaboration)
Women’s Equality Network Wales (Collaboration)
Women's Aid (Collaboration)
University of Sulaimani (Collaboration)
Southville Community Development Assoc, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Single Parent Action Network, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Bristol City Council, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Coexist CIC, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
The Bevan Foundation, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Deaf Access Cymru (DAC), United Kingdom (Project Partner)
3Gs Development Trust, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Cwmaman Communities First, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Knowle West Media Centre, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Ebbw Vale & District Trust, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Morag Ann McDermont (Principal Investigator)
Rosamund Sutherland (Co-Investigator)
Wendy Larner (Co-Investigator)
Angela Ann Piccini (Co-Investigator)
Martin Innes (Co-Investigator)
Emma Renold (Co-Investigator)
Timothy Cole (Co-Investigator)
Gabrielle Ivinson (Co-Investigator)
Gareth Howard Williams (Co-Investigator)
Eva Brit Elliott (Co-Investigator)
Kelley Johnson (Researcher)
Thomas I Sperlinger (Researcher)
Sarah Catherine Batterbury (Researcher)
Barbra Teater (Researcher)
V Walkerdine (Researcher)
Tariq Modood (Researcher)
Martin O'Neill (Researcher)
Naomi Rebecca Millner (Researcher)
Therese O'Toole (Researcher)
Frances Giampapa (Researcher)
Sarah Eagle (Researcher)
Keri Lee Facer (Researcher)
Jan Dobbernack (Researcher)
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Ersoy, A. (2014) What does regulation mean for Cohesion Policy 2014
Ivinson G (2020) What More Do Bodies Know? Moving with the Gendered Affects of Place in Body & Society
Renold Emma (2016) When data becomes da(r)ta: an onto-cartography of teen girls, sexual violence and creative activism
Kitty Webster (2016) Who decides what's in my Fridge? An overview of the Productive Margins Food Project
Millner N (2015) Who gets to decide what's in my fridge? : Principles fpr transforming the "invisible rules" shaping the regulation of food habits in urban spaces
Araujo De Moura, P (2018) Women and Data Futures: Project Report
Renold (2016) Words Won't Pin me Down: Making a film about street harassment in our local park
Artistic and Creative Products
Spin Outs
Title Activist Valentine Card
Description The Activist Valentine Card (Relationship Matters Project, Engagement phase of 4Ms project, Productive Margins) 40 young people from urban and rural south wales to joined 'Relationship Matters' campaign (see influencing policy and practice entry). The annotated ruler slips from the Welsh valleys met hundreds more ruler slips from Cardif (see the artefact entry Shame Chain for details on the significance of the ruler slips). Three slips with messages for change, were pasted to hang from a cut-out heart inside a red valentines card, which included a clear message listing the young people's recommendations for the education measures in the Violence Against Women Bill (2015). The card also included a policy poem, 'It's Not Too Late' (see artefact entry, 'policy poem'). Each card was sealed with a lipstick kiss. The kiss connected to the global Violence Against Girls and Women campaign, Red My Lips.
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital)
Impact Each card was personally addressed to every politician in Wales, and hand delivered to the National Assembly for Wales at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay. Indeed, the kiss connected our local action to the global Violence Against Girls and Women campaign, Red My Lips. Comments from Assemnbly Members who received the cards: ""thanks for the valentine's card. Healthy relationship education is extremely important" Gwyn R Price AM "A truly lovely gesture and a good way to make the point. Please say a huge thank you" Janet Finch-Saunders AM "They are absolutely right. The duty to teach children about healthy relationships should be in the Gender Based Violence Bill. Such a creative way to get your message across. " Eluned Parrot AM The Activism Valentine Card became an artefact to read view and touch in the Graphic Moves exhibition in Cardiff (Abacaus), Merthyr (Redhouse) and at the Riverfront (Newport).
URL https://youtu.be/tZ3Jkq8QlF8
Title Alonely
Description A co-devised theatre piece working with the data arising from the project - a dramaturg wrote the piece with the involvement of community researchers who had collected the data.
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc)
Impact the theatre piece spreads the word about the impact of isolation and loneliness on older people and encourages audience members to reflect on this
Title Around me
Description This poem was created by one teen participant who was part of Light Moves (see artefact film entry) and graphic moves. She co-created a word poem with Professor Emma Renold, based upon interview transcripts about how she felt about her artefact (which was submitted for her GCSE artwork). AROUND ME by Renee what is it? it's like a tree it's a family tree it's me it's a bit of me it's in me it's all around me it's about not just looking at me (when you see me) instead of people looking straight at you they are looking at what's behind you it's connected to you they're not just seeing you they're seeing you in everyone else around you in place in the trees my family tree what do I want you to see? when you look at someone you look at what's behind them not just them more than me around me where I'm from I'm coming from somewhere I'm not on my own Around me It's what makes me, me They make me, ME Because they are around me
Type Of Art Creative Writing
Impact The poem accompanied her artefact of the same name "Around Me". It was displayed at the three graphic moves exhibitions in Cardiff, Newport and Merthyr.
URL https://www.productivemargins.ac.uk/2015/06/04/graphic-moves-in-newport-june-5-28/
Title Body Silks
Description During the project, LIFE SUPPORT (a seed corn funded 8 month project as part of the Productive Margins Programme), the young people from Forsythia Youth created 9 BODY SILKS produced from a process of drawing around their body outlines onto pure white silk, and then using inks to express their emotions from the activities they participated in to push their bodies to the limits and explore their feelings about self, friendship and community bonds. The silks formed part of a creative exhibition at the National Swansea Waterfront Museum for International Women's Day.
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition
Impact The methodology of 'body mapping' was cited by the Welsh Government's Sex and Relationships expert panel evidence report, in the section on pedagogy of how to draw upon creative methods to explore sensitive issues and emotions in SRE lessons/sessions (see Renold and McGeeney 2017). The image of the silks flying on the Moralis hills of Merthyr was also presented as the final slide on how to work carefully and ethically to support young people's voice and rights at the United Nations in New York, on a panel focusing on Advancing Gender Equality in Wales, by Professor Emma Renold, with the First Minister, Carwn Jones.
URL https://youtu.be/7YjitigR5RM
Title Body Silks - merthyr rising festival 2017
Description Professor Renold submitted (with encouragement, consent and permission) the body silks on chains image for entry to the Merthyr Rising Festival 2017. They used the original image (cropped) from one of the members of the Life Support project. She was delighted!
Type Of Art Artwork
Impact The image was printed and laminated, and hung from the railings in Penderyn Square. The festival had a footfall of over 200o people over the weekend. The young people received free tickets to the festival, and were elated that their artwork was being showcase and shared for all to see.
URL https://www.facebook.com/hwylhub/photos/a.1215903375091538.1073741829.1176917508990125/1695558330459...
Title Body Swing
Description A short film featuring movement artist Jên Angharad as she swings through an exhibition of film, sculpture and sound at The Riverfront in Newport (5 June - 28 June 2015). The exhibition, titled, 'Graphic Moves' features artworks produced by young people from Forsythia Youth Centre and Pen-Y-Dre High School in collaboration with artists, a choreographer, academics from Cardiff University and the University of Aberdeen, and the Productive Margins Collective.
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation
Impact BODY SWING has been shown at a number of events and exhibitions, including: Renold, E., Ivinson, G. and Angharad, J. (2017) Moving with the not-yet: choreographing the political with young people in space, place and time, Generative Feminism(s): working across/ within/ through borders, Gender and Education Association Bi-Annual Conference, Middlesex - Renold, E., Ivinson, G. and Angharad, J. (2017) Mobilising Run-a-way Methodologies for Life Support, Summer Institute in Qualitative Research: Putting Theory to Work,10th July -14th July 2017, Manchester Metropolitan University. - Groves, C., Renold, E., Angharad, J., Oliver, S. (2017) Making futures matter: materialising anticipation in theory, policy and practice, Anticipation 2017, Senate House, School of Advanced Study in Central London, 8-10 November.
URL https://vimeo.com/160137856
Title Bristol Big Sisters
Description We have further contributed to the Muslim Women's Network UK materials by developing the complementary Bristol Big Sisters exhibition to add to the collection. Bristol Big Sisters features over 20 Muslim women role models in Bristol, including a Magistrate, Masuda Mian, the theologian Amra Bone, the anti-FGM Activist Fahma Mohamed, the biologist Aziza El Harchi, a community activist Sheila Joy El Dieb, Inspire's Co-director Kalsoom Bashir, and performance poet Shagufta K.
Impact The exhibition will be launched on 29th October 2015 at a project event at the Watershed and subsequently tour across Bristol, the profiles will also feature on the project website, and be incorporated into our workshop materials for ongoing work.
Title Creative Margins to teching Resources
Description Due to the methodologies and methods that I have been developing with Emma Renold across the Productive Margins; Regulation for Engagement and Creative Margins Network collaborations, I created a case study for AGENDA (see details below). We presented and performed out arts-based research methodology with dancer and choreographer Jen Angharad and visual artist Seth Oliver at the fourth Creative Margins Barcamp/Meeting 4: Key Theme - 'Time and Trust': working collaboratively and creatively with young people. November 5th 2018, in Cardiff, hosted by St Fagan's National Museum of History This new version of AGENDA will be launched on March 19th 2019, at the Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff at an event sponsored by Lynne Neagle AM. My case study involves enabling teachers to work with young people who have a 'melt down' or express uncontainable feelings. I describe how working carefully with paint and other art modalities and materials can enable young people to 'come back into the world and re-inhabit their bodies' Parts of the case study describes a melt down, and part describes a range of arts activities and how to use them. A snippet form the text is provided below. 'When a child has grown up with many adverse experience, the difficulties that they have lived within sometimes becomes traumatic. In schools a very simple event can re-trigger the extreme fear, anxiety or loss of control that is part of trauma. Sometime an outburst, or a melt down can occur and this can involve screaming, kicking, swearing and shouting. An outburst is like an explosion of energy.' Arts activity text... Materials We laid out a piece of watercolour paper, that is more absorbent than ordinary paper. Cover the desk with newspapers. We had different colours of crystal paint. Crystal paint is a powdered paint that created unpredictable and beautiful effects when water is splattered onto it. We chose Lee's favourite colour and sprinkled crystal paint onto the paperthe we took a paint brush, dipped it into water and spattered it across the paper. As the water met the crystal, an explosion of colour emerged. Lee' s attention was draw to the moving paint. As the crystals came in contact with water the paint swirled outward transforming from what seemed like a dark spot of powder into flowing eddies of colour. Lee seemed to be mesmerised by the beauty of the effects and asked if he could have a go. AGENDA: A Practitioner Guide to Making Positive Relationships Matter with Children. Agenda Created case study for NEU/NUT web-based version of AGENDA (PI E. Renold) resource site, to support teachers and educators to raise awareness on a range of healthy relationship education issues (e.g. gender equality, consent, body image, LGBTQ rights etc.) by using engaging and creative methods (e.g. from visual art and drama to online petitions and youth groups). What is AGENDA? In November 2015 AGENDA: A Young People's Guide for Making Positive Relationships Matter was launched in Wales. This is a free online toolkit developed with young people, for young people. AGENDA has equality, diversity, children's rights and social justice at its heart, and supports young people's rights to safely and creatively speak out and engage as active citizens on issues that matter to them, including: addressing gender discrimination; consent; LGBTQ+ rights; bullying; street harassment; sexual exploitation; relationship violence. AGENDA includes a wide range of activities and resources, and links to further information. The guide has been designed so that 11-18 year olds, supported by their teachers or youth workers, can explore the issues they are interested in at their own pace. It also showcases the different ways in which other young people have raised awareness of how gender-based and sexual violence impact upon their lives and the lives of others. What is an AGENDA case study? Central to the future AGENDA website is a section dedicated to inspiring others by sharing a story of how different groups of children and young people have been getting creative in raising awareness on AGENDA related topic areas in innovative ways.
Impact AGENDA was part of Prof Emma Renold's recent ESRC Impact award. The resources are on line for all teachers and educators and receive international recognition. Teachers access the resources via websites such as the NSPCC site and there are thousands of hits. https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/research-resources/2016/agenda-young-people-s-guide-making-positive-relationships-matter/
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supporting-children-in-making-positive-relationships-mattercefnogi-pl...
Title Dance performance 'Bodies in Flight'
Description Walking performance / tour in Cardiff as an event for the Connected Communities showcase. Extracts of interviews with local residents were played as part of an audio guide to participants who followed the performer as she walked around the neighbourhood described in the audio.
Impact Members of the local community were interviewed about the changes to the area which was explored during the performance. The performance engaged participants with the personal stories of the locality explored.
Title Dance performance for Graphic Moves
Description 2 original dance performances created and performed at Graphic Moves exhibitions in Newport and Merthyr Tydfil.
Impact Dances were taken to wider audiences as part of the travelling exhibition. The dances were also filmed and edited to make the film 'Body Swings'.
Title Film 'Light Moves'
Description Film of artworks and a dance performance created by youth groups and school children in Merthyr Tydfil.
Impact The creation of the dance involved a two day workshop with primary school children and the choreographer. The film was shot and directed by members of a youth group who were taught digital skills as a result of the project. The project was well received by the children involved. Screened with participants at Connected Communities showcase.
Title Film - Graphic Moves
Description The Film Graphic Moves was co-created with young people as part of the project 'Mapping, Making and Mobilising in Merthyr: Using creative methods to engage change with young people (Oct 2014-Sept 2015, see www.productivemargins.com) The '4M's' project - part of the 'Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement' programme - involved working with young people, academics, community members/ organisers, and creative artists in North Merthyr Tydfil to map young peoples' experiences of place. In this section we report the arts-based workshop that led to the co-creation of the film 'Graphic Moves'. Our Approach Central to these workshops was creating an immanent methodology, practices with dynamic flexible structures to enable the making of the 'more than' or aesthetic 'potentiality' of a thing, or a lived relation, appear - and for us it is the entanglement of us, the room, young people, the materials, the ideas, we are working with freedom to move - expressive elbow room. These pARTicipatory methodologies enabling the conditions for art to touch " living bodies and induces transformations in those bodies which affect and move them" (see Ivinson et al. 2017; Renold 2018). A series of twelve arts based workshops were designed by sound, visual, and filmmaking artists and offered to young people in a local youth centre and a school (February-April 2015). The locale was on of the most deprived, ex-mining neighbourhoods in Wales, Merthyr Tydfil. Incorporating the unexpected Shortly after the young people became in involved, the Channel 4 documentary series SKINT, a year in the making, and broadcast over 3 episodes were aired on three consecutive Mondays. The effect was more than we could have imagined and suddenly the workshops took on a new urgency and became places where young people wanted to experiment with ways to answer back to SKINT. The airing of SKINT and the young people's reactions that were revealed as they worked with found objects, cameras and audio recorder, unearthed the power of the stigma of place (see Thomas, 2017). In 2016 when we made the film the effects of austerity were also evident as local amenities disappeared and support services were withdrawn. The young people expressed through their art how they were felt appalled, shamed and angry by the way they were portrayed and forgotten. The workshops led to the creation of a new film - 'Graphic Moves' - featuring artistic outputs (drawings/paintings, sculptures, visual projections, soundscapes, poems, and narrative accounts). Workshop 1 Mashing up the land This began with commissioning a local artist to create a 3D map of the local area sourced from local wood. Artist Seth Oliver suggested going around the youth centre to find objects in the local landscape. The natural and discarded objects were brought back to youth centre and art room and were used to create collages. In the school, the young people were already used to working with their art teacher creating more than human life forms from rubbish. Bits of plants, nature and litter became the material to stick, build and paste. Collages portrayed the beauty of the nature in the local landscape and featured in the subsequent film, Graphic Moves. Workshop 2 The projection workshop, Filmmaker, Heloise Godfrey-Talbot, taught young people to use a professional video camera to take still and moving images. She led them outside in small groups and young people took shots of, for example, wind gently blending daffodils growing in the grass in the school grounds. Here we paid attention to the micro movements of nature and place. These shots became part of the subsequent film 'Graphic Moves'. As they looked at their landscape, two girls created an audio narrative of their experiences of belonging to place, which features in the film. Inside the school and youth centre Heloise taught young people to projector still and moving images taken outside of hills, flowers and buildings onto walls. We experimented with projecting images of landscape onto bodies, feet, stomach, head and arms. The effects entangle people with place. Local past-present-future landscapes were projected onto bodies, so that bodies became place and place became bodies - this entanglement became a strong refrain in the film, Graphic Moves. In the film, still and moving images of place map onto feet, torsos, heads, faces, legs. In one workshop, young people drew patterns of their journeys to school and around their neighbourhood on a map of Merthyr pinned to a wall. The projection effects play with multiple scales of speed, movement and juxtaposed mages of people in place. Workshop 3 Found sounds and community beats Sound artist Rowan Talbot created workshops using professional sound equipment in walking tours led by young people around the street of Merthyr. They recorded sounds of the place; cars, weather, voices and screams. They experimented with mixing sounds to create soundscapes. One of the most prominent sounds, the sound of walking; shoes crisply clacking on a hard surface, became a narrative strand that opened and closed the film Graphic Moves and features in places throughout, offering a sonic representation of the pace of movement of people across time and space. Access to the workshops We advertised the workshops with dates when the artists would be in the youth centre and brief descriptions of the activities. Some workshops worked well and some worked less well. Some worked first time and others had to be changed and nuanced throughout. In some, the peer group dynamics were generative and it seemed everyone had fun, in others the peer group dynamics became unproductive and worked against, instead of for, inclusion and we had to intervene or ask for support from the youth workers. We had to be vigilant, flexible and use our knowledge of working with vulnerable young people and our trusting relationships with the youth workers to support the artists.
Impact Film: Graphic Moves Elements from workshops described above became the segments of the film 'Graphic Moves'. The place where the young people are growing up, coms into view in a multiplicity of diverse ways depending on what is drawn on to become multi-sensorial assemblages at any moment. The film diffracts the place through multiple lenses. Sections of the film touch on deep feelings of belonging and rootedness as well as difficult and challenging topics, such as feeling unsafe. The film speaks back to pathologising representations of Merthyr and celebrates young people's relationship with their place, its people and its landscape. Three major public exhibitions were organised and enabled difficult, challenging and painful issues - as well as joyous celebrations of place - to be communicated to wider audiences through the affective power of art to move. The exhibitions sparked a great deal of community, social media, and public debate that is still reverberating and generating interest and impact. In addition, two original dance pieces were created/performed at two exhibitions. A professional photographer and a filmmaker used drone cameras to capture moving images to document the exhibitions. The choreographer/dancer, Jên Angharad responded to artworks and the reactions of the public through body movements. The footage was made into a film called Body Swing (see artefact entry, 'body swing'). Brief summary of Outputs and Impact • Graphic Moves showcased at three exhibitions: Abacus Art Gallery, Cardiff (1-3 May 2015); Riverfront, Newport, 5-11 June 2015 - pictures available here); Red House/Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil (16 June 2015 - pictures available here and here) • A film exploring creative research methods was made during the Riverfront Exhibition and feature on the Sage online research methods website (See separate 'publication' entries, Renold and Ivinson, Sage Online Resources). • Two original dance pieces were created and performed by the Welsh choreographer Jên Angharad at two exhibitions and are documented on film. • A film, Body Swing, was created to capture the affective power of artworks through a dancer's body. Jên Angharad danced within the Riverfront Exhibition space and her movements capture and express the affective charge of artworks created by the young people. The film expresses the affective power of art to move through dance. The film was produced with a drone camera that circulated around the artifacts in the Riverfront Exhibition and followed the dancer's movements. It was co-produced with a filmmaker, Renold and Ivinson). Follow on Political Intervention and Co-Production: Sexual Harassment and Relationship Matters Campaign and youth resource development (see separate entries, Renold, in particular those relating to the co-production of the resource, AGENDA: A young people's guide to making relationships matter and the artefacts 'words won't pin me down') On-Going Engagement with Arts, Culture, and Heritage Organisations and Communities (see separate entries, Elliott and Thomas) Graphic Moves will tour in 2018 as part of a follow on project, 'Song lines on the road - Life lines on the move!' funded by Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) through an impact accelerator grant (10K) warded to Bright and Ivinson (MMU), in a series of sharing events between coalfield towns in the north of England and south Wales in 2018. (see separate entry, Ivinson and Bright, further finding section - 'Song lines on the road - Life lines on the move!')
Title GIS wayfinding exercise
Description Participatory way-finding walk with GIS technology.
Impact Informed our approaches to participatory mapping and contributed to our knowledge of 'space/place' which is likely to be a future research strand.
Title Graphic Moves Art Drawer
Description The Graphic Moves art drawer was a six month project that enabled Professor Renold and Professor Ivinson to collaborate with the original artists team, Seth Oliver and Heloise Godfrey-Talbot and a new artists, Liz Price to create an artefact that could capture and share the making of, and dartafacts generated in, the Graphic Moves workshops and exhibition. What began as an art-book (made from selected images from the arts-based workshops, exhibition and exhibits, evolved into an art-drawer - that is, a drawer (salvaged from the participating school) that was up-cycled and crafted to hold 10 artefacts (some new, some from the exhibition). Each artefact has a designated and secure holding place inside the draw - and there are two sections to the drawer that can be lifted out. The drawer is case in bespoke oak with GRAPHIC MOVES scored into the word. It contains the following instructions. G Projecting place R Drawer This drawer was reclaimed from the art store room in Pen Y Dre High School and gifted to the project to house the artefacts created for Graphic Moves. A Art Book Open this book to unfold the images that capture the process of making Graphic Moves. P Mashing up the land Feel the landscape moulded from mashed up newspapers that stigmatised our place. H Good Day Bad Day Read the illustrated story of the day the martians landed in our town. I Graphic Moves View the film created to speak back to the Chanel 4 Documentary SKINT and that show how we feel about our place. C Ruler HeART Lift up the ruler and read. M Feel What I Feel Touch this piece of skirt. O Sculpting Merthyr Life Pick up the nails inspired by the contours of Merthyr life. V Words Won't Pin us Down Flick fast. Flick Slow. E Magnet S Loss and Found Move the mineral deposits to find our place.
Impact This artefact has been shared at two events to date, primarily as a way of communicating the new materialist affective methodologies that the team have been crafting and developing since the making of Light Moves and throughout and beyond the Productive Margins programme (see future collaborations entries for Professor Ivinson).
Title Graphic Moves exhibition Cardiff
Description Graphic Moves film exhibited at Abacus Art gallery, Cardiff 1-3 May 2015
Impact Film exhibited to wider audience in Cardiff
Title Graphic Moves exhibition Merthyr Tydfil
Description Graphic Moves film and exhibition showed across two sites in Merthyr Tydfil, Theatre Soar and Red House, 16th June
Impact Graphic Moves shown to wider audience in Merthyr Tydfil. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ls6tw5qga8ud7u3/AAA8vm29AbjVqiXDgpX6TlW0a?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vuj7c4iqdns1u0w/AACaJrug_D-nHjk3sp4Hd1Roa?dl=0
URL https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vuj7c4iqdns1u0w/AACaJrug_D-nHjk3sp4Hd1Roa?dl=0
Title Graphic Moves exhibition Newport
Description Graphic Moves film exhibited at Riverfront art centre, Newport 5-11 June 2015
Impact Graphic Moves film exhibited to wider audience in Newport.
URL https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ac27fhid9i22adr/AABgGW_O4iw7VnHOXakuIlRSa?dl=0
Title Gurnos Zebras
Description Young people involved in the project carried out a public action to highlight local issues to policymakers - attracting newspaper coverage.
Impact Carrying out a public action with young people on three key issues in Merthyr: street lighting, road safety, and closing a subway. This involved dressing as zebras to welcome powerful decision-makers to Merthyr and taking them on a tour of the area. This attracted a full page report in the 'Merthyr Express' newspaper.
Title Its not too late - POLICY POEM
Description This poem was created with over 40 teen girls across three different secondary schools to support the Young People's Promise campaign for better Healthy Relationships as part of the Valentine Card Activism (see Valentine Card artefact). Over 6 weeks, as Professor Renold visited each school (one of which was the school that instigated the campaign, The Relationship Matters project, Productive Margins) each group wrote a new line, or edited. The end result was a collectively written policy poem, entitled "It's not too late".
Impact The valentine card poem, had the policy poem printed and pasted inside. The last line of this poem powerfully extended the hegemonic 'healthy relationships' discourse of 'respect' and 'consent' to the policy-making process itself ('policy-making is about respect and consent too'). The poem was read by each assembly member who recieved the cards. The poem was also included in the young people's lobbying letter posted on the Violence Against WOmen's Action group for the Young People's Promise Campaign. Roses are red, violets are blue It's not too late, for me and you To change the law That can change our lives And end the violence So we can survive and thrive We need student champions We need proper teacher training We need a real relationships education To stop girl shaming and boy blaming So when it's time to vote Please think of our ode We need YOU to take action Because you're in control Roses are red, violets are blue Respect and Consent Is about policy change too
URL http://orca.cf.ac.uk/107647/
Title Knowle West Media Centre Exhibition and symposium on Women and data futures
Description After the Women and Data Futures workshops, the women from Knowle West produced an exhibition sharing what they had learnt; this was displayed at the Knowle West Media Centre, with a smaller selection of images and artworks shown at 'We The Curious' during the 2017 summer holiday.To close the exhibition, KWMC and Productive Margins co-hosted a symposium during BBC Digital Bristol Week. 'The Future of Data: Taking Back Control?' prompted a lively debate and included provocations from three guest speakers who explored the future of data ethics, privacy and value and invited visitors to imagine a different 'data future'. The speakers were Mara Balestrini (Partner & Research Director, Ideas for Change) , Ed Boal (Deputy Head of Digital Media & Technology, Gregg Latchams) and Andrew Charlesworth (Reader in IT and Law, University of Bristol). The event was chaired by Katherine Rooney.
Impact Debate and dissemination across a wide-ranging audience from across Bristol
URL http://kwmc.org.uk/projects/womenanddata/
Title Life Chances Project Utopia Festival, Somerset House, London June 2016
Description A short film giving an overview of the Life Chances project
Impact Not known
URL https://www.productivemargins.ac.uk/outputs/life-chances/#video
Title Life Chances co-produced fictional novel
Description Co-produced fictional novel written by project participants, community development workers and commissioned artists to capture stories of people's lives on low income and to creatively re-imagine the welfare provision and interactions with regulatory systems that would enable better life chances for people in low income situations.
Impact The novel is due to be published in December 2016 under an ISBN and further detail will be added then
Title Life Chances game
Description This is a floor based game for people to role play the characters in the novel and understand their life chances and the barriers that individuals face in improving their life chances. The game is based on theory of trans-actional analysis allowing people to better empathise with individual circumstances and to trouble the systems that regulate people's lives.
Impact The game was showcased at the AHRC community utopias festival in Somerset House June 2016 as part of the CC festival. It has also been used in public engagement activities and in neighbourhood forum in the Bristol area that the research is focused upon. We are in discussion with the Mayors office in Bristol about how we could take the game to all neighbourhood partnership areas to provide some equalities and diversities training particularly in the area of asylum and refugee work in the city.
Title Life Chances posters/ visual imagery
Description The artists Close and Remote commissioned on the project have produced about 10 alternative images to challenge the UK governments Life Chances propaganda images that were produced as part of their Life Chances policy agenda. These will appear as chapter colour plates in the published novel.
Impact The images were showcased as part of the project stall at the Community Utopias festival in Somerset House 2016. The images disrupt government stereotypes of heterosexual, white couples with one or two children and provide alternative family forms as well as utilising both the utopian imagery of the original images and some dystopian imagery to challenge the viewer to see people's lives from alternative viewpoints. The project team posted new images using #lifechances on twitter and found that our images were being tweeted and circulated alongside the government ones- some of which were subsequently taken down from Government websites and twitter.
Title Life Chances: Co-written re-imagined welfare utopias through a fictional novel
Description Peer reviewed blog post on Sociological Review website http://www.thesociologicalreview.com/blog/life-chances-co-written-re-imagined-welfare-utopias-through-a-fictional-novel.html
Impact Only just published
URL http://www.thesociologicalreview.com/blog/life-chances-co-written-re-imagined-welfare-utopias-throug...
Title Life Chances: a work of sociological fiction
Description co-written fictional novel with artists and participants and self-published and distributed
Impact We are just disseminating this to a range of stakeholders including MPs, civil servants, councillors so we will update when we are able to document impact
Title Life Support - Film
Description Life Support draws upon our experiences from an arts-based adventure project that helped us explore what was troubling us. We wanted others, especially those in power, to feel how we feel. We learned that our strength and our resilience is more than us. It is in friends and family, in history and place, and most of all, it is in Forsythia. We started with anger and we became so much more. We are so much more" Life Support was a collaborative project with 8 young people and workers from Forsythia Youth, two academics (Emma Renold, Cardiff University and Gabrielle Ivinson, Manchester Metropolitan University), and two artists (Heloise Godfrey-Talbot and Rowan Talbot). It was part-funded by the ESRC/AHRC Productive Margins Programme (productivemargins.co.uk).
Impact Life Support was first premiered on Sunday 12th March for International Women's Day 2017 at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. It had a viewing audience of over 300 people. It was subsequently also used (via twitter activism) to support young people's protest to keep their youth centre open in their presentation to Welsh Assembly's Children and Young People's Committee (April 2018).
Title Life Support - Film 2017
Description This short film Life Support was a collaborative project with nine young people and workers from Forsythia Youth, two academics (Emma Renold, Cardiff University and Gabrielle Ivinson, Manchester Metropolitan University), and two artists (Heloise Godfrey-Talbot and Rowan Talbot). It was part-funded by the ESRC/AHRC Productive Margins Programme (productivemargins.co.uk) in the final phase as a pilot project with seed corn funding. We co-produced a series of activities and workshops with the artists, youth workers and young people. Next we describe the methodology. Runaway Methodology An academic paper, Runaway Methodology is in progress. Our method can be captured by three steps: (1) Event: setting up an event; participating alongside others while attuning to the micro intensities of moments within the event; (2) Run(a)way: enabling initial ideas that emerge and (3) Arts-based workshops: providing arts materials and techniques to enable initial ideas to be expressed through other media, and so by reframed ideas as matter they can become objects/artefacts/'darta' (Renold et al. 2016) for further reflection and wider public communication. The basis of the approach is to capture ideas in the making and enable them to stay alive and active by offering a pallet of materials to enable expression. We describe the steps in more detail below. (1) Event We set up events sometimes based on what participants ask us to set up, such as the physical activities that this group choose to undertake on the residential (Giant Swing, Zip wire, Aero Ball and Rock Climbing) and sometime we set up events around art materials such as the workshops we orchestrated between the physical activities on the residential weekend. During a residential at an Activity Centre the zip wire activity fulfilled the groups' requirements for a challenging, physical activity that literally took them and us to an edge. (2) Runaway After the activity a long piece of paper (runway) was rolled out on the art-room floor and everyone wrote or drew something to 'land' expressions of what it had felt as part of the activity. Some wrote words or phrases to capture the emptions (affects) that had been experienced after we had climbing a high tower, put ourselves into a harness and launched our bodies over a precipice. Such events enable us to relive an emotion such as fear (in a safe environment), to feel it, and as part of that feeling to evoke past fears. The past and present feelings are experienced bodily and bodies might reconnect with patterns of feelings that have been created through prior evoked experiences (of fear). A runway is both a landing platform, where ideas are landed, and a take off platform, where new ideas take off. We have found that the size and width of the paper, the way it can be rolled out before everyone, so that everyone can gather round it and the way it can be rolled up afterwards to store ideas, is particularly effective. The runway is the first invitation to communicate through a medium other than the spoken word. So we move from speech to depiction (word and drawings). (3) Arts-based workshops In this step we move from speech and early depictions on the Runway to art media. By offering a pallet of materials and tools such as a piece of silk, a blank sheet, paints, paper, straws, glue, glitter, string, nails, hammer, tweezers, sticky tape, coloured string and piece of wood, we try to enable expression in different forms or modalities that go beyond the limitations of the spoke word. We think very careful about what to offer, in what kind of space and using what kind of words or instructions. At this stage we usually work closely with an artist to co-produce the workshops materials and space. We try to enable 'anything' to happen while remaining very aware that for example, the space, the shape of a room, the amount of light, the number of tables or pieces of silk, as well as the size of the paint-brushes - all become part of the material assemblage that shapes what might emerge. The Artifacts: Chair, Silks, 3D book and The Artbox The artifacts produced in these workshops, such as the Chair and Silks have travelled to many venues and are described in detail in other entries. The artifacts have the power to move and represent the young people in a policy making events, community festivals and forum and at academic conferences and workshops. The young people's artifacts inspired the creation of the ArtBox and the Artbook. The Film; Life Support Life Support is a film dedicated to the young people and staff at the Forsythia Youth project, North Merthyr. The young people explained the film as follows, 'It draws upon our experiences from an arts-based adventure project that helped us explore what was troubling us. We wanted others, especially those in power, to feel how we feel. We learned that resilience is more than us. It is in people and place, in friends and family, and most of all, in Forsythia. We started with anger and we became so much more'. The young people created a poem to express their experience. We are so much more. We are fear We are anger We are pride We are joy We are silk We are human We are equal We are one We are Forsythia YOUTH! By BRONWEN Life Support Film showings The film was premiered at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff at the International Women's Day Festival,12 March 2017 to an audience of 300. The film continues to be show at community venues and academic conferences worldwide. Manchester Metropolitan University awarded an impact accelerator grant to Professor Gabrielle Ivinson and Dr Geoff Bright in 2018. Life Support will be shown at events in six industrialised coalfield communities in the north of England and south Wales ex-mining valleys in events co-hosted with community partners - Unite Community and the Co-operative College
Impact Productive Margins activism The film became part of the young people's campaign against the closure of the Forsythia Youth Facility when Communities First ends. On the 14th February 2017, the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children announced that the Communities First Programme would be phased out by March 2018. Although the Forsythia Youth Facility was established long before Communities First in response to the needs of young people on a housing estate, the youth workers were funded through Communities First money. On hearing the news of possibly and imminent closures Forsythia Youth Facility the young people mounted a twitter campaign and the film Life Support became part of the protests campaign. The young people took their case to the Welsh Government. Forsythia Youth remains open yet with reduced staff and with the loss of one of the pivotal youth leaders who had sourced the money and resources to open the Facility two decades previously. In the process of redundancies and enforced job applications, her post was downgraded making it emotionally too distressing for her to reapply. The youth centre lost a pivotal and deeply loved champion and we lost vital access, a trusted colleague and an inspirational youth leader. Our pain, like that of the young people's, is reflected in Life Support. Texts accompanying film sequences in Life Support: 'This place is my life, it means the world to me' 'Forsythia is the heart-beat of Merthyr's young people' 'Government cuts are slowly strangling valleys communities' 'stop stop stop they need to listen enough is enough' The following is a sample of messages posted on the young people's campaign site and listed at the end of the film before the credits. We dedicate this film to all the children, young people, staff and visitors who keep the heartbeat of Forsythia Youth pumping. If this place closes, the lifeline that these young people need so much will be lost forever. If this centre closes it will be an act of neglect. It's a second home to many young people This youth centre gives children memories to last a life-time. This project saves lives They accepted me for who i am It offers the most life changing experiences and trips that deeply inspire us as young people! I for sure look up to each and everyone of the youth workers at forsythia youth as role models for me in the future One of our favourite childhood places so many opportunities and experiences This place has taught me all the values of life and so much more it's just amazing Without this youth I'd be so lost Been involved with forsythia for around 8 years now, and when I say it changed my life I 100% mean it! Without this project and the fabulous staff I would honestly not be where I am today and closing this project would prevent generations from accessing the same life changing opportunities that I got! Closing this youth will be closing a family! There's bonds so strong within that's so special. The Forsythia Youth Facility remains open with reduced staff.
Title Light Moves photo-story
Description This photo-story resulted from the creation of the Light Moves film.
Type Of Art Image
Impact This photo-story is linked the Light Moves film, it is available online for wider impact.
URL http://www.productivemargins.ac.uk/light-moves-episode-1/
Title Metal Mash up, by the angry 12 year olds
Description This poem was created by three girls and one boy during the "Mashing up the land" workshop as part of the making of the artefacts for the Graphic Moves exhibition and film. This session involved pulping pathologising newspaper headlines of the place in which they lived to re-create new images and narratives. During the pulping session, as the young people were stirring the pulp in orange boxes, they began to sing all their favourite songs. Facilitating the workshop, Professor Renold offered to create a poem based upon all their favourite song lyrics. They jumped at the opportunity and the following poem was created. METAL MASH UP By the angry 12 year olds If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see You will find out first hand what it's like to be me The world is ugly But you're beautiful to me I'm going to show my scars for all the broken Assembling their philosophies From pieces of broken memories This is gospel for the fallen ones In the end as we fade into the night Imagine living like a king someday They can't stop us let them try I am not ashamed I'm radioactive, RADIOACTIVE
Impact This poem featured in the three Graphic Moves exhibitions at the Abacus, Cardiff, Riverfront, Newport and the Redhouse, Merthyr. The text was backed onto their artwork also created in the session. The poem was laminated and returned to the arts department, and so the group could always return to their original copy.
URL http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/97611-graphic-moves-dynamic-exhibition-is-the-next-step-in-the-pr...
Title Paper City
Description Running before and during the policy brief event, was a participatory arts project, Paper City, by Davis & Jones, which ran from 19th to 21st January 2015. Davis & Jones make artworks through occasions, dialogues and relationships; working with people and places to explore how we connect. Paper City set out to explore how spaces of the city might be re-imagined as more inclusive places, and where women's voices can be heard. These collaborations between the artists and participants created a series of paper installations that recreated and reimagined spaces in the city, which were displayed at the launch event for the policy brief.
Impact The artwork was displayed at the launch event for the policy brief, the audience of which included representatives from the city council, police, Building the Bridge, faith sector, community organisations and academics.
Title Postcards
Description Postcards summarising different strands of the Productive Margins research.
Impact Promotional postcards were produced to publicise our activities at the Connected Communities showcase. We have subsequently used them for further dissemination at other events and for use as project 'business cards'.
Title Productive Marginals
Description Meta-data computer programme
Impact Circulated to Forum members and wider networks via our website.
URL http://productivemarginals.blogspot.co.uk
Title Ruler Skirt
Description The Ruler Skirt (Relationship Matters Project, engagement phase of 4Ms, Productive Margins). In the very first lunchtime meeting of the Relationships Matter club, one of the girls shared with us how 'some boys, they use rulers to lift up girls' skirts' (e.g. if they were bending over a desk to reach for a book, or pick up their school bag). No sooner had the words been spoken, than one of the other girls had materialized the event in ink, in bold capital letters: 'RULER TOUCHING'. Professor Renold invited the girls to imagine what else the ruler could do. They discussed how experiences of sexual violence are often ruled out (e.g. normalized or silenced); how schools are not 'measuring up' with their narrow focus on targets and testing; and how girls and women are have been regulated and 'ruled'! ('rule her, RULE HER, rule her with your ruler'). Very quickly, they all wanted to bend the rules, rewrite the rules. The following week, the girls wrote comments that sexually shamed girls on printed paper rulers. These paper rulers turned into paper chains to connect with how sexual violence shackles them (see Shame Chain artefact). At their request, Professor Renold bought in bendy acrylic rulers which the girls graffitied, and then from discussing whether to turn them into a ruler-monster, a ruler-cape, and ruler-bunting, the girls discussion decided they wanted to wear them, first a jacket, then a cape - they settled on where the started, and the gladiator style ruler-skirt was created.
Impact The Ruler Skirt, as a awareness-raising change-making object has had a number of notable and significant impacts, sharing the methodological process of how to craft data into artefacts in participatory projects and in ways that can simultaneously affect change in safe and creative ways on sensitive topics - for the participants this was about making the personal political without revealing to much of themselves. 1) The skirt was worn by one of the girls in their school assembly, 'raising awareness about healthy relationships' to 300 pupils and 20 teachers 2) The RULER theme was the catalyst for a piece of direct action (see Valentine Card artefact) 3) The girls wore the ruler skirt at their invited keynote at the Welsh Women's Aid annual conference (March 2015, n=300). 3) During the Graphic Moves arts-based phrase, the ruler skirt featured in the Graphic Moves film, and was transformed into the artefact The Ruler Swing, which featured at three exhibitions (Riverfront, Newport; Abacus Cardiff; Redhouse in Merthyr). Since then (it is now March 2018) the Ruler Skirt has been worn, touched, heard and read by over 4000 people at over 20 different academic, practitioner, youth and school events, conferences and protests for young people, politicians, teachers, educational practitioners, the public in Wales, England, Sweden, New York and Finland. Each time, Professor Renold shares its journey on Facebook and twitter for participants to see. Notable moments include: Professor Renold wearing the skirt at the United Nations Headquarters panel 27 Feb 2018 (n=75); at the Girls' Rights in Wales Conference 2015 (n=500 teen girls); and at the Welsh Government's National Headteachers Conference (n=250 headteachers). Digitised, the Ruler Skirt was successful in being professionally photographed and featured in the Merthyr Rising Festival, May 2017, and will feature as part of the SELF/OTHER exhibition in Manchester in the Autumn 2018. The story of the making of the ruler skirt features in the co-authored paper with the teen girls in the Routledge Handbook on Gender and Sexual Violence (Libby et al.), in the academic open access journal article (Renold 2018) and in their co-authored case study, Ruler-heART in AGENDA: A Young people's guide to making positive relationships matter (Renold 2016).
URL http://methods.sagepub.com/video/researching-sensitive-topics-using-creative-methods
Title Ruler Skirt Chains - Merthyr Rising Festival
Description Professor Renold submitted (with encouragement, consent and permission) the ruler skirt on chains image for entry to the Merthyr Rising Festival 2017. We were successful and a professional team of photographers collected the artefact and created a photo.
Title Ruler Skirt Swing
Description The Ruler-Skirt-Swing, was created as part of the Relationship Matters project's exhibition as part of the wider Graphic Moves touring exhibition (see Graphic Moves entry). The ruler-skirt hangs on chains (to connect to the artefact, "shame chain") from a child's swing. A soundscape created from the sound and teen girls' conversations in their local park for the making of their story, "Words won't pin me down" (see Other in publications entry) is played on a loop.
Impact This artefact, or dartafact (renold 2018) has been exhibited at numerous events and conferences in London, Cardiff, Newport and Merthyr Tydfil. It carries a powerful message of the ways in which creative arts-based methodologies can generated and communicate difficult and sensitive issues, such as street harassment and sexual violence experienced by young people. For example, at the 2017 Anticipations conference members of the 4Ms/graphic moves (Productive Margins) team, shared, through performance the making of data and dartafacts, including the ruler-skirt swing. Kerri Facer's reflections included the following statement about our performance: "Two important and powerful interventions in this area were the curated session from the Cardiff Futures team that both evoked and analysed the emotional and affective issues of grounded futures work with young women experiencing sexual violence and their reframing of this to create alternative futures"
URL http://anticipation2017.org/reflections-on-anticipation-2017-keri-facer/
Title Runway of Disrespect
Description The Runway of Disrespect (Relationship Matters Project, Engagement phase of 4Ms project, Productive Margins) The first audio-recorded session with the girls began with sharing the different ways in which some boys their age, in and out of school, routinely 'disgusted' them with rape 'banter' ). By the end of the first session the release of words, phrases and emojis into the space via spoken word and onto the flip-chart paper in ink became a powerful refrain and a mode of expression Professor Renold worked with further. Brining in a large spool of quality paper (1 m × 100 m) to the second session, she rolled it out so that it stretched almost the entire length of the room (approximately 20ft). Each session began with the rhythmic movement of the roll unfolding, like a celebrity red carpet, in which girls shared experiences that they 'had never talked about like this before'. No longer hidden, or taboo, the words were both recognized and respected. As each week progressed, and in the repetition, something shifted. Words that were previously hidden, or heavy with anger and shame, became a little lighter and annotating the roll in each session became 'fun'. The roll seemed to become a significant expressive refrain that was enlivened with each rolling-out - a movement, which seemed to have a potentially transformative effect, opening itself and the girls up to new elaborations and pathways. It also became a safe and containing activity/artefact (and could be rolled up and taken away). It certainly seemed to be a process that captured their imagination, and it materialized as their first d/artaphact: 'the runway of disrespect', used in school assemblies, exhibitios and conferences (see impact below).
Impact The Runway of Disrespect was used by the girls in their school assemblies (n=300 students, 20 teachers). The 17ft 'Runway of Disrespect' was rolled out and a barrier was created with the chairs, to re-orient the students as they entered the hall to walk by, look down on and read the runway before taking their seats. As the assembly drew to a close, students were invited to stamp on the 'Runway of Disrespect' as loudly and as forcibly as they wanted to, thus embodying the girls' call to join them in stamping out sexual violence in schools and communities. This activity was carefully planned with the girls and Professor Renold to inject fun, movement and energy in ways we hoped might generate a lightness of being-becoming activist on a serious weighty issue. It was also a moment in which students could participate in and thus connect with the girls' own affective embodied practice of creating through and with experience. Following the assembly, the Runway of Disrespect was developed further in order for it to be used and shared as an awareness-raising artefact in practitioner workshops on healthy relationships. The girls worked with professional artist Seth Oliver and Professor Emma Renold (Graphic Moves phase). It was divided into 4 sections, laminated and backed onto hardboard with wooden rulers fixed with a hinge so they can flip up and swivel to reveal the stamped out words, and also mimic the lifting of the skirt with a ruler (which was the experience that sparked the ruler theme, see Ruler Skirt) This dartafact was exhibited in three events in 2015 (Riverfront, Newport, Abacus, Cardiff and Redhouse, Merthyr). It was also used in a Welsh Government practitioner event led by Professor Renold, on creative ways to raise awareness of heathy relationships in schools with 80 teachers and educational practitioners across Wales. It features in the RulerHeART case study, in the Welsh Government endorsed resource, AGENDA: A young people's guide to making positive relationships matter.
Title Scream Shout Speak Out
Description Three teen girls from the Relationship Matters project (4Ms, Productive Margins) created this poem.
Impact This poem features in the co-authored chapter, "Making our feelings matter" (Libby et al. 2017) and in the case study, Ruler HeART: Ruling our sexual harassment using the visual arts in a school assembly" in the Welsh Government resource, AGENDA: A Young people's guide to making positive relationships matter. The poem, as an mp4 audio, on the www.agenda.wales website.
URL http://www.agenda.wales
Title Shame Chain
Description The Shame Chain (Relationship Matters Project, Engagement phase of 4Ms project, Productive Margins) From the discussion of how some boys lift up girls skirts with rulers (see Ruler Skirt artefact entry for full overview), the girls wrote comments that sexually shamed girls on printed paper rulers. These paper rulers turned into paper chains to connect with how sexual violence shackles them. This process created their dartafact (Renold 2018, Libby et al. 2018), The Shame Chain.
Impact The Shame Chain (Relationship Matters Project, Engagement phase of 4Ms project, Productive Margins) From the discussion of how some boys lift up girls skirts with rulers (see Ruler Skirt for full overview), the girls wrote comments that sexually shamed girls on printed paper rulers. These paper rulers turned into paper chains to connect with how sexual violence shackles them. This process created their dartafact, The Shame Chain. IMPACT School Assembly: The SHAME CHAIN was used in the girls Healthy Relationships Assemblies (300 students, 20 teachers). Individual volunteers were invited to sound out the words and phrases 'that shame us' by reading the chain (and lifting up the rulers of the ruler skirt). This wasn't easy to achieve, as words were hidden on the inside of the chains, in personal hard-to-read handwriting - a process that mirrored how difficult it could be to talk about sexual harassment in school and which the girls made explicit in their presentation. Listening campaign: What else did the ruler slips do? At the end of the assembly, students were invited to participate in the 'Relationship Matters' activist campaign and share their thoughts in writing on 'why they think a real relationships education should be mandatory for all schools in wales'. Many students did comment and their words were shared in lobbying letters and the ensuing action. Students were also invited to comment on what they felt about the assembly, which brought forth a wide range of comments, from supporting the girls' campaign, disclosing specific experiences of sexual harassment, messages of apology and regret, and seeking advice on particular issues. Direct Political Action: The annotated ruler slips from the Welsh valleys met hundreds more ruler slips from Cardiff (as Professor Renold had opened up the 'Relationship Matters' activism project to two other schools). Over 1000 ruler-slips were generated in total. Three slips were selected and pasted to hang from a cut-out heart inside a red valentines card, which included a clear message listing the education ammendments they wanted to see in the Violence Against Women Bill. Every Assembly member in Wales received a Valentine Card. The card formed part of the GRAPHIC MOVES exhibition (see heART card activism)
Title Sketches from Praxis Cafe - Fixin' it ourselves: Women Activists in Knowle West
Description Sketches made for and during the Praxis Cafe of participants and their interactions as a record of the meeting.
Impact Used as publicity material for the event. Sketches were made during the event and helped facilitate participation in the activities.
Title Sketches from Productive Margins Forum 3
Description Sketches of events and interaction of participants at Productive Margins Forum 3 as a record of the day.
Impact Used as record of the meeting. Further disseminated in use as publicity material.
Title Sticker installation
Description Stickers encouraging the public to engage with a derelict building by asking them to imagine what the building could be used for instead.
Impact Engaged members of the public in imagining alternative uses for spaces in their neighbourhood and engage with their environment. The installation received a good reception with many people participating.
Title Tagged HeART
Description The Tagged hEART (Relationship Matters Project, Engagement phase of 4Ms project, Productive Margins) Not everything can be articulated through words. They can be felt corporeally, but are sometimes too painful to talk about. Some of the girls in The Relationship Matters project talked about events (such as girls being followed, or sexually propositioned to perform sexual acts for money or food) that left them word-less and choked, with 'lumps' in their throats, 'turned stomachs' or 'just numb'. They talked about keeping 'feelings in' that they wanted to express outwards. Attuning to their desire to both feel and express, Professor Renold spontaneously told them about an activity that took place the previous year with a group of academics and artists (see futurematters.org) experimenting with non-discursive ways of communicating and how Jên Angharad picked up the paper we had been given and rolled and dived on it, her movement marking the paper with crumples. Professor Renold invited the girls to express their feelings not through words but through marking the paper ruler slips (see entry for Shame Chain artefact on the significance of the ruler slips) as I read out some of the transcribed data from previous sessions. The girls crumpled, scrunched and teared the paper, saying,: It's like, it's better to get your anger out on something. It's like a sense of relief for me. Yeah how you react like your feelings rips them up and crumples them up until there's practically nothing left and you're left in pieces. And I reckon using paper is actually a good way of expressing that. So you're thinking about your feelings inside the paper? My feelings ARE the piece of paper . like crumpled up, torn up into little tiny pieces. We were left with piles of torn pieces of ruler-paper. Aware of how these pieces were carrying powerful affects we discuss what to do with them. Some girls wanted to hold on to them. Others wanted to bin them. One of the girls expressed her ambivalence, likening the act to 'chucking my feelings away'. One glance at the green recycling bin, and the girls talked about wanted to recycle them. In the space of 30 minutes, the girls 'recycled' and sutured their torn paper to create a powerful dartafact, which they later called, 'The Tagged Heart'. This was a heart that carried feelings of numbness, emptiness, anger and relief. The words: slag, fake, how much do you charge?, wolf whistling, rumour, grabbing your bum, stuck up, youth mother's a MILF, bitch, fatty, sket, beeping, look at her arse, ruler-like, fan out from the heart. Cracked clock faces decorated the outside, splitting time and signalling that not all feelings or 'broken hearts can be mended' with time. Significantly, not all the pieces found their way into the heart. As one of the girls said: 'they're the parts of the broken heart that never got mended'. These pieces went into the recycling bin.
Impact School Assembly: The making of the Tagged heART was shared in the girls Healthy Relationships Awareness Raising Assemblies (300 students, 20 teachers). The Tagged Heart was passed around the assembly hall, and, in awareness of how the tagged heart was created, students were asked to 'look after our feelings' because 'these are our feelings'. Indeed, contrary to one of the girls' initial fears that the heart might get 'trashed' (the rubbish bin surfacing again) the heart was passed from student to student, very carefully, remaining intact, touched by and touching over 300 students Exhibition: The Tagged HeART formed part of the Relationships Matter project's exhibitions (Riverfront Theatre, Newport; Abacus, Cardiff and Red House, Merthyr). Practitioner Workshops: The Tagged heART has since been used in many different practitioner workshops in Wales (approx. n=250 teachers/education practitioners) and at academic conferences in presentatios on arts-based methods (approx.. n=100). Resource: the making of the Tagged HeART features as the highly cited exemplar case study in the Welsh Government supported resource, AGENDA: A Young People's Guided to Making Positive Relationships Matter.
Title The Live Model (2017) Manual
Description The Manual is written in plain English and contains simplified instructions to explore The Live Model. Live Model is a live artwork that will take you on an immersive expedition through your neighbourhood, exploring how regulation is constructed and how it is influenced by citizens, history and politics. Using digital technology, you will experience regulation made visible. Sophie Mellor & Simon Poulter Close and Remote, June 2017
Impact The Live Model Manual acted as an information manual to work alongside the Live Model immersive performances, which subsequently resulted in the production of the film, The Live Model (2017).
URL http://www.closeandremote.net/live-model/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/TheLiveModelManualFinal.pdf
Title The Live Model Manual
Description When you walk around your city and neighbourhood what makes it unique and different? How is your neighbourhood shaped by its residents - by their differing cultures, politics, income, work and leisure activities? How is your neighbourhood shaped by local and central government - by the rules and regulations that influence your life? Live Model an immersive performance in which the participants as actors consider how we experience regulation in the places where we live and work. What regulation do you come across in your neighbourhood? You drive on the left and not the right. You put your crisp packet in the bin. You have confidence that you won't get food poisoning in your local cafe. You know you have access to free healthcare and that your children must attend school. The Live Model took place in four locations in June and July 2017. The locations were Stapleton Road, Bristol; Knowle West, Bristol; Butetown, Cardiff; and Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil. Invited participants (local residents, council workers, community workers, councillors) were taken on an immersive walk/performance guided by The Control Voice and The Reality Guide. The Live Model Manual guided the participants on their journey. They encountered abstract regulation made visible. The encountered The Live Model.
Title The Live Model guided immersive walks
Description When you walk around your city and neighbourhood what makes it unique and different? How is your neighbourhood shaped by its residents - by their differing cultures, politics, income, work and leisure activities? How is your neighbourhood shaped by local and central government - by the rules and regulations that influence your life? Live Model an immersive performance in which the participants as actors consider how we experience regulation in the places where we live and work. What regulation do you come across in your neighbourhood? You drive on the left and not the right. You put your crisp packet in the bin. You have confidence that you won't get food poisoning in your local cafe. You know you have access to free healthcare and that your children must attend school. The Live Model took place in four locations in June and July 2017. The locations were Stapleton Road, Bristol; Knowle West, Bristol; Butetown, Cardiff; and Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil. Invited participants (local residents, council workers, community workers, councillors) were taken on an immersive walk/performance guided by The Control Voice and The Reality Guide. They encountered abstract regulation made visible. The encountered The Live Model.
Impact Footage of the Live Model guided immersive walks was made into the film The Live Model (2017)
Title Video interviews
Description Video testimonials and reflections by project participants on progress of and methods used in the research project.
Impact Informed the reflective process of how we approach research methods in Productive Margins.
Title Video of J3 Praxis Cafe
Description Video taken of Praxis Cafe at J3 Food Connections festival.
Impact Used in subsequent Praxis Cafes.
Title What do you see?
Description The Steering Group and team commissioned a local film-maker, Bashart Malik, to make a short film that addressed issues of women's engagement in decision-making, featuring members of the Steering Group. Titled 'What Do You See?' the film both questions how Muslim women in public spaces are viewed and asks Muslim women how they would reimagine spaces of decision-making - including City Hall, Parliament, mosque committees and the UN.
Impact The film will premier at the Watershed Cinema on October 29th, and be made available shortly afterwards online and via YouTube (and see #WhatDoYouSee?2015 for updates). The premier will be followed by a panel discussion with the director, Bashart Malik , the women featured in the film: Nura Aabe, Suad Abdullahi, Adeela ahmed Shafi, Sheila Joy Raymond El Dieb, Shabana Kausar, and Tasleem Kaurser, and the research team. Accompanying the premier will be the launch of the exhibition, 'Bristol Big Sisters'. All 120 tickets for the event were fully booked within days of being advertised. The film and premier was covered by BBC radio.
Title Where the ocean meets the shore along the marginal way...Matthew Olden (2013)
Description The Productive Marginals are a community of computer personalities with specific tasks to complete upon the Productive Margins archive.They are computer programs that inhabit the same space and time as user, working in the background as we go about our daily computerised tasks. A spread sheet program offers the same function of how a account clerk was once employed, to add up long rows of data, but what the program lacks in the work place is the subtle effects of humanity in a work situation. The non work social-interactivity between employees when a task is completed, is what makes the next number crunch bearable. A slight subtle movement in air can cause a butterfly effect in our acquisition of data and experience, a marginal thought explored. The Marginals are locked into total engagement, They are the agents of the archive, like a colony of ants they march forward and chomping through the archive, the rule based system they function under being their only motivation, but over time they come to produce a larger community. Like a busy New York tenement block, each Marginal brings a different story to the overall picture of the environment it inhabits. A communal commonality based on familiarity and circumstance rather than action,practice or interest. This marginal existence could be seen as a urban digitised office space community.The Marginals are the hum and buzz of a busy office, the diversity of the Marginals draw the users attention to non-specific work/non work tasks away from the solo input node of the modern work station, a modern day Hawthorn effect. A previous work of mine, Making Friends And Enemies, investigated the production of a community of computer agents dealing with the cross over of machine/human consciousness, here the characters became the artist, and the artist became the characters, anticipating the coming of post humanity where the boundary between us and our agents is dissolved. With the Productive Marginals the boundaries between the archive and it agents become blurred, aspects of the archive talk to other aspects of the archive and refers to aspects of itself rather than a external reality, like the library in the book "The Name Of The Rose" by Umberto Eco, "books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told,", in our case the Marginals offer up this information feedback up to the user, in an hope to offer insight to how the project see's itself. The Marginals could be seen as the archives unconsciousness, producing a host of signs and signals in the same way we dream,the Marginals themselves being based on archetypal artists and philosophies that deal with aspects of divining information. Like an oracle looking into cloudy water the user can contemplate the information space and architecture that the archives agents create. Key Marginal is a text search engine who analyses documents for keywords, getting audibly more excited as he matches his search criteria. Sentimental Marginal is a computer program who reads pdf-documents and assigns a positive or negative analysis upon them, then acts accordingly. Markov Marginal performs a Markov chain probability analysis on text files to develop surrealist poetry. Marginal Voices are a selection of synthesised voices of famous personalties, they love to practice their speak patterns so each takes turns reading the minutes of meetings, each taking a real life persons part. The Marginal Prophet looks towards AI chat-bots to answer questions posed by the Productive Margins research. Kurt Twitters translates research papers into sound poetry. Key Marginal Canvaser makes exploratory cinema with footage suggested by keyword searches. Marginal Value analysis text documents and produces musique concrete from statistical information. Muggletonian Marginal has a strong opposition to philosophical reason and comments upon the validity of research. Interzone Marginal creates an archive fueled Dreamachine to conjure up images to access the third eye. ***************************************** mar·gin·al adj. 1. Of, relating to, located at, or constituting a margin, a border, or an edge: the marginal strip of beach; a marginal issue that had no bearing on the election results. 2. Being adjacent geographically: states marginal to Canada. 3. Written or printed in the margin of a book: marginal notes. 4. Barely within a lower standard or limit of quality: marginal writing ability; eked out a marginal existence. 5. Economics a. Having to do with enterprises that produce goods or are capable of producing goods at a rate that barely covers production costs. b. Relating to commodities thus manufactured and sold. 6. Psychology Relating to or located at the fringe of consciousness. n. One that is considered to be at a lower or outer limit, as of social acceptability: "is fascinated by marginals, by people who live on the edge of society" (Dan Yakir).
Impact Matthew Olden's work is included on the Productive Margins website so can be accessed by all
URL https://www.productivemargins.ac.uk/2014/09/17/productive-marginals-the-productive-marginals-are-a-c...
Title Words Wont Pin Us Down
Description Poem written by one of the teen girl participants in the Relationships Matter project (4Ms, Productive Margins)
Impact This poem features in the co-authored chapter, "Making our feelings matter" (Libby et al. 2017) and in the case study, Words Won't Pin Us Down: Making a film about street harassment in our local park" in the Welsh Government resource, AGENDA: A Young people's guide to making positive relationships matter. It also features in the middle section of the film, Graphic Moves. The poem, as audio and as a visual, is on the www.agenda.wales website.
Title heART Jars
Description For the Relationship Matters section of the Graphic Moves exhibition, a series of 5 boxes (decorated in maps of the local area) were mounted onto the space. They included; the tagged heart; a Valentine card (from the activism); the shame chain; three heart jars; and an empty box (to signal what else their ruler heART activism might be/come). The three heart jars, were decorated, and inside each one were selected ruler slips from the listening assemblies.
Impact These jars, sparked the idea for the WHAT JARS YOU? task in the AGENDA resource, and have been used in a number of future projects as a specific research methodology (see Renold et al. 2017, How gender matters to children and young people living in England, orca.ac.uk) and as an engagement activity in schools, events and online (digitised jars). See Renold et al. 2017 Jarring Methodologies)
URL https://geaconf17.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/gea-programme-and-book-of-abstracts.pdf
Description • This programme of research was unique in connecting practices of co-production and systems of regulating. Where previously co-production and regulation were seen as al-ternatives, our research showed how the former engages in the latter:
o Co-production itself is regulatory, shaping both the practices of research and service delivery (Innes et al (2018) 'How Co-production regulates, Social & Legal Studies);
o Regulators can use practices of co-production to see and know regulatory systems differently, enabling the expertise-by-experience held in communities at the margins to be engaged in decision-making processes (McDermont et al (2018) 'Alternative Imaginings of Regulation' Jo of Law & Society);
o However, the Research Forum process demonstrated the dangers of naive co-production. The power and politics at play highlighted the agency that community organisations always-already possess. Our work contributes to the literature that critiques the idea of 'giving voice' to communities (e.g. McDermont et al (eds) (2019) Imagining Regulation Differently, Policy Press)
• The value of the programme (in addition to project specific insights) has been in the de-tailed study of co-production across a diversity of settings and situations. This investiga-tion of regulation 'from below', throws light on how regulation is experienced by citizens, rather than delivered by organisations. Specific insights and recommendations are
o Regulation is experienced by communities at the margins as an impenetrable com-plex web of regulatory systems, rather than as operating in discrete siloes as regula-tion scholars and practitioners have tended to believe. Engaged, reflexive regula-tory systems need to find ways for seeing and understanding this experienced complexity;
o 'Regulating for Engagement' means demonstrating to citizens that their opinions are listened to, their motivations are understood, their skills valued, and their ac-tions supported;
• An infrastructure to support regulating for engagement is required: For regulatory systems to engage communities at the margins as actors in regulation rather than as subjects of regulation, we need structures and processes that can translate expertise by experience into possibilities for engagement, an infrastructure for intermediation, translation and brokering. Community organisations can and do already perform this function. However, as the Weathering the Storm project starkly demonstrated, such infrastructures are fragile entities, in constant need of maintenance and repair. Governments, funders and universities need strategies to support community infrastructures without dominating or stifling innovation. (McDermont (forthcoming) in Cooper, Dhawan and Newman (eds) Rethinking the State Taylor & Francis).
• Embedding arts practice in co-production was a critical innovation in enabling those traditionally excluded from knowledge generation to become key producers. The programme innovation was in the co-production of artist briefs and artist contracts and in the involvement of artists at the earliest stages of research co-design. This involved moving away from conventional relationships with artists whereby their function is to communicate academic research to non-specialist audiences or provide a therapeutic/mediating interface between academic researchers and non-academic publics. Instead, by involving academics, artists and non-academic publics in artistic practice-as-research processes we have been able to link the production of symmetrical aesthetic, experiential and conceptual knowledge, which has created genuinely new insights.
• The inherent complexity of community researchers: though community researchers are a common feature of co-produced research and are recognised to embody the ideology of co-production (see discussion in Thomas-Hughes & Barke, 2018), the role has been conceptually and practically under-developed. The experience of designing, delivering and evaluating training and support packages to community-researchers across a number of projects within and associated with this research programme has illustrated the inherent complexities to the role of community researcher and foregrounded the development of enhanced training packages, practical recommendations and National support networks to support and develop the role of community researcher in future research. These complexities are discussed in Thomas-Hughes & Barke's (2018) paper 'Community Researchers and Community Researcher Training', Thomas-Hughes's AHRC report (2018) 'Critical Conversations with Community Researchers'; and, in relation to young people as researchers, in a paper co-authored between the young people on the Relationship Matters project and Emma Renold: Making our feelings matters: using creative methods to re-assemble the rules on healthy relationships education in Wales.
Exploitation Route 1. For policy-makers and practitioners in regulatory organisations, our insights into the potialities and practices of co-production provide new ways of seeing and understanding the impact of regulatory systems on citizens, and for engaging the expertise by experience of citizens in decision-making processes.
2. Similarly, our insights about embedding arts practice in co-production can be a critical innovation in enabling those traditionally excluded from knowledge generation to become key producers in regulatory systems.
3. For community organisations seeking to engage decision makers in regulatory systems, the research provides insights into the possibilities of co-production in engaging both with community members, and with policy-makers.
4. For academics and others engaged in research with communities, our research provides insights into the potentialities and limitations of co-produced methodlogies.
Sectors Creative Economy,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice
URL https://productivemargins.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/
Description 1. The Community Researcher training programme has been a key example of this cross-disciplinary impact. • In Bristol, we were commissioned by a community organisation outside the research programme, Up Our Street, to develop a training package which would support them in developing an action-research project, co-produced with local people. The aim was, through an 'academically rigorous and robust' consultation process, to create a comprehensive and representative dataset on what wellbeing meant to local residents that would be for use by local communities. • Along with two other research programmes funded under by Connected Communities, we have led a process which enabled community researchers and academics to come together at National events and reflexively respond to experiences of engaging community researchers in the academic research processes. This has been reported on in the Thomas-Hughes report 'Critical Conversations with Community Research-ers' (2018) and her forthcoming article in the Journal Research for All. • Thomas-Hughes presented on community researcher training at the C2uEXPO 2017 conference in Vancouver, Engage 2017 (the annual conference of the NCCPE) and led panels at NCRM Methods festival 2018 and IARSLCE 2018 conference in New Orleans? As a result, Thomas-Hughes has been asked to consult on community researchers with the U.S.-based charitable organisation Nevada Volunteers. • Thomas-Hughes and McDermont are currently convening an advanced research method training short-course with the NCRM on co-producing research with community researchers and community researcher training. This will be delivered to the first time through the NCRM advanced methods training scheme in Spring 2019 • Thomas-Hughes has been commissioned by the University of Bristol to consult on developing a permanent suite of accredited training units for community researchers to be delivered with local community organisations and collectives. 2. Co-production/co-creation as a way of working has, along with other work funded under the Connected Communities programme, significantly shifted the culture within the University of Bristol. Co-production - or co-creation as it is termed in the university policy documents, is now understood as a central strategy and methodology of the university's ambition to become a major global civic university, as evidenced in the Temple Quarter Engagement Strategy and Action Plan, Global Civic University definition, and the University of Bristol response to the Civic University Commission. 3. Individual projects in the Productive Margins programme have also has societal impact: 3.1 Young people influencing policy and practice in Wales The young people's art-work and creative activism and pedagogy were used as case studies and embedded in the new whole school approach statutory guidance. They were also cited as best practice in the expert panel's vision for the future of Sex and Relationships Education in Wales (Welsh Government 2018). Two members from the Relationship Matters project formed the core advisory group for the design and development of the co-created resource: AGENDA: A young people's guide to making positive relationships matter. This is a free bi-lingual toolkit available to all people in Wales and supported by Welsh Government. As part of a project to improve the neighbourhood young people in Merythr led a public campaign around three concerns: advocating for more streetlights on a poorly-lit but busy and important path, closing an underpass, and installing a zebra crossing on a busy road. A few months later the underpass was filled, the crossing was installed, and streetlight installation was underway. Their campaigning was recognised in two awards: First prize in the High Sheriff of Mid Glamorgan Youth Community Awards (March 2016) and first prize in the National Crimebeat Awards (March 2017). Young people have reported on the action at several local and national events. 3.2 Somali Kitchen Somali Kitchen, a pop-up kitchen initiative presented their community business, topics around food, cooking and healthy eating to funders at Quartet Community Foundation and secured £5,800 in donations to their project, beating their own fundraising target. Due to the community based and arts focus of the programme many of the activities run were hugely successful in opening up the work and sparking discussions within non-academic groups. Venues and locations used for both the research and dissemination events were more often that not out in the community so opening up the access for less traditionally academic audiences. For example, events were held in local exhibition spaces, outside public libraries, shopping centres and in parks. Below are listed a couple of specific examples: 3.3 The Game of Life Chances This is a floor-based game devised by artists for people to role play the characters in the novel and understand their life chances and the barriers that individuals face in improving their life chances. The game is based on theory of transactional analysis allowing people to better empathise with individual circumstances through inhabiting a character and interacting with others; and to trouble the systems that regulate people's lives. The game was showcased at the AHRC community utopias festival in Somerset House June 2016 as part of the Connected Communities festival. It has also been used in public engagement activities and in neighbourhood forum in the Bristol area that the research is focused upon. The game has now been professionally produced (6 copies) with additional funding provided by UKRI. We were invited to showcase the game at the UKRI joint council conference at Polaris House, Swindon as an example of ESRC impact and knowledge exchange investment where there were about 3000 UKRI employees, trustees and directors. We were the only ESRC project showcased and ran several full games with people of all levels of responsibility from across the research councils. It was extremely well received, and we have been encouraged to re-turn for additional funding support if we believe there is a useful impact/ KE project to fol-low on. There was also interest in the game being used directly by UKRI as a diversities training tool with staff members. We have also taken the game to Brighton University where it was showcased and played in a creative methods conference and attracted a huge amount of positive interest and feedback with academics, artists and CSO participants asking how it could be purchased as they wanted to use it in academic teaching, staff training and campaigning. 3.4 Loneliness and Isolation Local Action Committee (LILAC) In Greater Bedminster as a result of the research a group has formed in the community called the LILAC group (loneliness and isolation local action committee). This group are working with others in the neighbourhood, including the anchor community organisation involved in this research, to run a series of projects and engage in social action around the issue of isolation and loneliness. These include: (1) Tech & Talk: Technology pop-up sessions in local cafes aimed at older people but al-so co facilitated by local young people. Funding from Big Lottery enabled the group to employ a development worker one day a week to manage the project. UoB sup-ported the group in evaluation activities. (2) A hyper local pre-retirement course idea has been funded as a follow-on project by the ESRC. This is currently being trialed (Autumn, 2018) (3) A large-scale Arts Council application for a tour of the Alonely show has been submitted and the performers are also exploring a smaller scale tour of schools and care homes. Since the completion of the project, the show has been performed at West-minster, conferences, festivals and University of Bristol events as well as at local community and arts venues in Bristol and the surrounding areas.
Sector Creative Economy,Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Other
Impact Types Cultural,Societal,Economic
Description AGENDA cited in #thisisme national VAWDASV campaign through active participation in and member of Welsh Government Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (VAWDASV) Stakeholder Communications Group
Policy Influence Type Participation in a advisory committee
Impact Over the course of 6 months, in my role as member of the VAWDASV stakeholder communications group (Welsh Government) I was (the only) academic advisor supporting the development and design of the Welsh Government's public awareness LIVE FEAR FREE campaign for Wales, fulfilling the preventative measures of the VAWDASV Act (2015). I identified the theme of "challenging gender stereotypes' for the 2017 campaign, with supporting research evidence for the campaign (via a series of meetings and email correspondence) including meeting with the design company producing the media and strap line #thisisme (e.g. posters/TV ads etc). Findings from the Relationship Matters project, and 4Ms project (productive margins) was drawn upon, and the AGENDA resource is cited as one of 5 further resources on the campaign's webpage.
URL http://livefearfree.gov.wales/campaigns/this-is-me?lang=en
Description AGENDA resource cited in Welsh Women's Aid VAWDSV Prevention Activities for Children and Young People
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
Impact Cited in the following way as "Promising Practice" AGENDA: A young people's guide to making positive relationships matter AGENDA comes from the Latin - "to get things done". It is Wales' first national guidance for young people on how they can safely and creatively make positive relationships matter. Its aim is to help young people exercise their rights, be inspired by the stories of others and support each other in getting started to share and change what matters to them. Created with a diverse group of 12 young people, AGENDA has been designed so that young people can explore different things at their own pace. It is based on key principle six of the Whole Education guide, which calls for 'active participation of children and young people'.40 Rather than bombarding young people with facts, definitions and statistics, AGENDA hopes to connect young people to the different ways in which other young people in Wales and around the world are raising awareness of how gender-based and sexual violence impact upon their lives and the lives of others.
URL http://www.welshwomensaid.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/CYP-Prevention-Toolkit-2017-002-1.pdf
Description AGENDA resource uploaded on the national Welsh Government teaching network HWB
URL https://hwb.gov.wales/resources/resource/6138c62e-06ca-4cf8-84f6-7920a4270dc4
Description Bristol Ageing Better Evidence and Evaluation group
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
Impact As a member of the evidence and evaluation group of Bristol Ageing Better I am involved in ensuring that the team employed to evaluate this £6million national lottery funded project is done with due diligence and to the advantage of the city, older people and the Bristol Ageing Better programme which is charged with tackling the issues of isolation and loneliness amongst older people in the city.
URL http://bristolageingbetter.org.uk/about/
Description Creative Activism informing and influencing the educational measures of the Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Act (2015)
Policy Influence Type Participation in a national consultation
Impact I Facilitated three 'Making Relationship Matter Lunch Clubs' in 3 schools (one school I worked with in depth, with additional support from ESRC/AHRC Productive Margins) The schools delivered school assemblies on everyday sexism and sexual harassment and a listening campaign which invited students to complete the sentence, I need a healthy relationship education because highlighting the reasons why they feel a change to the bill is important. Over 1000 comments were collected. With support from Citizens Cymru, 40 young people created individual Valentine's cards for all 60 assembly members. Each card had a handwritten comment from a student collected as part of listening activities (above) and contained the message: 'This valentine's card may be past its sell by date, but it's not too late to make healthy relationships education compulsory for all children in Wales', reiterating the need for an amendment to the Bill. The cards were also signed with a kiss to connect to the 'red my lips campaign' - a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of sexual assault and included the policy poem above. Testimonial by Jocelyn Davies, Assembly Member: "Professor Renold's research helped to establish a consensus among the members of the CPG that a comprehensive, whole-school and statutory approach to educating children and young people about healthy relationships is essential. When the Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act was introduced, the lack of the promised educational provisions was a disappointment. The CPG's campaign to amend the Bill to introduce educational provisions was heavily informed by the evidence provided by Professor Renold's research. It was cited many times during speeches given in the Senedd, correspondence with the Minister, articles and press releases. The collaboration successfully resulted in a promise from the Welsh Government that a whole-school, statutory approach to healthy relationships education would be introduced to schools in Wales. A Good Practice Guide was recently distributed to schools as a result. The Valentine's Day Card campaign action organised by Professor Renold was an innovative and creative way to engage Assembly Members in the campaign, which successfully raised awareness and influenced opinion. The campaign to amend the Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act resulted in a promise from the Minister for Public Services, Leighton Andrews AM, that a whole-school, statutory approach to healthy relationships education would be introduced to Welsh schools. This started with the recent publication of a Good Practice guide, which was distributed to schools and includes the work Professor Renold has done with young people in Merthyr as a case study. The results would not have been achieved without the collaboration with Professor Renold. The research she spearheaded was crucial in ensuring that children and young people's voices were heard by the Cross Party Group and that their experiences informed our discussions. It was the key piece of evidence drawn on to support the campaign to introduce healthy relationships education to the Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act. The impact of the research was then reinforced by the activism organised by Professor Renold, like the Valentine's Day Card action, which raised awareness and helped to strengthen the campaign among Assembly Members."
URL https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/339289-impact-on-policy-award-welsh-government-with-the-school-o...
Description Evidence to Education Committee inquiry into Alternative Provision
Policy Influence Type Gave evidence to a government review
Impact Written evidence submitted by Manchester Metropolitan University to Education Committee inquiry into Alternative Provision, Nov 2017 The evidence was based on Ivinson's long engagement with children and young people living in areas of high poverty and de-industrialisation, such as the south Wales ex mining communities where Ivinson has undertaken long term ethnographic and arts-based work funded, in part, by Productive Margins. About this submission This is a submission of evidence based on the following senior academic researchers from the Education & Social Research Institute (ESRI) at Manchester Metropolitan University: • Professor Gabrielle Ivinson, Professor of Education and Community, Manchester Metropolitan University. Prof Ivinson has a background in developmental psychology and works with artists to co-produce art forms and artefacts to enable young people to communicate with persons in authority by drawing on the affective power of art to move. Prof Ivinson has research interest in why children and young people living in poverty are still having difficulties achieving in school, and how institutions can meet the education needs of marginalised young people, providing research evidence to poverty commissions throughout the UK. Example of written evidence: When young people have had multiple setbacks e.g. very complex family structures, experience of adults who have not been supportive, and sometimes have witnessed events that are extremely distressing, normal models of the developmental route, or common sense understanding of development routes, will not apply. New, more comprehensive models are required. 1.1.2 The Education Committee needs to consider setting quality parameters in alternative provision within the range and level of expertise required to support young people and children who often have multiple and complex educational needs, rather than simply on the academic attainment/quality of academic delivery. 1.1.3 When gauging quality in alternative provision one is starting from a point of failure - failure of mainstream educational provision. Alternative provision is for young people who have already been failed by mainstream educational provision. Defining the parameters of quality of provision means you have to understand what is meant by 'quality' in the context of alternative provision - the provision is 'alternative' for a reason. 1.1.4 Young people in alternative provision have manifest problems that mainstream schools have found too difficult to manage and contain - trauma, abuse, mental wellbeing, chaotic or disruptive home situations. Due to a shortage of resources and increasingly a shortage of expertise in primary schools many children are not been diagnosed early and are not receiving the support that would prevent their difficulties from escalating and becoming manifest as disruptive behaviour. Such early diagnosis and support would minimise the need for placement within alternative provision down the line. Follow on: I received a standard rely Thank you for your written submission to the House of Commons Education Committee inquiry on Alternative provision. We will be in touch if we have any further questions. Then I was asked to speak to two different groups at the DfE on Dec 1st 2017. I went to Sanctuary House, London. One group at the DfE - wanted to hear about Working with Disturbed Young People via Art - this relates to my work in a PRU as part of Peter Hick's Youth Justice SEND project and arts based methods developed as part of Productive Margins. I wrote a paper for them and they said it was excellent - so invited me to talk to their manager and a group working on how to improve education for young in danger of being criminalised. The paper was well received. The work is now feeding into the Governmnet review of Alternative education provision. The SEND final report will recommend a new category of need for vulnerable children and young people and will point to what kinds of flexible pedagogic approaches are required to help vulnerable young people to learn. We have created a video for teachers to help re-imagine challenging behaviour and explain the need to recognise vulnerability as produced by place, the history of place, de-industrialisation and poverty. In effect, it argues that some young people, due to where they are born geographically, carry the burden of de-industrialisation, for which we need to be socially responsible This fits in with our art works and campaigns that challenge pathologising representations of young people living on some housing estates and neighbourhoods in the wider Productive Margins project. It relates also to Prof Emma Renold campaigns with the Welsh Government. Ivinson is now bringing these insights to the English school context, as she moved from Cardiff, Wales to Manchester, England within the five years of the Productive Margin's time band. Ivinson has also won an impact grant from Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) to connect Dr Geoff Bright's (MMU) work in ex mining towns in the north of England with the ex-mining valley towns in south Wales. At six co-produced events, films made about living in coalfield communities will be shared and we will document the effects of this sharing. We are hoping that the sharing, while it will be a sharing of grief and loss, will enable people to feel less isolated. Once again, we rely on the power of art to move. The sharing will be across geographical locations in England and Wales and will be intergenational. Some of the films were co-produced with young people (Ivinson/Renold) and some with adults (Bright). (See separate entry on new grants f
URL https://erc.pmgltd.co.uk/store/Register/2159?discountcode=SVTEAC3
Description Evidence to Natonal Assembly for Wales Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee
URL http://www.senedd.tv/Meeting/Archive/a7f941e0-c055-46ae-b5be-6e4996639a05?autostart=True
Description Invited member of National Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (VAWDASV) Advisory Steering Group Committee
Impact In 2016 I was invited to become one of three academics in Wales to join the Welsh Government VAWDASV Advisory Steering Group, specifically in relation to my expertise in Sex and Relationships Education and VAWDASV in relation to children and young people's peer cultures (e.g. coercion and control in young relationships, and sexual harassment more widely in public places). This has involved submitting and discussing research evidence, but the single most important outcome so far has been the development of a children and young people's sub-grooup committee (identified by myself and supported by NSPCC Cymru) which was accepted and now meets monthly. The aim of this group is to: To ensure a focus on prevention, protection and support of children and young people in ending all manifestations of gender based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence Objectives To work towards ensuring: · children and young people's distinct issues inform the work of the VAWDASV AG and delivery of the legislation · the experiences and views of children and young people are central to the work of the VAWDASV MAG · research and evidence informs VAWDASV policy and legislative developments in Wales · specialist support services are available to c&yp who have experienced gender based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Description Invited to present evidence at the Welsh Government's Expert Panel to inform the development of the new Sex and Relationships Education Curriculum in Wales
Impact Three presentations formed this submission. Renold, E. (2017) The use of creative methods in the development of "AGENDA: A Young People's Guide to Making Positive Relationships Matter", Invited paper for Meeting 4 of the Expert Sex and Relationships Education Panel, Exploring Creative and Cross-Curricular approaches for holistic and inclusive Sexuality and Relationships Education, Welsh Government, 24 July. Ivinson, G. (2017) Re-Imagining risk, resilience and the ACES agenda for future SRE with youth-led arts-based pedagogies, Invited paper for Meeting 4 of the Expert Sex and Relationships Education Panel, Exploring Creative and Cross-Curricular approaches for holistic and inclusive Sexuality and Relationships Education, Welsh Government, 24 July. Jen Angharad, (2017) Beyond words: Body pedagogies and the "Under Pressure?" project. Invited paper for Meeting 4 of the Expert Sex and Relationships Education Panel, Exploring Creative and Cross-Curricular approaches for holistic and inclusive Sexuality and Relationships Education, Welsh Government, 24 July. (View digital story here: https://vimeo.com/166068771) Notable impact: Professor Ivinson's introduction of a LIVING ASSESSMENT for sex and relationships education curriculum was adopted by the panel and included in the report. The substantial section on creative pedagogy also included examples of 'body mapping' from the Life Support project (Productive Margins) and the three case studies from the AGENDA resource developed in the Relationships Matter project and subsequent Graphic Moves (Words Won't Pin Me Down; Ruler HeART; and Under Pressure - see Publications category, OTHER). This method was subsequently used by Professor Emma Renold in the SRE workshops for teachers in curriculum pioneer schools (primary and secondary schools, n=21)
URL http://gov.wales/topics/educationandskills/publications/reports/future-of-the-sex-and-relationships-...
Impact Presentation title: Exploring Creative and Cross-Curricular approaches for holistic and inclusive Sexuality and Relationships Education (HISRE) Re-Imagining risk, resilience and the ACES agenda for future SRE with youth-led arts-based pedagogies Invited to present evidence at the Welsh Government's Expert Panel to inform the development of the new Sex and Relationships Education Curriculum in Wales, Meeting no. 4, 24 July 2017. Invited to present evidence at the Welsh Government's Expert Panel to inform the development of the new Sex and Relationships Education Curriculum in Wales chaired by Prof Emma Renold. The panel were asked to identify issues and opportunities which could inform decisions around supporting the teaching profession to deliver high quality SRE in schools more effectively. Specifically, the group were tasked with: 1) providing recommendations to the Cabinet Secretary for Education on how current SRE practice might be improved before 2022 and the new curriculum being introduced. 2) providing recommendations for the Cabinet Secretary for Education and the pioneer schools on the future of Sex and Relationships Education in Wales as part of Health and Wellbeing AoLE. The group focused its attention on providing recommendations on the future of SRE in the context of the new curriculum.ch and September 2017. I presented on the use of creative methods in the development of alternative pedagogies and to re thing cross curricular approaches, re-imagining risk, resilience and the ACES agenda for future SRE with youth-led arts-based pedagogies, (View digital story here: https://vimeo.com/166068771) Notable impact: Professor Ivinson's introduction of a LIVING ASSESSMENT for sex and relationships education curriculum was adopted by the panel and included in the report. The substantial section on creative pedagogy also included examples of 'body mapping' from the Life Support project (Productive Margins). This work went on to inform Ivinson's research for the Youth Justice SEND, 'Securing better Outcomes for Children and Young People with SEND in the Youth Justice System', funded by Department for Education and Achievement for All, Part 2 (2017-2018) (PI Peter Hick, Manchester Metropolitan University)
URL https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/592589-new-expert-healthy-relationships-group-to-advise-on-curri...
Description Invited to provide written and oral evidence to the Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee in their inquiry into Communities First - lessons learnt, as part of its work on poverty in Wales.
URL http://www.assembly.wales/laid%20documents/cr-ld11141/cr-ld11141-e.pdf
Description Loneliness Across the Life Course - highlighting the need for community-led action. Researcher / Community led event to MP's / Policy makers held in Westminster.
Policy Influence Type Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health
URL http://www.bristol.ac.uk/policybristol/news/2018/loneliness-event.html
Description Member of Bristol living better at every age group
URL http://bristolageingbetter.org.uk/news/age-friendly-city-project-update/
Description Member of the Advisory Board ESRC-funded 'Imagine' project
Description Personally Invited to provide written and oral evidence and cited in Women and Equalities Select Committee Inquiry into Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools
Impact This inquiry was cited many times in the arguments to make Sex and Relationships Education statutory in England, which came into effect in March 2017 (Social Care Act)
URL http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/women-and-equalitie...
Description Policy makers speed dating event
Description Relationship Matters project cited in full in Welsh Government (2015) Good Practice Guide on Whole Education Approach to Address Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence
Impact The Good Practice Guide on Whole Education Approach to Address Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence, is a national guide for all educational practitioners in Wales. It sets out best practice examples, and includes The Relationships Matter project (Productive Margins) as an exemplar of how to work with children and young people in whole school approaches to VAWDASV in safe, creative and innovative ways. Testimonial by Jocelyn Davies, Assembly Member: "The Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act resulted in a promise from the Minister for Public Services, Leighton Andrews AM, that a whole-school, statutory approach to healthy relationships education would be introduced to Welsh schools. This started with the recent publication of a Good Practice guide, which was distributed to schools and includes the work Professor Renold has done with young people in Merthyr as a case study". Jocelyn Davies' visited the North Merthyr High School in which she commended the young people who co-produced the case study that features in the good practice guide: https://www.partyof.wales/news/2015/11/25/let-young-people-lead-the-way-to-end-violence-against-women-jocelyn-davies/?force=1]
URL http://gov.wales/topics/people-and-communities/communities/safety/domesticabuse/publications/good-pr...
Description Welsh Government funded SPECTRUM PROJECT have embedded the creative methods in the AGENDA resource into their Healthy Relationships Training in Primary and Secondary Schools
Impact The Hafan Cymru Spectrum Project are funded by Welsh Government to deliver teacher training and lessons on healthy relationships to all primary schools and secondary schools in Wales. Following two full day training sessions with the Spectrum Staff (see engagement) the creative methods (and underpinning research) and activities in the AGENDA resource on how to safely and creatively support children and young people to raise awareness of VAWDASV is now embedded in their practice - specifically in relation to the campaigning/student participation elements of a whole school approach to SRE. From Nov 2016 - Nov 2017, Spectrum staff have delivered over 1600 healthy relationships education sessions to primary and secondary schools across Wales and are using AGENDA activities and the theory behind the processes in their pedagogy and lessons. This is a total reach of 31,000 students and 2000 teaching staff. QUOTE
URL http://www.hafancymru.co.uk/annual-report-2017/
Description AHRC Connected Communities Festival Funding
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Description AHRC Connected Communities funding for Utopias festival
Description Connected Communities Catalyst Fund
Amount £6,000 (GBP)
Organisation Connected Communities
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Description Connected Communities showcase
Description Creative Margins: Building capacity to widen participation in arts spaces and practices
Funding ID AH/R006563/1
Description ESRC Knowledge Exchange
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council
Description Hyperlocal initiatives
Organisation University of Bristol
Description Inspiring Science
Amount £2,500,000 (GBP)
Organisation Wellcome Trust
Description Pilot project
Organisation Communities and Culture Network+
Description Song lines on the road - Life lines on the move!
Organisation Manchester Metropolitan University
Description Teaching and Innovation Grant
Title SAGE Video Research Methods master series on "Participatory Research: Creative Methods".
Description Arts-Based Methodologies and Practices A series of twelve arts based workshops - named 'Found Sounds and Street Beats', 'Mashing Up the Land', and 'Projection Project' - were designed by the research team (Ivinson, Renold, Elliott and Thomas) with artists; sound artist, Rowan Talbot, visual artist, Seth Oliver, and filmmaking artist, Heloise Godfrey-Talbot, and supported by youth workers, G. Maddison, and teachers, A Griffiths. The workshops were offered to young people in a local youth centre and a school (February-May 2015). Through working with artists, young people found new ways to express and reflect on their experiences of growing up in their town (an ex coal mining community). The workshops also facilitated the creation of a new film - 'Graphic Moves' - featuring some artistic outputs (drawings/paintings, sculptures, visual projections, soundscapes, poems, and narrative accounts) created in the workshops. They touch on deep feelings of belonging and rootedness as well as difficult and challenging topics, such as feeling unsafe. This artwork has been inspired by geographic information system (GIS) mapping technology as well as responses to negative media portrayals of M ( name removed for anonymity) (e.g. TV programme 'Skint'). The artworks speak back to pathologising representations of M and celebrate young people's relationship with their place, its people, and its landscape. Three major public exhibitions were organised and enabled difficult, challenging and painful issues - together with joyous celebrations of place - to be communicated through the affective power of art to move. The exhibitions sparked a great deal of community, social media, and public debate that is still reverberating and generating interest and impact. In addition, two original dance pieces were created/performed for two exhibitions. The exhibitions were documented by a professional photographer and a filmmaker using drone cameras to capture the moving images of a choreographer/dancer who responded to artworks and the reactions of the public through body movements. The footage was made into a short 2 minute film called 'Body Swings'.
Impact SAGE Video Research Methods master series on "Participatory Research: Creative Methods". https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/sage-research-methods-video As a world leading publisher in Research Methods, Statistics and Evaluation with 50 years' experience in producing high quality teaching materials, SAGE is bringing together its best-selling authors and leading figures in the field to produce a video collection which is unparalleled in the market. Professor Gabrielle Ivinson talks about how academics, artists and young people entangle with the transformative potentialities of creative methodologies demands a process of 'un-knowing'. She draws out some of the micro-moments from workshops with young people and describes in detail what happened and how the events led to a series of installations and film in the exhibition 'Graphic Moves'.
URL https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/sage-research-methods-video
Title Isolation and Loneliness of Older People
Description The research was part of the Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement programme.Busy streets, laughter, the sound of children playing - but what lies behind closed doors in our communities, especially for those in later life, who may feel lonely and isolated.
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data
Impact The research was part of the Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement programme.Busy streets, laughter, the sound of children playing - but what lies behind closed doors in our communities, especially for those in later life, who may feel lonely and isolated.
URL https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/xmql2x6m5mws24mw3y8im7mwy
Title Life Chances: low income families in urban areas
Description This project is part of the Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement programme, and concerns concerns life on a low income for families with children in two urban areas in England and Wales. Using creative methods, it involved collaboration between academics, two community organisations and artists.
Impact This project is part of the Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement programme, and concerns concerns life on a low income for families with children in two urban areas in England and Wales. Using creative methods, it involved collaboration between academics, two community organisations and artists.
URL https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/c37i54e3qkv82tpybrme1ianv
Title Productive Margins: Who decides what's in my fridge?
Description The research was part of the Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement programme. This project explored how people experience the regulation of their food habits in their community. The project was a collaboration between the University of Bristol and three community organisations in Bristol
Impact The research was part of the Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement programme. This project explored how people experience the regulation of their food habits in their community. The project was a collaboration between the University of Bristol and three community organisations in Bristol
URL https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/1tx9dwtef9ycx1yzh3pkrv868i
Title Seeing Regulation Differently
Description This project was part of Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement Programme. Starting later than other projects, 'Seeing regulation differently' was a cross-programme project, exploring how regulation is seen and talked about by community partners and community members.
Impact This project was part of Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement Programme. Starting later than other projects, 'Seeing regulation differently' was a cross-programme project, exploring how regulation is seen and talked about by community partners and community members.
URL https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/1jrcyfdh5t0qq23mxc98vn4mnd
Title Women and data futures
Description This project was part of the Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement programme. Bringing together two community partners, Knowle West Media Centre in Bristol and 3Gs Community Development Trust in Merthyr Tydfil, the project used workshop methods to explore perceptions of women about personal data they put online and how to take more control over this.
Impact This project was part of the Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement programme. Bringing together two community partners, Knowle West Media Centre in Bristol and 3Gs Community Development Trust in Merthyr Tydfil, the project used workshop methods to explore perceptions of women about personal data they put online and how to take more control over this.
URL https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/3fbemugsutg492cm4plms486t0
Description Age Uk and Brunelcare research forum
Organisation Age UK
Department Age UK Bristol
PI Contribution Organising research seminars for practitioners - inviting academics to speak
Collaborator Contribution Providing administrative support Publicising the events Providing space to hold the events Publicising our own research through their networks
Impact Research seminar events in Bristol - aimed at practitioners in the care home sector
Description Bristol Ageing Better and the University of Bristol
Organisation Bristol Ageing Better
PI Contribution Attendance at Evidence and evaluation committee meetings Ongoing discussion around activities in care homes and how to support and encourage them
Collaborator Contribution Access to ears of policy makers for the TangiblE Memories project and it's follow on funding.
Impact Group set up to investigate possibilities related to Bristol as an age friendly city - includes policy makers, Bristol Ageing Better, child friendly city group, City of Sanctuary group
Description Citizens Cymru collaboration for Valentine Card Activism and Brighter Futures Assembly
Organisation Citizens UK
Department Citizens Cymru
PI Contribution Citizens Cymru partnered with Professor Renold and young people from The Relationships Matter Project (4Ms, Productive Margins) to co-create a piece of direct activism for 40 young people to participate in to influence the education amendments to the Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Act in its fourth and final stage for debate at the senedd
Collaborator Contribution Citizens Cymru provided the venue and co-hosted a series of activisms, including the Relationship Matters valentine card activism on February 22nd 2015. Young people also presented at and participated in a range of Citizen Cymru Brighter Future celebrations (see workshops/presentations in publications entry.
Impact See 'influencing policy' entries on the successful outcome of this activism. The young people received letters and visits from Assembly Member Jocelyn Davies and Leighton Andrews thanking them and acknowledging the contribution their valentine card activism had made. The impact of the creative activism can also be viewed here:https://youtu.be/tZ3Jkq8QlF8
Description Community Researcher Round-Table (Connected Communities Catalyst Fund)
Organisation University of Nottingham
PI Contribution Leading the partnership.
Collaborator Contribution XX
Impact National event held in September 2017. Subsequent report published.
Organisation University of Sheffield
Description Community Researcher Symposium series
Organisation National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement
PI Contribution Expert leadership Convening three round-table events and a journal special issue
Collaborator Contribution Facilitation Networking Expert input
Impact Academic Roundtable event Academic & Community researcher symposium
Description Community Researcher Training for Up Our Street (CHR: 04023294)
Organisation Up Our Street
PI Contribution Designed and delivered research training package with a community researcher team.
Impact Research report. Widening participation small-grant UOS research team partner
Description Methodological Consultant: Gender and Displacement Project
Organisation Refugee Women of Bristol
PI Contribution Methodological consultant.
Impact XX
Department Centre for Gender and Violence Research
Organisation University of Sulaimani
Department Gender and Violence Studies Centre
Country Iraq
Description Song Line on the road - Life Lines on the move
Organisation Unite the Union
PI Contribution Manchester Metropolitan University awarded an impact accelerator grant to Professor Gabrielle Ivinson and Dr Geoff Bright in 2018 to enable partnerships between i) six industrialised coalfield communities in the north of England and south Wales ex-mining valleys ii) community partners - Unite Community and the Co-operative College iii) Manchester Metropolitan University and Cardiff University
Collaborator Contribution The impact accelerator grant will bring develop partnership connections afforded by successive tranches of ESRC/ARHC Connected Communities funding for community events and engagement across geographical areas in the UK where coalfield de-industrialisation is acute: the south Wales coalfields and English coalfields. It builds a three-way partnership between: 1) Professor Gabrielle Ivinson's (Metropolitan University) longitudinal work in the south Wales valley communities, 'Young People and Place' (2008-11), 'Mapping, Making and Moving in Merthyr (2013-2015)', and Productive Margins (2013-2018). The full team in Wales includes Professor Emma Renold, Dr Eva Elliott and Ellie Byrne (Cardiff University). 2) Dr Geoff Bright's (Manchester Metropolitan University) recent projects Working with Social Haunting: Past and Present Making in Two "Communities of Value"(2015 - 2016 ; Opening the Unclosed Space: Multiplying Ghost Labs (2016) and Song Lines to Impact and Legacy: Creating Living Knowledge through Working with Social Haunting (2017-2018), in north England. 3) Community partners - Unite Community and the Co-operative College Sharing events Both Ivinson and Bright work with artists to co-produce art forms and artefacts to enable young people (Ivinson) and marginalised adults (Bright) to communicate with authority by drawing on the affective power of art. We have been using creative methodologies to understand affective circuits of communication, bonds of solidarity and intergenerational knowledge transmissions that relate to the historical specificity of multiply impoverished coalfield communities. Our series of high quality and successful ESRC/AHRC projects has already had impact extending as far as Slovenia, Hungary, Malawi and the United States via interactive community radio (see socialhaunting.com/radio), but receipt of an IGF Flexible Award would allow us to respond to a domestic wellbeing agenda that has intensified since our most recent projects commenced. This agenda has been developing UK wide with an acknowledgement of the requirement for formal 'wellbeing' duties. The Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2016, and all party Creative Health Report (2017) compel public bodies to consider wellbeing in all of their actions. In Wales this includes an annual 'wellbeing assessment'. We know from our various community partners that there is an appetite for new tools to help communities and public authorities negotiate (rather than diagnose) complex and, sometimes, dissenting wellbeing needs. Our proposed events provide an innovative, creative, non-threatening and community self-determined route to engagement that will prove invaluable in registering the buried hurts and of coalfield communities and informing support needs. The events will involve film showings in six venues (see below). The film artefacts that will be shared in the events are: • A 15 minute selection from the song/image cycle "Giving up the Ghosts" - a set of contemporary 'video ballads' written and recorded by folk musicians, Ribbon Road (Bright) • A 15 minute selection from the films "Light Moves", "Graphic Moves" and "Life Support" (Ivinson et al. see other entries) Events will be hosted during late summer and early autumn 2018 as follows: England • Rochdale Pioneers Museum, Rochdale, Greater Manchester (supported by the Co-operative College) • East Durham Arts Network, Seaham, County Durham • South Yorkshire Branch, Unite Community, Sheffield (supported by Unite Community) Wales • Red House - Merthyr Tydfil • Llanhilleth Miner's Institute - Llanhilleth • U3A group in Blaenau Gwen - Ebbw Vale This work will have direct relevance as follows • For staff and activist members of our established 'social haunting' community partners, Unite Community and the Co-op College. Both have had formal AHRC/ESRC "Community Co-Investigator" roles in Bright's projects, are key players in civil society, and are keen to develop their educational and organisational community policies and practices in response to questions well-being in de-industrialised areas in the aftermath of Brexit. Unite Community, as the community facing structure of Britain's largest trade union is keen to draw on our approach as it shifts campaigning and education towards community well being issues around coalfield housing. Unite will make available to our project their digital networking capacities reaching activists and members in both geographical areas of our project, and nationally (eg UNITElive; Unite Young Members Buzzfeed; Union News; Unite for Our society). • For statutory agencies in coalfield communities and other de-industrialised areas who are developing tools for wellbeing assessment of their services and functions in accordance with statutory requirements • For third sector organisations in coalfield communities and other de-industrialised areas who wish to develop tools for wellbeing assessment of their services and functions in accordance with best practice aspirations • For local community participants of all ages in the areas covered, the project will be an opportunity to ensure their voices are heard and recognised; to explore arts-based activities which offer them alternative ways of expressing their stories; to make further connections within and beyond their communities through exploring topics which are often not discussed; and to explore what this means for the collective history, and future, of their communities. • As outlined below, academic, social and conceptual impacts will be linked into the growing body of materials gathered together within relevant websites (socialhaunting.com) and networks (Creative Margins' (2018-2019) AHRC network (AH/R006563/1) (PI G Ivinson) https://wcstudiesassociation.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/social-haunting/ https://www.productivemargins.ac.uk/projects/mapping-making-mobilising/
Impact See websiteshttps://wcstudiesassociation.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/social-haunting/ https://www.productivemargins.ac.uk/projects/mapping-making-mobilising/ The collaboration is multi is disciplinary; Social sciences, art, education, social psychology
Description Stand + Stare
Organisation Stand + Stare
PI Contribution Working alongside Stand + Stare who are interactive designers to develop their creative ideas as they work with co-design methods. Providing guidance on co-design and ethical practice in relation to life story research. In the Tangible Memories: Parlours of Wonder project Stand + Stare worked with us to: co-design an engaging community focused space in 3 different settings where older people and others can interact with evocative objects, sparking questions and new interests and use our StoryCreator app together to record and share their ideas, memories and stories. They also worked with us to co-design a DIY blueprint for any care settings to design their own 'Parlours of Wonder' and to use the StoryCreator app within them. [To include ideas for engaging older people in co-designing the rooms and interactive case studies with evaluations of the approaches taken across the 3 sites.] In addition as part of this project they further tested and developed the iPad StoryCreator app and create a brand new Android version, enabling us to reach new audiences. Both versions of the app will then be made freely available on the relevant app stores. They also took a lead in co-curating two exhibitions in London (at the Digital Design weekend at the V and A) and in Bristol at City Hall to officially launch the Parlour idea and the app with Alive! and care settings.
Collaborator Contribution Working alongside older residents in care home to co-design a process of life history work that enables them to create their own interactive book. Stand + stare worked alongside ourselves on the Parlours of wonder project to: to: co-design an engaging community focused space in 3 different settings where older people and others can interact with evocative objects, sparking questions and new interests and use our StoryCreator app together to record and share their ideas, memories and stories. They also worked with us to co-design a DIY blueprint for any care settings to design their own 'Parlours of Wonder' and to use the StoryCreator app within them. [To include ideas for engaging older people in co-designing the rooms and interactive case studies with evaluations of the approaches taken across the 3 sites.] In addition as part of this project they further tested and developed the iPad StoryCreator app and create a brand new Android version, enabling us to reach new audiences. Both versions of the app will then be made freely available on the relevant app stores. STAND + STARE also worked with us on the Productive MArgins project to co-design a space for our community actors to perform their monologues and play about loneliness, based on their data collection.
Impact Multidisciplinary involves working between educational researchers, folklorists, historians and computer scientists with this artist group. Outcomes include interactive books and audio of life history interviews.The StoryCreator app is now linked to a pay on demand service which is intended as a source of revenue for Stand + Stare as they take the app on as part of their business. The ALONELY shed has been used for a wide range of performances in a variety of locations.
Description The StARTer Project - producing AGENDA : A Young People's Guide to Making Positive Relationships Matter
Organisation Children's Commissioner for Wales
PI Contribution Underpinned and informed by Professor Renold's research into innovative engagement and participatory methodologies on healthy relationships issues (Renold 2018); the creative activisms that directly impacted upon the Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (VAWDASV) Act (Wales 2015) and the Relationship Matters case study that was cited in the Welsh Government's Good Practice Practitioners Guide: Whole School Approaches to VAWDASV (2015) - with support from Cardiff University (ESRC-funded) Impact Accelerator Account secondment, Professor Renold (co-investigator of Productive Margins) collaborated with the NSPCC Cymru/Wales, Welsh Women's Aid (who supported my secondment), the Children's Commissioner for Wales and Welsh Government to create the national resource: AGENDA: A Young People's Guide to Making Positive Relationships Matter Working intensively over 9 months (Oct 2015 - July 2016) the STARTER project brought together a young people's steering group (n=12, including 2 original members of The Relationship Matters Project, Productive Margins), a range of practitioners (teachers, youth workers, artists, policy-officers). In total, over 50 young people were involved in advising on and producing the multi-media content and design for what became, AGENDA: A Young People's Guide to Making Positive Relationships Matter. With a strong steer from the young people's advisory group, this resource supports 11-18-year-olds to explore the issues they are interested in at their own pace. It showcases the different ways in which young people in Wales and across the world have raised awareness of how gender-based and sexual violence impact upon their lives and the lives of others, on issues such as: addressing gender discrimination, consent, LGBT+ rights, bullying, street harassment, FGM, sexual exploitation, and relationship violence. This 75 page bi-lingual resource includes: - Innovative starter activities to help young people think about what matters to them, and what they would like to change - Suggested ways to take action, including examples of social media campaigns; online petitions and research; creative and performing arts; feminist clubs and e-zines - Over 100 hyperlinks to organisations and resources of where to find out more about key issues of modes of change. - 11 illustrated case study examples of how young people in Wales have addressed everyday sexism, sexual harassment and more. - Advice about project planning, getting started with a project and how to deal with negative comments - Annual awareness raising and remembered dates dedicated to addressing gender and sexual inequalities, discriminations and violence around the world - Advice about staying safe and where to go to for support
Collaborator Contribution Welsh Government contributed £2500 to the design and development costs, including translation into Welsh, and has supported AGENDA since in relation to invited speaker invitations, and the uploading of the resource onto the national teacher network HWB. Welsh Women's Aid (part-funded by the Welsh Government) supported this project by allocating 0.5 days per week of their Public Affairs Manager's time for the specified period of seven months to support project management, research delivery, analysis of results and policy development. They also gave support in the form of office space and access to Welsh Women's Aid's other administrative and computer resources for the duration: £3K (estimated) NSPCC provided 0.5 days of their Senior Research Officer's time and 0.5 days of their Policy Officer's time over the specified time of 7 months to assist with each phase (approx 4K) for the duration of the making of the resource. This staff time continued in training and practitioners events (see Engagement section) Children's Commissioner's Office for Wales provided staff time and offered advice and support about producing an appropriate resource for children and young people (including 2.5K for design and production of resource matched by WG); the use of the office for a face to face meeting with children and young people (including the provision of refreshments and travel costs for children and young people) and Professor Sally Holland to speak at the launch and share at events and visits (these have included many schools and events in Wales, but also EU UNCRC event). Each organisation above also contributed towards the launch event, and continue to attend quarterly AGENDA working group meetings (outreach; prizes; sustainability; sharing at conferences, School/youth group visits and events)
Impact Resource: AGENDA: A Young People's Guide to Making Positive Relationships Matter. Please see Engagement section for the training and development activities across Wales as part of the continued collaboration and commitment with the partners identified above.
Organisation National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Organisation Welsh Assembly
Organisation Women's Aid
Description Welsh Government Consultancy - supporting the health and well-being curriculum (sex and relationships education)
PI Contribution From 1 Oct - 31 January, Professor Emma Renold was invited to support the development of the new Health and Well-being curriculum (specially sex and relationships curriculum) via a range of activities (see below).
Collaborator Contribution The consultancy, included drawing upon the AGENDA resource, the creative and participatory methodologies of working with children and young people to co-produce curricula materials on addition to supporting whole school approaches to SRE (via campaigning and awareness raising) - specially in relation to attendance and participation at 2 day monthly meetings, and the design and delivery of two 2 day SRE workshops with practitioners in primary schools, secondary schools and special schools. Here, professor renold drew upon key activities originally created in The Relationship Matters project, including; runway of disrespect; what jar's you; and the case studies: words won't pin me down; ruler HeART and under pressure (see Other in publications).
Impact Whilst the official consultancy has ended, professor Renold continues to be invited to Welsh Assembly to review and comment upon the curriculum developments, including keynote presentations (see panel at the United Nations, 2018 - in award/recognition entry)
Description Women Equality Network (WEN) Wales - AGENDA outreach in schools across Wales.
Organisation Women’s Equality Network Wales
PI Contribution As part of their Welsh Government funding to advance gender equality in Wales, WEN Wales included annual funding stream (3K per year) to support AGENDA outreach work in schools and youth groups across Wales.
Collaborator Contribution Professor Renold's co-creation of the AGENDA resource with young people who participate in the Relationships Matter project, and the creative pedagogy and methodologies infringe the resource are now informing the training and outreach work of embedding AGENDA into schools' practice - specially their whole school approaches to sex and relationship education. To date, 6 schools have received outreach training in the past 12 months, with 4 of the schools sharing their awareness raising activities in their schools at the national agenda conference in July 2017.
Impact see engagement entry for AGENDA related activities - in particular the AGENDA infographic (in artefacts).
Title StoryCreator app
Description The Tangible Memories app allows you to tell stories that are meaningful to you and your loved ones, and listen back to them in easy and accessible ways. It has been designed particularly with older people and their carers and families in mind, but can be used by anyone. You can create pages that combine a photo, text and an audio recording. These can be viewed within the app or printed out. When printed, the audio recording is represented by a beautiful shell illustration. The scan function within the app recognizes the shell on each printed page and, as if by magic, plays back your audio. As well as printing out PDF pages, the shells can be printed onto other things such as cushions or lap blankets. Music is well known to be therapeutic for dementia sufferers and can be a powerful way to access memories. We have also found that people with dementia often enjoy the feel of tactile fabrics. You can use the app to link a piece of music to a shell. When that shell is printed out (this could be onto a range of materials) you can use the scan function to play back that piece of music. This enables people to create blankets and objects to touch and feel that contain play lists that are meaningful to them. - A simple design that allows you to make an audio recording, add a photo and a short quote - A function that allows you to swipe through pages you have created as an e-book within the app and play back your audio on each page - An export option, which allows you to email a PDF of each page to share with others or print out - A 'scan' function that, using image recognition, allows you to play back audio recordings from your printed pages by framing the shell illustrations within the viewfinder - Options to record audio within the app or use tracks from your iTunes library - Options to take photos through the app or add them from your photo library - As well as printing out PDF pages, the shells can be printed onto other things such as cushions or lap blankets. - iTunes file sharing, enabling the user to copy their created book from the iPad to their computer as a backup option. Copied books can also be imported onto another iPad running the Tangible Memories app. - Handy hints based on our research and experience of working with older people in care homes
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application
Impact The app is already being used in a variety of care homes across Bristol. Our partners Alive! are working with us to train staff to use the app across the South west and South east. Since June 2015 we have seen 1352 downloads of the app from across the globe.
URL https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tangible-memories-story-creator/id1006573343
Company Name SOMALI KITCHEN BRISTOL COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
Description The Somali Kitchen is a social enterprise led by a group of mums, all members of SPAN (Single Parent Action Network), keen to promote healthy alternatives to the fast food on offer at the dozens of takeaways in the area, while discussing food-related issues and celebrating Somali food and culture. The event evolved out of collaborative research project Productive Margins, which involved members of SPAN, Coexist, Knowle West Media Centre and researchers from Bristol University. As Naomi Millner, one of the researchers explained, the project is based on the idea that "if you want to influence policy and regulation that actually meets the needs of people experiencing marginalisation, poverty and so on, you need to create those agendas with people who have that experience".
Impact Featured on BBC west, this initiative is involved in Schools work and catering, promoting positive values around the representation of the Somali community as well as healthy alternatives to fast food.
Description 'Feminist Posthumanism and New Materialism Research Methodologies in Education', 11-12th June
Primary Audience Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact Professor Gabrielle Ivinson and Professor Emma Renold showed Graphic Moves and Light Moves, and facilitated a 2 hour workshop of how they used the 'pico projector' in the Graphic Moves workshops for embodied affective methods with young people.
Contributed to Graphic Moves exhibition.
URL http://www.ioe.ac.uk/study_departments/fempost_flyer_11june.pdf
Description 'Graphic Moves: artful, aleatory and posthuman methodologies in creative research with young people' presented by Emma Renold
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Results and Impact Presentation was followed by questions and debate
Research disseminated to wider audience
Description 'Subject space: on the ethics of co-producing urban research' by visiting scholar Nik Theodore
Results and Impact Lecture prompted discussion afterwards.
Lecture was recorded and is available as a podcast. Lecture was part of series of activities with Nik Theodore, a visiting international scholar.
URL http://bristol.ac.uk/ias/vidaud/events/
Description 6 secondment workshops with SPAN and BMCS
Results and Impact Series of 6 secondment workshops supported by Single Parent Action Network and Bristol Muslim Cultural Society.
Workshops sparked discussion and were helped developed the longevity of project work for participants.
Description 8 Workshops with SPAN, BMCS, Inspire and BMFF
Results and Impact Series of 8 workshops supported by Single Parent Action Network, Bristol Muslim Cultural Society, Inspire and Bristol Multi-Faith Forum.
Workshops sparked discussion and were key in project development.
Description AGENDA 12 months on. Impact and engagement infographic
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Results and Impact This inforgraphic was created with the AGENDA working group to quantify ad qualify the different ways AGENDA has been shared with and impacted on young people and practitioners in Wales and wider (e.g. in the US - see 'collaborations').
1400 young people reached (not including clicks or views on digital platforms)
- Over 600 young people know about AGENDA
- Over 700 young people have used AGENDA
AGENDA has reached over 500 teachers in Wales
AGENDA has reached over 1000 youth practitioners in Wales
AGENDA has reached over 100 Academics in the UK
AGENDA has reached over 3000 people in 12 months
• AGENDA was shortlisted for the Children & Young People Now PSHE Education Award [August]
• Voices Over Silence Project won The Royal College of Midwifery Award for Partnership Working [June]
• 'What Jars You?' activity completed by 400 young people to gather views for Welsh Government's National Online Safety Action Plan for children & young people [September]
• Case studies from AGENDA were submitted via invited written and oral evidence to the Women and Equalities Select Committee Inquiry on Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools [January]
• The Hafan Cymru Spectrum Project who have delivered over 1600 healthy relationships education sessions to primary and secondary schools across Wales now use many of the AGENDA activities in their lessons.
• October sees the American launch of an expanded and interactive AGENDA tool-kit in partnership with the New York based SPARK Movement. Going live in collaboration with the United Nations' International Day of the Girl 2017: 11 Days of Action AGENDA reaches a global audience.
Footnote: SPARK is an intergenerational activist organization working to ignite and foster an antiracist gender justice movement to end violence against women and girls and promote girls' healthy sexuality, self-empowerment and well-being.
• AGENDA case studies feature in national press: The Guardian (January) and BBC Newsbeat (September)
• Over 20 young people showcase AGENDA inspired work to over 2000 people on International Women's Day at the Millienium Centre, Cardiff and National Waterfront Museum, Swansea (March)
• The Children's Commissioner for Wales and AGENDA youth ambassador, Georgia, shares the AGENDA resource with over 70 participants at the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children in Helsinki as they develop their manifesto for Sex and Relationships Education (September)
• Over 40 AGENDA youth ambassadors are trained at the launch of AGENDA (November 2016)
• The first 'Educating Agenda' conference was opened by the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Kirsty Williams and showcased the AGENDA-inspired work of over 50 young people (July)
• Mountain Ash Comprehensive: WAM (we are more) created a flashmob dance in their school canteen, a silent statue and a drama to raise awareness of body shaming, skirt length, sexual harassment and gender equalities.
• Ysgol Plasmawr: DIGON (anti-HBT bullying group) created and performed a new drama, 'Hidden?', to address the harmful effects of heteronormativity and homophobic banter
• Tonyrefail Comprehensive: 13 year old Charlie wrote and performed the 'Face to Face' song ' accompanied by Mountain Ash Comprehensive male voice choir at the Educating AGENDA conference 2017
Tonypandy Community College perform their AGENDA inspired drama 'Outlook' to speak out about sexism, abusive sexting and mental health
URL https://twitter.com/EmmaRenold/status/936136992571756545
Description AGENDA 2016 launch media engagement
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Results and Impact Media engagement to share the launch of the AGENDA resource. The materials and young people feature strongly in the report. This led to future coverage, (see SRE expert panel interview on the recommendations to Welsh government).
URL https://www.facebook.com/agendawales/videos/592837844246218/
Description AGENDA conference launch: practitioner training / young agenda ambassador training
Results and Impact Nov 2106 saw the national launch of the co-produced AGENDA: A young people's guide for making positive relationship matter. At this event, AGENDA training and workshops were delivered to young people to be trained as agenda ambassadors (n=40 from 7 schools and youth groups) and teachers (n=7). These included the youth group who participated in Graphic Moves (4Ms, Productive Margins) and the whole event was co-hosted with professor Renold and Libby, member of the Relationships Matter project.
Every conference participant (n=120) received their own 'jar' full of comments from young people on gender and sexual injustice and violence in schools. This experiential activity is in the Agenda resource. These jars have subsequently been used in future AGENDA training workshops (see entry on Spectrum training; All Wales School Liaison training; SRE workshops) and their messages also featured in the Welsh Government's SRE expert panel recommendations report (renold and mcgeeney 2017)
The agenda ambassadors have subsequently received outreach to local schools, including Mountatin Ash Comprehensive, Tonyrefail, Plasmawr, Tonypandy (see Agenda conference 2017 entry). For media of the event, see ITV Wales Agenda conference coverage entry.
URL https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/522099-challenging-gender-based-and-sexual-violence
Description AGENDA conferences July 2017 - informing future SRE in Wales
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Most clearly represented in blog post - impact included follow up with furthers schools for outreach work (see WEN Wales entry in collaboration) and messages from young people were included in the report and recommendations for future of SRE in Wales. The video from the day was also made by and played by Professor Renold at the United Nations (see recognition entry) to showcase how Wales is advancing SRE in Wales by listening to young people and creating events that enable those with decision making powers head and act upon their voices. Generating more energy than the blazing July sun, over 70 young people (age 13-18) streamed in to the Educating Agenda conference, in Cardiff University last week. They came to participate, share, reflect and build the event into a powerful and inspiring call to arms. Joining them in the building, and in purpose, were some of the teachers and heads of department who continue to give their time and support to young people speaking out in their schools and communities. Representatives from a range of charities and statutory organisations profiled the services they are able to offer young people across an array of colourful and engaging stalls, contributing to the carnival-esque feel of the event. This was not a typical conference, more of a celebration of the many achievements of all involved. It was also about bringing together these young people who are working tirelessly and bravely to show that, far from alone, they are part of a bigger movement with a shared collective aim: improving the provision of sex and relationships education for everyone. And so, it was also a strategic meeting, looking to the future, building onwards, with Agenda.
Professor Emma Renold opened the conference, welcoming back the young people and practitioners who co-produced the Agenda resource and attended its launch in Cardiff bay last year.
Reflecting on this amazing journey so far, which clearly inspired many of the performances we were to enjoy that day, Emma highlighted the many directions Agenda has moved in. Taking the resource across Wales, physically, digitally and emotionally. From the Welsh Assembly, to police and teacher training, and the Welsh Baccalaureate conference, across schools town and cities, it was clear much has been achieved. We saw how Agenda has become a living archive in motion, amplifying the creations and messages of all the young people involved in its creation, many of whom were gathered in the room. We saw Agenda gaining momentum through its appropriation and adaptation in each new encounter and forging onwards as a powerful vehicle for change, as we were about to see.
'Children's champion for Wales', commissioner Sally Holland drew our attention to Agenda's value as a human rights based approach, commending the work of everyone involved. The children's commissioner applauded Wales' brilliant young people who, using Agenda as a launch pad, are demanding, better sex and relationships education in powerful and creative ways. Cabinet secretary for Education Kirsty Williams echoed these sentiments describing Agenda as a platform for discussing complex issues, helping teachers to provide the sex and relationships education young people deserve.
Classrooms, the cabinet minister said, have to be free of intolerance and, she added, sex and relationships education must be inclusive, comprehensive and delivered by trained experts. The talk concluded with messages from primary school pupils, sent to Kirsty Williams via a fantastic Pride-inspired, rainbow piñata, calling for gender neutral toilets in schools, more teacher training, awareness raising and protests.
Two outstanding performances followed featuring pupils from Ysgol Gyfun Plasmawr and Mountain Ash comprehensive schools. Siriol Burford introduced these Agenda ambassadors, firstly Plasmawr performing a new drama production 'Hidden' that highlights the potentially unseen harm of homophobic bullying. A powerful representation of the insidious effects of 'harmless banter', exploring the impact of phrases such as 'that's so gay' from the perspective of a non-heterosexual pupil, overhearing them. #WAM (We Are More) maintained the high standard delivering their own dramatization of the kinds of everyday sexism they experience. Their rallying call 'WAM: We Are More' was the response to derogatory marks about skirt length, make up and body shaming. Mountain Ash students also shared a video of their activism and its path through their school and beyond, out in to communities in Cardiff, at the International Women's day event and onwards to Paris for the European Children's Rights summit!
Rhian Bowen-Davies, National Adviser for Violence against Women, other forms of Gender-Based Violence, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence emphasized the need to listen to young people in designing and delivering the necessary preventative work to advance gender equity and address all forms of gender-related and sexual violence via a whole school approach.
Young people from Tonypandy community college's 'Outlook' group performed their drama exploring, among other things, sexting. Introducing them, their teacher emphasized that these young people had created the characters and the script themselves, without assistance. All of the powerful messages were their own and they made a strong case for the importance of inclusive and student-led sex and relationships education.
Tonyrefail comprehensive school students brought a musical flavour to close this first section of the day. Firstly, with backing from Mountain Ash Comprehensive school's male voice choir, Charlie (age 13) performed her own song 'Face to Face', inspired by Agenda. It's a beautiful song about respect, ambivalence and the challenges of growing up. With barely a moment to dab our moistening eyes Tonyrefail introduced the GCSE art project of one of their most talented students, Lauren. Set to the Macklemore track 'Same Love' a short film chronicled the impact of contemporary society on understandings of LGBTQI identities, from media representations to the uncertainty of the current political climate. Punctuated by the removal of rainbow coloured tissue paper from a skull inscribed with all of the intersecting identities that can sometimes become lost when we think of people only in terms of their sexualities. It was both sobering and uplifting to be invited to view these issues from this young person's perspective, seeing what they see in the world around them. For real emotional impact when delivering your message, think creatively.
After a short break young people from Ysgol Gyfun Plasmawr led students from all of the schools through the Agenda starter activities ('the runway of change', 'stop/start plates' and 'what jars you'), using them as a kicking off point for
developing a pledge of the top five key things that need to change in their schools.
These pledges were videoed, filtered through a 'glitch app' which distorts images to obscure participants identities. And these pledges were made to be gifted back to the schools the students originated from, glitch-activism in action. This industriousness filled the hall with conversations between schools about the strengths and weaknesses of their own current provision. Aptly, while this was going on, teachers and professionals were enjoying presentations in another part of the building. Emma shared details from the AGENDA case studies and accompanying Welsh Baccaluerate resources on Feminist Activism, Healthy Relationships; LGBT Rights; Selfie Culture; Digital Gaming and more. Inspiring feminist teacher Hanna Retallack made the journey from London to share about her experiences as a feminist teacher and facilitator of feminist groups, sharing ideas and strategies with professionals in Wales. The Spectrum Hafan Project also helped to outline positive moves and whole school approaches that all schools could make to get conversations started.
During the lunch break most of us migrated to the grounds to sit in the sun, continue conversations and share thoughts and reflections on the day so far. With sun soaked backs lulling us all gently towards inertia we made our way back indoors. The glitch pledges were screened at the front of the hall and the main themes of better staff training and listening to student voice came across clearly from all groups.
Minutes after, Jên Angharad (Voices in Art) was re-energising everyone and waking us all up, working with some of the thoughts and feelings of the day to create a series of movements. Capturing the spirit of the day Jen took her cues from the young people, moving with their feelings. For me, this was what the conference was about, it really was their day. A day that united the representatives from national charities, Government, academia, educators, county councils and youth groups, through the awe-inspiring enthusiasm, determination and creativity of the young people whom their work affects.
The talent, passion, commitment and strength of all the young people who came together on July 5th outshone the ferocity of the midsummer sun, they are our brightest stars. Captured in image, movement and song, here are some of the day's best bits: https://vimeo.com/224546331
Description AGENDA keynote/workshop for Welsh Government - 5th National Intelligence Event, Planning together to improve local well-being: What works?.
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Invited keynote and workshop for the Welsh Government's '5th National Intelligence Event', Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff, 4 March 2017. The Theme: Planning together to improve local well-being: What works?. The workshop was co-delivered with Rhian Bowen-Davies National Adviser for Violence against Women, other forms of Gender-Based Violence, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence, Welsh Governmen. total number of participants (n=15) . Theme of workshop; "Preventing violence against women and girls, domestic abuse and sexual violence". I shared the relationships matters project as a case study of how schools can creatively collect data to inform their new duty to report on how VAWDASV is being addressing in their local authority. The event also included an AGENDA information stand - with potential footfall of 400+ people.
URL http://www.dataunitwales.gov.uk/SharedFiles/Download.aspx?pageid=30&mid=64&fileid=134
Description AHRC CC Community Utopias festival: Life Chances
Results and Impact We hosted a stall for 3 days in Somerset House and spoke to hundreds of people about the project. We did two performances of artistic outputs from the project involving novel readings, songs, poetry that have all arisen from the project. A collaboration has resulted from this with one of the other CC funded projects and we have together secured AHRC catalyst funding to run a methods lab in Birmingham exploring arts based approaches across 3 projects.
We took research participants to London for 3 days along with their children and this was a hugely important experience for them to be part of showcasing their stories and work.
Description Attendance at book launch and discussion organised by CPAG & All Party Parliamentary Group on Poverty, at Portcullis House, 16 November 2016
Results and Impact Community partners involved in the Life Chances project attended this event, contributed to discussion and distributed copies of project policy briefing.
URL http://www.appgpoverty.org.uk/children/event-what-will-it-take-to-improve-childrens-life-chances/
Description Book Launch
Results and Impact The event showcased some of the outputs from the Productive Margins programme alongside discussion of the book that was a product of Productive Margins: 'Imagining Regulation Differently: co-creating for engagement'. This was followed by a discussion panel of co-inverstigators and artists on the programme, some of whom have now gone to take on policy roles, looking at how communities and universities can engage better and what we learnt about this from the research programme
Description Bristol Somali Festival Family Day
Results and Impact An opportunity for the public, including families with young children to participate and enjoy being surrounded by Somali culture. The festival day comprised of a fabric and craft store and display, interactive craft tables, the Somali Kitchen demonstrating the blending of spices, and an exhibition of Somali cultural artefacts. The event was a free event open to the general public, held in the M Shed in Bristol.
Description Co-creating Cities & Communities public event Summer forum 13th July 2017
Results and Impact Co-creating Cities & Communities public event Summer forum 13th July 2017
• Have you ever wondered how to develop urban spaces and integrate citizen-centric services in the face of reducing budgets and city politics? Or what is the real impact of smart technologies on community life?
• How do we create interconnected cities which will promote empowerment and limit exclusion, boost diversity and reduce poverty, nurture creativity and eradicate disadvantage?
Productive Margins presentation on three key projects within the programme; Somali Kitchen, Life Chances and Isolation and Loneliness in Older People (Bristol and Merthyr Tydfil)
Description Co-ordinated Wales based youth-groups participation in WEN Wales International Women's Day including members of Forsythia youth (4Ms, productive margins)
Results and Impact Co-ordinated the youth-groups (7 in total, over 50 young people) participation in presenting at the Wales Millienium Centre for Women's Equality Network (WEN) Wales for their International Women's Day event.
Designed and delivered 3 inter-generational AGENDA workshops to over 100 children, young people, parents, grandparents etc. @ Swansea Waterfront Museum. with Vicky Edwards (ESRC phd student)
This event premiered the Life Support art exhibition (Swansea) and film (WMC) showcasing the 'pilot' productive margins project (see Life Support artefact entry)
This event also saw the Exhibiting of the Ruler-Skirt Swing (see artefact entry)
Media (featuring AGENDA and ruler-skirt swing) http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/how-you-can-celebrate-international-12708785
Blog: (by Victoria Edwards for SOCSI news) http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/ahss/news-from-around-socsi/
Incredibly effective for communicating the practices of AGENDA through workshops and stand (over 200 people, with overall footfall of 2017 in Swansea alone).
Enabling and empowering over 50 young people to share their AGENDA inspired activities on a national stage. Connecting schools and group in the valleys with city schools and youth groups. This event led to collaboration with WEN Wales to support and fund further outreach work so that schools can received AGENDA training (see collaborations entry)
URL http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/ahss/news-from-around-socsi/
Description Co-produced film-making 'Light Moves' with young people from Youth Facility in an Ex-mining community in south Wales
Results and Impact Light Moves is a short film that was co-produced with young people at a Youth Facility in a south Wales, ex mining community. The film came out of participatory engagement with the youth facility over many months. It drew on work with primary school children taking part in the Big Dance, led by choreographer Jen Angharad with over 400 school children, from four primary schools in south Wales ex-mining valleys. The girls from the youth facility learned their film making skills at this event. We then went on to work with one of the participating primary schools in a second phase. Led by choreographer Jen Angharad, 30 children created a dance that was stimulated by art works created by the young people from the Youth Facility with artist Seth Oliver, filmmaker Heloise Godfrey Talbot and sound artist Rowan Talbot. The girls from the youth facility created a story board for the film's narrative structure and worked with choreographer Jen Angharad to select and edit dance sections from the primary school children's improvised dance. The film also includes sections from the local landscape celebrating the beauty of the place and depicting inter generational stories and images of life growing up there. The film is an uplifting, joyful rendering of the close relationships between the history of place, the changing landscape, movement and experiences of growing up that produce a strong affective charge, demonstrating the power of art to move. The film has been shown in a range of events, festivals, venues and international conferences. The girls told their school art teacher about their film making activity and when he saw the film, the teacher incorporated it as a piece of stimulus material for the GCSE art assessment project. From this, the girls went on to create other artifacts. Some of these artefacts featured in the next film we co-produced called Graphic Moves, see separate entry. The film and the artefacts have been part of three local festivals, (also see separate entries). The film was premiered at the AHRC Connected Communities Festival, Cardiff 1-2 July 2014. Further showings were,
Motopoint Exhibition, Cardiff, Tuesday 1st July 11.30 and 15.30 and Pierhead Exhibition, Wednesday 2nd June 12.15, 13.55 and 15.35. The film has featured on a number of post graduate training courses to demonstrate arts-based co-production, in a range of universities including the University of Aberdeen and Sheffield University. The film was featured in a commissioned methods resources for the Sage Methodspace, Creative Methods for the Sage on-line methods resources website in 2015. The Sage team created a video in which Emma Renold and Gabrielle Ivinsin describe how the Product Margins, Cardiff (Ivinson was at Aberdeen University and then at Manchester Metropolitan University) team researching with young people in south Wales ex mining valleys used creative methods to enable them to express imaginative and creative representations to counteract negative media images of the stigmatised town where they are growing up. Renold and Ivinson describe how artefacts and films co-created by young people with artists counteract the negative images of the place and how art works allow sensitive issues such as sexual violence to be aired in ways that protect the young people and allow publics to engage with difficult issues about poverty. The video resources were filmed in the Riverfront Exhibition Centre where our young artists' exhibited their work.
http://www.methodspace.com/group/sageresearchmethodsonline
URL http://www.productivemargins.ac.uk/projects/heads-of-the-valley-v2/
Description Conference presentation: Life Chances: re-imagining future regulatory systems for low-income families in modern urban settings, C2UEXPO conference, Vancouver
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Research presentation at C2UExpo which is an international forum for publically engaged university research working with community partners. Whilst based in Canada it attracts participants from all over the world and our presentation focused on arts based methods used in Life Chances and the potential for generating new knowledge with and about community experiences. The presentation was extremely well received and sparked new links and conversations.
URL http://www.c2uexpo.ca/
Description Conference: Researching Co-production
Results and Impact The conference shared information, new theories and networks. This sparked much discussion amongst participants.
The new theories presented at the conference improved our understanding of the methodology underpinning our research project.
Description Connected Communities Festival 2016: Community Futures and Utopias Event
Results and Impact The central aim of the activity was to devise an interactive theatre piece, and a portable set, building on research that had place. The piece worked with community researchers currently engaged in a co-produced research project taking place in Bristol and Merthyr Tydfil and illustrated current concerns around the isolation and loneliness of older people and possible alternative futures. We presented diverse stories and encouraged creative dialogue between communities, professionals, academics and artists that made visible assumptions about the future whilst looking for creative possibilities in the present.
URL http://utopia2016.com/
Description Crossing boundaries where social sciences and law meets arts and Humanities', presentation to NCRM (National Centre for Research Methods) Autumn School, Edinburgh
Results and Impact Crossing boundaries where social sciences and law meets arts and Humanities', presentation to NCRM (National Centre for Research Methods) Autumn School, Edinburgh, Sept 2015
Description Delivered workshops to All Wales School Liason Core Programme (who deliver SRE lessons to all primary and secondary schools in Wales)
Results and Impact With NSPCC Cymru, I designed and delivered 4 workshops across North and South Wales on how 'schoolbeat' can embed AGENDA in their practice. Over 60 police officers participated. Evaluations were very favourable, and schoolbeat officers are both informing schools that AGENDA exists; how schools can use it; and how officers can draw upon the activities to develop their own resources.
The AGENDA presentation/workshop I developed is now being used by other partner organisations (e.g. NSPCC London 2016; Sex Education Forum 2017; NUT 2018).
Description Enhancing Muslim engagement in local democratic governance
Results and Impact Event facilitated discussion useful for future research.
This was a preparatory event for Building the Bridge strand of research in the project.
Description Exhibition launch of Bristol Big Sisters
Results and Impact We have further contributed to the Muslim Women's Network UK materials by developing the complementary Bristol Big Sisters exhibition to add to the collection. Bristol Big Sisters features over 20 Muslim women role models in Bristol, including a Magistrate, Masuda Mian, the theologian Amra Bone, the anti-FGM Activist Fahma Mohamed, the biologist Aziza El Harchi, a community activist Sheila Joy El Dieb, Inspire's Co-director Kalsoom Bashir, and performance poet Shagufta K. The exhibition will be launched on 29th October 2015 at a project event at the Watershed and subsequently tour across Bristol, the profiles will also feature on the project website, and be incorporated into our workshop materials for ongoing work.
Exhibition sparked discussion and materials will be used for future activities by project participants.
Description Forum 12
Results and Impact Workshops and discussions in the Forum facilitated discussion amongst Forum members about how to move forward with the project research.
Description Forum Meeting 1
The Forum is the project's primary decision-making space and as a "site of experimentation" facilitates the co-production research process.
Description Forum Meeting 10 - data workshop
Description Forum Meeting 11
Description Government Digital Conference
Results and Impact Attendance at Government ICT 2.0 Conference, discussing data driven public services, central and local government, IT infrastructure, and future developments.
URL http://www.government-ict2.co.uk/agenda/
Description Heritage - Looking back to go to the future - Why and how we record dissent
Results and Impact Talk provoked discussion amongst audience and questions for the speakers.
Some audience members wanted to get involved with the project/receive news on activities.
Description Huffington Post Interview on my research on how to "Challenge gender cultures in childhood to address school bullying"
Results and Impact Invited to participate in a Huffington Post Interview on my research on how to "Challenge gender cultures in childhood to address school bullying" as part of a series of gender-based bullying by QUERI director (US) Dr. Elizabethe Payne. Resulted in future academic/practitioner panels on gender-based bullying, and invited consultations to the re-design and development of anti-bullying guidance for Wales (see the last page of the Welsh Gov expert panel report, with new definition of bullying for WG to consider)
URL http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabethe-c-payne/challenging-gendered-cult_b_8540524.html
Description Inaugural Lecture: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing: Why We Need to Rethink How We Regulate
Results and Impact Inaugural Lecture by Professor Morag McDermont
Regulatory systems are encountered on a daily basis - in education, immigration, food safety, building standards, to name a few.
Regulation is a central role of states as they seek to promote human co-operation and protect citizens from the consequences of global markets and unfettered competition. But regulation is seen as remote and technocratic, becoming a key target of the anti-expert mobilisations witnessed in the discourse around Brexit and elsewhere.
In this inaugural lecture Morag McDermont discusses why regulatory systems need to develop new ways of seeing and knowing that can allow social justice to become central to regulatory decision-making.
URL http://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2018/morag-mcdermont-inaugural-lecture.html
Description Inspiring Muslim Women
Results and Impact Working with the Steering Group, we organised an Inspiring Muslim Women event at the University of Bristol on 23rd September 2014, which featured addresses from three Muslim women activists on their experiences of being active in various public and political domains. They were Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, who spoke about her entry into politics to eventually become the first Muslim woman to sit in the Cabinet, Sughra Ahmed, President of the Islamic Society of Britain, who is the first woman to be elected to a national Muslim organisation, who spoke about how Muslim religious leadership needed to reflect on and respond to its British context, and Fahma Mohamed, a trustee of Integrate Bristol and activist in the anti-FGM campaign, whose presentation both challenged the cultures that perpetuate or accept FGM as a practice and perceptions of Muslim women and girls, arguing 'for the record: we are not deprived, we are privileged'. The event also included a performance by a Bristol-based performance poet: Shagufta K.
The event highlighted significant ways that Muslim women have been having an impact in public life - whether in formal politics, Muslim organisations in Britain, or grass-roots campaigning on gender issues. It addressed issues of barriers to and gaps in women's representation and inclusion, and set out some key challenges for political, community and public organisations. The event was attended by approximately 130 people, including academics, community groups, students, school pupils, Bristol City Council personnel, Councillors and police. The speakers' talks have been made available via the project website and Public Spirit, and excerpts from them were used as materials in subsequent workshops with Muslim women across Bristol, which explored spaces of women's engagement. Hundreds of users have since accessed the videos of the speakers' presentations.
Description Invited 3 hour Workshop"Moving with Affective Methodologies"
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited keynote 3 hour workshop, "Moving with Affective Methodologies", for Provocations, Improvisations: Encounters between Art, Sciences & Qualitative Research At the 4th Summer Institute in Qualitative Research, 2015 Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), Education & Social Research Institute (ESRI), Monday 6th July - Friday 10th July. Inspired by the work of Erin Manning we offer two films: "Light Moves" and "Dance of the not-yet". Each film enables us to glimpse how the body, entangled in objects, landscape, movement and light align, intra-act and call our participants and us into the world. Led by Jên Anghared, the workshop then opens up to encourage participants to think with the body and affect, and how 'movement moves' and composes us. Over 25 people participated in this workshop. Key outcome from this workshop was to be invited to Keynote the International QI conference in 2017 (see award/recogntion entry)
URL http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/siqr/artsdayflyer.pdf
Description Invited Academic Expert for National Advisory Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (VAWDASV) Children and Young people sub- group
Results and Impact This group was formed specifically to enables the group to draw upon research evidence and expertise, and has resulted in the formation of a children's and young people's sub-group to ensure a clear focus on how the wider group meets the needs of all CYP. We meet every 6 weeks.
Description Invited Academic Expert for National Advisory Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (VAWDASV) strategy group
Results and Impact I am one of three academics invited to this group and I have been enabled to draw upon research evidence and expertise. A direct outcome of my involvement has resulted in the formation of a children's and young people's sub-group to ensure a clear focus on how the wider group meets the needs of all CYP. It also included feeding into the National Strategy on Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence - 2016 - 2021.
URL http://gov.wales/topics/people-and-communities/communities/safety/domesticabuse/?lang=en
Description Invited Chair of the Sex and Relationships Expert Panel (March 2017 - Dec 2017)
Results and Impact Remit of the expert panel
I was invade to chair the expert panel in March 2017 by the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Kirsty Williams to help inform the development of the future Sex and Relationships (SRE) curriculum as part of the Health and Wellbeing Area of Learning Experience (AoLE). The panel were asked to identify issues and opportunities which could inform decisions around supporting the teaching profession to deliver high quality SRE in schools more effectively.
Specifically, the group were tasked with:
1) providing recommendations to the Cabinet Secretary for Education on how current SRE practice might be improved before 2022 and the new curriculum being introduced.
2) providing recommendations for the Cabinet Secretary for Education and the pioneer schools on the future of Sex and Relationships Education in Wales as part of Health and Wellbeing AoLE. The group focused its attention on providing recommendations on the future of SRE in the context of the new curriculum.ch and September 2017. The exploratory remit of the panel enabled the group to think big and engage with innovative and effective SRE practices in Wales and internationally, while simultaneously considering the very local, national and international affordances and challenges that beset the unique field of SRE, as a cross-disciplinary subject. The panel therefore comprised of academic specialists in SRE, service providers in SRE, and teachers with SRE responsibilities. See entry for 'informing policy and practice' and 'publications' for the reports and recommendations that ensued.
Description Invited and delivered AGENDA Training for Spectrum - welsh gov funded organisation delivering SRE lessons to all schools in Wales.
Results and Impact I was invited and delivered two full days training on SRE (morning) and AGENDA (afternoon) to all SPECTUM staff (n=15) in 2016 and 2017.
I also provide regular advice / resources via email and act as academic consultant to assist how they are developing their practive & workstreams. This is specifically in relation to pedagogy and the use of creative methods to raise awareness of sensitive topics in schools - the practices and theory of which were developed during the Relationship Matters project. As a consequence, AGENDA activities are now embedded in their practice. The resource features on their website. Spectrum have since consulted me on their resource development and strategy for whole school approach to SRE, and I invited them onto the SRE expert panel (2017-8) and team members participated in SRE workshops (2018).
URL http://www.hafancymru.co.uk/our-services/spectrum/
Description Invited keynote and co-produced practitioner workshops for Welsh Government on creatively addressing sexual violence in schools
Results and Impact This was a co-produced workshop (delivered twice to over 80 participants) with young people and practitioners, delivered to practitioners. It began with an overview of the creative methods of The Relationship Matters project, and the forthcoming Agenda guide. It was titled: "Working with young people to creatively and safely address sexual violence in schools" with Marc Lewis (Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr) and Siriol Burford (Safe-guarding and well-being consultant) and delivered at the Welsh Government conference: Keeping Learner's Safe: Everybody's Business. Over 200 deputy head-teachers/head teachers and 3rd sector specialising in safeguarding and healthy relationships education. This was the beginning of profiling and sharing to national audience of the Relationship Matters project and the AGENDA resource, and on-going future collaboration with Welsh Government (safeguarding team and curriculum division) all of which ultimately culminated in being asked to speak at national educational events (see keynote at Headteacher's forum in 'recognition/award/ entry) and chair the SRE expert panel in 2017.
URL http://learning.gov.wales/resources/browse-all/keeping-learners-safe-conference-
Description Invited keynote at BERA Childhood SIG conference, Huddersfield
Results and Impact Invited keynote presenting creative and participatory methods in trove and Life Chances projects. Addressing possibility for these methods in research with children.
URL https://www.bera.ac.uk/event/digging-into-data
Description Invited member of the marketing and communications sub-group for the National Advisory VAWDASV group.
Results and Impact professor Renold's role in this group has enabled her to draw upon expertise in evidence-based strategy, and innovations in creative engagement/communications possibilities for raising awareness of VAWDASV - drawing upon creative methodologies developed in Productive margins programme and research undertaken in Wales on heathly relationships. Key outcome in 2018, was extensive input in the focus, design and media activities for the #thisisme campaign - addressing gender steretoypes for healthy relationships. Seehttps://www.walesonline.co.uk/special-features/campaign-launched-challenge-gender-stereotypes-14218770
URL https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/1085649-professor-emma-renold-joins-welsh-government-in-launchin...
Description Invited panel member in 'State of Social Capital in Britain' ESRC in partnership with The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and Co-operative Councils Innovation Network
Results and Impact Invited panel member in 'State of Social Capital in Britain' ESRC in partnership with The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and Co-operative Councils Innovation Network, Nov 2015
Description Is it easier for some people to have their voice heard than it is for others?
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Workshop provoked much discussion within the group and wider networks.
Helped inform groups own understanding of issues discussed and how to proceed in research based activities.
Description Jocelyn Davies' (Assembly Member) visited The Relationship Matters (4Ms Productive margins) participants at their school to congratulate them on activism and inclusion in national healthy relationships practitioner guide and YP Guide "AGENDA"
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Results and Impact Jocelyn Davies' (Assembly Member) visited to Pen Y Dre High School, North Merthyr, in which she commended the young people who co-produced (with Professor Renold) the case study that features in the good practice guide as an example of best practice. She also commended their continued work in developing the Young People's guide, AGENDA: A Young people's guide to making positive relationships matter, in which 3 of their examples feature as exemplars, and two participants were key members of the national advisory group (n=12). see www.agenda.wales and Renold 2018 publication in Research Intelligence BERA.
URL https://www.partyof.wales/news/2015/11/25/let-young-people-lead-the-way-to-end-violence-against-wome...
Description Keynote and workshops - Using arts-based methods to address sexual harassment in schools and communities - focused on Relationship Matters project (4Ms, productive margins)
Results and Impact Delivered a keynote and afternoon workshop on "Using arts-based methods to address sexual harassment in schools and communities" at the "Giving Girls a Fair Chance" conference, at Mercure Holland House Hotel, Cardiff, Friday 9th October 2015 The keynote included subsequent presentations from Dame Rosemary Butler, Presiding Officer of the National Assembly and Joy Kent, Chief Executive of Chwarae Teg. The workshop featured a detailed exploration of The Relationship Matters project. There were 80 people in the workshop, and 150+ participants at the event.
URL http://www.fullcircleeducation.org/Girls-Conference-2015/
Description Keynote workshop 'Moving with Affective Methodologies'
Results and Impact Workshop sparked discussion and talks afterwards.
Accepting invitation to present this keynote workshop furthered contacts and interest in methods developed during the project and potential to be applied in other projects.
Description LSA 2017 Annual Conference Roundtable session organiser
Results and Impact Working in Law's Borderlands
Roundtable Session
Morag McDermont, University of Bristol Law School
Bringing scholars working on empirical research projects to
discuss evolving understandings of practices, subjectivities
and relationships of those working in the borderlands of law;raising critical questions about the changing boundaries of
legal authority and how the borders of law are constructed,
negotiated and traversed in practice. Borders need to be
regulated and policed, making them interesting sites for
investigation. At borders disputes break out - who should be
policing the border, what is the border for anyway? Law takes
on different forms depending on what is required of it: law can
be violence; law can be enabler. Borderlands are places where
things happen, much of it is translation. Local social ecologies
develop in which border policing meets varieties of border
crossings (legal and illegal), opens up unpredictable contacts,
exchanges and translations, and border workers manage, exploit
and survive the border conditions.
Primary Keyword: Social Movements and Legal Mobilization
Description Learning Lab - Utopias
Results and Impact Three connected communities research projects working on Arts practices in the context of Utopia (500th anniversary of Thomas More's 'Utopia') came together to share creative and artistic methodologies and tools as a means for engaging communities, especially in the context of place and place making in each context.
Description Life Chances- presenting to Families and Parenting Research cluster
Results and Impact We co-presented the outputs of the Life Chances project to academics, PhD students and members of the public as part of the Families and Parenting research cluster across social sciences and law in University of Bristol. Participants also took part and there were novel readings, live performances of original music, songs and poetry written by participants and discussion of arts based methods used in the project. This provoked a great deal of discussion about the role of fictional literary methods that have been used in the project.
Description Life chances Presentation at Connected Communities LitCom festival in Norwich
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact We co-presented outputs from Life Chances and held a panel discussion about the benefits of literary methods in the project including the sociological fiction, poetry and song lyrics and how these all enabled co-writing with participants and the potential for impact of these forms of representation of research data.
Description Media interest in project and 'valentine's day cards' to Welsh Assembly Members - radio and television interviews
Results and Impact The young women involved have organised school assemblies, created artwork to be displayed as part of our art exhibitions, completed a public action on sexual harassment/everyday sexism by delivering a message (via Valentine's Day cards) to Assembly Members in Cardiff.
The project was discussed in relation to the 'Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence' bill in Wales on the radio and television (ITV and BBC) on 23 February 2015.
URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0536jgx/
Description Multi-media presentation of 'Light Moves and 'Using Affective Arts-based Methodologies'
Results and Impact Presentations led to questions and discussion afterwards.
Research disseminated to wider audience.
Description Oral evidence to a House of Lords Select Committee
Results and Impact I was invited to give oral evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement on Wednesday 25th October 2017 on the impact of Prevent on Muslim civic engagement. My evidence to the Select Committee was cited in the Select Committee's 2018 report to government 'The Ties that Bind: Citizenship and Civic Engagement in the 21st Century.'
URL https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201719/ldselect/ldcitizen/118/11802.htm
Description People's Republic of Stokes Croft and Coexist - Culture, Art, Enterprise and Space of Dissent
The running of the event helped inform the production of future public-facing events.
Description Policy Brief launch, 21st January, Junction 3 library, Easton, Bristol.
Results and Impact Policy Brief was discussed with informed audience.
Greater engagement with project work from policy makers and community organisers involved.
Description Praxis Cafe - Connecting Histories of Dissent to Present-day Resistance
Results and Impact Event sparked discussion within the groups and afterwards.
The event brought together groups from the different regional areas in our project and was useful in opening up discussion between groups which benefited the project as a whole.
Description Praxis Cafe - Fixin' it ourselves: Women activists in Knowle West
Results and Impact Workshop sparked discussion amongst participants.
Participants requested further events and other forms of follow-up on ideas discussed at the event.
Description Praxis Cafe - J3 Market
Results and Impact The event engaged participants on issues surrounding food and with a diverse audience produced a diverse range of ideas that were explored at the event and also afterwards on reflection by the organisers.
Some of the participants requested further involvement in the project.
A working group on a strand of research with a similar theme drew on notes and reflections from event in their preliminary discussions.
Description Praxis Cafe - Productive Resistance: Resistance in the city and moving image
Results and Impact Video and presentations stimulated thinking and much discussion amongst audience.
Framed how we approached future events. We received requests from audience to be kept informed of future events.
Description Praxis Cafe - Transforming Spaces: Productive Resistance
Results and Impact Talks and films shown at the event sparked discussion within the groups during and after the event.
Description Presentation at Citizens Cymru Founding Youth Assembly (March 2015)
Results and Impact Presentation was part of discussions at Citizens Cymru Founding Youth Assembly (March 2015).
Presenation was about sexual harassment/everyday violence and the need for relationship education at the school level - this fed into the development of the 'Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence' bill in Wales.
Description Productive Margins Festival 14th September 2017
Results and Impact PRODUCTIVE MARGINS FESTIVAL 2017 PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER 2017 8am-8pm
The Station: https://www.creativeyouthnetwork.org.uk/the-station
8.0 am
Co-production Breakfast: Turning the University Inside Out; Bringing Communities Outside In.
Informal conversations between communities, university and city about existing and future partnership working.A focus on praxis and transformation of working relationships. Informed by significant reflections/moments that stand out on the work of Productive Margins.
9.45-10.30 am
Isolation, Loneliness and Older People
Busy streets, laughter, the sound of children playing - but what lies behind closed doors in our communities, especially for those in later life, living alone?
A group of community researchers, in collaboration with the Universities of Bristol and Cardiff, and with the Southville Community Development Association and the 3Gs Development Trust, have been exploring the loneliness of older people in their local communities.
Alonely is a collection of diverse stories based on our research. Our aim is to make the experiences of older people more visible as a way of encouraging dialogue between communities, professionals, academics and artists.
11 - 12 pm
Life Chances
Life Chances' is a widely-used phrase, adopted by UK governments to headline their policies on children and poverty. Project design and delivery has been co-produced between community organisations, community volunteers and academics. The focus is exploring life on a low income and the regulatory services that families encounter in two urban settings - the Easton area of Bristol and Butetown, Riverside and Grangetown in Cardiff.The 'Life Chances' research project has produced a novel, co-authored with community volunteers, community partners, researchers and artists. Fictional characters were created, loosely based on individual's lives, using factual material to create fictional storylines, describing the impact of different regulatory systems - such as benefits, housing, immigration, child protection - on their lives.
Jewellery was also created, expressing creativity and hopes for a better future. There will be a performance of the 'Game of Life Chances',illustrating the life chances of characters from the novel.
This session explores the Life Chances Game, with film, jewellery, novel readings, song recording, and a discussion.
Data and Women
Women and girls can make informed choices about how they use and value their personal data. But they need greater understanding of data sharing and ownership first.
Data and Women was a joint project with Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) in Bristol and 3Gs Community Development Trust (3Gs) in Merthyr Tydfil..
Female participants explored the concept of 'data' - their own, and relating to their local community. Participants worked with artists to create data maps and visualizations, enabling them to better understand their personal data and look at it differently.
Lunch from Somali Kitchen CIC
As part of the research project, the Somali Kitchen was established as a Community Interest Company. Somali Kitchen are a group of Somali women living in Easton who meet regularly at Single Parent Action Network (SPAN).
Somali Kitchen have been exploring how the local environment shapes food habits in our community, homes and our children's schools. We are worried about the negative impacts of fast food takeaways on our community, the environment and our children's health.
We want to work with others in the community to improve the health of our community and provide a cleaner, healthier environment for our families, and to promote fresh, nutritious food and a thriving, affordable local food culture in Easton.
Lunch will be served by the Somali Kitchen: a delicious and nutritious offering of curry, rice, salad, injera, dips, and sweet.
Somali Kitchen and Who Decides What's in My Fridge?
The food project explored how people experience the regulation of their food habits in their community. The project was a collaboration between the University of Bristol and three community organisations in Bristol; Coexist in Stokes Croft, Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) in Knowle West, and Single Parent Action Network (SPAN) in Easton.
In Knowle West, the emphasis was on gathering quantitative and qualitative data through surveying the local community, organising events and holding focus groups. The Junior DPs investigated what influences people's food choices, from the location of shops and the price of goods to the amount of time they have available to cook. In Easton participants worked with the artist to organise a pop-up 'Somali Kitchen'. participants will be speaking about their work with the Somali Kitchen, there will be cordial and spice making, jam-making and recipe sharing, and a conversation about the project, with audience participation.
Film Mapping, Making and Mobilising in Merthyr
The 4M's ran from 2013 - 2015 and was a project which aimed to develop new methods of engagement which will mobilise the collective knowledge, resources, and capabilities of communities in the South Wales valleys. Artistic work including Graphic Moves - a film, 'Mashing Up The Land' - sculptural exploration and 'Found Sounds and Street Beats' - sound art. The work was previously exhibited at the Abacus Gallery, Cardiff, The Riverfront, Newport and The Red House In Merthyr Tydfil.
Art & Knowledge Roundtable
Discussion panel session exploring the role of art in co-produced research, with contributors from both with Productive Margins and invited guests .
Live Model and Regulation
Welcome from Professor Morag McDermont, Principal Investigator - Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement, and overview of the research project. Followed by the Artists Close and Remote who will introduce their work with Productive Margins titled 'Live Model' - artwork and discussion of spatial regulation, City policy and communities.
To close the festival, Productive Margins participants in conversation about 'what next' while roving compere on floor asks audience members about their views, ideas for future work and the role of the inside-out university
Drinks and canapes at 6pm
Additional All Day Events
There will be stands and films at the festival showcasing the work of additional Productive Margins projects and partners, including:
Community Researchers: Helen Thomas-Hughes
Series of films: Greg Bond
Harnessing Digital Space: Amanda Ramsay
Building The Bridge: Aleksandra Lewicki
South Riverside Community Development Centre: Allan Herbert
URL https://storify.com/AAPiccini/productive-margins-festival-17
Description Regulation Seminar
Results and Impact CASE FOR SUPPORT - RESEARCH QUESTIONS TO BE DISCUSSED
1. What are the social, economic, cultural and political barriers and facilitators to creating regulatory mechanisms for engagement?
? how can legal rights support engagement? How might they create barriers?
2. How can the regulatory architecture of spaces of participation support community engagement?
? how might arts and humanities mixed-mode practices produce different modes of regulating spaces of engagement? ? how should regulatory practices be reconfigured to encourage/accommodate perspectives that dissent from the mainstream?
3. How might devolution shape the possibilities for the re-design of regulatory regimes?
4. How can the regulatory architecture of digital spaces be appropriated by communities at the margins for socially innovative, creative engagement?
5. How are regulatory mechanisms for engagement experienced?
? how do aesthetic and affective aspects of co-produced research reshape regulatory regimes?
6. How can the re-designed regulatory regimes developed through this programme be 'scaled up' into more enduring forms of engagement with policy makers and service providers?
Description Regulation Working group workshop 10th April 2017
Results and Impact The aim of this workshop is to discuss the role of community organisations in engaging with 'regulators' on behalf of community members; what this 'translation' role involves and issues that it raises. This also links to the idea of community 'anchor' organisations. So we are particularly keen for community organisation representatives to attend if at all possible.
We are also being joined by Professor Bronwen Morgan, a regulation expert from the University of New South Wales in Australia (previously Bristol Law school) who has an interest in interaction between regulation and rights, especially in the context of social activism.
Description Relationship Matters Project (4Ms Productive Margins) Healthy Relationships School Assembly
Results and Impact The teen girls and Professor Renold delivered a healthy relationships assembly (x2) to 300 students and 20 staff in their own high school to raise awareness about sexual harassment in schools, online and in their communities. The dartafacts created as part of the Relationships Matter project were ready to be shared. This is the girls' own words from their co-authored chapter (see Libby et al. 2017)."Fired up by what we had created, we were now ready to share with the wider school. A whole school assembly was the way we wanted to do it. At the beginning of the project, we weren't sure about speaking on these issues in assemblies, but we felt empowered by our dartafacts and we wanted students and staff not only to feel how we feel when they are subjected to everyday sexual harassment, but how this form of harassment is so often ruled out as "banter" and seen as normal.
Assemblies are formal. They are also high status and supported by heads of years and senior management. Usually nothing much happens in school assemblies. There's a lot of being talked at. We wanted to make our assembly interactive. So we set about working with Emma to inject some movement and participation into our assembly, not just by sharing our story and dartafacts, but by inviting students to have the chance to join our 'Relationship Matters' campaign for a "better and real relationships education". We designed and delivered two school assemblies (age 11-14) to over 300 pupils.
Experimenting with the usual format of our school assembly, we arranged the space so that students' first point of contact was with one of our dartafacts: the 17ft 'Runway of Disrespect'. Arriving early, we rolled it out and made a barrier with the chairs so that as students entered the assembly hall they had to walk by, look down on and read the words on the runway before taking their seats (we got special permission to do this, given the graphic nature of some of the words). Next, we put two slips of paper and a coloured felt tip was placed on each of the student chairs (over 150 of them!): one slip had the printed rulers on one side and the heading, "we need a healthy relationships education because ..." was on the other. This slip connected directly to our campaign. The second slip was blank. Finally, the PowerPoint screen projected a super-size image of the Tagged Heart, and two large heart shaped foil helium balloons were gently swaying mid- air. The stage was set!
Over the next 20 minutes we shared our story and the making of our dartafacts. It was nerve racking because we didn't know how students or staff were going to
react. Some of us were more nervous than others, so only those who felt comfortable in doing the talking led the presentation. Students were invited to listen, watch, read, touch and feel them. We read out the poem "Scream Shout Speak Out", taking one line each. Individual volunteers were asked to sound out the words and phrases on the rulers and the shame chain. This wasn't easy to do as words were hand written (and not so neat!), and on the ruler-skirt they could be back to front. But the fact that the messages are difficult to read was an important part of the process - it got across how experiences of sexual harassment can be hard to hear and talk about.
Other interactive elements were more inclusive and involved everyone. We passed our Tagged Heart around the whole assembly and asked students to "look after our feelings".because "these are our feelings". We were worried that the heart might get trashed, but everyone was really careful and we got it back in one piece, even after being handled by a couple of hundred students.
At the end of the assembly, students were invited to take part in the 'Relationship Matters' campaign and share their thoughts in writing on "why they think a real relationships education should be compulsory for all schools in Wales".
Students were also asked to comment on what they felt about our assembly. These messages were really powerful. We got comments that said how proud they were of how we were standing up and speaking out about these issues and how we acknowledged that both boys and girls get upset about hearing these comments. Some people apologized for not realizing how much their comments hurt and some shared their own experiences of sexual harassment. Other comments asked for advice and support on particular issues. There wasn't one comment that ridiculed what we were doing. We were so impressed not only by the respectful ways students responded to our assembly, but in their messages to us, and for our campaign. And while we weren't collecting comments from teachers, one teacher came over after the assembly to share her story about similar things that had happened to her when she was younger. The head of year and head teacher also publicly shared their support for our campaign, and praised the creative ways in which we were raising awareness of these issues.
As our assembly drew to a close, we invited students to stamp on the 'Runway of Disrespect' as loudly and roughly as they wanted to. We were keen that students not only to got an opportunity to take part in some of the activities we created to make these issues matter, but also to have a physical outlet and inject a bit of fun into what are serious issues to begin the day with! " (Libby et al. 2018)
The assembly formed the basis of their presentation to Welsh Women's Aid (see Engagement Entry, "Making Healthy Relationships Matter")
URL http://orca.cf.ac.uk/107647/1/Making_our_feelings_matter_using_creativ.pdf
Description Relationship Matters Project (4Ms Productive Margins) participants co-produced multi media platform campaign
Results and Impact Co-produced a targeted one day media campaign with young people from the relationships matter project for ITV Wales/BBC Wales/Radio Wales on Mon 23rd Feb) - co-ordinated with other third sector agencies. Timed to influence the voting and final amendments to the Violence Against Women bill.
URL http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2015-02-23/should-pupils-be-taught-lessons-on-healthy-relationships/
Description Relationship Matters Project (4Ms Productive Margins) participants invited to present their work at Citizens Cymru Conference
Results and Impact The group presented their campaign achievement at the "Brighter Futures" Citizen's Cymru Youth Assembly (attending by other young people, and AMs) on 20th March 2015.
Description Relationship Matters participants keynote address at 'Welsh Women's Aid' annual conference to showcase their project and activism
Results and Impact Participants from the Relationship Matters were invited to keynote the annual 'Welsh Women's Aid' annual conference to showcase their project and activism to influence the VAWDASV bill on 27th March 2015. They shared their story of the project (see artefact Valentine Card Activism entry), their listening assembly and Valentine card activism. The speakers for the day included Leighton Andrews AM who had recently passed the VADWSV bill (and who had received a special valentine card written and signed by the girls). At the end of their presentation they called for a healthy relationships practitioner guide and a young people's guide. Seven months later, the guide was published and included the 'Relationship Matters' project as an example of best practice for creatively and safely raising awareness of sexual violence in the schools (and communities, given the three touring exhibitions of their story). The Young People's guide, was also funded in subsequent months (and which the group continued to work on and produced the 'Under Pressure' Project, and well as the advisory group for the guide. http://avow.org/en/news/welsh-womens-aid-conference-2015/
URL http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/86039-opposition-parties-accept-welsh-government-bill-following-c...
Description Relationship Matters project - BBC newsbeat
Results and Impact As a result of BBC coverage of the Women and Equalities Select Committee Inquiry, and the journalist who had read the Relationship Matters submission of evidence, Professor Renold was contacted to share their story, with the participants, in their story "inside the school tacking sexual harassment head on" for BBC newsbeat by Jonathan Edwards. This achieved a wider reach as the story was online and also clips of the interview were broadcast throughout the day on Radio 1. There have been numerous requests since to share this story and the making and impact of the wider AGENDA resource.
URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37347702/inside-the-school-tackling-sexual-harassment-head-on
Description Relationship matters project (AGENDA) in The Guardian
Results and Impact Relationship Matters project cited here - including images. TITLE: Red flags, rulers and ropes: creative approaches to teaching gender equality
Young people are eager to explore relationships, stereotypes and confidence, and schools are responding in innovative ways
"Agenda, an online toolkit produced by Cardiff University, NSPCC Wales, Welsh Women's Aid, the Children's Commissioner for Wales and the Welsh government, aims to challenge negative attitudes in secondary schools through arts and crafts. One example is "the ruler skirt" - a creative response to boys lifting up girls' skirts with rulers. During the activity, young people are asked to write the negative things they want to stop, and the positive things they want to change, on rulers. The rulers can then be tied to a belt to make a skirt, which can be read or worn. The idea is to make visible the hurtful and often hidden experiences that can happen to girls and to turn them into something positive.
"Using the arts can provide a safe space to deal with very sensitive issues," says Emma Renold, a professor of childhood studies at Cardiff University, who led the project. "It takes the pressure off and is fun."
This piece generated a lot of interest in AGENDA and the methodologies by third sector organisations and schools. As a result Fearless Futures invited Professor renold and her agenda working group team to keynote a workshop based around the ruler-skirt story (see The Gender Assembly on Nov 8th 2017, http://www.fearlessfutures.org/2017/08/01/join-us-gender-assembly-conference-november-8th-london-tga17/)
URL https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2017/jan/20/schools-teachers-students-gender-feminism
Description Research Training
Results and Impact Delivering research training to community groups and community-based organisations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014,2015,2016,2017
Description Screening of the film The Live Model (2017) and discussion
Results and Impact local and regional people attended the screening of The Live Model (2017) including local councillors etc, and the film generated a debate on the regulation that surrounds us
Description Short documentary featured on regional BBC television
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact In recognition of the cultural and political importance of the Somali Kitchen, a social enterprise set up as part of the food working group project "Wo decides what's in my fridge", participants of the research and Dr Naomi Millner were interviewed and broadcast in a 10 minute TV special broadcast, as part of a series called InsideOut West. The broadcast primarily featured Somali mums Suad and Sahra talking about their venture and how they, and we, are taking on the problem of too many takeaways in their area.
URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-47429032/somali-kitchen-the-mums-taking-on-the-takeaways
Description Somali Kitchen presentation
Results and Impact Somali Kitchen, a CIC developed from Productive Margins presented their community business, topics around food, cooking and healthy eating to funders at Quartet Community Foundation and secured £5,800 in donations to their project, beating their own fundraising target
Description TV interview for The Wales Report, to share research to influence educational ammendments for VAWDASV Act
Results and Impact Invited to be interviewed and addressed the limitations of Welsh Government's Bill on BBC's The Wales Report (10 Dec 2014, 10.35pm)
see also http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04t5jgx
URL http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/65371-limitations-of-welsh-governments-violence-bill-addressed-by...
Description The Joined Up University?
Results and Impact Seminars encouraged discussion and reflection amongst academics.
Producing the seminars developed knowledge and new thinking in academics involved in their delivery, and also of those attending the seminars.
Description Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing: Why We Need to Rethink How We Regulate - Inaugural Lecture by Prodessor Morag Mcdermont
Results and Impact Professor Morag McDermont Inaugural Lecture. general invite to University of Bristol, Productive Margins Programme staff - including community groups / third sector organisations. Open to general public.
Description Westminister event: Loneliness across the lifecourse
Results and Impact This event, held at Westminster, brought together researchers who have co-produced research with older people in Bristol (University of Bristol) and young people in Manchester (Manchester Metropolitan University) on the issue of loneliness. Researchers and community members presented their creative outputs and encourage discussion on loneliness as an issue that can connect us across generations and that is relevant across the lifecourse. The aim of the event was to consider the potential of an intergenerational approach to the issue of loneliness, particularly to explore how policy makers and other influencers might encourage creative, holistic, community responses to the issue.
Attendees included Rachel Reeves, former co-Chair of the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness and now chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on loneliness. Rachel spoke about the Commission's work and that of the APPG, both of which are trying to understand the effects of changes in people's lives, and also how loneliness can affect people at any time of life. She raised the issue of loneliness and disability, highlighting that 1 in 4 disabled people experience loneliness every day; and also the fact that as much as half of the British population say they have 'no experience' of disability. The Coop Foundation and the British Red Cross have also done some work on how loneliness affects men, and identified that the most lonely age for men is in their late thirties. She agreed that social media is both part of answer and part of the problem, in its potential to worsen loneliness and also its power to help people stay connected.
Rachel felt that the appointment earlier this year of a Minister for Loneliness was a step in the right direction; she is working closely with the APPG on loneliness, and last month the Government announced a £20m funding package for charities and community groups to help tackle the issue.
Description What do we mean by dissent?
Results and Impact Workshop sparked discussion and questions from the audience.
Informed our understanding of how to run public-facing events.
Description What does regulation mean for Cohesion Policy 2014-2020? Building partnerships under the new arrangements
Results and Impact The workshop sparked discussion and questions from the audience.
The workshop consolidated research work in the same area and helped build useful contacts.
Description Who has the right to be a dissenting citizen?
Results and Impact Workshop facilitated discussion and understanding of dissent in audience.
Facilitated groups own understanding of the topic and also how to run effective public engagement workshops.
Description Workshop entitled "Understanding and building resilient communities", at the National Intelligence Event, 'Planning together to improve local well-being: What works?',
Results and Impact The workshop was to stimulate an understanding of resilient communities in the context of the Wellbeing of Future Generation Wales (2015) Act. In particular the workshop engaged officers working in the Public Service Boards (PSBs) who are required to implement the Act locally. The importance of connections, knowledge and voice were stressed and the value of arts based approaches to both understand the ways in which resilience plays out in everyday 'soft systems' and as a mechanism to engage publics in knowledge exchange, was shared.
URL http://www.dataunitwales.gov.uk/national-intelligence-event-2017
Description Workshops with BS3 Our Place Development Team
Results and Impact Workshops informed future project activities.
Workshops helped bring together members of different local community groups to inform a new strand of research within the project.
Description single Parent Action Network - campaigns of the '90s and their impact
Helped presenters understand how best to engage with the public for future events.
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Number of Community Water Systems (CWS) by Mean DEHP Concentration (ug/L), Utah, 1999-2018
Number of People Served by Community Water Systems (CWS) by Mean DEHP Concentration (ug/L), Utah, 1999-2018
Number of Community Water Systems (CWS) by Maximum DEHP Concentration (ug/L), Utah, 1999-2018
Number of People Served by Community Water Systems (CWS) by Maximum DEHP Concentration, Utah, (ug/L) 1999-2018
Health Indicator Report of Drinking Water: DEHP (Di [2-Ethylhexyl] phthalate)
People drink and use water every day. The majority of Americans are provided with high quality drinking water. About 90% of people in the U.S. get their water from a community water system versus a smaller water supply, such as a household well. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets regulations for treating and monitoring drinking water delivered by community water systems. Currently, there are water quality standards and monitoring requirements for over 90 contaminants. Drinking water protection programs play a critical role in ensuring high quality drinking water and protecting the public's health. Because people drink and use water every day, contaminants in drinking water have the potential to affect many people. The number of people served by a community water system varies from as low as 25 to hundreds of thousands. Community water systems in the U.S. provide among the highest quality drinking water in the world. However, some contaminants are present at low levels and it is still possible that drinking water can become contaminated at higher levels. If a person is exposed to a high enough level of a contaminant, they may become ill. Most of what we know about the health effects of DEHP (Di [2-Ethylhexyl] phthalate) comes from studies of rats and mice given high amounts of DEHP. Brief oral exposure to very high levels of DEHP damaged sperm in mice. Although the effect reversed when exposure ceased, sexual maturity was still delayed in the animals. High amounts of DEHP damaged the liver of rats and mice. Whether or not DEHP contributes to human kidney damage is unclear. (Nationally Consistent Data and Measures [NCDM] version 3). DEHP is the most commonly used group of related chemicals called phthalates or phthalic acid esters. Some people who drink water containing DEHP well in excess of the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for many years may have problems with their liver, experience reproductive difficulties, or have an increased risk of getting cancer (U.S. EPA, 2010). (Modified from the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network [NEPHTN] Nationally Consistent Data and Measures [NCDM] DEHP indicator document, version 4) The Department of Health and Human Services has determined that DEHP may reasonably be anticipated to be a human carcinogen. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that DEHP is a probable human carcinogen. These determinations were based entirely on liver cancer in rats and mice. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has stated that DEHP cannot be classified as to its carcinogenicity to humans. (From the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network [NEPHTN] Nationally Consistent Data and Measures [NCDM] DEHP indicator document, version 4)
Yearly Distribution of Number of Community Water Systems (CWS) by Mean DEHP Concentration (ug/L), Utah, 1999-2018
Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Drinking Water, Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS)
These calculations include all available data which varies by year and water system. This data does not include information about private water sources such as well water or tribal water systems. Population data for each community water system (CWS) are estimated based on number of connections. A CWS is a public water system which serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least 25 year-round residents. The current measures are derived for community water systems (CWS) only. Private wells may be another source of population exposure to DEHP (Di [2-Ethylhexyl] phthalate). Transient non-community water systems, which are regulated by EPA, may also be an important source of DEHP exposure. Measures do not account for the variability in sampling, numbers of sampling repeats, and variability within systems. Concentrations in drinking water cannot be directly converted to exposure, because water consumption varies by climate, level of physical activity, and between people (EPA 2004). Due to errors in estimating populations, the measures may overestimate or underestimate the number of affected people. (From the National Environmental Public Heath Tracking Network [NEPTHN] Nationally Consistent Data and Measures [NCDM] DEHP indicator document, version 4) Ground water systems may have many wells with different DEHP concentrations that serve different parts of the population. Compliance samples are taken at each entry point to the distribution system. In systems with separate wells serving some branches or sections of the distribution system, the system mean would tend to underestimate the DEHP concentration of people served by wells with higher DEHP concentrations. Exposure may be higher or lower than estimated if data from multiple entry points for water with different DEHP levels are averaged to estimate levels for the CWS. (Modified from the National Environmental Public Heath Tracking Network [NEPTHN] Nationally Consistent Data and Measures [NCDM] DEHP indicator document, version 4)
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1) Count of community water systems categorized by mean DEHP (Di [2-Ethylhexyl] phthalate) concentration for each year reported (cut-points: <=6, >6 ug/L DEHP, Not Detected) 2) Number of people served by community water systems categorized by mean DEHP concentration for each year reported (cut-points: <=6, >6 ug/L DEHP, Not Detected) 3) Count of community water systems categorized by maximum DEHP concentration for each year reported (cut-points: <=6, >6 ug/L DEHP, Not Detected) 4) Number of people served by community water systems categorized by maximum DEHP concentration for each year reported (cut-points: <=6, >6 ug/L DEHP, Not Detected)
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Tyeshia J. Williams
Global Director with extensive experience and execution of Social Responsibility Programs and Strategies for U.S. government agencies and non-profit industries. Collaborate and build relationships across global businesses and functions to gain internal alignment and ensure understanding of the reputational benefits and implications of community engagement. Serve as unifying force to maximize philanthropic programs and provide internal and external leadership. Strong professional network in the philanthropic sector and a demonstrated ability to leverage that network to increase visibility of a project, or organization. Experience as a “thought leader” developing and delivering content for workshops, and conferences. HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS Public Relations • Effective, Creative Communication • Adept Collaborator • Key Relationship Development Regulatory Compliance • Local & Global Partnerships • Cost Reduction & Avoidance • Software Savvy Proven Leadership Skills • Dynamic Problem-Solver • Effective Negotiator • Budgetary Competence Policies & Procedures • Process Analyses • Process Improvements • P&L Management o Coordinated transportation, supply, maintenance and food service related issues, provided expert advice and recommendations to military commanders regarding inventory supplies and cost control. o Assisted with the administration of a $9.8M flying-hour budget. o Managed an automated supply system used in tracked in controlled in excess of $3M of military equipment. o Promoted to Sargent within the first six months of service.
Henry Lucero
Ammunition Specialist
Experienced Field Director with a demonstrated history of working in the law enforcement industry. Skilled in Crisis Management, Intelligence Analysis, Government, Emergency Management, and Law Enforcement. Strong community and social services professional with a Master of Science (M.S.) focused in Management from The Johns Hopkins University.
Bryan Wilcox
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Skilled manager with 26 years federal immigration law experience. 18 years management experience; holding positions at the local, regional and headquarters levels; dedicated to organizational and personal excellence. Highly knowledgeable about the laws, regulations, and policies relating to the enforcement of federal immigration law and the administration of personnel, equipment and facilities; adept at recognizing emerging operational issues and developing immediate and long-term solutions. Exceptional negotiation and motivational skills; effective at promoting productive working relationships with other agencies, organizations and internal staff; excellent communicator who works effectively with individuals of diverse professional and cultural backgrounds; Resided abroad in Asia and Latin America; fluent in Spanish.
Ft Knox, KY, Youngsan, South Korea
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Proven dedicated career minded professional with over three decades of law enforcement, investigative, physical security, military, crime prevention, human resources, program management, professional training management, mechanical maintenance supervision, individual combat skills training and trainer, and experience at all levels of leadership; moreover, mentorship experience as well as executive, dignitary, and personal protection training and operational employment. High level education and a degree in forensic psychology and a lower level degree in criminal justice administration. All academic requirements completed for a Doctorate Degree in Strategic Security. Dissertation in progress. Over 3,000 hours of professional law enforcement training including specialized training in crisis and hostage negotiation, fraud investigation, criminal anti-terrorism police intelligence management, protective services, executive protection and protective intelligence, child abuse prevention and investigative techniques, advanced crime scene investigative techniques, health care fraud investigation, physical security and crime prevention, interview and interrogation, and civil aviation security. I am a motivated team player eager to contribute to dynamic and diverse customer service, administrative support, supervisory training and experience, management practices, law enforcement, undercover, investigative skills and experience, security operations, team building, and leadership, knowledge of Federal law enforcement, prosecution of suspects, to support the objective of an organization that rewards reliability, integrity, dedication, and ethics with opportunities. 2011 - 2014 Senior Human Resources Sergeant / Senior Instructor Writer (42A) 2004 - 2011 Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC) Special Agent (31D) 2002 - 2004 Human Resources Sergeant (71L / 75H / 42A) 1999 - 2002 Infantry and Indirect Fire Infantry Soldier and Noncommissioned Officer (11B / 11C) Other Occupational Specialties Held: Senior NCO advisor to the Commander. Senior NCO leader at the company level. Supervised and led over 40 personnel in human resources, supply and logistics, training, operations, security, and communications. Completed complex felony investigations of crimes such as death, assault, sexual assault, larceny, fraud, and drug violations. Provided personal protection to high level Department of Defense personnel. Completed personal vulnerability assessments of high level Department of Defense personnel. Also conducted and completed a personal vulnerability assessment of a foreign General officer in a combat zone, resulting in improved security. Conducted complex multi-jurisdictional investigations. Managed, led, and participated in high profile investigations of a sensitive nature. Conducted overt and covert assessments of military infrastructure and operational security procedures. Received laudatory comments for leadership in combat at a superior level. Attended and graduated from the United States Army Military Police School protective services course, advanced fraud investigator course, crisis and hostage negotiation, criminal anti-terrorism police intelligence management course, basic CID Special Agent noncommissioned officer course, conventional physical security and crime prevention course, the Apprentice CID Special Agent Course, Anti-terrorism Officer Course, and the advanced crime scene investigation course. Was also assigned as Unit logistics manager and completed Unit Supply NCO Course as well as Property Book Unit Supply Enhanced (PBUSE) training. Managed over $400,00.00 of assets.
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I’m a Legal Assistant assigned to U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA). I'm responsible for performing a wide variety of support activities for a staff of attorneys involved in Immigration litigation and other law related activities. As of now, I'm a second year Master of Security Studies (M.S.S.) candidate at Angelo State University's Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Security Studies. My areas of focus are intelligence, security studies, and analysis. I will continue to gain more knowledge and experience as I continue to further my career with the Department of Homeland Security. My main objective on LinkedIn is to network with other individuals who are currently working within the Department of Homeland Security, other law enforcement agencies, and the intelligence community. Protected two government installations within a foreign country and responded to all site incidents including alarms, breaches, evacuations, and suspicious behavior. Performed routine police work, such as, Mirandize and arrest suspects, settle disputes, diffuse further escalation of conflicts, help intoxicated individuals, and/or obtain factual information at accident scenes. Secured resources and devised means to acquire information pertinent to investigations by interrogating suspects to elicit information, or by interviewing and/or obtaining sworn statements from witnesses/victims regarding an incident.
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You are here: Home / In Business / Collaboration Meant to Vastly Expand COVID-19 Testing Capacity in Arizona
In Business | Safety | July 9 2020
Collaboration Meant to Vastly Expand COVID-19 Testing Capacity in Arizona
A strategic collaboration with Sonora Quest Laboratories, the market share leader in diagnostics laboratory testing in Arizona, the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) and PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, to expand testing in Arizona. The collaboration helps catapult COVID-19 diagnostic testing capacity well ahead of the significant demand in Arizona.
Sonora Quest expects to process 35,000 diagnostic tests per day by the end of July, and up to 60,000 tests per day by the end of August. The dedicated project teams at Sonora Quest will be working 24 hours a day to install, validate and deploy the new production lines, which will include chemagic™ 360 instruments, JANUS® G3 Primary Sample Reformatters and PCR+ Workstations, to automate PerkinElmer’s RNA extraction and RT-PCR testing. The breadth of PerkinElmer’s total workflow solutions enables Sonora Quest to rapidly process samples at high volumes, ultimately helping decrease turnaround time in testing.
“This partnership will enable Arizona to continue rapidly expanding testing across the state, helping ensure all Arizonans have access to affordable, available testing with speedy turnaround of results,” said Governor Ducey. “I’m grateful to Sonora Quest Laboratories, Euroimmun/PerkinElmer and the Arizona Department of Health Services for their innovative solutions to help protect the health and safety of Arizonans.”
“The goal is to have test results available within 24 hours for anyone tested,” said David A. Dexter, President & CEO, Sonora Quest Laboratories. “I wish to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to Dr. Cara Christ, Director of ADHS, and PerkinElmer for supporting Sonora Quest. Together, we are going to make a significant difference in the Arizona health care community to provide ample testing throughout this pandemic.”
Through this partnership, the State of Arizona and Arizona Department of Health Services is providing Sonora Quest Laboratories $1 million for the purchase of new processing equipment.
“Despite the recent resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the United States and some testing locations experiencing capacity shortfalls, PerkinElmer has complete SARS-CoV-2 testing solutions available and ready for delivery. We are teaming with Sonora Quest to meet their increased testing volume requirements and will continue to build capacity to support broad-based testing globally,” said Masoud Toloue., Ph.D., Vice President & General Manager, Diagnostics, PerkinElmer. “We will begin live streaming our turnaround time for delivery of SARS-CoV-2 tests to increase transparency, allow testing centers to maintain maximum capacity, and enable labs to rapidly respond to evolving public health needs.”
These efforts build on previous actions to expand testing for all Arizonans, including the most vulnerable and underserved populations. Sonora Quest’s priority remains the health and safety of all the patients and communities they serve.
“We are excited to partner with Sonora Quest to expand COVID-19 testing in Arizona,” said Dr. Cara Christ, ADHS director. “Since the start of the pandemic, ADHS has worked with Sonora Quest and several other private laboratories across Arizona to increase access to testing and laboratory capacity. We will continue to work with all of our lab partners to find ways to make testing more available to everyone in our state.”
Patients suspected of having or confirmed to have active COVID-19 infection or disease should not visit a Sonora Quest Patient Service Center. Sonora Quest Patient Service Centers do not collect active COVID-19 specimens. Patients who believe they may have active COVID-19 are strongly encouraged to contact their health care provider or locate an Arizona Testing Blitz site for testing at https://www.azdhs.gov/testingblitz.
The collaboration between Sonora Quest and PerkinElmer is an expansion of its existing relationship, in which EUROIMMUN, a PerkinElmer company, provides tests to support Sonora Quest’s antibody testing.
For more information about the COVID-19 testing service, visit www.SonoraQuest.com/coronavirus.
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InCity Times
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InCity Feature, Worcester mafia
Worcester mafia boss Frank Iaconi’s war with the Providence mob
October 8, 2008 admin Leave a comment
by Steven R. Maher
Nicholas D. Braniff of Webster Massachusetts had a dog named Rowdy. One night in February 1938 Rowdy began living up to his name, barking loudly, furiously and incessantly. It was the beginning of an incredible chain of events that would destroy the political career of Massachusetts Governor Charles F. Hurley, lead to the impeachment of Governors’ Councilor Daniel H. Coakley, and spark an internecine Mafia gang war.
Braniff was convinced that Rowdy’s nonstop barking was being provoked by burglars inside the next door United Optical plant, which manufactured gold eyeglass frames, and where $8,000 in gold was stored. Braniff summoned patrolman Armand Tourangeau, and headquarters was contacted for reinforcements.
Tourangeau and five other officers surrounded the plant and, believing there were several intruders inside, called for the men to come out. The February 24, 1938 report in the Webster Times said one of the men emerged. “Put your hands in the air,” Tourangeau shouted, and fired a warning shot. The man surrendered.
The cops entered with flashlights and found another man hiding under a work table. “Come out, and with your hands up,” barked Tourangeau. The man, who gave his name as John Roma, complied. But John Roma was none other than Raymond Loreda Salvatore Patriarca, the future Godfather of the New England Mafia. A gun was found nearby.
It was not Patriarca’s first Webster heist. In 1932 Patriarca was charged, together with Tony Santello and another man, with robbing at gun point $10,000 from the Webster National Bank. Patriarca was found not guilty of the 1932 robbery after the witnesses who identified him recanted their testimony at trial. This time Patriarca would not be so lucky; he was caught in the act by six cops, not defenseless civilians who could be bribed or threatened. In August 1938 Patriarca was sentenced to a three to five year prison term for the Webster burglary.
Outside the United Optical plant in Webster was Patriarca’s car, containing “..one of the most complete set of burglar tools ever seen in this part of New England…” A Worcester Telegram photograph of the suit case containing the burglar tools had a caption describing gloves, a drill, hammer, and pinch bar, all commonly used for safe cracking.
Inside this suit case police also found an oddly shaped gold pin that they realized came from a Brookline factory robbed of $12,000 in jewelry a few days earlier. The Brookline robbery had been an audacious job, since the place was located only two blocks from the police station. Patriarca held a gun to owner Clarence A. Wallbank as Wallbank opened up the company safe. After ordering Wallbank and two other victims to strip naked, Patriarca and his accomplices fled with their loot and, on the way out, threw away their victims’ clothes and stole Wallbank’s car.
Wallbank confirmed several items found in Patriarca’s car were from his factory and identified Patriarca in a Brookline court as one of the men who robbed him. In September 1938 Patriarca cut a deal. Patriarca agreed to two concurrent three to five year terms for the Brookline robbery and stealing Wallbank’s car, to be served concurrently (simultaneously) with the Webster sentence.
Law enforcement was satisfied, believing that the perpetrator of a number of unsolved robberies, a major figure in organized crime, had been put out of action.
Worcester native
Raymond Patriarca was born in Worcester on March 17, 1908 on Shrewsbury Street, the heart of Worcester’s Italian community. When Patriarca was three his family moved to Providence, where his immigrant father Eleuterio ran a package store.
In 1925 the seminal event of Patriarca’s emotional development occurred. His father died. The strong Italian family structure, which has produced so many legitimate success stories, was fractured in the Patriarca household. Patriarca later told Congressional investigators that his father’s death was the turning point, when he drifted into a life of crime. In his lifetime Patriarca was able to transform a small criminal backwater into a thriving multi-billion dollar illicit empire. It is interesting to speculate on what success Patriarca would have achieved in the legitimate world had his father lived to instill in him a stronger moral structure; one can easily picture Patriarca as the CEO of a highly profitable global conglomerate.
Patriarca began in the wild halcyon days of prohibition and quickly exhibited the organizational characteristics which were to one day make him a Don. He began as a guard for liquor shipments, moving swiftly up the ladder. There is a legend, probably apocryphal, that Patriarca arranged the hijacking of liquor shipments that he was hired to guard.
In 1927 Patriarca was arrested for a bootlegging offense – transporting liquor – and gave an address on Bonodow Street in Worcester. In addition to living in Worcester, there is record that Patriarca interned in the Worcester Mafia. A biographical sketch of Patriarca in the 1973 crime encyclopedia ‘Bloodletters and Badmen’ maintains that Patriarca started out as a soldier for Frank Iaconi and in 1933 superseded Iaconi.
“Frank Iaconi is the head of the gambling rackets in Worcester Massachusetts,” organized crime expert Virgil W. Peterson testified to the Senate Kefauver Committee. “Patriarca and Iaconi were associated together during rum-running days. Iaconi worked for the Patriarca gang as a Providence-Worcester agent. Booze was run between the two cities. Iaconi then left the bootlegging racket and began operating beano games, then horse betting, and then numbers.” Years later a central Massachusetts judge told the press: “Every schoolboy in Worcester knew he [Iaconi] controlled the gambling rackets.”
“Meek appearing, bespectacled, and a quiet dresser, Iaconi, for all his intimacy with politicians and other bigwigs, has always shunned notoriety,” wrote a Worcester Telegram reporter. “He has never been known to flaunt his power or wealth. Whether in Worcester, Rhode Island, Florida, or elsewhere, Iaconi has always shunned notoriety.”
The way Iaconi comported himself appears to have impressed Patriarca. Decades later, as a mob boss, Patriarca would dress well but conservatively, and travel without bodyguards. He displayed none of the flashy, gaudy excess of a John Gotti. In 1963 Patriarca was called to testify before a grand jury. Patriarca arrived alone, without any bodyguards, driving a Volkswagen. The waiting media overlooked him, expecting a Mafia boss to be driving a cadillac or chauffeured in a limousine, surrounded by a retinue of bodyguards. It was the type of low key approach Iaconi would have appreciated.
In 1929, according to Boston Globe reporters Gerard O’Neil and Dick Lehr in their biography “Underboss”, Patriarca became a made member of the New York Mafia. This is when the traditional ceremony would have taken place, in which Patriarca swore a blood oath by pricking his trigger finger to draw blood, holding in his hands a burning picture of a saint, and vowing eternal fealty to the Mafia. Seven decades later Patriarca’s son would be tape recorded by an FBI bug performing a similar induction ceremony for four new members.
This also means that Patriarca, aged 21, had likely “made his bones”, i.e., participated in a murder, the other prerequisite to Mafia membership.
The Knave of Boston
Patriarca was born on Saint Patrick’s Day, a happy coincidence that Patriarca must have used as a conversational lubricant with the Irish politicians he dealt with. One Irish politician Patriarca oiled well was Governors Councilor Daniel H. Coakley.
Coakley became a rogue long before he crossed paths with Patriarca. “Clever enough to have made an honest fortune, he preferred trickery, the double deal, turning the tables,” wrote Francis Russell in his vivid illustration of Coakley in an American Heritage Magazine article, aptly titled ‘The Knave of Boston’. An attorney, Coakley started out as a 19th century version of an ambulance chaser, specializing in representing clients who suffered injuries while using public street cars.
Coakley graduated to criminal defense lawyer and bagman. Criminals would pay Coakley a large amount of money, Coakley would meet with an assistant district attorney and the charges would be dropped. “Some of the less sympathetic would even call it bribery,” writes Russell. “Coakley considered it more a matter of oiling the wheels of justice.”
More lucrative for Coakley was the “badger game”, in which Coakley maneuvered wealthy married men into compromising situations with comely young maidens and have them photographed. Coakley would then appear on the scene and offer, in exchange for exorbitant fees, to hush up the situation. Playing the “badger game”, Coakley drained several wealthy Bostonians out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Coakley later claimed that by 1922 he had accumulated $800,000 in cash in two hotel strong boxes.
In 1932 Coakley made the transition from paying bribes to accepting bribes. He was elected to the Governor’s Council. “The council had been around since colonial times, and consisted of eight members whose primary responsibility was confirming the governor’s judicial nominations, as well as his commutations and pardons,” Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr wrote in his book ‘The Brothers Bulger’. “[T]he governor needed to have a majority of the eight councilors permanently on his side. Whoever the governor was, Democrat or Republican, rogue or reformer, he would almost always be willing to toss a few bones their way – judgeships, and clerkships, as well as the occasional pardon.”
Offer he couldn’t refuse
Patriarca’s brother Joseph now appears in our chronicle. Joseph Patriarca would act as his brother’s surrogate over the years. In 1981 the Boston Globe reported that Joseph Patriarca and other associates held the Patriarca crime family together in the late 1960s, when Raymond went to prison for murder.
In early December 1938 Joseph Patriarca met with Coakley twice. The first meeting was for two hours at Coakley’s Parker House room. Coakley clearly understood it would be easier to arrange a pardon of Patriarca for the Webster burglary than for the far more serious Brookline armed robbery.
One newspaper account of the House committee impeachment proceedings summed up what happened next: “[T]hose persons interested in the Raymond L.S. Patriarca case succeeded by the payment of money in influencing certain important government witnesses in the prosecution of said Patriarca for the armed robbery at C.H. Wallbank Co., in Brookline, and that these people were not averse to spending substantial sums of money in said Patriarca’s interest and were familiar with the people and methods necessary to accomplish the results they desired.”
Coakley advised Joseph Patriarca to visit Clarence Wallbank, who had identified Patriarca as the man who had robbed him. Joseph Patriarca saw Wallbank on two occasions and made Wallbank the proverbial offer he couldn’t refuse. Wallbank allegedly received $7,000, and probably had his life threatened. Whatever happened, from that point on Wallbank did everything he was told. Joseph Patriarca told Wallbank to see Coakley with a letter urging his brother’s pardon. Coakley read Wallbank’s letter, said it was insufficient, and threw it away. Coakley then dictated to his own stenographer a more satisfactory letter, which the compliant Wallbank signed.
According to the impeachment record, Coakley on December 14, 1938 “willfully, wrongfully, and corruptly prepared a petition with a statement appended thereto, then seeking the said Raymond L. S. Patriarca’s pardon of the crime of breaking and entering, containing many misrepresentations of fact and worded with a purpose to deceive the Governor and members of the Council.” On December 21, 1938 Coakley hand delivered the petition to Governor Hurley, who signed it. Coakley lobbied his fellow councilors to approve the pardon. Raymond Patriarca walked out of prison after having served 84 days. “Every scrap of officialdom’s red tape was cut to expedite Patriarca’s pardon,” sneered the Worcester Telegram.
What gratuity did Coakley garner for arranging Patriarca’s pardon? No dollar figure was ever proven. But during the impeachment proceedings it was determined that Coakley had deposited huge sums of cash into his bank account every year after being elected to the Governor’s Council. The year Patriarca received the pardon, Coakley deposited $28,995 in cash into his bank account.
“Virtuous young man”
There had been controversy before about the pardon system. But there had been nothing as glaring as this. Patriarca’s arrest had been big news, the subject of front page screaming headlines in the Worcester Telegram. Patriarca’s pardon provoked a firestorm almost unique in state history. An infamous and violent criminal had obviously bought his way to freedom. The media lambasted Hurley, Coakley, and the Governors’ Council. There were cries of outrage from every quarter, calls for impeachment, editorials urging investigations, and demands that the Governors’ Council be abolished.
Hurley’s political viability was destroyed; signing Patriarca’s pardon was signing his own political death warrant. Even more catastrophic consequences awaited Coakley. In 1941 he earned the dubious distinction of being the only state official in 120 years to be impeached. Of the fourteen articles of impeachment, half dealt with the Patriarca pardon. One of the other counts, not related to Patriarca, accused Coakley of soliciting a $2,500 bribe to grant a pardon. Among the charges relating to Patriarca:
● The pardon petition stated that it was supported by three priests: Reverend Philip Guarino, Father Sextus Brambilla, and Father Fagen. Writes Russell: “In a deposition Father Guarino denied that he had ever talked to anyone about Patriarca’s pardon, or ever authorized the use of his name. Father Brambilla deposed that his signature had been obtained by fraud, since he had been told that Patriarca’s record consisted merely of minor juvenile delinquencies. Father Fagen turned out to be completely nonexistent.”
● The pardon petition claimed, “In the Dedham Court, Wallbank and his secretary positively said that he [Patriarca] was not one of the men in that hold up..” Wallbank had never appeared in the Dedham Court; he had sworn in the Brookline court that Patriarca was one of the hold up men.
● The pardon request said that “..it is admitted by all that he, Patriarca, was wholly guiltless of the more serious offense of armed robbery,” when in fact Patriarca had pled guilty to armed robbery.
● Patriarca was depicted by Coakley as a twenty two year old who had erred chiefly through inexperience and running with bad company. Patriarca was in fact thirty years old at the time of the pardon, with a long criminal record.
● One claim was so ludicrous that it sounds like an inside joke. One can picture Joseph Patriarca and Coakley guffawing loudly as a line was inserted into the pardon petition saying Patriarca was “a virtuous young man eager to be released from prison so that he might go home to his mother.” The “virtuous” Patriarca’s arrest record at this point included charges for adultery, “lewd cohabitation” with a woman, and transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes. One account of the pardon episode concludes: “The record showed Patriarca did go home but only for a change of clothing. He then departed with a blonde to Miami Beach.”
In October 1941 the Massachusetts Senate voted to remove Coakley from the Governor’s Council. Patriarca’s pardon was the catalyst; without such a blatant overreach Coakley would have remained in office.
Worcester gang war
Watching all this from Worcester, Iaconi sensed weakness on Patriarca’s part. Virgil Peterson told the Kefauver Committee what happened next: “In 1940, when Daniel H. Coakley, a member of the Governor’s Council in Massachusetts, was impeached for obtaining the release of Patriarca from the Massachusetts State Penitentiary, Iaconi informed Patriarca that he should stay out of Worcester.”
This set off a brief but interesting war between Patriarca’s Providence faction and Iaconi’s Worcester operation. The Hollywood version of a 1940s Mafia war involves gangsters with submachine guns mowing down their enemies. This war was different. Patriarca struck not at Iaconi but at Iaconi’s money. It was as if Patriarca was a corporate leader out to reassert his authority over a distant subsidiary, eager to exert control, while preserving his operating assets and seasoned personnel. Patriarca’s use of violence was extremely sophisticated and surprisingly surreptitious.
Iaconi’s money was out in the open, on the street in gambling dens. It could be hit. Patriarca had good intelligence. He knew Worcester well, having lived there in the 1920s and 1930s. He also had blood relatives in Worcester and, most likely, informants inside the Worcester Mafia. Patriarca sent his gunmen into Worcester to raid Iaconi’s gambling parlors. Instead of leaving bullet riddled bodies in the street, which would attract media attention, Patriarca resorted to robberies that went largely unnoticed by the press.
“There were about four robberies in a very few days,” said Peterson. “One of them involved Tony Santello, who handed over $21,000.” Santello was arrested along with Patriarca in the 1932 Webster National Bank robbery.
“Four days later there was a robbery of a Worcester barroom where Iaconi, a high city official, and four others were present,” continued Peterson. “After another robbery of an Iaconi gambling joint on Green Street in Worcester of $19,000, Patriarca was invited to come to Worcester and make peace with Iaconi. Since that time the Iaconi-Patriarca alliance has been functioning smoothly. Iaconi’s monopoly of gambling in Worcester is an important part of Patriarca’s gambling set up in that particular area.”
The Kefauver Committee was established by the U.S. Senate to investigate organized crime, and named after committee chairman Senator Estes Kefauver. After hearing Peterson’s testimony in 1950, Kefauver himself said the committee would examine Iaconi’s tax returns. This triggered an Internal Revenue Service investigation of Iaconi, who was indicted on five counts in February 1953 of failing to pay a total of $217,875 in taxes on $350,000 in rackets revenue. The indictment alleged Iaconi had tried to wash clean his gambling receipts by funneling cash through three legitimate enterprises in Worcester.
When he came to trial in July 1954 Iaconi had only two years left to live. He faced the real prospect of dying in prison. Iaconi probably could have cut a deal with prosecutors to give up Patriarca in exchange for his own freedom. But to use today’s vernacular, Iaconi was a “stand up guy”. Frank Iaconi showed himself to be a true Mafioso who would rather die in jail than give up his Don. He pled guilty to one count and served eleven months in federal prison in Danbury Connecticut. Not long after being released from prison Iaconi, already in bad health, died of natural causes.
By then Patriarca had become the Godfather of the New England Mafia, and one of the most powerful and flamboyant mobsters on the east coast. He was a member of the Mafia’s ruling council, the “commission”, and part owner of a large Las Vegas casino. At the pinnacle of his power in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Patriarca’s influence in Rhode Island seemed all-pervading. Patriarca in one episode called up the Governor of Rhode Island to resolve a class scheduling conflict his son was having at the University of Rhode Island. Rhode Island Speaker of the House Joseph A. Bevilacqua, a future state supreme court chief justice, gave Patriarca a reference letter in 1973 for a parole request. It was a long way from Nicholas Braniff’s barking dog in Webster.
Patriarca maintained his ties with Worcester. “Patriarca frequently met with friends and business associates in Worcester over the years,” the Worcester Telegram reported when Patriarca died of natural causes in July 1984. “Patriarca also admitted to investigators he had attended the so-called ‘Little Apalachin’ conclave of East Coast mobsters at the former Bancroft Hotel on Franklin Street in Worcester in 1959.”
Organized crime flourished in Worcester in the 1940s due to police and political corruption. The same grand jury that indicted Iaconi in 1953 also indicted a retired Worcester police lieutenant who was in charge of the vice squad during the 1940s. In 1946 Iaconi and Councilman Philip F. Sullivan were sued by a diemaker claiming he lost $19,000 betting on horses in an Iaconi Franklin Street gambling den. Reformers seized on the incident to claim that Worcester’s political structure was particularly vulnerable to organized crime subversion, and in 1947 passed the “Plan E” strong City Manager form of government. For the next sixty years, whenever serious attempts were made to amend the city charter, the Mafia bogeyman was trotted out, particularly by the Worcester Telegram, as an argument against any fundamental change to Worcester’s civic institutions.
Others were to assert that Worcester’s White Anglo Saxon Protestant business community foisted Plan E on Worcester less as measure to disempower the Mafia than as a means to avert a total takeover of city hall by Irish Catholic politicians. If this truly was the motive, the effort backfired completely when Francis J. McGrath became City Manager in 1951. For the next thirty four years McGrath successfully triangulated between the WASP business community and the Irish Catholic politicians, finding common ground between two mutually antagonistic ethnic groups, while putting a particularly Irish face on city government.
The process by which Worcester adopted the strong City Manager form of government, and how the Mafia was used as a justification for retaining Plan E, will be the subject of a feature story in an upcoming issue of the InCity Times.
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More than a decade has passed since researchers demonstrated serious privacy and security holes in satellite-based Internet services. The weaknesses allowed attackers to snoop on and sometimes tamper with data received by millions of users thousands of miles away. You might expect that in 2020—as satellite Internet has grown more popular—providers […]
More than a decade has passed since researchers demonstrated serious privacy and security holes in satellite-based Internet services. The weaknesses allowed attackers to snoop on and sometimes tamper with data received by millions of users thousands of miles away. You might expect that in 2020—as satellite Internet has grown more popular—providers would have fixed those shortcomings, but you’d be wrong.
In a briefing delivered on Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference online, researcher and Oxford PhD candidate James Pavur presented findings that show that satellite-based Internet is putting millions of people at risk, despite providers adopting new technologies that are supposed to be more advanced.
Over the course of several years, he has used his vantage point in mainland Europe to intercept the signals of 18 satellites beaming Internet data to people, ships, and planes in a 100 million-square-kilometer swath that stretches from the United States, Caribbean, China, and India. What he found is concerning. A small sampling of the things he observed include:
A Chinese airliner receiving unencrypted navigational information and potentially avionics data. Equally worrisome, that data came from the same connection passengers used to send email and browse webpages, raising the possibility of hacks from passengers.
A system administrator logging in to a wind turbine in southern France, some 600 kilometers away from Pavur, and in the process exposing a session cookie used for authentication.
The interception of communications from an Egyptian oil tanker reporting a malfunctioning alternator as the vessel entered a port in Tunisia. Not only did the transmission allow Pavur to know the ship would be out of commission for a month or more, he also obtained the name and passport number of the engineer set to fix the problem.
A cruise ship broadcasting sensitive information about its Windows-based local area network, including the log-in information stored in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol database
Email a lawyer in Spain sent a client about an upcoming case.
The account reset password for accessing the network of a Greek billionaire’s yacht.
Hacking satellite communications at scale
While researchers such as Adam Laurie and Leonardo Nve demonstrated the insecurity of satellite Internet in 2009 and 2010, respectively, Pavur has examined the communications at scale, with the interception of more than 4 terabytes of data from the 18 satellites he tapped. He has also analyzed newer protocols, such as Generic Stream Encapsulation and complex modulations including 32-Ary Amplitude and Phase Shift Keying (APSK). At the same time, he has brought down the interception cost of those new protocols from as much as $50,000 to about $300.
“There are still many satellite Internet services operating today which are vulnerable to their [the previous researchers’] exact attacks and methods—despite these attacks having been public knowledge for more than 15 years at this point,” Pavur told me ahead of Wednesday’s talk. “We also found that some newer types of satellite broadband had issues with eavesdropping vulnerabilities as well.”
The equipment Pavur used consisted of a TBS 6983/6903 PCIe card/DVB-S tuner, which allows people to watch satellite TV feeds from a computer. The second piece was a flat-panel dish, although he said any dish that receives satellite TV will work. The cost for both: about $300.
Using public information showing the location of geostationary satellites used for Internet transmission, Pavur pointed the dish at them and then scanned the ku band of the radio spectrum until he found a signal hiding in the massive amount of noise. From there, he directed the PCIe card to interpret the signal and record it as a normal TV signal. He would then look through raw binary files for strings such as “http” and those corresponding to standard programming interfaces to identify Internet traffic.
All unencrypted comms are mine
The setup allows Pavur to intercept just about every transmission an ISP sends to a user via satellite, but monitoring signals the other way (from the user to the ISP) is much more limited. As a result, Pavur could reliably see the contents of HTTP sites a user was browsing or of an unencrypted email the user downloaded, but he couldn’t obtain customers’ “GET” requests or the passwords they sent to the mail server.
Even though the customer may be located in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa and is communicating with an ISP in Ireland, the signal it sends is easily intercepted from anywhere within tens of millions of square kilometers, since the high cost of satellites requires providers to beam signals over a wide area.
Enlarge / An attacker from anywhere within tens of millions of square kilometers can hijack the connection between a ship off the coast of Africa and a ground station in Ireland.
Pavur explained:
There are a few reasons the other direction is harder to capture. The first is that the beam connecting a satellite to an ISP’s ground station is often more narrow and focused (meaning you have to be within a few dozen miles of the ISP’s system to pick up radio waves in that direction). In some cases, ISP’s will use a different frequency band to transmit these signals for bandwidth and performance reasons—this means an attack might need equipment that is much harder to pick up commercially and affordably. Finally, even if an ISP just uses a normal wide-beam K>u-band signal, they will normally transmit on a different frequency in each direction. This means an attacker would need a second set of antennas (not too difficult) and would also need to combine the two feeds correctly (slightly more difficulty).
Et tu, Avionics?
In past years, Pavur focused on transmissions sent to everyday users on land and large ships at sea. This year, he turned his attention to planes. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic causing passenger flying to plummet, the researcher had less opportunity than he planned to analyze passenger communications from entertainment systems, in-flight Internet services, and onboard femtocells used to send and receive mobile signals. (He did, however, see a text message providing a passenger with a coronavirus test.)
But it turned out that the decrease in passenger traffic made it easier to focus on traffic sent to crew members in the cockpit. When one of the crew fat fingered a login to what’s known as an electronic flight bag, the flightdeck equipment repeatedly got an HTTP 302 Redirect error to the Wi-Fi service login page. The redirect format included the URL of the original request showing the GET parameters of the flight bag API. The parameters described the specific flight number and its coordinates, information that gave Pavur a good feel for what the device was doing aboard the plane.
Enlarge / An electronic flight bag like the one pictured here was sending the flightdeck crew potentially sensitive data through HTTP.
James Pavur
The flight-bag data passed through the same network-address-translation router as entertainment and Internet traffic from passengers. In other words, the same physical satellite antenna and modem were delivering Internet traffic to both the flight bag and passengers. This suggests that any network segregation that may exist was performed by software rather than through physical hardware separation, which is less prone to hacking.
In a detailed comment Pavur left after this post went live, he wrote:
The system we saw seemed to be used to download information like weather updates and navigational maps and to manage pre-flight safety/maintenance and some scheduling functionality. We weren’t able to 100% identify the device since it was just these weird API bounces that we intercepted, but it did appear to be a built-in/attached component of a particular aircraft. At the very least, it was always aboard the same physical plane over the course of many weeks but it could have been a mounted display from a laptop (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyctm0as-Eg).
Whether this fully crosses the “red line” dividing in-flight entertainment and aircraft critical systems is a complicated question. I personally felt that it rang alarm bells in that the network which helps the crew track severe weather or determine if its safe to fly should probably be segregated from the network which helps passengers visit Facebook. That said, aviation appears leagues ahead on security when compared to maritime. I encountered lots of routes that I think could cause physical harm to ships in the ocean, but very few which could obviously endanger planes in the skies.
Session hijacking: The attacker always wins
The use of satellite-based Internet to receive the navigational data puts the crew and passengers at risk of an attack Pavur developed that allows an attacker to impersonate the aircraft with which the ground station is communicating. The hack uses TCP session hijacking, a technique in which the attacker sends the ISP the metadata customers use to authenticate themselves.
Because users’ traffic is bounced off a satellite 30,000 kilometers above Earth—a route that typically results in signal latency of about 700 milliseconds—and the attacker’s data isn’t, the attacker will always beat customers in reaching the ISP.
The session hijacking can be used to cause planes or ships to report incorrect locations or fuel levels, false readings for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, or transmit other sensitive data that’s falsified. It can also be used to create denials of service that prevent the vessel from receiving data that’s crucial to safe operations.
Enlarge / Capabilities and limitations of TCP session hijacking of satellite Internet.
Pavur explained the hijacking methodology this way:
We can convert the bytes from the recording in real-time at the IP-packet layer. Essentially, we wait until we record an entire IP packet from the stream (a matter of milliseconds normally) and then immediately write that packet to disk. As an attacker, you do need to know what kind of data you want to extract from the “noise” of people visiting Facebook and so forth. To do that, you can use IP addresses or other traffic signatures to identify just the most relevant traffic to respond to programmatically.
A problem in search of a solution
The common reaction Pavur gets after he shares his findings is that satellite-based Internet users should simply use a VPN to prevent attackers from reading or tampering with any data sent. Unfortunately, he said, the handshakes required for each endpoint to authenticate itself to the other results in a slow-down of about 90 percent. The overhead increases the already-large 700 millisecond latency to a wait that renders satellite Internet almost completely unusable.
And while HTTPS and transport-level encryption for email prevent attackers from reading the body of pages and messages, most domain-lookup queries continue to be unencrypted. Attackers can learn plenty by scrutinizing the data. HTTPS certificates allow attackers to fingerprint servers customers connect to.
Enlarge / Left: an unencrypted DNS response shows a satellite Internet user is visiting Dropbox. Right: a breakdown of the most commonly visited domains.
That information allows attackers to identify users who are worthy of more targeted attacks. Out of 100 ships Pavur pseudo-randomly looked at, he was able to deanonymize about 10 and tie them to specific vessels.
Enlarge / Ships Pavur deanonymized.
The interception of unencrypted navigational charts, equipment failures in the open sea, and the use of vulnerability-riddled Windows 2003 servers also puts users at considerable risk. Combined with the use of insecure channels such as FTP, an attacker might be able to tamper with maritime data to hide a sandbar or use the data to plan physical intrusions.
The sheer scale of the problem put the researcher in a quandary. With tens of thousands of users affected, Pavur was unable to privately notify the vast majority of them. He settled on contacting the largest companies who were transmitting particularly sensitive data in the clear. He ultimately chose not to identify any of the affected users or companies because, he said, the crux of the problem is the result of industrywide protocols that are insecure.
“The goal of my research is to bring out these unique dynamics that the physical properties of space create for cybersecurity, and it’s an area that’s been underexplored,” he said. “A lot of people think that satellites are just normal computers that are a little bit further away, but there’s a lot that’s different about satellites. If we highlight those differences, we can better build security to protect the systems.”
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Nutcase Rep. Duncan Hunter: ‘Let’s Nuke Iran Like We Did To Iraq’
December 8, 2013 by Infinite
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By Veterans Today’s Gordon Duff:
– ‘Let’s nuke Iran like we did to Iraq’ (PressTV, Dec 6, 2013):
When US Congressional Representative Duncan Hunter advocated on Wednesday that the United States attack Iran with nuclear weapons, he was speaking on something he was more than familiar with. He may well have been involved in the illegal use of nuclear weapons before while serving in Iraq.
Hunter’s threat to use nuclear weapons against Iran, made as a member of America’s government, constitutes not only a war crime but a probable violation of US law, i.e. conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. Hunter’s rationale, if we can use such a term, was not only unsupported by any evidence, but ran clearly against the policies of the government he is generously paid to serve. A question one might well ask is, “Paid by whom?”
Nuclear Iraq
Perhaps inadvertently, Hunter has exposed a secret America program to hide nuclear weapon use that has long existed, one discovered by scientists investigating genetic damage within the population of Iraq. Evidence has now come to light that Congressman Hunter, while serving as a Marine artillery officer near Fallujah, may have participated in nuclear attacks using specialized 155mm weapons he was specially trained to deploy. A 2010 medical study by Dr. Chris Busby, done in the Fallujah region, showed the presence of U235 in hair samples taken from local residents. This could only be the result of nuclear fission, the use of tactical nuclear weapons, typically delivered by artillery of the type used by Hunter’s command. Thus, when Hunter openly advocated the use of tactical nuclear weapons against Iran, he may well have been speaking of something he was intimately familiar with. As a trained nuclear weapons officer, Hunter was at Fallujah when evidence has proven such weapons were deployed and in command of a unit uniquely capable of delivering such weapons.
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Pentagon seeks authority over training foreign militaries
April 16, 2008 by Infinite
Representative Duncan Hunter, the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, suggested that the military was being saddled with additional responsibilities because the State Department has been sluggish in responding to new needs. Hunter said “the need to train and equip foreign forces and to provide stabilization programs will remain necessary as we continue to fight the global war on terror.”
The Pentagon asked Congress Tuesday to give it permanent authority over training and equipping foreign militaries, in a shifting of roles from the State Department.
Both Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought Congressional approval for the change, as well as authorization for the Pentagon to spend 750 million dollars in 2009 in helping foreign militaries.
Gates told members of the House Armed Services Committee the foreign military assistance program is “a vital and enduring military requirement, irrespective of the capacity of other departments, and its authorities and funding mechanisms should reflect that reality.”
Some lawmakers said it raised questions about the military’s growing role in domains traditionally reserved for diplomats.
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HuskeeCup is an eco-friendly cup made entirely from coffee waste
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by Jasmin Malik Chua
HuskeeCup isn’t your typical cup for joe. Reusable, recyclable, and chip-resistant, the ceramic alternative is made entirely from discarded coffee husk, a byproduct of the milling stage of java production that has scant economic value. The average coffee fiend is responsible for the annual production of some 6.6 pounds of husk waste, according to HuskeeTech, the Australian company that developed the cup. Globally, this translates to more than 1.35 million tons of husk waste every year.
HuskeeTech is fresh off a successful campaign on Kickstarter, where it raised nearly $91,000 in funds for an initial manufacturing run of cups.
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Saxon Wright, a co-founder of the firm, is intimately familiar with the problem of husk waste. As part owner of Pablo & Rusty’s Coffee Roasters, a coffee supplier based in New South Wales, Wright encounters an abundance of husk waste each harvest season.
“With mountains of beautiful organic material piling up around us and no sustainable way to deal with it, we asked ourselves the question, ‘What can we do with this?'” he wrote on Kickstarter.
After consulting with industrial designers and engineers, Wright realized coffee husk had a number of desirable qualities, such as the ability to retain heat. A number of prototypes later, the HuskeeCup was born.
Designed to last for years, the HuskeeCup doesn’t just do good but it looks good, too. It’s available in several sizes and features an elegant pleated design, a one-size-fits-all saucer for dining in, and a universal lid for carrying out. Bonus: You can toss it in the dishwasher during cleanup.
HuskeeTech is far from finished. Wright and company have plans, for instance, to eventually use carbon-capturing microbes to produce the bio-polymer that binds the husk material.
But even as it stands, HuskeeCup is taking a big bite out of waste.
“By using coffee husk in the creation of HuskeeCup, we are recycling hundreds of tons of waste material from the production of coffee,” Wright said. “Our dream is to realize sustainability for cafés and home users while achieving zero waste at the farm. HuskeeCup is the first step in fulfilling this mission.”
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HuskeeCup isn't your typical cup for joe. Reusable, recyclable, and chip-resistant, the ceramic alternative is made entirely from discarded coffee husk, a byproduct of the milling stage of java production with scant economic value. The average coffee fiend is responsible for the annual production of some 6.6 pounds of husk waste, according to HuskeeTech, the Australian company that developed the cup. Globally, this translates to more than 1.35 million tons of husk waste every year.
"With mountains of beautiful organic material piling up around us and no sustainable way to deal with it, we asked ourselves the question, 'What can we do with this?'" he wrote on Kickstarter.
Designed to last for years, the HuskeeCup doesn't just do good but it looks good, too. It's available in several sizes and features an elegant pleated design, a one-size-fits-all saucer for dining in, and a universal lid for carrying out. Bonus: You can toss it in the dishwasher during cleanup.
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June 6, 2014 by Moreland
The World’s Greatest Criminal Mind
Day 6) Your Favorite Disney Villain
My absolute favorite Disney villain is:
Ratigan
The Great Mouse Detective is an animated parody of Sherlock Holmes and has mice instead of people. Instead of Sherlock Holmes, we have Basil (nod to Basil Rathbone who played Sherlock Holmes in the movies) of 221 1/2 Baker Street with his helper Dawson instead of Watson. Basil plays a violin, is a scientist, etc.
His arch-nemesis instead of being Professor Moriority is Ratigan. He is super creepy and pretty awesome for a villain. First of all, he is played by Vincent Price, one of the best horror actors/villains of all time! I love that man.
In fact Vincent Price, said that doing Ratigan was his favorite role because he had two songs written for him. Both of which are AMAZING! The first song is The World’s Greatest Criminal Mind and Goodbye So Soon. They both show his strength, cunning, sadistic side, etc. My favorite song has to be The World’s Greatest Criminal Mind.
Now when I say he’s sadistic, he is one crazy dude. He doesn’t like being referrred to as a rat, he wants to be a mouse, and if anyone fails to call him that he sics his killer cat Felicia on them.
While he is an elegant criminal, beneath that cool and charming exterior is fearal beast.
Uber creepy right?
But he’s just one of those criminals that you love to hate and while hate, can help but sort of admire his style.
For more on Sherlock Holmes, go to A Hunky Helping of Manwich
For more on Disney, go to The Cat’s Meow
For more on Vincent Price, go to the 25 Films of Christmas
For more films based on books, go to A Hidden Wonder
For more of my favorite songs, go to Out for Summer
For more on Horror films, go to I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me
Tagged Arch-Nemesis, Basil, Basil of Baker Street, Basil Rathbone, Creepy, Cunning, Dawson, Disney Animated Film, Disney Villain, Disney Villain Song, Feral Beast, Film based on a book, Goodbye So Soon, Horror, Horror Film, Killer Cat, Mice, Mouse, Professor Moriarty, Rat, Ratigan, Sadist, scientist, Sherlock Holmes, Strength, Supervillian, The Great Mouse Detective, The Wold's Greatest Criminal Mind, Vincent Price, Violin, Watson
March 17, 2014 by Moreland
At the End of the Rainbow: 17 More Irish Heroes
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
“Those Irish men and women…[who’s] rich vitality and culture they brought with them. Britain, the U.S. and many commonwealth countries are richer for their presence.” –Tony Blair
So I picked seventeen of my favorite Irish characters from film, TV, and books. I had to get a little more creative as I used up a lot of my all time favs last year. Next year I might have to do only seven. So they mostly turned out to be cops, but I swear I didn’t plan that, it just kinda happened. Hope you enjoy! 🙂
17) Irish National Quidditch Team from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter is about to start his fourth year at Hogwarts, but before the term starts he will be joining the Weasleys and Hermione Granger at the Quidditch World Cup to see Ireland vs. Bulgaria. While there, Voldemort’s followers come and fire the Dark Mark into the sky, signaling that Voldemort will return soon. At Hogwarts, they are hosting the Triwizard Tournament, however, only those over 17 will be allowed to enter. The Goblet of Fire ends up choosing Fleur Delacour, Viktor Krum, and Cedric Diggory to compete in the tournament. But to everyone’s surprise, the cup chooses a fourth name, Harry Potter. The four compete in many tasks, surmounting in the final course, conquering a maze. There they discover that the Champion cup is a Portkey that takes them to Voldemort and allows him to begin his evil plan.
Why they are awesome:
First of all, let me just say that I LOVED this book. The movie was so-so, but the book was amazing. Anyways, so the Irish Quidditch team is super cool. They were up against Krum, who is pretty tough, the Bulgarian Veela and still managed to make it out on top. They didn’t catch the snitch but were able to still win with a score of 170-160. Pretty sweet.
For more on Harry Potter check out Even After All This Time
16) Greta Conroy from The Dead
The Dead is by James Joyce and about an Irish family and friends celebrating Epiphany. Three spinsters, Aunt Julia, Aunt Kate, and Mary Jane are hosting a party. Gabriel, the nephew and one of the main characters, attends the party with his wife Greta but rejects his Irishness, wanting to be more British and his ideas clash with the others at the party.
Why Greta is Awesome:
Greta is awesome because she has to put up with a lot having a husband like Gabriel. He doesn’t want to visit West Ireland were she is from, tries to force all these modern ideas upon her and the family; etc. But Greta, while she compromises at times, as that is crucial to every relationship, she doesn’t always give in. She sticks to her guns if it is something she really cares about. Greta also lost the boy she loved when she was young, and has persevered through that pain all the years. She married and move on with her life, no one ever knowing about the travesty in her past. A real warrior, she is.
15) Freddy Malins from The Dead
The Dead is by James Joyce and about an Irish family and friends celebrating Epiphany. Three spinsters, Aunt Julia, Aunt Kate, and Mary Jane are hosting a party. Gabriel, the nephew and one of the main character, attends the party with his wife Greta but rejects his Irishness, wanting to be more British and his ideas clash with the others at the party.
Why Freddy is Awesome:
Now when we are first presented Freddy, he seems like the fullfillment of the Irish stereotype. He is slovenly and drunk, but as we see more of him, you find out that there is much more to him then meets the eye. (Plus his mom is always ragging on him and saying he is a horrible, stupid person. I think she would drive anyone to drink.) Joyce purposely had Freddy be the stereotype, so that when he revealed more of who he was it would make you refrain from making rash judgements and make his character of being kind and caring even more surprising. When Aunt Julia, retired singer, performs and doesn’t do that well, he immediately jumps up and compliments her. When everyone is saying bad things about the Irish opera singers and such, he pips up and not only praises them but the African-American singer. Kudos to Freddy always speaking his mind and being adorable.
14) Gerald O’Hara from Gone With the Wind
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell, is the story of a Southern family that goes through some radical changes from the Antebellum period, to the Civil War, and the Reconstruction era. At the heart of all this chaos is the story of the beautiful, ruthless Scarlett ‘O’ Hara and the dashing soldier of fortune, Rhett Butler.
Why Mr. O’Hara is awesome:
Now I know a lot of people hate this movie, but trust me the book is much better. You really get a better sense of the characters and really understand their motivations and what in the past made them who they are.
So in the movie we don’t get much of the dad. We see a bit of him in the beginning and then when he goes crazy from grief and loss of his wife. But in the book he was pretty cool. Back in Ireland he was a part of a Catholic Emancipation group, like the Ribbonmen or such. He has to flee Ireland because of his illegal activities. He comes over to America who works with his brother in his store, but decides that he wants to have more. He wants to be one of higher position and actually does it. Pretty sweet for any immigrant. He wins the plantation in a poker game and builds it up, creating a vast fortune. He tries to marry, but isn’t completely ingrained in Southern society. They like him but don’t “know his family”, you know how people were. So he goes back to his brother so that he can find someone, and falls for the beautiful Ellen, from a very old, established family. Everyone tells him he’s stupid for thinking that he could ever win her heart, but he does. (Her heart being broken from her cousin does help the situation). O’Hara is pretty cool; political activist sticking it to the man, self-made millionaire, and won the heart of the prom queen equivalent; daddy O’Hara is one amazing guy.
For more on Gone With the Wind, go to My Favorite Movie Lines
13) Michael Hagarty from “Widow, Weep for Me” Murder She Wrote
Jessica Fletcher goes undercover at a Caribbean resort to discover who murdered her friend. When she gets there she finds sand, sun, and plenty of suspects.
Why Michael is Awesome:
Michael is an ex-MI5 agent and has a colorful past. He is debonair, great in a crisis, handsome, and has an amazing accent. 🙂 He is a great character that helps Jessica catch the real killer. He’s the type of guy you’d always want on your side (crack shot, safe cracker, etc) and to date. It’s the accent and lethal skills. 😉
12) Lily the maid from The Dead
The Dead is by James Joyce and about an Irish family and friends celebrating Epiphany. Three spinsters, Aunt Julia, Aunt Kate, and Mary Jane are hosting the party. Gabriel, the nephew and one of the main character, rejects his Irishness and clashes with others at the party.
Why Lily is Awesome:
We only get a small glimpse of Lily in the book and film, but what we see of her is awesome. Lily is a modern woman, not one to be subservient in spirit. The aunts are starting to dislike her as she is no longer as malleable as she was, but more opinionated. Besides, I love her snarky remark when Gabriel suggests that she will be marrying soon; “the men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.” Gabriel is shocked at her for saying such things, but Lily just tells it like it is.
11) Connor McGuire from A Passion Most Pure
Connor McGuire is a total bad boy. After his father died, Connor turned away from the life he was living only focusing on himself and pleasure. He goes after Charity O’ Connor, but finds himself falling for her older sister Faith, even though he doesn’t agree with her faith. Connor finds his life being changed by the O’Connor clan, Faith and WWI.
Why Connor is awesome:
While originally Connor was a class A jerk, (on par with Glenn from The Wedding Singer) later on he changes his life and becomes an extremely endearing man. Faith and his war buddy Brady’s faith really infect Connor and makes him reevaluate his life. He becomes a better person, adding to his attractiveness. When he reenters Faith’s life, instead of trying to freak her out or hurt her, like before, he only cares about making her happy. He knows that she is getting married, and keeps his distance from her, only caring for her happiness. Of course, in the end, the two get together as they are perfect for each other.
10)Shawn Spencer from Psych
Shawn Spencer has been trained by his dad to cultivate his photographic memory to become super observant, analytical, etc; all in his efforts to create the perfect cop. However, Shawn resists his father and rebels against him. Eventually to escape being imprisoned for knowing too much about recent crimes and figuring out who the perpetrator’s are, he lies to the Santa Barbara Police Department, saying he is a psychic. He then finds himself working alongside the cops; particularly head detective, Carlton Lassitar, and his partner Juliet O’Hara.
Why Shawn is awesome:
Shawn can be a jerk, childish, selfish, and a bit whiney at times; but all in all he is one pretty cool guy. He may be a goofball, but he is also highly intelligent, passing the detective test 100% at age 15, often feeling that things are too easy for him. He has great taste in films and music, making all these references that I absolutely adore. While he often uses Gus; his money, car, etc; he cares for his friend and would do anything for him. He cares for all his friends helping Lassiter when he was in a crime-solving slump and thought to have committed murder, Chief Vick from being fired, etc. As the series progresses, Shawn matures; refraining from his previous extreme narcissistic tendencies. He and Juliet start dating in the last few seasons, this relationship really changing his childish ways, but not too much, as Juliet’s level-head and stable life works really well with Shawn.
9) Billy Costigan from The Departed
The Departed is a great film that gives a dual view of one main event. Colin Sullivan has been raised by mobster Frank Costello, and is a mole for him in the Massachusetts State Police’s organized crime unit. Billy Costigan comes from a criminal background, but instead of graduating from the academy and going into law enforcement he gets placed undercover to figure out who is the rat is and bring him down. The two start living similar lives as they both start a relationship with the same psychiatrist and both become heavily stressed as they get closer to finding out who the rats are.
Why Billy is awesome:
Billy sacrifices himself as a mole for the department. That’s a huge risk to take, working for the underlords, having to play a role 24/7, no one ever knowing who you are or the good you are doing, etc. Plus he really kicks butt when he takes out guys as his cover. I mean imagine the pressure he is under and how awful it would be. And he is so patriotic, how he gave his life over because he believed it was better to do it this way. Plus he tries to kill Matt Damon, and anyone who does that is AWESOME! I hate Matt Damon, go to number 3 to read why.
8) Scarlett O’Hara from Gone With the Wind
Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell, is the story of a Southern family that goes through some radical changes from the Antebelluem period, to the Civil War, and the Reconstruction era. At the heart of all this chaos is the story of the beautiful, ruthless Scarlett ‘O’ Hara and the dashing soldier of fortune, Rhett Butler.
Why Scarlett is awesome:
Okay so I know, I know people really hate her. She is horrible and does some horrifying things in the film, but the book is much, much, much, much, better. Trust me the book was awesome I recommend reading it. (Just FYI there will be posts on some of my favorite quotes from this book. I don’t know when, but they will be a-coming.)
So Scarlett has a bunch of bad qualities, yes its true. She is selfish, a man stealer, a horrible mother, cruel, and stuck in the past. She does ruin her relationship with Rhett because she is so hung up on stupid Ashley. I thoroughly recommend this book for anyone who just ended a relationship, as it shows you why you must move on!
However, she is a pretty cool character with a lot of good qualities. Okay so Scarlett is a Southern women in the Antebellum period and has very little schooling. In fact she has very little worth or path in life other than to marry and have children. But Scarlett doesn’t follow that path. She lives her own life and does her own thing, not because she wants to, but because there is no one else to; so takes it upon her self to get things done. She works the land, runs the plantation, pretty much becomes the head of the household. It’s all on her to make sure everyone has food. Then a Union deserter comes around and she takes him out. She uses the gun that Rhett gave her and makes sure that her family and womanhood is safe. She does steal her sister’s passive and simple beau, but whips him into shape, making him and her family sucessful. She also operates a lumber mill, while not being the most highly educated, still having a brain for numbers. Now everyone tells her she isn’t being a lady, running businesses and doing better than her husband. Everyone tries to convince her to stop, but she keeps on doing it. Power to you!!! Here is a woman who is doing whatever she wants, what makes her feel strong; even it it means going against society. She continues to be this strong, forceful woman throughout the rest of the novel; even though she does make a lot of bad decisions. Still, for a woman in the 1800s to have her own business, earn her own money, choose who she will marry (several times), is pretty awesome!
7) Seamus McFly from Back to the Future: Part III
So 1985 Doc has been sent back to the Wild West, and its up to 1955 Doc to send Marty back so that he can save him. While there, Marty meets his newly immigrated family and discovers that Doc doesn’t want to return to the ’80s but enjoys living in the West. However, after discovering that Mad Dog Tannen (Biff’s grandfather) is out to kill him Doc agrees to return with Marty, that is until a pretty young teacher catches his eye. Then Mad Dog decides that he will switch his vendetta to Marty. Now both are in a dilemma.
Why Seamus is awesome:
So this is the second year in which a Back to the Future character and a Michael J. Fox character has made it onto the Saint Patrick’s Day countdown. Let’s given them a big round of applause! Now back to business.
First of all he is played by Michael J. Fox. Instant Win. Anyways, Seamus is Marty’s great-great grandfather, newly Irish immigrants. He discovers Marty, after he was chased by Native Americans and fell. Even though he doesn’t know him, and his wife says that he should’ve left him, Seamus helps him because he believes it is the right thing to do. Seamus is awesome, because even though he is bullied and harrassed by the Tannen’s he ignores it. Now that takes a lot of self-control and patience and fortitude to just ignore it and keep going. To be able to walk away from a fight because you know the issue is not that big a deal, that’d you’d rather not die over a silly argument. He became this way after his brother Martin, Marty’s namesake, was provoked and killed in a knife fight. His wisdom and positivity teaches Msarty to control himself as well, and helps make his future better.
For more on Back to the Future, go to The Clock is Ticking
6) Maggie McKendrick from The Parent Trap (1961)
Sharon is traveling to camp from California. She meets Susan from Boston. This wouldn’t be unusual except for the fact that they look exactly alike. That’s right, Sharon and Susan are twins, separated after their parents divorced, each getting one to take home with them. The two become friends and decide to switch places in order to get to know the other parent and reunite their parents. Unfortunately, a lot has changed while Sharon was away. Her father met someone and is engaged! Now the girls are trying to reformulate their plan to break up her dad and his fiancé, and get the mom to CA and back with the dad.
Why Maggie is awesome:
So if you haven’t guessed this is the original, and while I like the remake, this one is just so amazing. First of all it has Maureen O’Hara. I just love her!
Anyways, Maggie is super cool. When Sharon (pretending to be Susan) comes home with pieced ears and short hair, she doesn’t freak out, or get angry, but instead praises her daughter and supports her decisions. Not only does she approve, but tells her she looks wonderful. When she discovers that her ex-husband, and love, is going to throw his life away on a vapid, horrible, cruel gold-digger; she goes out there and fights for her daughters and her man. And instead of being mean or bitter; she just acts her beautiful nice self; winning everyone over. The fam is going to go on a camping trip and Vicky gets jealous about Mitch and Maggie spending time together, Maggie steps aside; not only because she knows Vicky will reveal her true colors, but because she is the bigger person. She’s just a sweet, considerate, kind, and a bit edgy person; someone you can’t help but love.
For more on Maureen O”Hara, check out the 25 Films of Christmas
5)Faith O’Connor from A Passion Most Pure (Different Synopsis from the one before)
Faith O’Connor has only ever loved one man, Connor McGuire, who after his father’s death drastically changed and is no longer the man he once was. Faith finds comfort in her faith, and keeps praying and loving him silently. Faith and her sister Charity have always been rivals and now Connor is courting her sister while at the same time making a play for Faith. This story spans from Boston to Europe as the beginning of WWI changes everything.
Why Faith is awesome:
Faith is amazing. She recovered from polio and her twin sister’s death. She has to contend with her younger sister being prettier and attracting all the beaus, with little Faithy always bullied and left in the dust. But even through all this she continues to pray and show her love for others. She is never mean, bitter, harsh, or cruel to anyone; even to her sister, who steals both of the men she loves; Conner and her fiancé, Mitch. Instead Faith just tries to be kind and care for everyone.
4) Juliet “Jules” O’Hara from Psych
Psych is about a super observant man, Shawn Spencer, who pretends to be a psychic for the Santa Barbara Police Department. His pharmacist friend, Burton Guster, assists him and the two work with head detective Carlton Lassiter and his partner Juliet O’Hara.
Why Jules is awesome:
You might recognize her from the DCOM Model Behavior (one of two people on this list who have been in DCOMs). Jules is the young police officer who moves from Miami to Santa Barbara when Carlton Lassitar’s old partner is transferred. Jules may be a very pretty, bubbly, sweet, rainbow-sunshine kind of girl; but she is not just bubbles and fizz, but is a very deep and intelligent person. She has scored the highest on the detective test (second to photographic memory Shawn), beating Carlton Lassitar. She also is fluent in Spanish, due to her time in Miami. While she is gentle and sweet, she can be gruff and unmoving when she needs to be; holding her own and not allowing anyone to walk over her. She and Shawn Spencer end up getting together and her stability and his goofiness work well together.
3) Staff Sergeant Dignam from The Departed
Mark Wahlberg is the second person on this list to make a return from last year, read it to see my thoughts on The Fighter.
The Departed is a great film that gives a dual view of one main event. Colin Sullivan has been raised by mobster Frank Costello, and is a mole for him in the Massachusetts State Police’s organized crime unit. Billy Costigan comes from a criminal background, but instead of graduating from the academy and going into law enforcement, he gets placed undercover to figure out who is the rat is and bring him down. The two start living similar lives as they both start a relationship with the same psychiatrist and both become heavily stressed as they get closer to finding out who the rats are.
Why Staff Sgt. Dignam is awesome:
Like I mentioned in A Horse’s Tale, I can tolerate very few Matt Damon films. However, I absolutely love Mark Wahlberg, he’s just so attractive! Anyways, Mark Dignam is the one in charge of the undercover unit, and one of two who knows that Billy is the department’s rat. He is a great cop who really cares about ending the crime in the area, and about the people in his unit. When Colin starts messing with his investigation and wants names, instead of giving in Dignam just takes a leave of absence, disappearing rather than reveal who his person is. However, the best thing about Dignam, besides the fact that he is Mark Wahlberg, he takes out Matt Damon! 😀
2)Kevin “Corky” Corcoran from Copper
Copper is about the NYPD in the mid 19th century. New York is a crazy place with the Civil War going on bringing tension between Southerners and Northerners; the racial clashes between “Americans”, “White” Europeans, Irish, and African-Americans. Corky is one of the “coppers” trying to keep the notorious Five Points in line with its murders, thievery, prostitution, opium trade, etc.
Why Corky is awesome:
Now Corky isn’t perfect, but he is one pretty awesome (and Hot!) guy. Corky, while having faults and vices, is one pretty honorable person who tries to be just and fair, caring for all in his community. He tries to save a child prostitute from her slavery; love and be true to his wife, even when she cheated on him and killed their child; one of the few men who is not a racist, not only respecting Dr. Freeman, but becoming really good friends with him. He makes sure prostitutes are not mistreated, people are not unjustly thrown in prison, women are not accosted by their landlords, and those that break the law, hurt others, molest/rape children get what’s coming to them. That’s another thing that makes Corky so amazing (and sexy!) is that he not only a honorable man, but one of action who goes out and takes care of things.
1) Carlton “Lassie” Lassiter from Psych
Why Lassie is awesome:
Now I have a huge TV crush on Carlton Lassiter, its a little hard not to. He is pretty awesome (although tightly wound). Now some of you may recognize him as the evil leprechaun from the DCOM Luck of the Irish, for more on that check out last year’s post. However, as Lassie, Carlton is far from evil. Carlton is a strictly by the book kind of guy; SB law, the Constitution, NRA, etc. He is a great cop, a bit old fashioned, but stubborn, persistent, etc. While he can be pigheaded, truth be told it would be hard dealing with Shawn all the time. He is a huge Clint Eastwood fan, wishing he could be Dirty Harry or Tom Highway. He also loves Westerns and wants to be a modern day cowboy. He is a huge Civil War history buff and takes part in reenactments. He knows how to shot like every type of gun and has built up a immunity to chloroform. However, the best thing about him is how strongly he throws himself into relationships. He does everything he can to try and work things out with his ex-wife (really not wanting to get a divorce). True he did cheat on her with his old partner, but they had been separated for quite some time and she was porking around with someone else. (Doesn’t make it right but it is understandable). However, the best thing was when his gf was arrested and imprisoned (she stole blood from a blood bank for her sick brother), he went and visited her every time he was allowed to. Nothing kept him from being there or true to her. He also did everything he could to free her from the jail. So sweet! 🙂
So Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! I know I’ll be wearing green, just so no stupid kids try and pinch me. And watching this movie like I do every year.
But I hope you all have a wonderful day in however you celebrate it.
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It’s That Time of the Year Again
So it’s that time of the year again.
Seriously, when the girl scout cookies come out its over. Don’t even try to hold back as you just know:
No, stop! Alright.
I always tell myself that I will buy one box of Thin Mints, but usually end up with the Mints and Tagalongs, or Samoas, or Savannah Smiles, or…. Even though they’ve hiked up the prices to be being $5
I know, right? And you know the only reason they get away with it is that they aren’t sold all year round. Those jerks.
And you know once you start eating, it doesn’t just stop. Nope, you eat and eat and eat and eat, etc.
And as you eat and eat and eat, etc. It gets to the point where you start telling yourself this so that you feel better.
You know those people who are always trying to prove who’s the stronger one? Well:
Writing this so makes me want to eat some. I mean seriously, I need someone to watch me with those things.
I sometimes think I need someone to keep me on track.
But then I think screw it!
For more scenes from my everyday life, check out Final Destination: Bike Edition
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Home Music Andrew Cyrille Haitian Fascination: Route de Frères
Andrew Cyrille Haitian Fascination: Route de Frères
To experience ecstasy without the memory of it would certainly be a travesty. Fortunately it may now be possible to have both; to have the near-perfect memory of being in the throes of ecstasy and it is all because of the music on Route de Frères by Andrew Cyrille and Haitian Fascination. More specifically it is the character of “Jean” in the miraculous little Vodou piece, which opens the album. It is the relentless and remarkable tapping of both percussionists Frisner Augustin and the great Andrew Cyrille that creates a completely out-of-body experience as if it was part of the Vodou ritual where the song is usually sung. This is just one of the high points of listening to the album, which experience—were it to be charted—might look like a printout of a rapidly beating heart in an electro-cardiogram actually. Most of Cyrille’s work might have this effect, but this album is truly extraordinary. It charts the musical sojourn of the drummer as he returns to his roots in Haiti and, metaphorically speaking, takes place en route on this “Road of the Brothers”.
Cyrille’s résumé is too wonderfully long to be celebrated in a five-hundred-word review. But perhaps his most enduring legacy before this record is his contribution to Cecil Taylor’s path-breaking bands of between 1964 and 1975. If ever there was a rhythm colorist with the power to create the impulse to dance, like the great drummers from Sid Catlett through Max Roach and Elvin Jones to Brian Blade, Cyrille is it. It is a pity that being associated with the 60s Avant garde movement in the musical arts has somewhat marginalized his contribution to music and those who feel this way ought to recall his fine work with Coleman Hawkins too. At any rate this album is sure to change all that. Cyrille is a musician who feels the pulse of music in his blood and in his bones. His body then translates this into vibrations and impulses that are transmitted through his arms that move in wide arcs as he creates whorls of florid shapes and colors from his battery of drums. The geometry of this exquisite tattoo then becomes the central rhythmic palette of the music that is being played and Cyrille goes on to make beautiful dancing shapes that resemble arcs and parabolas. Moreover, as he inhabits the spectral fourth dimension, he is apt to make music in the shape of rhombuses and colorful flashy orbs, created by arms propelled as if by French curves as well.
The drummer is joined by a superb cohort and that makes all the difference in charting a course for this album from good to great. And in a scenario reminiscent of the memorable piano-less ensembles of Sonny Rollins, this group is often fronted by the superb melodicism of baritone saxophonist, Hamiet Bluiett (“Spirit Music”) the slyly beautiful work of guitarist, Alix Pascal (“Sankofa”) and the absolutely magnificent bassist Lisle Atkinson (too many tracks to name).
Tracks: Marinèt; Deblozay; Hope Springs Eternal; Isaura; Route de Frères, Part 1: Hills of Anjubeau; Route de Frères, Part 2: Memories of Port-au-Prince Afternoons; Route de Frères, Part 3: Manhattan Swing; C’mon Baby; Sankofa; Spirit Music; Mais (Percussion Duo); Ti Kawòl.
Personnel: Hamiet Bluiett: baritone saxophone; Alix Pascal: acoustic guitar; Lisle Atkinson: double bass; Andrew Cyrille: drums; Frisner Augustin: percussion and vocals.
Label: Tum Records | Release date: October 2011
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Latest from ASX-Listed Energy and Resource players- BYE, SFR, WEL, BC8
Byron Energy Limited (ASX: BYE)
Byron Energy Limited (ASX: BYE), an Australian Securities Exchange listed, oil and gas explorer in the Gulf of Mexico, announced on 21st June 2019 that the companyâs operated first test well on the South Marsh Island 74 block- SM74 D-14, is currently drilling as planned.
The well drilling is testing the depth of 12,960 feet Measured Depth and 12,320 feet True #ertical Depth. BYE cemented a 9-5/8 inch intermediate casing in place at a depth of 12,723 feet Measured Depth and obtained a new 10 feet formation along with a Formation Integrity test of 17.9 pounds mud weight equivalent.
The company previously reported on 16th May 2019 that the test well is designed in a way that it would test multiple amplitudes supported target sands, which is further prognosed to be intersected at a depth below 13,800 feet Measured Depth. The test well is planned to drill a total depth of 16,747 Measured Depth and 14,726 feet True #ertical Depth and logged.
As per the company, if the well becomes productive, BYE would proceed with a cemented casing of 7-inch further to mark the completion of the test well.
Byron farmed-out 30 per cent of the working interest share of the well to Metgasco Limited (ASX: MEL), on the industry standard terms.
Under the terms, MEL would be able to earn the interest by paying 40 per cent of the $11.4 million initial well dry hole costs, and Byron would pay the remaining 60 per cent. The farm-out terms further mentioned that both the parties would bear their respective working interest cost of 30 and 70 per cent post the drilling of the initial well to the total depth.
BYE is acting as the operator of the well through its wholly-owned subsidiary in the United States- Byron Energy Inc, and the company recently secured an award for the SM60 block.
In a separate announcement, MEL mentioned that the SM73 D-4 platform is currently being drilled from the SM73 D platform, which is operated by Ankor Energy LLC. BYE entered an agreement with Ankor to produce the well through SM73 D platform, which, in turn, would reduce the threshold of the economic reserves.
On 24 June 2019, the shares of the BYE are trading at AS$0.315 (as at AEST: 12:36 PM), up by 5 per cent as compared to its previous close.
Sandfire Resources NL (ASX: SFR)
Sandfire Resources NL (ASX: SFR), a mineral explorer on ASX announced on 21st June 2019 that company updated the underground Ore Reserve for DeGrussa and Monty Mines, which includes Conductor 1, 4, and 5 deposit of the mines.
As per the company, the net increase in the overall underground Ore Reserves is due to the resource definition drilling conducted by SFR on the Conductor 5 deposit along with the orebody remodelling in conjunction to the revised factors.
The definition drilling and subsequent remodelling inched up the Ore Reserves by 0.4 million tonnes and contained copper by 2,000 tonnes. Post considering the annual mining depletion of approx. 1.6 million tonnes, SFR mentioned that the mine life would be supported till mid of the calendar year 2022.
Sandfire is currently undertaking a grade control diamond drilling at the Monty Mines, and it recently consented over the bid implementation between Andes Resources and Metminco Limited.
The updated Underground Ore Reserves contain 5.5 million tonnes of Ore Reserves with 4.8 per cent copper and 1.6g/t of gold, which would account for 264,000 tonnes of contained copper and 277,000 ounces of contained gold respectively.
The updated Underground Mineral Resources include 4.9 million tonnes of Mineral Reserves with 6.3 per cent copper and 2.0g/t of gold, which would account for 306,000 tonnes of contained copper and 313,000 ounces of contained gold respectively.
The total Ore and Mineral reserves for both the mines are as:
Source: Companyâs Report
The total Ore and Mineral reserves by Orebody for both the mines are as:
In its announcement today on ASX, SFR in conjunction with its J# partner White Rock Minerals Limited provided an exploration update on its Red Mountain Project in Central Alaska, which is a high-grade zinc and precious metals #MS project.
The project holds two high-grade deposit with an Inferred Mineral Resource of 9.1 million tonnes, the average grade of the resource is 12.9 per cent of zinc equivalent with 1.1 million tonnes contained zinc equivalent.
The company started the summer field exploration activities in late May at the Newmanâs Creek, and SFR (J#) commenced surface reconnaissance mapping, surface geochemical sampling which included both rock chips and soil samplings along with other on-ground activities.
The surface reconnaissance and geochemical sampling took place at the Glacier Trend and the Dry Creek trend across north-west and south of the tenement, while the results of both the on-ground activities are pending.
SFR (J#) drilled three diamond drill holes away from the known deposits and intersected no significant sulphide mineralisation; however, the company intersected mineralisation during its 2018 drill program at the Hunter prospect, and now plans to test the dip and strike with two drill holes (HR19-05 and HR19-06).
The company fully funds the Joint #enture, and SFR is progressing further with the exploration. White rock minerals recently completed a High-powered airborne electromagnetic survey over the 475km2 strategic belt-scale tenement of Newmanâs Creek.
On 24 June 2019, the shares of the SFR were trading at A$7.045 (as at AEST: 12:36 PM), up by 0.643 per cent as compared to its previous close.
Winchester Energy Limited (ASX: WEL)
Winchester Energy Limited (ASX: WEL), an Australia-based oil and gas explorer, announced on 21st June 2019 that the company formulated a development plan to fast-pace the oil production from the Strawn Fry Sand member of the United States-based Mustang Prospect.
The company consulted Mire & Associates, a U.S. based petroleum consultants post the success of White Hat 20#3, which led towards the initial production of 306 barrels of oil per day.
WEL consulted the Mire & Associates to optimise and update the Gross Prospective Resources of the Strawn Sand Fry member. As per the studies, the development optimisation study further identified nine well locations within the central Mustang area.
The identification of nine well locations was further supported by the possible 25 wells across the Mustang North and South, which in turn, would lead to a total of 34 development well; however, the development is still subjective to the outcomes of the ongoing drilling.
White Hat 20#3 is producing the oil as per the companyâs expectation and post the measurement of the modest commercial gas volumes; the well is presently being connected to gas sales. After incorporating the data from White Hat 20#3 the Strawn Fry Sand members Prospective Resources are as:
The overall Gross Prospective Resource estimates for the prospect are as:
Furthermore, today, 24 June 2019, the company announced to the market that the it has been informed by US Energy Corporation of America Inc (USEC) on the successful execution of a vertical frack within the three Fingers Shale Member (TFS) of the Thomas 119-1H well and the start of production. USEC further updated that the well has been producing oil and gas at an average of 29 bopd and 450k cubic feet of gas per day (mcfgd) over the last week.
TFS now provides a highly attractive target for horizontal drilling and fracture technologies. The company also reported that TFS has been penetrated in multiple wells in Winchesterâs acreage (yet to be tested) and all the wells have found good oil and gas shows. White Hat 39#1 sidewall cores assured fracture capability and oil potential of the TFS.
It is to be noted that WEL has the right to 12.5% working interest back-in to Thomas 119-1H post USEC recovers the costs from the oil and gas revenues.
The shares of WEL were trading at AS$0.030 (as at AEST: 12:10 PM), down by 6.25 per cent as compared to its previous close.
Black Cat Syndicate Limited (ASX: BC8)
Black Cat Syndicate Limited (ASX: BC8), a mineral explorer, presented an update on its Bulong Gold Project on 21st June 2019.
The company conducted extensional drilling at Myhree, which is now down to an average spacing of approx. 25m x 30m and the drilling continues to provide thick and high-grade intersections. The extensional drilling resulted in
The drill hole identified as 19MYRC052 intersected 7m @ 4.24 g/t of gold from 187m and 4m @ 5.85 g/t of gold from 201m.
The drill hole identified as 19MYRC044 intersected 11m @ 2.63 g/t of gold from 185m.
The drill hole identified as 19MYRC040 intersected 6m @ 3.53 g/t of gold from 105m and 6m @ 3.58 g/t of gold from 143m and 4m @ 5.67 g/t of gold from 168m.
As per the company, Myhree remains open at depth, and the extensional drilling is progressing to the north and at depth.
BC8 also conducted an RC infill drilling with 33 holes for 3,954m, and the result received by the company was consistent. The significant results from the drilling include:
The drill hole identified as 19MYRC0431 intersected 8m @ 3.63 g/t of gold from 78m.
The drill hole identified as 19MYRC0439 intersected 2m @ 7.96 g/t of gold from 122m.
The infill drilling boosted the confidence of the company in the present Resource, and BC8 is awaiting results from SAM Target 1.
On 24 June 2019, the shares of the BC8 were trading at AS$0.270 (as at AEST: 12:36 PM), up by 1.887 per cent as compared to its previous close.
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Pillars of Light
Released in 2002, Pillars of Light features the ethereal work of three prominent contemporary composers: René Clausen, Morten Lauridsen, and Eric Whitacre. The CD includes the world premier of “Veni,” a soaring piece commissioned by Kantorei from René Clausen, and performed at the Southwestern Regional ACDA Convention.
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Les Chanson Des Roses — Morten Lauridsen
En Une Seule Fleur (2:26)
Contre Qui, Rose (3:13)
De Ton Reve Trop Plein (2:03)
La Rose Complete (4:25)
Dirait-on (4:22)
Three Whitman Settings (from “Leaves of Grass”) — René Clausen
A Noiseless Patient Spider (3:28)
Quicksand Years (1:56)
The Last Invocation (2:58)
O Nata Lux (from Lux Aeterna) (3:56) — Morten Lauridsen
Veni (*World Premier Recording) (6:05) — René Clausen
Ave Maria (6:53) — Morten Lauridsen
O Vos Omnes (8:31) — René Clausen
In Pace (7:53) — René Clausen
i thank you god for most this amazing day (6:36) — Eric Whitacre
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Exports may keep Korean economy climbing
Korea’s economy is expected to maintain its current recovery pace going forward on the back of brisk exports, a government report said Friday.
However, a weaker job market and ongoing trade issues are likely to weigh on Asia’s fourth-largest economy, the finance ministry said in its monthly economic assessment report.
“Investments are continuing to be helped by sound exports, and output and consumption have sharply rebounded on base effect,” the ministry said.
Last month, domestic consumption faced a correction, but the country’s industrial output and investment increased for the second straight month, it said.
The report, called the “Green Book,” is based on the latest economic indicators of such key factors as output, exports, consumption and corporate investment, which provide clues as to how the economy has been faring in recent months.
The country’s overall industrial output increased 1.2 percent in January, shifting from a 0.5 percent on-year decline in December, and facility investment also advanced 6.2 percent on rising demand for chipmaking equipment, according to the latest review.
Korea’s exports have been on a steep upside cycle since November 2016, led by a spike in global demand.
Outbound shipments soared 4 percent in February from a year earlier on brisk sales of memory chips and ships, according to government data.
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SKC to purchase KCFT, a maker of copper foil
KCFT’s factory in Jeungeup, North Jeolla. The copper foil leader was acquired by SKC at 1.2 trillion won (＄1 billion). [SKC]
SKC, a unit of SK Group, said Thursday it has decided to acquire KCF Technologies (KCFT), the world’s top producer of copper foil for lithium-ion batteries, in a bid to diversify its business portfolio.
SKC said it will buy a 100 percent stake in KCFT, currently owned by KKR, a New York-based private equity fund, for 1.2 trillion won ($1 billion).
“Considering its growth, profitability and market size, we decided to select copper foil, a core material for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, as our new growth engine,” SKC said in a regulatory filing.
KCFT was the top player in the global cooper foil market in 2018, with a 15 percent share. Its major customers include electric vehicle (EV) battery makers LG Chem, Samsung SDI and Panasonic.
Copper foil is used as electrode collectors for anodes in EV batteries and is one of its four core components.
SKC, whose business area includes producing polyester film as well as materials for semiconductors and cosmetics, said it expects KCFT to be its new growth engine in the rising EV market.
KCFT reportedly generated 300 billion won in sales in 2018, up 36 percent from a year earlier, while its operating profit surged 48 percent on-year to 40 billion won.
The company also has a competitive edge: Last year, it succeeded in producing a 50-kilometer copper roll with thickness of 4.5 nanometers, equivalent to one 30th of human hair. This was an advancement compared to the product’s conventional norm in the market at one 15th of human hair. The thinner a copper foil is, the less weight and more anodes it can contain.
SKC said it aims to triple KCFT’s production capacity by 2022. Last year, SKC posted sales of 2.7 trillion won, up 4.3 percent from a year ago, while its operating profit surged 14.5 percent on-year to 201 billion won.
BY YONHAP, SONG KYOUNG-SON [song.kyoungson@joongang.co.kr]
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Alibaba holds off new deals in India as it re-evaluates its past investments
Written by Avanish Tiwary Published on 26 Aug 2019
The Jack Ma-led firm has some of the most valued companies in its portfolio such as Paytm, Zomato and BigBasket.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has decided to wait and watch the performance of its existing Indian portfolios before investing in any new Indian startup. Four people aware of the development told local newspaper Mint, that Alibaba’s India team, led by Raghav Bahl, has been told to manage the current portfolios and not to look for new investment opportunities.
“We remain committed to our existing presence in the India market. As a company policy, we do not comment on market speculation,” an Alibaba spokesperson told the newspaper in an emailed response.
Alibaba has been one of the pioneers to invest in Indian startups such as online grocer BigBasket, fintech firm Paytm and its e-commerce arm Paytm Mall, erstwhile unicorn Snapdeal, food delivery company Zomato, among many others. However, what is worrying the Jack Ma-led company is the lack of any exit and poor performance of a few of its portfolio companies such as Snapdeal and Paytm Mall that are fast losing market share to their competitors Flipkart and Amazon.
“They are not seeing the kind of opportunities in India within Alibaba’s ecosystem that will really compel them to invest. So, while they also have to work to get some exits, they would rather wait it out and not invest, rather than make risky investments,” said a senior investment banker who has worked on past deals with Alibaba.
In comparison, Alibaba’s peers have done well as far as exits are concerned, and are now looking to further increase their affair in India.
While Tencent exited from its Flipkart investment in 2016 post Walmart’s USD 16 billion acquisition—biggest in the e-commerce space—South African technology giant Naspers sold its entire stake in the Indian OTA MakeMyTrip to Chinese travel company Ctrip earlier this year.
As the Japanese internet behemoth SoftBank launched its second Vision Fund of 100-billion-dollars, it said it is set to invest USD 2-4 billion in Indian startups by 2021. Most of the foreign funds are also expanding their team size in India and setting up local offices to be closer to the deals. Beijing-based VC fund Fosun RZ Capital is increasing its team in India as it looks for local analysts to help it with its hunt for startups with the potential to become the next unicorn.
Before deciding to put a pause on India investments, Alibaba was considering to put smaller bets in early-stage companies instead of writing big cheques. In April this year, it launched a USD 100 million fund BAce Capital—backed by its fintech arm Ant Financial—to invest in Series A and B round. It made its first investment in India with a USD 8 million round in Bengaluru-based Healofy, a digital platform for pregnancy and parenting tips.
According to a report by analytics firm Tracxn, Indian startups received USD 5.6 billion from Chinese VCs in 2018.
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North Carolina hit with regret epidemic
By Thomas Beisner | January 22, 2010 | 12:04pm | 46
John Wall, Kentucky hero and legend in the making. If you’re a basketball fan in the state of North Carolina, there’s likely no phrase more likely to make your stomach turn these days. North Carolina is struggling heavily in their conference games thanks to poor guard play and Duke, though not having a terrible season, is plagued by lack of depth in the backcourt. In any year, their fans would be troubled. But, in a year where the kid from their back yard has ascended to the top of the college basketball world, it becomes downright painful.
For those fans hoping to avoid the subject, the Charlotte Observer offers a quick punch to the gut today with a look back at Wall’s recruitment and how he got out of the state. As, we’re all familiar, Wall’s mom was an NC State fan, Duke went after him hard and he (or Brian Clifton) had a contentious relationship with Roy Williams. As a die-hard UK fan, you’re probably familiar with most of this, but it’s as good of time as any to gloat and look back.
My favorite part of the story, though, is this line from a Duke coach who I assume was a bit irritated when asked about John Wall’s play for the Cats…
“I don’t talk about friends that I didn’t have or women that I didn’t marry,” Krzyzewski said this week. “So I don’t talk about players that I don’t coach.”
Before we continue, are we supposed to stop talking about all the women before our wives? I think I missed that in the marriage handbook (just kidding if you’re reading this). Anyway, the paper continues to rub salt in the wound and offers these two hypotheticals:
What if Wall was at UNC?
What if Wall was at Duke?
Although these are slightly different than the hypothetical “What if Sheray Thomas had gone to Dayton or Richmond?” questions I used to ask myself, I see where they’re coming from. And I love it.
Go Cats.
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Miranda Lambert Hopes You’ll Remember Animals Affected by Nashville Tornado
Miranda Lambert just gave the dogs and cats affected by this week's devastating Nashville tornado a big boost. The singer's MuttNation charity is supporting Metro Animal Care & Control as their resources become taxed by misplaced pets following Tuesday morning's storms.
A look at the MACC Facebook page shows that dry and canned pet foods, leashes and collars are in high demand and needed. They've created an Amazon wishlist that Lambert shared via Instagram in a post announcing her support of the group.
"Metro Animal Care & Control is working hard to help animals impacted by the tornado in Nashville," she writes. "MuttNation and I are supporting their efforts and appreciate y'all doing anything you can to help fur babies in need, too!"
More lost dogs and pets have been showing up at the MACC shelter since Tuesday, but some have been reunited with their owners, thanks to microchips. Reclaim fees are being waived this week, and a separate post shares that VCA Animal Hospitals are offering free boarding for impacted families. At least one of the MACC's community partners was hit hard by the tornado when it touched down in Germantown. Crossroads Pets suffered significant damage.
While musicians like Eric Paslay and Steve Misamore were directly impacted by the tornado, the focus has been on the larger rebuild thus far. In the coming days and weeks, benefit shows will be held. The first is a telethon between CMT and Nashville NBC affiliate WSMV, set for Thursday at 4PM CT. It will be featured on all of CMT's social platforms.
Thus far, 25 people have been confirmed killed by tornadoes that stretched from Nashville to Putnam County, nearly two hours east. Hundreds more have been injured and dozens of homes and businesses destroyed.
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Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape
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‘Temple of Apollo’ after Claude Lorrain by William Woollett (1760)
Among various unforgettable moments in a life much of which has been spent thinking about landscape in literature and the visual arts was a remark made ten years ago by Kirsty Wark in the programme which follows Newsnight on Fridays, in which she was chairing a discussion of the Gainsborough exhibition then at Tate Britain. Gainsborough’s landscapes, she invited one of her panel to agree, were ‘irrelevant’. She meant, I think, that they had nothing to say to the present day, and I can’t forget her remark only because I repeat it so often to my students. Now that so many of them want to learn only about the contemporary, and many universities feel increasingly little obligation to teach them much else, the remark is useful to get them thinking about whether they might learn as much about the culture of the present day by studying what appears to be ‘irrelevant’ to it, as they can from works which claim to speak directly of the times we live in.
‘The Watering Place’ after Peter Paul Rubens by John Browne (1770)
There is, however, nothing irrelevant about the new show at the Royal Academy, featuring Gainsborough, Constable and Turner; not because of anything it has to say about ‘the making of landscape’, but because it is so evidently a show for an Age of Austerity, a show of our favourite artists intended to raise as much money as possible for as little as possible. It’s very small, compared with the generous exhibitions of landscape painting in past decades, the exhibits are all taken entirely from the collection of the cash-strapped Academy itself, and its explanatory and interpretative resources are very thin – a little pamphlet in lieu of a catalogue, a very few interpretation boards, and a hard to find list of exhibits which I didn’t discover until I’d spent much of my time scribbling down the titles of the pictures. There was no list in my reviewer’s pack, and no one in the rooms seemed to be holding one, but outside in Piccadilly I found a copy, trodden into the pavement outside Fortnum’s, where, I have since learned, you could have a ‘Jubilee Tea in the Parlour and a Ticket to the Exhibition’ for only £23. A show, then, on a shoestring, perhaps a cheap filler in the schedule before what will no doubt be an opulent as well as mouthwatering Manet exhibition. But the Academy must do what it can to save and survive, and for most of us at the exhibition, who didn’t look as if we had had to make many sacrifices in the last few years, it is no doubt salutary to feel the pinch, and to realise we are all in it together.
‘The Rainbow, Salisbury Cathedral’ from ‘Various Subjects of Landscape’ after John Constable by David Lucas (1837)
The uses of adversity are sweet as well as bitter, as the old Duke in Shakespeare almost said, and what is best about Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape is probably as much a result of hard times as what is not so good. The exhibition tells two stories which never really come together, but the first, focusing on the importance of the reproductive print to the development of landscape, will be a revelation to those unfamiliar with this aspect of the genre in Britain. The story begins with a roomful of sumptuous late 17th and 18th-century prints of paintings by the Continental artists on whose work British artists began by modelling their own: chiefly Claude Lorrain, Salvator Rosa and the Poussins, Nicolas and his brother-in-law Gaspard Dughet, but including also Rubens’s hugely influential The Watering Place, here in John Browne’s engraving of 1770. Though the prints are grouped by the authors of the paintings on which they are based, the room – and Andrew Wilton’s excellent essay on this aspect of the show – invites us to focus on the printmakers, especially the French Protestant immigrant François Vivares, and the brilliant William Woollett, who became the finest, the most intricate and industrious engraver of landscape in Europe. Vivares’s work is represented here by four superb engravings after Claude, and by the intriguing sequence of prints he and others made of paintings of the Peak District by Thomas Smith of Derby, so unlike anything else in the history of landscape art that I have to slap my wrist to stop myself reaching for the word ‘surreal’. It was chiefly through the engravings of these and other printmakers that European landscapes were known to young British artists. Turner and Constable would have known even the landscapes of their great predecessor Richard Wilson mainly through some wonderful prints by Woollett and others, and at the Academy no fewer than 12 of these are exhibited together, classical landscapes animated by mythological figures, and opposite them some of the great Welsh views including Snowdon, Cader Idris and William Edwards’s great bridge over the Taff at Pontypridd.
An exhibition with a bigger budget, able to pull in loans of the great landscape painters’ greatest oils, would never have made room for so much monochrome, and would have been unable therefore to show how fascinated Constable and Turner were with the tradition of landscape engraving and with the new methods of printmaking available to artists of their generation. Constable favoured the rich chiaroscuro and dramatic tonal contrasts of mezzotint, printed in rich black, represented here by five large plates of some of his most famous later paintings by David Lucas, who, by careful obedience to the painter’s obsessive instructions, and by evident sympathy with his unorthodox way with paint, somehow seems to produce in monochrome, not an equivalent of, but an appropriate and exciting alternative to the then unusually bright palette of Constable. The prints Turner brought together in his Liber Studiorum, a kind of pictorial treatise on landscape, are fascinating for the complex mixture of methods used to reproduce the wide range of effects in his paintings and drawings. Turner himself usually etched the outlines, but lights, the darks, the textures of surfaces were rendered by other artists, usually in mezzotint, sometimes in aquatint, sometimes both together, and the plates were printed in brown ink. The contrast between the Liber and Constable’s own pictorial treatise, Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery, with mezzotints by Lucas, is extreme and tends to run counter to what, on the basis of their paintings, we might have expected. Of the two, Turner is usually cast as the more dramatic, the more directly arresting, but Lucas’s Constable is dark, brooding, melodramatic even, while the Turner of the Liber seems more inclined to repose. The wall of the gallery where Lucas and the Liber are shown side by side is a wonderful show within a show, worth visiting the gallery if to see only that.
‘Dolbadern Castle’ by J.M.W. Turner (1800)
Advance publicity invites prospective visitors to ‘fall in love all over again with three giants of British landscape painting’, and, reflecting no doubt a worry about the possible effect on the gate, it neglects to say that its chief, bold focus is on printed works. Instead the ‘highlights’ of the exhibition are described as four grand oil paintings: Gainsborough’s great confection, Romantic Landscape, of about 1783; Constable’s ‘two great landscapes of the 1820s’, The Leaping Horse and A Boat Passing a Lock, and Turner’s ‘brooding Dolbadern Castle’, of 1800. Unless my memory deceives me, these are the only large landscapes by the three giants the Academy owns, and elsewhere in the show landscapes in oils are very thin on the ground. There’s a superb one by Pier Francesco Mola of Christ in a wild woodland landscape, though its presence in the exhibition could have done with some explanation; a version of Richard Wilson’s The White Monk, attributed to his ‘circle’; and a dozen of Constable’s small plein air oil sketches on paper. It will be interesting to see whether the Big Three will still be loveable in the absence of almost all the old favourites that have made them so. The effect may be a bit like going to a concert by the Stones or the Who and being offered only stuff from their latest album.
The limitations of the Academy’s collection, including as it does the only landscapes by the Big Three that could be described in some degree as ‘sublime’, encourage if they do not determine the other main story the exhibition has to tell, a story I sincerely hope will die before I get old. It’s the one about how there was in the 18th century a variety of landscape called ‘topography’, sometimes ‘strict topography’, which was committed to ‘the accurate recording of particular places’. The exhibition includes several such pictures, watercolours by Sandby, Michael Angelo Rooker and others, beautiful but somehow small-minded, limited in their ambition, we are invited to believe. Eventually, however, in the early 19th century, topographical art was transcended by something infinitely more serious and more powerful, a sublime style of painting that sought to represent the ‘grandeur of nature’, and to produce in us ‘feelings of awe, fear or horror’. This new landscape art, exemplified primarily by Turner, could also see through mere ‘particular places’ to show us something that transcended all particularity, and which in this exhibition goes by such names as ‘British landscape scenery in its own right’, or ‘nature itself’. The explanatory pamphlet does not say what ‘British landscape scenery’ would look like when all particularity had been banished, leaving only ‘nature itself’, but I imagine that it would look like nothing at all. Perhaps Hazlitt was right when he said that Turner painted ‘pictures of nothing, and very like’.
I have all sorts of objections to this story. First of all, after spending much of the last four years comparing images of North Wales, described or dismissed as ‘topographical’, with the scenes they depict, I see no evidence that most topographical artists usually set out to give ‘accurate records’ of places. Some did, sometimes, especially when representing places and especially buildings so well known that many people would be in a position to compare the representation with the thing represented. But for many artists, especially when depicting remote and little visited locations, accuracy seems to have been a low priority, well below the desire to produce a harmonious or picturesque or dramatic composition. It is a simple misreading of Burke’s theory of the sublime to claim that paintings by Turner and others, described as ‘sublime’, evoke, or even seek to evoke, ‘feelings of awe, fear or horror’. Some of the places he painted might have done – the precipices, the towering waves, the threats of landslide or avalanche – but not the paintings themselves. I watched the reactions of visitors as they stopped in front of the sublime Dolbadern Castle. None was exhibiting outward signs of horror, and though a few might have been inwardly awed or apprehensive, they seemed able to cope, and passed on to the next exhibit cheerfully enough.
I’m happy to agree that the sublime in paintings seeks to evoke feelings different from those evoked by images described as topographical: as Burke argued, it addresses us more as isolated individuals than as social beings, and to some of us, in some moods, its address may seem more powerful, more immediate. Many supposedly topographical images however, many of them by Turner himself, whether or not they aspire to strict accuracy of representation, evoke ideas and feelings that sublime pictures do not: more social than solitary, more about the way landscapes are inhabited, shared, possessed, argued over, exploited – for better or worse, humanised. The story of the transcendent sublime seems to trivialise such notions and the feelings associated with them, and it is time for the opposite story to be told, in an exhibition of ‘topographical’ art that could be seen as a development from the wonderful and successful Paul Sandby show a couple of years ago. It could be based on the King’s Topographical Collection in the British Library, assembled on behalf of George III. It covers pretty well every county in Britain, and the images it contains – in a wide range of printing methods, often in sparkling condition, many beautifully hand-coloured, yet unknown to the wider public – are as much about the making of landscape in Britain as are the great paintings by the Big Three.
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The Wheel by Richard W. Bulliet In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on their axles and concludes five thousand years later with the caster, a single rotating and pivoting wheel. Bulliet's most interesting finding is that a simple desire to move things from place to place did not drive the wheel's development. If that were the case, the wheel could have been invented at any time almost anywhere in the world. By dividing the history of this technology into three conceptual phases and focusing on the specific men, women, and societies that brought it about, Bulliet expands the social, economic, and political significance of a tool we only partially understand. He underscores the role of gender, combat, and competition in the design and manufacture of wheels, adding vivid imagery to illustrate each stage of their development.
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Lessons not learned in 2016 (PC Goes To College And Gets More Absurd)
by Jeff Dunetz | Jan 2, 2017 | Climate
Note: No Santa Claus has not been banned—yet!
Guest Post by Joe Messina
2016 seemed to be the year that political correctness (PC) was allowed to accelerate faster than a fire in a jet fuel factory. The craziness grew rampant on college campuses with safe spaces, trigger warnings, protests on conservative speakers only, and so much more… just crazy!
To prove my point, students at Pomona College campuses were greeted with a sign in their dorm rooms stating All White People are Racist. That’s a great first lesson!
Moraine Valley Community College started new diversity classes for BLACKS only. And THAT’s diversity?
In a real mind puzzler, a professor at Southern State Community College in Ohio suggested the NRA corporate office should be “shot up” leaving no NRA people alive. The statement was made to support better gun control. This is a professor, who teaches YOUR children.
A pro-Trump rally at Penn state was interrupted by an ANTI-Trump rally. Did they use louder bullhorns? NO! Did they have more people shouting them down? NO! The anti-Trumpers went over and ripped up the pro-Trumps signs. They got in the faces of the pro-Trump people and called them “Bullies.” Because not committing violence is now bullying? Right?!
Students at Appalachian State University protested their “White Privilege Board” while denouncing their own white, male, able-bodied, Christian, or cisgender privilege. If their privilege is what gives them the ability to be there, how can they protest it unless they leave, renounce their studentship, and leave the college? Just askin’.
A Language Matters campaign at Rutgers University was introduced to students as an anti-microaggression program. Students were advised to check their choice of words to make sure they are “true,” “helpful,” “inspiring,” “necessary,” and “kind” before speaking out. REALLY? Those are measurements for microaggressions? Who decides the meanings? With everything going on at college campuses, is this all they have to do?
Brown University decided to further waste as much tax and donor dollars as humanly possible they would now put a “tampon” dispenser in all men’s rooms! Now you say, well Joe, what about transgenders? OK. The reason, according to a BU spokesman was because “not all who menstruate are women.” Think about that!
There is an annual event at colleges across the country called a “White Privilege Conference.” The conference was attended by over 1500 people at an average cost of $340.00 per student. The fees picked up for many by their college.
Shortly after Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative, gay, social media expert, spoke to a group of Young Republicans at The University of California in Irvine the administration called in the leaders of the group and suspended the club for a year because of a technical infraction. But they wouldn’t tell them which one infraction. Sounds fair, right?
UMass Amherst students threw a temper tantrum (guess which way they leaned) when, Milo Yiannopoulos was asked to speak at an event on campus. How dare they! So much for free speech.
Students interviewed on campuses across the country by Mark Dice and others were presented with statements made by Trump as if they were made by Hillary (for the interview.) The interviewees were fine with the statements and spoke with such conviction until they were told where they really came from. And then they were so embarrassed! Go figure!
A student at Claremont College was looking for a “non-white” roommate. Not a big deal you say? You see, she was a NON-white female looking for a non-white roommate. What would have happened if it had been a white female looking for a white roommate? Just askin’!
Tired of Black History month, Gay history month, people who have done nothing worthwhile history month? You now have “Whiteness History Month” at Portland Community College. They give you a whole month of white-bashing by simply teaching students ALL the bad things white people have done over the centuries.
These are just a few of the crazy examples of what is happening on college campuses across our country. More and more of this was allowed on college campuses by many administrations for fear of retribution by the Obama Administration. I have to believe that, because I can’t believe we have that many loons running the colleges across this country.
With the acceptance of cops being shot, white hate months, dead people voting, open conversation labelled “hate speech,” and more, these young people need real guidance.
We are already seeing people across the globe push back on PC. And it’s NOT Trump who should get the credit… BREXIT and Mr. Obama should! Yup, when Mr. Obama sent his not-so-covert team to Israel to meddle in their elections they gave him the proverbial middle finger and did the opposite of what he wanted. When he asked the people of Great Britain to vote against the exit, he helped the EXIT wave grow. It was great.
Still no lessons learned. Mr. Obama came out and said to the black community and Democrats, if you don’t get out and vote for Hillary, you’re voting against his policies and legacy. HELLO! Did you get the message? Nope!
Voting in Nancy Pelosi as their leader showed they still didn’t get it. And then Nancy’s soon-to-be very famous line, “Americans didn’t want a change of course, didn’t want us to change anything,” shows her meds were and continue to be the wrong dosage.
They complain about President-elect Trump’s every word and every appointment, saying it’s the wrong thing for America.
Democrats learned nothing from 2016. America, lifelong union Democrats, 8% more of the black community, more of the Asian and Hispanic communities, and more women didn’t want their same-old, same-old ways of doing business.
They’ve missed the lesson or don’t have the mental aptitude to understand it. Either way, America now wins. BUT only if you engage, get involved, go to you local school boards water boards city councils and be heard!
Do something America.
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Question: What Are Aristotle’S Rules For Tragedy?
What are the 5 elements of Greek tragedy?
What is Aristotle’s definition of tragedy?
What are Aristotle’s 6 elements of drama?
What are the main character of tragedy according to Aristotle?
What is the least important element of a tragedy?
Who according to Aristotle is the tragic hero?
What according to Aristotle are the qualities of tragic hero?
What are the four types of tragedy?
What are the three principles of a Greek tragedy?
What is the typical structure of a Greek tragedy?
What are the characteristics of a Greek tragedy?
These parts are: (1) plot, (2) character, (3) thought, (4) diction, (5) song, and (6) spectacle (Poet..
“Tragedy,” says Aristotle, “is an imitation [mimēsis] of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude…through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation [catharsis] of these emotions.” Ambiguous means may be employed, Aristotle maintains in contrast to Plato, to a virtuous and purifying end.
In Poetics, he wrote that drama (specifically tragedy) has to include 6 elements: plot, character, thought, diction, music, and spectacle.
Aristotle defines tragedy according to seven characteristics: (1) it is mimetic, (2) it is serious, (3) it tells a full story of an appropriate length, (4) it contains rhythm and harmony, (5) rhythm and harmony occur in different combinations in different parts of the tragedy, (6) it is performed rather than narrated, …
Aristotle divides tragedy into six different parts, ranking them in order from most important to least important as follows: (1) mythos, or plot, (2) character, (3) thought, (4) diction, (5) melody, and (6) spectacle.
The action of tragedy is generally dominated by the hero or the heroine. A tragic hero of the Aristotelian description is a man who enjoy prosperity and renown, but he is found involved in misfortune and suffering out of some great flaw in his characters or a fatal error in his judgement, action or conduct.
According to Aristotle, a tragic hero must:Be virtuous: In Aristotle’s time, this meant that the character should be a noble. … Be flawed: While being heroic, the character must also have a tragic flaw (also called hamartia) or more generally be subject to human error, and the flaw must lead to the character’s downfall.More items…
(5) There are four distinct kinds of tragedy, and the poet should aim at bringing out all the important parts of the kind he chooses. First, there is the complex tragedy, made up of peripeteia and anagnorisis; second, the tragedy of suffering; third, the tragedy of character; and fourth, the tragedy of spectacle.
Unities, in drama, the three principles derived by French classicists from Aristotle’s Poetics; they require a play to have a single action represented as occurring in a single place and within the course of a day. These principles were called, respectively, unity of action, unity of place, and unity of time.
The basic structure of a Greek tragedy is fairly simple. After a prologue spoken by one or more characters, the chorus enters, singing and dancing. Scenes then alternate between spoken sections (dialogue between characters, and between characters and chorus) and sung sections (during which the chorus danced).
Terms in this set (5)tragic hero. at the center of a tragedy is its hero, the main character, or protagonist. … tragic flaw. an error in judgement or a weakness in character such as pride or arrogance (helps bring about the hero’s downfall)Catastrophe. … Chorus. … Central Belief: fate.
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SCIENTIFIC REFERENCES TO INGREDIENTS IN SIGHTAMINS
Vitamin B12 methylcobalamin
Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2005 May;243(5):497-500. Epub 2004 Nov 18.
Disturbed visual system function in methionine synthase deficiency.
Poloschek CM1, Fowler B, Unsold R, Lorenz B.
Isolated functional methionine synthase deficiency occurs in the cblE and cblG defects of methylcobalamin metabolism and is one of a number of causes of severely elevated plasma homocysteine. Clinical features are predominantly of a neurological nature but also include functional restriction of the visual system manifesting as loss of visual acuity and nystagmus. As yet, the origin and pathogenesis of impaired vision have not been explained.
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
We investigated a patient who was proven by complementation analysis in cultured fibroblasts to belong to the cblG complementation group. Ganzfeld electroretinograms (ERG) and flash visual evoked potentials (VEP) were recorded over a period of 4 years.
Amplitudes of all International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV) standard responses were below normal. The greatest reductions were of rod response to 24 microV, of standard combined response (SC) b-wave to 120 microV, of oscillatory potentials (OP) to 5 microV, of cone response b-wave to 35 microV, and of 30 Hz flicker response to 8 microV. Except for SC and cone a-waves at age 2.5 and 3.5 years, as well as cone b-wave at 3.5 years, amplitudes remained at a subnormal level at follow-up examinations. Implicit times were slightly prolonged (SC b-wave 6 ms, OPs 2 ms, cone b-wave 2 ms, 30 Hz flicker 4 ms) or fell within the normal range. Responses of the flash VEP were severely deformed but reproducible.
This is the first report of detailed investigations of the visual system in a patient with isolated methionine synthase deficiency. Reduced oscillatory potentials suggest microvascular damage to the retina through homocysteine. Decreased photoreceptor function as well as ganglion cell loss as indicated by pathological flash VEPs may reflect a cytotoxic impact of homocysteine on neurons of the visual pathway.
Ophthalmology. 2013 Nov;120(11):2317-23. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2013.07.039. Epub 2013 Aug 21.
CFH and ARMS2 genetic polymorphisms predict response to antioxidants and zinc in patients with age-related macular degeneration.
Awh CC1, Lane AM, Hawken S, Zanke B, Kim IK.
The Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) demonstrated that antioxidant and zinc supplementation decreases progression to advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in patients with moderate to severe disease. We evaluated the interaction of genetics and type of nutritional supplement on progression from moderate to advanced AMD.
Genetic analysis of a randomized, prospective clinical trial.
White patients with AREDS category 3 AMD in 1 eye and AREDS categories 1 through 4 AMD in the fellow eye enrolled in the AREDS with available peripheral blood-derived DNA (995).
Subjects were evaluated for known AMD genetic risk markers and treatment category. The progression rate to advanced AMD was analyzed by genotypes and AREDS treatment group using Cox regression.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:
The effect of inherited gene polymorphisms on treatment group-specific rate of progression to advanced AMD.
Over an average of 10.1 years, individuals with 1 or 2 complement factor H (CFH) risk alleles derived maximum benefit from antioxidants alone. In these patients, the addition of zinc negated the benefits of antioxidants. Treatment with zinc and antioxidants was associated with a risk ratio (RR) of 1.83 with 2 CFH risk alleles (P = 1.03E-02), compared with outcomes for patients without CFH risk alleles. Patients with age-related maculopathy sensitivity 2 (ARMS2) risk alleles derived maximum benefit from zinc-containing regimens, with a deleterious response to antioxidants in the presence of ARMS2 risk alleles. Treatment with antioxidants was associated with an RR of 2.58 for those with 1 ARMS2 risk allele and 3.96 for those with 2 ARMS2 risk alleles (P = 1.04E-6), compared with patients with no ARMS2 risk alleles. Individuals homozygous for CFH and ARMS2 risk alleles derived no benefit from any category of AREDS treatment.
Individuals with moderate AMD could benefit from pharmacogenomic selection of nutritional supplements. In this analysis, patients with no CFH risk alleles and with 1 or 2 ARMS2 risk alleles derived maximum benefit from zinc-only supplementation. Patients with one or two CFH risk alleles and no ARMS2 risk alleles derived maximum benefit from antioxidant-only supplementation; treatment with zinc was associated with increased progression to advanced AMD. These recommendations could lead to improved outcomes through genotype-directed therapy.
PLoS One. 2011;6(12):e29245. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029245. Epub 2011 Dec 22.
Zinc deficiency leads to lipofuscin accumulation in the retinal pigment epithelium of pigmented rats.
Julien S1, Biesemeier A, Kokkinou D, Eibl O, Schraermeyer U.
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is associated with lipofuscin accumulation whereas the content of melanosomes decreases. Melanosomes are the main storage of zinc in the pigmented tissues. Since the elderly population, as the most affected group for AMD, is prone to zinc deficit, we investigated the chemical and ultrastructural effects of zinc deficiency in pigmented rat eyes after a six-month zinc penury diet.
METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:
Adult Long Evans (LE) rats were investigated. The control animals were fed with a normal alimentation whereas the zinc-deficiency rats (ZD-LE) were fed with a zinc deficient diet for six months. Quantitative Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) microanalysis yielded the zinc mole fractions of melanosomes in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). The lateral resolution of the analysis was 100 nm. The zinc mole fractions of melanosomes were significantly smaller in the RPE of ZD-LE rats as compared to the LE control rats. Light, fluorescence and electron microscopy, as well as immunohistochemistry were performed. The numbers of lipofuscin granules in the RPE and of infiltrated cells (Ø>3 µm) found in the choroid were quantified. The number of lipofuscin granules significantly increased in ZD-LE as compared to control rats. Infiltrated cells bigger than 3 µm were only detected in the choroid of ZD-LE animals. Moreover, the thickness of the Bruch’s membrane of ZD-LE rats varied between 0.4-3 µm and thin, rangy ED1 positive macrophages were found attached at these sites of Bruch’s membrane or even inside it.
CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE:
In pigmented rats, zinc deficiency yielded an accumulation of lipofuscin in the RPE and of large pigmented macrophages in the choroids as well as the appearance of thin, rangy macrophages at Bruch’s membrane. Moreover, we showed that a zinc diet reduced the zinc mole fraction of melanosomes in the RPE and modulated the thickness of the Bruch’s membrane.
© 2011 Julien et al.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1999 May;40(6):1238-44.
Zinc deficiency and oxidative stress in the retina of pigmented rats.
Miceli MV1, Tate DJ Jr, Alcock NW, Newsome DA.
To determine the effect of moderate zinc deficiency on antioxidant defenses and measures of oxidative stress in the retina and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) of Brown Norway Rats.
Twenty-four rats were housed individually and divided into three groups of 8 rats each. Group 1 was fed ad libitum a semipurified control diet formulated to contain 50 parts per million [ppm] total zinc; group 2 was fed ad libitum an identical diet but containing 5 ppm total zinc; and group 3 was pair-fed the control diet but restricted in amount to that consumed by group 2. Food intake was measured daily and the rats weighed weekly. After 6 weeks, the rats were killed and the following measurements were made: serum zinc, serum alkaline phosphatase, retinal zinc, RPE-choroid zinc, RPE-choroid catalase, liver metallothionein (MT), retinal MT, RPE-choroid MT, retinal catalase, and retinal thiobarbituric reactive substances (TBARS).
The following showed statistically significant differences between groups 2 and 3, respectively: serum Zn (1216 micro/l versus 1555 microg/l, P < or = 0.01), serum alkaline phosphatase (3.75 U/mg versus 5.10 U/mg, P < or = 0.05), liver MT (4.3 microg/mg protein versus 16.7 microg/mg, P < or = 0.0001), RPE-choroid MT (1.3 microg/mg protein versus 2.2 microg/mg, P < or = 0.02), retinal MT (0.85 microg/mg protein versus 2.8 microg/mg, P < or = 0.05), and retinal TBARS (6.2 nM/mg protein versus 2.2 nM/mg, P < or = 0.05).
The results show that retinal MT and RPE MT concentrations are very sensitive to intake of dietary zinc. The increase in retinal TBARS in group 2 indicates that moderate zinc deficiency increases oxidative stress to the retina. The results also suggest that MT is protective against lipid peroxidation of retinal membranes.
Lutein and zeaxanthin
Eur J Ophthalmol. 2012 Mar-Apr;22(2):216-25. doi: 10.5301/ejo.5000069.
Carotenoids in Age-related Maculopathy Italian Study (CARMIS): two-year results of a randomized study.
Piermarocchi S1, Saviano S, Parisi V, Tedeschi M, Panozzo G, Scarpa G, Boschi G, Lo Giudice G; Carmis Study Group.
The high concentration of carotenoids in the macula, plus evidence linking oxidative stress to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and carotenoids to antioxidation, generated the hypothesis that higher antioxidant intakes can prevent AMD. The aim of this study was to determine whether nutritional supplementation with a targeted nutritional supplement improves visual acuity and visual function in AMD.
In this multicenter, prospective open-label randomized study, 145 patients were randomly assigned to 2 different treatment groups. Interventions were lutein (10 mg), zeaxanthin (1 mg), astaxanthin (4 mg; AZYR SIFI, Catania, Italy), and antioxidants/vitamins supplementation formula or no dietary supplementation for 2 years. Primary outcome was mean changes in visual acuity (VA) at 12 and 24 months. Other measures included contrast sensitivity (CS) and National Eye Institute visual function questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25) scores at 12 and 24 months.
Patients in the treated group showed stabilization of VA with significantly (p=0.003) better VA scores (81.4 ± 7.2) compared to the nontreated group (76.8 ± 8.9) at 24-month follow-up. An improvement in CS (p=0.001) and final mean NEI VFQ-25 composite scores at 12 and 24 months higher in treated group compared to nontreated group were also shown (p<0.001).
Patients treated with lutein/zeaxanthin and astaxanthin together with other nutrients were more likely to report clinically meaningful stabilization/improvements in VA, CS, and visual function through 24 months compared with nontreated subjects. Further studies are needed with more patients and for longer periods of time.
Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2013 Dec;251(12):2711-23. doi: 10.1007/s00417-013-2376-6. Epub 2013 May 22.
Long term effects of lutein, zeaxanthin and omega-3-LCPUFAs supplementation on optical density of macular pigment in AMD patients: the LUTEGA study.
Dawczynski J1, Jentsch S, Schweitzer D, Hammer M, Lang GE, Strobel J.
The primary objective of LUTEGA is to determine the long-term effect of a supplementation with fixed combination of lutein, zeaxanthin, omega-3-longchain-polyunsaturated-fatty-acids (O-3-LCPUFAs) and antioxidants on macular pigment optical density (MPOD) in patients with non-exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
The LUTEGA study is a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. 172 patients with non-exudative AMD were enrolled and randomized to three treatment arms. Supplementation included either once (dosage D1) or twice daily (dosage D2) of 10 mg L / 1 mg Z/ O-3-LCPUFAs (thereof 100 mg DHA, 30 mg EPA)/ antioxidants, or placebo (P). After best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) test, blood sample was collected and MPOD was measured using the 1-wavelength-reflection method and recording reflection images at 480 nm (modified Visucam(NM/FA), Carl Zeiss Meditec, Germany). During 1 year of intervention, AMD patients were followed up after 1, 3, 6 and 12 months. 145 AMD patients (D1 = 50, D2 = 55, P = 40) completed the study.
After 12 months of intervention, the MPOD parameters (volume, area, maxOD, meanOD) increased significantly in treatment arms D1 and D2 (p < 0.001). Volume of MPOD showed the highest within-group difference and increased significantly in D1 and D2, and decreased significantly in P (p = 0.041). Between-group comparison of absolute changes of all MPOD parameters were significantly different between D1 and P as well as D2 and P with p < 0.001 at end point (t = 12). BCVA, measured in log MAR, improved in D1 and in D2 (p < 0.001). After 12 months of intervention, the mean improvement in BCVA was significant in D2 (p = 0.006) and D1 (p = 0.038) compared to P.
The supplementation of L, Z, O-3-LCPUFAs and antioxidants resulted in considerable increase in MPOD. There was no difference in accumulation of MPOD between both dosages. Thus, we believe that the used supplementation with L and Z seems to reach a saturation level in retinal cell structure. Additionally, the constant supplementation of L, Z, O-3-LCPUFAs and antioxidants in AMD patients seems to be useful, because MPOD reduces without supplementation. We conclude that the supplementation caused an increase of MPOD, which results in an improvement and stabilization in BCVA in AMD patients. Thus, a protective effect on the macula in AMD patients is assumed.
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Arch Ophthalmol. 2007 Sep;125(9):1225-32.
The relationship of dietary carotenoid and vitamin A, E, and C intake with age-related macular degeneration in a case-control study: AREDS Report No. 22.
Age-Related Eye Disease Study Research Group1, SanGiovanni JP, Chew EY, Clemons TE, Ferris FL 3rd, Gensler G, Lindblad AS, Milton RC, Seddon JM, Sperduto RD.
To evaluate the relationship of dietary carotenoids, vitamin A, alpha-tocopherol, and vitamin C with prevalent age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS).
Demographic, lifestyle, and medical characteristics were ascertained on 4519 AREDS participants aged 60 to 80 years at enrollment. Stereoscopic color fundus photographs were used to categorize participants into 4 AMD severity groups and a control group (participants with < 15 small drusen). Nutrient intake was estimated from a self-administered semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire at enrollment. Intake values were energy adjusted and classified by quintiles. The relationship between diet and AMD status was assessed using logistic regression analyses.
Dietary lutein/zeaxanthin intake was inversely associated with neovascular AMD (odds ratio [OR], 0.65; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.45-0.93), geographic atrophy (OR, 0.45; 95% CI, 0.24-0.86), and large or extensive intermediate drusen (OR, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.56-0.96), comparing the highest vs lowest quintiles of intake, after adjustment for total energy intake and nonnutrient-based covariates. Other nutrients were not independently related to AMD.
Higher dietary intake of lutein/zeaxanthin was independently associated with decreased likelihood of having neovascular AMD, geographic atrophy, and large or extensive intermediate drusen.
Optometry. 2004 Apr;75(4):216-30.
Double-masked, placebo-controlled, randomized trial of lutein and antioxidant supplementation in the intervention of atrophic age-related macular degeneration: the Veterans LAST study (Lutein Antioxidant Supplementation Trial).
Richer S1, Stiles W, Statkute L, Pulido J, Frankowski J, Rudy D, Pei K, Tsipursky M, Nyland J.
Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is the leading cause of vision loss in aging Westem societies. The objective of the lutein antioxidant supplementation trial (LAST) is to determine whether nutritional supplementation with lutein or lutein together with antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals, improves visual function and symptoms in atrophic ARMD.
The study was a prospective, 12-month, randomized, double-masked, placebo-controlled trial conducted at an urban midwestern Veterans Administration Hospital from August 1999 to May 2001. Ninety patients with atrophic ARMD were referred by ophthalmologists at two Chicago-area veterans medical facilities. Patients in Group 1 received lutein 10 mg (L); in Group 2, a lutein 10 mg/antioxidants/vitamins and minerals broad spectrum supplementation formula (L/A); and in Group 3, a maltodextrin placebo (P) over 12 months.
In Groups 1 L and 2 L/A, mean eye macular pigment optical density increased approximately 0.09 log units from baseline, Snellen equivalent visual acuity improved 5.4 letters for Group 1 L and 3.5 letters for Group 2 L/A, and contrast sensitivity improved. There was a net subjective improvement in Amsler grid in Group 1 L. VFO-14 questionnaires conceming subjective glare recovery were nearly significant at 4 months for Group 2 L/A. Patients who received the placebo (Group 3) had no significant changes in any of the measured findings.
In this study, visual function is improved with lutein alone or lutein together with other nutrients. Further studies are needed with more patients, of both genders, and for longer periods of time to assess long-term effects of lutein or lutein together with a broad spectrum of antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals in the treatment of atrophic age-related macular degeneration.
Maturitas. 2016 Jun;88:101-12. doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2016.04.002. Epub 2016 Apr 2.
Circulating vitamin D concentration and age-related macular degeneration: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
Annweiler C1, Drouet M2, Duval GT3, Paré PY3, Leruez S2, Dinomais M4, Milea D5.
Vitamin D may be involved in ocular function in older adults, but there is no current consensus on a possible association between circulating concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) and the occurrence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Our objective was to systematically review and quantitatively assess the association of circulating 25OHD concentration with AMD. A Medline search was conducted in November 2015, with no date limit, using the MeSH terms “Vitamin D” OR “Vitamin D deficiency” OR “Ergocalciferols” OR ‘Cholecalciferol’ combined with “Age-related macular degeneration” OR “Macular degeneration” OR “Retinal degeneration” OR “Macula lutea” OR “Retina”. Fixed and random-effects meta-analyses were performed to compute (i) standard mean difference in 25OHD concentration between AMD and non-AMD patients; (ii) AMD risk according to circulating 25OHD concentration. Of the 243 retrieved studies, 11 observational studies-10 cross-sectional studies and 1 cohort study-met the selection criteria. The number of participants ranged from 65 to 17,045 (52-100% women), and the number with AMD ranged from 31 to 1440. Circulating 25OHD concentration was 15% lower in AMD compared with non-AMD on average. AMD was inversely associated with the highest 25OHD quintile compared with the lowest (summary odds ratio (OR)=0.83 [95%CI:0.71-0.97]), notably late AMD (summary OR=0.47 [95%CI:0.28-0.79]). Circulating 25OHD<50nmol/L was also associated with late-stage AMD (summary OR=2.18 [95%CI:1.34-3.56]), an association that did not persist when all categories of AMD were considered (summary OR=1.26 [95%CI:0.90-1.76]). In conclusion, this meta-analysis provides evidence that high 25OHD concentrations may be protective against AMD, and that 25OHD concentrations below 50nmol/L are associated with late AMD.
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Age-related macular degeneration; Eye; Meta-analysis; Neuroendocrinology; Older adults; Vitamin D
PLoS One. 2013 Jul 29;8(7):e70948. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070948. Print 2013.
The association between plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D and subgroups in age-related macular degeneration: a cross-sectional study.
Singh A1, Falk MK, Subhi Y, Sørensen TL.
To evaluate potential differences in plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin in subtypes of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and in patients in Clinical Age-Related Maculopathy Staging (CARMS) group 5 with or without subretinal fibrosis.
This single-center cross-sectional study included 178 participants during a period of 20 months. Ninety-five patients belonged to CARMS 5; twelve belonged to CARMS 4; twenty-two belonged to CARMS 2 or 3; and 49 individuals did not have AMD (CARMS 1). Following a structured interview, a detailed bilateral retinal examination was performed and participants were allocated to their respective subgroups in accordance with the Clinical Age-Related Maculopathy Staging system. Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 and D3 were analyzed using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Genomic DNA was extracted from leukocytes and genotyped for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the vitamin D metabolism. Differences in plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D were determined in the subgroups as well as between patients in CARMS 5 with or without subretinal fibrosis.
Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D was comparable in patients across CARMS groups 1 to 5 (p = 0.83). In CARMS 5, the presence of subretinal fibrosis was associated with significantly lower concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D as compared to the absence of subretinal fibrosis (47.2 versus 75.6 nmol/L, p<0.001). Patients in CARMS 5 with subretinal fibrosis were more likely to have insufficient levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D compared to patients without subretinal fibrosis (p = 0.006). No association was found between the SNPs rs10877012, rs2228570, rs4588, or rs7041 and AMD subgroups or plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin levels.
This study suggests that the presence of subretinal fibrosis in patients belonging to CARMS 5 may be associated with a poor vitamin D status. Our observations warrant further investigation into the role of vitamin D in the development of subretinal fibrosis.
Polyphenols: Quercetin, berberine
Ophthalmic Res. 2015;53(3):109-16. doi: 10.1159/000369824. Epub 2015 Feb 7.
Quercetin inhibits vascular endothelial growth factor-induced choroidal and retinal angiogenesis in vitro.
Li F1, Bai Y, Zhao M, Huang L, Li S, Li X, Chen Y.
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of quercetin on vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-induced choroidal and retinal angiogenesis in vitro using a rhesus macaque choroid-retinal endothelial (RF/6A) cell line.
RF/6A cells were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum. Then the cells were treated with different concentrations (from 0 to 100 μM) of quercetin and 100 ng/ml VEGF. The cell proliferation was assessed using cholecystokinin octapeptide dye. The cell migration was investigated by a Transwell assay. The tube formation was measured on Matrigel. Furthermore, the impact of quercetin’s effects on VEGF-induced activation of VEGF receptor 2 (VEGFR-2) downstream signal pathways was tested by Western blot analysis.
Quercetin inhibits RF/6A cell proliferation in a dose-dependent fashion: 22.7, 31.5 and 36.7% inhibition on treatment with 10, 50 and 100 μM quercetin, respectively. VEGF-induced migration and tube formation of RF/6A cells were also significantly inhibited by quercetin in a dose-dependent manner. Quercetin inhibits VEGF-induced VEGFR-2 downstream signal pathways of RF/6A.
The results show that quercetin inhibits VEGF-induced cell proliferation, migration and tube formation of RF/6A. We suggest that quercetin inhibits VEGF-induced choroidal and retinal angiogenesis in vitro. Collectively, the findings in the present study suggest that quercetin inhibits VEGF-induced choroidal and retinal angiogenesis by targeting the VEGFR-2 pathway. This suggests that quercetin is a choroidal and retinal angiogenesis inhibitor.
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Exp Eye Res. 2016 Apr;145:1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2015.10.005. Epub 2015 Oct 22.
Berberine protects against light-induced photoreceptor degeneration in the mouse retina.
Song D1, Song J2, Wang C3, Li Y1, Dunaief JL4.
Oxidative stress and inflammation play key roles in the light damage (LD) model of photoreceptor degeneration, as well as in age-related macular degeneration (AMD). We sought to investigate whether Berberine (BBR), an antioxidant herb extract, would protect the retina against light-induced degeneration. To accomplish this, Balb/c mice were treated with BBR or PBS via gavage for 7 days, and then were placed in constant cool white light-emitting diode (LED) light (10,000 lux) for 4 h. Retinal function and degeneration were evaluated by histology, electroretinography (ERG) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) at 7d after LD. Additionally, mRNA levels of cell-type specific, antioxidant, and inflammatory genes were compared 7d after LD. Photoreceptor DNA fragmentation was assessed via the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end-labeling (TUNEL) assay. LD resulted in substantial photoreceptor-specific cell death. Histological analysis using plastic sections showed dosing with BBR preserved photoreceptors. The ERG analysis demonstrated functional protection by BBR in rod-b, -a, and cone-b waves. In OCT images, mice receiving PBS showed severe thinning and disorganization of the photoreceptor layer 7 days after LD, whereas mice treated with BBR had significantly less thinning and disorganization. Consistent with OCT results, the mRNA levels of Rho in the NSR, and Rpe65 and Mct3 in the RPE, were significantly higher in mice treated with BBR. The numbers of TUNEL-positive photoreceptors were significantly decreased in BBR-treated mice. The retinal mRNA levels of oxidative stress genes, the number of microglia/macrophages, and the malondialdehyde (MDA) immunolabeling were significantly lower in BBR-treated mice compared to controls 48 h after LD, which indicates oxidative stress was reduced by BBR in light-damaged eyes. In conclusion, systemic BBR is protective against light-induced retinal degeneration associated with diminished oxidative stress in the retina. These results suggest that BBR may be protective against retinal diseases involving oxidative stress.
Berberine; Light damage; Oxidative stress; Photoreceptor degeneration; Retina
Beta cyclodextrin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Apr 8;111(14):E1402-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1400530111. Epub 2014 Mar 24.
Beta cyclodextrins bind, stabilize, and remove lipofuscin bisretinoids from retinal pigment epithelium.
Nociari MM1, Lehmann GL, Perez Bay AE, Radu RA, Jiang Z, Goicochea S, Schreiner R, Warren JD, Shan J, Adam de Beaumais S, Ménand M, Sollogoub M, Maxfield FR, Rodriguez-Boulan E.
Accumulation of lipofuscin bisretinoids (LBs) in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is the alleged cause of retinal degeneration in genetic blinding diseases (e.g., Stargardt) and a possible etiological agent for age-related macular degeneration. Currently, there are no approved treatments for these diseases; hence, agents that efficiently remove LBs from RPE would be valuable therapeutic candidates. Here, we show that beta cyclodextrins (β-CDs) bind LBs and protect them against oxidation. Computer modeling and biochemical data are consistent with the encapsulation of the retinoid arms of LBs within the hydrophobic cavity of β-CD. Importantly, β-CD treatment reduced by 73% and 48% the LB content of RPE cell cultures and of eyecups obtained from Abca4-Rdh8 double knock-out (DKO) mice, respectively. Furthermore, intravitreal administration of β-CDs reduced significantly the content of bisretinoids in the RPE of DKO animals. Thus, our results demonstrate the effectiveness of β-CDs to complex and remove LB deposits from RPE cells and provide crucial data to develop novel prophylactic approaches for retinal disorders elicited by LBs. PMID: 24706818
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Notable work(s), Al-Mudawwana. Sahnun ibn Sa’id ibn Habib at-Tanukhi (c. / 77 – /55) ( AH – AH) was a jurist in. Mālik b. Anas b. Mālik b. Abī ʿĀmir b. ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārit̲h̲ b. G̲h̲aymān b. K̲h̲ut̲h̲ayn .. Al-Mudawwana al-Kubra, written down by Sahnun ibn Sa’id ibn Habib at-Tanukhi (c. – ) after the death of Malik ibn Anas. Al-Mudawwana al-Kubra. Front Cover. Mālik ibn Anas. Maktaba al-Sa’ada Bibliographic information. QR code for Al-Mudawwana al-Kubra.
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Perhaps Malik’s most famous accomplishment in the annals of Islamic history is, however, his compilation of the Muwattaone of the zl-kubra and most revered Sunni hadith al-murawwana and one of “the earliest surviving Muslim law-book[s],” [3] in which Malik attempted to “give a survey of law and justice ; ritual and practice of religion according to the consensus of Islam in Medina, according to the sunna usual in Medina; and to create a theoretical standard for matters which were not settled from the point of view of consensus and sunna.
According to classical Sunni tradition, the Prophet Muhammad foretold the birth of Malik, saying: Malik was born the son of Anas ibn Malik who is not the Sahabi with the same name and Aaliyah bint Shurayk al-Azdiyya in Medina circa His family was originally from the al-Asbahi tribe of Yemenbut his great grandfather Abu ‘Amir relocated the family to Medina after converting to Islam in the second year of the Hijri calendaror CE. His grandfather Malik ibn Abi Amir was a student of the second Caliph of Islam Umar and was one of those involved in the collection of the parchments upon which Quranic texts were originally written when those were collected during the Caliph Uthman era.
Living in Medina gave Malik access to some of the most learned minds of early Islam.
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He memorized the Quran in his youth, learning recitation from Abu Suhail Nafi’ ibn ‘Abd ar-Rahmanfrom whom he also received his Ijazahor certification and permission to teach others. Malik’s chain of narrators was considered the most authentic and called Silsilat al-Dhahab or “The Golden Chain ak-kubra Narrators” by notable hadith scholars including Muhammad al-Bukhari. Abdul-Ghani Ad-Daqr wrote that Malik was ‘the furthest of all people’ from dialectic theology who was the most knowledgeable of their discussions without accepting al-kugra views.
Haddad, on the other hand, argued that Malik was not completely averse to the idea of dialectic theology; on the contrary, Haddad points to Malik having studied ‘at the feet of Ibn Hurmuz,’ a master in dialectic theology, for ‘thirteen to sixteen years’. Regarding Malik’s unique contributions to the field of theology specifically, it is known that he was a strict opponent of anthropomorphism[16] and deemed it absurd to compare the attributes of God which were given in “human imagery” such as that of God’s “hands” or “eyes” with those of man.
Malik was a supporter of the orthodox Sunni doctrine of the beatific vision[19] and he is said to have cited Quran Verily, from their Lord, that day, shall they [the transgressors] be al-lubra as proof of his belief. When asked about the nature of faithMalik defined it as “speech and works” qawlun wa-‘amalwhich shows that Malik was averse to rigorously separating between faith and works. Malik seems to have been a proponent of intercession in personal supplication.
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On the basis of several early traditions, it is evident that Malik held the early Sufis and their practices in high regard. When he knows the outward science and puts it into practice, God shall open for him the inward science – and that will not take place except by the opening of his heart and its enlightenment.
Only he who combines the two proves true tahaqqaqa. While there are a few traditions relating that Malik, while not an opponent of mysticism as a whole, was nonetheless adverse specifically to the practice of group dhikrsuch traditions have been graded as being munkar or “weak” in their chain of transmission. Malik was a supporter of tabarruk or the “seeking of blessing through [the veneration of] relics.
Malik considered following the sunnah of the Prophet to be of capital importance for every Muslim. It is reported that he said: Whoever boards it is saved, and whoever remains away from it perishes.
Accounts of Malik’s life demonstrate that the scholar cherished differences of opinion amongst al-mucawwana ulema as a mercy from God to the Islamic community. I shall write to the leaders of the armies and to the rulers so that they make it al-mudawwaha, and whoever contravenes it shall be put to death,” Malik is said to have responded: Truly, the Prophet was present in this community, he used to send out troops or set forth in person, and he did not conquer many lands until God took back his soul.
Then Abu Bakr arose and he also did not conquer many lands. Then Umar arose after the two of them and many lands were conquered at his hands. As a result, he faced the necessity of sending out the Companions of Muhammad as teachers and people did not cease to take from them, notable scholars from notable scholars until our time. If you now go and change them from what they know to what they do not know they shall deem it disbelief kufr.
Rather, confirm the people of each land with regard to whatever knowledge is there, and take this knowledge to yourself. According to another narration, al-Mansur, after hearing Malik’s answers to certain important sl-kubra, said: They will leave aside innovations and keep only this knowledge.
For I consider that the source of knowledge is the narrative tradition al-kubda Medina and the knowledge of its scholars. For people have already heard different positions, heard hadithand related narrations. Every group has taken whatever came to them and put it into practice, conforming to it while other people differed.
To take them away from what they have been professing will cause a disaster. Al-,ubra, leave people with whatever school they follow and whatever the people of each country chose for themselves.
Malik is famous for declaring: He did not answer me except on five. If the ‘alim bypasses ‘I do not know,’ he will receive a mortal blow.
Malik is said to have detested disputing in matters of religion, saying: In the MuwattaMalik writes: The available physical descriptions of Malik relate that he “was tall, heavy-set, imposing of stature, very fair, with white beard Malik died at the age of 85 in Medina in and is buried in the famous Jannat ul-Baqi cemetery across from the Mosque of the Prophet.
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Although there was a small shrine constructed around his grave during the medieval period, with many Muslims visiting it to pay their respects, the construction was razed to the ground by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during their campaign of demolishing many of the traditional Islamic heritage sites after the kingdom’s establishment in Malik’s last words were related by one Isma’il ibn Abi Uways who said, “Malik became sick, so I asked some of our people about what he said at the time of his death.
They said, “He recited the testification of faith and then he recited:. Their affair is for God, before and after. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Not to be confused with Anas ibn Malik. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.
The Formation of the Mudawwana
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This page was last edited on 4 Decemberat By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Influenced Virtually all subsequent Sunni Muslimsbut particularly jurists and mystics of the Maliki school. Muhammad — prepared the Constitution of Medinataught the Quranand advised his companions.
Ali fourth caliph taught. AishaMuhammad’s wife and Abu Bakr ‘s daughter taught. Abd Allah ibn Abbas taught. Zayd ibn Thabit taught. Umar second caliph taught. Abu Hurairah — taught. Alqama ibn Qays died taught. Husayn ibn Ali — taught.
Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr taught and raised by Aisha. Urwah ibn Zubayr died taught by Aisha, he then taught.
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Said ibn al-Musayyib taught. Abdullah ibn Umar taught. Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr taught by Aisha, he then taught.
Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin — taught. Hisham ibn Urwah taught. Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri died taught. Salim ibn Abd-Allah ibn Umar taught. Umar ibn Abdul Aziz raised and taught by Abdullah ibn Umar. Hammad bin ibi Sulman taught. Muhammad al-Baqir taught. Farwah bint al-Qasim Abu Bakr’s great grand daughter Jafar’s mother. Zayd ibn Ali Malik ibn Anas — wrote Muwattajurisprudence from early Medina period now mostly followed by Sunni in Africa and taught.
Abu La-mudawwana wrote Usul al-fiqh. Isma’il ibn Jafar Ahmad ibn Hanbal — wrote Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal jurisprudence followed by Sunni and hadith books. Muhammad al-Bukhari wrote Sahih al-Bukhari hadith books. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj wrote Sahih Muslim hadith books.
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A former huge tech insider helps with antitrust circumstances towards the businesses.
by Lightlynews.com · On December 21, 2020 · In Business
A former tech trade insider is now taking part in a key function within the wave of antitrust lawsuits towards the large tech firms.
Dina Srinivasan, who as soon as labored as a digital promoting govt at WPP, the world’s largest promoting company, stop her job three years in the past after changing into disillusioned by the immense energy giant wielded by firms like Facebook and Google, Daisuke Wakabayashi reviews in The New York Times.
“It simply felt like, OK, Facebook and Google have been going to win and everyone else goes to lose and that’s simply the best way the playing cards have been stacked,” Ms. Srinivasan mentioned. “I don’t assume this was broadly understood.”
She took up the case towards them as an alternative, writing tutorial papers with an insider’s perspective that reframed the antitrust serious about the businesses. And her timing was excellent.
Federal regulators and state attorneys common had expressed rising unease about Big Tech’s unchecked energy. But many had struggled with the right way to convey a case due to the complexity of the businesses and the markets they competed in. Arguing that these firms have been harming customers was additionally tough as a result of lots of their merchandise are free.
“Her papers are simply very clearly on level in regards to the precise conduct of the platforms and its aggressive significance,” Marshall Steinbaum, an assistant professor on the University of Utah’s economics division, wrote on Twitter. “They’re useful to enforcers and are available from a perspective of somebody who clearly is aware of the trade and the details.”
In latest months, mounting considerations in regards to the outsize affect of tech’s strongest firms have set off a cascade of antitrust lawsuits, with three circumstances concentrating on Google and two fits towards Facebook.
As the authorized arguments take form, there may be proof of Ms. Srinivasan’s fingerprints.
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A.C. No. 10179 (Formerly CBD 11–2985), March 04, 2014
BENJAMIN Q. ONG, Complainant, v. ATTY. WILLIAM F. DELOS SANTOS, Respondent.
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A lawyer’s issuance of a worthless check renders him in breach of his oath to obey the laws. To accord with the canon of professional responsibility that requires him to uphold the Constitution, obey the laws of the land, and promote respect for the law and legal processes, he thereby becomes administratively liable for gross misconduct.
In January 2008, complainant Benjamin Ong was introduced to respondent Atty. William F. Delos Santos by Sheriff Fernando Mercado of the Metropolitan Trial Court of Manila. After several calls and personal interactions between them, Ong and Atty. Delos Santos became friends.1 In time, according to Ong, Atty. Delos Santos asked him to encash his postdated check inasmuch as he was in dire need of cash. To reassure Ong that the check would be funded upon maturity, Atty. Delos Santos bragged about his lucrative practice and his good paying clients. Convinced of Atty. Delos Santos’ financial stability, Ong handed to Atty. Delos Santos on January 29, 2008 the amount of P100,000.00 in exchange for the latter’s Metrobank Check No. 0110268 postdated February 29, 2008.2 However, the check was dishonored upon presentment for the reason that the account was closed.3 Ong relayed the matter of the dishonor to Atty. Delos Santos, and demanded immediate payment, but the latter just ignored him.4 When efforts to collect remained futile, Ong brought a criminal complaint for estafa and for violation of Batas Pambansa Blg. 22 against Atty. Delos Santos.5 Ong also brought this disbarment complaint against Atty. Delos Santos in the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), which docketed the complaint as CBD Case No. 11–2985.
Findings and Recommendation of the IBP Bar Commissioner
In his Commissioner’s Report,6 IBP Bar Commissioner Jose I. Dela Rama, Jr. stated that Ong had sufficiently established the existence of the dishonored check; and that Atty. Delos Santos did not file his answer despite notice, and did not also present contrary evidence.7 He recommended that Atty. Delos Santos be held liable for violating Canon 1, Rule 1.01 and Canon 7, Rule 7.03 of the Code of Professional Responsibility; and that the penalty of suspension from the practice of law for two years, plus the return of the amount of P100,000.00 to the complainant,8 be meted on Atty. Delos Santos in view of an earlier disbarment case brought against him (Lucman v. Atty. Delos Santos, CBD Case No. 09–253).
Resolution No. XX–2013–253
On March 20, 2013, the IBP Board of Governors issued Resolution No. XX–2013–253 adopting and approving the findings of IBP Commissioner Dela Rama, Jr.,9 to wit:
RESOLVED to ADOPT and APPROVE, as it is hereby unanimously ADOPTED and APPROVED the Report and Recommendation of the Investigating Commissioner in the above–entitled case, herein made part of this Resolution as Annex “A,” and finding the recommendation fully supported by the evidence on record and the applicable laws and rules and considering that Respondent violated Canon 1, Rule 1.01 and Canon 7, Rule 7.03 of the Code of Professional Responsibility, Atty. William F. Delos Santos is hereby SUSPENDED from the practice of law for three (3) years and ORDERED to RETURN the amount of One Hundred Thousand (P100,000.00) Pesos to complainant with legal interest within thirty days from receipt of notice.
By issuing the worthless check, did Atty. Delos Santos violate Canon 1, Rule 1.01 and Canon 7, Rule 7.03 of the Code of Professional Responsibility?
We agree with the findings of the IBP but modify the recommended penalty.
Every lawyer is an officer of the Court. He has the duty and responsibility to maintain his good moral character. In this regard, good moral character is not only a condition precedent relating to his admission into the practice of law, but is a continuing imposition in order for him to maintain his membership in the Philippine Bar.10 The Court unwaveringly demands of him to remain a competent, honorable, and reliable individual in whom the public may repose confidence.11 Any gross misconduct that puts his moral character in serious doubt renders him unfit to continue in the practice of law.12
Batas Pambansa Blg. 22 has been enacted in order to safeguard the interest of the banking system and the legitimate public checking account users.13 The gravamen of the offense defined and punished by Batas Pambansa Blg. 22, according to Lozano v. Martinez,14 is the act of making and issuing a worthless check, or any check that is dishonored upon its presentment for payment and putting it in circulation; the law is designed to prohibit and altogether eliminate the deleterious and pernicious practice of issuing checks with insufficient funds, or with no credit, because the practice is deemed a public nuisance, a crime against public order to be abated. The Court has observed in Lozano v. Martinez:
The effects of the issuance of a worthless check transcends the private interests of the parties directly involved in the transaction and touches the interests of the community at large. The mischief it creates is not only a wrong to the payee or holder, but also an injury to the public. The harmful practice of putting valueless commercial papers in circulation, multiplied a thousandfold, can very well pollute the channels of trade and commerce, injure the banking system and eventually hurt the welfare of society and the public interest.15 xxx
Being a lawyer, Atty. Delos Santos was well aware of the objectives and coverage of Batas Pambansa Blg. 22. If he did not, he was nonetheless presumed to know them, for the law was penal in character and application. His issuance of the unfunded check involved herein knowingly violated Batas Pambansa Blg. 22, and exhibited his indifference towards the pernicious effect of his illegal act to public interest and public order.16 He thereby swept aside his Lawyer’s Oath that enjoined him to support the Constitution and obey the laws. He also took for granted the express commands of the Code of Professional Responsibility, specifically Canon 1, Rule 1.01 and Canon 7, Rule 7.03, viz:
CANON 1 – A LAWYER SHALL UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, OBEY THE LAWS OF THE LAND AND PROMOTE RESPECT FOR THE LAW AND LEGAL PROCESSES.
Rule 1.01 – A Lawyer shall not engage in unlawful, dishonest, immoral or deceitful conduct.
CANON 7 – A LAWYER SHALL AT ALL TIMES UPHOLD THE INTEGRITY AND DIGNITY OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION AND SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE INTEGRATED BAR.
Rule 7.03 – A lawyer shall not engage in conduct that adversely reflects on his fitness to practice law, nor shall he, whether in public or private life, behave in a scandalous manner to the discredit of the legal profession.
These canons, the Court has said in Agno v. Cagatan,17 required of him as a lawyer an enduring high sense of responsibility and good fidelity in all his dealings, thus:
The afore–cited canons emphasize the high standard of honesty and fairness expected of a lawyer not only in the practice of the legal profession but in his personal dealings as well. A lawyer must conduct himself with great propriety, and his behavior should be beyond reproach anywhere and at all times. For, as officers of the courts and keepers of the public’s faith, they are burdened with the highest degree of social responsibility and are thus mandated to behave at all times in a manner consistent with truth and honor. Likewise, the oath that lawyers swear to impresses upon them the duty of exhibiting the highest degree of good faith, fairness and candor in their relationships with others. Thus, lawyers may be disciplined for any conduct, whether in their professional or in their private capacity, if such conduct renders them unfit to continue to be officers of the court.18
That his act involved a private dealing with Ong did not matter. His being a lawyer invested him – whether he was acting as such or in a non–professional capacity – with the obligation to exhibit good faith, fairness and candor in his relationship with others. There is no question that a lawyer could be disciplined not only for a malpractice in his profession, but also for any misconduct committed outside of his professional capacity.19 His being a lawyer demanded that he conduct himself as a person of the highest moral and professional integrity and probity in his dealings with others.20
Moreover, in issuing the dishonored check, Atty. Delos Santos put into serious question not only his personal integrity but also the integrity of the entire Integrated Bar. It cannot be denied that Ong acceded to Atty. Delos Santos’ request for encashment of the check because of his complete reliance on the nobility of the Legal Profession. The following excerpts from Ong’s testimony bear this out, to wit:
COMM. DELA RAMA: What did you feel when you were issued a bounced check by the respondent?
MR. ONG: Actually, the reason I even loaned him money because actually he was not even my friend. He was just referred to me. The reason why I felt at ease to loan him money was because the sheriff told me that abogado eto. It is his license that would be at stake that’s why I lent him the money.21
COMM. DELA RAMA: In other words, what you are saying is that you felt betrayed when the lawyer issued a bounced check in your favor.
MR. ONG : Yes, Commissioner.
COMM. DELA RAMA: Why, what is your expectation of a lawyer?
MR. ONG : They uphold the law, they know the law. He should not have issued the check if you know it cannot be funded because actually I have many lawyer friend[s] and I have always high regard for lawyers.22
Atty. Delos Santos should always be mindful of his duty to uphold the law and to be circumspect in all his dealings with the public. Any transgression of this duty on his part would not only diminish his reputation as a lawyer but would also erode the public’s faith in the Legal Profession as a whole. His assuring Ong that he was in good financial standing because of his lucrative law practice when the contrary was true manifested his intent to mislead the latter into giving a substantial amount in exchange for his worthless post–dated check. Such actuation did not speak well of him as a member of the Bar.
Accordingly, Atty. Delos Santos was guilty of serious misconduct, warranting appropriate administrative sanction. Noting that the criminal complaint charging him with the violation of Batas Pambansa Blg. 22 was already dismissed, and that he already repaid to Ong the full amount of P100,000.00,23 both of which are treated as mitigating circumstances in his favor, we find the recommendation of the IBP Board of Governors to suspend him from the practice of law for a period of three years harsh. Thus, we reduce the penalty to suspension from the practice of law to six months in order to accord with the ruling in Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation v. Carandang.24
ACCORDINGLY, the Court PRONOUNCES respondent ATTY. WILLIAM F. DELOS SANTOS GUILTY of violating the Lawyer’s Oath, and Canon 1, Rule 1.01 and Canon 7, Rule 7.03 of the Code of Professional Responsibility, and, accordingly, SUSPENDS HIM FROM THE PRACTICE OF LAW FOR A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS EFFECTIVE FROM NOTICE, with a stern warning that any similar infraction in the future will be dealt with more severely.
Let copies of this decision be furnished to the Office of the Bar Confidant to be appended to Atty. Delos Santos’ personal record as an attorney; to the Integrated Bar of the Philippines; and to all courts in the country for their information and guidance.
Carpio,*(Acting Chief Justice), Velasco, Jr., Leonardo–De Castro, Brion, Peralta, Del Castillo, Abad, Villarama, Jr., Perez, Mendoza, Reyes, Perlas–Bernabe, and Leonen, JJ., concur.
Sereno, C.J., on leave.
* Acting Chief Justice per Special Order No. 1644 dated February 25, 2014.
1Rollo, pp. 2–3.
2 Id. at 3.
6 Id. at 55–60.
7 Id. at 56.
10Manaois v. Deciembre, Adm. Case No. 5364, August 20, 2008, 562 SCRA 359, 363–364; Rural Bank of Silay, Inc. v. Pilla, Adm. Case No. 3637, January 24, 2001, 350 SCRA 138, 145; Narag v. Narag, A.C. No. 3405, June 29, 1998, 291 SCRA 451, 463.
11Sebastian v. Bajar, A.C. No. 3731, September 7, 2007, 532 SCRA 435, 448.
12Re: Letter Dated 21 February 2005 of Atty. Noel S. Sorreda, A.M. No. 05–3–04–SC, July 22, 2005, 464 SCRA 32, 45; Grande v. De Silva, A.C. No. 4838, July 29, 2003, 407 SCRA 310, 313.
13Magno v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 96132, June 26, 1992, 210 SCRA 471, 478.
14 G.R. No. L–63419, 18 December 1986, 146 SCRA 323, 338.
15 Id. at 340.
16Santos–Tan v. Robiso, A.C. No. 6383, March 31, 2009, 582 SCRA 556, 564.
17 A.C. No. 4515, July 14, 2008, 558 SCRA 1.
18 Id. at 17–18
19Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation v. Carandang, A.C. No. 5700, January 30, 2006, 480 SCRA 512, 518.
20Fernandez v. Cabrera III, A.C. No. 5623, December 11, 2003, 418 SCRA 1, 5.
21Rollo, p. 45.
22 Id. at 47.
23 Id. at 39–43.
24 Supra note 19, at 519
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The North Atlantic right whale is critically endangered. The National Marine Fisheries Service pegs its current population at roughly 313 individuals, unchanged over the last 25 years. (Early this year there were hopeful reports of a potential rebound, or at least a very good calving season.) Right whales migrate from winter calving grounds off Florida to summer feeding grounds in New England and north. Because their migratory route hugs the busy eastern seaboard, ship strikes are the single most important threat to the population. Late last year, NMFS established some seasonal restrictions on vessel operations intended to reduce the hazards to whales near major eastern ports, but a new study suggests that the regulated areas may not be large enough to protect migrating whales.
NMFS has determined that the Atlantic right whale population is already so reduced that it cannot sustain any deaths or serious injuries at human hands if it is to recover. It is illegal under both the ESA and the Marine Mammal Protection Act to hit a right whale with a ship, but of course ship strikes are typically not intentional. Based on data indicating that both the likelihood of a collision and its risk of causing serious injury or death rise sharply with vessel speed, last December NMFS established a seasonal speed limit of 10 knots within 20 nautical miles (37 km) of major ports. Shipping interests fought the rule, which will marginally increase travel times without, they argue, acutally helping whales. NMFS responded by downsizing the restricted speed areas from the originally proposed 30 nm (56 km) and, in an unusual twist, including a five-year sunset clause and committing during that time, “to the extent possible with existing resources,” to study both ship-whale interactions and the economic impacts of the speed limit.
NMFS didn’t specify what information it would most like to have before the rule’s scheduled December 2013 expiration date. Since the data on the effects of ship strikes and the effects of speed look pretty strong already, the most important gap seems to involve where and when right whales travel. A group from Duke University is seeking to fill that gap. In a paper just published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (subscription required), they propose a new model of whale migratory routes based on satellite monitoring of two radio-tagged females. They conclude that at least some whales are migrating at a greater distance from the coast than previously believed, meaning that larger low-speed zones may be needed to protect them against ship strikes.
This work is, of course, only a starting point. The authors concede that they have tracked only two whales, but they note that two reproductively active females is a significant portion of that “most valuable segment of the population,” currently estimated to total only 97.
This example highlights the existence of key data gaps in natural resource management, not only in this case but in every controversial context. Regulatory agencies frequently must act, as they did in setting the speed limit rule, with only limited information. That’s always politically difficult if action has economic consequences, because the agency cannot guarantee that the economic costs will be balanced by corresponding environmental benefits. In cases like this one, where even one ship strike, especially on a pregnant or nursing female, could be too much for the species to tolerate, the agencies must be able to take a precautionary approach to regulation, implementing protective rules even without conclusive evidence that those rules are either necessary or sufficient to meet the conservation goal. At the same time, it makes sense to characterize those rules as tentative, although a sunset provision, which makes the species take the risk of future inaction or political gridlock, is probably not the best way to do that. It would also make sense for the agency to be more explict about what sorts of information would be most helpful to its ongoing regulatory task, and for the nation to direct more of its research funding to groups willing and able to seek that needed information.
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As a woman of color who writes thrillers, I often feel like the oddball at almost every writing event I attend. Historically, the broad genre of crime fiction has belonged to white men, and while I’ve learned so much about writing from many of them, I find myself yearning to read books written by authors whose experiences more closely reflect my own. After all, crime is diverse. Crime fiction should be, as well.
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When a domestic worker is found dead at Lana Lee’s first catering job, Lana wonders if Donna Feng, the owner of the shopping plaza where her family’s Ho-Lee Noodle House restaurant is situated, has something to do with it. This fifth book in Chien’s delightful Cleveland-set Noodle Shop Mystery series promises more of what makes her books so much fun to read. A cozy mystery paired with dim sum? I’m in.
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May 1, 2014 · Filed under Literary Loch Lomond and the Trossachs · Tagged Aberfoyle, Andrew Lang, Charles Nodier, Gartmore, John MacCormick, Patrick Graham, Patrick Graham [Sketches of Perthshire], R.B.Cunninghame Graham, R.L.Stevenson, Robert Kirk [The Secret Commonwealth], Scott [Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft; Rob Roy], Wilfred Taylor, William McGonagall, William Power, William Richardson
From Lake of Menteith follow A81 to Aberfoyle. At the road junction the A81 turns south. By following it to Ward Toll a return journey can be made to Aberfoyle by Chapelarroch and Gartmore (Cunninghame Graham Memorial). Leave A81 and continue by the A821 which goes through Aberfoyle to the Bailie Nichol Jarvie Hotel, the Brig o’ Forth and Kirkton. Cars can be left in the Car Park, on the site of the former railway station.
Aberfoyle has two distinct, if interconnected, claims to literary fame. The most notable is that Sir Walter Scott set the most telling scenes of Rob Roy in Aberfoyle, but the literary provenance of the place goes back much further. The Minister of the Parish from 1685 to 1692 was Robert Kirk. Like many ministers he was a noted scholar who, among other achievements, was the first to translate the Metrical Psalms into Gaelic, and he was asked to superintend the publication of the most significant Gaelic Bible of the seventeenth century. However, it was his interest in fairies and his publication of The Secret Commonwealth, the book about Scottish fairies, which gave him a lasting reputation. It can be said with some certainty that, nowadays, there is less interest in fairies than there was in the seventeenth century. Kirk might be perceived, on this account, as a figure of fun, and receive less attention than he deserves. In considering his life and its influence it is essential to recollect that, until very recently, superstition played an important part in country life. Indeed it still does. Much that was then unexplained made sense if you involved fairies. Scott used Aberfoyle in Rob Roy, and makes much of Kirk and the Fairy Knowe at Aberfoyle as literary device in that book, to mark the transition from the Lowlands to the Highlands. Scott learned about Kirk when he visited the Manse as a young lawyer, although his reference to Kirk in a note to Rob Roy is misleading about his dates. However, a good precis of The Secret Commonwealth is provided by Scott in his Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, dated 1830.
Andrew Lang (1844-1912), folklorist, poet, novelist and historian had a great interest in Kirk, and wrote the introduction to an edition of the Secret Commonwealth of 1893, as had Scott before him to an edition of 1815. Lang’s dedication in ‘The Secret Commonwealth’ provides a further powerful literary connection. It was addressed to Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94). Stevenson frequented Bridge of Allan when he was young, and there are two books about the time he spent there. There is less evidence of Stevenson’s knowledge of the Trossachs, but he undoubtedly drew inspiration from the Highlands. He was then in the Samoa, where he was known as ‘Tusitala’, said to mean ‘teller-of-tales’. Stevenson was, of course, much interested in the Scottish Kirk, in the Covenant, and in the weird and the supernatural. Lang’s dedication is an amusing and neglected dialect poem:
O Louis! you that like them maist
Ye’re far frae kelpie, wraith and ghaist,
And fairy dames, no unco chaste,-
And haunted cell,
Among a heathen clan ye’re placed,
That kens na hell!
Ye hae nae heather, peat, nor birks,
Nae troot in a’ your burnies lurks,
There are nae bonny U.P.Kirks,
An awfu’ place!
Nane kens the Covenant o’ Works
Frae that of Grace!
But whiles, maybe, to them ye’ll read
Blads o’ the Covenanting creed,
And whiles their pagan hames ye’ll feed
On hailsome parritch;
And syne ye’ll gar them learn a screed
O the Shorter Carritch’
Yet thae uncovenanted shavers
Hae rowth, ye say o’ clash and clavers
O gods and etins – auld wives’ havers
But their delight;
The voice o’ him that tells them quavers
Just wi’ fair fright.,
And ye might tell, ayont the faem,
Thae Hieland clashes o’ oor hame-
To speak the truth, I tak’ na shame
To half believe them;
And stamped wi’ TUSITALA’S name,
They’ll a’ receive them.*
And folk to come, ayont the sea,
May hear the yowl of the Banshie,
And frae the water-kelpie flee,
Ere all things cease,
And island bairns may stolen be
By the Folk o’ Peace.
Faith, they might steal me, wi’ ma will,
And, ken’d I ony Fairy Hill
I’d lay me down there, snod and still,
Their land to win,
For, man, I’ve maistly had my fill!
O’ this world’s din.
The habit of writing poems about fellow denizens of the literary jungle was quite prevalent in late Victorian times. Earlier Stevenson himself dedicated poems to Lang, to S.R.Crockett and to Henley among others. That Lang should think of Stevenson in connection with Kirk was entirely understandable. Whether Stevenson knew of his intention is not clear. However, if he did not, it is a remarkable coincidence that, in the same year, Stevenson was thinking of the Trossachs. On 6th June, 1893 he wrote in a letter to Sydney Colvin:
I was standing out on the little verandah in front of my room this morning, and there went through me or over me a wave of extraordinary and apparently baseless emotion. I literally staggered. And then the explanation came, and I knew I had found a frame of mind and body that belonged to Scotland, and particularly to the neighbourhood of Callander. Very odd these identities of sensation and the world of connotations implied; highland huts and peat smoke, and brown swirling rivers, and wet clothes, and whisky, and the romance of the past, and that indescribable bite of the whole thing at a man’s heart, which is – or rather lies at the bottom of – a story.
Lang’s edition of The Secret Commonwealth is regarded by folklorists as being rather slapdash. However, his introduction is an extended essay in faery beliefs which is both erudite and enthusiatic. The book was reprinted in 1933 with a further introduction another locally connected author, R.B.Cunninghame Graham. A fine etching of ‘The Hill of the Fairies’ by D.Y. Cameron, who lived at Kippen, illustrated the book, which was published by Eneas MacKay of Stirling.
Lang also wrote another, more often quoted, poem about Kirk. The Fairy Minister, apart from being an interesting poem in itself, provides a suitable reminder of Kirk, full of allusions to the fairy stories of the district:
THE FAIRY MINISTER
The Rev Mr Kirk of Aberfoyle was carried away by the
Fairies in 1692
People of Peace! a peaceful man,
Well worthy of your love was he,
Who, while roaring Garry ran
Red with the lifeblood of Dundee.
When coats were turning, crowns were falling,”
Wandered along his valley still,
And heard their mystic voices calling
From fairy knowe and haunted hill.
He heard, he saw, he knew too well!
The secrets of your fairy clan;
You stole him from the haunted dell,
Who never more was seen of man.)
Now far from heaven, and safe from hell,
Unknown of earth he wanders free.
Would that he might return and tell
Of his mysterious company
For we have tired the Folk of Peace;
No more they tax our corn and oil;
Their dances on the moorland cease,
The Brownie stints his wonted toil.
No more shall any shepherd meet¬
The ladies of the fairy clan,
Nor are their deathly kisses sweet
On lips of any earthly man.
And half I envy him who now,
Clothed in her Court’s enchanted green,
By moonlit loch or mountain brow,
Is Chaplain to the Faery Queen.
Ban and Arriere Ban 1894
Kirk, a seventh son, was probably born in 1644 in the Manse at Aberfoyle, and in 1685 he became Minister of Aberfoyle. Before dealing with his book about fairies, it is appropriate to refer to his other work which was begun in Balquhidder, where he started his ministry twenty years before that. It might seem surprising, since the most famous version of the Bible in English bears the name of a Scottish King and dates from 1611, that, for most of the seventeenth century, there was no printed version in the Scottish vernacular; that is, there was no attempt to produce a printed version in the Scots Tongue, and no printed version accessible to Gaelic speakers. This latter was partly a product of the intolerant view that Gaelic speakers were difficult enough without being given access to the Bible.
It was while he was in Balquhidder that Kirk worked on a Gaelic version of fifty metrical psalms, 221 copies of which were published in 1684, the year before he moved to Aberfoyle. This work was printed in Irish characters, and episcopalian in origin; it did not therefore please everyone, although it was, for about ten years, the only version of the psalms in Gaelic available, after which another, more complete version began to supersede it. However, it was as a result of this work that Kirk became involved with the revision of a printed version in Gaelic of the Catechism, the production and distribution of which was financed by Robert Boyle (1627-91). Boyle was the Irish philosopher and scientist who enunciated several principles on which modern science is based, of which his “law” that, at a constant temperature the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to the pressure, is the best known. He was a director of the East India Company, and used his wealth to further the distribution of the Bible getting it translated, for example into Turkish. Unsurprisingly he was concerned to obtain an Irish version, and in 1685 a translation of both the Old Testament [by Bedell], and the New Testament [by O’Donnell], but not the Apocrypha because Boyle objected, was printed in a new Irish type which Boyle paid for. Rev. James Kirkwood (1650[?]-1708), a Scot ministering to a flock in Bedfordshire, who had been deprived of his living in Scotland because, unlike Kirk, he had refused to take the ‘Test’, urged Boyle to distribute this Bible [The Bedell Bible] in the Highlands, and obtained 200 copies, supposedly sufficient to provide one Bible for each Parish. Kirk took resposibility for the distribution of them, and produced a small vocabulary dealing with the most difficult words. They were inscribed by Kirk with a certificate paying tribute to Boyle.
Robert Kirk’s Grave, Aberfoyle
Kirk regarded the number of Bibles available as ridiculous, partly because many of them were ‘alienated to private use’. The Irish characters were unfamiliar to the Highlanders, and Kirk proposed that more copies should be made available transliterated into Roman characters. Boyle agreed to contribute to the cost. Kirk undertook this enormous task himself in 1688-89. This was a greatly troubled time, following the accession of William and Mary of Orange. Nevertheless the intrepid Minister of Aberfoyle went to London for eight months to supervise the printing of what came to be known as Kirk’s Bible, which was completed by April, 1690. The instigator of the original scheme, Kirkwood, who can be regarded as one of the founders of Scottish libraries because he suggested the establishment of a ‘bibliotheck’ in every Parish, continued the task of distributing them after Kirk’s death.
On the one hand it seems decidedly odd that a Minister should have any truck with fairies at that time; on the other hand one can imagine that a Minister genuinely interested in the spiritual welfare of his flock might wish to develop an understanding of the primitive beliefs which were as firmly held by country folk in the seventeenth century as Christian beliefs. As Kirk himself puts it:
How much is written of pigmies, fairies, nymphs, syrens and apparitions which, though not the tenth part true, could not spring of nothing.
Robert Kirk The Secret Commonwealth 1691
The title of Kirk’s book is comprehensive, its shortened version being as follows:
Secret Commonwealth: or an Essay on the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and for the most part) Invisible People heretofor going under the names of Fauns and Fairies, or the like, among the Low Country Scots as described by those who have second sight. 1691
He gives a comprehensive account of the lives of various kinds of fairies including their habits, their dwelling places, what they ate, their crafts, their faults – ‘envy, spite, hypocrisy, lying and dissimulation’, and, even, their sex lives:
In our Highlands there be many fair Ladies of this aereal order which do often tryst with lascivious young men in the quality of succubi, or lightsome paramours and strumpets
The whole book is very matter of fact, a scientific work of much merit. It was published in manuscript form in the year before his remarkable death. Kirk, of course, deals with fairy knolls, and it was his habit to go every day to Doon Hill, the fairy knoll behind the old parish church. It is probabable that, in reality, he had a heart attack as a result of exertions during one of these trips, but it was said locally that the fairies had spirited him away because he had published the book, and substituted a stock, a changeling. This explains how Kirk is buried in the old graveyard, but is, actually, in fairyland. Indeed, it has been for long said that the Minister of Parish continues to be Kirk; his successors are merely standing in for him. Patrick Graham, one of Kirk’s successors as minister of the parish, outlines the curious occurrence after his death:
Mr Kirk was the near relation of Graham of Duchray, the ancestor of the present General Graham. Shortly after his funeral he appeared in the dress in which he had sunk down, to a medical relation of his own, and of Duchray. ‘Go,’ said he to him, ‘to my cousin Duchray and tell him I am not dead. I fell down in a swoon, and was carried away into fairyland, where I now am. Tell him, that when he and my friends are assembled at the baptism of my child (for he had left his wife pregnant), I will appear in the room, and that if he throws the knife which he holds in his hand over my head, I will be released, and restored to human society.’ The man, it seems, neglected for some time, to deliver the message. Mr Kirk appeared to him a second time, threatening to haunt him night and day until he executed his commission, which at length he did. The time of the baptism arrived. They were seated at the table; the figure of Mr Kirk entered, but the laird of Duchray, by some unaccountable fatality, neglected to perform the prescribed ceremony. Mr Kirk retired by another door, and was seen no more. it is firmly believed that he is, at this day, in fairyland.
Patrick Graham Sketches of Perthshire 1806
This tradition was still very much alive more than a hundred years after Patrick Graham’s death. Evans Wentz, the American folklorist, found it to be current when he investigated The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries in Aberfoyle in 1908. Katharine Briggs (1898-1980), the twentieth century folklorist, relates a story that she was told to the effect that a baby was to be born in the manse at Aberfoyle during the 1939-45 war, and it was said that if the birth took place in Kirk’s chair, and a dagger was stuck into it, Kirk would be released from fairyland. The dislike of fairies for iron is said, according to one theory, to arise from the fact that fairies were the pre-iron age inhabitants of the country. Lewis Spence (1874-1955), the Scottish Nationalist and authority on the primitive and the occult, points out that the story about Kirk is a variation of a wide-spread folk myth, in which a woman who has given birth to a child is spirited away by the fairies in order to nurture a fairy infant. In many of these stories the woman is permitted from time to time to return to her child, and reveals to her husband the way in which she can be released, generally a method involving the use of iron. Spence says that Kirk’s legend is the only example he knows of a man rather than the woman being taken away at about the time of childbirth, but he suggests that another primitive belief, recorded, for example, in Scotland by Pennant in 1769, could explain this. This is the belief that if the fairies find a man in bed with an infant, or even that if the baby is wrapped in a man’s shirt, for example, it will ward off evil spirits.
Patrick Graham (1750-1835) was Minister of the Parish from 1787 to 1835. He was a scholar who was well known beyond the district, and took a prominent part in the controversy about the authenticity of MacPherson’s Ossian. There might be some dispute about who ‘discovered’ the Trossachs, but Graham must take some credit. His description of the Trossachs in Sketches of Perthshire influenced both the Wordsworths and Scott. Graham included a substantial section in his guidebook about the superstitions of the district thus perpetuating, a hundred years after Kirk’s death, interest in the subject. Scott who visited Graham frequently, clearly relied on him to provide local colour for both The Lady of the Lake and Rob Roy. Scott ‘killed’ Graham in a footnote acknowledging his debt to him in the latter work. His witty letter to Scott, written when he was nearly eighty years old, illustrates Graham’s urbanity:
Manse of Aberfoyle 31 December, 1829
Dear Sir Walter,
The second volume of the new edition of Rob Roy reached this remote spot two days ago; and afforded a renewal of the pleasure which its first perusal excited, enhanced as it was by intimate aquaintance with the localities and individual characters so strikingly portrayed in it, till in a note on p 203 I lighted on the startling information that I have been dead some years. Though till now unconscious of this very material change in the scene and mode of my existence, I am far from questioning a fact stated on such high authority. As is often the case my consciousness and my deference to testimony stand strangely opposed to each other. I scarcely know whether I am alive or dead, but the weight of evidence in favour of my death seems on the whole to preponderate, and to that I am bound as a sound reasoner to submit implicitly. Perhaps, indeed, like a well-known predecessor of my own, I have been only carried off by the Daoine Shie, in which case the unearthly being who now addresses you may be no more than a Fairy Changeling, left for a time to occupy the place of the departed Minister of Aberfoyle. At any rate the time and the manner in which the intelligence reached me have given me the singular gratification of enjoying my own posthumous fame. To be praised by the author of Rob Roy might well make any man proud, but to receive and read that praise so long after my death is what I believe no Mortal but myself would ever boast of. Still the pleasure this affords is attended with some inconvenience. My daughter, stunned by the discovery, has hurried home from Glasgow to ascertain the circumstances of her father’s decease. My noble Patron is overwhelmed with letters from Celtic divines of every patronymic detailing their claims and offering their services to supply the vacancy. The Presbytery of the bounds, considering the time which has elapsed, have held a meeting pro re nata, with a view to the exercise of their jus devolutum. And, worst of all, my old servant Duncan, who has been in his day a jack-of-all-trades , and does not scruple to borrow an hour now and then from his sleep or his work – as it may happen – to spell the pages of a diverting story, insists on receiving a complete suit of decent mourning for his dear and good master, for which demand he finds in the tale both reason and precedent. After all I believe I must lay my death at your door; but as a dying man, and much more a dead man, is bound to forgive even the author of his death, I beg leave to assure you of the unabated respect and regard with which I am, or should rather say I was, dear Sir Walter, your sincere friend and warm admirer,
Pat Graham
Scott apologised to Graham, who wrote to him again urging the novelist to leave the passage as it was “I am truly sorry that you have felt uneasiness about the mistake made in your beautiful novel Rob Roy in the mention of my name, to which, on many occasions, you have done so much honour…….. I must be soon be entitled to the epithet which you have employed.” Scott then made his apology public in a note in an edition of The Legend of Montrose, which begins in the Trossachs. It is with mingled pleasure and shame that I record the important error of having announced as deceased my learned acquaintance, the Rev. Dr Graham, Minister of Aberfoyle. I cannot now recollect the precise ground ogf my depriving my learned and excellent friend of his existence, unless like Mr Kirk, his predecessor in the parish, the excellent Doctor has made a short trip to Fairyland, with whose wonders he is so well acquainted. But however I may have been misled, my regret is most sincere for having spread such a rumour; and no one can be more gratified than I that the report, however I may have been induced to give it credit and currency, is a false one, and that Dr Graham is still the living pastor of Aberfoyle, for the delight and instruction of his brother antiquaries. Charles Nodier (1780-1844) visited Scotland in June 1821 in company with Eugene Isabey, Alphonse de Cailleux and Baron Taylor, and wrote Promenade de Dieppe aux montagnes d’Ecosse. In 1822 the Promenade was translated into English by Clifford and published by Blackwood, Edinburgh. Like many other writers he admired Scott, and like Scott was interested in the supernatural. In his novel Trilby, set more in the vicinity of Loch Long and Inverary than the Trossacchs, Nodier refers to a song, ‘The Ghost of Aberfoyle‘, stated in a note to have been lost, and it is said that he based one of the characters on a boatman on Loch Katrine. In the Promenade there is a notable description of the ascent of Ben Lomond.
William Richardson
A contemporary of Graham’s was, William Richardson (1743-1814), son of James Richardson, another Minister of the Parish, born in 1743. His Poems, Chiefly Rural were published in 1774. Richardson was Professor of Humanities at Glasgow University, and contributed to Graham’s Essay on the Authenticity of Ossian’s Poems. For three years (1768-71) he served as secretary to Lord Cathcart, ambassador extraordinary at the court of Russia, and ‘tradition has enlisted him in the band of young men who enjoyed the favours of Catherine the Great’ (J.D.Mackie History of the University of Glasgow). In A Farewell to Aberfoyle Richardson refers to the Waterfall of the Little Fawn above Aberfoyle:
FAREWELL TO ABERFOYLE
To thee my filial bosom beats,
On thee may heaven indulgent smile
And glad thy innocent retreats
And bless thee, lovely Aberfoyle
How pleasing to my pensive mind
The memory of thy bold cascade
Thy green woods waving in the wind,
And streams in every vocal glade
The simple church, the schoolhouse green,
The gambols of the schoolboy crew
Meadows and pools, that gleam between
Rush on my retrospective view;
Shades too, and lanes by old age sought
To wander in at close of day
To ruminate the pious thought
And pray for children far away
Timely descend, ye fostering showers!
With plenty bless that humble vale;
And fair arise, ye fragrant flowers,
And beautiful blow, thou western gale.
And there, meandering Avondow,
By no invidious fen defiled;
Clear may thy youthful current flow!
And love to linger in the wild!
However, Aberfoyle is principally associated with Scott’s Rob Roy. This complex novel is about inheritance, family quarrels over a business enterprise involving embezzlement, and, of course, unrequited love. It is set at first in England, and involves a journey to Scotland which enables Scott to describe the Roman Wall near Carlisle, Glasgow, and the vicinity of Aberfoyle in his inimitable way. Frank Osbaldistone, an Englishman, is he narrator. He describes the party’s first encounter with the Forth.
We found ourselves at length on the bank of a stream,which rather resembled one of my native English rivers than those I had hitherto seen in Scotland. It was narrow, deep, still, and silent, although the imperfect light as it gleamed on its placid waters, showed also that we were now among the lofty mountains which formed its cradle. “That’s the Forth,” said the Bailie with an air of reverence, which I have observed the Scots usually pay to their distinguished rivers. The Clyde, the Tweed, the Forth, the Spey, are usually named by those who dwell on their banks with a sort of respect and pride, and I have known duels occasioned by any word of disparagement. I cannot say I have the least quarrel with this sort of enthusiasm.
The next passage illustrates admirably the way in which Scott uses folk lore as a literary device to create atmosphere. His description of the fairies is derived from Kirk:
The Forth, however, as far as the imperfect light permitted me to judge, seemed to merit the admiration of those who claimed an interest in the stream. A beautiful eminence of the most regular round shape, amnd clothed with copsewood of hazels, mountain-ash, and dwarf oak, intermixed with a few magnificent old trees, which rising above the underwood, exposed their forked and bared branches to the silver moonshine, seemed to protect the sources from which the river sprung. If I could trust the tale of my companion, which, while professing to disbelieve every word of it, he told under his breath, and with an air of something like intimidation, this hill, so regularly formed, so richly verdant, and garlanded with such a beautiful variety of ancient trees and thriving copsewood, was held by the neighbourhood to contain, within its unseen caverns, the palaces of fairies; a race of airy beings, who formed an intermediate class between men and demons, and who, if not positively malignant to humanity were yet to be avoided and feared, on account of their capricious, vindictive, and irritable dispositions.
“They ca’ them,” said Mr Jarvie, in a whisper, “Daoine Schie, whilk signifies, as I understand, men of peace; meaning thereby to make their gude-will. And we may as e’en as weel ca’ them that too, Mr Osbaldistone, for there’s nae gude in speaking ill o’ the laird within his ain bounds.”
The narrative then goes on to describe the bridge. It is a notable literary anachronism, later acknowledged by Scott. The description is of the present bridge, but the old wooden bridge was destroyed in 1715, and was not rebuilt until after the period – the mid eighteenth century – when the novel was set. Indeed the bridge was probably relatively recently erected when Scott first visited the district as a young lawyer in 1790:
We crossed the infant Forth by an old-fashioned stone bridge, very high and very narrow. My conductor, however, informed me that to get through this deep and important stream, and to clear all its tributary dependencies, the general pass from the Highlands to the southward lay by what was called the Fords of Frew, at all times deep and difficult of passage, and often altogether unfordable. Beneath these fords there was no pass of general resort until so far east as the bridge of Stirling; so that the river of Forth forms a defensible line betwixt the the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, from its source nearly to the Frith, or inlet of the ocean, in which it terminates. The subsequent events, which we witnessed, led me to recall with attention what the shrewdness of Bailie Jarvie suggested, in his proverbial expression, that “Forth bridles the wild Highlandman”.
In the seventeenth century the old bridge was the scene of a notable episode in local history, involving Graham of Duchray again, and another baby:
Among the neighbours with whom William Graham, the eighth Earl of Menteith (1667-1694), had debts and disagreements, was John Graham, laird of Duchary and his son Thomas Graham, but for some time he found it impossible to put these into execution. No sherrif officer was willing to enter Duchary Castle with his writs. At length, what seemed to be a favourable opportunity presented itself. The younger Graham was to have a child baptised at the Kirk of Aberfoyle on 13th February 1671, and it occurred to the Earl that, not only the father of the child, but old Duchary and the whole family would be present at the interesting ceremony. He resolved therefore to seize the opportunity to serve his letters of caption. Having collected a number of his friends and servants and taking with them a Messenger-at-Arms, Alexander Muschet, he intercepted the christening party at the Bridge of Aberfoyle.
Duchray seems to have had warning of the Earl’s intentions, for, in addition to the ministers and elders of Aberfoyle and the indispensible baby, he had with him a strong party of his froiends and tenants, all well armed. Muschet and his attendants advanced to execute the writ, the Earl with his armed followers remaining some little distance behind. But when the mesenger informed Duchray that he mustconsider himself his prisoner, the latter defied him to lay hold upon him, and taking from his pocket a paper which he alleged was a protection from the king, he shouted:
“What wad ye dare? This is all your master!”
The baby was set down upon the ground, and the Duchary men, with swords guns and pistols, fell fiercely on Muschet and his satellites, and, threatening loudly that they would slay half of them and drown the rest in the Forth, drove them back on the Earl and his friends. The latter at first gave way, but quickly rallied, and a stubborn fight ensued. The Earl himself narrowly escaped the bullets of his assailants, and several of his servants were wounded, one of them – by name Robert MacFarlane – having two of his fingers shot away. At last his party was fairly driven rom the field, and turned in full flight to Inchtalla.
quoted in William T. Palmer The Verge of the Scottish Highlands 1947
In the twentieth century there have been at least two occasions when literary men have gathered in Menteith. There was a notable turn out for the burial of Cunninghame Graham in April,1936, including many of his political and literary associates: James Bridie (O.H.Mavor), Wendy Wood, Compton MacKenzie, Alisdair Alpin MacGregor, Helen B. Cruickshank, and others. His funeral oration was delivered by the distinguished literary critic, William Power. The political activities in which Graham was involved included Scottish Nationalism. The district came to prominence again in this respect after the second world war – not for the first time, nor for the last – when John MacCormick, the Glasgow lawyer and prominent Nationalist chaired a conference in April 1949 at which The Scottish National Covenant was devised in what became The Covenanters Inn, now Inchrie. It read:
We, the people of Scotland who subscribe to this engagement, declare our belief that reform in the constitution of our country is necessary to secure good government in accordance with our Scottish traditions and to promote the spiritual and economic welfare of our nation.
We affirm that the desire for such reform is both deep and widespread through the whole community, transcending all political differences and sectional interests, and we undertake to continue in purpose for its achievement.
With that end in view we solemnly enter into the Covenant whereby we pledge ourselves, in all loyalty to the the Crown, and within the framework of the United Kingdom, to do everything in our power to secure for Scotland a Parliament with adequate legislative authority in Scottish affairs.
50,000 signatures, the first of which was that of Cunninghame Graham’s noble kinsman, the sixth Duke of Montrose (1878-1954), were secured within a week, and a movement, impressive at the time, rapidly became established. It is said that, in all, 2,000,000 people signed the Covenant. Wilfred Taylor (1909-1987) on The Scotsman for very many years provides an interesting portrait of the atmosphere of the time:
Although the Aberfoyle region is uncomfortably close to the Trossachs for my liking it is beautiful country. It was in a hotel in Aberfoyle that the sinister document the Scottish Covenant was hatched. I know because I was there. The hotel was subsequently renamed “The Covenanters Inn”. It was in “The Covenanters Inn” that I once had a mild passage of arms with the late Dr. C.E.M.Joad. Dr Joad had been addressing a conference and during his speech he said some uncomplimentary and unkind things about the Americans. I happened to have my wife’s father, a clergyman from Chicago with me and I did not propose to let unfriendly remarks about the Americans go unchallenged. I interrupted the philosopher and told him I deeply resented the tone of his remarks, which were based on a grotesque exaggeration. Dr Joad deflected my protest with some clever, smart and irrelevant retort. But afterwards he came and thanked me for my interpolation and admitted that he had not dealt fairly with it. I happened to have an admiration for Dr Joad, who, I considered, was all too often dismissed as a shallow thinker and glib talker by his professional colleagues. He certainly was an interesting talker, and I later saw him dancing eightsome reels with great zest.
Wilfred Taylor Scot Free 1953
The other, even more notable, hotel in Aberfoyle stands on the other side of the Brig o’Forth. The Baillie Nichol Jarvie Hotel was for long the focal point for the tourist trade in Aberfoyle. A guide-book of 1862 describes it, just after it was put up, thus:
The Duke of Montrose has here erected the new and elegant Bailie Nichol Jarvie Hotel [Mr A. Blair]. This commodious hotel is raised on the ruins of Jane McAlpine’s public house where the worthy Bailie met Major Galbraith on the memorable night when he brandished the red hot poker. This rude instrument of death has been handed down from Jane McAlpine’ssuccessors to Mr Blair and may be seen in front of the hotel chained to a tree.
The hotel is, of course, not on the supposed site of the fictional encounter, and the authenticity of the ploughshare (described above as a poker), as to period at least, must also be doubted, but it is on such stimuli to the imagination that the tourist trade has always been built. It is said that a supply of ‘coulters’ was kept rusting in the bed of the Forth so that one could be rapidly substituted, after the existing coulter was sold to a gullible tourist. The Hotel features in most accounts of the place. Surprisingly often visitors to Aberfoyle found it the scene of revelry of some sort. Cunninghame Graham notes that the Bailie Nichol Jarvie, in addition to The Covenanters, as it were, was a place where the old priorities were observed:
I remember when in the Inn (it was not in those days called an Hotel) there hung an almanac in the entrance hall, containing the announcement, “12th of August. Grouse shooting opens. Episcopacy abolished”.
It is recorded by Sarah Hutchinson that Wordsworth went to Church in Aberfoyle, and Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, rather grumpily, in his Notebooks in 1856: “I do not remember what o’clock it was, but not far into the afternoon, when we reached the Bailie Nichol Jarvie Inn at Aberfoyle; a scene which is much more interesting in the pages of Rob Roy than we found it in reality.” William McGonagall (1830-1902) seems to have written poems to order about most Scottish places of public resort, including Aberfoyle, although it is not recorded when he was there. However, it is recorded by Sarah Hutchinson that Wordsworth went to Church in Aberfoyle, and Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, rather grumpily, in his Notebooks in 1856: “I do not remember what o’clock it was, but not far into the afternoon, when we reached the Bailie Nichol Jarvie Inn at Aberfoyle; a scene which is much more interesting in the pages of Rob Roy than we found it in reality.”
George Douglas Brown (1869-1902), a generation younger than Lang, wrote the novel The House With The Green Shutters which was promoted as a masterpiece by the older man. The summer after the novel was published, and was beginning to meet with success, Brown spent three weeks in Aberfoyle. While he was there he a had a premonition that he might never marry his fiancée; and he died of pneumonia early that autumn. Carol Shields (1935 – 2003), the American novelist was in Britain in 1955 on an exchange programme to study literature at Exeter University. On a trip to Aberfoyle she met Donald Shields, a Canadian engineer, who became her husband.
Doon Hill [illustrating Kirk’s Secret Commonwealth] D.Y.Cameron
A literary walk begins by crossing the Forth Bridge in Aberfoyle, as Bailie Nichol Jarvie and his party were supposed to have done. The old Parish church of 1774 with Kirk’s grave is on the left, and the former Covenanters Inn on the right. The Fairy Knowe is prominent in front and a forest road leads to it. By continuing along this road the Old Bridge across the Forth at Gartmore is reached. Beyond the bridge are the policies of Gartmore House, one time residence of Cunninghame Graham. In the village, on the edge of the playing fields, is the Cunninghame Grahame Memorial. From the bridge it is possible to return to Aberfoyle along the line of the old railway.
Gartmore
The Old Brig o’ Forth at Gartmore (Cobleland) replaced the Gartartan Ferry. The Professor of Humanities from Glasgow, the poet William Richardson of Aberfoyle, lived in later life close to his friend Robert Graham at Bridgend of Gartmore, now a barn.
Above the ferry are the remains of Gartartan Castle seen from the A81. Next to this is Gartmore House which R.B.Cunninghame Graham inherited, but the estate was already in debt. It is an early eighteenth century laird’s house greatly enlarged in 1780, the residence of Robert Graham (1735-97), already referred to. He was the author of one distinguished poem which begins as follows:
If doughty deeds my lady please,
Right soon I’ll mount my steed;
And strong his arm, and fast his seat
That bears frae me the meed.
I’ll wear thy colours in my cap
Thy picture in my heart;
And he that bends not to thine eye
Shall rue it to his smart
Then tell me how to woo thee love;
O tell me how to woo thee!
For thy dear sake nae care I’ll take
Though ne’er another trow me
It was written down from a recitation by Sir Walter Scott who considered it to be a C17 lyric, and included it in his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, although Scott was later told that Graham was the author and acknowledged the fact. Robert Graham made several significant literary friendships. One of Graham’s sons was married to the sister of the Cumbrian poet Susanna Blamire (1747-94) who visited Gartmore (see Menteith), and contributed to Johnson’s Scots Musical Museum (1790). Hector MacNeil (1746-1818), the minor poet, with whom Graham later quarrelled, was a frequent visitor to Gartmore, 1786-90, when he lived near Stirling. Graham almost certainly met him in the West Indies, where he also formed a lifelong connection with Tobias Smollett (1721-71). Robert Burns (1759-96) thought Graham “the noblest instance of great talents, great fortune, and great worth that ever I saw.” John Leyden (1775-1811) dedicated a book of poems to a Miss Graham of Gartmore.
Graham’s grandson was Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, the celebrated writer and politician. red to. It is not surprising that Cunninghame Graham found its upkeep beyond him, and he sold it in 1901 to a shipping magnate, and went to live in the family’s other house, finely situated beside the Clyde at Ardoch, near Dumbarton. Gartmore House became successively an Approved School and the headquarters of a religious organisation. Access can be obtained to the policies with permission. Maurice Lindsay described the place in 1953:
When I visited Gartmore House, the wind that so often ripples the heathery sea of Flanders Moss, stirred through the overgrown shoots which now choke the once-orderly terraces. The place was taken over by the army during the Second World War, when the estate was much mutilated. Concrete hut bottomings still littered the grounds and rusted barbed-wire snaked through the tangled briars. The house itself, an enormous rambling place, with coarse nineteenth century additions, has now become a Roman Catholic school.
Maurice Lindsay The Lowlands of Scotland
(Sir) John Lavery (1856-1941) was a leading figure among the ‘Glasgow Boys’ and a famous portrait painter, although he was also skilled in other branches of his art. He could and did paint landscapes, including a picture of Loch Katrine. Both he and JosephCrawhall, another of the ‘Glasgow Boys’ were friendly with Cunninghame Graham and, in 1895, he went to Gartmore to paint two portraits of him. Lavery was a man of elegance and wit who has left a delightful account of his experiences in A Painter’s Life 1940:
John Burns had joined us on this occasion at Gartmore, for it was just at this time that they had both come out of Pentonville, where they had served six weeks’ hard labour for their share in the Trafalgar Square riots over the queston of free speech – the two of them taking on, so they claimed, single-handed, the constabulary numbering five thousand. I asked them about their experiences in prison. Hard labour they considered less irksome than ordinary imprisonment, for with the former you were given plenty of coarse food, and time passed; while with they latter you were starved and left to pass the time in contemplation. There was a parson in the next cell to him, said Graham, who was in for “an old ecclesiastical. Burns was very proud of his biceps which he exposed, and Graham equally so of his agility with the foils, which he demonstrated from time to time with the aid of his walking-stick as we strolled in the cool of the evening.
Graham purchased from the tramway company a wild Argentine pony that refused to go into harness. He named him Pampa, and insisted on my painting a picture of himself in complete cowboy outfit on the pacing steed. Then I painted him frankly in the manner, full-length and life-size, a harmony in brown, which he christened “Don Roberto, Commander for the King of Aragon in the Two Sicilies” (The equestrian group he presented to Buenos Ayres, and the Commander was purchased by the Corporation of Glasgow) It was concerning the latter that Bernard Shaw said, “He is, I understand, a Spanish hildago, hence the superbity of his portrait by Lavery (Velasquez being no longer available). He is, I know, a Scottish laird. How he continues to be authentically the two things at the same time is no more intelligible to me than the fact that everything that has ever happened to him seems to have happened in Paraguay or Texas instead of Spain or Scotland.” When I knew him at this time his finances were in a shocking state, and things were getting unbearable down at Gartmore. Suddenly he wrote to say that he could stand it no longer. Would I come down at once and see him end it all with Pampa, in a spot where I had painted a view of the Rob Roy Country that he loved?
I wired back, “Ill in bed, wait till next week.” Thus I postponed his death for forty years.
The portrait to which Shaw, who used Cunninghame Graham as a prototype for Captain Brassbound and for Bruntschli in Arms and the Man, refers is in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow. They also have a small bronze head of Cunninghame Graham by Jacob Epstein.
On the edge of the Policies at the Playing Field in the village is the Cunninghame Graham Memorial which was erected in 1937 at Castlehill, Dumbarton, and was later in the ownership of the National Trust. It was removed to Gartmore in 1981. Stones marked “Uruguay”and”Argentina” are set into it, as is a memorial plaque to Cunninghame Graham’s horse ‘Pampa’. The inscription reads:
ROBERT BONTINE CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM
Famous author, traveller, horseman, patriotic Scot and
citizen of the World as betokened by the stones above.
Died in Argentina Interred in Inchmahome
Rob Roy MacGregor frequented the inn formerly situated at Chapelarroch, Gartmore on the then borders of Perthshire and Stirlingshire which was the scene of his kidnap of Graham of Killearn. One of the best descriptions of this occurs in a celebrated description of the Highlands, which Cunningham Graham avers was written by his ancestor, Nichol Graham (1695-1775) of Gartmore in 1747. This document is quoted in extenso in an appendix (inserted by Robert Jamieson) to Edmund Burt’s Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland, and was used by Scott as a source for both Waverley and Rob Roy. Intriguingly a recent blog (tobiassmollett.blogspot.com) attributes Burt’s letters to Tobias Smollett (1721-1771), well-known to Nicol Graham’s son, Robert. The passage in Rob Roy is as follows:
There was in that time one Robert MacGregor, who assumed the name of Campbell, but was commonly known by that of Rob Roy, who was descended of a little family of that clan, which held a small farm of and in Balquhidder in fue of the family of Atholl, and who commonly resided in the parish of Buchanan, Balquhidder, or on the confines of Argyllshire. This man, who was a person of sagacity, and neither wanted stratagem nor address, having abandoned himself to all licentiousness, set himself at the head of all the loose vagrant and desperate people of that clan in the west end of Perth and Stirling shires, and infested those whole countries with thefts, robberies and depredations. Very few who lived within his reach (that is within the distance of a nocturnal expedition) could promise themselves security, either to their persons or effects, without subjecting themselves to paying him a heavy and painful tax of blackmail. He at last proceeded to such a degree of audaciousness, that he committed robberies, raised depredations, and resented quarrels at the head of a very considerable body of armed men, in open day, and in the face of the government.
Mr Graham of Killearn was then the factor of the Duke of Montrose, and was in use to collect his rents at a place on the borders of those Highlands at Buchanan, not above four miles from the house of that name, and no more from the town of Drymen. Being there upon that occasion, Rob Roy with about twenty of his corps, came full-armed from the hills of Buchanan, apprehended his person in that place, robbed him of £300 sterling of that Duke’s rents, amidst his whole farmers, and carried that gentleman prisoner up amongst the hills, where he detained him a considerable time.
Literary Loch Lomond: 2. Drymen and Ben Lomond
July 4, 2010 · Filed under Literary Loch Lomond and the Trossachs · Tagged Amadee Pichot, Charles Churchill, Charles Nodier, Dorothy Wordsworth, Hector McNeill, John Wilkes, Literary Scotland, Literature, Samuel Rogers, Scottish Authors, Scottish Literature, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Campbell, W.D.Crocker, William Wordsworth, Writers
Gartocharn and Kilmaronock
Cameron House is situated close to the village of Balloch and it is from there that travellers wishing to visit the eastern side of the loch leave the A82 and follow the A811 Gartocharn is a village on the way to Drymen, on the line of the old military road from Dumbarton to Stirling. Maurice Lindsay (1918-2009) once lived there. In By Yon Bonnie Banks [1961] he described the village just as electric light and piped water arrived there in the 1950s. First and foremost he was a poet, but he had a very varied range of interests, managing Border Television, and becoming the Director of the Scottish Civic Trust. His Burns Encylopedia [1959] is one of the most thorough; his Castles of Scotland was knowledgeable and affectionate, and he was always a secure guide to Scottish Literature. The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry [2005], for example, is one of the best collections of Scottish verse. He publicised his clansman, the dramatist and poet Sir David Lyndsay (c1490-1555) from Fife, when he was little known; in The Lowlands of Scotland [1953] Lindsay connects Lyndsay’s poem The History of Ane Noble and Valiant SquireMeldrum, umquhyle Laird of Cleish and Binns [1547] with his own parish. The poem describes the raising of a siege of Boturich Castle on behalf of the lady owner of it. Here Lindsay sets the scene:
The parish of Kilmaronock lies to the east of Balloch. On the shore of the loch, looking out over Inch Murrin, two famous houses stand [Boturich Castle and Ross Prioy]. Boturich Castle, once the seat of the Haldanes who fell heir to part of the Lennox lands, was reputedly the scene of one of Squire Meldrum’s adventures. Squire Meldrum was a gallant sixteenth-century warrior around whose undoubtedly real exploits and feats of arms were embroidered by Sr David Lyndsay of the Mount:
And sa this Squire amorous
Seizit and wan the lady’s house
And left therein a Capitane
Syne to Strathern returnit again
Ben Lomond 1830 Drawn: John Fleming Engraved: Joseph Swan
Tom Weir (1914–2006), the mountaineer, naturalist and broadcaster, married the headmistress of the local school and from 1959 until his death lived in Gartocharn. He was best known as the author of a regular monthly column about his activities in the Scots Magazine: he traversed the length and breadth of country finding curiosities, and explaining traditions, always possessed with a keen eye for the natural landscape. The idea was later transformed into a series of television programmes. As prolific writer about the Scottish countryside he tried to climb the hill just south of the village of Gartocharn whenever he could. This prominent volcanic plug which commands a very fine view of the loch is called Duncryne; affectionately it is called locally, from its appearance, ‘the Dumpling’.
“Duncryne is to my mind the finest viewpoint of any small hill in Scotland and it is from here that I would like you to look at Loch Lomond.”
Further along this road is Auchenlarich, the house in Kilmaronock Parish where the Scottish litterateur and publicist for Scotland’s scenic assets, George Eyre-Todd (1862-1937) lived for much of his life.
Going in the opposite direction from Gartocharn one reaches Ross Priory, an ostentatious eighteenth century mansion on the edge of Loch Lomond; here Scott completed Rob Roy. He made his early acquaintance with the district as a young lawyer when he was engaged in an eviction, but he revisited the area frequently to see friends, including his fellow advocate Hector MacDonald Buchanan at Ross. He records that in August or September 1809 he visited Cambusmore and Ross Priory and, with Mr MacDonald Buchanan, explored the Isles of Loch Lomond, Arrochar and so on. It was as a result of this excursion that the Lady of the Lake came to fruition, and the trip no doubt contributed to Rob Roy. In 1817 he wrote to his patron ‘from Ross where the clouds on Ben Lomond are sleeping…’ The house is superbly situated in elegant policies at the lochside, sometimes open to the public.
A little further along the A811 is Kilmaronock Parish Church, where Tom Weir is buried. The parish at the foot of Loch Lomond derives its name from an ancient well about a quarter-mile west of the parish church, known as St Marnock’s Well. The guardian saint of the locality is St. Ronan, but he is sometimes confused with St Marnock. His name has also been altered to St. Maronock or Maronnon. He was put into Lady of the Lakeby Scott when Ellen Douglas rejects Roderick Dhu:
Sir Roderick should command
My blood, my life,— but not my hand
Rather will Ellen Douglas dwell
A votaress in Maronnan’s cell;
Wordsworth, his wife Mary and his sister-in-law, Sara Hutchinson (1775-1835) traversed the parish at the end of July 1814. At the foot of Loch Lomond they ascended Mount Misery which, like the Dumpling, is a notable viewpoint. They visited the church, the manse and the ruins of Mains Castle, a tower house once owned by the Earl of Glencairn. They then went to Drymen where they went to church. It is from Sara Hutchinson’s Journal and Letters that so much is known about the trip.
Drymen and Rowardennan
Beyond Kilmaronock is the rather charming Georgian Catter House, then Drymen Bridge. To the left a by road to a golf-course leads to Buchanan Castle. It was at the old house, burned down in 1852 that Scott showed Lady Louisa Stewart a part of Lady of the Lake in 1809. Drymen is a village above the Endrick at the foot of Loch Lomond where William Dixon Cocker, (1882-1970), described by Trevor Royle as an ‘unjustly forgotten figure of the Scottish Renaissance’, was partly brought up. He was Glasgow born, but his relations on his mother’s side were farmers who owned the adjacent farms of Drumbeg and Wester Drumquhastle just outside Drymen. Cocker much preferred them to Glasgow. Several of his poems were set locally. Here he praises the Endrick:
It dauners doon to auld Balfron,
But though it gangs at sober pace
It ettles yet anither race,
An’ rests a wee to gether strength
Until Gartness is reached at length;
There, whaur the mill mak’s merry clatter,
Doon to the Pot comes Endrick Watter.
(To see the saulmon loup there whiles
Folk come frae a’ the airts for miles.)
Then does the roarin’ river hasten
To tume its watters in the basin,
The deep dark pool that kens nae day,
Whaur kelpies lurked lang syne, they say;
Then oot it comes through yetts o’ stane,
An’ hastens on to greet the Blane,
Which, fed by mony a Campsie burnie,
Comes to jine Endrick on its journey.
An’ noo it glides by auld Drumquhastle,
An’ by Dalnair (as braw’s a castle),
An’ by Drumbeg, an’ by the Catter,
Whaur Drymen brig spans Endrick Watter.
The mansion o’ the gallant Grahams
It passes, an’ the humble hames
O’ cottar folk by brae an’ haugh.
It widens as it nears the loch,
An’ slower rins, as though ’twere fain
To tak’ the backward gait again.
But time and streams gang backwards never,
There’s nae respite for man or river.
We maun get forrit, aye maun trevel
Until we reach the appointed level.
There, we shall broaden oot at last,
To merge in the unfathom’d vast.
The dramatist James Bridie (188-1951) lived at the neighbouring Finnich Malise for some years. The Hired Lad [1993] by Ian Campbell Thompson describes rural life in Strathendrick in the years after the war.
Earlier, the minor poet, Hector MacNeill (1746-1818), the friend of Robert Graham of Gartmore, was, it is said, brought up on ‘Lochlomondside’ [DNB], probably somewhere in the vicinity of Drymen. However, Drymen Moor, has the greatest claim to C18 literary fame. Two highly distinguished English visitors, John Wilkes (1727-1797), the journalist and politician, and Charles Churchill(1732–1764), the poet, attempted to cross it on their ‘Highland Tour’, but the weather defeated them, and they retired to Buchanan House. Wilkes was Smollett’s neighbour in Chelsea, but the two fell out over the merits of Bute’s administration. Whether Wilkes and Churchill would now enjoy the sort of notoriety which Johnson and Boswell enjoy, for the anti-Scottishness of some of the Doctor’s remarks, we shall never know, because Wilkes’ papers were burnt However, their trip did give rise to Churchill’s Prophesy of Famine [1763], probably the most splenetic poem ever written about Scotland. It was a polemic against things Scottish in general and the Bute administration, for which Smollett was an advocate, in particular. The countryside described was inspired by Drymen Moor:
Far as the eye could reach, no tree was
seen,
Earth, clad in russet, scorn’d the lively
No living thing, whate’er its food, feasts
But the Cameleon, who can feast on air.
No birds, except as birds of passage, flew
No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo.
Rebellion’s spring, which thro’ the country
ran,
Furnished, with bitter draughts the steady
clan.
Patrick Graham, the Minister of Aberfoyle, pointed out in his early guide that Churchill not only denigrated the district, but failed to acknowledge the considerable hospitality they received at Buchanan.
At the very northern edge of the parish of Drymen is Duchray Castle (near Aberfoyle)where Alexander Graham who wrote the account of it in MacFarlane’s Geographical Collections lived. His grandfather’s account of Glencairn’s Rising was edited by Scott.
Nearby, on the road to Killearn, is Gartness, a hamlet beside the Endrick where the famous mathematician Napier worked on logarithms. His kinswoman Priscilla Napier (1908-1998) wrote a realistic trilogy of semi-documentary novels about the district of which the second, A Difficult Country: The Napiers in Scotland [1972] describes Gartness during Napier’s time. At Gartness the river forms the renowned salmon-leap, the Pot of Gartness, the subject of a reflective poem by Maurice Lindsay.
“All the collided anger of wide rains
twisted from ragged slopes in channelled rills,
white with vexation, tumbles towards the plains.”
In the other direction the B837 leads from Drymen to the eastern shore of Loch Lomond. The loch is reached at Balmaha dominated by Conic Hill. Off Balmaha is Inchcailloch, one of the larger islands of Loch Lomond [Ferry from Balmaha]. It is the site of a nunnery and a graveyard of the Clan MacGregor; Rob Roy’s ancestors are buried there. It is said by some to resemble a reclining woman with folded arms, and it was the subject of one of Cunninghame Graham’s memorable Scottish Sketches. He chose a sharper image:
The Island of Nuns lies like a stranded whale on the waters, with its head pointing towards the red rocks of Balmaha.
Scott, in Lady of the Lake, makes the island the source of a Fiery Cross, although the yew is not characteristic of the island:
A slender crosslet formed with care
A cubit’s length in measure due
The shafts and limbs were rods of yew
Whose parents in Inch Cailliach wave
Their shadows o’er Clan Alpine’s grave,
And, answering Lomond’s breezes deep,
Soothe many a chieftain’s endless sleep.
The by-road continues as far as Rowardennan, at the foot of Ben Lomond. Cars can go no further, but pedestrians may follow the West Highland Way (in either direction). It is from Rowardennan that most walkers ascend Ben Lomond. The following verse was supposedly inscribed on a window at the inn at Rowardennan, but, Thomas Garnett quotes a longer version of the same poem, dated Oct 3 1771, which he attributes to Thomas Russell, and states that it was scratched on a window pane at the inn at Tarbet:
Stranger! if o’er this pane of glass perchance
Thy roving eye should cast a casual glance,
If taste for grandeur and the dread sublime
Prompt thee Ben Lomond’s fearful height to climb,
Here gaze attentive, nor with scorn refuse
The friendly rhymings of a tavern muse. . . .
Trust not at first a quick advent’rous pace,
Six miles its top points gradual from the base;
Up the high rise with panting haste I passed,
And gained the long laborious steep at last.
More prudent you, when once you pass the deep,
With measured pace ascend the lengthened steep;
Oft stay thy steps, oft taste the cordial drop,
And rest, oh rest! long, long upon the top.
There hail the breezes; nor with toilsome haste
Down the rough slope thy precious vigour waste:
So shall thy wandering sight at once survey
Vales, lakes, woods, mountains, islands, rocks and sea. . . .
Ben Lomond dominates views of Loch Lomond, and commands stunning views of it. Early visitors, including literary visitors, regarded the ascent of the peak as a considerable achievement, and its terrors pre-occupied them.AsGeorge Abraham (1871-1965) observed in British Mountain Climbs [1909]:
It is decreed impossible to reach the top without the aid of a bottle of whisky, and the mountain had lost none of its prestige in this respect.
An early account of the hill occurs in Sir John Stoddart (1773-1856)Remarks on the Local Scenery and Manners of Scotland [1801]:
“The north side of Ben Lomond itself excites a degree of surprise arising almost to terror. This mighty mass, which hitherto had appeared to be an irregular cone, placed on a spreading base, suddenly presents itself as an imperfect crater, with one side forcibly torn off – leaving a stupendous precipice…”
One nineteenth century French literary visitor who succeeded in climbing to the top of Ben Lomond wasCharles Nodier (1780-1844) who set two novels in the district. His friend Amadée Pichot(1795-1877) followed him in pursuit of Scott, and wrote captions for a travel book, brilliantly illustrated by Francois Alexandre Pernot, Voyage historique et littéraire en Angleterre et en Écosse [1825].It includes a fine illustration of Ben Lomond.
Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798-1868) and Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847), who toasted his publisher on Ben Lomond, also climbed the hill, while William Hazlitt (1778-1830), the C19 critic, thought he did, but probably did not. The ascent had been popular since C18, Sarah Murray reporting that she met a traveller awaiting favourable conditions in Tarbet. The famous Glasgow poet Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) celebrated the hill in 1837:
Thy steadfast summit, heaven-allied
(Unlike life’s little span),
Looks down, a Mentor, on the pride
Of perishable man.
Other poets who have written about the hill includeP. G. Hamerton (1834-1894), the painter, who waxed topographical:
Bright from a spring half down the precipice
Issued the silver Forth, whose silver line
Followed a winding course…..
Walter Wingate(1865-1918) imitated one of Horace’s odes in a poem about the Ben in winter. Professor Blackie was explicit about going up Ben Lomond:
From Rowardennan we make a start
And scale the height with cunning art
and Samuel Rogers (see Ardentinny) celebrated the mountain as follows:
Blue was the loch, the clouds were gone,
Ben Lomond in his glory shone.
Thomas Garnett (see above) prints these lines scratched on a window- pane at Tarbet in his Observations:
His lofty summit in a veil of clouds
High o’er the rest displays superior state,
In proud pre-eminence sublimely great
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The Lost Halliwell Witch by charmedfan120
TV » Charmed Rated: T, English, Hurt/Comfort & Supernatural, Piper H., Chris H., Wyatt H., Greg, Words: 38k+, Favs: 24, Follows: 22, Published: 5/5/2019 Updated: 3/28/2020}
55 Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Partying and Tragedy.
Tonight has been the night Wyatt and Chris have been hoping would be demon free for months now. Chris only being out of college for a few months now and planning on moving out to an apartment with his partner Bianca a member of the Phoenix a deadly bloodline of assassin witches. While Wyatt has started working over at Magic School. The two planned to go to some party with old school friends. Right now the two young men are in Wyatt's private quarters at Magic School.
"Still crazy to think that the manor is going to be in the hands of three sisters again," Wyatt commented as he finished getting changed in the bathroom.
"The cupid trio, I give the manor a week before it gets blown up." Chris joked. Chris is wearing plain navy blue trousers and a light blue t-shirt with navy trainers. Wyatt walks out wearing black trousers, a grey t-shirt and black shoes.
"That's pretty generous towards those three," Wyatt says.
"I guess it is," Chris spoke.
"Tammy's party is going to be so great. I haven't been to a decent one for months. Or when I do there always some demon or warlock attack." Wyatt replies.
"Let's hope not I've got a job interview tomorrow. I don't want to turn up and tired and bruised. Or hung over." Chris said. The conversation ends there before the two orbs out heading towards the party.
Meanwhile back over in San Francisco, in a two-bedroom house, we have Greg the famous Fireman well famous in the Halliwell family. In the living room sat down flicking through his mobile responding to a few text messages. While standing in front of him is a sixteen-year-old boy who has short brown hair, crystal blue eyes and pale skin. The boy is wearing grey trousers, black vans, a black t-shirt with a black denim jacket.
"Come on Dad, this has been planned for months." The boy begs.
"Sorry kid, I don't know this girl how responsible she is and I'm not a fool I know what happens at teen parties when the host parents are away," Greg replied.
"What's to know her name is Crystal, she's in my maths class. She's sixteen and a half and is a cheerleader nothing really special." The boy says.
"Look, George, it's not that I don't trust you. I don't trust the people you will be around in that environment." Greg said.
"Daaad, I haven't asked to go to one of these parties before. Just this once please, I'll be back at whatever time you want just give me this one party." George pleads. Greg rolls his eyes maybe just maybe George going to the party wouldn't be such a bad idea, of course, there are some ground rules that need to be put in place. Greg sighs for a moment before he puts his phone to one side.
"Fine but on three conditions kid. One no drinking two you're back here for ten NO later. And three if there is anyone who is taking or offering drugs stay away from them." Greg tells George, has to use every bit of will not to roll his eyes or to make some sarcastic response.
"Fine, I suppose those conditions are reasonable. Thanks, Dad." George responded he has to admit he is disappointed his dad has imposed a no drinking rule. That's one of the reasons he wanted to go his dad would kill him if he was caught drinking.
"Don't make me regret letting you," Greg says.
"Don't worry I won't," George replies.
Now a few hours later at Crystal's house party where there music roaring, dancing drinking. Crystal's house near to the corners is George with a friend talking. This friend is a girl of the same age, who has green eyes and long curly blond hair and slightly rosie complexion.
"Hey, hey George, I thought we agreed that we wouldn't just stand in the corner tonight. That we would dance, drink have a little bit of fun you know what most people go to a party to do." George's friend says.
"I know but I didn't expect you know who to be here Zelena," George responds.
"So what if he's here George, don't let his presence ruin your time here. Get talking to other people. Have a little fun otherwise there no point in being here." Zelena told George.
"I guess you're right Z, wish me luck," George spoke before walking away from Zelena who smiles thinking now she can talk to some guys and drink a little more knowing George is making an attempt at having some fun.
Hours passed and eventually, George did find himself having a good time dancing, talking having a laugh with other guests. Just as George starts to flirt with one of the other guests from a different school he gets a call from his aunt Jean.
"Excuse me," George said as he answered his phone.
"Aunt Jean, what's wrong? I'm kind of at a party right now." George asks not pleased that he was called.
"You need to leave now, it's your father," Jean replies her voice clearly laced with worry.
"My father's what wrong?" George asked.
"Me and your father went out for dinner on the way back some thug just came out of nowhere he was fast and attacked your father. He left as quick as he came to your dad's lost a lot of blood. We're at the local hospital." Jean explains. George finds his head filling with all the endless possibilities and outcomes that his father could face due to the attack. Panic and fear that's all he could feel right now.
"On my way," George tells Jenna before hanging up, heading towards the front door. Zelena who has been busy taking shots notices George passes on the next round and almost runs to catch up to him.
"George where the hell are you going?" Zelena questions.
"I-I have to go to the hospital my Dad, h...he needs me," George answers, this situation is not something George could have ever imagined.
"I'm coming with you, the buses aren't really reliable," Zelena told George there was no way she could stay at the party when her friend needs her.
"No, its Friday night you've been looking forward to this party for ages." George points out.
"You can't rid of me, I'm not drunk enough for you to get your own way," Zelena said.
"Fine, I need to call a cab," George says as he dials one of the local cab numbers.
"No, I'll call my dad he has a car," Zelena responded. Who quickly gets out her phone and dials her dad's number.
End of chapter 1.
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Sell other properties, but not those in Japan — Locsin
Published September 29, 2020, 6:02 PM
by Roy Mabasa
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Tuesday said if need be, the government should sell the properties of other departments instead of the priced Philippine properties in Japan as suggested by no less than President Duterte himself.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.
(PCOO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
“I will never agree to the sale of our properties in Japan for any reason. Sell the properties of the departments of budget, treasury, health above all for its lousy response to COVID,” Locsin said in a tweet.
Locsin was reacting to a statement made by President Duterte on Monday night, suggesting the sale of the Philippine properties in Japan as part of the government effort to find other sources of funding for the country’s response to COVID-19.
Instead of disposing of the historic properties in Japan, the DFA secretary suggested that the government should instead consider those “idle” ones belonging to other government agencies.
“Sell the properties of our line departments. Many idle ones,” he said.
Locsin, known for his oftentimes sarcastic and acerbic tweets, specifically pointed to the properties under the Department of Health (DOH) that should be sold in lieu of the properties in Japan.
“Imagine selling our Japan properties to fund the programs of DOH? Rob PhilHealth some more instead. They’re good at that. Sell San Lazaro. Sell RITM (Research Institute for Tropical Medicine),” he said.
Almost two weeks ago, Locsin decried an alleged “plot” to sell any of the four properties located in Tokyo and Kobe.
“There is another plot to dispose of four of our Japan properties. This is a second Pearl Harbor perpetrated by Filipinos on our own patrimony,” the DFA chief said in a social media post.
He, however, did not name those behind the plot.
The four properties being referred to are the 3,179-square meter Philippine property on 306 Roppongi St. 5-Chome Minato-ku in Tokyo; the 2,489.96-sq.m. Nampeidai property at 11-24 Nampeidai-machi, Shibuya-ku also in Tokyo; the 764.72 sq.m. commercial property at 63 Naniwa-cho in Kobe; and the residential property at 1-980-2 Obanoyama-cho, Shinohara, Nada-ku, Kobe.
In a 1990 ruling, the Supreme Court said the four are “properties and the capital goods and services procured from the Japanese government for national development projects are part of the indemnification to the Filipino people for their losses in life and property and their suffering during World War II.”
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DepEd-7 to probe Bantayan incident involving students
Published December 1, 2020, 1:18 PM
CEBU CITY—The Department of Education in Central Visayas (DepEd 7) will conduct its own investigation in relation to last Saturday’s controversial tourism activity in Madridejos town on Bantayan Island, northern Cebu.
DepEd 7 regional director Salustiano Jimenez said a fact-finding team will be sent to Bantayan to check reports that students wearing their uniforms attended the event.
The event, one of the stops of Cebu province’s tourism project Suroy Suroy Sugbo, became controversial after a huge crowd came to watch in an apparent violation of the physical distancing protocol that authorities have set to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduard Año has already ordered an investigation into the mass gathering.
The activity was graced by various government officials such as presidential spokesman Harry Roque, Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia, and Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Secretary Michael Dino.
Roque spoke before the crowd and noticed that physical distancing was not observed. He, however, said it was just fine that there was a huge crowd since the event was held in an open-air area and the spectators had their face masks on.
Jimenez said he too saw the photos that have become viral on social media showing a huge crowd gathering at Kota Park.
Some photos showed children in school uniform.
“We will check if school children were really there and what were there reasons why they went there. We will also check with the parents to find out why their children were there when there is an Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) protocol against it,” said Jimenez.
“It has to be checked because some may say that those were photos of previous events,” said Jimenez.
Jimenez said DepEd 7 will investigate why there were children in school uniforms when the IATF has yet to approve face-to-face classes.
School officials are required to seek approval from the IATF if there are planned activities, said Jimenez.
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Microsoft Pushes More Into Forefront
By Keith Ward
Microsoft plans to sink more money into Forefront, its comprehensive suite of tools for desktop, server and remote security, and its security partners stand to benefit -- perhaps substantially.
At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver Wednesday, Microsoft announced a number of enhancements to it Security Software Advisor (SSA) program. SSAs are Microsoft Partners that help sell and implement Microsoft security products like ISA Server, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, Forefront Security Suite and so on. In all, there are currently 10 security products under the Forefront umbrella. SSAs earn up to 30 percent of the estimated retail price of any Forefront products they sell.
Microsoft stated in a press release that it has more than 4,000 SSAs, and that success has led it to boost its investment "in sales, marketing, training and other support for its security business" by $50 million.
It is also making some changes to the program specializations. The first is that the "Secure Management" specialization is going away; it's being merged into the "Secure Infrastructure" specialization. A new specialization has also been created, "Identity and Secure Access." Microsoft said that it is to reflect the fact that identity management and its relationship to secure network access is a specialized skill set.
Microsoft is also broadening the category of companies eligible to become SSAs. In addition to security recommendation and implementation companies, Microsoft will make eligible business that engage in "infrastructure-related competencies, including Advanced Infrastructure, Network Infrastructure, and Information Worker competency partners," according to the release.
To push its Forefront products for the existing and new SSAs, Microsoft stated that it's launched a global advertising campaign targeting IT pros in 28 countries.
No new products in the Forefront family were announced at the conference. The next one on the horizon is codename "Stirling", which will combine all the security products in one giant offering, including a centralized management console. Stirling is expected to have a community technology preview sometime in the second half of 2007, public betas in the first half of next year, and general availability in the first half of 2009.
Keith Ward is the editor in chief of Virtualization & Cloud Review. Follow him on Twitter @VirtReviewKeith.
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4.24.20 MCS COVID-19 Family Update
COVID-19 & MCS Updates / By Tracey Carson
Dear Mason City Schools Family,
While we anticipated Governor DeWine’s announcement that school buildings would be closed for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year, it doesn’t make it any easier. We truly miss having our students, staff, and families in our buildings, and most importantly the opportunity to connect in person.
Watch this video of Superintendent Jonathan Cooper sharing considerations for creating #MasonMoments during this time of coronavirus – and especially for our Class of 2020.
Below are responses to common questions from our families and the public.
What does the rest of this school year look like?
Our teachers and staff will continue to serve our students and families through Remote Learning Experiences as we finish the year. Our team is continually reflecting on how to ensure our systems are as supportive as possible to our students and our staff during this unprecedented time, and that we are preparing for the future to the best of our abilities.
We will end new instruction for remote learning a week prior to the last day of school. May 21-27th will be a time for students to have virtual experiences that give them closure and opportunities to say goodbye to their teachers and classmates, as well as opportunities for students to receive support as needed. This may include holding traditional end-of-year celebrations and closing activities in a virtual environment. During this time, our teachers will also engage in professional learning needed to prepare for the 2020-2021 school year.
Are other student activities, including school year-end celebrations, cancelled?
Face-to-face student activities are cancelled for the remainder of the school year due to the closure of the buildings. However, staff are working to create safe connection moments, virtual field trips, etc.
What about the commencement exercise for the Class of 2020?
On Thursday, we received the following guidance from the Ohio Department of Education.
“The Ohio Department of Education has been fielding several questions about graduation ceremonies and other end-of-year recognition ceremonies for students. Educators, students and parents are questioning whether they should attempt to hold in-person events of this nature. While we understand the significance, tradition and rites of passage many of these events represent, particularly for our seniors, schools should hold events virtually rather than conducting in-person events of this type, and record these events whenever possible and practicable. Congregate graduation ceremonies should not be held. Additionally, we recommend holding a virtual or alternate recognition on the original intended graduation date or a date very close to that date. Governor DeWine, during his press conference on Monday, April 20, stated, ‘the gathering of significant numbers of people is a dangerous situation. Just as schools have been innovative in regard to how to teach from a distance, I know that they will be innovative as they look at how…they honor the students…’ We are asking the education community to come together and honor our students, especially our seniors, in a manner that doesn’t pose health risks to anyone. Schools should continue to recognize the importance of restrictions on mass gatherings, and events should be aligned with the Ohio Department of Health’s Order.”
In Mason, we recognize that graduation is a time-honored and legacy-honed tradition. We will follow the state’s directives and hold a virtual commencement exercise as originally scheduled on Sunday, May 24, 2020. The ceremony will be a combination of both live and pre-recorded moments. We also intend to create a multi-step celebration of the Class of 2020 that will include heart-felt opportunities for personal connection. MHS Principal Bobby Dodd will share the full plan for commencement with seniors and their families next week.
Now that we know we won’t be coming back to school in May, can we pick up items left in classrooms and the buildings?
If your child is in need of items required for remote learning, please email your child’s principal and he or she will work with you to have the item delivered to you, or come up with a safe way for you to pick it up.
Next week, we will announce plans for families to retrieve remaining items that have been left at school. In order to maintain social distancing requirements, families will be asked to remain in cars, and your child’s items will be placed in your vehicle’s trunk.
Are spring sports cancelled?
Since schools remain physically closed for the remainder of the school year, all spring sports and tournaments have been canceled by the Ohio High School Athletic Association.
Will the district be processing refunds for activities that are not happening now?
We are processing refunds for preschool snack fees, before and after school child care programming, and activities that were previously scheduled to take place in the month of May. Please note, once our Fiscal Office receives the request for refunds it will take a couple of weeks to process.
If you have a question about specific fees, please contact your building Principal.
How can we support our commUNITY?
Senior Citizens: United Way of Warren County Volunteer Resource Center in partnership with Warren County Community Services is recruiting volunteers willing to shop for the 250 identified low-income and at-risk senior citizens in our community. These are the most basic and sustainable items. A $50 gift card, shopping list, and box can be picked up on Saturday April 25th at United Way of Warren County (3989 S. US Route 42, Lebanon, OH 45036) between 11am-6pm. Then return the items on Thursday April 30th to Warren County Community Services (570 N State Route 741, Lebanon, OH 45036) between 10am-6pm. Please sign-up for the available slots.
View previous updates.
Thanks for all you are doing during this challenging time. We are stronger together!
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Steven Renderos: Here’s What You Need to Know About the New Prison & Detention Phone Rates
By MediaJustice
For over ten years a coalition of organizations and individuals has been asking the Federal Communications Commission (the FCC) to lower the cost of calling prison, jail or detention centers. Our network, the Media Action Grassroots Network was at the forefront of the fight through our work in the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice. Together along with our allies last August we finally won! The FCC set new lower rates which take effect February 2014.
New Rate Caps
On February 11, 2014, the new rate caps adopted by the Federal Communications Commission for telephone calls to people in prison, jail or detention take effect. The FCC caps for interstate calls (calls between two different states) are:
25 cents per minute for collect calls and
21 cents per minute for debit or prepaid calls
The FCC also capped the total cost of a call between two states, including per-call charges. Those caps are:
$3.75 for a 15-minute collect call and
$3.15 for a 15-minute debit or prepaid calls
For calls after February 11, 2014, a charge over these limits is in violation of federal rules.
Need more help understanding the new rules? See our Frequently Asked Questions and How to File a Complaint at the FCC for Prison Phone Call Charges that are Too High.
Q: I have been charged a rate over 25 cents for collect calls or 21 cents for debit or prepaid calls between two different states, what should I do?
A: First, you should contact the telephone company and attempt to resolve the problem. Tell the company that the Federal Communications Commission has capped interstate calls (calls between states) and that you believe the charge to be too high. Keep records of your telephone bills and your conversations with the telephone company.
Q: I attempted to get a refund from the phone company, but they would not give me a refund, now what?
A: If the phone company won’t solve the problem, file a complaint at the FCC. Use the attached guide to help you to file a complaint. You can get help by calling the FCC at 1-888-225-5322. The FCC will send your complaint to the telephone company and require them to respond to you. The FCC should follow up with you to be sure you are satisfied with the outcome.
Q: I live in the same state as the person in prison who I am calling–can I be charged more than 21 cents or 25 cents per minute for a call?
A: Maybe. Some states have adopted limits on the cost of phone calls, but the new rules adopted by the FCC do not cap the cost of a call between two people in the same state. Click here to find your state regulator. See below to learn more about efforts to make more changes to lower prison phone bills.
Q: I have been fighting outrageous calls for years. I have a large phone bill from before 2014 that I am fighting. Can the new rules help me?
A: No. The new rules only apply to telephone calls that occur after February 11, 2014.
Q: I am being charged less than 21 cents per minute for a call between states, but I am also being charged $2.00 for each call. Can I get a refund? What should I do?
A: Yes. The cap for a 15 minute collect call is $3.75 and for a 15-minute debit or prepaid call is $3.15. The cap applies even if your telephone call was not exactly 15 minutes. To find out whether the price is over the cap, figure out the cost of a 15-minute call. For example, if you are charged 19 cents per minute and $2.00 per call, a 15-minute call would cost $4.85, over the cap. You should ask the company for a refund or file a complaint at the FCC if the company won’t refund your money, even if your call was for only 5 minutes.
Q: I am being charged very high fees to add money to a prepaid account, or to close an account, or for an inactive account. Can the new rules help me?
A: At this time, a court ruling has stopped the FCC from addressing this kind of fee. Keep your records: you can also try to file a complaint. It is possible that at a future time the FCC may be able to assist you.
Q: I heard that the prison phone companies blocked the new rules in court.
A: Several companies did challenge the new rules in court. The court blocked some of the new rules, but it left the caps of 25 cents per minute for collect calls and 21 cents per minute for debit or prepaid calls. Charges over those caps are prohibited after February 11, 2014.
Q: These new rules sound great, but they don’t help me. What can I do?
A: The campaign for phone justice is not over. The following organizations are working to reform high rates at prisons, jails, and detention centers at the FCC and in various states, cities and counties around the country. You can also contact your local elected officials, state representatives or members of Congress to ask them to help.
Organizations working to end predatory prison phone rates:
United Church of Christ Media Justice Ministry
Citizens United to Reform Errants, Campaign to Promote Equitable Telephone Charges
How to File a Complaint at the FCC for Prison Phone Call Charges that are Too High
If you have been charged too much for a phone call to a prison, you may want to file a complaint. If your call was between two states – for example, you live in Oklahoma and you are receiving calls from Texas—you can complain to the Federal Communications Commission.
If you have a complaint about in-state calls—for example if you live in Texas and you are receiving calls from inside Texas—you need to complain to the state where you are making and receiving calls. Click here to find your state regulator.
The FCC has a guide in English and in Spanish about informal complaints:
Consumer Guide to Informal Complaints
Guía para el Consumidor: Presentación de una queja informal
To file a complaint at the Federal Communications Commission about prison phone rates, you can either telephone the FCC or you can file a complaint online. To telephone the FCC, call 1-888-225-5322. The complaint form can be completed online or on paper. You can obtain copies of the form by calling the FCC.
To file your complaint, you will need:
your telephone number,
the name of the phone company,
your account number,
the amount you believe you were overcharged.
You can attach copies of your telephone bill to the complaint, but that is not required.
You can reach the FCC via TTY for people with disabilities: 1-888-835-5322
You can use the FCC’s toll-free fax number to send documents or a complaint: 1-866-418-0232
FAQ courtesy of OC Inc. United Church of Christ, Public Knowledge and the Media Action Grassroots Network.
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Online time can hobble brain's important work
by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
While you are browsing online, you could be squandering memories – or losing important information.
Contrary to common wisdom, an idle brain is in fact doing important work – and in the age of constant information overload, it's a good idea to go offline on a regular basis, says a researcher from Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Erik Fransén, whose research focuses on short-term memory and ways to treat diseased neurons, says that a brain exposed to a typical session of social media browsing can easily become hobbled by information overload. The result is that less information gets filed away in your memory.
The problem begins in a system of the brain commonly known as the working memory, or what most people know as short-term memory. That's the system of the brain that we need when we communicate, Fransén says.
"Working memory enables us to filter out information and find what we need in the communication," he says. "It enables us to work online and store what we find online, but it's also a limited resource."
Models show why it has limits. At any given time, the working memory can carry up to three or four items, Fransén says. When we attempt to stuff more information in the working memory, our capacity for processing information begins to fail.
"When you are on Facebook, you are making it harder to keep the things that are 'online' in your brain that you need," he says. "In fact, when you try to process sensory information like speech or video, you are going to need partly the same system of working memory, so you are reducing your own working memory capacity.
"And when you try to store many things in your working memory, you get less good at processing information."
You're also robbing the brain of time it needs to do some necessary housekeeping. The brain is designed for both activity and relaxation, he says. "The brain is made to go into a less active state, which we might think is wasteful; but probably memory consolidation, and transferring information into memory takes place in this state. Theories of how memory works explain why these two different states are needed.
"When we max out our active states with technology equipment, just because we can, we remove from the brain part of the processing, and it can't work."
See Erik Fransén discuss information overload with other experts on Crosstalks TV: information-overload/" target="_blank">crosstalks.tv/talks/have-our-b … 742d36daf7-overload/
Erik Fransén's ongoing work includes research on the link between disease and properties of nerve cells (ion channels). The project is a collaboration with Stockholm Brain Institute and a clinical consortium led by Martin Schmelz, from the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Heidelberg.
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More information: www.csc.kth.se/~erikf/Ion%20channels%20HighRes.pdf
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Stress is known to play a key role in many chronic illnesses including chronic pain, heart disease, diabetes, and some forms of cancer. But there has been relatively little research on how people manage their response to stress by engaging in behaviors that worsen their health, such as smoking, excessive use of alcohol, and over eating.
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Y&R's Victoria and Billy's 50's retro wedding exclusive sneak peek with ET!
It’s time for Victoria Newman ((Amelia Heinle) to get married again, and this time to probably her most controversial choice for a mate, in Billy Abbott (Billy Miller). This week on The Young and the Restless the nuptials begin between these two members of the shows long -time arch-rivals feuding families: The Newmans and the Abbotts.
In a an exclusive sneak peek of the big day, ETonline.com was on the set to get the flavor, and rationale for the choice of a throwback to nostalgia wedding. Those in the know, will recall that Billy and Victoria really first connected after watching a Father Knows Best marathon of the famous sitcom series of the 1950’s.
So what does Y&R do to create a little more buzz and fun for the event? They brought in Fathers Knows Best star Elinor Donahue to officiate the wedding between the duo. Make sure to watch what happens when Victoria and Billy finally say their , “I do’s” on tomorrow’s, Wednesday, September 8th’s episode.
Till then, watch the ETOnline video exclusive after the jump which features Heinle, Miller, and Donahue.
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Monday night, January 18th, Days of our Lives, Lamon Archey (Eli Grant) returns to the CW’s All American (8 p.m. ET) in his recurring role of Superintendent D’Angelo Carter. Archey, first appeared on the prime time series, back on the season two finale.
In a promo teasing tonight’s episode it says, “Grace won’t let him get to her that easily.”
Karimah Westbrook stars in the series. Will sparks ignite between Grace and D’Angelo?
Check out the tease for tonight’s All American below.
Then let us know if you are looking forward to seeing Lamon in his primetime role via the comment section.
Grace won’t let him get to her that easily. Season 3 premieres tomorrow at 8/7c! Stream next day free only on The CW. #AllAmerican pic.twitter.com/gVSqDbPWO7
— All American (@CWAllAmerican) January 17, 2021
Nominations were unveiled on Monday for the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards in the field of Television.
Netflix Ozark and The Crown scored the most nominations with six each. The award winners will be revealed along with the film categories (those nominations will be released on February 7th) on March 7th in a ceremony on the CW and will be hosted by Taye Diggs.
Some very familiar faces to daytime fans are in the running in some major categories. First, Tom Pelphrey (Ex-Jonathan, GL, Mick, ATWT) who gave one of the most talked about performances of 2020 in Ozark was nominated along with Justin Hartley (Ex-Adam, Y&R, Ex-Passions, Ex-Revenge) for his star-turn in This Is Us, for Best Supporting Actor in a a Drama Series.
Meanwhile on the comedy side, former As the World Turns actor, William Fichtner (Ex-Josh) scored for his work in the CBS’ Mom, in the Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy series category.
This Is Us’, Sterling K. Brown also received a nomination in the Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his work as Randall Pearson, and the series is also in the running for Best Drama Series.
Below are the full nominations in the running with Pelphrey, Hartley and Fichtner. You can check out the complete nominations in all categories here.
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Justin Hartley – This Is Us (NBC)
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Tobias Menzies – The Crown (Netflix)
Tom Pelphrey – Ozark (Netflix)
Michael K. Williams – Lovecraft Country (HBO)
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William Fichtner – Mom (CBS)
Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
Daniel Levy – Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
Alex Newell – Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (NBC)
Mark Proksch – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
Andrew Rannells – Black Monday (Showtime)
So will you be rooting for Tom or Justin to take hone the Critics Choice Award in the Supporting Actor Drama category? Let us know via the comment section below.
Longtime fans of General Hospital were over the moon when it was revealed that Denise Alexander was on her way back to the ABC daytime drama series to reprise her role of Dr. Lesley Webber, mother of Laura, played by Genie Francis.
With Laura’s story with her new found half-brothers central to the current storyline, it’s a perfect time for Alexander to be back in Port Charles.
Tricia Sheldon, a fan of General Hospital who loves the vintage years of the show and more as she notes on her Twitter account, was able to reach Alexander, who is not on social media. Sheldon showed her the outpouring of love the actress received, and the excitement on her on-screen imminent return.
In turn, Denise wrote a message to Sheldon to share publicly. Part of which read “Wow! I am breathless! What a wonderful surprise! I am beyond grateful for all the kind and amazing and funny and sweet and caring and supportive and truly delicious messages. I have never felt so appreciated and it brought tears and laughter reading each one.”
Alexander added, “I do not have a clue as to how to communicate on the Internet on Twitter.” She then noted, “I would love to reach each and every person who wrote about that first day back. But I don’t even know what the rules are. I’ve a vague sense that there is a limit to how long a message can be,but do not know how to reach anyone. Is there any way you could forward at least my thanks to everyone?”
Denise closed with, “I love each and every message, and am full of gratitude.”
You can view the communication and Denise’s heartfelt message below.
Now let us know what you thought of Denise reaching out to all of the fans, and how grateful she is that viewers are excited to see her back on-screen via the comment section,
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— Tricia Sheldon (@TriciaSheldon) January 16, 2021
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Socioeconomic Status is Globally a Prognostic Factor for Overall Survival of Multiple Myeloma Patients: Synthesis of Studies and Review of the Literature
Stergios Intzes, Marianthi Symeonidou, Konstantinos Zagoridis, Zoe Bezirgianidou, Georgios Vrachiolias, Athina Spanoudaki and Emmanouil Spanoudakis.
Democritus University of Thrace, Medical School, Department of Hematology. Alexandroupolis, Greece.
Correspondence to: Emmanouil Spanoudakis, Assistant Professor of Hematology. Democritus University of Thrace, Medical School. Alexandroupolis, Greece, Area of Dragana, PC 68100. E-mail: espanoud@med.duth.gr
Received: August 17, 2020
Accepted: December 7, 2020
Mediterr J Hematol Infect Dis 2021, 13(1): e2021006 DOI 10.4084/MJHID.2021.006
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) is reflecting differences in sociodemographic factors affecting cancer survivorship. Deprived, low SES populations have a higher prevalence of multiple myeloma and worst survival, a condition which widens over time.
Methods: We performed a meta-analysis of 16 studies (registries and cohorts) reporting myeloma patients' survival data according to SES. Ten studies reported Hazzard Ratio (H.R.) (95 % CI), and 16 studies reported p values. We combined the H.R. from 10 studies, and by using the Mosteller-Bush formula, we performed a synthesis of p values according to the area of the globe.
Results: Combination of H.R. from 10 studies including 85198 myeloma patients weighted to sample size of each study and adopting the hypothesis of random effect returned a combined H.R.: 1,26 (1,13-1,31) in favor of high SES patients.
USA: Synthesis of p values coming from 6 studies (n=89807 pts) by using the Mosteller and Bush formula extracted a p-value of <0.0001 favoring high SES patients.
Oceania: Synthesis of p values in two cohorts from Australia and New Zealand (n= 10196 pts) returned a p-value of 0,022 favoring high SES patients.
Europe: The synthesis of p values from the U.K. and Greece studies (n=18533 pts) returned a p-value of <0,0001 favoring high SES patients.
Asia: Synthesis of 2 studies from Asia (n=915 pts) returned a p-value of <0,0001 favoring high SES patients.
Conclusions: Across the globe and widening over decades, the socioeconomic status remains a gap for equality in myeloma care.
Overall Survival (O.S.) of multiple myeloma (MM) patients has improved over the last decades, with 50% of patients surviving beyond five years after diagnosis.[1] Autologous transplantation (ASCT) is still the most effective anti-myeloma therapy.[2] However, the introduction of proteasome inhibitors (bortezomib, carfilzomib, ixazomib), new IMiDs (lenalidomide, pomalidomide), and anti-CD38 and anti-SLAM monoclonal antibodies improved survival for both newly diagnosed myeloma (NDMM) and refractory/relapsed myeloma (RRMM) patients.[3]
Despite all this progress, disparities in myeloma care are globally noted, with not all myeloma patients finally achieving the expected survival benefit. A primary reason for inequalities in myeloma care is differences in social resources. The socioeconomic status (SES) is an index calculated based on education, social support, and income but, actually, is a surrogate marker reflecting differences in factors like ethnicity or race, availability of new treatment options, access to health system facilities, disparities in insurance status/ refurbishment of anti-myeloma drugs, occupation and place of living (rural or urban vs. metropolitan).[4] Racial or ethnic differences in myeloma reflect differences in factors that interfere with the SES status and disease biology during all stages of myeloma evolution (from monoclonal gammopathy to symptomatic myeloma).[5]
Ethnicity/Racial Disparities in Myeloma Care
The incidence of myeloma in California is higher for African-Americans (A.A.) ancestry compared to other races, and most patients are affected in earlier decades of their lives. Interestingly, A.A. with the highest SES has 50% more likelihood of being diagnosed with MM.[6] Although A.A. has a higher incidence of MGUS transformation rates to symptomatic myeloma is the same across all ethnic subgroups with lower progression rates for patients from Japan and Mexico.[5]
Disease characteristics like myeloma-related events or high-risk features are different across racial/ethnic subgroups. African American patients are thought to have a lower incidence of specific high-risk cytogenetics abnormalities (deletion of 17p) but higher rates of t(11;14) and 1q amp.[7] A mutational study recently showed that A.A. myeloma patients had a lower prevalence of the high risk p53 mutation, while across all ethnic groups, NRAS and KRAS are the most frequently occurred mutations.[8] Furthermore, the incidence of myeloma-related end-organ damage (e.g., need for kidney dialysis), factors that can delay therapy or put limitations in drug choice, has been reported with varying incidence according to racial/ethnic subgroups, affecting thus disease outcome and prognosis.[9]
A.A. patients with MM, examined on the treatment offered, were less likely to undergo ASCT and be treated with bortezomib, leading to a potential association with the worst prognosis.[10] The age-adjusted odds of receiving ASCT for MM were significantly higher for white than for A.A. patients (odds ratio, 1.75; 95% CI, 1.64–1.86; p=0,01)[11,12] although a recent study from a single center in Minnesota reported that SES was in less than 2% of cases a barrier in order patients to be referred for ASCT.[13] Another single-center study reported that A.A. patients have a time since referral to ASCT longer than Whites.[14] Data from SEER-Medicare data from 2003-2017 shows that ASCT use rates during first-year increases for A.As.[15] Notably, African American patients compared to white Americans after receiving autologous transplant have no difference in disease outcome (PFS or O.S.), meaning that ASCT can overcome biological differences among racial subgroups or that equality of treatment overcomes all racial disparities.[16,17,18] A recent study by Munshi et al. conducted on army veterans showed that O.S. disparities across different races are lost and possibly reversed when all patients have the same insurance and access to health system providers.[19]
Similarly, access to new agents is not equal across ethnic/racial subgroups in health systems where these agents are approved. During the first year after MM diagnosis, White and African American patients had higher bortezomib-only usage, but A.A. had lower lenalidomide usage, whereas Hispanic and Asian patients had higher immunomodulatory drug-only utilization.[10] Furthermore, a substantial increase was seen over the years for both lenalidomide and bortezomib use for all subgroups except Hispanic patients, and a notable increase in bortezomib use was noted for all subgroups except Asian patients.[20] Notably, even today use of novel agents is more distanced from diagnosis for patients with A.A. and Hispanic origin (5,2 and 4,6 months, respectively) compared to Whites (2,7 months).[15]
Novel Anti-Myeloma Agents and Disparities in Myeloma Care According to Race/Ethnicity
Another reason for disparities in myeloma care is participation in clinical trials testing novel anti-myeloma agents. Patients with MM of Asian or Hispanic origin are similarly underrepresented in clinical trials testing new agents in myeloma care. Apart from this, A.A. cancer patients participating in 35 SWOG clinical trials showed that early-stage breast and prostate cancer patients of A.A. origin had a worse outcome; however, an equal survival was noted for myeloma patients.[21] Overall, in myeloma's nine clinical studies till 2011, only 18% of patients were non-Whites and Hispanics.[22,23] Survival data from these studies show equal survival among ethnic groups when receiving treatment on the study protocol. A recent meta-analysis of patients included five clinical trials of myeloma shows increasing participation of minorities over decades, but still, Whites are the racial group most often participated in them.[23] The VISTA study included white race in more than 99% of participants and other trials FIRST, MMY3002, etc. Whites are 75-88% of participants. In this meta-analysis, survival rates, according to race, showed equal probabilities of survival in patients of Asian Pacific ancestry compared to Whites if they received the new anti-myeloma drugs.[24] Dilemmas about different effectiveness of novel anti-myeloma agents, especially monoclonal antibodies, in disease control due to immunological haplotypes were not proved evidence-based since, in a small series of 82 patients treated with either elotuzumab or daratumumab response rates, duration of response and adverse events were similar across ethnic groups.[25]
Table 1. Data extracted from studies and included in this meta-analysis.
Single-center Experience on Myeloma Care in the Muslim Minority of Thrace, Greece
In our single-center cohort of 223 MM patients from East Macedonia and Thrace in Greece, 172 patients were of Greek origin, 39 were of Greek Muslims, and 12 of Balkan origin. The end-organ damage (end-stage renal failure, severe bone disease) were not different across racial subgroups (Figure 1A). The presence of Extra Medullary Disease (EMD) prevailed in a higher percentage in Greek Muslims, but other high risk features like ISS stage III and high risk cytogenetics were equally distributed among racial subgroups. Autologous SCT was offered in the same percentage of transplant-eligible patients (48% vs. 46%, p=0,873), and the exposure to both lenalidomide and bortezomib (at least two complete cycles from each agent) was administered at the same percentage of patients (Figure 1A). Survival data shows equal median O.S. across racial subgroups, but myeloma patients of Greek Muslim origin had longer PFS after first-line anti-myeloma therapy, but no statistical significance was reached (Log Rank p=0,1, Figure 1B).[26]
Figure 1. Myeloma care according to ethnicity/race in East Macedonia and Thrace Greece. A) Disease characteristics and therapy with new anti-myeloma agents or autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) in Greeks and Greek Muslims. B) Progression Free Survival after first line treatment according to ethnicity/race (PFS1).
Access to Medical Centers and Availability of Best Anti-Myeloma Care
Overall, cancer patients in the USA do not have the same probabilities of receiving care and therapy for their disease in NCI institutes, so the different outcomes in all cancers. Access to National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) increased myeloma-related survival after 1996 in places with more than 2 NCI centers or more than 1 NCCN center and only for White patients. Accordingly, for ASCT, the best available anti-myeloma therapy with decreasing mortality rates through decades, disparities exist according to patients' insurance status and hospitals' volume where ASCT took place.[27] Low volume hospitals (<10 ASCT per year) had a crude mortality rate of 3,86% compared to 0,80% for high volume hospitals, and public hospitals had a crude mortality rate of 2,86% vs. 0,78% hospitals caring for patients with other insurance coverage. Facility volume is generally related to myeloma survival. National Cancer database includes 94.777 MM patients and 1333 medical centers, after multivariable analysis, showed that facility volume was independently associated with all-cause mortality for private hospitals. The unadjusted median overall survival by facility volume was 26.9 months for low volume facilities vs. 49.1 months for high volume facilities.[28]
Outside the USA in 15 Latin American countries, the FISH analysis was available in 67% of patients, MRI in 44%, and PET/CT was offered in 66,7% of patients. Treatment availability queries showed that ASCT was available in 11/13 countries, bortezomib, and lenalidomide in more than 90% of reported physicians, and pomalidomide, carfilzomib, and daratumumab is accessible in around 60% of physicians participating in this study. Maintenance therapy was prescribed in almost all indicated patients. However, there were significant differences in access to tests and treatments for multiple myeloma between public and private systems. Although patients can be referred to the private or public center for anti-myeloma care, that does not significantly impact patients' survival when the same protocols were utilized. All physicians reported having access to thalidomide and bortezomib. Autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) is available in most countries (11/13). Lenalidomide is commercially available in 97.9% (96), melphalan in 92.7% (94), daratumumab in 68% (65), pomalidomide in 67% (57), carfilzomib in 60% (57), and ixazomib in 18%. Nevertheless, the commercial availability of these drugs does not mean patients have access to them, as reimbursement issues and local health policies often do not provide them due to their high cost.[29]
Socioeconomic Status and Cancer Survivorship
SES has been linked with survival in a variety of cancers. Afshar et al., in a study from Australia reporting survival data in all cancer patients diagnosed between 2001-2015, found that patients from the most deprived for social sources areas had worst cancer survivorship with patients with lung, colorectal, breast, prostate cancer, and melanoma to have the higher survival gap according to SES.[30] A recent analysis of SEER registry data, including 327078 cancer patients from the USA, showed increased mortality for low SES patients than high SES patients across all races and ethnicities. In high SES patients, Whites had better survival compared to other high SES patients from other races; a difference widened in patients suffering from breast colorectal or prostate cancer.[31]
Socioeconomic Status and Hematological Malignancies
Deprived socioeconomic status has been linked with poor survival and a wide variety of myeloid[32] and lymphoid[33,34] hematological malignancies. Children and young adolescents with acute myeloid (AML) and lymphoid leukemia (ALL) enjoy improvement over decades of survival. Racial disparities are not that sharp now a days, especially for ALL patients, and allogeneic transplants are equally offered across all races, but there is still a gap in donor availability in patients of A.A. origin.[35] In Diffuse Large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients, conflicting data about SES's effect on survival exists. In the USA, DLBCL patients with no-insurance or Medicaid insurance had inferior survival compared to non-Medicaid insurance.[36] Studies show that patients from urban/rural areas compared to metropolitan areas had the worst survival due to a multifactorial etiology.[37] Delay in diagnosis, low SES, deprivation of financial resources, and, most importantly, fewer probabilities of receiving care in a high volume experienced in the lymphoma medical center are the main reasons for low SES patients' worst outcome. A recent study from the USA shows that low SES patients do not receive chemo-immunotherapy at the same rate, and when therapy is equal, survival rates are not affected by SES, at least for older patients above the age of 65. Hodgkin disease survival in young adults is not different across racial barriers, but Hodgkin disease incidence is strongly related to living in high SES affluent areas.[38] In Follicular lymphoma, a disease with a chronic course with remissions and relapses, similarly to MM, patients below 65 with the USA's worst insurance had a hazard ratio for death 1,96 (H.R 1.96; 95% CI, 1.69-2.28).[39] SES is related to diminish survival rate in mantle cell lymphoma patients as well.[34]
Considering the impact of SES on myeloma survival, many data exist in the literature that supports SES as a prognostic survival factor globally and across all decades.[40,41,42] Some studies are relating to SES and the incidence of myeloma.
Socioeconomic Status and Incidence of Multiple Myeloma
Incidence of myeloma is highly variable among countries but is globally rising through the decades, reaching 2,1 cases per 100.000 habitants per year.[43] The highest prevalence of myeloma is met in Australia, North America, and Western Europe.[43] Available data about the incidence of MM and SES are conflicting. In population-based studies, MM and its preceded MGUS have been positively related to high SES because of earlier diagnosis.[44] Other studies are reporting a higher incidence of MM in low SES mostly related to occupational hazard[45] with farmers and industrial workers, especially after prolonged exposure to pesticides or other industrial chemicals to be in danger.[46,47] Obesity, a strong risk factor for MGUS development, is often seen in patients with low sociodemographic characteristics.[48] A population case-control study included 206 Black and 367 White MM cases plus 2131 controls found out that low occupation-based SES was significantly associated with an increased risk of MM.[49]
Socioeconomic Status and Myeloma Survival
Plenty of cohort studies reports data on the role of SES on myeloma survival in the literature. In order to extract and analyze all available data, we performed a meta-analysis of published studies.
Search Strategy and Statistical Analysis
We conducted a PubMed search using the following criteria; (myeloma OR plasma cell dyscrasia) AND (socioeconomic status OR social index OR SES), and 288 abstracts were returned. After reading abstracts, we resulted in 29 studies. Three independent reviewers (ES, SI, MS) red full-text articles and 16 studies full-filling our inclusion criteria (reporting five ys survival rate in patients with High or Low SES) were included in this meta-analysis of cohort studies. After selecting studies, data were extracted, and we compared five ys O.S. in High SES and Low SES myeloma patients (Studies Flow Diagram in Figure 2).
Figure 2. Studies flow diagram and final selection of studies included in this meta-analysis.
We separated subgroups according to the geographical area of the study. To synthesize data from different cohort studies, we used the Mosteller and Bush formula, which is the generalization of the z-test. This formula gives weight to each study concerning the number of patients. Under the null hypothesis, the weighted sum still has a normal distribution with mean 0 and variance equals the sum of the weights' square. So we have the formula:
In some studies (n=10), Hazzard Ratio (H.R.), and 95% confidence interval for O.S. in High SES and Low SES myeloma patients were reported. By using the RevMan software, a Cochrane tool, we performed a meta-analysis of the reported H.R.
Combined from Eleven Studies Hazzard Ratio for Death in High SES and Low SES Myeloma Patients
A meta-analysis of 10 studies (two of them Sun et al., Fiala et al. gives H.R. in two cohorts) that reported H.R. and 95% CI for survival differences according to SES status of myeloma patients, weighted to sample size of each study and to adopt the hypothesis of random effect returned a combined H.R.: 1,26 (1,13-1,31). In this meta-analysis, 85198 myeloma patients were included demonstrating a better survival probability for high SES patients by 1,26 times compared to low SES patients (Figure 3A).
Figure 3. A) Meta-analysis and combination of Hazzard Ratio (H.R.) extracted from 10 studies reporting H.R. (95 % CI) for overall survival (O.S.) according to socioeconomic status (SES). B) Synthesis of p values from 16 studies reporting H.R. (95 % CI) for O.S. at 5 years according to SES segregating according to area of the globe that data are coming from. In each table percentage of 5y O.S. from all studies is reported and p values on the top denotes synthesis of p from all studies in this part of the world.
Socioeconomic Status and Disparities in 5 Years Overall Survival of Myeloma Patients According to Geography
In this meta-analysis, we conducted a synthesis of p values by using the Mosteller and Bush formula and included 134363 myeloma patients. We extracted data from studies, and we reported a 5-year O.S. rate in Low and High SES patients. Two studies are reporting separately for women and men (Renshaw and Rachet). We made a synthesis of p values from studies in four geographic areas of the globe; USA included six studies (Sun et al., Costa et al., Savage et al., Hong et al., Fiala cohort, and SEER data), Australia and New Zeeland 3 studies (Chan et al., Harwood et al., Nandakumar et al.), Europe 3 studies (Renshaw et al., Rachet et al., Intzes eta al), Asia included two studies (Krismann et al., Limei Xu et al.)
USA: Health System Disparities and the Impact of SES on Myeloma Survival
In the United States, there is no single national system of health insurance. Health insurance is purchased in the private marketplace or provided by the government to some groups. Private health insurance can be purchased from commercial insurance companies or non – profit insurers. About 84% of the population is covered by either public (26%) or private (70%) health insurance. Approximately 61% of health insurance coverage is employment-related.
The health care system in the USA is characterized by broad economic inequalities. The life expectancy of the wealthiest Americans now exceeds that of the poorest by 10-15 years. Poor Americans have worse access to health care than do wealthy Americans because many remain uninsured despite coverage expansions since 2010 due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Significantly, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million more have inadequate access to care.
According to SEER registry reporting data from over than 30.000 myeloma patients diagnosed from 1981 to 2010 in the USA, gap on survival rates according to SES has widened over time (affluent to deprived: 26,1%, 26,8% and 24,8% in the first decade, 31,2%, 28,1%, and 25,9% in the second decade and 44,2%, 40,5%, and 34,8% in the third decade). The Kaplan–Meier survival analyses confirmed the widening survival gaps among SES groups, with p values of 0,0016 during the last decade when more effective anti-myeloma treatments became available.[50]
This decade's focus was made by Costa et al., reporting data from 10,161 cases of MM diagnosed before the age of 65 years from 2007 t0 2012 and included in the SEER-18 registry. In the Cox proportional hazards model, only marital status, insurance status, and county-level income significantly influenced O.S. The cumulative effect of sociodemographic factors associated with shorter survival in the multivariable analysis was statistically significant (p<0,0001). The 4 years OS% reported 71,1%, 63,2% 53,4% and 46,5% for patients with 0, 1, 2, 3 adverse sociodemographic factors.[51]
Fiala et al. reported retrospectively from five-hundred-sixty-two patients eligible for analysis included in medical records from Washington University School of Medicine.
High-SES patients were less likely to have comorbidities at diagnosis than middle-SES and low-SES patients (58% compared to 72% and 76%, p=0.007) and were more likely to have private insurance at diagnosis. High-SES patients were more likely to undergo ASCT than middle-SES and low-SES patients (72% compared to 59% and 52%, respectively, p<0.001). In multivariate analysis of SES, age at diagnosis, year of diagnosis, race, comorbidity score, ASCT utilization, and insurance provider, all other variables except insurance provider, were independently associated with survival.[41]
The same group tested their patients' results in SEER-18 registry reporting from patients recorded until November 2012. 45.505 MM patients were identified for analysis. The median age at diagnosis was 69 years (range 18–85+), and 18 percent were black. In a multivariate model, SES was associated with O.S. [HR 1.18 (95% CI 1.15–1.22) for low-SES relative to high-SES; HR 1.10 (95% CI 1.07–1.13) for middle-SES relative to high-SES].[41]
Hong et al. reported data from 354 transplant eligible patients from the USA, and they did not observe any significant differences in O.S. or Progression-Free Survival (PFS) and relapse rate based on recipient SES at ASCT in univariate analyses or multivariable analysis after adjusting for significant patient-, disease-, and transplantation-related variables.[52]
There is also a small study from Harlem Hospital reporting from 1980 to 1985 and found out that low socioeconomic index resulted in a significantly lower five-year O.S. rate (27 vs. 18%; p=0,01).[42]
We performed the synthesis of p values coming from these six studies (n=89807 pts) by using the Mosteller and Bush formula, and the extracted p-value was <0.0001, meaning that in the USA, there is a statistically significant association between low SES and O.S. across all age groups and decades (Figure 3B).
Australia: Health System Disparities and the Impact of SES on Myeloma Survival
The Australian health system involves multiple layers of responsibility and funding provided by governments, individuals, and private health insurers.
Primary care is mostly provided in the community by general practitioners (GPs) who are generally self-employed. G.P.s also operate as 'gatekeepers', referring patients to specialist medical services where needed. The national public health insurance scheme «Medicare» provides subsidies for most medical and diagnostic and some other health services.
Public hospital treatment is free for people but can be subject to long waiting times for elective surgery. Private hospitals cater to patients who want a choice of doctor and private ward accommodation. For private hospitals, Medicare pays 75 percent of the Medicare schedule fee, with the balance met by private health insurance.
A range of free or low-cost public health services, including immunization and mental health services, are provided by community health facilities. Prescription medicines are dispensed by private community pharmacists paid by the Australian government (under a Pharmacy Agreement) to dispense medicines subsidized under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
An older study from Australia reported data from 249 myeloma patients diagnosed from 1975 through 1984 and found no difference in O.S. according to SES p=0,2 in this decade where chemotherapy was the most effective treatment.[53] Another study from Australia reporting survival data from more than 6000 myeloma patients diagnosed between 1981 to 2014 found that five-year relative survival across all treatment eras for disadvantaged patients was 39% (95% CI 0,36–0,42) vs. affluent patients 46% (95% CI 0,42–0,49) (p<0.001). There was no significant difference in relative survival for the middle class in multivariate analysis than affluent SES patients. Importantly, residence and SES were significant in multivariate testing, demonstrating that each was independently predictive of O.S.[54]
New Zealand: Health System Disparities and the Impact of SES on Myeloma Survival
New Zealand's original indigenous inhabitants are Māori. In 2014, New Zealand had an estimated population of 4,547,000. (2) The population mainly has European ethnicity (74 %), and there are significant Māori (15%), Pacific Island (7%), and Asian (12%) populations (1).
The health care system is has been funded by the government since the early 1940s, and public funding currently accounts for 83% of total health expenditure Government-owned hospitals provide accident and emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and community care free of charge to all New Zealanders.
Primary health care services such as general practitioner (G.P.), pharmacy, and diagnostic services have traditionally been delivered through privately owned, small independent businesses funded by the government.
A recent study from the New Zealand Cancer Registry performed in the era of modern drugs from 2004 to 2016 has reported in multivariate analysis age [hazard ratio (HR) 1,06, 95% CI 1,05-1,07], socio-economic deprivation (HR 1,10, 95% CI 1,04- 1,16) and 4 regions of the country (HR 1,12, 95% CI 1,05 - 1,19) as negative, and treatment with ASCT (HR 0,66, 95% CI 0,51- 0,87) or bortezomib (HR 0,74, 95% CI 0,64 - 0,86) as positive independent prognostic factors for OS. The most deprived groups had an inferior 3-year OS compared to others (57 vs. 63%; p=0,026) and experienced no improvement in survival following the funding of bortezomib despite similar uptake of first line bortezomib.[55]
Synthesis of p values from two cohorts from Australia and a New Zealand cohort (n=10196 pts) returned a p-value of 0,022 indicated SES as a prognostic factor and in Oceania (Figure 3B).
United Kingdom: Health System Disparities and the Impact of SES on Myeloma Survival
The health care system of the United Kingdom has since 1997 been assigned the responsibility for organizing health financing and services to relevant public officials. All U.K. citizens have maintained national health services, which provide universal access to a comprehensive package of services that are mostly free at the point of use. These health services are predominantly financed from general taxation, and 83.5% of total health expenditure in the United Kingdom came from public sources in 2013.
Life expectancy has increased steadily across the United Kingdom, but health inequalities have proved resistant to improvement, and the gap between the most deprived and the most privileged continues to widen rather than close.
Renshaw et al. reported data from 10,015 myeloma patients diagnosed from 1985 through 2004 and included in the Thames Cancer Registry. When considering patients with myeloma diagnosed in the era of targeted therapies from 2000 to 2004 in both males and females, there was a tendency for higher survival in patients resident in the most affluent areas (males trend p= 0,09, females trend p= 0,07).[56]
Rachet et al., in another U.K. study, reported data from 40.000 myeloma patients according to the year of diagnosis and relative deprivation of social supporting factors (social gap). They found out that the equal myeloma survival for deprived women noted in the late 1980s had wholly reversed by the late 1990s. These vast differences among deprivation groups in survival trends, with no improvement at all in 5-year survival among the most deprived group, but an increase of more than 10% for the most affluent groups expected to be further widened in the future.[57]
Greece: Health System Disparities and the Impact of SES on Myeloma Survival
The Greek national health system provides healthcare benefits/services through a network of public/state providers and contracted private primary, hospital, and ambulatory care providers. Private providers' presence is more obvious in primary care, especially in diagnostic technologies, private physicians' practices, and pharmaceuticals. The system is financed by the state budget, social insurance contributions, and private payments.
The National Organization for the Provision of Health Services (Greek acronym EOPYY) negotiates contracts and remunerates health professionals. At the Pharmacist's, there is usually a co-payment of 25% of medicinal products' cost. Some patients' groups, such as cancer patients, the chronically ill, and pregnant women, receive medicines free of charge or pay a reduced co-payment.
In a recently published study, we retrospectively collected data from 223 myeloma patients treated in our department from January 2005 till December 2019. Based on the intention to treat (ITT), 78 patients were considered transplant eligible (T.E.), and 145 were non-transplant eligible (NTE). In Kaplan Mayer survival analysis, including all MM patients of our cohort, the Low SES group n=100 had inferior survival compared to High SES patients n=123 [Median O.S. (95% CI) for Low SES: 28 months (18-37,9) High SES: 68 months (55,6-80,4), Long Rank p=0,000). The Low SES effect on O.S. is more evident in the non-transplant eligible (NTE) elderly myeloma patients and those diagnosed at I stage ISS.[26]
The synthesis of p values from the U.K. and Greece studies (n=18533 pts) returned a p-value of <0,0001 suggested that SES remains an important prognostic factor of survival in Europe (Figure 3B).
Asia and Africa
A recent study from China by Limei Xu et al. included 773 NDMM patients diagnosed from 2006 to 2019 found out that low SES patients received ASCT at a lower rate and had a worst PFS and O.S. Patients with high education levels had a median overall survival (O.S.) of 122.27 (95% CI: 117.05–127.49) months, which was also better than that of patients with low education levels (58.83 months, 95% CI: 48.87–62.79, p< 0.001). Developing countries contributed two small studies to our analysis. A small cohort from India reporting data from 132 myeloma patients diagnosed during the 80s found similar survival rates for low and middle SES.[58] Similarly, another study from Nigeria reports data from 292 newly diagnosed and relapsed myeloma patients and found no difference in O.S. according to SES p=0,69 in multivariate analysis.[59]
Synthesis of 2 studies from Asia (n=915 pts) returned a p-value of< 0,0001 showing a better survival for high SES myeloma patients compared to low SES and in this part of the world (Figure 3B).
Financial Toxicity of Myeloma Treatment
Myeloma is a disease model for drug development that led to 11 new medications' approval since 1998. Although new treatment allows better disease control, they also stress payers' budgets. In 2000, the total all-cause health care cost of myeloma was $3,263 per patient per month (PPPM) ($346 PPPM or 10.6% for myeloma treatment-related drug costs) and increased to $14,656 PPPM in 2014 ($4,176 PPPM or 28.5% for myeloma treatment-related drug costs).[60] Furthermore, real-world data shows that myeloma patients' treatments are not always given in optimal ways. MacEwan et al. showed that the average duration of treatment by a line of therapy was seven months for the first line, six months for the second line, and five months for the third line.[61] So payments in the real world setting cannot bring the maximum benefit for myeloma patients.
After patients are diagnosed with cancer, the purchase of therapies affects their personal economics (pocket cost) by two ways; first, contributing to calculations of the cost of insurance premiums and second through cost-sharing mechanisms imposed by insurers.[1] Furthermore, employment issues due to myeloma are arising. In a recently published study, five hundred (66%) of the respondents reported that they were employed at the time of diagnosis and treatment onset. However, by the time they completed the study questionnaire, only 33% were employed.[62] In the same study, 29% of participants changed or lost coverage after myeloma diagnosis, including 10% unable to obtain replacement insurance and 35% applied for disability support programs.[62] Considering the ability to work, this is affected by the choice of an anti-myeloma treatment plan. Merola et al. reported that patients who received injectable therapy missed an average of 110 workdays in the one year after diagnosis, compared with 87 for patients receiving only oral therapy.[63]
Myeloma care's financial toxicity is increasing for both health system payers and for patients' as well. Disparities in myeloma care will widen since the most deprived will fail to meet the need for continuous administration of expensive therapies.
SES is an established poor prognostic factor for survival in many cancers. Differences in SES are a surrogate marker reflecting other factors like ethnicity/race, insurance cover, place of living, accessibility to health services etc. In this meta-analysis, we performed the synthesis of p values from 16 studies that included 134363 MM patients diagnosed from 1975 to 2019 and weighted according to the number of patients included in each study. We demonstrated that SES remains a significant prognostic factor for O.S. in myeloma patients globally (p-value of <0,0001). Synthesis of H.R. from 10 studies shows that high SES myeloma patients have 1,26 (95% CI 1,13-1,31) more probabilities to be alive at five years compared to low SES patients. Financial intoxication of myeloma care on health systems and patients is rising through the decades. Therefore the gap in myeloma care between deprived and affluent patients is expected to widen in the future.
S.Intzes, M. Symeonidou, and K. Zagoridis reviewed papers and perform statistical analysis. G Vrachiolias, Z. Bezirgiannidou, and A. Spanoudaki search literature, export data, and create figures; E. Spanoudakis supervised research, reviewed papers, and wrote the paper with contributions from all co-authors.
This work was supported by an unrestricted educational grant from the pharmaceutical company FARAN Hellas.
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Flood sweeps off inhabitants in communities in Central region
Floods covered gutters and bridges in most areas in Cape Coast
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 Source: ghananewsagency.org
Heavy downpour which occurred in the early hours of Wednesday has left most communities in the Central Region submerged, leaving many inhabitants stranded.
The long hours of rain resulted in floods that covered gutters and bridges in most areas in the Cape Coast Metropolis and Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality.
Communities such as Abura, Pedu, Adisadel, Amamoma, Apewosika, the University of Cape Coast campus, Abena in Elmina, as well as farms and schools were all affected.
Many have been trapped in their homes while some communities have been cut off from the major roads linking them to other parts of the Metropolis and the Municipality.
Pupils at the Ayifua St Mary Anglican School in Cape Coast could not attend classes as their compound was heavily flooded.
Some affected residents shared their thoughts, suggestions and experiences on the causes and effects of the floods on their lives and in their societies as well.
Mr James Okoh, a resident of Yamoa near Cape Coast Technical University, told the GNA in an interview that there were no culvert or drains to contain the flow of water when it rained, thereby flood waters found their way into homes, farms and on the streets, leaving in its wake huge destruction to properties and sometimes lives.
Madam Felicia Andoh, a resident of Abura in the Cape Coast Metropolis, also revealed that all gutters in the community and its surrounding areas have been choked with filth blocking the movement of the floodwaters into the sea and retaining them in the community.
She said many people had been trapped in their homes while others have been rendered homeless as a result of the rains and called on the Assembly to intervene and put in place measures to avoid a reoccurrence.
David Amissah who lives at Ntranoa in the KEEA Municipality, said most houses in his Area were in waterways and therefore perennial floods was their plight over many decades.
When contacted, Mr. Eric Arthur, Central Regional Public Relations Officer of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), said the Organisation would liaise with other sister institutions to reach out to affected communities.
Perennial flooding is a major problem in Cape Coast, KEEA and adjoining communities and had for decades destroyed homes, streets, schools, and uprooted trees among other disasters.
In 2010, the situation was very serious as communities along the UCC -Elmina stretch of road, including Duakor and Abakam were so much submerged that canoes were used to evacuate the residents when there was an overflow of the River Kakum forcing the Brimsu Waterworks to spill its excess water.
Sadly, developers are still building in waterways compounding the problem of flooding in the two Areas.
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A French-based artist who has exhibited extensively in the United States as well as her native country, Yolande Ardissone paints marine scenes, landscapes and floral still life in style that combines Naiveté and Impressionism and with bright colors, is influenced by Fauvism.
She has traveled widely in addition to the United States, including to Spain, Algeria, China, Thailand, Russia, Egypt and Indonesia, but most of her paintings are of Brittany. She credits Gaughin, Van Gogh and Renoir as major influences. Ardissone was born in Normandy in 1927 to a Ukrainian mother and Italian father.
She began her art studies at age seventeen in Paris at the Ecole des Arts Appliqués and then enrollments followed at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiére, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier of Unterstellar.
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Aerosmith Icon Steven Tyler Daughter Mia Puts Her Tattoed Legs On Display By Posting A Photo From The Bathtub
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Aerosmith vocalist Steven Tyler’s daughter and fashion designer, Mia Tyler, uploaded a new picture of herself on her official Instagram account and mourned the death of Freddie Mercury in an unusual way.
Freddie Mercury was one of the biggest reasons for the success of Queen and he managed to impress everyone on the earth with his voice before his death in 1991, due to AIDS-related symptoms, bronchial pneumonia.
Recently, Steven Tyler’s daughter Mia wanted to show the tattoo she has on her right foot, which seems like the face of Freddie Mercury. On the death anniversary of the Queen icon, Tyler paid her tribute to the legendary frontman by revealing her tattoo on social media.
Even though Mia didn’t write anything as a caption, it’s clear to say that she wanted to remember the death of Freddie on the day he passed away and prayed for the soul of the iconic star.
Furthermore, you can clearly see that Mia was taking a bath and trying to clear her mind on this special day. She was putting her feet on the water to show the tattoos she has and showed her respect to Mercury.
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Three generations of the same family killed by coronavirus in a week
Harrison JonesTuesday 24 Nov 2020 8:08 pm
The trio were living in Blackburn
A heartbroken family have been struck by a triple coronavirus tragedy, after three generations died from the virus in the space of a week.
Haji Sageer Ahmed has been mourning the deaths of his mother-in-law, wife and daughter, who all died in Lancashire this month despite an age gap of nearly 60 years.
The family from Blackburn, recently buried Mr Ahmed’s wife Rifit Ahmed, her mother Massarat Bibi, and her daughter Nafeesa Ahmed. None of the trio have been pictured.
Mrs Bibi, 85, and Miss Ahmed, 26, died the week before Mrs Ahmed, who was in her early 60s and died on November 11. The news came after yet another death in the family in May.
At the time of their deaths, the coronavirus infection rates in hotspot Blackburn with Darwen had risen from 694.1 to 721.5 per 100,000 people, with over 1,000 new cases.
Zamir Khan, the Labour councillor for Blackburn Central, was involved in burying all of the women and held the final funeral on November 13 for Mrs Ahmed.
He said: ‘The family are close to me and we are all devastated and I know everyone is deeply saddened by this.
‘I have been involved with all three funerals and was aware from day one what had happened.
‘It all just happened so close together like a bombshell and it’s just heartbreaking for everyone.’
Mr Khan branded the situation a ‘terrible loss’ and said he hopes the deaths will serve as a reminder to people on why it is necessary to follow health guidance.
He said: ‘Please be careful, stay indoors and take precautions because this is so serious and I have buried 30 people in the Muslim community during two to three weeks in Blackburn.’
The family had already been mourning the loss of an older daughter who had visited Pakistan before the first lockdown.
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The unnamed woman subsequently became stuck in the country and died of a heart attack in May.
Her family in Blackburn were unable to fly out and she was buried in Pakistan by family living there.
The Director of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, Sayyed Osman, tweeted: ‘(I was) informed this evening that a family from the community lost a grandmother & daughter last week. Today the mother passed away.
‘Three generations from one household lost to Covid-19 is a devastating tragedy no family should have to bear. Prayers and thoughts with them.’
The family said they now wish to mourn in peace.
MORE : Cases drop by 10,000 in a week but deaths rise by 608
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2263 - The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson & the Dream of a Just Nation w/ Brenda Wineapple
As the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump continues into its eighth day, Sam is joined by historian Brenda Wineapple to discuss the impeachment of Andrew Johnson and her latest book, The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation.
On today's show: March 2018: Lou Dobbs excited to welcome John Bolton back to White House. Lou Dobbs last night: John Bolton is a tool for the "radical Dims and the deep state."
Historian Brenda Wineapple joins us to discuss the impeachment of Andrew Johnson and her latest book, The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. With the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his VP Andrew Johnson became an unlikely successor to the president widely credited with ending chattel slavery in the US. Johnson then proceeded to use his executive powers to oppose many aspects of Reconstruction, pardoning rebel leaders and defying the will of Congress. Wineapple examines this history, from how Johnson ended up as Lincoln's VP in the first place, to his use of executive power to uphold white supremacy, to the precedent set by the Senate's verdict not to remove him from office. This history seems especially relevant in light of current events.
On the fun half: Country singer John Rich tries to stop a school from teaching about white privilege. Chris Matthews says Bernie wouldn't stop his car to help an average person. Counterpoint: Woman in wheelchair recounts how Bernie helped her avoid getting hit by a car. Steve Rattner on the need for a viable centrist to stop Sanders. Rattner says there's a lot of activity to stop Bernie. Pete Buttigieg, with a straight face: "Polls show I'm the best candidate to take on Trump." Buttigieg remembers Kobe Bryant's excellence on the basketball field. Ben Shapiro says Bernie would've aligned with USSR (hence Nazis) in WW2. Jay Sekulow's brother Jordan, 37, is drunk on TV. Sean Hannity says conspiracy to commit murder is not a crime. Pete Hegseth says the 21st century is 25 days old. Josh from Chicago gives an on-the-ground report re: canvassing for Bernie in Iowa.
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Senator William N. Brownsberger Served 2007 - 2012 Democrat
William.Brownsberger@masenate.gov
24 Beacon St.
Boston, MA, 02133
Sponsored | Cosponsored
Select Court 187th (2011 - 2012) 186th (2009 - 2010)
Bill Pinslip/Title
SD.2268 By Ms. Creem, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. ) of Cynthia S. Creem, Susan C. Fargo, William N. Brownsberger, Sonia Chang-Diaz and other members of the General Court for legislation authorizing the Division of Capital Asset Management to lease a certain property in the town of Weston. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
HD.4441 By Mr. Durant of Spencer, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Peter J. Durant and others for legislation to authorize school bus drivers to administer epinephrine. Public Health.
S.28 SD.202 By Ms. Candaras, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 28) of Gale D. Candaras, Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr., Cory Atkins, Jennifer E. Benson and other members of the General Court for legislation to improve quality in early education and care by family child care providers. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
H.46 HD.365 By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 46) of Jennifer E. Benson and others relative to spouses under the definition of family members serving as paid caregivers. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
H.47 HD.366 By Representatives Benson of Lunenburg and Sannicandro of Ashland, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 47) of Jennifer E. Benson, Tom Sannicandro and others for legislation to improve the personal care attendant program. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
H.48 HD.367 By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 48) of Jennifer E. Benson and others for legislation improving access to services for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender elders and caregivers. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
H.52 HD.964 By Mr. Garballey of Arlington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 52) of Sean Garballey and others providing access to hearing aids for children. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
H.61 HD.910 By Ms. Khan of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 61) of Kay Khan, William N. Brownsberger and George T. ross relative to requiring child and parent involvement in permanency and placement planning. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
H.84 HD.998 By Ms. Wolf of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 84) of William N. Brownsberger and others relative to child support paid on behalf of current or former recipients of transitional aid to families with dependent children benefits. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
H.102 HD.273 By Representatives Bradley of Hingham and Reinstein of Revere, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 102) of Garrett J. Bradley, Kathi-Anne Reinstein and others for legislation to ensure that independent repair facilities in the Commonwealth have access to information related to the proper and complete diagnosis, service and repair of motor vehicles. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.
S.107 SD.1827 By Ms. Jehlen, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 107) of Patricia D. Jehlen, William N. Brownsberger, Carl M. Sciortino, Jr., Kenneth J. Donnelly and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to greyhound simulcasting. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.
H.132 HD.471 By Mr. Smizik of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 132) of Frank I. Smizik and others for legislation to establish the office of clean technology and the clean technology commission. Economic Development and Emerging Technologies.
H.138 HD.359 By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 138) of Jennifer E. Benson and others for legislation to make and investigation and study to determine whether there are sufficient and appropriate services for low incidence students with disabilities. Education.
S.150 SD.339 By Mr. Brewer, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 150) of Stephen M. Brewer, Barry R. Finegold, Thomas P. Conroy, Patricia D. Jehlen and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to an independent analysis of expanding gaming in the Commonwealth [Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies].
H.151 HD.557 By Mr. Kaufman of Lexington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 151) of Jay R. Kaufman and others for legislation to provide for reimbursement to cities and towns for extraordinary special education costs. Education.
H.153 HD.145 By Mr. Lewis of Winchester, a petition (accompanied by resolve, House, No. 153) of Jason M. Lewis and others for legislation to establish a special commission (including members of the General Court) to study issues relative to education. Education.
S.153 SD.1804 By Mr. Eldridge, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 153) of Wolf, Timilty, Story and other members of the General Court for legislation to promote efficiency and transparency in economic development [Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies].
H.159 HD.423 By Representative Sannicandro of Ashland and Senator Tolman, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 159) of Tom Sannicandro, Mark J. Cusack, Kimberly N. Ferguson, Steven A. Tolman and others for legislation to promote the successful transition of students with disabilities to post-secondary education, employment and independent living. Education.
H.177 HD.990 By Ms. Wolf of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 177) of Alice K. Wolf and others relative to school exclusion data and school dropout reduction. Education.
H.178 HD.995 By Ms. Wolf of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 178) of Alice K. Wolf and others relative to long-term suspensions and expulsions of school students. Education.
H.179 HD.999 By Ms. Wolf of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 179) of Ruth B. Balser and others relative to the teaching of health education in schools. Education.
S.200 SD.914 By Mr. Donnelly, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 200) of Kenneth J. Donnelly, Thomas P. Kennedy, Jason M. Lewis, Steven A. Tolman and other members of the General Court for legislation to teach the history of working people. Education.
H.214 HD.982 By Ms. Wolf of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 214) of Alice K. Wolf and others directing the Secretary of the Commonwealth to promulgate regulations for the implementation of an "instant runoff voting" method of preference for candidates for Representative to the United States Congress. Election Laws.
S.216 SD.1515 By Mr. McGee, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 216) of Thomas M. McGee, Sal N. DiDomenico, Michael F. Rush, William N. Brownsberger and other members of the General Court for legislation to improve quality physical education. Education.
H.218 HD.478 By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 218) of Jennifer E. Benson and others relative to the prevention of hazardous material release through underground tanks. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
S.222 SD.1659 By Mr. Moore, a petition (accompanied by resolve, Senate, No. 222) of Richard T. Moore, Bruce E. Tarr, James E. Timilty, James Arciero and other members of the General Court for legislation to revive and continue the Special Commission on Civic Engagement and Learning. Education.
H.223 HD.470 By Mr. DiNatale of Fitchburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 223) of Stephen L. DiNatale, William N. Brownsberger and Steven S. Howitt relative to reviewing the economic impact of proposed rules and regulations governing greenhouse gas emissions. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.228 HD.526 By Mr. Kaufman of Lexington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 228) of Jay R. Kaufman and others relative to regulating the use of dangerous pesticides in the Commonwealth. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.229 HD.604 By Mr. Kaufman of Lexington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 229) of Jay R. Kaufman and others for legislation to reduce solid waste in the Commonwealth. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.236 HD.546 By Mr. Kulik of Worthington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 236) of Stephen Kulik and others for legislation to establish old growth forest reserves in the Commonwealth. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.251 HD.229 By Mr. Smizik of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 251) of Frank I. Smizik and others for legislation to further regulate the sale and disposal of mercury added thermostats. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.252 HD.230 By Mr. Smizik of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 252) of Frank I. Smizik and others for legislation to require producer responsibility for collection reuse and recycling of discarded electronic products. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.253 HD.238 By Mr. Smizik of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 253) of Frank I. Smizik and others for the establishment of a clean vehicle emissions incentive program within the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.255 HD.486 By Mr. Smizik of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 255) of Frank I. Smizik and others relative to establishing standards for restoring and maintaining stream flows, water levels and hydrologic regimes that protect natural aquatic life in rivers and streams. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.263 HD.61 By Mr. Straus of Mattapoisett, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 263) of William M. Straus and others relative to authorizing the lease of publicly-owned land for agricultural purposes. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.265 HD.207 By Mr. Straus of Mattapoisett, petition (accompanied by Bill, House, No. 00265) of William M. Straus and others relative to dam repair, removal and replacement environmental concerns. Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.266 HD.211 By Mr. Straus of Mattapoisett, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 266) of William M. Straus and others for legislation to require producer responsibility for collection, reuse and recycling of discarded electronic products. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.267 HD.900 By Mr. Straus of Mattapoisett, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 267) of William M. Straus and others relative to producer responsibility for mercury-added lamps. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
S.270 SD.1360 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 270) of Harriette L. Chandler, Linda Dorcena Forry, Sal N. DiDomenico, William N. Brownsberger and others for legislation to improve the senior care options program. Elder Affairs.
S.304 SD.1530 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 304) of James B. Eldridge, Carl M. Sciortino, Jr., Kenneth J. Donnelly, Kay Khan and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to disclosure of political spending . Election Laws.
S.305 SD.1531 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 305) of James B. Eldridge, Cory Atkins, Kay Khan, Tom Sannicandro and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to accountability for corporate political spending. Election Laws.
H.325 HD.781 By Mr. Scibak of South Hadley, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 325) of Theodore C. Speliotis and others for legislation provide health benefit plan coverage for hearing aids. Financial Services.
S.330 SD.269 By Mr. Brewer, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 330) of Stephen M. Brewer, Denise Andrews, John P. Fresolo and other members of the General Court for legislation to enhance the management of problem wildlife [Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture].
H.338 HD.109 By Representative Lewis of Winchester and Senator Eldridge, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 338) of Jason M. Lewis, James B. Eldridge and others for legislation to establish a single-payer health insurance trust fund. Health Care Financing.
S.341 SD.1389 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 341) of Harriette L. Chandler, Sal N. DiDomenico, Cory Atkins and William N. Brownsberger for legislation to create a framework to re-allocate responsibility for discarded products. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
S.346 SD.4 By Mr. DiDomenico, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 346) of Sal N. DiDomenico, Kathi-Anne Reinstein, Thomas M. Stanley, James B. Eldridge and other members of the General Court for legislation to prohibit the additional incineration of solid waste. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.349 HD.362 By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 349) of Jennifer E. Benson and others relative to establishing a public health Lyme disease research institute at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Higher Education.
S.352 SD.525 By Mr. Eldridge, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 352) of Wolf, Story, Harrington and other members of the General Court for legislation to require producer responsibility for collection reuse and recycling of discarded electronic products [Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture].
H.358 HD.360 By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 358) of Jennifer E. Benson and others for legislation to include manufactured housing in a city or town’s count of housing units. Housing.
H.359 HD.361 By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 359) of Jennifer E. Benson and others relative to low and moderate income housing units. Housing.
H.369 HD.884 By Mr. Honan of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 369) of Kevin G. Honan and others relative to promoting energy efficiency in affordable housing. Housing.
H.373 HD.714 By Ms. Malia of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 373) of Elizabeth A. Malia and others for legislation to enhance public safety and security in certain public housing developments. Housing.
H.381 HD.271 By Mr. Smizik of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 381) of Sean Garballey and others for legislation to authorize municipalities to protect low and moderate income tenants and units of governmentally involved housing. Housing.
H.422 HD.201 By Mrs. Campbell of Methuen, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 422) of Linda Dean Campbell and others relative to requiring the posting of security for the seizure and impoundment of certain animals. The Judiciary.
H.428 HD.138 By Mr. DiNatale of Fitchburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 428) of Stephen L. DiNatale and others relative to the penalties for the use or manufacture of hidden compartments for the purpose of transporting or distributing controlled substances. The Judiciary.
H.431 HD.493 By Mr. Dwyer of Woburn, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 431) of James J. Dwyer and others relative to parole board procedures. The Judiciary.
H.450 HD.923 By Ms. Khan of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 450) of Kay Khan and others relative to youthful offenders and criminal offender record information. The Judiciary.
H.458 HD.83 By Mr. Lewis of Winchester, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 458) of Jason M. Lewis and others for legislation to impose a penalty for the confinement of farm animals in a manner that does not allow them to turn around freely, lie down, stand up, and fully extend their limbs. The Judiciary.
H.465 HD.692 By Ms. Malia of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 465) of Elizabeth A. Malia and others relative to liability in tort actions against emergency medical treatment administered in compliance with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. The Judiciary.
S.476 SD.1437 By Mr. Tolman, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 476) of Steven A. Tolman, Benjamin B. Downing, Michael J. Rodrigues, Jennifer L. Flanagan and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to auto body labor rates. Financial Services.
H.493 HD.835 By Mr. Sánchez of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 493) of Jeffrey Sánchez and others relative to occupants remaining in residences after the sale of foreclosed properties. The Judiciary.
H.494 HD.660 By Mr. Sannicandro of Ashland, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 494) of Tom Sannicandro and others relative to the admissibility of evidence in judicial or administrative proceeding pertaining to adverse health care management. The Judiciary.
S.501 SD.1207 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 501) of James B. Eldridge, Jason M. Lewis, Kay Khan, Kenneth J. Donnelly and other members of the General Court for legislation to establish Medicare for all in Massachusetts. Health Care Financing.
H.502 HD.658 By Messrs. Sciortino of Medford and Rushing of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 502) of Carl M. Sciortino, Jr. and others relative to gender based discrimination and hate crimes. The Judiciary.
H.503 HD.374 By Mr. Smizik of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 503) of Frank I. Smizik and others for legislation to require judicial review of foreclosures on residential mortgages. The Judiciary.
S.510 SD.827 By Ms. Jehlen, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 510) of Patricia D. Jehlen, Bruce J. Ayers, John W. Scibak, Carl M. Sciortino, Jr. and other members of the General Court for legislation to regard MassHealth applications. Health Care Financing.
H.515 HD.894 By Representatives Story of Amherst and Rushing of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 515) of Ellen Story and others for legislation to further regulate the performance of abortions and protecting women’s reproductive health. The Judiciary.
H.529 HD.267 By Ms. Wolf of Cambridge, petition (accompanied by Proposal for Constitutional Amendment, House, No. 529) of Tom Sannicandro and others for a legislative amendment to the Constitution relative to the subject matter of initiative petitions . Joint Committee on the Judiciary.
H.541 HD.467 By Mr. Sannicandro of Ashland, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 541) of Tom Sannicandro and others for legislation to include family child care providers under certain collective bargaining laws governing public employees. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
H.554 HD.622 By Mr. Rushing of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 554) of Byron Rushing and others relative to the treatment of emotionally disturbed prisoners. Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
H.560 HD.969 By Mr. Garballey of Arlington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 560) of Sean Garballey and others (by vote of the town) authorizing the town of Arlington to establish senior citizen safety zones adjacent to certain facilities used by elderly persons in said town. [Local Approval Received.] [Municipalities and Regional Government].
H.592 HD.913 By Mr. Garballey of Arlington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 592) of Sean Garballey and others promoting workplace safety for social workers. Public Health.
H.597 HD.525 By Mr. Kulik of Worthington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 597) of William N. Brownsberger and others that the Advisory Council on Radiation Protection be directed to investigate the use of computed tomography (CT) scans. Public Health.
H.599 HD.107 By Mr. Lewis of Winchester, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 599) of Jason M. Lewis and others for legislation to establish a personal care attendant orientation program. Public Health.
H.613 HD.879 By Ms. Provost of Somerville, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 613) of Denise Provost and others that the Department of Public Health develop "checklists of care" for hospitals to prevent medical errors and reduce infection rates. Public Health.
H.624 HD.239 By Mr. Smizik of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 624) of Frank I. Smizik and others for legislation to require environmentally safe alternatives to harmful cleaning products. Public Health.
H.625 HD.371 By Mr. Smizik of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 625) of Frank I. Smizik and others for legislation to regulate the medical use of marijuana by patients approved by physicians and certified by the Department of Public Health. Public Health.
H.629 HD.895 By Ms. Story of Amherst, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 629) of Ellen Story and others relative to consent and counseling of pregnant women under sixteen years of age. Public Health.
S.665 SD.107 By Ms. Candaras, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 665) of Gale D. Candaras, Steven M. Walsh, John V. Fernandes, Bruce E. Tarr and other members of the General Court for legislation to reform and improve alimony [Joint Committee on the Judiciary].
S.671 SD.748 By Ms. Chandler, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 671) of Harriette L. Chandler, Cynthia S. Creem, Sonia Chang-Diaz, Katherine M. Clark and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to public health. The Judiciary.
S.682 SD.1471 By Ms. Clark, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 682) of Katherine M. Clark, Lori A. Ehrlich, Stephen L. DiNatale, William N. Brownsberger and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to domestic violence and animals. The Judiciary.
H.761 HD.614 By Mr. Kaufman of Lexington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 761) of Jay R. Kaufman and others relative to real estate tax relief for certain owners of residential property. Revenue.
H.765 HD.474 By Mr. Kulik of Worthington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 765) of Stephen Kulik and others for legislation to sustain community preservation. Community Development and Small Businesses.
S.768 SD.1170 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 768) of James B. Eldridge, Linda Dorcena Forry, Susan C. Fargo, George T. Ross and other members of the General Court for legislation to regulate debt collection activity. The Judiciary.
S.769 SD.1181 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 769) of James B. Eldridge, William N. Brownsberger, Jennifer E. Benson, John W. Scibak and other members of the General Court for legislation to define certain administrative records as public records. The Judiciary.
S.789 SD.498 By Ms. Jehlen, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 789) of Patricia D. Jehlen, Jennifer E. Benson, William N. Brownsberger, James B. Eldridge and other members of the General Court for legislation to protect animals. The Judiciary.
S.827 SD.1380 By Mr. Montigny, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 827) of Mark C. Montigny, Russell Holmes, Alice Hanlon Peisch and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to the commercial exploitation of people [Joint Committee on the Judiciary].
H.869 HD.625 By Messrs. Kaufman of Lexington and DiNatale of Fitchburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 869) of Jay R. Kaufman, Stephen L. DiNatale and others for legislation to regulate the establishment of municipal lighting plants. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.878 HD.243 By Mr. Smizik of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 878) of Frank I. Smizik and others relative to expanding energy efficiency for certain electrical products. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.887 HD.209 By Mr. Straus of Mattapoisett, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 887) of William M. Straus and William N. Brownsberger for legislation to authorize the secretary of environmental affairs to enter into certain leases and establishing a renewable energy generation fund. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.888 HD.210 By Mr. Straus of Mattapoisett, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 888) of William M. Straus and others relative to energy efficiency in construction, renovation or expansion of schools and libraries. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.890 HD.263 By Ms. Wolf of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 890) of Alice K. Wolf and others relative to further regulating recycling rates and expanding the bottle bill, so-called. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.900 HD.363 By Ms. Jennifer E. Benson of Lunenburg, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 00900) of Martin J. Walsh and others relative to civil motor vehicle infraction by a junior operator who is not emancipated . Joint Committee on Transportation.
H.901 HD.473 By Representative Benson of Lunenburg and Senator Eldridge, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 901) of Jennifer E. Benson and others relative to expanding parking facilities to promote the use of commuter shuttles and public transportation. Transportation.
S.907 SD.1415 By Mr. Tolman, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 907) of Steven A. Tolman, Linda Dorcena Forry, Patricia D. Jehlen, Denise Provost and other members of the General Court for legislation to reduce opioid overdoes deaths. The Judiciary.
S.921 SD.1547 By Mr. Donnelly, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 921) of Kenneth J. Donnelly, Sean Garballey, Ellen Story, Karen E. Spilka and other members of the General Court for legislation to establish a middle-skills council and the creation of regional skills academies in the Commonwealth. Labor and Workforce Development.
H.922 HD.637 By Mr. David Paul Linsky of Natick, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 00922) of John W Scibak and others for legislation to require the use of headlights on motor vehicles whenever the windshield wipers of the vehicle are in use. Joint Committee on Transportation.
H.926 HD.887 By Mr. Madden of Nantucket, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 926) of Timothy R. Madden and others relative to speed limits . Transportation.
H.954 HD.976 By Mr. Timothy J. Toomey of Cambridge, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 00954) of Robert Hedlund and others relative to the use of headlights on motor vehicles. Joint Committee on Transportation.
H.958 HD.981 By Ms. Alice K. Wolf of Cambridge, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 00958) of Kevin G. Honan and others relative to increasing motor vehicle fines by municipalities. Joint Committee on Transportation.
H.967 HD.648 By Representatives Peisch of Wellesley and Naughton of Clinton, a petition (accompanied by resolutions, House, No. 967) of Alice Hanlon Peisch and others for the adoption of Resolutions by the House of Representatives in support of the national observation of two minutes of silence on Veterans Day of each year to honor those who have served in the United States Armed Services. Veterans and Federal Affairs.
S.972 SD.483 By Mr. Tolman, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 972) of Steven A. Tolman, Sonia Chang-Diaz, Denise Andrews, Denise Provost and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to an employee protection act. Labor and Workforce Development.
H.983 HD.1919 By Messrs. O'Day of West Boylston and Sannicandro, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 983) of James J. O'Day, Tom Sannicandro and others relative to eligibility and appropriations for programs for persons with disabilities, including the "Turning 22" program, so-called. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
S.986 SD.198 By Ms. Jehlen, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 986) of Story, Spiliotis, Provost and other members of the General Court for legislation to allow daily access to fresh air to persons receiving services from the Department of Mental Health. [Joint Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse].
H.1004 HD.1264 By Ms. Jennifer Benson of Lunenburg, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1004) of Jennifer E. Benson and others for legislation to regulate solar specialty contractors. Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.
S.1019 SD.574 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1019) of James B. Eldridge, Stephen Kulik, Paul J. Donato, Marc R. Pacheco and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to comprehensive land use reform and partnership. Municipalities and Regional Government.
H.1029 HD.1336 By Mr. David M. Torrisi of North Andover, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 01029) of James Eldridge and others for legislation to further regulate the direct shipments of wine. Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.
S.1033 SD.1729 By Ms. Jehlen, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1033) of Patricia D. Jehlen, Cory Atkins, Jennifer E. Benson, Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera and other members of the General Court for legislation to further regulate municipal animal control. Municipalities and Regional Government.
H.1040 HD.1287 By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1040) of Jennifer E. Benson and others relative to establishing a grant program to promote cost-effective, high quality in-district programs for students with disabilities. Education.
S.1041 SD.1133 By Mr. Montigny, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1041) of Khan, Reinstein, Kafka and other members of the General Court for legislation to establish a cat and dog spay and nueter fund [Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government].
S.1042 SD.983 By Mr. Moore, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1042) of Clark, Mark, Fernandes and other members of the General Court for legislation to allow for the decriminalization of minor offenses [Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government].
H.1056 HD.1500 By Ms. Khan of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1056) of Kay Khan and others for legislation to promote nutritional meals in the public schools. Education.
H.1063 HD.1822 By Mr. O'Day of West Boylston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1063) of James J. O'Day and others relative to age appropriate sexual health education. Education.
H.1064 HD.1306 By Ms. Peake of Provincetown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1064) of Sarah K. Peake and others for legislation to provide for the subject of genocide to be included in the curriculum of the public schools of the Commonwealth. Education.
S.1078 SD.809 By Ms. Chandler, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1078) of Lewis, Jehlen, Brownsberger and other members of the General Court for legislation to promote patient engagement in health care decisions [Joint Committee on Public Health].
H.1088 HD.1187 By Ms. Walz of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1088) of Martha M. Walz and others relative to the board of elementary and secondary education. Education.
H.1090 HD.1302 By Ms. Walz of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1090) of Martha M. Walz and William N. Brownsberger relative to the definition of virtual charter schools using the Internet for on-line educational course instructions from remote locations. [COMMITTEE].
H.1094 HD.1923 By Ms. Walz of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1094) of Martha M. Walz and others relative to the academic success of foster children. Education.
H.1099 HD.1796 By Ms. Malia of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1099) of Elizabeth A. Malia and others relative to Department of Elder Affairs prevention and elimination of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. Elder Affairs.
H.1136 HD.1010 By Mr. Kaufman of Lexington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1136) of Jay Kaufman and others for legislation to promote safe alternatives to toxic chemicals. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.1142 HD.1470 By Mr. Lewis of Winchester, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1142) of Jason M. Lewis and others that the Department of Environmental Protection develop specific targets for solid waste reduction in cities and towns. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
S.1150 SD.1766 By Mr. Moore, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1150) of Richard T. Moore, William N. Brownsberger, Cory Atkins, Bruce E. Tarr and other members of the General Court for legislation to improve the delivery of health care [Joint Committee on Public Health].
H.1156 HD.1094 By Ms. Provost of Somerville, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1156) of Denise Provost and others for legislation to establish a Mystic River water quality commission (including members of the General Court) to make an investigation and study of the conditions of said river for fishing, boating and swimming. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.1157 HD.1845 By Mr. Sánchez of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1157) of Jeffrey Sánchez and others relative to environmental and health impact reports. Public Health.
H.1163 HD.1019 By Ms. Story of Amherst, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1163) of Ellen Story and others that manufacturers of mercury-added lamps implement a recycling program. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.1177 HD.1656 By Ms. Balser of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1177) of Ruth B. Balser and others relative to the continuity of care of mental health treatment. Financial Services.
H.1179 HD.1523 By Mr. Cantwell of Marshfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1179) of James M. Cantwell and others relative to insurance reimbursements for emergency ambulance service. Financial Services.
S.1206 SD.742 By Mr. DiDomenico, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1206) of Sal N. DiDomenico, Frederick E. Berry, Sean Garballey, Michael J. Rodrigues and other members of the General Court for legislation to promote the public health through workplace safety for social workers [Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security].
S.1211 SD.1610 By Ms. Jehlen, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1211) of Welch, Walz, Story and other members of the General Court for legislation to establish a primary safety belt law [Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security].
H.1212 HD.1039 By Ms. Reinstein of Revere, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1212) of Kathi-Anne Reinstein and others for legislation to establish an advisory commission on motor vehicle body repair labor rates for the purpose of implementing insurance reforms. Financial Services.
H.1213 HD.1780 By Ms. Spiliotis of Peabody, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1213) of Joyce A. Spiliotis and others relative to the purchasing of debts by collection agencies. Financial Services.
H.1224 HD.1527 By Mr. Hecht of Watertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1224) of Jonathan Hecht and others for an investigation by a special commission (including members of the General Court) relative to institutional long term care facilities. Health Care Financing.
H.1228 HD.1823 By Representative Lewis of Winchester and Senator Eldridge, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1228) of Jason M. Lewis, James B. Eldridge and others relative to a public health insurance option. Health Care Financing.
H.1241 HD.1418 By Mr. Walsh of Lynn, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1241) of Steven M. Walsh and others relative to improving the senior care options program. Health Care Financing.
H.1286 HD.1492 By Mr. Cabral of New Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1286) of Antonio F. D. Cabral and others relative to certain court records. The Judiciary.
H.1293 HD.1629 By Mr. Donato of Medford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1293) of Paul J. Donato and others for legislation to authorize cities and towns to install video monitoring systems to detect certain motor vehicle violations. The Judiciary.
H.1306 HD.1405 By Ms. Garry of Dracut, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1306) of Colleen M. Garry and others relative to shared parenting in cases of divorce. The Judiciary.
H.1336 HD.1539 By Mr. Lewis of Winchester, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1336) of Jason M. Lewis and others for legislation to regulate the collection and maintenance of criminal intelligence information. The Judiciary.
H.1346 HD.1729 By Ms. Malia of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1346) of Elizabeth A. Malia and others relative to the sentencing of children accused of certain crimes. The Judiciary.
H.1354 HD.1223 By Ms. Peake of Provincetown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1354) of Sarah K. Peake and others relative to living wills. The Judiciary.
H.1355 HD.1451 By Mr. Pedone of Worcester, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1355) of Vincent A. Pedone and others relative to establishing mandatory foreclosure mediation with judicial review. The Judiciary.
H.1370 HD.1228 By Mr. Stanley of Waltham and Senator Hart, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1370) of Thomas M. Stanley and others for legislation to establish a pilot program to discourage drinking by individuals under the legal drinking age and to provide a non-criminal disposition process for first offenders, including alcohol education. The Judiciary.
H.1393 HD.1899 By Representative Forry of Boston and Senator Hart, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1393) of Linda Dorcena Forry, John A. Hart and others for legislation to establish a "right to know" policy for certain temporary employees. Labor and Workforce Development.
H.1397 HD.1609 By Mr. Hecht of Watertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1397) of Jonathan Hecht and others relative to employees' access to personnel records. Labor and Workforce Development.
H.1398 HD.1620 By Ms. Khan of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1398) of Kay Khan and others for legislation to require employers to grant a minimum number of paid sick leave days for all employees. Labor and Workforce Development.
H.1409 HD.1047 By Mr. Walsh of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1409) of Martin J. Walsh and others clarifying parental rights to unpaid family leave. Labor and Workforce Development.
H.1415 HD.1004 By Ms. Wolf of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1415) of Alice K. Wolf and others for legislation to further define comparable worth in the workplace. Labor and Workforce Development.
H.1425 HD.1704 By Ms. Malia of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1425) of Elizabeth A. Malia and others relative to behavioral health managed care organizations. Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
H.1426 HD.1712 By Ms. Malia of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1426) of Elizabeth A. Malia and others relative to mental health and substance abuse clinics. Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
H.1430 HD.1297 By Ms. Provost of Somerville, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1430) of Denise Provost and others relative to the rights of persons receiving services from program or facilities of the Department of Mental Health. Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
H.1431 HD.1911 By Mr. Rushing of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1431) of Byron Rushing and others relative to increasing public safety by increasing access to addiction treatment. Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
S.1447 SD.1154 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1447) of James B. Eldridge, Carl M. Sciortino, Jr., William N. Brownsberger and Sheila C. Harrington for legislation to establish biannual tax independence reports. Revenue.
S.1448 SD.1199 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1448) of James B. Eldridge, Carl M. Sciortino, Jr., William N. Brownsberger, Jennifer E. Benson and other members of the General Court for legislation to establish a sunset for economic development tax expenditures. Revenue.
S.1459 SD.219 By Ms. Jehlen, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1459) of Patricia D. Jehlen, Jennifer E. Benson, William N. Brownsberger, James J. Dwyer and other members of the General Court for legislation to increase the property tax deferral for seniors. Revenue.
H.1462 HD.1572 By Ms. Balser of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1462) of Ruth B. Balser and others relative to requiring all restaurants to maintain devices or procedures to remove food lodged in persons’ throats. Public Health.
H.1495 HD.1945 By Ms. Khan of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1495) of Kay Khan and others promoting patient engagement in health care decisions. Public Health.
H.1500 HD.1160 By Ms. Malia of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1500) of Elizabeth A. Malia and others relative to the health care of minors. Public Health.
H.1501 HD.1317 By Ms. Malia of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1501) of Elizabeth A. Malia and others for legislation to provide primary and preventative health care services for certain children in the Commonwealth. Public Health.
H.1524 HD.1834 By Mr. Sánchez of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1524) of Jeffrey Sánchez and others for legislation to reduce asthma and other health threats from certain cleaning products used in schools. Public Health.
H.1525 HD.1840 By Mr. Sánchez of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1525) of Jeffrey Sánchez, William N. Brownsberger and Jonathan Hecht relative to nutrition in government buildings. Public Health.
H.1526 HD.1843 By Mr. Sánchez of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1526) of Jeffrey Sánchez and others for legislation establishing a hemophilia advisory committee. Public Health.
H.1529 HD.1562 By Mr. Scibak of South Hadley, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1529) of Harriette L. Chandler and others relative to the restoration of oral health benefits for MassHealth recipients. Public Health.
S.1556 SD.1384 By Mr. Eldridge, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1556) of Eldridge, Ross and Brownsberger for legislation to prevent undue influence on state hiring decisions [Joint Committee on Rules].
H.1559 HD.1693 By Ms. Khan of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1559) of Kay Khan and others relative to establishing a Massachusetts correction commission (including members of the General Court) to study, review and report on activities of the Department of Correction. Public Safety and Homeland Security.
H.1565 HD.1579 By Mr. O'Day of West Boylston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1565) of James J. O'Day and others relative to jet skis, surf jets, wet bikes, and other watercrafts in municipalities. Public Safety and Homeland Security.
S.1574 SD.1157 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1574) of James B. Eldridge, George T. Ross, William N. Brownsberger and Cory Atkins for legislation relative to fundraising receptions during budget deliberations. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
S.1575 SD.1182 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1575) of Jason M. Lewis, William N. Brownsberger, Sal N. DiDomenico, Jennifer E. Benson and other members of the General Court for legislation to enhance access to electronic public records. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
S.1576 SD.1183 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1576) of Patricia D. Jehlen, Jason M. Lewis, William N. Brownsberger, Sal N. DiDomenico and other members of the General Court for legislation to improve access to public records. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
S.1577 SD.1185 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1577) of James B. Eldridge, William N. Brownsberger, James Arciero, Cory Atkins and others for legislation to restore public confidence in government by eliminating pay-to-play opportunities . State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.1617 HD.1003 By Mr. Kaufman of Lexington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1617) of Jay R. Kaufman, Thomas P. Conroy and William N. Brownsberger relative to the investment of public pension funds. Public Service.
S.1651 SD.911 By Ms. Creem, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1651) of Cynthia S. Creem, Sean Garballey, Cory Atkins, William N. Brownsberger and other members of the General Court for legislation to promote energy efficient lighting, conserve energy, regulate outdoor night lighting, and reduce light pollution. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
S.1654 SD.29 By Mr. Donnelly, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1654) of Kenneth J. Donnelly, Sean Garballey, Katherine M. Clark, George T. Ross and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to the failure to remove existing poles. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
S.1663 SD.1356 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1663) of James B. Eldridge, William N. Brownsberger, Thomas M. McGee, Paul Brodeur and other members of the General Court for legislation to create a grant program for municipal energy efficiency officers. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
S.1665 SD.1656 By Mr. Eldridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1665) of James B. Eldridge, William N. Brownsberger, Susan C. Fargo, Peter V. Kocot and other members of the General Court for legislation to promote zero net-energy buildings in the Commonwealth. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.1692 HD.1340 By Mr. Hecht of Watertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1692) of Jonathan Hecht and others for legislation to further regulate the sales tax imposed on the purchase of certain motor vehicles and bicycles. Revenue.
H.1699 HD.1330 By Mr. Kuros of Uxbridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1699) of Kevin J. Kuros, William N. Brownsberger and Shaunna O'Connell for legislation to authorize tax collectors in cities and towns to include certain advertisements in the mailing of local tax bills. Revenue.
S.1706 SD.479 By Mr. Hedlund, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1706) of Robert L. Hedlund, Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera, James M. Murphy, Carl M. Sciortino, Jr. and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to the treatment of elephants. Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development.
H.1736 HD.1495 By Mr. Cabral of New Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1736) of Antonio F. D. Cabral and others relative to the enhancment of access to electronic public records. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.1737 HD.1506 By Mr. Cabral of New Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1737) of Antonio F. D. Cabral and others relative to access to public records in state agencies. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.1746 HD.1267 By Mr. Rushing of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1746) of Byron Rushing and others for legislation to require companies entering into contracts with the Commonwealth to disclosure information of their participation in the historic slave trade. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.1759 HD.1247 By Mr. Calter of Kingston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1759) of Thomas J. Calter and others relative to comprehensive siting reform for land based wind projects. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.1775 HD.1224 By Mr. Smizik of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1775) of Frank I. Smizik and others relative to comprehensive siting reform for land based wind projects. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.1779 HD.1056 By Mr. Kaufman of Lexington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1779) of Jay Kaufman and others for the inclusion of certain roads in the towns of Arlington, Lexington, Lincoln, and Concord in the scenic byway knows as Battle Road. Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development.
H.1832 HD.1351 By Representative Torrisi of North Andover and Senator Eldridge, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1832) of David M. Torrisi and others for an appropriation of a certain sum of money to provide for the establishment of an education loan repayment program for social workers. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
H.1839 HD.1352 By Mr. Hecht of Watertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1839) of Jonathan Hecht and others for legislation to regulate the powers of tree wardens in municipalities in the Commonwealth. Municipalities and Regional Government.
S.1841 SD.82 By Ms. Creem, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1841) of Wolf, Welch, Walz and other members of the General Court for legislation to sustain community preservation [Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Businesses].
H.1848 HD.1348 By Representative Mr. Hecht of Watertown, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 01848) of Sciortino and others that the Registry of Motor Vehicles be authorized to implement a discounted registration fee for certain motor vehicles. Joint Committee on Transportation.
H.1853 HD.1378 By Ms. Walz of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1853) of Martha M. Walz and others for legislation to establish an early reading council for the development of literacy of students in the third grades of the public schools in the Commonwealth. Education.
S.1857 SD.820 By Ms. Jehlen, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1857) of Berry, Wolf, Wolf and other members of the General Court for legislation to promote equal choice a cost savings in health care [Joint Committee on Health Care Financing].
S.1861 SD.216 By Ms. Candaras, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1861) of Gale D. Candaras, William N. Brownsberger, Stephen L. DiNatale, Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. and others for legislation relative to the rate of compensation paid to court appointed attorneys. The Judiciary.
H.1862 HD.2361 By Mr. O'Day of West Boylston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1862) of James J. O'Day and others relative to housing and support services for unaccompanied homeless youth. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
S.1863 SD.934 By Ms. Jehlen, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1863) of Patricia D. Jehlen, Denise Andrews, William N. Brownsberger, Christine E. Canavan and other members of the General Court for legislation to clarify parental rights for unpaid leave. Labor and Workforce Development.
H.1897 HD.2759 By Ms. Peisch of Wellesley, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1897) of Alice Hanlon Peisch and others relative to small brewers of alcoholic beverages. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.
H.1901 HD.2760 By Mr. Scibak of South Hadley, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1901) of Linda Dean Campbell and others for legislation to establish a board of registration of behavior analysts within the Division of Professional Licensure. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.
H.1917 HD.2726 By Mr. Garballey of Arlington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1917) of Sean Garballey and others relative to the membership of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Education.
H.1940 HD.2233 By Mr. O'Day of West Boylston and Senator Donnelly, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1940) of William N. Brownsberger and others for legislation to include the history of working people and the labor movement in the United States in the public school curriculum. Education.
S.1954 SD.2021 An act relative to health reimbursement accounts for the insured employees of the town of Arlington
H.1960 HD.2047 By Ms. Walz of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1960) of Martha M. Walz and others for legislation to authorize cities, towns and regional school districts to establish virtual public shools. Education.
H.1979 HD.2003 By Mr. Moran of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1979) of Michael J. Moran and others for legislation to authorize persons to pre-register to vote prior to their eighteenth birthday. Election Laws.
H.1990 HD.2022 By Ms. Ehrlich of Marblehead, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1990) of Lori A. Ehrlich and others relative to reducing the use of non-compostable plastic bags in retail sales. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.1991 HD.2081 By Ms. Ehrlich of Marblehead, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1991) of Lori A. Ehrlich and others relative to the use of coal ash as a solid waste. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.1995 HD.2523 By Ms. Gobi of Spencer, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1995) of Anne M. Gobi and others relative to the distribution of raw milk. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.2009 HD.2129 By Mr. Kocot of Northampton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2009) of Peter V. Kocot and others relative to the protection of right whales within the coastal waters of the Commonwealth. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.2029 HD.2827 By Representatives Walz of Boston and Hecht of Watertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2029) of Martha M. Walz, Jonathan Hecht and others for the establishment of a Charles River parkways and parklands commission (including members of the General Court) to make recommendations for the preservation and increased use of the parklands along the Charles River. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
H.2048 HD.2060 By Ms. Ehrlich of Marblehead, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2048) of Lori A. Ehrlich and others for legislation to provide health insurance coverage for tobacco use cessation treatment. Financial Services.
H.2109 HD.2036 By Representatives Wolf of Cambridge and Provost of Somerville, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2109) of Jay R. Kaufman and others relative to the eligibility of students for in-state tuition rates and fees at public higher educational institutions. Higher Education.
H.2115 HD.2078 By Mr. Fernandes of Milford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2115) of John V. Fernandes and others for legislation to further define affordable housing. Housing.
H.2130 HD.2824 By Mr. Sciortino of Medford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2130) of Forry and others to expand housing opportunities for persons displaced by public action or natural disaster and persons who are homeless or facing imminent homelessness Joint Committee on Housing.
H.2131 HD.2176 By Representatives Swan of Springfield and Coakley-Rivera of Springfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2131) of Benjamin Swan, Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera and others relative to foreclosures in the historic districts of Massachusetts. Housing.
H.2165 HD.2146 By Mr. Fernandes of Milford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2165) of John V. Fernandes, William N. Brownsberger and Jason M. Lewis relative to providing access to scientific and forensic analysis. The Judiciary.
H.2234 HD.2220 By Ms. Khan of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2234) of Kay Khan and others relative to safe pregnancies and related health care for female inmates. The Judiciary.
H.2240 HD.2051 By Ms. Malia of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2240) of Elizabeth A. Malia and others for legislation to authorize judicial clarification of ownership in eviction proceedings. The Judiciary.
H.2253 HD.2772 By Ms. Peisch of Wellesley, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2253) of Alice Hanlon Peisch and others relative to improving the apprehension of drunk drivers and other law violators. The Judiciary.
H.2266 HD.2272 By Mr. Swan of Springfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2266) of Benjamin Swan and others for legislation to repeal mandatory minimum sentencing laws for drug offenses. The Judiciary.
H.2267 HD.2371 By Mr. Swan of Springfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2267) of Benjamin Swan and others relative to further regulating the school zone law for drug offenses. The Judiciary.
H.2270 HD.2828 By Mr. Swan of Springfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2270) of Benjamin Swan and others for the establishment of a Massachusetts Innocence Commission to analyze the circumstances of innocent persons being charged, prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated. The Judiciary.
H.2277 HD.2838 By Representatives Walsh of Boston and Malia of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2277) of Martin J. Walsh, Elizabeth A. Malia and others relative to the protection of children under the age of 18 who have been subject to sexual exploitation. The Judiciary.
H.2322 HD.2983 By Mr. Hecht of Watertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2322) of Andrews and others relative to handicapped parking spaces regulated by cities and towns Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government.
H.2324 HD.2249 By Mr. Jones of North Reading, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2324) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr. and others relative to the acceptance and disposition of municipal easements. Municipalities and Regional Government.
H.2326 HD.2908 By Mr. Kafka of Stoughton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2326) of Louis L. Kafka and others relative to the care of animals in cities and towns. Municipalities and Regional Government.
H.2343 HD.2137 By Ms. Ehrlich of Marblehead, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2343) of Lori A. Ehrlich and others relative to air pollutants. Public Health.
H.2348 HD.2636 By Ms. Haddad of Somerset, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2348) of Patricia A. Haddad and others relative to optometric patient care. Public Health.
H.2350 HD.2974 By Representative Hogan of Stow and Senator Spilka, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2350) of Karen E. Spilka, Kate Hogan and others relative to the release of a body by the medical examiner to a person charged with an offense which resulted in the death of the deceased. Public Health.
S.2355 SD.2250 By Mr. DiDomenico, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2355) of Sal N. DiDomenico, William N. Brownsberger and Patricia D. Jehlen for legislation relative to the lease of Northeastern University Henderson boat house. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
S.2356 SD.2251 By Mr. DiDomenico, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Sal N. DiDomenico, William N. Brownsberger, Michael F. Rush, Patricia D. Jehlen and others for legislation relative to a boat house land lease in the city of Boston. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.2357 HD.2293 By Mr. Jones of North Reading, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2357) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr. and others relative to the use of epinephrine, adrenaline or other agents by optometrists in the treatment of anaphylaxis. Public Health.
H.2368 HD.2068 By Ms. Khan of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2368) of Kay Khan and others relative to certified professional midwives. Public Health.
H.2369 HD.2867 By Ms. Khan of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2369) of Kay Khan and others relative to certified professional midwives and enhancing the practice of nurse-midwives. Public Health.
H.2383 HD.2063 By Mr. Sullivan of Fall River, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2383) of David B. Sullivan and others relative to coupons of manufacturers submitted to health care insurers. Public Health.
H.2430 HD.2975 By Messrs. Conroy of Wayland and Hecht of Watertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2430) of Jonathan Hecht and others relative to the investment of other post employment benefits trust funds established by municipalities and certain other governmental unit. Public Service.
H.2452 HD.2987 By Mr. Hecht of Watertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2452) of Jonathan Hecht and others for legislation to provide smoking and tobacco use cessation treatment benefits to active and retired public employees. Public Service.
H.2474 HD.2823 By Mr. Kaufman of Lexington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2474) of Jay R. Kaufman and others relative to public employee retiree health benefits. Public Service.
H.2516 HD.2986 By Mr. Hecht of Watertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2516) of Jonathan Hecht and others relative to the taxation of telephone or telegraph corporations. Revenue.
H.2565 HD.2946 By Mr. Sciortino of Medford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2565) of Carl M. Sciortino, Jr. and others for legislation to promote efficiency and transparency in economic development through the utilization of tax credits and other incentives. Revenue.
H.2571 HD.2307 By Mr. Winslow of Norfolk, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2571) of Daniel B. Winslow and others relative to creating jobs by facilitating issuance of bonds under the Community Preservation Act. Revenue.
H.2590 HD.2758 By Mr. Kaufman of Lexington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2590) of Jay Kaufman and others relative to promoting municipal efficiency and innovation through regional collaboration. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.2593 HD.2822 By Mr. Kulik of Worthington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2593) of Brownsberger relative to contract for design services Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.2612 HD.2056 By Ms. Ehrlich of Marblehead, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2612) of Lori A. Ehrlich and others for legislation to phase out coal burning electric generating facilities. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.2613 HD.2076 By Ms. Ehrlich of Marblehead, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2613) of Lori A. Ehrlich and others that energy generating facilities constructed or commencing operation on and after January first, two thousand twelve shall not utilize or gasify coal. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.2614 HD.2721 By Ms. Ehrlich of Marblehead, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2614) of Lori A. Ehrlich and others relative to electric generating facilities located in the commonwealth that uses coal as fuel and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.2655 HD.2558 By Mr. Parisella of Beverly, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2655) of Dykema and others for legislation to preserve the right of way for the North/South rail link Joint Committee on Transportation.
H.2660 HD.2840 By Mr. Sciortino of Medford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2660) of Carl M. Sciortino, Jr. and others for legislation to promote the building of more modern transportation systems. Transportation.
H.2665 HD.2305 By Mr. Winslow of Norfolk, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2665) of Walsh and others reducing the cost of constructing or improving roads Joint Committee on Transportation.
H.2684 HD.3194 By Mr. Scibak of South Hadley, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2684) of John W. Scibak and others relative to supporting children and parental custody. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
H.2704 HD.3243 By Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2704) of Theodore C. Speliotis and others relative to the solicitation of charitable donations for profit. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.
H.2713 HD.3180 By Ms. Coakley-Rivera of Springfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2713) of Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera and others relative to establishing a middle-skills council and the creation of regional skills academies in the Commonwealth. Education.
H.2781 HD.3209 By Mr. Sánchez of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2781) of Jeffrey Sánchez, Jason M. Lewis and William N. Brownsberger for legislation directing MassHealth to establish a chronic care improvement demonstration project. Health Care Financing.
H.2795 HD.1388 By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2795) of Jennifer E. Benson and others for legislation to require police departments in cities and towns to provide information to residents of the location of certain sex offenders. The Judiciary.
H.2827 HD.3463 By Ms. Hogan of Stow, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2827) of Kate Hogan and others for legislation to exempt from certain penalties the sale of a foal by an animal rescue organization to preserve the life of said foal. The Judiciary.
H.2834 HD.3400 By Ms. Khan of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2834) of Kay Khan and others for legislation to establish a fund to provide services for victims of human trafficking. The Judiciary.
H.2850 HD.3016 By Mr. O'Flaherty of Chelsea, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2850) of Eugene L. O'Flaherty and others relative to the commercial exploitation of people. The Judiciary.
H.2905 HD.3202 By Ms. Provost of Somerville, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2905) of Denise Provost and others relative to the reporting on health effects of particulate matter. Public Health.
H.2911 HD.3088 By Mr. Collins of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2911) of Nick Collins and others for legislation to allow police officers to make arrests outside their territorial jurisdiction. Public Safety and Homeland Security.
H.2950 HD.3473 By Ms. Dykema of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2950) of Carolyn C. Dykema and others relative to health insurance for municipal employees and retirees. Public Service.
H.2955 HD.3024 By Mr. Golden of Lowell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2955) of Thomas A. Golden, Jr. and others relative to certain Option B and Option C employees in the Teachers and State Employees retirement system. Public Service.
H.2962 HD.3284 By Mr. Kaufman of Lexington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2962) of Jay R. Kaufman and others relative to pension reform. Public Service.
H.2964 HD.3320 By Mr. Kulik of Worthington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2964) of Stephen Kulik and others for legislation to provide health insurance parity between municipal health care plans and Group Insurance Commission plans. Public Service.
H.3003 HD.3203 By Representative Moran of Boston and Senator Jehlen, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3003) of Michael J. Moran and others for legislation to establish tax transparency and strengthen the reporting requirements of public charities and to establish reporting requirements for the trustees and directors of public charities. Revenue.
H.3051 HD.3020 By Ms. Ehrlich of Marblehead, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3051) of Lori A. Ehrlich and others for legislation to establish natural gas leak classification standards and requirements for operator clean up of natural gas leaks. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.3057 HD.3315 By Mr. Hecht of Watertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3057) of Jonathan Hecht and others that the Department of Public Utilities and the Department of Telecommunications and Cable hold a public hearing and issue a report relative to reducing the number of double poles. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.3069 HD.3241 By Ms. Atkins of Concord, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3069) of Cory Atkins and others for legislation to prohibit the use of hand-held cell phones by persons operating motor vehicles. Transportation.
H.3079 HD.3218 By Mr. Garballey of Arlington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3079) of Sean Garballey and others for legislation to provide for the safety of road useres. Transportation.
H.3163 HD.2693 By Mr. Golden of Lowell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3163) of Thomas A. Golden, Jr. and others relative to the scope of practice by optometrists. Public Health.
H.3261 HD.1956 By Mr. Linsky of Natick, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3261) of David Paul Linsky and others relative to the research and treatment of Lyme Disease. Public Health.
H.3286 HD.3364 By Representatives Dykema of Holliston and Hecht of Watertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3286) of Carolyn C. Dykema, Jonathan Hecht and others for an investigation by a special commission (including members of the General Court) of the implementation of evidence-based practices in the judicial system. The Judiciary.
H.3287 HD.2014 By Mr. Lewis of Winchester, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3287) of William N. Brownsberger and others for legislation to prohibit human trafficking and assist victims. The Judiciary.
H.3310 HD.1379 By Ms. Wolf of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3310) of Alice K. Wolf and others relative to the personal care services administered by the Division of Medical Assistance. Public Health.
H.3323 HD.2419 By Mr. Bradley of Hingham, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 9) of Garrett J. Bradley and others for legislation to allow the non-profit corporation Home of the Brave, Inc., to construct and operate public homes for veterans. Housing.
H.3350 HD.2026 By Ms. Wolf of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3350) of Alice K. Wolf and others for legislation to provide a local option for instant runoff voting in city or town elections. Election Laws.
H.3361 HD.2809 By Mr. Lewis of Winchester, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3361) of Cory Atkins and others relative to the crime of health care professionals participating in the torture and abusive treatment of prisoners. The Judiciary.
H.3380 HD.3444 By Mr. Keenan of Salem, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3380) of John D. Keenan and others relative to the use of double utility poles. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.3386 HD.1359 By Mr. Kulik of Worthington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3386) of William N. Brownsberger relative to a statewide public works municipal mutual aid agreement. Municipalities and Regional Government.
H.3538 HD.2144 By Ms. Ehrlich of Marblehead, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3538) of Lori A. Ehrlich and others for legislation to increase funding by the Commonwealth under the education foundation budget for public school districts. Education.
H.3542 HD.1444 By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3542) of Cory Atkins and others for legislation to provide that cytologic screenings performed at the same time as annual physical examinations be separately billed by health care providers and paid by insurers. Financial Services.
H.3546 HD.1448 By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3546) of Jennifer E. Benson and others relative to freelancers in the definition of employees under the labor laws. Labor and Workforce Development.
H.3602 HD.2916 By Ms. Dykema of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3602) of Carolyn C. Dykema and others relative to safe disposal of syringes, injection devices and other medical sharps. Public Health.
H.3607 HD.3500 By Mr. Lewis of Winchester, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3607) of Frank I. Smizik, William N. Brownsberger and Carolyn C. Dykema for an investigation by a special commission (including members of the General Court) to identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of state agencies, programs and services. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.3636 HD.3888 By Mr. Linsky of Natick, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of David Paul Linsky and others for legislation to establish a penalty for parents, legal guardians or caretakers failing to report the death of a minor child. The Judiciary.
H.3647 HD.3865 By Mr. Garballey of Arlington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3647) of Sean Garballey, William N. Brownsberger and Jay R. Kaufman (by vote of the town) that the town of Arlington be authorized to place a ballot question before the voters relative to granting licenses for the sale of beer and wine to be drunk on the premises in theaters. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. [Local Approval Received.]
H.3648 HD.3866 By Mr. Garballey of Arlington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3648) of Sean Garballey, William N. Brownsberger and Jay R. Kaufman (by vote of the town) that the town of Arlington be authorized to place a ballot question before the voters relative to granting two additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. [Local Approval Received.]
H.3651 HD.3867 By Mr. Garballey of Arlington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3651) of Sean Garballey, William N. Brownsberger and Jay R. Kaufman (by vote of the town) relative to the human resources department of the town of Arlington. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]
H.3652 HD.3869 By Mr. Garballey of Arlington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3652) of Sean Garballey, William N. Brownsberger and Jay R. Kaufman (by vote of the town) relative to the submission of budget recommendations to the board of selectmen in the town of Arlington. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]
H.3654 HD.3868 By Mr. Garballey of Arlington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3654) of Sean Garballey, William N. Brownsberger and Jay R. Kaufman (by vote of the town) that certain future employees of the town of Arlington be exempt from the provisions of civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]
H.3852 HD.4172 By Ms. Wolf of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3852) of Alice K. Wolf and others (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the city of Cambridge to impose and increase fines for certain traffic related violations in said city. Transportation. [Local Approval Received.]
H.3858 HD.4133 By Mr. Straus of Mattapoisett, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of William M. Straus and others for legislation to prohibit commercial solicitation to mobile electronic devices. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.
H.3890 HD.4144 By Mr. Lewis of Winchester, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Jason M. Lewis and others for legislation to authorize municipalities to create stabilization funds for special education costs. Municipalities and Regional Government.
H.3982 HD.4065 By Representative Walsh of Boston and Senator DiDomenico, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Martin J. Walsh, Sal N. DiDomenico and others for legislation to prohibit the Commonwealth from contracting with companies that do not comply with federal regulations for the certification of minerals originating in the Congo. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.4287 HD.4421 By Mr. Hecht of Watertown, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Jonathan Hecht, William N. Brownsberger and John J. Lawn, Jr. for legislation to designate a certain corner in the town of Watertown as Menton Corner. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
* — Legislator is not a sponsor of this measure.
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OnTheThrottle Video Interview: Spies Talks Germany, Laguna, Brno, And Factory Bikes
After a long and busy summer, the guys from OnTheThrottle caught up with Ben Spies once again, to talk about Spies' last three races. In conversation with David Williams, Spies covers finding himself in Jorge Lorenzo's oil patch at the Sachsenring, the differences between setting up a MotoGP bike and a Superbike at Laguna Seca, and his first front row start at Brno. Along the way, the Monster Tech 3 Yamaha talks about testing the 2011 factory machine at Brno, the differences between the factory bike and the satellite Yamaha, and just how good Jorge Lorenzo is at the moment. Spies almost - but not quite - lets slip that he'll be on the factory Yamaha next year, the second-worst kept secret after Rossi's defection to Ducati, and reveals that Yamaha boss Lin Jarvis is pretty pleased with the way Spies has been riding this year. So spend a worthwhile 25 minutes hearing Spies talk Yamaha, past, present and future.
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MOUNTAIN LIONS IN THE STATE OF IOWA
Help ensure a future for mountain lions in Iowa
Though mountain lions once roamed the hills and forests of Iowa, persecution at the hands of humans has driven them locally extinct in the state. Fear and misinformation were the main forces driving this extirpation. But attitudes have changed since the early 1900s and there's hope for the future.
If we support mountain lion-friendly legislation, open space conservation, and preserve corridors connecting potential habitat, we could reverse this situation and bring mountain lions back home to Iowa.
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The status of Puma concolor in Iowa.
The history of cougars in Iowa.
Ecosystems and habitat in Iowa.
Cougar science and research in Iowa.
SUMMARY: Cougars in the State of Iowa
Mountain lion law in Iowa.
Before European settlement, mountain lions once occurred throughout Iowa, and moved between Iowa and neighboring states. Ideal habitat would have occurred in the forests, hills, and along the timbered streams, but mountain lions could have persisted anywhere there was ample prey.
Direct persecution, conversion of wildlands to agriculture and human development, roads and highways, and other forms of habitat loss all contributed to the decline and ultimate extirpation of mountain lions in Iowa.
Lion habitat in Iowa.
Though mountain lions once roamed the hills and forests of Iowa, persecution at the hands of humans drove them locally extinct. If we support open space conservation and preserve corridors connecting potential habitat, we could reverse this situation and bring mountain lions back home to Iowa.
Though mountain lions once roamed the great state of Iowa, human persecution has eliminated them from its hills and forests. With no mountain lion population to study, there isn't any current research to report in Iowa.
Mountain lions have no legal wildlife status in Iowa. Two legislative efforts have been made to place the mountain lion in the Iowa code as a designated wildlife species. However, strong agricultural interests prevailed, and both efforts failed. Since mountain lions have no legal protection in Iowa, they may be hunted with almost no restrictions other than a prohibition of hunting with the aid of artificial light and hunting on wildlife refuges. Iowa defines endangered species as "any species of fish, plant life, or wildlife which is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant part of its range." This definition is clearly inclusive of mountain lions. However, Iowa does not include them on their list.
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Album Review: The Time Jumpers – ‘The Time Jumpers’
2 Comments Posted by Occasional Hope on September 13, 2012
Nashville’s very own 11-person supergroup, the Time Jumpers may have started as a side project allowing its members a regular live outlet, but they have now come into their own on record. Their mixture of country, jazz and western swing has been showcased before on two live albums, and the members’ brilliant musicianship and sheer love of music shines through at every turn on this, their first studio album, out now on Rounder Records.
Instrumental tracks often tend to be tacked on at the end of an album, seeming almost like an apologetic afterthought. It is rare for one to open proceedings, and the Time Jumpers’ decision to place ‘Texoma Bound’, composed by Larry Franklin, one of the group’s three fiddle players, allows them to show off their chops in dazzling style. Members include regular CMA instrumentalist of the year nominee Paul Franklin, perhaps Nashville’s most in-demand steel guitarist, as well as superstar Vince Gill.
Fiddler Kenny Sears sings lead on his own song ‘Nothing But The Blues’. It’s a pleasant western swing song with a relaxed feel and a great instrumental section, but Kenny is an average vocalist. The same goes for Ranger Doug, better known as lead singer of the retro-western group Riders in the Sky. His western ballad ‘Ridin’ On the Rio’ suffers from his limited vocals, but is quite a nice song, and an interesting reminder of a marginalized sub-genre.
Kenny’s wife Dawn on the other hand, has a fabulous voice and knows how to use it with subtlety. Her bid for a solo career never really got off the ground, but she is an aoutstanding vocalist, and shows that here. My favourite of her cuts here is on her own song ‘So Far Apart’, a regretful look at a once happy marriage which has grown cold. Dawn’s vocal interprets the emotion beautifully, supported by Paul Franklin’s equally perfect steel guitar , and this sounds like a lost classic from the 1960s. I also love her version of the Harlan Howard-penned Someone Had To Teach You, which George Strait recorded 20-odd years ago on Livin’ It Up. Dawn then comes across as sultry jazz chanteuse on ‘Faint Of Heart’, written by Vince Gill and Al Anderson.
Dawn and Kenny duet on the western swing ‘Texas On A Saturday Night’, written by minor 70s act Mundo Earwood. It is entertaining, but more about the overall groove and musicianship than the vocals. This is definitely music to dance to. Dawn sings with Ranger Doug on ‘Yodel Blues’, the title of which is explanatory.
Vince Gill, long a member of the group when other commitments permitted him, makes his first appearance with them in record now that he is free of his major label deal. ‘New Star Over Texas’, which he wrote with Leslie Satcher is a rather charming western swing ballad with prominent steel, while ‘On The Outskirts Of Town’ (which he wrote with Reed Nielsen) is lyrically slight but the swingy feel and sparkling playing carry it off.
‘Three Sides To Every Story’ is a classic styled country ballad about the end of a relationship following cheating and lies. This excellent song is quintessential Vince Gill and my favourite track. ‘The Woman Of My Dreams’ is another really fine traditional country song loaded with Paul Franklin’s steel, which has Vince lamenting the fact that the love of his love has moved on to somebody new. He really shines vocally on these songs, and they show his songwriting is on a roll as well. Hopefully another solo album is not too far away.
While this is clearly a democratic group with every member allowed to shine, Dawn Sears and Vince Gill are the clear vocal stars of the group, and the songs on which they take the lead are the highlights.
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Album Reviews Dawn Sears, George Strait, Harlan Howard, Kenny Sears, Larry Franklin, Mundo Earwood, Paul Franklin, Ranger Doug, Reed Nielsen, Riders In The Sky, The Time Jumpers, Vince Gill
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Razor X September 13, 2012 at 1:15 pm
Vince has left MCA?
Occasional Hope September 13, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Yes, earlier this year.
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Mazzy Star “Fade Into You” Lyrics And Meaning
March 14, 2017 By Camila 5 Comments
Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval.
“Fade Into You” is the most popular and well-known song from the band Mazzy Star, an alternative/dream-pop group from Santa Monica, California who were most active in the early to mid 90s.
I loved this band growing up, but they never really caught on, apart from this one song. It, however, was huge.
“Fade Into You” is the first track on the album So Tonight That I Might See, which was released in October of 1993.
It reached number three on the Billboard Modern Rock chart in 1994, and was Mazzy Star’s only single to make the Billboard Hot 100. It managed to climb to number 44.
The song has appeared in a bunch of movies like Angus, End of Watch, Swept Away, American Honey, Lord of War, Burlesque, Starship Troopers, Chasing Mavericks and The To Do List.
If you don’t know it from a movie, you’ve almost certainly seen it in a TV series.
It was featured in, among others: Gilmore Girls, Roswell, CSI Miami, Alias, Cold Case, Desperate Housewives and Without a Trace. It also got played at least once at every single high school and middle school dance from 1994 to 1999.
“Fade Into You” Lyrics
I wanna hold the hand inside you
I wanna take the breath that’s true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life, you go in shadow
You’ll come upon and you’ll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Close your eyes with what’s not there
Strange you never knew
I think it’s strange you never knew
The strange light comes on slowly
A stranger’s heart is out of home
You put your hands into your head
And your smiles cover your heart
“Fade Into You” Meaning
The lyrics to Mazzy Star’s most famous song are a bit of a mystery. They mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Ignoring the meaning for a moment, for most people from my generation, this song, maybe more than any other, takes us back to our youth.
It takes us back to the 90s and the era of alternative music; to a time before cell phones and the internet, when music was not readily available at all times. You only heard songs if you owned the album or if someone else played it for you, be it in concert, in a movie or TV show, on the radio, on MTV or at a friend’s house.
You couldn’t just look up a song you hear on YouTube and bookmark it to listen to whenever you wanted.
As for the lyrics, the most common interpretation is that “Fade Into You” is about having an unhealthy obsession with someone who is somewhat damaged and not capable of true affection. It is a bittersweet song, because naturally, such an affection can only end in heartbreak and disappointment.
Hope Sandoval’s haunting voice ads just as much, if not more, mood to the song as the lyrics.
She sings of attempting to find a connection with this partner, but soon coming to realize that they are not capable of forming a real emotional and physical connection. This realization is disappointing and heartbreaking and her breathy, ethereal voice conveys those feeling perfectly.
The first two verses describe her trying to get close to this person who is not truly available. Nonetheless, she ends up giving herself completely to the person to whom she is singing.
She has faded into him (or her). They have become everything to her and she’s lost herself in the process. The line “I think it’s strange you never knew” tells us that, all the while, the other person never even realizes this.
The final verse describes her waking up to all of this. She finally comes to the realization that the object of her infatuation is not actually available on a deeper level. His (or her) “smiles cover his/her heart.” The person is only superficially “with” her.
An alternative explanation I’ve heard quite a few times is that the song is about a shy girl finally confessing her true feelings to the object of her love. I think this works, too.
In this case, the last verse could simply mean that she finds it difficult to read the other person; she can’t tell if her feelings are reciprocated or not.
This might not be my favorite Mazzy Star song, but I still love it. And it’s usually the only one you’ll find at karaoke, so if you want to slip into Hope Sandoval’s shoes for a few minutes, it’s usually the only option. There are better songs to sing at karaoke though. This one is a bit melancholy for most occasions, but it could be a good song for serenading that special someone in your life.
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FunMeLoud says
Such as a Great Songs By Mazzy Star
I really enjoyed reading about the interpretation and how many meanings it can have. I was born in ‘85 and this song was one my mom would listen to. She drank her self to death almost a year ago and it brings me back to a time she was capable of being present in my life. I never payed close attention to all the lyrics and knowing more about them makes it that much harder to listen to. I will always connect this song to my mom and not being able to reach her.
Camila says
That’s what I love about more ambiguous songs (or books or movies, etc.). We’re free to interpret them and let them affect us in our own personal way, based on our past experiences. Thank you for sharing!
Brittany Spicer says
I like this song. It’s has a somber feeling to it that makes me want to listen to it when I’m having a bad day. Most of the time I don’t actually even listen to the lyrics but today I took a little deeper look into it.
I know a lot of people think this is a song about romantic love. Whether that be unrequited, finding out that the person you love is not who you thought they were, or even finding out that you’ve invested yourself in a relationship that’s one sided.
I sometimes think about this song and I think that it could also be about someone that is watching their loved one go through a difficult time such as self-loathing or depression and wanting to help that person see what they see, but that the person they love is so far deep in the darkness that they can’t see the truth right in front of them. A sense of feeling helpless because you can’t get through to them.
Lyrics and Possibly Interpretation:
I want to hold the hand inside you
(Wanting to comfort someone and lead them back to feeling love and accepted or worthy of redemption and change when they are in a dark place)
I want to take a breath that’s true
(Wanting to tell them what is true but not being able to get through to them)
(When we look at a loved one that’s in a dark place and not being able to find the person we once knew them to be).
(Knowing the truth about who they are even when they don’t see it. Knowing they are more than they believe but that they can’t see past their own pain and doubt / knowing it’s true that they are stuck).
You live your life
You go in shadows
(They are a shadow of themselves, of what they use to be. They resemble the person you remember but but there is something darker that blocks their light, that’s keeping them from their full potential)
You’ll come apart and you’ll go blind
(The loved one breaks apart and loose themselves possibly to self doubt or depression and they can’t see their potential or anything good. They are blind to all the good and then their world starts to look dark).
(Their mind becomes a dark place. A perpetual void of sorts that sucks them in further and feels like there is no escape).
Colors your eyes with what’s not there
(They close their eyes and self reflect. This person is watching there loved one dive deeper into a dark place. A place where they talk themselves into negativity. Like when we convince yourself that everything is wrong, that things are out to get us, that we are weak, and we can’t see that all that stuff is not real. It’s in the mind but we can’t see truths).
(The person is looking at their loved one in this hard spot in their life and wondering how their loved one can’t see that they are their for them. That they have a support system, that someone cares and not everything is bad).
A stranger’s light comes on slowly
A stranger’s heart without a home
And then its smiles cover your heart
(I’m not sure what this part is about. Maybe realization. Either the person that is living in darkness finally realizes that the person that is singing loves them or that someone cares and they dive deep into their mind to find healing and there is that moment or realization that dawns upon them making them smile. Understanding that it’s not all bad. But that seems a little too positive for the way it’s sung.
I even thought for a little bit that the stranger Might be a therapist of sorts as the stranger. I know that it’s kind of sucks when you have been telling someone something but they won’t hear it and let it sink in from you but that they get it when it comes from a stranger. Maybe it’s a therapist, someone that can help them talk through their issues.
Maybe this part is about the person that is singing it. That they are expressing their love and light that is shining through that person’s Darkness. The person that’s in darkness is reaching within themselves possibly seeing something the other person sees in them but that also sounds positive.
Maybe it’s hope of sorts that the person singing will have an effect and that some of their words will sink into that person’s mind and reach their heart enough to pull them out of the dark place but they’re just not understanding why this person that they care about just doesn’t get this already. But the loved one don’t see that the person sing actually cares or doesn’t see something within themselves that other people can see).
(I think fading into someone could be getting lost in there issues or being forgotten. It could possibly mean that you invest yourself into someone so much that either they take you for granted and don’t see you. Maybe even that you lose yourself in them when you make it all about them and helping them until the day you realize that they might just not be able to be helped by you).
(I’m not really sure what this song is about but I think about most songs and they can be interpreted different based on what you are bringing to the words. I think that’s what is important about context. Unfortunately, we don’t know the writers situation and what they were going through during this period of time or what they witnessed. But I think that’s okay. I think that this can help many people in different ways if you don’t know directly what a song is about then you are better able to connect with it)
Wow, that’s a really interesting interpretation! It makes a lot of sense, too. One of my favorite things about this song is actually the fact that it’s so ambiguous. I love that different people can listen to the same song and take a completely different meaning from it!
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Book Haul (October 2016)
Posted by mensrea3 on October 14, 2016 October 14, 2016
The temperature in Groningen is slowly dropping and our dog walks are now taking place somewhere between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius. My courses are progressing in more dynamic rhythms and I have been in a great mood for science fiction and fantasy stories this month. And as usual, I bought some new books!
When the Heavens Fall by Marc Turner
Marc Turner’s debut novel, When the Heavens Fall, is marketed towards fans of Steven Erikson which makes it something that I’m most likely going to love. It’s quite a chunky read with a beautiful cover and it sounded like a fun, sword and sorcery adventure. As I said, I have been in a big fantasy kick lately so I decided to go for it. I am currently reading this one and so far it’s very enjoyable and not at all overwhelming as Mr. Erikson’s Malazan books. Book synopsis:
If you pick a fight with Shroud, the Lord of the Dead, you had better make sure you end up on the winning side, else death will mark only the beginning of your suffering.
A book that gives its wielder power over the dead has been stolen from a fellowship of mages that has kept the powerful relic dormant for centuries. The thief, a crafty, power-hungry necromancer, intends to use the Book of Lost Souls to resurrect an ancient race and challenge Shroud for dominion of the underworld. Shroud counters by sending his most formidable servants to seize the artifact at all cost.
However, the god is not the only one interested in the Book, and a host of other forces converge, drawn by the powerful magic that has been unleashed. Among them is a reluctant Guardian who is commissioned by the Emperor to find the stolen Book, a troubled prince who battles enemies both personal and political, and a young girl of great power, whose past uniquely prepares her for an encounter with Shroud. The greatest threat to each of their quests lies not in the horror of an undead army but in the risk of betrayal from those closest to them. Each of their decisions comes at a personal cost and will not only affect them, but also determine the fate of their entire empire.
BookDepository: When the Heavens Fall
Dragon Hunters by Marc Turner
And, as you can probably guess, I also got the second book in The Chronicles of the Exile series, Dragon Hunters. For those interested in this series or already invested in it, the third book, Red Tide, is coming out this month. Book synopsis:
Once a year on Dragon Day the fabled Dragon Gate is raised to let a sea dragon pass from the Southern Wastes into the Sabian Sea. There, it will be hunted by the Storm Lords, a fellowship of powerful water-mages who rule an empire called the Storm Isles. Alas, this year someone forgot to tell the dragon which is the hunter and which the hunted.
Emira Imerle Polivar is coming to the end of her tenure as leader of the Storm Lords. She has no intention of standing down graciously. She instructs an order of priests called the Chameleons to infiltrate a citadel housing the mechanism that controls the Dragon Gate to prevent the gate from being lowered after it has been raised on Dragon Day. Imerle hopes the dozens of dragons thus unleashed on the Sabian Sea will eliminate her rivals while she launches an attack on the Storm Lord capital, Olaire, to secure her grip on power.
But Imerle is not the only one intent on destroying the Storm Lord dynasty. As the Storm Lords assemble in Olaire in answer to a mysterious summons, they become the targets of assassins working for an unknown enemy. When Imerle initiates her coup, that enemy makes use of the chaos created to show its hand.
BookDepository: Dragon Hunters
The Dinosaur Lords by Victor Milán
To satisfy my Fantasy thirst I also decided to explore another relatively new series, The Dinosaur Lords, which has been blurped by George R. R. Martin. I bought this hardcover from the BookOutlet for quite cheap I might say and it is beautiful! With the dynamic illustrations and the earthly colours and the deckle edges..Stunning! Book synopsis:
A world made by the Eight Creators on which to play out their games of passion and power, Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often brutal place. Men and women live on Paradise as do dogs, cats, ferrets, goats, and horses. But dinosaurs predominate: wildlife, monsters, beasts of burden – and of war. Colossal planteaters like Brachiosaurus; terrifying meateaters like Allosaurus and the most feared of all, Tyrannosaurus rex. Giant lizards swim warm seas. Birds (some with teeth) share the sky with flying reptiles that range in size from batsized insectivores to majestic and deadly Dragons.
Thus we are plunged into Victor Milán’s splendidly weird world of The Dinosaur Lords, a place that for all purposes mirrors 14th century Europe with its dynastic rivalries, religious wars, and byzantine politics…and the weapons of choice are dinosaurs. Where we have vast armies of dinosaur-mounted knights engaged in battle. And during the course of one of these epic battles, the enigmatic mercenary Dinosaur Lord Karyl Bogomirsky is defeated through betrayal and left for dead. He wakes, naked, wounded, partially amnesiac – and hunted. And embarks upon a journey that will shake his world.
BookDepository: The Dinosaur Lords
The Dinosaur Knights by Victor Milán
And yes, I also purchased the second novel in the series because this story sounds awesome: dinosaurs, knights, swords..But, although these books sound fantastic to me, they haven’t actually received very favouring reviews on Goodreads, so I’m interested to check out why this is so. Book synopsis:
Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often cruel world. There are humans on Paradise but dinosaurs predominate: wildlife, monsters, beasts of burden, and of war. Armored knights ride dinosaurs to battle legions of war-trained Triceratops and their upstart peasant crews.
Karyl Bogomirsky is one such knight who has chosen to rally those who seek a way from the path of war and madness. The fact that the Empire has announced a religious crusade against this peaceful kingdom, the people who just wish to live in peace anathema, and they all are to be converted or destroyed doesn’t help him one bit.
Things really turn to mud when the dreaded Grey Angels, fabled ancient weapons of the Gods who created Paradise in the first place come on the scene after almost a millennia. Everyone thought that they were fables used to scare children. They are very much real.
And they have come to rid the world of sin…including all the humans who manifest those vices.
BookDepository: The Dinosaur Knights
During the end of September my father came to visit me in Groningen and of course he wasn’t allowed to leave without buying me the mandatory book! So we went to the bookstore and while he was out having a smoke I picked from the shelves a modern classic by George Orwell. I think he was pleased with my choice! I also got it in the beautiful Penguin Modern Classics annotated edition that I’ve decided to start collecting. Book synopsis:
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.
BookDepository: 1984: The Annotated Edition
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
And speaking of classics, Penguin Modern Classics and a great science fiction kick, I also decided to pick up a famous novel by Kurt Vonnegut. My collection is slowly growing! I’ve heard great things about Cat’s Cradle and although it’s not Vonnegut’s most famous work, I think it’s one of his most loved novels. Book synopsis:
Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding ‘fathers’ of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to humanity. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. Writer Jonah’s search for his whereabouts leads him to Hoenikker’s three eccentric children, to an island republic in the Caribbean where the absurd religion of Bokononism is practised, to love and to insanity. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut’s cult tale of global destruction is a frightening and funny satire on the end of the world and the madness of mankind.
BookDepository: Cat’s Cradle
Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
I’ve never read anything by Catherynne M. Valente even though everyone seems to really enjoy her books and especially love her writing style so I thought I should try her science fiction, steampunk novel, Radiance. Book synopsis:
Severin Unck’s father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father’s films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn from classic science fiction in which all the planets are inhabited and we travel through space on beautiful rockets. Severin is a realist in a fantastic universe.
But her latest film, which investigates the disappearance of a diving colony on a watery Venus populated by island-sized alien creatures, will be her last. Though her crew limps home to earth and her story is preserved by the colony’s last survivor, Severin will never return.
BookDepository: Radiance
Golden Son by Pierce Brown
I’ve included a mini synopsis for this one since I haven’t read the first book in the Red Rising series yet but I’m very eager to get into it soon. This series is very popular among fans of The Hunger Games and Ender’s Game and it sounds like something I would enjoy too. Book synopsis:
Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within.
BookDepository: Golden Son
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
And finally for the last two books I have two epic novels both in size and conception. First one is this massive tome by Neal Stephenson which was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards of 2015 in Science Fiction and also for the Hugo Award of 2016. I’m so excited to get to this book when I have a little more time on my schedule soon. Book synopsis:
What would happen if the world were ending?
A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . .
Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.
BookDepository: Seveneves
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
And last but definitely not least, I had to get this massive, epic tale from the creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta, Alan Moore. Oh man..this is a huge book! I am a little intimidated but this is also one of my most anticipated books of the year so I’m really eager to pick this up very soon. Book synopsis:
In the epic novel Jerusalem, Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district’s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrol-colored puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them.
Employing, a kaleidoscope of literary forms and styles that ranges from brutal social realism to extravagant children’s fantasy, from the modern stage drama to the extremes of science fiction, Jerusalem’s dizzyingly rich cast of characters includes the living, the dead, the celestial, and the infernal in an intricately woven tapestry that presents a vision of an absolute and timeless human reality in all of its exquisite, comical, and heartbreaking splendor.
In these pages lurk demons from the second-century Book of Tobit and angels with golden blood who reduce fate to a snooker tournament. Vagrants, prostitutes, and ghosts rub shoulders with Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce’s tragic daughter Lucia, and Buffalo Bill, among many others. There is a conversation in the thunderstruck dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral, childbirth on the cobblestones of Lambeth Walk, an estranged couple sitting all night on the cold steps of a Gothic church front, and an infant choking on a cough drop for eleven chapters. An art exhibition is in preparation, and above the world a naked old man and a beautiful dead baby race along the Attics of the Breath toward the heat death of the universe.
An opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth, poverty, and our threadbare millennium. They discuss English as a visionary language from John Bunyan to James Joyce, hold forth on the illusion of mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon the meanest slum as Blake’s eternal holy city.
BookDepository: Jerusalem
So here are all the books in all their beauty and glory:
Let me know what books you bought in October so far, I’m very interested to see more book haul posts and what other readers have bought this month!
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Drew @ TheTattooedBookGeek says:
Marc Turner is a great author and both those books are quality reads.😀
mensrea3 says:
I just had a little look over at your neat blog and noticed that you’ve reviewed both of Marc Turner’s books so first thing I’ll do when I’m done with them will be to check out what you thought of them. 😀
I’m kind of surprised that not many people seem to have heard of his or Victor Milan’s series though!
Yeah, I’ve reviewed both the books, I’ve got his latest book still to read to. I’ve also got a guest post by him on my blog to, it’s about fight scenes.😀
Yes, it is surprising that not many people have heard of either, I wasn’t to keen on Milan’s first book and hadn’t got around to the sequel yet.
Ah, that’s really cool, I will check the guest post out! 😀
Yes, I saw that the Dinosaur Lords hasn’t gotten such great reviews. But I really like the Tor hardcovers, they look awesome 😀
They do, so do the Marc Turner hard covers, I’m in the UK and he’s only published in paperback by Titan his UK publisher but I do prefer the UK version of When The Heavens Fall.
I don’t really like the Titan cover actually! I’m currently living in the Netherlands so I’m also usually buying the UK covers from the BookDepository or the German Amazon. Have you read any Malazan books by Steven Erikson?
I’ve read all ten of the Malazan books by Steven Erikson, I think it’s a great series.
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Holly is the Sustainability Director at Bright Future Foundation. She was awarded her Masters in Social Work from the University of Denver in 2005 and holds a Bachelor in Psychology from University of Texas at Austin. In her role, Holly supports grant management and fundraising for the organization. Holly also supervises the advocacy team, oversees the Crisis Hotline, and volunteers with and assists the clinical team.
Holly has worked at Bright Future Foundation since 2014 and previously worked as Manager of Children, Family and Adult Services at Eagle County Human Services. She has over 20 years of experience working with children and families in human services fields including family violence and child welfare, early childhood education and adult protective services. Holly lives in Eagle, CO with her husband and two children.
Holly is a dedicated and talented leader in anti-violence work. We are privileged to have the opportunity to work closely with her to fulfill our mission of advancing well-being for all Coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.
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Dakota Blue Richards
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COVID-19 treatment: Ozone therapy can have harmful health consequences
NEW DELHI , May 12, 2020 5:01 pm
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The Central government’s System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research on Monday debunked the use of ozone therapy to kill coronavirus and cautioned people about its harmful health consequences.
Ozone therapy is an alternative medical treatment that introduces ozone or ozonide to the body.
Medical Ozone is used to disinfect and treat diseases. It is now being said that ozone can destroy coronavirus by breaking through its outer shell, entering the core and damaging the RNA.
“Even though ozone is increasing in some cities during the nationwide lockdown, the level to disinfect or kill the virus should be in ‘ppm’ (parts per million) and the ambient level at ground is in ‘ppb’ (parts per billion). If you put a person under ppm levels, it will have huge health effects,” SAFAR’s director Gufran Beig said.
He said breathing even small amounts of ozone can be harmful.
“Symptoms include coughing, shortness of breath and aggravation of asthma. At higher concentration, you can smell ozone, but it becomes harmful even at lower doses,” he added.
The remarks came after a study was published in Wuhan touting ozone therapy. Dr Gufran said that a man in Tamil Nadu had also started selling ozone rapid antibody cards for Rs 1,250 per unit.
Reportedly, ozone disinfection chambers were installed at the entrance of two hospitals in Mumbai, last month.
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Assam: No ‘holiday’ on Sankardeva Tithi, Pathsala school faces wrath
by SASANKA TALUKDAR
PATHSALA , September 11, 2018 7:28 pm
Students at the Christ Jyoti School, at Haripur in Pathsala. Image - Northeast Now
The authority of a private school at Haripur in Barpeta‘s Pathsala has drawn flak after keeping the school open on Tuesday, the day of ‘tithi’ (death anniversary) of saint Srimanta Sankardeva.
According to information, Chirst Jyoti School at Haripur in Barpeta district was kept open on Srimanta Sankardeva Tithi though the State Government declared it a State holiday under the NI Act.
The act of this school’s authority has been widely condemned by various organisations of the area.
The Pathsala Committee of the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) has strongly condemned the act of the school authority and stated that by keeping the school, the authority of the school has not only defied the State Government notification but it has also ignored the importance of the great saint of Assam.
The president of the Pathsala Committee of the AJYCP, Biswajit Talukdar along with its other members Dhritiraj Talukdar, Arup Sarma, Moupran Talukdar and Kishior Roy while expressing strong resentment said, “Keeping the school open today, the school authority turned deaf ear to the notice of the State Government.”
The youth wing of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bajali also condemned the act of keeping the school open on a State Government-declared holiday.
Both the youth wing of Bajali BJP and the Pathsala committee of AJYCP warned the school authority to strictly follow Government orders.
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Bajali Zilla Samiti members also arrived at the school premises and met the school authority to express their resentment.
The BJP youth wing activists informed that when they asked the school authority why did not they obey the State Government order declaring Srimanta Sankardeva Tithi a holiday, the school authority allegedly had stated that they were “not willing to follow the orders of the Government”.
Interestingly, the school authority also allegedly expressed about their ignorance regarding the ‘tithi’ of the great saint, Srimanta Sankardeva.
After the surprise reply, the youth BJP activists asked the school authority to follow the culture of Assam as they are running the school in the State.
Further, Mridul Talukdar, president of the Bajali Zilla Committee of AJYCP while expressing resentment over the issue termed it a “shameful act” and “dishonor” towards the great saint of the State.
Talukdar also alleged that the school authority earlier too harassed a section of guardians and organizations.
The AJYCP leader urged the Government to take proper steps for violating the Government direction.
The AJYCP activists also threatened to close the school forever if the Government fails to take adequate step against it.
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“Digging in the Desert” lié
Vancouver post punk trio lié [pronounced “lee-ey” and lower-case preferred], have announced their new album, You Want It Real, will drop on February 18th via Mint Records (Kiwi jr. Necking). Along with the news, the band have dropped a new video for lead-single “Digging in the Desert.” Shot by Vancouver director Justin Gradin (known for his strange videos for White Lung and Black Mountain), the clip will surely tap into that part of your brain, that sometimes you just don’t wanna visit (we can all relate). Vocalist Brittany West guides us through the sandy moonscapes of New Mexico — a setting she’s picked to explore what she describes as “hedonistic feelings and being eaten alive by the hardships of love playing out in a fever dream in my mind.” Pre-Order You Want It Real Here.
You Want It Real was produced by Jesse Gander (White Lung, Japandroids), who has helped unlock a further disharmony of melody and feedback in the band’s relentless aggression. Guitarist and vocalist Ashlee Luk explains; “Part of the shift away from the direct lyrics of previous albums is also to encourage the listener (and the interviewer) to focus on the music as well, not just the lyrics,” Luk says. “When people focus too much on the lyrics it tends to overshadow the musicality which I think should speak for itself, especially on this album. That being said, this doesn’t mean any less care was taken in constructing the lyrics, quite the opposite actually, more that there has just been an effort to focus more on imagery and flow.”
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Home Event The BLACK & WHITE Show in Harlem Exhibition
The BLACK & WHITE Show in Harlem Exhibition
The BLACK & WHITE Show
MAY 6 – JUN 30, 2014
ALOFT HARLEM, Frederick Douglass Blvd. at 124 St.
OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 6, 7:00-9:00pm featuring live painting by Kennedy Yanko, Music by DJ Antoine DeBrill, sponsored by PAPI Wines & VOSS Water.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Andre Woolery, Kennedy Yanko, LeRone B. Wilson, Marcus Hunter, Michael Ricardo Andreev, Sorin Abraham, Stan Squirewell, Tomo Mori, Walter Lobyn Hamilton, & Yaron Dotan
INFO & PROGRAMMING: www.artinfluxharlem.com /[email protected]
Exhibiting Artists: Andre Woolery, LeRone B. Wilson, Marcus Hunter, Michael Ricardo Andreev, Sorin Abraham, Stan Squirewell, Tomo Mori, Walter Lobyn Hamilton, & Yaron Dotan plus Kennedy Yanko will create a black & white “skin” during the opening reception.
April 15, 2014 (Harlem, NYC) – The Black & White Show opens on May 6 at Aloft Hotel in Harlem featuring mixed media, paintings, pen & ink, and photography – all in BLACK & WHITE only. The artists work in code and nuances, parities and disparities using textures, lines, contrast and movement to explore ideas and theories.
Marcus Hunter presents a series of intricate and obscure pen and ink drawings. His work engages critical theories of race, gender and sexuality through the frenzy of dichotomy playing off themes of race, religion and mania to explore notions of identity and social disturbance. Yaron Dotan also works in pen and ink but on a much larger scale. He uses a language of optical illusions as a vehicle to express moments of uncertainty and lack of clarity in relationships. We count on the eye for accurate reporting, but like the complexity of human bonds, vision too can be a source of mystification. Yaron is firstly a portrait artist but constantly experiments with subject matter and style. He strives to capture the nuances and surprises hidden beneath carefully manicured surfaces. The viewer is left to determine the narrative in Yaron’s drawings as in “She Is Here” where one might wonder if she has arrived at her destiny or if she remains in a state of searching for self.
LeRone Wilson’s work displays a medley of textures that stimulate the senses. He melts beeswax with resin, carnauba and pigment then applies this to a canvas with different size palette knives creating a highly texturized image that is both precise and organic. It is this texture that invokes a heightened emotion or sensation in the observer. Each groove or undulation is not just a thing of beauty to be admired from a distance, but something we feel connected to through the expression of touch.
In their collaborative project, Decoded, Sorin Abraham and Michael Ricardo Andreev explore through photography and symbols, the notion of art as mediated through ‘languages’ in which meaning is conveyed by indirect reference and symbolic representation. These two artists developed an elaborate ‘language’ of symbols that reference specific, and often abstract, ideas as a means of framing their concept in a manner that is reminiscent of Asian pictographic languages. The symbols, designed by Michael, are overlaid on Sorin’s photographs, which are influenced by European classic master painters and their use of subtle symbolism in visual storytelling.
The other artists in Black & White use various forms of texture and mixed media to present images and abstract ideas. Andre Woolery uses pushpins to reveal the current matrix of society reflecting mainly on the digital convergence on the modern world and black culture. In this exhibit Andre has taken a departure from shading with pushpins in vibrant colors and uses space instead to accomplish a representation of Grace Jones. Walter Lobyn Hamilton smashes, cuts and manipulates vinyl records in his depiction of Jimi Hendrix, while Tomo Mori creates an entirely black, abstract piece in mosaic titled, Black Dream. Stan Squirewell fuses African culture, symbols, and traditions with contemporary technology blending photography, paint and sculptural elements revealing a clear path from ancestral influences to the present-day. Kennedy Yanko who will be painting live at the opening reception will create “black & white skin” on May 6th. Kennedy physically immerses herself in the paint using her body to give life to her paints. Her raw energy and strong physique allow her to caress the paint and manipulate the medium through a mesmerizing, ritualistic dance. To witness the process is an experience that is personal, raw and unabashedly thrilling. Each of these artists through what appears to be simple abstractions and elemental mediums manage to intrigue and arouse the onlooker.
About Art In FLUX:
Art In FLUX creates opportunity for artists living and/or working in Harlem, brings art into public spaces, creates a positive use for underutilized spaces and stimulates a vibrant neighborhood by merging art, commerce and community. Art In FLUX Harlem was launched in 2012 and since then has popped up in empty retail spaces, on the streets, in restaurants, schools and lobbies bringing art closer to the community as well as attracting media attention and art collectors to the diverse group of artists in Harlem. www.artinfluxharlem.com 646-340-3479
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News for 3/30/12
For the end of the week:
The NBA is stepping in to pay $3.25 million in predevelopment costs on the Sacramento ESC project after the Maloofs refused, saying that they shouldn’t have to pay since they’re tenants. It sure sounds like the Maloofs don’t see themselves as stakeholders in the arena, which is a bad sign. Everyone should be rowing in one direction. A group has organized to force the plan to a vote.
AEG’s downtown LA stadium plan seems to be stalled, as the company and the NFL can’t agree on terms for what AEG’s contribution and minority share should be. Now that the Dodgers ownership saga is ending, there are renewed calls for a stadium in Chavez Ravine, either to sit next to or replace Dodger Stadium.
The Giants unveiled several improvements to AT&T Park. The big changes are the new sponsor for the mezzanine club level, Virgin America, and the transformation of one of the field boxes down the first base line into the “Corona Beach Bar”, complete with sand. The narrow bridge on the promenade level next to the Fan Lot will finally be expanded. In addition, concession carts on the promenade level will be moved to the back walls, which will open up views of the field from the concourse.
Peter Guber, Warriors co-owner, may end up partnering with the Giants on an arena in SF, while the Giants compete with Guber’s Dodgers.
Rangers Ballpark will be serving a $26 hot dog this year. No, it is not made of unicorn meat.
Ray Ratto gives his thoughts on what the Dodgers sale might mean for the Giants and A’s.
The Atlantic compares two cities, Denver and Phoenix, and how building ballparks has impacted their respective downtowns. (thanks hecanfoos)
Defying convention, the Census Bureau lists the three most densely populated areas in the U.S. as #1 Los Angeles, #2 San Francisco/Oakland, and #3 San Jose. There are flaws in the methodology, in that #5 New York City includes all of the suburbs in New Jersey and Connecticut, but SF/OAK doesn’t include the 680 corridor or any of the North Bay besides parts of Marin County. History and trends have largely defined the specific urbanized areas the Census uses in its surveys.
Memphis Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley will not sell the team to Larry Ellison because of Ellison’s continued interest in moving the team to San Jose. From the article:
Heisley is asking $350 million for the Grizzlies and says he makes it clear with potential buyers that the team’s arena lease with the city and county is rigid. There are several clauses and financial penalties that make it a daunting task to move the Grizzlies before 2021.
The NY Post’s Peter Vecsey reports that David Stern was in SF “inspecting building plans and the site” for an arena across from AT&T Park. He also notes that Larry Ellison was not daunted by the cost to break the FedEx Forum lease, though that’s not exactly easy to prove or disprove.
More as it comes. Probably no new posts until Monday at the earliest unless big news breaks.
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Corona Beach Bar? That’s a farcry from “Croix de Candlestick.”
Heard on KLIV earlier that Larry Ellison is out of the running to buy the Grizzlies. So much for NBA at The Tank anytime soon. IF the Kings leave Sac for SoCal, does that mean the Bay Area/NorCal would be ripe for a second franchise?
Corona Beach Bar at AT&T Park? Somehow trying to emulate the tropics in cold ass Frisco makes no sense. Can’t wait for a real warm weather yard in downtown San Jose 😉
hecanfoos
What I can’t wait for in the first really windy night at McCovey’s Sewer. I hope the place looks like a Sahara Desert sand storm!
Here’s an interesting article: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/03/how-build-successful-downtown-stadium/1593/
Marine Layer
Good piece, hcf. One thing the article doesn’t mention is that Phoenix already had a successful downtown arena, which probably spurred Phoenix on. It also didn’t have as good a transit setup as Denver did. The point about planning is spot on. Denver and San Jose are similarly sized in terms of area, but San Jose has 350k more people.
OT – Speaking of Ray Ratto, loved hearing Remenda blowing him up last night.
This is the problem I have with guys like Lowell Cohn, Monte Poole, and Glen Dickey, tons of negative opinions, but not reasonable solutions.
Ratto’s face at 2:19 = lolz
LoneStranger
Drew was on Gary Radnich’s show on KNBR this morning (no, I don’t listen to it, I just happened to have left the TV on CSN after the Sharks game last night and when I flipped it on this morning they had the TV simulcast of Gary’s show on). He said he apologized to Ray later on last night and apologized to the fans for losing his cool. They only did the audio on the show, of course, but the video is awesome. I love Drew. One of my favorite Bay Area TV personalities. He loves what he does, knows what he talks about, and he is not afraid to speak his mind.
Just watched the video. What blow up? Remenda got a tiny bit flustered and tripped on his own words. Was that the climax?
Hey R.M.,
Here’s a crazy thought that I read in the comments thread of another blog: if he really wanted, could Larry Ellison form his own NBA franchise (basically an expansion team I guess). The comment read that Ellison could obtain a license from the NBA, draft a bunch of college kids, sign some veterans, hire his own coaching staff and even name his team. Your NBA San Jose Sharks? Not saying this wild scenario is even remotely possible; just asking if its technically, legally possible.
@Tony D – AFAIK there is no interest within the NBA (owners, Stern) in expansion except to Europe. No chance of splitting the pie any further right now.
@dknight007 – Check Trib reporter @angelawoodall’s Twitter feed. You might find something interesting there.
dknight007
Have you heard how the proposals went with Spectrum, SMG and AEG making their final proposals to see who wins the bidding war for developing and possibly managing Coliseum City? The last and final cases made were supposed to occur this past Wednesday correct?
GoA's
@fc- that utube was my highlight for today- remenda is awesome- loved seeing him put Ratto in his place- having said that the freaking Sharks drive me nuts-
“Check Trib reporter @angelawoodall’s Twitter feed. You might find something interesting there.”
Are you not reporting on Coliseum City anymore, ML?
@eb – I don’t go to JPA meetings. When the EIR stuff happens I’ll go.
@eb,
If ML isn’t reporting on “Coliseum City,” that might tell you something…
@ML Gotcha.
@Tony D. You know, at first your post annoyed me, but then I realized you refrained from using “brah” or “bro” in your response. So in the end, I feel like this was a positive exchange.
My bad eb for that unnecessary jab at you last night. In all seriousness, I am pulling for “Coliseum City” as it relates to a new Raiders stadium; that would be awesome and hopefully it will happen. Don’t see it happening for the A’s or Warriors however…brah.
as a sacramento area resident, I am against the arena- not because I am necessarily against the public subsidization of sports franchises but more on the grounds that the maloofs are a terrrible investment…..
they are balking at the pre development payment they agreed to weeks ago because they dont have any money……
the taxpayers simply should refuse to build anything under this ownership……bad investments are bad investments regardless of how emotionally invested in the team you are, and lets face it the maloof family is a bad investment…you dont risk hundreds of millions of the taxpayers dollars for people that cant even pony up a few million dollars
http://www.iamagm.com/news/2012/03/30/david.stern.briefed.warriors.new.arena.development.san.francisco.team.getting.closer
“David Stern was in San Francisco on Wednesday looking at arena plans for the Golden State Warriors.”
A's Fan
“Ownership has made it a focus to develop a new arena in San Francisco, with the current Oakland location not even on the radar.”
MLB HAS to give San Jose to the A’s, especially if SF is successful with an arena plan AND getting the Warriors. Imagine the synergy of AT&T Park and a Warriors arena in the same neighborhood. Diridon SJ with a revamped Shark Tank and Cisco Field would make for an excellent counterbalance. SF should not get all the glory.
Ouch. Well that’s one Oakland team down…
@Dan,
If I were the city of Oakland and Coli authority, I’d put all focus and planning on a new Raiders stadium. The A’s and Warriors appear to have already checked out of The O; albeit not physically…yet.
Problem is the Raiders new stadium is going to be the hardest to fund. 1.2 billion dollars isn’t just going to materialize out of thin air.
Agree with your last post re a new Raiders stadium. Heck, it would be a tough sell for even a ballpark ($500 million) or arena ($400 million) in a “depressed area” as the late Al Davis put it. Oh well…
R.M.,
so what other NBA teams out there are left for Ellison’s pickings? It appears even an existing lease won’t stop him.
@Tony D. – The Hawks may be for sale after the last bidder couldn’t come up with the money last year. Paul Allen denied he was selling the Blazers this week.
Thanks R.M.
By the way, check out the SJ Blog for a helluva April Fools joke. I’ll admit it; J. Santos got me! Glad you didn’t post thee “Breaking News!” today as an April Fools; that would have been cold.
Stomper00
As much as I dislike Alex Rodriguez, he’s got a point…
“The Marlins do a phenomenal job with the front office and farm system,” Rodriguez said. “But the bottom line is that without a building like this, you really can’t compete the way MLB is right now. The game is exploding. Look at what the Dodgers just sold for. And you need a venue like this to compete.”
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AqqjozeeCtXDjX0YuOMYVXURvLYF?slug=sh-henson_alex_rodriguez_marlins_stadium_yankees_040112
another piece about the A’s and the move to SJ
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/sports/baseball/as-and-giants-in-tug-of-war-over-rights-to-san-jose.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Wake me when we have real news…
Actually, I’ll give the NYT article a little credibility for the following: Selig remaining silent on the issue and Wolff suggesting Bud’s decision will be “in the best interest of baseball.” Gee, I wonder what that would be? 😉
Great so Selig is going to wait to hear news of Oakland’s plan. Another cock block by Oakland that has 0 substance. Unless Oakland is suddenly going to win a Mega Millions lotto and consecutive publisher’s clearing hosues to find the 2-3 billion it will take to make their Coliseum City fantasy a reality.
Oakland is offering an already-rejected site and no $$ for ballpark construction. What else does Selig need to know? We can be certain the blue ribbon committee has already heard from Oakland officials over and over again that the city will spend no $$ on ballpark construction.
According Belson, insiders are the ones speculating that Selig is waiting to see if Coliseum City gets off the ground. This vapor of a tip is just there to tidy up the end of the article. Nothing more.
pjk, probably nothing. Remember we all seem to work under the assumption that Selig WANTS to find a way to move the team to San Jose. I’m not convinced that’s the case anymore. In fact, with how little he’s done on the subject I’m convinced Selig is looking for any reason he can find to NOT move the A’s to San Jose.
Anyone going to any Bay Bridge games this week? Considering all the drama between these two teams over the winter, you’d figure there’d be more interest heading into this series.
I suspect that no one followed up my hint to check out Angela Woodall’s feed. If you did, you’d have heard the Coliseum Authority Board discussing how to deal with refinancing the debt at the stadium, a problem which has been lingering for a while. Credit markets have tightened as we all know, plus there’s a unique problem that the JPA faces with the stadium: there are no long-term tenants signed there.
What does the existing debt mean for any possibility of the city financing a new ballpark in Oakland? I think we already know the answer.
Its unfortunate that you’ve jumped ship. That your prerogative. How do we know that Seligs done “nothing” on the A’s potential move? No official quotes or anything of the sort has been provided since the last owners meeting in January. If you take away all the “insider” nonsense from the past month, the silence on this issue has been deafening. My take is that we are way past the point of deciding if the A’s should move to San Jose. The “BRC” has already presented its final report (no updates regardless of some pie in the sky city rising in Oakland) and all that’s left is a negotiated deal. Now that the Padres and Dodgers sagas are behind us, its time for MLB to make San Jose official; in due time my friend, in due time…
Oh, not strictly A’s related, but he Niners are hosting their groundbreaking ceremonies on April 19th kicking off construction of their new 1.2 billion dollar pleasure palace. Looks like they’ll unquestionably be the first team to the South Bay. And maybe even the first team seeking to build a new stadium in the south bay who get one if the Earthquakes don’t get off their asses fast and start construction of their comparatively small and simple 18,000 seat soccer stadium.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20307905/purdy-49ers-stadium-groundbreaking-set-april-19-santa
Tony, I haven’t jumped ship, but I’m also not as bullish as I was a year ago. The longer this drags on the less likely IMO that he’ll decide for SJ in the end. Nothing in SJ has changed and it still remains the same good place to put a team it’s been since the A’s started pursing it. However Selig’s inaction speaks volumes. If he wanted them in SJ he’d have made that decision already. There’s really nothing left to look at in Oakland, yet he still hasn’t decided to pull the plug on them… why? What possible advantage can be gained vis-a-vis San Jose by delaying? Nothing. This means either he’s incapable of making SJ happen (not able to get his unanimity that he’s so fond of or convincing the Giants to play nice), or he’s unwilling to open up SJ because he doesn’t desire it. Either way, the longer this goes the worse it is for the A’s chances in the Bay Area IMO, since we all know Oakland is pretty much a non-starter at this point outside of the white knight scenario.
As for the JPA and the debt. Sounds like they’re boned, which frankly is long overdue comeuppance for ruining the stadium and blowing 200 million on that piece of shit in the outfield.
So, do people on here think that the 49ers will be adopted as a “South Bay” team after this new stadium? Or will they be seen as a team that’s close by, but still San Francisco’s? Would the Raiders be a South Bay team if they shared with SF? These moves/potential moves are certainly turning over established bay Area “boundaries.”
The 49ers belong to the whole region. When it come to their fan base, there’s no East, North, South. They are a Bay Area team and have been for decades.
It does look more like Selig will let the A’s rot in the Coliseum for as long as it takes for investors from some other part of the country to provide a new home for the team, given the unlikelihood of the White Knight scenario in Oakland. Apparently, enough owners would rather keep writing those revenue-sharing checks than risk having their precious “territories” threatened…
Briggs beat me to it. The Niners haven’t never been just San Francisco’s team. They’ve been a regional team since there days in Kezar. They belong to SF, SJ, Oakland, Fremont, San Mateo, Antioch and even places out in the Central Valley. Always have, and always will even after they plant their flag in Great America’s parking lot. It’s a large part of why you don’t see a huge outcry over them leaving San Francisco proper.
Only the uninformed think the 49ers are moving away from their fans by leaving Frisco. They are in fact moving closer to their fans.
Do you think that applies to all of the Bay Area teams?
“The 49ers belong to the whole region. When it come to their fan base, there’s no East, North, South. They are a Bay Area team and have been for decades.”Do you think that applies to all of the Bay Area teams?
Haelz no. The A’s are nobody’s team. They belong to anxious, obsessive-compulsive sociopaths (myself included) and nice families looking to see a baseball contect where standing-room-only tickets are $55+fees. I think we all know which group we fall into.
eb, To some extent, yes. I know Giants and Niners fans in the east bay, A’s and Warriors fans in the south bay and on the peninsula, Raiders, Sharks, and A’s fans in SF, etc… However the extent of the cross pollination is definitely greater with the Niners I think than any other Bay Area team, even the Giants and Warriors. Not the least of which is because football is the country’s most popular sport and the Niners for a large segment of the population that grew up in the 40’s-early 60’s and in the 80’s-mid 90’s the Niners were the Bay Area’s ONLY team.
Hell I still view the Niners that way. The Raiders are LA castoffs as far as my thinking goes. And nothing is worse than LA’s sloppy seconds. But then I’m admittedly a bit extreme when it comes to my views of the Raiders.
OT: Matt Cain reportedly has signed on with the Giants for 5-years, $100 million. Damn! Hoping he would be Dodger or Yankee bound. But this could bode well for a decision being made re A’s to SJ; the Giants have their house in order for the next 5 years (to when their debt payments sunset in 2017).
Sad day in Oakland as well, but it’s not sports related: 5 killed this morning at a Christian School in East Oakland. My deepest condolences to the victims and their families.
@Dan There seems to be a large segment of the population that views a team’s home city/section of the Bay as being crucial to their rooting interest and another large segment that see’s that as being irrelevant, as long as the team is in the Bay Area proper. It will be interesting seeing how these viewpoints are possibly altered with the Bay’s shifting sports landscape.
As for the Raiders, it’s a shame they left the first time. They are one of the few teams born in the Bay Area and they had the football market here firmly in their grasps before they left. It will be an incredible struggle to get anywhere close to where they were.
eb, true there is a split. But outside of baseball it’s much more pronounced. I’ve seen that on Warriors boards as well with the possible move to SF. Warriors fans on the whole seem pretty “meh” about the idea. They’re not rooting for it, but not really against it either. Sure there are a few militants that mirror the Oakland Only crowd we see regarding the A’s, but no where near the concentration or veracity. By and large they know the Warriors were originally SF’s team and that they’re a Bay Area team be it in Oakland or SF. Same goes for the Niners, the majority don’t seem to care but there are a few militants who want them in SF proper only. But by and large the move to Santa Clara is seen as a necessity that is good for the franchise just as a Warriors to SF move is for that team. The Raiders really haven’t ramped up their potential move so we’ll have to see how that goes when they finally admit they’re not building in Oakland in the coming years.
It’s really only with the A’s you’re seeing the REAL opposition locally from Oaklanders about them leaving. Which is ironic when you consider they’re the worst supported of Oakland’s 3 teams.
simon94022
Hard core fans always forget this, but one of the most important pieces of marketing any sports franchise is the City/State name it uses. That is the brand. This is why the NFL uses its clout to preserve marquee city names for its franchises even when they play outside the city limits — no Anaheim Rams or New Jersey Giants. It’s also why one of Arte Moreno’s first moves as owner of the Angels was to increase the franchise value by restoring the name Los Angeles Angels.
Because of history, the “San Francisco” brand is far and away the strongest in Northern California. People do not think of a San Francisco team as belonging to the people who happen to live in “The City.” They think of it as the team for all of Northern California — everything from SLO to the Oregon border. There is no significant angst about the move of the 49ers to Santa Clara, because one of their conditions has been that they do not have to change their brand name. They will remain the San Francisco 49ers.
For the Warriors, “Golden State” was just a cheesy way of marketing the team in the 1970s as the Northern California team, while appeasing the Oakland politicians who required that the SF name be dropped. So nobody cares much if the team crosses the Bay again and reverts to San Francisco Warriors, because that is just another way of saying it is Bay Area’s basketball team.
The “Oakland” brand is self-limiting, sort of like the “New Jersey” brand in the NYC metro area. Only a small minority of people outside Alameda and Contra Costa Counties root for Oakland teams, and often those people are also fans of the SF team. Meanwhile, plenty of people who live in Alameda/Contra Costa are happy to root for the SF team.
This has been the basic problem of the A’s franchise since Charlie Finley moved it to California in 1968. It is less of a problem for the Raiders, since they have to some extent a national brand as the NFL’s bad boy team, and also because it just does not require as large a population base to support an NFL franchise as it does to support an MLB team. But even in the glory days of the 1970s (and I absolutely loved those Raider teams), Raider fans were far outnumbered outside the East Bay by the sleeping giant of the massive 49er fan base.
San Jose is an interesting test. The South Bay has not been as parochial as the East Bay historically, so there is potentially much broader appeal, and the Sharks certainly are the Bay Area’s hockey team. But then again they don’t have an established San Francisco hockey team to compete against.
Further, in terms of merchandise, the A’s actually haven’t put out that many Oakland-branded items. Beyond the away gray Oakland jersey, the team has mostly opted for Athletics or A’s on their clothing merchandise. With a name like”Athletics,” they’re also painfully generic. So, a crappy team name and history of distancing themselves from Oakland has played into the current state of affairs.
The best image the A’s ever had was being the ragtag rebels. The same qualities kinda hold true for the quirky commecials they had around the Moneyball years. The had the opportunity to play up the zany, kooky aspect of the team but that ship sailed too. Panda. Fear the Beard. The Giants (who were painfully dull too) caught hold of what their fans liked about their players, and ran with it.
The A’s can’t be bothered with giving their fans nice things… even when fans are willing to hand over money.
@eb “So, do people on here think that the 49ers will be adopted as a “South Bay” team after this new stadium? Or will they be seen as a team that’s close by, but still San Francisco’s? Would the Raiders be a South Bay team if they shared with SF? These moves/potential moves are certainly turning over established bay Area “boundaries.””
To add on to what others have said, team name is a big factor. Arguably, team name inspires more passions than team location. We saw this a bit when the A’s were considering Fremont; there was heated debate over team name, and my sense was that the majority of both Oakland and San Jose partisans would have been mollified as long as the team used their city name of choice.
The Niners are not changing their name, and although the Raiders would be a more interesting case and could do so, my best guess is that they would not (especially if it were intended as a temporary move, with efforts to build an Oakland stadium continuing). So that right there takes a lot of the edge off the debate.
Another factor is the different nature of NFL football. Games are mostly on Sunday and are big events; fans drive further to see them. Conversely, baseball games are nightly, and necessarily draw most heavily from their immediate vicinity. So NFL loyalties tend to more broadly regionalized than MLB loyalties.
Also, NFL stadiums tend to be in faceless suburban or industrial areas. The stadium itself IS the destination. MLB ballparks tend to be at the urban core; they are the face of their cities, and more closely intertwined with city identity overall.
My guess is the move will be mostly a non-event for the Niners; as others have said, if anything they are moving closer to their fans. The Raiders would be a more interesting case; I think they would have a chance to strengthen their South Bay following, but probably would remain primarily an East Bay team.
BUT what if Anaheim was a MAJOR city with a population of 5 million? Or Jersey across the Hudson had a city with a population of 10 million? My point is that the Niners would be moving from a smaller city to within a Tiger Woods drive of Northern California’s largest city. My opinion: IT IS in the realm of possibilities that perhaps the Niners ditch the SF brand for SJ. At the very least I’d expect San Jose city leaders to approach the Niners brass about such a possibility. In short, San Francisco’s influence and arrogance wasn’t meant to last for eternity…
(For the record, I could care less about the Niners. Just give me the A’s and I’ll be sports happy for eternity)
I wouldn’t think San Jose would have any broader appeal than Oakland. It’s still in SF’s shadow and will never act as the representational city for the Bay Area, just as Oakland hasn’t. I would assume it would be a similar scenario, just with a different coat of paint and characteristics.
“By and large they know the Warriors were originally SF’s team and that they’re a Bay Area team be it in Oakland or SF.”
I’ve always hated that argument. Now, the Warriors are probably the team Oakland lays the less claim towards and feels the least amount of passion for, but the team has been in the Town for 46 years. 46 years! They only played in SF for, what, 9 years? 46 to 9. Unbelievable.
Tony. It won’t happen. One the Niners owners have said it won’t happen. Two, the team isn’t moving to San Jose, so why would the team or Santa Clara’s city leaders who are putting 100 million into the stadium let their neighbor dictate what name the team uses. And third, San Jose is a growing brand as a city, but it has no where near the cache as San Francisco, in large part because the region is STILL the San Francisco Bay Area (and always will be) no matter how big San Jose may get compared to it’s neighbor to the north, both culturally and historically. Not to mention the team’s long history with the name and the cache that brings. It would be counter productive for the Niners to change their name.
eb, they may have only played in SF nine years, but those nine years seem to be the ones people really remember. Just look at a typical Warriors crowd some night. The vast majority of jerseys being worn are either San Francisco or “The City” jerseys. Caps being worn are more and more featuring the new SF logo. Like it or not, by using the lame “Golden State” moniker the Warriors have made people forget they’re Oakland based (which in some ways the plan all along seeing as the name was chosen so they’d appeal to folks in San Diego too) and made many pine for the days when they at least acknowledged a city of origin.
If I was a betting man, my money would be on the Niners remaining SF. My take is its not out of the realm of possibilities that SJ makes a go at them once they’re in SC. We’ll see. As for SC, why would they care either way if the Niners were SF or SJ? 100 million is 100 million. You’d think they’d have more of an allegiance to their longtime neighbor.
As for Niners brass stating they will remain “SF”, I think that has more to do with not causing any friction with SF pols for leaving the city proper. Imagine if they had announced they were becoming the San Jose Forty Niners? Feinstein would be doing everything in her power to stop this.
Lastly, the Bay is named “San Francisco” but not after the city; kind of like the “Santa Clara Valley” isn’t named after the city of SC or the “Santa Cruz Mountains” aren’t named after the city of S Cruz. Hence the San Francisco Bay Area. Nice chat by the way.
San Jose definitely has more appeal than Oakland; don’t even think this could be questioned. Anyone who suggests otherwise is closing their eyes to reality. (No disrespect to Oakland intended). Geez, lets hope for a decision soon so we can stop talking about all this…
Tony, actually keeping the SF name has caused more friction with SF pols than leaving it behind. Or did you forget Feinstein’s aborted efforts to try and force the team to leave the SF moniker behind when they left?
As for the name “San Francisco”, yes the Bay came first, but who cares? San Francisco is San Francisco. Any use of the name is associated with the city of SF and the SF Bay Area regardless of which one came first and which one the team is technically related to. It’s an expansive name that encompasses the entire region from Napa down to Santa Cruz including San Jose. San Jose despite being the larger city is a much more limited name in terms of regional appeal and will remain so probably permanently regardless of how much bigger SJ gets compared to SF the city. That said, SJ probably has as much if not more cache these days than Oakland. And more importantly San Jose has far more upside than Oakland the way things are going.
As for Santa Clara having “loyalty” to San Jose. These are cities, not street gangs. The two have actually been quite adversarial in the past on many occasions. What’s good for Santa Clara and indeed the Niners too is making sure the team has the broadest appeal, that means keeping the SF name (as much as it pains me to say it given my dislike of SF in general).
@Tony Have to agree with Dan here. I’m rooting for San Jose to develop a public profile more befitting its size and economic clout too, but there’s a huge gulf to bridge for SJ to catch up with SF. I don’t really ever see it happening. San Francisco is arguably the most picturesque big city in the U.S. It will continue to be featured prominently in film, TV and other media, and it will continue to be a top destination for tourists. In other words, this isn’t exactly like St. Pete vs Tampa, Minneapolis vs. St. Paul or Dallas vs. Fort Worth.
Even aside from the relative glamour of the two cities, the Niners have a lot of goodwill associated with the existing brand. To get an idea of how much established branding matters, consider the Washington Redskins. Their trademark is racist and offensive, yet they still cling to it, apparently in a belief it would be difficult to build up an alternate brand to the same point.
@eb/Dan Another big factor wth the Warriors is that they have taken great pains over the years to dissassociate their brand from the City of Oakland, not embrace it.
@Tony D. *sigh* I’m not saying Oakland has any more or any less appeal as a city brand. Both offer their own unique characteristics. Both will still get overshadowed by SF. I would say this, however, I bet more folks throughout the country could instantly point out where Oakland is on a map, before they could SJ. Of course, that could change if SJ gets more sports teams and Oakland loses theirs.
@Dan Understood, but the Warriors have never sported “the Town” jerseys or anything of that sort. It’s either been GS (lame) or “the City.” So, fans choices are kind of limited. You’d think they’d market the fact that they represent both cities (which they sort of do with the bay bridge logo).
@eb “I wouldn’t think San Jose would have any broader appeal than Oakland.”
One difference is that San Jose doesn’t have the same negative associations as Oakland. Like it or not, some of the things Oakland is known for are crime, drugs and radical activists. San Jose’s problem is more lack of recognition than negative association; most of the rest of the U.S. doesn’t know where it is. But this disadvantage can also be an advantage: it’s a relatively clean slate, allowing it more room to define itself in the public mind.
“It’s still in SF’s shadow and will never act as the representational city for the Bay Area, just as Oakland hasn’t.”
All true.
“I would assume it would be a similar scenario, just with a different coat of paint and characteristics.”
San Jose has the advantage of a clean slate. By promoting itself as the “Capital of Silicon Valley,” it has the opportunity to borrow the cachet of the technology industry. Having an MLB team would go along way toward advancing this strategy.
“To get an idea of how much established branding matters, consider the Washington Redskins. Their trademark is racist and offensive, yet they still cling to it, apparently in a belief it would be difficult to build up an alternate brand to the same point.”
The fact that the name “Redskins” is still used amazes me. Even the logo is offensive. They should switch to a less offensive Native American themed name (if they feel obligated to stay with that tradition) and go back to the helmets with the feathers and spear tip. Those were much cooler anyway.
Maybe, but this “crime, drugs and radical activists” could describe any number of major cities in the U.S. One could make the case that Hell’s Angels/Black Panthers/blue collar/port city are all characteristics that make Oakland/East Bay a memorable city/area. If something sticks in your head, it’s a good thing, marketing wise. Speaking for myself, I root for cities like Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit before I would root for a Dallas or Seattle or whatever, so I obviously have a bias.
@eb “The fact that the name “Redskins” is still used amazes me. Even the logo is offensive. They should switch to a less offensive Native American themed name (if they feel obligated to stay with that tradition) and go back to the helmets with the feathers and spear tip. Those were much cooler anyway.”
I agree. Other teams (mostly college teams) with the same issues have made a change, the Washington Bullets made a change, and I think the Redskins should make a change. I think it could be done with minimal damage to the brand, even spun as a positive thing. Unfortunately, I don’t run the team. This is one of the reasons I dislike the Redskins as a team. (Also, I think they have the ugliest uniforms and team colors in the NFL.)
“This is one of the reasons I dislike the Redskins as a team. (Also, I think they have the ugliest uniforms and team colors in the NFL.)”
Too close to the Chief color scheme/theme for me. It’s like a gag reflex.
“but this “crime, drugs and radical activists” could describe any number of major cities in the U.S.”
True, but some get tarred with it in the public mind more than others. Miami is a high crime city, but it has the glamour of South Beach to balance the image. Oakland, on the other hand, sits right next to glamorous San Francisco, and I think suffers from the inevitable comparison.
“One could make the case that Hell’s Angels/Black Panthers/blue collar/port city are all characteristics that make Oakland/East Bay a memorable city/area”
Again, I would agree. Oakland has character, and this rough-and-tumble vibe has worked well for the Raiders brand overall (although maybe not in the area of premium seat sales). I don’t think it has worked as well for the A’s.
“If something sticks in your head, it’s a good thing, marketing wise.”
Up to a point. I’ve got Casey Anthony stuck in my head as well, but wouldn’t hire her as a spokesperson for my company.
“Speaking for myself, I root for cities like Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit before I would root for a Dallas or Seattle or whatever, so I obviously have a bias.”
I’m somewhat of the same mind. I have a natural affinity for underdogs, which is a big part of why I’m an A’s fan and not a Giants fan in the first place. And this somewhat extends to cities as well, though other factors come into play. I can’t root for the Steelers because I’m a Raider fan (though I would root for the Pirates), and I have trouble with the Ravens because of Art Modell. I tend to like Seattle and its teams. (Hey, it wasn’t that long ago that Seattle was a depressed lumber town; that’s kind of my earliest memory of it). .
You’re probably right all re SF and the Niners. Heck, SF can have it all: the glam, the cache, the Niners, Warriors AND EVEN SHARKS (probably going a little to far with that one)…JUST GIVE ME THE A’S IN SAN JOSE AND I’LL BE HAPPY FOR LIFE! ;o)
Oh boy. Tony D. You’re a character, but I appreciate that. BTW, I’m at AT&T and Banjo Man is here decked out in his A’s colors.
Of course he is. However I’ll never forget this…
He turned traitor when we needed him to stay strong and stay A’s proud the most.
AT&T Park introduced the A’s starting SS, Chad Pennington. At least it’s not Cliff.
Watching game on CSNCA. As much as I abhor the Giants and their brass, AT&T Park is (gulp) gorgeous. Makes me even more mad that MLB hasn’t freed San Jose…yet. hopefully soon, because Cisco Field will be equally as gorgeous!
Bah. AT&T Park is overrated. Put that same ballpark anywhere else but on that slough and it’s actually in the bottom half of the post Camden ballparks. It gets brownie points from pundits because it’s on the water but even water can’t hide its deficiencies.
@ Dan: gotta disagree. Speaking just of the building itself, AT&T is as nice as they come. If Cisco Firld at Diridon ever becomes a reality, the Bay Area will have the best RF view in the universe.
Dan, what is wrong with AT&T park? Sitelines, concourses, excellent turf…
What will a ballpark in San Jose have?
doctorK
The A’s – which will automatically make it superior.
Ted and Briggs, concourses at AT&T are small, dark and cramped for a modern ballpark. It’s part of the reason that the owners have moved all the carts from the field side to the inside of the concourse this season. Also too few bathrooms compared to many of its contemporaries which shows with the massive backups the park bathrooms get even on a non-sellout day. Field looks like shit, always has. Grounds crew at AT&T has always been too lazy to mow a decent hatch pattern into it (it’s about the only thing the Coliseum has always had on AT&T) to say nothing of the shoddy placement of the bullpens due to the well known omission of them from the original design. The laughable right field foul pole distance shouldn’t even have been allowed per MLB rules. Also for a modern park the upper deck is farther from the action than it should be, at little cantilevering goes a long way. Also the choice of brick in a city where brick has historically been a quick way to die in an earthquake (and where NONE was in the area before they build that place) was just laughable. I could go on but you get the point.
I’ll grant you the Coliseum is FAR behind AT&T in all areas except the field (at least until the Raiders play in Oakland in the late summer), but AT&T is far from the best of its contemporaries and is lauded more for the water behind right field than the park itself. You want a really nice modern park. Go visit PNC Park in Pittsburgh or PETCO Park in San Diego. Those are the class of the most recent parks. Don’t get me wrong, Pac Bell is nice, and the McGowan group did a good job considering their relatively limited private budget, but there are far better parks out there that too often get overlooked because Pac Bell has a so/so view of a slough and part of the east bay (ironically enough). Turning the park 90 degrees more toward downtown could have given them an iconic view of the Bay Bridge and downtown but their desire to give Barry Bonds more home runs overpowered that notion.
I didn’t have a problem leaving my pee anywhere and there were ~42,000 on-hand tonight. I left it in legal pee receptacles too, despite my feelings about the home team.
@DoctorK Well played, Sir!
@Dan, the concourses are fine, I liked being able to see the field while waiting for a beer. I’ll see how I like the new setup. I haven’t had a major problem with the restroom lines either.
The field is beautiful without the silly and tired mow patterns, it has a classic look to it. The patterns on the field are played out. The turf at AT&T drains very well and the turf is in great shape.
That foul pole is very difficult to reach due to wind and the extreme RF power alley depth and the wall there is 25 feet tall.
The brick facades are AT&T are quite safe, it isn’t traditional brick and mortar.
The view is the best in baseball and rotating the stadium would have been a terrible idea due to wind and the loss of the view of the Bay.
I don’t think that was the point; we know that it’s faux brick and therefore safe. The point was that brick is jarringly out of place with its surroundings in SF (since virtually no other buildings in earthquake country are brick) as well as being horribly unoriginal, and is therefore a questionable architectural choice. Other architectural commentators have made the same point.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d still rate AT&T Park in my top 5 ballparks, but it’s almost all about the location and the view. The building itself is very average relative to other new venues. As Dan said, the concourses are relatively narrow, the views from the upper deck are so-so, and the Coke bottle is both cheesily commercial and a terrible slide. If you moved AT&T Park to a more average location it would rate in the middle of the pack.
Cisco Field will start at a disadvantage relative to AT&T Park because it cannot compete with the Bay view, but there’s a lot of room to make up for that by being a superior building.
@Bartleby: There’s plenty of brick in SF, in fact some of the oldest buildings are brick. Ballparks are big places. They take up a lot of visual real estate. They’re shouldn’t be jarring, especially when plenty of people live in the area. Brick is a fine choice. You’re arguing subjectivity. It may be a questionable aesthetic choice, but not architecturally.
Giants organization and brass aside, I again find AT&T Park to be a beautiful yard. IMHO, it does fit in well with the surrounding neighborhood and is aesthetically pleasing. Haven’t been to AT&T Park since the opening year 2000 (I refuse to attend anything there until San Jose is free); how do the concourses compare to HP Pavilion? I honestly don’t remember it’s been so long.
re: Cisco Field will start at a disadvantage relative to AT&T Park
…it will start at a disadvantage because it’s become increasingly obvious the place will never be built. CIsco Field is not in the Giants’ best interests, and that is the primary concern of Selig and the owners, obviously. …. I used to think PacBell Park was great until I visited the Ballpark at Arlington, with concourses so wide you can drive a truck through them. PacBell or whatever it is called has very narrow concourses…..I too now refuse to attend anything at the place and ward off my son’s requests to go to a game there. Last time I went there, Bartolo Colon was on the mound for the Expos, defeating the Giants…
@Briggs “There’s plenty of brick in SF, in fact some of the oldest buildings are brick.”
Not in relative terms. There are good reasons not to build with brick in earthquake country, so use of brick in SF is fairly minimal compared to, say, Baltimore, where practically every row house is made of brick. Walking down a street of brick buildings does not make one say, “Wow, I must be in San Francisco.”
“Ballparks are big places. They take up a lot of visual real estate. They’re shouldn’t be jarring, especially when plenty of people live in the area.”
My point is that another choice which better fits the look and vibe of the city would fit better. I give points to places like Petco Park, Target Field and (I believe) PNC Park which chose locally sourced materials that fit better with the look of the city.
“Brick is a fine choice. ”
Brick was a fine choice for Baltimore, where it was original (at least to the modern era) and fit the look of the city. Now that there are something like 13th-or-more faux-retro brick ballparks, it has become a cliche. It was not an inspired choice.
“You’re arguing subjectivity.”
Of course. It’s a manner of opinion, and I gave mine. But I know I’m not alone in the opinion.
“It may be a questionable aesthetic choice, but not architecturally.”
Architecture is aesthetics; it’s a distinction without a difference.
@Bartleby: I live in SF and most buildings in my neighborhood date back to the 1890s. Brick is a common sight at street level. Next to wood, it’s the most common material seen with building facades, banks and churches which have been local landmarks for generations. Moreover, ballparks are often designed to evoke a sense of stability and grandeur that you find with banks and churches. Sure, a glass and metal-beam exterior would’ve been an acceptable alternative, but I personally wouldn’t want that towering four stories high across the street from me. I doubt many people would. I understand you’re giving your opinion. That’s why I said you were arguing subjectivity and followed up with pointing out there is a distinction between architecture and aesthetics. Saying it’s a distinction without difference is intellectually dishonest.
@pjk,
Whatever you say! Care to provide some FACTS to back up your assertion? (“insider” reports don’t count)
@PJK: Why would MLB let the SJ decision linger if they weren’t working towards making it happen? Even if MLB denies the A’s SJ, it won’t be because they haven’t been trying.
That specific brick was chosen because that was historically used in China Basin. The architects spent considerable effort to match the China Basin brick color.
You should take the ballpark tour, you will actually learn a bit about the history of China Basin.
As for the huge concourses, they are small due to the fact that they had to squeeze the stadium into a 13 acre site. SJ is only a 14 acre site.. if you don’t like small concourses you wont like SJ.
After 3+ years, it appears MLB will just let A’s-to-San Jose die on the vine rather than stand up to the Giants and a couple of owners paranoid about the Rays moving to New Jersey. Do we have any evidence of anything to the contrary? We were told the A’s were “on the front burner” 2.5 months ago. What’s happened since then? Zip…
@Briggs ” I live in SF and most buildings in my neighborhood date back to the 1890s. Brick is a common light at street level. Next to wood, it’s the most common material seen with building facades, banks and churches which have been local landmarks for generations.”
I think that’s a little bit of an overstatement. Nevertheless, it doesn’t really rebut my point that when one thinks of Baltimore, one thinks of brick; when one thinks of San Francisco, one thinks of Painted Ladies and Victorian architecture.
“Moreover, ballparks are often designed to evoke a sense of stability and grandeur that you find with banks and churches. Sure, a glass and metal-beam exterior would’ve been an acceptable alternative, but I personally wouldn’t want that towering four stories high across the street from me. I doubt many people would.”
There are other choices.
” I understand you’re giving your opinion. That’s why I said you were arguing subjectivity and followed up with pointing out there is a distinction between architecture and aesthetics.”
What exactly do you think is the difference? Architecture is an art form. We judge good vs. bad architecture largely on its overall aesthetic effect. There will always be an element of subjectivity to this, just as there is when we discuss painting or sculpture.
“Saying it’s a distinction without difference is intellectually dishonest.”
This seems an unreasonably strong statement, especially considering you have not really explained what you think the difference is.
@martin “That specific brick was chosen because that was historically used in China Basin. The architects spent considerable effort to match the China Basin brick color.”
If that’s true, that is an interesting nuance . However, if I missed it, I have to imagine a very high percentage of other people miss it, too. Whereas, the fact that AT&T Park is the umpty-umpth red brick–wrought-iron-gates-Kelley-green-seats-Camden Yards clone does not escape many people’s notice.
I’m sure I would, but I’m not in the mode of giving money to the Giants right now if I can reasonably avoid it.
There are always compromises; this is only one factor. As I said before, despite its narrow concourses and other flaws, AT&T Park ranks in my top 5 ballparks; the location and views make up for a host of defects. Indications are that Cisco Field will be an original in many ways; if it makes good on its promise in this regard, I can forgive the narrow concourses.
Its ironic that you’re asking for evidence (based on what you put out). Again, issue on the front burner, not the microwave (its obviously on slow cook). Patience…
I’ll take any concourse over what currently exists at the Coliseum.
@Bartleby: “I think that’s a little bit of an overstatement. Nevertheless, it doesn’t really rebut my point that when one thinks of Baltimore, one thinks of brick; when one thinks of San Francisco, one thinks of Painted Ladies and Victorian architecture.”
Bartleby, it does rebut your point. You initially said the brick is jarring for the neighborhood. I simply offered a counter with explaination. Simply stating that brick is more appropriate for Baltimore again is failure to advance the discussion. The victorian homes are signatures of SF, but we’re talking about ballparks. Unless you can elaborate further, this discussion can’t proceed.
“Architecture is an art form.”
To a degree, yes, but we’re getting away from the discussion here. You said brick was a “questionable architectural choice.” It’s an aesthetic choice made by HOK, not a structural or practical choice, that’s all. Architecture is the engineering of buildings while taking in aesthetic considerations. There are plenty of sites of the interet where you can further compare these definitions if you’d like, but it’s really outside the scope of comment thread.
@bartleby – I know A’s fans are pissed at the giants, but it seems odd to slam AT&T for small concourses and brick when, the SJ stadium will have small concourses and brick. dont you think?
Demo J
Anyone notice the increased level of advertising by both teams to South Bay baseball fans?
Go to the Mercury News website and it’s just pelted with Athletics online banner ads.
How about those VTA buses and lightrails? Just a ton of Giants orange and black painted all over.
I know we’re all frustrated at how long this process is taking. In the meantime though, it’s kinda nice both teams are giving Santa Clara County so much attention.
Stomper (A’s mascot) showed up at a San Jose Unified student walkathon a few months ago. No sign of the Giants’ mascot, which resembles a large sewer rat.
Not at all. Pointing out the Giants ballpark deficiencies does not in any way mean the A’s stadium won’t have the same problems. Nor does it mean the A’s park will be forgiven those issues either. Neither park AT&T and the designs we’ve seen for Cisco Field are the best of their post Camden Yards class of parks. Both do/will have deficiencies that lower them below several of their contemporaries. What is key though is that both are/will be a huge improvement over the parks they respectively replace.
@Martin “I know A’s fans are pissed at the giants, but it seems odd to slam AT&T for small concourses and brick when, the SJ stadium will have small concourses and brick. dont you think?”
No. I think I’ve been pretty objective about the pros and cons of AT&T Park. Great location and views: Pro. Small concourses and unoriginal architecture: Con. I’ll be similarly objective if and when Cisco Field is ever built. If it has small concourses, I’ll admit that’s a flaw.
As far as the brick, to my knowledge Cisco Field is not planned to have brick, they’re intentionally trying to get away from the Camden Yards cliche and go with something more contemporary. If they do go with red brick, I will be deeply disappointed.
Don’t know what would make you say that bart. Cisco Field will have almost as much faux brick as AT&T Park does. And alot more of it visible from inside the ballpark thanks to the huge brick wall in right field.
@all – I don’t know where people are coming up with opinions one way or the other about the Cisco Field concourses.
I really don’t like the renderings for Cisco field. Maybe it’s my biases coloring things, but it just seems incredibly uninspired. As of now, there is nothing about the park that is truly memorable or, well, beautiful. I hope the aesthetics of the park get a major face lift if SJ happens.
And I’m not seeing the point of bantering about the architecture and ambiance of an imaginary ballpark that the A’s don’t have any permission to build, and haven’t been able to get for several years.
@bartleby – I agree, i hope SJ doesn’t go with brick (in the renderings it sure looks like red brick). At least all the buildings across King street from AT&T are red brick as well. SJ wont have that benefit.
As for unoriginal architecture, we are going to have to disagree on that one. On of the great features at AT&T is the archways down the right field line allowing people to view the game for free. Where else can you stand 15ft from the right fielder for free? Another great feature is that the stadium is not “dug-down” which makes the stadium taller against its surroundings and provides better views from more seats.
ML, someone suggested that Cisco Field’s concourses would be as small as the ones at ATT Park. It’s not much to argue on I’ll grant you but the assertion was made however accurate or inaccurate it may be.
@ML – One can assume that the concourses will be similar to AT&T due to SJ being of similar footprint (ie 12-14 acres).
@ Briggs “Bartleby, it does rebut your point. You initially said the brick is jarring for the neighborhood. I simply offered a counter with explaination. Simply stating that brick is more appropriate for Baltimore again is failure to advance the discussion. The victorian homes are signatures of SF, but we’re talking about ballparks. Unless you can elaborate further, this discussion can’t proceed.”
I don’t think pointing out that some street level buildings in your neighborhood are brick really rebuts the basic point that brick is not a big part of San Francisco architecture. Good architecture blends or plays off its surroundings; in my opinion, the choice of brick for AT&T Park does not advance this objective. The fact that it has been done umpty-ump times before also does not advance the argument that this is great architecture.
Now who’s being intellectually dishonest. If your hair-splitting point is that aesthetics are only one part of architecture and not all of it, a poor aesthetic decision still represents a “questionable architectural choice.” Just as a decision that made the structure unsound would also represent a “questionable architectural choice.”
More to the point, when people talk about good architecture (especially in casual conversation as on this blog), they’re generally talking about how well a building achieves an aesthetic effect while serving its intended function. The elegance with which the building serves its function is inseparable from the overall aesthetic effect. I understand engineering is part of architecture, but no one is seriously worried that the bricks at AT&T Park are going to fall on our head. I seriously doubt that was Dan’s point when he brought this up.
The point is: Red brick for a ballpark is a cliche at this point, and does not have any special relationship or significance for San Francisco architecture as a whole that would make up for that. There were a lot of things the designers did right when they designed AT&T Park, but in my opinion this decision was not one of them. If you were to swap AT&T Park with a ballpark at a more generic location (say, Arlington, TX), I doubt the locals would consider themselves to have gotten a massive upgrade.
@Dan I’m probably being dense, but it’s really not obvious to me from that picture that there will be a lot of brick. Maybe those structures off to the right, but I’m not seeing a massive brick wall in right field.
Anyway, regardless, if Cisco Field winds up all red brick and Kelley green seats, I’ll disagree with that architectural choice as well.
@Dan/martin – Bad or no info is nothing to go on. Target Field has a very small footprint, yet its concourses are vast. My estimates of the Cisco Field are at least 40′ wide concourses, though there’s much left to learn about how they will be designed or filled.
@all – I wouldn’t assume that the images are final. Wolff intimated to me that Fisher’s taste for modern and contemporary architecture would push the design in a much bolder direction.
@martin “As for unoriginal architecture, we are going to have to disagree on that one. On of the great features at AT&T is the archways down the right field line allowing people to view the game for free. Where else can you stand 15ft from the right fielder for free? Another great feature is that the stadium is not “dug-down” which makes the stadium taller against its surroundings and provides better views from more seats.”
I agree with you about those features. However, individual design features have a smaller overall impact than basic choices in style or building materials.
Anyway, I never said it was a bad building, I said it was an average building. When you’ve got fifteen or whatever ballparks that are all going with the red brick-iron gates motif, it makes it a lot harder for any one of them to stand out from each other.
@pjk The banter wasn’t really focused on the architectural merits of an imaginary ballpark, it was about the merits of the existing ballpark at China Basin.
Personally R.M., it’ll be nice when we can actually talk about the design of Cisco Field AND compare it with other MLB ballparks. Sure will beat discussing “insider” nonsense and what’s/what’s not on the MLB oven.
Bart, you can see a couple different design angles here
http://baseballsanjose.blogspot.com/2010/08/we-proudly-introduce-cisco-field.html
Brick is in the initial design on the RF wall, LF corner, on the home plate side outside facade, and the building in LF/CF behind the LF grandstand.
Do the choices really have to limited to red brick on the one hand and “modern and contemporary” on the other? This was Washington’s dilemma when Nationals Park was built — they did not want to copy the red brick of nearby Camden Yards in Baltimore. Instead they went with an ultra-modern glass/steel design that was supposedly reminiscent of one I.M. Pei’s National Gallery of Art building in DC.
Result: Nationals Park is a nice place, like all the modern ballparks. But modernist architecture almost by definition fails to stand the test of time. It will never be a city icon the way Camden Yards is to Baltimore. It’s just another boring Turner Field kind of place with modern amenities inside. A HUGE upgrade over decrepit RFK Stadium, but the choice of architectural style was bungled. Could have used classical motiffs that echoed DC’s great monuments and public buildings.
IMHO, San Jose’s ballpark should include elements of the Spanish colonial/Mission style that reflects the region’s history, distinguishes it from the SF ballpark, and avoids the glass/steel/modernist trap that wins architectural critic raves but also guarantees that the building will be widely perceived 20 years from now as ordinary at best, hideous eyesore at worst.
@Simon,
I’d like to see Cisco Field pay homage to SJ/SCCO’s cannery history; in the mold of Monterey’s Cannery Row would be nice as well.
@Bartleby: I really dig ballpark talk. I’ve elaborated my point with each response; moving from how it fits into the neighborhood, then what brick evokes and how it’s a common material in SF. You haven’t elaborated since initial opinion that brick isn’t an appropriate material for AT&T Park despite the length of your responses. I’d love to talk about ballpark/neighborhood aesthetics with you, but unless you provide alternative materials/design, you’re arguing about arguing.
simon, bingo. We should be taking a page out of what they did in a place like San Diego. A retro modern park that incorporated aspects of what THAT city is about with things that made Camden Yards great. The sandstone facade that mirrors the nearby cliffs on Pt. Loma and up toward Del Mar and La Jolla (far more appropriate to a California Park than brick), white steel that looks a lot like many of the surrounding buildings including the convention center and parts of the nearby military bases, and the blue seats that reflect the color of the neighboring bay, the team’s uniforms, and the navy’s dress uniforms. And it has a VERY open design taking advantage of the great weather in SD and views of that city.
Cisco Field’s goal should be to do something similar and unique. Spanish colonial like the Mission in Santa Clara would be a great way to go. A stucco and red tile steel colored ballpark would be striking and VERY unique. Green seats (possibly some gold) would be a must with the A’s color scheme. And a nice signature feature would be something like a bell tower behind the plate or even better out in center field ala a mission. Add into that some glass and tech savvy highlights and Cisco Field could be a unique and wonderful addition to MLB rather than just some Camden clone like AT&T Park or modernist mistake like in DC.
@Briggs I agree we seem to be talking past each other, but am not really sure how to advance the debate from here. Perhaps it’s exhausted itself. My points about red brick for ballparks remain that it is: (a) trite at this point; and (b) not tied into SF enough to make up for the fact that it’s trite at this point. None of the points that you’ve made really refutes these points.
As far as proposing an alternative, my main alternative would be “anything but red brick.” But I see Tony, Simon and Dan have all made some good suggestions.
OK, here’s an example of innovative stadium design. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/sports/olympics/05nest.html?pagewanted=all
jeff-athletic
FWIW – my favorite of all the new ballparks is Petco Park. It’s a great design, in a great location, looks very comfortable with fabulous site lines, big concourses, and a great field.
AT&T’s best attributes are McCovey cove, and, in particular, the view of the bay bridge and Oakland, just to remind the gnats fans who the superior baseball team (at least historically) really is 😉
I suppose this is as good a time as any to say this – I’ll be in San Diego for three weeks starting at the end of the month for my brother’s wedding and a long housesit. I plan to go to Petco at least twice, plus trips to the Big A and Dodger Stadium if I can work out the details for those.
For Cisco @ Diridon, a spanish mission-themed facade would be interesting. It’d be tricky though. Once you put neon lights on it, it might look like a giant Taco Bell.
@Briggs I’ll still take a giant Taco Bell over more red brick 🙂
ML, definitely take advantage of the new Hodad’s stands on the Toyota Terrace (2nd Deck) behind home plate. Their burgers are outstanding and on top of that they’re cheap ($4.75 for their “mini” burger which dwarfs a Quarter Pounder). The Padres invited Hodad’s in (they’re a local 2 shop chain) after the now CEO Tom Garfinkel asked fans via Twitter what local vendor they’d like added to the park this season. Hodad’s was the overwhelming response.
@Dan – Hodad’s in the park? That’s it, Petco’s my new fave. Target Field doesn’t have anything like that.
Yeah Gaslampball did a behind the scenes preview of it last week. It looks amazing. They’ll have at least 2 locations in the park in the restaurant tower and on the 2nd deck. Add one of the microbrews from the slew of beer stands they have around PETCO and it’s a recipe for a wonderful afternoon.
I might be in the minority here, but I’m not really digging the retro thing, especially trying to copy other stadium elements. I think Cisco field should be more avant garde to flaunt the Valley’s rich tech industry and do something in the fashion of the new SJC Airport’s design language: modern and sleek (without the stange hands “mural” of course). Regardless, if they build it…I’m sure people will come! 🙂
Problem with “modern” is it quickly becomes obsolete (as everything in the tech industry does) as everything moves to “post modern” and then “neo modern”. Soon that will be obsolete. As for the SJ Airport. I wouldn’t take any design queues from that boondoggle. Talk about a waste of money and time. Best not to be associated with it in the slightest.
Mind I’m not saying it should be retro east coast style like Coors Field, Pac Bell, Camden Yards, Ballpark in Arlington, SAFECO Field, etc… that’s been played out to the extreme and doesn’t reflect the Bay Area at all. The Spanish colonial idea or the Cannery ideas are far better suggestions that would be timeless.
“Problem with “modern” is it quickly becomes obsolete (as everything in the tech industry does) as everything moves to “post modern” and then “neo modern”. Soon that will be obsolete.”
This is a risk, but it’s not universally true. Some “modern” styles turn out to be tomorrow’s classics.
On the other hand, if you go with a style that’s already classic, you’re safe. It’s the same reason you’re safer buying the jersey of a Kenny Stabler or a Jim Plunkett than your team’s hot new #1 draft pick QB who has not achieved anything yet besides a Sugar Bowl win.
“As for the SJ Airport. I wouldn’t take any design queues from that boondoggle. Talk about a waste of money and time. Best not to be associated with it in the slightest.”
Whether or not it’s justified on a cost-benefit basis, I think it’s a beautiful building. My biggest crit is the giant garage blocking the view of it. Time will tell whether it ultimately is considered a classic or becomes obsolete.
Agree Bartleby- SJ Airport is beautiful- and for someone who flys 100k+ a year it’s also pretty good from a functional perspective- agree on the parking garage and my only other gripe- as much as I like the location for convenience I don’t like that it limits heights in the downtown core
SJC’s location sucks (see no skyscrapers in downtown SJ). Moffett Field would (or will) make a better location for a future SJ airport. Hangar One would also become the most iconic airport terminal in the entire US (maybe even world). Sorry for going way OT R.M.; I’ll stop.
Tony, you’re 20 years, a dismantled contaminated hangar and 2 billion dollars too late.
OT: Hate the Giants and their brass, but there’s a good article over at SFGate that talks about the Giants planned “Mission Rock” development and the positive effects it will have on the teams bottom-line and SF’s as well. Parking lot’s that are currently earning SF $2 million per year could generate over $900 million in property taxes if fully developed? For SF sounds like a no brainer. And to those who have doubt that Cisco Field won’t do the same for San Jose, read the SFGate article.
By the way, thanks R.M. for ignoring the recent Bull Shit from Neil DeMause (Slate Mag article) and Ballpark Digest. The nonsense continues unabated…a decision would finally silence the idiocy. Hopefully soon.
A’s-to-San Jose is like a bill before the House of Representatives that gets bottled up in committee. Not formally approved, not formally disapproved, just not acted upon, which is tantamount to being disapproved. Selig and a few owners don’t have the courage to move on San Jose. We’ve had several years of inaction that makes this clear.
It will be ironic if any settlement on TR is ultimately a key piece of building a downtown arena for the W’s in SF. Sine the gints are partners they will need to bring some cash to the table to get that arena deal done-
What bullshit is that from BPD and Neil?
deMause is just spitballing about the A’s moving to NY and upsetting the Yankees’ hegemony. He’s advocated a third NY team for some time.
As R.M. alluded two, bringing in a third-team to the NY market…THE A’S! Both DeMouse (spelling intentional) and BPD rant the same ole nonsense: the “sanctity” of the territorial rights and the “terrible precedence” allowing the A’s to SJ will cause. It’s always a “one size fits all” take on the current state of affairs that completely ignores the realities/uniqueness of the Bay Area market. NO..this isn’t some third team relocating 1,000+ miles to “invade” the territories of the Yankees/Mets; this is an A’s team that’s existed in the same market as the Giants since 1968 and that wants to move 35 miles FURTHER south of the Giants. Can’t personally wait to tell DeMouse that he was wrong all along.
@GoA’s,
Interesting point: with the Giants recently inking Cain to $100 million + and moving forward with the Mission Rock development (possible arena), I can see a correlation to a settlement with the A’s re SCC/SJ.
Whatever settlement the Giants could get would pale in comparison to the value of the franchise going up if the A’s are forced from the Bay Area. Looks like this stalemate continues for years to come. The Giants have made it clear they won’t settle and Selig is too terrified to dictate a settlement. All this is obvious…
For crying out loud, will you @#$% stop already!
@pjk- Selig wants new ballparks for both the A’s and Rays- denying SJ won’t solve this problem- patience….
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London, UK (Thursday, November 24, 2016, Gaudiumm Press) The Houses of Parliament, churches, cathedrals, synagogues and universities were lit up in red yesterday to highlight the plight of persecuted religious minorities abroad.
The event – Red Wednesday – was organised by Aid to the Church in Need. Westminster Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, London Routemaster buses and Bolton town hall were also lit up in red to commemorate the persecuted.
On his Twitter account, yesterday, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby said: “In Communion this morning, we prayed for all victims of religious violence around the world – and for governments too. Peace between faiths means a shared commitment to love, truth and human dignity. May Christ give us grace to set an example. On #RedWednesday we must call on politicians to never use faith to motivate violence.”
He later posted a picture of Lambeth Palace floodlit in red, with the caption: “Lambeth Palace lit up for #RedWednesday tonight in solidarity with all those persecuted for their faith.”
At 6pm yesterday evening, Westminster Cathedral hosted a prayer service with Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church, based in Damascus, Syria, Shaykh Dr. Umar Al-Qadri Ameer of the Al-Mustafa Islamic Educational and Cultural Centre, Dublin, and Dr. Sarah Bernstein, director-general of the Jerusalem Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations, Israel.
Bishop Angaelos, Britain’s Coptic Orthodox leader, released a video message of solidarity with persecuted Christians. Speaking outside the Coptic Cathedral of Saint George he said: “Today this Red Wednesday we stand in solidarity with all those who suffer. Christians of the Middle East, people of other religions all around the world, people of no religion who are compelled in whatever way. Today we stand in solidarity and say to you we stand by your side, we understand the burdens you carry, we will do more than just speak. We pray for you, we speak for you, we continue to raise awareness of your plight.”
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Robinhood Brings Free Transactions To Coinbase’s $1B Party
Morning Report: The big news in crypto isn’t a $400 million loss (yawn), but the hotting battle between exchanges for the biggest slice of the consumer pie.
Coinbase’s meteoric 2017 brought with it a host of eye-popping numbers, including 13.3 million accounts by November and, according to Recode, revenue that “crossed $1 billion” during the year.
In short, at least one company is extracting material normal (top line) income from the bitcoin boom. However, not all things are clear on the horizon for Coinbase. Its success, including rising to the top of mobile app stores last year as the price of many tokens shot north, is attracting increased competition.
Robinhood, famous for bringing commission-free trading to equities, is moving into the crypto space in Q1. Here’s TechCrunch:
No-commission stock trading app Robinhood will let you buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum without any added transaction fees starting in February, compared to Coinbase’s 1.5 to 4 percent fees in the US. And as of today Robinhood will let all users track the price, news, and set up alerts on those and 14 other top crypto coins, including Litecoin and Ripple.
TechCrunch goes on to quote a Robinhood executive saying that it intends to run its crypto business as a “break-even” affair. Call it the Amazon approach the trading: your margin is their opportunity.
So, domestically, Coinbase is going to have fresh competition in 2018. And it doesn’t stop there, really.
Also out this week is Coinsquare, a Canadian shop that, according to Strategic Coin, “has announced that it plans to raise $150 million CAD ($120 million) through an initial public offering (IPO) in a bid to expand into larger markets and challenge industry heavyweights like Coinbase.”
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GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Sept. 13, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Independent Bank Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBTX), the holding company for Independent Bank, today celebrated its newest Colorado location, serving the vibrant Denver Tech Center (DTC) and surrounding communities.
The DTC’s many innovative businesses that compliment Denver’s growing technology community are now within easy reach of Independent Bank’s relationship-driven, commercial banking products. Through its experienced bankers, the organization serves the needs of businesses and entrepreneurs; while its consumer products and services make banking easy for busy families and individuals.
“The I-25 corridor continues to attract new development and robust opportunities,” said Independent Bank Regional President, Christian Lewis. “We are excited to introduce our unique brand of banking to local community leaders, and explore projects that are not only rewarding, but improve our neighborhoods and quality of life.”
Customers, community organizations and employees were on hand for an open house, followed by a reception where Mr. Lewis announced a $5,000 donation to Barb Hanson, Development Director of Doctors Care. Located in Littleton, Colorado, Doctors Care is a private nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to improving health access for low-income individuals.
Mr. Lewis added, “Independent Bank believes in building healthy communities, so what better organization to support than Doctors Care? We’re proud to join a program designed to address socioeconomic barriers to health and well-being for Denver-area residents.”
Independent Bank’s performance continues to earn recognition nationally, recently receiving the Raymond James and Associates’ Community Bankers Cup for the sixth consecutive year, and ranked #20 among Best Banks in America by Forbes Magazine.
Independent Bank’s footprint includes 74 banking locations that extend from the Gulf Coast of Texas to the Rocky Mountains.
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Independent Bank Group, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Independent Bank, provides a wide range of relationship-driven commercial banking products and services tailored to meet the needs of businesses, professionals and individuals. Independent Bank Group operates banking offices in four market regions located in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin and Houston, Texas and the Colorado Front Range areas.
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Suspected Russian hackers spied on US Treasury emails - reports
Security officials are concerned that a tool used to bypass Microsoft's Office 365 protections could facilitate more attacks.
Monday 14 December 2020 06:18, UK
Image: The US Treasury and a Commerce Department agency have been hacked, according to reports
State-sponsored hackers - suspected to be working for Russia - have been monitoring emails at the US Treasury Department and another American federal agency for months, according to the Reuters news agency.
The US intelligence community is reportedly concerned that the hackers who targeted the Treasury and an agency of the Commerce Department may have been spying on other agencies too.
"This is a much bigger story than one single agency," one person familiar with the matter told Reuters. "This is a huge cyber espionage campaign targeting the US government and its interests."
Image: Officials are said to believe the SVR, which has its headquarters in Moscow, was behind the attacks
The incident led to a National Security Council meeting at the White House on Saturday, Reuters added.
"The United States government is aware of these reports and we are taking all necessary steps to identify and remedy any possible issues related to this situation," said National Security Council spokesman John Ullyot.
People familiar with the matter cited by The Washington Post claimed that it is believed the hackers were working for Russia's foreign intelligence service, the SVR.
It comes less than a week after cybersecurity firm FireEye - whose customers include federal, state and local governments and top global corporations - disclosed that foreign government hackers had broken into its network and stolen the company's own hacking tools.
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The Post had previously linked the SVR to the successful attack on cyber security firm FireEye.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has confirmed the latest breach, stating: "We have been working closely with our agency partners regarding recently discovered activity on government networks.
"CISA is providing technical assistance to affected entities as they work to identify and mitigate any potential compromises," it added.
Sources said that staff emails at the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), were being monitored for months after the hackers broke into Microsoft's Office 365.
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Press Release: Claritas Unveils New Conversion Tracker that Allows Marketers to Measure Campaign Results – With Wrapify
July 19, 2019 | Posted by Jenny Gensch
Powerful turnkey analytics tool uses control group methodology to isolate and measure conversion rates produced by specific marketing channels, messages or partners
CINCINNATI, Ohio, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —
Claritas, LLC®, a marketing leader that helps companies find and win their best customers, today unveiled a new Conversion Tracker analytics solution that allows marketers to accurately isolate and measure the effectiveness of each channel, message or partner in their campaigns – even when an offline campaign results in online buying or vice versa.
Using this solution, marketers can now measure each specific portion of their marketing campaigns with never-before-available precision, allowing them to optimize their campaigns as they run to maximize their return on investment (ROI).
So, for example, say a company wants to determine whether its television spots were effective in actually getting people to buy. Claritas’ proprietary Conversion Tracker uses control group methodology to isolate and measure the television campaign’s specific conversion rate.
In this case, Claritas first places pixels on a client’s website to measure how many people are converting before the campaign even runs. Next, it creates two identical groups:
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• A control group, which is made up of people who look exactly like the exposed group but haven’t seen the campaign.
Finally, Claritas compares the conversion rate of the exposed group to the conversion rate of the control group as the campaign runs. The difference between the conversion rate of the exposed group versus the control group is called the lift rate, and it measures the true conversion rate of the campaign.
The most critical part in this process is developing the right control group, which must precisely match the exposed group for the conversion measurement to be valid. That’s where Claritas offers a key advantage to its clients, because it creates these control groups using its Identity Graph – which encompasses a proprietary data set of 95 million households and more than 400 million devices.
The Claritas Identity Graph incorporates customer identifiers such as email addresses and mobile IDs as well as Claritas’ PRIZM Premier segmentation data to create the most comprehensive and detailed demographic, consumer behavior and geography data set on the market today. Available data ranges from what car a consumer drives and their social media preferences to their income range and the specific devices they use to buy. This comprehensive data set allows Claritas to quickly create and adjust a campaign’s control group so that it precisely matches the exposed group.
One of Claritas’ first Conversion Tracker customers was Wrapify, which began offering mobile OOH advertising services to brands back in 2016. Wrapify’s concept was revolutionary in that it allowed companies to easily promote their products and services on hundreds or even thousands of vehicles “wrapped” with a specific advertising message.
When Wrapify launched the service, it soon found that brands were not satisfied with traditional outdoor advertising metrics such as number of impressions. Instead, Wrapify clients wanted data that showed them exactly how effective the wrapped ads were in producing actual conversions.
“Our clients don’t care how many people see their message,” says James Heller, CEO of Wrapify. “They want to know if those advertisements are producing actual sales on a website, in a retail store or via an app.”
Claritas helped Wrapify integrate a solution that would show companies exactly how effective their on-vehicle ads were in producing conversions. For example, Alaska Airlines – which turned to Wrapify to advertise its flights to Hawaii from the San Francisco area – saw its online booking rates for those specific flights jump nearly 20%. And thanks to the Claritas conversion rate analysis, Alaska Airlines was able to link that conversion rate directly to the Wrapify campaign.
Claritas has already used this methodology to isolate and measure specific campaign channels for clients in a variety of vertical industries, including financial, automotive, telecommunications and retail. For instance, Claritas combined geofencing technology with its Conversion Tracker to measure exactly how many consumers visited a group of automotive dealers after an email campaign – and found that the average ROI per dollar spent was $33.82.
And when a financial industry client launched a campaign to market a co-branded credit card, it turned to Claritas to measure both online and offline conversions – and used that data to decrease its acquisition costs by 94%.
Claritas is now rolling out its Conversion Tracker as a turnkey analytics solution that allows any Claritas client to easily measure the effectiveness of any part of their marketing campaign. The solution uses a proprietary methodology that collects and analyses the data needed to conduct the analysis in just days, allowing Claritas to provide campaign lift results very quickly so companies can adjust their campaigns to maximize their ROI.
“Our Conversion Tracker is a game-changer for marketers because it allows them to measure their offline and online marketing campaigns with more precision than ever before. They can now easily isolate and measure specific portions of their campaigns by partner, channel or message – or using any parameter they choose,” said Claritas CEO Mike Nazzaro. “It’s one more tool in our unique Claritas toolbox, which helps marketers succeed in every step of the customer buying process – from customer identification through campaign delivery and optimization. With this newest analytics tool, Claritas continues to transform how companies measure and maximize their marketing ROI.”
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Founded in 1971, Claritas has assembled one of the industry’s most robust identity graphs encompassing a proprietary data set of 95 million U.S. households and reaching more than 400 million devices. The Claritas Identity Graph is just one of Claritas’ leading-edge data and technology tools that allow our clients to identify their best customers, deliver campaigns to those customers when and where they want to be engaged andoptimize those engagements through marketing performance measurement. With powerful data, trusted partnerships, and an expert analytics team, Claritas provides the why behind the buy that is the key to selling smarter and maximizing marketing ROI.
Claritas is a company focused on growth and has recently transformed its capabilities through acquisitions that turbo-charge our core strengths, including the purchases of Miami-based Geoscape, New York-based Barometric and Foster City, Calif.-based AcquireWeb. More information can be found by visiting www.claritas.com.
Marketers have plenty of ways to assess the value of their marketing campaigns, and multi-touch attribution, or MTA, has traditionally been considered one of the most effective. Making MTA work best requires an identity graph running under the hood, but once you have an effective identity graph, you’ve opened the door to properly measuring the success of your omnichannel marketing. It’s a lot to keep straight, but Host Monique Ruiz takes you through it all with the help of James Heller, CEO of Wrapify, and Claritas identity graph expert Jeff Bickel.
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Canada plans to welcome 1,000,000 new immigrants over the next 3 years. The proposed immigration plan will bring in 340000 permanent residents in 2020, 41,000 in 2020 to 351,000 in 2021 and 361,000 in 2022. The Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, the Honourable Marco Mendicino, tabled the 2020‒2022 Immigration Levels Plan in the House of Commons last month.
The proposed plan is based on the solid economic foundation of the previous levels plan and continues to sensibly grow the number of permanent residents admitted to Canada each year. By welcoming more newcomers to Canada, the new immigration plan will also address and help to tackle the challenges of an aging population in the Canadian workforce and allow Canada to compete and win in a competitive global marketplace.
The immigration plan will benefit all Canadians because immigration drives economic growth, and will help employers access the talent they need to succeed.
With this plan, to Canada will welcome 1 million new immigrants the Government will implement several key commitments:
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• take the steps to make the Atlantic Immigration Pilot a permanent program to continue supporting economic growth in Atlantic Canada, with 5,000 admissions.
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“Our immigration system benefits all Canadians by strengthening the middle class, keeping families together and building strong and inclusive communities. This increase in immigration levels supports a system that will help Canadian businesses create good middle-class jobs and grow the economy while ensuring Canada continues to meet its humanitarian obligations around the world.” Mendicino said.
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CONSCIOUSNESS the inside story
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493. Consciousness Matters
The brain is a facilitator. It enables perception, meaning, judgment, and action as an ongoing flow of engagement. Its genius is in guiding selection of what we pay attention to, evaluate in comparison to other options (that is, judge), and subsequently act upon.
When a routine is effective, the brain makes it easy for us to do more of the same. We come to think in terms of routines in our repertory so we don’t have to keep reinventing the wheel. The essence of consciousness is in turning new problems into effective routines we can count on when one such problem comes up again.
Speech is a tremendous saver of brain space, whenever possible substituting fine muscle movements of jaw, tongue, and lips in place of gross movements of trunk and limbs. Language is a code for reducing the brain space we need to get by with, using a limited set of words over and over again in new contexts, always with new shades of meaning.
Which is what Peter Mark Roget did in producing his Thesaurus. And Plato did in pondering the parallels between the stars in their heaven and the activities of people on Earth below. He was working on that question for the rest of us, and did his best to come up with a workable understanding.
The Timaeus is a record of the trouble Plato went to on our behalf. As every World Series game is a record of the skill and effort players on each team expend on behalf of their fans in particular, and all fans of stellar performances beyond them. The same is true for Olympic athletes. And outstanding thinkers and doers of all kinds.
Individual minds matter. Consciousness matters. Brains matter. Engagements matter. Families matter. Communities, cultures, and nature matter. All as aspects of a planet that matters in a solar system that matters in a galaxy that matters in a cosmos that matters. Not to fulfill a set of universal laws, but to make an effective response to conditions and situations that come up and need to be dealt with.
None of these levels of interaction and engagement are governed by rules or laws. Each is determined by the energy available and forces bearing on fraught situations of every size and nature throughout the whole system.
We are all parts of that system: particles, nuclei, atoms, molecules, bases, chromosomes, amino acids, proteins, cell walls, plasma, organelles, organs, organ systems, organisms, species, genera, families, orders, classes, phyla, kingdoms, life, planets, solar systems, galaxies, universes, and whatever lies beyond.
We can do nothing but respond to the situations and conditions that put pressure upon us in every ways from every direction with whatever energy is available. We strive to do the best we can under those conditions in those situations.
And what we do best is engage the world around us on as many levels as we can manage because that is what we have evolved to do because we don’t have a choice. Either we make it or we don’t. The system will go on without us.
We are the leading edge of a spreading and evolving wave of energy that spurs us to be who we are in our own time and do what we find it best to do. That is our job; our only job. To be good citizens of the precinct of the universe we find ourselves in at the time—on the playing field, in the library, out at night ogling the stars in their sky.
So, yes, minds, brains, bodies, engagements—all matter, whether we understand them or not. The particular piece of the puzzle I have claimed for myself is nothing less than the challenge of understanding my own mind as well as I can.
This blog is the best I can do. It is my performance in the last play of the last game of the World Series for mindfarers. There will be Series after this one, with fresher farers as players.
Having come this far, I can’t add anything to this discussion with myself that I haven’t said several times over. I will move on to whatever conclusions I can take from my journey this far.
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486. Consciousness Doled Out in Bullets
I have covered a lot of ground in getting this far with my blog telling the inside story of consciousness. I here offer an opportunity to see that journey not as a sequence of hesitant steps, but as an adventure entire in itself. Here are a few bulleted reminders of the stages I have passed through.
Consciousness is a collaborative effort between mind, body, and world. It intercedes between perception and action, and can be bypassed by reflex thinking, rote learning, mimicry, habits, routines, prejudice, and ideology.
Solving the world puzzle from the perspective provided by our minds is a matter of conjecture based on personal experience, not knowledge, not truth.
Perception provides not a glimpse of the world so much as a heightened impression of the world from a particular wayfarer’s point of view.
Like Plato, we all share in the common failing of mistaking our personal solution to the world puzzle for the way the world really is. Our beliefs are custom-made for true believers (that is, ourselves, who couldn’t be more earnest).
The more ardently we hold our beliefs, the more likely we are to be wrong.
Expectancy and recognition reveal the participation of memory in perception.
No matter how finely we resolve the tissues of the brain, consciousness will elude us because it is an ongoing process of engagement between our minds, actions, and the world.
Attention is the gateway to consciousness. It is aroused by a delta signal stemming from a sense of discrepancy between what we expect or hope for and what actually happens.
From the outset, all awareness is polarized as being either good or bad, desirable or undesirable, satisfying or dissatisfying, right or wrong, true or false.
It takes persistence and concentration to explore the forbidden middle ground between the two poles of awareness.
The engagements that link us to our worlds couple perception to meaningful judgment to fitting action on one or more levels of nature, culture, community, and family, which in turn affects our attention and stimulates sensory perception.
Our engagements are told by the situations they create in our minds as made up of various dimensions of intelligence such as memory, sensory impressions, understanding, feelings, motivations, biological values, humor, imagination, temperament, interest, thought, and available energy (what I refer to as the life force).
Language in the form of speech, writing, thought, and comprehension flows from the situations we find ourselves in when we experience the urge to speak or to listen.
As a writer, I have long wondered where words come from. I now feel that our situated intelligence shapes our current situation from the dimensions of personal awareness (or intelligence) aroused in a given moment of experience. In being conscious, it is just those situations that we become conscious of, and subsequently respond to.
All life engages its surroundings in an ongoing exchange of matter and energy. It is the job of our minds to monitor how that exchange is going, and to feed-forward to judgment a selection of options for how we might respond. For good or ill—and engagements can strike us either way—we must engage in order to find our place in the world.
We are linked and anchored to our worlds by a spectrum of ongoing (often simultaneous) engagements. It is essential for us to keep up with what is happening around us. Hence we live in a world of media all striving to influence and inform us from their respective points of view.
Time is a calibrated sense of change that is not of our doing; space is a calibrated sense of change resulting from our own actions. Spacetime is a calibrated sense of change resulting from our simultaneously doing and perceiving at once.
Ownership and possessiveness are attitudes toward persons and objects with which we meaningfully engage in being fully ourselves. Money is a tool we use to engage on cultural terms. The law is our culture’s effort to regulate the conduct of our engagements so that each of us enjoys equal freedom and opportunity in pursuit of our personal goals.
Freedom is an opportunity to engage the world with full respect for the integrity of each of its inhabitants, whether plant, animal, or human.
Baseball, Roget’s Thesaurus, and the stars provide examples of aspects of the world puzzle we are apt to engage with in our search for personal happiness. There is no limit to the importance we project onto such personal engagements as primary shapers of our lives.
I view my personal consciousness as culminating in the image of a wayfarer finding his way among others who are making their own ways for themselves. Our respective journeys are so varied and personal, I identify with each wayfarer in taking on the challenge of finding a way forward from wherever she or he is at any given stage of life.
The task each one of us faces is solving the world puzzle in a meaningful way for ourselves, while respecting other solutions for other wayfarers on journeys of their own.
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395. The Purpose of Life Is in the Doing of It
So, to continue my journey in this brand-new year along the loops of engagement cycling through my mind: after perception and judgment by my situated self comes the realm of planning and action, leading to my playing my role as wayfarer making my way through the serial adventures of my life.
Once all options have been compared and judgments cast, the issue then is to make and effect a plan of action. Goals are set, decisions made how to proceed, projects designed and implemented, teams and relationships formed, tools selected, skills developed and practiced—all leading to decisive moments when I act in keeping with the judgment cast so many milliseconds, hours, days, or years ago.
By the black box image, where perception treats the energy input to my mind from my surroundings, my deeds and actions direct my life’s energy output into those same surroundings as shaped in spacetime by my mind.
The transformation of that flow of sensory energy by my experience and intelligence is situated in a set of active dimensions assembled on that particular occasion in my mind. Those dimensions might include a varied mix of memories, values, emotions, impressions, meanings, motivations, understandings, imaginings, thoughts, beliefs, and so on, all as aroused on that psychic occasion within the confines of my personal black box.
As reshaped by my situated intelligence, that transformed flow of energy is directed across the gap or discrepancy between incoming perception as realized and outgoing action as intended to meet and respond to that flow in an appropriate manner.
As the link between perception and action, my conscious mind is the seat of that discrepancy, and of the judgment intended to adjust or correct it.
Our actions and doings are the most familiar stage of our loops of engagement because they are the culmination of our native intelligence doing its thing to find meaning in, and give direction to, the stream of consciousness that makes up what we can know of the parade of events in our surroundings.
Those actions and doings are the means of our wayfaring. Whether for pay or not, they are how we make our living, such as it is, as an expression of our response to the flow of energy passing through our minds.
Whether we receive pay or not tells whether we are acting primarily for ourselves or for our employers, furthering our own journeys or helping them along on theirs—or doing both at the same time. The art of living is to find a balance between the two that is mutually agreeable to both.
Other people have no direct way of reading our minds and intentions. They have only our deeds to go by in engaging us from a distance and forming a response. To an experienced observer, however, our mental processes may be partially told by what we do.
What we “do” includes speech acts, facial expressions, gestures, bodily postures, dress, grooming, poise, vocal rhythm, presence, style, and all the other signs we give off when we act. Which are the same signs we interpret when forming impressions of those we engage.
Our actions flow in several channels at once, many being largely unconscious, yet all originate in our mental processes nonetheless. In that sense, all human activity is to some degree expressive of the inner states within our personal black boxes, whether we send such messages deliberately or not.
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Reflection 315: Wild, Wild Words
Copyright 2012 by Steve Perrin.
If, as I claim, wildness is subjective (phenomenological), so, too, are happiness and its pursuit. Feelings and values are not in the world but in our minds. In fact, the world, insofar as we can be aware of it, is in us, along with everything else we can experience. We are not born to a world so much as born to ourselves.
What the world does supply is patterns of ambient energy, many of which we come to recognize as familiar, and to which we give names. And not only names (to single them out), but meanings in relation to our memories of personal experience, so we come to understand (stand under or support) those familiar patterns in personal ways. We lay meanings on the patterns we associate them with, making it seem as though that significance came with the patterns (as information), but actually the patterns elicit it from our memory of earlier patterns we have experienced and named in particular situations. Which is why someone speaking to me in Russian, say, or Arabic may believe she is telling me something, while I (a speaker solely of English) hear only the sounds she makes (the patterns of energy issuing from her lips) without the meanings she associates with those sounds.
Learning a language means learning to associate personal meanings with particular sound combinations directed by members of our culture at us on specifiable occasions, which we translate or construe as personally meaningful situations. It is how we understand those situations that is mapped onto the recognizable sounds that we hear, so that the situation conveys the meaning we come to link to the speech sounds we hear on that occasion.
Speech, that is, is made up from both a public and a private component, one a patterned flow of energy as speech sounds, and the other a sense of the currents of mental activity within us that accompanies our hearing of those sounds. Putting the public and private components together, we “hear” meaningful speech.
How wild is that? Unruly or whimsical enough that each person present when a certain utterance is made may take it differently (that is, personally) although each assumes they all speak the same language.
Only by smoothing the differences between our individual streams of experience through rote repetition and iron discipline do we ever approach speaking and understanding somewhat similar languages. It is far easier to assume we all speak the same language than to accept the idiosyncratic nature of the language-learning process. Which is why there is so much misunderstanding between us, because we don’t hear what is said to us in the same way it is spoken, much less speak truly for our inner selves.
Nothing is wilder than the nonsense we spout when we don’t monitor our own efforts at speech. We often seem to say one thing but mean something quite different, particularly when we try to please our audience by saying what we think they want to hear. Hard as it is, sticking to the facts of personal experience is best, along with listening carefully to what others say in response.
The problem is that so-called facts are a blend of public sounds and personal meanings, so are seldom as clear as we want them to be. One approach is to say what we said again in different words, then to be open to whatever response comes back, and to keep trying in the spirit of true dialogue between equals.
Wild words often miss their mark if the passions behind them, the fears and desires, are suppressed or lead to unintended consequences. If we were the rational beings we claim to be, we’d speak the true every time, but we aren’t and we don’t. Rationality is a myth, or at best an ideal we aspire to but seldom attain.
Instead of blaming others for the troubles of the world, we do better to get clear in our minds what we want to accomplish, then remake the world one person at a time, one engagement at a time. When words are involved, we have to remember that words don’t contain meanings so much as suggest them to other minds having unique habits of speech. It takes time and effort to reconcile differences in personal outlook and understanding in even the simplest situation. “Hi, how are you?” opens onto a spectrum of possible responses. The color of the reply is not ours to predict.
Interpersonal engagements are not set pieces so much as voyages of exploration and discovery. We send our words into the world to see where they take us. Life has but one destination; the route we take in arriving there makes all the difference.
It is good to remember how wild words can be, especially in tense situations. On that note I’ll sign off for now. Y’r brother, —Steve from Planet Earth
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Reflection 298: In This Life Together
Speech is an efficient form of action taken in response to a felt situation. The situation—in part or whole—is the message intended by a particular utterance. When an engagement is unintentionally terminated or interrupted, for instance, the resulting frustration may well erupt in a spurt of breath bearing an emphatically voiced consonant sound, such as an oath. Or when the prospect of a pleasing engagement appears, it may elicit an open vowel sound such as “ooh” or “aah.” Displeasure, shock, or fright may be expressed by air emitted through tensed jaw and vocal cords.
Situations are the intimate worlds in which we live and of which we speak (or draw, sing, dance, or make films). They are the center of our mental activity because they form the pivot between sensory impressions on one side and intentional actions on the other. Even if we do not act or perceive, we are situated in our sense of self, which I associate with dreams and memory, and imaginatively locate in my brain’s limbic system (including the amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus, and cingulate cortex) where incoming and outgoing nerve signals meet in states of arousal.
When aroused, we tend to make sounds—clapping, groaning, sighing, singing, swearing, greeting—spontaneously broadcasting our felt situations to those within earshot. I have listened to the gurgling barks of harbor seal pups, shrieks of bald eagles back and forth, howls of coyotes, wavering calls of loons, warning cries and treetop arias of countless birds, and imitative burbles of babies in the crib. In each case, the sound is situated in the experience of an aroused living being.
The exchange of excited honks between two groups of Canada geese—those on their feeding waters and those flying in—are a case in point. No sound moves me more than the glad greetings shouted between those two groups. The most wondrous exchange I ever heard was a duet between a loon on the bay at midnight and an answering coyote on land, both equally passionate and melodious to my ears while lying in bed, transfixed for the three or four minutes it lasted, which I took to be no coincidence but a mutual exchange of auditory appreciation between species.
We are in this life together, and make sounds in observance of that fact when our situations overlap.
During my two-and-a-half-year stay on Burying Island (1986-1988), I often muttered words out loud, or caught myself on the verge of “talking to myself,” but I wasn’t really talking, more accurately acknowledging a state of arousal while gripped by one situation or another. Which, I think, is why painters paint, singers sing, dancers dance—to celebrate the situations they get themselves into, and recreate in performance again and again.
When people get together, what do we talk about but the situations uppermost in our minds? Baby passed another milestone, dear one got a job, doggie dug up neighbor’s garden, puss left half a sparrow on the pillow again, the car needs a new muffler, the house a new roof. Sentence-by-sentence, we describe in increasing detail the situations we are coming from because that’s where we live out our days. Which is equally true of conversations at the kitchen table, PTA meetings, or the general assembly of the local branch of the occupy movement.
Speech is an economical form of action by which we can try out our ideas before we irreversibly commit a particular deed. Once the deed is done, it has our name on it and we either have to own it and do our best to live with it, or try to find a way to undo what we have done. With speech, we can apologize for any hurt feelings we may have caused, but with deeds, like George Zimmerman, we cannot make amends by bringing Trayvon Martin back to life.
We, along with our generation, are born to a particular era of coexistence with one another. Each of us lives an individual life, yet we live that life in concert with those around us, and our respective situations may share similar features so that we feel connected in various ways by events taking place in our awareness as we each may personally construe it. In that sense, we may come to feel somewhat like brothers and sisters facing similar challenges, which helps us use speech to become real to one another in grappling with the cast of notable characters and salient events of our time. We may even converse among ourselves with a sense of common understanding, and come to agreement about what needs to be done to improve the situation we live in.
Acting separately, we may be weak, but together we are a powerful force that needs to be reckoned with. Whether that reckoning comes to pass or not remains to be seen. But one thing is sure: it won’t happen without our making a personal commitment to action.
In other words, I am with you as you are with me in this, our time to speak and to act. As ever, I remain y’r brother, —Steve
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Like the first syllable of shiitake
Posted by nelsonkraybill on July 2, 2016 September 28, 2016
What would it take to make Saint Paul cussing mad? Fellow Jews or Christians maintaining barriers that kept others from full acceptance in the faith community, that would do it. Harsh language about such exclusion in Paul’s letter to the church at Philippi makes me consider how easy it is to raise the bar in the church today for people whose background, culture, or life experience are different from mine.
A Roman era public toilet at ancient Philippi still has two stone seats mounted above skubalon pits, and a trough for fresh water at the feet of users.
Recently I asked a Mennonite genealogist to enter my name into his database and see what emerged. A few days later he delivered an eighty-page notebook with charts and names of hundreds of my Mennonite Swiss and German ancestors. My biological forebears were among early European Anabaptists. It was my ancestor, Hans Reist, who had the dispute with Jakob Ammann in 1693 that led to formation of the Amish church. I am a descendant of Hans Herr, Mennonite patriarch of Pennsylvania whose 1719 house still stands as the oldest in Lancaster County.
Add to this Anabaptist family heritage the fact that I went to a Mennonite college, studied at three seminaries, hail from a long line of church leaders, and am ordained.
The apostle Paul would not be impressed. In his letter to Philippi, Paul rehearses his own religious credentials: “circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews . . . as to righteousness under the law, blameless.” All this status, of which Paul once was so proud, he now counts as “rubbish” (skubalon, Phil. 3:8).
Actually, Paul’s language is stronger than most modern translations allow. We should render skubalon in English like the first syllable of shiitake mushroom. Paul is frustrated enough to slip in a rude word that appears nowhere else in the Bible and only rarely in ancient literature. He is angry at himself and others whose legalistic or genealogical boundaries exclude Gentiles or make them feel like second-class members of the body of Christ.
Skubalon comes to mind when I find a Roman era public toilet among ruins at ancient Philippi. Relieving oneself apparently was a social occasion in the Roman world: eight or ten stone toilet seats, placed close to one another above skubalon pits, once lined walls of the small room. To clean themselves, users dipped a stick with sponge attached into a little trough flowing with fresh water at their feet.
Skubalon also comes to mind when I find monuments to spiritual pride or legalistic boundaries in my heart or in my church. Let it be said that I do not look or act like the average Mennonite or average Christian on this planet. Today the median Mennonite in the world is a black African woman, and that is representative of the global Christian church. That reminds me to receive and welcome people into my local congregation who come from the global south or from cultural, educational, or linguistic background different from my own. What binds us together is sins forgiven through the cross and resurrection of Jesus, and lives transformed by the power of the Spirit.
As a historian, I find family history fascinating and instructive. I am grateful for education I received. But if I ever start to confuse all of this with status in the church, it is time to review Paul’s words about all the entries in his religous résumé: “I regard them as skubala, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ” (Phil. 3:8–9).
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2012 Audi S6 and S7 Sportback now on sale in Australia
Brett Davis Oct 22, 2012
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Audi Australia has announced two limited editions for the local market; the new Audi S6 sedan and the Audi S7 Sportback. Both come with the all-new twin-turbo V8 engine.
Just 50 examples of each will hit the market. Audi says numbers had to be limited due to popular demand in international markets. The two are Audi’s newest ‘S’ models to join the lineup.
Both feature an identical powertrain consisting of Volkswagen Group’s new 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 engine, also seen in the latest Bentley Continental V8.
In the Audis it produces 309kW of power and 550Nm of torque. This is enough grunt to propel the S6 from 0-100km/h in 4.6 seconds, while the slightly larger S7 four-door coupe does it in 4.7 seconds.
Despite the awesome power and performance, the engine comes with various fuel-saving technologies. The highlight of which is cylinder deactivation, or cylinder-on-demand (CoD) as Audi calls it, which shuts down four of the eight cylinders when under low load driving conditions. This contributes to an average fuel economy rating of just 9.6L/100km.
Being the top-line variants of the A6 and the A7 Sportback, both come with loads of standard features. Some of these include:
20-inch 5-parallel-spoke S design alloy wheels
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Both models are now available to order, with prices starting at the following (excluding on-road costs):
Audi S6 sedan 4.0 TFSI quattro S tronic – $168,900
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Leslie Bibb: ‘It’s So Delicious Being Evil in $50,000 Worth Of Couture
By Jarett Wieselman
June 24, 2009 | 5:55pm
PopWrap: I loved watching you relish playing evil in this movie!
Leslie Bibb: Thank you, it’s nice being the bad girl. But a lot of the really evil stuff got cut though.
PW: Oh really? Like what?
Leslie: In the script there was a lot more tension between the girls and I got to be much more of a “See You Next Tuesday.” Alicia was more of a villain in the original script. And there was this ridiculously amazing girl fight.
PW: Yes, the clothes in this movie are — understandably — amazing.
Leslie: There was this one outfit that I loved so much, I had to make it work. So I asked Pat [Fields, costume designer] when we were shooting that scene and she told me last. So I remember telling myself I had to make it work and I walked in on that day, having not eaten for a week and it fit! [laughs]
PW: Since you brought it up, can I just tell you how much I loved “Popular!”
Leslie: Oh, thank you. Wasn’t it just a great show?
PW: So great, so ahead of its time.
Leslie: So totally! I always look at “Gossip Girl” and think, “you guys are baby games! Baby games compared to us!”
PW: Did you know what a dynamic show it was at the time?
Leslie: It’s funny, you’re so whatever when you’re in it, but when I look back, I have such intense gratitude for it. I just ran into Tammy Lynn Michaels at The Farmer’s Market and we were laughing about what pains in Ryan [Murphy]’s ass we were back then.
PW: How often would you say someone approaches you about the show?
Leslie: You know, I kinda didn’t get the scope of the show at the time. I met one of my best friends working on “Talladega Nights” and I didn’t know anyone there, so I asked her to hang out and we’re walking down the street and she turns to me and says, “I can’t believe I’m walking with Brooke McQueen!” [laughs]
PW: Ah, so Christine Everhart will be back in the sequel?
Leslie: Yes, she will! I don’t know if I’m supposed to say that though…
PW: You made good foils.
Leslie: There is something delicious about Pepper and Christine circling each other. It’s funny, because now the shine is off, but I remember the first time I saw her, I felt like Brooke McQueen all over again. I mean, it’s f***ing Gwyneth Paltrow — she’s the prototype for Brooke. You should have heard my inner monologue that day.
PW: If we had, what would it have been?
Leslie: “Oh my god, look at how straight her teeth are! She’s so pretty! She has freckles? I have freckles! Oh god, I want to touch her!” I had to literally do a “Moonstruck” and slap myself across the face, like, “Snap out of it!” [laughs]
PW: And now?
Leslie: Now it’s like, “Hey Gwyn, let’s talk about Kabbalah!” I still have a total girl crush though. That Gwyneth is a total winner, winner, chicken dinner.
PW: Ah, a Las Vegas lady!
Leslie: You know it’s from Vegas! Oh man, I’m sure Gwyneth would think I’m nuts for saying that.
PW: Well, she doesn’t eat chicken.
Leslie: [laughs] Of course, right, “I’m a vegan, I don’t get that joke.” OK, fine, you’re a winner, winner tofu chicken dinner! Better?
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Janome Sewist 500 Sewing Machine w/3 Review
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Janome has described the Sewist 500 as one of their sewing machines with the best value. However, it’s still technically an expensive machine and will most likely set you back for around $300 in the US. Previous users of this machine have enjoyed the fact that the Sewist 500 is simple and very easy to use. It can even create straight stitches with the same exact measurement. Its needle is also durable enough to power through multiple layers of fabric, or a thick layer of fabric in general. The Sewist 500 comes with a fantastic user-friendly instruction manual and a whole host of accessories. But there are a couple of owners who have faced certain issues with the machine itself, and have even reported some sort of grinding noise after they have unboxed and started up the machine. But this kind of problem is most likely sporadic, and even though some of the machine’s clients have already experienced it, the ones who haven’t still outnumber the ones who did.
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Compared to Janome’s other past sewing machines, ratings for the Sewist 500 aren’t really as high as its more popular counterparts. Certain review sites have rated the machine at least an 86.1 over 100, or probably 4.3 stars out of a perfect 5. You can find several of these owner ratings at popular sites. Meanwhile, plenty of retailers out there have mentioned that they have given the Sewist 500 an excellent score, with the exception of online retail giant Amazon – In which the machine gets a low blow.
According to most of its past and present owners, here are the pros and cons of the Janome Sewist 500.
Produces smooth stitches
Excellent and highly useful stitching manual
A very strong machine
The thread never jams
Quick and simple to operate
Can power through thick layers of fabric
Contains its very own hard carrying case
The needle threader works wonderfully as well
Has a fair bit of plastic found inside the machine’s build
There are several owners out there who have heard of a grinding noise when the machine starts running
A couple of folks find the stitch a tad difficult to move
There are several owners out there who have mentioned that the Sewist 500 is a bit of a durable workhorse. Meanwhile, other people have started, resumed, and finished their projects with the aid of this machine without experiencing any problems. Other people have indicated that the reason why they love the Janome Sewist 500 so much was because of two reasons: First, it’s produced by Janome, a highly reputable sewing machine company from Japan. Second, it’s more of a traditional sewing machine compared to the more modern computerized ones. No matter if one prefers the more traditional one or a computerized one, it’s all up to the owner’s own personal preference and should not be considered a pro or a con.
The Janome Sewist 500 carries a really excellent manual, which you can also read online. It’s completely user-friendly with the best kind of intuitive controls. The manual can be read and understood by both beginners and expert sewers. Rookies won’t find the instructions too comprehensive, while seasoned sewers won’t think it’s too basic. There are also consumers out there who think that since the machine itself has a solid build (despite the fact that Janome has used lots of plastic when constructing the machine), it is unable to create even and smooth stitches.
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But there will be instances in which you’ll notice that inside the consumer ratings table, the Sewist 500’s score on Amazon is much lower as compared to the ones found on other retail Websites like eBay. We did a bit of investigating here and soon discovered that a whole host of owners have reported a loud clinking or even grinding noise after the machine was initially used. Plenty of the consumers have since returned the machine to wherever they bought it, gave it a poor rating, then bought a seemingly better machine that suited their needs. This is probably the reason why the Sewist 500 has such low ratings on Amazon. On the other hand, plenty of the other comments and ratings, except, obviously the ones who experienced the clunking problems in the first place, are excellent. What’s interesting about this is that this whole noise issue has not appeared on reviews of the same machine coming from the other Websites.
There were also a handful of consumers on Amazon who, after hearing and getting bothered by the clunking noise, brought their machine over to the nearest repair shop, as opposed to just sending it back to the store. These folks have all mentioned that the machine started working normally after that. In a certain case, an owner has reported that after they have sent in the machine to the shop to be repaired, the repair man informed them that the noise level was pretty much the end result of the Sewist 500’s motor not being strongly bolted down enough.
If you are currently experiencing a whole host of problems regarding your Sewist 500, you might want to take a look at the official Janome website in which all of the troubleshoot issues and problems are posted in their FAQ page. You will surely find a solution to the issue you currently have with the machine.
The Janome Sewist 500 has the following features: 25 variants of built-in stitches (which include utility stitches and stretch stitches), a single-step automatic buttonhole, a built-in needle threader, a free arm, an adjustable presser foot pressure with three settings, a top-loading bobbin, a hard casing, a jam-proof bobbin system, and an automatic declutch bobbin winder. Other features include a built-in thread cutter, a drop-feed capable, a free arm capable, snap-on presser feet, a reversible stitching lever (which is the giant lever located in front of the machine), and a carrying case.
The maximum sewing speed of the Sewist 500 is over 860 stitches every minute. The maximum width of the zigzag measures 5 millimeters, while the length is over 4 millimeters. There’s a thread tension control found in the machine’s instructional booklet, as well as an additional high presser foot lift. The machine carries a horizontal spool pin and a sewing light that allows you to work on projects in the dark. Finally, there’s an electronic foot controller.
A panel located on the front side of the sewing machine shows off all of the stitching choices and their corresponding letters. This allows you to easily choose the stitch that you want for your project. The Sewist 500 also has a selection dial located on the front side, letting you dial in the correct stitch of your choice. Meanwhile, the length dial lets you fix the length of the stitch as well. Apart from that, there’s also a width dial that lets you fix the width of the stitch, even though there have been complaints from owners saying that this dial could potentially be improved since it’s so hard to move as compared to the other dials.
Much like other computerized sewing machines on the market today, the Janome Sewist 500 is equipped with a whole number of accessories. This includes six kinds of presser feet, a zipper foot, an overedge foot, an automatic buttonhole foot, a blind hemming foot, and a straight stitching and zigzag foot. Aside from that, there are still several bobbins, big and small kinds of spool holders, needles, a spool pin, a seam ripper, a lint brush, a felt cushion, a screwdriver, and a quilting guide. You can store all of these accessories inside the machine using a storage compartment located inside the free arm. The machine is also equipped with its own power cord.
The Janome Sewist 500 boasts a 25-year warranty, which is split down into over 25 years on the machine’s mechanical parts, two years on electricals, and one year for the time it took to build it. It weighs a total of 16 pounds. This is the average weight of a typical sewing machine, so the Sewist 500 is neither too heavy or too light. There’s also a hard case included here. This case is excellent if you want to carry the machine around with you to sewing classes or a business that involves stitching fabrics, or if you just want to store your machine away somewhere (it keeps the machine safe from dust too).
The machine in itself is officially listed in the Underwriters Laboratories. This is a group that has been around for hundreds of years. To give a brief introduction, the Underwriters Laboratories (also known as the UL) is a highly-respected and purely independent safety science company that tackles product safety certifications and testing.
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No one wants to use the phrase “Can I get an old gold? It’s just not cute. Also, rumor has it that all the meat at Subway, including the chicken and steak, are actually turkey The Starbucks Coffee Date: This is a nice idea for a noncommittal “getting to know you” date. If the conversation is really awkward, you can drink your coffee quickly and go. Also, people you know will probably be passing through Starbucks so you can call them over and discretely ask them to save you. But if you’re having a great time together, you can sip your coffee slow and talk in there for as long as you’d like! There’s no rush to leave and no commitment to stay.
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UW-Madison is famous for its parties, especially Halloween and an end-of-year block party.
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Our newspaper sponsored a blind date for two students to have a nice dinner out in downtown Winston-Salem, in which they had the opportunity to talk and get to know each other on a deeper level. We received 57 applications — far more than we could have anticipated. In response to several of the application questions, which asked students about their ideal dates and dream romantic partners, we identified many themes and commonalities.
In contrast to stereotypes of campus dating culture, which is often painted as impersonal, rushed and noncommittal, we found that many Demon Deacons yearn for genuine romantic connections with others. Despite the patterns that were shown in the applications, it may often seem as if successful dating at Wake Forest requires getting an in at fraternity parties, and as a result, the Editorial Board believes that fewer students go on meaningful, one-on-one dates than they should.
Any activity that draws upon the interests of both daters and allows for genuine and thought-provoking conversation would help fulfill the desires of Wake Forest students to forge connections with others. Hopefully, we can pave the way for future DeacsInLove, and even if not, for some memorable experiences shared between two people. See author’s posts. You need to allow for individual differences. Some of us are not dating types. Skip to content. Aug 24th,
Alarmed by what he deemed white supremacist terrorism, chairman Joseph Soares canceled sociology classes for a week. When they resumed, Wake Forest police officers were stationed outside classrooms and the building itself. Doors normally open were closed and locked. Even a study lounge was locked. In a fall department newsletter, he wrote that it took seven days before Wake Forest president Nathan Hatch sent emails to the recipients of the threats, and three weeks passed before a university-wide letter went out condemning the emails.
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Share this Story: Homecare gaps leave man soiled for 30 hours and without care, says wife
Homecare gaps leave man soiled for 30 hours and without care, says wife
Elizabeth Payne
Mireille Landry poses for a photo in her home in Ottawa Friday Oct 4, 2019. Photo by Tony Caldwell /Postmedia
An Orléans woman says her husband developed bed sores after homecare workers failed to show up to care for him, leaving him in soiled briefs for 30 hours at a time. When caregivers did show up, they were told by their agency not to move him, so he has remained in his bed for weeks.
Mireille Landry said she has now been advised by the Champlain LHIN (Local Health Integration Network), which is in charge of coordinating home care in the region, to pay for respite care for her husband, who suffers from dementia, until the situation can be sorted out.
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“I am tired of this,” said Landry, who said she has spent weeks dealing with a homecare agency and the LHIN because of personal support workers either failing to show up or being unable to move her husband in and out of bed when they did get there.
Her concerns come as the LHIN acknowledges it is struggling to maintain home care amid personal support worker shortages. PSWs, as they are known, do the bulk of home care work in the province.
In a statement, the LHIN’s interim CEO Catherine Butler said the demand for homecare services is high and increasing each year. Against that backdrop, the shortage of PSWs is affecting the local health system. She said the impact of the shortage is worse in areas outside of urban Ottawa.
“More people are receiving homecare services than before. However, the provincewide shortage of personal support workers is affecting our local health system,” she said.
“We understand the additional stress and deeply regret the problems this has created for patients and their caregivers.”
Landry blames sloppy management practices on the part of the agencies in charge of providing home care for some of the problems.
Landry said that her husband’s care was good until a PSW arrived at the end of the summer who was not properly trained in moving him. When she attempted to, he nearly fell and Landry, who has had spinal fractures, had to help the PSW get him back into bed. After that, she said, PSWs working for the agency were told not to try to move him.
Landry said she lost faith in the agency, called Access Care, but after a meeting agreed to continue with them. Subsequently, she said, she was told they would no longer provide care for her husband and she would have to pay for respite care or make do until the situation was sorted out.
As of Friday, Landry was told PSWs would come to her house until the end of the weekend, at which point she would have to wait for a new agency.
Neither Access nor the LHIN would discuss the specific case.
Landry’s husband was diagnosed with progressive dementia in 2015 after a legal career that lasted more than 50 years.
After spending months in the hospital, he returned to the couple’s Orléans home with the help of regular visits from support workers who visited three times a day to provide in-person care.
But that system began to fall apart in late summer, said Landry, and she began to worry that PSWs weren’t being trained properly to move her husband.
She said the situation has left her to handle the “mess” created by sloppy management practices by homecare agencies, which make an already tough situation worse.
“On the one hand, everybody is saying we want to keep people home as long as we can, but on the other hand, they are not doing their best. My husband is not even getting the basic care.”
The province should pay support workers more to do their jobs, she said, noting that PSWs who take care of more complex patients like her husband do not receive additional pay and are less likely to take on the work. Also, PSWs who work in remote areas are not paid for travel time.
The LHIN says personal support worker shortages are more pronounced in rural Eastern Ontario than in Ottawa.
Every day, 10,000 people receive direct home care visits provided by the Champlain LHIN. Those services include helping people with daily activities, nursing and therapy.
The LHIN said it is continuing to work with agencies and contracted providers who employ PSWs to develop solutions to shortages.
The province committed more than $8.4 million on Friday to expanding home and community care in Ottawa.
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4 out of top 5 precincts that voted for Prop 19 are in Ocean Beach.
by Frank Gormlie on November 13, 2010 · 11 comments
in Civil Rights, Culture, Election, Ocean Beach, San Diego
Thanks to the paper-version of the San Diego U-T this morning, we have the grateful news that in the vote for Prop 19 – the marijuana legalization proposition that was narrowly defeated state-wide – four of the top 5 precincts that voted in favor – were in Ocean Beach. (Ed.: we apologize about the quality of the following scan – as we did have to use the paper version; there was no similar article/ graphic in the U-T‘s online platform.)
Ken November 13, 2010 at 12:06 pm
If one looks at the map of where it failed, one sees 2 constituencies which it did not carry: people of color and lower incomes and right-wing reactionaries. While the latter group is assumed to be too inflexible to be swayed by the waste of resources that prohibition perpetrates, I’d bet that the former group were not told about how prohibition is inequitably applied to the young men of their communities in their own languages. The latter tact will be the way that decriminalization will get more voters in 2012.
Patty Jones November 13, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Ken, I absolutely agree with you on this. I recently read a book that equates the war on drugs to the “New Jim Crow”. That fact that poor whites get caught up in it just helps their case that the war on drugs is not discriminatory.
If we educate these people in their own languages, like you said, that would help the cause immensely.
Ken November 13, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Patty, could you give me the biblographic info and/or ISBN on that book, please?
*bibliographic
annagrace November 13, 2010 at 4:31 pm
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age Of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Th San Diego library system has three copies and you can place an online hold.
There was an interesting review here:http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/4510
From the San Diego County Library System
The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness / Michelle Alexander.
New York : New Press ; [Jackson, Tenn.] : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2010.
Description: 290 p.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references ( p. [249]-279) and index.
Summary: Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race.
Contents: The rebirth of caste — The lockdown — The color of justice — The cruel hand — The new Jim Crow — The fire this time.
Subject: African American prisoners — United States.
Race discrimination — United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of — United States.
United States — Race relations.
I just noticed that Anna beat me to the punch, and that East Count Magazine beat me to the review. I will have to write mine before I read theirs.
ClubStyle_DJ November 13, 2010 at 1:01 pm
That’s my town!
I’m just sorry NOBODY will be able to get weed anymore. (holding back laughter)
Guess they showed us… huh.
Gary Gilmore November 13, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Kind of makes me all the prouder of OB.. Another feather in our cap. I’ll be sure to brag about this at cocktail parties.
Shane Finneran November 15, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Fascinating data. We all knew OB was forward-thinking, and now we have statistical proof.
I must say this is the first time I’ve had the urge to frame a Union-Tribune graphic.
Shane!! Great idea! I’m, going to dig mine out of the recycle bin right now (no foolin’)
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Grove Speaks
By Observer Staff • 09/22/05 2:39pm
Daily News gossip Lloyd Grove, who declined to comment on his contract status when asked about it by the Observer earlier this week, has gone on the record for his former employer, The Washington Post. Grove categorically denies everything in the Observer‘s account.
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The biggest online party ever, named “One World: Together at Home,” happened this Saturday afternoon. Lady Gaga collaborated with Global Citizen and the World Health Organization and arranged a big online concert where more than 70 artists and numerous celebrities are singing their hearts out, giving support and celebrating healthcare workers who are heroically fighting the Coronavirus and risking their lives to help others.
The hosts were: Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Fallon, and some of the artists who performed were: Elthon John, Taylor Swift, Lizzo, Billie Eilish, and many more.
Here are some of the best moments of the biggest online event ever:
1.Beyoncé
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The 38-year-old diva surprised the guests at the special concert to gave a heart-touching speech. Beyonce said the following:
“Tonight, we celebrate true heroes, those who are making the ultimate sacrifice to keep us all safe, fed, and healthy,” she started.
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After praising our heroes, Beyonce reflected on the fact that the African-American community “belong to these parts of the workforce that don’t have the luxury of working from home,” and with that said, they are at higher risk in this world crisis.
She then added: “Please protect yourselves. We are one family, and we need you. We need your voices, your abilities, and your strength all over this world. I know it’s very hard, but please be patient, stay encouraged, keep the faith, stay positive, and continue to pray for our heroes. Good night and God bless you.”
2.Lady Gaga
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Gaga was undoubtedly the star of the day, mainly because she is someone who helped with organizing the One World: Together at Home concert and raise over $35 million for the World Health Organization to support those in need in these difficult times.
The 34-year-old singer then performed “Smile,” and with that, she reminded everyone to smile and to take care of their mental health too.
In her speech, Gaga said: “I care so much about all of the medical workers that are putting their lives at risk for us right now. I think of them every day. I pray for them every day.”
“And I’m also thinking of all of you that are at home who are wondering when this is all going to be different. What I would like to do tonight, if I can, is just give you the permission to, for a moment, smile,” she added.
3.Billie Eilish and Finneas
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The two became one of the most famous siblings ever. They create together, perform together, and make people happy together. On the Together at Home concert, the duo performed “Sunny” by Bobby Hebb.
Billie expressed her feeling with the following words: “Sending my love to, you and I want to thank all the healthcare workers risking their lives to save ours. Thank you guys so much.”
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QHC for Cranberry Products and Reduced Risk of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection in Healthy Women
Home » Healthcare » QHC for Cranberry Products and Reduced Risk of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection in Healthy Women
FDA has published a letter of enforcement discretion, which it sent to legal counsel for Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., that authorizes a qualified health claim (QHC) for specific cranberry products when consumed in specific amounts by specific people. The substantiation for the diet-disease relationship warranted a “limited and inconsistent” or “limited” scientific evidence qualifier.
Based on the scientific evidence submitted as part of the health claim petition, the QHC may be used in labeling only the following cranberry products:
A cranberry juice beverage (e.g., cranberry juice cocktail, cranberry juice drink/beverage); or
A cranberry dietary supplement (i.e., containing whole cranberry powder as a dietary ingredient.
To be eligible for the QHC, the cranberry juice beverage must contain at least 27% cranberry juice, and the cranberry dietary supplement must contain at least 500 milligrams (mg) of cranberry fruit powder.
Neither product may exceed the disqualifying levels for total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium in 21 C.F.R. § 14(a)(4); and
The cranberry juice beverage must meet the 10% minimum nutrient content requirement of 21 C.F.R. § 101.14(e)(6).
These additional eligibility requirements typically should not be problematic.
The disease targeted by the QHC is risk of recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI) in healthy women with a history of UTI.
The authorized QHCs are:
For a Cranberry Juice Beverage
“Limited and inconsistent scientific evidence shows that by consuming one serving (8 [fl] oz) each day of a cranberry juice beverage, healthy women who have had a urinary tract infection (UTI) may reduce their risk of recurrent UTI.”
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The Total is In! Here Are All of Biden’s 33 Lies During the Debate
When it comes to lying, Joe Biden has no other choice. If he told people what the Democrats were actually going to do, no one would want to vote for him. Let’s go through each of them, one by one, shall we?
Lie #1: Biden is “not opposed to the Justice”.
The Truth: Biden has been publicly opposing the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. His running mate, Kamala Harris, also expressed her disapproval.
Lie #2: 100 million people with preexisting conditions won’t have medical insurance.
The Truth: Trump will always work to protect Americans with preexisting medical conditions.
Lie #3: Biden opined that the American people should be given the chance to wait for a new president before a new SCOTUS is selected.
The Truth: Biden previously said that presidents have an obligation to make the selection, even during an election year.
Lie #4: An expanded Obamacare plan won’t wipe out private insurance plans.
The Truth: Private health insurance plans would be crowded out.
Lie #5: Trump does not have a health care plan,
The Truth: The America First Health Care plan was unveiled on September 24. Health care is also the main focus of his second-term agenda.
Lie #6: There’s no Bernie Sanders/Joe Biden manifesto.
The Truth: A 118-page document was released by a Sanders/Biden task force, filled with all sorts of radical left policy proposals.
Lie #7: Biden claimed that Trump made no attempt to have people on the ground in China, to gauge the level of danger that the COVID-19 was posing.
The Truth: Trump attempted to send in officials during early January. Biden did not support the move until over a month had passed.
Lie #8: Scientists will be “muzzled and suppressed” under Trump.
The Truth: Public health experts and scientists are always empowered under Trump.
Lie #9: Biden said that he would not shut the economy down again.
The Truth: He has already said that he would.
Lie #10: The current economic recovery plan only benefits the most wealthy Americans.
The Truth: Trump’s economic recovery plan is specifically designed to assist all economic classes.
Lie #11: Biden said that Trump has been encouraging Americans not to wear their masks and claims he’s against social distancing.
The Truth: Trump has repeatedly encouraged Americans to wear masks and has been photographed wearing one himself.
Lie #12: The Trump administration has done nothing to assist small businesses.
The Truth: Trump started the Paycheck Protection Program, which played a key role in keeping businesses afloat during the pandemic.
Lie #13: Trump only paid $750 in taxes in 2016 and 2017.
The Truth: Trump spent millions in both years.
Lie #14: Biden said that the economy is “busted”.
The Truth: The American economy was the world’s greatest before the pandemic arrived and Trump is working tirelessly to bring it back.
Lie #15: “We handed him a booming economy,” Biden said of Trump, claiming to have inherited the worst recession short of a depression in the history of our country.
The Truth: Biden was responsible for overseeing the slowest recovery the nation has seen since the Great Depression.
Lie #16: Biden’s economic plan would provide 7 million more jobs than Donald Trump’s.
The Truth: The Biden plan would destroy the economy even further.
Lie #17: Hunter Biden did nothing wrong with Burisma.
The Truth: A wide range of State Department officials expressed concerns about the clear conflict of interest that was taking place at the time.
Lie #18: President Trump claimed that there were very fine people on both sides of the Charlottesville white supremacy protest.
The Truth: He has always condemned white supremacy in all of its forms.
Lie #19: Biden claimed that his son did not receive $3.5 million dollars during his dealings with Burisma.
The Truth: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s report on the matter says differently.
Lie #20: Manufacturing “went in the hole” before COVID-19.
The Truth: President Trump created 500,000 manufacturing jobs during the first three years of his presidency.
Lie #21: Biden argued that the most violent cities in America are run by Republicans.
The Truth: In reality, the exact opposite is true. 17 of the 20 most violent cities in the nation are Democrat-led.
Lie #22: Biden fired off a fake quote from Kellyanne Conway about Trump enjoying the violence because it helps his own cause.
The Truth: The comment was misconstrued and this is not even the first time that Biden has attempted to misquote her.
Lie #23: “Look, what I support is the police having the opportunity to deal with the problems they face. I am totally opposed to defunding the police officers,” said Biden.
The Truth: During his vice presidency, he oversaw numerous cuts in spending for state and local law enforcement officials.
Lie #24: Biden claimed that have gone head to head with Putin.
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Lie #25: Biden bristled when Trump brought up his son’s drug problem and lack of employment, calling all of it a lie.
The Truth: Hunter Biden was discharged from the United States military because of his cocaine usage.
Lie #26: Biden was sure to bring up the report about Trump calling military members “losers and suckers”.
The Truth: 14 officials who were on the infamous trip with Trump have refuted those statements, including Sarah Sanders and Dan Scavino.
Lie #27: Biden said that his energy plan would not cause any economic strife.
The Truth: His plan would cost trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of Americans would be out of work.
Lie #28: The Green New Deal is not Biden’s plan.
The Truth: The climate plan is listed on his own website. He has embraced the framework of the plan on numerous occasions.
Lie #29: Biden lied about calling military members “stupid bastards” in 2016.
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Lie #30: Biden says that any mail-in ballots require postmarks and must be sent in by Election Day.
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Lie #32: The United States trade deficit in China is higher than ever before.
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Lie #33: Violent crime saw a 15 to 17 percent decline while Joe Biden was serving as vice president.
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General rules (2017)
Please read these rules thoroughly. Some rules have changed since last year.
All robots must have an operational Raspberry Pi at their core which carries out the majority of the computing effort.
Other boards, such as an Arduino or other microcontroller, may be used on the robot but the Pi must be in overall control.
An additional piece of equipment e.g. a games controller, a laptop, mobile phone or tablet may be used to control the robot, but must not be physically attached.
All robots must be powered by batteries and must not require mains power for anything except charging battery packs.
No airborne robots are permitted, e.g. drones. Walking and self-balancing robots are permitted.
The main chassis, including wheels and protrusions, of competing robots must fit within a 225mm x 300mm footprint (but see the note on attachments below which allows for slightly more length)
The maximum width of the robot as it drives forward should be 225mm.
The maximum length of the robot as it drives forward should be 300mm (but see 7.2 below for additional length).
It is permitted to add and remove components from your robot during the course of the competition in order to tailor it to individual challenges.
The basic chassis, Pi and controller arrangement should remain the same.
The attachments must not add more than 225mm x 100mm to the robot. The maximum size of the robot with attachments can, therefore, be 225mm x 400mm.
Please see the diagram below for an illustration of robot sizing.
There will be a number of different challenges into which you may enter your robot, the results of which will contribute to an overall score. Points structures will be published by Pi Wars to ensure that teams are aware of how many points each challenge is potentially worth.
None of the challenges are mandatory.
No points will be earned from challenges not entered.
There may be some physical requirements for specific challenges – please consult the individual challenge pages for more information.
Robots will be allocated to a category based on the team that constructed them. The categories are as follows:
Schools and other kids clubs.
Beginner roboteers.
Intermediate roboteers.
Advanced/Professional roboteers.
Teams will be asked at the time of application into which category they should be entered. The final decision on category rests with Pi Wars in consultation with the robot team.
Robots will compete and be ranked against other robots in the same category.
Under-18 competitors will need to be accompanied by a responsible adult.
If LiPo batteries are used, any charging must be done inside a fire-proof bag, available from many places that stock the batteries, such as HobbyKing. This is to ensure we don’t have any accidents.
31 thoughts on “General rules (2017)”
Keith Ellis says:
19th July 2016 at 1:45 pm
The maximum attachment size of 80mm does not seem wide enough to allow a skittles ball launcher to be attached. the skittles ball is 74.3mm diameter, this leaves something like 2.8mm each side of the ball for guidance. Can this 80mm be increased to say 100mm.
recantha says:
You’re right. And when you’re right, you’re right. Will change.
Just to clarify the size limits, do the maximum robot dimensions (210×297) include the optional ‘attachments’ or could your basic chassis be 210×297 with an extra 210 x 100 allowed for the attachments, effectively allowing the robot to be extended beyond the A4 footprint?
20th July 2016 at 8:36 am
That’s correct. It’s basically A4 + attachments of 210×100.
Andy Merckel says:
Hi Mike. Another attachment size question! 100 x 210mm. Is that an extra 100mm in front of/behind the robot, or can the extra area be aligned either way?
I think we’d envisaged it being in front of or behind the robot (hence the longer measurement is A4 width), but I think we’re fairly flexible on where the attachment can be. 🙂
New dimensions noted. Can the width of the attachment also be altered to make it 100 x 225mm?
Please can we have an assurance that critical things like dimensions will be ‘sealed in stone’ from the point at which entries are confirmed (1/10/16)? I’m asking because we will need as much width as we can get and I wouldn’t welcome a redesign if it changed again because a commercial chassis was, say, 230mm wide! #scratchbuiltismorefun 😉
Hey Andy.
Yep, changed the attachment width too. Good spot.
I can give the assurance you’re looking for right now. Yes, those things will be set in stone.
I also agree with the hashtag 😉
smartwombat says:
16th August 2016 at 10:26 pm
There appears to be no height restriction, is that correct ?
I’m thinking a high tower, leading to a curved ramp, and a mechanism to take the ball to the top of the tower and use gravity assist to give it speed down and ultimately towards the pins.
That could be achieved without extending a robot’s footprint at all.
Nope. No height restriction. There are no obstacles, for example, that require you to limbo 🙂 Inventiveness encouraged 🙂
Your answer to Mike on rule 6 implies that being A4 PLUS attachment can result in violating rule 7.2 with the length increasing to 400mm or even 525mm with an unconventional arrangement of the attachment.
Ah. Yes. You’re exactly right. I’ve re-ordered the rules and linked them together. Basically, you can add a rectangular block of attachments to the maximum length. It’s now explained properly in 6 & 7. Thanks for pointing out the discrepancy.
SgtWilko says:
With regards to rule 6.1 “The maximum width of the robot as it drives forward should be 225mm.”
If you have a robot which can drive in any direction, such as the two robots with omniwheels that competed in PiWars 2015, this rule would suggest that the robot must not be larger than 225mm in either width or length. Is this your interpretation of this rule or would the robot still be allowed to be A4 shaped?
Good point. In that case, the robot would still need to fit in the area of 225mm x 300mm. That’s the restriction to be aware of, so no 300 x 300 robots 😉
Bottersnike says:
I was going to ask on the Challenges page but there isn’t a comment box, does code need to be submitted this year and if so is it the same procedure as 2015?
Not this year, no. We’ve decided to ‘rest’ that challenge. It was proving to be something that needed to be done at exactly the wrong time.
Question with respect to rule 7.1 “The basic chassis, Pi and controller arrangement should remain the same.” – My son would like to change the wheels depending on the challenge. Do they count as part of the basic chassis? I’m leaning towards them being so, so that he’ll have to choose one particular set of wheels for all challenges. What do you say?
Hi Emma! We’re not counting the wheels as part of the basic chassis as, generally, wheels are detachable. So, yes, he can change them depending on the challenge 🙂 By the way, if you don’t have any luck with the controller, I recommend the Afterglow PS3 controller. Get hold of one if you can – Brian Corteil (@CannonFodder) will be able to help you with code to get it working.
Many thanks Brian. Looks like someone is donating a genuine PS3 controller to us, so we’ll try that out first. Hopefully it’ll arrive before we attend our local Raspberry Jam on Saturday, so we can work on it then. Otherwise there are always the autonomous challenges to get going on 🙂
Mike McRoberts says:
20th November 2016 at 11:29 am
Are you allowed to swap out motors and/or gears? If the wheel and motor was in a detachable module for example?
20th November 2016 at 7:41 pm
Yup! 🙂
mr awesome says:
can we use materials such as lego to build bits of our chassis
By all means, go for it. Detachable pieces are absolutely fine 🙂
as we need to detach -some pieces for certain challenges
22nd January 2017 at 2:23 pm
Hi Mike. We’ve now settled on LiPo batteries for our robot. Reading round the subject, it is clear that they must be treated with care. I’ve just purchased a fire-proof bag to charge them in. Can I suggest that we add a rule that any team using LIPo batteries MUST use a fire-proof bag when charging them at the venue. Hopefully it goes without saying and those we saw last year with LiPos were taking that side of things very seriously.
On a similar subject, will there be rules about the use of soldering irons at the venue?
Funny you should mention that, I’ve just got into LiPos myself. Frankly, if you ever read the instructions and followed them you would never use them! I will send out a message on the next update. Soldering – we’re waiting to hear whether we can use the second floor where there’s a soldering station with extractor.
Daniel S says:
1st February 2017 at 1:49 pm
+1 for the LiPo rule. Also, maybe it is worth mentioning/trying to embed in rules – if nothing else as a soft rule that LiPos shouldn’t be exposed on the outside of the robots. They should really be inside of the robot, not strapped on the outside (as it is currently the case with ours). That way there won’t be chance for accidental puncture of one during Pi Noon challenge.
Further to it, as a precaution we’ve added a fuse (used cheap Hobby King’s ‘boom stopper’) directly after the battery. That way we are protecting battery against accidental short (and LiPos do not want to be shorted either).
David Fisher says:
Can I have attachments which are larger than 100mm in length as long as the robot stays within 225mm * 400mm ?
Yes, that should be fine. Just keep in mind the overall maximum size and you’ll be fine 🙂
Willie Senekal says:
“An additional piece of equipment e.g. a games controller, a laptop, mobile phone or tablet may be used to control the robot”.
To my mind, this is then no longer a robot but a remote controlled vehicle. Is there a category for autonomous robots, i.e. machines
controlled solely by programmed actions?
To our minds, it _is_ a robot, regardless of whether it’s autonomous or not. We design the courses so that there is a split between those that are expected to be completed by remote control, and those that _must_ be completed autonomously. There is nothing to say, however, that someone can’t come along with a fully-autonomous robot on the day and attempt all the courses in that fashion. In fact, we have someone this year who may try that. There is no separate category for full-auto robots.
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June 28, 2014 by Plymouth LGBT Archive Leave a Comment
‘Heaven on Earth’ comes to Plymouth University this weekend when an EU Culture funded performing arts project culminates with a series of events including as symposium at Plymouth Arts Centre entitled The Jean Genie: Why Jean Genet Still Matters. In Plymouth (And Lots of Other Places). Right Now and three performances of Heaven On Earth? in the Roland Levinsky Theatre at 3pm and 8pm on the Saturday, and 8pm on the Sunday. The production is directed by Vana Pefani and performed by an international ensemble of actors, dancers and acrobats. It begins when a bottle is found washed up in a harbour. Inspired by Jean Genet, the performance tells the magical story of one of life’s castaways who learns anything is possible when a bridge is forged between reality and illusion.
With the Pride in Plymouth being partners in the project, and number of community performers from Plymouth’s LGBT communities featuring in a the dance film Heaven is a Place (which premieres in the city at the symposium) we naturally jumped a the opportunity to speak with Vana and to ask her what has led her to this point in her international career.
Reflecting on her journey she told us “becoming an actor was not a dream I have had since I was a child. It was my choice to have worked and work in theatre groups rather than major theatres. I am co-creator in two of them. Our group does research and is concerned on the global history of violence, racism and human rights”.
As well as her social concerns though the work of Jean Genet features strongly in her own, although she was not always so enthused by him. “I discovered Genet at the Drama School when I was given to perform the role of Claire from the Maids. At first, maybe because I was very young and raised in urban environment, I did not understand him. He had me scared rather than enchanted. I can say I repulsed. But for sure, I didn’t remain indifferent”.
As time progressed then, Vana’s fascination with Genet’s work grew though principally with his novels rather than his theatrical texts. She found herself particularly drawn to “the poetic images of a brutal reality, idols and disguise, and eroticism that has no boundaries and decency are some of the elements of his books, which accompany me in this journey”.
So, now this journey has led her around Europe and to us here in Plymouth but Vana explained that “Heaven on Earth? is a performance that speaks to the world. Its theme is the meeting of a simple man with a great writer. How much can art influence us nowadays? What can happen when you get lost in the pages of a book? When reality and imagination are confounded … I present performances that I would be interested to see as a viewer. Performances that have a story to tell”.
Each of the performances are presented in Greek at every international location but with appropriate surtitles for each country. We asked Vana how far the show varied in response to such different audiences and she reflected “Different places, different people. The text is the same, the direction is being adapted. The only steady element is the water. Do you realize how contradictory is this? The water that is in constant motion, constitutes our firm.” This is the case as each performance is taking place in cities close to the sea with histories of being ports.
At the same time, however, Vana is very aware that she cannot “start to direct a play by what the audience expects of me. I do not know how to do that. For that reason, I cannot direct on order. What I do, should concern me, torture me, sink me in a dark tunnel and I should look for breakthrough, Every individual subject of the show is familiar to people. Violence, love, sexual desire, racism and xenophobia, despair and loneliness. We experience them every day. The way of handling differs. Social conditions. Heaven on Earth? speaks about contemporary problems. I wish it will create thought and discussion. This is our goal”.
It seems very likely that the play will do that in Plymouth, place that Vana finds interesting as she identifies to sides to it. “The blue one and the green one. The sea and nature. In some walks that I made, I clearly distinguished the hard work of the people in the port and the tale with knights and the Holy Grail. The earthly Plymouth and the fairy. We bring a performance that combines these two elements. Extroversion of the area taken in conjunction with the introversion of the theme. We look forward to being with you”.
For more information and to book Heaven On Earth? tickets, please visit:
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/dynamic.asp?page=events&eventID=8873&showEvent=1
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Ringside Boxing Action Revises Broadcast Schedule
Point Spread Media, producers of the radio show Ringside Boxing Action, have announced a revised broadcast schedule for the debut episode of the weekly boxing radio show. The launch of the show has been moved to the Fall, due largely to the effects of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
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