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Insights into metal–ligand hydrogen transfer: a square-planar ruthenate complex supported by a tetradentate amino–amido-diolefin ligand†
Demyan E. Prokopchuk,*ab Alan J. Lough,a Rafael E. Rodriguez-Lugo,‡b Robert H. Morris*a and Hansjörg Grützmacher*b
a Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 Saint George St., Toronto, Ontario M5S3H6, Canada
E-mail: rmorris@chem.utoronto.ca
b Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
E-mail: hgruetzmacher@ethz.ch
A four-coordinate, sixteen-electron Ru(0) complex containing the tetradentate diamino-diolefin ligand (±)-trans-N,N-bis(5H-dibenzo[a,d]cyclohepten-5-yl)-1,2-diaminocyclohexane (trop2dach) has been synthesised. Deprotonation of one amino N–H functional group generates an unprecedented four-coordinate ruthenate species which has been characterised in solution and in the solid state. The newly formed ruthenate complex undergoes intramolecular metal–ligand N–H addition/elimination in solution to generate a transient diamido ruthenium hydride species, as supported by NMR spectroscopy and density functional theory.
This article is part of the themed collection: Celebrating the 2017 RSC Prize and Award Winners
This article is Open Access
Crystal structure data CIF (631K)
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC00041J
Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 6138-6141
Insights into metal–ligand hydrogen transfer: a square-planar ruthenate complex supported by a tetradentate amino–amido-diolefin ligand
D. E. Prokopchuk, A. J. Lough, R. E. Rodriguez-Lugo, R. H. Morris and H. Grützmacher, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 6138
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC00041J
This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Material from this article can be used in other publications provided that the correct acknowledgement is given with the reproduced material.
[Original citation] - Published by The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) on behalf of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the RSC.
[Original citation] - Published by the PCCP Owner Societies.
[Original citation] - Published by The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) on behalf of the European Society for Photobiology, the European Photochemistry Association, and RSC.
[Original citation] - Published by The Royal Society of Chemistry.
Demyan E. Prokopchuk
Alan J. Lough
Rafael E. Rodriguez-Lugo
Robert H. Morris
Hansjörg Grützmacher
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The New Boom of Spirits Designed for Cocktails
Plenty of spirits are designed to be sipped on their own, but what about those developed specifically to be mixed into drinks? Here, four of the most notable “cocktail spirits” released in the last year, and how they were made.
story: Roger Kamholz
photo: Lizzie Munro
In recent years, a growing contingent of distillers have been taking a fresh, somewhat unorthodox approach to product development. Acutely aware of the salience of the cocktail, old and new producers alike are exploring how to make spirits and liqueurs that serve, first and foremost, as cocktail components.
To do that, several players within this nascent category have enlisted bartenders to get involved at every stage, from testing early batches of product to scouting underserved pockets of the market, to even “authoring” their own expressions. Other distillers have looked to history to revive extinct styles, and still others have gone the route of reverse-engineering products from the point-of-view of specific cocktail applications.
The question of what makes a spirit superlatively mixable is largely relative, but a few commonalities do emerge when looking at these bottlings as a whole. For one thing, “cocktail spirits” tend to be relatively high-proof, such that they can take to ample dilution. In addition, they’re rarely too costly, allowing them to be guiltlessly tossed in with other mixers without concern that their subtleties will be overpowered in the process. And, lastly, these spirits require the ability to harmonize; key flavors should resemble and complement those of fellow cocktail ingredients.
Here, four of the most exciting cocktail spirits released in the past year.
St. George Spirits Baller Single Malt Whiskey
On the menu at Oakland, California’s celebrated Ramen Shop is the Shop Highball, consisting of Baller Single Malt Whiskey, Q Drinks’ soda water and lemon oil. That a restaurant would feature a locally made spirit—the St. George distillery is in Alameda—on its cocktail menu isn’t noteworthy. What is worth noting is that the Baller Single Malt essentially exists to be in that drink.
“They make delicious, rich broths, and they use great quality ingredients,” says St. George master distiller Lance Winters of Ramen Shop’s proprietors. “I feel like they are kindred spirits with us.”
Winters’ desire to collaborate with the restaurant resulted in the creation of a whiskey made specifically for a Japanese highball, whose carbonation and acidic backbone can cut through a rich bowl of ramen. To begin, Winters dialed back on the whiskey’s malt character, so as not to layer on additional richness, then passed the spirit through maple heartwood charcoal for smokiness that acts as an apt counterpoint to meaty broth. From there, he made the decision to age it not only for two and a half years in used bourbon barrels, but for an additional six months in barrels previously used to age umeshu, an aged plum liqueur, for acidity and nuttiness.
The final decision, to bottle the spirit—which was released in the spring of 2016—at a burly 47 percent ABV, helps it hold up to dilution by way of ice and soda.
BroVo Orange Curaçao
Mhairi Voelsgen, owner of BroVo Spirits, is what you might call a bartender’s distiller, in that many of her labels are the result of her teaming up with people in the bar community. One of her latest projects, produced in collaboration with Laurent Lebec of Chicago’s Big Star, was to build a better orange liqueur—keeping in mind that “he makes a lot of Margaritas,” Voelsgen says.
The two years of development it took to hone the final product, BroVo Orange Curaçao, were guided in large part by two concerns: As one might expect, Lebec wanted to nail the right depth and expression of sweetness in the liqueur, but he also cared a lot about color. A richer orange liqueur would make for a more attractive Margarita—and looks can play an important role in our perception of taste.
The final formulation, released in late 2016, is built on a largely neutral base, though a portion of the 35-percent-ABV spirit is two-year-old French brandy, which contributes some color. Dried peels of sweet California oranges, larahas from the island of Curaçao and Valencias from Spain make up the customary bittersweet-orange foundation, while the spice component consists of coriander, clove, hibiscus and vanilla. During development, the pair found the rich color Lebec was looking for was best delivered through sugar. “We ended up using a turbinado simple syrup,” Voelsgen says, “to lend that darker color to the Curaçao.”
Plantation O.F.T.D. Overproof Rum
Alexandre Gabriel of Maison Ferrand was among the first in the industry to introduce a craft spirit squarely aimed at cocktail use with the launch, in 2011, of Pierre Ferrand 1840 Cognac, a revival style developed with an assist from David Wondrich. Recently, he’s made another foray into the cocktail spirits category with his Plantation rum enterprise. Dubbed “Old Fashioned Traditional Dark” (better known as O.F.T.D) and released in late 2016, the bottling is the brainchild of seven self-described rum geeks: Gabriel and Wondrich themselves, plus Scotty Schuder, Paul McFadyen, Paul McGee, Martin Cate and Jeff “Beachbum” Berry.
Their intent with O.F.T.D. was to harken back to the rich, overproof rums of centuries past, which were rationed out to sailors and used often in punches. Reportedly, the group convened a secret meeting in New Orleans back in 2015 to conceive the product, eventually selecting a potent blend of Guyanese, Jamaican and Bajan rums that Gabriel had mixed from old Plantation stocks. At 69 percent ABV and long on caramel, chocolate and cinnamon notes, this rum has no trouble holding its own in cocktails, including those of the tiki persuasion.
“These special moments of communion with a talented and passionate team are the reason I love my job,” Gabriel has said of the project. “These guys are my rum brothers for life.”
Gra’it Grappa
Luca Fabris heads up a newly launched, Miami, Florida-based subsidiary of Distillerie Bonollo Umberto, a 170-year-old grappa distillery based in Padova, Italy. In addition to importing traditional bottlings, he’s introducing an entirely new product, Gra’it Grappa, that’s meant to upend the perception that grappa is strictly meant for after-dinner drinking.
Though there’s a minor groundswell of Italian bartenders who mix grappa into original cocktails, no such trend has emerged in America. Fabris attributes this in part to drinkers’ often negative perceptions of the spirit. Part of that, he goes on to explain, is that grappa can often fall prey to the off flavors that come from burning its raw material, a winemaking byproduct called pomace, during the initial heating and extraction.
To better control the final product and eliminate harshness, Bonollo employs more contemporary distillation technologies, specifically by using a continuous pot still for the initial flavor and alcohol extraction, followed by a discontinuous column still to further refine the spirit. During development he also tested numerous blends of different pomaces, consulting bartenders throughout the trial-and-error process. The final product, made from pomaces of several of Italy’s most well-known wines, including Nero D’Avola, Barolo, Brunello di Montalcino and Amarone, offers “a wide range of aromas without being too overwhelming,” says Fabris.
As for how to use it, Fabris says he likes using this grappa in a sour, or in place of whiskey in an Old-Fashioned. But he’s eager to see what bartenders start doing with it, as its cocktail history is scarcely written at all. As Fabris says, “We still don’t have the Mojito of grappa.”
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Roger Kamholz is an editor and writer based in New York City. He has covered food and drinks for The Kitchn, Food & Wine, Serious Eats and Refinery 29, among others.
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The industry leader in structural and mechanical steel tubes is becoming QTG. This name change comes with a new brand image, reflecting the company’s new mission.
In order to bring all our processing procedures together, QTG will no longer operate our steel tubing mill. The company will work in close collaboration with its supplier Atlas Tube, a Canadian company, and will remain at our clients’ side in bringing their projects to life.
New infrastructure enables QTG to rapidly transform steel tubes in order to realize large-scale projects on schedule. Teams of qualified workers, as well as machinery, ensure maximum output at all times.
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Review of: First Person: A Novel, by Richard Flanagan
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I have often observed that if you watch films produced in the early 1990s, at first glance the world does not look so strikingly dissimilar from the one that we inhabit. Oh, there are
subtle differences in automobiles, clothing and hair styles, but nothing nearly as dramatic as would stand out so starkly as it would if you were to juxtapose certain other decades such as, say, the 1990s with the 1970s, or the 1980s with the 1960s, or the 1960s with the 1940s. But, of course, there is a great glaring dimension of change that transcends it all, that is less superficial and far more central, and the only hint of it in these ‘90s films is that conspicuous in their absence in everyday life are the computers and smart phones ubiquitous today. There are cameos, indeed, of PC’s with massive CRT monitors in office environments, and primitive brick-size cell phones wielded by select actors, but these are simply portents of a future with implications that were hardly yet imagined.
The revolution in technology did not wear an iconic hat that clearly and visibly marked what has surely been as earth-shattering to the evolution of human civilization as the move to food production some twelve thousand years ago, or the advent of the Industrial Revolution two and a half centuries ago. But in the relatively brief span that elapsed between the release of two flicks in the crime heist genre—Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs in 1992 and Martin McDonagh’s Baby Driver in 2017—the world has undergone a vast change that we perhaps have yet to fully comprehend. GPS, DNA, IPOD, CPU, IPHONE, DROID, WEBCAM, WINDOWS-10, MAC-AIR, GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, CCTV, STREAMING, DVR, DRONE—these are all shorthand that shout out not only what we have gained, but most notably what we have lost in an irrevocably altered universe that on its face looks otherwise so familiar to us. In the end, some things we may never have thought were at risk—things like privacy and anonymity—have forever vanished. It feels like we have lost something else, as well, something far more critical, but we have yet to find the words to fully articulate that loss.
The plot of Richard Flanagan’s First Person: A Novel is not specifically concerned with all of that, yet it is evident in the metaphorical subtextual underscore that is only subtly revealed in the nuanced quasi-epilogue that closes out this magnificent novel. Much of the narrative is set in the early 1990s, although there is clearly a look back from the present-day that is only made manifest at its end. This is fitting because First Person was published in 2017, and Flanagan’s own first novel, Death of a River Guide, in 1994. But there is much more to it than that.
Before he wrote fiction, Flanagan was just a young Tasmanian aspiring novelist retained for $10,000 on a punishing six-week schedule to ghostwrite the memoir of John Friedrich, an infamous con-man on trial for defrauding banks of hundreds of millions of dollars. Fredrich killed himself before the work was complete, but the finished book saw posthumous publication in 1991. The subtitle of First Person—”A Novel”—is perhaps a satirical clarification of what the author is up to. This is because Flanagan’s latest work is a fictional treatment (or is it?) of precisely this episode from his own life. In this version, the protagonist is Kif Kehlmann, a young Tasmanian aspiring novelist retained for $10,000 on a punishing six-week schedule to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried “Ziggy” Heidl, an infamous con-man convicted of defrauding banks of hundreds of millions of dollars. This proves a challenging yet miraculous potential windfall for the poverty-stricken Kif, a struggling would-be novelist attempting to make brittle ends meet, while balancing his roles as father to a young child and husband (in a passionate but volatile relationship) to a beautiful woman, heavily pregnant with twins. Ziggy is an artful manipulator, and soon gets inside Kif’s head, as the project turns to frustration, hopelessness and foreboding. Kif comes to question his own reality, an internal brand of the kind of “gaslighting” that often confronts us in today’s political post-truth universe. In the end, Kif has been not only scarred but permanently altered by the experience, his sense of identity somehow irretrievably lost, and lost along with that has been the very world he once inhabited.
Richard Flanagan remains one of my favorite living novelists. Like all great writers of fiction, he brings much greater themes to storylines that are themselves fascinating and compelling. His epic novel of prisoners of war set to slave labor on the Burma Railway, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2014. And I consider Gould’s Book of Fish—his 2001 tragicomic tale of a hapless prisoner of an earlier day, distinguished by the author’s own unique use of magical realism—one of the finest novels yet written in the millennium. Flanagan’s latest effort demonstrates that his skill as an artist of words only continues to flourish.
The best part of First Person is in looking back on it after closing the cover. The reader cannot help but wonder which chunks of the novel represent the fictional Kif Kehlmann, and which reflect the authentic Richard Flanagan? And where in the narrative does John Friedrich end and Ziggy Heidl begin? Or vice versa? Have all four men, real and fictional, somehow merged into a single figure that is at once an amalgam of the best and worst features of the four? Most disturbing perhaps, is the harbinger that is the second to last line of the novel: “It’s coming. It’s coming.” Of course, for the author and the rest of us, we certainly know that answer: it’s already here.
[I have reviewed several other novels by Richard Flanagan here: Death of a River Guide: https://regarp.com/2015/07/23/review-of-death-of-a-river-guide-by-richard-flanagan/; The Sound of One Hand Clapping: https://regarp.com/2017/06/04/review-of-the-sound-of-one-hand-clapping-by-richard-flanagan/; and, The Narrow Road to the Deep North: https://regarp.com/2015/02/02/review-of-the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north-by-richard-flanagan/]
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Charles Massy Interview – A Look at Regenerative Agriculture
08/17/2018 /in Agriculture /by Regeneration International
It took a drought and some deep reflection to turn farmer and author Charles Massy from a conventional farmer to one of the leading thinkers in regenerative agriculture today. Here Charles is in conversation with local food activist Kate Walsh from Real Food Projects.
Massy will talk at the Bangalow A&I Hall on August 14 from 6pm. Other speakers will be Sue Higginson and Charlie Arnott. Tickets available at www.realfoodprojects.com/ and the Bungalow Newsagency.
1 How would you define regenerative agriculture? It can be confusing especially for those of use who aren’t farmers. How does it practically differ from organic?
Regenerative agriculture contests the industrial model in that it encompasses various types of farming that seek to enable natural systems and functions to not just be renewed but also to do the renewing: to allow self-organisation of natural systems back to healthy function.
In its original derivation, the verb ‘regenerate’ also has moral and ethical connotations. So I would say that organic farming is one of a range of practices that comprise regenerative agriculture: from holistic/ecological grazing, to agroforestry, biological cropping, pasture- and No-kill cropping; biodynamics and more.
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Archuleta’s Message Inspires: Get the Ecology Right, the Money Will Follow
Author: Gillian Pomplun | Published: August 8, 2018
Nationally-known soil scientist Ray Archuleta presented a practical road map for restoration of farm profitability to about 200 farmers gathered at the Tainter Creek Watershed Council’s ‘Reducing Costs and Flood Impacts on the Farm’ events.
The program was held Wednesday, July 25 and Thursday, July 26 at Woodhill Farms in rural Vernon County. Tainter Creek Watershed Council members Brian and Laura McCulloh own Woodhill Farms, located in Franklin Township.
The retired 32-year career soil scientist with USDA-NRCS with an ag school background had a straightforward message for the assembled farmers.
“We got it all wrong,” Archuleta was quick to say. “In our western scientific tradition, we utilize the principle of ‘reductionism,’ which is breaking things down into parts to study them.
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6 Reasons Why the Practice of Silvopasture Will Help Save Modern Farming
Author: Steve Gabriel | Published: August 4, 2018
Adapted from “Silvopasture: A Guide to Managing Grazing Animals, Forage Crops, and Trees in a Temperate Farm Ecosystem “(Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018) by Steve Gabriel. All rights reserved.
In addition to the range of benefits silvopasture offers to individual farms, this practice also brings a number of promising benefits to the larger society and global community. These can provide good incentives for government, industry and society to better support and encourage silvopasture as a practice.
1. Wildlife habitat and forest restoration
Farming itself is largely responsible for the fragmented chunks of forest and hedgerows we see littering the rural landscape today. Silvopasture can erase the stark line that is so often drawn between field and forest. Lands lack structural diversity, which is critical for birds and migrating animals. Ideally, we need grasslands, shrublands and deep forests to support the widest range of species. The inclusion of silvopasture into the farm landscape can greatly enhance the structural diversity of vegetation, which in turn supports a greater diversity of wildlife.
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The Park City Council Considers Using Animals To Reach Their Netzero Goals
07/23/2018 /in Environment /by Regeneration International
Author: Melissa Allison | Published: July 20, 2018
The Park City Council has some big goals to eliminate the city’s carbon footprint. Staff’s latest find includes putting cows and horses out to pasture.
Two years ago the Park City Council signed a proclamation to have a zero carbon impact by 2022 for city operations. City leaders instructed staff to look for new ways to go green. Since then, the city has increased its use of solar, collaborating with Rocky Mountain Power to build a solar farm. The city also added electric buses to its fleet.
At Thursday’s meeting Environmental Sustainability Manager Luke Cartin told council about a new idea – using animals to graze the city’s open space.
By using cows, horses and other animals to graze on the city’s open space, they’re allowing nature to step back in and as the animals churn the ground with their hooves, the natural order of things will return.
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Soil Farmers: How A Renewed Focus On The Land Is Building More Resilient Farms
Author: Brian Kaufenberg | Published: June 26, 2018
Peter Allen wants to bury a fence.
Tucked within the rolling landscape of the driftless region, on a farm outside of Viola, Wisconsin, a barbed wire fence runs along the spine of a ridge separating a strip of pasture from the valley below. The noticeable three-foot drop between the fence and the field is the result of years of soil washing away while the field was being used as conventional cropland.
“When we got here, this soil was in really bad shape; it hardly grew anything and there was no topsoil left, it was all just sand subsoil,” Peter Allen recalls in a January 2018 episode of the television show “Outdoor Wisconsin.” “So we immediately brought the animals in, […] planted about 30 different species of native prairie grasses and flowers and then a bunch of trees in rows, and then we ran chickens here behind them. And now, just two years later, this is some of the best forage we have on the farm, right where we ran the chickens through.”
As Allen’s animals—cattle, hogs, sheep, and chickens—graze the forage, they return nutrients and organic matter to the land, slowly rebuilding what’s been lost—adding between a quarter of an inch to an inch of soil per year, he says, and slowly restoring the savannah ecosystem once native to the area, a mix of trees and prairie. The livestock are key to this process, providing the cornerstone to a farming system that now yields perennial fruits and nuts, annual crops like corn, and pastured beef, pork, and chicken.
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PastureMap Brings a High-Tech Approach to Sustainable Grazing
The startup company co-founded by entrepreneur Christine Su hopes to improve grazing practices while helping ranchers increase their bottom line.
Author: Shana Lynch | Published: June 8, 2018
Americans like their burgers. In 2016, they ate an average of 55.6 pounds of beef per person, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, up from 54 pounds the year before.
But beef producers face criticism for their product’s impact on the environment—from land degradation to high greenhouse gas emissions caused by manure storage, feed production, and even the way cattle digest food. Through her startup PastureMap, entrepreneur Christine Su hopes to improve those practices while helping ranchers increase their bottom line.
PastureMap helps ranchers raise climate-friendly beef. The software platform helps them manage their grazing land and strategically graze their herds in a sustainable way. “If you let your cattle run all over the place and continuously graze, they’ll overgraze,” Su says. But strategic grazing can prevent soil erosion, improve soil nutrients, and even reverse emissions by sinking carbon into the soil, she says. This is called regenerative agriculture. “It raises food in a way that heals the land rather than further extracting from and eroding it,” she says.
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A Well-Balanced Agro-Ecological System Is Needed
Author: Bryan Simon, Land Stewardship Project | Published: May 22, 2018
It’s not the cow or the sow, but the how. I hate to break it to all the conscientious consumers who have bought into the idea that completely avoiding meat is the answer to our planet’s environmental woes, but they’ve been misled. That’s right, I’m calling you out, Beyonce, Brad Pitt, Al Gore and others who are coaching fans to become vegan to save the planet. Such a message, while well-intentioned, misses the mark. Animals are not the problem; the problem is how they are managed.
Animals provide valuable goods and services, like nutrient cycling, habitat diversity, clean water and soil health, but only when integrated with the land.
Unfortunately, confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) have removed animals from the land, and the consequences are evident: a rapidly changing climate, polluted water, soil loss, rampant pest problems, and barren landscapes devoid of wildlife. Then there are the social costs: CAFOs are highly extractive and exploitative. They put small- and mid-sized farms out of business, and leave rural communities diminished.
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Producer Gail Fuller Offers 8 Lessons From His Career in Cover Crops
Author: Amy Bickel | Published: May 22, 2018
Unlike his conventional counterparts, Gail Fuller doesn’t focus on maximizing yields.
The Emporia, Kansas, farmer thinks differently than the age-old mantra that, with 10 billion people expected on the plant by mid-century, farmers must feed the world.
“I’m sorry if you are buying into that crock,” Fuller says bluntly.
Instead, Fuller made the decision to base his profitability and success on the health of his soil.
“Soil is life and life is soil,” he said to a crowd at his annual Fuller Field School in Emporia last month. “We have 60 years of topsoil left and that was as of 2012. If we continue this current production model, we might not be able to feed the world by 2050 because we might not have all the soil left to do it.”
Lessons from Gail
Fuller started the school seven years ago to educate others about regenerative ag, a concept growing across rural America. He wants his soil healthy and full of life—from microorganisms like nematodes, protozoa and mycorrhizal fungi working unseen below the earth to the beneficial insects and livestock above.
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Bless This Mess: Syntropic Coffee Farming Takes Root In Brazil
Author: Juliana Ganan | Published: May 10, 2018
When I first saw João Pedro David’s farm, it was hard to understand. For me, having grown up the daughter of a monoculture-conventional coffee farmer in Minas Gerais, Brazil, David’s land looked more like a forest than a farm, with some Yellow Catuaí coffee trees dotted here and there.
But with time, David made his case, and explained the symbiotic relationship between coffee and the various species of fruits and vegetables native to our Mantiqueira region he had chosen to carefully plant here.
David’s vision for his Sítio Travessia farm is systemic and soil-focused—the ground here is always covered with mulch and organic material. And so it makes sense that it carries the look of a forest, which, after all, is really just an organic system of constant, dynamic soil-enrichment, with each species in an ecosystem contributing to the health of the whole.
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The Savory Institute’s Land to Market Verification Aims to Regenerate 1bn Hectares of Land
Author: Elizabeth Crawford | Published: March 27, 2018
After decades of a slow build, the regenerative agriculture movement is finally taking off, thanks in part to the Savory Institute, which has launched the Land to Market verification program, which is designed to help stakeholders not just sustain the environment, but also improve it.
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Sask. launching rapid testing pilot programs in efforts to expand capacity
Marc Smith CTV News Regina Video Journalist
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Published Friday, November 27, 2020 6:12PM CST Last Updated Friday, November 27, 2020 6:55PM CST
REGINA -- Testing and contact tracing are the key parts of the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s offensive strategy against COVID-19.
The SHA is working towards providing 4,000 tests per day and in an effort to increase the province’s testing capacity, new rapid testing options are being added at health care facilities.
"We’re expanding point of care testing options into long-term care and other areas, which will support our immediate responses in those environments," SHA Emergency Operations Chief Derek Miller said during Thursday’s update.
Rapid point of care testing units will be used in hospitals in Regina, Saskatoon, Prince Albert and Moose Jaw, while rapid antigen tests will be rolled out at long-term care and personal care homes, as well as congregate living settings.
Results from the rapid tests are available in 15 minutes and will be used for screening asymptomatic staff and residents. All positive results from the rapid tests will be presumptive and need to be confirmed by a laboratory test.
This move is being applauded by Extendicare, which runs several care homes in Saskatchewan.
"We are encouraged by this effort and hopeful it will lead to widespread asymptomatic testing throughout Saskatchewan," Matthew Morgan, chief medical officer at Extendicare, said in a statement.
"We have continued to press for asymptomatic testing, and strongly believe it is critical that we implement weekly testing of all staff."
Extendicare’s Parkside facility in Regina had an outbreak declared last week after 14 residents and staff tested positive for the virus. It’s facility in Moose Jaw has also dealt with a pair of cases.
"Transmission by asymptomatic individuals is a major source of spread in long-term care" Morgan said. "Ongoing testing of staff on a regular basis is required to identify sources of the virus and remove them from the home before residents become infected."
There are currently 30 outbreaks in long-term and personal care homes in the province.
Thousand of hours needed for contact tracing
Saskatchewan health officials are urging residents to lower their number of close contacts to take pressure off contact tracers.
"We certainly need to both decrease the number of positive cases and contacts if we’re going to get ahead of this virus," SHA CEO Scott Livingstone said.
The number of close contacts per positive case has dropped from 11 to seven over the past week, however some positive cases have had as many as 150 contacts.
Our current average of 268 cases per day is leading to thousands of hours of work for contact tracers.
"If we take that over a two-week period and apply the average number of contacts per case, it creates more than 32,000 hours of work for contact tracers in a two-week period of time," Livingstone said.
The SHA is working on adding staff to perform contact tracing for at least 450 cases per day, which it says would create upwards of 72,000 hours of work for contact tracers in two weeks.
COVID-19 cases confirmed in several Regina, Saskatoon hockey teams
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Tata Communications to invest US$450 million
Tata Communications has announced fresh investment of US$450 million or about Rs 2,250 crore in new product areas. Following the announcement of its third
quarter results – the company reported a consolidated loss of Rs 153.06 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2011 against a net loss of Rs 181.38 crore during the same period last fiscal – Managing Director and CEO Vinod Kumar said the company would be providing new investment in cloud computing, mobile broadband, video telepresence, submarine cables and data centre projects.
“We are very pleased to report a healthy improvement i the operating performance of the business. Global voice has demonstrated ontinued improvement in volumes and revenues. The company’s global data business is scaling up as planned,” he said. “Over the last several years, we have worked towards changing our business mix towards data and managed services and enterprise segment. Having achieved this shift, it is our intention to grow all our business segments faster than the growth in respective markets,” he added.
Towards the end of last year, Tata Communications announced its’ ambitious five-year plan: to almost treble its data centre capacity to one million sq ft from the current 400,000 sq ft. Tata Communications has already spent Rs 1,000 crore in the last three years – to build the current capacity.
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Dietmar Hamann tips Liverpool to replace Mo Salah with Kingsley Coman transfer if star man leaves this summer
LIVERPOOL could replace Mo Salah with Kingsley Coman if the Egyptian decides to leave Anfield, claims former star Dietmar Hamann.
The prolific winger hasn't ruled out a future move to LaLiga.
And Hamann, 47, believes that the Reds will have already drawn up a list of potential replacements, if Salah, 28, does decide to move to Real Madrid or Barcelona.
He told Stadium Astro: "Two of the best wingers in the world are [Serge] Gnabry, who was at Arsenal, and Kingsley Coman – he is running riot at the moment.
“Would they want to leave Bayern Munich? I don’t think so but you don’t know.
“I don’t know if there is anything in Salah giving an interview or wanting to go to Spain. If he wants to leave, Barcelona and Madrid would be interested.
“If a player wants to leave, you have to let him go. If he has the desire to leave, it’s probably likely he will in the summer.
“There is some fantastic talent in Germany and France. I think they will have a list."
And on the Frenchman specifically, Hamann added: "For me, the best winger out there at the moment is Kingsley Coman.
“He had injury problems when he came to Munich but he got fit and scored the winner in the Champions League final.
"He’s two-footed, he’s quick, he’s very clever, great decision making and his finishing has improved a lot.
“Coman is the player. Bayern Munich aren’t interested in losing him, he’s happy.
“If Salah were to move, if he wants to go that is quite likely, that will have a knock-on effect. Liverpool will have to buy somebody. Whoever they sign, that team will need to buy a replacement. Things happen quickly.”
Salah has scored 110 goals in 175 appearances since joining Liverpool in 2017.
One of these came against Tottenham in the 2019 Champions League final, while Coman went on to bag the winner a year later against Paris Saint-Germain in Lisbon.
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Clocking in at a Cambridge conference
Posted on May 8, 2014 by Nicole Yunger Halpern
Science evolves on Facebook.
On Facebook last fall, I posted about statistical mechanics. Statistical mechanics is the physics of hordes of particles. Hordes of molecules, for example, form the stench seeping from a clogged toilet. Hordes change in certain ways but not in the reverse ways, suggesting time points in a direction. Once a stink diffuses into the hall, it won’t regroup in the bathroom. The molecules’ locations distinguish past from future.
The post attracted a comment by Ian Durham, associate professor of physics at St. Anselm College. Minutes later, we were instant-messaging about infinitely long evolutions.* The next day, I sent Ian a paper draft. His reply made me jump more than a whiff of a toilet would. Would I discuss the paper at a conference he was co-organizing?
I almost replied, Are you sure?
Then I almost replied, Yes, please!
The conference, “Eddington and Wheeler: Information and Interaction,” unfolded this March at the University of Cambridge. Cambridge employed Sir Arthur Eddington, the astronomer whose 1919 observation of starlight during an eclipse catapulted Einstein’s general relativity to fame. Decades later, John Wheeler laid groundwork for quantum information. Though aware of Eddington’s observation, I hadn’t known he’d researched stat mech. I hadn’t known his opinions about time. Time owns a high-rise in my heart; see the fussiness with which I catalogue “last fall,” “minutes later,” and “the next day.” Conference-goers shared news about time in the Old Combination Room at Cambridge’s Trinity College. Against the room’s wig-filled portraits, our projector resembled a souvenir misplaced by a time traveler.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Presenter one, Huw Price, argued that time has no arrow. It appears to in our universe: We remember the past and anticipate the future. Once a stench diffuses, it doesn’t regroup. The stench illustrates the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the assumption that entropy increases.
If “entropy” doesn’t ring a bell, never mind; we’ll dissect it in future articles. Suffice it to say that (1) thermodynamics is a branch of physics related to stat mech; (2) according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, something called “entropy” increases; (3) entropy’s rise distinguishes the past from the future by associating the former with a low entropy and the latter with a large entropy; and (4) a stench’s diffusion illustrates the Second Law and time’s flow.
In as many universes in which entropy increases (time flows in one direction), in so many universe does entropy decrease (does time flow oppositely). So, said Huw Price, postulated the 19th-century stat-mech founder Ludwig Boltzmann. Why would universes pair up? For the reason why, driving across a pothole, you not only fall, but also rise. Each fluctuation from equilibrium—from a flat road—involves an upward path and a downward. The upward path resembles a universe in which entropy increases; the downward, a universe in which entropy decreases. Every down pairs with an up. Averaged over universes, time has no arrow.
Freidel Weinert, presenter five, argued the opposite. Time has an arrow, he said, and not because of entropy.
Ariel Caticha discussed an impersonator of time. Using a cousin of MaxEnt, he derived an equation identical to Schrödinger’s. MaxEnt, short for “the Maximum Entropy Principle,” is a tool used in stat mech. Schrödinger’s Equation describes how quantum systems evolve. To draw from Schrödinger’s Equation predictions about electrons and atoms, physicists assume that features of reality resemble certain bits of math. We assume, for example, that the t in Schrödinger’s Equation represents time. A t appeared in Ariel’s twin of Schrödinger’s Equation. But Ariel didn’t assume what physicists usually assume. MaxEnt motivated his assumptions. Interpreting Ariel’s equation poses a challenge. If a variable acts like time and smells like time, does it represent time?**
A presenter uses the anachronistic projector. The head between screen and camera belongs to David Finkelstein, who helped develop the theory of general relativity checked by Eddington.
Like Ariel, Bill Wootters questioned time’s role in arguments. The co-creator of quantum teleportation wondered why one tenet of quantum physics has the form it has. Using quantum mechanics, we can’t predict certain experiments’ outcomes. We can predict probabilities—the chance that some experiment will yield Possible Outcome 1, the chance that the experiment will yield Possible Outcome 2, and so on. To calculate these probabilities, we square numbers. Why square? Why don’t the probabilities depend on cubes?
To explore this question, Bill told a story. Suppose some experimenter runs these experiments on Monday and those on Tuesday. When evaluating his story, Bill pointed out a hole: Replacing “Monday” and “Tuesday” with “eight o’clock” and “nine” wouldn’t change his conclusion. Which replacements wouldn’t change it, and which would? To what can we generalize those days? We couldn’t answer his questions on the Sunday he asked them.
Little of presentation twelve concerned time. Rüdiger Schack introduced QBism, an interpretation of quantum mechanics that sounds like “cubism.” Casting quantum physics in terms of experimenters’ actions, Rüdiger mentioned time. By the time of the mention, I couldn’t tell what anyone meant by “time.” Raising a hand, I asked for clarification.
“You are young,” Rüdiger said. “But you will grow old and die.”
The comment clanged like the slam of a door. It echoed when I followed Ian into Ascension Parish Burial Ground. On Cambridge’s outskirts, conference-goers visited Eddington’s headstone. We found Wittgenstein’s near an uneven footpath; near tangles of undergrowth, Nobel laureates’. After debating about time, we marked its footprints. Paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Here lies one whose name was writ in a conference title: Sir Arthur Eddington’s grave.
Paths touched by little glory, I learned, have perks. As Rüdiger noted, I was the greenest participant. As he had the manners not to note, I was the least distinguished and the most ignorant. Studenthood freed me to raise my hand, to request clarification, to lack opinions about time. Perhaps I’ll evolve opinions at some t, some Monday down the road. That Monday feels infinitely far off. These days, I’ll stick to evolving science—using that other boon of youth, Facebook.
*You know you’re a theoretical physicist (or a physicist-in-training) when you debate about processes that last till kingdom come.
** As long as the variable doesn’t smell like a clogged toilet.
For videos of the presentations—including the public lecture by best-selling author Neal Stephenson—stay tuned to http://informationandinteraction.wordpress.com. My presentation appears here.
With gratitude to Ian Durham and Dean Rickles for organizing “Information and Interaction” and for the opportunity to participate. With thanks to the other participants for sharing their ideas and time.
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About Nicole Yunger Halpern
I'm a theoretical physicist and an ITAMP Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (ITAMP). Catch me at ITAMP, Harvard physics, or MIT. Before moving here, I completed a physics PhD at Caltech's Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, under John Preskill's auspices. I write one article per month for Quantum Frontiers. My research consists of what I call "quantum steampunk" (https://quantumfrontiers.com/2018/07/29/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fourier-transforms/): I re-envision 19th-century thermodynamics with 21st-century quantum information theory, and I use the combination as a new lens through which to view various fields of science.
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24 thoughts on “Clocking in at a Cambridge conference”
ychen on May 8, 2014 at 6:25 pm said:
I feel that time has direction, even though I don’t have that many solid arguments as people provided in the conference. But I hope time has no direction, so that our studentness, the gut of asking any innocent questions, can always live.
The headstone makes the whole story very philosophical 🙂
Nicole Yunger Halpern on May 8, 2014 at 10:23 pm said:
I won’t be surprised if you acquire solid arguments, with years, about time. 🙂
Yes, visiting an overgrown cemetery after hearing so many speeches about entropy seemed too fitting — as though plucked from the pages of a book.
John Sidles on May 11, 2014 at 7:20 am said:
In regard to the literature of entropy, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science provides (on-line and free-as-in-freedom) an outstanding conference series that includes (in particular) Traditions and Transformations in the History of Quantum Physics (2010) and Research and Pedagogy : A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks (2013).
Superficially these works are dry, yet they are founded upon events that were filled with passion and drama. To a young writer-colleague … who will attend this years Odyssey Writing Workshop … I have commended the intertwining entropy-driven lives of Fritz Haber, his scientist-wife Clara Immerwahr, his assistant Otto Sackur, and their colleagues Hugo Tetrode, and Paul Drude (it was Sackur and Tetrode conceived the celebrated Sackur-Tetrode entropy function, that first determined the numerical value of hbar).
Of these five researchers — whose personal and professional lives were richly intertwined — two died by suicide, two died young, and one lived to experience professional triumph and devastating spiritual tragedy. Their saga amounts to a “Big Bang Theory” … for adults!
The web page “Founders of thermodynamics and suicide” documents many further such examples, and David Goodstein hints at this dark history in the introduction to his textbook States of Matter (1975):
“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics. Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously.”
What’s going on? One consideration is that “Thermodynamics is 21st century physics that fell accidentally into the 19th century”, which is why “Every mathematician knows that it is impossible to understand any elementary course in thermodynamics,” and also why “the age in which we live is the one in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again.” (to first borrow from Ed Witten, and then quote literally from Vladimir Arnold and Richard Feynman).
Nowadays we are slowly translating our understanding of thermodynamics into the natural language of modern mathematics. This process is “dissolving the boundaries between research and pedagogy”. and also helping us to appreciate “Otto Sackur’s pioneering exploits in the quantum theory of gases” (the quoted phrases are the titles of articles by Massimiliano Badino in the above-mentioned Max Planck Institute proceedings).
This history teaches plainly that today as in the past, the ongoing process of quantum-theoretic conception and exposition is fated to excite strong individual passions, and fated also to touch upon the most fundamental strategic challenges of our era.
This is GOOD!
Exercise Watch Naomi Oreskes’ 18-minute lecture “Scientific Consensus and the Role and Character of Scientific Dissent,” which was given as the summary lecture (at 8:00:10 of the video) of last week’s Pontifical Academy workshop Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature: Our Responsibility.
While watching, mentally substitute “quantum thermodynamical science” for “climate science.”
It’s evident — isn’t it? — from Oreskes’ historical and economic analysis, that a free, prosperous and secure planet, with ten billion people upon it, must deploy technologies that press against the limits to efficiency, speed, and energy economy that quantum thermodynamics imposes.
Conclusion We had better get busy and grapple effectively with our century’s challenges and opportunities! And we had better be ready to deploy the vastly powerful, vastly beautiful, vastly open-ended mathematical armamentarium that Arnold and Witten (and an army of late-20th-century dynamicists) has so fortunately created for our generation.
And hopefully, our generation’s quantum research efforts (both fundamental and applied) can have a happier outcome than the all-too-similar efforts of the generation of Fritz Haber, Clara Immerwahr, Otto Sackur, Hugo Tetrode, and Paul Drude.
Errata Historian/scientist Naomi Oreskes’ lecture starts at 08:07:10 (not 08:00:10 as given above; the links begin the video at the correct time). The title-slide of the talk, which is “The role of scientists: what is ‘our responsibility’?”, differs from the title given in the programme, which is “Scientific consensus and the role and character of scientific dissent.”
Oreskes’ concluding slide is commended generally to the consideration STEM researchers in general, and to young quantum researchers in particular:
If business as usual is not solving our problems, then the time has come to change the way we do business. Maybe the time has come to change the way we do science, as well.
Perhaps Feynman’s observation, “We are struck by the very large number of different physical viewpoints and widely different mathematical formulations that are all equivalent to one another”, can apply both to the science that we do and to the ways that we do science.
Nicole Yunger Halpern on May 12, 2014 at 8:58 pm said:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and the references, John. The subject has a rich history indeed. And the “Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics” quote makes for a memorable first lecture in an undergraduate stat-phys class. 🙂
Nicole Yunger Halpern “The subject [thermodynamics] has a rich history indeed.”
Nicole, STEM students should be aware too that
• Multiple pioneers of quantum dynamical science — including Dirac, Schwinger, Feynman, von Neumann, and Onsager — worked on thermodynamics (particularly on transport dynamics).
• Yet regrettably their works are held as state-secrets and/or trade-secrets even to the present day.
• This secrecy has severely impeded the evolution of quantum thermodynamical understanding and pedagogy toward greater naturality, universality, and physicality.
• And so there is a wide-open opportunity — a wonderfully transgressive opportunity — for the present generation of young quantum researchers to “dissolve the boundaries between research and pedagogy“ (in Massimiliano Badino’s useful phrase):
“When studied from a historical perspective, a textbook is not only a record of established theories, but it may also reflect internal tensions of the general dynamics of knowledge. A textbook actively selects and organizes its material, a process that is never completely neutral. Research considerations might enter this process and lead to a fundamental reshaping of the pedagogical tradition.”
Present Realities Across mathematical, engineering, and medical disciplines broadly, Badino’s 21st century “dissolving of boundaries” is well underway, in that a “fundamental reshaping of the pedagogical tradition” is irretrievably underway in these STEM discipliens.
Potential Tragedies It would be regrettable — as a tragically lost opportunity of students — were quantum physics pedagogy to lag behind, leaving students unconscious of the restrictive bounds to cognition (mathematical cognition especially) that are deplorably imposed by the 20th century’s cherished-but-obsolescent quantum physics pedagogy.
A Modest Proposal “Let’s ban Feynman” should be the slogan of every 21st century undergraduate physics society!
John Sidles on May 19, 2014 at 1:32 pm said:
In further reference to the category of enterprises that might be called “Dissolving the boundaries between research and ⟨name the discipline⟩”, Dick Lipton and Ken Regan’s weblog Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP provides a link to “Interview with Preda Mihăilescu” (ECM Newsletter, June 2008).
Mihăilescu’s “dissolved boundary” is between pure mathematics and applied/enterprise mathematics (and Mihăilescu’s rich personal history contributes greatly to the interest of his interview).
toyuniverses01 on May 19, 2014 at 2:18 pm said:
Reversible cellular automata (RCA) provide a nice laboratory to play with the ideas of microscopic and macroscopic time. You can think of RCA as discrete classical field theories, with an invertible finite-state local dynamics. Often these have been called classical lattice gases in their physical applications—there are of course quantum versions as well. All sorts of physical phenomena have been captured in classical RCA models, including realistic hydrodynamics (rotationally invariant on a large scale), electrodynamics, complex materials simulations, even arrays of blobs with attractions and repulsions and momentum (and angular momentum) conservation, allowing composite structures that act like crystals made of “atoms”, with realistic elasticity, vibration, rotation, temperature, etc. Very rich RCA universes are possible.
If you start an RCA from a finite random initial state, half of the bits one and half zero, there is no large-scale evolution: a simple counting argument tells you that most random-looking states have to turn into other random-looking states under N steps of an invertible dynamics. If instead you start from a low-entropy state (a pattern of bits that can be substantially compressed by gzip, say), you can have a rich and interesting evolution, with growing complexity and structure and pattern at both large and small scales.
Now imagine there exists a toy universe of this kind that, if you could make it large enough, would support the evolution of stars and planets and biology and intelligence. Someone living in such a universe might, at some point, write a blog post about time and entropy. If we run the simulation long enough, eventually the whole finite-state system reaches a maximum entropy state, and in fact spends most of its time in such states. But the system is finite, so eventually it runs out of new states and must repeat a state.
Because the dynamics is invertible, every state has a unique predecessor and a unique successor: each evolution is a single closed cycle. Starting from any initial state, we will see no states repeated until we see the initial state again. Thus it’s easy to find out exactly what the end of the evolution looks like, just before the system “fluctuates” back into the initial state: just run backwards from the initial state! In this case, we again see an evolution from a low entropy initial state, with increasing entropy, with the same chemistry and stars and planets. But unless the initial state was time symmetric, we get a new set of stars and planets and blog-post authors running in this direction. Now if we imagine continuing to run in this direction for an unimaginably long time, we eventually get all the way around the cycle and see the blog post on time and entropy being unwritten, and watch the first evolution unwind back to the initial state.
Some observations. First, note that for macroscopic creatures living in this toy universe, macroscopic time always flows in the direction of increase in entropy: this is the direction in which events have macroscopic causes. Thus for half of the time evolution, the direction of microscopic time (i.e., the direction in which we perform the underlying cellular automata dynamics) is opposite to that of macroscopic time. It’s also noteworthy that late in the second simulation, as we watch the first evolution unwind, books appear before their authors exist. If we stop once we have reached a state containing a copy of the blog post on time and entropy surviving from after its author’s death, we can read the post without ever simulating the author! From our point of view running the simulation, the post was written by an accumulation of microscopic correlations.
Of course there’s no way for me to tell which way microscopic time is flowing as I write this, since I can only remember backwards in the direction of macroscopic causes, regardless of which way this invertible sequence of states is being computed microscopically…
Thanks for sharing the model. Cellular automata have been on my to-learn-about list for a few years. Though I don’t fancy the idea of the post’s being unwritten. 🙂
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Top New Openings of Early 2018 in Oakville, Burlington, and Milton
Published on April 27, 2018, 5:01 pm
This year has been a great one in terms of new restaurant openings across Oakville, Burlington, and Milton.
While Halton isn’t necessarily the first area to come to mind when someone hears the term “food scene,” anyone who overlooks these not-so-sleepy suburbs is missing out on a truly unique, diverse and eclectic mix of food options.
There truly is something for everyone.
Here’s a look at some of the hottest new openings of 2018 so far.
Industria Pizzeria & Bar
Burlington IKEA offering takeout options of beloved restaurant menu items
Popular Burlington restaurant closing its doors for good
Oakville location part of Whole Foods poppy ban
Three words, Burlington peeps: all-dressed pizza. The city now has a slice of la belle province with a chic new restaurant and bar that’s large, airy and fun. Ottawa already has one at Lansdowne Park. But this is the first location outside of the Hwy. 417 corridor – formidably penetrating the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) market – and that’s something worth bragging about, no? Industria Pizzeria & Bar, also known as Industria Brasserie Italienne, is in the former Fraticelli’s location. The menu starts with small bites, or sfizi, such as the Salmon Tartare Bomb and Grilled Lamb Chops. Salmon arrives with green onion, rice krispies, sesame seeds, and coriander aioli. Then there’s the most popular dish: Gnocchi Poutine, which arrives with a sweet demi-glace. Pizza, naturally, is served up with a pair of scissors, just like Nonna would’ve wanted. There’s a separate section on the menu with white pizza (minus the tomato sauce) — the Industria Pizza comes with beef, yellow cheddar, iceberg lettuce, onions, pickles, Industria sauce, and sesame seeds. We went with All-Dressed because, MONTREAL (if you’re unfamiliar, it’s typically got pepperoni, mushrooms and green peppers … Industria’s comes with red peppers, though). For carnvivores, there’s a 100 per cent Beef & Capicollo burger, ribs, and steak. Those in search of libations can find themselves at the bottom of a vino list offering up everything from chianti to an Australian shiraz. The interior is what you’d expect from Montreal: super-stylish and, well, industrial. Overall, the atmosphere is casual, with chic lighting fixtures and friendly service. There’s also a gelato bar with flavours you’re accustomed to (chocolate, lemon, pistachio). We even spotted a vegan option! Desserts are made in-house and gelato flavours change daily. We can’t wait to return for a drink on the patio — keep in mind, they don’t take reservations so expect a lineup on weekends.
Ricarda’s
There’s a bicycle by the entrance in downtown Oakville and an interior you’ll love. Plus, there’s jazz with Sunday brunch. A popular Toronto-based Mediterranean bakery, cafe, and restaurant is now open at 219 Lakeshore Rd. E. Ricarda’s offers up everything from flatbreads to the aforementioned weekend feast, plus dinner and cocktails. There are plenty of vegetarian options, including custom salads. The Quinoa and Spinach burger is a hit, featuring balsamic-glazed portobello mushrooms, pepper jam, and smoked cheese (there’s also feta in the burger). It’s served with a green field tabbouleh salad or shoestring fries.
The restaurant’s Toronto location is on Peter St., right in the entertainment district and boasts a substantial food menu. It’s best known for its upscale-yet-unpretentious vibe and vast array of eats such as quiche, flatbread, pizza, and wine. The new Oakville menu is curated and early best-sellers include the Carnaroli Risotto with black truffle oil, wild mushrooms, aged balsamic glaze, and hibiscus sea salt flakes (I will legit try just about anything with hibiscus). Appetizers include Coriander & Cumin Crusted Yellow Fin Tuna (with quail eggs, green beans, nicoise olives); Provimi Veal Carpaccio (arugula, truffle honey, feta, green apple); and a Candied Walnut Salad (which includes my favourite: figs!).
Healthy bowls are offered for the gym rats in your life: Israeli Couscous Mix; Grain Spelt; and Yellow Lentil & Chickpea Salad are among the choices. For the carnivores, the Canadian Five Spice Lamb Shank features garlic mashed potatoes, heirloom carrots and cipollini onions. Then there’s a seven-ounce Grilled Flat Iron Beef with leek confit, nicoise olives, piquillo pine nuts salsa, and butternut milk whipped parnship. Ricarda’s replaces Ristorante Julia, which closed earlier this year. With its airy, brass-heavy interior and great service, it will no doubt satisfy locals who can never have enough fantastic Mediterranean eats.
West End Social
This downtown Bronte spot means Oakville’s nightlife is about to get lit. Or at least slightly more legit. A new bar/restaurant has made its debut. West End Social is in the former Coach & Four location near the corner of Bronte Rd. and Lakeshore Rd. W. The legendary pub closed last October. Catch Hospitality Group – which owns many of Oakville’s top restos, including Cucci, Plank, Tavolo, and the Firehall – has taken over the location at 2432 Lakeshore Rd. W. The space was completely gutted. West End Social is currently taking shape and it’s being billed as a piano bar — this means there’s live music plus bites and cocktails. Aesthetics are important, so let’s talk looks: the lounge features a 25-foot bar, custom banquette seating, and gorgeous lighting. It’ll be open until 2 a.m., unlike most Oakville spots. In terms of tunes, live piano will be featured Thursday through Saturday with DJ’s spinning late into the night. As for bites, small, shareable plates are being served up. And while the resto has been undergoing its makeover, it’s been getting a lot of buzz locally. A visit here is a perfect way to simultaneously get your vitamin C-infused bevvies and shorten your Uber ride home.
Photos courtesy of West End Social
Boon Burger
An Oakville burger war is about to going down. A hot-yet-casual dining experience just opened on March 9 … it’s creative and fun, much like a very nearby competitor. It started in Winnipeg, made its way to the west Greater Toronto Area (first in Burlington — Hamilton’s Ottawa St. location opened last month). Boon Burger Cafe – which proves you don’t necessarily need meat to create a phenomenally satisfying meal – is opening a location in the Fortino’s plaza at Dundas St. and Neyagawa Blvd. That’s in Vegebitez territory — this means the ever-popular vegan movement is only going to gain traction in town.
Boon Burger currently has a downtown Burlington location, where their Cowboy burger is the top seller. Dude, it’s beyond delicious. Made from scratch, burgers are handmade, grilled, baked, and served on a whole wheat bun. New items have recently been introduced to the menu, including a round – not square – bun, poutine, and pizza. This Canadian chain, or “world’s first vegan burger cafe,” has mastered selling plant-based junk food for the masses. Hot sauce and other (less important) condiments are already on the table, surrounded by a massive roll of brown paper towels.
Full of farm animals, the environment is quirky; friendly staff wear black T-shirts reading ‘boonivore’ on the back. Boon Burger has also scored bragging rights for Novemburger — that’s an annual burger festival which raises money for the United Way of Halton & Hamilton.It’s time to get your eat on, Oakville.
The popular Streetsville Neapolitan wood oven pizza restaurant that’s known for its rustic-chic interior, homemade southern Italian dishes and exclusive Italian wine selection, officially opened its doors in Halton at 22 Ontario St. S., across from the Milton Mall, in a former Re/Max realty office. Finally. It’s an ideal place to break all of your new year’s resolutions. With authentic Neapolitan wood oven pizza, the menu focuses on authentic Southern Italian cuisine. A variety of legit Napoletana pizzas include the Margherita Pizza, topped with San Marzano sauce, mozzarella fiore di latte, fresh basil and extra virgin olive oil. You’ll also find Romano pizza and homemade pastas, all made in-house. The Maccheroni alla Carbonara pasta dish includes pancetta, egg yolks, pecorino romano, and black pepper.
The menu also includes appetizers, fish and meat entrees, and desserts. The mozzarealla di bufala, and parmigiano-reggiano cheeses are some of the ingredients they use imported directly from Italy. Goodfellas boasts an extensive Italian wine selection which pairs beautifully with great eats. Meanwhile, the Georgetown location is now slated to open in summer 2018. It’ll be at 29 Main St. S. in the former TDCanada Trust branch. And you’ll definitely notice the financial influence in the design scheme. “We’re going to keep the safes there,” Rick Taddeo from Goodfellas’ head office operations previously told inhalton.com, adding “the vault will be a dining room, you know, six to eight people. It’ll be nice — nice decor.” The Georgetown resto will also see a rooftop patio “along with a convenient elevator” in addition to the main floor and basement dining areas. Goodfellas’ current locations are in Mississauga’s Streetsville and City Centre neighbourhoods, plus Toronto’s Old Mill. “We’re very familiar with the west end” of the Greater Toronto Area, said Taddeo. All menus – and price points – will be identical, said Taddeo.
Trish Juice
There’s beets, spinach, kale, and spectacular customer service in south Oakville. And it’s not pretentious or overpriced. A brand new juice bar, Trish Juice, is now open along Lakeshore Rd. W. (meaning there’s a good chance this cute resto might be near your home or work). It’s a great breakfast, lunch, or light dinner option, especially after a particularly punishing training session in the weight room. Or if your hands are full with a baby — the owner will stop what she’s doing to help a mom with a stroller get in and out the door.
But back to the bevvies. I love me some fresh juice, and the beet juice, with carrot and lemon, didn’t disappoint. Don’t get me wrong, I’d rather eat my calories than drink them but there’s one exception and it’s a real juice made right before my eyes, full of brightly hued fruit and vegetables, poured into a tall glass. If you appreciate such healthy but tasty concoctions (the cranky old guy who runs my gym most certainly will!), you will want to check it out. Trish Juice is in the former K.B. Rugs spot. You’ll find hip, trendy items such as Avocado Toast, (we tried the Hummus Toast, topped with alfalfa sprouts — yum). The name may sound familiar — if so, it’s because you’ve seen it in Brampton and Mississauga — both locations opened in 2017. This independently owned and operated juice bar will not only serve fresh juice, but also smoothies (including bowls), milkshakes, cocktails, salads, wraps, and quick health shots.
Even better news? All menu items are under $15 — so it’s perfect for anyone looking for a healthy, affordable lunch. Exhibit A: Avocado Toast – served on rye bread – is $2.99. Exhibit B: Salads and wraps are $5.99. Portions aren’t stingy.
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The scandal in the OPCW
The Hugely Important OPCW Scandal Keeps Unfolding. Here’s Why No One’s Talking About It
By Caitlin Johnstone
November 18, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is now hemorrhaging evidence that the US and its allies deceived the world once again about yet another military intervention, which should be a front-page story all over the world. Yet if you looked at American news media headlines you’d think the only thing that matters right now is indulging the childish fantasy that Donald Trump might somehow magically be removed from office via supermajority consensus in a majority-Republican Senate.
CounterPunch has published an actual bombshell of a report by journalist Jonathan Steele containing many revelations about the OPCW scandal which were previously unknown to the public. Steele is an award-winning reporter who worked as a senior foreign correspondent for The Guardian back before that outlet was purged of all critical thinkers on western imperialism; he first waded into the OPCW controversy last month with a statement made on the BBC revealing the existence of a second whistleblower on the organisation’s investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria.
If you haven’t been following this story you can click here for a timeline of events to fully appreciate the significance of these new revelations about the Douma incident, but just to quickly recap, in April of last year reports surfaced that dozens of civilians had been killed in that city by chemical weapons used by the Syrian government under President Bashar al-Assad. This immediately drew skepticism from people who’ve been paying attention to the narrative manipulation campaign against Syria, since Assad had already won the battle for Douma and had no strategic reason to employ banned weapons there knowing that there would be a military strike in retaliation from western powers. True to form, a few days later the US, France and the UK launched airstrikes on the Syrian government.
The OPCW released its final report on Douma in March of this year, but that report has been contradicted by two separate whistleblowers from the Douma investigation. The first surfaced in May of this year with a leaked Engineering Assessment claiming the chlorine cylinders found at the crime scene were unlikely to have been dropped from the air, and that it was far more likely that they were manually placed there, i.e. staged, by the occupying opposition forces in Douma. The second whistleblower came forward last month with a day-long presentation in Brussels before a panel of experts assembled by the whistleblowing defense group Courage Foundation, the findings of which were published by WikiLeaks.
Jonathan Steele@steelejourno
Chemical weapons watchdog accused by its own inspectors: see https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/15/the-opcw-and-douma-chemical-weapons-watchdog-accused-of-evidence-tampering-by-its-own-inspectors/ …
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This new report by Steele focuses on information provided to him by the second whistleblower, who is going by the pseudonym “Alex” out of fear for his safety. The information provided by Alex has turned out to be far more incendiary even than the leaked Engineering Assessment. Here are seven major highlights (hyperlinks go to the relevant article text they reference):
1- US government officials attempted to pressure OPCW investigators into believing that the Assad government was responsible for the Douma incident. The officials were placed in the same room as the investigators by the OPCW’s then-cabinet chief Bob Fairweather, which the investigators of course felt was a grossly inappropriate breach of the OPCW’s commitment to impartiality. For the record the US government already has a known history of bullying the OPCW, an ostensibly independent and international body, to force it to allow the advancement of pre-existing regime change agendas.
2- Alex reports that internal dissent on the OPCW’s official publications on the Douma incident was far more ubiquitous than previously known, saying “Most of the Douma team felt the two reports on the incident, the Interim Report and the Final Report, were scientifically impoverished, procedurally irregular and possibly fraudulent.”
3- All but one member of the team agreed with the Engineering Assessment that it was far more likely that the chlorine cylinders were manually placed on the scene by people on the ground.
4- Ian Henderson, the South African ballistics expert whose name was signed on the leaked Engineering Assessment, seems to have been responsible for leaking it. Whether Henderson himself was involved in the leak was not previously known to the public.
5- Investigators experienced pressures against saying anything about their mounting findings that no chemical attack occurred, with Alex calling it “the elephant in the room which no-one dared mention explicitly”.
6- The OPCW’s Final Report on the Douma incident explicitly claimed the investigation found “reasonable grounds that the use of a toxic chemical as a weapon took place. This toxic chemical contained reactive chlorine. The toxic chemical was likely molecular chlorine.” Yet according to Alex the levels of chlorinated organic chemicals found on the scene “were no higher than you would expect in any household environment” and were in fact “much lower than what would be expected in environmental samples”, comparable to or even lower than the World Health Organisation’s recommended chlorine levels for drinking water. This extremely crucial fact was actively and repeatedly omitted from the OPCW’s public reporting in a way Alex describes as “deliberate and irregular”.
7- Steele mentioned last month that he’d unsuccessfully reached out to the OPCW for comment on the second OPCW whistleblower’s revelations, and in his new article he confirms that the organisation is still dodging him, with both Fairweather and the OPCW’s media office refusing to respond. La Repubblica‘s Stefania Maurizi has also been reporting that the OPCW is dodging the press on this important matter. The OPCW did respond to press inquiries after the first whistleblower surfaced in May, but it appears that someone has given the order to cease doing so with the claims of this second whistleblower.
Aaron Maté
✔@aaronjmate
This story -- 2 whistleblowers accusing OPCW of suppressing evidence, under US pressure, to reach a conclusion that justified US strikes on Syria --
should be a global scandal. Instead it's widely ignored, except for a principled few like @caitoz who've called it from the start: https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1195679221546270720 …
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz
Replying to @caitoz
Wow. There it is. US government officials told OPCW investigators what results to find in their own investigation. The OPCW is a supposedly independent investigative body, but the US government has a known history of bullying it to advance US agendas: https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-usas-history-of-controlling-the-opcw-to-promote-regime-change-7a965bbe78c6 …
If there were any correlation between newsworthiness and actual news coverage, the OPCW scandal would be making front-page international headlines today. Instead, the mounting evidence that the US and its allies committed a war crime based on false information and that a supposedly independent watchdog organisation helped them cover it up barely registers. Why is that?
If you ask Syria narrative managers like The Guardian‘s George Monbiot or The Intercept‘s Mehdi Hasan, this isn’t a big story because even if Assad wasn’t responsible for the Douma incident, it doesn’t matter because he’s still a very bad man. But this is an extremely intellectually dishonest obfuscation on their part, because this has nothing to do with whether or not Bashar al-Assad is a nice person. The OPCW covering up its findings exculpating the Syrian government on Douma wouldn’t be significant because it would mean that Assad is a good person, it would be significant because it would mean the US deceived the world about yet another military intervention. And it would make it much harder for the US to manufacture public support for other military interventions in the future.
Which is of course the real reason the political/media class is ignoring the OPCW scandal. Military violence is the glue that holds the US-centralized empire together, which means it is of utmost strategic importance that that empire retain the ability to manufacture consent for military violence going forward. Because plutocrat-controlled news media outlets are set up in such a way that their employees know their careers depend on protecting the empire upon which the plutocratic class is built, the OPCW scandal is an obvious no-go for anyone who wishes to remain in the business.
The only way this story will get mainstream coverage is if it goes viral without the assistance of the mainstream media, at which point the propagandists will be forced to report on it to save face and begin the near-impossible task of trying to regain control of the narrative. This will only happen if enough of us work together to shove the OPCW scandal into mainstream attention. I think this would end up being a very good thing for the world.
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Regicide
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Game billboard for King's novel Regicide
Regicide: The Rise and Fall of the Vice Kings is a book and film in the Saints Row series.
For the "Regicide" achievement,
see Achievements in Saints Row
After Saints Row, but before Saints Row 2, Benjamin King writes a book titled Regicide,[1] also referred to as Regicide: The Rise and Fall of the Vice Kings,[2] which, according to civilians, is very inspiring.
During Saints Row 2, a movie adaptation is being filmed and King is being portrayed, in the game universe, by Michael Clarke Duncan,[3][4] who is King's voice actor for the first game in real-life.
Regicide radio commercial
In Saints Row: The Third, there is a radio commercial about the movie.[2]
In Saints Row 2, Male Voice 2 has an Idle line along the lines of "I should read King's book. I wonder if I'm in it", while Female Voice 3 claims to have read it during "Laundry Day" when asked about money laundering: "I read about it in Ben King's book; ya buy, ya sell, it doesn't seem too hard". Civilian sometimes random say, "You read Ben King's book? He said some nice things about you". A stripper with the "aspiring author" personality sometimes claims that she ghostwrote King's book. Warren Williams is apparently a much more minor character in the book, as several college students NPCs randomly complain that he is barely in it.
In Saints Row IV, Benjamin King attempts to write a science fiction follow-up to the book and has Playa cause chaos in Virtual Steelport to inspire him. After Playa does so, King assures he will credit them in the back of the book.[5] In Benjamin King's Romance, Playa sheepishly asks King to sign their copy of the book; it is the only Romance in the game that does not lead to a sexual encounter. Future Shaundi's Text Adventure in How the Saints Save Christmas says that King used money he made from the book and moved to a remote island.[6]
In Saints Row 2, Playa tells Julius that the latter should have dropped his flags and wrote a book like King, referring to Regicide.[7]
The definition of "regicide" is the murder of a monarch, such as a King.
The title of the book shares its name with an Achievement which is unlocked in Saints Row after defeating the Vice Kings.
The image of King used in the billboard is an aged version of King's Saints Row promo artwork.[8]
Asha and King
Asha: "You know Mr. King, I read your book when it came out."
Ben King: "Really? Given your line of work, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts."
Asha: "Well it was really incisive, I could see how others might benefit from your teaching."
Ben King: "But, not you?"
Asha: "You teach diplomacy Ben, I get called in when diplomacy fails."
Ben King: "Heh, I guess that's true."
King and Cyrus
Cyrus: "I have to say, Mr. King, I'm a big fan."
Ben King: "Thank you."
Cyrus: "Your book, the story behind your rise and fall in the Vice Kings, the message it gives to those caught in the criminal lifestyle, it really moved me."
Ben King: "I'm glad it did."
Cyrus: "It was instrumental in pitching the STAG initiative to the brass, in fact you might say without you the Special Tactical Anti Gang unit wouldn't exist."
Ben King: "That's... great, yeah."
Phillipe and King
Ben King: "You know, I was like you once, I thought I could take down the Saints and carry on with business as usual."
Phillipe: "Is that so?"
Ben King: "But if there's one thing I learned, it's that the Saints can't be stopped. I watched them take down gang after gang in Stilwater, and nothing, not even the Ultor Corporation could put them in the ground."
Phillipe: "Perhaps it would have been more useful if your book warned against going toe-to-toe with the Saints instead of spouting all that propaganda about the dangers of organised crime."
Ben King: "You know, that wouldn't have been a bad idea."
Phillipe: "Unbelievable."
Roddy and King
Roddy Piper: "You're the same Ben King who wrote Regicide, right?"
Ben King: "That's right, based on my life. Did you read it?"
Roddy Piper: "Nah, saw the movie, though, it was good."
Ben King: "Well, thank you."
Roddy Piper: "Guy who played you sounds nothing like you, though."
Veteran Child and King
Veteran Child: "Hey, been meaning to tell you that I read your book, it's really good."
Ben King: "Thank you very much."
Veteran Child: "No, thank you. You're like an empire god, you know all the tricks. I learned a lot. That's how I built a legion of loyal followers."
Ben King: "I think the addictive properties of Loa Dust started things for that."
Veteran Child: "That hurts man. I was talking about the dedicated listeners to my show on GenX FM."
Ben King: "Oh. Heh. Sorry about that. I keep forgetting you're an actual DJ."
Billboard from Saints Row 2
Book cover from Saints Row IV
Saints Row promo of King
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On the limits of food autonomy – rethinking choice and privacy
Richard Twine
This chapter explores various norms that deflect critical scrutiny of peoples' eating habits.
The Rise of Critical Animal Studies - From the Margins to the Centre
S Jenkins, Richard Twine
Accepted/In press - 8 Feb 2014
https://www.routledge.com/The-Rise-of-Critical-Animal-Studies-From-the-Margins-to-the-Centre/Taylor-Twine/p/book/9780415858571
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Twine, R. (Accepted/In press). On the limits of food autonomy – rethinking choice and privacy. In S. Jenkins, & R. Twine (Eds.), The Rise of Critical Animal Studies - From the Margins to the Centre (pp. 225-240). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Rise-of-Critical-Animal-Studies-From-the-Margins-to-the-Centre/Taylor-Twine/p/book/9780415858571
Twine, Richard. / On the limits of food autonomy – rethinking choice and privacy. The Rise of Critical Animal Studies - From the Margins to the Centre. editor / S Jenkins ; Richard Twine. London : Routledge, 2014. pp. 225-240
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Global, national and ethnic identities. European identity empty conception or possible dream?
Marta Siurek
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
e-mail: stojchevap@phls.uni-sofia.bg
Abstract: The essay is an attempt to present different kinds of identity: global identity, national identity, ethnic identity, and European identity. The focus is on the explanation and interpretation of the manifestations of the identity trough scientific point of view and across personal experience.
Keywords: global identity, national identity, ethnic identity, European identity.
In my essay I would like to consider issue connected with European identity. I want to give an answer for essential question, what does it mean to have European identity. My work is based on paper written by Anthony D. Smith about “National Identity and the idea of European union” [1]. Fist I want to make a statements according to theories of researcher and then explain it from different points of view. I would like to express my individual opinion as a first level, Polish national point of view as a second level and European Union perceived as form of politics and structures connections as a third level. This paper is aim at consider the problem if European identity is possible to exist, of course not now but in longer period of time, I would like to approximate to the answer and also plumb in this problem in my own advisement.
Global, European, national,and ethnicidentities
According to Anthony D. Smith theory[2] we have different types of identity. First one, cultural identity base on collective continuity, memories and common beliefs. Which is mean that people perceive their national identity like something what they share among the whole community. This elements, such as history, traditions, language, religion, origin, are essential components which are creating bonds between citizens and of course establish sense of national identity. It is hard to disagree with this statement. For me, when I think about my home country, I see national emblems, legends passed since ages to the new generations, polish literature and of course history. So my thinking covers specification couched by author, because I said about sharing myths, generalized culture and common bond of mass.
But if we accept this theory we cannot say that something like one, general European identity exist. At first we don’t use one, common language, which is familiar for people who live in all united countries. Of course we could say about English, like a new language of Europe, but still if we go to some countries, we might have problems to communicate with local people. In my opinion creating one language for all twenty eight countries is impossible. National language has been existed since ages and they have very strong local traditions, most of the countries are proud of this part of their culture, also physically, it is inconceivable to learn people a new language against their will. But this is only my personal opinion, let have a moment to think about it in national perspective. Polish people, because this is an example, which I would like to follow with reference to nation, are traditionalist. In polish educational system still is maintained memory about the biggest authors, such as Mickiewicz [3], Słowacki[4]and many others. Children since primary school are taught, not only about grammar, syntax or flexion, but also about past polish mentality. Through the language we are able to teach people more than words, we can teach them how to perceive the world, we can devolved a part of world point of view and of course mentality. So when you can speak in some language it also means that automatically you can understand the way of thinking of whole society. This makes us feel very attached to the language, because it creates universal, spiritual bond between speakers. That is why I cannot imagine substituting national language by general European one. Because this would be total contradiction for substantial role of language for the nation. But looking at that problem from perspective of European Union as a structures of united countries, we can see, that one language exist. We can see it acts, laws, pacts or sessions leaded in English, although with this last one I would not be so sure, because deputies still need interpreters to take part in deliberation.
Secondly we have to think about history, does it exist history of European Union? [5] I am not saying about history of Europe as a continent, but as collaborative history of all united countries. I can find the answer for this question, because this itself, does not exist. People among the Europe cannot feel any connection according to common history, because every region has own one. For me the most universal for European citizens could be the II World War, scale of this phenomenon was that wide, that almost every one experienced it. But here we have a problem almost does not mean all. I do not want to detailed it, but memory about this happenings is different for every nation. Some of nations, like Poland, were suffering much more acutely than others, so also they can made a statement that atrocity of this time affected them more than others. Without doubt I can say that war is long- haul happening, but for me it was mainly war between only couple of countries, such as Germany, Russia and Poland. With our national point of view, this is certain part of our history, till this day we worship heroes, dates and sacrifice of people from that time. None of polish people think about suffer of all Europe, in this particular case, we always think about our polish suffering. Although the II World War is very sad and harmful part of history it is inseparable associated with polish history in general. But when we think about point of view all of European Union countries, we can say that we have some common history, which is union history itself. Because we can say about first date when the unification idea was born, we can also say about another dates when this idea became true and next countries join into this new type of order. Just we have to ask a question, is this few events enough to be perceived as a common history which could be accepted and shared among society? Do people feel the connection with this stages of formatting European Union? […] This question should be asked for many to find out about it, I can say, that honestly I do not consider this little part from past as a solid background, which could be named as a history of EU.
Thirdly let think about traditions, as we all know traditions are strongly associated with customs which have substantial meanings for society, were accepted by all people and have some origin in past. So if we think about time period for EU traditions we have to count it since 1952, when founding countries decided to create this union. Whereas that customs from particular countries have hundreds of years this is not an adequate time to shape a new habits. Another important case is acceptance of people, without doubt introducing new traditions among variety of all old one, it is a challenge. Let just assume, that the new custom for all EU would be Day of European Union [6], with singing anthem or marching with flag. I don’t think that for me this day had some special meaning, at least for first couple of years, and I am sure that the same would be with polish society, who is well-known of numerous of national holidays, which celebration is a part of long time tradition. Another problem pose finding this customs among variety of different countries. What could be an universal tradition for people from way different regions, cultures, religions? How we could combine this all elements into something universal? For the whole EU this could be an logistic problem, the easiest part is of course formulated act about new holiday, but should it be also day off from work? I think dealings like this take a long period to establish one, final version and enforce it. And we cannot forget that is only one universal traditions, which could quickly disappear among lots of other, national or global customs, so in this case creating a new system of habits, would be very expensive and long-lasting proceeding, which is in the terms of whole union inviable.
Another component which I found very important is religion, honestly I think this is individual issue for every person, but we have to say that people from one religion can go along better that from different ones. That is why in European countries mainly we have one dominant religion and couple of small. I am considering myself as an atheist, but Poland is consider to be a catholic state with great religion influence for society and not officially for administrative structures. So constituting one religion for all united countries is not only impossible but also incompatible with EU politics, which let me reminded, is politics of tolerance. That is why we have to reject this characteristic on the grounds of personal values, despite it is one of components that build identity.
The final case in this paragraph is origin, as we know Europe continent, is taken up as a residence of many people with different origin. So this mix is not allowing to us to determinate which one is clearly European? First we don’t have right to evaluate it and second we do not have this knowledge. So if we assume that one of ingredients of identity is origin, we cannot say about one EU origin. Let me give an example Spanish people have Roman origin and Pole have Slavic origin in consequence we have big differentiation among countries which create the union. With origin case is combined also language, customs and other features, which we know from previous paragraphs are very hard to unite.
To sum up this theory that identity is connected with cultural meanings I have say that I am full doubts about possibility to create fully valuable European identity. I gave a lots of examples that in some cases, theoretically it is impossible to have an EU identity because of the lack of background, meaningful differences and lots of other, but despite this examples we all know that during the whole years of existence this creature, people became European in their own minds. Also I cannot say that I am not equating myself as an European, so here we have interesting phenomenon about it, which I will try to explain in further paragraphs. The solution of this case is another statement created by Anthony D. Smith [7], that people with the years shaped so many new identities connected not only with their social status or religion, but also with community, state or ethnic, that they are able to have multiple identity. So right now still we can consider national identity as the strongest and most important one, but the truth is that this is not the only one. People may identify themselves with nation, but depending on circumstances, they might also identify themselves with ethnic group, religious group, economic group and et cetera. The variety of identities coexist in coherent way, they do not exclude or interfere, this identities just occur when situation requires it. So this is why although European identity do not fulfil all characteristic for classical association, still is identity acknowledge by people.
I have to say that the phenomenon of multiple identity is very close to me, because I recognized myself as Polish women but furthermore I am belonging to local community of my region, called “województwołódzkie” [8]. And this connected more with my ethnic identity than this national one, although if someone asked me do I feel like European citizen, I would yes. Because for me having double or triple identity is not unusual. Depending on circumstances sometimes I feel more like Polish women, especially when abroad and I have to introduce myself to other foreigner, but when I am in Poland, I certainly feel like a part of regional community. Of course this situation is similar, because when want to introduce myself to other citizen I will use my region as an identification, because we have a common background, which is knowledge about land division in Poland. But when I would speak to person who is from beyond my continent, to give him a better view I would firstly say that I am European person. But this not only connected with geography, it is also attributable to benefits which gives me EU and kind of mentality which is, without doubt, common for all Europe citizens. What do I understand by conception of European mentality? [9] Firstly for me, this is associated with liberty, not only politics in Europe based on freedom of people, thoughts, religions, but also whole society believe that is a main law which should be maintained. For example some gestures like kissing in public places is something which in our culture became a norm, but for people from Eastern Asia, this is unacceptable behaviour. The same is with different sexual orientation, with the years, homosexual people gain in Europe new laws and common acceptance, but in Turkey they are still persecute and treated like people of worse category. And this for me another component of our mentality, Europe is orientated on tolerance, people from different cultures have better chances to acclimate here and being accepted by people than in other places. Also they rights are protected by law, which is from above EU regulated. Another case is environmental protection, which as we know, is very important issue for European people, at time to time we have new restrictions about environment. This is something what we have in common, what make us to feel like a big community and it is also a proof, that sometimes sharing the same culture, language or religion is not necessary to unite people.
So if we go that far in ascertainment of moulding the European identity […], can we also say about one, global identity? [10]. Without doubt globalization spread all of the world is known for ages, right now we can say about sharing or adapting global culture into our own one. But can we say that one day people will recognized themselves as a citizens of world, in the same time forgetting about their national or local identity? In my opinion despite of all circumstances, which could compel me to think in this, this phenomenon cannot exist. Let me give an example to explain why for me creation of global identity is impossible.
I cannot deny that we in live in a times of adapting mass culture easily and sometimes substitute our own customs by global trends, but still we assimilate them in our own way. Because culture creates some kind of protecting bubble, which for me is almost unchangeable, so overall adaptation for new cultural patterns cannot have place. Even though sometimes older traditions might disappear, and this is natural cycle for some phenomenon, the new global tradition always appear to us, like something strange and obtained. So firstly we have convert this new ideas to our value system and own perception. Here I would like to focused on example of Valentine’s Day, right now this this celebration is mainly associated with American commerce tradition, but we should not forget that it has an European origin. In middle ages in Europe, catholic people, were celebrating a name day of St. Valentin, who is a patron of people in love. But now for many people this customs is strictly associated with tradition spread in America, which based on buying present to your crush. This could be flowers but more often this are chocolates box in a shape of heart, teddy bears, cards, frames and all material things which are consider to be somehow connected with love, also we can observe the trend of decorating shops, markets on occasion of this holiday. But this is of course an invention of consumerism accelerated by the biggest world brands, like we all know, are located mainly in America. So can see how this process works, from more spiritual and religious holiday, people made a real celebrations of material commodities, just because they were raised in that kind of culture. And this is not isolated example, in general when speak about globalization and becoming more mass cultural, we have to remember that to create global identity, we had to eradicate national one. Which really strongly based on many components and because is related to smaller group than all citizens of the world, it is also stronger for individuals. If I can imagine amount of people who shares with me common beliefs, history or language, I can only imagine as the biggest one, my own nation. So crossing this feelings of bonds to smaller groups, it is almost impossible, like impossible is to share something common between everyone in the world.
To sum up all my previous thoughts I have to admit, that the problem of different types of identity is very complex and should be investigate wider than in classical way. From classical definition, identity is perceived as “the characteristics determining who or what a person or thing is”. But in my personal opinion identity is something that you think about as first, when someone ask you about it. This is feeling of belonging to some community, your self-recognition of the place you can feel yourself. It does not have to be a state, not even land or particular city, this could be also group of people, who makes you feel better about yourself. When I think about my identity, I have to say that I am proud of being polish, but the most important belonging for me, is my small village community. So as first I am identifying myself with ethnic group, which is of course smaller, but also more understandable for me. Of that small area, when everyone knows you, everyone speaks the same dialect, has the same taste as you and shares the same customs, you can truly feel as a part of it. With nation, of course, I am proud of traditions of our state, language, history, but still I can feel this small differences which makes feel less belonging to it. So I can say about myself that I have double identity, and none of it is disturbing to me or cannot be called as a source of confuse. This situation does not have to be similar to other people, because as I said, awareness of your own identity is a personal feeling and it depends on your experiences and characteristics. Which is, on the one hand problematic phenomenon, especially in content of creating European identity, but also very vital to protect our individuality against the global influences.Coexistence of different identities gives people an opportunity to fully adopt European identity as one of our own.In so far as I can imagine European identity as a real type of identity for many people, I cannot go further with thinking, and accept concept of one, global identity. Because like I said cultural bonds and common sharing our belief pose as a great protection against globalization. Of course we had in past beliefs that everyone is citizen of the world, but it was more a temporary trend than braced argument and what we can see from history it never had a real meaning for masses. So only few of people could say about themselves that the belong to the whole world and feel so, I think this situation would take place right now, even though some people find themselves like citizen of the world, this does not change the general perspective, that your identity is something more individual and reach a smaller group that all people.
In conclusion I would like to add that times are changing very fast right now, at time to time came up new ideas, new order, everything develop so fast, but this things are not connected of long standing process. Before we invented nuclear guns, electricity, cars or mass media, people were able to conceptualize themselves as a part of group, in progress of civilization this dependences has changed, but still they did not need any of modern determinants, to create their identity. That is why, to abolish perception of identity and convert it into global feeling, we need much more time, but still we have to have this establishment, that is almost impossible.
References and Notes:
[1] Smith, Anthony D. (1992) National Identity and the Idea of European Union’. International Affairs, Vol. 68, pp. 55 – 76.
[3] Mickiewicz, Adam, http://culture.pl/en/artist/adam-mickiewicz, Biography, Enciclopedia Britanica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Mickiewicz-Polish-poet, Retirived on 10.01.2017.
[4]Słowacki, Juliusz, http://culture.pl/pl/tworca/juliusz-slowacki, Retrieved on 10.01.2017.
[5]Gabel, M., J. (2016). European Union (EU), Encilopedia Birtanica, https://www.britannica.com/topic/European-Union, Retirived on 10.01.2017.
[6] Europe Day, https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/symbols/europe-day_en, Retrieved on 10.01.2017.
[8] województwołódzkie”, see for more information http://www.lodzkie.pl/, https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojew%C3%B3dztwo_%C5%82%C3%B3dzkie, Retrieved on 10.01.2017.
[9] Kamall, S. (2015). The ‘Little European’ mentality, 10 JUN 2015, 16:53, https://euobserver.com/opinion/129052, Retrieved on 10.01.2017.
[10] Golobal Identity, for more infromation Global Edentity. Brand Solution Network, http://global-id.com/, Retrieved on 10.01.2017.
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The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the White House and changed the face of politics in the process. For this thrilling, behind-closed-doors account of that campaign, renowned cinema veritT filmmakers D. A. Pennebaker (Monterey Pop) and Chris Hegedus (Startup.com) closely followed the brainstorming and bull sessions of Clinton's crack team of consultants - especially the folksy James Carville and the preppy George Stephanopoulos, who became media stars in their own right as they injected a youthful spirit and spontaneity into the process of campaigning. Fleet-footed and entertaining, The War Room is a vivid document of a political moment whose truths (It's the economy, stupid!) still ring in our ears.
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Seahawks Week 9 quick reaction: Show me the penalties!
November 5, 2018 by Sea Hawkers Podcast
Penalties, whether on the Seahawks or on the Chargers, seemed to be the story of this game. Seattle, in the final minutes of the game, are able to drive down and have one more shot at a touchdown thanks to calls that went against the Chargers defense. J.R. Sweezy gets called for a false start right before the final play just for good measure. A tipped pass makes it so David Moore is unable to come down with it in the back of the end zone and Seattle loses 25-17.
Philip Rivers made it pretty clear he would have liked to have seen a whole lot more penalties go his way. Even will all of the laundry on the field, the Seahawks still had moments to overcome the calls. Seabass had a chance to make a field goal and missed. Russell had opportunities where he missed guys on throws. Some calls, like the one where Mike Williams had a foot or two out of bounds, may have even allowed Seattle to score more points.
What is certain is that the Seahawks did have a chance in the end and they missed an opportunity to get one game closer to the Rams. It's a Rams team the Seahawks will get to face on Sunday and joining us to close out the show is Cedric Morris as he talks about the events going on Saturday for the Hermosa Beach takeover and the Southern California Seahawks Fans tailgate on Sunday.
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Smeared for speaking the truth
Dana Cloud, a professor at Syracuse University who became the target of a right-wing campaign of abuse last year, challenges the criticisms, from across the political spectrum, of Fresno State professor Randa Jarrar and her tweets about Barbara Bush.
RANDA JARRAR, a professor of English at Fresno State, is in the crosshairs of a widespread public outcry from across the political spectrum and even including those who say they are defenders of academic freedom.
After the death of former first lady Barbara Bush, Jarrar tweeted that she was "an amazing racist, who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal." When she came under attack for this, she responded to the slanderers that she had tenure, so she could not be fired. Even so, the Fresno State administration is conducting an investigation of her and her remarks.
Everyone from journalists and commentators on the right to colleagues and friends of mine on the left have criticized Jarrar for a mixture of reasons: you shouldn't speak ill of the dead (especially when the deceased is a woman); Jarrar's remarks were crude and, in the words of a Detroit Free Press reporter, "petulant"; tenure is a privilege denied to other faculty; she jeopardized the credibility of tenure when it is already under assault by the right.
Award-winning Arab-American author and activist Randa Jarrar (Fresno State Department of English)
I believe these condemnations of Jarrar ring hollow, if not hypocritical.
I PERSONALLY came under attack last summer when I tweeted to other activists during a protest against a white supremacist rally that if more people came out, we could "finish them off." My comment was metaphorical, of course, but it could be--and was--read as incendiary. Thankfully, I have tenure, or my job would surely have been in jeopardy.
Johnny Eric Williams and George Ciccariello-Maher weren't so fortunate.
Ciccariello-Maher received widespread support among defenders of academic freedom even after tweeting the provocative statement, "All I want for Christmas is white genocide." Those of us who were aware of the context for this statement knew that he was referencing the incendiary, paranoid complaint of white supremacists that identity politics and inclusion would lead to a "white genocide."
Without the support of Drexel University, and under constant bombardment by the right, Ciccariello-Maher left his position to defend himself and his family.
Williams wasn't fired outright, but was put on leave under administrative sanction at Trinity College when he forwarded a tweet with the hashtag #letthemdie.
The original article, titled "Let them fucking die," by Son of Baldwin, pointed out that pointed out that Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana was saved after he was shot at a baseball practice by a Black queer woman. Scalise is an anti-LGBT bigot and supporter of law enforcement in the murder of Black people. Son of Baldwin's article and the circulation of the hashtag were products of legitimate grief and outrage.
These are only some of the most visible cases--there are perhaps dozens of other critical, activist faculty without tenure who are facing a right-wing onslaught, as the New York Times reported.
In this context, Jarrar's declaration of her tenured status should be celebrated as the defense of a right that all faculty should have. It's a right that goes beyond a minimal commitment to free speech--tenure affords us the ability to have our own ideas and commitments, and speak about them, no matter how controversial they may be.
WHAT OF the claim that her remarks were inappropriate?
Jarrar did speak ill of the dead, as I have often done. When Ronald Reagan died, I wore a button reading "Gone but not forgiven." If I were granted--soon, perhaps--access to Henry Kissinger's grave, I would dance on it. I hope that I wouldn't be abandoned by my friends and comrades for any of this.
Barbara Bush shouldn't get special treatment because the media has settled on an image of her as a gentle, grandmotherly woman. She did indeed express racist ideas and supported racist policies, and her husband and son truly are guilty of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As Erin White wrote at the Afropunk website put it:
Sorry, girl, but just because you're dead doesn't mean everyone has to pretend that your life was all kosher. So while liberals are bemoaning the passing of Barbara Bush, husband of George, mother of the even worse George, we think it's important to remember that Barbara was an old white lady who probably/definitely had racist white lady views.
Before the days of flagrant racism broadcast directly from the Oval Office, Barbara Bush vocalized plainly racist and deeply misguided sentiments throughout the decades. Most notably, back in 2005, during Hurricane Katrina rescue and relief, the former First Lady lamented about the mostly poor and Black victims who, she believed, had become better off in the wake of the historic storm and levee breach, saying: "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."
So let's not let the political amnesia of Trump's presidency--and the concomitant habit of rewriting all previous Republican regimes as benign--allow us to forget that not everyone who dies deserves our praise.
JARRAR USED profanity and was triumphal in her declaration of being protected by tenure. These characteristics of her speech were, according to many people I know, uncivil.
Quelle horreur! I have argued, to some appreciation on the Left, that the norm of civility is a threat to academic freedom. It is especially a form of discipline when applied to women, the alleged guardians of civility, and even more so when thrust upon women of color, from whom any controversial statement is bound to be regarded as unruly and threatening.
I have also heard the argument that we should be circumspect in our defense of tenure for two reasons: First, loud declarations of its privileges might bring greater negative attention from those who want to deny it to us; and second, since so many faculty in rapidly proletarianizing academia have precarious, untenured work, the in-your-face celebration of tenure is offensive.
To the first point, let's not operate under any illusions. No matter what we say out loud about tenure, they--the privatizers, the white supremacists, the corporate leaders, the craven politicians--are coming after it anyway.
As to the second: This is exactly the point. So many scholars face lives of precarity without tenure. The answer to that problem is not to revile people who have and defend tenure--no matter how "uncivilly," in your opinion.
Rather, we should demand--through organizing and demonstrating and editorializing and striking--that all faculty have the freedoms they need and deserve. And that all humans, no matter what profession, should be protected from precarity.
Am I aware that I am lucky to have tenure? Hell, yes. Does that mean I should keep quiet about it in public? Hell, no.
I ask my friends, many of whom are castigating Jarrar: Would you have left me out to dry? Would you throw Williams or Ciccariello-Maher or Steven Salaita under the bus?
We should all have the security to make the sharpest critiques of power. We are not under any obligation to do so with niceties and perpetual rhetorical finesse.
Once, upon my being arrested during an anti-death-penalty protest in Austin, Texas, I was asked by a reporter, "Aren't you afraid of losing your job?" I said to that reporter: "I have tenure. And this is how to use it."
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Back to school and straight to the picket line
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Spend the money on National City schools
Hundreds of teachers and their supporters rallied in San Diego County against low pay and a lack of classroom resources.
Black students and teachers matter
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A Baltimore City Public Schools parent tells the story behind recent photos of children seen suffering in freezing classrooms.
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Does Bill de Blasio deserve teachers’ votes?
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio looks to be on the path to re-election, but is his record on education as good as he claims?
Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky
The heroes and sheroes of New Orleans
SW contributors Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky were trapped in New Orleans by Katrina--their story, first told here, shocked the world.
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Our answer to the miserable State of the Union
Donald Trump celebrated the crimes and outrages of his first year, and outlined the ones he has in store for the future. Here's the socialist response.
Nicole Colson
Campus crusaders for hate
Get ready: The right wing--from pro-Trump College Republicans to well-dressed reactionaries to outright fascists--is coming for your college.
Inflicting terror on immigrant communities
The Trump administration is speeding up the deportation machine--and ICE agents have been only too happy to embrace their racist marching orders.
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Poetry News Round Up: June 2013
09 Tuesday Jul 2013
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We’re at the halfway point of 2013. Here’s your regular poetry news round up. My pleasure.
A Poem for Madiba
As South Africans come to term with Nelson Mandela‘s recent deterioration in health, a Pretoria priest, Father Victor Phalana, has put his love and sense of loss for Mandela into a poem.
Mandela has been in the Mediclinic Heart Hospital for four weeks now and remains in a “critical but stable” condition. Here is an extract from Father Victor’s poem, which you can also read in full here:
“We are busy with your last paragraph and your last chapter
We have started to mourn and grieve as you melt away
We are anxious and worried; we are paying our respects,
We say Goodbye.”
– Nelson Mandela Photomosaic
[Source: Flickr Creative Commons © MastaBaba]
Poets ARE Fighters
A Israeli soldier was banned from reading his poetry out on the radio because officers said it would “ruin the image of the combat soldier.” Cue much media outrage.
As The Independent pointed out, “Can anyone really say that John McCrae was a wuss when he wrote ‘In Flanders Fields’ and before dying of pneumonia on a French battlefield in 1918?”
An Unfortunate Poem…
Vladimir Putin appointed a new Economy Minister, Alexei Ulyukayev – who it was recently revealed wrote a poem two years ago urging Russians to leave the country and seek freedom. The poems begins: “Get out, my son, get out of here.”
Natasha still going strong
The US poet laureate, Natasha Trethewey, has been reappointed for a second one-year term. According to mail.com, in her second term she will collaborate with PBS senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown and the NewsHour series of reports about poetry and society from around the country.
US Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey
[Source: Flickr Creative Commons © WTPfefferle]
A Trip to Canada
The 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize in Canada was won by David McFadden and Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan. However, before the ceremony, Zaqtan had initially been the subject of refusal for a visa when Canadian authorities said the reason for his visit was “unconvincing.”
This unleashed a social media storm, with the likes of the novelist Margaret Atwood weighing in with their support. Happily, within 72 hours the visa was granted.
Here are a couple of highlights from the poetry books published during June.
Poetry and Privacy by John Redmond, a study of the treatment of public and private spheres in contemporary poetry. The Guardian says there is “a cut and thrust to Redmond’s work” and that it is a “fine book.”
Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock. Booksellers NZ assesses this collection as “a mixed bag,” whereas Beattie’s Book Blog thinks Adcock “has a stunning ear, pulling off rhyme- and rhythm-schemes which appear, deceptively so, easy.”
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in American Studies, Archival, Black Studies, Digital Humanities, History, Listening, Place and Space, Race, SO! Amplifies, Sound, Sound Art, Sound Studies
SO! Amplifies: Mendi+Keith Obadike and Sounding Race in America
SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig. You’re welcome!
Several years ago—after working on media art, myths, songs about invisible networks and imaginary places—we started a series of sound art projects about America. In making these public sound artworks about our country we ask ourselves questions about funk, austerity, debt and responsibility, aesthetics, and inheritance. We also attempt to reckon with data, that which orders so much of our lives with its presence or absence.
We are interested in how data might be understood differently once sonified or made musical. We want to explore what kinds of codes are embedded in the architecture of American culture.
Big House/Disclosure
The first sound art project in this vein that we completed in 2007 was entitled Big House / Disclosure. Northwestern University commissioned Big House / Disclosure to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade. We began researching Chicago’s recently (2002) issued Slavery Era Disclosure Ordinance, which states that any business seeking a city contract must publicly disclose (without penalty) its historical relationship, if any, to the slave trade. In that project we interviewed 200 citizens in the Chicago area about that city ordinance, how they (or their ancestors) arrived in this country, the origins of house music, and imaginary plantations, as well as their opinions about the legacy of slavery in their lives. Their answers were woven into a 200 hour house song & public sound installation on the Northwestern campus.
We used custom built software to trigger changes in the sound (drums, bass lines, chords, etc.) of that installation as the stock prices of companies like Lehman Brothers and Wachovia Bank (listed by this city ordinance as having profited from slave trade) rose and fell in 2007. In addition to the sound installation there were a number of performance scores and graphic scores to be performed in the project. The graphic scores were performed at the Stone (John Zorn’s music venue) by bassist Melvin Gibbs, turntablist Val Inc, percussionist Satoshi Takeshi, and pianist Shoko Nagai in New York. The book and album for this project (recorded with percussionist Guillermo Brown, cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, cellist Okkyung Lee and percussionist Tim Feeney) were released by 1913 Press.
American Cypher
In 2012-13 we created American Cypher. This project looked at American stories about race and DNA. The stories included narratives about Barack Obama, geneticist James Watson, Oprah Winfrey, and two men in the criminal justice system. At the center of the project was a multi-channel sound installation made from a small 18th century bell that belonged to Sally Hemings (a woman enslaved by Thomas Jefferson and, as indicated by DNA testing, mother to his children). The bell was recorded and altered. It was tuned using DNA information (microsatellite STR analysis) from the Jefferson and Hemings families. That analysis gave us a pitch set that was used to compose the piece. The project was commissioned by Bucknell University’s Samek Gallery and Griot Institute. The exhibition was mounted at the Studio Museum in Harlem and later traveled to the Institute of Visual Art at the University of Milwaukee Wisconsin.
<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/81574324″>Mendi + Keith Obadike: American Cypher – Samek Gallery and The Studio Museum in Harlem</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user12307441″>Keith Obadike</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Free/Phase
Free/Phase is our latest project for 2014-15. This work uses the archives of Columbia College’s Center for Black Music Research (Chicago, Illinois) as its foundation. With this work we are doing conceptual remixes of African-American freedom songs found in the archives. We are thinking about how this music has been used over the past couple of centuries and all that is encoded in these songs musically, politically, and spiritually. There are three nodes to this project. These nodes will be presented and produced in several venues throughout the city of Chicago and will include audience participation.
1) Beacon
“Beacon” is made up of a distributed site-specific sound installation that “rings” morning, noon, and evening, playing a short melodic phrase from specific spirituals found in the CBMR archives. Each spiritual chosen contains musical & lyrical messages that could have been used for pre-emancipation navigation on the underground railroad or inspiration.
2) Overcome
“Overcome” is a video work that is inspired by ways that music was used during the American Civil Rights Movement.
3) Dialogue
“Dialogue” is comprised of “listening posts” throughout Chicago. A number of DJs engage audiences in a discussion about the canon of African-American freedom songs.
Across this series, we hope to invite new ways of thinking about the archives that hold information about our existence—the records of profit during the era of American slavery, the relationships marked in our genetic information, and the strategies for survival encoded in our music. Our work in this area reflects on the information that sometimes vanishes from view, whether because it is ephemeral or because it has been buried. We hope our sounding the archives invite new ways of listening to the past and the future at the same time.
Mendi + Keith Obadike make music, art and literature. Their works include The Sour Thunder, an Internet opera (Bridge Records), Crosstalk: American Speech Music (Bridge Records), Black.Net.Art Actions, a suite of new media artworks (published in re:skin on M.I.T Press), Big House / Disclosure, a 200 hour public sound installation (Northwestern University), Phonotype, a book & CD of media artworks, and a poetry collection, Armor and Flesh (Lotus Press). They have contributed sounds/music to projects by wide range of artists including loops for soul singer D’Angelo’s first album and a score for playwright Anna Deavere Smith at the Lincoln Center Institute. You can find out more about them at http://obadike.com.
Featured image from authors’ website.
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Conte would have forced David Luiz Chelsea exit
Chelsea defender David Luiz is revelling under Maurizio Sarri after thinking Antonio Conte would force him to seek pastures new.
Dom Farrell
26 August, 2018 14:51 IST
Chelsea defender David Luiz - Getty Images
David Luiz is enjoying a new lease of life at Chelsea under Maurizio Sarri and concedes he might no longer be at Stamford Bridge if Antonio Conte was still in charge.
The Brazil international defender was a key figure in the Blues' 2016-17 Premier League title triumph, but found himself out in the cold last season as injuries struck and his relationship with Conte soured.
He is back in the starting XI under Sarri, despite the former Napoli boss operating with a back four, many felt that he would not play to the 31-year-old's strengths.
READ: Klopp hails 'massive signing' Alisson as Karius leaves for Besiktas
"It is amazing to play football, of course last season was not the best for me inside the pitch, but also I learned a lot outside the pitch as a person, as a man," he told Sky Sports, ahead of Chelsea's Sunday trip to Newcastle United, where they will look to make it three top-flight wins out of three this season.
"Sometimes you have to be patient, sometimes you have to take care of your body, sometimes you have to learn from outside to be good in the future."
"I got time to take care of my body; many times I was on the pitch in pain, and I never refused to play one game. It was good to rest and be fresh."
ALSO READ: Van Dijk hails Liverpool resilience in Brighton battle
"If the manager had stayed the same, of course, everybody knows, maybe, I had to move clubs. Now, I am here and so happy."
Sarri has brought his famed passing, high-tempo and high-pressing style to Chelsea, marking a clear contrast to the Conte era.
"I think every coach comes with new stuff to improve and help us and, of course, Sarri has already taught me many things I never saw before," David Luiz explained.
ALSO READ: Klopp confident of future success for 'fantastic' Karius
"He just gives to you [the public] five per cent of the idea, he's not going to give you 100 per cent of the idea. One of the parts of the idea is to focus on the ball and different parts of the pitch, you have to understand the movement."
"I think we are in the beginning. With everybody it takes time, but we've already played two games and got six points."
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'Don't Be Naive': Norway's Intel Warns of China's Huawei Amid US-Led Crackdown
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https://sputniknews.com/business/201902051072136392-norway-china-huawei-spying/
Norway has joined the list of countries that are wary of doing business with Chinese telecom giant Huawei after its intelligence service identified China as the greatest cyber threat. In response, China slammed Norway's accusations as "ridiculous".
Norway's intelligence service PST has urged the authorities to exercise caution in doing business with Chinese companies, stressing Norway's vulnerability and Beijing's potential in intelligence-gathering operations.
In particular, PST chief Benedicte Bjørnland asked the authorities to keep an eye on telecom giant Huawei because of its "apparent tight connections to Chinese authorities", Norwegian broadcaster NRK reported.
"We have told everyone to pay attention to Huawei as a player in connection with the 5G network that will be built out," Bjørnland said at a conference presenting PST's annual threat evaluation. "It's not because we think anything is wrong with Huawei and its people who work in Norway," she clarified.
At PST's briefing, Bjørnland was joined by Justice Minister Tor Mikkel Wara, who announced measures to be introduced to reduce the vulnerability of Norway's telecom network. The goal is to hinder the nation's largest mobile operators, such as Telenor, Telia and Ice from deals with equipment suppliers that could potentially undermine users' security and threaten the nation. Again, Huawei is the main target.
READ MORE: 'Grotesque Farce': US Charges Against Huawei Are A 'Purely Political Act'
PST stressed that it may be difficult for Norwegian telecom companies to uncover spying efforts or data manipulation.
"Our impression is that Norway as a nation is vulnerable because we are one of the world's most digitalised societies," Bjørnland said. "A major part of our values is managed in the digital domain. We want people to be aware of that, so that those who own and manage these values are clear about the threats and reduce their own vulnerability. Don't be naive."
Bjørnland saw a "great potential" for damage involving personal data, preparedness or defence issues.
"Data attacks by foreign players are difficult to uncover, investigate or prosecute," she noted, stressing that a foreign country cannot be "called into court".
Wara stressed that Norway shared the concerns of its major allies, the UK and the US, over Huawei. He also emphasised that both public and private actors in Norway could be subjected to espionage.
At present, both Telenor and Telia use Huawei's mobile network systems in the existing 4G network.
Huawei Norway security director Tore Larsen Orderløkken stressed that his company never gives access to data to any authorities. He also disavowed any ties to Chinese authorities, "apart from having headquarters in China".
To dispel Norway's fears, the company went so far as to unveil a "security centre" to provide insight into the upcoming 5G network. Until recently, the Norwegian authorities had been keen to do business with China after the two countries finally mended fences over the Nobel Committee's decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
READ MORE: 'The Pig Looks Into the Mirror': Chinese Media Calls Out Canada as Spat Grows
China responded strongly to PST's warnings, calling the Norwegian threat assessment "ridiculous", Norwegian broadcaster NRK reported.
"It is rather ridiculous of the intelligence service to attack China on a purely hypothetical basis," the Chinese Embassy retorted. "By this logic, we can also say that China is exposed to threats from Norway, because Norway 'can have the capacity'".
The European Union is currently considering proposals that would amount to a de-facto ban on Huawei's equipment for the 5G network. Earlier, EU commissioner for the digital single market Andrus Ansip urged EU states to exercise caution when dealing with Chinese tech companies, including Huawei.
Several countries, including the US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Taiwan have previously blocked Huawei from taking part in their 5G network development. China, by contrast, has accused the governments of fabricating stories about Huawei.
Huawei has 180,000 employees in 170 countries.
READ MORE: Huawei Set To Dominate Smartphone Industry in 2019, Unveils New 5G Tech
US Charges Against Huawei May ‘Toughen’ China’s Stance During Trade Negotiations
Beijing Urges US to Stop Exerting Inappropriate Pressure on Huawei
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Congressional Pro-Trump Die-Hards Plot Last-Minute Fraud Challenge Over Electoral College Votes
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by Ilya Tsukanov
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Ilya Tsukanov. Sputnik International
https://sputniknews.com/us/202012131081446953-congressional-pro-trump-die-hards-plot-last-minute-fraud-challenge-over-electoral-college-votes/
The US Electoral College is expected to convene formally and cast their votes on Monday, thereby coming one step closer to finalising the results of the 2020 election. President Donald Trump, who trails challenger Joe Biden 232 electoral votes to 306, still refuses to concede the race, alleging widespread voter fraud in key battlegrounds.
Fervent allies of President Trump, led by Republican Alabama Representative Mo Brooks, are planning to challenge the results of the Electoral College’s 14 December vote tally when Congress meets to certify the results formally on 6 January.
“We have a superior role under the Constitution than the Supreme Court does, than any federal court judge does, than any state court judge does,” Brooks said of the plan, speaking to the New York Times in an article published Sunday.
“What we say, goes. That’s the final verdict,” the congressman suggested, adding that his number one goal was “to fix a badly flawed American election system that too easily permits voter fraud and election theft. A possible bonus from achieving that goal is that Donald Trump would win the Electoral College officially, as I believe he in fact did if you only count lawful votes by eligible American citizens and exclude all illegal votes.”
Brooks and his allies reportedly plan to challenge electors in five battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, with an objection by a member of Congress to spark a formal debate if one member of the Senate signs on. If that happens, the House and Senate will stage deliberations for two hours each. Electors’ votes from each of the contested states could be removed from the tally if both the Democratic-controlled House and the Republican-held Senate agree to do so.
Given the existing balance of power in Congress, and the historic infrequency of both houses of Congress agreeing to disqualify a contested state’s tally (the last time this took place was in the 1800s), Brooks and company’s challenge is widely expected to fail. Still, it would not be the first time that a symbolic challenge has been cast. In 2001, 2005 and 2017, House Democrats expressed their protest to the election of a Republican president by mounting similar challenges, each of them struck down before going anywhere.
However, according to Ohio State University constitutional law professor Dr. Edward B. Foley, if even one Republican senator agrees to Brooks’ challenge, it could ensure a cloud of partisan bickering hanging over Biden for years.
Brooks had previously told Fox News that a challenge could be mounted via the Electoral Count Act of 1887, a law enacted in the wake of the disputed election of 1876.
All Eyes on Electors
On Monday, the Electoral College’s electors from all fifty US states will meet to cast their ballots, with the process widely expected to hand victory to Biden.
In the wake of the 3 November vote, the Trump campaign filed dozens of court cases in key battleground states, citing alleged irregularities ranging from mass vote dumps to observers being thrown out of count rooms and claiming it had “hundreds and hundreds” of sworn affidavits.
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Trump Supporters, Opponents Hold Rival Rallies in Washington, DC After SCOTUS Election Ruling
The cases were broadly rejected, with the State of Texas subsequently filing a lawsuit with the Supreme Court accusing the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin of violating their own legislatures’ statutes via last minute changes to election rules to allow for vast numbers of insecure mail-in ballots. The Supreme Court formally threw out Texas’s case on Friday, declaring that the state had failed to demonstrate “a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections."
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Biden Will Reportedly Disinfect White House After Donald Trump Leaves
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Appeal to Overturn Biden Win
Trump Slams Attorney General Barr for Silence on Hunter Biden Tax Probes
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Navarro Claims Trump Was 'Legally Elected' and Second Impeachment Was an Act of 'Violence'
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by Jason Dunn
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Jason Dunn. Sputnik International
https://sputniknews.com/us/202101141081770104-navarro-claims-trump-was-legally-elected-and-second-impeachment-was-an-act-of-violence/
Following the November 2020 election, the incumbent president, Donald Trump claimed that his opponent's victory was fraudulent, leading his ardent supporters to echo unfounded claims as a rejection of the upcoming 20 January transition to a Biden presidential administration.
Peter Navarro, a top trade adviser appointed by Donald Trump, is continuing to claim that the outgoing US president was "legally" elected, reiterating his position to Fox Business Network on Thursday.
Speaking to Fox's Maria Bartiromo, Navarro also claimed that Trump would emerge victorious in any second run of the election.
"The Democratic Party did violence to this country by attacking a president, who I believe was legally elected on November 3,' Navarro asserted. 'If the election were held today, he'd be elected again. And if he runs in 2024, he will be elected then. And I think that’s what the Democrats fear".
Peter Navarro: “The Democratic Party did violence to this country by attacking a president who I believe was legally elected on November 3,” “74 million Americans out there” are “pissed off” like him.
Maria Bartiromo: “We know that there were irregularities in this election.” pic.twitter.com/NFqdKQTjFK
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) January 14, 2021
In response to a question regarding a so-called 'attack on free speech' - referring to President Trump's violation of user terms and subsequent removal from social media platforms, including Twitter and Facebook in the wake of the deadly Capitol Hill attack and the deaths of five people - Navarro suggested that it was a "classic collusive oligopoly" and "kind of new wine in an old bottle".
The Trump appointee expressed his anger with Google, Apple, and Amazon after the tech giants deleted the unmoderated conservative social media site Parler, which bill itself as unrestricted alternative to conventional social media platforms.
"When Amazon came in for the brutal kill, by taking the cloud away from Parler, as a small company, it was no longer able to access its data and effectively Amazon wiped out that company", Navarro stated. "I think they've got a heck of a lawsuit for damages there because of what was done".
On Wednesday's vote impeaching Trump a second time in the House of Representative, which saw 10 Republicans support the Democratic caucus in the move, Navarro characterized the vote as a "travesty".
"And I’ve never been more pissed off in my life at this place", he declared.
Navarro warned of "74 million Americans out there who voted for President Trump who feel exactly the same way", demanding that lawmakers give up on sending the House impeachment to the Senate.
Navarro, an economist appointed by Trump who has served as the latter's White House trade adviser since 2017, on Thursday claimed without presenting any direct evidence that the November 2020 election saw massive voter fraud in swing states which saw Democratic candidate Joe Biden secure the victory.
Entitled: 'Yes, President Trump Won', Navarro's comments claimed that there were ballots alleged to be fraudulent, including nearly 1 million "possible illegal votes" in Pennsylvania, which he says went to Biden by just under 100,000.
Navarro Report, Volume 3 provides a scholarly rendering of the potential number of illegal votes in the 2020 election. We welcome any who may dispute its finding because that is the nature of scholarly discourse. https://t.co/WEDzhth4qo
— Peter Navarro (@RealPNavarro) January 14, 2021
The White House advisor's most recent allegations come one day after his boss's second impeachment by the House of Representatives, following accusations that Trump incited the deadly riots on Capitol Hill in a failed attempt to stop the confirmation of what the outgoing US president continues to claim was a stolen election.
If Trump is convicted by the Senate, it will bar him from any future attempts to run for the White House.
Citing a number of allegations in key states claiming that the Biden campaign received ballots from dead voters and how mail-in ballots saw initial leads for Trump overcome by more votes for the Democratic ticket, the outgoing president and his supporters continue to complain that the election was stolen.
While these challenges have been consistently rejected in state and federal courts, a group of Trump supporters on January 6 violently stormed the Capitol building, killing five and inflicting widespread damage and vandalism in an attempt to stop the electoral college vote confirmation and prevent Joe Biden from being officially declared the next US president.
Election, Joe Biden, Donald Trump
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day 231 – 262 – on being meaningless & ‘a tissue for my eyes’
life during lockdown:
thanks Pavane!
The Assembly adopted draft resolution I, “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo‑Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”, by a recorded vote of 130 in favour to 2 against (Ukraine, United States), with 51 abstentions. – from here
note abstention of both Australia and New Zealand.
US maintains it is a freedom of speech issue.
note also that this is not fake but mirage news.
s: who knows what the new year will bring…
c: it will just make us more nuggetty.
thanks Mark!
A controlled population is a living population
what is the role of COVID-19? to discredit democracy
what is the role of Trump? to discredit democracy
Lohraw: In the future there will be infamy every 15 minutes.
via Ttekceb: And once this first ordeal is surmounted, the next will come along, like buses…
to be meaningless is easy as long as you keep your meaning secret
Talking with an old friend I realised:
a tissue for my eyes please
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfbN_wVDVcw
[Of course, to say to be meaningless is easy as long as you keep your meaning secret is completely disingenuous. Being meaningless is easy so long as secretly you believe that you are meaningful. Being meaningless is easy so long as secretly I believe that I am not. To believe you are meaningless is difficult. … We used to do this thing in Minus Theatre where all meaning is moved up onto the surface. The more meaningful the better. The more intensity of meaning the better. And the more depth of meaning the better. The idea is not for meaning to be lost, to lose or shed meaning from that which previously had meaning and was meaningful. The idea was not to pull meaning up by the roots, to root it out from wherever it sprang. The idea was, the idea is, that once put on the surface meaning can change. To keep it secret (hidden in the deep) or to keep it secretly (because of its depth) keeps meaning the same. So it can’t change. What is meaningful remains rooted in the soil where it grows. But it only seems to grow. What in fact is happening is that meaning has stuck. It remains rooted to the spot. It has only one fixed meaning, when this in fact is only a part of its meaning. A gesture of suicide, what does it mean? Does it mean the desire to rejoin the soil–of meaninglessness? Or is it threatening death to what is too full of meaning, has too much meaning? Suicide seems to be both the absolute statement of personal meaning at the same time as it is the absolute statement of personal meaninglessness. In Minus we would make the gesture and steal it for other purposes. A man tearing out his own hair would be getting his hair done. A woman shooting herself would have suicide as part of its meaning, it would be, in other words, acting. … Acting seems to be both the absolute statement of personal meaninglessness at the same time as it is the absolute statement of personal meaning. It is where the personal changes meaning. Online personal expression fixes meaning. No statement can be made that does not stick to the one who makes it. The selfie mask sticks to the face (…the face to the mask / the root to the plant…). It is not acting but a gesture that by being made is meaningful. And it is not theatre. Or rather it is the worst kind of theatre, the theatre of feelings that are no less meaningful for being manufactured, a factory for the sentimental, a productionline for kitsch, for a politicised engagement with the personal and for a personalised performance of the political. It means taking a stand. Against this: Minus Theatre. What if your meaningful statement was more mobile and less absolute? Your political standpoint–what if it allowed of other meanings? Your personal viewpoint–it is not enough to let there be other and opposite viewpoints from which it either differs or to which it is opposed: what if your personal viewpoint meant different things at different times and places and even the opposite then and there of what it means here and now? Meaning needs to be decomposed just enough for it to become mobile–neither full of meaning nor wholly without meaning. Communication, sympathy, empathy–these are not enough: for each statement, each gesture, each action and each suicide that it is meaningless participates in its meaning. We might say that its deconstruction is present in it, an ongoing part of it, allowing it to travel not only back and forth but in all directions, towards all sorts of unintended meanings and lacks of meaning. Aporetic and ephectic, Beckett writes.]
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day 203 – 231 … Children, Go On Strike!
at 9:16 am on 16 November 2020, M. John Harrison wrote on Twttr:
Complexity, weirdness, characterisations like little stained glass sideshows. Characters do things because they want to. Equally, the text shows you something because it wants to. I see a book controlled by its own mood swings and emotional surfaces. But then I always do.
Today I’ve been writing about hikikomori and the cynicism–without experiencing it–of the answer to this ‘social problem’: restating the social imperative–to participate, engage, make contact, connect–that led to their being shut-in; as if in the great transparent snowglobe or bubble of communications’ technology–aka affective data industries.
The smartest people I knew at school lost their brains when they reached puberty. What is intelligence in children?
What is intelligence to children?
How do children understand intelligence?
Andrés Barba’s novels, The Luminous Republic (2020 in translation from Spanish to English), and Such Small Hands (2008 in translation), give an idea of an intelligence belonging to children. Here children are not captured in or at some kind of developmental state or stage. Neither is there moralising about the capacity to form judgements, the judgement-forming faculty belonging to morality, that children are said not to have acquired; nor in these books do we see an emotional view–in the image of which children’s inner emotional lives create their worlds: no magicking and no sciencing.
The intelligence of children is shown to be that of reason, of a reason unencumbered by … a hesitation here: is it experience of which children’s use of reason is unencumbered? is it judgement? or the judgements of others of which children’s reason is free? … No.
I would say that children’s use of reason is free because it is free of play, unencumbered by play–or free of a freedom with conditions. It is free of the kind of freedom that comes with conditions, the conditions that play has, where you might say to me, You’re not playing any more!
Children’s use of reason does not have parameters within which it has play. The reason of children is free of the parameters of play, unencumbered by the conditions experience of others–the word of others–might impose.
Where did I read that children’s perception of the world was close to that of schizophrenics?
Deleuze writes in The Logic of Sense that we have to take care not to mix metaphors, to go from the series of children, poets, to madmen, madwomen. He cites the example of Artaud against Carroll.
And it would be possible to go in the opposite direction to a similar effect and similarly to err. To go from the pure reason of children, via the application of pure reason in the adult world, that is, science, to the madness of things like human instrumentality or holocaust. The madness of the human object.
According to this second madness that is a surfeit of reason, what is in reason would be insensitive. It would lack empathy. Its very neutrality and purity would have become its liability.
Children lack emotional maturity–a phrase that has evolved with a hole at each end. One end eats what the other shits. What one end eats the other shits.
The automaton-like reason of children. Yes, this only goes so far to explaining it. What it lacks is not emotional experience, the experience of consequence. It lacks system.
And the lack of system of the use of reason in children is the same as that lack of system Kundera finds–and I suspect Deleuze finds–to be characteristic of Nietzsche. Nietzsche lampoons the savants for their system. Kundera places this ‘freeing from system of philosophy’ in apposition with ‘freeing from form (the rigidity of the sonata in particular)’ characteristic of Beethoven, the winning of new freedoms … that can be referred to the problem facing any artist, which has to be answered each time anew–I can’t think of a better word, although I don’t like it, neither anew nor afresh. This problem can be usefully compared with what Julio Ramón Ribeyro (whom I talk about further and cite a reference for below) says about the novel: “For some time now, French novels have been written by professors for professors. [The citation of Ribeyro below might shed light on why it is French novelists.] The French novelist today is a gentleman who has nothing to say about the world, but very much to say about the novel.” And, “Each new writer cross-checks his work with that of the writers who came before, not with the world. In this way we reach rarification in the novel’s material, which could be confused with esotericism.” New writers, Zambra [another novelist, cited below] writes that Ribeyro writes, “try to make of their work not the personal reflection of reality, but rather the personal reflection of other reflections.” [see xv in the work cited below]
Deleuze and Guattari say of Nietzsche’s aphorisms–and speak in a similar way of Kafka’s researches–that they must be plugged into the world. That is, they came from the world. Not its reflection. Not in esoteric abstraction from it. Not trying to curry favour with the taste-judges of today on Instagram. And are not founded, therefore, in emotional maturity, that maturely sets its own expectations of consequence. Ambition.
The reason of children is free of system.
This the works of Andrés Barba show.
Speaking before–although whether this is in the sense of ‘in front of’ in spatial or temporal terms is uncertain*–the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate accord, Greta Thunberg said “there was a state of complete denial when it came to the immediate action needed, with leaders giving only distant promises and empty words.” The same Guardian article [here] reminds us of her solo school strike that “snowballed into a global youth movement” (strange choice, snowballed).
More effective than going on strike from school might be following Greta Thunberg’s example and going on strike from being children.
What if all the children of the world walked out on their parents, their caregivers, accusing them of the grossest incompetence?–bearing them into a world for the calamity facing which they, the adults, take no responsibility–proclaiming their care, their love, for children equates with setting them into a situation which they, the children, are helpless to reverse or stop–by making children, parents, grownups, are, in fact, making them children, that is, helpless!
So they should quit.
So, they leave being children from henceforth to the adults.
We have seen that most of the adults who wield real power are in fact children.
Children, walk out! Go on strike!
Walk out on your own heavy responsibility of being helpless!
Emotionally immature? Not at all!
You have reason! And reason gives you the reason to act!
In other words, stop performing as children. You don’t even get paid!
Take control!
Sieze it!
… Or,
Steal it!
*[it’s not in fact uncertain. The UN-led summit on climate change has been … postponed. A one-day online summit replaces it. One day! Ridiculous when students are paying to attend classes day after day online.]
{also, see here for a nice summary timeline naming climate change milestones … or nails in the coffin … or just stages in the snowball picking up speed …}
“A man should neither conceal nor misrepresent the facts concerning the way in which he conceived his thoughts. The deepest and most inexhaustible books will certainly always have something of the aphoristic and impetuous character of Pascal’s Pensées.” — Nietzsche, The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values, Trans. Anthony M. Ludovici, available online here, section 424 p. 342
Considering its source, in the volume The Will to Power, selected from the notebooks by his sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, wife of Bernard Förster, whose antisemitism she endorsed, the original German source of the foregoing in the Nachlaß eludes me.
Nietzsche’s strongest statement of affinity with Pascal is cited with approval by Kundera in Testaments Betrayed, the first section of Part Six, “Works and Spiders” which I quote in full:
“I think.” Nietzsche cast doubt on this assertion dictated by a grammatical convention that every verb must have a subject. Actually, said he, “a thought comes when ‘it’ wants to, and not when ‘I’ want it to; so that it is falsifying the fact to say that the subject ‘I’ is necessary to the verb ‘think.'” A thought, comes to the philosopher “from outside, from above or below, like events or thunderbolts heading for him.” It comes in a rush. For Nietzsche loves “a bold and exuberant intellectuality that runs presto,” and he makes fun of the savants for whom thought seems “a slow, halting activity, something like drudgery, often enough worth the sweat of the hero-savants, but nothing like that light, divine thing that is such close kin to dance and to high-spirited gaiety.”
“Elsewhere Nietzsche writes that the; philosopher “must not, through some false arrangement of deduction and dialectic, falsify the things and the ideas he arrived at by another route…. We should neither conceal nor corrupt the actual way our thoughts come to us. The most profound and inexhaustible books will surely always have something of the aphoristic, abrupt quality of Pascal’s Pensées.”
“We should not “corrupt the actual way our thoughts come to us”: I find this injunction remarkable; and I notice that, beginning with The Dawn, all the chapters in all his books are written in a single paragraph: this is so that a thought should be uttered in one single breath; so that it should be caught the way it appeared as it sped toward the philosopher, swift and dancing.”
Nietzsche to his sister on the subject of her–it can be assumed?–future husband:
“It is a matter of honor to me to be absolutely clean and unequivocal regarding anti-Semitism, namely opposed, as I am in my writings… I have been persecuted [pursued; verfolgt?] in recent times with letters and Anti-Semitic Correspondence sheets; my disgust with this party … is as outspoken as possible, but the relation to Förster, as well as the after-effect of my former anti-Semitic publisher Schmeitzner, always bring the adherents of this disagreeable party back to the idea that I must after all belong to them…” – from here
apologia pro vita sua
“It’s not uncommon for music superstars, after decades atop their scenes, to try to demonstrate fluency in the music of prior generations to bolster their claims to contemporary authority.” — Jon Caramanica on Bad Bunny, NY Times, 2.12.2020
sadopopulism:
“Permitting either the State or the individual to use murder as part of a political or ethical process forecloses any hope of partaking in a legitimate future. It is like the vengeful Marquis de Sade who, locked in his prison cell, dreamed of a twisted oligarchy that sustains itself through the murderous consumption of everything other than itself. However, the killers are unable to escape the very logic of their system, and they inevitably fall victim to the violent energies they have been fueling.”
— Joseph McClellan, Michel Onfray’s translator, on Camus (in The Translator’s Introduction, A Hedonist Manifesto: The Power to Exist, Trans. Joseph McClellan, (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2015), xi-xxxviii, xvi)
These themes meet in the shared theme of brutality, a subject on which the following sheds some light:
William-Davies-The-New-Neoliberalism-NLR-101-September-October-2016
“What mysterious alchemy vaults people who were largely ignored, or at least by their own lights insufficiently valued, in their own time to this privileged niche in the imagination of their posterity is never fully explainable and is not to be confused with reputation in the conventional sense. … Musing on one of these cult people, their admirers often exclaim, “’ink what she would have accomplished had she lived.” — from here
ink what?
from the same: “In the early 1950s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, [Susan] Taubes and her then husband, the rabbi and philosopher of ideas Jacob Taubes, were the closest friends of my parents, Susan Sontag and Philip Rieff. … It was left to my mother to identify [Susan Taubes’s] body. Much later, she told me: ‘I will never forgive her . . . and never recover from what she did.'”
In literary land this week: the Bad Sex in Fiction Award has been cancelled, Roald Dahl’s family has apologized for his anti-Semitism, and John Freeman has been named Knopf’s new Executive Editor. — from lithub book marks bulletin 12/11
“Ribeyro’s face is that of a law student who had contempt for the legal profession, or a Lima native who wanted to live in Madrid, who in Madrid dreamed of Paris, in Paris longed for Madrid, and so on, chasing grants and lovers, and especially in search of time to waste writing, in the solitude of Munich, or Berlin, or Paris, again, for a long stay.”
— Alejandro Zambra, in his introduction (“Ribeyro in His Web”), to Julio Ramón Ribeyro’s The Word of the Speechless [which might have been better mute, closer to the Spanish: La palabra del mudo], Trans. & Ed. Katherine Silver, (New York, NY: NYRB, 2019), vii-xvi, vii.
Ribeyro called the diary he wrote, which spans four decades (“Even in the most confessional pages of his diary, an impersonal mood persists,” writes Zambra, “that keeps him safe from exhibitionism or anecdotalism.”
(“Ribeyro writes to live,” he continues, “not to demonstrate that he has lived.”
(“A fragment from 1977 is, in this sense, revealing: ‘A true work must start from the oblivion or destruction (transformation) of the writer’s very self. The great writer is not one who truthfully, in detail and intensely, describes his existence, but one who becomes the filter, the weave, through which reality passes and is transfigured.'” [Ibid. viii]) La tentación del fracaso.
The Temptation of Failure.
Ἀκαδήμεια
luz es tiempo
pique-assiettes
Problematik
thigein & conatus
day 188 – 202: Joe Biden’s true identity revealed
This is what democracy looks like. #Election2020 #VoteEarly pic.twitter.com/nBQnvfzlvK
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) October 24, 2020
One of Our New Allies, Japan, c.1901-02
by Australian artist: Mortimer L. Menpes, courtesy John M. Harrison.
Таисия Ювелева writes, my humour is the best and I am strongest of all. Then: “I am Tara I create account wiht my amazing photos. I will waiting youth messages”
WATCH: @rabbitandcoffee reframes the US presidential election through the 2019 psychological horror film The Lighthouse. #insiders pic.twitter.com/J3BRNjxeDq
— Insiders ABC (@InsidersABC) October 31, 2020
you could look at the recent democratic referenda–you might not want to but you could–as not at all being about what they were purported to be:
one was for the market;
two was for medical science.
two might have been objected to on the basis that support for euthanasia desacralises life, but in fact the sanctity that life has is returned to it with the illegible signature of medical authority, like on a prescription.
the power of life and death–there’s to be a law written about it, but it is not in the law’s name, or for the sake of any legal principle, except that medical science can be believed properly to respect a will to die. Now I understand for the religious veto on suicide or otherwise taking a life, abortion as well, to be removed is a good thing. But …
several beers into a new acquaintance I made an argument in favour of having the courage to throw oneself out of a window before the medical authorities got hold of one. Better to die on the streets of Hong Kong, of any great city, than in a hospital bed…
I supported my argument with the case of my father and the medical professional’s insistence that their drugs had not–because no clinical trial had shown them to have–passed over the blood brain barrier.
What a phrase!
My dad could not have been hallucinating on haloperidol, or the mixture of it and the wonderfully named Effexor and others … Doctors said he was not.
you want to trust them when it’s time?
not that they … would get it wrong. But that it–that death–would be to their standards, according to their understanding, when they have not understood life.
one is obvious: the market is a better arbiter and a fairer one when it comes to the disproportion in the numbers of brown people done for possession as compared to white: … again it’s not that it wouldn’t be fairer, better to let the market decide, but in that arbitration who is going to be the winner? the consumer, or the supplier? … Price will be the winner on the day.
there was an old man called … Trump again-again or Joe Bideninnen …
… there’s only one thing worse than not being accepted, being undesirable … not even worth exploiting, subordinate …
: perhaps this is the rule of subordination at work in sadopopulism … there’s only one thing worse than being exploited, not being accepted even for that, being excluded;
and this would be the rule decreeing that any blame and resentment is passed on down the line, collecting interest as it goes ever downward. A snowball of hell.
Sadopopulism is not answered by a masochism but as we know from the triad of perp, victim, witness, the victim becomes the next perp…
and then it was done. And Humpty Trumpty kept sitting in his white house behind his wall or fence and all the new king’s horses and all of his men could not put America back together again.
time for a song
President Elect Joe Biden in … his early pilot TV show (he had one too, just like his predecessor):
swweesaience
day 167 – 187 incompetence & transformation
The full headline ran … Incompetent Ardern …
someone pointed out, R. I think, that we don’t get journalism of the above quality because Murdoch does not own our media.
not only are they reptilian satanist pedophiles, they’re shapeshifters! 3’30” here
It’s not that David Icke does not support his claims or that there’s bucketloads of evidence to the contrary (just like there are against those stupid beliefs that economists cling to Mark Blyth talks about), it’s rather that his claiming personally to know in manifesting the original seduction of the patently untrue repeats it, producing effects on the real world (just like those stupid beliefs economists cling to).
(Do people prefer stupid beliefs? Is belief a category which it remains heretical to question? So that a personal belief is an intimate part of the individual, somewhere between personality and sexuality, which may in fact be quite impersonal. (Although, Lingis points out with sex we are at our most vulnerable; so to be questioned sexually–even when it is just a matter of words–invokes that vulnerability we physically experience, we physically experience each time.
((And this would also link sex and defecation, not with a primal shame and not in organic unity, engaging the same parts, but with an original compromise–a squatting dog knows it is in a compromising position, like a human caught short.))
on the question of political courage:
The political will to economic courage … this is the subjectline under which I sent Mark Blyth’s three lifts for a post-COVID world to the office of the then PM before the present PM—who are the same person—before the election and before the election her office answered I could be sure that Jacinda would see it; whereas when I sent it to the Mayor of Auckland—as well, come to think of it, as Grant Robertson—silence.
Today, the last day of October, the Rt. Hon. Ardern announced her cooperation agreement with the Green Party, which also made history. The Labour Party having done so for doing what is not supposed to happen—pulling the sword of absolute majority from the stone of MMP, as one cartoonist depicted it—the Greens did it mostly through the personality politic worked brilliantly by Chlöe Swarbrick.
A journalist put it in Q&A to PM Ardern that, with the absence of NZ First holding the balance of power, this might lead us to expect a more transformational government, mightn’t it?
Might it not? might it?
What would a transformational government look like?
I have become interested in the process of applying for a position in a local theatre, run under a charitable trust: a ten year plan / vision statement is a requisite of the application—meanwhile the theatre’s website is all bragadaccio about, well, transformation & disruption. There’s even a bit about between bangin’ art and bangin’ profit choosing art every time. The position currently pays between $90 and $100K. The French have a word for this: bobo. Bourgeois Bohemian. Les bobos sont au pouvoir.
The question I have, looking at the faces of the bobos, is can transformation really be that easy? to sit on a salary of see above and preach bangin’ transformational shizzwazzle?
… of course the same cannot be said of the Ardern government, despite Chlöe Swarbrick saying politics should not be fucking boring, should not be a chore.
So the statement made by Labour of cooperation with the Greens makes no demands for transformation of either, of either … politics or business. After all, did the Greens ever stand on the transformation which would be required to avert climate change being passed into law?
— You will be able to ask questions as well so that you understand what is going to be involved, and to help you participate fully in the decisions.
— You will be able to ask questions, not to be enabled to participate fully in the decisions, but so that you understand what is going to be involved.
— You will not be able to participate fully in the decisions, but you are going to be involved, so ask questions so that you understand.
— You are going to be fully involved in the decisions so ask questions as well on the understanding that this will be your only participation in making them.
— As well as being involved in the decisions which are made, your questions enable it to be understood that you have fully participated in submitting yourself to them.
— Your questions participate fully in the decisions involving you as well as help you to understand that you have voluntarily submitted yourself to them.
— As well as understanding your involvement to have resulted from your decision to participate by being able to ask questions, your questions help you to adjust as well.
–You will be able to ask questions as well so that you understand what is going to be involved, and to help you participate fully in the decisions.
“This is the first in an experimental Media Tropes prison,” said the governor, “designed in order to make inmates feel that they are not being brutalised by a barbaric and outdated system of incarceration, but involved in something more along the lines of a reality TV show.”
“I’ve heard of this,” I said, looking around curiously.
“The layout on the wings is just one of the many TV Prison Tropes that are promoted here at HMP Leominster,” said the governor. “You’ll find the prison is pretty much as you’d expect: the guards are generally mean and unpleasant–except one who is meek and easy to manipulate. The prisoners, instead of being those with a shaky grasp on the notion of consequences, mental health issues or having the misfortune to belong to a marginalised minority, are mostly pastiches of socio-economic groups mixed with regional stereotypes. And rather than fume about the vagaries of providence that got them here before descending in a downward spiral of depression and drug addiction, they prefer to philosophise about life in an amusing and intelligent manner.”
“Recidivism has dropped eighty-six per cent,” he said, “so yes, it seems so. It’s certainly a lot easier on the prisoners unless you get caught up in Gritty Realism Month when it all gets dark and dangerous and we have riots and people end up getting shivved. That’s just been, so you’re fairly safe for another ten months.”
“That’s a relief.”
“Don’t count your chickens. Understated violence that counterpoints a wider issue in society can break out at any time, and we have the biennial Prison Break Weekend in eight weeks, so if you want to be part of that, you have to prove yourself with the right crowd.”
— Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit (2020), pp. 271-272.
… “if you think about it,” says one of the characters in Fforde’s The Constant Rabbit, a talking rabbit, “talking rabbits spontaneously anthropomorphised have a chance-factor of around 1 x 1089, which, while not totally impossible, is about as likely as the universe spontaneously turning into cottage cheese. The fact that we’re here suggests that tremendously unlikely things can happen–which would make Gaia reappearing to tweak a few things for the better not so very daft at all.”
“You’re formulating a mathematical proof for the existence of the primordial earth mother based on talking-rabbit probability?” I said. “Wouldn’t that make everything possible?”
“Within the multiverse,” said Kent [the talking rabbit talking], “everything is possible.”
— Ibid., 252.
“You’re trying to run a twenty-first-century world on Palaeolithic thoughts and sentiments.” [another rabbit said.]
“I think it’s in our nature.”
“I disagree,” [said the rabbit]. “Humans have a very clear idea about how to behave, and on many occasions actually do. But it’s sometimes disheartening that correct action is drowned out by endless chitter-chatter, designed not to find a way forward but to justify petty jealousies and illogically prejudices [Mark Blyth’s ‘stupid beliefs’]. If you’re going to talk, try to make it relevant, useful and progressive rather than simply distracting and time-wasting nonsense, intended to justify the untenable and postpone the real dialogue that needs to happen.”
Sometimes it takes a non-human to say what it is to be a good human.
— Ibid., 300-301 {I have included these last two excerpts because they relate to themes I explore in my other writing not because they are indicative of the style or humour of Fforde’s book, which is one of his good ones, one, as can be seen from the prison excerpt above, that as well as making me laugh, I also found moving. And not for its sentimental stereotypes: here they are turned to satirical effect … although sometimes leak around the edges.}
textatics
day 150 – 166: the president is … & other fun facts, like…
“The American people are all Blanket now.”
— Marina Hyde, the genuine article here.
— found here and shown as it appeared, unedited or altered in any way.
Reality can only be apprehended through a comical, dazzling network of texts–writes Adam Thirlwell introducing his interview with Enrique Vila-Matas by stating what he calls the ‘proposition,’ the ‘basic proposition,’ of the author’s A Brief History of Portable Literature (1985), a proposition that transformed Vila-Matas, in his sixth book, into a true original as well as representing “a new moment in European fiction,” since from now on reality can only be apprehended through a comical, dazzling network of texts.
There is nothing wrong with this as a proposition for fiction, but doesn’t it declare war on reality? [see here–for a war more total and more radical than anything yet imagined]
As a basic proposition for fiction it even sets the standard, a standard that reality has trouble living up to–that it be dazzling.
Comical is a bit easier to live up to for reality. A better word for it in fiction, in the novel, might however be humour in the sense Kundera gives it in Testaments Betrayed.
This work by Kundera is called a novel but titled Testaments Betrayed: an essay in nine parts. It accuses European culture of betraying its own creation, the novel, in failing both to read Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses and in failing to defend it.
Falling in other words into the moralising trap which is the opposite of humour.
So it’s entirely appropriate that Vila-Matas represents, in the humour of his novel, a transformation in European fiction, and a new moment, making him a true original.
When thinking of the comical what comes to mind, after world politics and after its representation in local NZ media by comedians–presenting, it should be added, news and current affairs in a comical way (to increase ratings)–so bringing about the comical representation of reality, but not the dazzling representation, of reality; after these what comes to mind are the paintings of Yue Minjun.
— Yue Minjun, The Execution, 1995
It is easy to imagine why Yue Minjun chooses not to smile in photographs. He says:
I was born at the tail-end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, so there were a lot of government-commissioned propaganda paintings around that illustrated the apparent joy of being working class. In most of the these paintings, the subjects were laughing, but it was never clear why. People would be standing around Chairman Mao or around the produce resulting from a clearly bumper harvest, laughing… [and laughing
[laughing their heads off…]
Featuring: the normalisation of absurdity in society … acknowledgement of absurdity brings ontological insecurity of the What the hell’s going on? kind… 32’57” we see the normalisation in digital delivery of the absurdity of glitch: this is called the normalisation of a Mixed Delivery model in higher education. …
You will also notice something strange happening in the above webinar which is an absurdity in itself–the neutering of hypernormalisation as the critical concept it was never intended to be, since it is a technique, a politico-aesthetic technique. This is its HYPER criticality.
And is better dealt with by Adam Curtis:
DADA names the tendency of absurdity to eat itself, starting from the toes, chewing its way up the legs, pausing for a big surrealist gulp at the pelvis, seat of the famous sexual organs, and savouring the crunch and fizz thereof, before moving on to a ping, pinging of flying bits of ribcage, ricocheting off the roof of the mouth, until with a pop, the skull, place of the last stand of the infamous ego, delivers its precious cargo … to be shat out the other end.
What is lost by the good doctors of Lincoln is the aesthetic one-way transaction… in favour of a recuperation which is the DISCRIMINATOR between HUMOUR and COMEDY or POLITICAL as opposed to CRITICAL ABSURDITY
declaring the war of the comical on reality: is this the totaler Krieg that is also Kürzester Krieg? or would be in the sense that it is already won.
his eyes were so blue, it was like looking straight through to a blue sky through a skull.
— Jane Birkin on Graham Greene [from here]
The characters in This Storm [2019] are lurid, brash, vulgar. There is now an occupant of the White House who could fit that description. What’s your opinion of him?
I don’t talk about politics in any circumstances. The current day in America has nothing to do with my books.
— James Ellroy in interview with Andrew Anthony [here]
… one of the things that the pandemic has done is it has shown to millions of workers who have been treated as most disposable, whose work had been most degraded, who were told that they were unskilled, that they were so easily replaceable, that they are, in fact, the most essential workers in our economy. They were labelled essential workers.
And if you look at who the essential workers are, it’s the working class, it’s the people who keep the lights on it. It’s the people who deliver the mail. It’s the people who take care of the elderly. We know who we’re talking about. We’re talking about the people who make the world run.
— Naomi Klein, Jacobin Magazine, here.
While philosophy seems to be reserved for a minority, anyone can have a glimpse of it by falling into sickness or depression. When our vital energies are weakened, Smith claims, our sympathy also diminishes, allowing ‘splenetic philosophy’ to reveal that most of the projects central to our lives have no other basis than the imaginary pleasures of sympathy. Seen in an ‘abstract and philosophical light’, gossip about the rich and powerful or striving for economic advancement no longer seem meaningful. Most people, however, forget this lesson as soon as they recover, and resume chasing illusory pleasures.
Choosing to see the world as we do when we’re ill might seem absurd. Smith’s account of sympathy and philosophy in Moral Sentiments, however, implies that we often mistake ourselves for others, the dead for the living, and illness for health. Indeed, it might be that our everyday experience of the world is sick, and the philosophical life is the cure.
— Blake Smith, Psyche online magazine, here.
A more total and more radical war than any you can imagine.
… still, something about hypernormalisation rankles with me. Is it too ideological?
Hypernormalisation as a component in the strategy of a war more total and more radical than any you have so far pictured to yourself: Note–
NOT Total War, MORE total and radical war, is it the war taken into the living and bed rooms of civilians? We have reached a more total and radical phase of this kind of war, and we have surpassed it.
The earlier phase was already that in which ideology was surpassed. Goebbels is explicit in 1943: this is not von Clausewitz’s Total War–the one of ideology.
Ideological war is only a war of ideas. Ideas have not survived the End of History, 1989, the death of Communism, the self-surpassing moment in which Capitalist Democracy loses its ideological component, and wars lose theirs.
All of those post-1945 wars (it’s W-pedia, but here‘s an interesting list of wars 1945-1989) are being fought without ideological pretext, because such a support is no longer necessary, the Total War has already been won, by Western Liberal interests: … but where was it really fought, if not in the two great wars of the early 20th century, the first of which was the war to end empires, the second of which was the war to end nations, nation-states?
Was it in the earlier nation and empire building wars of colonial expansion that the Total War of Ideas was won? … these wars were not ended by world wars I & II. Post-1945 they just lost their ideological pretext, which was the one of nation and empire building.
Ideas: Wars. What is the next step? Imagination? The war of imagination in which Surrealism aligned with Communism?
Is this the reason for the shrinking horizon of imagination? … As the generation of ’68 dies out… Go ask TINA.
I am shouting: transparency: THEY ARE NOT TRANSPARENT TO THEMSELVES!
this is a conversation which is going on outside the lines I am writing here but it has some sense of general cogency, an applicability to the problem of appropriative strategy: capitalist will is transcendent for incorporation of all strategies that would be in opposition.
it has some applicability to governments–at local as well as state as well as federal level–that bury in justification the hegemonic ideologies they embody.
… yes, I find I myself resorting to the ideological. For the exemplary case of a local council expressing its ideology in the way it spends the rates of its citizens, see Auckland in relation to Wellington at this link, called, wonderfully, experimental: here.
days 144 – 149
Death is not supposed to be part of the American dream, begins Richard Wolffe’s article for the Guardian. [here] Above this is a photo of a banner reading The Lasting Monument to Trump’s Presidency is Being Built One Death At A Time, above a Goyaesque pile of severed heads.
I watched the first NZ Leaders’ Debate of 2020 last night. It’s posted below, with, the YouTube comments say, the commercial breaks intact, but I don’t recommend watching it. It is not something one chooses or wishes others to watch. It is a troubling watch and this is the best that can be said about it.
It is troubling in the sense that political content ought to be troubling. I am writing about it now because I remain troubled by it and Wolffe’s article reminded me why, with its blandly ironic opening line.
Watching it last night–until I reached the point I could see it would go no further and I could watch no further–I saw clearly the attraction of Trump, Trump, the Monument to whose Presidency is Being Built One Death At A Time. I saw it clearly in the coldest harshest light–in the light of the NZ Leaders’ Debate, in the light of the poverty of vision in the Vision Statements of the Leaders (only two: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins) and in the light of it looking like it was edited by a child.
The problem for a politician in the Post-COVID state is we know she knows where the lever is that stops the economy. Yet the vision of both Ardern and Collins went straight to the economy–and to growth. No mention was made of it being slowed or stopped.
Back to America: The New Yorker, Sept. 7 2020, leads with a Comment column by Amy Davidson Sorkin, who writes that the dominant theme of the Republican National Convention in the week previous was control. America is in danger of ceasing to be America. Evidence to support this claim is suppressed. Sorkin cites Kimberly Guilfoyle saying at the Conference, “They are coming for me, because I am fighting for you!” and “cosmopolitan élites … want to control what you see and think and believe so that they can control how you live.” The Wolffe article above puts this down to a strain of individualism endemic to America.
Told the ‘crux’ of QAnon’s “family of conspiracy theories” is that he is “secretly saving the world from [the] satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals” and of course cosmopolitan élites, according to Sorkin, Trump asks, “Is that supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing?”
Sorkin writes, “A St. Louis couple who pointed firearms at Black Lives Matter marchers were rewarded with a speaking spot at the Convention.” She ends: “fear and suspicion cannot be the means by which this country is controlled”, then adds, “That isn’t how America remains America.”
This is not disturbing. It is not politics. This is the secret meaning–which you have to dig deep into the web to find–of Trump not being a statesman: an animal, perhaps, but not a political animal. He is not a politician. He is not available to the bodysnatchers.
Deleuze writes about something called ‘control society.’ [here] He didn’t have this in mind. He had in mind the autoveillant society of self-scoring on performance and psychic investment in types of scoring, ranking and measuring, in individualist competition–as a form of control belonging to the sort of capitalism we have come to think of as neo- or neuro-liberalism.
Here is a quote from “Postscript on the Societies of Control:”
…the factory was already familiar with the system of bonuses, but the corporation works more deeply to impose a modulation of each salary, in states of perpetual metastability that operate through challenges, contests, and highly comic group sessions. If the most idiotic television game shows are so successful, it’s because they express the corporate situation with great precision. [which we can extend to the US Presidency]
On a banner–another banner–in the background of a photo of Joseph Goebbels, 18 February 1943: something I have not seen before in association with Total War–Totaler Krieg – Kürzester Krieg.
Shortest War.
Totaler Krieg. In his speech, pictured below, courtesy of the commons, Goebbels asked those at the convention–another convention–whether a war was wanted more total and more radical than anything even yet imagined.
…totaler und radikaler, als wir ihn uns heute überhaupt erst vorstellen können?
You notice that the spelling of totaler remains the same whether it means more total or just total–the German for a total war is ein totaler Krieg.
What the banner then reads is in English not Total War–Shortest War but The More Total War [is the] Shortest War.
Goebbels had earlier referred to the depraved and perverted threat of Bolsheviks and Jews facing Germany–not unlike the threat of the pedophiles and cannibals (and cosmopolitan élites) facing America.
By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-J05235 / Schwahn / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5434259
Goebbels–at least as far as the banner speaks for him–therefore goes further than von Clausewitz in announcing not a total war–opposable to a limited war–but a more total war.
If you look at the online entry, you will see that the idea of a total war going beyond the political and diplomatic objectives to be achieved by a limited war–going all the way to ideological conflict and achieving an ideological victory, or victory of the idea–is linked by Brittanica.com to Goebbels’s announcement in his speech of February 18 1943. Except that he didn’t announce or ask the conference whether a total war was wanted and neither did the banner behind him advert to a total war being the shortest.
The question then is what is a more total war than one achieving the victory of an idea?
The other question is, with whom is it to be achieved–so that
ham’ se alle Ja geschrien–
they all cried YES.
…? perhaps it is this list from US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera:
those who fight for you
write for you live for you act for you study for you dance for you
parade for you paint and construct for you carry for you build you
inform you feed you nanny you clean you vacuum for you swipe
the grease off your clothes chef for you serve you teach you carry
carry you rock you to sleep and console you
— from “You Just Don’t Talk About It,” Juan Felipe Herrera, in Every Day We Get More Illegal, 2020.
days following, 105-143
I just watched Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz. More frightening, I just watched a plane disappear above the clouds.
The advice is insistent on how to deal with COVID. From the Stoics. It is part of the general onslaught, a how to of personal reconciliation that would be worthless were it not for the Romantic and soteriological tradition of personal salvation. (That would be the Romantic tradition of nationalist salvation and the soteriological tradition of personal salvation.) For example, suicide and the idea of a personal death. See Schopenhauer.
The two, nationalist and personal, are combined in the idea of Brexit:
This is everything pic.twitter.com/fW2RQFr6xQ
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) August 15, 2020
Here is a snapshot of nationalist culture in auto-affectionate self-parody. And here is a portrait of Schopenhauer with his poodle.
painting inside my skull
it might be useful to think of it shaped like a donut.
and be not conformed to this world
— thanks Isaias Braga
Something Remarkable Just Happened This August: How the Pandemic Has Sped Up the Passage to Postcapitalism
“It was bad back then; society was diseased.”
— writes Julianna Baggott, Pure, (London, UK: Headline, 2012), 63.
“[He] imagines that this isn’t real, that, instead, it’s just some elaborate reenactment of destruction, not the actual destruction itself.
“He remembers once being in a museum … Each display was dedicated to a theme: before the impressive prison system was built, before difficult children were properly medicated, when feminism didn’t encourage femininity, when the media were hostile to government instead of working toward a greater good, before people with dangerous ideas were properly identified, back when government had to ask permission to protect its good citizens from the evils of the world and from the evils among us, before the gates had gone up around neighborhoods with buzzer systems and friendly men at gatehouses who knew everyone by name.”
“My body is the truth. It’s history.”
— Ibid. 413.
Notes, you might say. But don’t you think we are no longer free to float happily with fragments?
No need.
Yet the demand is more imposing than ever personally to reconcile the contradictions, that are quite public, evident in our political lives.
I would say that our political lives impose but that they are equally irreconcilable for being mutually incompatible, a clamping down here with a liberalisation there, liberalisation of cannabis or euthanasia laws with mandatory mask-wearing and the possibility of mass vaccination being mandatory as well.
The rift is not between the public and the private, making one irreconcilable to the other. It is a general crazing of the public to which the private is not equal, is not enough crazy.
There is no point of view given by state mandate but the mad movement of a conflicting polity, so that any attempt personally to reconcile oneself to it can only end in disaster.
Or in the absurdity of believing a conspiracy is behind it.
As we used to say, undercover of human malice or stupidity, the conspiracy of confusion and disinformation serving political ends–but this time, unpoliticisable, irrecuperable to any recognisable political viewpoint, ends set for self-destruct.
And yet, are we happy to be getting on with the craze of fragments?
There seems to be something like an expectation we ought to be able to understand we take on; we should be able to make sense and reconcile for ourselves the competing interests the results of which we can only anathematise.
That is we cannot undo them.
Cannot analyse them.
Slippery as,
So neonatology as well as neontology concern the study of neons.
— at the antilockdown rally aotea sq. 4.9.2020,
courtesy Simon Wilson
(note cap)
One sometimes thinks that for a voyage to the depths of the human soul one needs a powerful submarine, and in the end is surprised to find oneself in a wetsuit trying to sink into a standard household bathtub.
— Andrés Barba, A Luminous Republic, Trans. Lisa Dillman, (New York, NY: Mariner Books, 2020), 11.
…the demands of international treaties trumped by nationalist interests…
…but also the ramifying in the nationalist arena of conflicting global interests…
It is worth restating these are not macro interests, rather a micro fragmenting … and this bespeaks a kind of vulnerability to the broader strokes–hammer blows–of which the Left seems to have become wary.
Given that you are a force of opposition, what do you want?
Calming devices used to be those narrow perspex boxes in which you could see and witness particulate sorting processes. Sometimes with oil.
Then diving you see a skate, a ray, shake off the sand in which it is camouflaged, and the sand settle.
…it settles without you doing a thing.
This is what you are watching slowly coming down–the pretence is that it happens quickly.
The pretence is that it can–that it can operate by some human, humanly imposed scale of time, of time reduced to the technologically available advanced scale of minute increments speeding past, speeding into the past under what Virilio calls dromological pressure. Speeding into the future. This is what you get speeding into the future.
This is what you get, I have been writing in my other writing: it is not speed except that it is communicable and the speed is of the communication. Which makes a joke of communication.
days 88 – 105: including the comeback of lockdown, ackl; or, papa goff gets a payoff
what kind of report to make, not a record of the days, and this music playing, with its dark intimations, which make you yearn for WAP feat. Megan Thee Stallion and its easy innuendos of something beyond both sex and death. For so it must be.
It must be further out than the body’s passions and further in than the deep well.
Perhaps it belongs to the totalitarianism of data Refik Anadol visualises:
— thanks K!
just as perhaps it is in the ludicology of fluxus, so imagine us saying, who that woman was is not important, but art is alive. I mean let’s keep names out of this.
As I was saying…
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there are no boundaries in art … or it is the very boundary that is its sustaining cheesewire g-string
a light, fluent surface.
— from here is M. John Harrison talking about a story in his own collection, Settling the World, that taught him how to …
and on this surface, say the philosophical surface or its equivalent in one of Leonard Cohen’s songs, there are mining operations.
These are as energy intensive, writes Bloomberg, or have been, as in 2018 to require 140 TWh of electricity, “rivaling the entire annual electricity consumption of Argentina.”
In 2017, the cost of mining a single bitcoin varied between $11,000 and $26,000–says Investopedia.
What’s more is that the majority of mining takes place in China, and, Business Insider writes, “tightening government security is pushing miners to relocate to places like Kazakhstan and Venezuela.”
These places are Politically Unstable–as my source for these figures presents it:
Hive’s Vision, by contrast, is to build a better digital currency mining infrastructure–go deep in the well–using green power for the blockchain.
Hive is building their “rigs in stable jurisdictions to prolific industrial scales–making them some the world’s largest and most energy-efficient datacenters.” [sic.]
the ascent of Hive
on the edges of a storm. Out the window deep grey tones broken by a white edge of ermine. Fading light but it has been circling all day. The heat and humidity amplified by curtains on each side thick and dark walls of dark water. Solid walls black like black mould creeping up a wall. Like being in an old fridge, hotter for having been an appliance to keep things cold and insulated, its heat exchange broken anyway. Not plugged in beside the road.
We are insulated in the sick insulation of what was once a natural product but is now synthetic, a thready material that is barbed. Not so bad as Pink Batts which is made of glass fibre and gets in our lungs, blows free from the cracks in rooftiles, or under eaves, cracks in never well put together New Zealand homes, gets in our eyes. I remember reading about such glass fibre insulation being recorded as present in the Yosemites. This now spills out globally from the world’s broken fridge. A zoonotic thread made of stripes and bars of genomic fibre.
It’s hot in here, even here, on these evening islands. Windblown by virus fibres.
Perhaps it is pollen.
Like sickly orchids in a hothouse we are being pollinated.
Ah, on another tangent or asymptote it is so refreshing to read Ulrik Ekman’s questions that are network critical but that feed in to the other writing I am engaged in in parallel, the reason for my absence here over stretches–but then I’m never sure there are readers for this here.
Mark Blyth is another voice important to listen to–thanks D.–for his curmudgeonly critical pugnacity on economic matters. He explains what it is the market values, and, as byblow, why it might be whole countries and cities can be shut down–from an economic point of view. Why has the world, the muchbruited and feted globalised world of the global marketplace, not simply sat down and given up and … frozen to death or burnt to a crisp … given the shuttings-down governments have now figured out they can do?
It is that the market values assets and capital liquidity and secondary financial products. The general economic market values nonexistent stuff.
This is why existence can get on very well without it.
Let it.
That’s all we ask.
Finally, the pornography of the human condition we didn’t know we needed:
The Sad Girl Manifesto
Not finally. How can there ever be any finality ever again?
the palms of the Bush dynasty reaching out to the Trump.
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day 74 – day 87 of the world winding up business
“When times are hard, like they are now, what’s the use of knowing stuff?”
— the end of Cixin Liu’s Of Ants and Dinosaurs (Trans. Elizabeth Hanlon, (London, UK: Head of Zeus, 2020), 248).
OPERATION LEGEND: “a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative across all federal law enforcement agencies working in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight the sudden surge of violent crime.”
Wall of Moms
…although involuntary hospitalisation and treatment is deemed to violate an individual’s civil rights in the US, running for president would seem to meet the conditions of posing a danger either to themselves or others in order to be held for evaluation…
“Police said they have recovered 420 bodies from streets, vehicles and homes in [Bolivia’s] capital of La Paz, and in [its] biggest city, Santa Cruz, in the span of five days. Between 80 percent and 90 percent of them are believed to have had the virus.” — from here.
…winding up business:
For those who might have thought a drug to treat COVID-19 might have a value beyond measure, no. That its value is capable of measure is a measure of its value.
COVID-19 presents–and is presented by the Guardian article breaking news of the breakthrough–an unprecedented (the article says there ought to be a stronger word) opportunity … to make money.
This is not turning others suffering into profit, profiting off others’ suffering, as the soul is said to off the body, as the body is said to turn the soul’s suffering to its own profit, but a profitable speculation on turning the suffering of others around, profiting off the prospect of the positive outcome of their future health.
You can read it for yourself and make sense of what kind of breakthrough is being celebrated here.
Have you been wondering about representation? American critics have been pointing out the debt–suppressed–still owing–20th century dance in the West owes to Africa, and in America, black dancers.
This is not any kind of reciprocation, payment or token but look at Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring being prepared for a tour that with COVID-19 didn’t happen:
Evening. I have been reading about von Zemlinsky in a poem by John Ash. The first part dwells on or in this word evening in English, German and Turkish. Ash has adopted Istanbul as his home city. I wonder how he feels about the Hagia Sophia, about Erdoğan leading the first prayers–at least in the front row of bent over figures, for the camera op–since it has become a mosque and is no longer a museum. Did I imagine him wearing a mask? Erdoğan that is.
What does it mean for the Hagia Sophia to become a mosque? has it reverted to being a mosque? is this a reversion or is this progress? and if progress to what far horizon are we bound? and we might even ask so literally.
I have been following Tim Mackintosh-Smith in the footsteps of Ibn Battuta. He stops in Turkey, second leg of the journey, in three episodes [1, 2, 3]. The Hagia Sophia is a place when our documentarian visits that epitomises the interpenetration of Christianity and Islam in its architecture–high above the heads of those bowed in prayer now, are images, not so much graven as mosaic, Christian icons.
Strange to have seen that the Hagia Sophia twice in very different circumstances so recently.
Von Zemlinsky is yet to reappear. Or perhaps he has pre-appeared.
Besotted with the Alma who wed Mahler and on Mahler’s death married Gropius, of Bauhaus–of the building, incidentally we used regularly to visit of an evening in Berlin, evenings spent following the Wall in its nearby span through our neighbourhood of Kreuzberg–he, von Zemlinsky, held himself to be so ugly he could not bear the sight of himself. A dwarf. And writes Ash, how many of these giants of the Western musical canon were short: Berg towered over most of them. Stravinsky. Mahler himself. Schönberg. Von Zemlinsky, the dwarf.
Where would he have pre-appeared but in the poetry of Bolaño? where there’s always a dwarf, and a hunchback, like he inhabits a Tom Waits song.
There exist slow-acting déjà vu. Perhaps I am yet to hear von Zemlinsky’s 4th Quartet, to have tears–what does Ash say?–dashing from my eyes? Unless I … and haven’t we all imagined we would sooner or later meet this criterion … have not the heart, not the sensitivity, cannot feel, do not understand the musical language, have lost the sense of its symbolic relatability? have been rendered with the rest of these generations who are now living deaf to it? We might not be falling into hyperbole to ask whether this is not a deafness or an intellectual dwarfism, a dullness that afflicts the whole of our civilization. And what would it mean if it did?
My friend–long distance–by email–but I hope she does not mind that I name her as a friend–Aliette Guibert-Certhoux liked to say we have lost in the West a common symbolic frame of reference–we have lost the Symbolic. She includes among her own friends Guy Debord and Baudrillard.
She wrote very movingly on the death of Baudrillard he was a favourite of the nurses, the old … I was about to write roué, and, as I am lacking acute accents within easy reach, I looked up the word. We know that a roue is a wheel. What roué refers to is the wheel which would be the punishment for a debauchee, for all those litanised by the #metoos: he would be broken on a wheel.
Does this make any sense?
The wheel. The Wall of Moms. The #metoos.
I was surprised that an Australian feminist thinker could not countenance–that means face–the late Irigaray. She would only consider the early Irigaray. Not the Irigaray of the evening who wrote so strongly it is perhaps only a true understanding of sexual difference that will, that can, save us.
And Oscar Wilde? will it also save Wilde? … He enters the poem of Ash, by way of “The Birthday of the Infanta.” And this pre-appearance is so striking I have to quote what it turns up, noting first that it handles of a dwarf hunchback:
“The Dwarf mistakenly believes that the Infanta must love him, and tries to find her, passing through a garden where the flowers, sundial, and fish ridicule him, but birds and lizards do not. He finds his way inside the palace, and searches through rooms hoping to find the Infanta, but finding them all devoid of life.
“Eventually, he stumbles upon a grotesque monster that mimics his every move in one of the rooms. When the realisation comes that it was his own reflection, he knows then that the Infanta did not love him, but was laughing out of mockery, and he falls to the floor, kicking and screaming. The Infanta and the other children chance upon him and, imagining it to be another act, laugh and applaud while his flailing grows more and more weak before he stops moving altogether. When the Infanta demands more entertainment, a servant tries to rouse him, only to discover that he has died of a broken heart. Telling this to the Infanta, she speaks the last line of the story ‘For the future, let those who come to play with me have no hearts.'”
You see? It is as we feared.
days 62-73 showing 60% at 17:17
There is nothing “most beautiful and most wonderful” about the coronavirus, to return to Darwin’s words, but it, too, is a thing of nature. We cannot wish away our connection to it.
— from LA Review of Books
We cannot wish away our connection to COVID-19. Darwin, Karl Kusserow writes, doesn’t allow us to forget the connectedness of all life and to wish away the parts we don’t like. Not that we have a right to life equal to or comparable with the virus, any virus; not that it can be claimed the virus, that viral life, because alive, mutating, reproducing, like us, is alive in the same way as us. This is not connectedness–and is as far from connectivity mediated in communication as we can go. Still our connnectedness constitutes us together. We are as connected conditions. For different forms of life.
We don’t simply depend on the same or a comparable structure of particles in aggregate. We depend as much as the virus on life being possible, on the conditions being available. They are to us and they are for the virus.
We don’t need to understand COVID-19 in its clever opportunism or admire its survival strategies. How like a body, how like a gene of our bodies, it is selfish, as Dawkins wrote, and how its wants are not so dissimilar from ours.
But the virus, this one, and the next zoonotic species-leaper, are connected to us and the climate we have and continue to disrupt, parts of the same planet we are spoiling. And this is Kusserow’s point. That image of “magnificent desolation”–the earth floating in darkness. The darkness on the face of the deep. Swirly blue marble–a kid’s thing. The darkness undivided and too deep ever to be divided.
So what did God actually do? to make such a strange bedfellow for hermself as Creation, and such a strange one for us as our virus, the one we are connected to; the one whose claim is that of a gene, a viral gene, like ours.
My note here read: what if connection in community were more like this?
How develop communities when we are in community with the agents of our destruction?
It is for the sake of everyone in the world that the slave asserts himself when he comes to the conclusion that a command has infringed on something which does not belong to him alone, but which is the common ground where all men–even the man who insults and oppresses him–have a natural community.
— Camus
the big nudes
if we can delay one day
On the virtues and aporia of economics:
In the meantime, the reduction of a society and culture to dependence on mathematical abstraction has infantalised a grown-up civilization and is well on the way to destroying it. Civilizations self-destruct anyway, but it is reasonable to ask whether they have done so before with such enthusiasm, in obedience to such an acutely absurd superstition, while claiming with such insistence that they were beyond being seduced by the irrational promises of religion. Every civilization has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilizations have used their culture to sing about it and tell stories about it. Ours has used its mathematics to prove it.
Yet, when this relatively short-lived market-society is gone, we will miss its essential simplicity, its price mechanism, its self-stabilising properties, its impersonal exchange, the comforts it delivers to many and the freedoms it underwrites. Its failure will be destructive.
— David Fleming, Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy, Ed. Shaun Chamberlin, 2016, from the epilogue.
Roberto Bolaño warns of the dangers of picking up and reading Osvaldo Lamborghini with bare eyes. He also attributes to Lamborghini a third but secret strain running through contemporary Argentinean literature, from the writer Bolaño calls his literary executor, César Aira.
Lamborghini, writes Aira , “insisted that all of the great novels were run through with a slight melody, a little jingle.” He has earlier remarked on Lamborghini’s fascination for a single line in Dickens’s David Copperfield which makes the rest of this work redundant.
David accompanies his maid Peggotty to feed the chickens. She throws the grain and the hens peck. “But the boy is looking at the freckled arms of the woman and he marvels that they don’t prefer to peck there.”
Aira writes, “That passage enchanted him.”
Aira, who, Bolaño writes, takes up the secret third strain running through Argentinian literature commencing with Lamborghini, invokes Leibniz to explain this monadic aspect of Lamborghini’s writing, of expressing the whole universe in microcosm.
He writes, “I remember, incidentally, Osvaldo had a method for writing when, for some reason, “he couldn’t write”: it consisted of writing one small, unremarkable phrase, and then another, and then another, until he had filled a number of pages. Some of his best texts (like “La mañana”) are written that way; and it is conceivable that everything may have been written that way.”
Bolaño has several times saved my life. Reading his Unknown University led to this work: a kind of record.
I had just finished my PhD. I thought I was doing what I should be doing. In the academy, but not of the academy, since also engaged in artistic research, I thought I had proven myself. Both as a teacher–I taught through the years I was working on my doctorate–and as a scholar-practitioner. But…
And just the other day I picked up his essays, Between Parentheses. His work returns me to the fact of the value of literature. Of course it’s religious but not ass-kissing. And sometimes Kundera will do, with his emphasis on humour and the irony the regime can’t stand. And with his reminder of how easily we sink into moralising, moralising by proxy, decreeing on behalf of … Phoebe Bridgers’s screaming has just now interrupted my thought
Ἀκαδήμεια,
M I N U S__T H E A T R E
R E S E A R C H__G R O U P
& other transports, below
Japan / Nihon / 日本国: 15 June 2019 – 25 June 2019 [including Deleuze|Guattari Studies Asia 7th International Conference & Camp]
WAY OUT: Deleuze and Guattari go outside
28.07.2018 – 07.08.2018 Japan – Kansai
A visual diary, 2015, with a few words (an index to posts in chronological order): Tokyo, Stockholm (8th International Deleuze Studies Conference, Daughers of Chaos), Copenhagen, Berlin, Vancouver, Waiheke
Hollyford Track, December 2015
Japan Journal, 2014 – links to posts listed in chronological order
a chronological & paginated index to posts on tour in 2010
Dear Visitor (2009)
The Ministry of Destinies
end of dreaming
THIS IS THE WAY IT ENDS
lying in long grass
A Piece of Fabric
recoil–a kind of record: in 31 weeks
COME TO NOTHING
DEEPSTREAM JOURNAL
T Y P I N G
A ruin
Quick Song
Tell it to the birds
MOIETIES
a gift to Jonathon & Ron
Ἐπιθαλάμιον
some lines from the Russian school for Raymond Boyce
piece for Dave
The Called Upon
NOT MEANING ANYTHING
A Lesson in Fashion
An earthquake
Hair Shanks Tobbyguppy
Holland Balland
On a beach
Poetry Was Dead
The Artisan of Prague
The carpark
The Human Breeding Programme
The Secessionist
NOT THAT BEAUTIFUL
‘in your shadow the world was on fire’
‘The Buttock’ and ‘The Bread’
A Drop
A Fort
A light and a radio
At the Café
Cathedral Steps
Charming Little Town
Difficult Work
General Brother
Jack’s Cage
Preparations for Transport
Red Dog Row, or The Eye
The Captain’s Table
The Clouds
The Earthquakes
The Land War
The Mezzanine
The Mill Girl
The Ornament
The President Elect of the United States of America
The Prime Minister of New Zealand
The Sea-egg
The Sickle Heart
White Peace
KAUKAPAKAPA CEMETERY GARDEN AREA B BURIAL Block 1 Row 2 Plot 30 Seq 1 & 2
Ianthe Victoria Taylor 1939 – 2012
My Mother’s Birthday Party
thank you for your sympathy in our time of sorrow
Anthony Frederick Taylor 1937 – 2009
My Father, Oedipus
TAYLOR ARCHIVE
Travesties, Downstage, 1977
East Lynne (double bill with Music Hall, Palace of Varieties), Downstage, 1977
Bingo, Downstage, 1978
The Merchant of Venice, Downstage, 1978
Heroes and Butterflies, Downstage, 1978
Candide, Downstage, 1978
Summit Conference, Downstage, 1979
Prisoners of Mother England, Downstage, 1979
Deathtrap, Downstage, 1979
Big and Little, Downstage, 1981
Hamlet, Downstage, 1982
Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of the Sign of Four, Downstage, 1982
Letter to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
World City Christchurch – building a city for the future
revisiting butoh
distinctions without differences: between now and here and nowhere, Auckland, 08
AB – Creative & Professional Development Application 15928 : 118955 ‘Love Project 9’ hereunder please find the text of the afore-struck application to Creative New Zealand for funding, sans letters in support, bios, curriculum vitae & pretty pictures
The Love Project, LP9
SEMELE I
SEMELE II
a theatre group called T-CELL
Crime Oil: now available
Invitation to an Opening, by way of an Introduction to The Separation Project [1998]
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Troy, in memoriam
enantiomorphosis: the messianic
“taking back the land” – song [c. 1992]
The Failure of the Old World [c. 1992]
MIRACULOUS DAY [fl. 1988-1990]
L’Enfance du Christ [Christmas Day 1989]
EATING THE BABY [Christmas Day 1988]
Against the Kingdom (c. 1995)
formulated song [c. 1994]
Hate and the Angel [c. 1985]
manifest from the 90s
New Zealand [c. 1992]
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Boston College Eagles — 2014 Syracuse Football preview
August 19, 2014 Wes Cheng Football
Football coach Steve Addazio speaks to reporters. Mandatory Photo Credit: AP Photo, Stew Milne.
As we countdown to kickoff in August, we’re going to be doing a team-by-team preview each Tuesday over the summer. SU will finish its 2014 regular season schedule when they play BC on Nov. 29.
GREAT START: Steve Addazio couldn’t have asked for a better first season at Chestnut Hill. The Eagles exceeded expectations in nearly every way en route to a 7-5 regular season, returning to respectablity after the dismissal of Frank Spaziani, who went 21–29 from 2009-12. As an added bonus, the Eagles also received a Heisman caliber season from Andre Williams. The running back made a late push for the top honor in college football, amassing 897 in a three game stretch in November (he finished with 2,177 yards on the season). It was good enough to receive an invite to the finalist’s ceremony, something that was completely off the radar to begin the 2013 campaign. A 42-19 loss to Arizona in the Independence Bowl wasn’t the ending that Addazio wanted, but the fact that BC was even in a bowl was a victory.
BC beat expectations last year
» Related: Previewing Syracuse’s matchup against Pitt
WHO TO WATCH FOR: There’s been plenty of turnover on offense with the depature of QB Chase Rettig, the aforementioned Williams and wide receiver Alex Amidon, who accounted for more than half of the the team’s receiving yards in 2013. BC was expecting junior WR Harrison Jackson to fill the void, but Jackson tore his ACL in spring practice. That will put pressure on senior Bobby Swigert to become the main target, but he’s recovering from a tough knee injury that sidelined him all last season. Florida transfer Tyler Murphy takes over at quarterback, while a committee led by Myles Willis will try to replace Williams.
PREDICTION: No one is doubting Addazio’s ability to coach, but replicating last season’s success will be difficult. There are only 10 starters returning (4 offense, 6 defense) and BC will face a brutal stretch to close the season where they play at Virginia Tech, against Louisville and at Florida State. A return to a bowl game is possible, but the margin for error is razor thin, especially if you ask top online sports betting site. SYRACUSE 31, BC 28.
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Negative symptoms cause students to kick caffeine habits
Freudian Sip worker, Michelle, serves a cup of coffee for a client Photo credit: Ivan Salinas
Heidi Weinrich
A feeling of breathlessness came over Nijole Ubonas as she was sitting in class in the middle of the day. She thought about every breath she took with fear running through her body. She suffered a shortness of breath, which is a common symptom of caffeine consumption.
According to Ellen Bauersfeld, registered dietitian at the Klotz Center, studies have shown the human body should have no more than 400 mg of caffeine a day. However, everyone is different and can handle more or less.
Ubonas drank about three Rockstar energy drinks every day for a year, with the occasional coffee. Since the day she felt short of breath, she has cut down to one 24 ounce Rockstar a day, which has 240 mg of caffeine.
“I felt like it was an overdose, and that I was becoming addicted,” Ubonas said. “I’m sure I was addicted.”
The 21-year-old said she replaced the additional Rockstar drinks with juice or soda in order to cut down her caffeine consumption.
Senior Christine Nation would get painful headaches if she went a day without consuming caffeine. The 22-year-old said she was addicted to black and green tea.
“I would drink iced tea every day and have at least five glasses,” Nation said. “I had been drinking it since I was about five.”
According to Nation, whenever she would go to a friend’s house to spend the night, she would always feel the need to bring a bottle of iced tea with her. If she didn’t have caffeine at some point during the day, her headaches would persist.
Nation found that her caffeine consumption was also disrupting her sleep schedule. She would lay awake at night or sleep restlessly. She has now kicked her tea habit and has coffee sparingly.
“The only times recently that I’ve used caffeine for school is if I have a late class and I need just a cup of coffee to stay awake because of its senior year, and I have three-hour classes all week,” Nation said.
Andrea Cisneros is drinking a cup of coffee at the Freudian Sip of the USU Photo credit: Ivan Salinas
According to Bauersfeld, some of the negative side effects of too much caffeine include insomnia, elevated blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, nausea, gastrointestinal problems and increased nervousness among others.
“Everyone is sensitive and some people can have significant symptoms that can interfere with their daily lives,” Bauersfeld said.
Bauersfeld emphasized that all students vary when it comes to the limit of how much the body can handle caffeine. She doesn’t think anyone knows what the exact number of milligrams is safe.
The biggest problem to Bauersfeld when it comes to caffeine consumption is people get used to it. Therefore, if they don’t have it they will get withdrawal symptoms.
As a dietitian, Bauersfeld said that if a person drinks too much caffeine, they probably have unhealthy eating habits as well. Students use caffeine for energy, but as human beings, they should rely on food for this.
“Our bodies are designed to use food for energy. As nutrition improves, it gives them [students] energy for long term,” Bauersfeld said.
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Thor is a superhero in the Marvel Universe, and the very same Thor of Norse mythology.
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Thor Odinson was a powerful Norse god. When his father, Odin, decided his son was too arrogant, he turned him mortal (Donald Blake) and placed him on Earth. He was cursed to become mortal only when he found his magic hammer and became a god on Earth, defending his new home with his restored powers.
Thor was born to Odin, the All-Father of Asgard, and Jord, a goddess of the Elder Gods who is more commonly referred to as Gaea. Thor chose Jord because he wanted to father a son who had both ties (and the strengths of) Asgard and Midgard (Earth), and the two created a cave in Norway where the child was born. After his birth, Thor was taken back to Asgard to be raised by Odin and his wife Frigga.
Powers and Abilites[edit | edit source]
Like all Asgardians, Thor is not truly immortal but relies upon periodic consumption of the Golden Apples of Idunn to sustain his extended lifespan, which to date has lasted many millennia. Being the son of Odin and the elder goddess Gaea, Thor is physically the strongest of the Asgardians.[40][139][140][141][142][143] If pressed in battle, Thor is also capable of entering into a state known as the "Warrior's Madness" ("berserkergang" in Norwegian), which will temporarily increase his strength and stamina tenfold, although in this state he attacks friend and foe alike.[144]
Thor possesses a very high resistance to physical injury that approaches invulnerability.[145][146][147][148] Thor also possesses keen senses[25] that allows him to track objects traveling faster than light[149] and hear cries from the other side of the planet.[150] Thor has the ability to travel through time.[151][152] His stamina allowed him to battle the entire Frost Giant army for nine months without any sustenance or rest;[153] Thor has also shown the ability to regenerate wounded portions of his body,[154] including entire limbs or organs, with the aid of magical forces like Mjolnir,[155] Thor has superhuman speed, agility, and reflexes, enabling him to deflect bullets with his hammer.[156] Like all Asgardians he has immunity to all Earthly diseases and some resistance to magic. However, exceptionally powerful magic can overwhelm Odin's enchantment that transforms him between Asgardian and mortal forms.[157]
As the Norse god of Thunder, Thor can summon the elements of the storm (lightning; rain; wind; snow) and uses Mjolnir as a tool to focus this ability, although the hammer cannot command artificial weather, only natural. He can cause these weather effects all over the world and destroy entire buildings; by whirling his hammer he can also lift entire buildings with the wind.[142] As the son of the Earth goddess Gaea, Thor has shown some control over the Earth.[158]
Thor is a superb hand-to-hand combatant, and also skilled in armed combat, excelling in the use of the war hammer, sword, axe and mace. Thor possesses two items which assist him in combat: the enchanted Belt of Strength, and his mystical hammer Mjolnir. The first item doubles Thor's strength and endurance[159] while the second is used to control his weather abilities; flight; energy projection and absorption; dimensional travel; matter manipulation and the most powerful of his offensives, the God Blast (which taps into Thor's life force),[160] the Thermo-blast,[161] and the Anti-Force (which counteracts another force).[162] Using Mjolnir by throwing in the desired direction and then holding on to the handle's leather loop, Thor can also fly at supersonic speeds in Earth's atmosphere and travel faster than light in space. When Thor has to transport companions and/or objects to a destination by himself, he has a chariot drawn by two huge mystical goats called Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder that can fly nearly anywhere he desires almost as easily as with Mjolnir.[91] He can throw an object out of Earth's atmosphere using his strength,[163] and throw his hammer to Asgard from where it will return.[164]
When Mjolnir was damaged, Doctor Strange bound Thor's soul into Mjolnir, meaning that if the hammer were to be broken again, Thor may also die.
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The movie Thor Ragnarok, alluding to the old plot of "Donald Blake", the disguise of a powerless character who always carried a cane that was his hammer in disguise (which had already been alluded to in the first film), with Thor turning his hammer into an umbrella that he always keeps closed and carries with him like a cane, and made this while wearing normal clothes and when he hit the object on the floor he turned his hammer and he instantly changed his clothes for his armor.
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Urban Techwear Community Sales Thread
I thought you might be interested in looking at Urban Techwear Community Sales Thread.
https://supertalk.superfuture.com/topic/155357-urban-techwear-community-sales-thread/?do=findComment&comment=3083185
supertalk is free to browse as a guest. You need to be a member to participate in discussions or buy and sell on the classifieds.
From 2021 new membership is $US 6 / year.
You can also become a premium superseller or supermember. Businesses who want to promote their brand and products need to become a supersponsor. superfuture is privately owned and has been online continuously for 22 years. It is a digital cockroach and will survive all current and future apocalypses.
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INTERN ■ Technical Apparel Research & Projects Administration
By the-intern
Greetings Folks! And welcome to the 30-day DIY Techwear Challenge.
My school and industry mentors have challenged me with the task of trying to create a new product - from scratch - everyday - for 30 days...
I'm a second year Student of Fashion Design - studying in the city of Vancouver. Since September I've been interning at a local research and design firm to gain exposure to technical fashion design, construction techniques, and the real-world process behind bringing wild ideas to life...
The studio where I intern is very tight-lipped about their outputs and involvements, however I am allowed to say that they have been quietly responsible for many of the innovations and products seen across the market - some of which I see posted quite regularly in fits around the community. My roll is still at the utmost bottom of the ladder (see:gopher), however my mentors are incredibly supportive in including me in and teaching me the in-and-outs of the nuances fashion design.
To be honest I'm a bit overwhelmed by the idea of trying to create 30x products from scratch, I've never done anything quite like this before... I'm going to give it my best shot to not only come up with a new product everyday, but also document every aspect of the patterning, construction, materials selection, etc. all the way through to a finished product.
I'm taking this online in hopes that of getting feedback/suggestions/criticisms as to what I should construct each day, at this point I've only a very vague plot of where to begin and what to make. Its my hope that I can share with the community a behind-the-scenes look into the production of the products we all love, while being able to experiment with new ideas we'd like to see but don't yet exist.
My obsession with techwear has become clinical at this point, made worse by the simple fact that I'm a broke student very much unable to afford the level of craftsmanship in my attire which has come to haunt me. To try and fix this I've been saving every penny I can since this 30-day challenge was presented to me last November. I'm happy to say -with the support of my friends and family- I've been able to put together a small pot of funds that I can put towards financing 30-days of techwear design.
At the end of this project, I'd like to be able to assemble the 30-day log and the products created into a portfolio which I can use to find a job. I'm still very new to this but it's clear to me that technical apparel and accessories design is where I want to focus my ambitions and career. With any luck this project will be an appealing application for a design position with one of the larger industry players.
The 30-day countdown begins!
CHIBA D.I.Y. SPRAWL
SUPPLIERS ADDRESS BOOK:
http://extremtextil.de: DRESDEN/DE [etaproof, fidlock, ykk, polartec, cordura, cobra buckles]
http://fun-fabric.de: SOLINGEN/DE [fidlock, cordura]
http://technische-textilien-shop.de: BERLIN/DE / ran by BAGJACK [cordura, 25mm slotted loops]
http://seattlefabrics.com: SEATTLE/OBVIOUSLY [ultrex, ykk]
http://pennineoutdoor.co.uk: BENTHAM/UK [ventile, thisulate]
http://sailrite.com: COLUMBIA/US [ykk, dacron]
http://rockywoods.com: LOVELAND/US [cordura, thisulate, schoeller]
https://www.baender24.de: DE [webbing, colourful plastic hw]
http://www.zpacks.com WEST MELBOURNE/US [cuben, climasheild]
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Your biggest issue with techwear is ?
By FANONO
Hey, I've created this topis to have a conversation Guys what is your biggest issue with techwear and why ? (personal stories, unpleasant experaince, things that you dislike about techwear in general)
Let's start with me.
My biggest issue with techwear is it's realy hard to find nice jacket that will be affordable and still will look sick (not like standard north face).
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Asia Condensed In A Store
Big is beautiful, it is said, but in the world’s largest continent, what’s beautiful is not massively homogenous. Asia is not only vast in terms of land mass, it is also immensely populated: consider the over 4 billion people versus North America’s roughly 522 million. In this expanse of humanity, do we love beautiful clothes equally? Do women of, say, Bangkok appreciate the same silhouette as her sisters of Seoul? Can the successes of one city’s fashion labels be repeated in another? Could one person’s design be another woman’s not-so-divine?
Mporium, a new multi-label store that opened last month, is dedicated to Asian designers, and appears to represent the confidence that Asia, having risen, will adore Asia. The self-love could be evidenced, it suggests, regardless of where it is expressed. The clothes conceived for the Asian designers’ respective markets, it supposes, can be as alluring off-shore. Just as many trade barriers are removed with the rapid spread of FTAs in Asia, fashion retail obstacles, too, can be taken down as women increasingly share the love of styles that unite them in their femininity, in their sexuality, and in their prosperity. Mporium fancies itself to be the arbiter of what’s fashionable in Asia and a gateway to modern Asian fashion, an access through which women will find other expressions of style to fill their wardrobe.
Whether the 35 or so labels the store carries are a reflection of the burgeoning love of Asian designer fashion, it won’t be known, at least not in these early days. Despite the many names, what Mporium offers, in terms of variety, are narrowed by a distinct lack of a voice. At a glance, you’d see incredible breadth and would think they have a huge inventory. Inside, among the racks, however, it is hard to discern what the store is attempting to articulate. Trying to be too many things to too many people seems to be the emergent picture. It is hard to figure out what a rack of Yesah’s for-the-club clothes is doing amid rows of ultra-feminine dresses such as those by Aijek and Individual Expression. Sure, Asia is diverse, but is it this fragmented?
Initially curated by David Wang, the fashion designer-turned-fashion impresario, Mporium’s sundry labels together do not clue the visitor to their dissimilar and disconnected origins. They do seem to emerge from one aesthetic core, and a commercial one at that. You, too, sense that many of the clothes come from one factory. Mr Wang, as a designer, was not always known for originality, and as patron-saint of Singapore fashion, has mostly veered towards those with a keen sense of commerciality. His last large-scale project was as incubator head of the Parco Next NEXT project (now closed), conceived to give budding designers a fighting chance. Launched in 2010 at Millenia Walk, it was a venture supported by the Textile and Fashion Federation (TaFF) and Spring Singapore. Despite the heavyweights behind it, Parco Next NEXT shuttered in February last year after four years languishing in a mall that wasn’t attracting the serious fashion consumer.
Mporium, in fact, recalls Parco Next NEXT. Only now, Mr Wang gets to work with relatively established designers, spread across the region. Overall, Mporium might be interesting if you’re not already jaded by clothes of indeterminate personality and inconsistent quality. Similar to Parco Next NEXT, Mporium is situated in a frightfully quiet and lacklustre part of a mall: Suntec City’s newly unveiled Phase 3 of its S$410-million overhaul, a zone smack in the middle of the sprawling complex that presently stands out for its lack of buzz and hustle. Despite its high-profile “remaking”, Suntec City isn’t the go-to destination when it comes to on-trend fashion. Even Uniqlo launched its Carine Roitfeld collaboration at its Ion Orchard store (only the media preview was held at the Suntec City outlet). It is not hard to imagine the uphill task Mporium faces in drawing those customers whose wardrobes are filled with the latest and trendiest garb.
There’s also the peculiar name. Mporium is a 5,000-square-foot store that is not quite large enough to be the space the moniker suggests, yet not small enough to be a boutique. Why the more conventional spelling—with the ‘e’—was not adopted could only succumb to the speculation that it was an excess of cleverness. Although of Greek origin—from the word emporion, which comes from emporos (meaning merchant), the word ‘emporium’ in Singapore is, regrettably, evocative of a particular department store of the past: Oriental emporium (东方百货公司), mostly known as Emporium (英保良), that was founded in 1961. Attributed to two Lim brothers, the company Emporium Holdings, at its peak in 1985, had 133 businesses spread across the region, namely Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and Hong Kong. Although it was the largest department store chain on our island, and is no longer around, Emporium has never shaken off its image as a seller of less-sophisticated, Chinese-made products amid an increasingly English-educated and Westernised populace.
A Failed Experiment
Mporium declared itself to be Singapore’s first: it is not. Back in June 1992, there was SA.GA, the 4,180-square-foot store at Park Mall (interestingly now a part of Suntec REIT, owner of Suntec City) that, like Mporium, housed a motley selection of Asian designers—more than 50 of them. SA.GA, according to its proponent and the store’s executive director Alan Koh, was “the world’s first”. This was Mr Koh’s second act after SODA (Society of Designing Arts, which he co-founded with Dick Lee) and, for many in the local design scene, his Hemispheres 2.0. Hemispheres, a project initiated by Mr Lee in 1985, was Singapore’s first local multi-label store that boasted an assemblage of those considered at that time to be the city-state’s best designers. Its potential longevity was overestimated when Hemispheres closed in 1987, just two years after it opened.
Once the chairman of Singapore’s premier event—Fashion Connections, Mr Koh was certain that Singapore alone wasn’t enough to draw global attention to the fashions of this part of the world: it needed its neighbours. The opportunity was ripe as Mr Koh was instrumental in staging the ASEAN Designer Show of the annual Fashion Connections that debuted in 1988. SA.GA was the culmination of his tireless zeal. Named after the seed, bijik saga of the saga tree—commonly found in Malaysia and Singapore, the store was to be a hotbed of Asian designs, even when the ’90s saw no real emerging Asian fashion capital, Tokyo excluded. This was pre-K-pop, pre-hallyu wave, pre-fast fashion. It was, no doubt, an ambitious project.
The store was one-and-a-half times larger than Style Singapore, Park Mall’s other anchor tenant that was habitat to home-grown labels, and the brainchild of Chia Shi Teck, the MD of Heshe Holdings, also manufacturer and retailer of local label Lea Fashion. The vast interior of SA.GA was segmented along the perimeter into smaller shops in which designers could express their own individuality. The mix was unlike anything Singapore had seen. From Hong Kong, there was Walter Ma and Lawrence Tang. From Bangkok, there was veteran designer Kai (Somchai Kaewthong). From Manila, there was Inno Soto and Digna Rosales. From Kuala Lumpur, there was Sonny San, Edmund Ser, and Douglas Chew. From Jarkata, there was Biyan (Wanaatmadja), Ghea (Panggabean), and Prajudi (Admodirdjo). And from home ground, there was Peter Teo, Frederick Lee, Amy Wang, LAM (Lam Wan Lai), and others. Singaporeans accounted for about half the designers selected for the store.
The S$8-million project was backed by Metro, then seeking to up its fashion leadership by attempting something that went beyond its traditional department store business. The director of projects at that time, Ong Jin Seng, told The Straits Times, “Unlike the present concessionaires in our department stores, we do not control the merchandise or the prices at SA.GA.” It was believed that designers had full control over what they wanted to sell. Who they were really selling to, no one quite knew. As it turned out, the merchandise wasn’t what shoppers wanted to buy. And the store wasn’t one they really wanted to go to.
Three months after their debut, it was reported in the press that SA.GA was not doing too well because of the “thin crowd”. Despite its “mid-price” positioning, the store was not able to draw shoppers, and many observers had squarely placed the blame on its off-the-heart-of-Orchard-Road location. Park Mall (formerly Supreme House)—despite efforts by past owners (including Wing Tai Holdings) and the present—has never truly had a real retail identity. Many equated the building with one of Singapore’s first coffee houses, the Silver Spoon, and little else. By November 1993, just one-and-half years after they opened, SA.GA announced that they would close. Metro was to remake and re-brand the space as a factory outlet. The saga of SA.GA was its over-ambition and the pressure-cooker effect of containing too many designers with egos too inflated to manage.
In their press ads, SA.GA touted itself as a purveyor of the “fashions of Asia”. Mporium takes the more reverential—even confident—route: it pays “tribute to Asian Designers”. The subtle difference in the marketing approaches between the two speaks volumes of the times in which both stores operate. In the early 1990s, there were hardly any recognisable Asian labels, so the more general, all-purpose “fashions of Asia” was sufficient though vague. In the era of pre-budget airlines and the hordes that take weekend getaways on a whim, there was no major, cross-border retail hit of regional designer names. SA.GA’s selling of the idea of the possibility of a vibrant and superior fashion market outside Singapore was enough to entice the would-be seeker of Asian fashion, whether he or she even existed.
The specificity of Mporium’s clarion call—Asian designers—not only reflects consumer awareness of today’s regional eponymous labels, but underscore their possible appeal and saleability. With the rise of Asian-American designers such as current hot-shots Public School’s Dao-Yi Chow and Opening Ceremony’s Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, and more established names such as Thakoon Panichgul, Phillip Lim, and Jason Wu, Asian consumers are more than ever willing to give Asian designers a shot. Jennifer Yii, CEO of the store’s parent company Qi Shop, said, “Asian designers have come into their own over these past years. The quality and the design have tremendously improved, and the works of the designers are more creative than what we’ve seen ten years ago.” The high visibility of Asian designers, however, is no indication that the acceptance rate is elevated. Mporium’s self-belief that Asian-born labels have real appeal is refreshing given our retail environment’s partiality to Caucasian names.
At the opening of SA.GA in 1992, Steven Goh, managing director of Metro was quoted in ST to have said, “SA.GA would suit the needs of the increasing sophisticated taste of Asian women, and provide a vehicle for Asian designers to market their fashions abroad.” This sounds rather similar to what Mporium attempts to do. In a press release issued at its opening, it is stated that “Mporium is built as a platform to give some of these (Asian) designers—not only the established ones, but aspiring ones as well—the space to showcase their best products.” Can different designers from a region characterized by immense diversity come together in one space to offer shoppers the range and variety that characterise fashion consumption?
A Tough Sell
For more than a decade, fashion, as with luxury goods, has thrived exceedingly well in Asia. The growth is fuelled by—not necessarily in equal measure—rising economies, lively retail activities (including the luxury goods investment spree of the Nineties quite unseen before), and a middle class that seems to be growing, and visibly too. However, the success of largely imported European labels has not paved the way for their Asian counterparts (excluding, perhaps, the Japanese and Koreans) to flourish. Local consumers have been so pre-conditioned to respond favourably to European and American brands that Asian-born names cannot, no matter how hard they try, gain the cachet to prevail.
Unlike Asian food, Asian fashion does not always travel well—at least, not, in our view, within Asia. Take Thai food out of Thailand and put it here, and if it’s good, it’ll sell. But fashion, sometimes dependent on emotions influenced by region-specific peculiarities, is a little harder to cross borders. The Thais, for example, love fashion to be over-the-top as a sign of fashion credibility, but that’s not the case in Singapore. Oftentimes, Asian brands, taken away from their local context and their local culture, lose their allure, their identity, and their relevance. In Singapore alone, there have been too many failed try-outs.
Our island-state may look greener from the other side, but over here, seedlings don’t always take root and grow. From Malaysia, there was East India Company of the Nineties that doomed after years of fruitless expansion. From Indonesia, Biyan (possibly the first Indonesian label to be sold on Net-a-Porter) lost its place in a plot of European names favoured by its sole stockist, the now-defunct Link. From Thailand, Fly Now met a similar fate when it closed last year, two years after it planted itself in Raffles Hotel Shopping Arcade. From Korea, Headline Seoul (HLS), opened with fanfare in 2013, seems to be heading towards an uncertain, branchless future now that its owner Ann Kositchotitana (who brought in Fly Now) has shuttered her main store Front Row.
While it is true that well-travelled Singaporeans are exposed to many of the region’s most visible brands, is it also spot-on to say that they desire to buy those same brands when not on vacation, when not enjoying the exotic spoils of a vacation spot, when rooted to the humdrum of everyday life? Mporium seems to think so. According to Ms Yii, “Mporium aims to bring together these Asian designers so that your appreciation of good Asian designs need not stop when your holiday ends.” That may be a positive move to help those returning from a trip to alleviate the withdrawal syndrome that could result from over-indulgence, but is Mporium experiential enough for repeat visits or is it a second best when you can’t enjoy the offerings at their source?
For a store that purports to favour designers, there’s a decidedly un-designer feel about Mporium’s interior. True, it is not always necessary to equate designer fashion with luxuriously appointed spaces. Many multi-label boutiques, such as Colette in Paris, do without lushness and gilded fittings, but a store that tags itself with the ‘designer’ label needs to assure its customers that it’s able to put them in exclusive company. It is not likely shoppers are expecting art deco chandeliers, marble flooring, or antique carpets since one does not need to yield to interior extravagance to part with money. Yet, a well designed store can augment the value of ‘designed’ products. Mporium is not unattractive, but with its concrete floor and black metal racks behind a pseudo-Euro store front, it looks decidedly like a pop-up store occupying a vacated shop; it’s not a space that heightens the senses.
When it comes to the products, it is, as one merchandiser noted, “a mish-mash”. Mporium is like a retail version of a ‘listicle’: 35 Asian Labels You May Like. It’s a compendium, no doubt, and one that’s likely to appeal to the lunch-time crowd with that extra 20 minutes for trend-snacking. The styles selected are easily digestible, whether for the shoppers’ consumption, or their smartphone cameras’. Psychologically, the offerings are seductive because it proposes upfront a condensed and manageable assortment of what it deems to be good regional fashion.
The miscellany, however, makes it difficult to discern which Asian city—among those that represent what the store considers to have a thriving and stimulating design scene—is the star attraction. Which designer, one is tempted to ask, comes to Singapore with a story of their home city to tell? Do these designers represent what typifies their respective cities? What’s different about them that warrant a visit to the store? These questions were asked before—back in the early ’90s, back in the day when it was believed that there were immense opportunities for Asian designers in Singapore. Perhaps now, the difference will be Mporium finding the answers, if it does not already have them.
Mporium is at #01-477—480 of Suntec City’s North Wing. Photos: Galerie Gombak
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LeTV’s new Q3 numbers paint grim reality for the company
by Masha Borak Nov 16, 2017 Jun 7, 2020
LeTV—which has recently changed its name to New Leshi as a symbolic new beginning—did not manage to shake off the numbers that came with its former name. According to the company’s released earnings, LeTV’s revenue in the first three quarters of 2017 amounted to RMB 554 million which is 91.76% less than the same period last year when the company made RMB 6.73 billion. The company had a net loss of 1.15 billion: at the same period last year, their profit was RMB 209 million meaning that the year-on-year drop was 586.49%.
Both revenues and net profits have fallen sharply due to a crisis in LeTV’s core business (in Chinese). Reports state that LeTV was able to sell only 50,000 units of its smart TV in September. In comparison, the annual sales of LeTV in 2016 was about 6 million units with the average monthly sales volume is half a million units.
Another dark shadow on LeTV is the investigation against two of the seven members of China Securities Regulatory Commission for “offering assistance” to facilitate LeTV RMB 730 million worth IPO. It is not clear if that prompted the departure of LeTV’s Cheif Marketing Officer Zhang Minhui which has joined Qihoo 360 after resigning in late October.
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STATE ED STONEWALL: New York Continues to License Freddie Dean Smith, Convicted Felon, Sex Criminal, Two Years After Lengthy Criminal History Exposed by Talk of the Sound
NEW ROCHELLE, NY — On two separate occassions, Freddie Dean Smith followed women around in stores, unzipped his pants, pulled out his penis and masturbated while standing behind them. Smith was convicted of these crimes in South Carolina not long after he received a felony conviction in Virginia for endangering the life of a police officer. These convictions were just a handful of the more than a dozen convictions of Smith that also include Assault, Sex/Peeping Tom, Check Fraud, Trespassing without Permission, Driving with a Suspended License (more than 1st), Larceny, Failure to Appear, Stalking, Disorderly Conduct, Driving with a Suspended License (2nd), and Obstruction of Justice
Shortly after the felony conviction, and while the two sex crime cases were pending, Smith moved to New York where he was hired as the Principal of the Post Road Elementary School in White Plains. After he was convicted on the two sex crimes in South Carolina, Smith left White Plains to become Assistant Superintendent for the City School District of New Rochelle.
As part of his hiring, Smith underwent a criminal background check to be licensed as an administrator in New York.
Tom Dunn, SED DIrector of Communications, confirmed to Talk of the Sound that Smith was fingerprinted in 2003 and that the NYSED Office of School Personnel Review and Accountability conducted a fingerprint supported criminal history background check against the full 50-state FBI criminal history database.
“Information pertaining to any criminal conviction history he may have was reviewed and ultimately cleared at that time,” said Dunn.
These convictions showed up in background checks in 2010 and 2014 so it appears the NYSED Office of School Personnel Review and Accountability wsa aware of the convictions and licensed Smith anyway.
What reason would New York State residents have to trust the government of the State of New York when a man as nefarious as Freddie Dean Smith was and continues to be licensed by the New York State Education Department. A check of the NYSED licensing web site shows that Smith still remains in “good standing” as an administrator. Despite two years of asking, no New York state official has been able to explain to Talk of the Sound how a man with Smith’s extensive criminal past was able to pass a background check or why he remains licensed by New York State today despite being formally barred from working in New York City and the State of New Jersey.
Smith, as noted above, was a former Assistant Superintendent of Schools in New Rochelle and elementary school principal in White Plains and Superintendent of Schools in Pocantico Hills. He was fired from the Pocantico Hills School District in 2010 after he was found to have plagiarized a school newsletter and, later, about one-third of his dissertation. The University of Virginia revoked his doctorate.
An investigation by Talk of the Sound revealed Smith’s extensive criminal history based on records from the City of New York Education Department and the State of New Jersey Education Department.
State officials have engaged in years of stonewalling.
“Matters concerning Mr. Smith remain under review,” said Dunn back in 2014. “Until or unless there is a final adverse action against the certificates held by Mr. Smith his certificates remain in good standing and we will not comment further.”
Talk of the Sound has repeatedly contacted local state representatives over the past year including Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, State Senator George Latimer, State Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assemblyman Steve Otis. They have failed to get any answer or explanation from the New York State Education Department.
Talk of the Sound has now escalated the matter, reaching out to the press office of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
When Talk of the Sound first broke the story of Smith’s criminal past, the New York State Education Department ducked questions for almost two weeks before Communications Director Thomas Dunn claim that an investigation was underway, claiming there would be an investigation into not just Smith but how Smith was approved in the first place.
“We have initiated an audit of the records pertaining to this individual and intend a thorough investigation in accordance with the Regulations of the Commissioner 8NYCRR 83,” said Dunn back in February 2014. “We will not comment further on matters under investigation.” 8NYCRR 83 refers to a Determination of Good Moral Character investigation which can result in a SED license being revoked.
None of this appears to have happened.
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New York Kovid-19: Supreme Court with religious groups in ban controversy
November 26, 2020 Uncategorized Leave a comment
The case is the latest quiet religious group against city and state officials seeking to stop the spread of Kovid-19, and it exposes Justice Amy Connie Barrett’s influence on the Court. This decision comes as a spurt of coronovirus cases nationwide.
In a late-night ruling, Barrett sided with his conservative colleagues in the dispute, while Chief Justice John Roberts joined three liberal judges in a disagreement. The ruling underscores the impact on Barrett’s bench, reflecting the court’s perfect innings.
Last spring and summer, before the death of Justice Ruth Beder Ginsburg, the court split 5-4 on similar cases in California and Nevada, with Roberts and the majority libertarians against houses of worship. Barrett was confirmed to take the seat of Ginsburg in October.
The decision, released just before midnight on Thanksgiving Eve, contains many different opinions and some unusually important language.
In the main, unsigned opinion, the majority ruled in favor of Brooklyn’s Roman Catholic Diocese and America’s Agudath Israel, arguing that the sanctions violated the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause because the rules allowed homes of worship comparatively Secular facilities considered more rigid.
The majority stated that the rules are “far more restrictive than any Kovid-related rules that have come to court before, showing much more stringent, and far more severe than the strict efforts adopted by many other courts because of the epidemic” Has been “necessary to stop the spread of the virus” on the religious services in question.
The restriction on appearance is divided by geographic regions into areas classified as “red” or “orange” areas.
In court papers, Cuomo’s lawyers argued that the restrictions were necessary to help prevent the spread of Kovid-19 and that houses of worship were not treated differently than similar secular businesses. He also said that while the dispute was pending, Cuomo had already removed any restrictions applicable to organizations.
The court stated, “Not only is there no evidence that applicants have contributed to the spread of COVID-19, but there are also many other less restrictive regulations to reduce the risk for those attending religious services Can be adopted. ”
The court said, “The members of this court are not public health experts, and we should respect the judgment of those with special expertise and responsibility in this area.” “But even in an epidemic, the constitution cannot be taken away and forgotten.”
The court said that even though Kyomo may have lifted some restrictions, houses of worship “remain in constant danger” as restrictions can always be restored.
Lower courts sided with Cuomo.
Lawyers for the diocese said in court papers about the justifications that “the epidemic alone cannot justify overbroad, all houses having indefinitely closed orders at the time of worship, that in another time to violate the Constitution Will be found clearly. “
And US Aguth Israel lawyers said the governor specifically targeted Orthodox Jews who “violated their former rules.”
“The governor’s crime-by-religious-union-restrictions have made it impossible for applicants and their members to follow their religious faith,” he argued.
6 opinions in late night rule
In all, the late-night rule consisted of six different opinions.
Justice Neil Gorsukh agreed – not joining any other justice – to explain his vote.
He said other businesses such as bicycle repair shops did not have similar restrictions.
“So, at least according to the governor, it may be unsafe to go to church, but it’s always okay to take another bottle of wine” or “a new bike shop,” Gorsukh wrote.
He was instrumental in arguing a decision taken by Roberts in May, which could reject a request from a church in California to block limitations on the number of people who could attend religious services during an epidemic. .
Gorsuch said the court cited in that decision supports Roberts “cutting the constitution loosely during an epidemic.”
For his part, Roberts said he was in disagreement because “it may well be that such restrictions violate the Free Exercise Clause,” after Cuomo filed his own challenge by religious organizations banning Was revised
Roberts wrote, “Preventing the determination of what is necessary for public safety in the midst of a deadly epidemic by public health officials is an important matter.” .
But Roberts – who often works to keep the court out of the political disorientation and divisive atmosphere dominated by other branches of government – had strong words for Gorsuch’s criticism of dissidents’ arguments.
“They simply reflect the case’s best efforts to fulfill its responsibility under the constitution after careful study and analysis,” he said.
He also explicitly defended his argument in the case since May.
Justice Stephen Breyer, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, said the rules were designed to “fight rapid spread – and, in many cases, lethal – COVID-19 viruses” and he identified the governor Permitted hot spot where the virus had spread. Breyer noted serious statistics related to the virus, which has infected more than 12 million Americans and is currently growing. “The constitution entrusts the responsibility of the safety and health of the people to the politically accountable authorities of the states primarily,” Breyer wrote.
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HomeTest question — can you spell ‘blackmail?’
Test question — can you spell ‘blackmail?’
June 1, 2011 John Merrow 2012 Presidential race, charter schools, Early Childhood Education, innovation, parenting, Politics, Pre-K Education, Preschool, President Obama, school reform, Standardized tests, teachers unions, Testing
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If memory serves, years ago a group of students at a California high school deliberately filled in incorrect answers on a test the state used to evaluate its schools, thereby guaranteeing that the school would sink in the rankings. They were upset because the principal failed to bow to their demand for a smoking area or some similar privilege.
Whether the principal was right or wrong is immaterial. What matters is that the state had put him in that position by creating a test whose results meant nothing to those being tested — but could lead to cash bonuses for schools doing well.
Students at other high schools apparently went to their principals and offered to do really well in return for privileges. Not sure how that turned out.
In 2006, according to California reporter John Fensterwald, students at a charter school in San Jose protested the dismissal of a couple of popular teachers by sabotaging a state test. The school’s score on the all-important Academic Progress Index dropped 203 points, from 731 to 528.
What brings that to mind is the news that New York City is going to spend at least $25 million to create tests whose scores will, they hope, allow them to judge teachers (not students).
As Chief Academic Officer Shael Polakow-Suransky said to the New York Times, “How do you create an additional assessment that is actually going to strengthen instructional practice, rather than divert time away from instruction?”
That, he added, “is what we set out to solve.”
From my vantage point, there is so much wrong with this thinking as to be laughable — although maybe Dr. Polakow-Suransky (by all accounts a brilliant man) is being logical given that the legislature passed a law last year that requires districts to find ways to rate teachers on a scale from ‘highly effective’ to ‘ineffective.’ The legislature was doing Washington’s bidding, to help the state win the Race to the Top competition, so perhaps the madness starts in the Congress and the White House.
But madness it is, because New York City will be piling more tests on top of those already being administered. The Times reports that, if the plan is carried out, high school students could end up taking as many as eight additional tests a year, because, after all, not everyone teaches math or language arts. As spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz said in an email, “Some of the things that need to be determined are how are we going to ‘test’ students in art classes…students in Physical education… students in Spanish.”
There will be more tests for elementary and middle school students as well.
Now about the blackmail: When New York City rolls out the test exams next year in 100 or so schools, how long before some savvy students let teachers know that they know what’s going on — and are willing to try their best if the teacher will agree to (fill in your own answer here).
Reporters have to be salivating at the prospect of some really juicy stories emerging from this idiotic policy. If it weren’t so stupid, I would be really pumped too.
According to the Times article, sample tests were given in 11 schools this spring, but no one told the students what the deal was. Good luck with keeping that a secret as the tests spread to other schools.
And in fact, Dr. Polakow-Suransky urged full disclosure. “I don’t think it should be a secret that part of how teachers are evaluated is how kids’ learning goes on in their class,” he said.
(Perhaps I should say ‘if the tests spread,’ because spokeswoman Ravitz says they have only put out the RFP but “haven’t made decisions.”)
Doesn’t anybody have the courage to challenge this slavish devotion to standardized testing (mostly bubble tests, by the way)? Students in New York City finished taking their ‘end of the year’ state test in mid-May, but school itself doesn’t get out until the end of June. For kids (and for the policy types in their comfortable offices), the tests are everything. Teachers, of course, have to hold their students’ interest for another six weeks or so.
Dr. Polakow-Suransky said the challenge was to create an additional assessment that will ‘strengthen instruction.’
I say he ought to examine the premise of the law and challenge it, because the goal ought to be to strengthen teaching and learning. This entire exercise strikes me as a ‘gotcha game’ whose outcome will undermine the teaching profession, increase disrespect among students for schooling, and take time away from teaching and learning. It will, however, allow students to strengthen their bargaining and blackmailing skills.
Assessments can strengthen instruction, of course. Frequent school-based tests in math, for example, can pinpoint which teachers are having difficulty getting certain concepts across; they can then learn different approaches from their more successful peers. That’s not ‘gotcha’ testing but sensible assessment with an immediate feedback loop.
I write about many of these issues in my book, The Influence of Teachers. A lot of our problems in public education stem from a dearth of respect. We don’t respect students’ intelligence; hence we focus on the lowest common denominator in skills. We don’t respect teachers, which is why we turn to standardized testing as the be-all and end-all of evaluation. I’m not sure we even respect learning itself.
Nor do we expect very much from our kids, frankly. Imagine setting the bar for reading at third grade, when most first graders are fully capable of learning to read and learning to enjoy reading?
But enough of this rant. The questions are:
How do we raise expectations?
How do we get beyond the insult of ‘the basics’?
How do we wean ourselves away from our addiction to more and more standardized testing?
The floor is open for suggestions (I’ve done the ranting).
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13 thoughts on “Test question — can you spell ‘blackmail?’”
Monty Neill says:
Thanks, John, for exposing the NYC madness, for madness it is indeed. Sadly, NYC is not alone. Charlotte-Mecklenberg, NC, spent $1.9 million to make a few dozen tests. The Mass Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is considering a proposal from the Ed Department to require every teacher in every grade and subject to be ‘assessed’ with two ‘assessments’ each year – one being the state test (MCAS) when it is relevant. This will require every district to concoct a vast array of new ‘assessments’ that are ‘comparable’ across the district. This could be a portfolio, or some tasks or projects, which might at least resemble what teaching and learning could and should be. But more likely, especially in our larger cities, we’ll see a lot of money wasted on making or buying new tests. Kindergarteners, anyone? A bubble test for music, art, phys ed (not that bubble tests would be justified in any subjects)? (For more on MA and the use of student test scores to judge teachers and principals, see FairTest pieces at http://fairtest.org/k-12/teachers.)
Meanwhile, MA like NY and NC and perhaps every state, is seeing massive layoffs and huge cutbacks in all sorts of valuable services. There is nothing more than ideology to support the claim that an intensive test focus will actually improve schools. For example, the rate of improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (itself just another test) slowed significantly for almost all ages and groups in both math and reading after NCLB took effect. (See http://fairtest.org/detailed-fairtest-study-naep-results-shows-nclb-ha.)
Laura Shaw says:
“A lot of our problems in public education stem from a dearth of respect. We don’t respect students’ intelligence; hence we focus on the lowest common denominator in skills. We don’t respect teachers, which is why we turn to standardized testing as the be-all and end-all of evaluation. I’m not sure we even respect learning itself.”
I could NOT agree with you more! We don’t respect students’ intelligence, and we don’t respect learning. But I would take it one step further – we don’t TRUST that students want to learn.
Trust in the child and his or her innate desire to learn is key to Montessori education. We have to talk about trust with the parents ALL THE TIME because they are so used to the standardized test mentality. And standardized tests don’t tell you much about a whole child.
Children in our classrooms learn so much about process. They learn how to conduct experiments, how to do research and write papers, and they beginning learning these processes in first grade. They are given the tools to learn HOW to learn so they can answer big intellectual questions like “How was the earth created?” or “How does a volcano work?”
We see their desire to learn everyday, and we don’t have to force them to work. They willingly do it. They WANT to do it. So we have high expectations for them. We believe in them and their abilities. We trust that they want to learn.
I was a therapist in the public schools. Sadly, many of those children did not want to work as they viewed learning as drudgery. This happens when we focus on testing, teaching to that test and not giving children any choices.
I just wish that conventional education would look more closely at Montessori. These learning environments should be available to all children. Not just ones in private schools. (Though, there are a few AMI accredited public Montessori schools in a few states like Wisconsin!)
Bobbi Florence says:
Laura, I could not agree with you more. I am an early childhood teacher, and have studied Maria Montessori and her methods extensively and incorporate a lot of them into my family childcare “classroom.” I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again — “Montessori is the best kept secret in the US.” It’s a “secret” that should be told!
I am glad that I grew up in an era before standardized testing was as prevalent as it is now. We had SOME testing, but nothing like students today face. I also was lucky enough to have some really top-notch teachers who went “above and beyond,” and allowed us to, as you put it, “learn how to learn.”
Wanda Leverette says:
I read the article @ takingnote.learning matters and I am again amazed at the weight people want to put on test scores as evidence that learning has occurred. Learning and Testing are 2 different things. One Can measure what has been learned through tests, however, there are other factors involved in test-taking that can skew test results and one element is the desire and motivation of students to TAKE the test. I have proxy test-taking in Detroit and I know from first-hand experience that a number of the students do not take the test, the fill in the bubbles with a pattern and then they are done with it. What is taught and learned in a classroom cannot always be translated into an assessment and test results. Testing and Learning are two different things. If you want test results to improve, then you should consider teaching testing-taking skills. What I have learned, I may not be able to translate into an assessment, especially if I have test anxiety, I get confused about what and how I am to select an answer….many factors can contribute to poor test results outside of “the teacher is ineffective”. Assessing teacher effectiveness is a valuable tool for determining if a teacher’s performance is on target. Developing a quality form of assessment would be useful and productive for the union to have evidence that a teacher is not performing the job. Requiring universities to set standards on the type of students they accept as teacher candidates would also help improve the quality of teachers. There are many creative means of developing data to help make changes in assessing quality education outside of “blaming” teachers.
Dan Everett says:
I can’t help but think that the current mania for still more standardized testing of students reflects a lack of visionary leadership and a passing of the buck.
Shouldn’t teachers be evaluated by their supervisors? If there are to be proficiency tests, shouldn’t it be the teachers who are tested to insure that their knowledge of the content they are teaching meets some reasonable standard?
My own experience — and that of my children — persuades me that the best teachers are those who inspire students, challenge them to push the boundaries of what they think they can achieve, and instill in them a passion for learning.
If more of their time is devoted to “teaching the test” so that some artificial metric can take the place of honest teacher evaluation, when does the real learning take place?
Troy F says:
I agree the best teachers know how to take tea gables moments and relate them back to the standards that are to be taught. You have to capitalize on those moments of inspiration, and student interests which mist teachers are scared to do anymore.
Troy F
Dennis Schapiro says:
I saw the student blackmail issue are one concern—along with teacher cheating and a race to low standards—immediately upon the passage of NCLB. Why did other journalists go with the flow and support the idea when the assumptions were so flawed?
The question of respect for the individual abilities of all children—including those not amenable to standardized tests—remains. Ms. Shaw is on the mark with her suggestion that serious attention be given to Montessori education (although there are associations other than AMI that are worthy of attention.)
Crossing Montessori affiliations is the belief that the teacher’s job is to find and nourish the abilities children are born with. It is not to pour in the facts of math. Although Montessori students tend to do well on standardized tests and other public school measurements, there is a basic tension with school district administrators, whose success is measured by test scores.
If as often happens in school districts, teachers are allowed to call a program “Montessori” but are required to hit every curricular standard by a given date, there is a basic “disrespect” for what children bring. And according to a lot of education thinkers, it prepares children for 20th century jobs. I
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It is a love of learning, a respect for the ideas of others and the possibilities of grounded thinking that will prepared our most fortunate children for the rest of their lives.
Bruce Smith says:
Oh please, just a small rant? Please?
Thanks. The fact the Shael Polakow-Suransky is alleged to be brilliant doesn’t preclude his acting foolishly, especially when he’s engaged in his official capacity. The history, not just of education but of government in general, is littered with the wreckage caused by brilliant people who are just doing their jobs and not questioning the simple-minded and clearly misguided assumptions that drive the policies they implement. Phil Harris, Joan Harris and I address some of these misguided assumptions in our book, The Myths of Standardized Tests: Why They Don’t Tell You What You Think They Do (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011). Lest you think I’m flacking for our book, let me say that readers of these commentaries probably know the myths we address. It’s aimed more at the less well-informed.
But I take keyboard in hand mostly to say that for those truly interested in trying to make tests serve the ends of learning and teaching, the best place to begin is with W. James Popham, whose endorsement of “instructionally sensitive” tests is perhaps best explained in his book, Transformative Assessment (ASCD 2008). The goals of Jim’s assessments are so different from those commonly espoused by the USDOE and its mini-clones in most state capitals that you might wonder if you’ve fallen through a looking glass — or perhaps climbed out for the first time.
Bruce Smith
I applaud these contributions, but I also am a fan of lists: specifically, what do we want our children (and in my case anyway, grandchildren) to be able to do, to be? What can and should schools do to make it happen?
We need a coherent system in at least one of our 50 states. Maybe it cannot be a big one like NY or Texas, but surely Delaware has a shot.
The two union leaders are on record as being willing to craft a model ‘professional union contract’ as a starting point from that perspective.
There are some strong Ed School Deans (think ASU) who are willing to raise standards, et cetera.
We need some strong leaders (administrators, politicians) who will speak up for multiple measures of achievement, and I am not sure where they are hiding.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Arne Duncan were to talk about how a basketball team is evaluated? Sure, wins and losses count, but individual players are not evaluated solely on points scored (Duncan was a strong rebounder, as I recall). Assists, steals, defensive rebounds, offensive rebounds all are counted and count. Teamwork may be hard to measure objectively, but we know it when we see it. Same is true for leadership. Don’t schools and teachers deserve the same ‘statistical’ treatment?
Kathryn Coffey says:
Students are already using standardized tests as a way to protest, blackmail is entirely possible. In 2005, my son used the Michigan state test (MEAP) to protest his Spanish teacher’s bathroom policy that stated if a student needed to use the bathroom at any time during her 72 minute class, the student received an “unexcused tardy”. He chose to draw an extended middle finger in the space provided for the Science graph. He also bubbled in “ABBA” and “AC~DC”. In my blog post “Teens With an Ax to Grind”, I address this issue–he is not alone.
The really unfortunate thing is that the Science teacher would be the one who could potentially be considered ineffective. I completely fail to understand why anyone would think it’s a good idea to evaluate a teacher on something so easily sabotaged by kids.
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ecole montessori a paris says:
hi there i’m pierre-henry and I’m the director of a recent montessori elementary school based in paris. Is it possible to have the link to buy of The Influence of Teachers ? I click on it but nothing happens 😦 thanks
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God Hates The Mets
On July 9, 2016 July 9, 2016 By themetssiah
“Kill the Mets. I hate them.” -God
Final Score: Nationals 3, Mets 1
On the same day that Matt Harvey announced he will get season ending surgery to address his thoracic outlet syndrome, Noah Syndergaard and Yoenis Cespedes left the game due to injuries. God hates us. The Lord hath smited the Mets yet again. At least the Wilpons won’t have to pay for Thor’s and Yo’s airfare to the All-Star Game.
Thor Got Burnt: In the second inning, Clint Robinson hit a two run homer that made it 2-0 Nats. In the top of the third inning, Ben Revere led off by hitting a ball between Yoenis Cespedes and Asdrubal Cabrera. Yo made a sliding catch and nearly took out Asdrubal who was standing in his way. Then with one man on and one out, Daniel Murphy crushed an opposite field RBI double making it 3-0 Nats. On the play, Yoenis Cespedes ran a little awkwardly while pursuing the ball in the outfield.
Cespedes Dead Quad: In the top of the fourth inning, Cespedes was removed from the game with a strained quad. Murph killed him. Murph and God. Every time he steps to the plate against the Mets, Murph is slicing us open and watching us bleed out on the field. And now, his magic hits are injuring our stars. After the game, Cespedes said he dealt with a similar injury last year with Detroit. He said he missed 4-5 days, and then he was back. Then he said something like I hope I can avoid the 15-Day DL “God willing”. I wouldn’t look to the man upstairs for help Yo. He doesn’t like us very much.
Syndergaard Dead Arm: In the top of the 5th inning, Thor’s velocity all of a sudden dropped down to 91. Terry didn’t like what he was seeing and he pulled him from the game. He told Terry after the game he just lost it. He said his arm went dead. Harvey’s arm went dead. Thor’s arm went dead. That’s two thus far Shooter. Unbelievable. He says he’s fine. Hopefully it’s just temporary dead arm. But forget about the All-Star Game. We have no shot this season without him. He’s got Ridged Ruffle bone chips in his elbow. His arm is inexplicably shutting down like an old Super Nintendo with a shoddy motherboard. Please give him this week off to reset.
Uno Dinger: Asdrubal Cabrera hit a solo homer in the bottom of the fifth inning. At least he’s showing power lately.
Pen Pickup: The pen really picked up Noah. Seth Lugo, Jerry Blevins, and Erik Goeddel combined to toss 4.1 scoreless innings of relief.
Strasburgo: Stephen Strasburg is so good. He’s healthy, and he knows how to pitch now. That’s a dangerous combination. He went 7 innings, gave up 2 hits, 1 run and struck out 9. The Mets never had a shot against him.
The Only Chance: In the 8th inning against Shawn Kelley, Wilmer Flores hit a ground rule double and Jose Reyes singled. Then Oliver Perez came in and got Curtis Granderson to line out softly to the shortstop and Juan Lagares to hit into a double play. Juan was hitting in Cespedes’ spot in the lineup. So yeah Ollie danced on Yo’s grave. He rubbed salt in our wounds for sure. Choke artist Jonathan Papelbon closed the game out at 3-1.
Bartolo The Human Twinkie: Bartolo Colon was named to the All-Star Game. He’s such an enormous 43 year old dynamo. He could survive a Nuclear Holocaust. He’ll be heading to Petco Park where he cranked that dinger earlier this season. By the time this weekend is over he may be the only one representing the Mets. Pray for Familia.
Today: Logan Verrett vs. Max Scherzer. The odds are against us. And we already know God ain’t on our side. Please stop killing all of our players big man.
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5 thoughts on “God Hates The Mets”
Karl Kolchak
You don’t find it just a TAD bit coincidental that Strasburg dominated the Mets yet again on the very day that Harvey was shut down for the season? If God hates the Mets for anything, it is shaming Harvey into risking his career after TJ surgery and then the idiots fans booing him for his trouble when he predictably starts to break down.
Hopefully, Strasburg will be reminding the Mets of the benefits of treating special young arms with care rather than just disposable pieces of meat for many years to come.
themetssiah
Well first of all Strasburg was injured for much of last season as he continued to recover from his arm woes. So despite the Nats special handling they weren’t able to prevent setbacks and injuries. No team can fully prevent that. And I’ve written many times about how Strasburg is a great example of how long the road to recovery is for pitchers who get TJ. It takes these guys a while to return to their pre-surgery levels of effectiveness. Sometimes they never do.
Second of all there’s no definitive evidence that Harvey’s usage last year is the cause of his thoracic outlet syndrome. If his elbow blew again that would be one thing. But the link between this shoulder injury and his usage last year is not conclusive. If you want to draw that conclusion then go for it. Doesn’t mean you’re right. You could be.
And yeah the Nats made a tough call in 2012. They passed on trying to win a World Series and shut down Strasburg. I remember the fan outrage in 2012. I’m sure veteran players were pissed too. It was a tough call. The Mets went for it the Nats didn’t. Both failed. I’m sure Harvey will recover from this injury. It’ll take him a long time to be effective again. Just like Strasburg.
keithosaunders
All pitchers break down these days regardless of how much they are babied. They’ve already thrown a gazillion sliders by the time they make it to the minors. Thanks little league and high school.
To me it’s obvious why Yoenis got hurt: He doesn’t point up to God enough after base hits. The big guy needs to hear it from you…even after a bingle.
The Mets might have won the World Series last year if they had worn sackcloth uniforms. The Big Guy likes that sort of thing.
Plus, think of the merchandising opportunities for MLB.
The Mets are being punished for sending Murphy away. The Wilpons hate Murph for various non-baseball-related reasons that I won’t go into here. The Wilpons put their political alliances ahead of their team’s roster. I don’t blame Murph for taking satisfaction in his recent performance against the Mets. Serves the Wilpons right, but the rest of us have to suffer, too.
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In order to avoid a forced marriage, 19-year-old Hala finds shelter across the Euphrates (North-East Syria), at a Military Academy for women. While learning how to fight, she gets inspired by the promise of freeing every woman. After the Kurdish military takes over her city from ISIS, Hala returns as a police force entitled to protect other women in danger. Hala finds herself ready to fullfil her greatest dream: to free her younger sisters from her father’s hand.
Τhe threat of a forced marriage and the brutal stories of female oppression lead more and more women to the other side of the river. They are trained in a strict military-style, taught that they have to protect themselves with weapons against the patriarchic society. But is there freedom to be found in a military system in the middle of war?
In order to avoid a forced marriage, 19-year-old Hala finds shelter across the Euphrates (North-East Syria), at the Military Academy. While learning how to fight, she gets inspired by the promise of freeing every woman. Hala returns as a policewoman to her hometown authorized to protect other vulnerable women. She finds herself ready to fulfill her greatest dream: to free her younger sisters from her father’s hand. Τhe threat of marriage and the brutal stories of female oppression lead more women to the other side of the river. They are trained in a strict military-style, taught that men are the enemy. But is there freedom to be found between holding a gun against the patriarchic society or be deprived of the possibility to love?
The Film Team
German Filmmaker Antonia Kilian lived in North-East Syria for one year for the production of this film. Right in the beginning, she met Kurdish Syrian Filmmaker Sevinaz Evdike from Komîna Fîlm a Rojava. Antonia supported the works of this film collective with workshops and the production of several short films about women’s rights that they did with an all-female crew. The Collective supported Antonia for her film and Sevinaz became her Production Manager and Assistant. Soon Antonia met Iranian Filmmaker and Writer Arash Asadi who became the Co-Author and Editor of her film. Together they explored the key themes of Hala’s story and continued their cooperation and friendship in Germany, where Arash moved after the end of the filming.
Back in Berlin, Antonia was lucky to meet Kurdish Syrian Filmmaker Guevara Namer with whom she took a trip to Syria. This second shooting trip deepened her understanding of Hala’s family situation. Guevara became the Co-Author and Producer of The Other Side of the River.
The collaboration in this team is based on friendship, solidarity and mutual respect for each one´s perspective.
Director’s Motivation
I went to North-East Syria in the summer of 2016 exactly when the Syrian Democratic Forces (the forces of the Kurdish autonomous region called “Rojava”) took over the City of Manbij from the Islamic State. I was part of a solidarity movement for Rojava that was formed among leftist activists in Europe. As a feminist, I was fascinated by their promise of women’s liberation based on a grassroots democracy, and I wanted to see how these promises would be put into praxis.
When I met Hala, I immediately fell in love with her, and she urgently wanted to tell her story to me. She had just escaped from her family in Manbij, and I was fascinated by her strength and positive energy.
I was curious about a generation of young women, represented by Hala, coming from traditional families yet looking for an emancipated life, who grew up in the middle of the Syrian war between many frontlines. What are their choices in these extreme conditions between IS, Military, and war? What are their dreams? What means freedom to them and how can they achieve this in the middle of the biggest conflict of the 21st century?
Antonia Kilian
Antonia is a director, cinematographer and producer. She studied Visual Communication as well as Art and Media at the Berlin University of Arts and Cinematography in Film University in Potsdam Babelsberg and at the ISA in Havana, Cuba. In this time she worked as DoP for several films, both fiction and documentary that run on numerous festivals and created video installations and directed documentary shorts. Her directorial debut “The other side of the river” she shot for more then one year in North East Syria. Since 2018 she is based between Kassel and Berlin and runs her own production company Pink Shadow Films.
Hala & Sosan Mustafa
Guevara Namer
Arash Asadi
composed by Shkoon
Sound design and Re-recording
Stephan Konken
Sally Shamas
Naji El Mir
Merja Ritola
Sevinaz Evdike (Komîna Film a Rojava)
Commissioning Editor
Erkko Lyytinen
Produced by: Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion & Pink Shadow Films
In co-production with: Greenlit Productions Oy
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Joker Was UK’s biggest Selling 2020 Home Entertainment Title
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The 2020 Pandemic certainly changed our way we viewed new and favourite films and TV Shows. Our televisions (and Laptops) most of last year became our source of entertainment. 2021 looking like business as usual as we enter a new lockdown.
Throughout 2020 and the difficult set of circumstances we continue to find ourselves in as 2021 starts, the British public have increasingly turned to transactional home entertainment (including disc, digital purchase and digital rental) to provide some much-needed moments of distraction.
So what was the UK’s best selling film? Todd Phillips Joker! Cinephiles put on there happy face with the film selling 1.4 million copies of the film (a combo of Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital sales).
The British Association for Screen Entertainment, we’ve pulled out some key stats on what we we’re watching, buying and what film, what essentially entertained us entitled Home Entertainment – A Year In Numbers…
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Video category now worth £3.3 billion, up 26% from 2019
Consumers spent £194 million on digital film downloads, up 16% from 2019
For the first time ever, over 56% of transactional copies were digital
More than £21 million was spent on 564 4K UHD titles. The top 3 best-selling titles were Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Joker and 1917
More than 30.8 million VOD digital rental transactions1 – the top 3 titles were Joker, Jumanji: The Next Level and Knives Out
5.7 million copies of TV titles sold on disc
Consumers spent over £80 million on catalogue TV Content on disc – the top 3 best-selling titles were Game of Thrones: Complete 8th Season, The Crown: Season 1 & 2 and Chernobyl
Best-selling title JOKER sees more than 1.4 million transactions on disc and digital (including digital EST and rental)
Four titles exceeded a million copies – Joker, Frozen 2, Jumanji: The Next Level and 1917 – while the entire top 15 titles each sold over 500,000
The most-searched title on FindAnyFilm.com was Summerland
High value box sets thrived this year, with the top three best-sellers The Harry Potter Complete Collection, IT & IT Chapter Two and Jumanji & Jumanji Next Level, while franchise collections Star Wars: Skywalker Saga, Harry Potter Complete Collection and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy generated the most cash
51% of box set spend was from Blu-ray formats, up from 36% in 2019 and 56% of this was on content worth more than £30
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The Top 5 best-sellers across physical and digital formats by genre were:
• HORROR: It: Chapter Two, Zombieland: Double Tap, Doctor Sleep, The Invisible Man, Us
• SCI-FI: Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Terminator: Dark Fate, Tenet, Gemini Man, Avengers: Endgame
• COMEDY: Last Christmas, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Love Actually, Jojo Rabbit, Yesterday
• FAMILY: Frozen 2, Onward, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Trolls World Tour, Dolittle
• DRAMA: Downton Abbey: The Movie, Le Mans ’66, Knives Out, Rocketman, Little Women (2019)
• MUSICAL: The Greatest Showman, Cats, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Grease
• DOCUMENTARY: Apollo 11, They Shall Not Grow Old, Finding Jack Charlton, Diego Maradona, Seven Worlds One Planet
• SPORT: Champions: Liverpool Football Club, The End Of The Storm, Joe Wicks: The Body Coach Workout, Everton: Howard’s Way, Joe Wicks: Lean In 15 – Workouts
• TV: Game of Thrones: Complete 8th Season, The Crown: Season One & Two, The Crown: Season Three, Chernobyl, Mrs Brown’s Boys: Merry Mishaps
• KIDS NON-FILM: The Tiger Who Came to Tea, Paw Patrol Ultimate Rescue, Olaf’s Frozen Adventure, The Snail and the Whale, Paw Patrol Ready Race Rescue
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The Honorable Stephen P. Acquisto
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Stephen P. Acquisto
CA Bar #: 172527 (December 1994)
Appointed By: Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
The Hon. Stephen P. Acquisto is a judge for the Sacramento County Superior Court in California. He was appointed to the bench in 2013 by former governor Jerry Brown. He filled the vacancy created by the retirement of the Hon. Peter J. McBrien (Ret.).
He is a registered Democrat.
Judge Acquisto graduated with his B.A. in political science and economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He went on to earn his J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law. While in college, Acquisto externed for Senator Donald Riegle (D-MI) in Washington, D.C.
Acquisto began his legal career in private practice, where he worked as an associate for Rushford and Bonotto LLP from 1995 to 1998, and for Mennemeier, Glassman, and Stroud LLP from 1998 to 2001.
After he left Mennemeier et al., Acquisto joined the California Department of Justice's Office of the Attorney General, where he worked as a deputy attorney general and a supervising deputy attorney general in the A.G.'s Correctional Law Division. During that time, he handled individual and class action prisoner civil rights cases. Then, in 2007, he would be assigned to the A.G.'s Government Law Section, where he handled public policy issues.
In 2011, Acquisto would become the chief deputy legal affairs secretary for then-governor Jerry Brown. While there, Acquisto was tasked with assisting the governor with the parole review process as well as addressing the issue of prison overcrowding. He also assisted the governor with the state's involvement in the complex litigation of health care matters. He would hold that position until his appointment by the governor to the Superior Court two years later.
Acquisto taught legal process as an adjunct professor for the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law from 2003 to 2005.
An avid runner, Judge Acquisto enjoys training for and competing in marathons in his free time.
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Work The London Atlas of Universal Geography Exhibiting the Physical & Political Divisions of the Various Countries of the World, Constructed from Original Materials
Style Large Folio Engraving with Original Hand-coloring
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The London Atlas of Universal Geography Exhibiting the Physical & Political Divisions of the Various Countries of the World, Constructed from Original Materials
This large folio engraving is from John Arrowsmith’s The London Atlas of Universal Geography, exhibiting the physical & political divisions of the various countries of the world, constructed from original materials. The work was published in London by J. Arrowsmith between 1841 and 1849. This is one of the finest 19th-century English atlases, and of particular note was his map of Texas and maps of Australia.
John Arrowsmith was one of the greatest geographers of his era. He was a founding member of the Royal Geographical Society. He introduced the London Atlas in 1834 with subsequent editions dated 1840, 1842, and 1858 but as he continuously added new maps there’s no determined collation for each edition. He also continuously updated and corrected his maps which drew their information from documents supplied by `The Colonial Office, the Hydrographical Office of the Admiralty, the East India Company, the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Geographical Society’, and numerous other `Offices, Companies, and Societies’.
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TV Roles That Were Recast (and Why)
By Matt Webb Mitovich / May 21 2020, 6:33 AM PDT
Courtesy of ABC (3), Warner TV Distro and NBC
“There’s something different about you… but I can’t quite put my finger on it.” TVLine looks back at more than two dozen times when a TV role was suddenly recast, the sometimes surprising reasons why, and if that change in appearance was ever mentioned on-screen. (And no, they’re not all from The CW’s Dynasty.)
Keep scrolling for the stories behind more than 25 infamous small-screen recasts, then drop a comment with your thoughts below. Which of these recasts still bug you? And which were for the better?
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Tri-Nations Rugby: Aug 27
August 24th, 2011 By David Knox 21 commentsFiled under: Programming,
Nine will air the Wallabies v All Blacks Tri-Nations Rugby live this Saturday in Sydney and Brisbane at 7:30pm.
In Melbourne it airs at 11:30pm on Nine but live on GEM at 7:30pm.
In Adelaide it airs at 11:30pm on Nine but live on GEM at 7pm.
In Perth it airs at 11:30pm on Nine but live on GEM at 5:30pm.
The Castrol Edge Tri Nations series will come to a thrilling end when the Wallabies host the All Blacks in the series-deciding Bledisloe Cup clash this Saturday, live from Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium at 7.30pm on Channel Nine.
The Wallabies and All Blacks are on equal points at the top of the 2011 Castrol Edge Tri Nations series ladder, ahead of South Africa. The victors on Saturday night will not only claim the series and the silverware, but also hold bragging rights going into Rugby World Cup 2011 in September.
At Eden Park in New Zealand on August 6, the Wallabies went down to the All Blacks 30-14 in the first Bledisloe clash. With a home turf advantage now, the Wallabies desperately want a win on Saturday night.
With both the Wallabies and All Blacks squads for Rugby World Cup 2011 announced, it’s pure pride at stake and sporting rivalry at its best in Saturday night’s engrossing Bledisloe Cup rematch.
Wide World of Sports’ Ken Sutcliffe will host Nine’s broadcast. Joining him on the expert panel are former Wallabies captains George Gregan and Andrew Slack and injured Wallabies prop Benn Robinson, while Nine’s Tim Sheridan will be pitch-side at Suncorp Stadium.
Tags: Bledisloe Cup, Rugby Union
Sam August 27, 2011 7:44 pm
Great work guys – live rugby for all to see!!!
Dave August 27, 2011 1:26 pm
Great stuff Chanel 9 keep up the good work with theses live rugby games
Cheers Dave
Shintaro August 25, 2011 12:37 pm
Though Fox Sports website will be live streaming the Australian Barbarians vs. Canada match on Friday night, the rugby crowd (all Foxtel/Austar subscribers) is
very annoyed it won’t be televised. With the tests being shown on FTA anyway, many are wondering whether it’s worth continuing to pay. Foxtel and Austar really need to
wake up as they’ll be shooting the match for the live stream in any case, so why risk losing so many customers?
Sam August 25, 2011 10:14 am
It wil Not be in HD, only broadcast on their HD channel.
animal August 25, 2011 9:42 am
About F*&kin time Channel 9 did something right with the Rugby in Perth
Why can’t they do the same with the F*%kin league as well???
Pete August 24, 2011 10:55 pm
Live on GEM, brilliant. That’s what multi-channels are for.
Big V August 24, 2011 8:55 pm
Woooo!!!
Sport in glorious HD on FTA TV in AFL states for the first time in a long time…
Ian August 24, 2011 8:41 pm
Thank you channel 9 for letting fans in Adelaide watch it Live!
Michael August 24, 2011 8:08 pm
What a disgrace. Nine calls itself the home or rugby league yet doesn’t show it anywhere near the respect that it shows the waste of space that is rugby. They should be showing the rugby league on GEM in the non NRL states like they are doing with the rugby.
Jim M August 24, 2011 8:07 pm
want it in HD – you’ve got to have Pay TV… It’s a joke.
What happened to HD in Australia?
Secret Squïrrel August 24, 2011 7:33 pm
Thanks Nine/WIN, good one.
Re HD: just because it’s on a HD channel, doesn’t mean it will be in HD.
Re: NRL on GEM for AFL states: I guess if they thought it would rate as well as the Rugby, they might do it. You could always try getting up a petition or FB group or something, if there’s enough interest.
deedeedragons August 24, 2011 7:02 pm
Isn’t it kind of ironic to have a picture of James O’Connor?
Jason Jones August 24, 2011 6:25 pm
David, What about the Melbourne Storm Game being GEM Live and not waiting till midnight to watch it. Nien really peaves me off
Lulu August 24, 2011 6:21 pm
I love that the picture you’ve used in this story is of the Wallabies suspended player James O’Conner. No need to rub it in that he’ll be missing in the last game before the World Cup and Tri-Nations decider 🙁
Peter August 24, 2011 5:40 pm
Hi David, Any official word from Nine on why they are happy to air Rugby Union live into Melbourne on GEM, but refuse to do the same for Friday night NRL games where the Melbourne Storm are playing?
JB August 24, 2011 5:27 pm
Yeah why the hell can’t Nine put NRL games live on GEM? This is a good move, but to be honest I don’t care much for rugby. Don’t get it, not interested. But I love rugby league. Pity we get screwed here in Adelaide with rugby league coverage.
Bogues August 24, 2011 5:24 pm
So afl states get this in hd, but NRL states get SD coverage?
buck August 24, 2011 5:17 pm
So the rest of the country gets to watch it in HD?
Vincent August 24, 2011 4:56 pm
As well as the rugby, new CSI NY and also Secret Dealers and CSI Miami (repeats) and CSI (repeats) are still on just a bit later.
reece August 24, 2011 4:17 pm
If Nine can put this on GEM for Southern States why can’t they do same for NRL?
That is fantastic. Live Australia wide on FTA one way or another 🙂
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'Suck On Light' is Boy & Bears 4th album and is about lead singer, Dave Hosking's (vocals/guitar) own personal experience with being really sick, for a really long time with chronic dysbiosis. The illness effected his brain and body to the point where basic tasks (shopping, working, socialising) were near impossible. He was in a constant state of agitation and discomfort, confused, exhausted and felt like he was living on another planet. The worst of it lasted for about 5 years.
The record lyrically is about this experience as well as some of the more positive sentiments and lessons that have come from the challenge. At its heart, the album is about the power of our own minds. Our ability to compartmentalise as well as escape when we need to.
The album title is a name of one of the songs but more importantly a fitting metaphor for hope and sums up the theme of the record really well. The idea also stems from a Leonard Cohen lyrics "it is through the cracks where the light gets in."
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Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan Friendship
For a long time show, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan were protective in their friendship.
It goes without saying that Kobe called Jordan his ‘big brother’ while Michael called Kobe ‘little brother’ on their showdown of friendship.
It is uncommon to bear about the friendship and bond between Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan had.
Jerry west on Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan friendship:
“If you just watched them interact in a game, Kobe always was like a magnet going toward Michael; usually, Michael didn’t really interact with a lot of players when he was on the court. He’d just play. But for some reason, he had this affinity for him.”
The former Los Angeles Lakers general manager knew about the bond and closeness of both the greats, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan would call up each and talk-out for hours. To add, he knew that they meet for dinners and lunches together. West revealed the talk of Jordan in a meal when West and Jordan had at Craig’s on Melrose.
“We talked a little bit about [Bryant], But nothing that I think would predict what he was going to say”, West said.
Jordan had been working on trying to capture who Kobe Bryant was for him, and how their bond evolved into a most cherished friendship.
“Michael is going to say the right things,” West said. “He does have a soul. Most people have placed him in such a higher place in life, and they don’t think he has this side of him.”
“But, I think he was truly touched by Kobe.”
Jordan revealed to the world what Kobe Bryant meant to him.
“Maybe it surprised people that Kobe and I were very close friends,” Jordan began. “But we were very close friends.”
The face of the star was full of coming tears when talking of his friend.
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“Everyone always wanted to talk about the comparisons between he and I. I just wanted to talk about Kobe,” Michael continued.
Michael named Kobe as an ‘annoying little brother.’
“for whatever reason, always tends to get in your stuff. Your closet, your shoes, everything. It was a nuisance if I can say that word. But that nuisance turned into love over a period of time.”
Bryant wanted “to know every little detail about the life [he was] about to embark on,” Jordan said.
He works upon the things Michael gave to him.
“He used to call me, text me 11:30, 2:30, 3 in the morning, At first, it was an aggravation, but then it turned into a certain passion. This kid had a passion like you would never know.”
He [Michael] never dried his tears full of the face during his talk about his friend, kept crying while revealing ‘who Kobe meant to him?!’
It was all upon and too revealing. In the end, it was cleared so-through that as much Kobe Bryant learned from Michael Jordan as Jordan got from Kobe at the side.
“To see this side of him, it was very revealing and very touching.”, Michael said.
Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan’s friendship was fascinating that two of such greats of their generation came this far, and this side is very raw and clear to talk of.
May Kobe Bryant rest in peace!
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Hillary Hacker Outs Confidential Memos
Armed with confidential memos to Hillary Clinton that were stolen from the e-mail account of a former White House aide, a hacker has distributed some of the documents to a wide array of congressional aides, political figures, and journalists worldwide.
In a series of weekend e-mail blasts, the hacker known as “Guccifer” disseminated four recent memos to Clinton from Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of the former Secretary of State.
he 64-year-old Blumenthal, who worked as a senior White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, had his AOL e-mail account hacked last week by “Guccifer,” who has conducted similar illegal assaults against a growing list of public figures, including Colin Powell, relatives and friends of the Bush family, and a top United Nations official.
The hacker’s e-mails went to hundreds of recipients, though the distribution lists were dotted with addresses for aides to Senate and House members who are no longer in office. But many of the addresses to which the Blumenthal memos were sent are good (though it is unclear whether karl@rove.com is a solid address for the Republican mastermind).
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Northrop Grumman donates bicycles to Edwards families
by Rebecca Amber, Edwards AFB • December 11, 2014
Sixty children on Edwards AFB received brand new bicycles Dec. 4. Bicycles for all ages were donated by Northrop Grumman in conjunction with the Edwards First Sergeants Council. (U.S. Air Force photo by Rebecca Amber)
EDWARDS AFB – Emily Christie couldn’t be happier as she rode her brand new bicycle around the Base Exchange parking lot Dec. 4.
“It’s awesome. It is has pink, purple, butterflies and it looks pretty! I love riding it so much,” said Emily who plans to ride her bicycle “forever.”
Emily was one of 60 military children to receive a brand new bicycle that day.
Northrop Grumman at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale worked with the Edwards First Sergeants Association to get the bicycles to families on base.
The donated bicycles ranged from small tricycles to young adult bikes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Rebecca Amber)
“We identified family members in need of some good holiday cheer,” said Master Sgt. Alexander Erb, 412th Operations Group first sergeant.
Prior to their delivery, around 30 Northrop employees participated in a build-a-bike pizza party at their Palmdale facility. The assembly was done by an employee resource group, VERITAS, Veteran’s Employees and Reservists Inspired to Act and Serve.
Troy Gabbard, Northrop’s Palmdale Site facility manager, is the group’s commissioner.
“Most of our members are actually veterans, so we are big supporters of the USO, adopt-a-family programs and then this year we did the bike program,” said Gabbard. “It’s a priceless moment, to actually be able to give something to these kids and be able to see their faces light up just goes beyond words.”
A small group of volunteers transported the bikes and unloaded them in the BX parking lot near the Christmas tree, while parents and children patiently watched.
“I think it’s important for us to support the families that are serving our country,” said Michelle Webb, Northrop’s global corporate responsibility western region specialist.
The bikes, which ranged from small tricycles to young adult, were purchased in bulk from Huffy.
In Emily’s case, the bicycle she received was her very first brand-new bike.
“She’s always had hand-me-downs from her older sister, so this is an amazing gift. She’s extremely excited,” said Emily’s mom, Theresa.
“Northrop Grumman is really helping us with this stuff,” said Erb. “I thought it made everyone really happy. It was pretty exciting for the children and it was a great spot to do it in front of the Christmas tree.”
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3 comments for "Northrop Grumman donates bicycles to Edwards families"
cap says
Sad. They can afford to do this and so much more, but yet, they take away employees Christmas bonus, seniority, retirement, etc. It’s not a great place to be. They can well afford to help their community and give their hard working employees back what they deserve and have rightfully earned!
Pretty sad state of affairs when military families need this kind of help or any help at all.
AV resident says
You are right its so sad they even put this on the paper embarrassing Im sure they get paid well not to be getting free stuff. I’m sure they are people who have worked in the past who are struggling on this days and really can use the help and make there kids happy. Like i said only people who have worked and are having bad times not people who just have kids to exploit the system or get free stuff know its not the kids fault but thats the way i feel my opinion. Next time keep it to you-self i wonder who is getting a tax write off.
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Local school district taking part in kindness challenge
by The AV Times Staff • January 30, 2015
LANCASTER – Westside Union School District is preparing to bring compassion and caring to the forefront next week through “The Great Kindness Challenge.”
The Great Kindness Challenge is a grassroots program started in Carlsbad, Calif. that has spread to over two million students in more than 4,000 schools in 47 countries. The program challenges students and staff to commit to 50 acts of kindness during one week.(View the video above courtesy of The Great Kindness Challenge.)
Westside is continuing its history of empowering students to end bullying.
“Rancho Vista Elementary School is very excited about participating in The Great Kindness Challenge,” said Rancho Vista Principal Tom Morreale. “We will start the week off with a motivational assembly where students can see the importance of their acts of kindness. Each day, students will perform acts of kindness towards the staff, parents, school or other classmates.”
The Great Kindness Challenge places its focus on acts of kindness and positive behavior, teaching students to “pay it forward.” Westside has also developed a “Building Positive Character Committee,” which has orchestrated all 12 schools and 10,000 additional participants in the District who will be taking part in The Great Kindness Challenge.
Schools will have door decorating contests, special school cheers, classroom-to-classroom acts of kindness and dedicated kindness walls. Plus, every student will be given a specialized tag to wear.
“We are sure that this will make our world a better and a brighter place,” added Morreale. “We will also be conducting a Jean Drive during next week in an attempt to help local teens in need in our area.”
Students will be asked to write a brief reflection of their experience of giving and receiving kindness during the challenge week, which will be shared throughout the campuses for the remainder of the school year, further maintaining the focus of positive behavior.
The West Antelope Valley Education Foundation and the South Antelope Valley Education Foundation each donated $1,000 to fund the activities during the week of The Great Kindness Challenge.
For more information on The Great Kindness Challenge, visit http://greatkindnesschallenge.org/.
2 comments for "Local school district taking part in kindness challenge"
Concerned Mom says
I was told the reason the initiative is taking place is because a child committed suicide due to bullying at Esperanza Elementary. It saddens me, I am concerned that the district has made no announcements about what this child suffered with prior to taking his own life. Was the school/district aware of this bullying and did they fail this child, A. Williams?
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please donate for one of your local schools!
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6 Things You Must Do at Fenway Park
A crown jewel of baseball venues, Fenway Park offers more than a dedicated fan can consume in a single day. But these six sites will make your trip to Beantown memorable and fulfilling.
Stop by the Cask n’ Flagon. This (supposedly) legendary establishment might have been hit by Carlton Fisk if the darned foul pole weren’t in the way. It’s been on Lansdowne Street since 1969 and is a favorite among the locals. It has a large bar and extensive food menu—as great a joint for a family before the game as a yuppie afterwards.
And don’t worry, the staff and patrons are not pompous or disrespectful towards outsiders. It is a very friendly, welcoming atmosphere.
Eat a classic Italian sausage. A few hours before game time, Yawkey Way and Lansdowne Street start filling with the aroma of sweet Italian pork and its various accoutrements. Vendors line the streets and sell their tasty treats to the many baseball fans beginning to gather. A sausage with peppers and onions runs around $8 and is the perfect pre-game snack…if you haven’t already stuffed yourself at the Cask.
Shag homers on the Green Monster. The Red Sox Nation fan club offers early batting practice access (including access to the Green Monster seats) to its members. And membership for the year costs just $15. So you better believe that I bought it for the one Boston game I attended this year. Fans can enter through Gate C off Lansdowne Street an hour before the rest of the park opens. What better way to spend your pre-game than observe batting practice from atop the most iconic ballpark feature in the game?
Visit Boston baseball’s legends on Van Ness Street. Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski are cast individually outside Fenway’s right field gate, but a 2010 addition simply called “Teammates” is most captivating. Williams, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky, and Dom DiMaggio stand stalwart, each in youthful likeness donning a bat on his shoulder. The statue’s plaque explains that each player hailed from the West Coast and served the United States during World War II. “They were Red Sox teammates for seven seasons, but friends for a lifetime,” it reads. In fact, the statue was inspired by a book by sports historian Dave Halberstam, who told of how Doerr, Pesky, and DiMaggio took a 1300-mile road trip to visit an ailing Williams in 2001.
Take a seat in red. Amidst the green oasis of bleacher seats in right field at Fenway Park sits a lone red companion in row 37 of section 42. Legend has it that Ted Williams blasted a 502-foot home run right through a fan’s straw hat in that exact spot. Well before the Statcast era, players and writers agreed that Williams’ homer was the farthest they’d ever seen at Fenway. So in the 1970s, when the bleachers were replaced with actual stadium seats, the Sox commemorated their great hitter’s deed with a solitary red seat.
Take in some Pesky ballpark architecture. The right field corner at Fenway Park could probably be an article in its own. There’s almost too much to take in here. First, sign your name on Pesky’s Pole, named for the shortstop who hit a couple of his just-17 career home runs into the short right field porch at Fenway. The pole stands just 302 feet from home plate—the shortest home run in the majors—and is a delight to any hitter that can sneak a ball in the tiny sliver of seats in that corner. Today, fans use sharpies to sign their names (and I’m sure some different things) on the pole itself. The tradition is allowed by Fenway’s relaxed staff.
Just a few feet to the left of the pole, the outfield wall juts back sharply to 380 feet by the bullpens, adding to the odd layout. The bullpens themselves sit side-by side with a low wall separating each from the aisle in front of the fans in the right field bleachers. Luckily, a dugout roof covers the bench in each ‘pen, shading pitchers, staff, and coaches from verbal and physical abuse from the definitely sober patrons above.
Where is the best place to sit at Fenway Park?
Well, I’m glad you asked! Since Fenway is a relatively small park, built long ago, there aren’t many bad seats view-wise. But, there are two main seating areas to avoid:
The grandstand seats are wooden benches with far less width and femur room than the traditional stadium seats. If you reference the Fenway Park seating chart above, the sections in blue numbered 1-33 starting from the right field foul pole wrapping around the infield to the left field pole are these grandstand sections. If you’re a relatively small person and can get a good deal on them, then great! Go for it. But for me and most adult-sized people, the seats truly are uncomfortable. And the ones in darker blue on the map above (13-27) are mostly under the second deck’s overhang.
The second place I would avoid is the right field bleachers. Unless you get a choice row down low by the bullpens, you run the risk of watching the Red Sox from New Hampshire (virtually). The upper rows of the bleachers are actually behind the jumbotron.
Anywhere else in Fenway Park should provide some great sight lines and a comfortable baseball-viewing experience. Honestly, I would just look for the good deals on ticket websites because cheap tickets from scalpers near the park are hard to come by. In addition, most games at Fenway sell out or come darn close to it. The Red Sox release some tickets on game day, but prices are still inflated and lines can be quite long to get them.
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Rand Paul has emerged as one of the most interesting politicians in America today, a dash of color on a largely drab and predictable national landscape.
The senator from Kentucky – an ophthalmologist and son of libertarian icon Ron Paul – is certainly the hottest Republican of the moment, with a recent raft of positive media coverage to prove it.
The essence of Paul’s success in capturing, and, he hopes, extending his turn in the sun is a rare combination of instinct, a keen ear for the national zeitgeist and practical political chops. Dr. Paul’s rise is also rooted in his appreciation for several fundamental truths:
A US Senate seat is a powerful national platform. Paul understands the potential of his office; to paraphrase an oft-repeated line about the president, an ambitious United States senator can have dinner with just about anyone they want. From his earliest days in the Senate, Joe Biden knew this. Paul isn’t afraid to pick up the phone and his calls are clearly being reciprocated – whether it is Rupert Murdoch joining him for a mint julep at Churchill Downs or Paul dropping in on key players in Silicon Valley. For a Republican senator from the south, Paul is reaching out to people beyond the usual suspects and he’s effectively building key relationships and his brand in the process.
Young people are up for grabs. Despite President Obama’s overwhelming success in reaching and mobilizing new voters, that hasn’t translated into any kind of sustained partisan allegiance among millennials. Younger people don’t seem to have much interest in hitching their political identities to the two major parties but Rand Paul is a Republican, and if he runs for president it will have to be under the GOP banner. His counter-establishment positions on foreign policy, domestic surveillance and the militarization of local police help him connect with younger people’s disenchantment with traditional partisan orthodoxies.
Voters are hungry for authenticity. There’s an old joke that success in politics hinges on sincerity – and if you can fake that you’ve got it made. Paul is too much of a character to fake anything at all, there’s nothing contrived about him. He’s no clothes horse and certainly doesn’t have overmoussed hair. He speaks to audiences as if they are reasonable adults. Most importantly, Dr. Paul evinces genuine thoughtfulness and intellectual curiosity in his approach to multi-dimensional issues, a refreshing change in the land of talking points.
Republicans must grow their base. National demographic trends make clear that an aging, overwhelmingly white Republican base will imperil the party if it is not able to broaden and enhance its appeal to African-Americans and Latinos. Paul has been candid about the GOP’s spotty performance in engaging these communities and he sees the need to build trust before any broader message can be heard. For starters, Paul has decried the sentencing disparities for drug offenses that see a disproportionate number of African Americans sent to prison or kept there for longer terms, a message he brought to the National Urban League Conference in Cincinnati this summer. Although his overture was cooly received, Paul is resolute in putting out the welcome mat based on the underlying strategic assumption that African Americans and others can only gain by hedging their partisan bets.
There is always a risk in being the media’s favorite Republican – just ask John McCain or Chris Christie how quickly things can turn. So Rand Paul’s honeymoon will eventually come to an end, perhaps as soon as he’s off the plane from performing pro bono eye surgery in Guatemala. But he plays an elegant game that will be entertaining to watch as the race for 2016 kicks into gear after November’s election.
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Introduction: Cryptography in Number Theory.
Understanding prime numbers and how they relate to one another has long been the holy grail of mathematicians - predicting the next one a "Eureka" moment. Part of the fascination revolves around computers, message encryptions and security systems. Should someone create a formula to evaluate prime numbers and semiprimes, then servers, mainframes and even the Internet might be severely disrupted around the world.
It is difficult to ascertain whether a very large number might or might not be a Prime Number. Even more difficult is the task of identifying semi-primes and their divisors. Prime factorization is big business. It can be done, but it takes an awful lot of number crunching in most cases by dedicated high-speed computers. Mathematicians back in the 60s devised a method of encrypting financial transactions for cyber security: Secret codes to keep hackers at bay. They used semiprimes (pseudoprimes) and split them to give public-key numbers to the different parties in communication - for example, a bank liaising with their client. It is what makes your ATM card secure. So mathematicians sat back with the comfortable knowledge that Prime Numbers were infallible, as they have with Special Relativity and other corner-stones of our technological empire.
However, there often comes a time when a rock is over-turned, and what is then revealed beneath not always as pleasant nor as trustworthy as one might have hoped.
Mathematicians are hardly at fault for being unable to represent the world around us with any solid reality. They work with numbers, they create erroneous points with dimensions and infinity paradoxes and then calmly dismiss the obvious, see chapter 3. of this paper: Infinity. So too, do they use a system of decimalization to express the world around us. But what if our decimal system were flawed, or giving us false impressions? All mathematical equations are based on the decimal system we first created in the Western World eons ago because, presumably, we have 10 fingers.
The development of the Binary System saw leaps and bounds, not in the world of Prime Numbers but in the speed with which computers and their components can now operate. Yes or No, was the simplicity behind the Binary System of 0s and 1s. Perhaps it is time we looked further into numerical base systems and what they can offer.
Psychologist and author, Alan R Graham, theorizes on the complexities of time and how we perceive progress, in his book, Time's Paradigm. This page on prime numbers is a supplement to the work. You can read his entire proposal through all chapters here online, or download the ebook for free.
Prime Numbers Busted
You will now see below a simple math table amalgamating our decimal system with a Base 4 (Quaternary) system, to reveal the extraordinary fact that every prime number from one to infinity will be paired with either a prime or semiprime, making their identities and factorization as we progress upward through the table towards very large numbers, quite easy. It is a pseudoprime test. Even the special semi-primes like 25 are identified.
Numbers in the Billions can be identified on a simple laptop in seconds.
A Base 4 numerical table that instantly identifies its counterpart primes in the decimal system by pairing with them. A number theory conundrum? What is going on? No complicated formulas required, although you will see below a modular arithmetic expression to cross reference prime number identities as the integers rise. Hence the unnerving thought of a computer capable of picking out all primes and their derivatives more swiftly, in the not too distant future.
It is too simple for words. Even a child could have drawn this table. More to the point, why is it happening? Why has this simple relationship not been spotted before? What it means for the decimal system could be an early grave. We have been working for thousands of years with a system that was devised out of the necessity for trading and bartering with fingers, without considering what implications this might have. Prime Numbers thus surfaced and to this day we see no correlation nor meaning in them other than by the application of various formulas such as "Fermat's Little Theorem". Now we can, instantly, using a simple Base 4 Quaternary System. However, what this table below is actually implying remains to be seen...
The numbers on the left of each pair represent our decimal system as they sequentially rise through the table from left to right. Those numbers paired on the right of the equals signs are Quaternary based, having only 4 sequential integers before continuing in the row above with the next set.
We know that the single digit integers 2, 3, 5 and 7 are Prime Numbers. From them we see that 5 pairs with 11 and 7 pairs with 13 to identify these new numbers as primes while the table progresses revealing more. None are missed, every Prime Number is accounted for.
Taking these two new Prime Numbers, 11 and 13 on the Base 4 columns, we can then cross-reference them with the decimal columns and discover new primes of higher value - 11 now being paired with 23 and 13 with 31. The decimal column provides us with prime numbers ending 7 and 9.
Pairing, Factorizing and Linking Primes
Now for the Formula to ID Really Large Numbers: This is where it gets fun. How to use a formula to link prime numbers together between base 10 (ND) and base 4 (NQ) anywhere up the ladder. You probably haven't the time nor patience to produce a table running into the thousands - you don't have to!
First we take a number, such as 30,181 and place it in the correct row for pairing. The formula must only be applied to the first pairs in each row. So, 30,181 would sit in the row starting NQ 30,180 (the first NQ numbers of each row all end in 0, of course - like 4 with 10 and 8 with 20, etc.). Now use the formula below and find that its ND pair is 12,072. Because we subtracted one from 30,181 to place it at the beginning of the row, we must now do the reverse and add one to 12,072 (12,073). Both are pure primes, and you can follow any up or down the table by simply repeating the math as shown below.
going down... NQ / 2 – (NQ / 10) = ND
Prime Examples in modular notation:
(subtract 1 from 31) Now NQ: 30 / 2 - 3 = 12 (add on the one you took away) ND 13
NQ 30181: 30180 / 2 - 3018 = 12072 (then add the one) ND 12073
Follow the trail of primes up or down the table: 1933=4831=12073=30181
While the above modular arithmetic expression is similar in simplicity to Fermat's Little Theorem, a^p - a (mod p) for identifying a prime number, the above formula is based on a link of pairings that become part of a huge, multi-faceted table which includes all pseudoprimes with enormous consequences.
Going up the table to find larger numbers has its modular expression as follows:
Subtract to first in row: ND x 2 + (ND / 2) = NQ with equivalent added
Example 32803: 32800 x 2 + (16400) = 82000 thus NQ 82003
Note. (As ND numbers in the first column do not always begin with a 0, care should be taken to consider the second last digit in any number evaluated: Those that are even digits end with 0, 4 and 8; odd with 2 and 6; though odd with a 1 following drops back to the earlier even with 8 - example being 71 to 68.)
Though certain Prime Numbers ending in seven or nine, like 17, 47 and 59, may not be identified earlier in the table due to the Quaternary Base 4 system only producing numbers below 4s, there is another table extracting pairings of the numbers ending in 7 and 9. Likewise, it is a base 4 versus base 10 setup. Just as simple. Example below:
5=17 6=18 7=19 8=20
9=27 10=28 11=29 12=30
13=37 14=38 15=39 16=40
17=47 and so on...
The formula for pairing integers on this 7-9 table is by adding to an NQ to reach the positive pair at the end of each row, rather than subtraction as in the first 1-3 table. We can also identify integers like 47 as being primes on the 1-3 table because its NQ pair is 113.
NQ 47: 50 / 2 - 5 = 20 (then subtract the three) ND 17
Looking at an alternative, Reduced Base 4 (RB4) table below - that is, a table whose multiple digit numbers do not go beyond the 30s (as one might think should really be the case, anyway) - we see that 113 is paired with 23. Following 23 back down the table we see that it is paired with 11, and lower still the Prime Number 5. We already know that 17 and 19 are primes, so now we know that their pairs, 101 and 103 are at the very least, pseudoprimes, semiprimes or more than likely proper primes (as they are).
0=0 1=1 2=2 3=3
8=20 9=21 10=22 11=23
16=100 17=101 18=102 19=103
Interestingly, In the 1-3 table 17=41 and then further up 41 pairs with 101. In this RB4 table, 17 pairs immediately with 101.
Semi-primes and their derivatives are easily identified. If you want to find out if a number on the tables is a prime or a semiprime, link its pair further down and divide. For example, 91 is a semiprime whose claim to fame is that it can only be divided by the two lower primes, 7 and 13, both being paired with each other. 91 is paired with ND 37 in the 1-3 table, whereas in the 7-9 table NQ 37 is paired with 13.
203 is a good example, paired with 83. Further down 83=35 (5 x 7). 203 is not divisible by 5 but is it by 7? Yes, thus discovering that it is a semiprime, product of 7 and 29.
Furthermore, many numbers ending in 5 are semiprimes products of the prime 5. We just saw that on the 1-3 table, 35 is paired with prime number, 83. There are plenty of ways to cross-reference these tables and their columns to provide answers to a multitude of questions.
But the real question is, WHY?
It seems there is some secret code between prime numbers: they sniff each other out using a base 4 Quaternary table, whether a pure prime or a semiprime with its two pure prime divisors hidden within.
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Some other Extraordinary Links and Pairings:
The work so far undertaken to understand these tables is still in its infancy. There is much to discover. I have tried many base representations paired with the Decimal System, with poor results. It appears the Quaternary base is key!
Let's take a number like 99251, a known prime, but we are going to pretend we don't know. We apply our formula above and get pairings such as 39701, then on down through 15881, 6353, 2543, 1019, all being primes except one semi-prime, concluding that the number we first started with, 99251, is a pseudoprime, likely a pure prime. Once a prime has been established anywhere along a chain of numbers using this formula, all paired numbers that arise are always with primes or semiprimes.
For example, in the above paragraph the semiprime is 39701, being a product of 29 and 37. Semiprimes may pair with each other.
There are many subtle ways in which these tables work to pair primes. Take 353. On the 1-3 table it is linked to a semi-prime, 11x13=143. Below on the table 143 is again linked and to a smaller prime number, 59. Yet, remarkably, when you use the formula to reduce 359 on the 7-9 table, you get the same result, it links to 143. 353 also pairs up to NQ 881, a pure prime.
5 x 359 (a known prime) = 1795. The formula above shows that this resulting number pairs with the prime number 4483.
Prime Numbers in the Millions:
Now let's look at a real biggy in the millions..! 62,437,991. We have no idea if it is a prime, we picked it out of the blue. It links down using our formula to 24,975,197. Then on down four more times until it hits 639365. Here is a number that ends in 5, so has a likely chance of being a semi-prime whose derivatives (other than itself and one) will only be the prime number 5 and another prime. A quick flash on my calculator shows that indeed the other divisor is a prime number, 127873, suggesting that our million dollar number we first started with is a pseudoprime and possibly a prime number.
Well, actually, it is not a prime! Continuing on down from 127873 through the numbers with our above formula seven or eight more times, we pass through five primes and eventually pair 41 with 17. That 65 million number above divides perfectly by 17 to produce 3672823.
That is how to test for primes and semiprimes.
Suppose we want to find the prime derivatives of a semi-prime? Take 91 for example, then reduce with the formula to 35. This new number is a product of 7 and 5, two primes. Because dividing 91 by 5 would obviously not produce a whole number, we simply divide it by the other, number 7 and get the second prime derivative, 13. Case closed.
Let's try with 403, a semi-prime, to find its roots. Reduced with the above formula we get 163, then again to 67, both primes. One more reduction and we reach 31 paired with 13. This looks like a good pair of candidates, and on multiplying them together we get, 403.
There are, of course, millions of semiprimes which are positive integers, composites regarded. You can see some pairing of these on the tables, like 10 and 22, though I have not spent much time on them. Equally, odd numbers like 15 and 33 are semi-primes each. They are all tucked closely together at the beginning of the table, however as the numbers increase in size so too does the distance between them - and the intrigue.
As to the question, "Why is this happening?" My thoughts at present are these:
In musical arithmetic annotation, the oscillating frequency intervals of thirds are often semiprimes, which first attracted my attention back in 1993 when considering the base 8 configuration of Doe, Ray, Me. In this particular association of numbers the overriding integer is 3.
I have still to fully consider these implications on Prime Numbers and the tables presented above. Suffice to say, I believe music has more to do with cosmic relevance than 10 fingers.
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Popliteal cyst associated with prosthesis wearing of total knee replacement - A case report
C. H. Chen, W. J. Chen, L. H. Chen, C. C. Wu, C. H. Shih
We describe the case of a patient with a popliteal cyst caused by progressive dissemination of wear debris from a failed total knee prosthesis into the popliteal fossa. The cyst was surgically removed to relieve the compression symptom. Revision total knee replacement was performed one year later. Mechanism of the cyst formation and review of the literature were postulated. We also want to remind such an unusual etiology of popliteal cyst and suggest the adequate timing of revision operation.
Formosan Journal of Surgery
Popliteal cyst
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Chen, C. H., Chen, W. J., Chen, L. H., Wu, C. C., & Shih, C. H. (1999). Popliteal cyst associated with prosthesis wearing of total knee replacement - A case report. Formosan Journal of Surgery, 32(3), 139-142.
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Chen, CH, Chen, WJ, Chen, LH, Wu, CC & Shih, CH 1999, 'Popliteal cyst associated with prosthesis wearing of total knee replacement - A case report', Formosan Journal of Surgery, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 139-142.
Chen CH, Chen WJ, Chen LH, Wu CC, Shih CH. Popliteal cyst associated with prosthesis wearing of total knee replacement - A case report. Formosan Journal of Surgery. 1999;32(3):139-142.
Chen, C. H. ; Chen, W. J. ; Chen, L. H. ; Wu, C. C. ; Shih, C. H. / Popliteal cyst associated with prosthesis wearing of total knee replacement - A case report. In: Formosan Journal of Surgery. 1999 ; Vol. 32, No. 3. pp. 139-142.
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Los Grobo sells 75 percent of its equity to the fund Victoria Capital
November 18 – 2016
After a year of stormy negotiations, when they decided to sign the agreement at exactly 3am, the printer failed. What seemed impossible, happened: they run out of toner. The transaction that changed the history of Los Grobo Group, one of the main agribusiness players, was finalized hours later. In this context, Victoria Capital Partners makes a capital injection of US$ 100 million into the Company. Furthermore, for an undisclosed amount, it buys 75% of the Company which has annual revenues of US$ 550 million, 700 employees, 50,000 hectares of crops, ventured into agrochemicals with Agrofina, leads the precision agriculture with Frontec in association with INVAP, produces seeds and even offers financial services through a mutual credit guarantee company.
Victoria Capital acquires the stock that was still owned by the Brazilian Vinci group and by Gabriela and Andrea Grobocopatel. Gustavo and his other sister Matilde remain as shareholders. Grobocopatel will continue to be President and Horacio Busanello, CEO. “The entire team stays”, Grobocopatel assured Clarin.
What’s new about this multi-million dollar transaction, is the type of investors that Victoria Capital is partnering with, the IFC, the investment vehicle of the World Bank, the Dutch bank FMO and the University of Texas which invest in Argentina for the first time.
Victoria Capital, on the other hand, has been with us for decades. This fund, which is a successor of the well-known DLJ, made its first investment with the purchase of Peñaflor, the powerful wine conglomerate, is a shareholder of Zucamor (cardboard containers) and the seeds producer Satus Ager. They split from Credit Suisse in 2011, discarded the DLJ name and adopted Victoria, in honor of the only vessel that survived the Magellan expedition. With offices in New York, Sao Paulo, Bogotá and Buenos Aires, Victoria has investments in the Colombian construction company Corona, the publishing company Santillana in Spain and Arcos Dorados, the McDonald’s franchise. Itau bank acted as financial advisor in this transaction.
– Aren’t you afraid of an unfavorable market scenario as a consequence of Trump’s triumph?
-If there is a competitive and sustainable industry in Argentina, it is the Agriculture. We are a financial investor group with no time urgency. We have many years ahead of us, say Carlos García and Santiago Cotter, partners at Victoria.
-Why do you sell part of the group?, Grobocopatel was inquired.
-We try to take advantage of the current political and economic scenario. We now count with a great global platform with top investors. Nowadays, we need to have access to knowledge and capital. We cannot grow without access to capital. We want our company to transcend the family and Argentina.
“We will double in size in a short period of time. Cost of money is part of being competitive. A new whole scenario opens up”, added Busanello.
Going forward, they will strengthen Los Grobo as a leader in services that integrate the producer’s needs in one place.
One of the first new segments they focus on at this stage is legumes, such as yellow pea, Canadian lentil and chickpea, that they have already started to sow. “It can be a boom very similar to that of soybean, with India increasingly demanding this type of products”, Grobocopatel added enthusiastically.
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Buried Stream Sees the Light of Day
Nov. 25, 2014 - Nearly a hundred years ago a… more
Nov. 25, 2014 - Nearly a hundred years ago a stream was covered over and diverted into an underground culvert in Northwest Washington, D.C. Now environmentalists are taking steps to restore the stream to a more natural flow and revive the native flora and fauna. The idea isn't unique to Washington: Around the world, people are working to give similar streams a second life, a process known as daylighting. National Geographic followed the year-long project.
Click here to read more about daylighting
Steve Saari
District of Columbia Department of the Environment
[00:07] What we're trying to do is take a stream that really never needed to be piped, where no construction occurred, and bring that stream back to the surface.
We are in Northwest Washington D.C., we're about 3 miles from the White House, we're about a mile from the border of Maryland.
Steve Dryden
Environmental Advocate
[00:29] The idea back in the distant, not-so-distant past actually, was that you had to get rid of storm water, and you had to get rid of the potential of flooding, and people didn't really understand about stream ecology or they didn't really consider that to be that important. So in our urban areas and in our suburbs a lot of streams were just put into pipes, they just buried them and put them into pipes. And this fundamentally altered the way the stream workes, and made it not work very well.
Keith Underwood
Project Designer
Underwood and Associates
[01:06] When we build these projects we start by filling the channel with that clean sand, we use that as the working platform, as the construction haul road.
[01:20] And that haul road itself doubles as the area where the stream bed will eventually be. So we start at the downstream end where the water flows to, and build structures moving upstream to the end of the project. And once we get to the end of the project we break open the pipe and the water will begin to flow through the whole project area.
[01:45] A conventional approach to this kind of restoration would be to cut the banks back and disturb a lot of the riparian zone. This approach is called regenerative stream channels. And they're quite different from that old approach in that they are bent on spreading the water out to slow it down and filter it through sands and gravel.
[02:10] It's not going to be exactly like it was 90 - 100 years ago, so what we're trying to do is make it natural a system as we can. So we're doing adaptive management, we'll be doing here and there for about three to five years after the project is completed to make changes to either take a little less storm water in or change the structures a little bit to make sure everything is flowing smoothly and that we don't have any erosion problems, we don't have any flooding problems.
[02:40] Piping of streams is something that happens across the world and it's not DC specific, we do have a lot of streams that have been piped. Unfortunately only a few streams have been day lighted, once they're buried, oftentimes they're gone forever.
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How to Get 2.6 Million YouTube Subscribers - The Ohana Adventure Story
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Family vloggers The Ohana Adventure have generated 2.6M subscribers and over 680M views on YouTube. Take a deep dive into their creator journey with us
Welcome to another episode in our exciting new series that focuses in on some of the most successful Youtube creators around today. We're taking a look at their creator journey, and the often surprising story behind their success on YouTube.
This week the spotlight falls on The Ohana Adventure, a family vlogging channel which has to date generated 2.6 million subscribers, and 680 million views. You can read the full transcript of The Ohana Adventure's story below:
The Ohana Adventure: Journey to 680 Million YouTube Views
Hello, my name is Jase. But you may know me better as the dad from my family's YouTube channel of the Ohana Adventure. Ohana means family and our family is always an adventure. Together with my wife Rachel and our six children, Klailea, Rykel, Shae, Wyatt, Evie and Cora, we get to share our lives through our daily vlog channel that now has almost half a billion views. But how did we get here? Well this is our creator's journey.
Before creating the Ohana Adventure, I owned a skate company. I was making skateboard videos to gain awareness and to use as a promotion for my entrepreneurial company. Through those videos I learned how to shoot, painstakingly edit and tell a story. These were useful skills that would help with creating our own family channel in the future.
But during the skate video days, I didn't know that there was an algorithm controlling the visibility of our videos. But I strived to test and better understand the inner workings of YouTube with every video. I wanted to create positive controversy in my videos to get conversations going. So I decided to film the thing that does not go together in my industry which was skateboarding underwater. The video went viral and got millions of views in just a short period of time. The video now has 20 million plus views but that all happened from my thoughts which was from the comments section which added up so quickly due to the conversation going on the validity of actually being able to skateboard underwater.
I then created videos of cars running over my boards, and those took off as well. After the 20 million mark and the success of the others videos in 2016, my wife and I sat down and decided to use what we learned to start a family vlog. We decided to post daily and we haven't missed a day in over two years.
Now getting the kids on board was very interesting. They loved YouTube, they watched YouTube, and they wanted to be a part of it, but then figuring out the dynamic of a family of eight being on camera was hilarious. Now creating those videos were a little bit daunting at first and it was harder than I had expected to gain traction, but we focused on making more original and shareable content and so our first Ohana Adventure video to really take off was how to family videos.
We decided lots of families wondered about having kids, there was always new moms, families wanting to wonder about having lots of kids and what to do about it, and so we started these how to videos, the first one that actually took off was how to teach your teen to shave her legs, which was hilarious
And then we ran with that style of content for another year, videos based on those moments that were happening in our family life, like Klailea’s broken wrist and videos sharing advice with other families, like how to travel with six kids and a bunch of other how to videos, how to pack bug out bags, how to pack a car for a road trip, lots of stuff like that that really started to take off for us.
Then I've had a background in music and writing music since I was a teenager, and I really wanted to try that. So we tried something new. I was watching and waiting for the new music videos coming up from the top pop artists and Taylor Swift came out with, I don't even remember the title of her's now. You'll have to cut this part out! Taylor Swift then came out with Look What You Made Me Do, and my daughter at the same time was talking about this crush that she had at school. So I decided to create a parody called My Teen Crush Is At School. But our channel was doing so well on teen crush for keywords that we just called the video Teen Crush. And it crushed it. A million views overnight, 30 million views within the month and it kept going. To date it has over 83 million views.
We then filmed about ten other parody videos using that same algorithm and that same style for our family that worked with our family, we wanted to film and they crushed it. In early 2018 we added family challenge videos because we do that anyways. I run away from the children in grocery stores all the time just for fun. Then we started mystery door challenges and blindfold hide and seek challenges that we still play to this day.
The family games and challenges were so fun and something we did naturally as a family, these were videos we could bulk film and then wrap them in a vlog. That's very helpful for marketing content every day. I mean, every day is an adventure but some days you're just exhausted or things go wrong, or they're a little less adventurous than other days. With the challenges, we can make new and ambitious content that seamlessly adds to the vlogs and propelled our channel forward.
As creators, we're much more focused and specific when filming and editing our videos than we were at the start. But we still film our family having fun and being adventurous. As a family, we're so blessed by all of our success. Our family has always loved traveling and playing together. Now we're able to do that full-time. It's so inspiring when fans send us their stories and tell us how our content helps them in their family situations. It's that kind of love that keeps us making videos.
In the future, we're planning on making lots and lots more of exactly this style content, because it's natural to us, it works with our channel, and we have so much fun doing it. When you're making your own videos it's okay to be specific and still have fun making your content. Whether you're a creator who's just getting started or a seasoned pro, remember to be consistent, keep filming, keep uploading and always have fun with it. That translates through your content.
If you want to take your YouTube channel to the next level then make sure to download vidIQ. It will help you research YouTube, analyze videos, audit your own channel, and take actionable steps click here to install now!
Liron Segev, aka TheTechieGuy, is the Director of Customer Success at vidIQ, an internationally celebrated Digital YouTube Strategist working with some of the largest brands and YouTube influencers in the world. Over the past 20+ years, his work has taken him to South Africa, the UK and the US where he frequently speaks at conferences and provides expert tech commentary for various print publications, radio, and TV while actively running his Tech YouTube Channel.
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Tour Of President Theodore Roosevelt Through The Northwest 1902 - Luncheon Menu
11x14 Archival Print Print (Unframed) $30.00 - $30.00 USD 13x19" Archival Print Print (Unframed) $40.00 - $35.00 USD 16x20 Archival Print (Unframed) $55.00 - $55.00 USD 24x36 Archival Print (Unframed) $135.00 - $135.00 USD
In the Fall of 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt embarked on an ambitious western tour by train to help promote Republican candidates for the up-coming election. These three menus from the tour were among a package of menus sent by Miss Frank E. Buttolph to the British Library in the hope of receiving, in exchange, a menu from the Coronation of King Edward VII. It doesn't seem that the British Library ever sent that menu.
Printed in USA.
Miss Frank E. Buttolph Menus given to the British Museum.
Courtesy British Library Board/Robana
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April 9, 2015 .
No. 12 Virginia Travels to North Carolina and Georgia Tech
No. 12 Virginia at No. 2 North Carolina & No. 36 Georgia Tech
Date & Time Friday & Sunday, April 10Â & 12 | 3Â p.m. & Noon
Location Chapel Hill, N.C. & Atlanta, Ga
Coverage Live Scoring at UNC |  / Video at GT
Additional Information Twitter| Coach Guilbeau Twitter|Facebook
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – No. 12 Virginia hits the road for ACC women’s tennis matches at No. 2 North Carolina and No. 36 Georgia Tech this weekend.
The Cavaliers (15-4, 8-2 ACC) play the Tar Heels on Friday (April 10) and Yellow Jackets on Sunday (April 12). First serve is set for 3 p.m. on Friday and 12 p.m. on Sunday. Live scoring for both matches and live video ($) for the Georgia Tech match is available on VirginiaSports.com.
Virginia takes a three-match winning streak into its match at North Carolina. The Cavaliers have defeated Wake Forest (7-0), then-No. 63 Boston College (6-1) and Louisville (7-0) since dropping a 5-2 decision to then-No. 16 Miami on March 27. Julia Elbaba (Oyster Bay, N.Y.) is ranked No. 2 in singles, Stephanie Nauta (Galveston, Texas) is ranked No. 36 and Danielle Collins (St. Petersburg, Fla.) is ranked No. 37. Cassie Mercer (Huntington, W.Va.) and Skylar Morton (Bethesda, Md.) are ranked No. 31 in doubles, while Maci Epstein (Winter Park, Fla.) and Nauta are ranked No. 87. Epstein and Marie Faure (Toulouse, France) are ranked No. 89.
The Cavaliers are 13-37 all-time against North Carolina (23-0, 11-0 ACC), including a 5-2 loss in Charlottesville last season. Virginia defeated then-No. 1 North Carolina 4-3 in Chapel Hill during the 2013 dual season. North Carolina features No. 6 Jamie Loeb, No. 14 Haley Carter, No. 19 Caroline Price, No. 93 Whitney Kay, No.105 Ashley Dai and No. 120 Kate Vialle. In doubles, Price and Loeb are ranked No. 7 and Carter and Kay are No. 21. Dai and Vialle are ranked No. 49.
Virginia is 21-12 all-time vs. Georgia Tech (10-7, 6-4 ACC), including a pair of wins last season. No. 56 Paige Hourigan and No. 104 Johnnise Renaud lead the Yellow Jackets in singles. Georgia Tech features No. 17 Kendal Woodard and Hourigan and No. 84 Rasheeda McAdoo and Alexis Prokopuik in doubles.
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You are here: Home / Buenos Aires / Restaurants / Casa Felix — A Culinary Adventure in a Private Garden
Casa Felix — A Culinary Adventure in a Private Garden
Former Wander Argentina writer and later Forbes list darling, Courtney Boyd Myers, dining at Casa Felix
Casa Felix is one of those special places that you read about as a child — a secret garden, a cloud at the end of a giant beanstalk, or a palace under the sea. You aren’t sure it actually exists until you go there. That’s because this intimate dining venue is a Puerta Cerrada, a ‘closed-door’ (underground) restaurant that takes place thrice weekly in a private home. Surreptitious supper clubs continue to be en vogue in Buenos Aires, and Casa Felix — a Travel and Leisure top ten— is an enduring, not-so-secret stand-out among a handful of others that have sprouted up throughout the port city.
The experience is hard to describe with mere adjectives: phenomenal, absolutely exceptional and ‘one-of-a-kind’ are a few.
It’s a cozy family get-together of worldly diners under the stars, seated in an open patio draped with colorful flags. It’s a basket of warm bread with a white bean and red bell pepper spread. It’s a Brazilian passion fruit, white wine sangria in your hand on a cool autumn evening. It’s a fresh mint intermezzo (pallet cleanser) between bites of oyster mushrooms with arugula flowers drizzling with chili-infused oil and coconut and lavender cream pie.
Chef Diego Felix began cooking in his late twenties at a collective in San Francisco. After a few months of cooking for his housemates, he started to notice the numbers increasing from 20 people to 100. “Everybody was bringing their friends over to eat! Which is fine, but I told them to start bringing food too, and then I cooked it for everyone.”
Felix, a rare lifelong vegetarian in this country of carnivores, returned to his native Buenos Aires after working at San Francisco’s vegan temple Millennium and opened up Casa Felix with his beautiful wife, Sanra Ritten three years ago.
When Ritten and Felix first moved to South America they were traveling together as a photographer and journalist. “We set out on this very romantic ideal, and we started talking about starting a restaurant together. And when we opened up our doors to friends and friends of friends we realized that we could make a living doing this. It’s so crazy when you start doing what you say you’re going to do.”
The five-course feast begins around 10 p.m. Chef Diego Felix, aided by Ritten and various friends from San Francisco, serve a set menu ( which can be adjusted to accommodate dietary restrictions). Expect deliciousness like empanadas filled with mushrooms and pumpkin seeds; apple-mint granita (sorbet-like dessert), and a quinoa-flour tart topped with oven-dried berries.
It’s important to call or e-mail well in advance for a reservation at this exclusive establishment. After you are confirmed, Casa Felix will e-mail you with their address in the Chacarita neighborhood of Buenos Aires, asking you to arrive at 9:30 p.m. Guests, usually about a dozen, mingle in the backyard garden, sipping sangria and breathing in aromatic herbs like Peperina, a type of mint that grows in the Andes mountains and cedrón, a lemon-scented shrub from the Pampas.
Casa Felix is so popular with American visitors that the couple goes on a cooking tour every summer, cooking for private parties in major American cities. Whether Felix is in New York City or Buenos Aires, he aims to cook as locally as possible in each city. The only thing he packs with him on his tours is a bottle of chimichurri, an oil and vinegar-based spiced sauce.
Simply put, Casa Felix is a must-do clandestine supper club geared toward the pescetarians and vegetarians alike. It’s a superb escape from the parilla saturated restaurant scene in Buenos Aires and the perfect atmosphere to enjoy organic, locally grown produce served with extra doses of gastronomic love.
—by Courtney Boyd Myers
Casa Felix—$$$$/cash only
(be sure to point out any dietary restrictions when making reservations)
Email: info@colectivofelix.com
Tel: (54-15)-4147-8100
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New Wandsworth Council website
Wandsworth Council has unveiled a new website to make it easier for residents to find out about local services.
Published: 28 Jun 19
Please don't bring barbecues to parks
With temperatures set to soar this weekend the borough’s parks and commons are expected to be exceptionally busy – but people are being reminded that they cannot bring barbecues with them.
New Tooting Job Club
Job seekers are invited to a new weekly job club starting this coming Tuesday (July 2).
Free family fitness fun at the Falcon Road Festival
The Wandsworth Council Get Active Roadshow is on the move again this weekend stopping off in Shillington Gardens for the Falcon Road Festival.
Staying safe while temperatures rise
Very hot weather is expected over the weekend and Wandsworth Council is urging people to take extra care of themselves and keep an eye on elderly neighbours.
Consultation launched into future plans for Roehampton playing fields
People living in West Putney and Roehampton are being asked for their views on the popular playing fields in Dover House Road and how they might be improved.
Fresh lick of paint for community hall
Local community venues in Wandsworth are being given a fresh lick of paint thanks to a staff volunteering initiative by Wates Residential.
Planning approval for new homes and health centre as part of Garratt Lane regeneration scheme
The regeneration of a key area in Earlsfield has taken another step forward with councillors granting planning permission for a new health centre, shop units and homes on vacant or underused land in and around Garratt Lane.
Far reaching package of improvements approved to services for children with autism
Councillors have given their backing to a package of proposals to significantly enhance the support provided to families affected by autism (ASD).
Live cricket on the big screen this weekend
Stumped for somewhere to watch the Cricket World Cup? Let Battersea Park bowl you over this weekend with outdoor big screen showings of two matches.
Green light for plans to expand frontline youth service work across Wandsworth
Councillors have approved plans to expand youth service provision across the borough, employ more frontline youth workers and establish a new pot of money that can be used to fund a range of community initiatives that support young people in Wandsworth
Tooting Bec Lido - the perfect place to keep cool
With much of Europe experiencing a heatwave and temperatures in the UK set to soar this weekend, people are being reminded that there is no better place in London to cool off than the much-loved Tooting Bec Lido.
Family fun run this Sunday
A series of free family running races in Battersea Park starts this Sunday.
Second entrance at Putney Station could be moving a step closer
The council’s long-running campaign to open up a second passenger entrance at Putney Station has been given fresh impetus with Network Rail agreeing to carry out a feasibility study into the town hall’s proposals.
Ribbon cutting ceremony this weekend for Tooting Common’s new community hub and conservation centre
Thanks to National Lottery players, the hard work and dedication of a team of local community volunteers plus the support of Wandsworth Council, this weekend will see the grand opening of a newly refurbished and restored pavilion on Tooting Common that will serve as a hub for a range of community uses including conservation projects that benefit this popular green space.
Heathrow must deliver ‘real emissions reductions’
Councillors say that airports seeking to expand will have to deliver real reductions in carbon emissions if the UK is to achieve its target of net zero emissions by 2050.
Study identifies Wandsworth as nation’s most productive place
Wandsworth has been named the most productive local area in the UK, according to a new study into economic output.
Further work underway on project to smarten up East Putney Station
Plans to smarten up the entrance and approaches to East Putney station and potentially install lifts to the platforms have moved a step closer following talks between the council, Transport for London and tube bosses.
Parking changes for Wimbledon tennis should help ensure no influx of tennis fans by car
Changes to parking rules across the Southfields area will come into effect next week to coincide with the start of the Wimbledon tennis championships.
Be aware of council tax con
Residents are being warned to watch out for scammers claiming to be able to secure you a council tax refund – but instead stealing people’s personal information and bank details.
Cycling contraflow scheme approved for Southfields
Work is about to begin on a trial scheme providing cyclists with a safe and convenient short cut between Garratt Lane and King George’s Park.
Children in Battersea will soon have another revamped playground to enjoy
Another children’s playground in Battersea is set for a major facelift as part of ongoing council plans to improve play and leisure facilities for some of the borough’s youngest residents.
Work Match opens new offices in Battersea
Work Match, the service set up five years ago to help get local people into employment, has opened new flagship offices in the heart of a major council regeneration scheme.
Millions more to improve Wandsworth’s roads and pavements
Cyclists, pedestrians and drivers will all benefit from better roads and pavements throughout Wandsworth after councillors approved plans to invest £3m in footpath and carriageway upgrades in the coming months.
Call for transparency on plan to repair and re-open Hammersmith Bridge
Wandsworth’s cabinet member for transport Paul Ellis is calling on Hammersmith and Fulham (H&F) Council to give “cast iron assurances” it is planning to reopen Hammersmith Bridge.
Introducing Professor Rusi Jaspal
A leading professor has been appointed by Wandsworth Council as an advisor to help tackle the issues that can affect health such as social isolation and loneliness.
Plan to protect and enhance King George’s Park
The council has published its plan for protecting and improving King George’s Park in Wandsworth, following extensive public consultation last year.
Battersea Park Dog Show this weekend
Summer in Battersea Park is in full swing and this weekend is no exception.
Free family fun run in Battersea Park
Wandsworth Council is running a series of free family running races in Battersea Park this summer as part of its Love Parks Wandsworth Campaign.
Heathrow expansion plans undermine efforts to tackle climate change
Wandsworth Council leader Ravi Govindia is urging residents concerned about climate change to register their opposition to the latest plans for Heathrow expansion which were unveiled earlier today (Tuesday).
Wartime Battersea comes home
The successful ‘War Comes Home Project’ welcomed 130 people to the Royal Academy of Art for a talk on growing up in wartime Battersea.
Be part of Clean Air Day
Thursday 20 June is Clean Air Day and Wandsworth Council will once again be supporting the event.
Live music and family activities in Battersea Park this weekend
Start the weekend in style with free live music at the Bandstand in Battersea Park on Saturday 15 June.
Northern Line trains on track for Nine Elms
Wandsworth Council has welcomed news that the Northern Line Extension has passed a major milestone after an engineering train successfully travelled the entire length of the new tunnels from Kennington to Battersea for the first time.
Award shortlisting for Thames riverside walk
The first completed section of the riverside walk in Nine Elms has been shortlisted for the 2019 New London Awards.
New Riverside Terrace for Wandsworth Park
A Riverside Terrace has opened at Wandsworth Park, creating a new public space in a formerly disused part of the popular park.
Plogging comes to King George's Park
A hundred volunteers turned out for Wandsworth Council and Plogolution’s plog on Saturday 8 June, at King George’s Park, Wandsworth making it Plogolution’s largest ever plog.
Men: Get to know your health
This week is Men’s Health Week (10 to 16 June 2019), as well as Diabetes Awareness week, and the men of Wandsworth are invited to use free local services and online tools to find out how healthy they are and get support if they need it.
Play streets scheme comes to the Brighter Borough
Children in Putney will get the chance to safely play in the street outside their primary school next week as part of a new neighbourhood community initiative.
Thames barge fleet investment keeps 100,000 juggernauts off London’s roads
Household waste generated in Wandsworth that cannot be recycled will continue to be transported along the River Thames in a new fleet of barges, saving London’s roads from tens of thousands of heavy goods vehicle journeys a year.
Tooting shisha bar customers and staff were exposed to dangerous carbon monoxide levels
Poisonous carbon monoxide levels were so high at a shisha bar in Tooting that emergency gas board engineers had to be called out to switch off the building’s gas supply, magistrates have been told.
Don’t miss deadline for neighbourhood funding
Residents and groups who wish to apply to the Wandsworth Local Fund are advised that the current round will close for applications on 1 July.
Wandsworth Common playground reopens following £165,000 revamp
A toddler and younger children’s playground on Wandsworth Common will reopen this weekend after undergoing a £165,000 revamp.
Book now for BREW networking
Book your place now on the next BREW networking event on June 19.
Green Plaque for Wombles author
The council has honoured children’s author and creator of The Wombles, Elisabeth Beresford MBE, with a Green Plaque on her former Wandsworth Common home.
D-Day heroes honoured
The Mayor of Wandsworth, Cllr Jane Cooper, laid a wreath at 11am this morning (June 6) on behalf of the people of Wandsworth to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Plogging comes to Wandsworth
The Swedish fitness craze 'Plogging' is coming to Wandsworth this weekend.
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Unthanksgiving and the occupation of Alcatraz by American Natives
One post about two important stories: a series of excellent webinars dedicated to art&activism and a few words about the origins of Unthanksgiving Day!
John Trudell, a Sioux poet and activist, looks out across San Francisco Bay from a teepee on Alcatraz Island, 1969. Image: AP, via mashable
Following the disheartening results of the last U.S. election, Steve Lambert and Stephen Duncombe of the Center for Artistic Activism decided to run a series of free, online webinars to motivate people in the U.S. and elsewhere to keep on fighting for a better world. And in case you miss an episode, they also upload the videos on their website afterwards. The webinars are rather brilliant. And fun. I’d highly recommend you have a look.
The next webinar is this Wednesday 21st of December at 3:00 PM EST. and the theme will be Cognitive Science, an import topic to consider in these post-truth times. The previous episode of the series looked at creative movements of the past. That’s where i first heard about Native American activists occupying the island of Alcatraz. The prison had been closed in 1963, deemed surplus federal property, and the Red Power Native American liberation group took the island in November 1969. They stayed there for a year and a half, demanding that Alcatraz be developed as a Native cultural center.
The cause brought global attention to the Native American plight and in particular Native issues related to sovereignty, repatriation and civil rights.
25 November, 1969. Image: Bettmann/Getty Images, via mashable
As a direct result of the occupation, new laws were passed to support Native American self-determination, recognition, health and education. Tribal lands across the country were returned and since 1975, an Unthanksgiving Day is held on Alcatraz Island to commemorate the protest event of 1969 and promote the rights of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
The whole text of the Alcatraz Proclamation is a gem of dark irony. Here’s an extract:
We will purchase said Alcatraz Island for twenty-four dollars ($24) in glass beads and red cloth, a precedent set by the white man’s purchase of a similar island about 300 years ago. We know that $24 in trade goods for these 16 acres is more than was paid when Manhattan Island was sold, but we know that land values have risen over the years. Our offer of $1.24 per acre is greater than the 47¢ per acre that the white men are now paying the California Indians for their land.
We will give to the inhabitants of this island a portion of that land for their own, to be held in trust by the American Indian Affairs [sic] and by the bureau of Caucasian Affairs to hold in perpetuity—for as long as the sun shall rise and the rivers go down to the sea. We will further guide the inhabitants in the proper way of living. We will offer them our religion, our education, our life-ways, in order to help them achieve our level of civilization and thus raise them and all their white brothers up from their savage and unhappy state.
Activists occupy the main cell block, November 1969. Image: AP, via mashable
26 November, 1969. Image: AP, via mashable
26 November, 1969. Image: Robert W. Klein/AP, via mashable
A Coast Guard boat prevents supporters of the occupation from approaching the island, 23 November, 1969. Image: Bettmann/Getty Images, via mashable
Adam Norwall, a Chippewa man, stands aboard the clipper Monte Cristo as it sails around Alcatraz, 9 November 1969. Image: AP., via mashable
Native Americans arrive on Alcatraz to join the occupation, 2 Dec. 1969. Image: Robert Klein/AP, via mashable
Richard Oakes, left, greets U.S. Attorney Cecil Poole as he arrives for negotiations with the occupiers, 1 Dec. 1969. Image: Robert Klein/AP, via mashable
Occupation leaders Richard Oakes, Earl Livermore and Al Miller hold a press conference after a strategy meeting, 24 Dec. 1969. Image: Bettmann/Getty Iamges, via mashable
Native Americans, including a veteran of the Alcatraz occupation, demonstrate outside the federal courthouse in Seattle to demand that Fort Lawton be turned over and made into a cultural and educational center, 1970. Image: Barry Sweet/AP, via mashable
John Trudell watches a fire consume the lighthouse and other buildings, 2 June 1971. Image: Bettmann/Getty Images, via mashable
In 2011, “We Are Still Here,” a multi-media exhibit documenting the occupation, opened on Alcatraz Island.
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No. 243: On publishers and eCommerce.
Issue no. 243. The last one had a 😔 38.89% open rate with 7.2% of you reading up how BuzzFeed became one of the few publishers to master in-house eCommerce. Aerosoles is the latest casualty in the retail apocalypse. Mizzen+Main sponsored the Harvard vs. Yale Polo Match (via Town and Country).
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eCommerce Giant Alibaba Partners with NYFW
Alibaba has stepped up its focus on fashion in recent months launching a Luxury Mall section on Tmall. It followed moves by rival e-commerce giant JD.com, which formed a partnership with Farfetch.com and launched a luxury delivery service. While Alibaba remains the dominant player in China's e-commerce market, JD.com has begun to catch up and steal market share.
Harper's Bazaar Reboots eCommerce Play ShopBazaar To Go Niche
eCommerce: At one point in 2015, ShopBazaar, Harper’s Bazaar’s e-commerce platform, had a network of 150 retail partners, including department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and the e-commerce retailer Yoox. The idea was to make as much of the magazine shoppable as possible, said Katie Hobbs, ShopBazaar’s executive e-commerce director, with a goal to scale the site to the size of a full-blown luxury marketplace.
How Startups Can Avoid Bodega’s PR Disaster
Media: The first article published about Bodega read almost like a Silicon Valley parody. It highlights a few things people feel is wrong with the tech community right now; Bodega comes across as a tone-deaf company that got the thumbs-up from some of the Valley’s most respected investors for a seemingly absurd idea with a culturally insensitive name. It represents a confounding and out-of-touch approach to disruption; if you missed the headline, it’s “Two Ex-Googlers Want To Make Bodegas And Mom-And-Pop Corner Stores Obsolete.”
The Next Wave in eCommerce
Voice Commerce: The number of Alexa-powered devices at this year's Consumer Electronics Show was a testament to how quickly voice commerce is changing. Guests to the event were treated to an LG smart refrigerator that used Alexa to order food items. Car giants Ford and Volkswagen had the AI integrated into their vehicles, allowing drivers to do some voice shopping while driving. Alexa was also built into Dish consoles so that users can utilize their voice to look for their favorite channels, search for good shows, and to shop.
Snap is Looking For a Head of Brand Integration For Snapchat Shows
Media: Historically, Snap has tried to maintain a strict distinction between editorial and branded content on Snapchat. Its preference was for brands to buy into Snap through products such as Snap Ads, geofilters and lenses. With this new role, Snap is saying it’s more willing to invite brands into one of its premium content offerings: Snapchat shows.
How Bozoma Saint John plans to fix Uber’s Brand
Brand: That won’t come as a campaign. “You have to show it,” Saint John, formerly the head of global consumer marketing for Apple Music and iTunes, said. “I don’t think you can in an ad.” To Saint John, building a new brand image has to happen in the background through human resources, changing company culture and hiring women and people of color.
CAA Signs Digital Entertainment Brand theCHIVE
Media: CAA has signed humor and meme site theCHIVE, Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter have exclusively learned. The multifaceted digital entertainment brand describes itself as "probably the best site in the world" on its home page and sees more than 30 million users per month and 800 million-plus content views monthly.
Amazon is Skewing The Whole Country's Retail Sales Data
Data: Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont, also pointed to Amazon. He said details of July sales show that the sub category of internet shopping was up 2 percent, and probably the result of Amazon's self-proclaimed one-day shopping holiday. Amazon has said its third annual Prime Day was its "biggest day ever," with sales surpassing its 2016 Black Friday and Cyber Monday results. Prime Day sales grew by more than 60 percent from 2016.
Kroger Won't Beat Amazon With a Restaurant
eCommerce: When Amazon.com Inc. announced it had agreed to buy Whole Foods Market Inc., the news landed like a bomb in the grocery industry. Shares of companies such as Target Corp. and Supervalu Inc. were whacked, and startups like Blue Apron Holdings Inc. faced fresh questions about how they could get traction given this change in the competitive landscape.
In the Store of the Future, the Product Is You
Retail: How did we get to the point that space is more important than stuff? By August 2017, UBS counted the shuttering of 6,300 stores in the United States. Given that the retail apocalypse is probably upon us, physical stores need to fulfill a different purpose for companies. Rather than providing a space for the monetary transaction that happens increasingly often online, they must become all-encompassing experiences that push customers to be part of the brand.
New York Aims To Be Home of Amazon's New HQ
Retail Real Estate: Another major selling point is that New York offers access to various industries Amazon is entering, including advertising, media, fashion, food and finance, Alicia Glen, the city’s Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development, said in an interview. "For a company like Amazon that wants to be in all of these different sectors, they have to be thinking this is a great place to put roots down for the next half century," she said.
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Media Groups Should Outsource eCommerce
...Well, in most cases. Over the next few weeks, 2PM will be highlighting exemplary eCommerce operations run by digital publishers. There aren't very many and, frankly, it's because it's very difficult to introduce core competencies into existing business models. And eCommerce must be a core competency to survive as a vertical.
For media groups who move into eCommerce, there are several areas that must become core competencies: product sourcing, vendor relationship growth, shipping logistics (or 3PL management), customer service control, product copy editing, product photography, CRO (conversion rate optimization), and native brand growth. And depending on resources, front and back end development.
It's a tall order but media-first companies like: BuzzFeed, Barstool Sports (Ugh. I know.), Gear Patrol (my former employer), and even the New York Times are doing great things. I monitor three factors: frequency of product updates, ease of purchase, and ease of delivery.
These are rare exceptions, so alternatives will be discussed as well. Online publishers and podcast groups have enormous potential to move the retail needle. Look no further than Crooked Media's collaboration with Cotton Bureau; together they moved nearly 40,000 units in Q1-Q2 of 2017. For media groups that are reliant upon (often net 90-120) advertising revenue, this can be incredibly beneficial for a media group's cash flow optimization.
There isn't a one-size-fits-all recommendation for every media group but one thing is for certain, adopting an eCommerce plan is a must. Whether or not the CEO should decide to insource or outsource eCommerce operations is the next determination to be made. And as an operator who's operated on both sides, the solution is apparent to me. Most media groups should focus on net profits and leave the grueling operations requirements to existing eCommerce partners.
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Search at I/O 16 Recap: Eight things you don't want to miss
Two weeks ago, over 7,000 developers descended upon Mountain View for this year’s Google I/O, with a takeaway that it’s truly an exciting time for Search. People come to Google billions of times per day to fulfill their daily information needs. We’re focused on creating features and tools that we believe will help users and publishers make the most of Search in today’s world. As Google continues to evolve and expand to new interfaces, such as the Google assistant and Google Home, we want to make it easy for publishers to integrate and grow with Google.
In case you didn’t have a chance to attend all our sessions, we put together a recap of all the Search happenings at I/O.
1: Introducing rich cards
We announced rich cards, a new Search result format building on rich snippets, that uses schema.org markup to display content in an even more engaging and visual format. Rich cards are available in English for recipes and movies and we’re excited to roll out for more content categories soon. To learn more, browse the new gallery with screenshots and code samples of each markup type or watch our rich cards devByte.
2: New Search Console reports
We want to make it easy for webmasters and developers to track and measure their performance in search results. We launched a new report in Search Console to help developers confirm that their rich card markup is valid. In the report we highlight “enhanceable cards,” which are cards that can benefit from marking up more fields. The new Search Appearance filter also makes it easy for webmasters to filter their traffic by AMP and rich cards.
3: Real-time indexing
Users are searching for more than recipes and movies: they’re often coming to Search to find fresh information about what’s happening right now. This insight kickstarted our efforts to use real-time indexing to connect users searching for real-time events with fresh content. Instead of waiting for content to be crawled and indexed, publishers will be able to use the Google Indexing API to trigger the indexing of their content in real time. It’s still in its early days, but we’re excited to launch a pilot later this summer.
3: Getting up to speed with Accelerated Mobile Pages
We provided an update on our use of AMP, an open source effort to speed up the mobile web. Google Search uses AMP to enable instant-loading content. Speed is important---over 40% of users abandon a page that takes more than three seconds to load. We announced that we’re bringing AMPed news carousels to the iOS and Android Google apps, as well as experimenting with combining AMP and rich cards. Stay tuned for more via our blog and github page.
In addition to the sessions, attendees could talk directly with Googlers at the Search & AMP sandbox.
5: A new and improved Structured Data Testing Tool
We updated the popular Structured Data Testing tool. The tool is now tightly integrated with the DevSite Search Gallery and the new Search Preview service, which lets you preview how your rich cards will look on the search results page.
6: App Indexing got a new home (and new features)
We announced App Indexing’s migration to Firebase, Google’s unified developer platform. Watch the session to learn how to grow your app with Firebase App Indexing.
7: App streaming
App streaming is a new way for Android users to try out games without having to download and install the app -- and it’s already available in Google Search. Check out the session to learn more.
8. Revamped documentation
We also revamped our developer documentation, organizing our docs around topical guides to make it easier to follow.
Thanks to all who came to I/O -- it’s always great to talk directly with developers and hear about experiences first-hand. And whether you came in person or tuned in from afar, let’s continue the conversation on the webmaster forum or during our office hours, hosted weekly via hangouts-on-air.
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Arrival of First COVID-19 Vaccine Marks Major Step Forward, But Limited Supplies, Logistics Pose Challenges for Hospitals
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — “This weekend’s confirmation by the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup of the safety and effectiveness of Pfizer’s groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccine marks an important step forward in California’s fight against this devastating virus,” said Carmela Coyle, President & CEO of the California Hospital Association. “The workgroup’s ‘stamp of approval’ of the FDA’s review and approval process should give all Californians confidence in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine.”
“Over the coming days and weeks, California’s hospitals will vaccinate as many front-line health care workers as possible, but the available supply will be limited,” Coyle said. “State and local public officials will determine the amount of vaccine each hospital receives.”
“While the arrival of the vaccine is an important milestone, it’s important to understand that it will take many months, and much perseverance, to achieve anything near ‘herd immunity’ in a state as large as California,” Coyle noted. “The work before us is challenging, geographically unique, and constantly evolving.”
“Until there are adequate supplies, the process of determining who gets the vaccine — and in what priority order — will be based on specific public health guidelines developed by the state’s Department of Public Health and further refined by each county,” Coyle said. “Additionally, hospitals may deploy various strategies to vaccinate their workforce, based on the unique types of medical services offered and staffing capabilities of each facility.”
“This is an important moment for our state and our country,” Coyle said. “While this offers us hope of defeating the virus, we must remain vigilant by abiding stay-at-home orders, masking, and physical distancing.”
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Selects Excited to Compete in the CPBL, News (Windsor Selects Baseball)
Selects Excited to Compete in the CPBL
Submitted By Windsor Selects on Tuesday, January 12, 2021
The Windsor Selects have a long history of success, producing 29 draft picks and over 200 college players since inception. For the 2021 season, the Selects will take their impressive resume to the CPBL as new members of the league.
In July, the announcement of the CPBL’s 2021 expansion teams was released, and the Selects were thrilled to be one of the five clubs taking part in the expansion. President of the Windsor Selects, Bernie Soulliere previously stated, “the Windsor Selects are pleased to announce that they have joined the CPBL, recognized as being the top calibre 14U to 18U league in the province…we look forward to the new challenges for the 2021 season and beyond.”
Having yet to begin regular season play in the league, the Selects got a taste of CPBL action in exhibition games this fall. General Manager John Picco stated, “overall the Selects had a great fall season, all age groups played games. We were very competitive and won some games against new competition from the CPBL for the first time.”
Also during the fall, in late September, three Selects players, Kurt Barr, Nicholas Veselinovic and Brysen Vernon, participated in the CPBL All-Star Showcase, previewing the organization’s talent. Each player performed well during the three-day event, and will anchor the 18u squad.
The 18u club’s rotation will be led by two left-handers, the aforementioned Veselinovic and Jacob Ray. The roster is homegrown with many players who have developed with the organization.
“My expectations would be for the Windsor Selects to compete in all age groups in the CPBL… This is our first taste of CPBL action so we are looking forward to it, and are very excited to be part of this league,” said Picco.
“Our younger age groups 15U & 16U are very talented teams that have a lot of good athletes on the team. I would expect both of these age groups to be highly competitive in the divisions. The depth of the 16U team is very exciting as they have a full team of athletes and should be a great group to watch moving forward,” he said.
Another exciting development in the organization is the return of former players as coaches. “Our 16U team has former Selects Jeremy Orton / Mitch Huddvanger / Jack Zimmerman coaching. The 17U team has added Matt Soanes and Chad Matton and the 18U team added Jake Rajsigl as the pitching coach. It is great to have all these former College and Selects players back and coaching,” said Picco.
Overall, the 2020 season, although short, was positive for the Selects. “We had a great shortened season. We were able to add an age group ( the 17U team ) which will be a great asset to the organization. All teams were able to play games and get a lot of work in which was fortunate during this time,” said Picco.
As the Selects come off of a promising fall, they look forward to their first season in the CPBL.
Selects Fan Wear
The Windsor Selects are happy to announce that we have partnered with Kahunaverse to bring the opportunity to purchase Selects clothing to all players, family members and fans.
3 Selects Named to CPBL All-Star Showcase Rosters
THE CPBL All-Star Showcase is taking place the weekend of September 25-27.
CPBL Birth Years
As we continue to progress through the tryouts this week, we have had many people ask questions about the ages and birth years for each level.
Attending Tryouts
Final details for all tryouts have been announced.
2021 Coaching Staffs
With the addition of a 4th team to the organization this coming season, some changes have been made to the coaching staffs. General Manager John Picco is excited to announce the following coaching staffs for the upcoming season.
Upcoming Tryouts for 17u & 18u Selects
The Windsor Selects recently announced their acceptance into the Canadian Premier Baseball League (CPBL) for the 2021 summer season. In doing so, we are thrilled to announce that we will be fielding 4 teams for the upcoming season: 18u (2003), ...
Call for Coaching Applications
The Windsor Selects are accepting applications for all coaching positions within the organization. It was recently announced that the Selects are joining the Canadian Premier Baseball League (effective fall of 2020), and as such we are looking to ...
Windsor Selects Moving to CPBL in 2021
Official Press Release from the CPBL:
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The Canadian border will remain closed for at least one more month in an effort to reduce the number of coronavirus cases.
Canada first enforced its travel restrictions on March 18, on June 30, they were due to expire. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) reported that the travel restrictions are to continue. The latest Order in Council of Canada specifies that travel restrictions will now expire on July 31, at 23:59:59 EDT.
This means only excluded travelers can enter Canada. For important reasons only CBSA will continue to accept travelers into Canada. Additionally, the immediate family is permitted to reach Canada.
It comes as no surprise to agree to extend travel restrictions. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last week that Canada would not hurry to re-open its borders. Canada and the United States will both continue to limit cross-border travel at least until July 21.
This temporary order is one of the steps Canada is taking to help curb coronavirus spread. The latest Council order extends the quarantine period for Canada until 31 August. With certain people entering Canada, it's actually the rule of 14 days of self-quarantine.
The travel restrictions led to Canada’s progress in flattening the curve of coronavirus. All of Canada has been able to report about 200 new average COVID-19 cases or less in recent days.
It reflects a major change compared to the start of the pandemic when more than 1,000 cases were reported every day across Canada.
Given the popularity of Canada, the nation remains wary about reopening its economy and frontiers. Provinces around the country have relaxed several limits on lock-downs, although the social distancing steps are in place.
Maintaining border restrictions is not ideal given the importance of immigration and travel to the economy of Canada, but Canada remains the course so that it can eventually be in a strong position to welcome foreign travelers again.
The immigration program continues to operate in Canada
Since the start of the pandemic Canada's immigration program has continued to work. Canada has adopted flexible measures to allow for more time for immigration applicants to submit their documents. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) carrying Express Entry draws.
As long as an immigration candidate meets Express Entry's eligibility criteria, they may still get an ITA during the pandemic. For example, submitting an Express Entry Profile and then securing a provincial nomination effectively guarantees an ITA for permanent residence.
In 2020, it has already issued 49,900 ITAs, which is more than what IRCC reported in the first half of 2019. Furthermore, through the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), specific provinces are accepting applicants for immigration.
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Remembering Adam Schlesinger
Lucy Weiler
Fountains of Wayne was the first band I ever saw live. I was still a kid, not even ten yet, but they had already been playing in my head for years.
As a kid growing up in NYC, some of their songs felt prophetic. Lyrics from “No Better Place” and “Survival Car” felt like memories I was experiencing before I got to live them. I listened to a boy yearn for a girl and take an ill-fated trip on the N-train. I listened to teenage compatriots scurry off to Fire Island and trash the place. I listened to the melancholic and lonely motions of discovering yourself amid the backdrop of the busiest city in the world, enraptured by the sounds that proved someone else felt just as lost.
My favorite Fountains of Wayne song has changed with every stage of my life. First, it was “Hey Julie,” then “Mexican Wine” (he sings about weed—can you imagine?), “Hackensack,” “Sink to the Bottom.” Since my time at AU came to an unceremonious end, “It Must Be Summer” and “All Kinds of Time” have been looped into my Spotify near-daily, playing with that delicious, cathartic ache that accompanies lightly flexing a bruise.
I used to scoff at the people who knew Fountains of Wayne only for “Stacy’s Mom.” It felt kind of like if someone were to eat just the whipped cream off of a hot chocolate- skimming the shiny, sweet stuff off the top, never glancing at the foundation below. But I get it now. I get that Adam Schlesinger was just that good. In his Emmy, Grammy, should’ve-been-Tony-and-Oscar-winning career (give “That Thing You Do” a listen if you haven’t) he proved he could write songs that did it all. As much as his work can make you cry, moments later, you’re cranking your car radio and scream-singing to the triumph of catching a cab in the rain. What greater testament to songwriting capability is there?
From his work in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend to Josie and the Pussycats to Fountains of Wayne (and much, much more), Adam Schlesinger, the songwriter, was ineffably clever. Adam Schlesinger, the man, from tributes which continue to pour in, seems incomparably generous, and kind. COVID-19 is scary, and loss is a difficult, dark thing to navigate in such uncertainty. But tonight, I will listen to the music Schlesinger left behind, songs that make me feel untethered but among such good company.
My sincere condolences to Adam Schlesinger’s private and creative families.
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Williamson, Pelicans spoil Fox’s big night in win over Kings
‘American Idol’ star from Louisiana Faith Becnel releases single, ‘Shhh’
by: Kenny Lopez
Posted: Jun 21, 2020 / 06:09 PM CDT / Updated: Jun 22, 2020 / 09:58 AM CDT
NEW ORLEANS– If you watched “American Idol” this past season on ABC, then you saw a local singer, Faith Becnel make it all the way to the “Top 20.”
Faith’s been performing on stages since she was a little girl.
“I’ve been in the music industry since I was 10-years old. I started with a band of 10-year old boys. They recruited me to be their singer, and we were a bunch of 10-year olds playing rock-n-roll music around Louisiana,” she said in an interview with WGNO’s Kenny Lopez earlier this year.
Now Becnel, who’s from Destrehan has released her first single entitled, “Shhh.”
Watch the official lyric video for “Shhh” below:
NEW ORLEANS — The NOPD is investigating a double homicide and shooting in the 3000 block of Bienville Avenue.
Initial reports show one adult male was pronounced dead on scene, one adult female was transported to the hospital by EMS where she died, and one adult male arrived at a hospital by private conveyance after sustaining a gunshot wound.
6:00PM Weather: Warm welcome to 70 degree highs ahead!
It was another great day today across southeast Louisiana, and we were slightly warmer than Sunday nearly everywhere!
Sunshine remains the theme until Wednesday. One word that sums up upcoming weather patterns: LAYERS!
by Kenny Lopez / Jan 18, 2021
NEW ORLEANS-- After a heartbreaking loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Saints fans are wondering if Drew Brees will retire now.
Rumors are swirling that Brees played his last game in the Superdome last night, but after the game he said, "I'm going to give myself an opportunity to think about the season, think a lot about things, just like I did last year, and then make a decision."
NOPD investigating shooting in Lower Ninth Ward
How will President Trump be received in Palm Beach after h e leaves the White House?
Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office investigating double homicide in Montegut
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New on Netflix: March 27th, 2020
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It’s Friday and you know what that means: It’s time to figure out what you’ll be binging during the upcoming week. Welcome back to New on Netflix! The streaming giant’s horror department has always been a mixed bag. However, I’d say they’ve really stepped up their game in the last couple of years with the release of amazing, essential watches. We’ve been treated to must see original programming like The Haunting of Hill House, Velvet Buzzsaw, Hush, and some of the classics we all know and love.
This week we enter a new month, along with April comes a new docuseries that is nothing short of quarantine gold, plus some classic thrillers. So let’s jump in to what’s coming to Netflix the week of March 27th, 2020!
The upcoming docu-series How to Fix a Drug Scandal arrives on Netflix April 1st, the limited series delves into one the biggest law enforcement scandals in Massachusetts history when a drug lab chemist was discovered tampering with and using the drugs she was supposed to be testing.
Also arriving on April 1st is the 1988 classic Killler Klowns From Outer Space which follows the, often hilarious, exploits of a gang of bloody-thirsty aliens disguised as circus clowns.
Related: New Killer Klowns from Outer Space Film in Development!
Cannibal zombies, a strange disease, and a little girl who is the key to mankind’s survival–what more could you ask for in The Girl With All the Gifts? Check it out April 1st!
All of Sara’s nerves about moving to LA for school are instantly washed away when she meets Rebecca, her new roommate who seems to be perfect. She’s polite, eager to help show Sara the ropes of campus and the girl’s become fast friends. But when Sara begins to flourish, Rebecca becomes more and more erratic, spiraling out of control. Coming on April 1st!
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The v2Forum Hall of Fame discussion thread
The v2 Forum :: Sport :: Cricket
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by Shelsey93 on Fri 22 Mar 2013, 7:35 pm
First topic message reminder :
The thread to debate additions to the v2Forum Cricket Hall of Fame
Current members:
https://www.606v2.com/t18388-606v2-cricket-hall-of-fame-inductees-graphics-included
FoF's original HoF debate summation:
Following on from Gregers' idea to implement our very own Hall of Fame at 606v2, here is the thread where all the deliberating will take place.
As you know, there is a Hall of Fame already set up by the ICC, though looking through it there are some names in that list which are debateable as to whether they really belong in such company. That, then, is up to us to decide. Let's make our Hall of Fame elitist in every way, ensuring that only the most worthy of candidates are elected.
I propose that we elect 30 founder members of our Hall of Fame before the voting gets underway - whose position in cricketing history we can all agree on. Remember, this Hall doesn't have to only include players but can include managers, figureheads or anyone else that we feel has had a significant impact upon the sport to deem them worthy of a place.
In order for a candidate to gain election to the Hall, they will need a yes vote of 75% or more. Anything less will see them fail to get in. Every candidate must be retired from the sport, and no currently active players will be considered.
Once our initial 30 members are agreed upon I suggest that we consider 10 more per month, working our way through the current ICC Hall of Fame and casting our own votes as to whether those names should belong in our own elitist Hall of Fame here at 606v2. Voting for each 10 candidates will run from the 1st of the month, when those names will be posted, until the last day of the month, when the votes will be tallied.
When we have exhaused those names in the current ICC Hall of Fame, there will be an opportunity for our members to decide upon the next group of 10 nominees that aren't currently in the ICC Hall of Fame, but may be worthy to be considered for our own (i.e. those that have recently retired such as Gilchrist etc).
My suggestion for the inaugural 30 is as follows. It is intended that these be the 30 very best and uncontroversial inductees, so please put forward any suggestions that you may have as to possible changes to this list, before we get started. We need to get the right names in this initial 30. In no particular order:
1) Don Bradman 2) Ian Botham 3) Sydney Barnes 4) Sunil Gavaskar 5) W.G Grace 6) Jack Hobbs 7) Richard Hadlee 8) Imran Khan 9) Malcolm Marshall 10) Garfield Sobers 11) Shane Warne 12) Muttiah Muralitharan 13) Viv Richards 14) Clive Lloyd 15) Keith Miller 16) Andy Flower 17) Brian Lara 18) Bill O'Reilly 19) Wasim Akram 20) Glenn McGrath 21) Michael Holding 22) Richie Benaud 23) Adam Gilchrist 24) Allan Border 25) Curtly Ambrose 26) Dennis Lillee 27) Frank Worrell 28) Victor Trumper 29) Kapil Dev 30) Jim Laker
So, let me know your thoughts and possible changes to this 20, and then we will get on with the business of the first ten names that are up for nomination. Any questions let me know.
Previous debate:
https://www.606v2.com/t17447-the-606v2-cricket-hall-of-fame-part-1
https://www.606v2.com/t21577-the-606v2-cricket-hall-of-fame-part-2#831213
https://www.606v2.com/t37142-the-v2forum-cricket-hall-of-fame-discussion-thread-part-4#1671498
Right, voting for the current round will close on Sunday - 10am.
Here are my votes:
Charlie Turner - Clearly Australia's stand-out bowler of the pre-World War I era. Yes, he may have had financial issues. But they don't really influence my perception of him as a cricket. He left Tests slightly early but was at an age by which many bowlers of later eras were worn out by. It must also be considered that a tour then consisted of months on a boat so playing international cricket too often was never going to help you financially (amateur game of course). YES
Bill Johnston - I said earlier that he was certainly a serious candidate. But sadly I can't quite find it in me to vote Yes for him. Firstly, he had a few too many poor series. Secondly, he seems very much to have been the third man in a top notch attack. To get in as an unsung hero he probably needed to have played a few more than 40 Tests.
Hugh Tayfield - Very similar sentiments to those I had with Johnston. Of course, it is in Tayfield's favour that he's SA best spinner. But I don't think he was a great - more of an important cog in a decent team. Has probably suffered from not having someone champion his case. NO
Makhaya Ntini - A very good bowler on his day, but it wasn't always his day and he wasn't in the class of a lot of his contemporaries and near contemporaries. His role as an icon is indisputable, but isn't sufficient to get him in the Hall in my view. Only time can tell if he can make a difference. NO
Shelsey93
Re: The v2Forum Hall of Fame discussion thread
by Corporalhumblebucket on Tue 12 Nov 2013, 10:58 pm
Well done on starting up the thread again. Much to ponder with Tony Greig - I hadn't realised quite how popular he was in Sri Lanka! There's just a touch of Sobers about the way he suddenly turned up a match winning performance with a different style of bowling. As a long time advocate of Ken Barrington I can also appreciate the significance of Greig's achievements on overseas tours. Like Guildford I can recall the dismay at the time it emerged that Greig had been recruiting for Packer while he was England captain. That left a very bad taste in the mouth.
Corporalhumblebucket
Location : Day's march from Surrey
by kwinigolfer on Wed 13 Nov 2013, 12:51 am
I have a question regarding Michael Bevan's candidacy.
To somewhat gratuitously quote msp:
"Bevan (was) a very successful ODI player who couldn't have similar success in Test cricket."
If Test cricket is not to be the Gold Standard by which Hall Of Fame candidates are to be judged, what is?
How about First Class Cricket before ODI's? A purely rhetorical question, but surely worth asking.
To name but one cricketer whose credentials have been debated extensively: Sir Freddie Titmus, a very solid Test player, a wonderful first class cricketer spanning the decades, as fine a servant to the game as cricket has ever been endowed with. By his Test record alone, perhaps falling short; by his full body of work, one to be seriously reckoned with.
I'm a bit suspicious of elevating cricketers whose credentials are borne of the one day game.
I can also agree with the Corporal that I similarly have a bad taste in my mouth regarding Tony Greig's history of self-serving opportunism, a relentless thread thru'out his carrer.
kwinigolfer
Location : Vermont
by msp83 on Wed 13 Nov 2013, 6:40 am
But there were greater 'opportunists', who's actions might be even more debatable from a moral standard point of view, yet gladly embraced by the establishment.
ODI cricket is international cricket, the pressure and demands of playing in different conditions against usually a higher quality attack is much more than is the case in first class cricket. So ODI cricket over First Class cricket for me. But as I said, my point of view is that Bevan's poor test record can't be swept under the carpet, what we have to see is whether his terrific ODI record is good enough to overcome the not so good record in ODIs. Bevan's fielding and bowling too should come into the mix as supportive material for his case, and if he has done any work as coach or administrator, then that should also be considered.
Location : India
by Shelsey93 on Thu 14 Nov 2013, 4:20 pm
It had managed to pass me by that the thread had been re-started. Thanks to Mike et al. for taking it on and I'll try and catch up when I have a moment!
by dummy_half on Thu 14 Nov 2013, 5:21 pm
Good to see this thread back up and running.
Greig is certainly an intersting candidate - from the generation of players before I was aware of the game, but (prior to this thread) I wasn't aware that he had such an outstanding record. Hall of Fame worthy when viewed in the whole (i.e. including his importance to increased professionalism and work as a commentator, and with a [minor] black mark for giving the Windies their team talk with the 'grovel' comment)? Not sure, but will certainly be paying attention to the debate.
Bevan I certainly know a lot more about. Already some serious positives raised (such as how well he performed in winning run chases), but weighed against his relative failure as a Test player and the suspicion that he was sometimes a selfish batsman, playing for his average. I think though, based on our assessment of other candidates like Jayasuriya, I'm going to almost ignore the Test issue and consider whether he merits a HoF place because of his undoubted excellence in ODI cricket.
Hill - Need to recap the previous discussion. My recollection is that I had him falling just a little short before, but given that the HoF goalposts have probably moved slightly since, and the possibility of other persuasive arguments, I'm in a 'wait and see' position.
dummy_half
Location : East Hertfordshire
by msp83 on Thu 14 Nov 2013, 5:56 pm
Dummy, I can understand the possibility of valuing Bevan's ODI record and that being possibly good enough to overlook his poor test record. But I don't think the comparison with Sanath Jayasuriya is quite fitting there though. Jayasuriya hasn't been a great test player, but he certainly is among the better test players that his country has produced he was a good test player. Jayasuriya has a test triple hundred, and his 213 against England and the 254 against Pakistan are great test knocks.
by Hoggy_Bear on Thu 14 Nov 2013, 6:58 pm
dummy_half wrote:
One point about Hill that was barely touched on in our previous discussion, IIRC, was his FC record.
Of course, compared to English batsmen of the time his record is not great but, as I pointed out in my intro, he was the only Australian to score more than 17000 FC runs before the advent of covered pitches, and only one other Aussie who debuted before the end of the 19th century had a higher average in Sheffield Shield matches (a certain Monty Noble). Add in his role as captain of South Australia and this makes him a major figure in Australian domestic cricket as well as international cricket.
Of course his domestic record is not the main plank of his candidature but I do think it adds something to it.
Hill was also the last of a breed of Australian captain who enjoyed almost autonomous control over tours to England. This doesn't add anything to his candidature but it's still pretty interesting IMO. (It also gives a bit more in depth description of Hill's tussle with Peter Macallister and the background to it)
http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2012/december/1361228552/malcolm-knox/nose
Hoggy_Bear
Location : The Fields of Athenry
by guildfordbat on Thu 14 Nov 2013, 8:25 pm
msp83 wrote: But there were greater 'opportunists', who's actions might be even more debatable from a moral standard point of view, yet gladly embraced by the establishment.
I would emphasise that Greig's 'opportunism' and, in particular, recruitment for Packer whilst England captain was condemned not just by 'the establishment' but by the ordinary cricket watching and following public. If Greig is to be judged by the standards of the time that these actions occurred, his nomination could be in trouble. However and to be fair, large involvement with Packer has not prevented the likes of Benaud, Lloyd and G Chappell entering our Hall.
Re: Bevan and whether his Test record goes into the mix. For me, the aim is for all aspects to go into the mix. However, I may deliberately choose to give the same aspect a different weighting for a different candidate. By way of example, I voted YES for Jonty Rhodes primarily on account of his impact on fielding; his Test average of 35 with 3 centuries would have been viewed by me as insufficient for many candidates but not such a significant weakness so as to exclude him. However, if his batting stats had been noticeably lower, my scales would have leaned towards NO, notwithstanding the strength of the fielding case upon which his candidacy had been built. Applying this rationale, I can't ignore Bevan's Test record although that doesn't automatically mean his nomination fails. Also, and again to be fair, Bevan's first class record as a whole comes into my mix (albeit I attribute more significance to Tests than county or state matches); in this regard, I note this comment from a cricinfo article: 'he scored Sheffield Shield runs by the bagful'.
I remember being fairly taken with Hill when we last discussed him. I'll try to refresh my memory and post a bit about him tomorrow.
guildfordbat
Just to add on Hill. I came across an article in The Referee, a Sydney sporting newspaper, from 1917, contemplating whether Warren Bardsley or Clem Hill should be chosen as a left-hander for a world's best XI and, in choosing Hill the correspondent wrote:
"My reason for preferring Hill to Bardsley is not one of figures. It is that when they are in the midst of a hard fight Hill is a more aggressive fighter. Bardsley is a splendid man at a pinch - one of the best Australia have produced. But Hill is a superman at a pinch: a man who has demonstrated that while no position is too bad for him to fight himself and his side out of, he is not content to do it by defence, watchfulness, and waiting for the lose balls. He is one of the few batsmen who have been able to take hold of the bowling, as it were, by the scruff of the neck, when it has been apparently invincible, and hit it all over the field, notwithstanding the fact, plain to everyone, that if he were to go down cheaply the side would go down with him. Clem Hill was a great player from the tip of his toes to the crown of his head, and he was greatest when he had to fight.
Interesting stuff?
Hoggy - thanks for that comparison between Warren Bardsley and Clem Hill. Good stuff. A fighter - like that.
As regards Greig, do you recall all the reaction when his involvement with Packer first came to light or were you just a bear cub then?
by Mike Selig on Fri 15 Nov 2013, 9:19 am
kwinigolfer wrote:
Kwini and all (because kwini is far from the only poster to have voiced similar concerns),
It is a tough question to answer, but let me attempt to do so by saying how I see things.
I have commented in the past both on here and on other threads that I believe at times we on this board place test cricket on too high a pedestal. That it is the format which provides the sternest test (pardon the pun) of a player's technique and stamina is not in doubt; but there are other formats, and the view that test cricket is the only format (and this leads to the view that it must be preserved at all costs, even if at the expense of other formats) which matters is not something I agree with.
In general, this view of putting the various formats of the game in competition with one another is not something I agree with, and I believe is a false dichotomy (or trichotomy, possibly tetrachotomy now). At international level we have 3 formats, all with their challenges, difficulties. I have been lucky enough to coach the two shorter formats at international youth level, and trust me they are challenging games: the occasionally derided T20 is challenging by the pace at which everything happens, and the need to constantly be alert even between balls; tactics are more prevalent than you think, but in some sense harder because you have less time to think, and innovations borne from the T20 format are surely a good addition to cricket.
There has been some fantastic test cricket played over the years. There has also been and still is some fantastic cricket outside the test arena. There have also been periods of history where test cricket has been relatively poor - I am thinking of the time during WSC (very apt) and just after WWI (for obvious reasons) in particular. There have been times where first class cricket has been as much if not more of a challenge than test cricket. There have been times where the best international sides haven't played test cricket for political reasons.
With regards to this HoF the precedent is there to show that test cricket isn't necessarily the gold standard. People like Patsy Hendren, Basil D'Oliveira were inducted mainly for other reasons. Simon Tauffel has made the repechage - here is someone who hasn't played test cricket. Rhodes and Bob Woolmer were strongly considered (although ultimately rejected by narrow margins) in spite of test records which were at the very best decent. Barry Richards didn't play much test cricket, but was inducted easily enough based on how great a player he was. For Rohan Kanhair, for me his supporting role in the ODI final in 75 played a major part in my ultimate yes vote. John Arlott was another inducted... I hope in time that we will consider Bart King, who never played test cricket for reasons beyond his control (namely his nationality). I believe that when Dhoni hangs up his gloves we will induct him fairly comfortably mainly for his ODI prowesses.
The more general point is that cricket has an incredibly rich, diverse and interesting history (and the claim to the first international sporting match in USA vs Canada back in 1844 in New York...). To limit our HoF to those who have played and excelled at one particular (if ever changing) format of the game seems to me misguided and not to reflect this diversity - for me the HoF is a place for those who have left a remarkably positive mark on the game, in whatever way, in whatever format.
How this sits with Bevan is at the moment unclear. It is noticeable that of all the players I mentioned had a decent enough test record, which whilst taken occasionally as a minus, is nothing like the minus it is in Bevan's case. The great Frank Woolley was rejected solely on his test record and the difference between it and his first class record.
Bevan however is not being nominated only as a cricketer, but also because of the impact he has had on the ODI game as arguably the first exponent of the finisher role. He was also a great of the ODI format, and that should be considered.
Ultimately it is your decision what standards you apply, and judge the candidates by. You shouldn't feel bound by precedent (I have commented in the past, when Wes Hall was compared to virtually every cricketer who had ever existed, that in comparison lay the road to madness) although possibly you should try to be consistent with your own previous votes.
Whatever the case, everybody should read the arguments carefully and make up their own minds.
Guildford will be pleased. Titmus is in the repechage I believe and will be considered sometime this winter.
Mike Selig
by guildfordbat on Fri 15 Nov 2013, 9:44 am
Mike Selig wrote:
Mike - a well set out and explained case. My attempt to adhere to consistency is what I was trying to show in bringing up my past considerations for Jonty Rhodes when now turning to Michael Bevan.
Pleased indeed by Kwini's appraisal.
by msp83 on Fri 15 Nov 2013, 11:07 am
guildfordbat wrote:
Guildford, this is an extract from an article by Rob Steen.
"Despite having orchestrated unsanctioned tours of apartheid South Africa and gleefully pocketing oodles of what many would describe
as blood money, acts that did considerably more to blacken their country's name, Mike Gatting, Graham Gooch and David Graveney were all re-clutched to
the establishment bosom and appointed to high-ranking posts. Geoff Boycott hasn't fared too badly either. Knott, John Snow, Derek Underwood, Dennis Amiss
and Bob Woolmer also signed up for World Series Cricket, but none incurred a fraction of the invective hurled at Greig. Hell, Underwood, a rebel on both
counts, was even elected MCC President"
Steen wonders whether Greig's South African roots played a part in his victimization? It may or may not have been the case. But the other important point from the article is that how establishment media-men like Robin Marlar helped ordinary people in England to internalize the negative views on Greig.
Guildford, you mentioned that Greig's action during the WSC had created negative feelings not only within the establishment, but also among the ordinary people.
The rebel tours to South Africa may not have been roundly condemned by all sections of the English public, but elsewhere in the world, there were very sharp reactions. There was a lot of hurt and anger in the West Indies, the WI rebel tourists were never quite forgiven by the public there, there was lot of negative feeling in India. I just finished reading David Gower's book 'The Endangered Species', in which he mentions that Graeme Gooch didn't tour in India in 84 because of the possible public reactions to his misadventure earlier.
Unlike the rebel tours, the WSC did the game of cricket a lot of good, and the moral baggage associated with was far, far less. We have almost adopted a policy of general amnesty to the rebel tourists, but when it comes to Tony Greig and WSC, there has to be a reluctance?
Here is an article on the English rebel tour of 1990.
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Mike Selig wrote: Greig is a very interesting case I think. There is no doubt that he has left his mark on the game in numerous ways.
I think msp is right to highlight just how good a cricketer he was. Because of all the talk about how he was a character etc. this can sometimes be somewhat forgotten. Whilst of course msp is a bit disingenuous in picking the exact combination of statistics which leaves Greig closest to the top of the pile (and in doing so makes an interesting case for Aubrey Faulkner, who will be discussed soon, but excludes the likes of Sobers and Miller, who I think most here would agree were better all-rounders than Greig) it does drive home an important point. Certainly I think Greig would be close to the top 10 of all-rounders.
That in itself I would argue probably places him more in the "very good" than "great" category, and so for admission to our HoF we must look for more. Of course what makes Greig such an interesting candidate is that there is more, loads of it.
We have his excellent and lengthy commentary career. Whilst he could be a tad virulent and IMO populist at times, there is no doubt that Greig as a commentator resonated with cricket fans around the world: not afraid to call it as it is, giving credit where it's due, and with a good balance of banter to go with things. That he is or rather was well regarded all around the world is testament to that.
Then there are notable achievements as a player and captain. A few captaincy masterstrokes during WSC are still remembered.
Finally we have his role in WSC. Msp is right to point out that he was a big driving force behind it, and I am interested in how the debate on this goes. I agree with msp that cricket is better for WSC (that players now earn a secure living has to be a good thing whatever everything else), but when we were discussing Packer I expressed concerns about his motives and his method. There is evidence that Greig acted in some way as the world's first player representative, and for that he should surely be commended; however doubts about motives surely should apply to him, and you could certainly argue that his primary interest was purely selfish (i.e. earning more money).
The "grovel" comment on the whole I am willing to not attach much importance to. Sure it was fairly crass, insensitive, possibly offensive and maybe downright silly, but it was at the end of the day just a comment, it didn't reflect any more sinister values, and we all say silly things. It was a misguided attempt to mentally intimidate the opposition, an backfired quite severely.
Another issue which maybe is worth raising is that of sportsmanship. Greig was the one after all to encourage his players not to walk. I wonder how much importance should be attached to that. Whilst today it is accepted practice not to walk (until you get away with one like Broad, and then for some strange reason all hell breaks loose), old-timers swear, and I have no reason to doubt them on this, that there was a time when it wasn't. Is cricket worse for this, and does Greig bear any responsibility? It's not something which bothers me unduly I have to say, but it is only fair to raise it.
The point of that very telling stat on Greig is not suggest that he was better than Sobers or Miller, but suggest that he's quite worthy of being talked about in conversations involving Flintoff and Botham among England's greatest all-rounders, and he can fit in on discussions about fine all-rounders the game has seen, involving Sobers, Miller, Imran, Dev, Hadlee.......
Mike, I mentioned AJay Jadeja and Neil Fairbrother as players who performed the finisher role for their respective sides, and both were contemporaries of Bevan. In that context, is it fair to suggest that Bevan was the exponent of the finisher role in ODI cricket? He may have been the most successful of the 3, but I don't think it is fair to give the credit exclusively to Bevan.
by guildfordbat on Fri 15 Nov 2013, 12:26 pm
msp83 wrote:
Msp - that's an interesting article from Rob Steen, thanks. I'm actually quite well disposed towards Greig but do think it important that all matters be considered.
Steen does across to me as wanting to have it a bit too much his and Greig's way. He refers to Greig being known to millions today almost solely as a result of 'his over-exciteable commentary'. He's keen to also flag Greig's admirable playing record and sets that out - that's entirely fair. However, whilst also referring to the animosity generated towards Greig as a result of his association with Packer, he makes no proper attempt to explain it. The closest he comes is probably in supplying a comment from John Thicknesse which is ruined in its effectiveness by ending on a rather pompous and racist note. Whilst not condoning that for a moment, I do feel though there is merit in the first part of Thicknesse's assertion that Greig 'traded the national captaincy for Packer's dollars'; I believe that's how things were perceived by the public (never mind the establishment) at the time and what so upset them / us.
Rightly or wrongly, cricket tours to South Africa were generally not then viewed with overwhelming concern by the public. You need to appreciate that, despite sporting bans, the British Government at the same time still permitted and indeed encouraged many types of trade with South Africa; I think the Corporal referred to such cricketers being 'foot soldiers caught up in someone else's war' or similar. Not trying to make light of this (nor, I know, was the Corporal). Just an attempt to put it into context. A different concern from that applying to Greig although I take your implied point that the Hall of Fame would be a pretty lonely place if it was only for those without a hint of sin.
by Hoggy_Bear on Fri 15 Nov 2013, 1:26 pm
Undoubtedly there was a great deal of animosity toward Greig both from the cricket establishment and cricket supporters. Far more, as you correctly point out, than was directed at members of rebel tours.
I do wonder, however, how much of that animosity was generated by the fact that Greig and Packer were challenging the cricket establishment while rebel tours were possibly, in some cases, viewed more kindly. The press may simply have echoed the anger of the cricket establishment in it's reporting of Greig's involvement in Packer and, as we know, press coverage can often influence public opinion. That is not to say, of course, that many cricket supporters weren't genuinely angry at Greig's actions, but maybe that anger was stoked by the press coverage rather more than anger directed at rebel tourists?
Certainly, I think Greig has a pretty good case as a candidate here. His playing career has been discussed already, but I would just like to point out that, as a batsman, he scored runs against all types of attack and, often, on his opponents home turf. He was also able to operate at sometimes underrated levels in two different styles as a bowler and was a very good, if not great, slip fielder.
His commentary role doesn't really add much to his case IMO, but it certainly doesn't detract from it, so it comes down to the question of whether Greig's role in WSC did more good than harm. At the moment I'm probably in the mind that it did and that, allied with his playing record, is edging me toward a tentative yes. But I was only very young (11) when Greig went to WSC, so can't really remember how great the furore was, so any input will be welcomed.
by kwinigolfer on Fri 15 Nov 2013, 1:57 pm
Re: Towny Grigg:
Just to follow on from the John Thicknesse/guildford comments, I would add that the Packer/Gregg/etc actions also served to undermine Test cricket, at least in England and Australia for two or three years.
Much appreciate Mike Selig's dissertation regarding Michael Bevan and excellence at the various types of cricket which was not necessarily repeated in the Test arena:
Before voting for Michael Bevan, then, I would respectfully ask if Bevan is the leading exponent of the one-day game among those whose Test careers were undistinguished by comparison? If not, should there be another candidate to take precedence?
Knowing that, or at least seeing his career in that perspective, would be instructive.
PS: Frank Woolley was the leading player (apart from Philip Mead and Derek Shackleton of course) that I had in mind regarding disparity between Test and First Class stats! But I was a strong advocate of Woolley, so Titmus was my Trojan Horse, albeit with toe deprivation. Sorry guildford!!
by msp83 on Fri 15 Nov 2013, 2:14 pm
Guildford, I understand there was anger at the way Greig went over to Packer's side. Hoggy's points in the above post are very important in this context, but I would like to draw your attention to another point I was trying to make in my earlier post. If there was less anger on the rebel tours among sections of the English public, I would say it wasn't a universal phenomenon. There was a great deal of anger in the West Indies both at the establishment and public level regarding the rebel tours, far more than any anger regarding the WSC if at all there was any. Remember a test match between England and the West Indies was to be cancelled because Robin Jackman, who had close links with South Africa at that point was in the England squad? Same was the case in India, not many had a problem with the WSC, but a great many had issues with the rebel tours. And very very importantly, the majority of the South African population regarded the rebel tours as an act of betrayal, and if there was relative peace in initial tours, it was pretty much down to administrative highhandedness as was made pretty clear in the 1990 English rebel tour.
Sections of English public may have had more issues with the WSC and Greig than with the rebel tour, but in my view, that was far from being representative of public perceptions elsewhere in the cricketing world.
by guildfordbat on Fri 15 Nov 2013, 3:09 pm
msp83 wrote: Guildford, I understand there was anger at the way Greig went over to Packer's side. Hoggy's points in the above post are very important in this context, but I would like to draw your attention to another point I was trying to make in my earlier post. If there was less anger on the rebel tours among sections of the English public, I would say it wasn't a universal phenomenon. There was a great deal of anger in the West Indies both at the establishment and public level regarding the rebel tours, far more than any anger regarding the WSC if at all there was any. Remember a test match between England and the West Indies was to be cancelled because Robin Jackman, who had close links with South Africa at that point was in the England squad? Same was the case in India, not many had a problem with the WSC, but a great many had issues with the rebel tours. And very very importantly, the majority of the South African population regarded the rebel tours as an act of betrayal, and if there was relative peace in initial tours, it was pretty much down to administrative highhandedness as was made pretty clear in the 1990 English rebel tour.
Msp - fair enough. I can't and wouldn't want to argue with that although feel we're getting a bit away from the main topic.
Hoggy is right that the British press certainly stoked things. 'World Series Cricket' was not a term they commonly used in their aggressive and rather snooty coverage. Far more, 'the Packer Circus' and, with regard to the innovative coloured clothing, 'Pajama Cricket'. The subsequent failure to provide reports of the World Series matches meant the public were largely unaware of what a decent product this was and allowed the wound to fester.
The above though does not mean that the public were wrong to be angry at Greig's underhand actions. Kwini states that Greig undermined Test cricket. That is a serious charge.
Greig was not the only English cricketer who signed up with Packer. He might have playd a major role in getting many others to sign up, but he wasn't dealing with 10 year olds was he?
And when rebels like Gooch and Gatting willingly traded away 3 years of international cricket for the tainted money from South Africa, weren't they turning their back on test cricket? Gooch, Gatting, Underwood, these are major names........ And if WSC undermined test cricket in England and Australia for a couple of years, the establishment too has to share the blame as they were primarily responsible for letting a situation develop where players would join Packer mainly for financial security.
Kwini states that Greig undermined Test cricket. That is a serious charge.
It certainly is.
But could it not be argued that, by treating players and their welfare as dismissively as many players from the period say they did, national boards were already undermining Test cricket to some extent? Certainly, from reading Dennis Lillee's autobiography, for example (and I'm aware that he isn't a completely unbiased commentator on this issue), it appears that, in Australia at least, there was a crisis brewing with regard to player payments and conditions which would have led to a schism sooner or later. WSC just happened to be the vehicle but, if the boards had acted sooner, maybe it would never have happened.
Hoggy_Bear wrote:
But could it not be argued that, by treating players and their welfare as dismissively as many players from the period say they did, national boards were already undermining Test cricket to some extent?
I think it could and msp suggests very similar in his post immediately above. Whether or not that justifies or excuses the actions of the then England captain (Greig's role as national captain has some significance here to me) remains to be seen.
by alfie on Sat 16 Nov 2013, 12:26 pm
Popping in . Bit guilty not contributing to this yet . Pleading very heavy work pressure at present , which is leaving me frankly too tired to give these matters the attention they deserve.
Briefly though I am surprisingly impressed by Mike's case for Bevan. I say surprisingly , because I am definitely one of those Test Match Snobs
Not saying case closed yet , mind ; but having been in Australia for much of Bevan's career I saw a fair bit of him in action. And his closing skills were extraordinary , if not perhaps unique or groundbreaking as some think. His Test efforts were pretty ordinary , let us not mince words , but does that matter ? This is Hall of Fame , not Test Match Hall of Fame.
One could argue that what he did , while skillful , was a bit soft compared to the task of others : coming in when the good bowlers were resting , not much pressure put on him early...knock it around , while the fielding captain continued to think , game under control ...and then a whirlwind finish , perfectly timed to steal it from under their noses...If he did it , once , or twice , you might say a bit lucky , etc...but he made a career of it.
Is it enough ? Considering.
Greig was a damn good player. A real competitor , at his best when his team were up against it. His figures were even better than I'd remembered , and are surely a sound base for admission. (Though for me , perhaps unlike most , his commentary is a minus. I thought he was rubbish. Frequently innaccurate , too exciteable...only good for a comedy routine with Bill Lawry ...matter of taste I guess)
The elephant in the room is of course WSC. And his role ...is betrayal of his employers too harsh a word? Still thinking about that.
Will keep reading . Also look at Hill. When does this run to ?
Location : Melbourne.
by guildfordbat on Sat 16 Nov 2013, 1:35 pm
alfie wrote:
... This is Hall of Fame , not Test Match Hall of Fame.
I take that as another YES vote for Titmus in the repecharge.
by Corporalhumblebucket on Sat 16 Nov 2013, 5:24 pm
And is that rumbling sound Frank Woolley shifting in his resting place?
"I came across an article in The Referee, a Sydney sporting newspaper, from 1917,".......
Have a mental image of Hoggy thumbing through vast mounds of early 20th century newspapers in his study to unearth his gems. Impressive research!
by Hoggy_Bear on Sat 16 Nov 2013, 11:20 pm
Corporalhumblebucket wrote:
Mainly use the internet now. Had enough of thumbing through newspapers for my PhD.
by Hoggy_Bear on Sun 17 Nov 2013, 4:56 pm
Just a couple more nuggets about Hill that my incessant research has uncovered.
Writing in 1959 A.G. 'Johnny' Moyes, the famous Australian cricket writer, placed Hill alongside Bradman, Trumper and Charlie Macartney as Australia'a 4 greatest ever batsmen, describing him as "a superb player, the finest left-hander ever … shortish, thickset, powerful … swift on his feet, a master of attack and of defence."
Meanwhile I have found a lovely description from Neville Cardus of Hill's famous running catch at Old Trafford in 1902:
"Lilley lashed his bat about like a man distraught. Rhodes is his companion now, and stands on guard ever so cool. eight runs will do it, 'There goes four of them!' affirms the red-hot crowd as Lilley accomplishes a grand drive into the deep. 'Well hit, sir!' shouts our parson. 'Nothing like taking your courage in both hands against these Australian fellows. Well hit, sir!' Clem Hill is seen running along the boundary's edge as though the fiend were after him. Trying to save the four, is he? - even from as certain a boundary hit as this! Extraordinary men, Australians; never give anything away. Hill, in fact, saved the boundary in the most decisive manner in the world by holding the ball one-handed before it pitched. The impetus of his run carried him twenty yards beyond the place where he made the catch - a catch which put incredulity into the face of every man and woman at Old Trafford that day. 'A sinful catch' said the parson.
by kwinigolfer on Mon 18 Nov 2013, 4:03 pm
Am slowly warming to the Clem Hill candidacy which I think I voted thumbs down to first time around.
Had always had a struggle reconciling the plaudits and general acclaim from contemporaries and historians with the fact that the Aussies took their time inducting him in to their Hall of Fame - which one would have thought reflected the views of those very same people.
Assume after reading more about him that his battles with the authorities might have been a factor here.
Interesting that his candidacy is coincidental with Greig's!
One confronted the authorities.
One resorted to subterfuge.
by msp83 on Mon 18 Nov 2013, 6:14 pm
kwinigolfer wrote: Am slowly warming to the Clem Hill candidacy which I think I voted thumbs down to first time around.
Think to compare Greig and Hill the way kwiny seems to be doing is not quite fair. The circumstances are quite different. The game wasn't as professionalized as it was in the 1970s when Hill was taking on the authorities. Likewise, the players, particularly the captain had a great deal of autonomy in picking the squad and directing it unlike it the case with Greig. What Greig did was also to confront the authorities, on a much larger scale than what Hill did, and through different means.
Quite!
kwinigolfer wrote: Quite!
Should I say not really instead!?
by guildfordbat on Mon 18 Nov 2013, 8:14 pm
Hoggy heated up my interest in Hill sufficiently first time out and I ended up up giving him a Yes vote then. I've probably been a bit quiet about him this time as I haven't seen anything to change my mind.
A real battler which particularly appeals to me. Pretty successful with it too. Particular highlight comes from the Melbourne Test of 1898. From Australia staring down the barrel on 58/6 in the first innings, he turned the match on its head with 188 which led to an 8 wicket victory.
Test average of 39 doesn't stand out but context is everything. He was often facing all time quality bowlers (Lohmann, Barnes) on wickets far removed from the comparative roads of today. Should be noted that the much better remembered Trumper (probably a case of style beating guts) averaged the same.
First to score 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year. Took 45 years before another (Compton) did the same.
Upon his retirement he had scored more runs than anyone else in the history of Test cricket. Took 12 years before that record was beaten by Hobbs. Even with the intervention of WWI, that counts for a lot in my book.
by dummy_half on Tue 19 Nov 2013, 3:47 pm
I find it really difficult to get a handle on the pre WW1 players. Clearly they were playing in conditions that were much more favourable to bowlers, so a batting average approaching 40 was clearly very good for the time, and I see that Hill's record (if perhaps not his style) matched up favourably to his contemporary Victor Trumper, who was one of our HoF founder members. As such, clearly his playing record, in the absence of other factors has to put him there or thereabouts.
The noteable first of scoring 1000 Test runs in a calendar year should almost be sufficient on its own, especially as no-one else managed that until after WW2 (I'm surprised that Bradman didn't manage it at some point, although I guess that would be because of the lack of matches played).
His run-ins with the authorities appear to be the biggest black mark on his record, but I wonder if this was a case of a young, ambitious professional sportsman simply not seeing eye to eye with the Victorian gentelmen that would have been in charge of the game. I suspect if I knew more of the circumstances and characters involved, I'd have quite a lot of sympathy for Hill... Also, other anecdotes suggest his character was highly regarded by his contemporaries, so perhaps offering further suggestion that the problem was with the administrators more than Hill. Definitely tending towards a YES vote here.
I think the case for Bevan being one of the outstanding ODI batsmen is simply made -average way ahead of his contemporaries and playing a key role in 2 World Cup winning teams, so the question is more about whether the HoF is to be inclusive for excellence in all forms of cricket or more exclusively for those that proved their ability in the Test arena particularly. My perspective throughout has always been towards more inclusion and diversity (voted yes for Jonty Rhodes for example), so I'm prepared to gloss over Bevan's relative failure at Test level, especially as he didn't get a particularly big chance - OK, so failing to reach 100 in 18 matches suggests he struggled with the step up, but his FC record was outstanding, and I suspect if the Aussie batting had been weaker at the time he'd have been given longer and more continuity to really become established. May not have absolutely created the role of 'finisher', but was by far the finest exponent of the initial form of the role (i.e. lots of quick singles, punctuated by occasional boundaries). Add to that his fine fielding and sometimes useful bowling (although oddly this was much more successful in his limited Test career), and Michael Bevan's name was first on the Aussie team sheet in ODI cricket throughout a very successful decade. I will take a lot of convincing that he does not belong in our HoF.
Tony Greig - I'm still feeling he falls just a bit short from a purely playing perspective. No doubt he was a very good and arguably great Test player, but I think his all round quality is something that slightly detracts from his case for true Greatness and for being a memorable player. While most teams now would kill for a no 6 or 7 batsman who could average 40 with the bat and would take 4 wickets a match at 32 (and especially as a competent bowler of either spin or seam), neither average really excites when viewed in the company of the truly Great all-rounders like Sobers (batting avg 57) or Imran (bowling average 22). A little bit of a 'jack of all trades', in being more than competent at both strands of the game but not outstanding at either?
His involvement with Packer and defection from the England Test side (and taking a few others with him) were certainly black marks at the time, but history has probably been kind to World Series Cricket - the great West Indies side was forged in its flames, and players are now able to earn a good living from the game because Packer wrested control of the TV rights from the Establishment. In the long run, cricket is a better product now than it would have been without WSC. I doubt Greig deserves much credit for this, but I don't think we should be too harsh on his ambition to make the best money he could in the short term when the choices were non-political (I have some less sypathy for the rebels who toured Apartheid-era South Africa).
I'm feeling a NO is likely unless someone can persuade me otherwise.
by msp83 on Tue 19 Nov 2013, 6:36 pm
Dummy, I am yet to relook seriously into the case for Hill, so I'd respond to your points on Bevan and Greig.
As for Bevan, I think the case for Bevan being the first finisher is seriously misplaced. I've mentioned Ajay Jadeja and Neil Fairbrother already. Fairbrother had a very similar game to that of Bevan, and Jadeja could play more big shots. As you rightly said, Bevan though, was one of the finest finishers the game has seen. He was more successful than Jadeja or Fairbrother. But then it could be argued that they both played in relatively weaker batting lineups that always didn't give them the kind of platforms that Bevan had. The more important point is that there have been a few brilliant finishers since Bevan's last game for Australia. Mike Hussey was a more than capable replacement, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni is arguably the best finisher the game has seen so far. But that doesn't mean that only the best in the role should make it to the HoF. Bevan was a superb ODI player, and his useful bowling and fine fielding adds to the package. My point is that rather than basing the case on the IMO problematic argument of him being the pioneer of the finisher role, we have to look at him as a fine ODI batsman and a good finisher without attributing too much of historical analysis as such. The continuous flow of singles and hard running between wickets form strong foundations in the finisher role even today. Players like Dhoni and even Hussey can play more big shots and do it more regularly. But then, as I said, Ajay Jadeja was one player who could play more big shots effectively than either Bevan or Fairbrother. But where Bevan is better at is the level of consistency. Don't think there is a lot different in our point of views there, only a couple of nuances, but I don't think I can agree with the original case of him being the pioneer of the finisher role.
As for Greig. You've talked about 2 other all-rounders, Sobers and Imran Khan. I would like to talk about 2 others. Sir Ian Botham, and Kapil Dev. Botham averaged 33 with the bat and 28 with the ball. Dev averaged 31 with the bat and a better under 30 with the ball. In my view, Imran was an all-rounder who was stronger in the bowling department, and Sobers' bowling wasn't really as strong as his batting was. Rather than comparing Greig with Imran or Sobers, I think we should look at his record in more of a Botham/Dev frame. I am not claiming that Greig was better than either of them, but I think he's worthy of being considered along side them.
Besides Greig's role as a quality all-rounder, his overseas performances, his remarkable consistency for almost 5 years, and his captaincy record need to be brought into the frame.
In Greig's case, it is also worth remembering that he became the prodominent all-rounder of his era, fighting through an epileptic condition. That takes character and Greig showed plenty of it.
This is what Wisden wrote on Greig in 1975. An interesting read.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154508.html
by msp83 on Tue 19 Nov 2013, 10:02 pm
And on Greig as a commentator, I think that most certainly has to come into the mix when we consider his case. I have already shared a link to an article that deals with Greig and Sri Lanka. I don't think any other cricket commentator commanded such love and adoration from the ordinary criket lover, not even Richie Benaud, like Greig managed in Sri Lanka. Benaud might be the most respected cricket commentator, but Greig's relation with the ordinary cricket fan operated at a different level altogether. An extract from Andrew Fernando's article on cricinfo that I had shared earlier.
"Two years ago I was travelling with a cricket-illiterate foreign friend through Colombo when a billboard showing a large man with a wide-brimmed hat caught
his attention.
"Who is that? I keep seeing him around," he asked, pointing. "Tony Greig," I replied. "He is a cricket commentator. He's very popular here."
"Just for being a commentator? What about all the other commentators?" "Well… no," I stuttered, struggling to find the words that would capture the warmth and history of Greig's relationship with the island. "Tony's different,"
I finally offered. "We love him and he loves us." For many people, especially in the provinces of Sri Lanka, it is common practice to have the radio on alongside the cricket on television, providing the
Sinhala commentary they understand. Often six or seven neighbours sit cloistered together in a small room, in front of one of the few television sets in
the village. When Greig's name appears on the bottom of screen, though, someone calls it out. Nothing more needs to be said. The radio is turned down and
the TV volume cranked up. Perhaps no one in the room understands Greig, but they feel like they know him. He is an old friend. He has been part of their
lives for so long now, and to leave his commentary unheard is like leaving him on the doorstep to wither in the heat."
When satellite TV coverage of the game was becoming more and more popular in India in the latter half of the 1990s, Greig's was the most loved voice in India. Greig's exciting commentary played a huge role in immortalizing Sachin Tendulkar's 'Desert Storm' efforts of 1998, there is a youtube link available. His commentary style may not have been to everyone's liking. But there was a lot of energy that he brought to the Commentary box, and I am fairly sure, as someone who developed a closer encounter with the game in the 1990s, from an Indian context, Greig's commentary played a role that is not insignificant.
That Fernando article is a beautiful one, do make sure you have a look at the comments as well though.
On how Greig gained the love and adoration of the Indian crowds in the 1970s.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-29/top-stories/36050124_1_tony-greig-cricketer-indian-spectators
And that master technician Geoffrey Boycott suggests that Greig was not only a fine player who hasn't received the recognition he deserves, but also someone who contributed to the evolution of batting technique.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/9770991/Geoffrey-Boycott-Tony-Greig-was-an-imposing-figure-who-played-the-game-with-a-smile-on-his-face.html
by Mike Selig on Fri 22 Nov 2013, 4:59 pm
Given that the debate is yet really to heat up, and the fact that the ashes have naturally provided a bit of competition, any objection to carrying on until Weds?
That being said, msp has a few times now mentioned Jadeja and Fairbrother as alternative pioneers of the finishing role to Bevan, and guildford raised the issue of selfishness (although a bit more diplomatically than that). I should respond to both claims as best I can.
Regarding Jadeja, I feel it is more than a bit unfair to put him in a similar bracket to Bevan. For me Jadeja was an early exponent more of the late over hitting; my memory of him is that when he wasn't finding the boundaries, he could get stuck very easily. This is somewhat borne out by statistics - not only was Jadeja's average a full 15 runs behind Bevan's, his SR was actually a few runs less as well. For someone who could find the boundary as easily and as effortlessly as Jadeja could, a SR of 69 is really quite low, and seems to back up my recollection that he wasn't all that good at rotating the strike.
The Fairbrother comparison has a bit more merit. Here things are more subjective, but it is my view that Fairbrother was less analytical and surgical than Bevan was: he would "just play" whereas Bevan used to break down run-chases into achievable chunks, concentrating on never letting the run-rate get out of hand, and giving his side a chance going into the last few overs, before more often than not finishing the job. Whilst we have first hand evidence that this is how Bevan went about things, I can't really offer up any more evidence than just "gut feeling" that Fairbrother was not so precise; although he was certainly less successful, I am not sure that this proves anything, beyond that he was less good, and also not helped by having a much weaker side than Bevan enjoyed.
I don't think there is much doubt that Bevan was really the blueprint on which many successful run-chase strategies were built. However, I am not sure whether that was simply because he was very very good at what he did, or truly revolutionary.
As to guildford's point, I'm not sure it has that much merit TBH. I can't recall many innings with Australia batting first when Bevan's slow scoring was much of an issue (part of that is undoubtedly that he had a strong bowling attack). I can recall a couple of chases where he proved unable to keep up with the scoring rate, and Australia ending in the end just short (the one most in my mind is the tri-series match in 98/99 against England when England scored 292 I think, and Aus fell just short, with Bevan not out, but criticised for not upping the tempo enough).
However do we attach much importance to a couple of failures against the multitude of successes? Will we count Dhoni's odd failure (he has certainly had a few more than Bevan, either through "leaving it too late", or simply remaining not out whilst everyone collapsed, or a couple of times letting the run-rate get to the stage where only he could win the game, and then getting out - on those occasions he arguably did more harm than good) that strongly when we get around to discussing him? I assume he will (rightly) sail into the HoF when the time comes...
The truth is that Bevan engineered an extraordinary number of run chases, sometimes from astonishingly difficult positions, often marshalling the tail through to victory. Amongst all those, there are bound to be a few times when he gets it wrong, but these were very few and very far between.
A lot of the criticism of Bevan (what little there is of it) IMO comes simply down to people not being able to accept how good he was, particularly when viewed against his mediocre test record. Traditionalists were unwilling to accept that his average of 50odd, so far ahead of his contemporaries (very few people averaged above 40 over the course of the years when Bevan played), was genuine, and tried to find reasons to downplay it (low strike-rate, played for his average, all those not outs, etc.).
Certainly Hussey and Dhoni have taken the finishing role to a different level since. However they have really built on the template supplied by Bevan.
Having been well away from the one day game for the careers of all you discuss (International one day cricket of whatever stripe is now so ubiquitous it is impossible to follow in context from 3,000 miles away), it is tres difficile to determine whether Bevan was truly the best in his role, certainly until Dhoni and Hussey came along.
That is the standard that I will have to see before voting, whether yay or nay.
Mike, I've been looking forward to your response on the Jadeja/Fairbrother issue. I must say I have to really disagree on your analysis of Jadeja. There of course is the fact that Jadeja was less successful, but that hasn't been the issue. When you look at Jadeja's stats, you have to keep in mind that he used to open for India in the early part of his career before the Tendulkar-Ganguly combo established itself. But since he began
batting more regularly at 5, Jadeja became a greater contributer to the India ODI side of the 90s. He used to be the fastest runner in the India ODI team of the 90s, and was at his most effective when batting with Robin Singh or Azharuddin. As you rightly pointed out, Jadeja was a better boundary hitter than Bevan was, but his game too was based on the basic templet of flow of singles and 2s, hard running between the wickets, and then the big shots, just that he was better at hitting the big ones towards the end. Jadeja often had to come into a damage control role so often, more than what Bevan had to do, and other than Azhar and Robin, the team that Jadeja played in didn't have too many good runners between the wickets.
It is worth noting that Jadeja averages 1 run higher when batting from positions 4 to 7, and 5 of his 6 ODI hundreds have come in that role.
Since the debates haven't progressed at the pace we would like it to go along, we have to have some additional time. Hopefully some of the usual contributors will be back on full force. We haven't attracted anyone new as yet, hopefully there'll be more posters joining in.
I don't think there is much doubt that Bevan was really the blueprint on which many successful run-chase strategies were built.
These two quotes just refer back to a question I asked about Bevan earlier (and one related to similar questions I asked about Larwood and Jayasuriya). Do we know the extent to which Bevan helped come up with the 'finisher' role himself?
I just ask because I would give far more credit to a player for being revolutionary if he, himself, helped develop a strategy rather than simply being picked to fulfil it.
by alfie on Sat 23 Nov 2013, 11:55 am
I really don't care whether Bevan originated a particular role or just developed it : he was overwhelmingly the best at it , in his era ( the ODI game has since changed a lot) . So if I can bring myself to forget about his Test record - which is pretty forgettable - I am tending to a yes.
by kwinigolfer on Wed 27 Nov 2013, 2:33 am
Perhaps Thanksgiving (wot?) will interfere with normal voting patterns, so my votes are:
Bevan: No! Still no conclusive testimony to the effect that he was the best, the very best, at what he did, the closer. Tho' Alfie's testimony was almost compelling.
Greig: Definitely No! I find Greig to have been a career opportunist, a decent all-rounder but not a great one, and a Captain who should walk the plank for mutiny.
Hill: Yes: He has some firsts/bests: Including:
Chosen for his first Tour at the age of 19. Not the youngest ever but pretty darn close.
Record for most runs in Trest Cricket held for 12 years.
First to score 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year - record held for 45 yrs.
Aussie HOF'er in 2005 - would that accolade have been granted earlier if not for his brushes with authority?
And what statistical accomplishments might he have accrued if he hadn't fallen foul of the establishment?
By most accounts a good captain and a 606v2 HOF'er in my book.
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Hearing Aids in the Loop
Hearing loops cut the clatter in public spaces for those with hearing devices
by Cathie Gandel, September 26, 2014 | Comments: 0
Hearing loops are a hearing aid that has transformed the lives of many, bringing them crystal clear hearing at home and in public places like churches, concert halls, theaters, even airports.
En español l A thin strand of copper wire installed around the edge of a room has transformed the lives of millions of Americans who wear hearing aids.
Called a hearing loop, it can bring crystal clear hearing in public spaces — including theaters, churches, museums, airports and even the U.S. Supreme Court — to those with hearing aids equipped with a telecoil. The telecoil, or T-coil, is a tiny copper coil receiver automatically built into more than two-thirds of today's hearing aids and in all cochlear implants.
Hearing loops have been popular in Europe for the past 30 years, and the movement is gaining momentum in the United States. Hearing loops now cover about 400 venues in Wisconsin, 120 locations in Florida, all new New York taxicabs, the 12,200-seat Michigan State University Breslin Center and two large Broadway theaters — the Gershwin and the Richard Rodgers.
Learn more at the AARP Hearing Resource Center
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The loop is created when a wire is installed around the perimeter of the room and plugged into an audio source. Much as a Wi-Fi network delivers wireless Internet access to computer users in coffee shops, a loop system takes sound from an electronic source, such as a microphone or TV, and delivers it directly to a hearing aid. The result: clear sounds without the annoying background clatter and static that can be so frustrating.
"Hearing loops increase access for the hard of hearing in public venues like churches, concert halls, theaters and even airports, where poor acoustics sometimes prevent understanding even for people with normal hearing," says Juliëtte Sterkens, a hearing-loop advocate at the Hearing Loss Association of America.
Hearing loops can also be installed in your home and connected to your television or music system. (For more information, visit HearingLoop.org.)
To learn more about the push for more loops in public areas, check out the "Get in the Hearing Loop" campaign cosponsored by the Hearing Loss Association of America and the American Academy of Audiology.
Cathie Gandel is a freelance writer based in Bridgehampton, N.Y. Additional reporting by Candy Sagon.
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Shopify takes down Trump campaign's online store
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Hats are passed out before President Donald Trump speaks to the City of New York Police Benevolent Association at an event at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
E-commerce giant Shopify has shut down stores on its platform affiliated with President Donald Trump following riots at the U.S. Capitol that were perpetuated by his supporters, according to The Wall Street Journal, The Verge and Bloomberg News.
“We have terminated stores affiliated with President Trump,” a company spokeswoman told Bloomberg News in an email. “Shopify does not tolerate actions that incite violence.”
The actions affect three separate stores: One affiliated with the Trump Organization, TrumpStore.com and a store operated by the Trump campaign. According to The Verge, both TrumpStore.com and the campaign store both sold “Make America Great Again” caps.
Shopify was among several tech giants to take steps to de-platform Trump following Wednesday’s riots.
Twitter removed three of the president’s tweets on Wednesday and said his account would remain locked for 12 hours, and threatened him with the suspension should he continue to incite violence.
Facebook announced Thursday that was expanding Trump’s 24-hour suspension into a two-week suspension that could become permanent.
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Africana Periodical Literature
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Periodical article Leiden University catalogue WorldCat
Title: The rise of the Bushman penis: Germans, genitalia and genocide
Author: Gordon, Robert
Periodical: African Studies
Period: July
Geographic terms: Namibia
Subjects: images
Anthropology and Archaeology
History and Exploration
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Ethnic and Race Relations
External link: http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4C4FB8F39F9BFD91E81A
Abstract: In 1913 Eugene Fischer, professor of Anatomy and Anthropology at the University of Freiburg, wrote to the Governor of German South West Africa requesting that they mail him a preserved Bushman penis. Fischer's request was not an isolated whim of some eccentric scientist. By the era of high modernity which started at about the outbreak of World War I the body had become central to a sense of self-identity. Masculinity came to connote the so-called manly virtues like will-power, honour, courage and, above all, self-control. The male body symbolized society's need for order and progress. Bushmen male bodies, on the other hand, were well known for their effeminacy and delicacy with semi-erect penises, a condition widely believed in the bourgeois medical world to indicate lack of self-control. The Bushmen's alleged reluctance to engage in sustained work tied in with these dominant theories of uncontrolled sexuality. Diffusionist theories in German ethnology postulated a connection between Bushmen and Khoi on the one hand and Jews on the other hand. This seems to indicate that the Holocaust, often claimed to be unique in European history, has transcontinental and colonial roots. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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Dachel Media Update
Findings Published Today In Pediatrics Show Half Of Children With Autism Wander From Safety
Brian Deer at UW-Lacrosse "The future for investigative journalism is very bleak"
By Nancy Hokkanen
On Friday, October 5 UK reporter Brian Deer gave his second presentation at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, on “Stiletto Journalism: Busting the Vaccine Scare.” Ostensibly a primer on his coverage of the fallout from the 1998 Lancet MMR case series of Andrew Wakefield et al., in reality the presentation was part vanity schtick, argumentum ad hominem, and careful deception.
Seated in the unfilled room were students given credit to attend, and faculty positioned as if anticipating disruption. A muscular bald man sat in front facing the crowd, rather than the podium. Dr. Thomas Pribek, an assistant professor of English whose tweedy appearance came right out of central casting, mentioned having Deer in class the day before. In introducing the speaker, Pribek pontificated that stories garnering an “emotional response dissipate in the fog” but “facts remain in the light of day.”
Perhaps advised about the threatening implication of his chosen title, Deer stated that his use of the word “stiletto” only meant applying great force to a narrow area; he said journalists should use narrow focus rather than broad. The diminutive Brit claimed to have received intimidating emails at times in his career, and he used AIDS denialists as an example of zealotry over public health issues.
Deer announced to his audience that he had uncovered a “secret network of businesses” that would profit from Wakefield’s actions, including the affiliated University. All the information, he said, was “waiting in the public domain,” and took years to unfold because “you have to wait… not dump information.” (Later a student asked whether anyone else would ever have uncovered the MMR/autism story; Deer replied “No.”)
In a puzzling contradiction for someone seeking credibility, Deer quoted his aunt’s advice: “Believe nothing you hear, and hardly anything you see.”
The pejoratives and machismo began early, with Deer describing Andrew Wakefield as “this strange person” and using intimidating imagery – describing a scene from the movie A Bronx Tale in which a mobster beats a Hell’s Angel. Deer took obvious delight in listing the penalties against Wakefield onscreen and verbally, and boasted, “That was a result of journalism.”
Displaying a 2004 photo of Wakefield and Deer, the reporter admitted he “pursued Dr. Wakefield at Indianapolis.” To the laughter of the audience, he animatedly asserted that Wakefield covered the camera lens and ran, adding for humorous effect, “It was all very Edwardian.” Deer claimed Wakefield “called on parents to boycott the MMR vaccine” and “started the vaccine scare.”
(Below is a video of parental experience at an event in protest of the Deer appearance.)
At times the balding presenter used risqué language on the young audience, saying there are only two things he likes: “One is sex and the other is reading my name in the newspaper.” Deer said that after the BMJ ran its January 2011 article on Wakefield, a Harris poll showed that 145 million Americans “knew the fundamentals of the story” and his work had “a massive impact on public opinion.” Knowing that newspaper presses across the U.S. were running his story, he “felt a great honor at the time.”
(On a related note, students of journalism should look up which U.K. and U.S. newspapers once promoted a false link between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.)
Next came comments discrediting the UK parents. Onscreen appeared a photo of Isabella Thomas and her two boys; according to Deer, who is not a medical professional, “neither had autism… it turned out they didn’t have it.” He said he filmed Jodie Marchant, and discussed her daughter’s digestion problems in repulsive detail. Marchant, he said, had made allegations against a doctor and a nurse; he noted without a touch of irony, “You can’t broadcast anybody’s unsupported allegations against anybody.”
Then Deer moved from parents to professionals. Dr. Richard Halvorson was maligned for selling single vaccines. Journalist Lucy Johnston was criticized for writing articles that provided Wakefield’s point of view (along with quotes from another MMR researcher, Dr. Vijendra Singh). Again, Deer seemed unaware of the self-incriminating implications when he proffered, “Newspaper [reporters] believe they have to climb on board and become public relations people.”
Swapping his stiletto for a broad brush, Deer blasted Tony Blair for not disclosing his son’s vaccination status, and opined that the UK’s Daily Mail was a “conservative biased newspaper” because it had criticized Deer and printed articles that included Wakefield’s input. Showing no sympathy for the former doctor’s losses of career, reputation and country, the pugnacious reporter insisted, “His stand on MMR didn’t cost his job; he refused to replicate his study.”
Pacing and gesticulating, the rumpled reporter turned back at the UK parents: Jackie Fletcher, described as an “anti-MMR campaign group organiser,” and Rosemary Kessick, mother of William, a sick boy whose photo was shown. Deer admitted to withholding his true identity from Mrs. Kessick, telling the audience of future reporters, “You are entitled to mislead the public” if it’s in the public interest. “It’s in the best traditions of journalism… It wasn’t dishonest,” he said. “I wanted her to have no preconceptions.”
Here is how Deer detailed his interview with Mrs. Kessick: “She kept going off on something else, and I would bring her back.” (On Internet sites, Mrs. Kessick’s descriptions of her six-hour “grilling” stand in sharp contrast to Deer’s; “Mrs. Kessick hates me,” he admitted.) The reporter insisted that William Kessick’s autism onset came 5 months after the MMR, not within weeks.
When the Lancet case series was retracted, that was “a big accomplishment for journalism,” according to Deer. He told his audience that Wakefield had been working for lawyers and had a patent for a measles vaccine – financial incentives. (Though the 1998 Lancet paper had a dozen other coauthors, only Dr. John Walker-Smith was mentioned later with a cherry-picked quote from Mr Justice Mitting.)
Grudgingly Deer admitted receiving criticism about his previous night’s performance: “The presentation wasn’t technical enough.” So he went into a marginally comprehensible lecture on immunohistochemistry and PCR testing to detect specific proteins, and displayed line charts showing that MMR vaccination rates had rebounded from a 2004 low.
The presentation wound down with an expansive, self-indulgent retelling of Wakefield’s 2005 lawsuit against the Sunday Times, Channel 4, and Brian Deer’s website. “If what I’d said wasn’t true, he would take everything away from me – my clothes, home, left me bankrupt,” Deer lamented. Wakefield, he said, was using a vexatious lawsuit to play for time. “We got the court to order him to sue us,” he said, adding that Mr Justice Eady (“I think he’s a god”) ordered Wakefield to turn over the medical records of the Lancet children (“The game was up”). Playing for laughs, Deer relished telling how Wakefield’s attorneys rushed through traffic attempting to halt access to the patients’ private medical records.
Deer glossed over the current defamation lawsuit making its way through U.S. courts: “Neither I or BMJ knew Wakefield was in Texas,” he said. According to Deer, the district judges usually are Democrats and the appellate judges are Republicans – so if the district ruling gets overturned, it’s politically based. Then he concluded his hour-long talk with an analogy about the paleological “Piltdown manoeuvre” a century ago.
After applause, microbiology professor and chair of the organizing committee Michael Winfrey gave Deer a plaque bearing an image of a LaCrosse icon, “The World’s Largest Six-Pack.” (Of note to vaccine safety advocates: Winfrey’s University web page states that his research interest is in microbial transformations of mercury.)
For that day’s Q&A session, no questions written on index cards – the muscular bald man who looked like a bouncer would bring a microphone to the speaker.
Microbiology associate professor Bernadette Taylor, who’d introduced Deer the previous day, told the audience Deer flew coach so any conspiracy theory about pharmaceutical company funding was ironic. “I was the only guy in journalism who policed the drug companies,” Deer replied. “The idea that I’m working for the drug companies – he [Wakefield] just knows I’m not… it’s ridiculous… completely absurd.”
Winfrey stated that scientists are sensitive about integrity, theirs and others’. Deer’s answers about Wakefield’s motivation? “He could make good money as an expert witness.” He then expounded on research misconduct, and being told that “a gentleman wouldn’t do that kind of thing.” But, he averred, “Scientists are not more honest than judges” and other people.
Audience misinformation about vaccines included a middle-aged woman asking about mercury in the MMR vaccine, and a female student who brought up rising pertussis rates – unaware of the CDC’s admission that low vaccine efficacy caused outbreaks in vaccinated populations. The student said her parents were primary care physicians who found dealing with questions about vaccines and autism “enormously frustrating” and asked, “Why does that myth persist?”
Vaccine safety advocates have used a school bus analogy to describe public health programs that benefit some people at the risk of others. Deer co-opted that imagery to illustrate his idea of people who refuse vaccines – “a car hitting somebody else’s kid.”
Other answers include:
When asked about Wakefield linking autoimmune bowel disorder to autism, Deer said “He dragged in his own expertise to pump up his credibility” and gave a facetious example of believing MMR causes dental caries and connecting the two causally.
About the continued rise in autism rates, Deer said that “antivaccinators can’t explain autism’s rise” in absence of mercury in vaccines, and “state by state rates differ” – there’s no uniform incidence of autism.
About the vaccine/autism issue? “The whole thing was framed by litigation.”
How did Wakefield rationalize doing no further studies? “He refused.”
Did Deer follow up with the Lancet families? He spoke with Child 11 from California, a “geeky teen obsessed with fish,” and Child 3, who watched puppet shows all day and whose parents were a “charming couple” and “desperately poor.”
Deer’s pandering to liberal academics became clear when a student asked what he’d like his next big story to be; facetiously he replied, “I would like to show that Mitt Romney is a sex offender.”
An infectious disease specialist from Marshfield brought up researchers who’ve been intimidated by members of the public disputing the science, specifically one from Tufts who has security due to death threats. “People want to believe things without being experts,” he said. “People had a need to believe, even if it’s the wrong thing.”
A faculty member mentioned hostile comments at an article on Deer and Wakefield, saying “The trolls are out.” Deer had an axiom for that: “Sometimes your reputation is made by the people who hate you.”
After 40 minutes of questions the audience had thinned considerably. After some patter about the Lancet editors who approved the 1998 case series for publication (“they tried to cover up,” “looking for a cheap sensation,” “on the skids,” “old boy network”), a student asked about journalism’s future. “The future for investigative journalism is very bleak,” Deer replied.
After witnessing Deer’s unprofessional sideshow, noting its uncritical acceptance by university students and faculty, and watching ten years of atrocious copy-and-paste vaccine/autism media coverage, this AOA reporter heartily agrees.
Posted by Age of Autism on October 09, 2012 at 05:42 AM in Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Nancy Hokkanen | Permalink | Comments (39)
Why would a good University allow a person like mr.deer with
no medical or scientific background or credentials to speak?!
The students need to study gastrointestinal pathophysiology & inflammations,because Dr.Wakefield is on the right track.Big
pharma does not want anyone to research this area,that is why
they needed to destroy any one who stands in the way of their multi-billion dollar vaccination program.
Posted by: oneVoice | January 14, 2013 at 08:00 PM
Hi, great comments, please send your comments to the University of Wisconsin in La Crosse. I am from Wisconsin and I am appalled to find that a University in my home state paid for such a speaker. I wonder if they are hurting for funding and got some kind of kick back. I so hope it is not because they are totally ignorant. I attended University of Wisconsin in Madison, and I am almost certain this would never have happened in Madison, and if it did, the students would have put him in his place. (like out the door, out of town on a rail, etc.)
Posted by: Safiya fox | October 11, 2012 at 11:57 PM
To Mary R:
Audience reaction to Deer was mixed. Most of the young faces were robotic, without expression. The denialist faculty members applauded in earnest, and students clapped politely but briefly. There was no standing ovation. Many students left immediately after their course attendance requirement was completed, avoiding the question and answer portion.
On the first night the lights were down, making note-taking difficult unless one was by an aisle light (I was). The students ahead of me had nearly blank notebook pages. I wondered how many kids were texting throughout the presentation.
How did I stand it? I grew up on a farm, which desensitizes one to animal wastes.
Posted by: nhokkanen | October 10, 2012 at 03:17 PM
Patricia mentioned Brian Deer's speaking engagements (listed on his website). Actually there were very few recent speaking engagements, and certainly not nearly enough to support Deer's lifestyle. There are not many recently published Deer articles either. He is a 'freelance' journalist so will not be on any salaried payroll.
I was quite surprised to see Deer was a 'Keynote speaker' at Oxford University Medical School, Elective Conference 2012. 28 June 2012. I attempted to google this, expecting at least a mention of it on Oxford Uni's website, and possibly a write up in a local newspaper. But NOTHING!
I am fairly certain that Deer will have been instructed by the BMJ's lawyers not to speak publicly about those 2011 BMJ Deer articles, which are currently the subject of litigation proceedings, by Andrew Wakefield. Deer seems to have ignored these instructions at La Crosse, and if the 'eye witness' reports are to be believed he has recklessly prejudiced his own and the BMJ's legal defences. He seems to be desperate for money and publicity.
Give someone enough rope.....
Posted by: Jenny Allan | October 10, 2012 at 02:13 PM
For those who attended the "lecture" can you give a summation of the reaction from the audience? He seemed distasteful and crude from what I am reading. Did the audience squirm, look at their watches or just shrug? Did they applaud in earnest or out of politeness?
And finally, how did you stand it? Sorry, my complete bias is that I could not have sat still through it all.
Posted by: Mary R. | October 10, 2012 at 12:42 PM
I thought they were broke!
BTW have you seen Deer's list of speaking events on his site? He's got a nice little earner going there hasn't he?
Posted by: Patricia | October 10, 2012 at 07:43 AM
It may be what Tony Blair called in 1997 (or thereabouts) "joined-up government". We might not at the time have realised quite what he meant but we do now. And of course having suggested the MHRA we recall also that Blair and the Chief Medical Officer of the time, Sir Liam Donaldson, swept in to support Deer's allegations the day after they were published, and National Health Service 'MMRtheFacts" website linked up to Deer's. The MHRA is an agency of the Department of Health funded entirely by the pharmaceutical industry. But you could not actually say that it had nothing to do with Department of Business:
http://www.ageofautism.com/2012/02/hacked-off-boss-martin-moore-sat-on-uk-government-panel-with-editor-who-hired-brian-deer-.html
Or the Department of Justice
http://www.ageofautism.com/2012/06/uks-leveson-plays-cat-and-mouse-with-public-interest-over-murdoch-mmr-investigation.html
http://www.ageofautism.com/2012/01/sir-crispin-davis-and-james-murdoch-no-longer-on-gsk-board.html
Posted by: John Stone | October 10, 2012 at 07:43 AM
Don't forget the Department of Health,
http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/category/policy-areas/public-health/immunisation/
Posted by: Mark Struthers | October 10, 2012 at 06:47 AM
Mark good to hear your professional expertise. Made me smile, ruefully.
MHRA Ah....you mean the "good guys". Mmmmmm. OMG. Why am I not surprised..
The clever psychopath is dangerous, and their Machiavellian behaviours can be extremely damaging to other people and society in general. I agree with John Stone: the powerful intelligence lurking behind Deer's disordered personality is what is most challenging.
Conflicting interest: as a prison doctor my contact is generally with the less intelligent psychopath.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was the MHRA
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/#page=DynamicListMedicines
John I understand your feelings on Deer. Why I am interested in this is not so much wanting to stick labels on him, as wanting people to realise just how sick this individual is and consequently as to how he should be treated. Recognising the fact that he is an obssessive stalker who lives through fame and self glorification is important I think and that no amount of name calling or abuse will have the desired effect - he thrives on it. Address his lies yes, certainly, but ignore the man himself if possible, is my preferred course of action.
And I wholeheartedly agree with you that he is somebody's front man. But whose exactly?
I cant remember the last time Deer was allowed to print any of his tosh!in any of the big newspapers... the last time was on AIDS over a year ago ...Great Deer keep up your journo bubble it will burst one just like Jimmy Saville your day will come for the double speak you have engineered for the sickos that hide behind you...and only you will be responsible...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq5BuVHu4Uw&list=UU5YBac7cqhBR8fgge017Hpg&index=1&feature=plcp
Posted by: Angus Files | October 10, 2012 at 04:45 AM
I have to admit I am not terribly interested in sticking a clinical pathology label on Deer and his undoubtedly bizarre act - it's the people hiding behind it that bother me.
Bill and Isabella
NPD's don't "do" irony, more's the pity.
PJCaroll. Psychopathic jealousy is a typical symptom of NPD's. So is stalking.. They often are indivisible. The quote below is from Wikipaedia on NPD's which also illuminates Deer's behaviour patterns. He is such a classic example and the more one understands this disorder the more one sees just how deeply personal and obsessional his stalking of Andy has become. You are spot on with your gut instincts PJ.
"..cannot handle criticism and will often try to compensate for this by belittling or disparaging others, in an attempt to validate their own self worth...a sadistic tendency..."
I fully admit I am not a psychiatrist but I also admit I had a member of my close family who suffered from this condition and naturally enough we became very well informed on the subject! As I have said it is rare for such a personality with NPD ever allowing him or herself to receive a professional diagnostic. He won't go near one! There is nothing wrong with him remember - it's everyone else who does the lying and the deeiving etc etc.!
Michael Winfrey told me in an email the day before the event that it would not be videotaped for future viewing. But a student sitting next to me (who slept through most of the lecture) informed me that the students were told it would be videotaped.
Mr. Deer would not allow copies of his slides to be distributed either. As I told the chancellor and Mr. Winfrey, anyone who takes pride in the truth and integrity of their words would want their lecture taped so that it could reach as wide an audience as possible.
Posted by: PJCarroll | October 09, 2012 at 08:19 PM
Also of note:
- Parents were told they could not record Deer, and a UW-L rep said they were not recording him either. Yet on 10/4 a man emerged from the glassed room in back of the hall and said to us, "I'm just the camera man."
- To my knowledge no one confronted Deer directly -- only via screened questions on cards. However a LaCrosse doctor aggressively confronted Andrew Wakefield verbally, but from a distance.
The University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse is not the source for free speech that Professor Michael Winfrey claims. Nor is it any help for the countless children suffering miserably from MMR-induced bowel disease worldwide.
I think everyone here would like to have the opportunity to see Bill express his gratitude to Mr Deer in an appropriate way.
Posted by: John Stone | October 09, 2012 at 06:18 PM
I have been asked to post this comment below on behalf of William Marchant who Brian Deer attacked in his speech.
Mr Deer, I feel very honoured that such a noted journalist as yourself would spend so much of your precious time making sure our issue is made public. I thank you for your willingness to help us publicise our plight and let the world know how much you care for the damaged children. I am sure we will succeed and we will drink a toast to your future, whatever that may be. Perhaps we may meet again and I can express my gratitude in the way I would really want to. W. Marchant
Posted by: Isabella Thomas | October 09, 2012 at 05:27 PM
It is a disgrace to see Brian Deer attacking Jackie Fletcher and calling her anti-vaccine when her son was so severely affected by the MMR vaccine.
See link below where the Vaccine damage payment unit awarded her son money because of the MMR vaccine.
A mother whose son suffered severe brain damage after he was given the controversial MMR vaccine as a baby has been awarded £90,000 compensation.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1307095/Family-win-18-year-fight-MMR-damage-son--90-000-payout-concerns-vaccine-surfaced.html
How could Brian Deer say Jackie was anti-vaccine when she allowed her son Robert to have the MMR vaccine like all parents of vaccine damaged children. Why is Brian Deer attacking parents now? What next for god's sake. This has to stop now. The focus should be on the sick children left to suffer. Where is their voice in all of this? The parents voice are the children's voice and should be respected as we are the experts on our children. My son tried to have a voice in the doctors surgery one day as he could not stand the pain any more and was told 'We believe you believe you are in pain' Is this because Brian Deer plays at being a doctor and they believe him?
More on the NPD thing - I left the lecture on Thursday thinking just how insanely jealous Brian Deer is of Dr. Wakefield. At one point, he showed a slide of Dr. Wakefield posing with an admirer, who Deer said was one of the Dixie Chicks. Then he demeaned her by saying, or maybe it's a "Chixie Dick". Then he showed another slide of Dr. Wakefield surrounded by grateful parents at an event, then quickly flipped to a slide of a random screaming mob, followed quickly by a slide of some random cheerleaders. It was so unprofessional, like the rest of his presentation.
I'm thinking - "Really?" This is a guy who was introduced to these poor innocent students as a man who had won the "equivalent of a pulitzer prize". I can't imagine how confused they were to then watch this resentful little man who obviously deeply craves the kind of adoration Dr. Wakefield has.
Unbelievable! How can he just say things like that? Aren't the University in some way responsible for verifying the things their speakers say? How can they give this man the time of day?
So very wrong.
Posted by: Susan Farndell | October 09, 2012 at 03:26 PM
It is frightening to think someone like Brian Deer can spread such lies and attack parents like myself. He never interviewed me and knows nothing about my boys lives. Years in a special school for Autism because they needed the professional help from teachers who specialise in Autism. Is Brian Deer saying the specialist school and teachers were wrong? (The school do their own assessment of the boys to make sure they can meet their needs) is Brian Deer saying their Statements of Special Educational Needs from the Education Authority was wrong, Is Brian Deer saying two top hospitals in London were wrong? Is Brian Deer saying the local children's hospital was wrong? Is Brian Deer saying their bowel conditions do not exist? The medication they are on is just for fun because the doctors have nothing better to do? Brian Deer is the top expert on Autism and the professionals are wrong. This is going to backfire on the university big time.
Great job, Nancy! But how can you say that Deer is "diminuitive" when he emphatically claims he's 5-foot-nine?? LOL
Posted by: Erik Nanstiel | October 09, 2012 at 03:10 PM
It just seems so weird that he tours giving talks about Andrew Wakefield. It's not an objective informational dissertation. It's a rant. His whole circus has one pony. This alone is suspicious regarding the driving force behind it, since in no other setting or circumstance does this happen, with the exception of stand up comedians. This is like that, except it isn't funny.
Posted by: Carter's Daddy | October 09, 2012 at 01:40 PM
Brilliant summation Nancy. I don't think I could have sat through another talk from the "distinguished lecturer" Brian Deer. He presented himself exactly as I expected on Thurs. He was arrogant and he slung his half-truths and bold faced lies right and left. What really shocked me was how the University of WI-La Crosse promoted and vouched for this man. I can't imagine blacker day for academic freedom than what I witnessed with Brian Deer vilifying Andrew Wakefield who was not allowed to speak in his own defense.
Anne Dachel, Media
Posted by: Anne McElroy Dachel | October 09, 2012 at 01:16 PM
As revealed in fact checker Jane Smith's deposition, Deer was concerned about how the BMJ fact checkers would go about their business. In a letter to Godlee, Deer wrote, "I am also slightly anxious lest we have another communication breakdown and your people go off trying to check my work, which I requested, without talking to me about how this might be done."
http://www.rescuepost.com/files/ex-c-bmj-smith-depo-1.pdf
Was he concerned about what professional fact-checking might find?
Posted by: Carol | October 09, 2012 at 12:50 PM
Linking Wakefield to AIDS denialism is the public relations maneuver du jour. I have seen it in many recent online articles about Wakefield by ostensibly independent journalists. And it comes up in a newish book called _The AIDS Conspiracy_ by Nicoli Nattrass which compares Wakefield to Peter Duesberg.
The book also claims that Robert Gallo discovered HIV instead of stealing it from the French.
Further to point out that Deer was beneficiary of lavish vaccine industry hospitality in the South of France last year:
http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/11/brian-deer-lords-it-at-a-pharmaceutical-conference-in-france.html
That he was assisted in his early investigation by a detective agency attached to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry:
http://www.whale.to/v/mli.html
That he was on his own testimony apparently engaged on a fishing expedition, instigated by the son of a member of the Committee on Safety in Medicines when MMR was first introduced to the UK:
http://www.ageofautism.com/2012/02/open-letter-to-sunday-times-editor-john-witherow-we-wouldnt-do-fishing.html
PS There is no succesful treatment of a NPD - a) because of course they don't believe there is anything wrong with them and b) because even if you dragged one kicking and screaming to a therapy clinic they would never agree that any specialist would be clever enough to help them.. That's if they thought they needed help in the first place. Which of course they never do.
Sounds like it has all the makings of a comedy series. Black comedy that is.
To be serious. This diagnosis explains the persistent pursuit and stalking by Deer of a man (a doctor) who will not engage in a direct confrontation with him, because this particular man knows well how sick this stalker is. Deer's futile attempts to speak to Andy were videoed and referred to later by Deer to make it appear he was simply being ignored for no conceivably good reason, he was after all only doing his job.
Quite why he alludes to it as an "Edwardian" is interesting....My own theory is that he sees this failed encounter with AW as a scene straight out of Downton, with AW as the dignified gentry and himself as the below stairs character. All true of course. But that would enrage him, if he didn't try to use it for humorous effect and turn himself into the victim. As I remember that video it made Deer look like the irritating out of control stalker that he really is.
NPD's are a nightmare to encounter, either on a professional or a personal level. Like irritating flies they must be dealt a short sharp smack. This pursuit of Andrew Wakefield has gone on for far too long. Until it is settled in a court of law we must view it in the context that it deserves. Deer has to be dealt with by going on the offensive. Ignoring him unfortunately does not make him disappear, he will be there until he is by law, put in his proper place.
This is a good article but distressing to see Deer's hate remarks against Bill Marchant, Isabella Thomas and Rosemary Kessick laced once again with mountains of uncorroborated innuendo. It should be noted that virtually all of Deer's allegations (and the GMC's) about misreporting in the Lancet paper have already been shredded by an English High Court judge, Sir John Mitting in the appeal of senior author/clinician Prof John Walker-Smith. At this stage, for example, it is absurd and contrary to the known facts for Deer to go on claiming that Thomas's children did not have an ASD diagnosis.
It may be said that the behaviour of Prof Winfrey is particularly distasteful - and apparently hypocritical - since it was he who told the La Crosse Tribune "We are a university,” he said. “We value and encourage people to look at both sides of issues and make informed decisions.”
http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/vaccine-autism-debate-coming-to-la-crosse/article_88fe3612-0a92-11e2-bf97-0019bb2963f4.html
The actions described here do not however indicate such Olympian detachment.
Regarding Deer's claims about Kessick I repost my re-joinder to him in another blog:
'According to the NUJ Code of Conduct:
'“A journalist…obtains material by honest,straightforward and open means, with the exception of … evidence that cannot be obtained by straightforward means”
http://www.nuj.org.uk/innerPagenuj.html?docid=174
'Mrs Kessick agreed to give an interview to a Sunday Times journalist. So the story could have been obtained by straightforward means. There was no reason therefore to give a false name and no evidence to justify that. Mr Deer’s speculation in the face of the evidence of an agreed interview and that of his editors and Sunday Times legal advisors shows that the current judicial investigation into the ethical and other behaviour of News International journalists is wholly justified.
'Claiming Dan Olmsted’s speculation now that Mrs Kessick would not have agreed an interview then in November 2003 justifies the actions of News International journalists and legal advisors is tosh. Even if it were so, there is no reason to believe she would not have given an interview to another Sunday Times journalist. Again demonstrating no need to give a false name.
'Mr Deer is deceiving us by implying that the story of him turning the tape round is a new “and pathetic” account of events seven year’s ago. The details are recorded in Mrs Kessick’s contemporaneous complaint in her letter to Sunday Times editor John Witherow in November 2003.
'What Mr Deer does not tell us is that he had two tape-recorders. One was to put on the table, if he was refused consent to record, so he could give the appearance of complying with the wishes of the interviewee. The other was concealed. Mr Deer had to go through the bizarre pretence of turning a single tape round, while making frequent visits to the lavatory to change the tape in the concealed machine. Had he troubled to bring enough tapes for the machine on the table it would not have made his secret recording so obvious. Interestingly, Mr Deer anticipates this in his account by claiming there were numerous cups of tea, when in fact he had a single cup of tea and a glass of water. That made the frequent trips to the toilet look out of place.
'Mr Deer claims Mrs Kessick “spewed out a torrent of foul abuse” which was so “horrendous and bizarre” that he claims it would leave “any rational person wondering about her sanity”.
'Mr Deer is very given to publishing documents so perhaps he would also like to publish the full unedited text of Mrs Kessick’s letter to John Witherow so that everyone can see for themselves this alleged “horrendous and bizarre torrent of foul abuse”. There was nothing in the letter published on Age of Autism to justify Mr Deer’s claim. So show us where Dan Olmsted left out this “horrendous and bizarre torrent of foul abuse”.
'Finally, perhaps Mr Deer can tell how he came to read William Kessick’s case papers from the MMR litigation. What documents is he citing, and how did he come by them? And if they are from the GMC transcripts, perhaps he should say which days and which pages. But then again, the MMR vaccine injury children’s litigation documents were not used in the GMC proceedings were they? Or is Mr Deer saying they were and if so which ones?'
http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2011/07/26/another-manufactured-controversy/
To none of which, of course, did Deer reply.
Perhaps the most telling moment in the report is Deer telling a student that no one else could have done it. No one else could repeat Deer's results except by repeating Deer! This is why even today the British and American governments are hiding behind his increasingly threadbare, demented tale. And this is why preening, incompetent, self-important academic toads are still rolling out the red carpet.
The university's support of Deer is most discouraging. Parent's accounts written off as stories which garner an emotional response but "dissipate in the fog" while “facts remain in the light of day” (parent's accounts are devoid of facts?) - reasonable commenters written off as "trolls" - Deer's strange lecturing believed and respected while Wakefield's eloquence is disregarded - there seems to be no way to break through the wall of denialism. Strange, surreal, frustrating.
Posted by: Twyla | October 09, 2012 at 11:01 AM
That's an important point, Jenny Allan, that "Deer's comment about his January 2011 BMJ articles having had 'a massive impact on (US) public opinion', seems to run contrary to BMJ Editors Godlee & Co's assertions, made to the Texas Court in defence against Dr Wakefield's litigation proceedings against Deer, Godlee and the BMJ, that these BMJ articles and the public responses to them were essentially a 'British' affair, having little or no US impact, particularly in Texas.".
About the "weapons of mass destruction" though ......they have been found .......vaccines
Posted by: NeSSuM_200 | October 09, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Brian Deer says (from above):-
"There are only two things he likes: “One is sex and the other is reading my name in the newspaper.” So this man admits he is driven purely by twin lusts for sexual gratification and publicity.
Surely the authorities from Wisconsin University, La Crosse, who invited Brian Deer, a man with NO scientific or medical qualififications , to deliver a prestigious annual life sciences lecture, should have carried out some preliminary checks on his personal and scientific background first, before exposing vulnerable undergraduates to him.
This looks to me like a very serious breach of pastoral care, by Wisconsin University. In the UK Brian Deer has never been given an academic platform on which to spout his venom against Dr Wakefield and his supporters. Our Universities know better.
Posted by: Jenny Allan | October 09, 2012 at 09:59 AM
Just keep spouting the vile - I would image many, many students in the audience have first hand experience in living with/around autism. They may have been forced to be there but it does not mean they believe everything they were told.
Is there no recourse against him and the university for the horrible things he makes up about people? How can the university stomach being associated with him? Sure not the UW I once knew.
Posted by: Shelly | October 09, 2012 at 09:58 AM
NPD symptoms -
http://psychcentral.com/disorders/sx36.htm
Nancy, NPD socio/psychopaths don't do irony. Or empathy. The one thing they can't abide is to be ignored. It figures.
It says a lot about the times we live in that the powers that shouldn't be use a creature like Brian Deer as a mouthpiece to the point that he gets invited into a center of learning to "lecture" students and is given a platform for him to utter his lies, fallacies and defamation of doctors and parents, truly sickening and those in charge at UW LaCrosse should be ashamed of themselves for such an inappropriate choice of a speaker.
Posted by: GennyGC | October 09, 2012 at 09:04 AM
From above:-
"At times the balding presenter used risqué language on the young audience, saying there are only two things he likes: “One is sex and the other is reading my name in the newspaper.”
Deer said that after the BMJ ran its January 2011 article on Wakefield, a Harris poll showed that 145 million Americans “knew the fundamentals of the story” and his work had “a massive impact on public opinion.” Knowing that newspaper presses across the U.S. were running his story, he “felt a great honor at the time.”
WOW!! We have some apparently truthful Deer comments for a change!!
What puzzles me about this ego trip, is that Deer's comment about his January 2011 BMJ articles having had "a massive impact on (US) public opinion", seems to run contrary to BMJ Editors Godlee & Co's assertions, made to the Texas Court in defence against Dr Wakefield's litigation proceedings against Deer, Godlee and the BMJ, that these BMJ articles and the public responses to them were essentially a 'British' affair, having little or no US impact, particularly in Texas.
In the UK Deer's BMJ articles went down in the press 'like a well weighted lead balloon'. The Press Association advised their members not to 'touch' this story because of the risk of litigation. The Sunday Times legal department, put out a media release effectively DISOWNING Brian Deer after that appalling CNN Anderson Cooper interview, January 2011.
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The D.G.(H.R.),
Railway Board,
Sub: Provision of vaccine for the Railwaymen
As you are aware that, Hon’ble Prime Minister has announced that, vaccination against COVID-19 Pandemic will start from 16th January, 2021, and vaccine will be given first to the Frontline Staff. Though, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare(Government of India) has declared some of the staff as Frontline Staff, such as Doctors, Nurses, Hospital Staff, Police Personnel etc. etc., some of our Railway Staff will also be covered in the so-called given definition of the Frontline Staff by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare(Government of India).
The condition of the Railways is quite different, and particularly more than one million Railway Employees had put their lives at the stake while operating more than 10,000 Freight Trains as well as thousands of Shramik Specials when Coronavirus was on the peak. Even today condition is same. In the Railways, we cannot have discrimination within the staff, because while operating trains, Operating Staff, viz. Loco Running Staff, Guards, Station Master, Trains Controllers etc. etc., are crucial, but at the same time, Maintenance Staff, viz. Track Maintainers, Keymen, Pointsman, Mate, JEs, SSE, Technicians of all the departments, and even Ministerial Staff working in Maintenance Sheds, Loco Sheds, Workshops and Operating Department, are also vulnerable. Welfare Inspector, who has been put to work round-the-clock by the administration and served during Coronavirus Pandemic not from the backdoor, but also from upfront, are also quite vulnerable. Even some of the Accounts Staff also served Operating, Maintenance and Running Staff during the COVID-19 Pandemic, remained in the contact and suffered from the Coronavirus. There had been many cases where Staff Car Drivers also suffered from the Coronavirus while serving their fellow staff and officers. Statistics of all such staff, who have suffered because of the Coronavirus, is available with the administration. So, while preparing list for vaccination of the Railwaymen, Railway Board should use its wisdom and take care of every vulnerable Railwayman, and there should not be any discrimination in the Railwaymen Fraternity.
You are, therefore, requested to kindly ask the DRMs etc. to prepare list of the Railwaymen, need to be vaccinated, in consultation with the Organised Labour, and there should not be any problem because of rationing of Covaxin.
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Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics are everywhere. It’s the stuff that powers nearly everything we do whether we see it or not. But if we’re really being honest with ourselves, it would be cool to have a robotic companion.If you’re like us, the Robosen T9 Programmable Robot is the buddy you’ve been wishing for, and it’s also a great way to get into the world of robotics and programming. And currently, it’s 19% off, at $399.99.Not only is the Robosen T9 fun, but it’s programmable and functional. It’s controlled via voice or a companion app and can alternate between car and robot mode. But that’s not all.With 22 servos built into its chest, hands, and legs, the Robosen T9 can also walk, gesture, dance, and more. In fact, in car mode it can serve as a functional RC car that you can race. It wakes up quickly from standby mode, houses a 2,000mAh battery, and is always ready to play. And because it’s 2.4 pounds, it’s easy to pack for kids who can’t be without it.FeaturesArtificial Intelligence. Easily wake up robot from standby mode & oder it to transform or perform cool stuntsRobots & Cars. Core technologies allow it to automatically transform between robot and vehicleIntelligent Programming. Customize your T9’s actions with 3 intuitive & easy to use programming platformsRobosen Hub. Join a great global creative community of robotic fansArtifical joints. Allow smooth & effortless movementsBipedal Walking. An ability that can be observed on its robot formRace Function. An ability that can be observed on its vehicle formRobot Control/Command. Can be done through voice or appThe Robosen T9 is also a cleverly designed educational tool which helps you to understand coding. Through the robot you’ll learn Motion Memory Recording, drag-and-drop coding, and 3D graphic programming. If you want to get into the world of STEM, this is a great start.The Robosen T9, which has a ton of 5-star Amazon reviews, is currently 19% off at the AG Deals Store, putting it at just $399.99.Best SellersEarn Credits!For every $25 you spend in the AG Deals Store you get $1 credit added to your account. And, if you refer the deal via social media or an email that results in a purchase, you’ll earn $10 credit in your account.First Time Buying?If this is your first time buying, you are also eligible for 10% discount! Just be sure to subscribe for email updates.Free StuffNot looking to spend any money today? No worries. You can still visit the AndroidGuys section for freebies and pick something anyhow.
Discord introduces mobile screen sharing for Android and iOS
Discord is one of the primary chat apps for gamers. It operates in a manner similar to Slack, with multiple channels you can join within a group. It also offers video and audio calls. With the pandemic, many more people have flocked to Discord for a way to communicate with their friends. The company has seen this change, and has therefore decided to offer mobile screen sharing on both Android and iOS.Now, while in a video call, just a few taps, and you can share your screen with friends. You can share games, videos, your web browser, whatever you want. This is available on only Android phones and iPhones at the moment, but Discord is hoping to bring this to tablets shortly.You can download Discord on the Google Play Store or Apple’s App Store.
When it comes to smart devices, it’s not always about electronics and gadgets. Indeed, Ekster has taken a smarter approach to the concept of wallets. Here we review a few of its current offerings, one made from vegan leather and another from aluminum.Standout FeaturesPatent pending quick access card technologyRFID blockingStore up to 12 cards in the ParliamentMultiple designs for any styleAvailable in genuine and vegan leatherWhere to BuyAvailable from Ekster starting at about $59.
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What history will surely highlight, however, is not the foreign policy achievements as President Trump neared the end of his term, but the grave dangers he posed to American democracy and the rule of law by his refusal to accept that end – culminating in the violence he provoked at the U.S. Capitol.
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The Hidden Gems Of Antstream Arcade
There are currently hundreds of classic retro games on the Antstream Arcade, and with this sheer wealth of gaming delight on offer, it’s easy to miss the odd glinting jewel. Having covered the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Sony PlayStation on previous episodes of the Hidden Gem series, we thought it was about time we revealed some of those lesser-known, but just as awesome, games that may have slipped past you on Antstream Arcade.
Hewson, 1987
Anarchy was originally released on Hewson’s budget label, Rack-It, retailing for a pocket money-friendly £2.99 back in 1987. Those who took the risk on this low-price game were rewarded with a tale of rebellious, um, rebels, who have taken over the planet Sentinel 4, resulting in the atmosphere of eponymous disarray. Over to you, skipper – hop aboard your ACE mark 2 Interceptor tank and destroy the enemy weapons and supplies while avoiding the deadly guard robots. Anarchy is a charming and engaging combination of shoot-‘em-up and puzzler, that upon release drew comparison with games such as the legendary Boulderdash and Tank Battalion. Smash those rebels right now, on Antstream Arcade!
Dark Seal
Data East, 1990
Dark Seal is one of the many Data East classics available on Antstream Arcade. Taking its cue from archetypal dungeon crawlers such as Gauntlet, in this isometric hack ‘n’ slash game the player can choose from one of four different characters, knight, bard, ninja or wizard, each with their own fighting style and unique ability. The evil Volov and his adjutant, the Black Knight, are causing all manner of chaos across the realm of Etrulia. Either solo, or with a friend, it’s up to you to smash the multitude of beasties that stand in your way, and bring peace to the world. Dark Seal is a real treat, especially for fans of Dungeons and Dragons and fantasy gaming in general.
Gateway To Apshai
Epyx, 1983
This Commodore 64 game is living proof on the Antstream Arcade that the action RPG genre has been alive and well since the early Eighties. While aesthetically simple, the depth and atmosphere generated by Gateway To Apshai and its sequels (also on Antstream Arcade) make it a true classic worth investigating today, even if you’re initially unimpressed by its rudimentary graphics. Build your character, arm them to the teeth and venture forth into the damp and deadly dungeon – treasure, danger and glory awaits you!
Jumping Cross
SNK, 1984
Here at Antstream Arcade, we love arcade gaming, and this is one of our favourite of the more obscurer coin-ops on offer on the service. Released the same year as the first entry in Nintendo’s famous Excitebike series, Jumping Cross is a colourful and affable motocross game that eschews realism for pure fun. Around each circuit lay countless obstacles and opposing bikers, and you’re up against a strict time limit in order to qualify for the next race. Fortunately, your bike has a sprightly jump which can be used to knock rivals off their rides and nimbly straddle over hills, gullies and… pigs?!
Mallet Legend
Realtec, 1993
Everybody loves whack-a-mole, right? Inside most arcades sits a variation of these stress-busting machines where the poor creatures pop their heads up randomly, only to be thumped by a padded mallet. Mallet Legend is the digitized version of the popular game and as such, sports a plot and reason for all this clubbing mayhem. Naughty critters have kidnapped the princess and there’s only one thing for it – take up that cudgel and whack ‘em, although watch out for the princess and her beloved pet, who will occasionally surface to make sure you’re doing your best.
Krisalis, 1989
Those of you who enjoy an atmospheric and attractive arcade adventure will be in your element with Krisalis’ Prison, another great retro game, streamable on the Commodore Amiga via Antstream Arcade. Playing a wrongly-convicted prisoner, there are plenty of puzzles and logical conundrums to solve, as well as tons of action to keep you entertained. Mutated aliens and more stand in this jailbird’s way, as the player attempts to gather the eight parts of a space shuttle that can help you escape this toxic dump of a planet. Prison is notable for being one of the first video games to introduce a day-night cycle, and its grim gameplay and backgrounds will appear familiar to fans of movies such as Escape From New York and Fortress.
Alternative, 1992
Rufus is a bit of a doofus. Having stowed away aboard a vast mining ship, our hero pushed his luck too far and has been caught stealing from an android. Taken to a nearby desolate planet infested with aliens, Rufus is commanded to harvest as many crystals as he can in order to obtain his freedom, and possibly a trip back to Earth. Each level in Reckless Rufus is a deviously-plotted trap. Blocks with numbers reveal how many steps Rufus can make before plummeting to his doom; only by carefully noting the numbers and planning ahead can he collect all the valuable crystals and earn his passage home. Reckless Rufus is an absorbing puzzle game that proved, even in 1992, that there was still life in the 8-bit computers.
Codemasters, 1990
This Codies budget game is an excellent example of how the most humble of concepts can sometimes make the most addictive of experiences, and if you recall those tortuous ball and maze games from the Eighties, you’ll have an idea of what Tilt is about. The player effectively controls the play area, tilting it to allow the small ball to drop towards the exit hole without touching any of the maze’s wall. Tricky, convoluted and supremely frustrating – in a good way! – Tilt is a fantastic little Commodore 64 game that you should definitely incline towards on Antstream Arcade.
Note from the AntTeam: Tilt is actually the first game ever played on the Antstream Arcade live servers as it is a cult favourite here at Antstream HQ. We're just waiting for the team to make some challenges for it now!
The final game in this round-up is another exciting SNK arcade release, sometimes abbreviated to SAR, and featuring an artistic style that will appear mightily familiar to fans of horror sci-fi such as the Alien series. The gameplay will also feel evocative of SNK’s more well-known hit, Ikari Warriors, with the undead, mutants and aliens replacing the soldiers of that run ‘n’ gun classic. With extra weapons available, there’s plenty of scope for mass destruction on offer in Search And Rescue as the player or players search through a cavernous exploration vessel in order to discover the fate of its crew. For those after a stand up fight AND a bug hunt, this is the game for you!
Check out all these hidden gems and more on the Antstream Arcade!
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The roller coaster hesitates for a split second at the peak of its steep track after a long, slow climb. You know what's about to happen — and there's no way to avoid it now. It's time to hang onto the handrail, palms sweating, heart racing, and brace yourself for the wild ride down.
What Is Fear?
Fear is one of the most basic human emotions. It is programmed into the nervous system and works like an instinct. From the time we're infants, we are equipped with the survival instincts necessary to respond with fear when we sense danger or feel unsafe.
Fear helps protect us. It makes us alert to danger and prepares us to deal with it. Feeling afraid is very natural — and helpful — in some situations. Fear can be like a warning, a signal that cautions us to be careful.
Like all emotions, fear can be mild, medium, or intense, depending on the situation and the person. A feeling of fear can be brief or it can last longer.
How Fear Works
When we sense danger, the brain reacts instantly, sending signals that activate the nervous system. This causes physical responses, such as a faster heartbeat, rapid breathing, and an increase in blood pressure. Blood pumps to muscle groups to prepare the body for physical action (such as running or fighting). Skin sweats to keep the body cool. Some people might notice sensations in the stomach, head, chest, legs, or hands. These physical sensations of fear can be mild or strong.
This response is known as "fight or flight" because that is exactly what the body is preparing itself to do: fight off the danger or run fast to get away. The body stays in this state of fight–flight until the brain receives an "all clear" message and turns off the response.
Sometimes fear is triggered by something that is startling or unexpected (like a loud noise), even if it's not actually dangerous. That's because the fear reaction is activated instantly — a few seconds faster than the thinking part of the brain can process or evaluate what's happening. As soon as the brain gets enough information to realize there's no danger ("Oh, it's just a balloon bursting — whew!"), it turns off the fear reaction. All this can happen in seconds.
Fears People Have
Fear is the word we use to describe our emotional reaction to something that seems dangerous. But the word "fear" is used in another way, too: to name something a person often feels afraid of.
People fear things or situations that make them feel unsafe or unsure. For instance, someone who isn't a strong swimmer might have a fear of deep water. In this case, the fear is helpful because it cautions the person to stay safe. Someone could overcome this fear by learning how to swim safely.
A fear can be healthy if it cautions a person to stay safe around something that could be dangerous. But sometimes a fear is unnecessary and causes more caution than the situation calls for.
Many people have a fear of public speaking. Whether it's giving a report in class, speaking at an assembly, or reciting lines in the school play, speaking in front of others is one of the most common fears people have.
People tend to avoid the situations or things they fear. But this doesn't help them overcome fear — in fact, it can be the reverse. Avoiding something scary reinforces a fear and keeps it strong.
People can overcome unnecessary fears by giving themselves the chance to learn about and gradually get used to the thing or situation they're afraid of. For example, people who fly despite a fear of flying can become used to unfamiliar sensations like takeoff or turbulence. They learn what to expect and have a chance to watch what others do to relax and enjoy the flight. Gradually (and safely) facing fear helps someone overcome it.
Fears During Childhood
Certain fears are normal during childhood. That's because fear can be a natural reaction to feeling unsure and vulnerable — and much of what children experience is new and unfamiliar.
Young kids often have fears of the dark, being alone, strangers, and monsters or other scary imaginary creatures. School-aged kids might be afraid when it's stormy or at a first sleepover. As they grow and learn, with the support of adults, most kids are able to slowly conquer these fears and outgrow them.
Some kids are more sensitive to fears and may have a tough time overcoming them. When fears last beyond the expected age, it might be a sign that someone is overly fearful, worried, or anxious. People whose fears are too intense or last too long might need help and support to overcome them.
A phobia is an intense fear reaction to a particular thing or a situation. With a phobia, the fear is out of proportion to the potential danger. But to the person with the phobia, the danger feels real because the fear is so very strong.
Phobias cause people to worry about, dread, feel upset by, and avoid the things or situations they fear because the physical sensations of fear can be so intense. So having a phobia can interfere with normal activities. A person with a phobia of dogs might feel afraid to walk to school in case he or she sees a dog on the way. Someone with an elevator phobia might avoid a field trip if it involves going on an elevator.
A girl with a phobia of thunderstorms might be afraid to go to school if the weather forecast predicts a storm. She might feel terrible distress and fear when the sky turns cloudy. A guy with social phobia experiences intense fear of public speaking or interacting, and may be afraid to answer questions in class, give a report, or speak to classmates in the lunchroom.
It can be exhausting and upsetting to feel the intense fear that goes with having a phobia. It can be disappointing to miss out on opportunities because fear is holding you back. And it can be confusing and embarrassing to feel afraid of things that others seem to have no problem with.
Sometimes, people get teased about their fears. Even if the person doing the teasing doesn't mean to be unkind and unfair, teasing only makes the situation worse.
What Causes Phobias?
Some phobias develop when someone has a scary experience with a particular thing or situation. A tiny brain structure called the amygdala (pronounced: uh-MIG-duh-luh) keeps track of experiences that trigger strong emotions. Once a certain thing or situation triggers a strong fear reaction, the amygdala warns the person by triggering a fear reaction every time he or she encounters (or even thinks about) that thing or situation.
Someone might develop a bee phobia after being stung during a particularly scary situation. For that person, looking at a photograph of a bee, seeing a bee from a distance, or even walking near flowers where there could be a bee can all trigger the phobia.
Sometimes, though, there may be no single event that causes a particular phobia. Some people may be more sensitive to fears because of personality traits they are born with, certain genes they've inherited, or situations they've experienced. People who have had strong childhood fears or anxiety may be more likely to have one or more phobias.
Having a phobia isn't a sign of weakness or immaturity. It's a response the brain has learned in an attempt to protect the person. It's as if the brain's alert system triggers a false alarm, generating intense fear that is out of proportion to the situation. Because the fear signal is so intense, the person is convinced the danger is greater than it actually is.
Overcoming Phobias
People can learn to overcome phobias by gradually facing their fears. This is not easy at first. It takes willingness and bravery. Sometimes people need the help of a therapist to guide them through the process.
Overcoming a phobia usually starts with making a long list of the person's fears in least-to-worst order. For example, with a dog phobia, the list might start with the things the person is least afraid of, such as looking at a photo of a dog. It will then work all the way up to worst fears, such as standing next to someone who's petting a dog, petting a dog on a leash, and walking a dog.
Gradually, and with support, the person tries each fear situation on the list — one at a time, starting with the least fear. The person isn't forced to do anything and works on each fear until he or she feels comfortable, taking as long as needed.
A therapist could also show someone with a dog phobia how to approach, pet, and walk a dog, and help the person to try it, too. The person may expect terrible things to happen when near a dog. Talking about this can help, too. When people find that what they fear doesn't actually turn out to be true, it can be a great relief.
A therapist might also teach relaxation practices such as specific ways of breathing, muscle relaxation training, or soothing self-talk. These can help people feel comfortable and bold enough to face the fears on their list.
As somebody gets used to a feared object or situation, the brain adjusts how it responds and the phobia is overcome.
Often, the hardest part of overcoming a phobia is getting started. Once a person decides to go for it — and gets the right coaching and support — it can be surprising how quickly fear can melt away.
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Tina Murley Upped To VP/Sales At Beasley Media Group
December 7, 2020 at 8:44 AM (PT)
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BEASLEY MEDIA GROUP/BOSTON Dir. of Sales TINA MURLEY has been promoted to VP of Sales at the corporate level. MURLEY joined BEASLEY with the company's acquisition of since-sold AC WMJX (MAGIC 106.7)/BOSTON. She previously served as a Sales Manager at CBS O&O WBZ-TV and HEARST ABC affiliate WCVB-TV/BOSTON, GSM at CBS RADIO Oldies WODS/BOSTON, and AE at CHARLES RIVER BROADCASTING Classical WCRB/BOSTON.
“TINA brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to her new role as VP of Corporate Sales,” said CEO CAROLINE BEASLEY. ”Her positive attitude and commitment to excellence on behalf of our advertisers and the company made her the perfect choice to lead our company’s sales efforts into the future.”
“BEASLEY MEDIA GROUP has incredible sales talent that is committed to offering full-service integrated marketing solutions,” said MURLEY. “I look forward to leading those sales efforts and collaborating with our content teams to deliver creative, results-driven solutions for our advertisers. I want to thank CAROLINE and the entire BEASLEY family for giving me this incredible opportunity.”
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Supporting MBA students during the COVID-19 pandemic
By: Jen Mele
Topics: Education-Campus LifeHealth-Health PandemicsEducation-Business EducationInnovation-Innovation LeadershipSociety-Social IssuesPhilanthropy-Giving Impact
In the past few months, HBS has mobilized, adapted, innovated, and collaborated to support MBA students during a very turbulent time.
As the economic consequences of the pandemic took hold, students found themselves facing a very different job market. “Students who already had job offers saw their start dates delayed, and those interested in hard-hit industries like hospitality and entertainment had to broaden their searches,” explains Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), managing director of Career and Professional Development (CPD). “Meanwhile, many summer internships were canceled.”
Acting quickly, the School doubled funding for its summer fellowship program and opened it up to graduating as well as first-year students. These fellowships provide stipends to supplement lower-paying internships (for example, at nonprofits and startups). In addition, the School is offering free seats in a number of Harvard Business School Online courses, such as Global Business and Leading with Finance, as well as in a data science bootcamp designed to teach students how to leverage big data throughout their careers. The CPD team is also meeting students’ increased demand for one-on-one coaching and for training on how to network and interview virtually.
When all classes were moved online in less than two weeks, HBS sought to ensure a dynamic, interactive experience. Some 150 staff members from across campus volunteered to serve as Online Learning Facilitators (OLFs), supporting the technical aspects of each class so that professors could focus on their students and the case discussions. To help faculty with the unique challenges and opportunities of teaching online, the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning compiled best practices from HBS Online and the Harvard Business Analytics Program and provided one-on-one virtual coaching.
HBS is supporting incoming MBA students, too, by offering the option to defer admission. “Like others around the world, many of our incoming students’ lives have been upended by the global pandemic. We wanted to provide flexibility to those whose employment, health, visa, or financial situation may have changed significantly since they applied,” says Chad Losee (MBA 2013), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. While Losee hopes most students will join this fall, the School can enroll a smaller class size if necessary, thanks to resources like the HBS Fund. The School is also preparing to meet MBA students’ changing needs for financial aid next year.
HBS IT staff logged many hours in mid-March configuring hundreds of tablets and laptops so faculty members had the equipment they needed to teach remotely. (photo credit: Heath Racine)
Alumni have also rallied to provide support. They responded to the School’s outreach with nearly 1,000 job and internship postings and connected with students both formally and informally. For example, Sal Khan (MBA 2003) “zoomed” into a class that was discussing a case on the organization he founded, Khan Academy. And more than 300 members of the MBA Classes of 2009 and 2010 shared their insights from navigating the Great Recession with this year’s graduating students. On the lighter side, students were excited that alumni around the world could enjoy the 47th annual HBS Show, which was produced virtually and aired on YouTube.
Throughout the crisis, the HBS Fund has been essential—enabling the School to deploy resources quickly wherever they are needed most. That flexibility has always been a hallmark of the HBS Fund, and it’s what makes gifts to the HBS Fund more important than ever. In addition to enabling the School to support students, the HBS Fund is fueling the faculty’s efforts to deepen or pivot their research in light of the pandemic and financial crisis and to share their findings and expertise in new ways with leaders around the world.
“In a sense, we are living the ultimate case,” observes Dean Nitin Nohria, who deferred his plans to step down as dean until December in order to lead the School through this crisis “Every day, we must make key decisions amidst significant uncertainty and with incomplete information. While we don’t have a crystal ball, alumni support of the HBS Fund is giving us the foundation to adapt and lead, no matter what the future holds.”
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Call for applications: MA in Art History, MFA in Studio Art, and MA & MAT in Art Education
• Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University
Maria Ojeda and Ana Carolina Meza Mendoza, 2018. Mixed media.
MA & MFA application deadline: February 1
MAT & MA Ed application deadline: April 1
Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, Georgia State University
10 Peachtree Center Ave. SE
artdesign.gsu.edu
The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, of the College of the Arts at Georgia State University, features an internationally active faculty and a rigorous curriculum that prepares students for professional careers in art and design. The programs foster critical thinking and dynamic artistic production within an interdisciplinary environment. The school offers an MA in Art History, MA in Art Education, MAT and MAEd in Art Education, and an MFA in Studio Art with concentrations in Ceramics, Drawing and Painting, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Textiles.
–MFA degree that is NASAD accredited
–All MFA students receive full tuition waivers and monthly stipends as part of assistantships and numerous MA/MAEd research assistantships are granted with equal benefits
–Graduate assistantships are available for students in the MFA Studio programs, MA in Art History, and MAEd programs.
–Eligible for competitive fellowships including the premium Welch Fellowships. The fellowships fund students for the entire three years of study, in addition to the student’s regular stipend and full tuition waiver.
Welch visiting artist and scholar lecture series
The year-round calendar of lectures provides students with access to a diverse mix of renowned artists and scholars encouraging artistic discourse, and leading studio critiques and workshops. Among the visiting artists include Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Wafaa Bilal, Julian Hoeber, Marlene McCarty, Mark Scala, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Amanda Ross-Ho, Chris Wiley, The Propeller Group, Art Chantry, Jaap Blonk, Art Werger, Bethany Collins, Ghada Amer, and Mark Dion, among others.
Third year opportunities
As a signature, professional experience, third year MFA candidates are exposed to international art fairs, given the opportunity to travel, and exhibit. This will be the eigth consecutive year for the MFA program to be featured at Aqua Art Miami, and supported with an exhibition catalog authored by a guest essayist, artist Fahamu Pecou. Other students have had the oppotunity to go to Europe for the Venice Bienniale, Documenta 14, and the Münster Skulptur Projekte. The Art & Education program also hosts a recurring summer semester in China. Additional supplemental funding is provided for srudents to pursue summer residencies and Art History graduate students qualify for a writing mentor series with a local art publication. These unique opportunities yield career-building experience from curator and collector networking, to professional practice, and offer experiences from focused art making and exposure to the greater, international, contemporary art scene.
Partnerships, conferences, and community events
In the past few years, the school has partnered with influential art organizations such as the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance, the Southern Graphics Council International Conference, BURNAWAY, Art Papers, CENCIA, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, and the High Museum of Art. Artists brought to campus through these partnerships include Cheryle Pope, Pixy Liao, Deborah Bright, Radcliffe Bailey, Ghada Amer, Mark Dion, Constant Dullart, and Marilyn Minter. Each semester the school also hosts a big, multi-floor and multi-disciplinary MFA Open Studio party that highlights the graduate work and program during which the local art community can engage the spaces and learn more about the MFAs' practices.
Thesis exhibitions and art venues
The Welch Galleries support the curriculum by curating regional, national, and international art exhibitions throughout the year, while providing a venue for thesis exhibitions. The galleries host presentations and panel discussions, providing students with personal access to professional artists and scholars.
Urban location
Georgia State University is located in downtown Atlanta within a diverse and vibrant urban setting. The campus is in proximity to prestigious art institutions such as the High Museum of Art, Atlanta Contemporary, MOCA GA, and a solid network of commercial galleries, alternative spaces, and grassroots artist organizations. Alumni, faculty, and students are very involved in the expanding and ever-evolving scene of the international hub, having founded a number of artist-run organizations, nonprofits, and creative publications.
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The Royal Conservatory
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
A slate-clad box enclosing a rehearsal room marks the expanded conservatory's new main entry. The building, located on a busy street at the edge of the University of Toronto Campus, is next door to the Royal Ontario Museum and its 2007 Daniel Libeskind addition (foreground, left).
Photo © Eduard Hueber
An academic entrance leads from a landscaped path into an atrium that joins new and old construction.
The atrium houses a caf', open from early in the morning to late at night, which helps make the space the conservatory's social hub.
The atrium is defined on one side by the historic building's colorful and highly textured masonry and a sleek stone-clad wall on the other. The route to the new hall from the main entry and box office takes performance-goers through this space on a bridgelike walkway.
The glass-enclosed lobby for the conservatory's main performance venue has three tiers. The upper two are suspended from the roof structure.
The convex shape of the oak balcony fronts and of the plaster tiles on the sidewalls in Koerner Hall, the conservatory's new 1,000-seat performance space, help scatter and blend mid-frequency sounds.
The 900-square-foot rehearsal hall that marks the conservatory's new main entrance also serves as a space for small-scale performances and for special events, such as formal dinners. Like Koerner Hall, the room has variable acoustics, with curtains that can be extended to make it less reverberant.
A canopy of ribbonlike laminated oak strips twisted in jigs provides the room's defining element and helps conceal speakers, lighting, and other equipment. It serves as the backdrop for the chorus, then extends across the hall, over the stage and the seating area.
With a computer model, acousticians investigated the path of sound waves in Koerner Hall: As the sound leaves the performers it expands toward the room boundaries (1); some of the sound is reflected from the timber platform suspended above the stage back toward the musicians and out to the audience, while other parts of the wave are reflected off the side balconies and adjacent walls (2); the walls, balconies, platform, and ceiling reflect some of the waves back and forth to generate the impression of envelopment, as other parts of the wave remain above the canopy, creating reverberance (3).
Sound Spray Diagrams: courtesy Sound Space Design
Image courtesy Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Image © Nigel Young/Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
KEYWORDS Toronto
For nearly half a century, the Royal Conservatory, Canada’s venerable music education institution, has occupied a distinctive late-19th-century masonry building at the northern edge of the University of Toronto campus on Bloor Street, one of the city’s major east-west thoroughfares. But in 1991, simultaneous with an administrative split from the university, the conservatory began an ambitious master-planning exercise, led by Toronto’s own Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB), developing a scheme that included renovating McMaster Hall — its deteriorating 50,000-square-foot Victorian home — and expanding it to accommodate the school’s aspirations to both enhance its academic programs and play a greater role in the cultural life of the city.
For the centerpiece of its new complex, the client desired an approximately 1,100-seat concert hall that would serve the institution’s primary mission of training musicians. It wanted the space to have acoustics suitable for a wide variety of musical presentations, including vocal soloists, small ensembles, and full orchestras. But the conservatory also envisioned Koerner Hall, as it is now called, as a state-of-the-art venue that would attract international-caliber talent. And it appears that the room has more than met these aspirations. Since opening in late 2009, Koerner’s acoustics have been widely praised and it has featured such artists as mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and jazz pianist Chick Corea.
Koerner, as well as other new facilities — practice studios, a library, rehearsal space, and classrooms — needed to fit into a hemmed-in parcel of land defined by the historically designated Victorian structure, a sports arena, and a picturesque pedestrian path known as Philosopher’s Walk that runs through the university campus. Without overpowering McMaster, which was originally built to house a Baptist college, the architects needed to squeeze 140,000 square feet of new construction into only 25,000 square feet of buildable area. Their solution involved layering functions and wrapping the expansion around two sides of the existing building. The programmatic elements are “essentially friction-fit,” says Marianne McKenna, a KPMB partner.
Although most of the new construction is tucked behind McMaster (recently renamed Ihnatowycz Hall), the configuration allowed KPMB to establish a public and modern presence on Bloor with a glazed main entry and box office and a slate-clad boxlike volume that houses a rehearsal room hovering above it.
For the part of the expanded conservatory that faces the pedestrian path, the architects reversed the arrangement of solid over transparent. Here they surrounded Koerner’s multitiered lobby with a glass curtain wall, pristinely detailed with glass fins, seemingly slipping it over a brick base containing practice rooms. And between the new construction and the historic building, they inserted an academic entrance that leads to a glass-topped atrium. The long and narrow space, trapezoidal in plan, is defined by McMaster’s highly textured and polychromatic masonry and a sleek new wall clad in black, smooth stone. The atrium has a café, open from the early morning to late at night, helping make it the school’s social hub. A slightly meandering route, via an overhanging walkway, leads performance-goers from the box office, through this dynamic space, to Koerner’s column-free main lobby floor. From here, or from either of two upper lobby levels suspended from above with steel hangers, guests are rewarded with views out over the footpath and the university campus.
Once inside Koerner, the audience finds an astonishingly sensual environment. Overhead is an undulant canopy, or what McKenna refers to as a “veil” of timber “strings.”
The ribbonlike elements of laminated oak strips twisted with jigs serve as the backdrop for the chorus at the first balcony level. The strings extend over the whole room, but above the stage and orchestra they support a walking surface for technical staff and conceal equipment and rigging, helping satisfy the client’s mandate for a visually uncluttered hall.
Although the basic geometry, modeled after famed shoebox halls such as Vienna’s Musikvereinssaal (1870), was chosen primarily for its ability to create immersive sound, the tall and compact volume associated with this type provided an added benefit, given the difficult site constraints. To take advantage of this height for seating while preserving the hall’s intimate feel, the perimeter walls and the outlines of balcony levels have been subtly sculpted. The room tapers toward the back, but then the balconies kick out in a slight reverse fan shape to provide a comfortable viewing position for people seated at the room’s sides, explains Anne Minors, principal of the eponymous London-based theater-planning firm.
Almost every surface in the room performs an acoustical function, helping deliver sound to the audience “like extensions of the instruments,” says Bob Essert, director of Sound Space Design. The firm, also based in London, acted as the project’s lead acoustician. Essert explains that the canopy’s walking surface reflects sound toward the seating area and also back to the stage, so that the musicians can hear themselves as they perform.
The sidewalls and the balcony fronts work in conjunction with the canopy. Chocolate-colored plaster tiles, 16 inches tall and 6.5 feet long, with a shallow radius in plan, are adhered directly to the perimeter walls’ foot-thick, poured-in-place concrete substrate, creating a basket-weave surface. The balconies, meanwhile, have oak-plank fronts and are slightly convex in section. These elements’ curved profiles make them ideal for scattering and blending mid-frequency sounds between 300 and 2,000 hertz, like those fundamental to notes played on a violin, says Essert. And to address higher frequencies, both the tiles and the oak cladding have been raked with a wire brush. The resulting small-scale texture provides warmth for classical music, but ensures that the environment is not too harsh for amplified performances. For such instances, the room also includes a system of retractable curtains that can be extended to fully or partially cover the perimeter walls and make the room “drier,” or less reverberant. A highly reverberant room — one where sound persists or lingers long after the source has stopped — is preferred for unamplified music, but is undesirable for performances that depend on amplification.
Just as critical as the techniques intended to distribute music throughout a room are the measures taken to keep potentially disruptive sounds, like the hum of the ventilation system and the buzz of lighting, or the din of traffic, to a minimum. To that end, the client wanted what is referred to as an “N1” performance space — one where background noise is kept at or below the threshold of human hearing.
The strategies for eliminating sources from within the building were fairly straightforward. For the mechanical system, for example, designers located rooms containing air-handling units, chillers, and other noise-producing equipment in locations remote from the hall. They also specified attenuation in ducts, and carefully detailed them so they wouldn’t act as bridges, carrying sound from adjacent spaces into Koerner. In addition, the team briefly considered displacement ventilation. This type of system — which is increasingly common in performance spaces where background noise, and also energy conservation, are concerns — distributes cool air through diffusers in the floor, allowing it to slowly and silently rise as it warms. However, when cost estimators deemed the necessary underfloor plenum too expensive, mechanical designers opted for a more traditional approach, creating a scheme with large-diameter supply ducts that introduce air into Koerner from the ceiling above the veil. Return grilles are located in the floor in and around the lowest rows of seating. Because the ducts are large, the system operates at a very low velocity, and is therefore extremely quiet, explains Joseph Merber, president of Toronto-based Merber Corporation, the project’s mechanical consultant. “It creates a gentle ‘rainfall’ of air,” he says.
Controlling the intrusion of sound from outside the conservatory building presented the project team with a bigger challenge — one complicated by a subway running under Bloor Street and by outdated ice-making equipment housed inside the sports arena and less than 20 feet from where the design team planned to place the stage.
To better understand how much of a problem these sources posed, early in the design process acousticians placed accelerometers around the site to measure the ground’s vibration. Since this survey was performed before excavation had begun, it provided an estimate, rather than a precise assessment, of structure-borne sound that would travel from the soil to the building’s foundation and ultimately to the hall’s interior, explains Marc Bracken, a principal at Aercoustics, the project’s local acoustician. Nevertheless, the study’s results indicated that without mitigation, the vibrations would be perceptible inside the performance space. Then, through an acoustical simulation process called auralization, which allows project teams and clients to listen to the sound of an unbuilt room, acousticians demonstrated that the hall should be designed as its own concrete box, structurally independent from adjacent steel-framed portions of the expansion. They recommended that 12-inch-thick rubber isolators be inserted at the tops of columns supporting the level just below the hall. The resilient pads, which deflect about 3⁄4 inch under the hall’s weight, allow the portion of the building below the isolators to move in response to ground’s vibrations, but prevent their transmission to the superstructure above.
Acousticians devised a similar system for the rehearsal hall. Here acoustic isolation was considered necessary because the room hovers over the main entry on the part of the site closest to the subway line, and also because the space, which can seat up to 200 people, doubles as a venue for small-scale performances, along with a 230-seat hall in the historic building.
For the new 900-square-foot, 33-foot-tall practice and performance space, the project team created a “box within a box” with a shell of steel and concrete surrounding an interior steel-framed structure sitting on isolation pads. Designers provided a connection to the urban environment with a generous double-walled corner window, elegantly framed in mahogany. A 2-foot gap between the interior and exterior insulated glazing units prevents the intrusion of unwanted sounds.
Vibrations were less of a concern for the two floors of small practice studios stacked under Koerner’s lobby. Instead, the worry was that rehearsing musicians would disturb each other. So to address transmission between horizontally or vertically adjacent studios, designers incorporated such elements as ceilings suspended with isolation hangers, and carefully detailed the ceilings to keep them separate from sound-isolating walls between studios. They also worked with the mechanical engineers to ensure that the ventilation system wouldn’t act as a conduit for sound from one room to the other.
The measures do not prevent sound from traveling into the corridors, since such transmission was not considered disruptive. This feature could even be considered a bonus, since it allows anyone walking through the hallway (including visiting journalists) to hear what the musicians are playing. And in mild weather, when the windows of the practice studios are likely to be open, sounds of an instrumentalist rehearsing a technical passage or of a singer vocalizing drift out onto Philosopher’s Walk, creating an acoustical connection to the surrounding environment. Along with KPMB’s thoughtful and elegant architecture, these sounds help broadcast the conservatory’s cultural and educational mission.
Gross square footage: 190,000
Total construction cost: $110.0 million
Owner: The Royal Conservatory
M5V 1J2
Email kpmb@kpmbarchitects.com
Marianne McKenna, OAA, OAQ, FRAIC (design partner), Robert Sims, OAA (associate-in-charge), Dave Smythe, OAQ (project architect), Meika McCunn (project architect)
Interior designer: Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Engineer(s): Halcrow Yolles (structural), Crossey Engineering Ltd. (electrical), Merber Corporation (mechanical)
Acousticians: Sound Space Design with Aercoustics Engineering Ltd
Theatre Consultant: Anne Minors Performance Consultants
Heritage Architect: Goldsmith Borgal & Company Ltd Architects
Landscape: Janet Rosenberg & Associates
Lighting: Martin Conboy Lighting Design (architectural lighting)
Other: Turner & Townsend cm2r Inc. (cost), Engineering Harmonics (AV), Bhandari and Plater Inc. (signage), Soberman Engineering (vertical transportation), BVDA Façade Engineering (building envelope), A.M. Candaras Associates Inc. (civil engineering), Leber | Rubes Inc. (code), KAIZEN Foodservice Planning and Design Inc. (food facility planning design), Shaheen & Peaker (soils engineers), BBS Specifications (specifications), Assa Abloy Canada Ltd. (hardware)
General contractor: PCL Constructors Canada Inc.
Project manager: Anjinnov Management Inc.
Eduard Hueber, Tom Arban
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Asian restaurant in United Kingdom
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Dudley (Borough)
Asian restaurant in Dudley (Borough) England > United Kingdom
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Though Pakistan is a country of geographical and linguistic diversity, there is common ground to be found in its food. In this endeavor, Nilofer Afridi Qazi has traveled the length and breadth of Pakistan, from the fertile valleys and the sea of Sindh; to pastoral Baluchistan; to the plains of the Punjab with its five rivers and the rugged frontier province of KPK. In the process she has collected over a 100 recipes…
Botanical Walks: Exotic Tropical Fruit Trees in Islamabad
Tropical Fruit trees are classified as trees which grow between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
These trees mostly bear fruit that is bright coloured and strong flavoured. Most of them are not native to Islamabad, but they can be appreciated and viewed when avid gardeners create the right growing conditions for them in selected spaces where their requirements are met.
Hiking: Khanpur Viewpoint from Talhar Village
At Talhar Village, we will cross a freshwater stream and start our hike towards Khanpur. This is an old route developed and used by local villagers and it offers an opportunity of walking past old villages in the hills besides taking in the lovely views of the valleys. At the top of the ridge, we will stop for refreshments/ photographs and return back to the starting point through a different path.
Film: Crimson Gold (2003) - Iran
Duration: 1 hr 37 mins
Screenplay: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji, Shahram Vaziri, Ehsan Amani, Pourang Nakhael. Kaveh Najmabadi, Saber Safael
Award: Cannes Film Festival Jury Award
A man stands just inside the doorway of a posh jewelry shop, holding a gun and looking in bewilderment at the crowd gathering outside. Eventually he points the pistol at his head and kills himself. The film then leaps back in time to trace the causes of this violent, seemingly abrupt event...
Trip: Taxila
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Literature - ‘THE BEGUM’
Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s Pioneering First Lady
An illustrated talk
Since the early 1920’s Liaquat Ali Khan had been a central figure in the political landscape of the Subcontinent. When Ra’ana met and married him in 1932, she threw in her lot with his mission to free India from the clutches of colonial rule and the struggle for a just settlement for the 25% of Muslims in South Asia. As soon as partition appeared to be inevitable, she knew she was to remain by his side and say farewell to all her friends and family forever…
Cycling - A RIDE AROUND F-9 PARK
A family outing!
This is for all the new comers and families with children who want to test their riding skills in a relatively comfortable and stress-free location!
Adventure Club/Archaeology - TAKHT E BAHI- A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE
A Day Trip
The Takht-e-Bahi Buddhist Monastery is one of the most impressive and well preserved pieces of Gandhara architecture in Pakistan. It is situated 14 km northwest of Mardan on the road to Swat (2 ½ hour drive from Islamabad). The reputation of Takht-e-Bahi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is based partially on the extraordinarily good state of preservation and partially on its glorious location. The site itself is located on the northern flanks of a rocky spur rising 150 meters (500 ft.) above the plains.
Hikes - ‘BRUTI – LOH DANDHI’- LOOP HIKE
We will take the old route from the foothill village of Noorpur to Pir Sohawa through the valley. This is an old route developed and used by local villagers.It offers a fascinating experience of walking past the old villages in the hills, besides offering views of the valleys below…
We will pool cars to go to the actual starting point of the hike: the parking of Loh Dandi. From there we will start the hike which is around 8-9Km long .We will climb up a track through the valley and loop back via the Loh Dandi track.
Film Club - A PRIVATE WAR (2018) - UK/USA
Director: Matthew Heineman
Screenplay: Arash Amiel & Marie Brenner, based on a Vanity Fair article
Cast: Rosamund Pike, Alexandra Moen, Tom Hollander, Faye Marsay
Awards: Golden Globe Award Nomination: Rosamund Pike (Best Actress)
A haunting film about the legendary Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin.The film does an incredible job recreating the tension and anxiety of moving through a war zone and at its center is the remarkable performance of Rosamund Pike who captures with sharp precision the flawed but brave character of Marie Colvin…
Gardening and Botanical Walks - ORANGE PICKING!
Bring family and friends along and enjoy a day’s outing!
We will be driving to a citrus farm to see fruiting organic orange trees. The farm is located approximately 25 km. from the Rawal lake area...the drive is 30-40 minutes.
The oranges at the Farm are unique to this region as they are red from inside and are grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Located in a beautiful setting with a backdrop of mountains, and a river winding down between the farm and the mountains. Our host will give us a guided tour of the orchards and give a brief talk on growing citrus plants, their maintenance, fertilizer and pest control.
Cycling - AROUND THE TAXILA HERITAGE SITES
Situated about 32 km (20 mi) north-west of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, just off the famous Grand Trunk Road ,Taxila (meaning "City of Cut Stone") is an important archaeological site of ancient India..Ancient Taxila was situated at the pivotal junction of the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia. The origin of Taxila as a city goes back to c. 1000 BCE. Some ruins at Taxila date to the time of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BCE, followed successively by Mauryan Empire, Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian, and Kushan Empire periods.
Film Club - COMING HOME (2014) - China
Director: Zhang Yimou
Screenplay: Jingzhi Zou based on the book by Geling Yan
Cast: Gong Li, Chen Daoming, Zhang Huiwen, Guo Tao, Yan Ni, Li Chun, Zhang Jia-yi
Awards: Asian Film Award: Gong Li (Best Actress) / Zhang Huiwen (Newcomer)
A haunting drama about a family torn apart by the violent Cultural Revolution in the 1970s when Party officials and local police publicly humiliated and harassed people, seized property, tortured some and arbitrarily imprisoned others. The story is ultimately one of triumph of the human spirit and the endless love it is capable of as well as the phenomenal power of such love to emancipate and create beauty from the bleakest of circumstances.
Adventure Club - ROHTAS FORT, A WORLD HERITAGE SITE
Day trip to Rohtas Fort is a symbol of the determination and strength of its builder, Sher Shah Suri. The fort, 12 km in circumference, is located 110km from Islamabad in a gorge 16 km North West of Jhelum City. This huge fort has 12 gates, remains of old palaces, 68 towers, 3 deep wells and 12 – 18 meters high/3 – 5 meters thick fortification walls. The construction of the fort started in 1543 and took over three years to complete. Conservation and restoration work is underway to bring back to this great edifice, some of its past glory.
Hikes - THE HIGHEST POINT OF THE MARGALLAS
One of the most regular hikes in the ASG Hiking calendar- not to be missed!
The Tila Charauni, at 1490m, is the highest peak of the Margalla Hills ridge, adjacent to Islamabad. Categorized as a moderate level hike the total distance is 10Km, half of which is the climb to the top.
Comparative Cultures - MUGHAL COSTUMES PRINTS, MOTIFS AND THEIR REPRESENTATION IN CONTEMPORARY ART
‘The costumes and turbans coming from the various states and provinces of the “undivided India” -characterized by the rhythm of decorative patterns, vibrancy of colour and finesse of the fabric- had distinct styles developing within various socio-economic classes and gender…’
The presentation will explore symbolism rooted in the costumes of the Mughal court – their prints, motifs and representation in the contemporary urban context particularly in musical videos and films. The contemporary media industry has tried to preserve the distinctiveness of the traditional attire through a lively exchange of experimentation that embraces a fascination for the nostalgic past, characterized with an indefinable balance of compositional elements, ideas, tonalities, moods, dazzling colors and floral ornamental aesthetic….
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How to Ramp Up Online Grocery—without Breaking the Bank
Now that Covid-19 has accelerated demand for deliveries and pickups, grocers urgently need e-commerce to start paying its way.
By Marc-André Kamel, Joëlle de Montgolfier, Stephen Caine, Jonathon Ringer and Stephanie Puzio
The pandemic has turbocharged adoption of online grocery by shoppers, and we forecast that 35%–45% of the spending surge will survive the easing of lockdown measures in 2020.
Between 2020 and 2025, online grocery penetration could as much as double in select markets. All markets we analyzed have seen a two- to five-year acceleration in penetration that could massively dilute retailer profits without action to improve the poor economics of the channel.
Grocers can defend themselves against this threat by optimizing their omnichannel network, diversifying revenue streams and removing unsustainable channel subsidies.
For more than two decades, food shopping has been slowly migrating online. Now Covid-19 has radically accelerated this digital transition in the space of a few months. Around the world, shoppers are breaking with lifelong habits by ordering groceries through the Internet instead of visiting a supermarket, while earlier converts to the web are heaping their virtual baskets with extra items.
This unexpected surge poses a threat to the industry, even though mainstream e-commerce adoption has been on the horizon for so long. For the vast majority of grocers, home delivery and curbside pickup are structurally less profitable than in-store transactions—and in many cases, each order comes at a loss. When an in-store transaction migrates online, it erodes or destroys what was already only a slim profit. Do that a few hundred thousand times a day and you’re in trouble.
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Before the pandemic, many retailers hoped that consumers’ unhurried embrace of online grocery would give them a few years to develop a business model that wasn’t so dilutive. Now they need to find a much more rapid fix for the broken economics of the channel—and at the same time ramp up their e-commerce capacity to meet the surging demand.
The stakes are high. Those that choose not to expand online will avoid short-term earnings erosion, but their resulting lack of digital infrastructure could leave them uncompetitive in the long term. Grocers that scale up through a third party to meet demand will be similarly vulnerable if the partnership ends and leaves them without e-commerce operations. Yet according to our modeling, a grocer that ramps up its own online arm without structural reform could see its overall profitability fall by 50–80 basis points over the next five years depending on the rate of online growth. And those that raise fees to cover the cost of the service they provide could face a backlash if the public misconstrues their actions as profiteering.
In spite of these pitfalls, we think it is possible to ramp up online grocery for the post-Covid age without destroying the bottom line. Executive teams can find their way to breakeven and beyond by heeding three calls to action: Optimize your omnichannel network, diversify revenue streams and remove unsustainable channel subsidies. It won’t be an easy transformation, given the operational challenges exacerbated by the pandemic, but it’s one that can’t be put off any longer.
How much of the surging demand will stick?
Covid-19 has turbocharged grocery e-commerce internationally, and the increase in penetration is even more striking when you consider that in-store sales spiked at the same time. In the US, the online channel accounted for 5.1% of sales at the end of 2019, before the pandemic emerged. At the peak of the crisis, penetration had risen to 6.6% (see Figure 1). UK penetration peaked at 12.4%, up from 8.1% pre-Covid. In France, it jumped from 6% to 10.2%. In Italy, even more of an online grocery laggard than the US, penetration more than doubled to 4.3%. In Germany, which has been wedded to in-store shopping, online grocery went from 1.5% to 2.9%. In Asia, meanwhile, penetration has also been growing, albeit from a much higher base in countries such as South Korea and China.
Uptake had been low, so adding a percentage point or three to the penetration rate is a big deal
It’s worth bearing in mind that many shoppers were unable to find an online grocer with the capacity to process their order during the lockdown demand surges—so the figures most likely understate the public willingness to embrace web-based ordering around the world. For instance, when Bain & Company surveyed 7,500 shoppers in Western Europe in May, we found that a fifth of those who had wanted to buy groceries online in the previous four weeks had been unable to do so.
How much extra spending will stick? In the short term, that depends on several factors, such as customer experience, whether a grocer excels at selling fresh produce online (if not, many newbies will go back to brick-and-mortar), its ability to scale up capacity in order to fulfill orders reliably and quickly amid the continuing stampede, and how quickly politicians lift distancing measures that deter in-store shopping. In 2020, our best estimate is that online grocery will hang on to 35% of the Covid-related spending surge in Italy, 40% in the US and France, and 45% in the UK and Germany.
That would be a major advance for online grocery. In the US, Germany, France, the UK and Italy, for instance, we estimate that there are going to be about 350 million more online grocery orders in 2020 than there were in 2019, swelling the channel’s sales by about $36 billion year over year. Strategically, it’s like someone pressing the fast-forward button on the industry by several years. During the pandemic, online grocery penetration in the UK, France and Germany peaked at levels we hadn’t expected until well after 2025. In Italy and the US, the comparable acceleration was as if 2024 and 2023 had come early.
To recalibrate our medium-term forecasts for the coronavirus age, we modeled three scenarios (see Figure 2). The first is the most favorable for online grocery demand but the worst for humanity; it assumes that Covid-19 restrictions end quickly—only to be reinstated after six months or so because of a fresh wave of infections. In this “second wave spike” scenario, a vaccine wouldn’t be ready until mid-2021 after 18 months of development, further encouraging shoppers to rush to home delivery or curbside pickup, while grocers scale up fast enough to keep up with the next surge in demand, better serving both new and existing customers than in the first wave.
Our middle scenario—the “faster shift online”—anticipates a slower but more stable exit from restrictions, arrival of a vaccine within 12–14 months, grocers keeping up with most of the increased demand and a better customer experience than in the early stages of the pandemic (but still with room for improvement). The lower-growth scenario (“rapid return to traditional grocery”) anticipates a more modest acceleration of demand thanks to best-case management of the virus (a rapid removal of restrictions, no second wave of infections and a vaccine within 12 months), a patchier customer experience and a struggle on the part of some grocers to keep up with demand.
If the “second wave spike” scenario prevails (and we sincerely hope it doesn’t), online grocery penetration could over the next five years soar to almost 14% in the UK, 13% in France, 11% in the US, more than 8% in Italy and 4% in Germany. That’s about one-and-a-half times the pre-Covid forecast in these countries—or even more. Yet even in the lower-growth scenarios, online grocery penetration is poised for a forecast-busting advance between now and 2025. Grocers are indeed running out of time to make e-commerce pay its way.
Three ways to fix online channel economics
When they moved online, most traditional grocers cut-and-pasted their in-store value proposition to the web, layering new capabilities and costs on top of their existing operational infrastructure. The in-store value proposition tends to generate an operating margin of 2%–4%. Yet replicating that online adds the hefty costs of picking orders on behalf of customers and providing home delivery or click and collect services—without removing significant store costs. Although these online services improve customers’ lives (to the extent of being a lifeline for many during lockdown), few grocers charge enough to cover their cost, if they charge at all. Even fewer have fully exploited the new revenue-raising opportunities created by the sector’s digital migration, such as selling online advertising space or monetizing customer insights.
Consequently, traditional grocers that do their own online order picking from their physical store network (and provide delivery without any customer fees) are typically suffering a negative operating margin of about –15%, or –11% if they pick from a “dark” store that’s not open to the public. If a third party (such as Instacart in the US) does the picking from a regular store, the margin is likely to be about –5%. The bleeding is less severe for click-and-collect services, because they avoid the “last mile” logistics challenge that bedevils delivery services. The margin is likely to be about –5% for a grocer that does its own picking from a regular store without charging a fee. Click-and-collect orders picked from a dark store or by a third party should break even.
The broken economics of the channel have barely evolved over more than 20 years, but they don’t have to take decades to fix. By taking short- and medium-term action, executive teams can neutralize the dilutive threat posed by today’s online boom. We find it helpful to group these actions into three areas: optimizing the omnichannel network, diversifying revenue streams and removing unsustainable channel subsidies. Not all the actions will be appropriate for every retailer: Grocers need to select those that match their value proposition and refine their approach through experimentation. In all three areas, companies should also consider partnering or buying in expertise through M&A as a way of accelerating progress.
Optimize the omnichannel network
The acceleration of e-commerce during the pandemic is likely to force almost all retailers to rethink their physical store network. Because they remained open during lockdown, grocers have been able to move quicker than other retailers in this regard, finding fresh ways to knit online and offline retail into a more seamless omnichannel whole. For instance, Whole Foods and Kroger were among the grocers converting traditional stores into “dark stores” tailored to satisfying increased demand for home delivery or pickup.
Grocers should continue to find substantial opportunities to stem their online losses during this omnichannel overhaul. Consider a grocer at the least mature end of the online grocery scale, one that manually picks its own orders from its own stores. We calculate that its operating margins could be boosted by between 2 and 12 percentage points through an optimization push that involves tweaking current methods of manual picking and delivery, moving to more automated fulfillment methods to serve the densest areas of high demand and changing some outlets to dark stores or automated fulfillment centers.
Automation is likely to yield the biggest optimization gains (see Figure 3), both at centralized fulfillment centers (CFCs), such as those operated by Ocado in the UK, and micro-fulfillment centers (MFCs), which offer similar robotic picking from a much smaller site, potentially within an existing store or dark store. MFC technology is nascent, but its relative portability and the rapidity with which it can be deployed is attractive: One European grocer rolled out a pilot facility in about three months rather than the two years that a CFC would have required. However, such technologies require meaningful capital expenditure, which grocers will need to allocate by making trade-offs against other investment opportunities.
Automated fulfillment requires heavy capital expenditure but can transform online grocery profitability, especially when customers are charged fees, too
Diversify revenue streams
Now that online orders are beginning to generate a more substantial chunk of sales, grocers need to think more about the specific characteristics of the online channel as they manage their vendor relationships: How can they build new models of digital retailing that create mutual, long-term benefits for both grocer and vendor? These models are already starting to evolve in some corners of the industry, highlighting opportunities for grocers to diversify their revenue streams online.
Vendors can be encouraged to fund brand activation initiatives that leverage the possibilities created by this virtual setting (without confusing or annoying shoppers in the process). Those initiatives might include selling banner ads on your website or app and allowing branded manufacturers to drop a sample into a customer’s basket for a fee. Grocers can auction prominent space in category pages and in search results for a particular product, while also charging a fee for vendor-branded pages and services such as a “shop the recipe” feature. They can sell consumer packaged goods companies insights from their data (such as basket mix and size, as well as the frequency and substitutability of purchases, or effectiveness of various activation tactics).
With an individual vendor, it might make sense to separate elements of the online negotiations from the talks covering the physical store estate. A new approach to negotiating cost of goods sold, listing fees and promotions for the online channel could help stimulate demand and unlock incremental growth and profit for both retailers and suppliers, thus contributing to covering the costs of the heavy software and analytics investments needed to realize the online channel’s full potential. Overall, we estimate that diversifying revenue streams while maintaining traditional trade terms could add up to six percentage points to a grocer’s online operating margin, without causing online channel economics to deteriorate for vendors.
Remove unsustainable channel subsidies
The grocery executives we meet tend to doubt their ability to raise the price of online grocery. It’s true that, when you’ve been charging too little for a valuable service for two decades, there’s no easy fix—and Covid-19 has increased the risk of backlash. The pandemic has not only damaged purchasing power, it has also given online deliveries and click-and-collect the aura of an essential social service, a utility almost.
Without minimizing the challenges and sensitivities, we think that pricing can be part of a broader reset of online grocery economics. Consider the boom in home deliveries of hot food during lockdown: Unlike many grocers, the likes of Uber Eats don’t deliver for free, and customers are happy to pay for the convenience the service brings. By the same token, Instacart is growing while charging delivery fees starting at $3.99 plus a 5% service fee—on top of item markups.
If a grocer is today fully subsidizing its value-added online services (either delivery or pickup) without any additional customer charges, we think there is room to improve margins by 15–20 percentage points. The combined measures that could achieve this include increasing the minimum basket sizes, charging a delivery fee if one is not in place already, introducing a picking fee for click-and-collect, operating a monthly or yearly membership scheme, varying delivery fees according to time-slot popularity and tilting the mix of purchases more toward private label products and other higher-margin items. In practice, the available levers, and thus the achievable savings, will be limited by the grocer’s starting point, its value proposition and the expectations of local consumers, but they can still help it break even at the very least.
Executive teams must manage the risk to their brand of even modest charges, of course. They’ll need to dazzle online customers in the key fresh produce category and avoid disappointing them with out-of-stocks and random substitutions. They’ll have to factor in the delivery needs of vulnerable customers long after lockdown eases. They might need to give customers choices over what they are willing to pay for (dynamic pricing that varies with urgency or time of day can help with this). Yet as they feel their way toward a viable long-term charging model, grocers can draw on the localized nature of their industry, which gives them room to test and refine new fee structures with a small pool of customers before a riskier large-scale launch.
Twenty years on, a chance to banish the ghost of Webvan
Next year marks a significant date in the history of online grocery: the 20th anniversary of the collapse of Webvan, the California-based grocery delivery service that badly misjudged the economics of what was then an entirely new sales channel and in July 2001 became a symbol of the US dot-com bust.
Over the coming months, online grocers around the world have an opportunity to banish the ghost of Webvan by tackling the financial weaknesses that still permeate the channel it helped to pioneer. Executive teams can draw on a range of actions spanning their value proposition, their revenue model and their operations.
Postponing this already long-delayed e-commerce overhaul isn’t an option, however. Many of the consumers who tried online grocery for the first time out of necessity during the pandemic will stick with it out of preference in calmer times. Those companies that can find a way to offer them a differentiated service and manage to be profitable are likely to thrive in the post-Covid world.
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Fusco, Money and Seidler vie for this week’s ‘Prep Ballplayer’ award
By Sean Naylor
Players across the Baltimore area took advantage of the clear, warmer weather following Monday’s rain and Tuesday’s light snow in parts of the region.
The competition was top notch. Several pitchers had stellar outings, including some who mowed down more than 10 batters in an individual game. Meanwhile, plenty of area hitters showcased power in multiple contests throughout the week.
One candidate was near perfect on the bump while the other two experienced the best of both worlds, succeeding on the mound and at the plate.
Here are this week’s three standouts:
Mark Fusco, Jr., P, Key School
Fusco’s breakout game came in an 11-1 win over Rockbridge Academy on Thursday. The junior tallied 14 strikeouts in a five-inning, complete-game effort. He allowed two hits and an unearned run. At the plate, he drove in four runs, highlighted by a three-run homer. Earlier in the week, Fusco had two hits and one RBI in Key’s 16-5 rout over Saints Peter & Paul.
Jonathan Money, Sr., P, South Carroll
Money took the mound against Liberty on Thursday, a day after South Carroll fell to the Lions, 4-1. The senior dominated — tossing a no-hitter while striking out 16 batters. He also added a double in the Cavaliers’ 4-0 win.
Joe Seidler, Sr., P, Chesapeake (Anne Arundel)
If you are an avid reader of this feature, you know Seidler’s name. He’s been a frequent candidate since he was a sophomore. He’s back again after a strong week. He knocked in two of Chesapeake’s eight runs Tuesday in a win against South River. The next day, he was 3-for-4 with a double in a win against Annapolis. But the righty saved his best for last in a 12-4 win against Severna Park on Friday. He allowed four runs on four hits while striking out nine batters in 6 2/3 innings pitched. And he hit a grand slam and a RBI single for five RBIs to help his cause.
Others considered (listed alphabetically): PJ Alvanos (North County); Colby Buckheit (Chesapeake AA); Phil Carroll (Oakland Mills); Noah D’Alonzo (Mount Hebron); David Kates (Glen Burnie); Jalen March (Archbishop Curley); Paul Nixon (Archbishop Curley); Andrew Sowinski (Annapolis Area Christian).
About ‘Prep Ballplayer’ nominations: Three new candidates are revealed each Monday. You can vote — early and often — for the candidate you believe is most worthy. Voting ends on Thursday night and the winner is announced Friday afternoon.
If you’re interested in submitting candidates for our consideration, please send the player’s name, key statistics from the previous week and your contact information to [email protected] We welcome suggestions and your feedback.
Who is your BaltimoreBaseball.com Prep Ballplayer of the Week for April 16 – April 22?
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Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
by Stephen Edgar •
Waiting for the Past
by Les Murray
Black Inc., $24.99 hb, 81 pp, 9781863957137
My first reaction on picking up Les Murray’s new collection, Waiting for the Past, was to note how handsomely produced it is, in hardback – a rare privilege for any book of poetry these days. The jacket image, a drawing of the portico of a stately house, in sepia tones, will be taken up later in one of the poems. A photograph of the author, also washed in sepia, occupies the back cover. Sepia is a virtual synonym for the past, and the intimations of lost time suggested by it, and by the title, are borne out in at least one strand of the book’s concerns.
Stephen Edgar
Stephen Edgar’s latest collection is Exhibits of the Sun (Black Pepper, 2014). His previous book, Eldershaw, was joint winner of the Colin Roderick Award for 2013 and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in 2014.
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The making of the modern world
The Year 9 curriculum provides a study of the history of the making of the modern world from 1750 to 1918. It was a period of industrialisation and rapid change in the ways people lived, worked and thought. It was an era of nationalism and imperialism, and the colonisation of Australia was part of the expansion of European power. The period culminated in World War I, 1914–1918, the ‘war to end all wars’.
The content provides opportunities to develop historical understanding through key concepts, including evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives, empathy, significance and contestability. These concepts may be investigated within a particular historical context to facilitate an understanding of the past and to provide a focus for historical inquiries.
The history content at this year level involves two strands: historical knowledge and understanding, and historical skills. These strands are interrelated and have been developed to be taught in an integrated way, and in ways that are appropriate to specific local contexts. The order and detail in which they are taught are programming decisions.
Key inquiry questions
A framework for developing students’ historical knowledge, understanding and skills is provided by inquiry questions through the use and interpretation of sources. The key inquiry questions for Year 9 are:
What were the changing features of the movements of people from 1750 to 1918?
How did new ideas and technological developments contribute to change in this period?
What was the origin, development, significance and long-term impact of imperialism in this period?
What was the significance of World War I?
Year 9 Content Descriptions
Overview of the making of the modern world
The following content is taught as part of an overview for the historical period. It is not intended to be taught in depth. Overview content identifies important features of the period (1750 – 1918) as part of an expansive chronology that helps students understand broad patterns of historical change. As such, the overview provides the broader context for the teaching of depth study content and can be built into various parts of a teaching and learning program. This means that overview content can be used to give students an introduction to the historical period; to make the links to and between the depth studies, and to consolidate understanding through a review of the period.
Overview content for the making of the modern world includes the following:
the nature and significance of the Industrial Revolution and how it affected living and working conditions, including within Australia (ACOKFH016 - Scootle )
the nature and extent of the movement of peoples in the period (slaves, convicts and settlers) (ACOKFH015 - Scootle )
Inquiring – identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas
Identify and clarify information and ideas
Organise and process information
the extent of European imperial expansion and different responses, including in the Asian region (ACOKFH017 - Scootle )
Recognising culture and developing respect
Investigate culture and cultural identity
Explore and compare cultural knowledge, beliefs and practices
Develop respect for cultural diversity
Interacting and empathising with others
Consider and develop multiple perspectives
the emergence and nature of significant economic, social and political ideas in the period, including nationalism (ACOKFH019 - Scootle )
Appreciate diverse perspectives
Understanding ethical concepts and issues
Recognise ethical concepts
Exploring values, rights and responsibilities
Consider points of view
Depth Studies
Making a better world?
Students investigate how life changed in the period in depth through the study of ONE of these major developments: the Industrial Revolution or Progressive ideas and movements or Movement of peoples. The study includes the causes and effects of the development, and the Australian experience.
The Industrial Revolution (1750 – 1914)
The technological innovations that led to the Industrial Revolution, and other conditions that influenced the industrialisation of Britain (ACDSEH017 - Scootle )
Elaborations
mapping the British Empire c.1800 AD (CE) and the raw materials it obtained from colonies (for example, sugar from Jamaica, wool from Australia and cotton from India)
Understand learning area vocabulary
Visual Knowledge
Understand how visual elements create meaning
Composing texts through speaking, writing and creating
Compose spoken, written, visual and multimodal learning area texts
Using spatial reasoning
Interpret maps and diagrams
Recognise personal qualities and achievements
Understand themselves as learners
explaining changes in technology (for example, steam-driven spinning mills, railways and steam ships) which led to factories and cities
Use language to interact with others
Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing
Listen and respond to learning area texts
Interpret and analyse learning area texts
Navigate, read and view learning area texts
Applying social and ethical protocols and practices when using ICT
Identify the impacts of ICT in society
identifying the spread of innovations such as steam power; iron and steel production; transport; and chemicals in Europe, USA and Japan
identifying factors that led to the Industrial Revolution such as the agricultural revolution, access to raw materials, wealthy middle class, cheap labour, transport system and expanding empire
The population movements and changing settlement patterns during this period (ACDSEH080 - Scootle )
Interpreting statistical information
Interpret data displays
Recognising and using patterns and relationships
Recognise and use patterns and relationships
examining changes to the population statistics of major cities during this period
investigating changes to the cities and landscape in European countries and Australia as the Industrial Revolution continued to develop, using photos (for example, those that were taken as the Eiffel Tower was being constructed using iron)
Reflecting on thinking and processes
Reflect on processes
Analysing, synthesising and evaluating reasoning and procedures
Apply logic and reasoning
Generating ideas, possibilities and actions
Consider alternatives
The experiences of men, women and children during the Industrial Revolution, and their changing way of life (ACDSEH081 - Scootle )
Examine values
Explore rights and responsibilities
describing the impact of steam, gas and electricity on people’s way of life during the Industrial Revolution
investigating the changes in working conditions (for example, longer working hours for low pay and the use of children as a cheap source of labour)
Reasoning in decision making and actions
Consider consequences
Explore ethical concepts in context
The short and long-term impacts of the Industrial Revolution, including global changes in landscapes, transport and communication (ACDSEH082 - Scootle )
describing the impact of factories, mines and cities on the environment, and on population growth and distribution
Using fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios and rates
Interpret proportional reasoning
Apply proportional reasoning
Estimating and calculating with whole numbers
Understand and use numbers in context
outlining the growth of trade unions as a response to the impacts of the Industrial Revolution
Transfer knowledge into new contexts
Progressive ideas and movements (1750 – 1918)
The emergence and nature of key ideas in the period, with a particular focus on ONE of the following: capitalism, socialism, egalitarianism, nationalism, imperialism, Darwinism, Chartism (ACDSEH019 - Scootle )
explaining why an idea emerged and the basis of that idea (for example, egalitarianism — being judged on merit rather than by birth or past deeds)
Reflect on ethical action
Reason and make ethical decisions
Pose questions
Think about thinking (metacognition)
Reasons why ONE key idea emerged and/or developed a following (ACDSEH086 - Scootle )
investigating reasons why a key idea gained support, such as the support for Chartism among the poorer classes as a response to deteriorating living and working conditions
The role of an individual or group in the promotion of ONE of these key ideas, and the responses to it, for example from workers, entrepreneurs, land owners, religious groups (ACDSEH087 - Scootle )
explaining responses to particular ideas (for example, how religious groups responded to ideas in Charles Darwin’s 1859 book On the Origin of Species or how workers responded to the idea of capitalism or socialism)
investigating the role played by an individual or group in promoting a key idea (for example, the role of Adam Smith and entrepreneurs in promoting capitalism)
The short and long-term impacts of ONE of these ideas on Australia and the world (ACDSEH088 - Scootle )
assessing the impact of a key idea in Australia and elsewhere (for example, the effect of increasing nationalist sentiment in Australia in the mid- to late nineteenth century or the effects of Chartism on democracy in Britain or on the Victorian goldfields)
Grammar knowledge
Express opinion and point of view
Express emotions appropriately
Social management
Communicate effectively
Movement of peoples (1750 – 1901)
The influence of the Industrial Revolution on the movement of peoples throughout the world, including the transatlantic slave trade and convict transportation (ACDSEH018 - Scootle )
mapping the movement of peoples in the transatlantic slave trade or in convict transportation to Australia
explaining the role of the Industrial Revolution in creating a growing need for labour and transportation
Experiences of slaves, convicts and free settlers upon departure, their journey abroad, and their reactions on arrival, including the Australian experience (ACDSEH083 - Scootle )
investigating sources that record the reactions of new arrivals to other countries in this period (for example, responses to the natural environment and climate)
Changes in the way of life of a group(s) of people who moved to Australia in this period, such as free settlers on the frontier in Australia (ACDSEH084 - Scootle )
investigating the experiences of a specific group of arrivals to Australia (for example, convicts in Sydney, Hobart, Brisbane; or free settlers in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth or Darwin)
describing the impact of this group on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of the region
The short and long-term impacts of the movement of peoples during this period (ACDSEH085 - Scootle )
evaluating the effects of the movement of peoples on the indigenous and immigrant populations
Evaluate procedures and outcomes
Empathise with others
Australia and Asia
Students investigate the history of an Asian society OR Australia in the period 1750 – 1918 in depth.
Asia and the world
Key features (social, cultural, economic, political) of ONE Asian society at the start of this period (ACDSEH093 - Scootle )
investigating the key aspects an Asian society at the beginning of this period (for example, identifying the territorial extent of Qing China, the role and influence of the Emperor, and the nature of literature, art and architecture)
Change and continuity in the Asian society during this period, including any effects of contact (intended and unintended) with European power(s) (ACDSEH094 - Scootle )
identifying aspects of the Asian society under investigation that remained the same or changed during this period, especially as a result of contact with European powers (for example, describing the British Raj and identifying British influences on society (such as the building of roads, an extensive railway network, schools and Christian missions))
The position of the Asian society in relation to other nations in the world around the turn of the twentieth century (that is 1900), including the influence of key ideas such as nationalism (ACDSEH142 - Scootle )
investigating the confrontation between Japan and Western powers (for example, the Russo-Japanese war) and the emergence of Japan as a major world power
The significance of ONE key event that involved the Asian society and European power(s), including different perspectives of the event at the time (ACDSEH141 - Scootle )
describing the activities of Christian missionaries in China and the outcomes of the Boxer Rebellion
Making a nation
The extension of settlement, including the effects of contact (intended and unintended) between European settlers in Australia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACDSEH020 - Scootle )
explaining the effects of contact (for example, the massacres of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; their killing of sheep; the spread of European diseases) and categorising these effects as either intended or unintended
investigating the forcible removal of children from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in the late nineteenth century/early twentieth century (leading to the Stolen Generations), such as the motivations for the removal of children, the practices and laws that were in place, and experiences of separation.
Experiences of non-Europeans in Australia prior to the 1900s (such as the Japanese, Chinese, South Sea Islanders, Afghans) (ACDSEH089 - Scootle )
Reflecting on intercultural experiences and taking responsibility
Challenge stereotypes and prejudices
outlining the migration of Chinese to the goldfields in Australia in the nineteenth century and attitudes towards the Chinese as revealed in cartoons (for example, 'The Mongolian Octopus')
Using measurement
Operate with clocks, calendars and timetables
Living and working conditions in Australia around the turn of the twentieth century (that is 1900) (ACDSEH090 - Scootle )
identifying the main features of housing, sanitation, transport, education and industry that influenced living and working conditions in Australia
describing the impact of the gold rushes (hinterland) on the development of ‘Marvellous Melbourne’
Key people, events and ideas in the development of Australian self-government and democracy, including, the role of founders, key features of constitutional development, the importance of British and Western influences in the formation of Australia’s system of government and women's voting rights (ACDSEH091 - Scootle )
explaining the factors that contributed to federation and the development of democracy in Australia, including the role of key individuals, defence concerns, the 1890s depression, nationalist ideals and egalitarianism
examining the key features of and British and Western influences on Australia's system of government including the Westminster System and Federalism
Draw conclusions and design a course of action
investigating the factors that led to the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902, which enabled women to vote and stand for election for the federal Parliament
Imagine possibilities and connect ideas
Laws made by federal Parliament between 1901-1914 including the Harvester Judgement, pensions, and the Immigration Restriction Act (ACDSEH092 - Scootle )
investigating how the major social legislation of the new Federal Government affected living and working conditions in Australia (for example, invalid and old-age pensions and the maternity allowance scheme)
creating a timeline of major social legislation passed by federal Parliament between 1901 and 1914
World War I (1914-1918)
Students investigate key aspects of World War I and the Australian experience of the war, including the nature and significance of the war in world and Australian history.
An overview of the causes of World War I and the reasons why men enlisted to fight in the war (ACDSEH021 - Scootle )
investigating the rise of nationalist sentiment as well as the values and attitudes towards war in the period 1750–1918 (for example, idealistic notions of war; sense of adventure)
The places where Australians fought and the nature of warfare during World War I, including the Gallipoli campaign (ACDSEH095 - Scootle )
identifying the places where Australians fought, including Fromelles, the Somme, Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine
using sources to investigate the fighting at Gallipoli, the difficulties of trench warfare, and the use of tanks, aeroplanes and chemical weapons (gas)
exploring the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during the war
The impact of World War I, with a particular emphasis on Australia including the changing role of women (ACDSEH096 - Scootle )
graphing the proportion of Australian servicemen who died during World War I, compared to that of other countries involved in the war
Seek solutions and put ideas into action
investigating examples of the war’s impact on Australia’s economy and society (for example, the development of the steel industry in Newcastle and the implementation of the War Precautions Act)
identifying the groups who opposed conscription (for example, trade unionists, Irish Catholics) and the grounds for their objections
studying the first and second referenda on conscription, including the division within the Labor Party over this issue
explaining the treatment of people of German descent during the war (for example, their classification as ‘enemy aliens’ and placement in internment camps, as well as their depiction in government propaganda)
investigating the short- and long-term impact of World War I on the role of women in Australia
The commemoration of World War I, including debates about the nature and significance of the Anzac legend (ACDSEH097 - Scootle )
investigating the ideals associated with the Anzac tradition and how and why World War I is commemorated within Australian society
Chronology, terms and concepts
Use chronological sequencing to demonstrate the relationship between events and developments in different periods and places (ACHHS164 - Scootle )
Compose texts
Estimate and calculate
representing the relationship between events in different times and places using interactive timelines
Creating with ICT
Generate solutions to challenges and learning area tasks
Generate ideas, plans and processes
placing key events in sequence (for example, the Boer War, 1899–1902; World War I, 1914–1918), and identifying parts of the world that were involved in, or affected by, those events
Use historical terms and concepts (ACHHS165 - Scootle )
Use spelling knowledge
discussing the contestability of particular historical terms such as 'settlement', 'invasion' and 'colonisation' in the context of Australia’s history
defining and using concepts such as ‘imperialism’, ‘nationalism’, ‘evolution’, ‘evidence’
Historical questions and research
Identify and select different kinds of questions about the past to inform historical inquiry (ACHHS166 - Scootle )
Use knowledge of sentence structures
Comprehend texts
Text knowledge
Use knowledge of text structures
developing questions about aspects of the past that require historical argument
assembling, as part of the planning process, a range of sources that would be useful for researching the causes of World War I
Evaluate and enhance these questions (ACHHS167 - Scootle )
developing an inquiry question such as: ‘What were the effects of the Industrial Revolution?’ and refining it as further factors are introduced into the research process
Identify and locate relevant sources, using ICT and other methods (ACHHS168 - Scootle )
Investigating with ICT
Locate, generate and access data and information
Define and plan information searches
Select and evaluate data and information
locating historical sources from archives, museums and online collections
Analysis and use of sources
Identify the origin, purpose and context of primary and secondary sources (ACHHS169 - Scootle )
explaining the contextual significance of a source, such as Frank Hurley’s World War I photos, and identifying the purpose of Hurley’s creation of composite photos
Process and synthesise information from a range of sources for use as evidence in an historical argument (ACHHS170 - Scootle )
Use knowledge of text cohesion
graphing historical data to identify past trends and to draw conclusions about their significance (for example, the proportion of Australian servicemen who returned from World War I, and the ‘lost generations’ in the years after the war)
Evaluate the reliability and usefulness of primary and secondary sources (ACHHS171 - Scootle )
understanding that the reliability and usefulness of a source depends on the questions asked of it (for example, an account may be one-sided; however, it may still be useful in revealing past prevailing attitudes)
Perspectives and interpretations
Identify and analyse the perspectives of people from the past (ACHHS172 - Scootle )
investigating the role of human agency in historical events and developments
analysing the accounts of poets such as William Blake (‘dark Satanic mills’) and novelists such as Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist, Bleak House) as sources of information on living conditions in England during the Industrial Revolution
Identify and analyse different historical interpretations (including their own) (ACHHS173 - Scootle )
recognising that historical interpretations may be provisional
examining different accounts of eighteenth-century journeys to Australia (for example, ships’ logs; diaries; recorded testimonies of male and female convicts, and officers; and explaining the variations in perspective which can lead to different historical interpretations
Explanation and communication
Develop texts, particularly descriptions and discussions that use evidence from a range of sources that are referenced (ACHHS174 - Scootle )
Use knowledge of words and word groups
developing a historical argument that identifies different possibilities in interpretation and argues a particular point of view with consistent reference to the evidence available
Select and use a range of communication forms (oral, graphic, written) and digital technologies (ACHHS175 - Scootle )
Communicating with ICT
Collaborate, share and exchange
using online conferencing and other forms of ICT to discuss historical questions and issues
Understand computer mediated communications
Managing and operating ICT
Select and use hardware and software
creating a travel brochure (incorporating written text and graphics) to advertise the achievements and opportunities available to an immigrant to nineteenth-century Brisbane
Year 9 Achievement Standards
Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 9, students refer to key events and the actions of individuals and groups to explain patterns of change and continuity over time. They analyse the causes and effects of events and developments and make judgements about their importance. They explain the motives and actions of people at the time. Students explain the significance of these events and developments over the short and long term. They explain different interpretations of the past.
Students sequence events and developments within a chronological framework, with reference to periods of time and their duration. When researching, students develop different kinds of questions to frame a historical inquiry. They interpret, process, analyse and organise information from a range of primary and secondary sources and use it as evidence to answer inquiry questions. Students examine sources to compare different points of view. When evaluating these sources, they analyse origin and purpose, and draw conclusions about their usefulness. They develop their own interpretations about the past. Students develop texts, particularly explanations and discussions, incorporating historical interpretations. In developing these texts and organising and presenting their conclusions, they use historical terms and concepts, evidence identified in sources, and they reference these sources.
Year 9 Work Sample Portfolios
Above Satisfactory
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Audi and FAW to set up new company to produce EVs in China
Audi already produces at four locations in China in the FAW-VW joint venture: in Changchun, Foshan, Tianjin and Qingdao, with a total capacity of approximately 700,000 vehicles
Audi's electric initiative in China has already begun: the locally produced Audi e-tron
By 2025, Audi plans to generate approximately 40 percent of its unit sales in China with electrified cars.
Audi is expanding its presence in China. The German carmaker and FAW today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that defines the framework for the joint production of electric vehicles based on the PPE platform. The memorandum of understanding was signed during the Germany-China Automobile Conference, which is currently taking place in Changchun, northern China.
In the future, Audi will also bring to China the Premium Platform Electric (PPE), which was developed jointly with Porsche, to further advance the transformation in its largest market. Several all-electric Audi models are to be produced for the Chinese market on the new PPE platform from 2024 onwards.
"This decision emphasises the strategic importance of the Chinese market. We are thus actively pushing forward with innovations locally,” said Markus Duesmann, Chairman of the Board of Management of Audi AG and responsible for the China-business.
With the signing of the MoU, Audi is affirming its cooperation with its longstanding joint-venture partner FAW. At the same time, Audi is also systematically following the path of sustainable mobility in China and is specifically gearing its locally produced drive portfolio towards the requirements and wishes of Chinese premium customers. The plans for the new company are still being developed. Production is scheduled to start in 2024.
Werner Eichhorn, President of Audi China: “This is a further milestone in our electrification strategy for the Chinese market. We are also confirming our commitment both to our longstanding Chinese partner FAW and to our activities in China, which we are now taking to a new level.”
Audi's electric initiative in China has already begun: Audi and FAW are jointly producing the all-electric Q2L e-tron and the plug-in hybrid A6L TFSIe. In addition, the previously imported Audi e-tron has been produced in Changchun since the end of September. In the coming years, Audi will offer or localise further fully electric models of the e-tron family in China. By 2025, Audi plans to generate approximately 40 percent of its unit sales in China with electrified cars.
From January through September 2020, Audi delivered 512,081 vehicles to customers in China, which is 4.5 percent more than in the same period of the previous year. Despite the interruptions in production due to the coronavirus, the brand thus achieved the best result in its 30-year history in China.
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