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MLB needs on-field interviews to continue
Graphic by the FHS N The Red Staff.
Ben Rosen, Reporter
During the 2020 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, broadcasters for FOX Sports and ESPN interviewed players while they were on the field during the game. During this year that experiment was a good way to get fans more engaged in the game, and they should continue it into 2021.
This is a way to keep them engaged during the game since they cannot be in the ballpark. Fans are a big part of the atmosphere of a baseball game and the MLB needs to expand a decreasing fan base.
According to Sports Pro Media the 2019 World Series deciding Game 7 drew 23.20 million viewers on FOX, which was also the 44th most watched World Series on record according to the Baseball Almanac, compared to the 2020 World Series deciding Game 6 which drew 12.62 million viewers. The 2020 series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays, which went six games, with all six airing on FOX, recorded the lowest TV rating for a World Series on record.
According to the Baseball Almanac the last time a World Series had an average viewership of more than 20 million was the 2016 World Series in which the Chicago Cubs defeating the Cleveland Indians in seven games helped the ratings resulting in a 12.9 rating for the series and the highest rating FOX has drawn for a World Series in the last 18 years.
Each of the six least watched World Series on record have happened after the year 2007 and only four World Series in that time period have drawn at least a 10.0 rating and three of the four went to a Game 7. The 2009 World Series was the only one that did not have a Game 7 to reach a 10.0 or more rating in that time period, but it featured the New York Yankees winning their 27th championship.
To keep fans engaged and bring in new fans, continuing to interview players and coaches during a game can be a benefit for the league and its broadcast partners, FOX Sports, ESPN and Turner Sports.
The networks did a very good job of finding players willing to do the interviews, mainly featuring outfielders. This is because those players are on their own and less likely to be involved in a play unless the ball is hit out of the infield. An alternative is interviewing players while they are in the dugout, or interviewing coaches, if the networks are worried about players being distracted.
These problems can be avoided if the networks handle the situation properly and find the right combination of broadcaster and player or coach that can continue to be a success well into the future.
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FHS Explosion Dance Team dance with a mix of 90s and modern hip-hop. The members of the team are happy to volunteer for the event and to make it a part of their schedule every year.
A performer from the Epiphany Dance Collective presents traditional Western African dancing in the auditorium.
Trinity Kendrick has a smile on her face after dancing with the Explosion Dance Team during the Black Heritage Celebration.
Members of the CDJ Steppers perform through "stepping" which is a form of percussive dance.
Pictured above from left to right: junior Morgan Joiner junior Kayla Wilkerson and sophomore Niah Cantrell sings The Black National Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing". The anthem is to honor and represent the black community.
Senior Danielle Dixon shares her spoken word poem to give homage to herself after all the hard work she's put in in last four years of her high school career. She believes being part of the Future Black Leaders and being a part of the Black Heritage Celebration is an experience unparalleled to any other she's been apart of.
Sophomore Nyah Duplessis helps on the night of the Black Heritage Celebration. She believes this event brings together the black community in Fishers due to the community being spread out.
Senior Chase Iseghohi is the co-president of the Future Black Leaders and hosted the event in the auditorium on Feb. 20. When he started Future Black Leaders his freshmen year, the Black Heritage Celebration was a parent planned event. This year, the event was student driven, led, and organized.
The Divine 9 is a group of sororities and fraternities who attend the Black Heritage Celebration annually. Seen above, one of the sororities from the Divine 9 are performing in the auditorium.
Members of the Epiphany Dance Collective perform traditional West African Dance in the auditorium on Feb. 20.
Historically black colleges and universities, fraternities, sororities, and community members set up booths in the hallways to share opportunities for students attending the event.
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No More MSP Bubble?????/
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I'm still trying to find out if this is indeed true. If so then I'm pissed.
Originally Posted by The Michigonian Press
Lansing MI- Michigan State Police reports that by 2009 the "bubble-light" as troopers refer to it will no longer appear on new patrol cars, but will be replaced by a more "modernized" look.
It was only a single topic amongst many at the quarterly review meeting, one of the final discussions to be had on the Monday evening, but certainly not the least important. Administrators and ranking officials from the Michigan State Police discussed a piece of police vehicle equipment that will soon be a thing of the past.
"It's weird, it feels like we have lost something near and dear to us and every trooper who has worked these highways, but we know it is for the best." Lt. Timothy Kearnst of the State Police said.
By 5:00pm on Monday evening it was decided that the Michigan State Police will retire their current overhead lighting system, commonly referred to as "The bubble-light."
As you cruise along Michigan's highways and interstates, a-top the State Police's vehicles, foreigners of Michigan get to see an interesting sight; a bubble-light. Named for its unconventional look, the "bubble-light" is a single red lens on the center of the roof with a rotating light inside.
Michigan officials deemed the light was, "no longer meeting the needs of Michigan's law enforcement..." and it, "does not provide the appropriate and immediate identification of a law enforcement vehicle to drivers from elsewhere in the country."
According to studies, Michigan has become more and more of a thru-way for drivers from all over the country, which has been posing a serious problem for the state police.
"I didn't know what to think at first, it was dark out and all I saw behind me was a big red shining light, then it went away, then it came back. I was frightened at first as I had no idea what it was that was closing in on me. As it got closer I could tell it was a police car because it had more lights on the inside and above the bumper. It just, didn't look right." A driver native to Illinois reports.
Michigan State Police currently deploy lighting equipment from Unity Manufacturing which boasts the light is the most powerful light on any police car to date. However; Michigan State Police officials feel the worth of lighting equipment cannot be based on sheer light output.
The Michigan State Police have not yet announced what design will be taking the place of the bubble-lights, but state that they will be looking into multiple different providers.
-9/26/2006 - The Michigonian Press
rdale
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It's about time - I'm tired of confusing tow trucks in the distance with them!
rdale said:
HUH? Your kidding right? :roll:
MetalManMI
Probably had more to do with the roof design of the Chargers not being able to support them without modification. Also, with limited demand, Unity is probably charging a fortune for them...
SEMTTP
Ypsilanti Michigan
Here are my thoughts....
I hate to see the bubble light go....I have grown to like the bubble light, but as with anything in life, things change. MSP as done a lot to keep that bubble light and made all kinds of changes and upgrades in their lighting schemes. However, it really is time that they do upgrade to full lightbars. The new LED lightbars are extreemly bright and should provide the MSP with a more safer unit on the highways....
I hate to see the bubble light go......
At night, on the road, red bubbles on the tow trucks around here look identical to the red bubbles on MSP.
ahhhhhh but you still have to pull over and slow down for them as well if they are on the side of the road.
stiebs81
SEMTTP said:
I also think LED lightbars are more practical. A good advantage to LED lightbars is you can turn the back on only during a traffic stop. St. Clair Shores PD does that with the Code 3 2100 lightbar. That reduces traffic delays and may not cause as many accidents from the opposite flow of traffic.
rcvmo
Romulus, Mi.
"SAVE THE BUBBLE!!!!!!!!!!!"
get the hint?
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All i can say is its about time. I know I've personally confused them with plows a few time when they were coming from the opposite direction off in the distance. They just don't get your attention like the LED bars. That and its hard to take the state police seriously when they drive around in cars that look as they belong in an Andy Griffith Episode.
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While I hate to see this tradition change, the new LED lightbars offer greater visibility, especially at night. One of my professors in college almost ran into an accident because he mistook the MSP car for a tow-truck, when it was really foggy one night on US-127. Thankfully, he didn't hit anyone, but the person behind him, one of his students at MSU back then, ran over some debris and got four flats. He, like the person before him, mistook the cruiser for a AAA Wrecker.
I wonder if the MSP will go with an all red, or red & blue configeration? I just hope they don't remove the "State STOP Police" light on the hood. I have always liked that concept, which really goes back many decades, but still looks cool.
stiebs81 said:
Our light bars allow that, too (although ours are strobe, not LED). However, we ususally use the back only option when we are doing a motorist assist...they don't see the flashing lights pulling up behind them and feel like they've done something wrong, yet cars approaching from the rear can clearly see warning lights. Obviously, if the situation requires that cars approaching from the opposite direction of traffic flow be warned of the hazard, the lights are turned-on all the way around, even with a motorist assist. It is nice having options!
What I like about the bubbles is, it is easy to spot/identify a MSP trooper from a great distance...no questions in my mind! Seeing MSP cars with light bars would take some getting used to!
Least with the bubble you know that REAL help is on the way.
I don't know how a tow truck would be of much service in a police situation...
Oh - that's not what you meant ;>
MSP contains the only officer to ever pull me over for speeding in the weather van during a tornado situation. For 64 in a 55. I was a "car-deer PI" away from getting a ticket.
Needless to say I prefer to deal with local police agencies more than the state after that...
HA HA you found the rare one that stops anything in the rain. They don't here.
I far prefeer the professionalism of the Troops over any local or county clown.
Fiveo
Is "The Michigonian Press" a reputable publication? Reason I ask is "Lt. Timothy Kearnst" that is quoted is not listed on the State of Michigan Online contact directory. I know budget times are tight, but I would think/hope a MSP Lt. would have email.
MSP studied this issue a few years back (when some of the 4 bulb bubbles were tested) and discovered little is gained as far as "warning distance" by using full light bars.
gpp10x
This SUCKS in my opinion. Just 1 more thing I will blame on her majesty Granholm.
I must be totally different. When I see those bubble lights I immediately think MSP although the MDOT service vans are using them too I know the difference between MSP blue & white vans.
No more MSP bubble
A quick google search did not turn up any website or publication for The Michigonian Press.
"This SUCKS in my opinion."
Why? A "real" light system is safer.
"Just 1 more thing I will blame on her majesty Granholm."
What in the world does she have to do with it?
"I must be totally different."
You live in MI. Imagine not living in MI and never seeing a police car with this, especially at night.
SCPD
QRT
Full size light bar
Even if the Michigonian Press, or whatever it was called, does not exist, it's time for MSP to step up.
A roof mounted light bar has the advantage of much better visability. The led strobes can be seen much further. The new light bars will have yellow/amber lamps for foggy and poor visibilty situations.
The front of the bar will have white floods, at a much higher height than a fender mounted spotlight.
It's inevitable, and it's a good thing.
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Re: Exposing Liberal Hypocrisy and Conservative Close-Mindedness
Post by vegetariantaxidermy » Mon Jul 09, 2018 1:13 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Sun Jul 08, 2018 9:44 pm Apparently Van jones flirted with some sort of actual communism in the 90s.
But more recently he has worked for that dastardly Obama chap, which tends to be enough reason for Walker to hate on anyone forever and discount everything they ever say.
What he says in that video is fine enough as a set of words, although his comments on rap and conservatism suggest he has never heard any rap or met a conservative. The USA might well be a better place if church pleading conservatives tried to gain votes from all those highly religious black and latino districts. But would it make that much difference?
And really, you have to wonder whether pandering to MAGA-hatted rednecks like Walker is genuinely useful from the other side. I get it, they are feeling all "othered" which makes them prime voting stock for the Democrats. But so many of them cannot be made happy because they are stuck wishing for a return to some imagined happier times when black folks took their weekly beating from the cops without getting all uppity about it.
I know that although Walker and I don't exactly see eye to eye much of the time, I've never seen him write anything remotely racist or redneck. He likes Trump. Is that a crime?
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Post by artisticsolution » Mon Jul 09, 2018 1:31 am
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 1:13 am
I know that Walker and I don't exactly see eye to eye much of the time I've never seen him write anything remotely racist or redneck. He likes Trump. Is that a crime?
Liking Trump is no crime. It's just frustrating why he can't explain why he thinks liberals are hypocrites. I have no idea what about liberalism he thinks is horrible. Or what about communism for that matter...not that the 2 are even related...since, as quite a few have pointed out, liberalism means very different things in different areas of the globe?
artisticsolution wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 1:31 am
I know what he means by 'liberals' and I agree that they are hypocrites. I don't regard them as liberal though, but I've given up on flogging that dead horse.
uwot
Post by uwot » Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:25 am
artisticsolution wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:16 am The scary thing is conservatives used to hide their crazy.
What I liked about the link in the OP was the conciliatory tone. Walker's response is playground stuff:
Walker wrote: ↑Sun Jul 08, 2018 11:34 am The video begins with a reasonable mea culpa for liberals...
So he listens to anything that supports his worldview...
Walker wrote: ↑Sun Jul 08, 2018 11:34 am ...the rest of whatever he said was probably fog...
...but switches of the moment he has to think.
artisticsolution wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:16 am I used to think they were hypocrites because they seemed to act like holier than thou bible thumpers but their dark ugly side would come out once in awhile.
I still think that Van Jones made some very good points, though as FlashDangerPants points out, some people are a waste of breath.
artisticsolution wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:16 am Now, that Trump has made it trendy, they can show their ugly side all the time. There is no good side left.
The fusionists ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusionism ) have been very successful. Economic conservatives need the social and religious conservatives for the tedious business of democracy, but they can afford to buy them. Not only that, but religious conservatives have adopted the same tactics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_strategy) The plan is to make it simple for the hard of thinking and turn any debate into a comic strip with two dimensional characters like The Liberal and The Atheist. It's yer basic divide and conquer.
artisticsolution wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:16 am Gone is the day when they at least tried to follow the bibles verses. That's gone....terrifying if you ask me.
I'm more concerned about the nutters who do follow bible verses, particularly those impatient for Armageddon/Rapture.
artisticsolution wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:16 am People who have no moral compass and no bible to tell them right from wrong...there is no going back from here...and i am sure even Walker has no idea what can come of this pandoras box. I doubt very seriously he's going to like where the MAGA trend is going.
I dunno. 200 years ago most of congress were slave owners. !00 years ago half of them were in the Ku Klux Klan. America has a record of bouncing back from complacency, although it usually takes a civil or world war to wake them up. Let's hope you can find a different way this time.
Post by Walker » Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:36 pm
artisticsolution wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:53 am
Just curious what you think so bad?
That's a head scratcher, but I think I got the gist.
Research and learn, or research and see only what you want to see, or don’t research and disagree.
You seem to think in terms of opinion.
Security clearance question:
"Are you now or have you ever been a member of any foreign or domestic organization, association, movement, group, or combination of persons which is totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive; or which has adopted or shows a policy advocating or approving the commission of force or violence to deny other persons their rights under the Constitution of the United States, or which seems [sic] to alter the form of government of the United States by unconstitutional means?"
“… combination of persons …” describes Van Jones associations, some of whom may have been Dutch.
But hey, no one in power really cares about that sort of thing when the top doesn't care, when rule of law gets replaced by rule of man, which is what also happened with the border control and immigration.
Funny thing, but it's been demonstrated that some folks can read that security clearance question, or perhaps something else, and not even see the C word. If you want to hide and minimize, it helps to bury it amongst words, like hiding a hippo in a herd of hippos, as the truthful experiencers will attest.
Post by Walker » Mon Jul 09, 2018 1:02 pm
uwot wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:25 am I dunno. 200 years ago most of congress were slave owners. !00 years ago half of them were in the Ku Klux Klan. America has a record of bouncing back from complacency, although it usually takes a civil or world war to wake them up. Let's hope you can find a different way this time.
That half in the Klan were the Democrats, who still aren't woke, to use their misused word.
See, Lincoln was a Republican, and when the slaves were freed, the Dems immediately began their resistance to the country, with actions like the klan.
See, Trump is a Republican, and when he was elected, the Dems immediately began to ramp-up their resistance to the country.
uwot wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:25 am I still think that Van Jones made some very good points, though as FlashDangerPants points out, some people are a waste of breath.
Obama, who selected Jones to be a Czar, made some good points, too.
For instance he said, if you like your plan you can keep your plan, and if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, period.
That was a good point, however those who saw through it, saw it was not a waste of breath.
Instead, it was a lie to fool the gullible, and it achieved the objective.
Those gullible were Democrats.
Not a single Republican voted for the lie.
Do you detect a pattern in history, or because it is not spelled out to your liking and festooned with citations from Dem approved sources, are you blind to the pattern?
FlashDangerpants
Post by FlashDangerpants » Mon Jul 09, 2018 6:57 pm
Walker doesn't seem to be directly racist. But I am pretty sure he regards the whole black lives matter setup as some sort of communism, and doesn't appear to believe that they have much of a point about the fact that unarmed black people seem to get disproportionately shot, strangled, and beaten to death by the US cops. These are, as Van Jones said, Americans, sometimes being murdered with impunity.
And he has this whole thing about black people lacking gratitude to the Republicans for what Lincoln did in the century before last. Even though black people in the South voted overwhelmingly Republican for the century after that event, and only switched when the Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater (who fought against the Civil Rights Act that, you know, gave them actual voting rights) and started taking in the racist KKK Dixie Democrats who were being expelled from the Democratic party in the 60s and 70s.
So while I wouldn't consider him an actual racist, he is the sort of not-racist who just casually dismisses the concerns of other races without consideration for any merit they may have. I doubt most of the other MAGA-hatted rednecks are any more racist than that either. I can't imagine any beyond the crazed fringes want miscegenation laws or whites only drinking fountains back. But they do seem to be intolerant of all this complaining black folks do about the cops shooting them, and they do tend to view any loss of special white status as a sign of reverse racism.
Walker did after all give you this quote without much consideration:
“Reporters also uncovered a number of racist statements Mr. Jones has made, including this one from January of last year (2008): "’the white polluters and white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities."’
Is that actually a racist statement? Surely not if it is true. It's hardly as if that sort of thing has never happened.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-nel ... 90555.html
And what colour were those men that the US government deliberately infected with syphilis?
This sort of overeagerness to accuse black people of racism when they complain about racist shit they have been subjected to is... overenthusiasm perhaps. Naivety maybe? Or perhaps it is just cover for something. It's nothing good either way.
Walker wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 1:35 pm
Yeah. A lot like that lie a more recent presidential candidate told a bunch deluded coal miner sons about getting them their daddies' jobs to do.
Post by vegetariantaxidermy » Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:04 pm
'Reverse racism' is patronising and racist in itself. It's implying that only 'white' people can be racist, since they are 'inherently superior'. ''Progressives'' use the word as a weapon they have little control over, flinging it around mindlessly like a toddler with a lightsabre.
Racism is racism. It's not even possible to be a 'reverse racist'.
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:04 pm 'Reverse racism' is patronising and racist in itself. It's implying that only 'white' people can be racist, since they are inherently superior. ''Progressives'' use the word as a weapon they have little control over, flinging it around mindlessly like a toddler with a lightsabre.
Why would that be so? In India non-Indians compain of racism quite a lot. When they return the favour, that is reverse racism, there needn't be a single white person involved in the entire transaction.
As a rule, reverse racism is just racism against the normal flow (which is typically from majority to minority).
Everybody can be racist, probably everybody is, and that's almost certainly the most Libtard sentence I have ever written. The only difference with whiteys like me is that we get to be racist absolutely everywhere we go, whereas Indians only really get to be the racists in India.
The special advantage I get from being English is that I get to be racist against Americans of all colours, and the fucking French as well.
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:10 pm
Who decided that?? So the white South Africans were 'reverse racists'?
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:22 pm
That one would be atypical in that the majority were dominated by a minority.
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A suspected thief has been nabbed after he was found out to have abandoned his 'thieving' mission to watch a couple have s*x.
Uchenna Ebube, a suspected thief, has been nabbed after he allegedly abandoned his mission by watching a couple making love in their apartment, The Nation reports.
The 25-year-old suspect was said to have broken into the couple’s apartment in Mercy Estate, Baruwa area of Ipaja, Lagos State.
The couple, Idris Olumo and his unnamed wife caught the suspect in their living room at about 4 am after they had s*x.
According to the police, Ebube, a native of Abia State, who resides at Alaba area of Ojo Local Government, said he gained entrance into the couple’s apartment through the window in order to steal their valuables.
He however waited for Idris and his wife to finish their sexual intercourse and sleep off so he could carry out his dastard mission.
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Ebube was later handed over to the Ipaja Police Division and has since been arraigned before an Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court on two- count charge of burglary and stealing.
Although, he pleaded not guilty, but the police prosecutor, Kenneth Asibor, urged the court to set a date for hearing, promising the Police would disprove the suspect’s claim of not being guilty.
Magistrate, Mr. T.O Shomade, granted the suspect bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum.
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Age-Adjusted Premature Death Rate for Franklin County, VA (CDC20N2UAA051067)
2018: 392.3 | Rate per 100,000 | Annual | Updated: Jun 8, 2020
2018: 392.3 (+ more)
2018: 392.3
Rate per 100,000,
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Release: Age-Adjusted Premature Death Rate
Units: Rate per 100,000, Not Seasonally Adjusted
Age-adjusted death rates are weighted averages of the age-specific death rates, where the weights represent a fixed population by age. They are used to compare relative mortality risk among groups and over time. An age-adjusted rate represents the rate that would have existed had the age-specific rates of the particular year prevailed in a population whose age distribution was the same as that of the fixed population. Age-adjusted rates should be viewed as relative indexes rather than as direct or actual measures of mortality risk. However, you can select other standard populations, or select specific population criteria to determine the age distribution ratios.
Premature death rate includes all deaths where the deceased is younger than 75 years of age. 75 years of age is the standard consideration of a premature death according to the CDC's definition of Years of Potential Life Loss.
Starting with the 2019 vintage, the CDC no longer calculates rates for a county when the death count is less than 20, marking them as "unreliable." FRED records these instances as missing observations in the series.
For more information see the Frequently Asked Questions about Death Rates.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Age-Adjusted Premature Death Rate for Franklin County, VA [CDC20N2UAA051067], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CDC20N2UAA051067, January 18, 2021.
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Talk to anyone about building a new PC, and the question of longevity is going to pop up sooner rather than later. Any time someone is dropping serious cash for a hardware upgrade they’re going to have questions about how long it will last them, especially if they’ve been burned before. But how much additional value is it actually possible to squeeze out of the market by doing so — and does it actually benefit the end-user?
Before I dive in on this, let me establish a few ground rules. I’m drawing a line between buying a little more hardware than you need today because you know you’ll have a use for it in the future and attempting to choose components for specific capabilities that you hope will become useful in the future. Let me give an example:
If you buy a GPU suitable for 4K gaming because you intend to upgrade your 1080p monitor to 4K within the next three months, that’s not future-proofing. If you bought a Pascal GPU over a Maxwell card in 2016 (or an AMD card over an NV GPU) specifically because you expected DirectX 12 to be the Next Big Thing and were attempting to position yourself as ideally as possible, that’s future-proofing. In the first case, you made a decision based on the already-known performance of the GPU at various resolutions and your own self-determined buying plans. In the second, you bet that an API with largely unknown performance characteristics would deliver a decisive advantage without having much evidence as to whether or not this would be true.
Note: While this article makes frequent reference to Nvidia GPUs, this is not to imply Nvidia is responsible for the failure of future-proofing as a strategy. GPUs have advanced more rapidly than CPUs over the past decade, with a much higher number of introduced features for improving graphics fidelity or game performance. Nvidia has been responsible for more of these introductions, in absolute terms, than AMD has.
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In the beginning, there were hopes that Maxwell would eventually perform well with DX12, or that Pascal would prove to use it effectively, or that games would adopt it overwhelmingly and quickly. None of these has come to pass. Pascal runs fine with DX12, but gains in the API are few and far between. AMD still sometimes picks up more than NV does, but DX12 hasn’t won wide enough adoption to change the overall landscape. If you bought into AMD hardware in 2013 because you thought the one-two punch of Mantle and console wins were going to open up an unbeatable Team Red advantage (and this line of argument was commonly expressed), it didn’t happen. If you bought Pascal because you thought it would be the architecture to show off DX12 (as opposed to Maxwell), that didn’t happen either.
Now to be fair, Nvidia’s marketing didn’t push DX12 as a reason to buy the card. In fact, Nvidia ignored inquiries about their support for async compute to the maximum extent allowable by law. But that doesn’t change the fact that DX12’s lackluster adoption to-date and limited performance uplift scenarios (low-latency APIs improve weak CPU performance more than GPUs, in many cases) aren’t a great reason to have upgraded back in 2016.
Remember when tessellation was the Next Big Thing that would transform gaming? Instead, it alternated between having a subtle impact on game visuals (with a mild performance hit) or as a way to make AMD GPUs look really bad by stuffing unnecessary tessellated detail into flat surfaces. If you bought an Nvidia GPU because you thought its enormous synthetic tessellation performance was going to yield actual performance improvements in shipping titles that hadn’t been skewed by insane triangle counts, you didn’t get what you paid for.
Everybody remember how awesome DX10 performance was?
Anybody remember how awesome DX10 performance was?
If you snapped up a GTX 8xxx GPU because you thought it was going to deliver great DX10 performance, you ended up disappointed. The only reason we can’t say the same of AMD is because everyone who bought an HD 2000 series GPU ended up disappointed. When the first generation of DX10-capable GPUs often proved incapable of using the API in practice, consumers who’d tried to future-proof by buying into a generation of very fast DX9 cards that promised future compatibility instead found themselves with hardware that would never deliver acceptable frame rates in what had been a headline feature.
This is where the meme “Can it play Crysis?” came from. Image by CrysisWiki.
This list doesn’t just apply to APIs, though APIs are an easy example. If you bought into first-generation VR because you expected your hardware would carry you into a new era of amazing gaming, well, that hasn’t happened yet. By the time it does, if it does, you’ll have upgraded your VR sets and the graphics cards that power them at least once. If you grabbed a new Nvidia GPU because you thought PhysX was going to be the wave of the future for gaming experiences, sure, you got some use out of the feature — just not nearly the experience the hype train promised, way back when. I liked PhysX — still do — but it wound up being a mild improvement, not a major must-have.
This issue is not confined to GPUs. If you purchased an AMD APU because you thought HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) was going to introduce a new paradigm of CPU – GPU problem solving and combined processing, five years later, you’re still waiting. Capabilities like Intel’s TSX (Transaction Synchronization Extensions) were billed as eventually offering performance improvements in commercial software, though this was expected to take time to evolve. Five years later, however, it’s like the feature vanished into thin air. I can find just one recent mention of TSX being used in a consumer product. It turns out, TSX is incredibly useful for boosting the performance of the PS3 emulator RPCS3. Great! But not a reason to buy it for most people. Intel also added support for raster order views years ago, but if a game ever took advantage of them I’m not aware of it (game optimizations for Intel GPUs aren’t exactly a huge topic of discussion, generally speaking).
You might think this is an artifact of the general slowdown in new architectural improvements, but if anything the opposite is true. Back in the days when Nvidia was launching a new GPU architecture every 12 months, the chances of squeezing support into a brand-new GPU for a just-demonstrated feature was even worse. GPU performance often nearly doubled every year, which made buying a GPU in 2003 for a game that wouldn’t ship until 2004 a really stupid move. In fact, Nvidia ran into exactly this problem with Half-Life 2. When Gabe Newell stood on stage and demonstrated HL2 back in 2003, the GeForce FX crumpled like a beer can.
I’d wager this graph sold more ATI GPUs than most ad campaigns. The FX 5900 Ultra was NV’s top GPU. The Radeon 9600 was a midrange card.
Newell lied, told everyone the game would ship in the next few months, and people rushed out to buy ATI cards. Turns out the game didn’t actually ship for a year and by the time it did, Nvidia’s GeForce 6xxx family offered far more competitive performance. An entire new generation of ATI cards had also shipped, with support for PCI Express. In this case, everyone who tried to future-proof got screwed.
There’s one arguable exception to this trend that I’ll address directly: DirectX 12 and asynchronous compute. If you bought an AMD Hawaii GPU in 2012 – 2013, the advent of async compute and DX12 did deliver some performance uplift to these solutions. In this case, you could argue that the relative value of the older GPUs increased as a result.
But as refutations go, this is a weak one. First, the gains were limited to only those titles that implemented both DX12 and async compute. Second, they weren’t uniformly distributed across AMD’s entire GPU stack, and higher-end cards tended to pick up more performance than lower-end models. Third, part of the reason this happened is that AMD’s DX11 driver wasn’t multi-threaded. And fourth, the modest uptick in performance that some 28nm AMD GPUs enjoyed was neither enough to move the needle on those GPUs’ collective performance across the game industry nor sufficient to argue for their continued deployment overall relative to newer cards build on 14/16nm. (The question of how quickly a component ages, relative to the market, is related-but-distinct from whether you can future-proof a system in general).
Now, is it a great thing that AMD’s 28nm GPU customers got some love from DirectX 12 and Vulkan? Absolutely. But we can acknowledge some welcome improvements in specific titles while simultaneously recognizing the fact that only a relative handful of games have shipped with DirectX 12 or Vulkan support in the past three years. These APIs could still become the dominant method of playing games, but it won’t happen within the high-end lifespan of a 2016 GPU.
Optimizing Purchases
If you want to maximize your extracted value per dollar, don’t focus on trying to predict how performance will evolve over the next 24-48 months. Instead, focus on available performance today, in shipping software. When it comes to features and capabilities, prioritize what you’re using today over what you’ll hope to use tomorrow. Software roadmaps get delayed. Features are pushed out. Because we never know how much impact a feature will have or how much it’ll actually improve performance, base your buying decision solely on what you can test and evaluate at the moment. If you aren’t happy with the amount of performance you’ll get from an update today, don’t buy the product until you are.
Second, understand how companies price and which features are the expensive ones. This obviously varies from company to company and market to market, but there’s no substitute for it. In the low-end and midrange GPU space, both AMD and Nvidia tend to increase pricing linearly alongside performance. A GPU that offers 10 percent more performance is typically 10 percent more expensive. At the high end, this changes, and a 10 percent performance improvement might cost 20 percent more money. As new generations appear and the next generation’s premium performance becomes the current generation’s midrange, the cost of that performance drops. The GTX 1060 and GTX 980 are an excellent example of how a midrange GPU can hit the performance target of the previous high-end card for significantly less money less than two years later.
Third, watch product cycles and time your purchasing accordingly. Sometimes, the newly inexpensive last generation product is the best deal in town. Sometimes, it’s worth stepping up to the newer hardware at the same or slightly higher price. Even the two-step upgrade process I explicitly declared wasn’t future-proofing can run into trouble if you don’t pay close attention to market trends. Anybody who paid $1,700 for a Core i7-6950X in February 2017 probably wasn’t thrilled when the Core i9-7900X dropped with higher performance and the same 10 cores a few months later for just $999, to say nothing of the hole Threadripper blew in Intel’s HEDT product family by offering 16 cores instead of 10 at the same price.
Finally, remember this fact: It is the literal job of a company’s marketing department to convince you that new features are both overwhelmingly awesome and incredibly important for you to own right now. In real life, these things are messier and they tend to take longer. Given the relatively slow pace of hardware replacement these days, it’s not unusual for it to take 3-5 years before new capabilities are widespread enough for developers to treat them as the default option. You can avoid that disappointment by buying the performance and features you need and can get today, not what you want and hope for tomorrow.
Update (6/4/2020): The best reason to revisit a piece like this is to check it for accuracy. After all, “future-proofing” is supposed to be a method of saving money. Nearly two years later, how does this piece hold up compared to the introductions we’ve seen since?
On the CPU front, all of the good gaming CPUs of 2018 are still solid options in 2020. This is more-or-less as expected, since CPUs age more slowly than GPUs these days. An AMD platform from 2018 has better upgrade options than its Intel equivalent, but both solutions are excellent today.
At the same time, however, chipset compatibility doesn’t extend infinitely far into the future. AMD is going to make Zen 3 CPUs available to a few X470 and B450 motherboards, but it’s an unusual state of affairs. You can plug a modern GPU into a ten-year-old motherboard, but CPU / chipset compatibility rarely aligns for more than a few years, even where AMD is concerned.
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The Role of Violence and Suffering in the Novel "Frankenstein"
The role of the violence and suffering in the novel “Frankenstein” is just an external manifestation of how a man will be driven towards violence when he feels desolate. More than the aesthetics of physical distortion of Victor Frankenstein’s monster, what the novel really conveys is the idea of how “ugly and violent” we can get when we feel bad about ourselves and our surroundings. In Shelley’s Frankenstein, the monster had no other positive experience than that of alienation and misery that led it to be vindictive and commit murder.
The tendency of how can man becomes violent initially manifested when the first monster confessed to Victor that he was the one who murdered his younger brother William. In the monster’s confession, he told how desolate he felt by being alienated from society; that he killed the boy out of revenge. The monster further confessed how miserable it feels to be alone and miserable because of his monster physique that even the family of cottagers who sheltered him that gave him hopes for compassion even drove him away. To regain his sense humanity, the monster would like Victor to create him a female partner in order to regain his chance to reconnect with his humanity as a partner will no longer make him feel desolate and miserable. Victor agreed to create the monster a partner and this is where the tragedy begun.
Clearly, this first instance of Victor Frankenstein’s meeting with the monster who killed his brother in the Swiss Alps demonstrated the precursor of violence. That emotional suffering, more than the physical suffering can lead one to do unthinkable and monstrous acts. The monster, being what he is, will be very hard to be inflicted with pain. But what made things unbearable for the monster for him to be driven to revenge and murder is the feeling of loneliness and misery. He knew this, and so he asked Victor Frankenstein for redemption to make him a partner for him to reconnect with his humanity. This meeting of Victor Frankenstein with the monster illustrated that the feeling of alienation and loneliness can cause violence, as demonstrated by the monster. This instance tells that when we have already reached the tipping point of our suffering, we can be driven to do extreme acts such as murder.
The monster’s predicament also tells us that “being like us” or what constitute “us” does not necessarily mean that one will be “of us” (Brown 86). Victor Frankenstein attempted to create life but instead made a monster both in his creation and of himself. An entity might be created into being by the assortment of parts but it does not necessarily mean that one will become a human being. For being a human requires acceptance and a soul which the monsters in Shelley’s Frankenstein did not have. Thus they were reduced to being monsters, driven by the feeling of desolation and revenge, and were monsters not only in terms of physical form, but also in action. Victor Frankenstein’s uttered his despair to him of how he has made him “cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge. . . when night came I quitted my retreat and wandered in the wood; and now, no longer restrained by the fear of discovery, I gave vent to my anguish in fearful howlings” (Shelley 103).
Shelley’s novel Frankenstein also reveals the flaws of human character as depicted in the character of Victor Frankenstein. It revealed man’s tendency to become arrogant and to act like God when he already knows so much. When Victor assented to the monster that he will create him a partner, he already assumed to have God like capabilities with what he knows about science. As it was wrong in the beginning, a series of tragedy followed with Victor’s bride Elizabeth being murdered by the monster during their wedding night. He became filled with revenge as what the monster was; that he became preoccupied about chasing the monster to avenge Elizabeth’s death.
The fallibility of human judgment that can lead to suffering and violence is also best demonstrated during the process of Victor Frankenstein’s creation of his second monster. Even if he assented to create the second monster to give the first monster a partner, his judgment failed him when he suspected that he was being tricked by the first monster. Again, this demonstrates human being’s capacity of subtle violence in the form of ill will and suspicion that led him to destroy the second monster. Victor Frankenstein initiated the first violence against the first monster indirectly when he destroyed the second monster. Worst, he aggravated the situation when he threw the remains of the second monster into the sea that led to a series of murders beginning with Henry, the person who nursed him when he was ill when he created the first monster. What followed next was a demonstration how revenge fuels violence that even the creator of the monsters, Victor Frankenstein himself succumbed to it.
Man just cannot play God even if the intention to create life is well meaning. As a creation himself, Victor would like imitate God but he just cannot do it because of his limited faculty being just a creation himself. As a man creating another, “perfection is unattainable” (Kessler 147) and what Victor Frankenstein gave the monster is not life but just the experience of being created (Kessler 85). The experience that Victor Frankenstein provided the monster was not factors that can be considered as a human experience because it is devoid of human connection and filled with misery, desolation and alienation. There was no other way that his monster could turn out to be, but a monster, a flawed creation of a flawed creator.
The monster, being an assortment of parts of men, is an unhappy product of man’s inexorable nature and its heart is “a collection of the emotions that he has to be bear throughout his strange life” (Kessler 87). It has no “center” or a soul because it failed to grasp the breadth of human experience that includes joy, happiness, ecstasy, that makes one a truly human being. The monster had only a glimpse of hope of what it is like to be compassionate when the family cottagers took him in. “Nothing could exceed the love and respect which the younger cottagers exhibited towards their venerable companion. They performed towards him every little office of affection and duty with gentleness, and he rewarded them by his benevolent smiles” (Shelley 82). But even that hazy idea of hope and compassion was immediately extinguished when the same family who took him in drove him away. One can only imagine what the monster felt when the only positive experience he had was taken away from him leaving him hanging and in pain.
There was no other way that Victor Frankenstein’s creation can turn out to be other than being a monster. It only knew pain and misery which is a fertile ground for revenge. Revenge, when unfettered by other positive human emotion, has no other way of expressing itself other than violence. Shelley did not even mask this tendency with allegory to demonstrate how vindictiveness can lead to violence. As “a grin was on the face of the monster he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife” (Shelley 151), Victor Frankenstein, gave in to revenge and what followed next is revenge feeding violence leading to the further misery of both characters.
Brown, Marshall. “Frankenstein: A Child’s Tale”. Novel: A Forum on Fiction 36.2(2003):147-175.
Kessler, Jeremy. “Creating Frankenstein”. New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society Vol 25(2009):82-89 .
Shelley, Mary. “Frankenstein. The Pennsylvania State University Electronic Classic Series. 1818. Available at “http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/fr~stein/frank~in.pdf>. Retrieved on November 18, 2011.
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50 Years of Special Education Support in New Jersey!
On Friday, August 9th Harbor School of Eatontown, New Jersey celebrated their 50th anniversary with the premiere of “A Story About a Harbor” produced by GV CERV Communications. Over the span of several months of planning, filming, and coordination with a variety of staff, students and community locations, the 21-minute film premiered. Opening with a beautiful scene of what the Jersey Shore has to offer from its shorelines and harbors, the film’s theme was a perfect fit!
A packed audience of parents, students, special education professionals from various districts, and community leaders got together to pay honor to the dedication of the staff and support professionals who have made Harbor School what it is since 1969. The event opened with a welcome address by Anne Gunteski, Principal since 1993. In addition, the students, faculty, and guests were honored to have the attendance of Anthony Talerico, Jr- Mayor of Eatontown; Eric Houghtaling, NJ Legislature Assemblyman, 11th District and Dr. Kim Buxenbaum, NJ Department of Education. Assemblyman Houghtaling presented Harbor School with a resolution congratulating them on their 50 years of excellence in providing special education services and pays tribute to their efforts here on behalf of the students and families.
A Brief History about Harbor School
Due to the frustration of families in the Monmouth County area, Harbor School was started by parents mainly from Ocean Township in 1969. They began with a few small classrooms in what is known as the prestigious and beautiful Tower Hill church of Red Bank New Jersey. Over the years, the student population needs, and size required the school to relocate to Eatontown, NJ.
The catalyst of this was a result of V. Jean Stack, who at one time was the acting director at the Tower Hill location. Jean then struck a partnership of friendship and professionalism with Ruth H. Reinhard, who at that time was the special education coordinator for all of Monmouth county. Over dinner with their spouses back in the 1970s, the history of what Harbor School became changed from that point forward.
As the need for comprehensive support for special education grew, Harbor School was right there as vanguards paving the way to further its mission. Over the decades, Harbor School built a track record of not only helping the students but also the families.
Upon the conclusion of the film, the celebration continued with lunch from Panera Bread, followed by a cake-cutting by Brian Dorgan, Supervisor of Instruction. The event continued with music performances by Harbor School students and a finale on stage with the Harbor School Cheerleaders performing their signature song “The Harbor Anthem.” The event concluded with closing remarks by V. Jean Stack and Ruth H. Reinhard.
Harbor School knows how to celebrate, and the future looks even brighter.
Harbor School a private special education school in Monmouth County, New Jersey
Our mission at Harbor School is to help all of our special needs students with learning, social, language, behavioral, and other disabilities. Our highly skilled staff are committed daily to helping each student reach their full potential.
We would be more than happy to discuss your child's specific needs and challenges, so please call us at 732.544.9394, or request a tour at Harbor School in Eatontown, NJ. We are located just minutes off of the Garden State Parkway at exit 105 and conveniently located off of Route 35 and Route 36 in Monmouth County, NJ.
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Principal-Harbor School, Eatontown, NJ
August 12, 2019 in Harbor School Articles
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Harbor School Parent • A. Allora
It is a pleasure to work with the school personnel, it is problem-free, and the students get exactly what they need.
Neptune City CST • D. Feld
We find that Harbor School is a wonderful placement for our students. The staff is cooperative, friendly and go out of their way to help parents, CST members, and students feel comfortable.
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Ben lives a fuller life since coming to Harbor School. They have nurtured his social skills through activities such as swimming, bowling, and shopping. We know that they are working as hard as we are.
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Harbor School is a truly special place. You feel the warmth as soon as you enter the front doors. The children are happy and I have seen them grow emotionally, physically, and educationally over the years. The staff are very competent and caring professionals who treat each child as if they were their own.
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Cuomo: 100% of Company’s Workforce Must Stay Home
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a new mandate on Friday: 100 percent of a company's workforce can't leave home, saying "New York State is on pause." Non-essential gatherings of people of any size are canceled or postponed at this time.
On Wednesday, Cuomo once again told all businesses to have people work from home. He then announced a new executive order, no business in New York can have more than 50 percent of employees working away from home.
Then on Thursday, Cuomo updated his executive order no more than 25 percent of the workforce can work in the office. Come Friday, Cuomo again updated his executive order. 100 percent of the workforce must stay home.
"We are going to close the values. New York State is on pause," Cuomo said. "Policies that assure uniform safety for everyone."
The new rule doesn't apply to essential services like supermarkets, pharmacies, medical facilities and gas stations. Cuomo reiterated 100 percent of non-essential businesses must have employees work from home.
"This is the most drastic action we can take," Cuomo added. "We need everyone to be safe, or no one will be safe."
These provisions will be enforced by fines ifs businesses don't comply, Cuomo said.
Cuomo also told everyone to stay indoors as much as possible.
"Non-essential gatherings of people of any size are canceled or postponed at this time," Cuomo said.
Any concertation of people outside their home must be limited to workers providing essential services and social distancing should be practiced.
When in public, people must practice social distancing of at least six feet from others. People should limit outdoor recreational activities to non-contact and avoid activities when you come in contact with people.
Cuomo issued stricter guidlines for people over 70, immune-comprised people and those with underlying illnesses.
Those people are told to remain indoors. They can go outside for solitary exercise. Pre-screen all vistors and aides by taking their temperature.
They are also told to not vist homes with multipel people and all vulnerable people should wear a mask when in the company of others.
Cuomo confirmed nearly 3,000 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 7,102 confirmed cases. He announced 293 new confirmed cases in Westchester County, 48 new cases in Rockland County, 5 news cases in Dutchess County and 33 new cases in Orange County.
Cuomo again stressed the need for more for medical staff. The state must find a way to create 55,000-110,000 hospital beds and find new health professionals as reserve staff. If you are a recently retired health professional and can help you can CLICK HERE for more information.
Cuomo also said all non-critical elective surgeries must be canceled. This will free up 25 to 35 percent of the existing hospital beds. The state is also getting creative to produce more supplies.
"I'm asking all product providers, we will pay a premium for these products," Cuomo said. "If you can make them, we will give you funding to do it, including personal and equipment."
Any business that's interested should contact Empire State Development. The greatest need is ventilators.
"Ventaltiaors are to this war what missiles were to World War II," Cuomo said. "We need ventilators. That is the key piece of equipment."
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I hereby give notice that an ordinary meeting of the Disability Strategic Advisory Panel will be held on:
Auckland Town Hall
301-305 Queen Street
Disability Strategic Advisory Panel
Dr Huhana Hickey
Colleen Brown, MNZM, JP
Sandra Budd
David Hughes
Tania Kingi
Clive Lansink
Don McKenzie, OBE
Dr Terry O'Neill
Ezekiel Robson
Susan Sherrard
Liaison Councillor
Sharon Stewart, QSM
Mike Giddey
Email: mike.giddey@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
The Disability Strategic Advisory Panel (DSAP) was established by the Mayor in June 2011.
Its purpose is to provide strategic advice on pan-disability issues to the Mayor, governing body, local boards, Council Controlled Organisations (CCOs) and Council on:
· the interests and preferences of persons with disabilities in Auckland in relation to regional strategies, policies, plans, and bylaws of the Council;
· any other matters that the Panel considers to be of particular interest or concern to persons with disabilities in Auckland; and
· processes and mechanisms for engaging with persons with disabilities in Auckland.
The DSAP has up to 11 members who are appointed on the basis of their individual expertise and experience in strategic thinking, governance and communication skills, knowledge of disability and accessibility issues and connections with disability organisations and networks across Auckland.
5 Auckland Libraries - Discussion with Disability Strategic Advisory Panel 7
6 The new Otahuhu Bus Train Interchange 23
7 Earthquake strengthening and accessibility 25
8 Response to questions for Auckland Council re: Challenges facing Aucklanders with disabilities 27
9 Chairperson's Report 49
10 Work Plan suggestions relating to the submission on the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan 53
11 Sports and Events 57
12 Transport 59
13 General Business 61
That the Disability Strategic Advisory Panel:
a) confirm the ordinary minutes of its meeting, held on Monday, 18 November 2013 as a true and correct record.
Auckland Libraries - Discussion with Disability Strategic Advisory Panel
1. To provide Libraries the opportunity to update the Panel on what they have done and are planning to do for people with disabilities.
2. Allison Dobbie, Manager Libraries and Information and Greg Morgan, Manager Service Development – Libraries will present to the Panel.
a) receive the information provided by Allison Dobbie, Manager Libraries and Information and Greg Morgan, Manager Service Development – Libraries.
Mike Giddey - Democracy Advisor
Authoriser
Raewyn Stone - Manager, Community and Cultural Strategy
The new Otahuhu Bus Train Interchange
1. To provide the Panel with an opportunity to provide feedback to Auckland Transport on the new Otahuhu Bus Train Interchange.
2. Auckland Transport is moving to a simpler, more integrated public transport network that will use key interchanges to connect services. A new state of the art bus-train interchange in Otahuhu is crucial to the success of the new network in the south.
3. Public input into the design of the interchange is essential to ensuring this major facility reflects the needs of the community. Two open days have been held where feedback was sought on early concept designs for the new interchange. Auckland Transport is keen to engage with groups which represent the disability sector to gain an understanding of any accessibility issues that need to be considered in the final design. Officers from Auckland Transport will attend to brief the Panel on this project.
a) receive the information provided by officers from Auckland Transport.
There are no attachments for this report.
Earthquake strengthening and accessibility
1. To provide the Panel with an opportunity to discuss issues relating to earthquake strengthening and accessibility.
2. Vivian Naylor, Barrier Free Advisor & Educator, CCS Disability Action, Northern Region will present to the Panel. Vivian has asked if the following information could be provided to the Panel prior to the meeting:
a) Concern for disabled over building code changes (Source: ONE News)
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/concern-disabled-over-building-code-changes-video-5765854
b) http://includingallpeople.org.nz/?p=784
c) http://www.3news.co.nz/Disability-access-upgrades-scrapped/tabid/817/articleID/323112/Default.aspx
a) receive the information provided by Vivian Naylor, Barrier Free Advisor & Educator, CCS Disability Action, Northern Region.
Response to questions for Auckland Council re: Challenges facing Aucklanders with disabilities
1. This report introduces the response of Auckland Council on the report submitted by the Disability Strategic Advisory Panel to the Governing Body on 23 April 2013.
2. The Disability Strategic Advisory Panel presented a report to the Governing Body on 23 April 2013 entitled “Challenges facing Aucklanders with disabilities requiring strategic direction”. Dr Huhana Hickey provided a PowerPoint presentation and Don McKenzie tabled and spoke to a summary of key issues.
3. As resolved by the Governing Body (Resolution number GB/2013/33b)– “request the Chief Executive to provide a cross-council response to the questions submitted by the Disability Strategic Advisory Group as set out in “Appendix 2” of the attached report.” (see Attachment B)
a) Receive the Chief Executive’s response to questions submitted by the Disability Strategic Advisory Panel in Appendix 2 of the report “Challenges facing Aucklanders with disabilities requiring strategic direction”.
CE response to DSAP questions for Auckland Council
DSAP report to Governing Body 23 April 2013
1. Providing the Chairperson an opportunity to report on events since the last meeting of the Panel.
2. Dr Huhana Hickey will advise the Panel of events attended during the past month.
a) receive the Chairperson’s report.
Chairperson’s report to DSAP
November/December has been one of great celebration for the disability community with Mayor Brown and myself attending the International Disability Day on 3 December at the Manukau Mall. A great turnout was seen with Natalie Te Paa, a talented young woman within the disability community, who shared her talents with us. Many other great acts went on throughout the day. My heartfelt thanks to Susan Sherrard and Auriole Ruka the Northern Regional manager of CCS Disability Action for their hard work in making this a success.
In November I attended the family violence expert panel and argued for the inclusion of those with disabilities. On 22 November the Disabled Persons Assembly (DPA) also held a kaituitui event which I attended as a kaituitui representative along with Ezekiel, another kaituitui member. It was encouraging to see how far the Auckland disability community has come in learning about the Convention and their rights.
In all of this Don McKenzie has shown himself to again present us with some thoughts on the Auckland Unitary Plan - something we need to discuss. Thank you Don.
Finally I hope people are making submissions to the Government in relation to the earthquake strengthening code and how disability is again being railroaded in the interests of big business. We need to make a strong voice to the Council about where we stand on this issue. We need to remain aware to make sure we don't lose the gains we have made. I invited Vivian Naylor to the meeting so we can discuss our position on this.
I hope everyone has a great Christmas with your whanau and friends and I look forward to working with you all in the New Year. I would like to thank those who have supported DSAP over the year and I am sure you will all join me on wishing them all a great Christmas break.
Huhana
Work Plan suggestions relating to the submission on the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan
1. To provide the Panel the opportunity to discuss a paper submitted by Don McKenzie relating to the preparation of its submission on the proposed Auckland Unitary Plan.
2. Following the November 2013 meeting, member Don McKenzie has provided for discussion two pieces of work related to the submission on the proposed Auckland Unitary Plan included in the attachment.
a) receive the information provided by member Don McKenzie.
Project suggestions for DSAG work plan
project suggestions for DSAG work plan.
The two suggestions below relate to the preparation of DSAG submissions on the proposed Auckland Unitary Plan due 28 February 2014. They are time sensitive.
1. Estimates of population sizes effected by avoidable barriers to public access.
Could Council make a grant to a Masters student in the School of Population Health Auckland University to come up with reasonable population estimates based on the following questions.
1 A. Census data collected since 2001 estimates the New Zealand wide proportion of the population with disabilities at around 17 to 20%. What is the concentration in Auckland City and suburbs, and throughout the Auckland region? The nature of cities and the presence of support services for people with disabilities may concentrate this population.
1 B. Many people with so-called minor impairments don't figure in census data because they don't consider themselves disabled. They accept the way they are as a matter of course because of age - reduced hearing, mobility and sight etc.; "I never learned to read at school" – dyslexia, autism; "I was never good at sport, couldn't catch a ball or get the rules right" - poor coordination and learning challenges. Major support agencies will have figures for the people most severely effected. Do the agencies have estimates for the unmet and unserved needs of their various populations? Many vulnerable communities go undetected and slip under the radar. For example, there are around 11,500 registered blind people in NZ but more than 125,000 people can't drive because of vision loss. (reference available).
1 C. People over the age of 65 are more prone to disabling conditions. What is the proportion of the population over the age of 65 in Auckland.
1 D. It is said that a high proportion of visitors to Auckland are over the age of 45, use trolley bags, and for many visitors, English is their second language. Can Tourism Auckland or similar estimate the size of this visitor population.
1 E. Mothers using strollers and the like, often with other infants in tow, must negotiate shopping precincts and public transport. Can reasonable estimates be made of this population size?
1 F. Many people incur temporary disablement, (less than six months), resulting from accident and illness. Can the size of this population be estimated?
Answers to these questions will tell planners and Council about the prevalence of impairment in the Auckland population, and why it is important to progressively remove avoidable barriers to facilities and services intended for public use.
2. Independent planning support for DSAG's submission on the proposed Auckland Unitary Plan.
Submissions on the above Plan form part of a formal legal process heard before a panel of independently appointed commissioners. The process is governed by the Resource Management Act and relies on hard evidence and cross examination. While I am okay about drafting DSAG's submissions, DSAG must endorse and influence this input and submissions must be within a planning framework. This planning framework should be independent of Council, reflect DSAG's perspective and be couched in terms that Commissioners can work with. Thus, DSAG should propose Council urgently fund independent planning advice to support the formulation of DSAG's submissions. After all, the object of the Unitary Plan is to come up with the best plan possible for Auckland's future development, and DSAG has a unique contribution to make.
D McK.
Submitted 25-11-13.
1. To update the Panel on upcoming sports and events in the Auckland region.
2. This standing agenda item provides members and officers an opportunity to update the Panel on upcoming sports and events in the Auckland region.
a) receive the verbal discussion on sports and events in the Auckland region.
1. To update the Panel on transport issues in the Auckland region.
2. This standing agenda item provides the members and officers an opportunity to update the Panel on transport issues in the Auckland region.
a) receive the verbal discussion on transport issues in the Auckland region.
1. To update the Panel on issues and events that occurred since the last meeting.
2. This standing agenda item provides each member of the Panel an opportunity to update the meeting on issues and events that occurred since the last meeting of the Panel.
a) receive the verbal general discussion on issues and events occurring since the last meeting of the Panel.
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Hell hath no fury like a (certain type of person) scorned - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
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hell hath no fury like a (certain type of person) scorned
No one will have a greater wrath or vengeance than (this type of person) when they have been wronged. A hyperbolic and often humorous play on the phrase "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," in which any person, demographic, or profession may be substituted for "woman." The university might think nothing of hiking up the cost of tuition, but we'll show them that Hell hath no fury like a broke college student scorned! The governor, after veering away from his party's core ideologies, is now discovering that Hell hath no fury like politicians scorned.
See also: fury, hath, hell, like, no, of, scorn, type
hell hath no ˈfury (like a woman ˈscorned)
(British English, saying) used to refer to somebody, usually a woman, who has reacted very angrily to something, especially the fact that her husband or lover has been unfaithful (= has had a sexual relationship with another woman): He should have known better than to leave her for that young girl. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Hath is an old form of has.
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ifollosports.com's 2011 guide to Arizona's Cactus League
By Jon Rapoport February 24, 2011
ifollosports.com is your source for information regarding the scene surrounding Major League Baseball spring training in Arizona and Florida.
Our first stop is the sights and sounds of the Cactus League in Arizona.
The Phoenix Metropolitan Area is home to 15 big league teams. Because so many franchises operate in and around Phoenix, Feb/March in the Valley of the Sun is heaven for a baseball fan. 15 teams within 40 miles, it is as simple as that.
MLB.com provides an excellent map noting the locations of each Arizona based team. The smaller, more accessible layout of spring training stadiums present a fantastic opportunity for fans to get up close and personal with players.
The East Valley is the more crowded and vibrant area of Phoenix. In fact, the city of Scottsdale is the true center of activity for the entire region.
Six teams call the East Valley home. These teams are the San Francisco Giants, Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Below is a breakdown of the hotspots in this area. Keep in mind that many of the West Valley based players and fans will head east to enjoy the best of Arizona nightlife.
Scottsdale Stadium 7408 East Osborn Rd. (Home of Giants)
Salt River Fields at Talking Stick 7555 North Pima Rd. (Home of Rockies & Diamondbacks)
Downtown Scottsdale has the highest concentration of restaurants, shopping and nightlife in the metro area. It is the center of nighttime activity for all MLB players and fans.
Six Lounge & Restaurant, Martini Ranch and the Saddle Ranch are among the top places to mix it up with baseball's best.
Hotel Valley Ho and the W Scottsdale are the sites of constant player activity during spring training.
Don & Charlie's Steakhouse combines great food and one of the most renowned collections of sports memorabilia in the country. The walls are filled with photos of athletes who have dined there through the years. It is a revolving door of baseball personnel during spring training. Get your reservations early, this place fills up fast.
Phoenix Municipal Stadium 5999 East Van Buren (Home of Athletics)
East Camelback Corridor
The Biltmore Fashion Park and adjacent restaurants are a gathering spot for teams and fans from throughout the area. Morton's the Steakhouse-Phoenix is one of the prime dining locations.
This area represents a common meeting spot for players due to its proximity to a collection of very high end hotels. These properties include: The Phoenician Resort, Ritz-Carlton, Phoenix and the Arizona Biltmore.
Phoenix Suns home games are the venue where many spring training players congregate at night during their time in Arizona.
US Airways Arena 201 E. Jefferson St.
HoHoKam Park 1235 N. Center St. (Home of Cubs)
Sluggo's Sports Grill is always hopping with members of the Cubs organization and their fans. It is truly Chicago Southwest.
Best Western Dobson Ranch Inn has been the Cubs' spring training headquarters for more than 30 years.
Temple Diablo Stadium 2200 W. Alameda Dr (Home of Angels)
The Mill Avenue District is the center of activity for nearby Arizona State University. It also serves as the epicenter of Tempe's spring training scene.
Rustler's Rooste, located near Tempe Diablo Stadium (restaurant technically within the city limits of Phoenix) is a well known haunt for players and fans alike.
The West Valley is the more recently developed portion of the area. Land is less expensive and more available. As a result, nine teams base their operations within this geography. These teams are the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds.
Maryvale section of Phoenix
Maryvale Baseball Park 3600 N. 51st Ave. (Home of Brewers)
This facility is located in the least quality neighborhood in the Cactus League. It is certainly safe to attend games, but there is little activity after the game ends. Players and fans venture west into Glendale or east towards Phoenix and Scottsdale for dining and entertainment opportunities.
Camelback Ranch 10710 W. Camelback Road (Dodgers & White Sox share facility)
The Westgate City Center is an entertainment, dining, shopping and residential development, located just east of Camelback Ranch. This outdoor venue is a hub for players and fans alike during spring training.
The Jobing.com Arena, located within the Westgate City Center, is home to the Phoenix Coyotes and the area's best concerts.
9400 W. Maryland Ave.
University of Phoenix Stadium, also situated within the Westgate complex, is home to the Arizona Cardinals.
1 Cardinals Drive
The Wigwam Golf Resort & Spa, located in nearby Litchfield Park, is the preferred hotel of the Dodgers and White Sox. It is the official hotel of the Kansas City Royals.
Surprise Stadium 15930 N. Bullard Ave (Royals & Rangers share facility)
Hub of activity situated on Bell Road. Many players and fans travel to nearby Peoria for enhanced dining and entertainment options.
Peoria Sports Complex 16101 N. 83rd Ave. (Padres & Mariners share facility)
83rd Ave/Bell Corridor is the best place to encounter MLB personnel in Peoria.
SKYE Restaurant is a local spot for fine dining and outstanding live music. Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar is also an active venue during spring training.
Goodyear Ballpark 1933 S. Ballpark Way (Indians & Reds share facility)
Activity centered on Estrella Pkwy and Litchfield Rd. Many players and fans venture north to Glendale and Peoria for greater dining and entertainment choices. This area becomes Ohio West during the month of March.
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Defense lawyers boycotted the court session protesting the failure of the court to inform them of the trial date and time. Abdel Moneum Abdel Maksoud, lead attorney for the defense, stated that they found out yesterday about today"s court session through their clients" family members who just happened to bring them food when prison officials told them not to show up the next day because the defendants will be in court!
Zahra el Shater, one of the family members, complained to Ikhwanweb of the bad treatment by court guards and State Security officers who were present throughout the court procedure although the case is now under military jurisdiction. Zahra added that family members were not allowed inside the court room till 1:00 PM although they showed up at 8:00 AM and court was in session since 9:00 AM.
The military trials for the 33 reformists began today despite two prior court rulings acquitting them of all charges of money laundry and terrorism brought against them by the government. The first ruling came in January which was then followed by President Mubarak"s decision using his authority as military ruler under emergency law to refer them to military tribunals. The government appealed the civilian court ruling but was rejected on April 25th which prompted the government to proceed with the military trials in order to circumvent the court order to immediately release all 33 defendants.
DC & Chicago protests planned against Egypt"s HR abuses
The government actions were widely criticized by human rights organizations in Egypt and abroad and led to several demonstrations. On Friday April 27th, the Muslim American Society, the largest grassroots Islamic movement in the US, along several interfaith and human rights activists are organizing a rally and a conference in front of the Egyptian Embassy in Washington DC to protest the Egyptian government unabated assault on opposition leaders and political opponents. The protestors will also voice their outrage at the government"s decision to try civilians before military tribunals. Ikhwanweb will cover the DC activities.
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Summer Love: Abbey and Patch
In our Summer Love series, Ginger Gorman explores different kinds of heart-warming Canberra relationships.
There are three folk on the zoom call with me—although one of them can’t talk. He’s a 20-month-old fluffy toy cavoodle with black spots and one black ear. Fittingly, his name is “Patch.”
Although he’s not able to chat, he does continually play ball with the apple of his eye—14-year-old Abbey. Patch is no ordinary dog. He’s an assistance dog in-training.
“It’s just his personality that helps,” Abbey explains with a huge grin on her face, “He just goes around smiling at everything. He just loves life. He’s just such a role model for me. He’s improved my life.
“He just knows if I’m sad. He can just tell, and he will come back sit with me. And he’ll just like, lick me. He come and cuddle next to me. We pretty much are inseparable,” Abbey says.
(The third person on the call is 45-year-old Sarah, Abbey’s mum. But as agreed, she’s mainly there to support her daughter—so she elects to mostly stay quiet.)
When Abbey started high school a year ago, life was hell. She struggled to get to class at all. She missed handing in assignments, and often she’d have panic attacks and just cry.
“I could never find motivation for anything. During classes, it was just so hard to concentrate,” 14-year-old Abbey recalls. “I would like end up leaving almost all my lessons.”
“It’s mainly [a feeling] in my head and my tummy. Like, ‘I just can’t do this today’.”
Abbey has suffered from anxiety since she was a young child. For her, things were made worse because some of her primary school teachers didn’t know how to support her. But the de-personalised environment of high school put even more pressure on her mental health.
She found each teacher had so many students, they were unable to offer her sufficient individual assistance to help her remain calm. And although Abbey had some mates, many of her cohort were cliquey.
Even with medication and regular visits with a mental health social worker, Abbey found it increasingly difficult to go to school and stay there. At the end of 2019, her social worker suggested that Abbey and her family—she also lives with her Dad, Paul, and younger sister, Lucy—might want to consider getting a psychiatric assistance dog.
“I like love animals and I want to run a farm when I’m older. So, I spent like days and days researching about all different breeds,” she says, lighting up.
Through a former neighbour, Abbey heard about Waratah Puppies—a breeder that specialises in breeding puppies for people with additional needs, including children on the Autism Spectrum with physical disabilities or people living with anxiety, depression and PTSD.
And this is how Patch came into her life.
“He just brightens my day because I look at him sitting there like with this little funny face, like making silly faces at me, and I just laugh. He’s just amazing,” Abbey says, adding: “Everything he does, shows that he loves me.”
“He wants to be with you,” Sarah says softly and directly to her daughter. Abbey agrees.
“He follows me around the house everywhere, even if I go to the bathroom he’ll sit outside.” Abbey walks him every day, plays ball with him constantly and loves it when strangers stop to pat and admire him.
When I ask Sarah why this is a love story, her words make all of us (except maybe Patch!) cry: “We have this level of gratefulness and gratitude towards him because of what he does for Abbey. And, you know I’m indebted to him and love him for what he does for her.”
For her final term of Year 8, Abbey started learning with Finigan School of Distance Education. And it further changed her life for the better.
Abbey’s whole face beams when she talks about distance education: “I love it. I just don’t have the stress of everything, and I haven’t had any anxiety for ages. All my teachers are giving me amazing feedback. And I’ve got really good grades.”
At this point, Sarah chimes in: “The other nice part about the distance education is that she’s with Patch all day. And so, their bond has strengthened in the last term because they’ve been together all the time.
“Since she started distance education, she’s had no anxiety at all and it’s because she doesn’t have to be in the environment that she finds really stressful.”
When I ask Sarah what difference she’s seen in Abbey’s behaviour since she started distance education and Patch came into their lives, she says: “She’s much nicer!” and they both laugh.
“I used to be so rude to everyone,” Abbey reflects, “I used to be so mean to everyone at home.”
“She’s so much happier and more relaxed,” Sarah continues and goes on to explain that when Abbey is extremely anxious “…the amount of stress you’re under when you’re feeling like that [is extreme].”
Sarah says that when Abbey was a little girl, she’d sometimes have to spend two of three hours helping Abbey get to sleep at night. But since Patch has been with Abbey, the pair go to sleep together—and immediately.
“It’s a level above what other people have with their dog because he’s more than a pet,” Sarah reflects.
Outside of her learning, Abbey continues to participate in swimming and netball and she still hangs out with her best friend, and chats with her every day online.
Eventually, Abbey and her family are hoping that Patch will pass his official accreditation as a so-called “mind dog” – an animal that’s trained to provide psychiatric assistance. He has to do a formal obedience test, be confident and reliable in public spaces and assist Abbey with at least three tasks. And then, Abbey hopes to return to mainstream school for years 10, 11 and 12 with him alongside her.
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SJS welcomes AI’s findings on Somalia’s freedom expression
Somali Journalists (SJS) welcomes Amnesty International report entitled ”We live in Perpetual Fear: Violations and Abuses of Freedom of Expression in Somalia” that documented violations and abuses against Freedom of Expression in Somalia in the past three years, which is the first ever report on the state of Press freedom of Somalia by an international organization since 2015 and the first report since President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo came to office in early 2017.
We call for authorities of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) to respect the freedom of the speech and Freedom of Expression as enshrined in Articles 18 and 32 of the Federal Constitution as well as in Article 9 and 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). We also call for the country’s security agencies to be educated with human rights principles including the press freedom.
Speaking at the launch of the report in Nairobi, the Secretary General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), Abdalle Ahmed Mumin commended Amnesty International for the report which was “timely”.
“The report specially highlights the grim and critical conditions under which Somali journalists operate along with recommendations to the Somali government and the international partners which support Somalia,” Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, the Secretary General of Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) said “It is important our Somali government to act and protect the journalists as uphold to its national and international obligations.”
“One of the biggest challenges for the Somali journalists is the media law which has been passed by both houses. The media law not only imposes legal challenges but also completely threatens any space media freedom could have in a country with no history of press freedom. We call for the Ministry of Information to immediately open review process into this law,” Mr. Mumin adds.
Meanwhile, Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) noted claims made by the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism on the aftermath of the Amnesty International report today 13 February about its legality. Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) is a legally registered journalists’ trade union with its headquarters in Mogadishu and holds all required documentations and our members are based across Somalia. In addition, the Freedom of Association, Freedom of Assembly and the Right to Labor Relations have been guaranteed under Articles 16, 20, and 24 of the Provisional Federal Constitution.
The Ministry’s point about SJS leaders and more than 70 others interviewed in the Amnesty International report and whose cases were properly documented is out of topic, however, the point is the Somali government to address findings made by Amnesty International report which highlights gross violations against the freedom of the press ranging from impunity, online harassment, censorship through bribing and police brutality to restricting access to information and draconian media law.
IMF and World Bank Consider Somalia Eligible for Assistance Under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative - IMF
Somalia tears into Amnesty report, says based on ‘fabrications’ and ‘ludicrous claims’ - HOL
Somali remittance company Al Barakat removed from U.S sanctions list - HOL
Hostility against journalists has surged since Farmaajo took office-Amnesty - HOL
Shabaab attackers torch homes in Garissa - Daily Nation
U.S resumes aid to Somali army, ties it to operations against terrorism - HOL
U.S. Removes Sanctions on Somali Group of Companies - Kharon Brief
Ilhan Omar Pitches A New ‘Progressive Baseline’ For U.S. Foreign Policy - HuffPost
Turkey will hit Syrian government forces anywhere if troops hurt: Erdogan - Reuters
‘Why the hell did they do that to me?’ - Swissinfo
Ethiopia Vote Agency Queries Key Opposition Leader’s Citizenship - Bloomberg
Killings, Corruption and Censorship Besiege Media Freedom in Somalia - Amnesty
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Home / Food & drink / Melbourne’s Hidden Bar Scene
Four of the best-hidden bars to hit up in Melbourne.
Whether you fancy a tipple in a quiet speakeasy complete with a touch of class, or you prefer a strong story with your next Negroni – Melbourne’s hidden bars offer up a steady stream of stylish, underground, and tasty tipples bound to impress the pants off you (not literally though). So grab your mates and hit the town, these hidden bars are some of the very best around.
More bars mean more cocktails (responsibly though, yo).
The great thing about Melbourne’s hidden-bar scene is that they’re all super close together. This makes bar hopping and easy hop-skip-and a jump from one to another.
Next stop, New Gold Mountain
New Gold Mountain got its name from the Victorian gold rush of the early 1850s. And it’s well-known for its mountain of cocktails available on the menu too (we’re talking a lot of good drinks here). With a classy interior and subtle signage on the outside, once you’re inside here, you won’t want to leave. Get comfy.
Get your Goldilocks Bar on
Venture a little further into town and you’ll find Goldilocks Bar. A hidden rooftop gem that’s the perfect place to take you away from the masses. Take the lift and head on up the stairs, and you’ll be confronted with a breathtaking view of Melbourne’s city skyline – not to mention some of the tastiest cocktails this side of town. Stand back from the edge though, yeah?
Bring on Bar Americano.
Bar Americano takes things in a little more traditional route. If you manage to get into this tightly-packed corner of the city on a busy night out, you won’t be disappointed. It’s a completely classic take on the traditional cocktail, everything from the bartender’s uniform to the decor, to the drinks they serve. If you’re after a good-old-fashioned speakeasy-style, then this is the spot.
Slice of delight at Pizza Pizza Pizza
Just up the road, is something by the slice. And the clue’s in the name. At Pizza Pizza Pizza there’s an entrance in the back corner that leads to a world beyond. That’s because there’s a giant cocktail bar behind the pizza-front facade. We’re not kidding. It’s huge. So if you can find it, grab a booth, grab a slice, and settle in for some serious cocktail sipping.
Time to grab a drink? Yasss, please.
Not brave enough to venture out on your own? Not to worry, MelTours will more than welcome you on their hidden bar tour – or, if you’re into spotting your own flavour of hidden wonders, find a bar in your area by visiting Hidden City Secrets or Broadsheet’s favourites too.
Happy hidden-bar hunting!
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The Power of Vision
Evans KerriganDeveloping Leaders, Employee Engagement, Streamlining Operations, The Leadership Challenge®
By Elise Sinha, Jennifer Lewis and Evans Kerrigan
Culture change is hard work. For Hartford HealthCare (HHC), it begins with some clearly articulated vision statements — depicting our destination in a way that captivates and motivates.
HHC has embarked on a journey to use technology as a true partner in care. It involves adapting to new technologies, modernizing and changing nearly everything throughout the five-hospital system, as well as its ambulatory practices and service lines. As with any system-wide project to provide exceptional service to the patients and coordinate all aspects of care, it is a massive undertaking.
We began with a way to share our vision. Staff and leaders created clear and compelling stories about how our future should look once the multi-year system and process changes were in place. This “visioning” process was at once aspirational and inspirational.
A strong team was gathered during 2013 from the organization to lead the transformation efforts and the Epic CareConnect project took flight in January 2014.
Our technical and organizational goal is to bring all of HHC’s entities onto a single electronic platform for clinical, business and revenue needs. In addition, it is our ambition to standardize care, processes and procedures regardless where our patients encountered our services.
This led us to create what we call “The Five Ones”:
One health record
One standard of excellence
One relationship
One registration
We reference these at leadership gatherings, and continue to point to them as our end goal.
Since story-telling is a core part of our corporate culture, we refer often to two fictional characters: “Betty” and “Janet.” We want to turn “Betty’s Story” into “Janet’s Story.” Betty contends with a healthcare system that is disjointed, disconnected, frustrating and confusing. Her chronic health conditions go unmanaged because there is little true care coordination. Janet, on the other hand, experiences the type of care we are creating: one that is fully connected, and supports the patient and the family with a seamless, timely flow of information and care transitions across the continuum. “Betty” and “Janet” are part of our vocabulary.
The Ongoing Challenge
For more than two years, people across the system worked on redesign, standardization and creating a platform for best practice. The work was long, tiring, challenging and, frankly, frustrating at times — like most important things in life.
Changes in technology forced processes throughout the system to be reviewed and standardized to ensure that they were delivering the best value and service to their patients. HHC is a young system, and this project demanded staff, departments, and entities to adapt to significant change quickly. Most of this standardization was led and facilitated by the CareConnect project analysts, who were understandably met with resistance and skepticism, at least initially. There was so much groundwork to be done before the fruits of that labor can be seen, that it was easy to be worn down by the battle.
In addition to the struggles of the project itself, healthcare faced external struggles that further impacted the project. The corporation faced an unusually harsh state business climate, with Medicaid payments being withheld; reductions in workforce; and a changing overall economic environment. Amid all the turbulence, some people left the quest for calmer waters, which led to unease and lowered morale for those who stayed. All of this added to the stress of the project team and its customers, further highlighting the criticality of reinforcing and staying true to our vision statements.
Learn more about how you can get started engaging leaders to achieve the extraordinary. Download a sample LPI 360 Individual feedback report today.
Refreshing the Call to Action
Two leaders of large divisions of the project team felt they needed to recharge their own batteries and signed up for The Leadership Challenge® workshop. As they went through the practice of Inspire a Shared Vision, they saw a critical need for the vision to be more front-and-center for themselves and also their staff.
As they started to work on crafting their own visions, Jennifer Lewis, Revenue Cycle Application Director, and Elise Sinha, Acute Care Application Director, teamed up to build a vision for their valuable, hard-working and tired teams.
As they crafted their new vision, they wanted to convey how much they valued their staff and remind them that, although the work was long and hard, it was the why they were doing the work that was so important. Elise and Jennifer knew that the vision of why the team was created was strong in the beginning of the project, but staff had forgotten as the work got harder, the scope got bigger, and the stakes got higher. The end product after several drafts and feedback from other leaders is the following:
You make Janet’s care a reality.
You make The Five Ones real.
You are the dream makers.
Without this team, those dreams are just ideas and hope.
Like the Disney imaginers, you turn ideas into a technical reality.
You are making healthcare happen in this new model.
You have connected the dots for Janet’s story from inception, design, through build, testing, training, and implementation.
We are scaling the summit together.
Betty never had a chance to live the experience, but Janet will.
Thanks to you, soon all our patients will have that experience, and can focus on healing, instead of navigating a complex and confusing healthcare system, confident that their caregivers have access to all of their clinical information.
The work you do is so very important.
Upon creating and sharing this vision with their workshop friends, they debated how to bring this back to Hartford HealthCare. How would the vision be perceived by the staff and other leaders across the CareConnect team? Jennifer and Elise were not sure what the reaction would be, but were eager to share how reconnecting with the vision had reenergized them for the hard work and challenges still remaining.
An opportunity presented itself much sooner than they anticipated, when they were given the opportunity to share their vision at a staff meeting with more than 140 attendees. The feedback they received was very positive, with staff and leadership giving Elise and Jennifer feedback including the following:
“It gave me goose-bumps and almost made me cry.”
“I really needed to hear that today. It turned my week around.”
“Your vision made me remember why I took this job.”
Presenting at a staff meeting is one thing, but how would this new vision become part of the daily fiber of the hard work that was still ahead for the staff? Luckily, the project team had recently started daily huddles to improve communication, share recognition and resolve work barriers. Elise and Jennifer posted the vision statement on the team huddle boards and referenced portions of the statement on a weekly basis. Staff were invited to stop at the board and re-read the vision whenever they were feeling overwhelmed, challenged, or worn out.
By incorporating the vision statement into quick leadership tips for the staff on a weekly basis, they made the vision one of the basic tenets of the program, much like The Five Ones and Janet’s story had become for HHC team members. Their team is able to not only see the vision, but better connect to the progress made toward realizing it for the healthcare system.
As important to the success of the vision statement for the staff was the impact it had on Elise and Jennifer. As an outcome of the exercise of writing the statement, both leaders had a renewed focus on staff recognition, engagement, and being solution-oriented with the leadership team for staff retention and morale. They exhibited more confidence in the staff’s success, their ability to make it over the finish line, and the value this project brings to the community for whom HHC cares.
Evans Kerrigan
Evans Kerrigan works tirelessly in both corporate and public sectors as a dynamic business consultant, presenter, and coach. With over 30 years of experience working with multi-national organizations such as Cisco, Sun, Blue Cross Blue Shield, BP, State of Arizona and King County Washington, Evans has been at the forefront of change management--building healthy organizations and creating great places to work. His contributions to these organizations have been credited with increasing employee engagement scores, dramatic reductions in costs and improvement in efficiencies and revenue, resulting in improved operational excellence.
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Set Your Instagram Profile Up For Success
Many businesses are now turning to Instagram, with good reason. With over 800 million users checking into Instagram on an almost daily basis, this provides businesses big opportunities to reach a wide portion of their consumers. Setting up your Instagram profile is the first step to organically growing your Instagram account.
With Instagram now being the social media platform with the highest engagement, it is important for businesses to invest time and effort into ensuring that their Instagram page meets a particular standard. This ensures that what consumers see when scrolling through their Instagram is a clear representation of that business and their brand.
Setting Up And Optimizing Your Instagram Profile
This is best done when Instagram is approached as a secondary website of sorts; a place where potential consumers seek to gain information about the business.
Because of this, it is important to have a strong bio as the first thing that consumers look to for a brief overview of who you are and what you do.
Keep it short, to the point and written in a way that will be memorable for the consumer. And, most importantly, add a link back to your website to increase your website’s traffic. After all, you want them to come back and potentially purchase from your business!
Connect Visually With Your Instagram Profile
Instagram is very much centered around images. Although it may be famous for allowing users to post images of their holidays and avocado toast, it also provides businesses the remarkable opportunity to create or tell a story through the images that are posted.
What is important to remember in regards to Instagram growth marketing is that people remember 80% of what they see, 20% of what they read and 10% of what they hear.
Use these statistics in your favor! People are more responsive to images than text. Whether you post images of your products in action via consumers of the business, post behind-the-scenes video snippets of the business or simply re-post flat lays from customers, post images that tell the story behind your brand and create content that resonates with your consumers.
Align With Influencers
Chances are your ideal customers are on Instagram and so are the social influences that can help leverage your product/service to their audiences.
As the number of consumers making purchasing decisions based on Instagram content rises, it is a smart marketing strategy to partner with an influencer who you feel best aligns with your brand; one who has used a similar product before, or whose content you feel is similar to what your business is all about.
This will help you achieve efficient results in increasingly building that brand awareness for consumers who most likely want to do business with you.
Businesses moving toward Instagram as a form of digital marketing is a logical progression and when utilized correctly, can be a huge advantage.
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Telegraph Column: Weebles Wobble But They Don't Fall Down
My latest Telegraph column can be read HERE. It looks at the reaction to David Cameron's Newsnight interview and the immigration issue, and takes up Dizzy's theme of political triangulation.
I hope I'm not the first poster to mention this - although I may be because I'm in N America and it's still just evening here - but if an election were called tomorrow, Labour would get a 100 seat majority.
Please, Iain, and please Tories, face the fact that the choice of David Cameron was a disaster. The Tory contender, after 10 years of Blair slime, should have been able to romp in.
Why couldn't you see what everyone else could see? Mr "man made global warming" - fading so fast now that Al Gore has other things to attned to, do not speak to Conservative voters. This silly man's photo ops on a Norwegian ice floe with a couple of A-list huskies made everyone cringe. People hated him immediately.
I want to see a right agenda, because that is the agenda that makes things work. That's the reason the Soviet Union didn't work. It had a left agenda. Duh.
Pretending to be a leftie will not play to people who hold conservative values - the values that hold society together. Dave's a turncoat because he wants power, yet his weak little empty face tells us he will never have power. Weak. Unformed. The man has no convictions that he will actually fight for. He will concede every battle.
He will lose for the Conservatives, and that will be the end of the Conservative Party.
Perhaps a good thing, because they have been sliding down the tubes since 1997. The silent cry of non-achievement.
I will not vote Tory as long as Dave is in charge of a philosophy of which I do not approve - socialist.
Depending on who's standing, I'll vote UKIP or BNP.
Secure borders!
Britain is an island and there is not an uncontrolled flood of people arriving there.
Recently thousands of ethnic Karen fled from Burma to Thailand to escape from the repressive Burmese Army. Also some Hmong have fled from Laos. In recent history millions of refugees have arrived in Thailand.
The countries neighbouring Afghanistan have also received millions.
The U S of A has its wetbacks but to swim the English Channel is a much greater undertaking.So we are not swamped.
The 'fight back' had better work Iain or its Cameron who'll be fighting, to keep his job!
Well said, verity (except the bit about voting for BNP!).
Thanks Verity – we were all desperately wondering where you stood.
Although myself an advocate of environmental care, I had reserved my decision on Cameron and his team whilst they got up to their jolly PR japes, but it seems now beyond hope to salve or save the Party. As Verity describes him ("weak little empty face"), Cameron's image is just light-weight.
How to vote? BNP certainly should never be supported and UKIP still appears a mite silly and amateurish. Abstention seems the most likely course for me, but were UKIP to broaden its policies credibly beyond its admirable anti-EU stance, the defections from the Tory mainstream could possibly become significant (imho).
So Cameron and the Conservatives may find they fail to obtain votes from the left of centre whilst losing votes from the right of centre. How many votes remain in the centre of centre?
Iain - this is an acquired taste and may not be your style. But it has been viewed 2.6m times, which is more than webcameron
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/pie/
The question is, who's Bob?
No offence Iain, but why do all your telegraph articles have the byline "Iain Dale is a former Chief of Staff to David Davis"
This isn't the West Wing you know, why don't you 'fess up' and change it to 'Office Manager'? Speaking as a former 'Chief of Staff' myself, I think we have a right to know!
Iain - it was a good article but you failed to mention David Cameron's 'wobble' when he was challenged by Stephanie Flanders about his moralising on 'marriage'.
The point Stephanie was making is that she is unmarried. She has a child. Is DC telling her that he would like her to get married? If so, is that any of his business? Does a politician have the right to interfere in her private life? The answer is no - it is none of Cameron's business.
The proposed tax break is a pointless 'gesture' - and taxpayers money could be spent on a more worthy cause.
Give my 'married tax break' to pensioners. They deserve it.
Well I `m not so sure , chiefly because I `m riven with envy that Dizzy is splashed all over the Telegraph whilst other worthy blogs ....( ahem) Labouring quietly ...( cough cough ) but are ignored while this strutting peacock tweaks the nose of ancient degree ruling the court through his mysterious hold on King Blog. Dizzy this ...Dizzy that....ha! Dizzy is brilliant but this Clintonian triangulation is just Politics graduate doodling and best left in the margins of his wallpaper covered doodle book .
The subject of recast migration fears has already been dealt with in the New Statesman in an article which got a lot of response ending with the words “” They “(economic migrants ) should have as much right to live and work here as the rest of us and if that means building more homes and roads to accommodate them so be it “( Brendan O`Neill) .. This was the end of an article in which he claimed the BNP were wrapping themselves in a Green cloak and that’s the sort of attack you can expect , its racism thinly disguised . The association of the BNP with the Conservative Party is the subliminal message . Even this Brownite mag`s readers were spluttering ant the naivety
Cameron`s weakness to this sort of accusation is that he is not telling the truth he is only telling a more acceptable story. The reason for slowing immigration is not because of the pressure it puts on public services , although it does , or more to the point on housing ( 1,000,000 of the proposed 3,000,000 new homes will be occupied by immigrants not here yet ) it is to do with a concept now gaining currently hat he should import into his vocabulary and that is Cultural Capital. All socially conservative people across the spectrum believe that there is a value in communities and coherence between otherwise atomised individuals . You do not shoot your friends and brothers ,prescription can be light because voluntarily engaging in socially beneficial behaviour becomes the norm. This is the resolution between the Libertarian and prescriptive ideas in Conservatism. Take schools ;Dianne Abbot David Cameron, Tony Blair Emily Thornberry and many many more took one look at the multicultural heaven and sent their children elsewhere. This is because schools struggling to cope with eight languages and twenty traditions are overloaded and the necessary esprit is elusive. We instinctively know that this understanding built up over time has a value and that many new elements once dilute it particularly to the cost of working class communities who rely on a more public expression of social coherence.
Now when we look around at where we are going to live like Billy Bragg ( in all white Dorset) Political correctness disappears from the hallowed sanctuary of the car. When we see a lot of black or Asian faces we think “Oh dear this doesn’t look good “. We are not thinking about Public services of even housing we are making assumptions about class but chiefly we are seeing what we imagine correctly to be an atomised and alien environment where you know little of you neighbour.. That is because it would be entirely reasonable to assume that it is far more likely that cultural capital was built up in the person of whites as they were likely to have been here longer . This will sometimes be unfair , there has a been much comment ion the phenomenon of the “ Coconut”...brown on the outside but all assumptions are unfair to exceptions.
Ass long as Cameron cloaks what isa defence of the culture and integrity of the English with whatever clothes are lying in the shop he is vulnerable to the accusation he is sugar coating racism. . If he admits the truth about immigration and its problems ...as well as benefits , then he can cast of racism as a category and open the new front of Cultural capital . It is this above all that new Labour have shown unrelenting contempt for and it is the difference between the Conservative instinct and the National Socialism of Brown and the BNP.
I understand the dangers but when the Telegraph announces white will be in a minority in Birmingham in twenty years people are concerned and it is not because they are Nazis it is because they fear the cost to the community and the values that make it work.
I'm glad you gave Dizzy a mention in the article, he deserves more readers.
I don't like the idea of political triangulation - though it may well be on occasion necessary. Its suggests a form of subconscious deceit of the electorate and has been key to the dark arts that New Labour - masterminded by Gordon Brown - have destroyed the vibrancy of debate and public life with.
What we need is a clear analysis of what it is that is fundamentally wrong with the stealth socialism of Brown and his hangers on.
Some of opposition is luck. Its hard to beat Labour when they are running up the countries credit card bill and running down its assets like the military, freedoms, sovereignty - but telling everyone its all OK ( crime is fine, under Labour thanks to their stats ). They buy votes in the public sector - and behave in the shameless way before the last election - eg Rover and pensioner council tax credits.
But to win when the tide turns our analysis and predictions need to be in peoples minds before the events that they predict - if we are to benefit.
The alternative is to play the game of spin and deceit as Labour has done. But if that is done then no one will be trusted.
Watching David Cameron over the last few weeks he seems to have understood this. He looked like a man on a mission on Newsnight ( despite BBC lighting failures )- at last.
I think that man is well worth voting for verity - a vote for a fringe party will just put Gordon Brown back in office.
Anonymous at 9.10. I don't choose the byline, the Telegraph do.
But I do rather agree with you about the job title. At least I had quite a few staff to be chief of - there was one chief of staff who had to be chief of himself as there were no others!
dizzy said...
Newmania, I do love you still even though you're wrong.
Verity said
"I will not vote Tory as long as Dave is in charge of a philosophy of which I do not approve - socialist.
Depending on who's standing, I'll vote UKIP or BNP."
I was surprised to learn that residents of Mexico could vote in UK General Elections but I understand that is indeed the case.
Ned said...
Labour are 8 points ahead of the Tories? YouGov polling suggest this in today's Telegraph. Where do they poll ..what are the questions? & what groups are involved? Cannot believe that such an obviously inept government with all the catastrophic baggage they carry is 8 points ahead of the Tories!!
Vienna Woods said...
I can understand Verity’s view here. She lives in the USA and I live in Austria. It’s sometimes worth taking a step backwards to view things from afar. You certainly get a broader view of the landscape and, like Verity, I can only see disaster looming for the Conservatives. To be absolutely honest, I wouldn’t vote for Cameron for the simple reason that he is decidedly worse than the early Blair. Blair fooled the electorate with his chummy approach which was novel at the time, but this is all gone now and the dour Brown is a “relief” for most ordinary folk. People are fed up of sound bites, gimmicks, buzzwords and the overall marketing dirge of nu-Lab and they’re not going to choose an alternative with even more outrageous antics. We have to get real and find a leader who is mature, serious and capable. Nobody takes Dave Cameron seriously and the only people that do are fawning up to him in the hopes a miracle will happen. I really do have trouble imagining him in charge of our country during a crisis.
The Half-Blood Welshman said...
I agree with Ned. And frankly, Verity, I think that anyone who would even for a nanosecond consider voting BNP is somebody whom Cameron is far better off without. I think he would be insulted at the idea of picking up votes by pandering to neofascists - which is what the BNP are, for all their posturing. You're also wrong to think that people hated him immediately - the evidence was and is that they like him, but do not yet take him sufficiently seriously to rate him ahead of Gordon Brown.
In any case, I think you're wildly wrong, and you are only picking the facts that suit you and ignoring the inconvenient difficulties with them (similarly Vienna Woods). The undercurrents that I detect are running against Labour. In any case, I think this poll should be taken with a gallon of salt for several reasons (check out my blog for more).
If the wreckage of the last ten years doesn't stop another Labour victory then the UK deserves everything that will follow, and it won't be pretty at all.
Other than house prices, just what hasn't degraded since 1997?
Anonymous 10:49 - Yes, if we are British, we can vote no matter where we live. (Until the socialists notice and remove that right in the realisation that most people who live overseas flit because of them and vote Tory.)
With regard to my vote, I will vote for UKIP or the BNP, whichever one is standing in my constituency. So will millions of others. From what I can deduce, the BNP is morphing into a more mature political party and will inevitably become more inclusive. It stands up for British values, British history and British traditions. There are tens of thousands of black British voters who would also vote for these values and I expect they will be welcomed soon.
My preference would be to vote for UKIP, because the EU is at the heart of our malaise. But if they're not standing in my constituency, and the BNP is, then I will vote BNP.
Parties change. The Conservative Party under Dave has - and how! Dave, who doesn't seem to have an analytical, or skeptical, mind, thinks "man made global warming" is real. I find this frightening in someone who seeks the reins of power. The Earth got rid of the Ice Age (and probably many Ice Ages before it over the millions of years) with absolutely no help from mankind, who hadn't made an appearance yet. It was the sun wot done it.
Dave flits hither and thither, as light as thistledown. He doesn't have a constructive, realistic idea in his head for repairing the fabric of our civil society - a fabric intentionally and malignantly rent apart by the Labour Trots.
He's weak, vacuous and pandering.
When the Flanders woman (can't remember her name and it's not worth looking up) asked him if he wanted her to get married, he should have slashed her down, not tried to pander to her. He should have said something like he had absolutely no interest in her private life. Or "Why would I care what you do? You're well able to finance your own lifestyle." In other words, he should have been cutting and unpleasant and a million people who are sick of being governed by the mores of smug champagne liberals would have cheered.
He misreads every situation.
He is unable to relate to people who aren't from his privileged stratum. He's faking it, and it shows. Oh, how it shows!
David Davis or John Redwood are leadership material. They're both intellectually strong and they both have a strong sense of reality. David Cameron belongs on the sales floor of the Jaguar showroom in Dallas. He truly is Blair Mark II and he doesn't even understand why people find this revolting.
"...In other words, he should have been cutting and unpleasant and a million people who are sick of being governed by the mores of smug champagne liberals would have cheered..."
Clearly Verity doesn't like Cameron as a person any better than his words and deeds!
It does seem to me that a large part of politics is about persuading people to support ones views rather than violently abusing those who disagree with them. Steph is clearly beyond persuasion, but the audience out there would have every right to be turned off by a politician behaving in the intemperate way Verity recommends, whereas his polite but unruffled response to her rather childish questions seems to have won a fair amount of praise in the press and in the less impassioned blogs, so presumably more than one or two votes.
Personally I would rather stay at home on election day than support any candidate whose sales pitch was as disagreeable as Verty's post. While I wouldn't want to start a flame war here, I do think Verity has outlined a very good way of losing elections.
For what it's worth I voted for DD in the leadership election but apart from the fact that DC won with a huge majority, which should command at least some respect, I he has done a pretty reasonable job. Whether he (or anyone else) has a chance of beating Labour is a different matter.
Henry Rogers - Nowhere did I suggest "an intemperate" response. Intemperance always loses. I said he should have cut her back, but Cameron does not have the skill - or the nerve - to be cutting. He cannot think on his feet. Both John Redwood and David Davis could have cut her down to size on national television while maintaining an implausibly polite facade.
Dave couldn't do it - although that is what Conservative viewers would have wanted to see. In fact, I don't even think it occurred to him to fight back. I don't think he has an ability to think on his feet, except to dredge up a few clichés.
He's 10 points behind the ghoulish, rather personally revolting Brown. Does that tell you something about how his abilities are perceived by people who long to vote Conservative but don't see a plausible candidate?
Verity Wrote,
"He's 10 points behind the ghoulish, rather personally revolting Brown. Does that tell you something about how his abilities are perceived by people who long to vote Conservative but don't see a plausible candidate?"
And that is the crux of the matter. If we are to attract the voter, the figurhead has to appeal to the Conservative voter and that is certainly not the case currently. We should also establish how the majority of the electorate perceive Dave Cameron. How about someone commissioning a decent survey to do just that, instead of the half assed mini polls that are completely unrealistic. Oh yes, and get somone outside of the party to formulate the questions, not one of the inner circle.
Vienna Woods - interesting suggestion, but I don't think we have the time. We need to scupper Dave right now - today, if possible - and get Redwood or Davis in as leader. A bruiser in a velvet glove.
Let the yahoos jump up and down shrieking with laughter. It doesn't matter. No one cares. They weren't going to vote Tory anyway. Dump Dave now and hand the reins to someone who knows how to drive a coach and horses through the cheap, illusory edifice of Brown's unelected premiership.
Tapestry said...
Weeble idea fine but no ring to it as with Teflon Tony. Liked the article - especially the bit about he's pulling votes on health from NHS staff.
What do left and right wing mean, Verity?
In ICM Guardian Cameron has retained 91% of Conservative 2005 voters. Brown only has kept 85% of Labour 2005 voters. Cameron is more successful with his core voters than Brown is with his.
"...If we are to attract the voter, the figurehead has to appeal to the Conservative voter....."
Yes that's completely true.
"...and that is certainly not the case currently...."
That may be true of people who are enthusiastic contributors to blogs but I don't really think they have much in common with habitual Tory voters. I suspect the Tory leadership election was (and remains) much more representative of what non zealots feel. So that part of the statement may well not be true.
In practical terms trying change our leader now would be idiotic because Labour would certainly call an election at once which we would lose, being leaderless, and the next victim would have to start all over again from an even worse position.
Most of the people I mix with and chat to, many of whom appear to be Tory sympathisers at the very least, aren't particularly impressed by party enthusiasts (any party) and are very much put off by hard line adherents of political ideologies and by people who pursue vendettas and witch-hunts.
My working hypothesis is that if we really, really, want to lose the next election and probably the one after that then we only need to dump our leader and adopt a sales pitch which fully satisfies our hard-liners. We may of course lose any.
For what it's worth I don't think Cameron is particularly left wing and having listened quite carefully to what he has actually said I don't think he is lurching to the right. I think his diagnosis of what needs to be done to improve life in Britain now is fairly sound. And even if people disagree with his policies it doesn't advance their case much if they indulge in vitriolic personal attacks like Verity's initaial post.
I have no position in politics and I am not an aspirant politician and am therefore free to be as vitriolic as I like, without the benefit of lofty words of advice from Henry Rogers.
If you think, Mr Rogers, that most Tory voters are not bitterly disappointed that Cameron doesn't seem to hold any strong opinions about anything, then you are either a Labourite or you're looking at a different world from the one the rest of us see.
Cameron doesn't seem to be aware of the vast wash of social irresponsibility that sluices around the ankles of the productive people in Britain. The able-bodied permanently unemployed who this government supplies with pocket money for cigarettes, booze and take-aways. The illiterate children, tens of thousands of them born to illiterate single mothers. He doesn't seem to understand - possibily because he is as politically illiterate as Tony Blair - that Labour has created a replica of Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society, which was counted an abject and dangerous failure that had to be fixed urgently around 25 years ago. Now we've got one of our own, deliberately created. With the creation of a permanent illiterate welfare class and a Goliathan public sector, the socialists don't need to worry about being out of office ever again.
And they will never be spurred into according the British people a referendum, despite it being promised, on the EU constitution,because who's going to force them? Dave?
You think most Tory voters are perfectly comfortable with this? Because I don't.
We need someone clever and fierce and that person is not the very polite Mr Cameron with a politically correct wind turbine on his roof and a brand new parka that is destined to hang unused in his closet for the next several decades.
You think most Tories are insouciant about this, Henry Rogers? - because I don't.
Verity,
I live in London so all the social ills you list are pretty obvious, drugs too. Like you I'm dismayed by people who still believe in socialism as it clearly doesn't work and misapplication of socialist ideals has caused so many of those problems. However I know and like plenty of people who vote Labour or Lib Dem. I don't think they are morally wrong to hold their beliefs, just mistaken. Not so sure about some of the demagogues they vote for though.
I'd have thought since he commissioned and gave a warm welcome to IDS's report on social problems Cameron probably does have pretty good knowledge of the situation despite your doubts. I can't see anyone but Tories doing anything about it. Despite your opinions, I can't see that anyone but Cameron has any chance whatever of putting the Tories into power within the next decade, starting from where we are this evening. In my opinion saying we should have chosen someone else or should choose someone else now is pointless for the reasons I gave in my last post.
I think accusing Blair (or Cameron) of political illiteracy is not really sustainable. Blair was the most skillful political operator we've experienced for a generation. Sad that his talent for gaining power wasn't matched by a talent for doing anything honest or sensible with it. You may find Cameron personally repulsive but you'd be making a mistake to underate his political skill or the strength of his desire to do something worthwhile given the chance.
Like you I'm not an aspirant politician, even at local level. So like yours, my opinions are my own too. And what's more I post under my own name. However I do dispute your conviction that you speak for 'the rest of us' Tories. The ones I meet in the flesh are rarely like that. Poisonous personal attacks and ideological rants are best left to extremists of left and right - or trolls.
Cameron is certainly exremely popular with most Conservative Party members who do not tend to be anarchic or libertarian in a doctrinaire way. His conservation agenda is appealing his measured reasonableness is appealing . His history is of a somewhat right wing traditional Conservative and they expect him to chase the centre swing votes .There are untapped reserves of loyalty and much frustration with showboating MP`s and lazy shadow ministers .
His difficulty is that those swing seats are not full of core Party members so he is bound to annoy some of the core vote .He has made it clear he wished to cut taxes , he wishes to control immigration, he wishes to distance us from Europe and he is trustworthy on the Constitution .
He is moreover a brilliant man who runs rings round Brown and has saved the Conservative Party from irrelevance. Those who betray us to Socialism not to say National Socialism are playing game for which a seat far far away provides the best view.
Rogers - who has suddenly become more reasoned because he was opposed, writes: "Poisonous personal attacks and ideological rants are best left to extremists of left and right - or trolls" ...
Please report me as a troll, you insufferable twerp.
Iain has my email address.
Hard to imagine anyone disagreeing with your incredibly sharp and articulate thinking and not be a troll, right? I mean, you're in the club, after all! And you're always right! Reasonable thinking! Informed! No stupid women messing up the debate.
You're one more reason women don't post here. Had I not been posting at Iain's for a couple of years, I would have been off this site due to the change in the quality of poster over the last six months.
Rogers, you're drab and you have no authority around here.
Learn some courtesy.
The problem with most Conservative is that they almost exclusively believe they are members of a bespoke club, of which only they are members. When will most of them get it into their heads that the Conservative Party does include others with an opinion that contradicts their own limited view. We have to appeal to those outside of the Conservgative Party to have any hope of winning any election. Dave Cameron maybe a nice bloke, but he certainly isn't a leader and we are kidding ourselves if we think he will be any way successful. We need to understand the term 'majority' if we are ever going to extract ourselves from the deep excreta we are now in up to our necks (couldn't think of a better way to put it - sorry!).
tgf ukip said...
Iain, this really was a wimpering, wimpish column. It should perhaps have been headed"We Tories daren't be conservatives." Certainly, if you hadn't been CoS to David Davis(one of the few real conservatives on the Front Bench) it would be hard to figure you as anything other than just another of Dave's silly metropolitan, liberal progressives. You can be elected with a robust conservative rhetoric as Ronald Reagan and George W showed in the US and as Gordon is going to demonstrate in the UK. New Labour have already annexed the tough on crime and terrorism stance abandoned by Daft Dave's Tories and now just watch Gordon sound more like Michael Howard than Michael Howard on immigration. Moreover, he's also going to use the slowing economy as the excuse to borrow more and CUT TAXES. Your prissy London lot are going to get some flak then. Hard to say who must love Dave more, Gordon or UKIP.
manfarang said
"Britain is an island and there is not an uncontrolled flood of people arriving there... (snip) ..The U S of A has its wetbacks but to swim the English Channel is a much greater undertaking.So we are not swamped."
Ever heard of the Channel Tunnel ?
Immigration is out of control, even the Gov of the Bank of England recently lamented that monetary policy was becoming impossible to set because no one had a clue exactly how many people were living in today's UK.
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Diamond M
Justin Hedrick
Len McIrvin
USFS
WA State Has Now Killed 18 Wolves Because Of One Ranch - the Diamond M
Source: http://www.capitalpress.com/washington/20160611/a-family-tradition-of-efficiency
The McIrvin family, owners of the Diamond M cattle ranch for five generations, have been running cattle in Colville National Forest, one million acres of federal land in Ferry, Stevens and Pend Oreille counties. There's no good reason for it because the land is ill-suited for cattle and it's home to about 100 wolves; an endangered species in WA state.
Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/with-their-cattle-grazing-in-washingtons-wolf-country-ranchers-work-and-worry/
The Diamond M has about 4,500 head of cattle. They lost 16 cattle to wolves in 2016 according to the Seattle Times. That's 1/3 of one percent of their livestock. As of today, 18 wolves have been killed out of a total population of about 110, or 16%.
I'll say that again so that it sinks in.
16% of the total population of an endangered species in WA state have been killed because one rancher lost .003% of his herd grazing on land that he doesn't own.
The worst part of this madness is that every other rancher in Eastern WA takes the compensation offered by the State for cattle depredation, which equals twice the value of the dead cows.
Source: https://wdfw.wa.gov/conservation/gray_wolf/livestock/compensation.html
But Len McIrvin doesn't want the State's money. He wants dead wolves. His grandson and partner, Justin Hedrick, who's also president of the Steven's County Cattlemen's Association (SCCA), also wants a return to leg-hold traps (currently illegal) according to the Seattle Times.
“It’s such a crooked, damn deal they’re throwing at us,” (Len McIrvin) said. “Wolves and cattle are like oil and water. They do not mix, and they never will.”
"If we take $100,000 from the department, that's us saying, 'It's all right for the wolves to be here as long as you pay us,'" Len McIrvin said. "It's not all right, they will put us out of business."
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Justin Hedrick on the "flawed" Colville National Forest Plan Revision
It's not just wolves that the McIrvins and Hedrick want gone. They're also opposed to environmental protections for wildlife according to this letter that Hedrick wrote in his capacity as President of the Cattlemen's Association to the US Forest Service and US Dept of Agriculture about their proposed CNF management plan revisions:
"(T)he proposed Colville National Forest Plan Revision would impose nonsensical, arbitrary restrictions onto the current allotments, making compliant management impossible. For instance, parts of the plan require that ranchers manage their cattle in order to leave enough grass for snowshoe hair (sic) that may eventually be eaten by lynx. Other areas require that ranchers leave six to eight inches of stubble height near waterways and salt blocks and watering tanks would be prohibited around rare plants.
Additionally, cattle are required to be managed so they do not congregate on trails, destination areas and cultural sites. Grazing cattle must also be kept away from spawning fish."
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The good news is that the U.S. Forest Service and USDA kept those provisions intact in the final CNF management plan released last month.
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Pretty seedy stuff, but Irons found the humanity in a character he could’ve played as a small-screen variation on his twisted roles in Reversal of Fortune and Dead Ringers. SVU has racked up a string of best guest-actress statuettes in recent years (Ann-Margret, Ellen Burstyn, et. al.), but Irons could become the show’s first male Emmy winner.
TV Tango (@TVTango) tweeted live during the conference call with Jeremy and SVU executive producer Neal Baer. Here are their tweets – from the most recent to the oldest:
Conf. call w/ Jeremy Irons & Neal Baer of LAW & ORDER #SVU is over. Irons guest stars in the episode “Mask” on Wed Jan 12 at 10pm ET on NBC.
Neal Baer, EP of #SVU: “[Irons’ character] demands the large talent that Jeremy has. We specifically wrote the role for his talents.”
Jeremy Irons, guest on #SVU: “SVU is way up there with those I enjoyed. A lovely team of people. A very happy experience.”
Jeremy Irons, guest on #SVU: “I have one [comedy] lurking around that I might make next year. People don’t come to me first for comedy.”
Neal Baer, EP of #SVU: “As I heard from Mariska and Chris, their kids went crazy” over Irons because of his voice for LION KING’s Scar.
Jeremy Irons, guest on #SVU: “I’ve done the odd comedy. Not hugely successful. I was known for comedy on stage [when I was <30].”
Jeremy Irons, guest on #SVU: “I loved the fast pace of shooting. If I don’t have time to finish the crossword in a day, I’m really happy.”
Neal Baer, EP of #SVU: “Chris [Meloni] texted me throughout the shoot ‘I love Jeremy Irons.'” Irons: “We are talking about getting married.”
Neal Baer, EP of #SVU: “[Irons] fits into the show quite well, but he brings to the show this intensity. It’s very alluring to an audience.”
Jeremy Irons, guest on #SVU: “I think I always try 2 put my foot, so to speak, in a place where it’s not expected where I walk in my career”
Jeremy Irons, guest on #SVU: “There is a professionalism [in American TV] that makes some British work seem amateur.”
Jeremy Irons about working on #SVU: “You do feel like you’re entering an area of safety. They honed their craft on all levels.”
Jeremy Irons, guest on #SVU: “I watched them [Christopher Meloni & Mariska Hargitay] in awe as they worked.”
Jeremy Irons, guest on #SVU: “[My character] contains enigmatic qualities. A multi-layered role I can get my teeth into.”
Jeremy Irons, guest on #SVU, on why doing network TV: “Because it fit in timewise. #SVU is so popular amongst a wide variety of my friends.”
On conference call w/ Jeremy Irons & Neal Baer of LAW & ORDER #SVU. Irons guest stars in the episode “Mask” on Wed Jan 12 at 10pm ET on NBC.
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After Just Over a Year, Kate Lanphear Leaves 'Relaunched' Lad Rag Maxim
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
Kate Lanphear, the venerated fashion editor-turned-EIC of a kinder, gentler Maxim, is leaving the magazine after a little more than a year, reports The Cut. In her tenure there, she tipped the editorial direction towards a more equal playing field, removing the magazine’s lurid depiction of women and replacing them with higher fashion, more intellectually sexy portrayals. (Never forget, for instance, Taylor Swift’s eyebrow-y wet look cover.)
Per a press release, Maxim publisher Kevin Martinez said the title would be “taking the next step in our evolution and will continue to upgrade... across fashion and luxury,” a goal that was expressed last week in a statement made to WWD. The magazine was then undergoing its second redesign, and its readership had tanked over the last few months. In that piece, Martinez told WWD:
“It’s the Wild West out there and whomever is the boldest guy is the sheriff,” Martinez said. “Maxim is the wild card.”
With dramatic effect, he unsheathed the hefty magazine from a folder, and threw it down on the table. Landing with a thud, the magazine was a mockup of the new design and it included several spreads, feature layouts and covers — seven of them. Potential covers included two close-ups of women’s body parts — lips (in black and white) and a bikini crotch shot (in color), a nearly nude bronzed woman on a beach chair, a sultry bedroom shot in black and white and a Gigi Hadid portrait.
While Lanphear’s departure isn’t explicitly linked to the new direction—she said in the press release that she was “proud of everything all of us at Maxim have accomplished and how far the magazine has come in the past year”—it’s interesting that Martinez’s new direction (i.e. “a bikini crotch shot”) seemed a bit at odds with Lanphear’s more demure vision for Maxim. More interestingly, it was speculated that Playboy’s new no-nudes stance was an attempt to horn in (heh) on the higher-end readers new Maxim had presumably reached. But it’s also possible that Maxim saw an opportunity and went for it. Lanphear’s vision of sensuality and adult males doing their thing will be missed.
Contact the author at julianne@jezebel.com.
Image via Getty.
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Pardon the “13 Going on 30” reference, but this clip is exactly what I picture that redesign meeting to be like.
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Keep your work and your words simple.
There’s no prize for complication
Photo by Henry Ascroft on Unsplash
You’re wrong if you think that making something complicated makes it better. You’re wrong if you think that longer documents are more insightful.
You’re wrong (and elitist) if you think using complicated language makes you smarter.
You’re wrong if you think simplicity is cheap and cheerful.
I know so many people, and have met so many people who have this misguided idea that for something to be of value, it has to be big, complicated, long, and full of a lot of 10 dollar words.
They’ll never produce anything simple, because to them that’s not worth anything.
You’ve probably experienced this a lot. You’ve heard politicians do it, for sure. They try and obscure their meaning behind so much crap and so many fancy phrases that they miss all simplicity.
You’ve heard companies do it too. You’ve heard their meaning dissolve into technobabble and corporate/marketing speak, where there’s always a special word or phrase that sounds fancy and positive, but really just means Screw You.
And if you’re a creative, you’ve done it yourself. Simple just seems cheap, to some creatives, so they try and add value through complications. Writers think like this all the time.
They’ll pad out their work with a bunch of complicated words from a Goddamn thesaurus in the hope of making themselves sound smarter. They’ll never say in 500 words what they could say in 5,000.
Entrepreneurs and tech folks do it too. Their pitches are a prime example of it. They’ll struggle to explain in simple terms just what it is they do, and they’ll use buzzwords and phrases and old paradigms and dumb comparisons, because they’re not ready to stand by the simplicity of what they want to do.
A few years ago, I was asked to write a marketing plan for a major corporation. When my first draft came back, the response was that the strategy was great, the steps were there and the plan was fantastic — but it needed to be longer.
There wasn’t anything missing, it wasn’t half baked — they just wanted more pages.
As though extra length and extra complication could give it more weight (beyond the physical weight gleaned from adding more paper).
The final plan, when it was signed off in with high praise, had no changes to the existing content. It just had 30 pages of bibliography and appendix stapled to the back. What a pointless exercise!
Simple is beautiful, even if only because it can be understood. Simple is beautiful because it can express what you’re trying to do, say, and show without adding a lot of worthless frills to it.
Simple is beautiful because simple allows you to communicate.
I think I learned this from my struggle with a speech problem. When I was a kid, nobody could understand a thing I said to them.
Getting a sentence out was immensely difficult, and I’d stumble over every word and turn incoherent.
My best chance at having anyone grasp what I was trying to say was to say it simply. Keep my sentences short, to the point, and free of any words that were too big, flowery or complex.
I learned that communicating simply was the only way I had to make sure I could be understood by the people around me. That’s carried through in my writing, too. I try not to fuck around and waste time. I value the simplicity of what I do over everything else.
And I don’t see it as lacking value, just because I’m not writing 1,000 word posts. I also don’t see what I do as worthless, just because I deal with some pretty simple concepts around how to live and work creatively. Again, simple is beautiful.
There’s more to it than being understood of course. Making your work simple means you can’t tiptoe around difficult ideas or tough talk.
There’s nothing flowery to hide behind, so you have no option but to deal in the basics.
And making your simple means you can’t pull the wool over your audience’s eyes, and fool them into believing there’s substance where there isn’t.
There are always people who are going to disagree with this. They’ll have their reasons, and some of them I respect.
But I honestly believe you can create incredible prose and brilliant non-fiction writing, and incredible products, and successful marketing plans by making them simple. By not being self indulgent.
I’m a cruel editor, as anyone I’ve worked with can attest. I look at every sentence and I ask what its purpose is. If the writer can’t come back with a good reason, I take a red pen to it.
I’m the same as an entrepreneur. I don’t like “features” I like functions. I don’t see the point of a TV in a fridge, for example.
I do the same thing to my own work. My posts normally rage from 1500–2000 words before I hack them down.
Before I take each piece and part of the puzzle and question it ruthlessly. I don’t want to waste my readers’ time or obscure what I’m trying to get out.
I think you can always simplify what you’re trying to say, or build, or do — if you’re mindful enough of its true meaning and purpose, and you’re not too caught up in it. I’m often reminded of a quote from Samuel Johnson:
“I would say what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”
That’s not the worst advice ever. Make it simple. Cut the crap. Remove the frills. Let your meaning shine through.
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Assistant Director of Orientation and Student Onboarding - Enrollment Management
Assistant Director of Orientation and Student Onboarding - Enrollment Management 16118
The Admissions and Recruitment unit within the Division of Enrollment Management at West Virginia University is seeking applications for an Assistant Director. This position will be responsible for supervising the Program Coordinator of New Student Orientation and providing direct oversight of WVU's Orientation programming. This highly visible, professional position interacts regularly with senior administration, faculty, professional staff, and prospective students and their families. The Assistant Director is part of the Enrollment team that strives to meet student needs, provide excellent customer service, and achieve enrollment goals.
In order to be successful in this position, the ideal candidate will:
Manage the full life cycle of New Student Orientation (NSO): Plan, develop, lead and evaluate new student orientation programs. Manage all aspects of the orientation program to meet project deadlines and quality measures including but not limited to securing facilities, engaging all campus partner, speakers, food arrangements, transportation, management of a database, and overseeing registration.
Provide daily operational leadership of NSO, including trouble shooting problems, communicating to constituents, coordinating services to parents and students, ensuring completion of all logistical needs, and maintaining quality control across all facets of NSO day-to-day operations.
Lead yearly effort to continuously improve the orientation experience. Manage the administration of the NSO survey to parents and students. Complete thorough assessment of findings from the survey and developing vision for changes in the program.
Provide supervision and professional development for Program Coordinator of New Student Orientation.
Articulate vision for NSO to senior administration and University community.
Lead all aspects of communicating NSO to campus community and the public. Working with University Relations, develop, design, and produce letters, emails and publications for New Student Orientation.
Manage New Student Orientation websites and coordinate updates/changes as needed.
Lead any Recruitment and Processing staff representatives who have responsibilities at NSO on the planning, execution and evaluation of NSO.
Develop and administer the orientation budget, including budget forecasting, cash operations, planning, and monitoring of revenue and expenditures.
Serve as the liaison for NSO with University Relations to plan and execute the NSO program to ensure the ideal user experience.
Update content on the NSO website and other platforms, while also evaluating new mediums.
Participate in the development and monitoring of a recruitment plan to insure effective recruitment events and NSO.
Lead the New Student Orientation Advisory Board through the yearly planning process.
Serve as spokesperson for NSO with students, parents, alumni, high school personnel, and community groups.
Oversee transfer student onboarding program and works in conjunction with the Office of Global Affairs on international student onboarding.
In cooperation with the Event Management Team assist with the logistical planning and coordination of all enrollment events. This includes oversight of high ability events, open house events, and in-market events as needed.
Assist with event communication planning and audience segmentation to ensure events are non-duplicative and fulfill recruitment and enrollment needs.
Continually assess event strategy to ensure that that recruitment events meet recruitment goals.
Act as a designee to recruitment staff when Director is not available.
Ensure office coverage for daily visitors, manage staff coverage for events and other out of office recruitment events, ensure staff professional development opportunities, and demonstrate leadership for the office.
Establish and maintain effective working relationships internally with other departments, divisions, colleges and schools to maximize cooperation and collaboration for all aspects of NSO, recruitment events, and enrollment.
Conduct research on specific topics and provide reports and recommendations to the Enrollment leadership team.
Serve on various University committees and meetings involved in the planning and evaluation of new student visitation and orientation programs and enrollment management issues. Maintain active membership in professional organizations and represents WVU at various functions.
Assist with recruitment and processing work that is typically assigned to Admissions Counselors throughout the year, including visitor center presentations, meetings and outreach with students and parents, application review, etc.
Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree preferred.
A minimum of four (4) years of experience in higher education administration, enrollment management, orientation, or event planning.
A minimum of one (1) year of supervisory experience.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including public speaking experience.
Demonstrated interpersonal skills and commitment to working with students and staff from diverse backgrounds.
Demonstrated experience in program planning from start to finish.
Demonstrated ability to develop, implement, and evaluate special events and programs.
Demonstrated experience in managing, supervising, and motivating a diverse staff.
Demonstrated administrative and budgetary management skills.
Demonstrated ability in developing publications.
Demonstrated ability to operate a personal computer and experience with a computerized student information system.
Demonstrated commitment to and a record of excellence in customer service.
Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills necessary to resolve complex situations.
Demonstrated ability to coordinate a wide variety of tasks and projects taking place simultaneously and prioritize work
Demonstrated commitment to diversity and social justice.
About WVU
At West Virginia University, we pride ourselves on a tireless endeavor for achievement. We are home to some of the most passionate, innovative minds in the country who push their limits for the sake of progress, constantly moving the world forward. Our students, faculty and staff make this institution one of the best out there, and we are proud to stand as one voice, one university, one WVU. Find out more about your opportunities as a Mountaineer at https://talentandculture.wvu.edu/ .
West Virginia University is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and is the recipient of an NSF ADVANCE award for gender equity. The University values diversity among its faculty, staff, and students, and invites applications from all qualified applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, nationality, genetics, disability, or Veteran status.
Job Posting: Jan 12, 2021
Posting Classification: Non-Classified
Exemption Status: Exempt
Benefits Eligible: Yes
About West Virginia University
West Virginia University, founded in 1867, has a long and rich history as a public, land-grant institution. WVU encourages scholarship and offers high-quality academic programs while serving the state of West Virginia and the nation. WVU statewide includes campuses in Beckley, Charleston, Keyser, Martinsburg and Morgantown – which has been ranked as a #1 Small City in America. WVU is an R1 Doctoral Research University (Highest Research Activity), one of only 115 nationwide. WVU offers 212 degrees throughout the 14 colleges and schools. Areas of specialty include STEM education, healthcare in Appalachia, shale gas utilization, radio astronomy and forensics. WVU researchers have helped confirm the existence of gravitational waves and uncovered diesel vehicle emissions discrepancies. Statewide, there are over 31,000 graduate and undergraduate students along with 190,000 alumni worldwide. WVU is reinventing West Virginia’s future by strengthening education, healthcare and broad-based prosperity.
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Working Remotely Does Not Mean Disconnecting: Stephanie Nerlich, Havas Creative Network, North America
A positive, healthy mindset is core to personal and professional growth, and this experience has been an opportunity for all of us to create new work-from-home rituals together.
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Stephanie Nerlich
CEO — Havas Creative Network, North America
Since employees have transitioned working from home, how has the agency been helping them to adapt?
We are all parents, children and siblings first; and when the pandemic struck, the most important thing we did was remind ourselves of that fact. We immediately moved to a flexible mindset to ensure we could each bring our best selves—even in uncertain times. As the world faced learning how to best work from home, we committed to making the transition as seamless as possible for our people.
The Creative network shared #WFHrituals and #havasfromhome local office content, while offering employee resources including a membership with wellness app WHIL and the Employee Assistance Program, a 24/7 hotline and website where staff members could chat with medical experts and financial experts for free.
To also support remote work, we shifted our Doctors in Office program, which offers wellness checkups completely covered by our health insurance plan, to provide stress reduction counseling. Employee consultations with licensed therapists were virtual, complementary and completely confidential.
The goal was, and continues to be, to do our best to keep everyone inspired, healthy, connected and stimulated—mentally and physically—at a time when it is needed most.
How are the attitudes of employees evolving as the crisis continues?
At first, like the rest of the world, we waited and wondered how impactful the pandemic would be—on business and our personal lives. I’d say a few months into the crisis, everyone started to realize we’d be in this for the long run. But instead of being consumed by fear of the unknown, we all banded together to adapt and come out stronger. I’d use words like “optimistic,” “empowered” and “energized” to describe the attitude of Havas overall in North America. We pivoted fast and effectively to not just meet but exceed the needs of our clients—all while continuing the make a meaningful difference in everything we do. And while there are still challenges we all face every day, we have found the silver lining of this crisis in empathy and resilience which is allowing us to move forward together successfully.
What has been the most challenging part of working from home for team members?
While we are all parents, children and siblings first, we are friends, colleagues and peers in close second. All although we have all adapted to working from home, it’s easier for some than others. Everyone has their challenges—whether that’s balancing work with home schooling, or living in near social isolation in a new city.
There is something to be said for human connection and the energy you feel when working in person. As my colleague, Zav Rees said, “We need to be together to make our best work. Creative brilliance is so often the product of happy accidents—the kind of collaborative collision that can only happen in-person.” This is a universal challenge that we face as inherent social beings; we all miss and crave that interaction despite becoming accustomed to Zoom and other video technology.
Has there been any changes made within your agency to ease the process?
In addition to making numerous programs and resources available to support all employees, we have been meeting and working with anyone seeking additional assistance or who has personal needs during this time. We are working to be empathetic to every situation and have embraced flexibility.
Has anything been done to try and preserve the office culture? How has the reception been internally?
Absolutely. Working remotely does not mean disconnecting. Now more than ever, it’s important to continue building your community and lifting one another up. Havas New York is a great example of preserving office culture. The agency maintained cadence and scaled formerly live Creative Consciousness programming—a community-based initiative that introduced wellness sessions, educational opportunities and team-building experiences—to unite people across agency disciplines virtually by inviting more people to engage in meditation, yoga, inspirational speakers, virtual film clubs, trivia nights, etc. Additionally, in partnership with Universal Music Group, employees enjoyed live “at-home” performances by emerging artists during weekly virtual happy hours and monthly Town Halls.
Are you planning to return to the office? Is there a plan to make some of the initiatives started during the pandemic?
Many of our offices across North America are open, and we have taken precautionary measures in each one to allow for a safe and comfortable working environment. That said, any return to office is completely voluntary right now. We are following the direction and guidance of the CDC, as well as individual states and cities.
I think what’s clear from this pandemic is that the future of work and the workplace have been forever changed. Our Villages were never factories with punch clocks as the norm, but we’ve now learned that our offices will need to function like clubhouses or town squares—where we come together to grow, inspire and collaborate, then flexibly move apart when the work requires individual solitude and thinking time for the activities that are heads down.
What are some common mistakes you’ve seen from agencies transitioning to working from home? Do you have any tips?
While I can’t speak for other networks, I know we have all faced common challenges transitioning to working from home. And I also know that great companies are built in difficult times. We have learned that people need a level of flexibility to do their best work. And a level of ritual for comfort. It’s become harder to disconnect from work at the end of the day, and we are all suffering from “Zoom fatigue.” We need to ensure rituals are put in place to get us up and walking, having coffee together. And at the end of the day, we close the laptop and commute home—even if it’s 10 feet to the kitchen.
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HomeEthiopia’s PM savours victory, Tigrayan leader says war not finished
Ethiopia’s PM savours victory, Tigrayan leader says war not finished
ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed lauded his troops on Monday for ousting a rebellious northern movement, but the leader of Tigrayan forces said they were still resisting amid fears of a protracted guerrilla conflict.
The nearly month-long war has killed hundreds and probably thousands of people, sent refugees into Sudan, enmeshed Eritrea, and stirred rivalries among Ethiopia’s myriad ethnic groups.
Federal forces captured regional capital Mekelle at the weekend and declared victory over the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a guerrilla movement-turned-political party that dominated national government for nearly three decades until 2018.
“Our constitution was attacked but it didn’t take us three years, it took us three weeks,” Abiy told parliament, comparing his offensive with the American Civil War of the 1860s.
“Our army is disciplined and victorious.”
Though the TPLF said Mekelle had been bombarded, Abiy said his troops had not used rockets and had not killed a single civilian in Tigray since starting an offensive in response to an attack on an army base on Nov. 4.
Though the highland city of 500,000 people eventually fell with little resistance, the TPLF said on Sunday it had shot down a plane and retaken one town.
The United States expressed concern about continued fighting and called for a complete end to hostilities and for dialogue. Both Washington and the United Nations urged that human rights be fully respected and that aid groups be allowed access.
Graphic: Map of region
‘FIGHTING THE INVADERS’
I spoke with Ethiopian Prime Minister @AbiyAhmedAli today and urged a complete end to the fighting in Tigray, a start to dialogue, and free, safe, unhindered humanitarian access. It is essential to resolve the ongoing conflict and keep Ethiopia on the path to democracy.
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) November 30, 2020
TPLF leader Debretsion Gebremichael denied reports he had fled to South Sudan and said his forces captured some soldiers from neighbouring Eritrea around Wukro, about 50 km (30 miles) north of Mekelle.
“I’m close to Mekelle in Tigray fighting the invaders,” he told Reuters in a text message.
Claims from all sides are difficult to verify as phone and internet links to Tigray have largely been down and access is restricted.
The TPLF has shelled Asmara’s airport and accused Eritrea of sending troops to fight with Abiy’s forces. Both Eritrea and Ethiopia have denied that accusation.
When he took office in 2018, Abiy pledged to unite Ethiopia’s 115 million people, but ethnic bloodshed had killed hundreds and uprooted hundreds of thousands from their homes even before the latest flare-up.
There are more than 80 ethnicities in Ethiopia, which operates as a federation of 10 regions run by separate groups.
Abiy said he had directed reforms to reduce Tigrayans in senior military positions from more than 60% to a quarter of the top brass. Tigrayans make up roughly 6% of the population.
Though urging the more than 45,000 refugees in Sudan to return, Abiy said it was suspicious so many of them were young males and if any had a role in an alleged massacre of non-Tigrayans in Mai Kadra they should face justice.
The government blamed the killings on a Tigrayan youth group with the aid of local forces, but the TPLF denied any collusion.
In Tigray, both sides have spoken of hundreds of fatalities in air strikes and fighting. Diplomats believe the toll is in the thousands.
Abiy’s spokeswoman Billene Seyoum dismissed the TPLF’s comments that fighting continued, dismissing them as the delusions of a disintegrating criminal clique”.
Redwan Hussein, head of a government taskforce on Tigray, told Reuters most casualties occurred at the start of the conflict during a TPLF attack on Ethiopian soldiers, attempts by reinforcements to reach them, and then a mass killing of about 700 civilians.
“Our orders were to leave the cities alone, and to encircle them, to cut the forces that were within the towns from their chain of commands,” he added, saying the Republican Guard captured Mekelle without shooting as TPLF conscripts deserted.
The TPLF was not immediately available to comment. On Sunday, the Red Cross said Mekelle’s hospitals were low on supplies and bodybags, but did not give casualty figures.
Graphic: Map of refugee movements –
GUERRILLA WAR?
It is not clear how many fighters the TPLF has left, but Debretsion’s defiance raises the spectre of a drawn-out insurgency. The battle-hardened TPLF helped topple Ethiopia’s Marxist dictatorship in 1991 and knows how to exploit its mountains and borders with Sudan and Eritrea.
Abiy, whose parents are from the larger Oromo and Amharic groups, said he had felt Ethiopia’s ethnic frictions even when taking office as prime minister, where he felt like a “prisoner.” He said security services dominated by Tigrayans discouraged him from travelling round Ethiopia.
INTERNATIONAL CONCERN
Despite the government’s claim of victory, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo voiced grave concern about the hostilities. In a telephone call with Abiy, Pompeo called for dialogue and a complete end to the fighting, a State Department spokesman said.
He stressed the importance of protecting civilians, including refugees fleeing into Sudan, and giving international humanitarian organizations access to Tigray, the State Department said.
He urged the government to respect the human rights of Tigrayans and all ethnic groups.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke with Abiy on Sunday and called for full respect for human rights and access for humanitarian aid, a U.N. spokesman said.
“The Secretary General also said that Ethiopia needed a true reconciliation, without discrimination…where every community should feel respected and be part of Ethiopia,” he said.
EU considers aid cut to Ethiopia amid violence
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Bizarre, Congress, Politics December 20, 2012
Congress Posts Critical Copyright Report . . . Then It Vanishes
We have repeatedly discussed the absurdity of U.S. copyright laws and how law firms have become virtual thug patrols threatening average citizens with ruin over small copyright violations. President Obama has been repeatedly criticized for being in the pocket of “copyright hawks” and lobbyists who have used the Administration to increase the penalties and scope of these laws. The Congress has also been a virtual extension of industry groups and lobbyists in the area. For that reason, many people were shocked when Rep. Jim Jordan published a critical report entitled RSC Policy Brief: Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it.” It was a strong condemnation of how these laws are not stifling creativity and various industries. It was the first such report anyone could remember that was not written by lobbyists for draconian copyright laws. Then it was gone. Gone. According to various sites, the eight page document was removed from the website. Some sites opined that the various industry groups saw it and quashed it — but not before some sites like the one below copied it.
If it is true that lobbyists stomped on the document, it is a remarkable public demonstration (again) of the control exercised over Congress, which made the mistake of speaking without industry approval.
By the way, the first myth is “The purpose of copyright is to compensate the creator of the content.”
Here is the report on one site where it has not mysteriously disappeared.
Source: Brought Turner
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Marion Gropen says:
AH, yes, but if we change our current law to anything less than life plus 50, we violate the Berne Convention, and become a rogue nation.
At that point, everyone else in the world can steal everything we invent, write, sing, or perform WITH IMPUNITY.
That’s a MASSIVELY STUPID thing to overlook if you’re in Congress and writing such a paper.
I mean, I get that the writer of this article, and the commenters, aren’t in the business of understanding this law and the deeper implications of changing it, but the writer of that paper should be very embarrassed!
THE BIGGEST EARNER the US has in international trade is our IP (patents, trademarked goods, and copyrighted works).
Think we have troubles with the Chinese government hacking into our companies? Think we have problems with fake drugs, fake goods, and pirated movies and books being pressed in other countries? Just wait to see what happens if we try this one — and everyone else is able to LEGALLY steal everything we create in this country.
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Star Wars actors in Lexington, 1997
Posted on December 15, 2017 | in Uncategorized | by Lexington Herald-Leader
Peter Mayhew, the man who starred in one of the biggest movie franchises ever made but never spoke a line of dialogue, stopped in at Comic Interlude on Waller Avenue on Dec. 8, 1997, and held a cutout of the furry 7-foot Wookie, Chewbacca, the character he’s known for playing in the “Star Wars” films. Mayhew, a former hospital worker from England, signed autographs at the comic book store along with another “Star Wars” actor, Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett, the helmeted interstellar bounty hunter who relentlessly pursued Han Solo in the films. A line of nearly 100 people, many carrying items to be autographed, stretched through the store and onto the sidewalk well before Mayhew and Bulloch arrived. At right is tour organizer Pam Murray. Photo by Janet Worne | Staff
Jeremy Bulloch’s character, Boba Fett, has a small part, but many fans came to the Comic Interlude on Dec. 8, 1997, to get items signed. “He really has a small part, but he’s very popular,” said Maggie Garlock, who arrived early to get a place in line. “I think it has something to do with the mystery. You don’t know what’s under that helmet he wears.” The latest installment of the Star Wars franchise, “The Last Jedi,” opened in Lexington on Dec. 14, 2017. Photo by Janet Worne | staff
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Pressing Grocery Chains, Florida Tomato Pickers Start to Feel Gains
March 22, 2012 / Eduardo Soriano-Castillo Enlarge or shrink text login or register to comment
As the Coalition of Immokalee Workers turns attention to grocery chains, like Publix, it's training farmworkers to form committees and stand up for themselves on the job—and reporting notable success. Photo: CIW.
Calling on a generations-old tradition to dramatize the abuses in farm labor, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers held a weeklong fast in early March to shame the intransigent Florida grocer Publix.
The tomato pickers of CIW broke their fast, coming in the middle of the Christian Lenten season of penance, with clergy and members of the Kennedy family. A three-mile march from a Publix supermarket to company headquarters decried the stubborn management for refusing to pay an additional penny per pound for tomatoes, a demand already agreed to by 10 major food corporations.
The event was a stirring reminder of the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez, who fasted often in the struggle for dignity in the California fields. Robert Kennedy joined Chavez when he broke a 1968 fast.
Forty years later in Florida, agricultural workers still suffer from many of the same problems: abysmal piece rates, back-breaking work, abusive bosses, even documented cases of modern-day slavery.
But the CIW has avoided relying on a dominant leader, and pays careful attention to see that workers themselves use its agreements to win improvements in the fields. That gives hope to many that its gains—unlike the UFW’s—will stick.
FAIR TRADER JOE
The Publix fast followed a notable victory: In February Trader Joe’s agreed to pay the extra penny and sign the CIW’s Fair Food Agreement, after hundreds of protests nationwide led by student, faith, farmworker, and community groups.
The penny appears in the form of a bonus in workers’ paychecks. The CIW says its agreements have added $4 million to farmworker wages since January 2011 and have won guaranteed wages for the first time.
After many failed attempts to get a dialogue started with Publix, a caravan of workers and community supporters with bullhorns embarked on the 140-mile drive from the Immokalee fields to Publix headquarters to begin their week-long fast.
CIW organizer Marc Rodrigues described the morale and energy the night of their departure as “electric and full of hope.”
The fast became a site of 24-hour activity, said Oscar Otzoy, a farmworker and CIW organizer. Students, clergy, and TV crews flocked to the encampment in the sprawling strip-mall city of Lakeland, half way between Orlando and Tampa.
Letter-writing drives produced hundreds of messages to management. Candlelight vigils popped up in front of supermarkets. A TV station’s viewer poll said 62 percent would be willing to pay more for their tomatoes if it meant better working conditions for the workers who harvest them.
Publix prides itself on its “family” approach—but apparently the circle of caring doesn’t extend to the people who pick its produce.
“When we protest their stores they won’t even come out and look us in the eye,” said member Leonel Perez.
The grocery corporation, which claimed $1.3 billion in profits last year, is rehashing the tired excuse that tomato pickers are not direct employees and therefore the company isn’t responsible for their poverty.
But the CIW has shown time and again that major tomato purchasers control conditions in the fields by setting prices. When corporations squeeze their suppliers, the suppliers take it out on the workers. That’s why CIW targets the top of the supply chain.
Other brands have figured that when their image is in the crosshairs of the farmworkers and their consumer allies, it pays to see the error of their ways. If Publix signs on to the coalition as have many others before them, CIW leaders believe other grocery giants can be beaten.
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CIW organizers and farmworkers are proud of what they’ve achieved: Their agreements guarantee a cooperative complaint resolution system, a participatory health and safety program, and an education process to make sure the new workers who enter the fields every season know their rights.
But they know a code of conduct is not worth the paper it’s written on without daily vigilance and enforcement on the part of workers themselves. “That’s why the coalition is doing the worker-to-worker education that will make what’s on paper come to life in the fields,” Perez said.
CIW is producing a guidebook and videos on the new rules, which include trainings on the use of safety equipment, health and safety committees that meet regularly with bosses on the clock, and the right to stop work for hazards such as pesticides being sprayed close by.
CIW organizers host meetings before shifts to explain the new rights, and staffers answer an 800 number to document violations. Individual grievances like paycheck irregularities have been easy to resolve, Otzoy said.
Gerardo Reyes, a CIW organizer, said a women’s committee has been successful in getting abusive ranch employees fired for repeated sexual harassment. Bosses are complying with worker demands to quit using abusive language and to grant shade and water, Otzoy said.
“Growers that don’t comply with corrective measures face losing major accounts with CIW fair food partners,” explained Reyes.
WAGES, FOR THE FIRST TIME
A major win has been a minimum wage that begins when the workers punch in and ends when they punch out, regardless of the weather or other conditions. Once the workers are on the property, they are on paid time.
Since farmworkers are excluded from federal labor law, any sort of guaranteed wage is unusual.
The workers under CIW agreements get paid around 82 cents per 32-pound bucket of tomatoes, but if a worker cannot reach the minimum wage of $7.67 per hour for 40 hours the company is obligated to make up the difference.
“If for some reason like low harvest or other human factors the worker can’t make weight, they will at the very least receive minimum wage pay,” Otzoy said.
Perez said workers at one grower have used their agreement to ease the stresses—and toxic risks—of the job.
“We used to have to arrive at the work site by 7 a.m.,” he said. “We would have to wait for up to two hours for the plants to dry in order for it to be safe for us to handle them, because of the pesticides. The boss didn’t care because we were getting paid by the weight, not the hour.”
Perez said a committee formed to ask the boss to push back the start time on days when they expected delays.
He agreed to postpone work by two hours, giving workers time to send their kids off to school “with a proper breakfast and a loving goodbye,” Perez said.
“In the past, when workers were exhausted from working in the sun, we simply suffered through it,” Otzoy said. No longer. “Our humanity will not be ignored. We’re here today and we are not going away any time soon.”
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Gloating and the language of humiliation
ThomasSimmons (not verified) | 03/22/12
You know what, anyone with a brain knows these guys are hardly good citizens. But this language, "Other brands have figured that when their image is in the crosshairs of the farmworkers and their consumer allies, it pays to see the error of their ways. If Publix signs on to the coalition as have many others before them, CIW leaders believe other grocery giants can be beaten," it makes it look like there is no way they can win. "Crosshairs," "allies," "error of their ways," "beaten"? They can not do the right thing and agree to support their fellow Americans because that would be - as you put it - defeat. Americans can not willingly accept defeat. So, what are they supposed to do with this attitude?
You make it personal, it gets personal. This is about doing the right thing. It is not about gloating.
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Raolor
Macilvelco Ráolor "Gonvaeron"
Warrior, Sculptor, Stonemason
6716 years old (born in the year 333 of the First Age of the Sun)
Lórien & Mirkwood. Felegoth at the moment
Vinyalondë
"Therefore Ilúvatar gave to their vision Being, and set it amid the Void, and the Secret Fire was sent to burn at the heart of the World."
J.R.R.Tolkien, the Silmarillion
(Ráolor, drawn by Aranwë of Lindon)
Height: 2'16 m
Weight: around 180 kgs
Ráolor is an elf of impressive stature, tall and sturdy. His body is unusually heavy for an elf. His eyes mainly show the typical steel grey colour of the Noldor, though radiant red gold and honey brown can be found at the inside circle of his iris.
His steps are heavy, and his hands look like they were used to hard physical labour.
Ráolor has the habit of showing his emotions and thoughts very openly and directly, and sometimes he won't care about politeness or gentleness. When speaking, he usually gesticulates in a vivid and somewhat forceful manner, opening and stretching his palms and fingers, sometimes making a fist as well. However, there are a few things he never speaks about, things only his closest friends are aware of.
Quotes about Ráolor:
"Valiant, mighty, and strong... An artist of stone and marble. He molds and creates beautiful works from the gifts of the earth"
Faorie of Lórien
"Most are afraid of the battlefield. Many go to war, and eventually become soldiers. Ráolor son of Macilwë did not become a soldier. He has always been one. He was born to fight. He was born to kill. The field of battle was his cradle, and the clash of blood and bones will always remain his true home. He is as true as fire and steel can be. Never have I seen him not choose the hard way. His love for Middle-Earth is endless, and so is his hate for Morgoth's legacy."
Altárion of Nargothrond
"He is a terrible scout. And an even worse scholar. He has no idea about the written secrets of the west. He is a skilled craftsman though. He is able to breathe life into lifeless stones. He is able to shape the hardest rock with hammer and chisel, and the stones are following his will."
Ambarlossë of Estolad
"After all the battles he has seen, I wonder why there is not even a single scar on his face. And his eyes... gray as steel, with that strange golden gloaming. He tends to glare at others. It must be an illusion, but each time he gazes at me, I feel thin, as if my skin was frail. I do not like this elf. People would do wise to stay away from him."
Frormund of Dale
"Ráolor is a poet and a brute."
Dolthafaer of Lindon
"Strong, heavy handed, no fancy movements. No fancy talking. A remarkable sculptor. I can only tell good things about this fellow. He can be a truly enjoyable elf to talk with, when next to a fire. He is very fond of crackling fires, you know! Although, put him into a forest or next to a river, and he will grow somewhat grim. I would look grim too, if I was fed so much vegetables!"
Lómi of Erebor
"The Madman."
Saranasse of the Arrow, jokingly mentioning Ráolor
"Ah, Ráolor of Lothlann. Sure, I remember! I wrought a shirt of chain mail for him. He got really angry, roared at me, told me my work was rubbish, and then he tore the shirt apart with bare hands. What have I done to him, for Elbereth's sake?"
Maedan, Armourer of Imladris
"...a Noldo who saw and did many terrible things, but who survived..."
Yrill of Eregion about Ráolor
(The Star of Fëanor - an Emblem of all Noldor that followed Curufinwë and later his sons.
At times, Ráolor would wear a cloak, with the Fëanorian symbol depicted on it. He wears a necklace too, with the star made of silver, a tiny pellet of Mithril being in the center of it, symbolizing a Silmaril)
(Ataressë) Macilvelco - [Macil + Velca] "Flaming Sword" (Quenya)
(Amilessë) Ráolor - [Olor + Rá] "Vision (of a) Lion" or "Dream of a Lion" or "The Lion foreseen" (Old Quenya)
(Epessë) Ondomaitar - [Ondo + Maitar] "Sculptor in Stone" or "Stone Shaper" (Quenya)
(Epessë) Gonvaeron - [Gond + Maeron] "Sculptor" (Sindarin)
(Epessë) Bruidhaug - [Brui + daug] "Loud Soldier" (Sindarin). Given by Celeblhair
(Kilmessë) Yárendo - [Yár + Enda] "Blood Heart" (meaning "bloodstained Soul/Heart". Quenya)
the Brute of Beleriand - given by Loegenel
Nárendur - [Nár + -ndur] "Servant of Fire" (or "Friend of Fire". Quenya)
The Nárendur were a proud group of the Noldor. After their ancestor and leader, Narwë had brought the "Flame of Cuiviénen" to Valinor, they became known for their love and devotion to fire as a physical and spiritual element. They showed loyal to Fëanor and the rebellion of the Noldor. All of them came to Beleriand, with one exception - Narwë, who had been killed alongside his liege Finwë in Formenost by Morgoth.
(Note: this story is invented completely, based on certain hints within the History of Middle Earth by JRR.Tolkien / Christopher Tolkien)
Quenya: mother tongue
Sindarin: advanced. Slight Noldorin accent (perhaps only hearable by elven ears)
Common Tongue: advanced
Black Speech: intermediate
Khûzdul: beginner (he couldn't learn this language properly due to the secretive culture of the dwarves)
Main weapon:
a noldorin Falquan of approx.1'80m length (a two-handed greatsword, similar to a "Zweihänder", to be wielded with exceptional speed and technique)
Secondary weapons:
several short daggers - one clamped firmly at his right gauntlet, one hidden at the side of his right boot. Both ready to be drawn with lightning speed should the need arise.
Fighting style:
very much straight forward. Ráolor uses his powerful physicality to apply brute force if needed. Accustomed to heavy armour and weaponry, he would usually bridge the distance if he can, entering close quarter fighting where he feels comfortable, aiming to destroy his opponent as quickly as possible. Raised in Lothlann, a wild and stormy land haunted by harsh winters, Ráolor spent many years of his youth practicing armed and empty handed combat under the tutelage of an unforgiving father. He ended up favouring heavy hammers and halberds as well as swords of all lengths and sizes. He frowns upon the usage of archery, and he avoids spears and shields usually.
"The Noldor are the Wise, and the Golden, the Valiant, the Sword-Elves, the Elves of the Earth, the Foes of Melkor, the Skilled of Hand, the Jewel-wrights, the Companions of Men, the Followers of Finwë."
(JRR Tolkien, History of Middle-Earth / Morgoth's Ring)
"Ráolor of Lothlann is the Unwise, the Red, the Violent, the Elf of Hammer and Sword, the Elf of Fire, the Foe of Gorthaur, the Skilled of Hand, the Sculpture-Wright, the Hater of Men, the Follower of Fëanor..."
(quote History of Ráolor...)
Ráolor was born in the year 333 of the First Age of the Sun in Lothlann (Beleriand). He was given the Ataressë (name, given at birth by the father) Macilvelco. But his mother named him Ráolor (Quenya for „Vision of a Lion“), for he appeared in her dreams before his birth, as a lion in a raiment of fire. Since then he was known by this Amilessë (name, given later by the mother).
Ráolor's father, Macilwë, was a soldier in the service of Lord Maglor, second son of Fëanor.
Together with his wife Ilmariel he had left Valinor and followed his Lord into the exile. Since he had taken part in the Kinslaying of Alqualondë, the doom of the Noldor fell upon Ráolor as well. However, the early years of his childhood were quiet, and he grew up in a safe and protected environment.
When the Noldor laid siege on Angband, Macilwë was positioned at the Gap of Maglor, and when Ráolor had reached the age of fifty, he joined his father there. It had been his father who had first taught him how to wield a sword, but it was his mother Ilmariel who first taught him how to use hammer and chisel for sculpting. For in the Age of the Trees of Valinor she had been learning the high art of sculpting with Lady Nerdanel, wife of Master Fëanor, and Nerdanel's mastery with the hammer was surpassed only by Mahtan the great smith and craftsman, her father, who himself was favored by the great spirit Aulë. Thus Ilmariel passed on all her knowledge to her son, and Ráolor's delight was great, for he loved sculpting beyond measure. Apart from serving in Maglor's cavalry he was seen often in the halls of the craftsmen, and ever he searched for mastery and refinement in the arts of stone.
When Morgoth whom the Noldor call the Dark Foe of the World sent out his armies in the Dagor Bragollach, Lothlann was completely overrun. Macilwë was killed in battle like many others, while the remaining forces of Maglor retreated to Himring, the great fortress of Lord Maedhros.
This stronghold could not be taken at that time, and Ráolor and many others withstood the flood of foes, and fighting desperately under Maedhros' command, they slew countless Orcs around Himring and secured the Pass of Aglon that had been taken by the forces of the enemy.
After learning that his mother had been tortured to death by Orcs, Ráolor's hate for Morgoth and his servants grew even more. At the time when the Union of Maedhros was created, Ráolor became an officer within Maglor's vanguard. Together with the Easterlings and the Dwarves of Belegost the Noldor marched towards Angband.
But the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, ended with the utter destruction of the elven forces. The Easterlings betrayed them, and took the side of Morgoth, and the Urulóki, fire drakes of Angband were unleashed. This was the begin of the ruin of East Beleriand, and Ráolor followed the Sons of Fëanor into their desperate exile at Amon Ereb and in Ossiriand. It was there that the Wood Elves gave him the Epessë (name, given later as title of admiration and honour) Gonvaeron, which means stone shaper in the Sindarin tongue, and this name was used by the Noldor too, who called him Ondomaitar.
From this time on, Ráolor began to deeply mistrust mortal men, for like many other Noldor, he accused them of being weak, unworthy and wretched, remembering their treason with bitterness.
In the same time, his admiration and respect for the Dwarves grew very strong, for he had seen Azaghâl, commander of Belegost, and witnessed the legendary fight of the Dwarves with the dragons. As he had laid down his duty as an officer of Maglor's vanguard, he was sent to the dwarves as part of a group of emissaries. He visited Belegost and made friends with many craftsmen. Above all he admired the work of Gróm, a distant relative of Azaghâl and at that time a very famous sculptor in the city. Ráolor refined his skills as a craftsman and became famous especially for his statue showing Lord Azaghâl fighting Glaurung the father of dragons, a work which he gave the Dwarves as a present. In return, he received a dwarven war mask, one that had been used in battle against the drakes.
The years of hunting in the woods of East Beleriand ended when then Sons of Fëanor attacked Doriath to claim one of the Silmarili. After the death of Elwë Thingol it was Dior Eluchíl son of Beren and Lúthien who reigned the Fenced Land.
So it happened that Ráolor too tasted the horror of Kinslaying and felt for the first time the terrible power of the oath Fëanor and his sons once had sworn. He named himself Yárendo, the bloodstained heart, and even many centuries later the weight of his guilt never wholly left his mind.
On a rainy day in autumn, Ráolor left the sons of Fëanor without explanation to wage a personal war of vengeance against the armies of Morgoth in Thargelion. The following years were full of terror and bloodshed, and the Noldo hunted down the enemies of Middle-Earth wherever he could find them. But fate did not always favour him, and he was caught several times by Orcs and the Swarthy Men scattered across the land. In the end, after much hardship, suffering and torment he managed to escape, and returned to Amon Ereb. But he would not be fortunate once more:
The Silmaril had been taken to the south, and the Oath of Fëanor was not yet full-wrought, and the Fëanorians prepared for an assault of the elven refuge at the havens of Sirion.
In the battle for the Mouths of Sirion, where the Third Kinslaying took part, Ráolor put down his weapons, and in a desperate attempt he tried to stop the madness with bare hands. But he was wounded many times by friend and foe, and when everything was over, he found himself buried under countless dead elves, Sindar and Noldor. Although his body recovered, from this time on, darkness fell upon Ráolor's spirit, and without aim and purpose he wandered the wild forests of the south.
The War of Wrath was fought, the Valar and Vanyar defeated Morgoth and Beleriand vanished under the waves of Belegaer...
The Second Age of the Sun had begun. Ráolor had entered Eriador, and for many centuries he had avoided any company safe that of beasts and birds. It was then that he entered the place where Iarwáin ben-Adar dwelt, whom the Halflings call Tom Bombadil. There he was cured by Sîriell, who is also called Goldberry daughter of the rivers, and Iarwáin lifted the curtain from his eyes and dissolved the darkness that had dulled his spirit.
Leaving the forests, reborn Ráolor learnt about the realm of Gil-Galad High-King of the Noldor, about rise and fall of Eregion and Sauron's return. And he headed to Lindon to pledge his services to the elven king. Years later, with Elendil King of the Numenorians and Gil-Galad summoning forth all their forces, he joined the Last Alliance as a soldier.
At the Battle of Dagorlad the combined armies of Elves and Men were victorious, and they passed the Black Gate and entered Mordor to besiege Barad-Dûr. But Ráolor never set foot on the Black Land, for after king Oropher's death and the terrible casualties of the Wood Elves Gil-Galad had become concerned about the emptied north of Rhovanion, and a small host was mustered to travel to the grey mountains.
In the great waste behind some creatures of Morgoth had escaped the wrath of the Valar.
Orcs were discovered in the mountains, and in the Withered Heath dragons bred.
When messages about the death of Gil-Galad and Elendil and about the defeat of Sauron came to the north, the company decided to follow the command of the king even beyond his death and to secure the lands in the north of Rhovanion.
At the slopes of the Ered Mithrin the secret order Megyl Forvain (Sindarin for "Blades of the North") was founded at the beginning of the third age. There Ráolor became a disciple of the leader of the order, a Noldo who's real name is not known in the realms of the free people.
The deeds of the sworn brotherhood Megyl Forvain are many, but they were never known or mentioned, for the order always kept silent. Only the Dwarves living in the mountains knew about them, and above all the Dwarves from the line of Dúrin befriended with them. A few times Ráolor went to the south, and he saw the city of Dale and the Realm of Erebor at the peak of it's wealth and power. He was called Gamil Kibil by the Dwarves, which means Old Silver in the khûzdulian tongue, for they heard in wonder about the splendour of Belegost and the heroic battles of Azaghâl's warriors from the mouth of an elf who shared their love for stone, who's hand was heavy and strong, who's armour glimmered with a silver light and who possessed a dwarven mask of old. And they shared their knowledge of stone shaping with him.
But the order Megyl Forvain could not always keep the foes of the north at bay, and some of them passed the watch and entered the realms of Dwarves and Men. One of them was Scatha the mighty Long-worm, and the other one was Smaug the Golden, who ravaged Dale and took over the Lonely Mountain. The order was also unable to take Gundabad. But not the least among the deeds of the Megyl Forvain is the slaying of all dragons in the Withered Heath, and the offspring of the great worms vanished forever from there.
Then the Blades of the North moved deep into Forodwaith.
Many years Ráolor spent there, and in the icy waste the sworn brothers waylaid the creatures and servants of the darkness.
At the time when Thorin son of Thráin from the line of Dúrin returned to Erebor and claimed the Arkenstone, the order was found by Mithrandir the Grey Wanderer, and they learned from him about the evil that was spreading from the south of Mirkwood. They also informed Mithrandir about a great recruiting of the Orcs in the Ered Mithrin. When Smaug the Golden had been slain and the Battle of the five armies was fought, the order abandoned the paths of secrecy and fought alongside the host of king Thranduil. Many of the Blades of the North died there, and when the battle was over, the remaining ones departed secretly and returned to Forodwaith. They found the northern waste in great movement, for with the power of Sauron growing in the south, more and more enemies were trying to cross the grey mountains or to assemble in the caves in and around Gundabad. Although greatly outnumbered, the order continued it's activities, but in the end only two of the sworn brothers were left, and before leaving his body behind, their teacher obliged them to go south to Rivendell and find the Last Homely House of Elrond Peredhel.
Therefore, Ráolor made the dangerous journey with his sworn brother Altarion, and he gave himself the kilmessë (self name) Nárendur, servant of fire, remembering his ancient family name.
But in the Hithaeglir, Ráolor and Altarion got ambushed by a host of Goblins, and Altárion was wounded by many arrows. Although Ráolor slew all goblins in the end, he could not save his brother. The gravestone of Altárion still stands, at the foot of the Misty Mountains, where snow covers the ground no more, and flowers are growing around it, and birds are singing in the trees. Ráolor himself shaped that gravestone, and he swore to slay every Goblin coming into his sight.
But first he retreated. The time of open battle had not yet come: winning a battle was not the same as winning a war. Ráolor entered the Valley of Imladris, paying homage to his former teacher's last wish.
Many friends, of old and new he met there, and serving in the famous Order of Hammer, he marched into the Hithaeglir once more, battling the Goblins that threatened the safety of the Hidden Vale.
Renown he earned and fame, not only for fighting side by side with his companions in the caves of Goblin Town (for which a high price had to be paid) but also for striking down Lord Veryacano in a friendly fighting challenge during a feast in Rivendell.
Rumours grew in Imladris, for more and more news from Rhovanion were reaching the vale, telling about a darkness growing in Mirkwood and threatening the fair realm of Lórien. The east stood at the edge of war, and Dol Guldur was summoning forces, preparing for a first strike.
Answering the call of their kin, a group of elves set out from Imladris, aiming for Lórien in order to aid the Galadhrim in their struggle against the dark tower of Mirkwood.
And Ráolor the sculptor was with this group, and they crossed the Hithaeglir and entered the Golden Wood.
Time had come to prepare for the last war of the Eldalië against Sauron Gorthaur the abhorred. The company made ready to depart to Mirkwood.
Annunghil, Fingolrin, Makanare, Turumor, Yrill, Saranasse, Eleanias, Norliriel, Eliriael, Laurelindo, Manadhlaer, Tancamir, Luthelian, Elloen, Lilleduil, Glanlotiel, Undomion
Ilmariel and Macilwë of Tirion, his parents, waiting in the Halls of Mandos. Húrwen, his grandmother, still living in Tirion, Valinor
Rivals/Enemies
There is an ongoing, lighthearted rivalry with Celeblhair - dry words, a double-edged tongue and Orkslaying make the topics of the competition
Faorie of Lórien - FIRE, regarded as the inmost essence of being - the NOLDOR and the heritage of Beleriand - overcoming challenges - fighting - Middle-Earth, regarded as the true home to all elves - training the skills of mind and body
MORGOTH. SAURON. The Valaraukar, the drakes of the north. Orcs, Goblins. Men in general. The weakness of mortal Men. Goat milk and goats in general. Cocky academics. His family heirloom, the ancient greatsword Váyasercë (Quenya for "Bloody Ocean")
To serve Middle-Earth. To master himself. To see the noldorin culture undimmed in its beauty and profoundness. Protection of Middle-Earth. Honouring the ancestors with deeds of valour and greatness. Fighting for those who cannot protect themselves.
"Ceniessë Macilwa Mornië Rucuva!" / "At the sight of the sword, darkness shall flee!" (Old Fëanorian way of life)
Raolor's Adventures
The Tomb Of Váyasercë 1 year 11 months ago
Water and Fire - Movement II 2 years 8 months ago
Dark Dreams In A Golden Wood 2 years 10 months ago
The Lord of the Forest: Observations of Farothir 3 years 2 weeks ago
The Diversion: Swift Departure Of Hirilormë 3 years 4 months ago
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FROM THE INTERIOR: “THE GUEST ROOM”
On November 30, 2015 By Laurel-Rain SnowIn first paragraphs, teaser tuesdays30 Comments
Today’s feature is an e-ARC that I am eager to dive into. It will be released on January 5, 2016.
The Guest Room, by Chris Bohjalian, is a spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room, two women are on the run from police, and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.
Intro: Richard Chapman presumed there would be a stripper at his brother Philip’s bachelor party. Perhaps if he had actually thought about it, he might even have expected two. Sure, in sitcoms the stripper always arrived alone, but he knew that in real life strippers often came in pairs. How else could there be a little pretend (or not pretend) girl-on-girl action on the living room carpet? Besides, he worked in mergers and acquisitions, he understood the exigencies of commerce as well as anyone: two strippers meant you could have two gentlemen squirming at once. You could have two girls hovering just above two sets of thighs—or if the girls saw the right combination of neediness and dollar signs in the men’s eyes, not hovering but in fact descending upon each of the men’s laps. Richard wasn’t especially wild about the idea of an exotic dancer in his family’s living room: there was a place for everything in his mind, even the acrobatically tensed sinews of a stripper. But that place wasn’t his home….
Teaser: “No one knows what we look like.”
“The men at the party do!” I told her, and I thought of the faces I could remember. I thought of the bachelor’s brother. Richard. I thought of the bedroom upstairs where we went. (68%).
Blurb: When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother’s bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before driving off into the night.
In the aftermath, Kristin and Richard’s life rapidly spirals into nightmare. The police throw them out of their home, now a crime scene, Richard’s investment banking firm puts him on indefinite leave, and Kristin is unsure if she can forgive her husband for the moment he shared with a dark-haired girl in the guest room. But the dark-haired girl, Alexandra, faces a much graver danger. In one breathless, violent night, she is free, running to escape the police who will arrest her and the gangsters who will kill her in a heartbeat. A captivating, chilling story about shame and scandal, The Guest Room is a riveting novel from one of our greatest storytellers.
What do you think? Do these lines capture your interest? Would you keep reading?
FROM THE INTERIOR: “THE SPECTACULAR NOW”
On September 28, 2015 By Laurel-Rain SnowIn first paragraphs, teaser tuesdays49 Comments
Today, after flailing about and picking up one book after another, I finally settled down with The Spectacular Now, by Tim Tharp, a book that I downloaded in February 2014. I had seen the movie and was eager to read the book. So now I’m galloping along through it, wondering why it took so long to start reading it.
Intro: (Sutter) So, it’s a little before ten a.m. and I’m just starting to get a good buzz going. Theoretically, I should be in Algebra II, but in reality I’m cruising over to my beautiful fat girlfriend Cassidy’s house. She ditched school to get her hair cut and needs a ride because her parents confiscated her car keys. Which I guess is a little ironic considering that they’re punishing her for ditching school with me last week.
Anyway, I have this sweet February morning stretching out in front of me, and I’m like, Who needs algebra? So what if I’m supposed to be trying to boost the old grades up before I graduate in May? I’m not one of these kids who’s had their college plans set in stone since they were about five. I don’t even know when the application deadlines are. Besides, it’s not like my education is some kind of priority with my parents. They quit keeping track of my future when they divorced, and that was back in the Precambrian Era. The way I figure it, the community college will always take me. And who says I need college anyway? What’s the point?
Teaser: (The night Sutter meets Aimee Finecky). It takes about another hour to finish throwing her papers, and I keep her spirits high most of the time, but both of us lose a little enthusiasm toward the end, mostly because we know time is running out. She’ll have to go back to her empty house, and I’ll have to go back to meet the wrath of Mom and Geech. (p. 76).
Blurb: This National Book Award Finalist is now a major motion picture — one of the most buzzed-about films at Sundance 2013, starring Shailene Woodley (star of The Fault in our Stars and Divergent) and Miles Teller (star of Whiplash).
SUTTER KEELY. HE’S the guy you want at your party. He’ll get everyone dancing. He’ ll get everyone in your parents’ pool. Okay, so he’s not exactly a shining academic star. He has no plans for college and will probably end up folding men’s shirts for a living. But there are plenty of ladies in town, and with the help of Dean Martin and Seagram’s V.O., life’s pretty fabuloso, actually.
Until the morning he wakes up on a random front lawn, and he meets Aimee. Aimee’s clueless. Aimee is a social disaster. Aimee needs help, and it’s up to the Sutterman to show Aimee a splendiferous time and then let her go
forth and prosper. But Aimee’s not like other girls, and before long he’s in way over his head. For the first time in his life, he has the power to make a difference in someone else’s life—or ruin it forever.
What do you think? Do you want to keep reading, just to find out what happens to these two lost individuals? I know I can’t wait to keep going.
FROM THE INTERIOR: EXCERPTING “DRIVING LESSONS”
On August 31, 2015 By Laurel-Rain SnowIn thoughts from the interior36 Comments
Today I am featuring my current read, an e-book that has been on Pippa since April 2014. Driving Lessons, by Zoe Fishman, is a story about family and unexpected life changes.
Intro: (Intersection: any place where one line of roadway meets another)
“Sarah, what the hell?”
From above, I peered down the three flights of stairs to Josh below. He stood over the flattened cardboard box filled with now-broken picture frames. Even as I had balanced that box on the banister for just one second—just one second!—while I knelt to retrieve what looked like an integral screw from the bed frame that Josh and Ben had just hauled down the stairs, I had known that the aforementioned second would be its last. Still, I did it—tempting fate and physics out of sheer exhaustion. Naturally, the box had toppled over almost immediately, and I had watched its graceful descent with surprising ease.
“Sorry!” I yelled down. Josh gazed up at me, his face an accordion of annoyance. “That was stupid.”
“What was in here?”
“Picture frames, I think?”
“Great.” He sighed heavily. “Are you okay?”
Teaser: We were headed to a faculty drinks night at a bar near campus. As far as ambience went, I did not have high expectations, but I was looking forward to some human interaction (p. 59).
Blurb: Sometimes life’s most fulfilling journeys begin without a map
An executive at a New York cosmetics firm, Sarah has had her fill of the interminable hustle of the big city. When her husband, Josh, is offered a new job in suburban Virginia, it feels like the perfect chance to shift gears.
While Josh quickly adapts to their new life, Sarah discovers that having time on her hands is a mixed blessing. Without her everyday urban struggles, who is she? And how can she explain to Josh, who assumes they are on the same page, her ambivalence about starting a family?
It doesn’t help that the idea of getting behind the wheel—an absolute necessity of her new life—makes it hard for Sarah to breathe. It’s been almost twenty years since she’s driven, and just the thought of merging is enough to make her teeth chatter with anxiety. When she signs up for lessons, she begins to feel a bit more like her old self again, but she’s still unsure of where she wants to go.
Then a crisis involving her best friend lands Sarah back in New York—a trip to the past filled with unexpected truths about herself, her dear friend, and her seemingly perfect sister-in-law . . . and an astonishing surprise that will help her see the way ahead.
So…even though I certainly waited long enough to start this one, I am intrigued. What do you think? Would you keep reading?
FROM THE INTERIOR: EXCERPTING “SOME LUCK”
On August 3, 2015 By Laurel-Rain SnowIn first paragraphs, teaser tuesdays44 Comments
Today’s feature is a book from an author I have enjoyed: Jane Smiley. Some Luck is a family saga and part of a trilogy. Subsequent books: Early Warning and Golden Age.
Intro: (1920)
Walter Langdon hadn’t walked out to check the fence along the creek for a couple of months—now that the cows were up by the barn for easier milking in the winter, he’d been putting off fence mending—so he hadn’t seen the pair of owls nesting in the big elm. The tree was half dead; every so often Walter thought of cutting it for firewood, but he would have to get help taking it down, because it must be eighty feet tall or more and four feet in diameter. And it wouldn’t be the best firewood, hardly worth the trouble. Right then, he saw one of the owls fly out of a big cavity maybe ten to twelve feet up, either a big female or a very big male—at any rate, the biggest horned owl Walter had ever seen—and he paused and stood for a minute, still in the afternoon breeze, listening, but there was nothing. He saw why in a moment. The owl floated out for maybe twenty yards, dropped toward the snowy pasture. Then came a high screaming, and the owl rose again, this time with a full-grown rabbit in its talons, writhing, going limp, probably deadened by fear. Walter shook himself.
Teaser: On the front porch, sitting up (he had just learned to sit up) on a folded blanket, Frank Langdon, aged five months, was playing with a spoon. He was holding it in his right hand by the tarnished silver bowl, and when he brought it toward his face, his eyes would cross, which made Rosanna, his mother, laugh as she shelled peas. (p. 5).
Blurb: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first born, and Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him, to Claire, who earns a special place in her father’s heart.
Each chapter in Some Luck covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change. As the Langdons branch out from Iowa to both coasts of America, the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis; later still, a girl you’d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own, and you discover that your laughter and your admiration for all these lives are mixing with tears.
Some Luck delivers on everything we look for in a work of fiction. Taking us through cycles of births and deaths, passions and betrayals, among characters we come to know inside and out, it is a tour de force that stands wholly on its own. But it is also the first part of a dazzling epic trilogy—a literary adventure that will span a century in America: an astonishing feat of storytelling by a beloved writer at the height of her powers.
I have loved some of this author’s novels, especially A Thousand Acres, another novel that features Iowa and farm life, zeroing in on those family issues that sometimes threaten the core of a family.
I have had this book for a while, and I’m not sure why I haven’t read it yet—perhaps I am afraid I won’t love it as much as A Thousand Acres—but now I am ready to dive into it. Soon.
What do you think of the excerpts? Would you keep reading?
FROM THE INTERIOR: EXCERPTS FROM “CATCHING AIR”
On June 29, 2015 By Laurel-Rain SnowIn first paragraphs, teaser tuesdays44 Comments
Let’s have some fun! Today I am spotlighting a book from an author who is rapidly becoming a favorite: Sarah Pekkanen, and her book Catching Air, a story that turnings an unflinching eye on the tangled relationships of two pairs of thirty-somethings.
Intro: Dawn Zukoski was scared of lots of things—spiders, lightning bolts, the way New York cabbies drove—but only once in her life had she known true terror.
She was eight years old back then, and visiting her elderly neighbor. Mrs. Rita’s home was cluttered with gold-framed photos of her long-grown children and towers of Reader’s Digest magazines, and it smelled of dog pee from her two yippy terriers. But Dawn loved going there because the cookie jar was stocked with Nilla wafers, and the television was always tuned to game shows.
Lacy curtains over the windows hid the sight of other kids on the street playing kickball or hide-and-seek on summer mornings, but Dawn could hear their shouts and cheers. She didn’t care, though; she and Mrs. Rita were busy competing in their own games of Plinko or One Away.
Teaser: Then Mrs. Rita let out a whoop and clapped her hands sharply—”He landed smack-dab on the one dollar! Did you see that, Dawn?”—and at the sudden noise, the spell was broken and the dogs charged.
Dawn fell backward, cookies spilling all around her. “No!” she could hear Mrs. Rita yelling from what seemed like a great distance away. Dawn thrashed and screamed, but every time she pushed one dog away, the other found its way forward, raking her face with its teeth. The attack seemed to go on forever. (p. 2).
(I just had to include a couple of paragraphs to convey the frightening situation in its entirety).
Blurb: A chance to run a B&B in snowy, remote Vermont—it’s an offer Kira Danner can’t resist after six soul-crushing years of working as a lawyer in Florida. As Kira and her husband, Peter, step into a brand new life, she quells her fears about living with the B&B’s co-owners: Peter’s sexy, irresponsible brother Rand, and Rand’s wife, Alyssa…who is essentially a stranger.
For her part, Alyssa sees taking over the B&B as the latest in a string of adventures. Plus, a quiet place might help her recover from the news that she can’t bear children. But the idyllic town proves to be anything but serene: Within weeks, the sisters-in-law are scrambling to prepare for their first big booking—a winter wedding—and soon a shy, mysterious woman comes to work for them. Dawn Zukoski is hiding something; that much is clear. But what the sisters-in-law don’t realize is that Dawn is also hiding from someone…
Relatable and dynamic, Catching Air delves deeply into the vital relationships that give shape to women’s lives.
What do you think? Would you keep reading? I am eager to find out what happens.
FROM THE INTERIOR: INTROS/TEASERS – “MY SUNSHINE AWAY”
On June 1, 2015 By Laurel-Rain SnowIn first paragraphs, teaser tuesdays44 Comments
Today’s feature is a book I just started reading, from Pippa, my Kindle. My Sunshine Away, by M. O. Walsh, is a story about the summer that everything changed.
Intro: There were four suspects in the rape of Lindy Simpson, a crime that occurred directly on top of the sidewalk of Piney Creek Road, the same sidewalk our parents had once hopefully carved their initials into, years before, as residents of the first street in the Woodland Hills subdivision to have houses on each lot. It was a crime impossible during the daylight, when we neighborhood kids would have been tearing around in go-karts, coloring chalk figures on our driveways, or chasing snakes down into storm gutters. But, at night, the streets of Woodland Hills sat empty and quiet, except for the pleasure of frogs greeting the mosquitoes that rose in squadrons from the swamps behind our properties.
Teaser: So the act took place in darkness, in near silence, in heat, and Lindy Simpson remembered little other than the sudden appearance of a rope in front of her bicycle, the sharp pull of its braid across her chest. Months later, and after much therapy, she would also recall how the bicycle rode on without her after she fell. (p. 2).
Blurb: It was the summer everything changed.…
My Sunshine Away unfolds in a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, cauldrons of spicy crawfish, and passionate football fandom. But in the summer of 1989, when fifteen-year-old Lindy Simpson—free spirit, track star, and belle of the block—experiences a horrible crime late one evening near her home, it becomes apparent that this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia has a dark side, too.
In My Sunshine Away, M.O. Walsh brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime, unraveling families, and consuming adolescent love. Acutely wise and deeply honest, it is an astonishing and page-turning debut about the meaning of family, the power of memory, and our ability to forgive.
What do you think? Do the excerpts grab you? Would you keep reading?
FROM THE INTERIOR: INTROS/TEASERS – “GOLDBERG VARIATIONS”
On March 16, 2015 By Laurel-Rain SnowIn first paragraphs, teaser tuesdays50 Comments
Today’s featured book has been on my TBR stacks for just a short time, which is an encouraging sign, right? A sign that the stacks are gradually dwindling.
Goldberg Variations, by Susan Isaacs, is one I’m looking forward to, as I have been a fan of this author for many years, and the author of the thriller Shining Through.
Intro: (Gloria)
I am not one of those tedious people who feel compelled to speak in smiley faces. Like: Whenever a door closes, a window opens. Of course they can never leave it at a lone, bubbly sentence. No, gush must follow: Gloria, truthfully, deep down, aren’t you thrilled it turned out this way? You know, it’s always darkest before dawn. But this…Oh, God, this is your moment! You get to choose which of these three darling young people is worthiest to inherit your kingdom! Isn’t it like some fairy tale come to life?
Don’t ask.
Okay, ask. Here I am, pacing from room to room to room—and I am a woman of many rooms—trying to prepare myself for the onslaught. A limo will be here any minute bringing three virtual strangers to invade my house. All right, they are my grandchildren, but I barely know them. Goldberg, Goldberg, and Goldberg. Sounds like some shtick in a Marx Brothers movie.
Teaser: So you don’t have to waste time reading between the lines, let me be up front about what my Tragic Flaw is. It is losing control and saying what I truly think. And the worst part of it is, I know how dangerous and potentially destructive honesty can be for me. (p. 10).
Blurb: At seventy-nine, Gloria Garrison must plan for the future of Glory, Inc., the beauty-makeover business that she has grown from zilch into an eleven-million-dollar-per-year bonanza. Gloria’s never been big on family, but she’s forced to contemplate her three grandkids as objects of her largesse.
There’s Daisy, a story editor for a movie studio; her brother, Matt, who does PR for a New York baseball team; and cousin Raquel, laboring away as a Legal Aid lawyer.
When Gloria sends plane tickets and a weekend invitation to Santa Fe, the cousins couldn’t be more surprised. But the visit holds an unexpected twist for Gloria, too. Always sassy, smart, and wickedly witty, Susan Isaacs is at her formidable best in a novel that is both hilariously funny and a deeply moving tale of family, faith, and discovery.
What do you think? Does it pique your interest? Make you want to read more?
TUESDAY JOURNEY: INTROS/TEASERS – “YOU CAN TRUST ME”
On February 16, 2015 By Laurel-Rain SnowIn first paragraphs, teaser tuesdays58 Comments
Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events, from Tuesday/First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea; and Teaser Tuesdays hosted by Should Be Reading.
Today I’m featuring an ARC called You Can Trust Me, by Sophie McKenzie.
Beginning: (Chapter One – Four weeks earlier…)
The text arrives as I’m getting out of the car. I’m so anxious about the evening ahead that I barely register the beep. The setting sun is casting soft swirls of pink and orange across the Exeter skyline, thinning and sharpening the tops of the cathedral towers. The air is warm but I’m shivering, my heart beating hard and loud against my ribs. Will throws me a worried glance. I pull my phone from my bag, wondering vaguely if the text is from the babysitter. But it’s Julia’s name that flashes up. For a second my anxiety eases a little. Whatever my closest friend has written is sure to be an offering of support, expressed in Julia’s customary style: big and bold and full of feeling. But when I open it, the text is short and terse.
PLS CALL, I NEED TO TALK TO YOU.
Teaser: Life slips back into its old groove: I ferry the kids around, shop for groceries, and pay bills. And yet, even as everything remains the same, it is all different. (p. 37)
Blurb: On a quiet, gray, Saturday morning, Livy arrives at her best friend Julia’s flat for a lunch date only to find her dead. Though all the evidence supports it, Livy cannot accept the official ruling of suicide; the Julia she remembers was loud, inappropriate, joyful, outrageous and loving, not depressed. The suspicious circumstances cause Livy to dig further, and she is suddenly forced to confront a horrifying possibility: that Julia was murdered, by the same man who killed Livy’s sister, Kara, eighteen years ago.
Desperate to understand the tragedies of her past and hold her unraveling life together, Livy throws herself into the search for Kara and Julia’s killer, who she now believes is someone close to her family. But if that is true, can she still trust anyone? Damien, the man Julia was secretly dating? Leo, her husband’s boss and a close family friend? His son Paul, her husband’s best mate since college? Or even Will, her own dear husband, who has betrayed her perhaps one time too many?
And when Livy finally faces her sister’s killer, and he traps her with one horrible, impossible choice, she must finally decide: is she strong enough to trust herself?
Get lost in the dark, gripping pages of You Can Trust Me.
What do you think? Would you keep reading? I know I can’t wait to find out more.
FROM THE INTERIOR: INTROS/TEASERS – “SAVING GRACE”
On October 27, 2014 By Laurel-Rain SnowIn first paragraphs, teaser tuesdays58 Comments
Today’s spotlight is shining on an ARC from Amazon Vine: Saving Grace, by Jane Green.
Intro: There are only so many hours Grace can stay away from home. Her husband’s car is still in the driveway when she pulls in, her heart sinking at the sight. As if she should be surprised. Where did she think he’d be going at six o’clock in the evening? It was the triumph of hope over experience, she thought to herself.
Luck is not on her side today. It wasn’t on her side this morning when she woke up to hear a door slamming downstairs and her husband bellowing her name, and it isn’t on her side now.
Although perhaps it is, she thinks, gingerly pulling up alongside his car and steeling herself for whatever might meet her inside. Perhaps his mood will have changed. Perhaps he will be the loving attentive husband the rest of the world sees, as long as they don’t get too close.
Teaser: The stack of bills have been piling up for weeks. Last night, when the phone rang and it was an automated message saying their cable was about to be disconnected due to nonpayment of bills, Grace realized how disorganized things had become. (p. 73).
Blurb: Grace and Ted Chapman are widely regarded as the perfect literary power couple. Ted is a successful novelist and Grace, his wife of twenty years, is beautiful, stylish, carefree, and a wonderful homemaker. But what no one sees, what is churning under the surface, is Ted’s rages. His mood swings. And the precarious house of cards that their lifestyle is built upon. When Ted’s longtime assistant and mainstay leaves, the house of cards begins to crumble and Grace, with dark secrets in her past, is most vulnerable. She finds herself in need of help but with no one to turn to…until the perfect new assistant shows up out of the blue. To the rescue comes Beth, a competent young woman who can handle Ted and has the calm efficiency to weather the storms that threaten to engulf the Chapman household. Soon, though, it’s clear to Grace that Beth might be too good to be true. This new interloper might be the biggest threat of all, one that could cost Grace her marriage, her reputation, and even her sanity. With everything at stake and no one to confide in, Grace must find a way to save herself before it is too late.
Powerful and riveting, Saving Grace will have you on the edge of your seat as you follow Grace on her harrowing journey to rock bottom and back.
What do you think? Do the excerpts grab you and make you want to keep reading? I know I am eager to continue…
THOUGHTS FROM THE INTERIOR: INTROS/TEASERS – “NO BOOK BUT THE WORLD”
Today’s spotlight will be on an ARC from Amazon Vine: No Book but the World, by Leah Hager Cohen, is “a twisty and resonant tale about the price of secrets, the burden of family, the remnants of childhood we never leave behind.” —Megan Abbott, author of The End of Everything and Dare Me…
Intro: I have been too fond of stories. Fred and me both. If I were called before a judge, that’s the first thing I’d confess: how quick I have been to embrace them, stories, with their deplorable tidiness. Like a bakery box done up too tightly, bound with red-and-white string.
The second thing I’d confess: how I am responsible for Fred’s fondness, how consequently he would have to be called blameless.
Oh, Fred. Oh Freddy.
Teaser: Sometimes I wonder how things might have been different if a grown-up had read us those books. Might it have had a mediating effect? (p. 19)
Amazon Description: At the edge of a woods, on the grounds of a defunct “free school,” Ava and her brother, Fred, shared a dreamy and seemingly idyllic childhood—a world defined largely by their imaginations and each other’s presence. Everyone is aware of Fred’s oddness or vague impairment, but his parents’ fierce disapproval of labels keeps him free of evaluation or intervention, and constantly at Ava’s side.
Decades later, then, when Ava learns that her brother is being held in a county jail for a shocking crime, she is frantic to piece together what actually happened. A boy is dead. But could Fred really have done what he is accused of? As she is drawn deeper into the details of the crime, Ava becomes obsessed with learning the truth, convinced that she and she alone will be able to reach her brother and explain him—and his innocence—to the world.
Leah Hager Cohen brings her trademark intelligence to a psychologically gripping, richly ambiguous story that suggests we may ultimately understand one another best not with facts alone, but through our imaginations.
I am eager to dive into this one…full of twists and turns and dark secrets, and mysterious events. What are you sharing today?
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The stories that inspire us – ‘Beauty and the Beast’
January 14, 2020 Lee Hall 6 Comments
The stories we read, see and hear sometimes leave a lasting effect on our lives. Stories inspire us to be who we are. They shape our own journey and can take the mind anywhere. There are some stories that effect us so much, they even shape our future…
I was five years old when the theatre bit me and it bit me hard. It wouldn’t be until fifteen years later that I walked through the doors of a drama club and realised my life long dream of becoming a performer. Even though I was and still am introverted on the surface, in 2010 I finally had the confidence to take the plunge onto the stage.
In recent times Disney have boasted their adaptation of Beauty and the Beast to be as old as time. Perhaps it is and the theatre production which bit me hard just happened to be Beauty and the Beast – a tour of the Disney inspired version. Although it was quite a while ago now I still remember being captivated by the colours, the sights, a walking candlestick and of course the spectacle of a Beast overcoming a curse and magically transforming into a Prince. It’s a story that has and always will have a place in my heart. The animation and recent live action film are both spectacular to enjoy as an adult and for children alike and the same can be said for the original fairy tale.
In fact the original fairy tale is probably the best of all fairy tales and even though that is just my subjective opinion the premise, characters and overall story is pretty solid and you can understand why Disney have had success with it. Even though their version is scaled down in some senses by omitting the sisters they add their own spin on things in their own fashion.
My own story telling and performing have always run in a sort of parallel. For some years they were hand in hand but very separate. I would write science fiction/horror while my performing self would appear in pantomimes based on fairy tales and comedy farces or even some Shakespeare. Being in shows gave me confidence to reveal to the world that I wanted to be a writer – it also helped both socially and even in job interviews. I guess you can say I owe a lot to performing and those two hands which held those separate things – story telling and performing would eventually clasp each other as I put together a short comedy play known as ‘Hotel Doom’. With moderate success for a community drama club production my eyes were set firmly on another sight; a full length pantomime play – a British tradition and the big time annual ‘thing’ that my drama club did to survive.
I began work in adapting my own version of Beauty and the Beast taking influence from the many shows I had been in along with that original tale; of course some minor inspiration came from the ‘mainstream’ versions but all in all, the script is original and my own. My main inspiration came not only from the solid source material but also from when I was a kid myself looking up to that stage and seeing the Beast transform along with those colours and everything else.
Those who know me closely will know the outcome. The Iver Heath Drama Club took on my script and in a sense took a huge leap; never had anyone in the 70 plus year history of that community club had ever written a full length show. The script was way more expansive and ambitious than anything seen at that club. The cast of 18 performers and chorus ensemble put on a show that sold out all performances and even had standing ovations; even now I get emotional thinking about how that whole show went. All of it was inspired by a story that has lasted the test of time and that is the true dream any writer or creator has – to see their work last that test of time.
Beauty and the Beast is a story that inspired my writing and helped it reach heights I would never imagine. Up until now it is my finest moment in story telling and combines my performing and writing.
It still pays dividends as this year Iver Heath Drama Club have entrusted me again to put on another show inspired by Snow White; which is yet another pinnacle fairy tale.
Do you have a favourite fairy tale?
The Lion King – Review
August 6, 2019 Lee Hall Leave a comment
A visual spectacle where the show is stolen once again by two familiar characters…
It’s hard to deny that the Lion King is a tale of epic Shakespearean proportions, after all it’s ‘Hamlet with lions’ but the story has appeal to all ages and Disney continue to do that clever thing where they adapt a previous release into live action. This concept is near enough a solid strategy for selling tickets to the young and old and yet again it’s worked in that respect but a live action adaptation that involves just animals; does it really deliver?
My answer is yes and no, because I can’t deny visually the cinematography and computer generation somewhat merge into an impressive spectacle. Much like when Jurassic Park came out most people found it hard to determine when they had used CGI and not. The same is for the Lion King and although it looks great it feels like a certain dimension of the story is missing with this choice and I am talking about emotion.
Yes these are animals and they express emotion differently and in a cartoon you can make a lion frown or smile but when it’s appearing as ‘real life’ the concept is kind of lost. This is even more so apparent in musical numbers where emotion is the real key to delivery.
I’m not a film critic so that’s the subjective part out of the way because overall I enjoyed the Lion King – I avoided the animation for a many years because its quite sad in parts and the same is for this version but the story is about redemption so I dig it. The voice acting can’t be faulted along with most of the musical numbers – it seems ‘Be prepared’ was mostly omitted disappointingly… but everything good about this new version is what makes it worth seeing. It was pretty rewarding to see some scenes exactly how they were in the animation, a fitting tribute for this new live action way. I really liked how some of the characters were created visually; Scar looked exactly how an outcast lion would – dark and ominous and who wouldn’t mention Timon and Pumbaa – two characters who stole the show yet again and their comedy made the whole thing! Of course full credit to James Earl Jones who reprised his role as Mufasa from the original.
You’ll laugh a lot as well as find some of the film emotional in what is a brave execution for Disney leaving some audience members still unsure, but if you ask me the Lion King gets 8 ‘Hakuna Matata’s’ out of 10
Tomorrowland : A world Beyond, telling us we should all look in the mirror and have happy thoughts every now and then…..
June 1, 2015 June 1, 2015 Lee Hall Leave a comment
There I was on Friday with my better half in a somewhat deserted cinema at the beginning of a payday weekend.
Tomorrowland our choice, having seen the trailer intrigue got the better of me and opposed my thoughts of watching Dwayne Johnson escape an earthquake.
As the film opens we are faced with a ruggedly handsome George Clooney talking to us the audience. He speaks of how ‘this’ all began and every so often is interrupted by a girl (Britt Robertson) we also see some kind of countdown clock thingy. Off we go back to the sixties to when this all began….
There were two main stories in this film’s plot, one of Clooney’s character and the other of Robertson’s character who is based in the present day. It’s the usual set up for Disney, a plainish type girl living with a single parent and younger kid brother. She has a passion for science and seeing the stars. Who doesn’t these days?
Clooney’s story is one of discovery as a young kid and he pitches the idea of a jetpack to an invention panel at the world’s fair. After only attracting the attention of a girl (Raffey Cassidy) similar age to him she hands the boy a pin with ‘T’ embossed in it.
This pin allows entry to via some kind of teleportation to a futuristic city known as Tomorowland. A place where all the best and brightest live.
There were some cool visuals as this boy discovered the city. Mostly CGI but on the big screen it looked convincing. Throughout this rather long winded introduction I was left thinking where is this going and what is it about? Those answers were coming but not yet.
Flash forward to the girl and within her seeing the stars passion fueled ‘Cinderella’ type story we are fed an interesting and thought provoking quote:
“There are two wolves who are always fighting. One is darkness and despair. The other is light and hope. The question is… which wolf wins?”
“The one you feed.”
Cutting a long story short becasuse I do recommend this film, Tomorrowland (the place) has fallen to sh** in recent times. Clooney’s character has left and come back to normal land. This girl receives a pin and using it she see’s a ‘version’ of that place.
Desperatley wanting to know more she finds Clooney and after some convincing they make their way to Tommorowland
Imediatley they are apprehended by Hugh Laurie’s character, a somewhat leader of Tomorrowland. This is near two thirds into the film and we finally find out what this they are trying to tell us.
The countdown we are shown at the beginning is from a device, that Clooney invented and predicts when the modern day world will end. Even though Hugh Laurie played a smaller part in this film he brought a top level performance of a man who had accepted humanity’s fate. He delivered this via a very powerful self reflecting speech,
“You’ve got simultaneous epidemics of obesity and starvation, explain that one. Bees butterflies start to disappear, the glaciers melt, the algae blooms. All around you the coal mine canaries are dropping dead and you won’t take the hint! In every moment there’s a possibility of a better future, but you people won’t believe it. And because you won’t believe it you won’t do what is necessary to make it a reality.”
Powerful and deep stuff right? As expected from Disney because they love an undertone or two.
The main cast, a decent mix of known and lesser known faces
So the world is going to end in a matter of months and that’s it?
Wrong. The girl realises this world ending predicting device only shows what could happen and not what will happen. Back to our feeding the wolves quote, she theorised that if you be positive and live positively the world won’t end.
Yes this stuff is quite deep for Disney, I was surprised and intrigued at the same time. After an altercation they destroy the device which seems to have a death grip over everybodies negative thoughts and the world is saved.
So my question to you is which wolf do you feed?
Tomorrowland slowly built up in a long winded discovery sort of way. It was good to see Disney create a live action original piece and this film wasn’t just a George Clooney film. I give full credit to other mostly younger performers in this film and recommend it just because it has a thought provoking level of intrigue not seen in modern or past Disney productions.
Not many people will get the film or what is trying to say, others will turn it off before watching it all. Applied thinking is needed for this film to be effective. But overall I enjoyed the visuals and action.
If you are looking for a different option to the mega action smash fests we have seen so far this year then check out Tomorowland. If you’re just a George Clooney fan, you will probably be disappointed that he shared screen time with some less known faces.
I liked it. With a month that will be dominated by dinosaurs and running and all the screaming Tomorrowland was a nice change of pace.
Into the Woods : Wicked : My musical weekend
From the very beginning many of us knew that this year was gonna be all about movies, considering I have pretty much one sentence to report on all things trying to get published I will do that now.
I have sent my manuscript out to agents again and now I’m editing my second book again.
Now that’s done lets get to it but wait, didn’t I say that this week’s offering would resume on a Tuesday? I lied, the world is full of liars including me.
My musical weekend began on Friday…….
Friday : Into the woods
After walking into the foyer of my local empire cinema I could see that we may have trouble finding 7 seats for the group I was with. It was opening night after all and the last time I saw this cinema that packed was when Les Miserables came out. Just like that experience we were forced to sit near the front.
So to the film, well here we see a rather stellar cast, I am talking Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick, James Corden (Peeps from US will soon know who he is) Johnny Depp ( more of a cameo from him) Emily Blunt, Chris Pine who played the rugged yet charming prince charming and many more. It seemed that nearly every character big or small was a face I had seen before. This gave me much faith in what Disney had to offer.
We were introduced by the way of song to the many central characters and the sort of modified fairy tales in which they belonged. Jack and the beanstalk, Little red riding hood and Cinderella were amongst them.
Meryl Streep and James Corden carried this film which saw him on a scavenger hunt into the woods. I wont give that much away as I feel it is worth watching but to me the final quarter of the film did lack a certain level of story and plot. Which is a shame because the cast all pull together and almost make this an anti Disney film with cliché at every turn. My favourite line of the film came from prince charming “I was raised to be charming not sincere” and he did turn out to be quite the sleaze bag. Seeing him and another prince singing a duet on a waterfall and trying to out prince each other was fun to watch.
I lol’d at this guy
Go see it and tell me your thoughts.
If your still here this is part two of my musical weekend and that was to take my better half into central London to the very art deco Victoria Apollo theatre.
Saturday : Wicked
As you take your seat there is already a visual spectacle to take in. The safety curtain is a map of OZ with emerald city glowing in the centre. Around the stage is various ladders, walkways and cogs of the machine that makes Wicked turn. High above a dragon facing the spectators who were ready and restless on this busy Saturday afternoon. (This dragon did move from time to time)
Here we see the story of Elphalba (the wicked witch of the west) and how she came to meet herfate. Again I won’t give anything away and just tell you this show was somewhat awesome. Many people think that musicals are not for me (maybe because I am so manly, tough exterior etc.) but this show was great. The act 1 close of defying gravity did exactly that and really expressed the powerful vocal skills of the performers. Flying monkeys, munchkins and brilliant stage visuals gave the whole show had a magical element. I would strongly recommend you see it. We were sat in the dress circle looking down on the stage, but where ever you sit is a good view in the Apollo.
Some of you may know that for five years I have pursued a career in amateur drama. Having been a member of the Iver Heath Drama Club for that time I can happily announce that I will be the lead in their next show. This January I will be putting the tights on to be Robin Hood, the worlds most famous outlaw! Come and see me, tickets are available to purchase online for a reasonable rate, just click here.
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The Leopard Wall of Fame is in The Rader Dome on the Liberty-Eylau High School campus. It showcases former Leopard athletes, coaches, and contributors who have helped to showcase Liberty-Eylau Athletics. You can nominate someone from the Leopard Wall of Fame by clicking HERE.
Nominees must meet the following qualifications:
The Wall of Fame will recognize outstanding male and female athletes, coaches, and significant contributors. Significant contributors include booster club presidents, parent volunteers, team doctors, corporate donors, etc.
Athletes will become eligible at least 10 yrs. after graduation
Coaches 5 yrs. after accomplishing first milestone (State Championship) or 5 yrs. from retiring from coaching.
Contributors 5 yrs. after retiring from contribution service (booster club, etc.) or 5 yrs. after initial contribution (donation).
Athletes-must have made a milestone contribution to his or her sport. Typically this would be attainment of
High School-All State (1st team) individual state champion, (track tennis, golf, etc.) state MVP in classification, Texas High school sports hall of fame, School record holder 10 or more years.
College-Collegiate All American, All Conference Selection (SEC, Big 12, etc.) NCAA Hall of Fame, School Hall of Fame (LSU. ARK, etc .... ) Individual awards (freshman of the year, bowl MVP, Heisman, etc ... )
Professional Sports-NFL (1 or more yrs.) MLB (1 or more yrs.) NBA (1 or more yrs.) Other to be determined as it occurs (golf, tennis, bowling, Soccer, volleyball, Olympics.)
Coaches-must have made a milestone contribution based on state championships, district championships, playoff appearances, and a winning percentage of 70% or more on games coached at L-E for at least 10 yrs.
Other-(High School, College, Professional) for those Leopards who have gone on and became successful coaches at other high schools, colleges, or for professional teams. Milestone contribution as AD, head coach, coordinator, position coach. (Bowl Game, National Championship, conference championship, state title, super bowl, World Series etc .... )
The nominees must also exemplify character while representing L-E., must be a positive role model for all current and future Leopards.
Selection Committee Rules
Waiting periods-10 years for athletes, 5 years for contributors and coaches after retirement or when milestone is reached. Time is needed to determine whether the person nominated is indeed a good role model and morally sound.
Applications will be submitted online where they will be kept on file pending selection.
Applications will be kept on file for five years. By keeping all nominations we will be able to reconsider worthy people who were not selected previously. After five years a person may be re-nominated.
All nominations will be submitted to LEISD by May 31 of each year leaving ample time to locate inductees, order name plates, order plaques, obtain pictures and memorabilia.
Inductees will be announced each year during home coming football game.
Induction ceremony will be held at home basketball game (location of Wall of Fame). It gives more people an opportunity to be actively involved.
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Downtown bar Call The Office to close due to lack of insurance coverage
Published Tuesday, November 24, 2020 6:31AM EST Last Updated Tuesday, November 24, 2020 8:34PM EST
LONDON, ONT -- Long time downtown London live music venue Call The Office says it’s closing doors indefinitely- not just because of the pandemic, but because it can find insurance coverage, according to the owner.
“The overhead stayed the same except for the income streams were obviously ninety per cent down,” said Darren Quinn, who took over the iconic venue just two years ago.
He tells CTV News his insurance policy expires at the end of this month, and his provider is refusing to renew it. He says he has shopped around with an insurance broker but hasn’t found coverage with any company.
“They weren’t renewing any policies for most bars and restaurants, especially live music venues. Like, they just wouldn’t touch it. So we’d have to operate without insurance, which is pretty scary.”
Long time London music insider and the manager of the Digital Creative Arts Centre, Mario Circelli, says such is the fate of live music, as the industry faces hurdles never imagined.
“You can only keep the lights on so long, and I know what these folks sacrifice, and personal loans, and personal guarantees, and second mortgages on their home to keep the business afloat, and after a while you just have nowhere else to turn.”
According to the Insurance Bureau of Canada there is still coverage available for live music venues, though providers are smaller in number.
Vice president Celyeste Power is heading up a new program called the Business Insurance Action Team designed specifically to help bars and restaurants and the like find viable insurance.
“We did set up a Business Insurance Action Team to provide further help, and we would recommend to those that are struggling to find the insurance they need- do shop around. It is still a competitive market, people are still offering insurance. But again we might just have to do a little more work in finding it, given that some insurers have left the Canadian market.”
The final shows at Call the Office are scheduled for this weekend.
Ownership of the club changed hands recently before the pandemic hit with the community and City Hall all involved in keeping the historic club operating.
You can read the full statement here.
“We have unfinished business here but only time will tell of we will get the chance to continue, and if not us we hope someone will carry the torch.”
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Aegir, the Norse Ruler of the Sea who brew the best beer in all the Nine Worlds
Micky Bumbar (Lords of the Drinks) / January 12, 2016
Aegir, who controls both the waves of the sea and the foam of the beer.
One of the most important figures in Norse mythology was Aegir or Ægir. Loved and feared as the Commander of the Sea, he also earned great respect among the Germanic tribes as brewer for the Gods of Asgard. His huge underwater feast hall was the one place where the Gods couldn’t fight (normally their favorite way to pass the time), or they’d be bannished from Aegir’s Hall forever. A serious punishment since the place had drinking-horns that magically refilled themselves with the best ale and mead in the Nine Worlds.
Aegir (in some places named Hlér or Gymir) technically wasn’t a God, but a Giant. The Germanic tribes had their own version of the Ancient Greek Battle of the Titans, which contained three parties. The two clans of Gods (Aesir and Vanir) and the Giants (Jötunn) were constantly quarreling and fighting with each other, just like the Vikings and Saxons who worshipped them. The one place where the divine creatures had to act civilized was Aegir’s Hall. The host was also the only Giant that had a good relationship with the Gods, probably because beer and mead were his domain.
The entrance of this party place was said to be somewhere at the coast of the “Isle of Hlér”, nowadays known as Læsø, which is located in Denmark. Since it was built under the sea no fire would burn inside Aegir’s Hall, so the light and warmth came from pure gold on the floor in the middle of the room. The place was decorated with coral and gems, as well as the wealth plundered of sunken ships, while mermaids looked after the needs of the guests.
Aegir and his daughters brewing beer for the Norse Gods.
Aegir himself, a skinny old man with long white hair, was an amazing host. Assisted by his servants Fimafeng and Eldir his hospitality knew no limits. Literally since empty plates and drinking-horns were automatically refilled with the best stuff you can imagine. The wisest of all Gods, All-Father Odin, had said that Aegir’s beer was the best of all the Nine Worlds. The Master of the Sea made this homebrew together with his 9 daughters in the biggest kettle ever made. The size of this kettle is not the same in all stories, but usually it was said to be one mile (1.6 km) deep and one mile wide.
This huge brewer vat came into Aegir’s possession when the Gods once sat down for a feast meal and the table stayed more or less empty. When they asked Aegir where the banquet was, he said he could not serve them food without beer and he had nothing to brew with. Then Thor, the God of Thunder, went on a mission to steal this huge kettle from the Giant Hymir and gave it to Aegir as a present. Since that moment there has never been a shortage of ale in the famous subsea hall.
Aegir may have been portrayed as a kind, old man and the only Giant who was nice to the Gods, but he could be ruthless as well as master of the sea. Whenever a ship sank, it was said that the sailors were ‘dining in Aegir’s Hall’. The Vikings, who roamed the coasts of Europe with their ships, had deep respect for the Ruler of the Ocean and the Saxons had a custom to sacrifice 1/10th of their victims to assure a calm sea after a raid. But all Germanic tribes were also great beer drinkers. And maybe that’s why they respected Aegir, master brewer of the Gods, the most.
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This chap is an absolute dude.
Micky Bumbar (Lords of the Drinks) says:
Fuck yeah! Would love to try some of that 1 by 1 mile best of the 9 Worlds Brew! 😀
Gonzalo L.G. says:
Can you tell me the info of the image of Aegir and his daughters brewing?
Well not much to tell. Clearly some artist drew the scene as he pictured them. It must be from a later time than when people actually believed in the Norse gods.
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Ugana Mahadev
Bhavani is situated in the village, 3 kms from Pandaul railway station. It is said that Lord Shiva became so influenced by the devotion of Vidyapati that he used to live with Vidyapati as a servant. According to the story of Lokmanas, Lord Shiva turned his disguise into a foolish bast and came to the Vidyapati and began to serve. While working here, he became a professor of Vidyapati. Vidyapati went wherever they went and took the gourd with them. Grow too yes with them. It’s a matter of time. Vidyapati had to go to Raj Darwari. They grow up with germination. It was Jeth month. Sun God was at its peak. There were no tree plants on the way, in which, they rested a bit. At the same time, Vidyapati was thirsty. They grow up to grow – Growing me is thirsty with many couples, I will not be able to walk a little longer even after thirst, bring me water from somewhere. Extracting the lotus from your bag, they increased it to grow. Growing up far away, ran away and did not see the well, the lake or the river.
Growing up behind a bush, taking a lump of ganga from his jata and giving it to the Vidyapati, said that there was no water anywhere near. I have brought it from far away. Vidyapati was disturbed by thirst. They drank all the water in one breath. After drinking water, he would say that the taste of water does not happen, it is not water, the water is water, the Ganges only happens to Shiva. Growing out of this, it became stolen. In the end, Agna showed Vidyapati the appearance of Shiva and said that keeping this thing secret. Vidyapati’s wife Shushila Uggana bid to do any work Growing was delayed to work, which caused Sushila to start growing up with the broom. The greens were eating the broom, that the Vidyapati’s eyes fell on him, and his wife started scolding Sushila, but Sushila continued to kill Gauru, and after coming to Bhushan, Vidyapati said to Sushila that you do not understand women, whom you It is not a simple person, it is Lord Shiva. After hearing this, they got involved in growing. It is said that in the place where the rise was shown by Shiva, the huge temple of Mahadev is situated today.
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Tom Brady has totally exceeded Bruce Arians’ expectations as the pirate midfielder
by Bruno Glover
Some have considered Tom Brady’s unofficial trip to Tampa Bay the biggest free agent signature in NFL history, even bigger than Reggie White to Green Bay or Peyton Manning to Denver.
But does it live up to the hype?
On Friday, Arians said – via the team’s transcript – when asked whether Brady had met or exceeded his expectations for this season “completely exceeded”. “With such limited practice in place, we went to New Orleans [in Week 1] He is still learning the words. When the midfielder calls up, he must have a picture in his head. I don’t think this happened until November – just keep learning what the words mean and what the concepts mean, then tweak the concepts as we went on. A man may travel in three or four directions on the road [but now] We spent it down to two. Things like that as we continue to evolve. I think when he calls a play now, the picture is in his head and he’s playing really well. He passed it. His leadership goes beyond anything I’ve ever seen. Peyton Manning is the only thing near. “
Brady Sign up with the pirates It was a franchise-changing event. It brought with it instant legitimacy to the aspirations of the team and immediate media And fan interest It has rarely been seen by pirates.
He’s played a mercurial season with the Buccaneers at times like the best team in NFC and in others they come out of the wrong end to terrible losses. It’s hard to argue with the overall results yet.
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With one game left in the regular season, the 43-year-old Brady led the Pirates to a 10-5 record with 4,234 yards (282.3 per game), a completion percentage of 65.9, 36 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. The 36 TD tosses have been the most for Brady since 2015 And the most in the history of the franchise.
And perhaps most importantly, Brady led Bucs back to the qualifiers for First time since 2007.
It is an illustration of Brady’s leadership, which Arius has also spoken of ridiculously about.
“The way he deals with young players and seasoned players,” said Arianez. “He’s another coach on the field talking to Groenk (Rob Gronkowski) about how he’s managing the roads [and] Talk to Scotty [Miller] How to go his way. [Talking to] Anyone for a place [he] Expect to see you [and] Protection with the offensive line man. It’s a never-ending thing – the ideal – to get everything right in practice. Also, his calmness on the touchline in matches when we are not winning, [saying], “we will win”. That kind of thing. You put them in a bottle and you make a lot of money. “
With the Posteason more than a week ago, the question now is how far can Brady lead the pirates?
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Lesbians in the news
Violent Crimes against Lesbians:
Mary Kristene Chapa
Following publicity surrounding Victoria Brownworth’s article on Mary Kristene Chapa’s recovery and fundraising after the 2012 hate crime that left her seriously insured and her girlfriend Molly Olgin dead, the funding campaign to support Mary Kristene Chapa’s medical needs has now raised almost $16,000.
Please donate and share to support this young women who was the victim of a horrific hate crime.
The five Chinese feminists, including lesbian feminist activist Li Tingting, detained just before International Women’s Day have now been freed on conditional release.
Laws, Politics and Policies:
Leading child welfare organisations and the Humans Rights Campaign jointly denounced a Florida anti-LGBTI adoption bill and religious freedom bills across to country on the ground of the harm they could do to children, both in terms of promoting homophobic messages and in the withholding of vital services.
Although the children conceived to married heterosexual couples using assisted reproduction and donor sperm are automatically recognised as children of the husband, this is not the case for married lesbian couples. A married lesbian couple is challenging the state of Utah to force them to automatically recognise the female partner to be recognised as the parent of children born in this circumstance, as is the case in other parts of the world.
Continuing the worsening state of LGBT safety and protection in Egpyt, the state has now been granted the right to ban or deport LBGT foreigners. It’s not entirely clear how this measure will be applied across the LBGT community. Egyptian lesbians face additional barriers including silencing and invisibility, as well as the rampant sexual violence against women, which would also affect lesbians visiting Egypt.
A French court has permitted 4 lesbians to adopt children born to their wives and conceived through artificial insemination in other countries. Lesbians have sought artificial insemination overseas because under French law only heterosexual couples can access assisted reproduction services.
In Italy, a woman’s relationship ties to the children born during her relationship have been recognised in a court case that granted shared custody, which is significant in a country with a lack of legal protection for the relationship between children and their non-biological lesbian co-mother.
Fears over custody and ongoing family context in case of accidents underpin desires to protect our families from the problems posed by our relationships with each other and our children not being recognised.
Living in a country that recognises your relationship but a state that does not – the tax headaches for LGB Americans may have a disproportionately high effect on lesbians.
Freedom Indiana, the organisation that fought the state ban on same-sex marriage, will focus on helping cities and town implement anti-discrimination measures, following the backlash over the religious freedom laws. At the same time, Indiana hires a PR firm to repair its tarnished image. Perhaps state-wide discrimination laws would be more convincing than more spin?
After originally denying a Cameroonian woman’s claim for asylum on the basis of sexuality, rejecting her fear of being jailed for her publicly known sexuality, Spain has granted Christelle Nangou asylum. Homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon, punishable by 5 years in jail. Spain’s laws have explicitly included asylum protection on the grounds of sexuality-based persecution since 2009.
The Florida Senate approves a bill which removes the unconstitutional ban on lesbians and gays adopting children.
Officials debate same sex marriage in Guam as the attorney general and acting director or the Department of Public Health and Social Services issue contradictory messages after a lesbian couple approached the US District Court for the right to marry after having been denied a marriage license.
A South African discrimination case has been settled with the owners apologising for the consequences of their refusing accommodation to a gay couple. It was acknowledged that the matter was small compared to the violent homophobia may LGBT South Africans face but that it was a part of the broader picture of addressing dehumanising treatment of lesbian, bisexual and gay South Africans.
Lesbian suicide is a neglected issue in India with a toxic combination of blatant lesbophobia in Bollywood and minimal representation, with reporting of lesbian suicides not including supporting information or openly reporting the facts of stories. A country of over 1.25 billion people, India seems to have only 5 organisations supporting lesbian and bisexual women, reflecting their lack of visibility.
Organisations representing lesbians in the tech field work to support women who are significantly less satisfied with their jobs on average and receive lower pays. This support includes mentor programs.
Apple’s Siri appears to have been programmed to be homophobic in Russian, although it’s now apparently been fixed, in a measure reflecting the increasing homophobia and persecution in the country.
LBGT history at the university of Chicago is being shared in the “Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles” exhibition.
More reflections on poor lesbian representation as yet another lesbian relationship on TV succumbs to the mad, bad, sad or dead cliché. This may look like an unimportant issue to those who have thousands of (diverse) examples representing them, but this is far from the case for lesbians. Movies are no better, with only 17.5% having any LGB representation, mostly minor or token roles.
South African photographer Zanele Muholi sees the role of her exhibition to be to bear witness, saying “Looking at where we’re at right now in the struggle [against homophobic violence], there’s nothing to laugh at, there’s nothing to enjoy except when one is intimate with her lover. I ask my sitters to think about the situation, think about being black, being a lesbian, being a woman.”
Heteronormativity in the Australian curriculum and school setting has been criticised for its effects on Australian youth and its perpetuation of homophobia.
UK clothing company Matalan advertises their clothing using lesbian and gay couples, and the media writes an article about it. The photos and the increased representation are positive, but the fact that articles are written about our representation indicates just how unusual it still is.
Night Fliers is a film by Sara St. Martin Lynne which can be watched here. Sara St Martin Lynne says of the film: “My friends and I saw very few reflections of ourselves and our friendships and romantic interests in the media. Night Fliers is free because it should be seen by the young people for whom it was made, regardless of an ability to pay a rental fee. In 2015, 60% profits for this film will be donated to organizations and projects that directly impact and empower girls.”
Social and Health Issues:
President Obama uses his time in Jamaica to highlight to work of a young lesbian activist, Angeline Jackson, in a country which still outlaws gay male sex and has persistent anti-lesbian and gay violence. In common with much violence against women around the world, it often occurs in a personal setting and is both less visible and normalised.
Bullying remains a significant issue for LGBT youth with a CDC study finding that 12-28% of LGBT students had been threatened or injured at school in the previous year, and a 2011 study showing that 82% had reported problems with bullying overall. A recent study found that peers were most likely to intervene in homophobic bullying based on “the values of altruism, leadership, courage, having LGBT friends, and beliefs in justice.”
The Day of Silence followed by the Night of Noise – one Maine school’s attempt to draw attention to perceptions and sterotypes of their LGBT community, including lesbians.
A New York mobile breast scanner will offer scans at a local LGBTI centre in response to increased rates of breast cancer among lesbians.
Remembering our sisters:
In sad news, well known lesbian feminist Sidney Abbott has died in a house fire. Among her other achievements, Sidney Abbott was known as the co-author of “Sappho Was a Right-on Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism”.
Chicago historian and activist Melvyna Gaynor is calling for respondents for her new history project on the Black LGBT community in Chicago from 1970 to the present.
A new book Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women explores the forgotten victims of Ravensbrook which notably included lesbians in the Nazi concentration camp built specifically for women.
From 1985 Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence was a book that highlighted the history and experience of cloistered lesbian relationships.
An Iranian Ayatollah has blamed homosexuality on bizarre causes including a man thinking of a woman other than his wife when she conceives and women not wearing the hijab correctly. Iran remains a dangerous country in which to be lesbian, with four counts of sex between women being punishable by death.
The US Mennonite Church licences a lesbian pastor and refuses to remove her despite calls to from this congregation that has now left the church. Some Mennonite churches have also performed same sex weddings. Meanwhile the Alleghne Mennonite Conference, covering 27 churches in Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, welcomed the LGBT-welcoming Hyattsville Mennonite church back, agreeing to disagree with them on lesbians and gays in the church.
In line with other sections of Irish society, including the technology sector and the Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Irish theologian Prof Linda Hogan argues that there is a a theological case for same sex marriage. While this isn’t very compelling for the non-Christians among us, it may be relevant for the fight for marriage equality in the overwhelmingly Christian country. The question not being asked, though, is why we are focussing on a fight for rights to an institution so hopelessly rooted in misogyny and oppression of women instead of (also) fighting for equal legal rights, irrespective of marital status, to protect our families from the problems posed by our relationships with each other and our children not being recognised.
A female Norwegian bishop is refusing to ordain lesbian Hanne Marie Pederson-Erikson, although other Lutheran Bishops disagree with her stance and may ordain Pedersen-Erikson in a situation that reflects the changing position of some churches on homosexuality.
***If I have missed an important news story, please either post a link in the comments section here or email it to me at liz@listening2lesbians.com.
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3 responses to “Lesbians in the News 18/04/2015”
Mary Sunshine | 19/04/2015 at 6:07 am | Reply
Thank you for creating this Lesbian compendium for us. I very much appreciate it. 💜~💜~💜
Dana | 09/05/2015 at 12:36 am | Reply
I don’t agree with “automatically” listing *anyone* as a child’s parent on a birth certificate. The birth certificate should state biological fact, because people use these documents to trace their biological ancestry.
If we have to add additional sections to a birth certificate that state the *social* parents as well, then fine, or if we could come up with a different type of document with equal authority to a birth certificate that would list the social parents, that’s fine too. (Kind of like issuing an adoption certificate for an adoption, which we do not currently do here in the USA but I think we should do.)
But it’s plain and simple cold, hard fact that two women cannot create a baby between them. One of the women in a lesbian couple is NOT the child’s biological parent. And that should be reflected in the documentation. I feel the same way about the donor-conceived and about stepparent marriages extant when a child is born.
You don’t have to be a conservative to believe this, either, nor homophobic. I’m neither.
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Tien’s Subscribed Keynote Message: Introducing Zuora Central
By Tien Tzuo • June 6, 2017
After hearing some fantastic enterprise transformation stories from Caterpillar, GE and Ford at our Subscribed 17 Keynote, this morning I was very happy to announce the launch of Zuora Central, a new hub that orchestrates your entire quote-to-cash process for a dynamic, subscription world. We’ve been working on this new platform for two years, and we think it delivers true business freedom.
Today’s standard quote-to-cash systems run on a linear model, with hard-coded interfaces and systems permanently daisy-chained together. With Zuora Central, we’re shifting to a more dynamic circular model, where everything revolves around real-time subscriber events. Think of it as an intelligent hub that sits between ERP and CRM — neither of these technologies were designed to handle the operational and financial implications associated with subscription business models.
How does it work? Well, let’s start with pricing. Zuora Central comes with a dynamic pricing & packaging engine, one that understands all sorts of consumption based, time-based, and user-based models, so you can go to a single place to design your pricing plans, your bundles, and your promotions.
Not only that, Zuora Central will broadcast any pricing change out to all your dependent systems, and immediately surface that new price to all of your sales channels–CPQ, CRM, web store, and partner portal. When it comes to pricing & packaging, that’s freedom delivered.
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Preview: Gregory Siff’s “Matter Of Time” At Gallery Brown
words by Vivianne Lapointe
Gregory Siff‘s swift rise to fame among Los Angeles’ street and contemporary artists can be explained by three obvious things you’ll notice when you meet the man and take a look at his work: talent, determination and a real good heart. The actor, writer and painter just won’t stop ’til he gets enough and we are thrilled to see what he created for “Matter of Time,” his upcoming show at Gallery Brown.
We had a chance to visit Greg’s treehouse studio in West Hollywood as he was putting the finishing touches on this latest collection of paintings on found material, handmade panel and canvas. Enjoy our interview and these intimate images captured by Melissa Preston!
LF: Can you discuss the underlying themes behind this new show?
GS: Trophies, gold, moments, time, sex, money, Scarface, idolatry, Kingdoms, fame, heart, heroes and solitude.
LF: What’s your favorite piece in this show? How did you push your art to the next level?
GS: My favorite piece is a small landscape of The Magic Kingdom in Disney World. I don’t why, I finished it just as I was loading the all of the work out of my studio to go to the gallery and because it was the last one created I have a strong attachment to it. It’s also very loose and I wrote some memories on there I don’t want to forget. Using every last second to create new work when you know you have the show completed is how I push my self. Without that, Disney World would not exist. Really.
LF: Where do you pull inspiration for the stories you tell?
GS: My Dad, love, girls, the past, the now the music that’s on. The movies I love. Moments I want to stick in.
LF: You are also an actor – describe your creative process and how you flick the switch from one Gregory to the other.
GS: Acting is painting with your face.
LF: What’s your background as an artist? When did you first pick up a paint brush?
GS: I guess in 2000. I didn’t go to school for art. I just went to museums and hung out with artists.
LF: Describe your style in less than 10 words.
GS: Juicy.
LF: If you could share wall space with another artist, dead or alive, who would it be?
GS: Jean-Michel Basquiat. And we do at Gallery Brown.
LF: What’s your art world pet peeve?
GS: Judgement.
LF: What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
GS: Say thank you.
LF: You have a very upbeat, positive energy. What gets you going?
GS: Having a purpose, fighting the good fight. Making plans for dreams on cardboard and then turning them into real things. When I was 13 I wanted GAMEBOY so bad that I built it out of cardboard and pretended to play Tetris on it. That Christmas I got a real one. I feel like the saying is true, If you build it they will come. But you also have to get up and grab that shit too.
LF: You are part of the Creative Cartel collective. Can you talk about the way you collaborate with other artists?
GS: The Creative Cartel is what it’s like to call your best friend on the phone and say, “Hey you feel like surfing today?” It’s collaborating with the truest of hearts and best of friends all skilled in different areas. We all lead with our heart. 2wenty, MAR, Cyde One. These guys can do anything. I mean it. It’s also about giving and leaving a lasting mark in the world through art and attitude.
LF: What’s next for you after the show at Gallery Brown?
GS: Art Basel, Miami Scope show thanks to Red Bull and The Arts Fund. Then a show in Brooklyn in 2013 and the movie I wrote many moons ago, painT.
LF: How fast do you live?
GS: So fast that I’m at my show right now on Oct 20th at Gallery Brown and all my friends are smiling and laughing and we’re going to Mr. Chows!
Matter of Time opens on Saturday, October 20th from 6-10pm at Gallery Brown.
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The Red Button (Czerwony Guzik)
The Red Button is a 52-minute documentary film that tells the dramatic story of Stanislav Petrov, the Russian officer who, in 1983, saved the world from atomic war.
During the early ‘80s, the Russian leader was Jurij Andropov, the most right-wing Soviet leader since Stalin. A known hardliner, Andropov was very wary of US activity.
It was an intense period of time in the relationship between the United States and Russia. Tensions were running high between the two superpowers, and the atmosphere was suspicious because of recent incidents. On September 5th, a Korean jet liner with 269 passengers, many of whom were American, had been shot down over Soviet territory because the Russians believed it was a spy mission. Read more below.
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It was an intense period of time in the relationship between the United States and Russia. Tensions were running high between the two superpowers, and the atmosphere was suspicious because of recent incidents. On September 5th, a Korean jet liner with 269 passengers, many of whom were American, had been shot down over Soviet territory because the Russians believed it was a spy mission. The action led Reagan to label Russia an “evil empire.” Soon after, the KGB communicated to the western operatives to prepare for possible nuclear war. It is now thought that throughout 1983, the Kremlin assumed that the US and its allies were planning a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union.
So it was in this tense environment that Stanislav Petrov worked deep inside Serpukhov-15, a secret bunker, monitoring early warning satellites. On September 26, 1983, Petrov was in charge of monitoring American missiles that could potentially be sent to Russia to start a nuclear war. It was not his normal duty; he was to man the post twice a month just to keep his skills from getting rusty.
Shortly after midnight, Petrov noticed a missile on his screen. Thinking it was a possible error, he nervously ignored it and waited for any other indications of war. Several minutes later, things became much more serious: four more missiles appeared and a flashing red warning sign began asking him to confirm an incoming attack. By pressing the red button, Petrov would have sent the information up the chain of command to Jurij Votincev, the Commander in Chief of the Russian missile defense, and then to Jurij Andropov who was in charge of the new “nuclear suitcase” and who would have undoubtedly called for a counterattack.
Petrov knew he only had about fifteen minutes to decide what he would do before the missiles would reach the Soviet Union. If he didn’t pass the information along, Petrov would be ignoring orders and taking responsibility into his own hands. The protocol, which Petrov had written himself, clearly indicated that the correct course of action would be to inform the Commander in Chief. 120 panicked military officers and engineers sat behind him, looking at the screen and waiting for his decision. “Everyone jumped from their seats looking at me,” says Petrov. “What could I do? There was a procedure that I had written myself.” The future of the world was in the 44-year-old Russian officer’s hands as he wrestled with the decision of whether or not to use Russia’s atomic button. In a bold move, however, Petrov decided against it, blaming the signals on faulty equipment instead of imperialistic aggression. At the time, he was not sure he had made the right choice.
Fortunately for all of us, Petrov made the correct decision. His reasoning was that if the Americans were going to start an atomic war, they would have sent hundreds of missiles, not just five.
Although Petrov had effectively saved the world from atomic war, he was not rewarded for his decision by the Russian army. Instead, he was reprimanded for not filling out the log books on that day, and a year later he was given an option to retire.
When the incident was finally declassified in 1998, many members of world organizations claimed that Petrov was a hero, and some thought that he deserved a Nobel Prize. As a result of the publicity, he was rewarded by the The Association of World Citizens based in San Francisco with $1000 and given a plaque: ‘The World Citizen Award.’
Today, Petrov lives in a small village near Moscow in relative anonymity, surviving only on a tiny pension of $200 a month. He gave most of his reward money to his grandchildren and spent the rest on a vacuum cleaner, an item he had always dreamed of, which then turned out to be faulty.
While Petrov’s incident might sound extraordinary, the world has actually survived at least four false alerts for nuclear war in the past 20 years. Fortunately, in three of the four cases, reliable space-based sensors assured leaders that they were safe, even though their other systems falsely indicated a nuclear attack. Many world leaders believe, therefore, that such incidents demonstrate the need for both the US and Russia to have adequate space-based sensors in order to avoid a false response.
Even with such sensors in place, however, accidents are inevitable. In Petrov’s case, it was actually a relatively new Soviet satellite system that falsely indicated that nuclear annihilation was imminent. Shortly after midnight, the sun, the monitoring satellite system, and the U.S. missile fields all lined up in such a way as to maximize the sunlight reflected from high-altitude clouds. This gave the appearance, to Petrov, that several missiles had been launched from the U.S. continental missile fields. Although his suspicious superiors had repeatedly told Petrov that the United States would launch a massive nuclear strike against the Soviet forces, he decided not to pass the alert about the five missiles to higher authorities, saying, “When people start a war, they don’t start it with only five missiles. You can do little damage with just five missiles.”
Although Petrov’s action was the right one at the time, according to Dr. Bruce Blair of the US Center for Defense in Washington DC, his logic was not necessarily correct because one of the US’s plans was to launch just a few missiles to confuse the enemy.
Such a close call, however, illustrates the fact that there is still considerable room for human and technical error in systems, which keeps thousands of nuclear weapons on high-trigger alert and poised for rapid firing. To make things worse, the constellation of Russian early-warning satellites has been allowed to deteriorate significantly since 1995 because of insufficient maintenance funding. What is even more important, as stated by Bruce Blair “there is an urgent need to stand down these dangerous missiles and take them off alert in order to prevent a nuclear war from starting by mistake or by unauthorized action.”
The Red Button reviews Petrov’s role in the autumn equinox nuclear scare, discusses the repercussions of the event, and analyzes possible ways to prevent similar mistakes. By telling the story of this unsung hero’s life, this documentary will bring important issues about international security to light. Although this film is international in its perspective, the subject matter is very close to American audiences. The subject matter confronts the most vital and important themes for current security issues – for America as well as the rest of the world.
Czerwony Guzik
Historia rosyjskiego podpulkownika, który uchronil swiat przed globalna wojna nuklearna.
W 1983 roku nastapila eskalacja zimnej wojny. KGB podejrzewalo, ze Stany Zjednoczone moga przeprowadzic atak nuklearny na Zwiazek Radziecki. 26 wrzesnia 1983 Stanislaw Pietrow mial dyzur w centrum dowodzenia Sierpuchowo-15 znajdujacym sie nieopodal Moskwy. Do jego obowiazków nalezalo monitorowanie systemu wczesnego ostrzegania, aby w momencie ataku Zwiazek Radziecki mógl od razu na niego odpowiedziec. Kilka minut po pólnocy Pietrow odebral sygnal, ze Stany Zjednoczone wystrzelily piec rakiet w kierunku ZSRR. Podpulkownikowi od poczatku wydawalo sie, ze to blad systemu. Nie chcac doprowadzic do konfliktu, zdecydowal sie nie alarmowac przelozonych. Jak sie okazalo, jego decyzja byla sluszna, gdyz atak rakietowy byl bledem systemów. Do tej pory wielu ekspertów uwaza, ze zachowanie Stanislawa Pietrowa pozwolilo uniknac globalnej wojny nuklearnej. Poniewaz podpulkownik nie wykonal rozkazu, zostal odsuniety od sluzby wojskowej.
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• International Uranium Film Festival, New York City, February 14, 2014
• (Opening night) UNAFF International Film Festival, Palo Alto, California, October 18, 2012
• 2nd International Uranium Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2012
• (Premiere) Filmambiente, International Environmental Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2011
• The Red Button was nominated by the Jury of the Uranium Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro for the Yellow Oscar 2012, for the best feature film of the festival.
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The Man Who Saved the World by Doing Absolutely Nothing
By Megan Garber
It was September 26, 1983. Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defence Forces, was on duty at Serpukhov-15, a secret bunker outside Moscow. His job: to monitor Oko, the Soviet Union’s early-warning system for nuclear attack. And then to pass along any alerts to his superiors. It was just after midnight when the alarm bells began sounding. One of the system’s satellites had detected that the United States had launched five ballistic missiles. And they were heading toward the USSR. Electronic maps flashed; bells screamed; reports streamed in. A back-lit red screen flashed the word ‘LAUNCH.’”
That the U.S. would be lobbing missiles toward its Soviet counterpart would not, of course, have been out of the question at that particular point in human history. Three weeks earlier, Russians had shot down a South Korean airliner that had wandered into Soviet air space. NATO had responded with a show of military exercises. The Cold War, even in the early ’80s, continued apace; the threat of nuclear engagement still hovered over the stretch of land and sea that fell between Washington and Moscow.
Petrov, however, had a hunch — “a funny feeling in my gut,” he would later recall — that the alarm ringing through the bunker was a false one. It was an intuition that was based on common sense: The alarm indicated that only five missiles were headed toward the USSR. Had the U.S. actually been launching a nuclear attack, however, Petrov figured, it would be extensive — much more, certainly, than five. Soviet ground radar, meanwhile, had failed to pick up corroborative evidence of incoming missiles — even after several minutes had elapsed. The larger matter, however, was that Petrov didn’t fully trust the accuracy of the Soviet technology when it came to bomb-detection. He would later describe the alert system as “raw.”
But what would you do? You’re alone in a bunker, and alarms are screaming, and lights are flashing, and you have your training, and you have your intuition, and you have two choices: follow protocol or trust your gut. Either way, the world is counting on you to make the right call.
Petrov trusted himself. He reported the satellite’s detection to his superiors — but, crucially, as a false alarm. And then, as Wired puts it, “he hoped to hell he was right.”
He was, of course. The U.S. had not attacked the Soviets. It was a false alarm. One that, had it not been treated as such, may have prompted a retaliatory nuclear attack on the U.S. and its NATO allies. Which would have then prompted … well, you can guess what it would have prompted.
As Petrov, now retired and living in a town near Moscow, puts it of his decision: “That was my job. But they were lucky it was me on shift that night.”
Thirty years later, there are lingering questions about the specific events of September 26, 1983. Was it really up to Petrov, the single man, to make the call? Weren’t there other failsafes that would allow for malfunctioning technology? Wouldn’t other cool heads, finally, have prevailed? Petrov, for his part, emphasizes the ambiguity of the situation, saying after the incident that he was never convinced the alarm was erroneous. (The odds of his getting it right, he now figures, were pretty much 50-50.)
One thing that seems clear, however, is that the world carried on into September 27, 1983 in some part because Stanislav Petrov decided to trust himself over malfunctioning machines. And that may have made, in a very broad and cosmic sense, all the difference. Petrov’s colleagues were professional soldiers with purely military training; they would, being trained to follow instructions at all costs, likely have reported a missile strike had they been on shift at the time. Petrov, on the other hand, trusted his own intelligence, his own instincts, his own gut. He made the brave decision to do nothing.
And we’re here to read about him because of it.
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During the last 12 months, pay structures for bank staff have changed dramatically. There have been significant increases in base salaries for some firms and changes to the delivery of incentive compensation. The decision making for these changes has been directed at perceived risk takers in the front offices of banks. However, these changes have also impacted the back offices, i.e., the infrastructure functions. As firms are now beginning the planning process for year-end compensation, should they also reassess the way that the bonus pool for infrastructure functions is calculated and distributed?
The Psychology of the Take-Away
As firms consider ways to deliver pay that are motivating, conform to regulatory guidelines, factor in multi-year performance, and discourage risk, there has been increasing thought and energy devoted to expanding clawbacks, holdbacks, performance hurdles, etc. In some cases these provisions are largely window dressing. Most clawback provisions are linked to employee malfeasance or conduct that is deliberately detrimental. When you consider the recent credit crisis, very little of the conduct would have actually triggered any of these provisions.
Refining the Employee Value Proposition
Over the last 18 months, a number of forces—regulatory reform, firm economics, share availability and public perception—have forced large-scale shifts in the form, level and mix of compensation in financial institutions. Many of these changes were made in haste and out of necessity. As competition for talent heats up, firms are under pressure to define, benchmark and optimize what they use to attract, engage and retain employees―their Employee Value Proposition.
2010 Compensation Plans: A Year in Flux
Mandatory deferral plans were never particularly interesting. Firms were preoccupied with being “competitive with the street”. There wasn’t a great deal of variety and innovation. Employees griped about having some portion of their bonuses deferred, and then often sat back and watched the value of their awards escalate. Of course, that hasn’t always been the case in the last couple of years.
2009: A Year to Forget? Are There Lessons to Be Learned?
By all accounts, 2009 was a year that most of us want to forget. The credit crisis came home to roost, government intervention and regulation reached an all-time high, executives in general and bankers in particular were vilified, and so many things that we took for granted were turned upside down. But, from all this, are there lessons that we can learn?
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Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science (MIDSS) - Assessment of Disruptive Symptoms: DSM-IV Version - For Teachers (ASD-IV-T)
- 9/29/20 - 1 form, 5 itemgroups, 36 items, 1 language
Itemgroups: General Information, Instructions, child, child, child
Waschbusch, D. A., Sparkes, S. J., & Northern Partners in Action for Child and Youth Services. (2003). Assessment of Disruptive Symptoms: DSM-IV Version - For Teachers (ASD-IV-T). Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science. Retrieved 27.09.2020, from www.midss.ie Key references: Waschbusch, D. A., Sparkes, S. J., & Northern Partners in Action for Child and Youth Services. (2003). Rating Scale Assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD): Is there a Normal Distribution and Does it Matter? Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 21(261). DOI: 10.1177/073428290302100303 Primary use / Purpose: The Assessment of disruptive Symptoms-DSM-IV Version - For Teachers (ASD-IV-T) is a Likert scale developed to measure symptoms of Conduct Disorder (CD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). The ASD-IV-T, rather than giving simple yes/no diagnoses, can also measure the severity of the given disorder. Background: The Assessment of disruptive Symptoms-DSM-IV Version - For Teachers (ASD-IV-T) is designed to measure the level (i.e low, average, high) of disorders including Conduct Disorder (CD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). This sets it apart from scales which are only capable of making binary diagnoses. This scales ability to demarcate individuals with unusually low levels of characteristics belonging to these disorders -as opposed to high- is unique and has potential for varied usage. Psychometrics: The psychometric properties of the Assessment of disruptive Symptoms-DSM-IV Version - For Parents (ASD-IV-P) are discussed in Waschbusch, D. A., Sparkes, S. J., & Northern Partners in Action for Child and Youth Services. (2003). Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.304
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Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science (MIDSS) - Assessment of Disruptive Symptoms: DSM-IV Parent Version
Itemgroups: General Information, Instructions, past six months child, behaviors causing problem at, past six months child, behaviors causing problem at, past six months child, behaviors causing problem at
Waschbusch, D. A., Sparkes, S. J., & Northern Partners in Action for Child and Youth Services. (2003). Assessment of Disruptive Symptoms: DSM-IV Parent Version. Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science. Retrieved 27.09.2020, from www.midss.ie Key references: Waschbusch, D. A., Sparkes, S. J., & Northern Partners in Action for Child and Youth Services. (2003). Rating Scale Assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD): Is there a Normal Distribution and Does it Matter? Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 21(261). DOI: 10.1177/073428290302100303 Primary use / Purpose: The Assessment of disruptive Symptoms-DSM-IV Version - For Parents (ASD-IV-P) is a Likert scale developed to measure symptoms of Conduct Disorder (CD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). The ASD-IV-P, Rather than giving simple yes/no diagnoses, can also measure the severity of the given disorder. Background: The Assessment of disruptive Symptoms-DSM-IV Version - For Parents (ASD-IV-P) is designed to measure the level (i.e low, average, high) of disorders including Conduct Disorder (CD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). This sets it apart from scales which are only capable of making binary diagnoses. This scales ability to demarcate individuals with unusually low levels of characteristics belonging to these disorders -as opposed to high- is unique and has potential for varied usage. Psychometrics: The psychometric properties of the Assessment of disruptive Symptoms-DSM-IV Version - For Parents (ASD-IV-P) are discussed in Waschbusch, D. A., Sparkes, S. J., & Northern Partners in Action for Child and Youth Services. (2003). Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.303
Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science (MIDSS) - Conduct Disorder Rating Scale - Parent Version
Itemgroups: General Information, Instructions, past year child, impact daily life
Waschbusch, D. A., Elgar, F. J. (2007). Conduct Disorder Rating Scale - Parent Version. Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science. Retrieved 22.09.2020, from www.midss.ie Key references: Waschbusch, D. A., & Elgar, F. J. (2007). Development and validation of the conduct disorder rating scale. Assessment, 14, 65-74. Fabiana. G. A, Pelham, W. E., Waschbusch, D. A., Gnagy, E. M., Lahey, B. B., et al. (2006). A Practical Measure of Impairment: Psychometric Properties of the Impairment Rating Scale in Samples of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Two School-Based Samples. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 35(3), 369–385. Primary use / Purpose: The purpose of the Conduct Disorder Rating Scale- For Parents (CDRS-P) is to allow for measurement of conduct disorder (CD). The CDRS-P is a Likert-type scale with scores ranging from 1-4 which measures CD in line with current conceptualizations as described in the DSM-IV. The fifteen symptom used in the scale are taken directly form the DSM-IV definition of CD. Background: It is considered a public health priority to effectively manage the troublesome behaviour of disorderly adolescents and children. Conduct disorder (CD) is estimated to affect up to 5% of children between the ages of four and sixteen and is often linked to drug abuse, violence, and sexual victimization. Therefore it is important to have reliable and consistent measures of CD. However, many existing scales measure CD is ways which are not wholly consistent with the criteria set out in the DSM-IV. To address this shortcoming Waschbusch & Elgar (2007) developed the Conduct Disorder Rating Scale- for parents (CDRS-P). Psychometrics: The psychometric properties of the Conduct Disorder Rating Scale- for parents (CDRS-P) are discussed in Waschbusch & Elgar, (2007). Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.301
Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science (MIDSS) - Conduct Disorder Rating Scale - Teacher Version
Itemgroups: General Information, Instructions, past year child
Waschbusch, D. A., Elgar, F. J. (2007). Conduct Disorder Rating Scale - Teacher Version. Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science. Retrieved 22.09.2020, from www.midss.ie Key references: Waschbusch, D. A., & Elgar, F. J. (2007). Development and validation of the conduct disorder rating scale. Assessment, 14, 65-74. Fabiana. G. A, Pelham, W. E., Waschbusch, D. A., Gnagy, E. M., Lahey, B. B., et al. (2006). A Practical Measure of Impairment: Psychometric Properties of the Impairment Rating Scale in Samples of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Two School-Based Samples. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 35(3), 369–385. Primary use / Purpose: The purpose of the Conduct Disorder Rating Scale- For Teachers (CDRS-T) is to allow for measurement of conduct disorder (CD). The CDRS-T is a Likert-type scale with scores ranging from 1-4 which measures CD in line with current conceptualizations as described in the DSM-IV. The twelve symptom used in the scale are taken directly form the DSM-IV definition of CD. Three symptoms which are present in the Conduct Disorder Rating Scale- for parents (CDRS-P) are omitted from the current scale because they do not occur in schools. Background: It is considered a public health priority to effectively manage the troublesome behaviour of disorderly adolescents and children. Conduct disorder (CD) is estimated to affect up to 5% of children between the ages of four and sixteen and is often linked to drug abuse, violence, and sexual victimization. Therefore it is important to have reliable and consistent measures of CD. However, many existing scales measure CD is ways which are not wholly consistent with the criteria set out in the DSM-IV. To address this shortcoming Waschbusch & Elgar (2007) developed the Conduct Disorder Rating Scale- for teachers (CDRS-T). Psychometrics: The psychometric properties of the Conduct Disorder Rating Scale- for parents (CDRS-T) are discussed in Waschbusch & Elgar, (2007). Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.302
Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science (MIDSS) - Childhood Autism Syndrome Test (CAST)
Itemgroups: General Information Section, Childhood Autism Sydrome Test (CAST), Special Needs Section
Scott, F. J., Baron-Cohen, S., Bolton, P. and Brayne, C.. (2002). Childhood Autism Syndrome Test (CAST). Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science. Retrieved 16.08.2020, from www.midss.ie Key references: Scott, F. J., Baron-Cohen, S., Bolton, P. and Brayne, C. (2002). The CAST (Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test): Preliminary development of UK screen for mainstream primary-school children. Autism 6(1),9-31. Williams, J. Scott, F. Allison, C. Bolton, P. Baron- Cohen, S. and Brayne, C. (2004). The CAST (Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test) : test accuracy Autism, 8, 45-68. Primary use / Purpose: The CAST is used for Autism spectrum disorders screening, among children aged 5 to 11. It includes 37 categorical (yes/no) items on behaviours relevant to autism spectrum disorders. Background: While diagnosis of typical autism will usually occur in early childhood, Aspergers syndrome and other pervasive developmental disorders may be missed until much later. The Childhood Autism Syndrome Test (CAST) allows detection of such cases which may need further assessment. Psychometrics: Reliability and validity of the CAST are discussed in Williams, Scott, Allison, Bolton, Baron- Cohen, and Brayne (2004). Web link to tool and scoring key: https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/arc_tests/ Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.181
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Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science (MIDSS) - Quantitative Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (Q-CHAT)
- 8/16/20 - 1 form, 1 itemgroup, 25 items, 1 language
Itemgroup: Quantitative Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (Q-CHAT)
Allison, C., Baron-Cohen, S. Wheelwright, S., Charman, T., Richler, J., Pasco, G. and Brayne, C.. (2008). Quantitative Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (Q-CHAT). Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science. Retrieved 16.08.2020, from www.midss.ie Key references: Allison, C., Baron-Cohen, S. Wheelwright, S., Charman, T., Richler, J., Pasco, G. and Brayne, C. (2008). The Q-CHAT (Quantitative CHecklist for Autism in Toddlers): A Normally Distributed Quantitative Measure of Autistic Traits at 18-24 Months of Age: Preliminary Report. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Allison, C. Auyeung, B., Baron-Cohen, S. (2012) Toward Brief "Red Flags" for Autism Screening: The Short Autism Spectrum Quotient and the Short Quantitative Checklist in 1,000 Cases and 3,000 Controls Journal of the American Acad of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Primary use / Purpose: The Q-CHAT allows early detection of autism spectrum disorders, at 18-24 months of age. It is a quick measure containing 25 likert-type items describing behaviours a child may or may not engage in. Background: The Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT) was developed in 2001 to allow health professionals to "red flag" a case for further diagnostic assesment. The Q-CHAT is a modified version which can be completed by a parent and also has higher sensitivity. It includes additional items on language development, social communication and repetitive behaviours. Psychometrics: Psychometrics are discussed in Allison, Auyeung, and Baron-Cohen (2012). Web link to tool and scoring: https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/arc_tests/ Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.180
Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science (MIDSS) - Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT)
Itemgroups: General Information, SECTION A: ASK PARENT:, SECTION B: GP OR HV OBSERVATION:
Baron-Cohen, S., Allen, J., Gillberg, C.. (2001). Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT). Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science. Retrieved 15.08.2020, from www.midss.ie Key references: G. Baird, T. Charman, A. Cox, S. Baron-Cohen, J. Swettenham, S. Wheelwright and A. Drew, (2001) Screening and surveillance for autism and pervasive developmental disorders Archives of Diseases in Childhood 84:468-475 Primary use / Purpose: The CHAT allows autism to be detected at 18 months of age. In the first component, the parent is asked 9 questions about their child's behaviour. The second part involves 5 items of direct observation and interaction with the child. Background: Prior to this, Autism was generally not detected before 3 years of age. As early intervention is vital, this instrument was designed to make detection possible from 18 months. The Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT) is administered by a health professional, both by asking the parent questions and directly observing and interacting with the child. Psychometrics: Psychometric properties are determined in a 6 year follow up study of children assessed by the CHAT (Baird, Charman, Baron-Cohen et al., 2009). Web link to tool: https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/arc_tests/ Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.177
Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science (MIDSS) - Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) (Child)
Itemgroups: General Information, The Autism Spectrum Quotient (Child)
Baron-Cohen, S., Hoekstra, R. A. Knickmeyer, R., Wheelwright, S. (2006). Adolescent Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ). Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science. Retrieved 15.08.2020, from www.midss.ie Key references: Baron-Cohen, S., Hoekstra, R. A. Knickmeyer, R. and Wheelwright, S. (2006). The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) — Adolescent Version. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 36:343-350 Auyeung, B. Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S. and Allison, C. (2008). The Autism Spectrum Quotient: Children's Version (AQ-Child). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Primary use / Purpose: The AQ is designed to measure the degree to which an individual possesses symptoms typical of the autistic spectrum. The adolescent version is for ages 12-15 while the child version is for ages 4-11. Both instruments have 50 likert-type items with responses ranging from "definitely agree" to "definitely disagree". Background: The Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) was developed due to a need for brief self-administered instruments to determine an individual's position on the autism-normality continuum. The adolescent and child versions allow parents or therapists to complete this instrument on their behalf to determine the presence or absence of traits typical of autism. Psychometrics: Psychometrics for the adolescent version are discussed in Baron-Cohen, S., Hoekstra, R. A. Knickmeyer, R. and Wheelwright, S. (2006), and for the child version in Auyeung, B. Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S. and Allison, C. (2008). Both have shown favourable outcomes on measures of reliability and validity. Web link to tool and scoring: https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/arc_tests/ Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.175
Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science (MIDSS) - The Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS)
Itemgroups: Part 1, Part 2
Foa, E. B.. (2001). The Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS). Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science. Retrieved 23.07.2020, from www.midss.ie Key references: Foa, E.B., Treadwell, K., Johnson, K., & Feeny, N. (2001). Child PTSD symptom scale (CPSS): Validation of a measure for children with PTSD. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 30, 376-384. Gillihan, S.J., Aderka, I.M., Conklin, P.H., Capaldi, S., & Foa, E.B. (In press). The Child PTSD Symptom Scale: Psychometric Properties in a Sample of Female Adolescent Sexual Assault Survivors. American Psychological Association. Primary use / Purpose: The CPSS is used to assess post traumatic stress disorder severity in children between ages 8-18. It consists of 17 items in part 1 and 7 items in part 2. It takes approximately 20 minutes to administer as an interview measure (by a clinician or a therapist) and 10 minutes to complete as a self-report. Background: The Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS) maps on DSM-IV criteria, and yields a PTSD aggregate score as well as scores on the re-experiencing, avoidance and hyperarousal subscales. The CPSS comprises 24-items, 17 of which correspond to the DSM-IV symptoms. In the first section, answers are on a Likert-type scale where 0 is not at all, 1 is once a week or less/once in a while, 2 is 2 to 4 times a week/half the time, and 3 is 5 or more times a week/almost always. In the second part of the questionnaire, respondents are asked about functional impairment, or how much the problems indicated in section one have interfered with specific areas of life. These 7 questions are scored dichotomously as absent (0) or present (1). Scores range from 0 -- 7, with higher scores indicating greater functional impairment. Psychometrics: See original article (Foa et al., 2001) Other Information: Version also available in Spanish. Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.119
Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science (MIDSS) - Autism Parenting Stress Index (APSI)
Itemgroups: General Information, Stress Ratings
Silva, L. M. T., & Schalock, M.. (2012). Autism Parenting Stress Index (APSI). Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science. Retrieved 23.07.2020 from www.midss.ie Key references: Silva, L. M. T., & Schalock, M. (2012). Autism parenting stress index: Initial psychometric evidence. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42, 566-574. Primary use / Purpose: The APSI is a unique measure of parenting stress specific to core and co-morbid symptoms of autism. Background: Stress among parents of children with autism has been found to be particularly high. Core symptoms, as well as co-morbid behavioural and physical problems, have been found to affect parents' stress levels. The APSI was designed for clinical use to identify areas where parents need support with parenting skills, and to assess the effect of intervention on parenting stress. The APSI was developed following many interviews of parents of children with autism. The Items fall into three categories: the core social disability, difficult-to-manage behaviour, and physical issues. Items are rated as being ‘Not stressful’, ‘Sometimes creates stress’, ‘Often creates stress’, ‘Very stressful on a daily basis’, to ‘So stressful that sometimes we feel we cannot cope.’ The APSI indicates how much stress parents are experiencing and what factors are causing this stress. Psychometrics: The overall APSI scale score demonstrates acceptable internal consistency and test–retest stability for parents of children with autism and other developmental disabilities (Silva & Schalock, 2012). Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.97
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Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science (MIDSS) - Classroom Anxiety Measure
Itemgroup: Classroom Anxiety Measure
Richmond, V. P.. (2013). Classroom Anxiety Measure. Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science. Retrieved 21.07.2020 from www.midss.ie Key references: Richmond, V. P., Wrench, J. S., & Gorham, J.(2001).Communication, affect, and learning in the classroom. Acton, MA: Tapestry Press Primary use / Purpose: This instrument can be used to measure a student's anxiety in the classroom. Background: The Classroom Anxiety Measure (CAM) is based on Richmond's Situational Communication Apprehension Measure developed by McCroskey and Richmond (1982, 1985) to measure state communication apprehension in any context. Psychometrics: You can expect an alpha reliability on this measure of about .90. For more information on psychometric properties of instrument see Richmond, V. P., Wrench, J. S., & Gorham, J.(2001).Communication, affect, and learning in the classroom. Acton, MA: Tapestry Press. Web link to tool: http://www.jamescmccroskey.com/measures/classroom_anxiety.htm Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.502 This instrument can be used to measure a student's anxiety in the classroom. It is based on Richmond's Situational Communication Apprehension Measure. You can expect an alpha reliability on this measure of about .90. SCORING: To compute your scores, add your scores for each item as indicated below: Recode questions 3, 4, 6, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19 with the following format: 1=5 2=4 3=3 4=2 5=1 After you have recoded the previous questions, add all of the numbers together to get your composite Classroom Anxiety score. Score should be between 20 and 100. Scores of 80 and above indicate high classroom anxiety; Scores of 25 and below indicate low test or evaluation apprehension; Scores between 26 and 79 indicate moderate test or evaluation apprehension.
Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science (MIDSS) - Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ)
Itemgroups: Administrative documentation, Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ)
Wardle, J., Guthrie, C. A., Sanderson, S., & Rapoport, L. (2001). Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ). Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science. Retrieved 25.06.2020, from www.midss.ie Key references: Wardle, J., Guthrie, C. A., Sanderson, S., & Rapoport, L. (2001). Development of the children’s eating behaviour questionnaire. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42, 963-970. Carnell, S., & Wardle, J. (2007). Measuring behavioural susceptibility to obesity: Validation of the child eating behaviour questionnaire. Appetite, 48, 104-113. Primary use / Purpose: The CEBQ is designed to measure eating styles in young children. Background: Research has suggested that individual differences in several aspects of eating style contribute to the development of weight problems in children and adults. The Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ) was designed to assess children's eating scale styles. It is a parent-report measure comprised of 35 items, each rated on a five-point likert scale that ranges from never to always. It is made up of eight scales: Food responsiveness, Emotional over-eating, Enjoyment of food, Desire to drink, Satiety responsiveness, Slowness in eating, Emotional under-eating, and Food fussiness. The instrument is ideal for use in research investigating the early precursors of eating disorders or obesity. Psychometrics: The psychometric properties of the instrument have been evaluated by Wardle and colleagues (2001) and Carnell and Wardle (2007). Scoring: see https://www.midss.org/content/child-eating-behaviour-questionnaire-cebq (cited 25.06.2020) Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.271
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MER & IMR Services To Resume From Thursday, July 23
Published Thursday 16 July 2020
Isle of Man Transport - Thursday, July 16, 2020 ”We are delighted to announce that the Isle of Man Steam Railway and Manx Electric Railway will be re-opening for the Summer season. The Isle of Man Steam Railway will open Thursday 23rd July - Sunday 13th September on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays an…
“New Horse Tram Depot Is Handed Over To Govt”
Published Wednesday 24 June 2020
Completion of the £1.5m scheme to provide secure storage for the tramway's historic cars. ‘The new Douglas horse tram depot has been completed - and officially handed over to Isle of Man Transport. Demolition of the old depot at Strathallan, which dated back to 1902 and was described by then Infras…
“Additional Costs Could Threaten The Prom Scheme”
Published Saturday 20 June 2020
"Completion of the Promenade project could be threatened by the need for further funding, a Tynwald scrutiny committee has warned. Changes to the scope and timetable of the Prom scheme were announced last month. While most of the project will now be completed by the end of March next year, work on…
Snaefell - A Mountain and a Railway
Published Thursday 18 June 2020
Composed to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Snaefell Mountain Railway. The Snaefell Mountain Railway was the first mountain railway in the British Isles. Opened in August 1895, it was built in only eight months by pioneering Victorian engineers at a time when electric traction was in its inf…
‘Tynwald Committee To Hear Evidence On Horse Tram Today’
Published Friday 5 June 2020
'Focus will be on recent changes to works' “Two government ministers will speak about the decision to delay the completion of the horse tram tracks on Douglas promenade today (5 June). Enterprise Minister Laurence Skelly and newly-appointed Infrastructure Minister Tim Baker will give evidence to a…
Harmer Replaced As DOI Minister
Published Wednesday 3 June 2020
Harmer becomes Minister for Policy & Reform “The Chief Minister has announced the appointments of a new Policy and Reform Minister, and Infrastructure Minister. Tim Baker MHK will become the new Minister for Infrastructure, with Ray Harmer MHK taking up the role of Minister for Policy and Reform. R…
‘Two Ministers To Give Evidence On Horse Tram Track Delay’
Published Tuesday 2 June 2020
‘Committee to hear from range of speakers later this week’ “Two government ministers will speak about the decision to delay the completion of the horse tram tracks on Douglas promenade later this week. Enterprise Minister Laurence Skelly and Infrastructure Minister Ray Harmer will give evidence to…
Committee To Review Impact Of Horse Tram Delay On Businesses
Published Monday 1 June 2020
'Deadline for submissions lunchtime today' “Those who live and work near Douglas promenade have until lunchtime to submit their views on part of the plans for the prom. It's regarding the delay to the installation of the section of the horse tram tracks between the War Memorial and the Sea Terminal…
Changes To Prom Scheme 'Will Have Cost Implications' says Tim Baker MHK
Published Sunday 17 May 2020
“Tram tracks will now be completed at a later date” Changing the scope of the work on Douglas promenade will have cost implications. That's according to political member with responsibility for highways, Tim Baker MHK. The Department of Infrastructure is aiming to complete the ongoing work by April…
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how does pollution affect mangroves
A review of the literature that considers mangroves in the context of climate change reveals it is often challenging to distinguish what is an . Does air pollution affect mental health later in life? There are many different types of mangroves, with around 39 different species in Viet Nam alone. How Does Plastic Pollution Affect Humans: Know the Risks and Join the Plastic-Free Movement. Introduction. Just check out this infographic from the team at DIVE.in showing us the real human cost of all this marine pollution.. What Can We Do About It? In the mangroves of Hurricane Hole on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, however, Caroline Rogers of the USGS made a startling discovery. In many tropical areas, dense mangrove forests line the shore. Air pollution negatively affects the accumulation of innovative human capital. and by doing so protect coastlines. Wiley. Not only are the forests lost when a coast is developed, but a man-made structure almost always replaces them. 1. That structure (e.g., a hotel, desalination plant, coal-fired power plant, nuclear plant, port facility, marina, cruise ship dock) inevitably brings with it associated issues of altered hydrology, erosion, and pollution. Start following these tips to lessen your impact on marine life. Pollution: Fertilizers, pesticides, and other toxic man-made chemicals carried by river systems from sources upstream can kill animals living in mangrove forests, while oil pollution can smother mangrove roots and suffocate the trees. Nov 27 2020 Read 79 Times. Request information. Image credit: Ecoviva video screen capture.. Consequently, the effects of oil pollution are sufficiently well ... Oil spills can seriously affect the marine environment both as a result of physical smothering . Coastal development may be the primary threat to mangroves. North and South America, Africa and Middle-East, Asia and Oceania (incl. Does air pollution affect mental health later in life? How does pollution effet the ecosystem? We can’t always see it, but air pollution affects everyone and is the largest environmental risk to our health. Caribbean mangroves have declined by approximately 24% over the last quarter-century, largely as a result of different forms of coastal development, pollution and human exploitation. Areas where Date: November 18, 2020 Source: Wiley Summary: In a study of women aged 80 years and … Climate change: Mangrove forests require stable sea levels for long-term survival. Reduce pollution - Mangroves help remove nutrients, sediment and pollution from the ocean and waterways. The biggest effect of water pollution is how it impacts one’s health, including the lives of plants, fish, incrustations, and even mammals. They form unique intertidal forests at the edge of land and sea, see Fig. Research News. Mangroves are trees and shrubs that grow along tropical and subtropical sheltered coastlines. Within a given mangrove forest, different species occupy distinct niches. Mangroves could be further threatened by storms if the return time of major storms exceeds reestablishment. Only 12 species live in the Americas. The trees’ tangled, exposed roots withstand the ebb and flow of daily tides. What are mangroves? Mangroves range in size from small bushes to the 60-meter giants found in Ecuador. They are a hardy species that inhabits the intertidal zone, on State “land”, and if they are left alone or lightly managed they regenerate. Ecologically mangroves are important in maintaining and building the soil, as a reservoir in the tertiary assimilation of waste, and in the global cycle of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and … Pollution can cause plants and other organisms to die, which will affect the circle of life in a particular ecosystem. Print E-Mail. Mangroves are the only trees that are capable of thriving in salt water. Does Air Pollution Affect Plastic Pollution Levels? How Does #Ocean #Pollution Affect You? These particles can stick in our throat and our lungs. Growing … No matter where you live or work, your actions have a knock on effect on the ocean in ways you'd never thought. When we breathe polluted air we inhale a complex mix of gases and particles. The uses of mangroves falls into two categories, firstly the use of the mangrove ecosystem as a whole or its conversion to other uses, and secondly, the use of products from the mangrove ecosystem. Mangroves once covered three-quarters of the world's tropical coastlines, with Southeast Asia hosting the greatest diversity. There are many concerns about climate change and the associated effect on mangrove habitat: “Climate change components that affect mangroves include changes in sea-level, high water events, storminess, precipitation, temperature, atmospheric CO2 concentration, ocean circulation patterns, health of functionally linked neighboring ecosystems, as well as human responses to climate … In addition, mangroves have been shown to reduce the flow pressure of water surges associated with tsunamis, hurricanes, etc. Smaller particles can pass into our blood and be transported around the body into many different organs. They are represented on all continents with tropical and subtropical coasts, i.e. Australia). Marine environments . ... years, mangroves being a notable exception, as shown in Table 1, below. • Air pollution will reduce the stock of technological innovative professionals (TIP). Mangroves, like the ocean and the reefs, surround or should surround Fiji. 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Looking at the incandescent beauty of all three of those people, I am reminded of Lynn Carter's comment at Gennaro's memorial in Ptown. Seeing Gennaro's brothers lined up in the front row, she remarked - "Look at them, they are like a family of movie stars, one's more beautiful than the next.."
Well PPTown looks to be a fun time this summer. So far we have Dina Martina returning for a full seasons run at ther Vixon, Richard Move and his Martha at the Art House and Jeff Stryker in his one man show at The Post Office. All we need now is Messy Bonnie Raitt at the dick dock and what a summer we'll be having.
From Provincetown to Manhattan but just for five days. I will be maiking my summer sojourne to NYC on June 21 and will be there until June 25. I would love to see those of you that care during my visit. Drop me a line and let's catch up.
It is starting to shape up to be a fun season here. Justin Bond stopped by for a visit as well as Mike Albo. And kathlene Turner turned it out for the Film festival this week too. And Alan Cumming was in town to recieve an award from the festival as well. Now if we could just get rid of some of these damn tourists.
Christmas DayRaconteur
The Annual Bear Week is upon us here in Ptown, and it is actually one of the best weeks of the summer. The bears, their ilk and admirers completely take over the town - which is a welcome change in energy compared to the 4th of July "Circut Week" cavalcade of arrogance.
Growls can be heard through the streets during the day and last night at 2am I witnessed a GrampaBear dressed up like Santa Clause having the time of his life. It's beyond....
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goblin73Sage
pictures, please.
Just for you goblin.
The Bears of Provincetown,
photographed at the Fireman's Ball earlier tonight.
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I was just about to go to the gym but hey...
I think I'll make some spaghetti.
But if you feel like something a bit less thick around the middle...
Put down that spaghetti, wash down a couple of Kleenex with a TAB, stick your fingers down your throat and check out MARTHA @ The Art House Theater!
thank you, jaime!!!
those made my morning!
your very welcome, woof!
That would be grrrr not woof.
Oops, please excuse my faux pas Bobby Bear.
For your viewing pleasure.....
This is Mike, a "straight" street performer who plays Rock guitar here in Ptown. After much resistance, he caved in and showed the goods at Showgirls for some prize money. The queen in the picture is my friend Felicity Lane. Unfortunately, when Mike revealed his manhood he shook it around pretty fast and even shooting at high speed I could not capture it.
Just use your imagination.
The same evening, a true icon took the Showgirls stage..... Rue McClanahan. When the Golden Girl appeared, the crowd erupted in a way I have never seen in this town. It was quite a moment.
Joining Rue on stage,(left to right)are Bruce Vilanch, Jeff Stryker and Dina Martina.
A stellar line up indeed.
Jeff is here doing a show written by Bruce, during which he appears fully nude, erect and gyrates over the crowd nearly tapping their heads with his famous penis.
That's entertainment! Front section seating costs $50 a ticket!!
Dina Martina is a seasonal fixture and does one of the best shows in town.
Sorry about the blur.
Carnival Week is here, which signifies the near end of summer and the conclusion of Family Week (thank God!). Crying kids and double strollers will be replaced with costumed freaks of all sorts.
Also, my show of photographs will be on Saturday, August 18th following Carnival.
To all here in Provincetown, please stop in and check it out.
I love Carnival Week, it's so retarded.
That pic of Marti is so genius, I remember when you took it. People were standing around wondering "Why is that poor girl on the floor? Is she alright? Should we help her? Why is that man just taking her picture?"
I wish I could see the show but I probably know most of the photgraphs. Or maybe not. Do you have lots of new ones?
Any hot lesbian photos?
I think that you are weakest in the "Girl-On-Girl Hot & Horny Action" category of photography but other than that you are a brilliant photographer.
Yeah Jamie,
I'm with the Big Guy on this one.
Nothing says "Good Photography" like two hot babes muff diving.
That's the show that everyone wants to see.
eeeewwwww muff diving lesbos. I think NOT!
Unless I'm in the middle of it.
why I oughta....
She's hot but the hair is hideous!
She needs to find another beauty shoppe.
Back in the day she went to Mr. Ray's Wig World.
Presently, she is a Beauty School drop-out who still fancies doing her own hairstyling. Although I have encouraged her to seek outside help, she seems fixated upon her own "talents".
By the way Daddy, I really appreciate all you have said about my photography.
Don't tempt me. I have photos of another ex porn queen named Ginger. I'll post them if I have too.
Don't make me do it!
Do It!!!!
I never saw them pichers a Ginger 'n me in that sling thing that you an' Big Daddy have in your basement.
How'd they come out?
Just got home from Mr.Casertano's photo exhibit.
Beautiful. Lots of handsome men and a gorgeous sunset as a back drop. He is on his way to the success he deserves. They were gagging over the shot of Marti Domination but everything looked fabulous framed in white wooden frames and a recurring slide show on a large computer screen as well. Here he is side stage beaming with joy.
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Nancy IslaSage
Congrats Jamie! God it's been ages since I last saw you. Prolly at Cheez Whiz.
Please send some beams of protection to Provincetown. Aside from the hurricaine that is about to hit in a matter of hours there is an arsonist who has set about 16 fires in 4 days. He started out lighting trash cans and dumpsters and moved to empty construction sights and now has hit several homes and buildings all over town. The police don't have a clue as to what they might be dealing with. At least with the heavy rain from the hurricaine we might be safe for the next 24 hours from this maniac. Notify your friends who have houses here or who live here year round to keep their eyes open and call the fire department right away if they see any fires. Goddess Bless us.
By K.C. MYERS
PROVINCETOWN "” With the town on edge after 10 suspicious fires in recent weeks, an arson occurred again last night, this time with serious consequences.
The earliest suspicious fires were found in trash cans, then progressed to unoccupied houses or homes under construction, Provincetown Fire Chief Michael Trovato said. Until last night, the damage had not been extensive.
Last night, one or more arsonists pushed leaves and other debris against the rear wall of an unoccupied home at the top of Oppen Lane, a steep road rising high above Bradford Street, lined with mostly seasonal, expensive homes. The debris was lit on fire, and the blaze spread to the home's outside wall, Trovato said.
The flames had been burning for an estimated two hours before a neighbor noticed and dialed 911, according to Trovato. The house, owned by Jeffrey Libert of Cambridge, is probably a complete loss, the fire chief said.
In a town filled with seasonal homes, many neighborhoods don't have occupants, making an arsonist's job a lot easier, Trovato added.
Residents should keep their lights on, and their eyes open, he said. "We should be forming neighborhood watches, but in a sparsely populated neighborhood like this, that will be hard."
In this case, firefighters had trouble locating the source of smoke, Trovato said. At first, they checked neighboring Harbor Hill Road, the street identified by the 911 caller. But then they stumbled upon the two-story ranch with smoke seeping from its windows and doors, the fire chief said.
Two firefighters made their entry by breaking through a wall next to sliding glass doors on the ground floor, Trovato said. As they entered the burning building, they heard a cracking sound, and a piano, about eight-feet long and very heavy, crashed through the second floor, grazing firefighter Justin White's helmet.
White was not injured but it was a close call, the firefighter said.
"This was very close to being a murder scene," Trovato said last night. "This is what I'm afraid of, that a firefighter is going to get killed."
In the 1980s, Deputy Chief Franklin Oliver died fighting an arson fire at the Lobster Pot Restaurant, the fire chief said.
Arson is suspected in 10 other Provincetown fires that have occurred in recent weeks.
The most recent three blazes occurred on Halloween. The most serious of the holiday fires, at 473 Commercial St., was started by someone igniting a plumber's blow torch and leaving it to burn full blast inside an antique waterfront home once owned by the arctic explorer Donald MacMillan, Trovato said. The fire burned a second-floor alcove of the house, which was under renovation at the time. The same day, there were suspicious fires at 2 Commercial St. and 10 Bradford St.
On Oct. 26, firefighters extinguished a fire at a half-built home at 98 Bayberry Ave.
While residents are naturally concerned, for firefighters the danger is more immediate and tangible.
"You can get killed every time you go to a fire," firefighter Vaughn Cabral said.
The strain is taking its toll on fire crews' nerves.
"I've been nervous for a week," firefighter Aubrey Gordon said.
The state Fire Marshal's Office has had a state police trooper investigating the Provincetown fires since Wednesday, said Jennifer Mieth, a spokeswoman for the fire marshal's office.
As of yesterday afternoon, there were no major leads, Mieth said.
But that was before last night's blaze, which was discovered around 6:30, when a emergency dispatcher began sending fire crews to the scene.
"We really think the public is going to be the key to solving this case," Mieth said. "If anyone has information, call the arson hot line. It's confidential. If anyone saw anything suspicious, just call. Don't second guess yourself. Let us decide what's relevant."
The arson hot line is 800-682-9229.
Bobby-
This is AWFUL, and we hadnt heard a word of it on the news.. the Cali fires undoubtedly triggered sleeping arsonists across the country, hope they find yours soon. All that wood - mon dieu!
Sending beams..
Last night during dinner at Bobby's we heard the sirens again and that expression fell upon our faces, like not AGAIN! Luckily, it was a false alarm, however this is really wearing on everyone here. I fear leaving the dog by himself to go to work and everyone has turned on every light possible at night. When I walk the dog late in the evening I feel suspicious of those distant figures in the night and their shadows. It's just weird. Usually when I see someone in the distance I just wonder if it might be an attractive man.
Friday night I was working at the gym and 5 fire engines went speeding by to the fire up on the hill. And you know here EVERYONE is playing Nancy Drew detective. It has made for some colorful conversation. Still, I wish it was over. The cab lady told me they have a suspect, but wouldn't say who.....
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In other news, check out Bobby's fierce Cyclops Halloween costume.........
Well the good news is that it's been two days without a fire. Maybe he left town or is laying low until a later date. He could be intimidated by all the press and the feds being in town. We'll see what happens.
Just returned from walking the dog. The lady on the beach walking her dog told me that someone "very reliable" told her that "the arsonist has turned himself in but they are not saying it yet, I don't know who it is". So the mystery remains as to the identity of the creep but let's hope this is true. If it's not you didn't hear it from me!
Scratch that!
I just learned that not only is it not true, but I've been had by a local gossip who read it in the paper. I knew she was shady!
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Max Chilton hails ‘best race of my IndyCar career’ in INDYCAR GP
By Tony DiZinnoMay 13, 2017, 9:53 PM EDT
Photo: IndyCar
INDIANAPOLIS – Max Chilton enjoyed what he called easily the best race of his Verizon IndyCar Series career Saturday in the INDYCAR Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.
Starting 14th, Chilton took the No. 8 Gallagher Chip Ganassi Racing Honda up to seventh at the finish of the fifth race of 2017 after a spirited drive that featured several solid passes and good pit work all around.
The result was a nice bounce back finish after improving slightly from 16th to 14th to 12th in the opening three races, and then getting taken out in Mikhail Aleshin’s triggered first lap accident at Phoenix.
This also matches his best IndyCar finish to date, which was seventh last year at Phoenix. Chilton’s only road course top 10 last year was 10th at Watkins Glen.
“That was my best race in IndyCar, full stop. One of my best ever,” Chilton told NBC Sports post-race. “From lights to flag, with no safety car, pure racing, pure speed, and no people doing crazy moves on restarts, that was one of the best of my career. It was only seventh, but to come from 14th when you can’t easily get people, was a really good day.”
Chilton made his own inspired pre-race decision to start on Firestone’s black primary tire, which meant he could get off them at the first pit stop and move forward from there on the softer, faster, red alternate tires. Graham Rahal was the only other driver able to match Chilton’s pace from there as they could run reds the rest of the race.
It’s the first sign of Chilton’s improved confidence and pace in his sophomore season actually translating to results. He’s had pace this season at times, notably in testing, but hadn’t really delivered a result of note. He continues to work well with engineer Brandon Fry and strategist Julian Robertson.
“I hardly did any fuel saving. It was go, go, go… then save your tires and get your moves done,” Chilton explained. “From six or seven laps in, I knew it’d be a good day. I started on blacks, which was my call, and I sort of went off the engineers.
“We had a great gap and didn’t have to worry about what was behind me. (James) Hinchcliffe was maybe a tenth quicker a lap than I was on blacks. The second stint I’d piss them (on pace) and we did. We had such great speed.
“Rahal was the only car that caught me all race. I’m not sure what planet he was on. But at the end I caught him again when he got held up by Marco. That was a great race. It all went to plan. We did a faultless job. You can have a faultless day, even when you don’t get up there.”
Over the moon with this result and as he noted one of his best drives in his career overall, Chilton will now look to better what was a respectable debut finish of 15th in last year’s Indianapolis 500, his second career oval race. That’s now where he sits in the points as well, ahead of a race where qualifying points are awarded and the race triggers double points.
“I know it’s only seventh, but coming from 14th with pure overtaking, made it a top, top day,” he said.
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With a bitcoin ETF, risk isn't virtual
Talk about a bit of risk: Meet the bitcoin funds. Some wealthy investors are already buying into a trust that tracks the average dollar price of the virtual currency. And the firm behind that trust is racing one other to bring bitcoins to the masses in the form of a publicly traded fund. Bitcoins were worth about $10 each less than two years ago, then more than $1,100 a few months later, and now trade around $475.
Harris flourishing under Herro's leadership
CFA Chicago
David Herro is the Chief Investment Officer-International Equities at Harris Associates L.P. and serves as the Portfolio Manager of The Oakmark International Fund, The Oakmark International Small Cap Fund, and The Oakmark Global Select Fund. Herro has been managing international portfolios since 1986, previously managing international portfolios for The State of Wisconsin Investment Board and The Principal Financial Group. Join CFA Chicago on Sept. 24 at The Standard Club for the Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Herro.
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The time is now to jump into oil and energy
While fracking has captured much of the popular press attention lately, there is a much more pervasive shift in the global energy power balance taking place that has near and long term implications at both macroeconomic and individual company levels. The U.S. is now the second largest producer of crude oil in the world, sandwiched between Saudi Arabia and Russia. U.S. oil exports now exceed agricultural exports. Join us on Sept. 23 at 2:30 p.m. as we discuss the macro-economic and geopolitical implications of the energy revolution, and identify sector-specific impacts.
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2014 Annual Dinner features Gov. Jon Huntsman as keynote
The 2014 Annual Dinner is our premier networking event of the year, bringing together nearly 1,000 investment professionals and key decision-makers. The Officers and Directors of CFA Society Chicago invite you to attend this year's event where you will have the opportunity to socialize with individual members and show support for the new class of CFA Charterholders, the CFA designation and for the society. Gov. Jon Huntsman will serve as the keynote speaker, and Ralph Wanger, CFA, will be awarded the Hortense Friedman, CFA, Award for Excellence. The deadline for registration is Oct. 2 at 5 p.m., so register today to secure your spot!
New twists to the active vs. passive debate
CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
The growing popularity of passive equity investing seems to be an unstoppable feature of the evolving investment industry. According to the 2014 Investment Company Fact Book, the passive index equity share of US mutual fund assets has risen from 11.4 percent to 18.4 percent in the past decade. More recent analysis by Morningstar, aggregating data on mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, suggests passive investing is now the default choice for American investors, attracting an astonishing 68 percent of the past 12 months of investor inflows.
America's wealth gap 'unsustainable,' may worsen: Harvard study
Reuters via Chicago Tribune
The widening gap between America's wealthiest and its middle and lower classes is "unsustainable", but is unlikely to improve any time soon, according to a Harvard Business School study. The study, titled "An Economy Doing Half its Job", said American companies — particularly big ones — were showing some signs of recovering their competitive edge on the world stage since the financial crisis, but that workers would likely keep struggling to demand better pay and benefits.
Why CME, CBOE are on a weight-loss plan
Chicago's two big exchange operators have been waiting on a trading rebound that just won't happen, so it's belt-tightening time. CME Group Inc., which runs the world's biggest futures market, and CBOE Holdings Inc., owner of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, promised cost cuts after reporting disappointing second-quarter results. They're pledging to reduce hiring, travel and advertising, among other things. Lackluster trading has afflicted most markets, leading rivals Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. and Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange Inc. to hack away at costs, too.
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The 1 peculiar trait shared by Warren Buffet's energy investments
Anyone that wants to be taken seriously as an investor wants to be like Warren Buffett. We like to track every move that he makes in the portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway to see what companies he and his partners think will provide long-term returns that crush the market. Since the beginning of last year, Berkshire has made two major additions to his portfolio in the energy industry -- ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy — and has also added significantly to his position in one other — National Oilwell Varco.
Fund payments to brokerages draw SEC scrutiny
The tens of millions of dollars in annual fees that mutual fund companies pay to brokerages and their financial advisers to encourage sale of certain funds to retail investors are growing in size and variety, but the phenomenon is largely invisible to investors. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which 18 months ago began a review of fees paid among mutual fund advisers, fund companies and the brokerage firms that sell the funds, has uncovered a complex geometry of payments that may lead to sales of certain funds at the expense of others and is not clearly disclosed under regulators' current requirements, according to a person familiar with the review.
Buy Japanese, European equities: Top fund manager
Select Japanese and European equities hold the greatest potential right now, Morningstar's Fund Manager of the Decade said. On CNBC's "Halftime Report," Harris Associates CIO David Herro said that it was important to focus on undervalued multinational companies in lackluster economies. "These European businesses, most or many of what we own, really, they're domiciled in Europe, but they're global companies. They have business all over the world, and they're actually doing quite well," he said.
After hit from regulators, Goodwin's Inland Bank is growing again
Real estate magnate Daniel Goodwin is back on offense in his other major business pursuit — banking — after a recession-induced cleanup that cost him dearly. Inland Bank & Trust, the $1 billion-asset lender Mr. Goodwin (at left) has owned for two decades, is profitable and growing again after a 2012 regulatory order reversed a novel arrangement the bank had with one of Mr. Goodwin's real estate affiliates to absorb loan losses. The result: Inland Bank lost a total of $88 million in 2011 and 2012, and the affiliate plowed $30 million of fresh equity into the bank to keep it afloat.
Chicago looks to Israel for tech startup lessons
The rooftop deck atop Nir Zohar's Israeli startup firm provides a bird's-eye view of this metro area's evolution into a high-tech powerhouse. His website set-up company, Wix, is tucked into a once-derelict port district, now the seaside home to a bevy of emerging tech firms and trendy shops. To the north, the sun glances off sleek office towers in suburban Herzliya, where thousands of engineers and computer scientists conduct research for U.S.-based multinationals. Chicago-area corporations such as Motorola Solutions, Boeing, Abbott, Baxter, Allscripts and Groupon look to tech hubs throughout Israel as a source of R&D and tech acquisitions.
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Talk about a bit of risk: Meet the bitcoin funds. Some wealthy investors are already buying into a trust that tracks the average dollar price of the virtual currency. And the firm behind that trust is racing one other to bring bitcoins to the masses in the form of a publicly traded fund.
Money talks and it says: Chicago's still a good bet
It's going on right in front of our faces, but it's still a surprise: Despite the near certainty of hefty property tax increases, real estate investors are pouring big bucks into Chicago. Earlier this year, one company spent $3,000 per square foot for a small Gold Coast commercial building.
Bet you didn't know CME runs a trading unit on its own exchange
While CME Group Inc. (CME) makes most of its money charging the people who use its markets, the world’s biggest futures exchange captures a sliver of sales with a little-known group that trades directly with those customers.
Money talks and it says: Chicago's still a good bet (Crain's Chicago Business)
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Murphy & Attridge
Project Type: Opera
Categories: All Opera Song Workshops Interdisciplinary
A Different Story
A satirical youth opera exploring the power of storytelling.
A bespoke aria for one of the exceptional Young Artists at the National Opera Studio.
Then to the Elements
An opera inspired by ‘Frankenstein’, exploring motherhood and Artificial Intelligence.
A youth opera exploring the experiences of young people forced by war to flee their homes.
A pop-up opera about an awkward first date.
A short opera set in a not-so-distant dystopian future.
“Laura and Lewis have started their collaboration for Glyndebourne’s Young Composer-in-Residence scheme with Belongings, an impressive opera drawing its inspiration from deeply moving human experiences during the refugee crisis, a hot topic of the time and always valid in some part of the world. Belongings clearly shows how Laura and Lewis have worked closely and inspired each other. A very promising work that makes me look forward to their next projects together.”
– Sebastian Schwarz, former General Director, Glyndebourne
“Lewis and Laura are both very talented and intelligent young artists in their own right, and together create beautiful, thought-provoking pieces for performance.
It has been a pleasure being a witness to their collaborative process. Then to the Elements for Scottish Opera was a little gem: full of meaning and atmosphere.”
– Olivia Fuchs, Director (Then to the Elements)
“I was delighted that, when General Director of Glyndebourne, we were able to appoint Lewis Murphy as our Young Composer in Residence – somebody whose talent and potential were very much in evidence even at that young age. It has been a pleasure to follow his work and see him grow and develop as a composer.”
– David Pickard, Director, BBC Proms
Use the links above to find out more about Lewis and Laura’s work and portfolio of projects.
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Category: sarod
Ravi Shankar, sitarist and composer, April 7, 1920-December 11, 2012
With Ali Akbar Khan (sarod), et al., “Bangla Dhun,” New York (The Concert for Bengladesh), 1971
art beat: Art Institute of Chicago
Here’s my one-word review of the newly opened gallery of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, where, Tuesday morning (after a hearing at the nearby federal court building), sunlight was streaming through the windows: stunning.
Indian Music Festival, part 2
Nikhil Banerjee, sitar
With Zakir Hussain (tabla), live
Raga Bhimpalasi (Alap [opening section])
Raga Bhairavi
Raga Manj Khammaj, with Ali Akbar Khan (sarod)
In my own listening, I have sometimes felt that a raga symbolizes the states of a person’s life in reverse order. The open-ended introduction, or the alap, with its meditative quality, seems to reflect the wisdom of the elder sage, or sannyasin. As the raga progresses, and the rhythmic pulse and melodic development begins, one meets the adult in full control of his or her faculties in the prime of life. There is a healthy balance between bursts of improvisation and the observance of structure. Toward the end, as the raga accelerates and approaches a climax, one enters the childlike realm, where the desire to display virtuosity is strongest, and the performers throw caution to the wind and go for broke. But for many musicians and connoisseurs, this is where the raga has lost its purity, with the delicate opening alap seen as the “true essence” of raga.—Peter Lavezzoli, The Dawn of Indian Music in the West (2006)
A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards Space.—Nikhil Banerjee
Tuesday, 3/30/10
Ali Akbar Khan, sarod
Raga Brindabani Sarang
Raga Marwa
Raga Shree
Zakir Hussain on Ali Akbar Khan (following his death last year)
Yehudi Menuhin on Ali Akbar Khan
An absolute genius . . . the greatest musician in the world.
Philip Glass on Indian Music
The thing I learned from Ravi [Shankar] is that the rhythmic structure could become an overall musical structure. In our Western tradition that’s simply not the case. . . . There [India], rhythm is used in the way that timbre and pitch and other aspects are used. In the West we have an alliance between harmony and melody. That’s the basic alliance: rhythm comes along to liven things up. . . . There [India], the tension is between the melody and the rhythm, not between the melody and the harmony. . . . The moment that the tala, or the rhythmic structure, comes up and meets against the melodic structure at the sum—when the beats come together—that’s the resolution in Indian music. The complications that the cyclic rhythmic structure can create, and the effects to the melodic development, open up a whole different way of thinking about music. And that’s basically what I heard. I knew nothing like that in my own personal experience, or in any Western music that I knew.—Philip Glass (in William Duckworth, Talking Music [1995])
Ali Akbar Khan on Music
For us, as a family, music is like food. When you need it you don’t have to explain why, because it is basic to life.
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Meet 500 Startups’ 26th batch of startups
Following TechCrunch’s coverage of 500 Startups’ 25th batch (and numbers 24, 23, 22, and 21, in case you wanted to go back in time), today we’re saying hello to the accelerator’s 26th cohort.
500 Startups, in case you weren’t aware, is a seed-stage accelerator and a collection of venture funds. The group, now with a few dozen accelerator batches under its belt, has several thousand companies in its universe. 500’s 26th cohort contains 29 companies, including a handful that we’d already heard of (Juked.gg, to pick one).
Data, diversity
Before we get to the startups themselves, a few notes. To get a handle on the companies included in the batch, TechCrunch spoke with Aaron Blumenthal, a venture partner at the firm. After sharing a number of batch metrics with TechCrunch, we pressed for a bit more detail on the makeup of the startups in the group.
Here’s a hybrid of our notes, and his details (condensed and edited for clarity), on the batch that the venture partner called “another rung on the ladder of our diversity and inclusion state of mind”:
37% of the startups are international. According to Blumenthal, “this particular batch from the ‘outside United States perspective’ is a little bit smaller — we usually see north of 50% outside the United States.”
30% of the companies’ founding teams include a woman. TechCrunch asked Blumenthal if that number was up, flat or down, to which he responded that 500’s “average is usually in the mid 30s or so. Our last batch, for example, was 26% female. And this one is more [in] that direction which, of course, we are a fan of.”
70% of the founding teams of the batch “have one or more founders who identify as a racial minority,” according to the firm.
It would be interesting to see a more granular breakdown for future cohorts, but the information provided was more than I expected, and the numbers a bit better. And on the subject of numbers, Crunchbase has recorded 215 exits for 500 Startups. From its accelerator, 500 cites TalkDesk and Shippo as highlights.
Turning to mechanics, 500 Startups invests $150,000 apiece into its accelerator companies for 6% of their equity, and charges a $37,500 for the program itself. So, in effect, it’s a bit less capital for the same ownership percentage.
What else? Just that we’re walking into demo day season. 500 Startups will host the showcase for its 26th batch on March 19. Y Combinator will hold its own on March 23 and 24. The Techstars website defeated my hunt for its next demo day, but in the name of fairness, it’s probably hosting one around the same time somewhere in the world.
Here’s the list of companies in batch 26, with small notes from 500 on what they do:
Acadium: Connects business owners and marketing professionals with aspiring digital marketers.
Alloy Card: Offers a consumer credit card with automation that gives people more control over their finances while saving time.
Amixr: Incident management software that helps engineering teams around the world optimize their workflow while minimizing hassles.
AppBind: Lets partners buy and resell online software subscriptions as easily as licensed software, by bringing B2B SaaS into the global reseller market of implementation consultants, system integrators and distributors.
Bliinx: Offers an easy and fast way to find information on business relationships by aggregating all interactions with contacts into Office 365.
Briza: Provides an insurance-as-a-service API that enables instant quoting, binding and issuance of commercial insurance policies.
Butlr: Through sensor networks and AI, Butlr helps retail stores increase in-store sales by applying real-time customer behavior analytics.
CENOS: Easy-to-use simulation software that allows engineers to iterate designs faster than physical prototypes for induction heating and antenna design, among others.
Connected Analytics: Nigeria-based company helping businesses and banks integrate data analytics and rewards in order to retain customers and increase revenue.
Fakespot: Eliminates misinformation and deceptive content on e-commerce sites for consumers, brands and platforms.
GamerzClass: Offers exclusive esports masterclasses with professionals to shape the future of gaming.
Get on Board: Recruitment platform that connects global companies with the best Latin American tech talent.
Juked: Aggregates information on esports games, including live streams, player profiles, scores and calendars to make esports easier to watch and to promote engagement.
Kyndoo: Helps advertisers weed out fraudulent social media influencers, and provides data around their authenticity and performance.
Mero Technologies: Retrofits commercial buildings with sensors to analyze in real time traffic and consumables, such as toilet paper and soap, to inform cleaning routes.
Omnitron Sensors: Enables full autonomy of self-driving cars and drones with novel silicon photonics processes for sensors in safety-critical systems.
Pilota: Applies machine learning to predict flight disruptions for passengers and automatically re-books a traveler’s flight for free.
Plant an App: Gives IT teams the speed of low-code development without compromising flexibility.
Pluto: Customizes sleep pillows at scale based on the user’s body stats, such as height, neck-to-shoulder ratio and sleep preferences in order to optimize sleep.
Predina: Applies AI to predict the risk of vehicle crashes for insurance and safety purposes, by analyzing more than 14 million historical crashes and other factors, such as street intersections, weather conditions and time.
Renetec: Enables the creation of GUIs for embedded systems with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, which reduces development time and costs.
ShardSecure: Enables enterprises to securely move and store sensitive information to the cloud.
Shiplyst: India-based ocean freight procurement marketplace that reduces costs for exporters and importers and gives them greater visibility into their shipments.
Silk + Sonder: Provides a women’s mental wellness subscription service that makes daily self-help more personalized through journaling and peer-to-peer support.
Sira Medical: Helps clinicians plan surgeries more efficiently through augmented reality, by providing them with high-fidelity 3D holograms of CT scans and MRIs.
The Atlas: An online community of city officials crowdsourcing ideas that is modernizing the $1.6 trillion local government market.
Thematic: Matches content creators who need great songs for their videos with music artists who need influencer marketing.
Trash Warrior: Offers on-demand junk removal services for businesses. Customers can book services online for affordable pricing and reliable quality.
Userpilot: Helps software product managers personalize the in-app experience across the user journey at scale.
Living in the unicorn era as we have now for some time, it’s easy to lose track of the earliest-stages of startup investment. But accelerators do have a history of helping birth some impressive companies. So it’s worth paying attention. More when we get to the various demo days.
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Get More out of Boston with Kids
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Top 10 Things to Do with Kids on the MBTA Orange Line
2/20/16 - By Kip Wilson Rechea
With highlights including everything from Faneuil Hall to the Freedom Trail and some of the best places to eat along the way, the Orange Line boasts every bit as much fun as the Green Line and Blue Line. Read on for the 10 best stops for families and what kinds of activities you can find there.
1. Assembly Square in Somerville is a completely walkable waterfront shopping area featuring seasonal events, a movie theater, a fabulous French bakery to grab a hot chocolate and a pastry, and, perhaps best of all for kids, the giant giraffe and indoor Lego play space at LEGOLAND Discovery Center. The perfect spot for a fun afternoon!
2. Community College marks the north end of the Freedom Trail. It only takes a short walk to reach the Bunker Hill monument, and the U.S.S. Constitution Museum is just a bit farther down by the water. If you opt to split the trail into chunks, make sure to do this leg at some point. Definitely kid-approved.
3. Haymarket boasts more family-friendly activities than we could possibly sum up in a paragraph. To cover a few highlights, it's close to all the deliciousness in the North End, just down the block from Faneuil Hall and everything it has to offer, as well as downstairs from the new Public Market. No one's going hungry at this stop.
4. State is right in the heart of the Freedom Trail, but it's also only a few blocks away from the New England Aquarium, the Waterfront, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
5. Downtown Crossing is the perfect stop to go shopping, grab a bite, or catch a show. Kids love wandering the city streets and looking up at the tall buildings here. It's also only a block away from the Boston Common, where kids can cool off in the wading pool or hit the skating rink at the Frog Pond.
6. Chinatown is pretty much my family's favorite neighborhood to eat in Boston. So many great choices! Best of all, these restaurants are perfect for keeping even the smallest diners entertained.
7. Back Bay offers many of activities for kids. From the main branch of the Boston Public Library a couple of blocks away to the shops and restaurants along Boylston and Newbury Streets to the chance of taking a long-distance train to faraway Maine or New York, this station is definitely a don't-miss hub.
8. Massachusetts Avenue might surprise those who think the only way to get to the Symphony is on the Green Line's E train. My family takes the Orange Line to the Massachusetts Avenue stop for most concerts we attend, given its proximity to Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, and Berklee Performance Center (a few blocks farther afield). It's also the closest stop to the Mary Baker Eddy Library and its fantastic Mapparium.
9. Stony Brook is the closest station to local writing center, 826 Boston, offering free workshops for school-aged kids.
10. Forest Hills lets families wander into nature. After only a short walk to the Arnold Arboretum, families can take a lovely stroll or attend one of their special events like Lilac Sunday each spring.
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Floral & Event Designer Teddy Manuel Meets Globally-Celebrated Event Designer Preston Bailey
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Well-known as one of the leading event stylists in the Philippines (even beyond!), Teddy Manuel has spent years building an empire and establishing his brand Flowers & Events by Teddy Manuel. To say he's successful would be an understatement. But he’s not quite done yet in terms of improving in his craft—recently, Teddy traveled to New York City to attend Preston Bailey’s #PBProtege workshop to add a few new skills in his tool belt.
READ: Learn Event Styling Tricks From Teddy Manuel, Who Helped Reinvent This Thriving Industry
READ: New York-Based Designer Jerry Sibal To Conduct A Masterclass On Floral Design And Event Styling
Preston Bailey, known throughout the world as a top stylist, has also made his mark as an author and public speaker. Students with varying levels of skills and experiences come from all over the globe to attend Preston’s workshops, where he teaches everything from ceiling installations to grandiose table settings.
READ: What To Expect If You Have Gideon Hermosa Styling Your Wedding Venue
READ: In The Business Of Beauty, Blooms, And Bold Choices: Trailblazer Robert Blancaflor Talks About Redefining The Event Styling Industry In The Philippines
Some may think that, for someone as accomplished as Teddy Manuel, there’s no need for additional training, but according to Teddy, “For me the best investment we can give ourselves is education... for self-advancement while traveling at the same time, most of all to meet new friends all over the world to network and share the same passion.”
Teddy is certainly no stranger to traveling, as he has been everywhere from Dubai to Europe with his best friends and fellow movers and shakers in the event styling world, Gideon Hermosa and Michael Ruiz. It’s refreshing to see these industry players band together and be one another’s keen supporters and confidants.
READ: How To Make A White Wedding Palette Dramatic, According To Event Stylist Badang Rueda
READ: Event Stylist Jo Claravall Teaches You How To Recreate Her Elegant Table Settings At Home
When it comes to Teddy’s distinct aesthetic and fine techniques that have paved the way for his career, Teddy sheds light on his philosophy of life-long learning, saying, “You may know some of techniques, but there are still room for improvements. Preston Bailey is the mothership or event styling, and one thing I learned from him from the class was how to reinvent your style to become a trend setter not only in aesthetics but also become business-savvy.” Business seems to always be booming for Teddy, so with these newfound skills and knowledge learned from Preston Bailey, Teddy’s business acumen will surely be sharper than ever.
Teddy also says that he feels inspired to share new mechanics and approaches to styling with other stylists in the Philippines. As a Masterclass instructor himself, Teddy admits he’s gathered new concepts on how he will improve his own classes. He says, “For me, it’s time to give back to our fellow Filipino stylists to uplift the event styling industry.” Up, up, and away Teddy, and the Philippines looks forward to seeing your new designs!
Photographs courtesy of Teddy Manuel
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Create Your Costume!
Do you express yourself through what you wear? So do actors, singers, and dancers on stage! What a performer wears is called a costume, and it can often tell audiences about a character’s personality, job, or other interests. In our special exhibition Art of the Stage: Picasso to Hockney, we feature design sketches and costumes from performances and films from the 1800s through today.
In the 1930s, artist Joan Miró designed costumes for a ballet called Jeux d’Enfants (Children’s Games). In this ballet, dancers moved like popular children’s toys, and Miró’s costumes allowed the dancers to also look like these toys. Here’s his design for a costume inspired by a spinning top:
In 1976, artist Robert Indiana created sets and costumes for the American opera The Mother of Us All. This opera is about the Women’s Suffrage Movement, when women across the United States fought for the right to vote. Indiana wanted his costumes to be bright and colorful. He used the sashes worn by suffragettes, who were the women fighting for this right, to identify the characters in the opera. Here is his felt costume for Susan B. Anthony, one of the leaders of this movement:
Try creating your own costumes at home! First, decide who your characters are. You might want to use a favorite story or movie for inspiration, or you could write your own original play. Will your characters be astronauts, artists, or animals? Use your imagination! Once you’ve chosen your characters, follow the steps below to create your costumes. Use #MFAfromHome to share your creations with us online!
• Pencil or marker
• Coloring supplies
• Optional: Felt or other fabric
• Optional: Glue
1. Use a pencil or marker to trace an outline of a body on a piece of paper. Then, carefully cut out the figure using scissors. This will be the person you make your costume for.
2. Use a pencil or marker to trace different types of clothes and accessories on paper, felt, or other fabric. Decide if your character will wear a dress, pants, a hat, shoes, or even a mask. Remember to think about who your character is and how they can express that through their costume.
3. Use scissors to carefully cut out your costume pieces.
4. Dress up your character! You can choose to leave the costume pieces loose so you can mix and match, or to glue them down to turn your paper character into a puppet.
* Extra fun: Create a cast, or group, of characters and use them to act out a story, play, or other performance. Write a script, or directions for the characters to follow, and follow your script to put on a show!
Art of the Stage: Picasso to Hockney is organized by McNay Art Museum (San Antonio, TX)
Joan Miró, Costume design for a Spinning Top in Jeux d’Enfants (Children’s Games), c. 1932,Watercolor on paper, Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Bequest of Mary Lynch Kurtz © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ ADAGP, Paris
Robert Indiana, Costume design for Susan B. Anthony in The Mother of Us All, 1966/1976, Cut paper, Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin © Morgan Art Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Is Plunderer worth reading?
Musume·
ComedyEcchiSeinenShōnenYen Press
One of Musume's best new manga of the year.
Story and Art
Suu Minazuki
Ko Ransom
A young woman named Hina watches her mother get dragged into a dark vortex in the middle of a rainstorm. The mother’s desperate final words to her daughter: “Find the fabled ace…” We see the number zero displayed on the palm of her hand before she vanishes forever.
Plunderer, published in English by Yen Press is an ongoing Shōnen adventure series. Currently, Plunderer has 13 volumes released in Japan and 3 in the west by the end of 2019. 2020 will see the release of the anime series by Geek Toys, so is now the right time to jump on board? Let’s find out of Plunderer is worth reading.
The world of Plunderer
Plunderer takes place in the nation of Alcia, numbers rule a medieval-ish place which Hina quickly learns. Every person in Alcia has a number somewhere on their body. This number goes up and down depending on some specific action that they do. Hina, for example, has a number on her inner thigh that’s tied to the number of miles she’s walked.
Plunderer is a beautiful mix of slapstick comedy and dangerous action.
Hina has spent most of her life isolated in the mountains, so even though she has a number, she’s ignorant of what it means and how it works. This ignorance makes her a useful stand-in for the audience, helping us learn through her all the rules of the number system.
And there are many rules, but I will only list the two most important ones here:
Anyone with a low number must obey the commands of someone with a higher number.
When a number drops to zero, that person is dragged to the abyss by a set of ghostly hands. As Hina witnessed happening to her mother.
Hina also learns that the “fabled ace” she is looking for is one of a quartet of heroes who fought in a devastating conflict known as the Waste War. This war, from what we can gather, was an apocalyptic conflict that threatened to end all life on the planet. Until these heroes stepped in to stop it. But what was the aftermath of the war, and where are these heroes now?
The Characters of Plunderer
When we next see Hina, she is several years older and deep in her journey to find this ace. Does she find this person? Well, not exactly. But she does run across some interesting characters.
The first is Nana, an innkeeper whose number goes up every time a customer says they like her food. And the second is a very, very strange man named Licht.
Licht is an absolute weirdo. He works for Nana but is so inept that she abuses him regularly. He always wears a mask or some kind of goofy costume; at one point, he dresses up as a pudding, complete with a spoon.
Licht’s number, which stands at -999 at the beginning of the story, represents the number of times he has been rejected by a woman. And when you see him in action, you’ll understand why that number is so abysmally negative. But wait. Isn’t one of the rules that if your number hits zero, you get dragged to the abyss? How is Licht still around? Well, about that…
Plunderer Volume 1 Spoilers
Random ballot
We learn very quickly that Licht isn’t the buffoon he pretends to be. Just like Himura Kenshin of Rorouni Kenshin and Vash the Stampede from Trigun, Licht hides his true identity to avoid doing that which he hates most: fighting. Much like Kenshin and Vash, he also can’t stand the idea of innocent people being hurt. When Hina gets herself into trouble with a local military thug, Licht steps in to save her.
As it turns out, Licht is a ballot holder. A ballot is an external counter that gives its owner extraordinary powers. Licht’s ballot is his sword, and the 5,700 inscribed on it represents the number of people he has killed with that blade. This ballot is what negates his negative number and keeps him out of the abyss. 5700 is an unfathomable body count. This is a man who is understandably sick of fighting.
He is also a man who doesn’t stay in one place for long. Once Hina is safe, Licht takes off. Where is he going? What is he trying to accomplish? We aren’t told, and since Plunderer never really gives the reader a glimpse into Licht’s mind, it may be a long time until we find out.
Military action
Licht’s exploits draw the attention of the Alcian military, which begins efforts to bring him in. We soon meet Sergeant Major Lynn May, whose number is tied to charity work, and her right-hand man, Sergeant Pele.
Lynn and Pele are assigned to a far-flung town. Never seeing much action until Licht shows up in his pudding costume. Once he does, a battle-hardened unit moves in to try and capture him. Led by Lieutenant Jail Murdoch, himself a ballot holder whose number is tied to his rigid belief system.
Licht clashes with the soldiers several times, but they find themselves on the same side at the end of the volume. Facing a monster that the soldiers had never seen before but one with which Licht is all too familiar. And no, I won’t be posting a picture of the monster here. You’ll have to read the book to see the beast.
Plunderer is a beautiful mix of slapstick comedy and dangerous action. Without spoiling anything, I can say that Licht’s exploits regularly swing from pudding costume – style weirdness to grave seriousness and back, all without skipping a beat. This is a manga that will continuously have you on the edge of your seat.
The Art of Plunderer
The art in Plunderer is gorgeous. The characters are well-drawn and detailed, and the backgrounds get as much love as the characters. The action scenes are chaotic but focused, and the framing is absolutely superb, like cinematography from a well-shot movie.
The art is also full of neat little details that reward re-reading. For example, at one point while wearing his pudding costume, Licht picks up a pencil and draws eyebrows on his mask to give himself a more serious expression. It’s a small movement, but one that made the already funny scene it was attached to even more hilarious.
There is a lot of fan service in both this volume and in the series. All the female characters are well-endowed and wear revealing clothing. The story continually finds excuses to put them in compromising positions. I’m not a massive fan of such service, but I’ll forgive it here because the rest of the story is so good. If you like fan service, you’ll be right at home here.
Physical or Digital
The physical versions of Plunderer cost twice as much as typical manga volumes. However, the page count is much higher and the book itself is much bigger. To put it another way: Plunderer is enormous. Here’s a side-by-side shot of Plunderer next to my copy of Tomo-Chan is a Girl!, which has the size and page count of a typical manga.
The manga is also available digitally on Kindle. While the first volume looks fine, the second suffers from strange compression issues that distort the art. Future volumes may have similar problems. If you have the money and space, go for the physical copy of Plunderer Volume 1.
Is Plunderer Volume 1 worth reading?
Absolutely, one hundred percent, yes. This is the best new manga I’ve read this year, and will probably be in my list of all-time favourites once it is done if the first two volumes are any indication. Speaking of which: I’ve read volume two. I didn’t review it here as doing so would have led to unavoidable spoilers. Rest assured, however: if you like Volume 1, then Volume 2 is just as good.
There’s a genuine sense of depth to the story and the feeling that this volume only scratches the surface. It’s clear that a lot of effort went into the world-building here. That effort should pay off as Licht’s journey goes deeper and deeper.
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Books > Language and Literature > Biography > Hansa Wadkar: You Ask, I Tell (An Autobiography)
Hansa Wadkar: You Ask, I Tell (An Autobiography)
by Jasbir Jain and Shobha Shinde
Hansa Wadkar (born Ratan Bhalchandra) was one of Maharashtra's best-known stage and screen personalities. By the time she was married — to a much older family friend and impresario when she was just 15 — she had already starred in nine or ten movies and was becoming a name in the film world. Supporting her family on her earnings, her brother sick with malaria, and both parents having taken to drink, life was not easy for the young woman. But Hansa was not only beautiful and immensely talented, she was tough, wilful, capricious and headstrong. Her autobiography, Sangoe Ai ka, published in 1970 and translated into English here for the first time, created a sensation for its frankness and boldness. It was later made into a film, Bhumika, by legendary director Shyam Benegal and starred Smita Patil in the title role.
Jasbir Jain is Sahitya Akademi Writer/Critic-in-residence at the University of Rajasthan and Director of the Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies. She won the South Asian Literature Association award for distinguished scholarship in 2008.
Shobha Shinde heads the Department of Comparative Literature at North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon.
Our journeys to this text began from two different points. One of us—Jasbir Jain—came to be interested in Hansa Wadkar because of her appreciation of Bhumika, the film based on Wadkar's life. Jasbir was interested in the differences of gender where artistic creativity was concerned and the cramping lack of sympathy and exploitation which normally daunted the female artist. She managed to get hold of a copy of Sangtye Aika, the original Marathi version of Wadkar's autobiography (published in 1970), through a friend, Nafisa Hatimi. But translation of the Marathi text required a collaborator who was familiar with the social nuances of the spoken idiom.
It was at this point that Shobha Shinde came in. Though we had known each other for some years, undertaking a task like this was not easy across the distance from Jaipur to Dhuliya. It was Shobha's willingness to travel, to bear the Jaipur heat and to give up a part of her summer vacation that worked towards this partnership. Then it was Jasbir's turn to travel to Pune, where Shobha's daughter lived and where we could meet. Pune was not only more convenient in terms of air connections, but it was also the home of the National Film Archives and the place where the original publisher of the book was located.
A third meeting took place at Jalgaon, where Shobha Shinde had now moved as Professor. This helped us complete the text, go over the earlier drafts and make it ready for publication. Further material from the archives was collected through a subsequent visit by Jasbir Jain.
As we travelled with the meaning and its transfer to another language, we argued about the nuances of each word, local references and implied meanings, consulted dictionaries, and went through a constant process of selection, rejection and rethinking, keen on a faithful transfer of the cultural meaning as well as maintaining a closeness to the original text. We were also conscious of the ethicality of not allowing our own presence to intrude or encroach on the original. Individually, we both gained in our understanding of language and of the process of translation.
Translation is not merely a linguistic exercise, it requires a simultaneous engagement with the cultures of the two languages as well as a constant resistance to encroachment, misinterpretation or misrepresentation. Towards this end, the translator has to go through a hermeneutic relationship with the text—getting into it but not going overboard, to submit but not to yield, to understand but not to explain. The translator has constantly to aim at self-erasure so that the reader's relationship to the text can work on its own terms.
Hansa Wadkar's autobiography presented several challenges. Its colloquialisms, the wandering memory, the rambling narrative and the short, clipped sentences were all open invitations for meaning to be deduced and filled in. They were also a constant source of temptation for inserting linkages, temptations that, fortunately, we resisted. Else the beauty of the original, its innocence and its spontaneity would have been lost. There was, in addition to the abruptness of the language, the quick shift of mood from resentment to understanding, the contradictory pulls of desire, the sense of adventure and the sheer pleasure of riding against the wind—each represented a different Hansa. It is this fragmented being who comes together momentarily in Sangtye Aika and is now presented as You Ask, I Tell.
During the years that we have worked on this translation, we have incurred debts of hospitality, intellectual discussion and friendship. It has been a journey worth taking. We express our gratitude to all those who extended a helping hand, filled in gaps, gave us time and listened to us.
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Books > History > Medieval > Technology In Medieval India (C. 650-1750)
Technology In Medieval India (C. 650-1750)
by Irfan Habib
This monograph is the first one to be published on Medieval India in the People s History of India series, and it is devoted to a study of the technology of Medieval India, on which, despite a respectable body of research, no textbook or general work yet exists. A few words may therefore be offered to explain the scope of our monograph. Dictionaries tell us that the English word "technology” is derived from the Greek word technologia meaning systematic treatment of art, from techne Greek for art or skill. Usage in English has extended the meaning of technology to all kinds of mechanical devices and forms of practical activity, by which certain material objectives (e. g., the production of particular goods or performance of particular services) are attained. It includes, but is not confined to, practical applications of theoretical knowledge in our small book, within the limitations imposed by space, we have taken the broadest view of the range of technology. We may occasionally touch on science, where it impinged on technology, but this monograph has no pretensions to dealing with the history of science, including pseudo-sciences like alchemy and astrology. On the other hand, production technology being historically the most important branch of technology, the first two chapters survey agriculture and non-agricultural crafts. Chapter 3 treats the technologies of war, transport and navigation. The last chapter discusses the possible social, economic and cultural constraints upon the development of technology in India in pre-modem times. The period covered is from about 650 to 1750, taking the medieval span under the most liberal scheme of periodization, currently in vogue.
As in the previously issued volumes of the series, our aim is to provide accurate information in a non—technical style, while at the same time introducing the reader to the larger problems of historical analysis. The text is supported by a number of illustrations, which needed to be more numerous here than in other volumes. Special notes arc furnished on elementary technological terms; the nature of our sources; various questions regarding inventions and their diffusion; and the major technological contributions of other civilizations. The ‘extracts’ given from sources are designed to help the reader see the kind of evidence historians of technology draw upon. Both in the extracts and in quotations from old English works in the main text, the spellings of English words, wherever different from those now obtaining, have been changed to conform to the current standard. Chronological tables supplement each chapter.
In conformity with the scheme adopted for the whole series, individual references are not provided for the facts stated or even for quotations from the sources. Instead a fairly full Bibliographical Note is appended to each chapter, so that any reader who is so inclined can go on to books and research papers where detailed discussions with references would be found. In order to keep the bibliographical notes within moderate lengths, references to the many sources themselves could not be included, even though a number of them have been quoted in the text. However, all ‘Extracts’ contain full references to sources.
As far as possible, all names and terms are transliterated. In case of Sanskrit/Prakrit terms, the same system is adopted as in Nos. 3, 3A and 4 in this series. The differences from the standard scholarly transliteration is that c, ch, r, s, and s of the latter are represented in our volumes by ch, chh, ri, sh and Q respectively; and r represents the hard r, as in Hindustani ‘sarak’ (road). As for Persian (and Arabic) words, the transliteration system follows that of Steingass’s Persian English Dictionary with some simplifications, especially in the treatment of the Arabic article -al; thus we read ‘Ala’ u ‘ddin’ for the more proper ‘Ala ’ al-din, since the former is closer to how the word is actually pronounced.
A small point to note is that since each Hijri year normally corresponds to parts of two Christian era years, we have simplified matters by giving only one of the two corresponding Christian-era years, and by dropping Hijri years.
Much help has been received from many hands to make the writing of this book possible. In 1969) and 1970, Mr. Syed Mohammad, 5 fine and extraordinarily careful artist, made for me black-and-white copies of many published miniatures of the Mughal and later schools, la order to bring out their evidence on technological matters. Some of these are published here, Figures 2.9, 2.11, 2.14—16, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7 and 3.10, besides the two on the front cover—eleven in all. Faiz Habib has prepared Maps 1.1 and 3.1. (The latter map shows many of the places Mentioned in the text, including ancient sites.)
Dr Ishrat Alam, with his wide knowledge of medieval technology, has placed me in his debt by reading my draft text and locating Specific points where it needed to be improved or freed of error. Professor Sayera I. Habib selected the illustrations for the front cover.
Mr. Muneeruddin Khan has processed the entire manuscript and patiently dealt with the difficult matter of diacritical marks. Mr. M. Sajid has scanned the illustrations and maps. Mr. Arshad Ali has looked after the Aligarh Historians Society’s numerous office chores, and Mr. ldrees Beg has undertaken much of the xeroxing and various kinds of other work.
I am grateful to the staff of the library of the Centre of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University, for their help in tracing and providing books for my use, with unfailing courtesy.
As usual, Professor Shireen Moosvi, Secretary, Aligarh Historians Society, has looked after the entire arrangement of pre- partition to the text of the press copy at every stage. To Dr Rajendra Prasad and Ms Indira Chandrasekhar of Tulika Books go my grateful thanks for the special attention they continue to give to the publication of the volumes of this series.
Note to Paperback Edition Some slips and misprints have been corrected, including those kindly found for me by Dr Amit Misra. I have also tried to improve exposition and add information at a few other places.
This book covers an important aspect of our history, on which no general work or textbook yet exists. It aims at covering the whole range of technology, from the tools and skills of ordinary men and women to the instruments of astronomers and the equipage and weaponry of war. A key element of the study is that it is essentially historical, that is, changes in technology are carefully traced and their consequences examined. Larger questions, such as those of constraints on technological development and the role of the social and economic environment, are also addressed. Much of this may be found by the reader to be very new unless he has kept abreast with the relevant literature of the last thirty or forty years. This volume, in line with the others of A People's History of India, gives several extracts from texts, containing significant information about specific aspects of pre-modern technology. There are special notes on technical terms, sources of the history of technology, the problem of invention versus diffusion, and the development of medieval technology outside India. There are as many as 41 illustrations, all but five taken from medieval sculpture, painting and book- illustrations.
The volume is addressed to the general reader as well as the student, who would like to read about something on which conventional textbooks have little to offer, A special effort is made to keep the style non-technical without loss of accuracy. It is hoped that the theme is sufficiently interesting not only for the historian but also for any citizen wanting to know what common people, men and women, did with their hands and tools in earlier times.
Irfan Habib, Professor Emeritus of History at the Aligarh Muslim University, is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India (1963, revised edition, 1999), An Atlas of the Mughal Empire (1982), Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception (1995) and Medieval India: The Study of a Civilization (2007). He has co-edited The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I (1982), and UNESCO's History of Humanity, Vols. IV and V, and History of Central Asia, Vol. V. He is the General Editor of the Peoples History of India series, and has authored four of its volumes (including the present one), and co-authored two.
Irfan Habib’s study of the history of Indian technology goes back to 1969, when he published his first paper raising the question of the connections between technological change and other historical developments. Since then he has published numerous papers on the history of technology. These have served as a fruitful preparation for the presentation of the subject in this book, in which, naturally enough, he also draws on the work of several other scholars.
1 Agriculture 1
1.1 Crops and Tools 1
1.2 Irrigation 8
1.3 Agricultural Processing 16
Extract 1.1: Modes of Water—lift in India 27
Extract 1.2: The Madag Lake, Dharwar District, Karnataka 28
Extract 1.3: Liquor Distillation 29
Note 1.1: Technical Terms 30
Note 1.2: Bibliographical Note 34
2 Crafts 36
2.1 Textile Technology 36
2.2 Mining and Metallurgy 47
2.3 Building Industry 55
2.4 Other Crafts and Techniques 63
Extract 2.1: The Main Stages of Cotton—processing 76
Extract 2.2: The Manufacture of Damascened Steel Swords in Kachch 77
Extract 2.3: Gold Work at Agra 78
Extract 2.4: On Glass: Entries in Tek Chand Bahar’s Is Dictionary 79
Extract 2.5: Akbar S Invention of Refrigeration through use of Saltpetre 80
Note 2. 1 : Sources for the History of technology 80
3 Military Technology, Land Transport and Navigation 85
3.1 War Equipment before Gunpowder 85
3.2 Gunpowder Firearms 89
3.3 Inland Transport and Communications 98
3.4 Oceanic Navigation 106
Extract 3. I : Improvements in Manufacture of the Musket in Emperor Akbar’s Arsenal 113
Extract 3.2: Ship Repairs near Qutb Shahi Port Of Narsapur, 1679 114
Note 3.1: Invention and Diffusion of Techniques 116
Note 3.2: Bibliographical Note 118
4 Medieval Indian Technology and its Social and Cultural Environment 120
4.1 Medieval Technology in the World Outside Europe 129
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Nairobi Assembly Clerk Removed in Fresh Row
by nairobi-exposed November 26, 2020 November 26, 2020 047
Acting Nairobi County Assembly Clerk Pauline Akuku has had her appointment to the position terminated as fresh wrangles over the occupancy of the office escalate.
This is after Ms Akuku, the deputy clerk in charge of administration and who has been acting in the position since May, had her appointment as acting clerk terminated by the Nairobi County Assembly Service Board.
The board’s chairperson, Speaker Benson Mutura, in a letter to Ms Akuku, told her to vacate the office and resume her duties as a deputy clerk.
“This termination of your acting appointment in the office of the clerk of the county assembly is effective November 18, 2020. Please resume your duties in the office of the deputy clerk, administration. The board thanks you for your service and commitment during the period your appointment subsisted,” read the letter by Mr Mutura.
The resolution followed a meeting on November 18, 2020 where the five members of the board failed to reach a consensus on the issue of occupancy of the office.
“Members having failed to reach a consensus following allegations raised by the chair against the acting clerk and his request that her services of acting as clerk be terminated, the board resolved that its decision made on November 2, 2020 on the matter be maintained until further deliberations on the same,” read minutes of the day’s meeting.
The meeting also resolved to lift the interdiction of officers who had sued the board, including Adah Oyango, the deputy clerk in charge of legislative affairs, Fred Macharia, Romeo Castro and Nancy Mutai.
The matter has split the assembly into two camps with one side pushing for reinstatement of Mr Edward Gichana while the other is rooting for Ms Onyango to take over the office in an acting capacity.
On Monday, Deputy Minority Whip Moses Ogeto accused Speaker Mutura of being selective in the implementation of court orders, saying the court ruled in favour of Mr Gichana last month.
“The Speaker must respect the courts and we are demanding that he implements the court order, failing which we shall start protests from this week. It shall be noisy, messy and chaotic,” said Mr Ogeto.
Last month, Employment and Labour Relations Court Judge Maureen Onyango declared the appointment of former clerk Jacob Ngwele irregular and unlawful, subsequently stripping him of the position.
Mr Ogeto, together with ODM nominated MCA Mary Arivitsa, alleged that certain “powerful individuals” at the assembly were trying to interfere with operations in the clerk’s office.
However, Speaker Mutura dismissed the demands by the ODM MCAs, urging them to keep off the administrative affairs of the assembly. He said Mr Gichana does not have the right to occupy office since he was appointed while Mr Ngwele’s case was still in court.
“The assembly board is well aware of the court ruling and, as far as we are concerned, there is a vacancy in the office. The board will deliberate on whether to advertise for the position or the best action to take in filling the position,” said Mr Mutura.
“No one is indispensable and we should all desist from the thinking that if I am not in a certain office, then work will not continue. Even as the Speaker, I can be removed from my position or even die. Things have to move on,” he added.
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Conor McGregor ‘happier’ at welterweight, but not done at lightweight according to manager
Conor McGregor yells out to the crowd at the UFC 246 weigh ins. Photo Credit: Reuters
By Cole Shelton 12 months ago
Conor McGregor has been fighting a 145, 155 and 170 and according to his manager, Audie Attar his client is much happier at welterweight.
The Irishman made his return to the Octagon in the main event of UFC 246 and knocked out Donald Cerrone in just 40 seconds. It was a dominating performance by McGregor and Attar says he the Irishman is healthier at 170 so he hopes he stays there but doesn’t rule out a return to 155 or even 145.
“I look at all my clients as human beings and I’ve seen him at 145, 155 and 170 in mixed martial arts and he just appears to be a lot happier at 170,” Attar told MMA Fighting. “It’s not as strenuous on the body as it relates to the weight cut. That does not mean he wouldn’t be able to make 155. 145, I just think it’s unhealthy. To go back down to that weight class would just be unhealthy.
“But 155 is doable and something I know he’s keen on doing again so that’s not out of the realm of possibility. But you can’t deny how comfortable he was 170. That was his normal frame. So not having to put your body through a rigorous weight cut, there’s something to be said about that.”
Conor McGregor appears set to be fighting at lightweight next as Dana White says he will be taking on the Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson winner. But, according to Attar, he wouldn’t rule out a welterweight fight in the meantime.
“I think that particularly if you’re able to keep your strength or improve your strength and your muscle mass, and more importantly be able to carry your weight to keep your speed and quickness and explosiveness, well then why not?” Attar said. “It’s all about how each individual athlete feels on the night and that’s the most important thing.
“Gaining a competitive advantage is not always having a size, height, speed advantage but also having the right mindset and the right energy come the night of competition. It’s really a subjective thing and you’ve got to leave it to each athlete to decide what’s best for them.”
Cole Shelton covers MMA for BJPenn.com, MMANews, and MyMMANews.com while also being the lead MMA odds writer for Sports Betting Dime
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Home Local News Harlingen plans ordinance to stop plant thefts at nature park
Harlingen plans ordinance to stop plant thefts at nature park
Fernando Del Valle - Valley Morning Star
New park ordinances at Hugh Ramsey Park are aimed at curtailing the theft of native plants, watering hoses as well as bird feeders. (Maricela Rodriguez/Valley Morning Star)
HARLINGEN — For about 20 years, Christina Mild and a group of residents have planted native trees and shrubs along Hugh Ramsey Nature Park’s winding trails, helping to turn it into a World Birding Center site.
But today, visitors won’t find plants such as the horse crippler cactus.
That’s because thieves dug them out of the sandy soil, along with countless other native plants.
“They go out and plant trees and vegetation for wildlife and a week later it’s dug up,” Javier Mendez, the city’s parks director, said. “They say people are stealing trees.”
Now, city officials are planning to lay down the law to help stop the thefts at the park that’s turned into a haven for birders who flock to the city for the annual Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival.
City commissioners recently took the first step, voting to pass the first reading of an ordinance prohibiting entry into the park and the Harlingen Thicket between sunset and sunrise.
“ The changes in hours are very important, not only because of plant theft but the theft of things like watering hoses and feeders — hummingbird feeders — and that can be an expense,” Mild, a Texas master naturalist, said.
The city’s proposed ordinance sets fines of up to $200 for the theft of plants — and the disturbance of wildlife.
“It is prohibited to disturb the wildlife and habitat, inclusive of vegetation damage such as possessing, destroying, injuring, defacing, cutting, removing, uproot, remove or destroy any branch, foliage, flower, plant or grass or disturbing from its natural state and wildlife disturbance such as injure, molest, disturb, harass or annoy, kill any bird, animal or reptile or intentional disturbance of wildlife nesting, breeding, injure, destroy, or rob the nest, eggs or young or other activities of any such bird, reptile or animal,” the proposed ordinance stated.
The proposed ordinance also prohibits possession and use of alcohol and drugs, bars glass containers and bans motorized vehicles from the park’s trails.
Officials aren’t proposing the ordinance just to stop thieves from stealing plants.
For many residents, the park’s turned into a lover’s lane.
“In addition, there’s a lot of inappropriate sexual behavior that occurs all the time, especially in the dark,” Mild said.
Since the mid-1990s, the group of naturalists has worked hard to turn the old landfill site into a birding destination marked by narrow, winding nature trails along the banks of the Arroyo Colorado.
But after thieves have stolen so many native plants from the nature park, Mild said she’s stopped planting cactus.
“We have very few barrel cacti because they’ve all been stolen and horse clipper cactus — those have been stolen. We no longer have any remaining,” she said.
For years, thieves have stolen as many as half of the native plants the group’s planted there.
“I’d say 50 % of those recent plantings have been stolen,” she said. “A rare or uncommon plant of any good size is frequently stolen.”
Since its founding, naturalists dreamed of turning the park into an educational center, driving stakes into the ground to mark rare plants along the trails.
Now, they’ve pulled their stakes out of the ground.
“We’ve stopped putting ID signs next to plants because those plants would almost immediately be stolen,” Mild said.
Commissioners are expected to pass the proposed ordinance’s second and final reading during an upcoming meeting.
“We want people to use the park but not to abuse it,” Mild said.
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MythBusters Episode 166: Spy Car 2
Premier Date: May 18, 2011
In a car chase, using wheel-mounted spikes is an effective offensive tactic.
Jamie built replicas of wheel spikes from the films Goldfinger (a small blade wheel on a long central shaft) and The Green Hornet (a crown-like assembly of spikes). He and Adam drove side-by-side at 40 mph (64 km/h), with Jamie using each of the devices attached to his rear passenger tire to damage Adam’s driver’s side as much as possible over 500 yards (457 m). Both spike designs shredded at least one of Adam’s tires and left deep gouges in the bodywork.
Jamie then built a device of his own design using a steel pipe the same diameter as the hubcap, with the free end sharpened into two sturdy blades. This design tore up Adam’s bodywork, popped one tire, and pulled the other one off its rim, leaving the car sitting on its chassis.
In a car chase, using a hood-mounted machine gun is an effective offensive tactic.
Adam built two different mounts to hold a fully automatic paintball gun on the hood of a car — one for a fixed position gun, and another that could be aimed with a joystick and camera/monitor system. He and Jamie did a control run, with Adam driving and shooting at a target vehicle with a handheld semiautomatic gun, but only scored one glancing hit.
Next, Adam mounted the automatic paintball gun and a full ammunition hopper on his hood and chased Jamie, who drove a target car with the rear windshield removed. He was able to riddle the rear end and hit Jamie’s head and seat a few times with the fixed mount; with the aiming mount, he got so many hits in such a short time that Jamie called an early end to the run.
A bullet fired into the surface of a frozen lake can spin like a top after impact. (Inspired by a viral video.)
The testing for this myth began during the summer, with Tory building a rig to hold a pistol at any desired angle and Kari checking the video to work out the geometry of the shot. The Build Team then laid down blocks of ice and dry ice on a rifle range to simulate the frozen lake and tried several shots with a Glock 9 mm pistol. Direct hits left bullets embedded in the ice, while shallow hits ricocheted and left the team unable to find the bullets at all.
After re-checking their own high-speed footage, the team heard a sound that might have been a spinning bullet. Once winter came, they visited Caples Lake in the Sierra Nevada and dug out a target area on its frozen surface for further work. Testing gave no results until they aimed at the center of their target site, allowing for a backward ricochet instead of a forward one. The team found the bullets from these last tests to be spinning in place on their side, leading them to declare the myth confirmed.
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Locke’s Legacy: Neo-Liberalism versus Pop-Liberalism
Siddhartha Kar
Technologist and Entrepreneur. Keenly interested in India, World History and Current Affairs.
The other day, I came across the following on Twitter. I do not recall the exact tweet but, it said something to the following effect:
“Liberals are more conservative in their Liberalism than Conservatives in their Conservatism!”
One of the pressing realities of our times is the steady change in geopolitics. It is growing into a global phenomena. The phenomenon appeared on the global stage with PM Modi’s ascension to Indian premiership back in 2014. It was followed by Britain’s exit from the European Union in 2015 and then very recently, the realization dawned with President Trump’s electoral success in the US. These developments were followed by the keenly watched Dutch elections in which the left wing Labour Party was brutally uprooted dropping from 38 to 9 seats. La Pen in France is already in global headlines irrespective of whether she does do a ‘Trump’ in France and Merkel has precariously dipping approvals in Germany.
On the Eastern Frontiers of our world, China is displaying increasing militancy in respecting legitimacy of nations in the East and South China seas and unapologetically advancing her civilizational worldview which extends way past 1949, the birth year of Mao’s China. Japanese, with a progressive realization of the American paralysis to influence affairs in its neighbourhood, is desperately trying to shrug off its American shackles and has been increasingly trying to secure self-reliance on defense.
In the middle of all of this, the one factor that has exploded inorganically to dominate the global political scenario has been the Arab World. The conservative Arab Islamic approach had already manifested in minority suppression and propagation of extreme religious narratives. However, of late the rise of ISIS and consequential catastrophic annihilation of every other religious denomination in the middle east – Yazidis, Christians, Shias, Kurds and all others alike has triggered dangerous global currents. The brutal Sudanese Arab genocide of the non-Arabs in Darfur is yet another instance of the same.
The myopic Western interference in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan towards very selfish ends, especially under Bush Jr and Obama, has devastated the global equilibrium. With the irreversible demographic alterations their actions have triggered (coupled with European depopulation), the world will never be the same again. The consequences are likely to follow and it appears is only to be a matter of time.
Net net – the challenges of the new world order is progressively leading to an assertion of national and civilizational identities globally. This has not necessarily implied inter-civilizational hostilities across the spectrum but, has definitely triggered a rise in ‘Civilizational Self-Respect and Assertion’.
Like it or not – Huntington’s Civilizational World Model has indeed proven itself to be the closest in its formulation of the global political map. Huntington’s thesis was that the world will increasingly be divided into civilization-centric blocks, each block led by a lead-country. The primary civilizational blocks with the potential to influence the course of the human species as a whole are the Western, Islamic and the Sinic (Chinese). There are of course others – but, the likelihood of their having significant global impacts is meager. Though India by the standards of all these three actors is a minor player, nevertheless, the relatively small Hindu population in the global context also did make an assertion of their survival and continuity.
In this uncannily accurate world view, the one additional factor that has surfaced over the last couple of decades has been the split of the Liberal thought stream. This fork has become more tangible recently and the ostentatious torch bearers of liberalism have increasingly come under scrutiny.
Modern day Liberalism is a noble and courageous pursuit. Yes, it was a pursuit– difficult to earn and uphold. But with time, conventional liberalism has grown crass, and hypocritical. It has operated at low risk margins and hence shied away from standing up for real but, ugly challenges. This was evident when on the International Women’s Day in 1979, a million Iranian women poured into streets in Tehran to protest the imposition of Hijab and extreme Islamic Laws but, feminists and liberals worldwide chose to conveniently look the other way – because it was difficult to stand in solidarity with the victims.
This was again evident when minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Arab world were cleansed but, liberals chose to stand with the Rohingya Muslims and not Pakistani Ahmediyas, Sikhs, Hindus and Christians; they stood with Palestinian Muslims and not Yemeni or Saudi Jews; Linda Sarsour but, not Tarek Fatah; and MF Hussain not Taslima Nasreen. While Trump is subjected to abusive scrutiny, liberals permitted Obama to take off scot free after having caused one of the worst ever humanitarian crises of our times. And so on and on .. and on.
For those amongst the liberals and even the left, who were more discerning and courageous, this phenomenon was hard to miss. The specifics of these scenarios varied in their respective local contexts– undoubtedly– but, liberalism as is practiced today had been extrapolated to such absurdities, that a number of such people were pushed over to the Right side of discourse. People known to have been influenced by the left, including Marx initially, were left utterly disillusioned with the absurd liberal suicidal mentality. And thus, arose the new brand of liberals – that may be called the Neo Liberals.
While the Neo-Liberals moved ahead with issues that the ‘other’-liberals feared taking a stand on or even discuss in the open, since they feared being labelled fundamentalists, racists, rightists, fascists and so on. The fact of the matter however, has been that this group of people were liberals in the true Locke sense and exhibited courage to take unpopular positions.
The more traditional liberals on the other hand, continued with tokenisms and took intellectual stands that were convenient. The choice of the ‘convenient liberal approach’ is almost always accompanied by anti-tolerant majority sentiment. Stronger the sentiment, the more liberal you tend to sound. This tendency is essentially an extension of an inherent trait of any reformation movement– that of self-criticism. But, this stream of liberalism fails to realize that self-rebuke is not the only measure of reformation– and that the world today has much larger challenges to resolve. In any case, this branch of liberals has gone on to display their embracing of the convenient and popular (yet) liberalism. These could be aptly called pop-liberalism.
These pop-liberals continue to dominate the mainsteam discourse today, India and elsewhere. In India they are manifested in many media channels, intellectuals, artists, and even well meaning ordinary citizens who are still knowledge-and-view handicapped – their outlook having been largely shaped by the MSM, unbeknownst to even themselves.
This tussle between the pop and neo-liberals is now being reconfigured. While the Neo-Liberals struggled to find space in MSM, Social Media however, changed the landscape over the last few years and has compelled vested interests to deal with this alternate narrative, which today as is being repeatedly proven in every electoral contest in India, capturing India’s imagination. An India– that you would not have believed existed had it not been for Social Media and the Neo Liberals!
The Neo-Liberals often find overlap with the Right Wing thought process, though they probably do not ideally see themselves as such. Even so, time has only gone on to suggest that the Neo-Liberals or (even the Neo-Right Wingers) are actually the worthy inheritors of Locke’s Liberalism. They are the ones who have exhibited courage at the cost of being called names, hurled abuses and treated as intellectual parochial pariahs.
Liberalism lays down some very valid concerns. Any well meaning intellect should respect them. However, post the failure of the Left economies globally, the left has now switched their onslaught on the political front. In India, this has happened in West Bengal across over three decades, it is happening in Kerala today, and JNU has emerged as a microcosm of this convenient discourse. For those of us, who have seen the Left in action easily see through flawed nature of this pop-liberal discourse. For those that haven’t seen the machinations of the left, the Neo-Liberals bear the daunting task of putting forth the same before the country so that people are enabled to rekindle Locke, not Stalin, in their intellectual lives.
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Altair Acquires Multiscale Design Systems for Microstructural Optimisation
Tuesday, 14th April 2015
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Altair has completed the acquisition of Multiscale Design Systems, developer of MDS, a family of products focused on micromechanics, microstructural optimisation, and life prediction of complex materials.
The company’s technology integrates modelling, simulation, testing, uncertainty quantification, and optimisation of composite materials and structures at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Altair says MDS will bring important new composites expertise to the Altair HyperWorks suite, including multiscale analysis, stochastic design, fatigue analysis, and multiphysics simulation. A member of the Altair Partner Alliance since last year, MDS is already available to HyperWorks users, along with a number of other cutting-edge technologies related to composite materials analysis and simulation. A much tighter integration with Altair solvers RADIOSS and OptiStruct is expected in future.
“We will continue to develop, enhance, and invest in MDS as part of HyperWorks while retaining an open architecture approach with respect to other 3rd party solvers,” said Uwe Schramm, Chief Technical Officer at Altair. “Altair is committed to creating good interfaces and continuing to build partnerships to excel in the domain of composite materials.”
According to Altair, Multiscale Design Systems has won numerous Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I and Phase II awards since 2008. Focus areas include environmental degradation of high-temperature polymer and ceramic matrix composites subjected to thermal oxidation, thermal fatigue, moisture ingression, physics-based life prediction capabilities, modeling of concrete failure under blast and fragment loading, 3D nondestructive imaging techniques for mesoscale damage analysis of composite materials, and mechanical loading.
“We have partnered with a number of significant original equipment manufacturers to analyse state-of-the-art materials for automotive, aerospace, and defence,” said Dr. Jacob Fish, Co-Founder of Multiscale Design Systems. “Altair’s deep expertise in CAE, coupled with its significant footprint across a variety of industries, will help to extend the reach of our technology and increase its application.”
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D4: Ivie Campbell (farmer)
Inscription 1
ERECTED BY
FARMER DALGIG
In Memory of his Father
IVIE CAMPBELL,
Who died 28th July 1831,
in the 77th year of his age.
And of his Mother
MARGARET DUNBAR
who died 4th August 1844
in the 85th year of her age
And of his four infant
And of his beloved wife
JEAN RICHMOND
CAMPBELL – who died
the 43d year of her age
IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE
DALGIG
WHO DIED 3RD DEC 1867
CHRISTINA McCAIG
FARMER, CRAIGMAN,
WHO DIED 23RD MAY, 1892
IN HER 60TH YEAR
JOHN R. CAMPBELL
WHO DIED 10TH MARCH, 1897
WHO DIED AT CRAIGMAN
18TH DEC 1910, IN HIS 78TH YEAR.
I. Ivie Campbell I (b.1754 d.1831) and 1. Jean Gemmel & 2. Margaret Dunbar (b.1759 d.1844)
Jean / Children: George, William (b.1780), Margaret (b.1783)
Margaret / Children: Isabellam Jane, Thomina, Janet, Wilhellminam,Ivie (b.1799)
Ivie Campell was born at Garclaugh one of six children of George Campbell and Margaret Boyle. In 1773 he married Jean Gemmel and they lived at the House of Water where together they had three children George, William and Margaret.
After Jean died Ivie moved to Dalgig in 1785 and a year later he married Margaret Dunbar with whom he had five daughters Isabella, Jane, Thomina, Janet and Wilhelmina along with one son Ivie (II).
II.Ivie Campbell II (b.1799-1867) and 1. Jean Richmond & 2. Jean Lee (1855)
Jean Richmond / Children: Ivie Campbell (b.1833)
Jean Lee/ Children: No issue
Ivie Campbell with his bible
Ivie Campbell II married Jean Richmond and together they had five children, four of them died in infancy with a son Ivie (III) surviving. In 1833 he was awarded the Highland and Agricultural gold medal in recognition of reclaiming 570 acres of waste hill land at Dalgig by ploughing and liming and then sowing it out in first rate pasture. A second gold medal followed seven years later for the prize essay he submitted to the Society detailing his methods in transforming the lands of Dalgig.
Ivie, with his brother-in-law John Richmond as his mentor were soon breeding prize-winning Ayrshire cows at Dalgig. He went on to win countless first prizes thanks to bulls such as Tarn, Cardigan (for whom they refused an offer of 100 shillings) and Clarendon.
Mrs Campbell of Dalgig, 1861
With all this good milk try as he might he could only win local prizes at New Cumnock and Old Cumnock for his cheese, despite sparing no expense in having his dairy maids trained in the cheddar system. Prizes were won for black-faced sheep and Kleber and Lamartine were his best two Lanarkshire bred Clydesdale horses, while Revolter was his favourite saddle horse.
Curling, which he played for forty years, was his favourite past-time and he held the New Cumnock Challenge medal.
Ivie’s passion however was his beloved greyhounds and hare-coursing. In 1861 his dog Canaradzo won the prestigious Waterloo Cup (right) at Liverpool, but unfortunately a few days late it died after an accident while coursing on the lands of Dalgig.
Ivie also like to read, mainly religious works, and indeed in 1828 he was one of the originators of the library in New Cumnock. As a young man he had studied at Glasgow University with the intentions of becoming a minister. However, he returned to assist his ageing father to farm Dalgig.
While at Glasgow he befriended the famous Scots poet Robert Pollok, author of ‘Tales of the Covenanters’. In his possession at Dalgig was the family’s Covenanting Bible, dating back to 1682 as well as other Covenanting relics. In 1684, three Covenanters were martyred on Carsgailoch hill above Dalgig and when a monument was being erected there in 1826 to their memory, Ivie witnessed their bodies and he recovered a lock of hair and piece of woollen mitten which could later be seen at Dalgig for many years and are now held in the Baird Institute, Cumnock, along with a fragment of the original Covenanter’s headstone.
Covenanter’s lock of hair & fragment of woollen mitten (Courtesy East Ayrshire Council)
Dalgig was always a busy place with the Campbell family and their relatives, a range of agricultural labourer, servants and maids as well as many a poor passing travellers given shelter and board. Ivie’s wife Jean Richmond died in 1853 and two years later he married his housekeeper Jean Lee. After a long illness, Ivie Campbell passed away in 1867 and lies buried in the family plot adjacent to the walls of the Auld Kirk.
III Ivie Campbell III (b.1833 d.1910) and Christina McCaig
Children: Ivie (b.1863), Jeanie Richmond (b.1865), Thomas McCaig (b.1867), John Richmond (b.1869)
Ivie Campbell III married his cousin Christina McCaig and they farmed at the nearby Craigman. Ivie recorded much of the genealogy of the family, fondly used by the ‘Ivie League’ of genealogists that exist today from New Cumnock to New Zealand. Their son Ivie became a commercial traveller and was active in the Brethern Church producing a monthly magazine called ‘The Interpeter’. The last in this line of Ivie Campbells he died in 1920 at his home in Glasgow.
The Ivie League at Crown Hotel, New Cumnock
Auld Kirkyard Map
Neil Harris an Australian descendant of Ivie and his partner Viv
Genealogy Notes
Christine Clement of Te Puke, New Zealand has created a treasure trove of information on many of the farming families of the parish of New Cumnock. On following the trail of the descendants of Ivie Campbell of Garclaugh and later Dalgig, she founded the ‘Ivie League’.
Please visit Christine’s Campbell research here
Dalgig Farm (Permission of National Library of Scotland)
Ayr Sheet XLI.11 (New Cumnock)
Survey date: 1857 Publication date: 1860
Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland
http://maps.nls.uk/index.html
Sadly Dalgig has recently beem demolished but it his hoped to mark its position with a small cairn as part of a regeneration of the land after coal
Christine Clement
East Ayrshire Council: Covenanter Relics , Baird Institute, Cumnock
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Adam Levine's Wife Behati Prinsloo Celebrates Their 5 Years of Marriage with Colorful Photos
July 23, 2019 | by Gracious Egedegbe
The delectable model, Behati goes all out to mark her wedding anniversary with her Beau, Adam Levine in incredible photos!
Nothing compares to love evenly shared by two hearts. The musician, Adam Levine, and his heartthrob serenade the internet with adorable images while celebrating their five years of being married.
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The mother of two showed off her man in a bright background picture. The couple donned black outfits, while the Maroon 5 lead singer crowned his look with a dark-coloured sunglasses along with a badass pose; Behati summed up her look with black studs and a chain necklace.
She captioned her photo with these words:
"Best five years! @adamlevine."
It seemed as though her feelings could not be transcribed into words as she captioned it with very few words. However, her followers did justice with their thoughtful wishes for the couple; the model's page filled with an array of lovely comments.
Words like "Happy anniversary lovers," "I wish you forever happiness baby," "COUPLE GOALS," "My parents," hung on her wall.
Her second upload showed the pairs publicly displaying their affection as they shared a tender kiss. Although the duo is happily hooked, marriage used to be one of the last things on the "The Voice" coach's mind.
According to information garnered by the "Tonight's Show" host, Jay Leno six years ago, Adam had initially revealed he was not interested in marriage, but during an appearance on the show, he expressed his change in decision owing to the "wonderfulness" of his fiancé.
They got engaged in 2012, and he claimed that they were taking it step by step when asked about the wedding preparations.
The music coach also revealed his experience while dating with one of his exes. He told a funny story of how he was tensed when his date couldn't stop ordering for things.
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The celebrity continued to explain how inconvenient he felt because he was low on cash. Things have changed now for him, after meeting his better half via email scouting for models to feature in his video.
He is not only married and content with the woman of his dreams, but he also ensures he supports her profession. The pair had a rocky relationship but decided to cement their union in 2013.
"Insider" reports that the supermodel who is a Victoria Secrets model bagged an "Angel" title in 2009 after her walk in the VS 2007.
Three years ago, when she got pregnant with her first child, Dusty Rose Levine, she disappeared from the runways. In 2017 also, Behati halted in her modelling career before conceiving her second baby, Grace Levine, in 2018.
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Coronavirus: Hospice forced to 'beg and borrow' to replenish stock of PPE
The chief executive of Heart of Kent Hospice has said PPE only arrives once a "critical crisis point" is reached.
Deborah Haynes
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Sunday 19 April 2020 22:35, UK
Image: Kent Hospice is set to run out of PPE within days
A hospice boss has said the coronavirus crisis means she has to "beg, borrow and steal" to source enough protective equipment for her staff as she called on the government for help.
Sarah Pugh, chief executive of the Heart of Kent Hospice, said end-of-life care has perhaps fallen down a crack between the provision of equipment to hospitals and to care homes.
All patients at her hospice in Aylesford must be treated as though they might have COVID-19, so nurses have to wear gloves, masks and aprons.
She has enough protective equipment for the next few days, but from Monday Mrs Pugh will yet again be calling around agencies to source more for the following week.
Image: Sarah Pugh is calling for help from the government to replenish PPE supplies
"We are having to contact people to beg, steal and borrow from different agencies, from different organisations, who are always willing to help us, but it always seems it is only when you get to that critical crisis point than suddenly some PPE [personal protective equipment] will arrive," she told Sky News.
"It is taking out time we might and should be taking with our patient care."
Asked what her message was to the government, she said: "Please provide a regular, reliable and sustainable source of PPE for all organisations like hospices so we can get on with our work and make sure that patients are being cared for as the number one priority."
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Hers is one of around 200 hospices in the UK. Mrs Pugh said she believes others are also struggling with their supply lines.
"I think perhaps, as hospices we have perhaps gone down a slight gap in terms of not being provided by social care and provision of the NHS, so we have got slightly lost in the PPE provision," she said.
Efforts by Public Health England to reduce the risk of infection and transmission mean that all hospices must ensure their staff wear protective equipment when treating patients within two metres - which is very often the case given the palliative care they need.
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The Heart of Kent Hospice - with more than 20 nursing staff and assistants and capacity for up to ten in-patients - goes through about 150 aprons, pairs of gloves and masks a day.
The new rules have transformed the working environment.
Carers are no longer able to provide some of the little comforts to patients that they normally give such as hand massages.
"With palliative and end-of-life care, a lot of what we do is touch and feel and we can't do that anymore for our patients," said Kerry Harrison, the patient services director.
"We have to maintain their personal care but wearing protective equipment which is a barrier in itself."
To make things a little less alien, a patient is given photographs of the people who are caring for them so they know what each person looks like behind the mask.
The hospice has some 880 patients but the vast majority live in care homes or at home, only coming in when they need assistance or if their condition deteriorates.
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There have so far been no confirmed cases of coronavirus.
But nationwide rules on social distancing and shielding mean that family and friends are no longer able to come and visit a loved one.
Before the pandemic, they could sit at a patient's bedside or outside in a communal garden. There is also a small café within the building that would usually be bustling.
Today it stands empty.
The only visitor allowed is a single person per patient at the time when he or she is about to die, though even that is not permitted if the patient has coronavirus.
It makes it much harder for families but also for the nursing team.
Image: Patients are given a photograph of people caring for them to make it a little less alien
The hospice has created a new family liaison role, with a nursing assistant each day focusing on ways to keep a patient connected with his or her family.
This includes sending hand prints to grandchildren and for family members to set a patient homework such as drawing pictures of what they can see in the garden.
With its regular supply line of personal protective equipment not working as it does in normal times, the Kent hospice goes to a range of different organisations from the NHS to councils.
The lack of certainty about how many aprons, gloves and masks it would have over the Easter weekend impacted directly on patients. "We limited any new admissions until we knew we had the PPE coming," Mrs Pugh said.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said: "We are working around the clock to give the social care sector the equipment and support they need to tackle this outbreak.
"We have provided PPE to over 26,000 care homes, including hospices across the country with each setting receiving at least 300 facemasks each."
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Bringing empty properties back into use
At its next meeting Executive Board members will be asked to agree a way forward to bring empty properties across the county borough back into use, including using assistance and where necessary enforcement.
The plans, if approved, will only be used to bring problematic long term empty properties and land back into use as often owners are willing to work with us to make use of various loan schemes to improve their properties.
Bringing long-term empty is an increasing priority for ourselves and Welsh Government and we have previously secured funding from the Welsh Government to tackle this issue throughout the county borough through initiatives such as the Houses into Homes and Vibrant and Viable Places schemes. While the Vibrant and Viable Places scheme has formally come to an end, loan funding continues to be used to support the regeneration of Wrexham Town Centre and totals £2.5m via the Empty Property Loans and £500,000 via Empty Property Acquisition loans.
Additional funding has also been secured through the Welsh Government’s
Town Centre Loans to support third parties in obtaining, refurbishing and redeveloping properties within Wrexham town centre. Properties outside of
the town centre will be able to secure Houses into Homes funding and
may also need alternative sources of funding to be confirmed on a case by case basis.
Executive Board meets on Tuesday, July 9 at 10 am and the meeting will be webcast. You can take a look at the full agenda here.
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Syllabus Validity and Overlap Periods
Due to COVID-19, we are happy to extend the overlap periods of the Bowed Strings 2016–2019 syllabus, and the Percussion 1990–2009 syllabus. Please read the Syllabus Overlap guidance carefully for the full requirements and arrangements for your syllabus. Key dates are summarised below for reference but you will need to refer to the full published guidance for the complete details of how to prepare.
Published end date
Published overlap period (worldwide)
Special COVID-19 extension arrangements (worldwide)
Bowed Strings 2016–2019
Until 31 December 2020
Please note, due to COVID-19 we are happy to extend this overlap to the first opportunity for candidates to take their exam in 2021. Special permission is no longer required. Candidates should inform the examiner, and/or indicate on the programme form, that they are playing pieces from the 2016–2019 syllabus.
Any candidate starting preparations for an exam in 2021 must use the new 2020–2023 syllabus.
Please note, due to COVID-19 we are happy to extend this overlap to the first opportunity for candidates to take their exam in 2021. Special permission is no longer required. Candidates should inform the examiner, and/or indicate on the programme form, that they are using the 1990–2019 syllabus.
Any candidate starting preparations for an exam in 2021 must use the new Percussion syllabus, available for four subjects – Snare Drum, Timpani, Tuned Percussion and Percussion (Combined).
Unfortunately, there is still uncertainty around how and when we can begin to offer face-to-face Practical Grade exams, including Grades 1-8, ARSM and Diplomas. We recognise that the worldwide response to the coronavirus pandemic will continue to disrupt travel and large gatherings of candidates. We are monitoring the situation and doing all we can to get these exams up and running again. However, everything we do must be in line with guidance from both your government and the UK government to ensure the safety of learners, teachers, examiners and staff.
We’ve now published further information about our remotely-assessed Performance Grades. We will be gradually rolling out Performance Grades internationally, starting before the end of 2020, following their initial launch in the UK. We’ll let you know more about future exam dates as soon as we can. In the meantime, you can find out more about these exams here.
We will be gradually rolling out Performance Grades internationally, starting before the end of 2020, following their initial launch in the UK. We’ll let you know more about future exam dates as soon as we can. You can find out more about these exams here. We are providing further details as and when we are able to, and you can now read the full guidance document, which includes information about how you should record and submit a remotely-assessed Performance Grade once theses exams are available.
Introducing online Music Theory at Grades 1 to 5 – the headlines
What’s changing and at which grades?
We will be moving the assessment of Music Theory at Grades 1 to 5 to an online exam. We are confident that the online format will provide a more learner-friendly experience for candidates. We have been working on these developments for some time, but in response to the Covid-19 pandemic we have accelerated this work.
At the same time, we have updated some of the Grade 1 to 5 questions to bring them in line with a style of assessment commonly used across the education sector. In addition, there are a few minor changes to the syllabus itself. These changes apply to online Music Theory exams from 2020 onwards. Where online exams are not yet available and we are still offering paper-based exams, there will be no changes to questions and the exams will be based on the ‘from 2018’ Music Theory syllabus.
Please see this page for further details, including a useful syllabus summary.
We have recently shared additional resources to help teachers and learners become familiar with the new online exams. These include:
Example Grade 5 exam questions in the online format
A step by step guide, taking you through the exam process
Video demos of how to set up the new exam, and what the new questions will look like
These new materials can be found on this page.
Please be aware that Music Theory exams at Grades 6 to 8 will continue as paper-based assessments for everyone worldwide. There are no changes to the questions or syllabus for these grades. We will offer these exams when we can do this safely and in line with government guidance.
When is it happening?
The first opportunity to take an online Music Theory exam varies across markets. All of the webpages have been updated with the relevant information, so please refer to our website for specific information for each country.
The following markets will have online Music Theory exams for Grades 1 to 5 in November or December:
UK, Republic of Ireland, Singapore, India, Czech Republic, Russia, Slovakia, Malta
The international roll-out of the new online Music Theory exams for all other markets will take place during 2021, with preparations being made during the rest of 2020. In the meantime, we are doing everything we can to ensure paper-based Music Theory exams for Grades 1 to 8 go ahead in all international markets this year where they can do so safely.
We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work out the best options for the safe delivery of our assessments. We will provide updates on the availability of all our exams and assessments as soon as we can.
Where to find sheet music
Many retailers are continuing to provide sheet music, books, instruments and accessories through online or mail order services. View our shops list here.
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Governor Makinde Donates ₦2 Million To Launch Armed Forces Remembrance Day Emblem
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde in commemoration of the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day launched an emblem of appeal in memory of the fallen and departed heroes with the sum of N2 million.
The governor in his remarks at the event held in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, on Wednesday drummed up the need for Nigerians to continue to cater to the needs of soldiers who were maimed in the line of duty to the country, the children, widows and other dependents of fallen heroes.
Represented by his deputy, Rauf Olaniyan, the governor said the day was meant to honour fallen heroes and sensitize the public on the need to cater to the welfare of veterans who are still alive as well as families of the fallen heroes/heroines.
“I am highly delighted to welcome everyone to the formal launch of the Emblem Appeal Week, which unfolds the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration in Oyo State.
Oyo State deputy governor, Rauf Olaniyan at the event.
“It is pertinent to note that the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration emerged out of the need to honour our fallen heroes who laid down their lives in service to humanity during the First and Second World Wars, the Nigeria Civil War, Peace Support and Internal Security Operations.
“The occasion is also designed to honour and sensitize the public on the need to attend to the welfare of veterans who are still alive as well as families of the fallen heroes/heroines. From history, indeed, they have done wonderfully well and some nuggets of gold they left behind would surely lead our nation to a better future,” the governor said.
The governor, while announcing the donation of the sum of N2 million to launch 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration Emblem, appealed to corporate organisations, industrialists, commercial firms, philanthropists and all individuals to donate generously to the Armed Forces Remembrance Emblem Appeal Week Fund.
“Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I hereby launch the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Emblem and other activities with a sum of N2 Million to the glory of God and enablement of a better life for our ex-servicemen, veterans and dependents of those who paid the supreme price for the unity and progress of our nation,” he said.
Governor Makinde charged the members of the Nigerian Legion to take advantage of the various schemes of the Federal, State and Local Governments, Non-Governmental Organisation as well as interventions from philanthropists to make lives better for them.
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Nintendo Announcing New Interactive Experience For Switch Later Today
January 17, 2018 Craig Majaski 0 Comments
Nintendo is set to announce a brand new product for the Nintendo Switch. This was hinted at earlier this week via rumors that Nintendo would show off a new accessory and game. Now, Nintendo UK and Nintendo Japan have revealed that “a new interactive experience for Nintendo Switch that’s specially crafted for kids and those who are kids at heart” will debut later today at 2pm PT / 4pm CT / 5pm ET. It’s apparently “A New Way to Play” on the Japanese side of explaining what we’re in for.
So, any idea what this will be? Will it involve amiibo somehow, or is this completely different? Due to the wording we’re thinking it could be aimed at younger kids, but again, we’ll have to wait to find out for sure. Let the speculation begin!
[Source: Nintendo UK]
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Code Of Princess EX Review
July 30, 2018 July 26, 2018 Jay Kittelson 0 Comments # of players: 1-4, Action Series, Developer: Studio Saizensen & Nicalis, Price: $39.99, Publisher: Nicalis, Rated T for Teen, Release Date: July 31 2018, Role-Playing Series, Switch-Code-Princess
Code of Princess was a game that was first released for the Nintendo 3DS back in October of 2012. It could be considered a hack and slash kind of battle game that pits your character, whichever you’d like to choose to battle as, against a horde of enemies. There are strong anime style cut scenes, extremely fascinating fashion choices, and plenty of interesting characters introduced to you as you fight for your kingdom. Now the game has been remastered for the Nintendo Switch as Code of Princess EX. If you’ve ever played Guardian Heroes on the Sega Saturn, you’ll find some similarities here.
During the fighting sequences, there are three lanes on a side-scrolling field that moves to the left or right depending on where your next victims are approaching. Your fighter has the ability to jump from lane to lane like a car merging in traffic. You can use this to your advantage to annihilate the other side by side-stepping quite a few attacks. The button schema for changing lanes took a little getting used to because you needed to hit up or down and the left or right shoulder button to perform this transfer. In fact, since you have to use the correct combinations of buttons together, you may need to remind yourself that it matters in case an enemy has a bead on you. You don’t need to worry about that for too long, because the more you hop around the various lanes the better you will naturally get at it.
The battles tend to be fast and furious with a lot of mashing the B button to get as many hits in as you can. There are special moves that you can unleash, but to figure out the button combos it will be beneficial for a new player to play through the tutorial before diving into the game proper. I did not do the tutorial because I have been so used to games holding my hand as I start them. So, when the first battle started I just kind of thought “oh, I guess I’m just going to have to figure this one out on my own”. I won easily, but then curiosity got the best of me and I decided that I should probably run through the tutorials, and it was a good decision since I learned a lot of cool techniques. In many ways Code of Princess EX is more like a Street Fighter RPG than a hack and slash.
There are a ton of special items you can pick up during your journey. The list is huge and sometimes finding something that’s better than what you already have equipped can become quite a chore. I typically just equipped the latest and greatest item as I received it if I noticed that I got something new. I enjoyed the gameplay more than I really thought I would, but the game still managed to become stale after a few hours. What kept me hooked more than swinging a giant sword at monsters with percentage symbols for faces was the story that was happening between the battles. The banter between the characters is very comical and proves that the game doesn’t take itself seriously at all. In fact, they made jokes about what the characters were wearing, cracked wise about clichés in anime and other Japanese RPGs, and I came away with a very pleasant experience that was a nice balance between somewhat underwhelming gameplay and hilarious story telling. I do have to admit that I didn’t realize Ali was a female character until the apparently quite horny little guitar wielding dude said they were all girls. Then the fashion choice to wear a leather strap over one’s chest made a little more sense, but the padlock was still a little eyebrow raising in a Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson sort of way.
I did some reading on how the 3DS version of this game went over and there were some complaints about the framerate and playability considering that it seemed to choke the processors of the 3DS. What you will find with the Switch release is a much-improved gaming experience because it seems that the Switch can handle everything the game throws at it. So if you were put off with the previous iteration, you may want to give this improved entry a second chance.
As far as the sounds go in the game, while I was playing a friend of mine overheard one of the Japanese language characters speak and asked who did the voice because he thought he recognized it. When I looked that bit of information up I noted that there were also voice actors from the west for each character. I tried to find the option to change to English dubbing but was unable to find it or any setting that would allow me to change it to English voice acting. I could be blind and felt that trying to find any information on that subject in a web search to be a poor use of my time.
I don’t think the price is all that terrible for what you get, but I think that if you own the 3DS or PC version there might not be much of a compelling reason to double dip. Although, it must be said that thanks to the Switch’s hybrid nature, it’s easy to get a two-player co-op game going. It’s always more fun to play with a friend! While I did find the battle sequences to be on the lather, rinse, repeat side of gaming, I enjoyed playing Code of Princess EX more than I would have if it didn’t have the RPG elements and the comical story telling. This saved the game for me from being relegated to the “Delete for now and if I ever have nothing to play I will download it down again to do just that” list. This one’s definitely worth considering adding to your Switch library.
Graphics - 7.5/10
Sound - 7/10
Lasting Appeal - 5/10
Final Thoughts: WORTH CONSIDERING
While I do feel that playing through this entire game is worth it just for the comical story, it does drag a lot and it is better to play in small doses that to just hunker down in your favorite recliner and waken to the sound of you Switch Pro Controller. The game just doesn’t have a compelling enough battle sequence to join the ranks of much better RPG games on the market.
Review Guidelines & Scoring
Code of Princess EX was reviewed using a final retail Nintendo Switch download code provided by the publisher.
Jay Kittelson
Jay has been an avid gamer since the Intellivision days. His hobbies include building PCs, 3D modeling and printing, and spending time with his children and dog.
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Sacramento Business Journal: Kaiser mental health workers petition for election
By Kathy Robertson
A majority of 1,300 Northern California mental health professionals at Kaiser Permanente have signed a petition calling for a union election that would allow them to change their union representation from Service Employees International Union-United Health Care Workers (UHW) to a rival started by former SEIU leaders.
June 3 marks the beginning of a 30-day open window when Kaiser employees have a right to change unions, leaders at the National Union of Healthcare Workers say.
But there is a legal dispute over the timing of the election; Kaiser and UHW contend workers can’t vote until June 2011. The Oakland regional office of the National Labor Relations Board told the Business Journal last week there’s a 90- to 120-day window for union elections before the current contract expires Sept. 30.
Members of Kaiser’s Integrated Behavioral Health Services unit, which includes 143 workers in the Sacramento region, plan to file their petition on Thursday, Day One of what they consider the open window.
Almost 2,300 Southern California Kaiser workers —including about 900 psychiatric social workers — already switched to NUHW following a lopsided vote in favor of the rival union in January.
“We’re thrilled for the chance to join the rest of Kaiser’s mental health professionals in a member-run union that will help us improve care for our patients and clients,” Emily Ryan, a psychiatric social worker at Kaiser Folsom, said in a press release.
Over the next month, three more groups of Kaiser employees plan to petition to join NUHW: Northern California healthcare professionals, Northern California optical and lab workers and a statewide unit of about 43,000 service and tech workers. These units include more than 4,000 Kaiser workers in the Sacramento region.
Kaiser reached a tentative agreement early Friday with its coalition of 32 labor unions — including UHW — on a new, two-year national agreement. The union represents almost half of the 96,000 members covered by the national coalition.
The tentative agreement is expected to be ratified this summer. The open period to file for an election holds whether or not a new contract is ratified, according to Mike Leong, assistant regional director in the Oakland office of the NLRB.
Not all Kaiser mental health workers workers are prepared to jump.
Dr. Therese Fleming, a licensed clinical psychologist and contract specialist for the behavioral health services unit in Northern California, doesn’t want to give up the 18 percent raise she helped negotiate into the national agreement.
If the tentative agreement is ratified, most workers will get a 9 percent raise over the life of the contract, including a 3 percent raise in October 2012 if a new contract is not signed.
Psychologists get an extra 9 percent over the life of the contract.
“I don’t want to lose that,” Fleming said.
Southern California workers that bolted from UHW in January have not begun bargaining a new contract and they didn’t get the 2 percent raise their UHW peers got in April, she added.
“I helped negotiate a good agreement in this terrible, horrible economy,” Fleming said. “We had the strength of coalition and it was a hard road to hoe.”
Source: Sacramento Business Journal
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New Rapid-turnaround Brexit Service Launched to Help UK Businesses Prepare for January 1st
Brexit FastTrack is a new service to help UK businesses prepare for January 1st
A new Brexit service has been launched to help the thousands of UK businesses yet to fully prepare for the end of the Transition Period get Brexit-ready.
Online PR News – 02-December-2020 – Manchester – A new Brexit service has been launched to help the thousands of UK businesses yet to fully prepare for the end of the Transition Period get Brexit-ready.
Called Brexit FastTrack and delivered by specialist export consultancy, Go Exporting, the service is designed to offer a detailed Brexit impact review and transition plan that’s specific to each business.
And, critical as the Brexit countdown clock ticks under 30 days to go, the Brexit FastTrack service can turn-around in just seven working days.
According to Government data, some 61% of businesses have so far done little, if anything, to prepare for Brexit. And whilst many companies will have seen their preparations hampered by dealing with the immediate threat of the Coronavirus pandemic, there are also swathes of companies around the UK who don’t know where to turn to for help, are unsure of what exactly they need to do to be Brexit ready, and potentially some who also under-estimate just how much there is to prepare.
Go Exporting’s Brexit FastTrack is designed to give businesses the actual actions they need to take in the form of a detailed report that covers 24 areas, including EORI requirements, customs rules and regulations, likely tariffs and duties, VAT procedure changes and supply chain implications.
Mike Wilson, CEO and founder of Go Exporting, said that: “Brexit will be a challenge for all companies; from managing and maintaining your current EU customers and supply chain, to understanding the impact of new customs arrangements, tariffs and Incoterms.
“Whilst many businesses were unprepared even before the start of the year, the coronavirus pandemic has no-doubt hampered the efforts of those companies who had every intention of focusing on the Brexit challenge head-on throughout 2020.
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Teague Hill Preserve
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No dogs. No bikes.
Teague Hill Open Space Preserve is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains just above the town of Woodside. Private Property and California Water Service Company Property make it difficult to visit the majority of Teague Hill. For those interested in visiting Teague Hill, the only accessible route is along the Bay Area Ridge Trail.
Temporary COVID-19 Restrictions
Face coverings are required when you can’t stay 6 feet away from persons you don’t live with. Many Midpen trails are narrow — wear a mask, bandanna or gaiter you can pull over your mouth and nose as needed.
Paper maps are not available at preserves. Please download a map before leaving home or snap a photo of the signboard map before you hike.
Bay Area Ridge Trail
Bay Area Ridge Trail © Dan Beeder
Containing a 1.0 mile section of the Bay Area Ridge Trail, visitors get a feel for the Douglas-fir, oak, bay, and madrone forest that comprise this portion of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Limited parking is available along Kings Mountain Road in pullouts adjacent to the roadway.
Limited spaces are also available at Huddart and Wunderlich County Parks.
For those who are interested in visiting Teague Hill, the only accessible route is along the Bay Area Ridge Trail that begins approximately 0.25 miles east of Skyline Boulevard on Kings Mountain Road, where the trailhead is located on the south side of the road.
The trail will take hikers or equestrians through a small portion of the northwest corner of Teague Hill on the way to San Mateo County’s Wunderlich Park.
No trail conditions to report.
This information is updated as needed when trails are opened or closed, or when there is scheduled trail maintenance. Visit the full Trail Conditions page for more information.
Trail conditions can vary depending on the time of year, the impact of rain and storms, construction and maintenance and other occurrences. Please be aware that trail closures may change from day to day without notice, based on current and predicted weather conditions. During winter storm season high waters can make creek crossings hazardous, so plan your outing accordingly.
In Spanish times, pre-sawmill lumbering occurred at the fringe of forests around Portola Valley and Woodside to provide hand made shingles, hand hewn logs, and hand cut lumber for the construction of the Presidio, Mission of San Francisco, Mission Santa Clara, and pueblo of San Jose.
Sawmilling in the Bear Gulch area, adjacent to Teague Hill, was started by San Mateo County’s first really large lumbering enterprise: the Baker & Burnham Gang Mill. This highly mechanized operation was set up in 1852. The exact site of the mill is not known, but it was perhaps near the upper end of Tripp Court, where small pieces of heavy equipment have been found. Large redwoods in Bear Gulch and Appletree Gulch (on the Preserve) surrounded the mill to the north. A financial crash and legal trouble ended this operation in 1855. The former creditors of Baker & Burnham became the owners and, headed by M. S. Gibbs, moved the mill to Squealer Gulch Creek, just to the other side of the current Preserve. The area continued to be logged under various owners, and was timbered out around 1865. Shingle mills could continue to operate, because they could work in canyons too deep or remote for lumbermen by using pack animals to carry the shingles out.
The first shingle mill in San Mateo County was introduced in 1856 by John G. Moore in Tripp Gulch, now a part of Teague Hill Open Space Preserve. The mill was later acquired by Dr.Tripp, a prominent Woodside merchant (and the town dentist), who for some time operated the small lumber yard. He made shingles with machinery; an innovative new process in the 1850s. Lumber went out via Old La Honda Road and past Woodside’s Whiskey Hill, heading for Redwood City. Woodside reached its peak as a lumbering center about 1859-60.
The County of San Mateo was formed by a separation from San Francisco County in 1856, and the lumber port of Redwood City was chosen as the seat of county government. Andrew Teague was elected San Mateo County District Attorney in 1869. Presumably Teague Hill was named after Andrew Teague.
The information is taken primarily from “SAWMILLS IN THE REDWOODS, Logging on the San Francisco Peninsula, 1849-1967,” by Frank M. Stanger, published by the San Mateo County Historical Association.
Hours: Open half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.
Dogs: Dogs are not allowed in this Preserve. For information on dog-friendly preserves visit the Dog Access page. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Midpen accommodates service dogs in preserves wherever we allow public access.
Bicyclists: Bikes are NOT allowed in this Preserve. For information on preserves open to bikes visit the Bicycle Access page.
Equestrians: Horses are allowed on designated trails in this Preserve. Helmets are recommended for all equestrians. For more information visit the Equestrian Access page.
Groups: For safety reasons, permits are required for all groups of 20 or more people.
Permits: A use permit is required for any activity or event which: may be attended by twenty (20) or more people; OR is advertised or noticed in any publication, poster, electronic posting or flyer; OR requests/requires a fee be paid for participation. Visit the Permit page for more information.
Fires: Fires are prohibited in preserves.
Smoking: Smoking is prohibited in preserves.
Weapons: All weapons are prohibited in preserves.
Plants & Wildlife: Please leave plants and animals undisturbed. If you encounter wildlife during a visit, do not approach, startle or feed it. Although wild animals are generally fearful of humans and will run away, some wildlife can be dangerous.
Water Areas: Swimming, wading or engaging in any water-contact activity is prohibited.
Download District Regulations and Ordinances
Preserves are open from one-half hour before official sunrise until one-half hour after official sunset.
Preserve Activities
There are no events scheduled at this preserve currently.
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Who has the best fans in the NFL?
What are the best fans in the NFL? These are simple questions without simple answers. First we have to decide what we mean by “best”. What makes for a great fan or brand? Fans that show up even when the team is losing? Fans that are willing to pay the highest prices? Fans that are willing to follow a team on the road or social media?
Even after we agree on the question, answering it is also a challenge. How do we adjust for the fact that one team might have gone on a miraculous run that filled the stadium? Or perhaps another team suffered a slew of injuries? How do we compare fan behavior in a market like New York with fans in a place like Green Bay?
My approach to evaluating fan bases is to use data to develop statistical models of fan interest (more details here). The key is that these models are used to determine which city’s fans are more willing to spend or follow their teams after controlling for factors like market size and short-term changes in winning and losing.
In past years, two measures of engagement have been featured: Fan Equity and Social Media Equity. Fan Equity focuses on home box office revenues (support via opening the wallet) and Social Media Equity focuses on fan willingness to engage as part of a team’s community (support exhibited by joining social media communities). This year I am adding a third measure Road Equity. Road Equity focuses on how teams draw on the road after adjusting for team performance. These metrics provide a balance – a measure of willingness to spend, a measure unconstrained by stadium size and a measure of national appeal.
To get at an overall ranking, I’m going to use the simplest possible method. We are just going to average the across the three metrics. (similar analyses are available for the NBA and MLB).
The top five fan bases (team brands if you prefer) are the Cowboys, Patriots, Eagles, Giants and Steelers. The Cowboys excel on all the metrics. They win in terms of Fan Equity (a revenue premium measure of brand strength), Road Equity and finish second in social media. The underlying data (I will spare everybody the statistical models) reveals why Dallas does so well. The Cowboy’s average home attendance (reported by ESPN) is more than 10,000 higher than the next team. The Cowboys average ticket price is also well above average and they have the second most Twitter followers after the Patriots. The other thing to note is that the Cowboys achieve these year in and year out , even in years when the team is not great.
Also read: How Cowboys actually destroy social media in the NFC East
There are likely some objections to the list. Patriot fans are bandwagon fans! The Steelers are too low! The Eagles above the Packers or Bears?! Way too much to get into in a short blog post but a couple of comments.
First, Patriot fans may be bandwagon fans. But at this point it is tough to tell. The team has been excellent and the fans have been supportive for a long time. And even when things tend to go wrong for the Patriots they come out ahead. I believe that the deflate gate controversy had a significant positive impact on the Patriots’ social media following.
The Steelers are low in Fan Equity and higher on the other metrics. We can trace this to the Steelers pricing. The Steelers seem to price on the low side of what is possible.
The Eagle do surprise me. They do get a bump from playing in the NFC East in terms of the Road Equity metric. The NFC East is a strong collection of brands that benefit each other. It is not easy to disentangle these effects. And perhaps we shouldn’t since we can make a case that the rivalries that benefit these teams are because of the interest in the individual brands.
Who has the worst fans?
At the other extreme we have the Bengals, Jaguars, Titans, Rams and Chiefs. Some of these are no surprises. At the top of the list we have the NFL’s royalty. No one has ever placed the Bengals, Jaguars or titans in that category.
The teams at the bottom of the rankings all suffer from relatively low attendance, have below average pricing power and have limited social followings. The Rams are a special case. While not a great brand in past years, the move to LA tends to punish the Rams because their results have not kept pace with the higher income and population levels in LA.
The Chiefs are the tough one on this list. The Chiefs fill their stadium but at relatively low price. Keep in mind that the analysis includes factors such as population and median income. In addition, Kansas City was ranked 29th in terms of Road Attendance last year and the social media following (Twitter) is middle of the road. The fundamental issue is that that the Chiefs produce these below average fan-based results while performing well above average on the field.
The Complete List
The complete list follows. In addition to the overall ranking of fan bases, I also report rankings on the social and road measures. Following the table, I provide a bit more detail regarding each of the metrics.
Three metrics are used to get a complete picture of fans. But there are other ways to look at fan behavior and brand strength. For example, we could look at pricing power (which teams are able to extract significant price premiums) or bandwagon fan behavior (which fans are most sensitive to winning). I’m happy to provide these additional rankings if there is interest.
Fan Equity
Winners: Cowboys, Patriots and 49ers
Losers: Rams, Raiders, Jags
Fan Equity looks at home revenues relative to expected revenue based on team performance and market characteristics. The goal of the metric is to measure over or under performance relative to other teams in the league. In other words, statistical models are used to create an apples-to-apples type comparison to avoid distortions due to long-term differences in market size or short-term differences in winning rates.
The 49ers are the interesting winner on this metric. After the last couple of years, it is doubtful that people are thinking about the 49ers having a rabid fan base. However, the 49ers are a great example of how the approach works. On the field the 49ers have been terrible. But despite the on-field struggles the 49ers still pack in the fans and charge high prices. This is evidence of a very strong brand because even while losing the 49ers fans still attend and spend. In terms of the overall rankings the 49ers don’t do all that great because the team does not perform as well as a road or social media draw.
In terms of business concepts, this “Fan Equity” measure is similar to a “revenue premium” measure of brand equity. It captures the differentials in fan’s willingness to financially support teams of similar quality. From a business or marketing perspective this is a gold standard of metrics as it directly relates to how a strong brand translates to revenues and profits.
One important thing to note is that some teams may not be trying to maximize revenues. Perhaps the team is trying to build a fan base by keeping prices low. Or a team my price on the low side based on some notion of loyalty to its community. In these cases the Fan equity metric may understate the engagement of fans.
Social Media Equity
Winners: Patriots, Cowboys and Broncos
Losers: Chiefs, Rams and Cardinals
Social Media Equity is also an example of a “premium” based measure of brand equity. It differs from the Fan Equity in that it focuses on how many fans a team has online rather than fans’ willingness to pay higher prices. Similar to Fan Equity, Social Media Equity is also constructed using statistical models that control for performance and market differences.
In terms of business application, the social media metric has several implications both on its own merits and in conjunction with the Fan Equity measure. For example, the lack of local constraints, means that the Social Equity measure is more of a national level measure. so while the Fan Equity metric focuses on local box office revenues, the social metric provides insight into how a team’s fandom extends beyond a metro area.
Social Media Equity may also serve as a leading indicator of a team’s future fortunes. For a team to grow revenues it is often necessary to implement controversial price increases. Convincing fans to sign expensive contracts to buy season tickets can also be a challenge. Increasing prices and acquiring season ticket holders can therefore take time, while social media communities can grow quickly. Some preliminary analysis suggests that vibrant social communities are positively correlated with future revenue growth.
A comparison of Fan Equity and Social Media can also be useful. If Social Media equity exceeds Fan Equity it is evidence that the team has some marketing potential that is not being exploited. For example, one issue that is common in sports is that it is difficult to estimate the price elasticity of demand because demand is often highest for the best teams and best seats. The unconstrained nature of social media can provide an important data point for assessing whether a team has additional pricing flexibility.
Road Equity
Winners: Cowboys, Eagles and Raiders
Losers: Texans, Titans and Seahawks
Another way to look at fan quality is to look at how a team draws on the Road. In the NBA these effects are pronounced. Lebron or a retiring Kobe coming to town can often lead to sell outs. At the college level some teams are known to travel very well. A fan base that travels is almost by definition incredible passionate.
This one has a bit of a muddled interpretation. If a team has great road attendance is it because the fans are following the team or because they have a national following? In other words, do the local fans travel or does a team with high road attendance have a national following. When the Steelers turned the Georgia Dome Yellow and Black was it because Steelers fans came down from Pittsburgh or because the Steelers have fans everywhere.
Furthermore, if it is a national following is it because the team is popular across the country or because a lot of folks have moved from places like Pittsburgh or Buffalo to the Sun Belt. A national following is a great characteristic that might suggest that a team’s brand is on an upswing. Or it might be that the city itself is on a downward trajectory.
This article was originally published by Michael Lewis of Scholarblogs here.
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Star hosts Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt take thier first step into the 'Bigg Boss - Season 5' house in Karjat, before the contestants explore the 9,000 sq feet house, built on an area 1,500 sq feet more than the previous houses. (Pic: Viral Bhayani)
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Sanjay Dutt check out the TV to find themselve on screen. The pictures were taken during a shoot for their walk through of the house to see how the Bigg Boss
Bollywood actors Salman Khan(R) and Sanjay Dutt check out the TV to find themselve on screen. The pictures were taken during a shoot for their walk through of the house to see how the Bigg Boss house this year will cause feuds and arguments within the house, solely based on its design. (Pic: Viral Bhayani)
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Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan share a light moment in the living room of 'Bigg Boss - Season 5' house in Karjat, 91 km away from Mumbai.
Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan share a light moment in the living room of 'Bigg Boss - Season 5' house in Karjat, 91 km away from Mumbai. (Pic: Viral Bhayani)
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Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan discuss a Double Vaat warning! as they tour the house to check out its nooks and corners. The house is designed in a way to ensure there's no room for privacy.
Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan discuss a Double Vaat warning! as they tour the house to check out its nooks and corners. The house is designed in a way to ensure there's no room for privacy. (Pic: Viral Bhayani)
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Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt check out the TV to find themselve on screen. The Bigg Boss house is located in Karjat, which is an attractive tourist outpost in the foothills of Matheran.
Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt check out the TV to find themselve on screen on the sets of Bigg Boss - Season 5. The Bigg Boss house is located in Karjat, which is an attractive tourist outpost in the foothills of Matheran. (Pic: Viral Bhayani)
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Season 5 of the Colors reality show, Bigg Boss 5 kicks off tonight. In the mean while here's take a sneak peek of the house in pictures.<br><br>In this picture is the beautifully designed open kitchen that is connected to the dining room that extends to the garden area.
Season 5 of the Colors reality show, Bigg Boss 5 kicks off tonight. In the mean while here's take a sneak peek of the house in pictures.
In this picture is the beautifully designed open kitchen that is connected to the dining room that extends to the garden area. The kitchen is in the centre of the house, but the sink has been relocated to the garden area to encourage catfights. (Pic: Viral Bhayani)
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In this picture, seen is the dinning area of the Bigg Boss 5 house, furthermore the house has a living area, two bedrooms, a captain's room with an attached bathroom and two separate bathrooms and lavatories for the rest in the garden area.
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There's a swimming pool and a tiny gym, which should ideally be used only in daylight.
There's a swimming pool and a tiny gym, which should ideally be used only in daylight. (Pic: Viral Bhayani)
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This picture shows the complete view of the 'Bigg Boss - Season 5' house. The interior decorator and designer for Bigg Boss 5 house is Shayam Bhatia, who has experimented
This picture shows the complete view of the 'Bigg Boss - Season 5' house. The interior decorator and designer for Bigg Boss 5 house is Shayam Bhatia, who has experimented with contrasting colors and has given a rich, vibrant feel to the house. (Pic: Viral Bhayani)
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A picture of the captain's room bed. It's only the captain's room which has an attached bathroom and for rest of the house mates there are two bathrooms and they are
A picture of the captain's room bed. It's only the captain's room which has an attached bathroom and for rest of the house mates there are two bathrooms and they are common for both men and women. (Pic: Viral Bhayani)
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An Interview with Lucy Kruger and The Lost Boys | “Cotton Clouds” & “Candy Says”
We Interviewed singer/songwriter Lucy Kruger, about her debut album Sleeping Tapes for Some Girls, her first recording with her band The Lost Boys, plus filmed live session of the album track “Cotton Clouds”, and a cover The Velvet Underground’s “Candy Says”.
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Lions find tough competition with Yoakum
By Teri Normandin
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Varsity vs. Yoakum
The Lockhart Lions” varsity basketball team hosted the Yoakum Bulldogs last Tuesday, Dec. 6, in the Lions” Den after losing to them last year.
The Lions fought hard on the court, but their efforts came up short in a close scoring game, 69-65.
The Bulldogs grabbed the lead in the first quarter,
29-14, as the Lions struggled offensively to keep up with the skilled Yoakum team.
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The fourth quarter was the Bulldogs breaking quarter to win the game. Their tight defense only allowed the Lions to score 14 points as they added 15 points to their scoreboard. The Lions suffered from a 4-point deficit to lose the home game, 69-65.
The Lions high scorers were Michael Black with 14 points including two 3-point shots, and Terrance Waldon with 13 points including one 3-point shot.
J.V. vs. Yoakum
Lockhart Lions” junior varsity basketball team defeated the undefeated Yoakum Bulldogs, 5-0, to give them their first loss of the season.
In a high scoring game the Lions top the Bulldogs 60-57 on the scoreboard. After one period of play the Bulldogs led 15-13 as Jonathon Gonzales paving the way with four points during the first period.
During the second period the Lions roared back scoring 19 points to take a halftime lead 32-30. Again, Gonzales led the quarter with seven points.
The third period belonged to Yoakum as they scored 18 points to take a lead of 48-43 into the fourth period.
The Lions were determined to win as they outscored the Bulldogs 17-9 to give the Bulldogs their first loss of the season.
Leading scorers for the Lions were Jonathon Gonzales with 23 points, Jeremiah Johnson with 15 points, and Jeremy Hill with nine points.
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A Young Person’s Guide To “No Man’s Land”
Posted on August 23, 2019 by postpunkmonk
Lene Lovich released her third album in 1982
We previously mentioned the only 1981 release by Lene Lovich was the “New Toy” single/EP. It was a single in some territories and an EP in others. Some having four more songs that Stiff Records passed on for the UK. That meant that her “real” third album was finally released in 1982 as “No Man’s Land.” The time spent was mostly down to Lene and her husband/guitarist Les Chappel [where is he now?] building their home studio do be able to work at their own pace. They were doing this when it was still expensive to do such things. But when “No Man’s Land” was released in 1982, I jumped right on that one! Such was my ardor for all things Lene Lovich.
Stiff-Epic | US | LP | 1982 | ARE 38399
Lene Lovich: No Man’s Land US LP [1982]
It’s You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)
Blue Hotel
Walking Low
Special Star
Sister Video
We can be thankful that as far as I can see, all of the various territories released the same version of the album with the same versions of the songs in the same order on all of them! Possibly for the first time in Lene’s career. I bought the US LP first on its release. For many years, there was not a CD of this title. But in 1990, I finally ran across a pair of Lene Lovich CDs in Tower Records Atlanta.
Great Expectations | UK | D | 1990 | PIPCD 008,
Lene Lovich: The Stiff Years, Vol. 2 UK CD [1990]
Cats Away
Wonderful One
Monkey Talk
Never Never Land
O Seasons, O Castles
Blue Hotel (Version)
As we can see, this CD was jam packed with the “New Toy” UK 7″ A/B-side, side two of “Flex,” The two tracks from the US “New Toy” EP that were not re-recorded for “No Man’s Land,” and three B-sides from the “No Man’s Land” era. This is still how I listen to “No Man’s Land” today. As was my wont,, back then, I stupidly got rid of my US LP of this title upon buying it on CD. But I managed to get something much nicer in the mid 1990s during another trip to Atlanta and Fantasyland Records.
Stiff Records | UK | clear vinyl LP | 1982 | D SEEZ 44
Lene Lovich: No Man’s Land UK Clear Vinyl LP [1982]
This was a much better cover than the US edition which did its best to minimize Lene; hardly optimal! She was a proud portrait on this DMM clear vinyl edition that looks and probably sounds [I’ve never spun my copy] spectacular. All of the music details were the same but here we got the benefit of gorgeous custom labels on this format.
What a spectacular shot of those braids whipping in midair
What a beautiful object that record is! Little did I know at the time I was probably buying this LP, that the first discrete “No Man’s Land” CD was issued in Germany by the detail oriented Line Records label.
Line Records | GER | CD | 1991 | LICD 9.01074 O
Lene Lovich: No Man’s Land GER CD [1991]
The bonus tracks were again the “New Toy” 7″ tracks, the two songs from the US “New Toy” EP that were no re-recorded for “No Man’s Land,” and the version B-side of “Blue Hotel.” I would not say no to an actual “No Man’s Land” CD if one crossed my path. I had two more chances.
Stiff Records | FR | CD | 1993 | STIFFCD 22
Lene Lovich: No Man’s Land FR CD [1993]
Special Star [1981 Version]
There was also a 1993 French CD of the album with a slight alteration to the bonus material. Instead of the “Blue Hotel [Version],” this edition sported the 1981 US EP version of “Special Star.” We finally leap forward in time 21 years for the last “No Man’s Land” edition to date on the shiny silver disc.
Hayabusa Landings | JPN | CD | 2014 | HYCA-2076
Lene Lovich: No Man’s Land JPN SHMCD [2014]
The last version was from Japanese specialty label Hayabusa Landings which gave the nod to the first three LL albums on SHMCD, which are CDs made of “super high materials” which are allegedly higher quality CD materials for a truer digital sound [with added rainbow sprinkles]. It’s a kami sleeve with nothing in the way of bonus tracks. I’m more of a jewel box guy, so even if I saw this cheap, I’d probably pass on it. What thew world needs now is the ultimate “No Man’s Land” DLX RM. Which would look like this:
Lene Lovich: No Man’s Land DLX RM UK 2xCD [2019]
Disc 1 – The Album
Disc 2 – Bonus Listening
New Toy [7]
Savages [1981]
Special Star [1981]
New Toy [12] 4:35
It’s You, Only You (Mein Schmerz) (UK Remixed Extended 12″ Version) 5:31
It’s You, Only You (Mein Schmerz) (Version) 5:45
Blue Hotel (US Dance Mix) 5:17
It’s You, Only You (Mein Schmerz) (US Extended Dance Mix) 5:38
I have to admit that I only have the US 12″ single of “It’s You, Only You [Mein Schmerz]” and I have recently notice that the UK 12″ [which I don’t have] may be a different remix, though the timings are similar. Until I get one, I am assuming that they differ. Does anyone else know of something that thematically belongs in such an ideal edition of this album? Then pipe up in the comments.
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20 Responses to A Young Person’s Guide To “No Man’s Land”
Mathmandan says:
I have always loved this album, especially “Sister Video” and “Maria.” I managed to find the clear vinyl pressing in the used bins way back luckily. It is a much nicer artifact than the US pressing.
SHMCD: Is this just total hogwash? Is there any merit to them whatsoever?
SimonH says:
I have a few, more by chance than anything, I really couldn’t say whether they sound better! Most of the SHM discs I have sound pretty good anyway so it’s very hard to tell if there’s a benefit.
However I do love he fact that the Japanese have stuck by the cd even finding ways to allegedly improve them.
Agreed. I’ve always liked their attention to quality and detail. Back in the day I would splurge on Japanese vinyl for just a few cherished albums.
postpunkmonk says:
mathmandan – A Japanese pressing of any cherished album is likely to be the best one possible. Even taking into account the phonetically translated lyric where there was not one previously.
Mathmandan – I call BS on SHMCD. But there will always be a precious hi-fi elite who can’t value something unless it has exclusivity and costs a fortune. By the same token, I myself could never value music if it just flowed out of a tap at no cost. So I’m halfway there, I guess. The beauty of the plain vanilla CD was that it overcame a lot of noise that normally got in the analog signal chain of music. Cheap CD equipment hit a much higher level of mediocrity than did the LP on a cheap BSR turntable. I have some gold CDs [that was the only way to get some things] and I can not hear any difference. But I also have some SACD hybrid discs and even the CD compatible layer of those titles sounds amazing to me due to the DSD Mastering. I do find that DSD mastering, even when played back at standard CD resolution, makes a difference.
For those who don’t know, CDs are played back at a 16 bit/44.1 kHz sampling rate. So a 16 bit chunk of data is sampled 44,100 times per second. These days the music can be recorded at 24 bit/96 kHz sampling rate. That is a 24 bit chunk every 96,000 times per second. DSD laughs at bit depth but goes hog wild at sampling rate with 1 bit/2.8224 MHz. A very small 1-bit chunk of data 282,240,000 times per second! Crazy.
In the end it’s mainly down to the mastering, agree with SACDs, with good mastering they can be amazing. They should have become the norm, but ‘progress’ intervened…
I do like my SACDs, even if they aren’t surround sound. (The original reason I started buying any in the first place was for the 5.1 mixes. Is SACD the only format that utilizes DSD?
Mathmandan – It’s the only format where your are hearing the most of the DSD stream, which is dithered down to 24/96 for SACD. I have DSD dithered down to 16/44 on DSD/CD hybrid discs, but the clarity still managed to make some tracks I had on conventionally mastered CDs sound like mono next to the DSD version. Even on CD. But you could in theory master everything in DSD for repurposing in lower bit rate formats.
Amazingly, they are still releasing SACDs on occasion, although it’s getting more seldom. I’m definitely holding on to the ones I have. There are a couple I wish I would have bought when new because now the can be ridiculously expensive. To wit: check the Discogs prices for the SACD of Human League / Dare.
Mathmandan – Yow! A solid three figures, for sure. And it’s not even 5.1. I have a few hybrids that I got used super cheap. What I don’t understand was albums like “ A Secret Wish” on SACD and it was an early digital recording made at 16/48. The height of mid-80s technology. The point being that remastering it to 24/96 on SACD is pointless upscaling because it was a 16/48 digital recording! DSD mastering for SACD only makes sense for analog recordings.
Interesting point! My take on releasing “A Secret Wish” on SACD was just to get out a 5.1 mix. At the time there was a kind of battle between formats, SACD vs DVD-Audio, but I don’t think anyone was using regular DVDs or blu-ray to distribute surround mix audio. (I could be wrong…)
Mathmandan – Yes, the 5.1 mix was definitely the calling card for “A Secret Wish” on SACD, since the masters were at 16/48 resolution.
I was after a couple of Talk Talk albums on SACD but prices were way beyond my league, then I realised that the vinyl reissues came with DVD-As for less than £20! I was very happy to buy vinyl on that occasion:)
SimonH – DVD-A can be compressed 24/96 data whereas the SACD was uncompressed, but that loses relevance when discussing the difference between £20 and £150!
Colour of Spring sounds amazing, I know it very well so any difference is very noticeable!
Were you aware of the Japan SACDs? Not a new mastering but Polariods and Tin Drum sound excellent to my ears.
chasinvictoria says:
Regarding your question about Les, I have a few tidbits of info. Apparently they still have a business relationship but are (maybe?) no longer together. He was still with her as late as 2007, but at some point he took an interest in drumming and went off to India, where he may or may not still be. Lene’s current drummer is a big bald guy (Morgan King) who serves as emcee and bandleader, but is not Les (very confusingly!). I can’t help but think that’s her little joke.
chasinvictoria – Gott in himmel! Where did you find this factoid out? I’ve been searching for word of Les Chappell ever since LL re-emerged from the fog of obscurity years back and there’s nothing out there that I could find! Obviously, he’s all over the last album [“Shadows + Dust” – 2005], but while she’s played gigs in more recent years, no new music has happened. I sort of suspected that Les had died and the financial need may have spurred LL to return to live duty; but that was just a theory.
Thombeau says:
I love all things Lene and “No Man’s Land” is my favorite album of hers. And one of my favorite albums in general! I originally bought it on cassette when it first came out and I seem to recall an instrumental version of “It’s You” at the end. According to Discogs it was a dub version, which makes sense as that was a thing back then. I remember having a number of cassettes that had instrumental and dub versions tacked on to fill up space. Anyway, thanks for giving this terrific album its due!
Thombeau – Yow! I had no idea that Lene ever had any of the “cassette bonus tracks” so prevalent in the early 80s. From the timing, it looks like the same dub track on the 12″ but do you know if the mixes on the UK and US 12″ are identical or not? I’ve seen some suggestion that in spite of their similar running times, that they were not.
I have no idea. I don’t actually remember it sounding very “dub”, just instrumental. But I’ve lost a lot of brain cells since then.
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New Delhi, September 16: With 1,000 PhD scholarships for ASEAN students in India’s Indian Institutes of Technology or IITs, New Delhi on Monday formally announced its largest capacity development initiative for ASEAN countries. The total budget outlay of the scholarship programme is Rs 300 crore and the first batch of ASEAN students will be admitted in January 2020.
India’s External Affair Minister S Jaishankar said, “Our partnership with ASEAN is built on the foundation of shared values. The most fundamental of which is the priority our civilization attaches to education and science. Our partnership with ASEAN has historically developed through a shared quest for knowledge”.
The maximum tenure of each fellowship is five years with Rs 31,000 stipend for the first two years and Rs 35,000 for the next three years. A research grant of Rs 1,70,000 will be given for travel, books, etc. The funding covers the entire cost of study and living expenses for up to five years of the PhD programme.
ASEAN envoys have lauded the initiative. Thai Envoy to India, Chutintorn Sam Gongsakdi speaking to WION said, “It’s a great initiative and a very generous one. It comes at the right time, I just came from Bangkok where we were talking about IIT campus in Thailand and next week I am going to Israel. So IIT very well fits in the modern context. India is one of the leading countries in technologies”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had first announced the initiative at the 25th anniversary of ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit in New Delhi in January 2018. IIT Delhi has been designated by the Ministry of Human Resources Development as the coordinating IIT for the fellowship programme and one can go to the web portal —http://asean.iitd.ac.in–to administer the application and admission process.
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Reports are surfacing of a dangerous and disturbing new trend amongst young Millennials. Not content with eating dishwasher capsules, or ‘pods’ as they are known to the thousands of addicted youth, the new game in town appears to be that of cutting off one’s own legs.
Youth service workers are calling the spate of leg cutting as a ‘desperate cry for help from young people whose needs and desires have been criminally ignored by the capitalist state and the sins of the patriarchal society to which we are beholden’. More moderate commenters on the spate of lower limb bloodletting describe it as ‘a bunch of nutters who must be off their heads on pods’.
Not really believing that such acts were even possible I ventured into the seedy bowels of Morley High School in Perth, Western Australia, where I spoke on condition of anonymity with some of these young people who have been sucked into the desperate trap of leg cutting addiction.
I was led down a long alley to an abandoned library, the smell of old books heavy in the air. Even though it was long disused I still felt a sharp pang of fear that an elderly librarian was going to accost me for photocopying pages out of early Eric Van Lustbader novels. There in the bowels of the dusty room that used to host a chess club I met “John”.
He was perched on a chair, the bloody stumps that were once his legs jutting out like half finished cigars. He offered me a pod, Finish to be exact – a good brand, but I turned it down and lit a cigarette. I asked him how it all started.
“The others used to meet behind the woodwork shed,” he told me. “We was wondering what they were doing, ’cause they were all the cool kids. We went down there one day when we cut our gender studies class, which was easy ’cause all ya have to do is to say that you identify as a toilet bowl and they let you go no questions asked.
“So we went down there, and it started off all simple like. Just shit like cutting our toenails, stuff like that. They were getting us in early, sucking us in. And then one thing led to another and before you knew it you were cutting off your own legs.”
“All at once?” I asked.
“Nah, just a bit at a time. But you start getting desperate at one point because you start to realise that you’re running out of legs. Things get really bad when you get above the knees.”
“What are you going to do now?”
He shook his head, his dirty matted hair cutting into his eyes. “I don’t know, man, I don’t know. Some other kids are talking about cutting their arms but I don’t want to go there. How would I play X Box?”
Then he leaned forward and grabbed my shirt. “Don’t tell my folks, okay? They’ll be right pissed if they find out.”
Local police representative Harry Whitler declared that the police were not going to stand for anyone found cutting off their own legs. “These idiots have to cut it out,” he declared. “We have a new crack leg cutting unit going around. We’ll find them and then they’ll be sorry. We’re not going to put up with this delinquent behavior. It’s a really racist thing to do and the local Somali community are terrified. They reckon that they’ll be next.”
I tried to ask him what Somalis had to do with moronic Mellinnials cutting off their own legs but he threatened to plant toenail clippers on me if I didn’t stop asking awkward questions.
Meanwhile on the troubled streets of Perth, danger waits on every corner. Under a dim streetlamp lurks a figure on crutches. As I walk by he whispers the name of a known kitchen appliance brand and he opens his coat to display a range of scissors and pen knives. I hurry on by, my heart catching in my throat. It would all be so easy; just one quick slice to see what it was like, nothing more. But we all know where that would lead – the perils of addiction.
I quicken my pace up the street to my hotel, my coat pocket heavy with the elicit copy of The Ninja that I liberated from the old library that very afternoon. Hopefully its gory tales would keep me safe from the lure of that first cut.
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How could you make fun of this sad and dangerous social malady Adam, >>wash your mouth out.
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What these people need is something that gives meaning and purpose to their life. A real community. Maybe something like neighborhoods, family, marriage, kids, a country and culture of their own, church? Perhaps precisely what the leftists have stripped away from Western society over the past fifty years?
It was religion that gave people something to look forward to; marriage, family, and culture that gave them something to work for. That is all gone. Now it’s all about having fun and it isn’t that fun when you realize that you have nothing that matters.
Leg cutting is only the start of it … they can end up brain dead and have to be eunthanised:
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You’re a funny man Adam. Very clever. Nice satire.
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By EJAJ
When we finally have a super-fast quantum internet, you’ll simultaneously like and dislike this blogging post. But we don’t yet. So I hope you like it. Now we are in the age of information or data. No longer are economies and industries solely characterized by the physical products they produce for customers. Of course, a number of the biggest companies in the world produce no physical products at all. Digital information could be a commodity in its title.
Needs of Quantum internet
The digital economy worldwide is essentially based on different cryptographic processes. Such processes operate in the realm of classical cryptography, but this will saturate the process. Quantum cryptographic methods and algorithms will be the only option then.
Designing a protocol is one thing, and creating a system to support it is entirely something else. To know more about it, we’d like to urge the foundations of quantum physics – we need to speak about quantum information theory.
First, In plain-old classical information theory, we do the study of the creation, storage, and transmission of data, in the form of classical bits, 1’s and 0’s.
Classical information theory
Claude Shannon began it all along with his 1948 paper “A Mathematical theory of communication,” which quantified the speed of transmission of digital information. We can transmit digital data without error if a given amount of noise is present in the communication channel. Information theory has since blossomed into a full modern science, by connecting the concept of information and certain fundamentals of quantum physics, like entropy and quantum theory.
Quantum information theory parallels classical information theory, but rather than using classical bits. It deals with bits of quantum information, which is qubits. Qubits enjoy all of the weirdness of quantum physics – they can be in a superposition of the many states at once, defined if they’re measured, two qubits can entangle with one another, so both of their states we can determine when one is measured. They can even be part of teleportation.
Restrictions of qubits
Qubits are subject to some fundamental restrictions. Those restrictions, on top of all the weirdness, define the challenge of transmitting and storing quantum information using quantum bits. But first, a reminder of why we wish to muck around with quantum info in the first place.
First, there’s the entire quantum computer thing – in those, the power for a qubit to carry many simultaneous states can result in massive speed-ups in certain computing forms. Partly motivated by the cryptographic-cracking power of the quantum computer, we also want to consider a quantum internet.
Quantum cryptographic key distribution for sharing cryptographic keys, will be way more secure than classical counterparts. But these only work if you can send entangled quantum states between parties – meaning transmitting qubits over long distances perfectly intact.
Challenges of the quantum internet
So ultimately, what’s preventing us from just fitting these networks and getting on with it? We can already send digital data in the forms of photons of light very long distances using lasers or fiber optics – and those photons are pretty quantum.
The problem is that to transmit quantum information, we’ve to concentrate on individual photons – quanta of light. When we transmit classical information using light, we do encode each data with many photons, and lots of are often lost or altered on the way without compromising the signal. If too many photons are lost, you can just run the channel through a repeater or signal booster, which reads the signal and boosts it with extra added photons.
No cloning theorem
It’s much harder to transmit and receive a single photon in a way that perfectly maintains their actual quantum state. And it’s fundamentally impossible to boost that signal by duplicating those photons with their actual state. It is merely because of the no-cloning theorem. It says, “You can’t pick a quantum state and replicate it exactly the same, and end up with two identical copies of the same quantum state that exist simultaneously.”
It has a connection with the law of conservation of quantum information. It comes from the fact that each quantum state in the universe must be entirely traceable – single quantum state to only quantum state – both forwards and backward in time. That prohibits a quantum state vanishing, but also splitting in two or being replicated.
The no-cloning theorem implies that as soon as you are trying to read a qubit, which you have to do to create the copy, you disturb the state in such a way that you will never end up with two exact replicas of the same quantum state. Plus, even if you could copy it, you wouldn’t be able to transmit an entangled quantum state because the act of reading in the state to copy it might destroy the entanglement through a phenomenon called decoherence.
While it’s impossible to repeat a qubit, it’s possible to overwrite one – and we can overwrite it with precisely the same state but in a very completely different location. In other words, we can teleport qubits. This process doesn’t allow faster-than-light communication nor teleportation of actual matter, because a traditional, sub-light-speed channel is still needed to extract the data. But quantum information theory does will enable us to massively extend the range over which we can send a perfectly intact qubit.
No copying or boosting needed.
Consider it this way: Two people, such as Jack and Joe, are connected by a classical channel and a quantum channel. The classical channel may be anything – a fiber optic cable, a telegraph wire, the pony Express, whatever, while the quantum channel needs to carry intact quantum states – so it’s probably fiber optics. A pair of entangled quantum particles are generated, and Jack and Joe receive one each via the quantum channel. Jack has qubit A, and Joe has qubit B.
Now, say Jack wants to send a message to Joe, which is stored as the state of a 3rd qubit – qubit C. That will be only 1 bit of information, but you may always use more qubits. Jack executes a specific type of measurement on its qubits are known as bell measurements to send that message.
Performing this test on A and C at the same time interferes with these qubits, thus eliminates the interferences between A and B. However, qubit B then must be in whatever state C was in before the measurement.
Let’s look at a more concrete example – although I’ve got to mention that this can be way oversimplified. Qubit A and qubit B could be the polarization states of two photons. We can entangle them to have opposite polarization, say one is vertical, and the other is horizontal. Measure one, and you immediately know the opposite. Now Jack takes photon A and entangles it with photon C employing a Bell measurement so that now A and C have opposite polarization qubits. Photon B, which was opposite to A, must now be the identical polarization because the original photon C. At now, the initial quantum state of photon C, which contains the message, has been almost wholly teleported to photon B.
The reason it’s an incomplete explanation is that there’s more to the quantum state of C than merely the aspect of polarization fixed by the entanglement. The remaining information of the quantum state is obtained by observing the result of the method that generated the entanglement.
This measurement result is encoded in two classical bits that Jack sends to Joe along the conventional channel.
Joe will then calibrate a calculation of his own qubit B using the information in those two bits, after which the qubit would be the state of qubit C was at the beginning.
A minor technical caveat is that we are only using photonic qubits. It is not very easy to perform a Bell measurement, which will give all of the data we need for this final step, but all of this is often definitely possible with matter qubits. Combined with a quantum key distribution protocol, this could provide a mechanism for secure communication. It may be used to transmit quantum information over longer distances than we could generally send entangled particles.
Repeaters are present along the quantum channel between Jack and Joe. Jack performs the above trick with the closest repeater. That repeater communicates with the subsequent repeater, so on until we reach Joe – who should still get a duplicate of the original qubit C. In theory, this may be done without the quantum channel ever becoming un-quantum. Which implies it stays secure.
OK, sounds easy. But there are complications. It’s pretty much impossible to do all the transmissions, entanglements, and measurements in perfect synchrony. Quantum states should somehow be stored – by Jack, by Joe, and by the repeaters in between. It means transferring a quantum state between a photon and a matter particle – say, an electron whose up or down spin direction will be entangled with the photon’s polarization state.
But storing delicate quantum states for any length of time is tough work – especially if you don’t want expensive, supercooled devices. After all, experimentalists have come up with a variety of ingenious solutions, starting from storing entangled photon quantum states in a cloud of cesium atoms, a form of a quantum atomic disc drive, or the spin-state of one electron in a nitrogen atom embedded in the diamond crystal.
Suppose we can maintain the entangled states for long periods. In that case, it should be possible for two people to carry a vast array of mutually entangled qubits, which they may use to communicate by exchanging classical Bell measurement data. It might even be done between many individuals in a centralized node – a sort of quantum switchboard. There are proposals for removing the need for physical storage altogether, with repeaters that are entirely photonic.
These are great because they’re much faster than repeaters that need to transfer quantum states between photons and matter particles. So the current state of the art is that entangled quantum states have been transmitted with photons using fiber optics and lasers.
Some researchers have even succeeded in bouncing entangled photons off a satellite. These photons can then transfer their entangled states into a range of matter storage systems, which can eventually serve as repeaters to increase the range and connect a network of these quantum channels. Reliability and speed aren’t where we need them to be, but the progress is fast.
We currently sleep in the information age, but it’s a classical modern era. We’ve gotten pretty far sending streams of 1’s and 0’s around the world. Still, suppose we could build genuinely quantum networks. In that case, we’ll even be able to create the following generation of cryptographic protocols, distributed quantum computers, and achieve new levels of atomic clock synchronization and extreme precision in our interferometric telescopes.
The quantum information age is knocking our door. I’m guessing we’ll go with “quantum age” – because the quantum internet enables us to take advantage of the incredible properties of our quantum space-time.
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The Tao, Synchronicity and Self-Discovery with Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Psychiatrist and author of The Tao of Psychology (Harper & Row 1979), Jean Bolen talks about the role of synchronicity in our lives, and ways we can open to new experiences freely. Living with heart and grace comes through as she shares her profound glimpse of the Tao and the nature of our connection with All. (hosted by Michael Toms)
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known speaker. She is a former board member of the Ms. Foundation, an advocate for a 5th UN World Conference on Women, a convener of the Millionth Circle Initiative, as well as a permanent representative to the UN representing the NGO, Pathways to Peace.
She's the author of many books, including:
Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives (Harper Paperbacks 2004)
Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women (Red Wheel/Weiser 2003)
The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World--The Essential Guide to Women's Circles (Conari Press 1999)
Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World (Conari Press 2008)
Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet (Conari Press 2010)
Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman (Conari Press 2014)
The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self (reissued HarperSanFrancisco 2005)
Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness as a Soul Journey (Conari Press 2007)
To learn more about Jean Shinoda Bolen go to www.jeanbolen.com
Host: Michael Toms Interview Date: 5/14/1980 Program Number: 1519
A Firefighter's Wisdom - Keep Calm And Carry On with Hersch Wilson
Firefighter Wisdom For Tough Times with Hersch Wilson
Our Multiplicity of Selves with James Fadiman, Ph.D. and Jordan Gruber, J.D.
Creating Freedom with James Fadiman, Ph.D.
The Active Process Of Effective Prayer with Guy Finley
Tapping Into The Powerful Resource of Effective Prayer With Guy Finley
Spiritual Maintenance In Crazy Times with Philip Goldberg
Safe, Stable and Sane Spiritual Practices in Crazy Times with Philip Goldberg
Enhancing Our Health And Well-Being By Touching The Earth with Laura Koniver, M.D.
The Restorative Powers of Connecting with the Earth with Laura Koniver, M.D.
Wagner’s Ring Cycle In Our Lives with Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
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