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Eva Green ELLE Russia (May 2015) Interview : Elle Beauty Heroine
G / April 16, 2015 / 3 Comments
EVA GREEN’S BIGGEST MYSTERY
Uniqueness is a special edge of her talent. Eva Green first attracted the attention of the audiences with her bold scenes in the legendary Bertolucci’s “The Dreamers”. And she was remembered. Till this day she has to fend off journalists with questions about her demonstrative nudity in the film. “Yes, I filmed something that was nearly a porn scene! But the film isn’t about that! The erotica in the film is a tool, which demonstrates the liberation of the antagonists from social taboos, the film is about 1968, about the revolution in people’s minds.”
So Eva doesn’t like discussing this topic. Anyway, international fame found her after the role of Vesper Lynd, a Bond girl, in “Casino Royale”. She followed it up with gothic and mysterious roles in “The Golden Compass” and “Franklyn”, and with a femme fatale role in “Sin City 2”. In the TV show “Penny Dreadful”, she exorcises the Devil and fights vampires. Why this choice of roles? She thinks it’s the “best way to liberate one’s self”. She feels the need to transform even during photoshoots. She can be a pin-up girl, a real lady, a seductive creation of the dark forces – anyone, really! Even her last name has been changed due to circumstances: it’s pronounced “Green” in English, but it actually sounds as “Grayne”, as her Father is a Swede. Eva’s also not a brunette but a natural blonde. Even in her soul she’s a little infantile, modest and fearful. But she dyed her hair and became a vamp, which she doesn’t regret.
ELLE: Is there anything we don’t know about you?
Eva Green: I often play confident and powerful women. People think that I’m like that in real life too. Labeling people is habitual but I’m a closed-off and shy person. This is why during photo sessions I try to be bolder and I choose eccentric and dramatic looks for my red carpet outings like Galliano and McQueen, which I love, and which have a certain level of oomph, but I try to avoid this type of escapades in real life.
ELLE: What are your everyday clothes?
EG: Black leggings, biker boots and a cool t-shirt, for example.
ELLE: How do you feel when people closely watch you and judge you?
EG: At first I had panic attacks! But as outings in the spotlight became more frequent, I started to be more confident. You don’t need special skills for that. You just need to understand why you’re getting the attention and be proud of a job well-done. I concentrate by listening to classical music. During shoots I often listen to Chopin.
ELLE: You always look flawless on the red carpet! What are some of your favorite looks of other stars?
EG: Cate Blanchett! She is very elegant. It shows that she feels comfortable in anything she wears. There is no impression that a stylist has chosen her outfit and made her wear it. Cate and I don’t know each other but if I ever meet her, I’d love to personally compliment her. But I’d faint from admiration first!
ELLE: So you’re her fan?
EG: Of course! And I’m also Leonardo DiCaprio’s fan. When I was younger, a photographer friend of mine arranged for a job during the shooting of “Man in the Iron mask”. I was serving coffee and it was my first experience in the film industry. At the time, I had just watched “Romeo+Juliet” and liked DiCaprio. And then I saw him work and I fell in love completely.
ELLE: Your mom was also an actress. Does she give you any style tips?
EG: She thinks I choose some weird hairstyles but she always praises my choice of gowns. She had red carpet outings during the 60’s and the 70’s (Eva’s Mom is Marlène Jobert, a French actress of Algerian descent), but back then everything was different.
ELLE: You have a twin sister.
EG: Yes, but we’re nothing alike.
ELLE: Tell us about your youth!
EG: When I studied in a Parisian school, I always organized unique fashion-outings. I wore Indian-style jewelry on my hair, matched my eyeshadow to my maroon coat, and dyed my blonde hair black. I still have that need to express myself through style as I’m not very eloquent.
ELLE: Do you have the desire to turn back into a blonde?
EG: No, I know that a warm dark color suits me more. It compliments my coloring and looks natural. I always dye my hair that particular shade before I start working for a new film. Thankfully, now I can address L’Oréal Professionnel professionals and they can recommend me a hair salon anywhere in the world.
ELLE: Why did you agree to represent a hair care brand?
EG: L’Oréal Professionnel is a quality product. I used these products when I was still a teen. Plus, the brand is directly associated with fashion. Professional hairstylists use their products during fashion events and create trends in hairstyling. Finally, it’s just pleasant to cooperate with people who are immersed in the work.
ELLE: Do you have any favorite products?
EG: My hair is constantly being styled, heated and colored. This is why I use the Absolut Repair Lipidium shampoo and conditioner from the Serie Expert line and apply Mythic Oil before blowdrying my hair. The health of my hair is really important to me. My look can change from film to film, but my mane has to be in perfect condition. I also like the new products Wet Domination: Extreme Splash for straight hair and Shower Shine for a wet-hair look. I love dramatic looks!
ELLE: What has changed in your life in the last 10 years?
EG: I’m the same. I always wanted to work with talented people and the best scriptwriters. Nothing has changed in this respect. I have been lucky to work with such directors as Tim Burton and Bernardo Bertolucci. Thanks to this, I’ve gained self-confidence and the opportunity to be choosy about my roles. By the way, Tim Burton and I have a new film coming out soon “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”. The film has a brilliant script and I’m happy to be working with Tim again.
ELLE: How do you find the balance between life and work?
EG: I love my profession. A job you love is never too much work.
ELLE: What do you do in your spare time?
EG: I watch films, listen to the opera, take long walks in the fresh air and dine out in great restaurants.
ELLE: Can you describe yourself in three words?
EG: It’s hard for me to do it myself but it would be interesting to hear other people’s opinion on me.
Thank you to our friend Ani for translating the interview!
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3 Responses to “Eva Green ELLE Russia (May 2015) Interview : Elle Beauty Heroine”
Eva Green, baby-doll, there are no adjective fabulous enough to describe you. You are wonderfully inspiring and represent woman in such an empowering fashion whilst remaining grounded. Change nothing. Ever.
Bea Sobreira Says:
I totally agree with you Jackie! What a wonderful interview with Eva! Thank you for translating, Ani and thank you to the staff of egw.net for doing an excellent job here on the site and keeping news fresh!
Talented, smart and kind person, a perfect person! These are the three adjectives describing you the most, Eva! ♥ Stay strong in this industry, I’m so glad that you always stay true to yourself 🙂
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Jumeirah Carlton Tower is based in the heart of Knightsbridge, offering visitors and locals alike a 5-star haven in the centre of London’s most luxurious area. Surrounded by all the top designer shops, quaint gated parks and Michelin starred restaurants, it’s the perfect place to enjoy a summer stay in London. I experienced their heavenly Peak Health Club & Spa for a 60-minute Mohom massage. Upon entry, everything promotes tranquility and zen, which in the busy metropolis we live in, is a real luxury. Their soft white robes and slippers make you feel comfortable from the outset and thei...
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The Blueprint café has added a Saturday brunch menu to its offering, serving up breakfast classics and light meals alongside its already popular menu of contemporary dining dishes.
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TOZI we're told translates as 'hanging out with friends' - and this chilled Italian restaurant and bar in London’s Victoria (within the Park Plaza Hotel) specialising in Venetian cicchetti (small plates) and classic Italian cocktails certainly lives up to its name. All the dishes at TOZI are inspired by the casual dining ethos of the Veneto region, putting emphasis on quality and seasonal ingredients that are all sourced from Italian producers.
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This summer, for 6 weeks, Free Range Shows will showcase some of Britain’s most innovative and compelling up and coming artists and designers in Brick Lane free of charge. Now in its fifteenth year, Free Range Shows has grown in prominence becoming a key diary feature for the creative industry to observe the works of the future creative elite. Each week a different discipline from fashion, design, photography, art, interior design and architecture is given its chance to shine within the walls of The Old Truman Brewery
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Originally deriving from Berlin, woodruff syrup (made from a herbaceous plant and has a distinctive electric green hue and a strong aromatic fragrance) is a relatively unknown cocktail ingredient in the UK, that is being used increasingly by bartenders to bring a sweet, fresh flavour to drinks. In Berlin it is used to flavour wine, beer and even sausages. We went along to Primo Bar at The Westminster Park Plaza on the Southbank to check out some cocktails featuring this new ingredient. We ordered the two seasonal 'woodruff' specials,Spring Awakening and Coral Reef.
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Kettner’s has lived. Surviving four kings and a queen, the blitz, several booms and more than a few busts, Kettner’s has seen it all and is an integral part of the vibrant, glamorous and debauched Soho we know and love today. We went along to sample the new brasserie menu and ordered a glass of champagne (would be rude not to in the home of fizz) and a black Russian whilst we browsed the extensive offerings. Both of us decided to skip starters though they were tempting, especially the Dorset crab “on toast” with lemon and mayonnaise, the baked goat’s cheese beetroot marmalade and the warm s...
EAST VILLAGE LIVING: Ravinder Bhogal hosts ShareEast Supperclub
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I was astounded when I entered East Village. I hadn’t visited since the 2012 Olympics when the area was buzzing with sporting camaraderie and patriotic pride. With the Brits cleaning up at the big sporting event, Stratford was propelled into the spotlight as the latest London area to be seen. Luckily the trend has continued long after the gold medals have been handed out and the former athletes village has been converted into a neighbourhood of its own, with a range of stunning flats, independent restaurants, shops and so much green area you might actually believe you’ve left the capital. A...
SEA CONTAINERS: Lazy brunching along the South Bank
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Sea Containers restaurant, located in Mondrian London on the South Bank, is now offering weekend brunch. Culinary director and award winning chef Seamus Mullen (of Tertulia in New York) has devised the new menu to include a blend of his signature light and healthy plates as well as heartier options. Known for his inventive flavours and emphasis on real, whole foods, Seamus launched Sea Containers in October 2014 in Mondrian London.
DANDELYAN: Divine cocktails on the South Bank
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Mondrian London is the first ever Mondrian branded boutique hotel outside of the United States. Designed by Tom Dixon, the new hotel houses a bar from the team that brought you White Lyan - recently crowned 'Best New Bar in the World' - a bar inspired by the best of British and transatlantic botany brought into the modern day. Ryan Chetiyawardana (A.K.A Mr Lyan) is known as an innovator and has been involved in several of the UK's best bars for over a decade, Dandelyan being no exception. Dandelyan bar is a sumptuous, rich yet intimate bar on the ground floor of Mondrian London offering views ...
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Ken Neat
North East Online League
Ken Neat 10th January 2021 0
Apologies for this delayed update…
The winners of the first NE Online League, which concluded before Christmas, were:
Division 1 – Durham City A; Division 2 – Durham City B; Division 3 (C) – Tynedale / Forest Hall D; Division 3 (D) – Gosforth Ivy.
The new league, starting on 19th January, will comprise 4 divisions of 6 teams each.
Ken Neat 2nd November 2020 0
Here are the results of the first two rounds:
Gosforth Empire 1 Durham City A 3; Jesmond 3 Durham University 1; Forest Hall A 3½ Tynemouth & Morpeth A ½.
Durham City A 2½ Durham University 1½; Tynemouth & Morpeth A 2 Jesmond 2; Gosforth Empire 2½ Forest Hall A 1½.
Durham City B 2 Thornaby 2; Forest Hall C 2 Forest Hall B 2; Tynemouth & Morpeth B 2½ Newcastle University 1½.
Thornaby 1 Newcastle University 3; Forest Hall B 1 Tynemouth & Morpeth B 3; Durham City B 4 Forest Hall C 0.
Division 3 Prelim Group A
Bishop Auckland B 2½ Bishop Auckland A 1½; Billingham Synthonia 1 Tynedale 3.
Bishop Auckland A 1½ Tynedale 2½; Bishop Auckland B 2½ Billingham Synthonia 1½.
Division 3 Prelim Group B
Forest Hall D 3 Durham City C 1; Gosforth Ivy 3½ Tynemouth & Morpeth C ½.
Durham City C 1 Tynemouth & Morpeth C 3; Forest Hall D 3 Gosforth Ivy 1.
Full details are on the ECF League Management System website:
https://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/62801/home
NCA Individual Tournaments
Ken Neat 2nd October 2020 0
David Walker is organising an online competition on behalf of the Northumberland Chess Association. There are three sections:
Under 2000 ECF rating
Players must be current or former residents of Northumberland or Durham. They must also be ECF members at Supporter level or above.
The competition has 7 rounds, starting 24 October 2020 and finishing by 2 April 2021. Games will be played on lichess at a rate of 60 minutes per game plus a 15 second increment.
For more details, see this document:
https://northumberlandchess.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/NCA-Online-Rules-i1d1.pdf
For free entry, email championships@northumberlandchess.com with the following details. Closing date for entries is 23 October 2020.
ECF membership number
Lichess handle
Section entered
Ken Neat 19th September 2020 0
Tim Wall has proposed a North East Online League.
Proposed North East Online League 2020
Northumberland Congress cancelled
North Tyneside Council have advised that the congress cannot go ahead against the background of the latest North East lockdown measures. A great disappointment for the organiser Mick Riding after all his hard work.
North v. South Match
Ken Neat 9th September 2020 0
In the online match on 5th September between the North of England and the South, the first such contest since 1894, the North, captained by Mick Riding, scored a convincing 62-45 win. Several Durham players took part, and the results, plus an online commentary by Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan, can be found on the ECF website:
https://www.englishchess.org.uk/the-online-north-v-south-challenge-2020/
Ken Neat 26th August 2020 0
This is going ahead over the weekend of 25-27 September, and has already attracted 39 entries. https://northumberlandchesscongress.webs.com/
North v. South Challenge
From Mick Riding:
On September 5 we have the opportunity to take part in a historic rematch between North and South, the first since 1894.
To join just click on https://www.chess.com/club/ecf-north
For the background stuff go to https://www.englishchess.org.uk/online-north-v-south-challenge-2020/
The occasion is about participating. Of course it’s nice if you’re a 200+ ECF player, but us lesser mortals need not worry. The match will look to pair people up as closely as possible to their playing strength – so there’s room for all.
The only prerequisite is ECF membership. Be aware most expire end August. So if you haven’t renewed please do – or at least sign up as a Supporter (£10) which can later be upgraded to membership – and your £10 will counts towards membership.
DCCA Online League
With over-the-board chess unlikely to resume in the near future, for the coming season it is planned to arrange the DCCA League as an online event, with two divisions and teams of four. Details will be circulated early in September.
ECF Online County Championships
Northumberland are the winners of the first ever ECF Online County Championships! With the help of a few Durham-based players who have competed in the Northumberland League, they defeated Lincolnshire 8½-3½ in the final. Here is the link to the ECF website: https://www.englishchess.org.uk/online-counties-championships-2020-finals/
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tower of god voice actors english
JT: If it’s a specific voice, I’ll record a reference for myself. I can’t wait until we can safely return to the studio, but I’m glad we have a way to continue working in the meantime. JYB: I had no idea, I still don’t fully know because I haven’t been to any conventions since the shut down.That’s how I usually find out. His choice of clothing was that of most test examiners: a white lab coat with black trousers and gloves. I just used Hela from “Thor: Ragnarok” for inspiration! Read more information about the character Ha Yuri Jahad from Kami no Tou? TV Show: Tower of God My following sessions were all work-from-home. Keep reading to learn more about how working on Tower of God from home has been along with their overall acting process! We’re generally not hearing what the other actors in the scene did, so we have to just take the information given and use it to create a convincing performance. A lot of us voice actors consider ourselves to be introverted. Here's All Characters Voice Actors of Kami no Tou: Tower of God Who's your best character ? Whether it be wealth, fame, authority, or something that surpasses them allâeverything awaits those who reach the top. Tower of God is one of this seasonâs best anime. Being a voice actor is important to me, but so are those relationships being a daughter or a sister. Digital comics in LINE Webtoon, updated every Sunday. Itou, Shizuka: Phonsekal, Laure. Endosi’s voice is a mix of the sweet girl next door character, plus I have done voices for military women, so I was able to draw on that. Their stories are totally different but I felt the same vulnerability of both characters during the first record session of each. After graduating from the Amusement Media Research Institute, he joined the talent agency 81 Produce.. JYB: It’s hugely different and the challenges are different every time as well. If that makes sense? Of course we listen to the original performance for each line in Japanese and use that as a baseline for then recording the line in English. As an actor, you can’t let it distract you. When I saw the full list I was so excited to be working with the other voice actors. I’m using a walk-in closet as my studio now, and I also highly recommend a Portabooth. But some days I feel like being more like Yuri! JA: How have prior roles of yours, both in and out of anime dubbing, informed your current roles, particularly those in Tower of God? JT: Anime does present its own challenge; no other projects need you to match the timing so perfectly. KB: There wasn’t a whole lot of information on the anime yet at the time I auditioned, but it seemed that the Webtoon had a very devoted fanbase. 43 images of the Tower of God cast of characters. A new location for #Phasmophobia ? Read Tower of God, List1 Now! I certainly did! Does it present unique challenges? TV Show: Tower of God If you can’t enjoy the acting, don’t get into voice acting. JT: You can’t pour into someone else’s life until you pour into yourself. Tower of God is a world-famous manhwa (Korean manga) series, and we got to speak with the Japanese voice actors bringing Bam and Rachel to life, Taichi Ichikawa and Saori Hayami. He is somewhat inquisitive about people. It’s a massive undertaking for them and one I’m incredibly grateful for. We'd like to thank the actors for taking the time to chat with us - Tower of God is streaming weekly on Crunchyroll. You had some of the most memorable characters in the films that were just animals making sounds…except those weren’t animals. We’re still telling stories and playing pretend like any other person on stage or screen, but you just can’t see our faces. This section details all of the Regulars currently known in Tower of God. JYB: To get into the headspace of your characters? To help fans get familiar with SIU's manhwa adaptation, they sat down with the voice actors from the upcoming anime, namely Taichi Ichikawa and Saori Hayami! Tower of God (Korean: ì ì í; RR: Sin-ui Tap) is a South Korean manhwa released as a webtoon written and illustrated by S.I.U. Valerie Rose Lohman is the English dub voice of Rachel in Tower of God, and Saori Hayami is the Japanese voice. Or were they completely alien to you? And there you have it, the Tower of God talent’s side of things. It just makes it that much quieter so you don’t hear my neighbor’s Elton John. JYB: It actually felt a little alien to me but I’m not sure if that was simply because of all that was going on with Covid. Find out more with MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Tower of God has been very well received, did you have any inkling of how popular it would be when you read the scripts? You just have to work with what you got! An animated fantasy adventure like little else on television right now. A few weeks ago, Crunchyroll announced the cast of the seriesâ English dub. MyAnimeList is the largest online anime and manga database in the world! 2020 Geek Girl Authority. JT: Everything that I did in the past helps inform me now. There are also specific body motions or positions I do with certain characters. Reach the top, and everything will be yours. Not only did they release the two new key visuals, but they also announced the voice cast for Bam, Rachel, and Headon. Our friends at Crunchyroll have been kind enough to hook us up with four or the English voice cast for the incredibly popular original series, Tower of God. She is a strong orc warrior who fights to protect those she loves even after death. JT: “Tower of God” hadn’t been dubbed yet and I know that sometimes the subtitled show can be popular when the dub doesn’t get the same attention. Trent Mills is the English dub voice of Lero Ro in Tower of God, and Kenjiro Tsuda is the Japanese voice. CH: At this point, I think most people know me as Dimitri from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/geek-girl-authority-crush-of-the-week-draka/, Looking Streets Behind: COMMUNITY's 'Mixology Certification' Do you have a message for your fans during this difficult time? Anime is very technical! CH: We really don’t get scripts beforehand so I didn’t know a whole lot about the show at the beginning. Check out which anime shares the same voice cast! But I’m really proud of the work all of us did, and I hope everyone watching likes it too. Catch up on our Tower of God recaps here! Because everything is generally so fast-paced, you rely a lot on instinct, which is a big part of why it’s so important to be a trained actor if you want to get into voiceover. JA: What do you do, if anything, to get “in character” for your roles? JT: It’s hard. KB: I had a lot of fun with the scene where Yuri meets Bam for the first time. Jeannie Tirado (Endorsi Jahad): Amazon has been my best friend. Crunchyroll really chose the heavy hitters for this show. The series is currently available with English subtitles. However, when I saw the full cast, I knew it was going to be great! CH: In general, it’s always about learning what makes the character/person tick and what made them who they are. KB: Since voice acting is generally “cold reading” (we’re seeing the script for the first time as we’re actually working), there are a few things I rely on. It has been serialized in Naver Corporation's webtoon platform Naver Webtoon since June 30, 2010, with the individual chapters collected and published by Young Com into four volumes as of June 2020. What was your favorite response? Jane-Michelle Yakumo Auman is GGA's resident anime fan, she's committed to providing unique insight on anime from a trans perspective. In Fire Emblem, I had to match the timing but not the flaps [when the mouths of the characters move]. KB: I guess you could say I play a lot of characters with personality types similar to Yuri. The biggest hurdle is the occasional lag in streaming picture to match lip movements. Ross founded the UK Anime Network waaay back in 1995 and works in and around the anime world in his spare time. Did you learn anything interesting about voice acting as an art form? The voice talents of Taichi Ichikawa, Saori Hayami and Hochu Otsuka will all be featured in the anime. Kira Buckland (Yuri Jahad): I was already doing a fair amount of voiceover work from home before the pandemic happened, but dubbing from home was an entirely new challenge because we have to match the video in real-time, and nobody was really set up for that from home. Chris Hackney plays Khun Aguero Agnes (right) and Jeannie Tirado plays Endorsi Jahad (left). Every character is their own person, so finding the inner thought process in them as to why they’re feeling and saying a certain thing really informs me I think more than it does anything. More hype was starting to build for the series at the time we were recording, so I was a bit nervous hoping to do the character justice! At the top of the tower ⦠TV Show: Tower of God Johnny Yong Bosch (Twenty-fifth Bam): Because of my band I’ve collected pieces of music gear for over 15 yrs. Xander Mobus is the English dub voice of Levin in Tower of God, and Genki Okawa is the Japanese voice. According t⦠My agent has been reminding me it’s OK to take the time for yourself, and reminding me to put myself first. As the show goes on, you see more of what’s really in his heart so I can definitely see more in common with him. May is mental health awareness month and, because of everything, getting to know yourself more is so important. Like Khun for example, I tend to have my hand upturned for most of the performance like I’m making a point. I have added more foam panels to the walls of my studio, which you can order online. Sorry. Keep watching and you’ll know when it gets there. Previously the makers had revealed the voice actors for Bam (Taichi Ichikawa), Rachel (Saori Hayami) and Headon (Hochu Otsuka). Tower of God is one of this season’s best anime. https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/looking-streets-behind-communitys-mixology-certification/, Draka is an amazing character within the #worldofwarcraft universe and I’m beyond thrilled that within #shadowlands her story is continuing to play on. I hope I can make people feel that way about Khun and every other character I’m allowed to play. I was hyped. An animated fantasy adventure like little else on television right now. Jane has been a fan of anime since high school, her favorite series of all time is "Serial Experiments Lain". I also look at the context of the line where possible (“What am I responding to?”) and the voice director will help provide guidance as well. JYB: There’s a moment at the end of the batch we just recorded but I don’t want to spoil it for anyone. The official profile indicates that he is from Okinawa, but his birthplace is in Saitama Prefecture, and he said he lived in Okinawa when he was curious. Who Is the Richest Person in the Marvel Universe? Aided (in a way) by the mysterious Ha-Yuri Jahad played by Kira Buckland (KB), Bam finds himself allying with the mysterious Khun Aguero Agnes, played by Chris Hackney (CH). Which role have you played that’s had the biggest effect on you, either through the experience, critical reaction or something completely unexpected? As a teenager, he dreamed of becoming a voice actor in hopes of meeting an actress that he admired and wanted to co-star with. JT: There’s a great scene with both Endorsi and Anaak later in the season - I won’t spoil it but their dynamic in this particular fight was a lot of fun. https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/phasmophobias-new-prison-level-will-shackle-you-to-your-screen/. How are you coping with the current lockdown situation - have their been any challenges when recording from home? Is there anything about the character you play that you identify with personally? Okamoto, Nobuhiko: We’ve all got a backstory that got us to who we are right this moment, and it defines who we are. The characters in Tower of God are notably diverse; different races, appearance - and it should be noted that age is irrelevant to someone's appearance. When I got the role of Endorsi, I didn’t know the whole voice acting cast. First announced at Seoul Comic-Con in August 2019, the Tower of God anime is directed by Takashi Sano, with Erika Yoshida serving as writer. I have always said I am a cat - I live alone, with no pets or roommates. CH: I think two things. Because of my band I’ve collected pieces of music gear for over 15 yrs. I highly recommend large diaphragm condenser microphones. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more! Characters, voice actors, producers and directors from the anime Kami no Tou (Tower of God) on MyAnimeList, the internet's largest anime database. At MyAnimeList, you can find out about their voice actors, animeography, pictures and much more! Tower of God's director, along with two of its lead voice actors, took time to share insight into their perforamnces and their thoughts on the first season. Our final actor, Jeannie Tirado, plays Ha-Yuri's sister, Endorsi. JA: How does anime dub work compare to other media you’ve worked in? The two characters were seen, but not heard, in the first episode. It also helps if you’re into music – the timing from understanding music will help you! JA: What do you feel is the most overlooked but to you interesting aspect of voice acting performance? First they revealed two new key visuals for the show. BAM, who was alone all his life has entered the tower to chase after his only friend, available online for free.#longlivecomics JYB: I must admit, there is one character I’ve played in the past that is the shadow persona hovering behind my performance. In real life I am the type of person who wants everyone to like me. It was announced on April 6 that voice actors Daisuke Ono (Jotaro Kujo in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) and Kenjiro Tsuda (Overhaul in My Hero Academia) will be joining the tower climb as Phonsekal Laure and Lero-Ro, respectively. The series is currently available with English subtitles. It’s these two conflicting and different skills that you have to utilize at once and while it can be less freeing in a sense, it’s more exhilarating. Tower of God premieres April 1 on Crunchyroll. Stuff like Lion King or Aladdin. JYB: After my first session we were put on stay-at-home order. Looking for information on the anime Kami no Tou (Tower of God)? //YEAAAAHH https://twitter.com/GeekGirlAuth/status/1334141550666936321, This week’s #WCW goes to Draka from World of Warcraft! Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more! Website : https://simplyaweeb.com/ Discord : https://discord.gg/4uGvPUV Subscribe for more Anime: Kami no Tou (Tower of God) Take a look. Anime voice actor & seiyuu comparison ... Kami no Tou ç¥ä¹å¡ -Tower of God-4 months ago. Also, since we generally don’t get scripts in advance, there’s no real “study” or “rehearsal” – it’s very important to be able to think on your feet and make quick decisions. I first imagine myself as the character, recall the mythos of the characters world and think about where I’ve been and where I’m hoping to go. CH: I think dubbing/ADR is THE most challenging acting in voiceover. A few weeks ago, Crunchyroll announced the cast of the series’ English dub. It really makes you appreciate the studios and being there. I think the fans should really show a lot of love to the engineers, especially during this time, because they’re not only recording us remotely but then having to mix the show so that we all still sound like we recorded in the same place. RELATED: NICOLE TOMPKINS on Middle-Earth, Resident Evil, Performing from All Angles, and More. Is it more challenging to get good character interactions going? Tower of God Voice Actors Interview Our friends at Crunchyroll have been kind enough to hook us up with four or the English voice cast for the incredibly popular original series, Tower of God. Once I saw the first trailer though, I thought it was gonna be awesome. I just find it really fun, especially when I get to insult other characters! People like Frank Welker and Dee Bradley Baker have made their livings doing these incredible creature sounds that helped bring the movie or show to life for you, and it’s crazy that they’re kind of overlooked for this incredible and incredibly difficult talent. Japanese English Korean. Follow Us On YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCJVdX Facebook: https://bit.ly/2LXQTy4 Music In ⦠Black March. The key art for the two characters were also released. I really like playing those hot-headed characters for some reason, despite not being too much like that in real life. You’re basically trying to use the analytical & reason side of your brain to worry about timing and lip flaps while simultaneously using your creative side. #community #sixseasonsandamovie Special thanks to Sally Brockway for her help putting everyone together! Johnny Yong Bosh plays Bam, left, while Kira Buckland plays Ha-Yuri Jahad (right). Also, we’re both super sassy. And hereâs the second one. You’ve got this chemistry in person that being on a Skype call just doesn’t give you and it’s really hard. Both were also very original fictional worlds. If it’s a character that I have based on other things, I’ll watch scenes from TV or movies to get inspired. The characters in Tower of God are all unique because of SIU's attempt to try and combine many different themes and styles. Home » TV & Streaming » Animation » TOWER OF GOD English Dub Voice Actors Talk Working From Home and More, Posted by Jane Y. Auman | Jun 9, 2020 | Animation, Interviews, Stuff We Like, TV & Streaming | 0. 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TUESDAY, Aug. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A lot of kids have been pushing up the scale numbers while home during the pandemic -- and parents need to take steps to prevent the dreaded "quarantine 15," an expert says.
"During the school year, most parents rely on schools to provide their child with regular exercise," said Dr. Joyce Samuel, an associate professor of pediatrics at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
"Because of the ongoing situation surrounding COVID-19, it is important for parents to focus on their child's health and ensure they are getting the proper exercise and nutrition to avoid child obesity," Samuel said in a center news release.
If your children are learning remotely, she noted there are plenty of apps with videos for short, home-based workouts that usually require little or no equipment. Another option is to get outside for a daily 30-minute walk or jog.
"As long as you are maintaining social distancing and staying with members of your household, this is a safe way to get some fresh air and regular exercise," Samuel said.
Other exercise suggestions for children include: jumping rope or running to help strengthen bones; playing games like tug-of-war to strengthen muscles; aerobic activities like bike riding or walking to benefit the heart; outdoor sports; scooter riding; tag, and neighborhood scavenger hunts.
Schedule activities for children several times a week, Samuel said.
In terms of diet, provide children with meals that have both protein and produce. Frozen fruits and vegetables are a good, cheaper alternative to fresh produce, as long as there's no added sugar, syrup or salt.
Limit unhealthy drinks and snacks like chips, cookies, candy and gummies. Encourage children to drink water instead of soda, juices or sports drinks.
"As parents, we need to understand that a healthy diet and exercise provide great benefits to our children's minds and bodies," Samuel said. "Many kids are stressed right now due to all of the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, and doing regular exercise is a great way to relieve stress and develop healthy habits at a young age."
Adequate sleep is also crucial in preventing obesity: eight to 10 hours a night for teens and nine to 12 hours a night for children ages 6 to 12. Reducing screen time can also help lower the risk of becoming overweight.
"Later bedtimes have been shown to be associated with obesity, so putting the devices away at a reasonable bedtime and getting back to a more typical sleep schedule is another way to combat obesity," Samuel said.
The U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion has more on how to keep children at a healthy weight.
SOURCE: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, news release, Aug. 12, 2020
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VACACIONES MAYO 2016
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Jueves 28 de Abril del 2016
Queridos amigos,
Les escribo estas líneas con motivo de mi próximo viaje, el que me tendrá ausente de la oficina y de nuestras lecturas cotidianas, desde el lunes 2 hasta el lunes 23 de Mayo próximo, que me reintegro a mis labores.
Durante estos días no tendré acceso regular al Internet ni a mis correos.
En los últimos meses la situación económica y financiera internacional se ha seguido deteriorando aun mas, con el consiguiente aumento creciente de la volatilidad de los mercados financieros, según lo ya previsto en mi carta de Octubre pasado, replicada en algunos párrafos líneas más abajo para mayor abundancia, impactando duramente a los países emergentes, las monedas, el petróleo y los precios de los "commodities", el fortalecimiento notable del dólar norteamericano, típico de las épocas de crisis, y una retracción cada vez más marcada del crecimiento del producto mundial, ahora ya reconocido por todos los bancos centrales, lo que nos coloca claramente bajo la sombra del temor de una potencial deflación y de la recesión global, cada vez más inevitable.
En los últimos dos meses el anuncio de una política de aumento de intereses menos agresiva que la anunciada previamente, por parte de la FED, ha debilitado ligera
y temporalmente al dólar, e impactado transitoriamente de manera positiva a los precios de las materias primas y los mercados de acciones.
La pregunta es cuanto tiempo puede durar esta situación en una economía global manipulada descaradamente por los bancos centrales y en franco camino de deterioro, con el continuo crecimiento de la desigualdad de los ingresos y una clase media cada vez mas disconforme, como lo reflejan las coyunturas políticas preocupantes de los últimos tiempos, tanto en los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, como en Europa y el resto del mundo. La enorme volatilidad de los mercados financieros, que pensamos será cada vez mayor, es un síntoma de esta situación insostenible a mediano y largo plazo.
El artículo de hace unos meses de Doug Nolan, "The Unwind", al que pueden acceder mediante el "link" anterior, describe claramente la situación precaria de la economía global, los mercados financieros, las deudas y el crecimiento económico mundial, por lo que me abstendré de mayores comentarios. También pueden acceder al articulo de Doug Nolan, "New World Disorder".
La reciente creciente y notable volatilidad de los mercados financieros, las dudas hamletianas de la Reserva Federal sobre las tasas de interés y la reciente volatilidad de las bolsas, son solo una pequeña muestra de la descomposición de las economías y los mercados globales.
En realidad no podía ser de otra manera, si tenemos en cuenta que no se ha hecho nada en los últimos años para reparar los profundos desequilibrios estructurales en los fundamentos de la economía global, sino que más bien, por el contrario, se ha seguido "maquillando" por parte de los bancos centrales la insostenible situación económica y financiera global, profundizando los desequilibrios y la inestabilidad vía el constante crecimiento de las deudas, aumentando las ineficiencias y dilatando el necesario ajuste. El crecimiento estructural de la economía global es cada vez más frágil, dudoso e insostenible.
Hasta la crisis del 2000 y luego de la del 2008, ahora así llamada la Gran Recesión, la demanda global había sido “subvencionada” por un sistema financiero manipulado e intervenido, creando una demanda y una economía global ficticia, una recuperación así llamada "subprime", liderada por la FED mediante un crecimiento desproporcionado de las deudas, imposible de auto-sustentarse en un crecimiento de la economía real en el largo plazo.
Deuda, deuda y más deuda, parece ser el mantra de la FED.
Desde entonces, la FED y el resto los bancos centrales de todos los países más importantes del mundo se han negado y se siguen negando a reconocer esta realidad, aceptando el inicio de un ajuste inevitable y estructural, regresando a un nivel real de la economía global de alguna manera manejable. Aún siguen abocados al esfuerzo de una gran represión financiera, manipulando e inflando irresponsablemente los mercados financieros vía una política monetaria de emisiones inorgánicas de papel moneda sin respaldo y muy bajas tasas de interés, o hasta tasas de interés negativas en muchos países del primer mundo. Actualmente se estima que existen aproximadamente 7 trillones de dólares de inversiones en tasas de interés negativas.
Las deudas de consumidores, empresas y gobiernos, eran y son insostenibles.
Por ello creemos que los bancos centrales no aumentarán de "motu propio" las tasas de interés de manera importante a corto plazo, salvo que este aumento provenga final y sorpresivamente de una crisis generada por la desaparición de la confianza de los inversionistas globales en los mercados financieros. Mas bien los bancos centrales seguirán, en la medida de lo necesario, con su política de seguir emitiendo e inyectando moneda sin respaldo a los mercados, bajando las tasas de interés a niveles aun mas negativos e interviniendo los mercados de capitales mediante compras de bonos y de acciones, distorsionando cada vez mas los precios de los activos financieros en todo el mundo.
Inmediatamente sus deudas se volverían obviamente impagables y la crisis que tanto han tratado de evitar reconocer, sobrevendría inevitable.
Solo para mencionar al país con la economía más importante, la deuda de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica ha crecido por encima de los 18 trillones de dólares, a más del 100% de su PBI. Y si incluimos las deudas contingentes internas, como el Seguro Social y los Fondos de Pensiones, algunos analistas calculan que la deuda norteamericana podría llegar a sumar entre los 80 a 120 trillones de dólares, es decir, entre 5 a 7 veces el producto bruto anual. Y en aumento.
Para un análisis detallado del desarrollo de esta problemática y la verdadera situación actual, ver los artículos del blog, aquí, aquí y aquí.
Esta situación se ha seguido agravando en los últimos años y es insostenible en el mediano y largo plazo. (ver articulo)
Para evitarlo, es que los bancos centrales han tenido que esforzarse en mantener ficticiamente una apariencia de normalidad en el "statu quo", inyectando cantidades innombrables de papel moneda sin respaldo a los mercados financieros y reducido las tasas de interés a niveles nunca vistos por largo tiempo, desde que la historia económica recuerda. (QE1, QE2, QE3, Q4, Abenomics, China, etc….)
Todo ello nos hace presumir que todo ello se lleva a cabo por el fundamentado temor a perder el control del esquema Ponzi mundial, que es lo que son ahora la economía global y los mercados financieros, y por ende se derrumbe el castillo de naipes enfrentando de golpe un ajuste económico enorme y hasta la posibilidad de una revolución social incontenible, guerras, etc.
El hecho es que el esfuerzo de política monetaria intervencionista llevada a cabo por la mayoría de los bancos centrales del mundo, en los últimos 15 años, más intensa y desproporcionadamente desde los últimos siete años, además, ha producido la transferencia más importante de riqueza que se recuerda en la historia, de manos de los pensionistas y los ahorristas, hacia las clases privilegiadas y los bancos.
Mas importante todavía, se ha distorsionado y manipulado fundamentalmente las reglas de la economía del libre mercado con consecuencias funestas y aun impredecibles en el mediano y largo plazo para los consumidores e inversionistas del mundo, incrementando la locación ineficiente de los recursos de inversión, además de multiplicar el costo de la inevitable implosión de los mercados financieros, tanto de las acciones, como de los bonos y otros instrumentos de inversión financiera.
Todo esto para no mencionar a los derivados financieros, estimados por algunos analistas en más de 1 cuatrillón de dólares (1000 trillones de dólares), que se ciernen como una espada de Damocles, sobre todo el sistema financiero y económico internacional.
El mismo FMI ha advertido hace ya unos meses de la posibilidad que la economía global está entrando a un periodo de "stagnación" y a una probable nueva recesión, con las consecuencias que ello implicaría. (ver articulo) Y recientemente ha vuelto a reducir su estimado de crecimiento para la economía global de 3.6% a 3.2%. No nos extrañaría que estos estimados se sigan reduciendo en el futuro cercano, especialmente si tenemos noticias negativas del desarrollo de la economía China, en la que algunos analistas esta comenzando a prever un "hard landing" y de la enorme deuda interna de la economía China, influenciando negativamente de manera importante a los mercados financieros globales.
Obviamente estos organismos no pueden decirnos toda la verdad. Ello sería propiciar ellos mismos el adelanto inevitable del descalabro global, el caos y el ajuste sin anestesia, con resultados imprevisibles.
La pregunta de fondo es ¿hasta cuándo se podrá o podrán mantener esta realidad bizarra? Y eso nadie lo puede responder con seguridad. La confianza de los inversionistas en los mercados financieros es la verdadera incógnita.
Por ello ahora tenemos que seguir preguntándonos seriamente, ¿Cuál de todos los potenciales "cisnes negros", conocidos o no, que hoy se ciernen sobre la economía global ,y que son muchos, económicos, sociales y geopolíticos, podrían ser el detonante de la nueva catástrofe?
Solo la historia nos responderá a esta crucial pregunta. Por ahora, podemos especular que las próximas elecciones norteamericanas en Noviembre próximo son y serán un factor de gran importancia para el comportamiento de la FED, manipulando los mercados lo mejor posible, para influenciar de manera positiva a la administración saliente, o dicho de otra manera, para evitar perjudicarla lo mayor posible, con un ajuste enorme y anticipado de las grandes incoherencias en la que se encuentra la economía norteamericana y la global como consecuencia de dichas intervenciones de los bancos centrales, en especial de la FED.
Mientras tanto, en medio de este mundo bizarro, tenemos que insistir nuevamente y más que nunca, que la experiencia y la prudencia, el análisis y la inteligencia, la vigilancia y la paciencia, son los socios más importantes en las decisiones de políticas y estrategias de inversión a corto y mediano plazo.
En un cambio importante de ciclos como en el que pensamos que estamos envueltos hoy día, y en el que más allá de lo circunstancial, el pasado y el futuro se bifurcan y se oponen, los riesgos para los inversionistas son profundos. (ver articulo)
Con estas anotaciones y advertencias que espero les sean de utilidad, me despido de Uds. con un cordial abrazo hasta el regreso a mis actividades, Dios mediante, a inicios de la tercera semana de Mayo próximo, cuando estaré nuevamente a su gentil disposición.
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GERMANY´S COSTLY FISCAL FETISH / PROJECT SYNDICATE
| Etiquetas: ECB, Economics, Europe Economic and Political, Germany
Germany’s Costly Fiscal Fetish
Hans-Helmut Kotz
FRANKFURT – The European Central Bank is under heavy attack in Germany, a country that has long prided itself on defending the principle of central-bank independence. Indeed, it was Germany that pushed for this principle’s inclusion among the criteria set out in the Maastricht Treaty, which established the conditions for membership in Europe’s monetary union.
For many EMU members, making their central banks independent in order to join the euro meant a change in political regime. For example, in France’s 1992 referendum to ratify the Maastricht Treaty, the prospective autonomy of the French central bank was one of the strongest points in the campaign against adopting the euro.
By contrast, in today’s Germany, putting pressure on the central bank has become standard practice. For a couple of months now, even Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has been commenting regularly on the ECB’s monetary policy.
Schäuble’s interventions touch the core of central-bank independence. While he is not seeking to redefine the objective of monetary policy (the “price norm,” to use the old Bundesbank lingo), he is making suggestions on which tools the ECB should wield, and how it should wield them, in order to achieve that goal.
It happened before. In 1998, Germany’s then-finance minister, Oskar Lafontaine, gave good advice to the ECB’s first president, Wim Duisenberg, on how to conduct monetary policy.
(Lafontaine’s objective was ultimately to create a target zone for exchange rates.) Duisenberg, a laconic Dutchman, responded that it was not uncommon for politicians to offer their opinion on monetary policy. (In Germany, it was very uncommon.) “However,” he added, “it would be very abnormal for the suggestions to be listened to.”
Respecting monetary-policy independence has long been a core plank of Germany’s Stabilitätskultur (stability culture). The foundation stone for the Bundesbank’s sternly independent reputation was its repudiation of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s calls to refrain from raising interest rates in 1956. France, at that time, was different. Charles De Gaulle was about to create the very presidential Fifth Republic, with the Banque de France reporting to the finance ministry.
But that was then. In the wake of EMU’s varied crises, monetary policy is being drawn increasingly into substituting for fiscal policy. Is the old dogma outdated?
Europe remains very vulnerable; the EMU’s median citizen has already lost a decade, and the distance to distress is worryingly low. The United States, however, is doing better. Cumbersome political gridlock notwithstanding, it managed to address the macro problem it faced (a lack of aggregate demand) by implementing expansionary fiscal and monetary policies.
The US also dealt more effectively with its banking problems, which, initially, had been substantially more severe than those in Europe. (Obviously, there is a strong interaction between both policy domains. More robust economies mean less vulnerable, more profitable banks that are better able to serve their purpose: funding the economy.)
But the ECB’s independence is less threatened by good advice from finance ministries, as problematic as this might be, than it is by a lack of popular support. Indeed, the Bundesbank’s famous autonomy rested less on its legal status than on the unwavering (performance-based) support it enjoyed from the German public.
The ECB is experiencing exactly the opposite. There are public calls, especially in Germany, to put additional pressure on it. But the biggest threat to the ECB’s autonomy stems from the unsustainable burden placed upon it. The less fiscal policy does to stabilize output, the more central banks are de facto strong-armed to carry the load (unless, of course, they are prepared to let nature take its course, by allowing the economy to get stuck in stagnation, or worse).
The political upshot of this pattern has been a significant regression toward nationalism, of the left and the right, in all EMU countries, including Germany. Indeed, the rise of nationalism is an almost logical corollary of the policies pursued. It is endogenous.
And here, too, Germany is leading the charge with its obsession about achieving a schwarze Null, a balanced budget, come hell or high water. In Germany, deficits are widely viewed as morally, not only arithmetically, negative, even though this flies in the face of conventional economic reasoning and sound corporate practice.
In the late nineteenth century, leading German public-finance scholars, including Albert Schäffle and Adolph Wagner, developed a “golden rule,” according to which current expenditures should be funded, on average, out of current revenues. Public expenditures, and the resources needed for them, should be justified by their usefulness. This also meant that productivity-enhancing investments – capital expenditures – could be funded with debt, which would be serviced by growing income and its associated revenue base.
This classical line of thought was institutionalized by a useful concept: the distinction between current expenditures and the capital account, still in use at the municipal level in Germany (and Austria). That is crucial, because about 50% of Germany’s public-sector capital expenditures are run at this level (down from almost two-thirds in the early 1990s). These expenditures are pertinent in terms of supporting the competitiveness of Germany’s mittelstand firms. But relative to the early 1990s and in constant prices, capital expenditures are down some 15%. For more than a decade now, they have not sufficed to maintain the capital stock.
This is not preparing for the future; it is undermining productivity and well-being.
In short, the schwarze Null fetish is self-defeating. Crumbling infrastructure (admittedly not as bad in the US) has become a real issue in Germany. Moreover, Germany’s leaders’ fiscal frugality entails cross-border spillover effects that are amplified in a monetary union, where there is no exchange rate to accommodate for national idiosyncrasies.
To be sure, Europe’s monetary union is imperfect. But scapegoating the one institution that is “doing whatever it takes” to get the EMU back on track is ill-advised. A much better strategy would be for governments to use fiscal space, where it exists, to relieve the pressure on the ECB. Such space is certainly available in Germany.
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WHY THE "LIVING WILLS" OF TOP U.S. BANKS FAILED THE TEST / KNOWLEDG@WHARTON
| Etiquetas: Banks And Banking, U.S. Economic And Political
Why the ‘Living Wills’ of Top U.S. Banks Failed the Test
Eight years after the Great Recession, the top eight “systemically important, domestic banking institutions” in the U.S. are still not ready to cope with the aftermath of another financial crisis. The banks had been asked to submit plans to show how, if crisis struck, they would wind up in an orderly manner that does not necessitate government bailouts or cause panic in the financial system.
That was the upshot of findings jointly released on April 13 by the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The two agencies found the resolution plans – called “living wills” — filed by five banks as “not credible.” They differed on the readiness of two other banks. They did not fault the credibility of the plans of the eighth bank, but nevertheless found shortcomings that need fixing.
More broadly, the findings underline a transformation underway in financial regulation to make it more stringent and probing than ever before, according to experts at Wharton and the University of Michigan. However, sustained advocacy is required to combat efforts by politically backed interest groups to undermine bank supervision and consumer protection, they said.
The findings of the regulators are in line with the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which requires banks to submit plans to facilitate an orderly resolution under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
“Dodd-Frank is creating a radical transformation in the way that we do bank supervision, which had been a stable set of institutional arrangements for about 150 years since federal bank examination began after the Civil War,” said Wharton professor of legal studies and business ethics Peter Conti-Brown. He recently authored the book The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve.
The way Dodd-Frank is panning out challenges critics “who see regulators — the Federal Reserve and the FDIC — as ‘captured,’” said Conti-Brown. “Regulatory capture” is a term used in academia and the popular press to suggest that regulators are unduly influenced by the interests of the entities they regulate.
“There is, across the board, more stringent supervision with much more probing questions [than in earlier times],” said Michael S. Barr, professor of law at University of Michigan Law School. Barr formerly served in the U.S. Treasury department where he was assistant secretary for financial institutions; he was also a key architect of the Dodd-Frank Act.
“[Regulators] are [now] poking and prodding at the balance sheets of these firms to see what happens in stress,” said Barr. “This ‘living will’ or resolution planning process forces firms to think much more clearly about their organizational form, to align their business with their legal entities and to think carefully about how they can operate and then be wound down in the event of a crisis.”
Conti-Brown and Barr discussed the implications of the regulators’ findings and ways to address continuing challenges for bank supervision on the Knowledge@Wharton show on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM channel 111. (Listen to the podcast at the top of this page.)
Dodd-Frank came about in the wake of the Great Recession, which was caused by the financial sector crisis of 2007-2008 and the subprime mortgage housing crisis of 2007-2009. The recession necessitated a massive bailout of banks under the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The TARP bailout had 956 entities receiving a total of $431 billion, according to a study by the investigative journalism group ProPublica. Dodd-Frank sought to prevent the recurrence of similar bailouts of so-called “too big to fail” banks by requiring them to periodically submit plans that show how they could wind down their operations under normal bankruptcy laws without creating a panic in the financial system or requiring a government bailout.
What the Findings Mean for Banks
The banks whose 2015 resolution plans were found to be “not credible or would not facilitate an orderly resolution” are Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, JP Morgan Chase, State Street and Wells Fargo. In the case of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, either the FDIC or the Federal Reserve found their plans not credible enough. Neither agency found Citigroup’s resolution plan as “not credible or would not facilitate an orderly resolution” under bankruptcy laws, but they did find shortcomings for the bank to fix.
Essentially, the regulators have told the banks that their internal models for computing relationships with various counterparties and the way they structure their assets and liabilities “don’t work,” Conti-Brown explained. “That is very different from what we saw before Dodd-Frank, when the question was: ‘Do you have internal models to make these internal evaluations?’ If the answer was ‘yes,’ then no questions followed.”
“All eight of the firms have to go back to the drawing board,” said Barr. He clarified that in determining the credibility of the living wills, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC have not suggested that these firms will have to be bailed out or that these firms are close to liquidation.
“[Instead, the firms] have more work to do, particularly with respect to crisis planning and liquidity so that [in the event of a crisis], they can be safely dealt with and wound down without causing panic.”
Conti-Brown disagreed with critics who suspect that the regulators’ findings are a validation of the theory that the eight banks are too big to fail, and that a fresh financial crisis would see a repeat of TARP. He explained that in the event of a crisis, Dodd-Frank’s creation of the Orderly Liquidation Authority (OLA) would serve as “a backstop” if conventional bankruptcy processes do not work for troubled banks. That liquidation authority also has several mechanisms to ensure that wholesale government bailouts will not be required, he added.
“The government is telling these banks that they need to make significant changes so that they can go through bankruptcy [if they fail],” said Conti-Brown. “Absent those changes, orderly liquidation authority is triggered. It’s not correct to say that you have to make these changes and if you don’t, we will see endless bailouts. It’s important to see that progression between living wills, bankruptcy and the Orderly Liquidation Authority (OLA) – that’s the model that the government and the banks are working on.”
Each financial institution cited for shortcomings in their plans must “remediate its deficiencies” by October 1, 2016, the regulators have said. Failure to do so could attract higher capital requirements and restrictions on growth or activities, they warned. The deadline for the next full plan submission for all eight financial institutions is July 1, 2017.
Safer Banking System, but Not Safe Enough
The Dodd-Frank regime has already delivered on some fronts, according to Barr. He maintained that the financial sector is “a lot safer today” than it was at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. “[We have] double the amount of common equity in the system, cushion against lawsuits and supervision of the largest firms by the [Federal Reserve] and an Orderly Liquidation Authority so that those firms can be wound down in the event of a financial crisis without creating a panic and without having a taxpayer bailout,” he said. However, “there is still a lot of work to be done to make sure that they can be dealt with in a financial crisis,” as revealed by the report of the regulators, he added.
Conti-Brown drew Barr’s attention to criticism of Dodd-Frank. “Doubling the amount of common equity in the system is not as impressive as it sounds, because when you double what is virtually nothing, you still don’t have very much of anything,” he said. “Even with the living wills, stress tests and other regulatory tools, the OLA and its resources would be quickly exhausted in the event of a crisis.”
“[To say that] the financial system is safer isn’t the same as saying that it is safe enough,” said Barr. “Much more work needs to be done to make the financial system safer, to make it fair and to make it better harnessed to the needs of the real economy.”
In order to become more resilient and safer, the financial system needs stronger capital rules and better supervision, among other measures, said Barr. Much work needs to be done both in the formal banking sector, such as in issues relating to liquidity, and in the shadow banking sector, such as reforms governing securities lending transactions, he explained. All the same, he said, “It would be a mistake to say the system is still the same and it hasn’t changed and that we haven’t made any progress.”
Fears of Collective Amnesia
Even as further reforms get implemented, “banking security will always be a work-in-progress,” Barr noted. “When a long time passes without a financial crisis, people forget the causes and consequences of the financial crisis and collective amnesia descends. They say we don’t need as much capital, and it is not as risky as we think — and that is when you get into enormous trouble.”
Guarding against that “collective amnesia” is critical to ensure the strength and safety of the financial system, Barr said. While living wills and stress tests are one way of achieving that, it is also necessary to get the general public to focus on risks in the financial system, without leaving that job to the industry and regulators, he added. He pointed to recent positive steps, such as the creation under Dodd-Frank of the Office of Financial Research to gain an independent view of the risk in the financial system.
Conti-Brown pointed to the risk of interest groups attempting to whittle down the scrutiny of stress tests and living wills and pushing for deregulation of banks. “The most vexing aspect of sustainable financial regulations is that when the public attention shifts, those who are best organized to get their interests heard [will] be successful,” he said. “So I wonder if stress tests and living wills will be with us 20 years from now; I hope that they are.”
Barr agreed that those forces that attempt to undermine bank regulation pose a risk. “Congress has tried to repeal many elements of the Dodd-Frank Act, and you will continue to see efforts to repeal [and] restrict regulation, go after stress testing, go after living wills, go after higher capital requirements, try and weaken the Consumer [Financial] Protection Bureau, roll back securities reforms and investor protection, [and] eat away at derivates reforms — we’ve seen these efforts already,” he said. “The battle over the Dodd-Frank Act didn’t end when it passed — it continued.”
THE DEATH OF BANK OF AMERICA / SEEKING ALPHA
| Etiquetas: Bank of America, Banks And Banking
The Death Of Bank Of America
by: Christopher F. Davis
- I was asked "is this slowly the death of Bank of America?
- This was a serious inquiry stemming from the just reported Q1 earnings.
- I discuss the results and what we need to look for out of the company.
Let's cut right to the chase. This morning, I was asked, and I quote, "is this slowly the death of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC)?" I had to check my calendar. Is this spring 2009? Did I get stuck in a time warp? If I did not know this individual very well, I would have thought this was a joke. But this was a serious inquiry? Was I missing something? I mean, I had just recently described the company's prospects for 2016. I don't recall predicting I would be eulogizing the company. I mean come on, we know it is one of the largest banks in the United States by assets and yes, it truly has recovered from the Great Recession. Is it firing on all cylinders like it was pre-recession? Certainly not. The stock has ebbed and flowed but it has come back from the brink. Barring another recessionary period, the bank is set up to do well in the coming years especially in light of the pending interest rate hike by the Fed.
I will say plainly that I am behind Bank of America long-term. I think it is set for growth and in turn, the stock should provide decent returns. But to ensure this is still the case we need to determine where the company may be heading from a performance point of view. Thus, we do have to do two things. First, examine the company's most recent earnings and key metrics.
Second, we have to understand the outlook for the bank, honing in on strengths and weaknesses. It is my guess that the original inquiry stems for this morning's earnings announcement.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I will reiterate that the way I look at a bank may be different from other opinion makers at Seeking Alpha. Let me be clear. I care most about a growing loan and deposit record, a respectable efficiency ratio, as well as of course revenues and earnings. But on top of that, we also need a sense of toxic or non-performing assets. These metrics can give us an indication of where the bank is heading, and can help us separate the best and the worst of the sector. Now look, Bank of America is massive and while it is true that it will benefit from rising rates, slow and steady growth is most desirable from a bank of this size. So with that in mind, just how is the company doing?
Let me be clear, it is not dying. It might not exactly be doing superbly, but let's be realistic. In the most recent quarter, the bank saw a top line miss against analyst estimates. However, it squeezed out a bottom-line number that met analyst estimates. The quarter was pretty 'meh' overall, but versus last year there was pain. Revenue was $19.7 billion, down 8% year-over-year. That hurts, but is not a death blow. I want to point out that if we back out market-related net interest income adjustments, then revenue was $20.9 billion, though this is still down on the same versus the $21.6 billion. Revenue was down year-over-year and it was a miss of $600 million. Now look. The company saw a dip on the earnings front versus last year's comparable quarter seeing net income decline 13% to $2.7 billion or $0.21 per share. Last year, the company saw earnings per share of $0.25. I will point out that this was again in line with expectations. In line. Of course, the headline numbers only tell part of the story, so what drove these results?
The answer lies in the bank's net interest income and non-interest income, two of the biggest sources of cash for the company. Net interest income rose year-over-year, when adjusted. So how much higher was net interest income in Q1 2016 versus Q1 2015? Well on an unadjusted basis, it rose to $9.4 billion last year. However, on an adjusted basis, net interest income was $10.6 billion up nicely from the $10.1 billion in Q1 2015. Non-interest income was down heavily year-over-year. It came in at $10.3 billion. This is down versus the $11.5 billion last year. Sadly, total mortgage production was $16.4 billion down from $16.9 billion last year. On a positive note, another 1.2 million credit cards were issued, which bodes well for future potential interest income as well as fees generated from the card.
One of the most under-appreciated, yet critical metric to look at, is the efficiency ratio. But for whatever reason, still so many opinion makers ignore it. That is a mistake in my opinion. I will remind you that the efficiency ratio measures the costs expended to generate a dollar of revenue. The efficiency ratio has been very weak for the company for the last few years. That said, the company has really started to turn it around. It came in at 73%, which is so-so. The key here is that it has improved from the 77% in Q1 2015. Recall that for all of 2015, it came in at 68.6% compared to 88.3% in 2014. I will be watching this year to see if the ratio creeps down under 68%. The year-over-year move is strong but there is still work to be done. Recall that the stronger banks have an efficiency ratio under 60% with the ideal being around 50%. Why did the efficiency ratio improve? Well, it was due in part to the decline in expenses and a positive impact from its cost savings initiatives that it put into place last year.
Now, any bank worth its salt sees improvements in loan and deposits. That is simple banking.
That said, we need to see loan and deposit growth. On this front, the bank is doing well. Loans were up across the board, rising $28.4 billion to $901.1 billion. Total average deposits were up $64.1 billion to $1.2 trillion in Q1 2016. Finally, we need to be aware of non-performing assets. I was pleased to see that non-performing loans decreased to $9.23 billion down from almost $12.1 billion in Q1 2015 and is down almost $600 million from the $9.84 billion in non-performing loans as of Q4 2015.
All things considered, the fundamentals are intact. The company is not dying. I will note that there was new shares issued and that may rub some the wrong way. With interest rates rising, it can only help net interest income longer-term. The largest banks stand to gain. Sure companies short-term are interest rate sensitive. But as rates rise, it helps the banks. Compared to say 5 years ago, the improvement has been quite drastic. But investor memories can be short.
This quarter left a lot to be desired. I think the stand out metric is the improving efficiency ratio, which I will be watching very closely this year. Further, both loans and deposits continue to grow. The declining non-performing assets this year is also a key result. Of course, we want to see revenues higher. Consistent revenue misses are not going to work. The reality though is that the bank is coming off of its best year for earnings since the Great Recession. I maintain a buy rating on Bank of America for the long-term.
WHY INVESTORS ARE LISTENING FOR HELICOPTERS AT CENTRAL BANKS / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
| Etiquetas: ECB, Europe Economic and Political, Monetary Policy, QE
Why Investors Are Listening for Helicopters at Central Banks
The helicopter money debate is a sign of the lack of faith in the global response to the financial crisis
By Richard Barley
ECB President Mario Draghi pictured in February. Investors will be looking Thursday for more detail on the ECB’s planned corporate-bond purchases. Photo: AFP/Getty Images
That didn’t take long. No sooner had President Mario Draghi unveiled the European Central Bank’s latest easing effort after March’s policy meeting than he was asked about helicopter money. Expect more of the same this week.
In the short term, markets will be looking Thursday for more detail on the ECB’s planned corporate-bond purchases. Issuance has picked up and the spread between corporate and government bond yields has narrowed, but key questions on the size and composition of the program remain unanswered.
Longer term, the focus is likely to be on further ECB options, including helicopter money—essentially, direct injections of cash into the economy by the central bank. The prospect is a remote and radical one for now; the debate is theoretical, not practical.
But that the discussion is even taking place is noteworthy. It marks dissatisfaction with the sluggish nature of the economy and its recovery since the crisis. Policies that aimed to prop up the financial system and buy time by providing continuous liquidity support haven’t produced the kind of recovery that would generate confidence.
The ECB faces a particular problem in the criticism coming from Germany, amid warnings that monetary policy has hit its limits. It would be risky for a central bank to agree with that idea.
Even a hint in March that interest rates had gone as low as they could generated turmoil in markets. Signals that monetary policy still has room for maneuver have value.
The notion of helicopter money is enticing in an environment in which more liquidity and lower rates offer diminishing returns, and fiscal policy is politically taboo. In its most radical form, the central bank would distribute cash directly to the population, without taking any matching asset on its balance sheet. One way to think of this is as similar to an injection of fresh equity—a way to repair stretched finances.
There would be no upfront debt for governments to take on as a result. The cost would instead be borne over time from future income generated by the central bank. That relies on the assumption that a central bank, unlike commercial banks and companies, can run with a hole in its balance sheet because it can create money. The hope would be one of greater spending today, or if consumers pay down debt, expectations of greater activity tomorrow. Inflation expectations would be likely to rise.
Or so the thinking goes. Helicopter money’s seductive nature is also reason to mistrust it: there is no free lunch. Politically, it would introduce fresh tensions into a eurozone already riddled by them. Logistically, it could prove tricky. And it could induce fresh inertia on economic reform.
For the foreseeable future, the ECB will almost certainly stick with its calls for governments to do their bit to get the eurozone economy up to speed. So long as they are recalcitrant, though, the question of whether central bankers will have to do more won’t go away.
THE BERN OF FINANCIAL STRESS / MAULDIN ECONOMICS CONNECTING THE DOTS
| Etiquetas: Economics, U.S. Economic And Political
The Bern of Financial Stress
Tony Sagami
My college-aged kids love him. I’m not talking about Stephen Curry or Justin Bieber (although they love them too); I’m talking about Bernie Sanders.
Whether you support him or not, my guess is that most Americans my age are very surprised about his popularity.
I also guess that Sanders’ popularity is based on the economic stress many Americans are feeling. The chart below captures the essence of one of the biggest problems facing our next president: a shrinking middle class and a growing lower class.
Sadly, roughly 50 million Americans live below the poverty line—the largest number in our nation’s history—and the poorest 40% of all Americans now spend more than 50% of their incomes just on food and housing.
No wonder that consumer sentiment has been sinking fast, which is a very troubling sign for our consumer-driven economy.
That consumer angst translates into slowing spending. The Commerce Department reported that retail sales dropped by 0.3% in March, well below the +0.1% gain Wall Street was expecting.
The biggest drop was on auto spending, which was down 2.1%, but one of the weakest sectors were restaurants.
I suspect the root of the issue is wages… or lack thereof. The reality is that wages—despite the recent minimum wage increase in several states—have been shrinking on an inflation-adjusted basis.
A recent report by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan think tank, concluded, “In real terms, the average wage peaked more than 40 years ago.”
Check out these discouraging numbers:
39% of American workers make less than $20,000 a year.
And it doesn’t help that Americans continue to rack up debt. Example: Outstanding auto loans have hit more than a trillion dollars, with an average balance of $12,000 per person that consumes nearly 8% of the average borrower’s disposable income!
No wonder that an estimated 62% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
And all of us—low, medium, and high income combined—are working longer than ever to pay a growing tax bill. According to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, tax freedom day, the day when the nation as a whole has earned enough to pay the state and federal tax bill for the year, arrived on April 24.
That means all the money we made in the first 114 days of 2016 went to taxes.
So… what do you think all this American angst means for the stock market? Of course, the Wall Street crowd is more concerned about every syllable that comes out of Janet Yellen’s mouth than any economic or corporate statistic.
However, the stock market is butting up against a very serious ceiling of resistance that I believe will limit—if not wipe out—any gains.
So what’s an investor to do?
Nervous Nellie Strategy #1: Load up on dividend-paying stocks with a generous yield. In this topsy-turvy world of ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) and NIRP (negative interest rate policy), stocks that pay out decent-size, sustainable dividends will be among the few that will hold their value.
Nervous Nellie Strategy #2: Raise cash; lots of it. Of course, cash pays almost nothing thanks to our hallucinating central bankers, but zero will be your hero when things turn ugly.
Nervous Nellie Strategy #3: If you have some capital you can afford to speculate with, you should consider taking out some portfolio insurance with inverse ETFs and/or put options.
In reality, you probably need a combination of all three of the above strategies, because the recent good times aren’t going to last.
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THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF MACHINE LEARNING: WHAT IT MEANS FOR TECH INNOVATION / KNOWLEDGE@WHARTON
| Etiquetas: Science And Technology
The Democratization of Machine Learning: What It Means for Tech Innovation
The world of high-tech innovation can change the destiny of industries seemingly overnight.
Now we are on the cusp of a new grand leap thanks to the democratization of machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence that enables computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
This process of democratization is already underway, according to this opinion piece by Kartik Hosanagar (@khosanagar), Wharton professor of operations, information and decisions, and a cofounder of Yodle Inc., and, Apoorv Saxena (@apoorvsaxena1), a product manager at Google and co-chair of the recent AI Frontiers conference.
Last month, at the CloudNext conference in San Francisco, Google announced its acquisition of Kaggle, an online community for data scientists and machine-learning competitions. Although the move may seem far removed from Google’s core businesses, it speaks to the skyrocketing industry interest in machine learning (ML). Kaggle not only gives Google access to a talented community of data scientists, but also one of the largest repositories of datasets that will help train the next generation of machine-learning algorithms.
As ML algorithms solve bigger and more complex problems, such as language translation and image understanding, training them can require massive amounts of pre-labeled data. To increase access to such data, Google had previously released a labeled dataset created from more than 7 million YouTube videos as part of their YouTube-8M challenge on Kaggle. The acquisition of Kaggle is an interesting next step.
Market-based access to data and algorithms will lower entry barriers and lead to an explosion in new applications of AI. As recently as 2015, only large companies like Google, Amazon and Apple had access to the massive data and computing resources needed to train and launch sophisticated AI algorithms. Small startups and individuals simply didn’t have access and were effectively blocked out of the market. That changes now. The democratization of ML gives individuals and startups a chance to get their ideas off the ground and prove their concepts before raising the funds needed to scale.
But access to data is only one way in which ML is being democratized. There is an effort underway to standardize and improve access across all layers of the machine learning stack, including specialized chipsets, scalable computing platforms, software frameworks, tools and ML algorithms.
“Just like cloud computing ushered in the current explosion in startup … machine learning platforms will likely power the next generation of consumer and business tools.”
1.Specialized chipsets
Complex machine-learning algorithms require an incredible amount of computing power, both to train models and implement them in real time. Rather than using general-purpose processors that can handle all kinds of tasks, the focus has shifted towards building specialized hardware that is custom built for ML tasks. With Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) and NVIDIA’s DGX-1, we now have powerful hardware built specifically for machine learning.
2.Highly scalable computing platforms
Even if specialized processors were available, not every company has the capital and skills needed to manage a large-scale computing platform needed to run advanced machine learning on a routine basis. This is where public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and others come in. These services offer developers a scalable infrastructure optimized for ML on rent and at a fraction of the cost of setting up on their own.
3.Open-source, deep-learning software frameworks
A major issue in the wide-scale adoption of machine learning is that there are many different software frameworks out there. Big companies are open sourcing their core ML frameworks and trying to push for some standardization. Just as the cost of developing mobile apps fell dramatically as iOS and Android emerged as the two dominant ecosystems, so too will machine learning become more accessible as tools and platforms standardize around a few frameworks. Some of the notable open source frameworks include Google’s TensorFlow, Amazon’s MXNet and Facebook’s Torch.
4.Developer-friendly tolos
The final step to democratization of machine learning will be the development of simple drag-and-drop frameworks accessible to those without doctorate degrees or deep data science training. Microsoft Azure ML Studio offers access to many sophisticated ML models through a simple graphical UI. Amazon and Google have rolled out similar software on their cloud platforms as well.
5.Marketplaces for ML algorithms and datasets
Not only do we have an on-demand infrastructure needed to build and run ML algorithms, we even have marketplaces for the algorithms themselves. Need an algorithm for face recognition in images or to add color to black and white photographs? Marketplaces like Algorithmia let you download the algorithm of choice. Further, websites like Kaggle provide the massive datasets one needs to further train these algorithms.
“The final step to democratization of machine learning will be the development of simple drag-and-drop frameworks accessible.”
All of these changes mean that the world of machine learning is no longer restricted to university labs and corporate research centers that have access to massive training data and computing infrastructure.
What are the implications?
Back in the mid- and late-1990s, web development was done by specialists and was accessible only to firms with ample resources. Now, with simple tools like WordPress, Medium and Shopify, any lay person can have a presence on the web. The democratization of machine learning will have a similar impact of lowering entry barriers for individuals and startups.
Further, the emerging ecosystem, consisting of marketplaces for data, algorithms and computing infrastructure, will also make it easier for developers to pick up ML skills. The net result will be lower costs to train and hire talent. We think that the above two factors will be particularly powerful in vertical (industry-specific) use cases such as weather forecasting, healthcare/disease diagnostics, drug discovery and financial risk assessment that have been traditionally cost prohibitive.
Just like cloud computing ushered in the current explosion in startups, the ongoing build-out of machine learning platforms will likely power the next generation of consumer and business tools. The PC platform gave us access to productivity applications like Word and Excel and eventually to web applications like search and social networking. The mobile platform gave us messaging applications and location-based services. The ongoing democratization of ML will likely give us an amazing array of intelligent software and devices powering our world.
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Translation of "Du hast mein Herz" in English
Single but my heart is taken meaning
Heinrich Heine Heine was born of U-bahn bekanntschaft parents.
After he had been educated in the Düsseldorf Lyceum, an unsuccessful attempt was undertaken to make a businessman of him, first in banking, then in retailing. Eventually, his uncle was prevailed upon to finance a university education, and Heine email flirten tipps the universities of Bonn, Göttingen, Berlin, and Göttingen again, where he finally took a degree in law with absolutely minimal achievement in In that same year, in order to open up the possibility of a civil service career, closed to Jews at that time, he converted to Protestantism with little enthusiasm and some resentment.
He never practised law, however, nor held a position in government service; and his student years had been primarily devoted not to the studies for which his uncle had been paying but to poetry, literature, and history. In the spring of he finally went to Paris, where he was to live for the rest of his life.
From an outcast in the society of his own rich uncle, he was transformed into a leading literary personality, and he became acquainted with many of the prominent people of his time.
However his critical and satirical writings brought him into grave difficulties with the German censorship, and, at the end ofthe Federal German Diet tried to enforce a nationwide ban on all his works.
He was surrounded by police spies, and his voluntary exile became an imposed one. In Heine wrote a witty but ill-advised book on the single but my heart is taken meaning Ludwig Börne —the leader of the German radicals in Paris, in which Heine attempted to defend his own more subtle stand against what he thought of as the shallowness of political activism; but the arrogance and ruthlessness of the book alienated all camps.
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His third volume of poems, Romanzerois full of heartrending laments and bleak glosses on the human condition; many of these poems are now regarded as among his finest. A final collection, Gedichte und Poems andis of the same order.
After nearly eight years of torment, Heine died and was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery. The collection was named by its first publisher Tobias Haslinger, presumably wishing to present it as Schubert's final musical testament to the world.
Music videos[ edit ] Two separate videos were produced for "Mein Herz brennt", one for the original version and another for the piano version.
Lamiya Haji Bajar, Winner of the Sakharov Prize The following is a transcription of the interpretation of the original speech from Kurdish into English.
In the original manuscript in Schubert's hand, the first 13 songs were copied in a single sitting, on consecutive manuscript pages, and in the standard performance order.
Taken from Encyclopedia Britannica to view single but my heart is taken meaning full article, click hereand Wikipedia to view the full article, click here.
To read some of his poetry, click here. Sorry, no further description available.
Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken. All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Variant: All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
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Joe Biden asks Anthony Fauci, the federal coronavirus expert, to become his chief medical adviser
Dec 04, 2020 covid19
President-elect Joe Biden told CNN on Thursday that he asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, the expert on the coronavirus pandemic, to become his chief medical adviser and part of his Covid-19 response team.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been a top official dealing with the pandemic. But President Donald Trump sidelined him at points during the year after Fauci’s stark warnings about the importance of wearing masks, social distancing and halting large-scale gatherings.
“I asked him to stay on the exact same role he’s had for the past several presidents, and I asked him to be a chief medical adviser for me as well, and be part of the Covid team,” Biden said.
Related: President-elect Biden calls on Congress for COVID-19 stimulus
Fauci had told CBS News that he would meet Thursday Biden’s transition team to discuss the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I’m going to be meeting with them today, by Zoom,” Fauci told CBS News.
“So today will be the first day where there will be substantive discussions about the transition between me and the Biden team,” Fauci added. “I’m very pleased that today we’re having the first discussion about a number of things, vaccinations and things like that.”
The meeting comes after more than 273,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and nearly 14 million have been infected, according to Johns Hopkins University. The meeting with Fauci comes during a surge to more than 2,800 deaths per day, a figure eclipsing the deaths at Pearl Harbor and nearly matching the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Biden supported Fauci throughout the campaign and transition as an expert who could be trusted for guidelines on how to combat the virus – and whether promising vaccines are ready for widespread distribution, as expected later this month.
Fauci has warned about the prospects of a surge in infections after holiday gatherings and because more people are indoors during colder weather. But he has also offered assurances that vaccines regulated by the federal government will be safe.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says a coronavirus vaccine could come earlier than expected.
Biden has repeatedly cautioned that even if vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are approved, it could take months and billions of dollars to distribute them nationwide.
“Help is on the way in terms of vaccines,” Biden told an online roundtable with workers and small-business owners Wednesday.
But he continued to warn against travel and large family gatherings for the holidays.
“Christmas is going to be a lot harder,” Biden said, after holding Thanksgiving on Zoom. “I don’t want to scare anybody here, but understand the facts. We’re likely to lose another 250,000 dead between now and January.”
Biden told reporters Tuesday that his staffers have spoken with Fauci, but that he hadn’t spoken directly with him.
“He’s been very, very helpful,” Biden said.
Fauci told CBS he has spoken to Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, a few times, but that the conversations weren’t “substantive,” according to CBS and CNN. Fauci has said he thought the Biden’s team was keeping him at arm’s length to avoid disputes with Trump.
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15 Minutes at Gamecity7
GameCity is a games festival held every year in Nottingham with a focus on getting people involved in things rather than promoting AAA tripe. I briefly referenced it in my previous article which involved the gamecity prize, which isn't for the 'best' game but rather for the most interesting on judged by a load of people from various gaming and non gaming backgrounds.
I attended gamecity5 a couple of years back, and enjoyed it. I took part in the pre-event game jam (and was the only participant to actually make a game) and was then not allowed into the party and the jam was completely glossed over. I also played some 24 player bomberman, checked out some indie games of varying quality, refused to queue up to play crysis 2, and explored an interactive art installation which whilst not mindblowing could at worst be described as interesting.
This year was quite different. Firstly I found it effectively impossible to determine what was happening where and when, and what the events even entailed. The scheduling system was a mess, and didn't even load on mobile phones. Even when I got there the complimentary magazine/brochure had no schedule and rather was filled with interviews with attending game developers prattling on about nothing in particular. In short, I found the whole plan for the event completely a mystery. This was a bad start.
Upon arriving (and swiftly skipping the opportunity to play some shit games from EA) I was surprised to see that about a quarter of the tent seemed to be dedicated to a minecraft party of some sort. It wasn't apparent why, but there were a good two dozen people sitting at laptops enthusiastically wanking around on minecraft. Truly the opportunity to move imaginary bricks around in a tent and take up loads of space is exactly what festivals are about.
Aside from a massively insular LAN party there were beanbags all over the place in front of tvs, showcasing games that for the most part looked like crap that didn't take more than 8 hours to whip up. Not the kind of material I'd feel particularly proud of showing off at a festival. There were one or two interesting games on display (some sort of multiplayer action rpg for kids really caught my eye) but most seemed like so much lazy arse.
There was a guy on stage at this point, a local student, who was showcasing a few games him and his colleagues had made, one of which was a multiplayer platformer and another being snake with a morality system. It was all reasonably pretty but not really anything I would have been proud of presenting to a crowd of people.
I was then disappointed when I turned a corner to find the plywood Donkey Kong I'd heard about in promotional tweets. I went over to it and tried to operate it, but it was soon explained to me that it wasn't working, and the guy who operated it wasn't there on that day (this being Saturday, presumably one of the busiest days of the festival) and that it was basically some marble slide game that didn't really play like donkey Kong anyway.
Further disappointment came up as I arrived at the AGBIC feature, which is basically a yearly competition to design games based on fictional cartridge covers. I was going to enter myself but various things (moving house for example) got in the way and this was my first encounter with any finished games. Which looked quite nice, but sadly this too had been abandoned in favour of who knows what and instead it was basically just an attract mode of random games. Whoever was running it even took the peripherals with them so there was no hope of getting involved. What a waste.
All the other game exhibitions were busy with people playing slightly boring looking games and not really having an interest in letting anybody else have a go. Eventually we meandered over to the Venus patrol area, which seemed to consist of a couple of trampolines, a rock climbing game that played like twister, and a fairly standard controls game about two people holdings sticks in the air. I had no interest in looking like a twat, thus I exited promptly. Venus patrol have made fools of enough people by charging $100,000 to make a blog about indie games where it you have to pay to comment. They aren't getting me too.
On the way out I saw a stand for some sort of alternate reality game, but everybody on the stand was talking amongst themselves and I couldn't really tell anything about it other than it looked nice (the text on everything was far too small) so I walked away.
Then I complained in astonishment about how disappointing and frustrating the whole affair was to my wife whilst eating a sausage roll, and went home.
I'm not really sure what I expected from gamecity7, but it wasn't this. I suppose I expected to be able to know a damn thing about what was going on. I expected more forthcoming personnel promoting their games and features. I expected more than beanbags to sit down on, which for me would at best be awkward and at worst a trip hazard of my own flailing limbs.
Gamecity's Twitter account won't stop telling me how well they've done and how much positive feedback they've gotten. Clearly, I, a gamer for 22 years and indie developer for 4, was not their target audience. This is reinforced by the fact that 90 percent of the festival took place during a period when I couldn't possibly attend it due to work. I suppose gamecity7 was a festival for children, for students, for parents, and for people with sod all else going on in their lives. It's didn't feel at all for somebody who works for a living and gives a shit about games. It also feels like it's for people with low standards, and for an event with so many children present it was worryingly masturbatory.
Industry and indie circle jerks are nothing new. I suppose I just expected better.
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Labels: agbic, beanbag, boring, children, gamecity, gamecity7, indie, lazy, masturbation, minecract, nottingham, pathetic, venus patrol
Critical Miss
Sooo an article from one of the GameCity Prize judges was released earlier this week, and I notice a lot of people in the community kind of took offense to it. To some extent myself included. At first glance the author just brushes off what games we might say require the most attention, and her lack of experience makes her ignorant and her opinions irrelevant.
This of course, isn't really the case though, when considering in context what the article is actually about.
Lucy Kellaway, author of the article in question, opens the article by stating she'd never played a game in her life before now. And in the context of being a judge for the GameCity Prize, that's fine. It's not about what is the best game, it's about getting a cultural conversation going about games. Thus her merits (as far as I can tell from just the article is that she's a good writer and somebody who can form a reasonable opinion about stuff she knows sod all about) are enough to get her on the panel. Her ignorance is kind of the point if we want to get more people into games. Most gaming awards are just a load of wanking around over super popular mainstream garbage anyway.
So what did she say that was so offensive?
Well, not that much. Her experiences of the games are pretty much to be expected from somebody who's only experiences of gaming is people doing it instead of something more constructive. She plays Super Mario 3D land and can't get the hang of jumping over things. Platforming is hard for beginners! Moving and jumping, I hate to say it, is not actually that straightforward for somebody who hasn't even held a gamepad before. And her son finds it understandably frustrating. I once tried to teach my grandad to play Bomberman 2. Impossible!
She plays Fez (and makes a great joke about that brilliant asshole Phil Fish) and finds it pretty and enjoyable but ultimately shallow. Which she's damn right about from her perspective- Fez is deliberately multilayered. If you want, you can just go over the surface things and play through a visually and audibly beautiful world of shifting dimensions, gaining everything you need to finish the game quite easily. The real depth is what appeals to more serious gamers, such as all the secret codes and really complex puzzles requiring you to decipher secret messages. That's not for her. That's for us. It's perfectly acceptable to just skim the surface of Fez and find nothing more, because it is designed so you can do that. Her opinions are 100% accurate as a non-gamer.
Next up is probably what most people would have been annoyed by, as she reduces Mass effect 3 to 'a big scifi blockbuster about people in spacesuits killing each other.' Of course, the Mass Effect series, whilst having a lot of shooty killy action bits, is really an RPG with a big cover based shooter hat on it, making the statement seem somewhat ignorant. However, to somebody with no knowledge of the series, this is a pretty likely and understandable interpretation. For a start it's the final game in the series, and she won't have any useful context of the characters or the story so far. Also (I haven't played the game myself, but Mass Effect 2 was probably the best mainstream game I played last year) I imagine the final game will have a disproportionate amount of action because it's the climax of the series and presumably they've made combat work even better, whereas it's much harder to refine your writing and narrative elements with each sequel. Finally, you have to take into account she can't actually play the game. For a non gamer using dual stick controls is like asking a dog to cook you a full english. It's HARD to learn. I remember when I first learnt dual stick controls (Red Faction, ooh yeah). It wasn't easy. I could tell it would be better this way, but it was still an obstacle. Not being able to even play the game due to our native control scheme is hardly going to help her along. In all likelihood all she did see was guys in space suits killing each other. Just observing this wholesale slaughter is unlikely to be at all enlightening either.
I know little about Catherine other than it's some sort of survival horror puzzle game about a man cheating on his girlfriend or something. I think her description of the game was probably quite apt. And the comment on the game being stressful- probably true too. I've stopped really playing intense games for the most part myself as I need to wind down enough before sleeping when I'm done with work, and I've been doing this shit all my life.
I also haven't played Proteus or Journey, but the first one honestly sounds like it would be boring after 10 minutes (chilled exploration with zero depth) and Journey looks reasonably simple and fun (which I assume is easy to get into as somebody who has sod all grounding in the medium.)
As for Johann Sebastian Joust, a game that nobody can actually play but yet hopes to win an award about it's relevancy to the medium can just go fuck itself. You'd be better off playing this with an ice-cream in hand and the last cone standing wins (and can eat all that creamy whippy goodness)
Did anybody complaining about her even read her conclusions? She's practically converted to the cause. As someone initially distrustful of games (they have stolen away her son and husband and in her eyes been an non productive time waster) she admits they can be pretty and fun and even beautiful. Do you know how hard it can be to show that to people? And she's saying it all right here, as an outsider perspective in a mainstream publication that has fuck all to do with games.
This is really good. She is saying good things.
I can't really say I speak for anybody or really identify well with any sub culture, but games is the closest one I have. And if I may say so, we as a group need to be less fucking precious about our medium. Let people criticise it. Think about it yourself. Maybe we can all learn something.
It's bad enough people still think games are for kids, without their key defenders acting like they are children themselves.
Labels: catherine, criticism, fez, financial times, gamecity, games, johann sebastian joust, journey, kellaway, mass effect 3, proteus, super mario 3d land
Review: Final Fantasy XIII
JRPGs ain't what they used to be. In some ways that's a good thing- you can't make the same fantasy game with turn based uninvolving combat forever, no matter how good your visuals and soundtrack are. However I must note that as far as I can tell they've gone in three directions.
The first is that they have become absurdly complicated, and all manner of abstract and contrived systems are involved in combat and character development. This is what strikes me when I look into games such as The Last Remnant or Infinite Undiscovery. This excessive abstraction is intended to obfuscate the uninvolving nature of such games and try and give the illusion of player agency in a world without any.
The second is to eliminate the turn based menu combat and interaction, and use more real time or tactical features, making it not really a JRPG at all and something more gameplay driven entirely. Check out Kingdom Hearts or Nier maybe. Very Japanese RPG in style, but not turn based at all.
The third, which I have only noted in the case of FF13 is to take note of all the problems posed by JRPGs, and rather than fix them with new systems, create ways of working around them that solve nothing whatsoever and just kind of pretend that's okay. This is the worst kind by far.
So here we have Final Fantasy 13, in no way the thirteenth final fantasy game ever made, which takes the design approach of spotting something broken and throwing a gigantic noncommittal rug over it. I'll get straight to the point - there is almost no gameplay in this game.
Sure, there's the idea of gameplay, just like there's the idea of good or evil or the perfect summer's day or Patrick Bateman, but it's no deeper than a shadow and far less interactive. The game gives you plenty of options but they're almost entirely meaningless and player agency is but a distant memory.
Let's start over. FF13 is a story about some people who live in a floating country called Cocoon, who are accidentally embroiled in a terrible conflict when creatures from the surface world below (called Pulse for some reason) whom they are all terrified of (for a fairly decent reason.) There's a lot of conflict regarding how the government deals with this incident (i.e.. really badly) and then they all get infected with some sort of curse by the creature from Pulse which basically removes any agency they have in their own lives and either turns them into monsters for not doing what it wants or turns them into statues (who may or may not have done terrible things) if they obey their orders.
In a way it is almost logical for a game about how you deal with having any choice taken away from you and being forced to soldier on hoping desperately for a positive conclusion to take away almost all choice from the player and force them to soldier on whilst hoping desperately for things to improve. However that does not make for an at all interesting, involving, or especially playable game, and regardless of clever allegory and direct narrative allusion through gameplay mechanics, it just plain sucks.
I'll admit that the story does seem to be one of the better ones, and though I only spent 13 hours with the game I should be qualified to determine the story quality as probably 6 hours of that was spent watching non interactive scenes and reading through the back story. Yep, for a game that forces almost no involvement upon you in favour of story it does an appalling job of grounding you in the basic facts of the game world. Reading the rather lengthly Datalog is literally the only way of understanding what Cocoon and Pulse are, what the Fal'cie and L'cie are, who PSICOM or the Guardian Corps are, what some war that's casually mentioned was, what any of this shit even means in context- basically anything that isn't happening right now or recently is skimmed over in favour of direct action in the moment.
I hardly have to say these days that the visuals are pretty splendid as this is a Final Fantasy game. Everything looks pretty fancy and flashy although I must say the character design is a little uninteresting- with the exception of Lightning and Sazh everybody looks a bit generic. Monsters are likewise mostly fairly formulaic- similar to how Pokemon have devolved into random shapes with faces, many of the enemies are just animals or weird robots with patterns on them- but there are a few exceptions that make up for that mainly in the form of boss battles.
The sound is all round pretty awful and does an appalling job of complementing what little gameplay there is. Music is bland and entirely forgettable, and doesn't really fit the mood at any point in the game. Surprisingly the sound design itself is also really poor,for a game with so little interaction the least you could expect would be a decent report from the menu or when performing magic but everything is pretty weedy and overly synthesised. There's just no life to it, no heart, no soul. It is purely functional.
Outside of the aforementioned cut scenes and reading there are three things: walking forwards, fighting a bit, and managing your character development. Walking forwards is pretty straightforwards as you can imagine, the game layout is hyper linear and there is almost nothing to be gained from exploration, although it does try and make this a little more challenging by swinging the camera all around your arse all the time and having Lightning run like a complete dickhead.
Managing character development is deceptively linear. At any point you have access to a range of character classes dependent on character and story progression. You can spend exp upgrading your stats and skills in one of these character classes in the pointlessly convoluted crystarium, which is basically a big windy path of subsequent upgrades. You get up to six different character classes which you can switch during battle and affect what skills you have at your disposal and how effective you are in certain situations, but more importantly they affect how your team AI works. Upgrading these is super basic and you don't really need to think that much about which to develop because there are only six and you keep having your party changed all the damn time anyway.
Now for my primary issue with the game. The story was fine, I was even okay with having to read some of it myself. I don't care about the music and the sound design would have simply been a nice bonus. The upgrade system is pointless, yes, but at least it's slightly more involving than fixed character classes. Even the absence of anything to do other than move forward, watch things happen, and get into fights would have been acceptable if those fights had been anything other than a completely pointless, uninvolving, almost deliberately and unashamedly anachronistic waste of my time.
It's pretty simple really. You get Lightning (or maybe somebody else depending on your point in the game) to do actions like the classic ATB. Wait for your turn, navigate menu, select target, off you go. However that's about as far as it goes. Your team mates are 100% AI controlled. The enemies are generally incredibly simplistic. There's even an auto battle function which you will use a whole lot more than you expect, because most fights are so utterly devoid of intellectual substance that you can just get the computer to guess its way to the cake. The game even tells you that the Auto Battle will always choose the most appropriate commands for any given situation. All it can't do is use an item or special command (of which I only ever got 1, Libra, which tells you enemy weaknesses and basically enhances the player side AI even further), or change the current paradigm (class loadout for the team.
Essentially, combat boils down to hitting auto-battle over and over and waiting for the correct time to change your class configuration to either heal, debuff, or build up a combo attack. The only decent addition to the combat is this combo system which will eventually 'stagger' an enemy and cause you to inflict tonnes of damage on them with subsequent attacks for a period of time. You're specifically told to do this as much as you can so there goes another tactical decision straight into the FF13 one button attract mode gameplay model.
In the past people have complained that JRPG combat is uninvolving, and doesn't require much player interaction than choosing some stuff from a menu and hitting A repeatedly. Rather than involve the player further Square have chosen to run with this and get a computer to do these menus and mashing A for you. It has removed you from the equation. I'm sure that if they'd have wanted they could have made your paradigms switch according to context and you'd never have to do anything other than hold forwards on the left stick and occasionally hit A to advance text. Maybe that's what Final Fantasy 15 will be- a sixty hour movie where you have to hit a button every time you want the next scene.
People complained that towns are only there for you to buy stuff for your guys and generally ignore before continuing with the story. (These people were wrong, and NPCs and setting are vital in building a living, breathing, believable game universe.) Thus we have no shops, no NPCs you can actually talk to, no chance to explore or experience the world of Cocoon (and presumably Pulse) other than what we are explicitly shown.
People complained about random encounters being incredibly annoying. They were right in many ways, and to fix this now enemies are shown in the environment, and you simply can't avoid fighting them 95% of the time. Now rather than random battles, you have fixed, linear, preplanned battles. This also deals with the complains about grinding, as there's no scope for that because there's no random battles and enemies don't respawn. This does however leave no scope for self driven character development (lets be honest, a little bit of time spent just fighting can be fun for the level rewards) and once again the player is given no choice in the matter.
In software development seeing a problem and developing a workaround is a way of handling bugs in a game when you don't have the time to fix straight away. As far as I can tell it was Square's entire strategy in designing the interactive portion of this game. The appallingly pointless gameplay is there only to remind you that this is in fact a game you're playing, and not simply an absurdly long movie (with crap sound and character design (this story would have been better told as a novel.)) I should note though that they've finally included an option to skip cut scenes, so if pointless detached combat is really your thing, you have the choice to remove the only thing that might make this title worthwhile.
I've been told that the game gets better after twenty five hours. If you're somebody who can trudge through twenty five hours of mind numbing shit in order to get to the 'good bit', feel free to play Final Fantasy 13. I, on the other hand, actually have things to do other than put up with another 12 hours of this game, and it's kind of sad if you can devote twenty five hours of your life to dealing with poorly designed rubbish just to enjoy a payoff that literally can not possibly be worth it.
Just go read a book instead.
Labels: 13, bland, boring, crap, fantasy, final, final fantasy, gameplay, hope is a twat, JRPG, linear, long, pointless, story, uninvolving, XIII
Operation Raccoon City is a game about Raccoons running a hospital in a big city. Things don't always work out for them but when they do boy is it hilarious!
Oh, wait. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon city is actually a team based shooter set in the world of Resident Evil during the events of Resident Evil 2 and 3. The basic premise is that you are part of Umbrella's crack squad of mercenaries (one of many crack squads presumably given how many Umbrella Mercenaries we've seen throughout the series) and you've been called in to deal with an incident which immediately spirals out of control and everything goes to shit. You're then expected to clean up this whole mess through a combination of running around and shooting everybody.
The first thing I thought when playing this was that this game didn't know what it wanted to be. The dramatic difference in combatative approaches from fighting zombies and engaging in gunfights meant that one of the two seemed to suffer at any moment. For the most part it was the gunfighting, which for my chosen gameplay style was pretty poor and unengaging. Fighting zombies was more fun but also seemed a bit unbalanced in terms of functionality.
However as things progressed, and I tried out different characters and equipment loadouts, things improved. There were other ways of playing I had not originally tried that were far more satisfying. The level design was rarely brilliant, but did get more and more focused as the game went on. More interesting enemies were introduced to make combat more complex and intense. Perhaps most importantly of all I discovered a whole bunch of stuff about the game that it hadn't bothered to explain to me.
Which is really one of the key problems, and I understand some of the more negative reviews given that non-awareness of these features would inevitably leave the game lacking and frustrating. For example, as a team based game, there are certain classes that are almost useless outside of multiplayer. Survelliance and Field Scientist fit that description, and ironically those are the classes I insisted on using for my first playthrough. Additionally, certain weapons are a waste of time too- in particular shotguns and in most situations sniper rifles. There are even game mechanics that are largely unexplained- the never mentioned dodge move (activated by pressing Left Stick+Left Stick Direction+A at the same time) is essential to surviving against enemies such as Hunters and Tyrants, and the blood frenzy mechanic which allows you to force zombies to attack enemy gunmen during a three way fight is never really mentioned outside of the loading screens (although it makes certain battles infinitely easier).
Even the Quickdraw move which has it's own bloody button has literally no explanation whatsoever given aside from the button to activate it, and it's up to you to figure our how it works. (I will add notes at the end of the review for anybody planning on playing the game. This knowledge will almost certainly make your experience more full and enjoyable.) As a game that doesn't seem like it knows what it wants to be, it certainly doesn't make any efforts to help the player decide on that either.
Outside of the mysterious but highly effective game mechanics, the visuals are neither offensive nor anything special. They're highly functional with occaisional flair, and the enemies look decent. There are some nice environments but sadly you'll spend far too long walking around concrete and steel corridors underground rather than experiencing the Raccoon City overworld proper. The sound is however much more interesting, with some great atmospheric pieces and incidental music, as well as great ambience and sound effects. Even the music from the main menu is pretty great, and though unexpected this is one of the game's stronger suits.
Despite being based around a survival horror series the game is rarely making an effort to scare- though there are plenty of hairy moments to get your heart pounding- it's hardly going to have you in a fit of terror. This is due in part to the heavy focus on action, and the fact that the game is oriented around multiple players. Multiplayer is rarely scary as you have strength in numbers, and there aren't the same stakes involved unless you play solo due to the revival mechanic (you get killed, somebody rezzes you and vice versa, death is more inconvenient in co-op than anything)
Having six playable characters with different play styles works reasonably well, and gives the game mnore replay value as well as a stronger team aesthetic, what with different characters performing different roles. I'm going to tell you now the best character is undoubtedly Lupo, the team's assault weapon specialist, and this shows something of a lack of balance. Granted, I was unable to get into a co-op game (probably because many reviewers slammed this aspect of it and nobody wanted to play), so obviously you can't all play as Lupo. Behind her come Bertha, the team's Medic/surprisingly badass tank; Vector who specialises in close combat and stealth, then after that Beltway (bombs) Four Eyes (Antiviral) and Spectre (surveiilance-useless in single player, almost essential in deathmatch) lag far behind in effectiveness. The main problem being that supportive classes are great and all for the people who aren't using them, but need them as backup. The AI alternate between tactical brilliance and completely bumbling idiocy, therefore you can't possibly play a supporting character (aside from your masochistic medic) and be able to lead the team properly. Playing second fiddle to Lupo just isn't that cool.
In terms of narrative it's pretty poor, even by Resident Evil standards. Birkin has been discovered to be a right arse and you're part of the team sent in to kick his...arse. Things go wrong, all hell breaks loose and Resident Evil 2 and 3 play out in the background (although I never did work out the continuity between those two). You're constantly sent on wild goose chases for some reason or another, before eventually getting fired, and just ending up killing zombies for the fun of it. Then you get rehired for one last mission blah blah blah. It's hardly engaging and doesn't really have any direction to it. At the climax there's a moral choice to make which involves you either having a really hard boss fight if you're a bastard, or a pifflingly easy one if you're nice. The only difference is in which achievement you get at the end of it, and this game isn't canon anyway so really it just feels tacked on. Then again, did anybody ever really play Resident Evil for the story? I think that's what Silent Hill was for.
In fairness though if you ignore the boring plot and just play for the action, it works really well. The level design as mentioned before is mostly just functional, but there are some really great areas too, for example sprinting around Umbrella's lab as you continuously accidentally release more BOWs on yourself all whilst being chased around by a Tyrant. Or the city streets sections where Hunters attack you and you have to dive around cars whilst avoiding the government troops in the distance. When it gets going it really hits the mark, so it's a shame so much of the level layouts seem to be just getting you from one point to another whilst having a bit of a fight. On top of the basic gameplay there's also a weapon shop and upgrade system so you can customise each character's personal skill set to make them more powerful, and this helps give more of a sense of progression even when the literal progress through the story falls flat, as well as adding some vital replay value- the campaign is at best eight hours long, and that includes a lot of stupid singleplayer deaths.
Moving on to what may or may not be the intended focus of the game, the multiplayer gameplay. I never got a chance to play campaign online, either due to time differences, lack of players, or perhaps it simply doesn't work. However from my experience of single player I can infer that the campaign probably worked quite well, and that the team mechanics would probably mesh quite nicely, allowing for a more coherent and flowing player experience than the single player which suffers from pacing issues due to the reliance on AI who are simply unreliable. There's no splitscreen sadly, which follows a trend of not bothering with allowing splitscreen play these days despite the fact it is clearly more fun than online play.
For the competitive multiplayer you get to fight it out over what are arguably the best bits of the campaign, implying that perhaps they build these first and then structured the campaign around them. After all, the multiplayer was touted as the main appeal of this game. There are four game modes- standard team deathmatch, a capture the flag variant, survivor in which you all fight for a bit to earn points but after a while you all have to race to a helicopter that only four people can get in (this is genuinely interesting but drags on a bit too long), and Heroes (or something like that) in which you get to play as super powerful characters from the series such as Leon, Hunk etc and generally kill each other in that manner.
Team Deathmatch as usual is where it's at, and the game really shines in multiplayer. In this format the supportive character's skills are actually incredibly useful. For example, the surveillance man I mentioned earlier who's skills are useful in singleplayer is actually capable of showing his whole team a better map and indicating enemy and item locations. Now the whole team benefits from him. Likewise for the field scientist who can turn enemy players into zombies or attract hordes of zombies to their location to mess them up. Team play really comes in here and the significantly varied styles of each character make every encounter more interesting due to their asymmetrical nature. Oh, and speaking of zombies, they really serve to make this something other than your standard 'kill the other team' deathmatch. They're a third party, who attack whoever is nearby. You get points for killing them (although not half as much as for killing players) and you can use mechanics such as blood frenzy to utilise them to your advantage. Also having them turn up in the middle of a gunfight send things totally nuts- they're wonderfully chaotic and make the game infinitely more interesting for it.
Overall I was pleasantly surprised by Operation Raccoon City, especially given how much negative press I'd seen about it. The game is a little rough around the edges, but it takes co-op shooting and injects it with enough Resident Evil flavour to set it apart from its clear rival from Valve, and a head above the appalling Resident Evil 5. I'd recommend it to any fan of the series, or anybody into team based shooting. Single player isn't fantastic- but it's not bad either- and the multiplayer will give you hours of replay value. I truly hoped that they'd keep what they learnt from this game in the development of Resident Evil 6, and I'm pleased to see that it seems they have. Perhaps finally Capcom are going manage to modernise the series rather than making the key challenge in the game how to get across the room without having to perform a three point turn.
We can only hope.
[Oh hey, those tips I mentioned. Right, first of all, the secret controls:
Dodge: Left Stick Click +Left Stick Direction+A. This allows you to dive immediately in any direction and is invaluable for defending against hunters and Tyrants. You can still fire whilst you're flying through the air and even whilst you're getting up, so you can defend and attack simultaneously. It's super handy.
Quickdraw: Hold LB /L1. Then point in any direction with the left stick to fire your sidearm at anything you see. This is also incredibly handy when dealing with groups of zombies, as not only can you instantly aim in any direction, the camera pans out so you can walk and fire through a crowd, and your character only fires when there's a target, making the attack surprisingly accurate. In the right situations this will save your arse. Those situations being when you're surrounded by zombies. This can also function as a quick turn once you get the hang of it.
Blood Frenzy: Shooting humans in the head is a good way to kill them, but shooting their bodies enough will cause them to bleed. Bleeding people are incredibly attractive to the undead for some reason, and will cause zombies in the area to gravitate towards them quite rapidly. This is really handy for three way fights where there are groups of soldiers together, as wounding one will allow you to draw the zombies to them and totally mess them up. Be careful though, as the same goes for you if you end up in bleeding status. One of the attributes a weapon can have is its chance of causing blood frenzy, so if you're expecting loads of human opponents this is something to consider.
Redhead creation: I know they're called Crimson Heads but redhead is much simpler to say. Anyway, wounding, but not killing a zombie will cause them to undergo a transformation into these if you leave them alone long enough. You don't want that, because they're lightning fast and fucking hard to kill.
Other tips: Some quick time events aren't obviously that. Not noticing them will get you killed.
Shotguns are appalling. I upgraded to the best one as soon as I could and still spent the whole game struggling to kill your average zombie. Sniper rifles are good in multiplayer but not much place else.
Lupo is the shit. She'll kill everybody, so use her liberally.
Melee attacks are nowhere near as effective as they are cool looking, don't be tempted by their stylish nature when you'd be better off shooting somebody in the face.
Anti Viral Sprays stop you being a zombie. If a team mate is going to be a zombie, just kill them. In single player if you get infected without a spray you're done for. Your team mates respawn- you don't.]
Labels: design, game, multiplayer, mystery commands, operation raccoon city, RE ORC, resident evil, review, tyrant
Okay guys. It's time to be (sort of) serious(ish) for a moment.
Been doing or not doing this blog of random humour and commentary on stupid shit for a while now, and it's not really what I fancy doing any more. Of course, I love writing, and I like jokes and humour and all that. However, I also want to write serious things, and talk more about games and all the other stuff I love rather than imaginary diseases or conspiracy theories about squirrels trying to steal my eyelids.
Thus it has been decided. This isn't just a blog where I try and be funny for a bit every once in a while when I have time.
There will be made up stupid things.
There will be silly science.
There will be sarcastic satire.
There will be awesome and interesting games.
There will be real shit*
It will be epic
*not actually shit shit, you know, shit as in stuff.
This way I figure I can just let myself write whatever and if you want to see it fine and if not you can sod off back to eating jellybabies with a spoon or however you spend your free time. It's not like I have an established fanbase, so I think I'll just keep spitting out things here until I strike gold and inevitably become rich and blah blah I think we all know this ends in porridge explosions.
The key thing here is that I don't have to make myself be funny, it'll happen naturally and work better then. Plus I can write about all the things I'm really fucking angry about (I'm looking at you government!)
Without further ado, a review of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.
(PS, I'm having a lot of trouble when I copy and paste text from Evernote into here, what with fonts going all irregular and looking fuck all like they do in this box when they appear on the blog. Sorry about that. It's definitely Google's fault. Yep. All them.)
Labels: blog, creative direction, games, identity, satire, science, shit, stupid
Essexy Beast
Oh my shit did you hear the news recently? There's a lion in Essex! What next? A gorilla in brighton? Elephants in Scotland Yard? A bunch of retarded dogs in parliament?
Well, this is news indeed. Real news, not like the Olypmic/Paralympic rubbish, or all that murdering being done by the government in Syria, or even Julian Assange bumming around in the Equadorian Embassy. No, this is the absolute MOST IMPORTANT bit of news going around at the moment. Nothing could be more important than a totally real lion in Essex.
You know why?
Because it's basically proves the 'Big Cat of Ilkeston'!
I should provide some background.
The 'Big Cat of Ilkeston' (or Big Tom as I shall now refer to it for convenience) is a legend that we've had around these parts for a good time now. There's been reports in the paper of folk seeing a panther like creature, a 'big cat' if you will, lurking about the streets, fields, and canal ways for years now. Some say it's an escaped pet of one of Ilkeston's richer resident's. Some say it's a man cursed to spend every fifteenth sunday night as a panther wandering Ilkeston and being spotted by idiots. Some say it's just a dog that's far away or something. Nobody knows the true identity of it.
I know one witness personally (he's a complete twat) so there must be some truth to it, and now the existence of a totally real lion in Essex basically proves that these big cats are for real, and that people don't make stupid perceptual mistakes they can't accept are untrue, and that everybody should be shitting themselves in case it's standing behind them right now.
Have you checked yet? Then the coast is clear (for now).
Now that we know that the Essex Lion totally proves Big Tom exists, I expect we'll have to start watching out for great big cats wherever we go. With that in mind, here's some advice on how to handle them.
1) Big Cats love jelly, so be sure to carry some around in your pockets in case you come face to face with one.
2) Never travel alone at night without an elephant gun.
3) Learn to whistle. It fucks the male ones right off and they have to go back to Australia or wherever lions come from. It makes lionesses proper horny though, so try not to get raped. Unless you're into that sort of thing. You dirty bastard.
4) Grow longer legs so that if all else fails, you can leap to safety.
I'm off now to barricade my doors against great big smelly old Big Tom, because I'm certain he's about to come and steal my milk.
Fucking cats...
Labels: big cat of ilkeston, essex, essex lion, gullible twats, hoax, lion, pfft
420 is a bad number. I didn't think so until recently but like Joseph kony that's just because nobody really knew about its bastardry. Whilst a number of course cannot enslave invisible children (which I assume is to steal chocolate or something) it can cause conditions such as brain tumors, strange and erratic behaviour, mathematician's finger, and pooflonge.
The individual components of this number are not to be sniffed at either. 400 is the number of babies Stalin ate during his reign in search of a more potent moustache. Twenty is the true number of deadly sins (and includes acts such as sarcasm, farting, and being indecisive). Zero is of course nothing, the worst amount of anything that isn't country music. Put together they form a number worse than 666, 13, 911, or any other dickish number from history.
Have you seen this number around recently? Fortunately the date of this number passed us by some time ago, and we are relatively safe from it's baneful occurrence for another year or so. However, quite terrifyingly, the time known as 'twenty minutes past four', or 4:20 when more frivolously formatted, occurs twice in every day! If you ever notice this time happening stop it at once! Close your eyes and think of Moomins, chocolate cereals, and the theme tune to The Wombles. Anything to escape the dread of 4:20!
There are some people (and I'm not naming any names. You know who you are. Yes you!) who have sadly joined some sort of cult relating to the worship of this number, who's terrible presence is celebrated every twelve hours with the ritual smoking of drugs that not only impair the mind, but put evil little minions into their lungs who whisper 420 at passers by during casual conversations, causing much discomfort to say the least.
If you ever come across one of these cultists, consider them strange and dangerous, as the evil power of 420 grows as you approach it's magical minute. Consider dispatching them swiftly using a katana or sai, or better yet, some sort of incendiary device such as a tactical thermonuclear warhead. The threat they pose to the world's safety really can't be understated.
Unfortunately this is all I can say on the matter, as if I type 420 one more time I may just grow out my hair, sprout a crap beard, start talking slowly and somehow get the impression I know something you don't, right before I crush a bag of kittens. All because of the evil of 420.
Ah fuck...man...*squish*...
Labels: 420, drugs, evil, maths, morons, numbers
So it looks like the Olympic Games are around the corner and it's going to be the most heavily policed event since the reign of Stalin. What are the Olympics you ask? Have you not heard about them yet!
Well the Olympics are a set of athletic events where everybody competes in the nude and if they win get given a large medal to conceal their embarrassment. Given that we are currently in the most indecisive summer for many a year this means that all the participants will likely get both sunburn and pneumonia as they run around with all sorts of extremities flopping about the place.
Oh wait, I forgot, the Olympics aren't actually that awesome. Instead everybody is fully clothed and under the serious gaze of seven thousand armed mercenaries and terrified interns they run, jump, cycle and cartwheel their way to either glory or dishonour, whichever their culture values the greater.
So what's the big deal about it then? After all that just sounds like Gladiators but without the silver spandex and growling pensioners trying to bum you. Well, turns out they also award to the victor of the most medals the key to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, allowing the most powerful athlete to celebrate by totally destroying their Adonis like body and consuming the previous victor, thus restoring balance to the force/completing the circle of life or something.
If that wasn't enough excitement for you, there are some actually interesting contest in there that you might genuinely want to watch, such as Judo, Fencing, and BMX cycling (which makes me so tense I can't even watch it on You've Been Framed for concern that somebody is going to fall and have all their limbs mangled by acircularonslaught of rubber and steel...I must be getting old.) As well as that there's Canoe Slalom. Canoe Fucking Slalom! Dudes in canoes zigzagging down rushing rapids and trying to outsmart evil flags as they struggle not to capsize and have their skull dragged across the rocky underside of the waterway. I have no idea where they'll host such an event as the Thames is probably still jammed full of confetti from the Jubilee celebrations but even if they have to host it in the Queen's bathtub it'll be a hoot.
I wonder if it's too late to submit some of my own sporting ideas to the Olympic games, as I'm sure they're all far more interesting than watching some guys run slower than a car or jump over a bar. A few of them follow here:
Fire Running:
This is an extension if the torch carrying relay thing they do before the events. Essentially the aim is to see how quickly you can get from one side of the stands to the other whilst carrying the flame without setting onlookers alight. A time penalty is incurred for every square inch of burns that are suffered during the race, so don't get reckless!
Brick Lobbing:
Using whatever technique you please, throw a standard British house brick as far as possible through a series of glass panels. I included this one to give the criminal underclass something useful to do in the games. Popular throw styles include the Whirling Thomas, Gadsby's Catapult, and The Gordon Ramsay Raging Bastard Shot, which mainly differentiates itself by the amount of swearing involved.
Car Sprints:
Image the standard one hundred metres. Now, instead of people, picture cars. You get the idea. This one's a brand new idea created by me so don't you steal it!
Last Orders Dashmob:
Held at 11pm, athletes have to down six pints of finest lager and wait for the bell to sound, at which point they race to be the first to reach the bar at the other end of the arena. The winner gets a drink as well as a medal. The rest get punched by brawny men.
Stickfighting:
It's like the fencing, but with big sticks. And no armour. Or rules.
Last man breathing wins.
Shouting:
There are plenty of non made up events that should have been in the Olympics though. What about the egg and spoon race? Unicycling? Mixed novelty? Log riding!?
Overall I think the Olympics organisers have missed a trick by not using unusual and enthralling new sports such as these to give a bit of variety to what will inevitably be mostly watching people warm up before fifteen seconds of action, with another four hour wait before anything happens again. It's like Dragonball Z but with less energy blasts and flying. If anything they should at least edit the footage in such a way as to make it look like there's drama between the athletes, overdub some speech or something. I don't know, but it's going to be crap otherwise.
Then again at least it's not football. We never win medals in that. Not that you can. Win medals I mean.
It's some sort of cup isn't it? I wonder what it tastes like. I guess I'll never know because I'm English!
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Re: Apple (AAPL) 04 (Mar 01 - Dec 18)
by winston » Tue Apr 24, 2018 1:48 pm
not vested
Tech Stocks to Short: Apple (AAPL)
What Apple Inc.’s Deal For Shazam Means for AAPL Stock
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares have fallen back below their 200-day moving average after a key semiconductor supplier warned of tepid demand for ultra high-end smartphones last week — casting a pall on the $999 iPhone X as we head into a mid-cycle refresh later this year.
Consumers just aren’t that excited about shelling out that kind of cash for incremental improvements.
Which will make a planned “iPhone X Plus” model with a larger screen (and a larger price tag) a tough sell.
The company will next report results on May 1 after the bell. Analysts are looking for earnings of $2.69 per share on revenues of $61.1 billion.
When the company last reported on Feb. 1, earnings of $3.89 beat estimates by four cents per share on a 12.7% rise in revenues.
Source: Investor Place
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by winston » Fri Apr 27, 2018 8:00 pm
Consumer Goods Stocks to Buy and Hold: Apple (AAPL)
Although Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock has taken it on the chin in 2018, down 3% year to date through April 26, it doesn’t have the world’s largest market cap for nothing.
Most of the negative spin facing Apple these days has to do with the iPhone X’s poor sales, which some speculate could see the smartphone maker exit the ultra-premium end of the market.
I don’t believe that for a second and neither does my colleague Brad Moon who recently discussed what Apple is likely to do in the coming months.
“Don’t expect Apple to abandon that ultra-premium market,” Moon wrote April 23. “No-one knows for certain what Apple is planning for 2018, but the smart money right now is on a less expensive LCD-based iPhone X lookalike, a new version of the iPhone X and an iPhone X Plus — that’s likely to either hit that same $999 starting price, or go even higher.”
While sales numbers of the iPhone X haven’t blown the doors off smartphone revenues, it is still a very profitable phone and the last time I looked, earnings are what drive stock prices higher, not revenues.
With the services end of its business growing by double digits every quarter, Apple’s revenue streams are becoming more balanced, not less — and that’s a very good thing for AAPL stock in the long term.
by winston » Sat Apr 28, 2018 9:00 pm
What to Watch: Apple (AAPL)
Earnings Report Date: May 1 after market close
The fiscal Q2 report from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is simply huge – and not just for Apple. AAPL stock has fallen 9% in just the last eight trading sessions, as fears about iPhone X sales continue to mount.
The concerns have bled over into other sectors – notably the chip space. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (known as the ‘SOX’) has fallen over 7% during that stretch.
Apple has a chance to stem the bleeding on Tuesday afternoon – but I wouldn’t be rushing into AAPL just yet. Analysts clearly have turned on the story here.
Estimates continue to come down, with Bernstein cutting its outlook on Friday. One analyst this week wrote that the Street is in “full panic mode“, as supply chain checks show weak demand for the X.
Even if Apple’s numbers beat, it may not be enough to change that sentiment. The long-running bear case for AAPL has been based on the idea that smartphone sales are going to peak.
As replacement cycles lengthen and lower-end products improve, iPhone sales are going to slow, and eventually, growth will turn negative.
Increasingly, some analysts and investors appear to believe that peak has arrived. And barring a massive quarter, Apple probably can’t change their minds on Tuesday. Still, a beat on Tuesday could at least end the recent pullback, and stabilize both AAPL and the stocks of many of its suppliers.
And given Apple’s still-huge market capitalization near $900 billion, a bounce in Apple stock could move broad indices (notably the price-weighted Dow) on Wednesday.
by winston » Thu May 03, 2018 9:41 pm
Value Trap Stock: Apple (AAPL)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock rebounded after the company’s earnings results and guidance came in slightly above expectations. Apple also decided to spend $100 billion on share buybacks and raise its dividend 16%.
Despite the rebound, Apple stock is trading at a forward price to earnings ratio of just 13.5. But the sales of the company’s main driver, the iPhone, missed the consensus estimate (52.2 million units sold vs. 52.3 million expected) and only rose about 2.3% year-over-year.
That doesn’t seem terrible, but the iPhone X, released in September, was supposed to be a revolutionary product. These aren’t revolutionary numbers.
Moreover, the fact that Apple wasn’t able to beat iPhone expectations — which already been lowered in recent weeks — also does not bode too well for its future.
Headwinds I’ve previously identified — increased competition in China and bad publicity surrounding the (potentially intentional) iPhone battery issues — also appear to be taking a toll on Apple.
According to CNBC, sales of the Apple’s “other major devices” were exactly in-line with expectations, while the sales of its iPads and Macs came in slightly below expectations.
It appears that revenues generated by the company’s Services — which were slightly above expectations — propelled Apple’s beat.
But in the absence of a “killer” offering, it’s uncertain whether the company’s Services revenue can continue to beat expectations, let alone compensate for continued weakness in its iPhone business.
by behappyalways » Mon May 07, 2018 10:06 am
Apple shares hit all-time high after Buffett raises stake
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-44012577
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A MASSIVE BUYBACK GROWS EVEN BIGGER
Today's chart shows the benefits of owning shareholder-friendly companies...
Regular DailyWealth readers know we love companies that reward their shareholders. Businesses can do this in two ways: by growing dividends, and by buying back their own shares.
As Steve explained back in March 2015, buybacks reduce the number of shares outstanding. It's like cutting a pizza into six slices instead of eight... The pizza is the same size, but your slice is now larger.
Consumer-electronics giant Apple (AAPL) rewards its shareholders both ways... The company recently completed a massive $210 billion share-buyback plan that started in 2012. And it's ready for more... Apple just added another $100 billion to that plan. It also announced it would boost its quarterly dividend by 16% to 73 cents per share. That's nearly 70% higher than it was five years ago.
As you can see below, Apple shares jumped after the news to a new all-time high. They're up 21% over the past year. Apple continues to reduce the size of its "pizza," and shareholders are reaping the rewards...
Source: Daily Wealth
by winston » Sat May 19, 2018 5:18 pm
4 Huge Risks for Apple Inc. Stock: The In-Depth Bear Case
Why is the world's most valuable company one of tech's cheapest stocks?
By VINCE MARTIN
AAPL still is valued at a little over 14x FY19 (ending September) consensus EPS estimates. The figure is even lower when considering Apple’s huge cash balance.
Risk #1: The Commoditization Risk
Risk #2: Apple Stock’s iPhone Reliance
Risk #3: The Rest of Apple
Risk #4: International Concerns
https://investorplace.com/2018/05/bear- ... h=nonbuyer
by winston » Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:23 am
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares have sliced below their 50-day moving average for a loss of roughly 7% from their recent high, returning to a range that’s been in play since November.
The rebound off of the 200-day moving average — spurred by word Warren Buffett had bought a big position in the company — looks vulnerable to fade big now on fears iPhones from China could be hit with tariffs that would impact profitability margins.
The company will next report results on July 31 after the close. Analysts are looking for earnings of $2.18 per share on revenues of $52.4 billion.
When the company last reported on May 1, earnings of $2.73 beat estimates by five cents on a 15.6% rise in revenues.
by winston » Tue Jul 24, 2018 10:07 am
#3. Apple
Price target: $214
Upside potential: 11%
Analyst commentary: "In-line [stock] with Nasdaq year to date as investors take "wait-and-see" approach to iPhone after a weaker iPhone X launch; services (15% of revenue) remains an undisputed positive driver;
Expect wider array of next-generation (X-style) iPhones in the fall. More selection (iPhone X "Lite" & "Plus") could drive unit upside (we model ~4 million units above Street for second half 2018)."
TheStreet's quick take: Goldman Sachs is a bear on the cheapest FAANG stock, Apple. Here's why. Also keep in mid that smartphone sales continue to slow.
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22/07/19 18:00 Filed in: reminiscence | Autobiography
My mother recently died and so I thought I would share a few thoughts about this moment.
My parents liked to go to dances. In 1943 they met at a dance in Bridlington, where my mother lived. She was a girl from Gomersal and he was a lad from Gateshead. He drove tanks and loved the excitement of wartime life and I suspect was a bit of a girl magnet. There seems to have been something of a live now die later atmosphere in this little Yorkshire seaside town. Along with big bands at the Spa Pavilion, they even had the odd bombing raid to go along with the soldiers billeted there completing their training before D-day.
My father’s wartime speciality was repairing Sherman tanks under fire and on the move. They were, by his accounts temperamental machines that became nicknamed “Ronsons” because the Ronson cigarette lighter’s advertising slogan was, “One Strike, and it lights.”
By 1953 they were in London and my father was a detective. He was one of the many ex-servicemen the Metropolitan police recruited to deal with the gangs engaged in a crime spree at the time. The Great Train Robbery was perhaps the most famous of the era. But there were many others and my father had the time of his life mounting raids on lorry hijackers.
My mother I think, felt left out and trapped with the children, though that was what women did in those days. To work was an insult to your husband and a sign of being a bad wife and mother. I have no idea if this is when her temper developed, but whatever the source, it could erupt in sudden unforeseen bursts.
She died on Bastille Day 2019, the anniversary of the day she married. I had a brief Face-Time conversation with her, though I’m not entirely sure she heard much as she was on the hospital bed not looking her best. The most profound thing I managed to say was, I’ll speak to you later, goodbye. And she vaguely waved and that was that. A few hours later my sister texted me that she was gone.
The last real conversation I had with her was her telling me that she was passed going anywhere. Because of the cancer she now had, she’d lost too much weight and sitting in a car was too painful. She’d been complaining that she did not know what a 95 year old was supposed to do! I was no real help as I pointed to the age of the Malaysian prime minister and of course David Attenborough and then there’s Professor James Lovelock who just turned a hundred and was publicising his latest book on I.T. I tried to put a positive age is but a number spin on things, tried to get her to perhaps socialise a little but all I was doing was avoiding the moment when she had decided enough was enough.
I had had a similar conversation with my father before he died. He was all dressed up in a new shirt, which I knew was a bad sign. And he was complaining about feeling faint. My mother kept butting in telling him to let me get to bed as it was late in Malaysia and then saying he was just complaining about nothing and that her back was far worse. He muttered “Be Lucky” and that was the last conversation I had with him. Another case of avoiding the issue, the moment when everyone knows that it is all over.
Age is not just a number! It kills you. And it scares me, as it scared my mother. And so we avoided the issue.
My father had found the last ten years of his life trying as he became increasingly immobile and plagued by skin cancers, bowel cancer and lung problems. I probably spoke to him more on Skype than I ever did when I was with him. When he was a policeman he was always working late. The job was not nine to five. CID work required you to be out mingling with the villains and not mingling with your family. He never really found a way to engage with us even after retirement. He did say that he thought retirement was the best period of his life. I think he liked the lack of stress but I don’t think he ever adjusted to the lack of excitement and was nostalgic for the days when he drove tanks: a teenager driving a tank, blowing things up and chasing girls! Life probably could never improve on that.
He never lost the taste for pubs and clubs and hanging around drinking with various “characters” as he would call them, trading in tales and gossip. Despite our lives being very different I find that I have much the same taste as my father, though the very few occasions I went off with him in London always left me feeling a bit of a naïve weakling fallen among a rough crowd looking for some mischief. That was a world that my mother hated.
My mother created a world of Beano comics, Horlicks, coal fires and black and white TV for my sister and me. In my mind it all has the sepia tinge of a post war Woman’s Realm Magazine. The clack of knitting needles and the smell of shepherd’s pie in the oven are coupled in my memory with my mother ironing and humming along to some Home Service radio show on the Wireless. This idyll of the fifties and sixties though was always underpinned by my mother’s temper. One suspects the stresses of being a “copper’s wife” in London was not to her taste and living so far away from her parents’ home in Bridlington was considered unnatural. But even though London was exotic and foreign for her, it must have been exciting, if still somewhat beaten up by the Luftwaffe.
I think it was frustrating though. If you could not either afford, or have the time or simply the know how to take up the opportunities London offered, it was an alien land. There was always a sense that her home was in the north and when we visited our grandparents, my mother always called it, "going home". She always seemed a bit lost and uncertain about social occasions, though by all accounts the teenage version loved to go dancing, but that was in a world less concerned with being someone. I think her Yorkshire is a great leveller and I doubt she would ever have left if it had not been for my father looking for some kind of adventure.
For me, a Londoner from the age of 9 months, London was Saturday Morning pictures at the Carlton cinema, playing war amongst the "Bomb Sites", and the social opportunities of hordes of children running all over the front gardens of the Police Accommodation that we lived in. I recall it as being noisy with our screams. The Baby Boom had boomed a lot in Canonbury and this generation had, as far as my mother was concerned, a wild heathenish edge to it.
For my mother it was probably an endless round of kids clamouring to be fed and dressed and pushed off to school without much in the way of a respite. I can remember us all being amused by her going to night classes where they taught things like how to turn old "78 records" into flower pots. She always liked making things but somehow the results disappointed her. She seemed to be endlessly knitting something and then unpicking it and re-using the wool again.
Shockingly it was not until 2017 that I discovered my mother kept diaries. Perhaps it was a habit that grew from the weekly letters she used to write home. In the 1950’s only doctors and other professionals had phones in the home and long distance calls between call boxes were expensive and difficult to organise. The world of postwar Britain was a long way from the war time world that she grew up in and I sense she never quite approved of it.
Such was her power over me that I feared delving into those diaries. My mother was a private person and I am sure there was a side that she found hard to share with me, or I found hard to solicit from her. Our interests did not coincide much. Her attempts to civilise me through endless attempts to get me to Sunday School, a place that smacked all too much of banishment, repeatedly failed. Though when I did look into the diaries hoping for some insight, I found little more than a litany of ailments, hospital appointments, and the occasional description of holidays outlining what was visited.
I am sure there must have been more, or perhaps there was not. I do not think she had the urge that my father had, for somehow getting his story out there. Though my father's writings are about tanks, spies, East End Villains, and dodgy coppers and a sort of fantasy version of himself, where he knows languages, can kill with impunity, has a string of dangerous women seducing him, and has the Queen handing out medals to him. Though I think the only medal he was particularly proud of was the Legion D'honneur that he got for his part in D-Day. I am sure the reality behind his fictions was probably more mundane but at the same time alarming. He had been one of the Metropolitan Police sent out to Belfast during the troubles and by all accounts that had proved a far more disturbing experience than anything the Germans had thrown at him. He retired from the police soon after that and took my mother back home to Bridlington and Flamborough.
It is quite upsetting to think of how little I know of both my parents and how difficult it was to step over barriers laid down when I was a child.
There were moments that one recalls of closeness: my father teaching me to ride a bicycle, for instance, an adult one where I could not reach the seat, but could stand on the pedals. I can remember my mother nagging him about how stupid it was to get such a thing and how I would break my neck. My mother rarely minced words when expressing her disapproval. All very true, but somehow, the fact that I actually mastered that bike with my dad running along the road trying to catch me before I hit any real traffic, was a moment where I joined him in his conspiracy against the mundane world. Women, as my father would explain, just don’t understand these things. He also told me that women were only good for the bed and the kitchen. Which perhaps explains even more the temper of my mother, along with, paradoxically, the reason why they stayed together for seventy odd years.
Mid-twentieth century sexual politics were simpler. A man was a man. A woman was a woman. And one behaved accordingly. Even so, my mother was not immune to the movements of the time. She decided that she should learn how to drive. And, since at seventeen I had a license to drive, I became her qualified accompanying driver and accompanied her on many long drives about Hertfordshire. She could not drive with my father in the car. He was too certain that she was about to kill everyone, especially him if he attempted to tell her how she should drive. As for me, having been trained by my mother’s unpredictable fierceness since birth, and thus with the nerves of a bomb disposal officer, took it all in my stride. She is the only person I know who has managed to wrench a moving mini into reverse gear, while on a roundabout. Impossible to do with modern cars, but on the cars of 1969 it could be done with a bit of deft footwork on the clutch and brake, coupled with a complete disregard for the evil sound of grinding gears. As to its purpose, I am not sure, but my mother managed it. “Put it in neutral and restart the engine,” I can remember saying. “Now engage the clutch and slip it into first.” We were laughing as we drove off leaving behind the chaos of horn hitting drivers.
Give or take a few hairy moment, she was not a bad driver but she would panic under stresses like Driving Tests. After a couple of attempts she gave up. She said it was because her eyesight was going. But the cataracts that had been diagnosed were not going to cause any problems for the next thirty years. One suspects that my father’s disdain for women drivers probably got to her. But those drives were among the closest moments I had with her and within two years I had left home, leaving my parents to continue sparring with each other. As my father complained, my mother strove to drive him "round the toot."
The empty nest was soon filled with an adopted brother. I do not know whether this was my mother's or my father's idea. My mother never seemed particularly maternal and my father always seemed happier being a man among men on a mission, then hanging about the home. For whatever reason, they adopted a new son. He was called Robert, but they renamed him George, a name that he rather liked. He had been dumped in an orphanage at birth and several foster homes had somehow failed to take to him. At the age of four, my parents took him in. He was a bit of a tearaway as he grew older, a football fan, a man's man as they say, and good enough on a team to go off for trials in Hull. He developed a strong East Yorkshire accent that I couldn't help making fun of.
During the years they brought him up, my father retired from the police and they returned to Yorkshire. My adopted brother was something of a tragedy though. If you live in Flamborough, fishing is one of the few industries available and also one of the most dangerous. The fishing boat that he worked on sank losing all the crew and every year since that happened, my mother had a wreath placed on the memorial. This whole interlude left both my parents with a huge hole in their life that we rarely spoke of. Ironically, Robert, with his new identity is the only Gray with a memorial, in fact, two of them: one in the Flamborough churchyard and another in the centre of the village alongside another memorial to a previous fishing disaster. He is now a little bit of local history.
For better or worse, neither of my parents have a memorial. They are scattered on the lawns of the crematorium at Flamborough. The costs and temporary nature of plaques in crematoriums just invoked grumpy distain from my father, thinking it all a waste of money. Though there is something all too anonymous about a scattering of ashes that do not particularly look like anything, certainly not anything that once contained a life. One says a few words over them that perhaps for a moment conjure up the personality but that moment is gone and one doubts anyone was listening that much anyway.
We have a very short time with our parents. And as a child you are barely conscious that they exist as anything but Mum and Dad. And then as a teenager you cannot wait for them to get out of your way. Then you have left home to head off to somewhere exciting, less mundane, but these people from a different era maintain a mysterious hold over you and define the one place that is home. And when they are gone one realises that the shocking truth is that one has missed so much of what went on in their life and at the same time, one is just like them, blundering through life in much the same way.
I hasten to add that my mother’s temper has by-passed me, though the philosophy it imbued me with has remained: “Put it in neutral, restart the engine, engage the clutch, slip it into first…”
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Lyle Oral History Project Phase 2: School and Business
(from the grant application)
Project Summary: Record and transcribe 10 oral history interviews about Lyle community schools and businesses from the 1930s to present and their role in the community.
Lyle is a small community (population 551) south of Austin in Mower County on the Minnesota-Iowa border. The first settlers to Lyle came in the late 1850s and the City of Lyle was established in 1870. Lyle is a primarily agricultural community with a number of farms that have been in the same families for as much as 150 years. Despite its small size, Lyle still operates an independent school district and hosts a number of events that showcase civic pride such as the Lyle Cancer Auction fundraiser and the annual Fourth of July celebration. The City of Lyle will celebrate its sesquicentennial in the year 2020.
Like many small rural towns, Lyle has seen a number of changes that have greatly impacted the character of the area and lifestyles of its residents. As a small rural community with no active newspaper, Lyle has large pieces of its recent history missing from the written record. The oral history interviews will help fill in these gaps and help spark interest in the community for the Lyle sesquicentennial. The expected phases of the Lyle oral history project
Phase 1: Organizations and Churches - COMPLETE!
Phase 2: Businesses and Schools (this project)
Phase 3: Rural Lyle
This second phase of the Lyle oral history project will focus on the schools and businesses in Lyle and their impacts on the community. Lyle has had a high school since the late 1800s and it consolidated its country schools in the late 1950s. Lyle was once home to a number of businesses that have long since closed their doors. Ravaged by 3 major fires and following the decline common to rural communities, few businesses remain. This project will explore the history of the businesses and schools that no longer exist while documenting those that have survived. Topics will include (for example):
Rural schools: Nevada, Minnereka, Woodbury, Enterprise, Ames
High School: current high school, past buildings, student life and sports history including state tournament trips
Businesses gone: Dahl's hardware, Copper Kettle, grocery store,
Existing businesses: ethanol plant, Agri-Steel, Cenex station, Huntting Elevator
Daily life conducting business in Lyle and going to school in Lyle
Interviewees will be selected with a mix between: city and country residents, old and young, members and leaders. Interviewee list is to-be-determined by the interviewer and project director.
The oral history interviews will be conducted according to professional community oral history standards using the Community Oral History Toolkit by Quinlan, MacKay and Sommer and following the guidelines outlined by the Minnesota Historical Society Oral History Department. The interviewer will record brief information about the interviewee at the time of the interview, and the interviewee will be required to sign an oral history release to MCHS. The project will be managed under MCHS standards, added to their archives and made publicly accessible at their office.
Need and Rationale
Finding information for very small communities such as Lyle is difficult. Lyle has been without its own newspaper since 1951. Two small history books exist, one written in the 1950s and one written in the 1970s. However both focus heavily on the early history of Lyle in the 1800s and early 1900s then leave a sizeable gap until a brief mention of Lyle businesses at the time of publication. As a community of only 551 residents, there are correspondingly smaller numbers of artifacts that have been preserved by a correspondingly smaller number of historians. By recording oral history interviews, this project will add much-needed insight into poorly documented periods of the history of Lyle.
Businesses in Lyle have been in decline since the 1950s. At one point there were as many as seven bars, a hardware store, multiple grocery stores and service stations, an implement dealer and a butcher. Now there are two bars, no grocery stores or dealers, and a single gas station. Yet there are glimmers of hope-- in the past 10 years, a local agricultural construction company built a new $1M building on the south end of town, and a multi-million dollar ethanol plant was built less than a half mile south of Lyle. There are many people alive today that remember Lyle as a bustling small town, have seen businesses come and go, and remain hopeful for the future. Lyle's business history will become much more clear by capturing the memories of those people who once owned, worked for or patronized Lyle businesses.
Lyle High School plays a major role in the identity of Lyle as a community. In phase 1 of the oral history project, nearly all of the 10 narrators cited the school as the most important institution keeping the town alive. This rich history will be captured in the oral history interviews covering topics such as the closure of the rural schools in the late 1950s, state tournament basketball trips in 1962 and 2015, the murder of a teacher in 1983, contentious voting on a new school in 2004, and school life at Lyle through the decades. Lyle's very small (average around 20 students per grade) yet still independent school district is a rarity in Minnesota. This project will document life at such a small school and its importance in a small town.
The interviews will be added to the phase 1 interviews in the collections at MCHS. MCHS will serve as the long-term archive for the oral history interviews and will adhere to professional standards in their documentation, preservation and storage.
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Church's £37,000 award to gay man
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Stephen Price talks to BBC Wales Today after his £35,000 compensation award
A gay man who suffered "grotesquely discriminatory conduct" from the Presbyterian Church in Wales has been awarded £37,000.
Stephen Price, 25, of Clydach near Abergavenny, was bullied out of his job at Coleg Trefeca in Brecon by his manager Mair Jones, aged 40.
A Cardiff tribunal heard Mrs Jones called him a "stupid poof" and gave him pink fairy toilet paper as a gift.
The money was awarded for constructive dismissal and injury to feelings.
The church had denied Mr Price's claim for sexual harassment, constructive dismissal and discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.
He started as a cheerful and enthusiastic young man and there is no evidence of a vindictive side to his nature nor that his claims were fabricated
Dr Rachel Davies, judge
The tribunal's panel ruled the church's internal investigation into Mr Price's claims of harassment was unfair, unbalanced, confused and contradictory.
Employment judge Dr Rachel Davies said the church's final recommendation that Mr Price should go back to work with Mrs Jones amounted to constructive dismissal.
He was awarded £11,924 for constructive dismissal and £25,000 for injury to his feelings.
She said: "We accept his evidence of Mair Jones's conduct.
Stephen Price was asked to return to work alongside Mrs Jones
"He started as a cheerful and enthusiastic young man and there is no evidence of a vindictive side to his nature nor that his claims were fabricated.
"Mair Jones treated him less favourably than if he were a heterosexual man. She subjected him to considerable harassment."
"This was not a one-off situation. We are satisfied this came within the most serious category.
"We have found that Mr Price suffered grotesquely discriminatory conduct on the part of Mair Jones for 10 weeks followed by seriously incompetent discrimination on the part of the church."
Mr Price, who is openly homosexual, worked as assistant manager to Mrs Jones at Coleg Trefeca, a 250-year-old centre operating as a 37-bed retreat visited by church groups across the UK.
The tribunal had previously heard Mrs Jones had "innocently chosen" a birthday present of toilet roll with pink fairies.
I no longer want to work within the church - in fact, I no longer go to church because of the way I was treated
Stephen Price
Mr Price said Mrs Jones made non-stop comments about sex, including calling him a "stupid poof" and telling other members of staff he "batted for the other side".
Mrs Jones had denied knowing he was gay.
The tribunal had heard that an internal church investigation had upheld claims of aggressive behaviour, foul language and bullying by Mrs Jones, who had worked at the church centre for 10 years.
But the Presbyterian Church in Wales failed to take any disciplinary action against her.
Mr Price was moved to another office in Cardiff after less than 12 months but resigned when he was told to return to the college.
He told the hearing: "I was bullied consistently for no other reason than my sexuality, daily having to put up with either being referred to as a poof or having her talk of homosexuality or sex.
"I was and still am shocked to have been referred to as a poof. I am very proud of both my faith and my sexual orientation."
His mother is a minister in the church, and he had been excited about getting a job in the college.
After the case, Mr Price, who was represented by the LGBT Excellence Centre, said: "I've always wanted to be a church minister but I no longer want to work within the church - in fact, I no longer go to church because of the way I was treated."
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What a way to end a season’s foray into the world of historic networks, correspondence, and collecting. After finishing Fan’s book, I did not image that there could be one with even more methodological examples of what I want to do. Samuel Alberti’s Nature an Culture is that book. It is exactly what I want to do in my own research only aimed at museums in the United States.
Original Manchester Museum. Field Museum looks similar.
This book should be on every modern natural historians shelf, and the paperback is cheap enough on Amazon that it is an easy addition. This book is an institutional history of the Manchester museum, but is it also a biography of the objects inside the museum. Further still, it is a cultural history of the nature of collecting for museums. It is not hyperbole to say that this short book has something for nearly everyone.
Modern entrance to the Manchester Museum
The very first connection (and reaffirmation that I am traveling in the right circles for my project) came on page three where Alberti quotes Simon Knell: “Natural scientists, archaeologists, and art historians, in some respects, share a similar engagement with objects: they build whole subjects from material things” (3). If you have noticed there are many art related posts here, and it wasn’t until I came to the University of Oklahoma that I became more active in art history research. Having trained as a paleontologist and archaeologist prior to coming to Norman I was 2/3 whole so to speak. The work I have done in Art History here has seemed a natural extension of the work that I had done previously, and Alberti citing Knell may serve as an official (and independent) seal on my decision to have my outside dissertation committee member (and 1/3 of my graded comprehensive exams) filled by a prominent historian of Art and the American West.
Alberti is able to trace out nearly a century of change within one institution. Nothing related to the museum escapes his analysis–from the famous artifacts like the mummies down to the collections that never went on display. He also does not ignore the individuals who worked in and with the museum from the director down to the charwomen. This is the holistic approach that must be made in order to fully understand the world of museum histories and their place within the politics of a university, city, or nation.
The book is more a collection of essays than a standard narrative. The thread that weaves the entire collection together is the museum itself. The best way to describe it is to use the movie time-lapse example. In many movies, usually near the end, there is a dramatic time-lapse that brings the historical point of reference up to the modern. Usually this is a landscape shot which shows the varying skylines of a city. In the case of Nature and Culture it is almost the opposite. If we could create this effect we would see a hundred years of change within the building itself with its architecture maintaining our frame of reference.
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The second instance of immediate endearment of this work came on page 5. “This way of studying the history of museums firmly links them to other spaces for collecting an display including zoos and menageries, even when curators were seeking to distinguish museums from such tawdry places” (5–emphasis mine). My first masters thesis, The People’s Zoo: William M. Mann, The National Zoo, and the Birth of American Wildlife Conservation, 1889-1960 (linked to proquest PDF), covered William Mann’s collecting for the National Zoo. I cannot describe the feeling you get when your past work comes back around to provide solid foundation for things that you have yet done. An added bonus was the records of the National Zoo. Since the zoo comes under the Smithsonian umbrella, much of the zoo’s official accounts and reports were recorded in yearly federal reports. The years of work within the federal records has also set me up nicely to work with the WPA records that will form the end of my dissertation on collecting.
The analysis of objects in this text pulls in my work on my second thesis The Gilded Skull in England’s Closet: Displaying Human Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History (which has yet to even make it to proquest or the library despite being deposited almost a year ago–it really is amazing that Lamar University has a more streamlined thesis process and binding options than the University of Oklahoma, but that is another issue) which covered the Piltdown Skull as an object with its own history and own biography. In this handy little book I have an incredible connection between my work done at Lamar University in Texas and the more recent years I have spent here. That fact alone serves to raise this book on my favorites list.
Modern exhibits
Alberti’s brief nod at the hunters as collectors rounds out the trilogy of points I would like to make. Those that were doing the collecting are generally left out of the equation that begins with the preparation of specimens. While Manchester had less active patron-hunters than either the American Museum of Natural History or the Smithsonian, that Alberti mentions their importance reveals much. To be fair, one of the most famous/infamous of the hunters for the American Museum and Smithsonian was none other than Theodore Roosevelt. There are examples of the friction between hunters and scientists in Britain however, most notably in the recent book Between Man and Beast (Doubleday, 2013). Monte Reel follows the story of Paul Du Chaillu, his gorilla hunting, and Richard Owen needing the specimen to make his point.
Modern Exhibit cases
Museum history is one of those topics that require a more diverse “toolkit” to adequately understand. Alberti’s work should be part of any course that looks at museums, collecting, or objects. I would say that includes the early speaking tours that had specimens in tow. It should also be required text for almost any Museum Studies course. That it is a single museum that Alberti covers, is not as much of a weakness as one would think. It serves as an almost perfect case study to replicate with any other similar institution–and most of them are much more similar than they are different. Even with its peculiarity of being a British establishment, it will serve as a model for the museums here in the states. What makes it more difficult is, like baseball, the big museums in the US are separated by league–the American Museum of Natural History and the (National League) Smithsonian. There are many-many-more that will follow an almost identical curve of existence (adjusted only slightly for chronology) as the Manchester Museum, and Alberti has provided us all with the most efficient way to understand them in their entirety, as much as that is possible.
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August 2019, What's Happening In the Movement
Rotary International as a Model for Statecraft
by Oregon PeaceWorks • August 9, 2019 • 0 Comments
By Winslow Myers
The established paradigm of nation-states formulating their policies on the basis of a limited vision of self-interest is dissolving on every level. Games of chicken test the limits of deterrence, any breakdown of which could be fatal in the nuclear age. Many of our challenges, the climate emergency first among equals, are no longer solvable by individual nations, no matter how powerful.
This radical interdependency points to the need for international laws which, even as they seem to challenge the sovereignty of all countries, will also strengthen the common good. Today nations go to war because we feel the menace of aggression along borders, pressure into spheres of influence, or threats against resource interests—leaving aside the many civil conflicts within nations. Tomorrow a more authentic cause for war might become a given nation failing to maintain ecological resources, like the rain forests which are the lungs of the planet, because that would become a security issue for all—though one might likely assume that a nation or nations inclined to so powerfully punish agents of climate chaos would also realize that war worsens our climate emergency and that might restrain the warmaker.
Indeed, war with such a radically different motivation could, like our ongoing wars today, end up costing more than any expected positive result. If all-out nuclear war is clearly obsolete, so is conventional war, not only because it is a step toward escalation into nuclear war, but also because the disintegration of war (viz. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen) compounds social and ecological chaos, setting up the context for further war.
Are there other models for strengthening security? One is the Marshall Plan. The United States had the hindsight to realize that a second world war had emerged out of our harsh treatment of Germany at the end of World War I and the foresight to obviate that with a generous peace toward Germany. Might it be in the self-interest of nations not only to talk to adversaries, but to jiu-jitsu all parties out of the paradigm of threat and counter-threat by offering Marshall Plan equivalents as a substitute for war rather than something to follow a chimerical “victory”?
Vast regions of Iran suffered major flooding back in April. How might it have changed the present dynamic of high tension if the U.S. had made aggressive offers to help rescue and feed the desperate across rural Iran? Our military represents an enormous logistical potentiality. My friend Adam Cote, a candidate for governor of Maine, managed to be a platoon leader while spearheading the “Adopt an Iraqi Village” program to distribute school supplies, kitchen and household items, toys, clothes and blankets to destitute Iraqis. Generating goodwill rather than fear changes responses, plans, and attitudes.
Another alternative is citizen initiatives. The vast majority of Iranians like and admire America, even as we continue to squeeze them mercilessly on the basis of the U.S. having bailed from a treaty the conditions of which Iran was by all accounts meeting. Iran writ large is not the Revolutionary Guard, just as the United States writ large is not the fever dreams of John Bolton. We desperately need to build relationships on the basis of common interests. It can be done. In the frigid depths of the Cold War, a small group of private citizens, working with the full knowledge of the State Department, successfully arranged a conference of leading Soviet and American scientific experts on accidental nuclear war. Much unforeseen good came out of this exercise, and it played a significant role in easing dangerous tensions.
With the failure of our gigantic military forces to achieve the vaunted “full-spectrum dominance,” there is an urgent need to make much greater use of non-military structures to meet on-the-ground challenges like literacy, clean water, and peaceful understanding between tribal and religious adversaries. One obvious model is Rotary International.
With 30,000 clubs distributed across 190 countries, Rotary is a planet-wide network of people who are building priceless relationships of friendship and mutual understanding on the basis of six crucial areas of focus: promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water, sanitation and hygiene, saving mothers and children, supporting education, and growing local economies.
It has for all practical purposes achieved its current goal number one, pursued doggedly for 20 years in cooperation with the Gates Foundation and others, of eliminating polio from the entire planet. Polio is now down to a few cases in rural Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria. Through models like Rotary a world beyond war is assuming shape, step by slow step.
The superpowers, blessed with apparently unlimited resources to spend on ships and submarines and missiles and bases around the world, irrelevantly jostle for dominance as the planet continues to wither ecologically. Surely a question worth asking is why the United States will not take on the Rotary model as primary, allowing military force to take its place as truly a last resort. Please don’t argue that we can’t afford it. We have explored the moons of Jupiter and the deepest depths of the Pacific, but the Pentagon budget remains a black hole that sucks into itself the very light that accountants try to shine upon it. If we could rewind the tape and could choose between giving the U.S. government the $5 trillion we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan or giving it to Rotary, I would bet the latter could have provided massively more in real security.
For thousands of years war has been rationalized as unavoidable, worth the risk, a necessary fallback if we don’t get our way or if attacked. War has been used to exploit, to dominate, to exterminate, to acquire, to defend, to expand, to impose, to preserve, to preempt, even as sages keep advocating for the realism and practicality of the golden rule. The United States is strong enough to lead the way into a new paradigm of self-interest, where dominance is replaced by a global network attuned directly to meeting human and ecosystem needs. Anything less threatens everyone’s survival. If we can offer help to our adversaries because we see it as self-interest, a different world is possible.
Winslow Myers, the author of Living Beyond War: A Citizen’s Guide, serves on the Advisory Board of the War Preventive Initiative, and is a member of Rotary. The opinions expressed here are his own and do not represent official Rotary policy.
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Do They Hate Each Other?
Iran, Iraq, Right Arabists, Right Zionists, Saudi Arabia
Among market watchers, the cover of Time magazine is sometimes viewed as a contrary indicator. By the time any trend reaches the cover, the moment has often passed.
So when Time recently ran a cover about Sunni-Shiite tensions–“Why They Hate Each Other“–my immediate reaction was to predict peace in our time.
Right on cue, Saudi King Abdullah hosted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a one day summit in Riyadh.
I’ve been writing about ways in which Sunni-Shiite tensions, apart from any self-generating internal logic they may have, also map onto factional fights between Right Zionists and Right Arabists in the US. The was the question at the heart of two ZNet essays, “Beyond Incompetence” and “The Devil Wears Persian.”
More recently, I have also argued that there may be signs that these same factional splits might also map onto some internal political turmoil within the House of Saud.
According to this scenario, Saudi King Abdullah represents a faction seeking to calm regional tensions and foster national reconciliation within the Palestinian Authority, in Lebanon, and, presumably, in Iraq.
Eli Lake of the Right Zionist New York Sun reports that US efforts to rally Sunni regimes against Iran may be facing some significant resistance.
Secretary of State Rice’s “Sunni strategy” is running into trouble.
Her idea was to bolster a ring of moderate Sunni Arab allies as a front-line defense against Iran’s regional ambitions. But the Sunnis don’t appear to be cooperating…
This weekend, Iran’s Holocaust-denying president was fêted by King Abdullah, the Saudi monarch who rules the linchpin Sunni state in Ms. Rice’s attempted anti- Iran alliance. Meanwhile, Iran’s Sunni proxy in Gaza, Hamas, is divvying up key posts with Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah Party in a Palestinian unity government. The negotiations stem from a Saudi-brokered deal forged last month in Mecca, a pact that has worried Israeli leaders and some in Congress because it does not require Hamas explicitly to recognize Israel.
If the Saudis are split on the question of reconciliation with Iran, they are hiding it very well.
Speculation at The Washington Note had earlier focused on Prince Bandar as the figure most likely to back a more aggressive, Cheney-backed Saudi posture in the region.
Rihab Massoud [is]… a close aide of Prince Bandar who served as Charge d’Affaires in the Saudi Embassy in Washington during Bandar’s tenure and frequent absences and who — while formally a Foreign Ministry official — is now on leave to serve as Bandar’s “No. 2″ in his National Security Advisor office…
While reports of how far Bandar has gone in supporting Cheney’s desire for military action vary, insiders report that Bandar has “essentially assured” the Vice President that Saudi Arabia could be moved to accept and possibly support American military action against Iran. Another source reports… that Bandar himself strongly supports Cheney’s views of a military response to Iran.
This is the core of the deep divide between Prince Turki and Bandar — which is also a divide between Foreign Minister Saud and Bandar as well.
The tension is about Iran and how to contain Iran. While Bandar and Rihab Massoud allegedly have affirmed Cheney’s views and are perceived to be Bush administration sycophants, Turki was charting a more realist course for Saudi interests and advising the White House to develop more serious, constructive strategies toward the region…
Bandar’s role is also being celebrated in some Israeli quarters, although these reports depict Bandar as more dove than hawk:
The key figure in Middle Eastern diplomacy is Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi Arabian National Security Adviser. Bandar is the man behind the Mecca agreement between Fatah and Hamas for the establishment of a Palestinian unity government. He was also active in calming the rival parties in Lebanon, and has tried to mediate between Iran and the U.S. administration…
There are many indications that the prince, who served 22 years as Saudi ambassador to Washington, is behind the quiet slide his country is making toward Israel since the end of the second Lebanon war. In September, Bandar met with Olmert in Jordan. The secret meeting was made public in Israel later.
The Cheney faction will not simply disappear.
Iraq may provide the key for Cheney’s revival of Sunni-Shiite tensions. The US appears to embrace a more pronounced tilt toward the Iraqi Shia. The Arab League is barely able to contain its hostility toward the Shiite government in Iraq.
The “crackdown” on Sadr city looks very careful. The US-backed “Shiite Option” in Iraq seems to have legs.
Iraq has always been the core of the US attempt to drive a wedge between the Persian Gulf and the Arab Gulf. It looks set to remain so for the foreseeable future.
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It was never my intent to cut off conversation. On the contrary, I welcome comments and discussion from all readers.
Spoken like Bush, Profcutler!
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Town v Gown match
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 28 Apr, 2012 11:00
A match as part of the University of Nottingham's Olympic inspired Town v Gown sporting event is being held at the club this Saturday morning at 11 am. It might just attract some visitors, so if anyone is, or can get, down, please make them welcome. There are introductory leaflets available on the bar cupboard. Cathy Turski is organising our team and Hew Williams the students. There is further information available on the University Blog Site.
A reminder that the one-ball event follows in the afternoon: you are requested to wear something pink in recognition of support for the Breast Cancer Campaign. Peter Death is organising this, but you can just turn up and play from 2pm.
Nottingham bt Fylde 4-3 in Secretary's Shield
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 27 Apr, 2012 18:08
A Nottingham team of Omied Hallam, Dave Gunn, Sue Wileman and Dan Greenaway beat Fylde, who they had played in last year's Secretary's Shield final, 4-3 in miserably wet conditions. They won the doubles and two singles in the morning, then Dave Gunn was first to finish in the afternoon to clinch the tie. We meet Ashby in the next round.
Report of AGM
There was a record turnout for the AGM. The meeting, chaired by the President Peter Death, finished just before 1pm.
During the annual report, the Secretary gave details of access to the hockey club car park, should the gates be locked. There is a key to the gate padlock kept on the large wooden fob in the desk drawer. If you need to open the gate, please ensure that you lock it and return the key immediately afterwards. Note that the gate is locked by looping the chain through itself, then closing the lock round the free ring, rather than trying to fasten both rings together.
The Secretary's Shield and runner's up shield for the Longman Cup were on display and Miranda Morgan was presented with her winners medal for the 2011 Women's Championship.
Roger Berkeley, the Treasurer reported that the club's finances were currently in a sound state, but that it would be prudent to put money aside during good times to give a buffer should stormier conditions prevail in future. The accounts were adopted with thanks to Lawrence Whittaker for examining them.
The main discussion was about the borehole and irrigation project. Several people spoke against the borehole, feeling either that the Council should pay for it, or that we should use mains water instead, but in the event, both parts of the motion, to proceed with a borehole and, should grants be obtained, the irrigation project, were passed with substantial majorities.
The rule changes were passed with comparatively little discussion. The Officers and eligible Committe Members were re-elected, with Cathy Turski replacing Clive Goode.
Bob Thompson spoke about the marathon: there are sign up sheets to play and help with refreshments on the notice board.
Community Involvement was discussed, both in terms of the club involving and getting involved with the community.
Finally, during Other Business, Patricia Duke-Cox mentioned an ITV competition with a substantial prize which the club could get involved with. Contact her for further information.
New Shelter for Bowls Greens
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 12 Apr, 2012 22:55
The new shelter for the bowls greens was erected this afternoon, Thursday 12th April, 2012, just in time for the start of the season.
In February, Omied and Sanna dug out the base ....
and then raked out the concrete, which was being mixed near to the bowls pavilion and barrowed in.
Don Martin and Michael Finnigan then built the superstructure in Don's workshop, which was fireproofed and painted before being brought to site and erected, with the help of some less skilled members!
Water supply test 17th April
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 10 Apr, 2012 17:39
In connection with the tram works, water and drainage pipes along University Bouldevard are being investigated. A 4" private water main is shown on Seven Trent's plans as running along our side of University Boulevard, but they have no record of what, if anything, it serves. To try and find out, they are going to turn it off between 10 am and 2pm on Tuesday, 17th April. Please let me know if you notice any interruption to the supply to the pavilion!
Even more alarmingly, they do not seem to have any record of a sewer connection to the pavilion!
Ian Vincent.
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EXPERIENCE OF MIGRATION IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF WOMEN WRITERS OF THE SLOVENIAN LITERARY POLYSYSTEM
Megi Rožič, 2016, doctoral dissertation
Abstract: People have travelled and migrated since the early periods of history and the phenomenon of migration, defined as “the movement of large numbers of people, birds or animals from one place to another” (Oxford Advanced Dictionary, 7th ed.) has a history of hundreds of years (Pourjafari, Vahidpour, 2014) and is by no means new. But the way of travelling, migrating and mobility in contemporary reality does have many specific aspects and recently it has been studied in new ways, with new concerns. The experience of migration in the contemporary world is a fundamental characteristic of human societies. “It is a system in which the circulation of people, sources and information follows multiple paths. The energy and barriers that alter the course or deflect the contemporary patterns of movement have both obvious and hidden features. While nothing is utterly random, the consequences of change are often far from predictable” (Papastergiadis, 2000: 1). This unpredictability and multidirectionality has led to changes in approaches to the study of migration in recent decades. In the last few decades the study of migration has increasingly been accompanied by a tendency to study it on the individual level − at the level of personal life stories (Milharčič Hladnik, 2007). These are also markedly expressed in the medium of literature. The present dissertation presents literary oeuvres of seven women writers, who thematise the autobiographical experience of migration, it offers an individually, woman-centred experience and view of migration. In selected oeuvres personal views are expressed on that experience, different strategies of coping with life in new realities and regarding relationships in these environments. The thematisation of the experience of migration in selected oeuvres is also connected with a problematisation of other concepts: the concepts of belonging, borders, nation-state, culture and language. It is also vitally connected with the personal identity construction of the lyrical subjects and literary characters and also because of the autobiographical character of selected literary works of the literary artists themselves. The experience of migration in selected literary works leads to unique identity formations, which in themselves combine elements of different cultural backgrounds and traditions. In their literary works these selected women writers also shape their relationship toward time and space dimensions, tradition and interpersonal relationships through the experience of migration. The experience of migration, the relocation of the subject and a change of the geographical area in selected oeuvres, does not only represent a change of the geographical position: it also allows a deviation from other rigid and seemingly fixed and unvarying patterns and virtual realities that accompany human life. Migration can also present an alienation effect from traditionalisms and determinants that define human lives. In the literary oeuvres of these selected women writers, migration is only in part tied to the traditional concepts related to migrants, with the loss of roots and rupture with the place of origin. In the selected literary oeuvres, migrants are rarely considered to be uprooted and unable to find their anchor or confidently start a new chapter in their lives in a new environment. Migration is mostly connected with the possibility of expanding the horizon of insights and perspectives of looking at life, with the acceptance of its complexities, ambiguities and incompleteness. Mostly, the experience of migration is seen as a new, creative option, which opens and examines the wide range of other issues and dilemmas. The condition of uprooted loss has traditionally negative connotations, but in the selected oeuvres vagueness and fluidity allow a real insight into the real, complex nature of life and human existence.
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Keywords: The experience of migration, women writers, Maruša Krese, Ifigenija Zagoričnik Simonović, Brina Švigelj-Mérat − Brina Svit, Gabriela Babnik, Stanislava Chrobáková Repar, Erica Johnson Debeljak, Lidija Dimkovska, literary polysystem, nomadic entity, locational feminism, fluid identity, transnationalism, transculturalism
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Literary links between Trieste and Buenos Aires during the first half of the 20th century
ANA TOROŠ, 2017, published scientific conference contribution abstract
Abstract: The article ventures into the field of Slovene and Friulian migration to Argentina at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, speaking up on migration from the Brda region and its environs. It is a hilly and wine-growing region which was under Austro-Hungarian rule during the end of the 19th century, but after WWI the Kingdom of Italy was given the reins. Nowadays, the region is divided between Slovenia (the Goriška region) and Italy (the province of Gorizia). We will focus on two literarised chronicles, created based upon the transoceanic letter correspondence and the oral tradition. The first literary chronicle Un pò di cronaca famigliare Godeas ‒ Gradnik was written by Maria Samer, a female author of Italian and Friulian decent from Trieste. Her work is unpublished and has been found only recently. The second work Nepozabljena Brda was written by Oskar Reya ‒ Kozanski, a Slovene author from Brda. The article stems theoretically from literary imagology, using the comparative method to study the literary image of Argentina in both texts. While doing so, based on Kozanski’s chronicle, the article reveals the identity crisis specific to the migrants from Brda, who were existentially tied to their “native” land as a means of survival. This article also ventures into the field of literary reception, reconstructing the previously unknown Slovene-Argentinean literary and family connections based on Maria Samer’s chronicle. During the first half of the 20th century, Eduardo Dughera, an Argentinean author of Friulian descent, corresponded with his cousin Alojz Gradnik, one of Slovenia’s greatest poets and whose mother was Friulian, and Maria Samer, their cousin who translated both their works into Italian. In relation to this it is important to mention the interest the Slovene community in Argentina had for Gradnik in the 21st century.
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Isakson, Scott: BRAC not likely before 2017
Submitted by Lorra Lynch Jones, Anchor/Reporter
Saturday, September 5th, 2015, 1:31pm
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Senator Johnny Isakson and Representative for the 8th District Austin Scott say don't expect BRAC, or a round of Base Realignment and Closure, before 2017.
The pair along with Representatives Sanford Bishop and Tom Graves answered questions after a tour of Robins Air Force Base Thursday. The delegation is touring four Georgia military bases Thursday and Friday.
"2017 would probably be the earliest with a new president and new Congress," Sen. Isakson said. "Nothing will happen before then, and I doubt it will happen that fast."
Scott, who represents Robins, said, "I can tell you, four years ago, I would have been extremely concerned for Robins in the event of a BRAC. Now, because of the production here and the way things have turned in the right direction, I feel very good if we went into a BRAC, that we are going to come out just fine at Robins Air Force Base."
Scott, Isakson and Bishop said the bigger concern is the Sequester, or across the board military budget cuts that took affect in 2011. Isakson said it's forcing the Army to downsize to 450,000 and putting national security at risk.
"The Sequester is the problem. It doesn't allow the military to appropriate their funds the way they need to. It doesn't let them prioritize," he said. "The Congress has them hamstrung right now. Hopefully, we can end it, and were going to try do so."
Isakson said there's no plans for downsizing the Air Force in terms of manpower.
He said the sequester could impact the development of Air Force weapons systems, such as the new J-STARS fleet located at Robins.
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China was one of the earliest centers of human civilization.
China is the oldest continuous major world civilization, with records dating back about 3,500 years. (Web site)
China is a country with a great diversity of religions, protected by law, with over 100 million followers of various faiths. (Web site)
China: For centuries China has stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences. (Web site)
China was opened to the west for development when Deng began what became known as the second revolution in 1978.
However, population in Hong Kong continues to grow due to the influx of immigrants from mainland China approximating 45,000 per year.
Dalu ren (---------) refers to residents of Mainland China.
An increasing number of citizens are commuting from Shenzhen in mainland China.
The ROC also officially claims all of mainland China (including Tibet) and outer Mongolia.
South Korea is less vulnerable to typhoons than Japan, Taiwan, the east coast of China, or the Philippines. (Web site)
The treaty signed in 2005 at the sidelines of the APEC in South Korea was the first such agreement between China and a Latin American country. (Web site)
Moreover, it responds to a perceived threat from North Korea and reflects Japanese anxiety over potential threats from China. (Web site)
North Korea shares land borders with China and Russia to the north, and borders South Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone. (Web site)
China and South Korea remain the largest donors of unconditional food aid to North Korea.
North Korea has long maintained close relations with the People's Republic of China and Russia. (Web site)
The Soviet Union and China backed North Korea, with the later participation of millions of Chinese troops.
Hu insisted that any negotiating party had to accept Beijing's view of "one China," a prerequisite even the KMT might have trouble swallowing.
Luoyang, Chang'an (today's Xi'an), Nanjing, and Beijing are the four cities most commonly designated as capitals of China over the course of history.
The Japanese first appear in written history in China---s Book of Han. (Web site)
The other ten percent of Han Chinese come from other regions of China and speak one of the other five dialects of Chinese.
Large numbers of North Koreans illegally entered the People's Republic of China in search of food.
At that time, China sought to block growing Japanese influence on the Korean Peninsula and Russian pressure for commercial gains there. (Web site)
Throughout history, the Korean culture was influenced by that of China.
Another unresolved kidnapping case involves Reverend Kim Dong Shik, a missionary working with North Korean refugees in China. (Web site)
Some of these peoples also populated parts of northeast China (Manchuria); Koreans and Manchurians still show physical similarities.
After its defeat in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan.
The usage of Mandarin, the official dialect of People's Republic of China and Republic of China (Taiwan), has also increased.
The province faces East China Sea to the east, South China Sea to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the southeast.
Both sides of the Taiwan Strait agree that there is only one China.
Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic of China has considered Taiwan to be its 23rd province.
In 1983, Mongolia systematically began expelling some of the 7,000 ethnic Chinese in Mongolia to China. (Web site)
Inner Mongolia is also an important coal production base in north China. (Web site)
Siqin Gaowa, a famous actress of China, is an ethnic Mongol native to Inner Mongolia. (Web site)
After the Mongol empire brokeup, China came to dominant both Inner and Outer Mongolia. (Web site)
The latter ended in 1949 with the Communist Party of China in control of mainland China.
The Soviet Union sent Borodin (Mikhail Gruzenberg), a Comintern agent to China to advise the communists and the nationalists.
On October 10, 1949, Mao Zedong declared the People's Republic of China and established a communist state.
Quemoy County is nominally controlled by Quanzhou prefecture-level city, but it is administered in its entirety by the Republic of China on Taiwan.
Small parts of the province, namely the islands of Quemoy and Matsu are under the administration of the Republic of China on Taiwan.
Hong Kong is located on China 's south coast, 60 km (37 mi) east of Macau on the opposite side of the Pearl River Delta.
Haikou, China, Haikou -- Bruce was waiting for me, as planed at the gate in Hong Kong. (Web site)
See List of administrative divisions of Fujian for a complete list of Political divisions of China#County-level|county-level divisions. (Web site)
Like Japanese and some other East Asian languages, Korean has historically borrowed many words from neighboring China.
Among the major imports from China were Buddhism and Confucianism. (Web site)
Taoism and Confucianism from China have also influenced Japanese beliefs and customs. (Web site)
The esoteric Shingon sect of Buddhism arrived from China creating a demand among Heian courtiers for the visual and plastic arts of Shingon. (Web site)
It is officially administrated as a provincial city of Taiwan Province in the Republic of China.
Both the ROC and PRC consider Taiwan a province of China. (Web site)
For the political entity commonly known as "Taiwan," see Republic of China.
According to Chinese records, by 1887 Taiwan was made a full province of China with 11 counties and 5 cantons.
It borders Bashi Channel to the south and to its west is the Taiwan Straits, facing Fujian Province on China's mainland. (Web site)
Upon the onset of the Korean War, the United States sent soldiers to South Korea to defend against the invasion of North Korea and later China.
His work was officially adopted by the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (1919-1945) in Shanghai, China.
Territories that are incorporated or ceded can affect the contemporary interpretation of "China Proper".
Generally speaking, the idea of "China proper" is quite volatile from time to time and its definition often changes depends on the context.
It was these eighteen provinces that early Western sources referred to as China proper.
Use of 15-province system and the name of Kiang-nan Province indicates that the concept of China Proper probably had appeared between 1645 and 1662.
However, to introduce China proper, Winterbotham still used the outdated 15-province system of the Ming Dynasty, which the Qing Dynasty used until 1662.
During the period of Sino-Soviet tensions, relations between Mongolia and China deteriorated. (Web site)
October 6, 1949: Newly established People's Republic of China accepts recognition accorded Mongolia and agrees to establish diplomatic relations. (Web site)
Japan established diplomatic relations with China in 1972, and the U.S. did so in 1979. (Web site)
Hong Kong's foreign relations and defense are the responsibility of China. (Web site)
CEPA came into force in January 2004 and was designed to bolster economic and trade relations between China and Macau. (Web site)
As settlement for losing the Sino-Japanese War, China ceded the entire island of Taiwan to Japan in 1895.
For example, Chile---s number two, three, and four trading partners are China, Japan, and South Korea, respectively.
To the west, across the Yellow Sea, lies China, and to the southeast, across the Korea Strait, lies Japan.
Confucianism is yet another religion brought to Japan from China.
In China, Japan, and Korea, the stupa evolved into the pagoda, and in some traditions, small stupas are included in personal altars. (Web site)
China hosted a second round of Six-Party Talks in Beijing in February 2004. (Web site)
In 2002, China proposed to begin free trade talks with Chile. (Web site)
The man identified as the arms dealer, Wang Jun, is the head of China's Polytechnologies Company, the international outlet for Chinese weapons sales.
People's China: a brief history. (Web site)
The tyranny of history: the roots of China's crisis. (Web site)
In 1927, Chiang turned on the CPC and relentlessly chased the CPC armies and its leaders out of heir based in southern and eastern China.
Having defeated the warlords in south and central China by military force, Chiang was able to secure the nominal allegiance of the warlords in the North.
China auf der Suche nach Anschluß an die Welt.
Die Beziehungen zwischen beiden Seiten der Taiwan-Straße nach der Rückgabe Hongkongs an China.
East Asia is made up of mainly China and Korea.
Asian Absolute - provides language translation, marketing and new media services for China and the Asia Pacific markets. (Web site)
New perspectives on China's past: Chinese archaeology in the twentieth century. (Web site)
As Chinese era names are traditionally two characters long, ------ (Republic) is employed as an abbreviation of ------------ (Republic of China).
The number of Chinese citizens that like to gamble combined with the fact that gambling in China proper is illegal gives Macau the ideal setup to flourish.
It is the only country in South America that recognizes Taiwan and not the People's Republic of China.
Although the two sides fought together for a short time to expel the Japanese from China, they resumed fighting in 1945. (Web site)
Die Politik der Guomindang auf Taiwan gegenüber der Volksrepublik China seit 1987.
Militär und Politik in der Volksrepublik China, 1969 - 1985.
Compared to other provinces of China, Jilin has extensive deposits of Kieselguhr, wollastonite, floadstone, and molybdenum.
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in Jilin province, in the northeastern part of the People's Republic of China.
Within China, Jilin is famous for its "three treasures" of wild ginseng, deer antlers and marten fur collected in the eastern mountains.
Air China will not confirm whether it will join Star Alliance next year. (Web site)
There is no confirmed news from the executives about formal talks with Star Alliance," the official, on condition of anonymity, told China Business Weekly. (Web site)
They were eventually exiled during Han Dynasty to eastern China (north of present-day Shanghai).
Beijing Hotles, Shanghai Hotels, Guangzhou Hotels - and more discount hotels in China's major cities.
In 1368 the Ming Dynasty replaced the Yuan Dynasty in China, and inherited the right to rule Tibet.
At its northern border are China on the Yalu River and Russia on the Tumen River, in the far northeastern corner of the country. (Web site)
In 1727, Russia and Manchu China concluded the Treaty of Khiakta, delimiting the border between China and Mongolia that exists in large part today. (Web site)
Chile hopes to conclude FTA negotiations with Australia and the expanded agreement with China in 2008. (Web site)
The Khitans were later replaced by the Jurchens, precursors to the modern Manchus, who established the Jinn Dynasty over Manchuria and northern China. (Web site)
Unified Silla was also a time of peace, as the Song Dynasty of China was nonaggressive.
As Kogury's domain increased, it confronted China's Sui Dynasty (581-617) in the west and Silla and Paekche to the south. (Web site)
China then invaded Silla in 674 but led by General Kim Yu-shin, Silla defeated the Chinese army in the north. (Web site)
After forming an alliance with T'ang China, Silla conquered Paekche and Koguryo by 668, and then expelled the Chinese and unified much of the peninsula. (Web site)
Like Japanese and some other East Asian languages, Korean has historically borrowed many words from neighboring China. (Web site)
Asian Absolute - provides language translation, marketing and new media services for China and the Asia Pacific markets.
In 1392, Yi Songgye, a general who favored the Ming dynasty (which had replaced the Mongols in China), seized the throne and established the Choson dynasty.
A journey through ancient China: from the Neolithic to the Ming. (Web site)
The Khitan, who founded the Liao dynasty (947---1125) in N China, were from Mongolia. (Web site)
By the 660s, Silla formed an alliance with the Tang Dynasty of China to conquer Baekje and later Goguryeo.
In 1401, Joseon Dynasty had officially been admitted to enter into the tribute relationship with Ming Dynasty of China.
Law codes in dynastic China: a synopsis of Chinese legal history in the thirty centuries from Zhou to Qing. (Web site)
Like Eva Peron (Argentina) or Jiang Qing (People-s Republic of China), she was a woman with great power.
If only the reporter had caught how sovereignty for Ma really means the Republic of China, not Taiwan.
Mindich then observed that the two candidates appear to be meeting in the middle, with Ma becoming more critical of China, and Hsieh more moderate.
Its southern tip lies on the Korea Strait and the East China Sea.
Historically, Korea had relatively close relations with China.
The 1900s saw the arrival of Asian settlers from mainland China, India, Taiwan, Korea, Syria, and Lebanon.
The combined strength of China and North Korea turned the tables on the enemy and pushed it back to the 38th Parallel once more.
Imperial Tours - Offers luxury travel and package tour to China and Tibet.
The Republic of China was established in 1912, replacing the Qing Dynasty and ending over two thousand years of imperial rule in China.
Furthermore, the ROC also claims some islands in the South China Sea.
It is surrounded by Tainan County to the north and east and the South China Sea to the west and south.
In 1839 the refusal by Qing Dynasty authorities to import opium resulted in the First Opium War between China and Britain.
China helped Pakistan in its missile and nuclear programs.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties Ping Yao, in the center of Shanxi province, was the financial capital of China. (Web site)
Gowen, Herbert H. An outline history of China, from the earliest times to the Manchu conquest. (Web site)
It now joins a select group of globally-important structures like the Great Wall of China, New Lanark and Stonehenge.
Of the 10,000 Goguryeo tombs unearthed in China and Korea, only about ninety have wall paintings. (Web site)
As the Tang Dynasty ended, China was torn apart in the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
Since around 1000 BC China consisted of many small kingdoms.
Explains that after the Han Dynasty, China was divided into three kingdoms: 1) Wu; 2) Shu Han; and 3) Wei.
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China attended the May 1997 meeting of the NPT Exporters (Zangger) Committee as an observer and became a full member in October 1997. (Web site)
Hong Kong was a dependent territory of the United Kingdom from 1842 until the transfer of its sovereignty to the People's Republic of China in 1997.
There are no historical evidences or legal positions that China has lost its sovereignty over Tibet.
Hua'er is a type of song prevalent throughout northwest China.
In the ensuing years China was divided between the Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty, and the Tangut Western Xia.
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What if Williams and DiMaggio had traded places?
Since Ted Williams made his debut in 1939, baseball's hot stove has been fired by debates about whether Williams and Joe DiMaggio might have been even greater players if they had traded places, therefore landing each of them in a park better suited to his skills. Since we now have detailed information about how each player performed in each park since the mid-20s, it's easy enough to offer a reasonable guess about how this imaginary swap might have worked out.
But the discussion probably should start by examining whether the question is even worth asking. Let's examine some of the underlying suppositions:
How do lefties perform in Fenway Park?
For various hypothetical reasons, people have long assumed that Fenway Park can be a difficult offensive environment for left-handed hitters like Williams. That assumption is simply not supported by facts. Every great left-handed hitter who has played for the Red Sox in the lively ball era has performed far better in Fenway than out of it.
First, consider the case of two slim, elegant outfielders who played together in the 70s: Fred Lynn and Carl Yastrzemski. Outside of Fenway they were .265 hitters with moderate power (OPS below .800 in both cases), but they terrorized opposing pitchers in Boston, especially Lynn, who hit .347 in Fenway, with an OPS over 1.000.
But the Fenway advantage is not limited to any specific type of lefty. The two big, muscular, lumbering sluggers in the group experienced the same kind of advantage. Mo Vaughn and David Ortiz were more powerful than Lynn and Yaz outside of Fenway, but still form two more examples of the lefty Fenway prototype: a .265-hitting Clark Kent transformed by Fenway into Superman with a .300+ batting average and an OPS right around 1.000.
The final examples add two more types of hitters: Wade Boggs, a skillful line drive hitter who liked to use the opposite field when given the opportunity, and Ted Williams, a powerful hitter who almost never hit to the opposite field. Their stats demonstrate that Fenway enhances the production of any kind of lefty hitter. Both of these hitting machines, although polar opposites in their hitting approaches, were able to produce Fenway batting averages in the .360s.
The composite of these six hitters creates a profile how how much the career of a great left-handed hitter can benefit from playing in Fenway Park.
As a group they batted .332 in Fenway, .283 elsewhere. (+49 points)
Their on-base percentage was .434 in Fenway, .377 elsewhere. (+57 points)
Their slugging average was .565 in Fenway, .473 elsewhere. (+92 points)
Since a major leaguer plays half of his games in his home park, a lefty who plays his career in Fenway (as opposed to a hypothetical neutral park) can expect to add about 25 points to his batting average and nearly 50 points to his slugging average. That is very close to what actually happened to Yastrzemski and Williams, who did play their entire careers in Boston.
How did Williams perform in Yankee Stadium?
A look at Ted's lifetime statistics in Yankee Stadium reveal that he would not have enjoyed as productive a career there as he did in Boston. The simplest way to demonstrate that is by comparing his performances in Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium per 600 plate appearances:
From these batting lines we can reach some fairly accurate conclusions about how a theoretical move from Fenway to Yankee Stadium might have affected Williams's individual stats. For every 600 plate appearances (roughly equivalent to two seasons' worth of home games), we can see that only two counting stats are significantly different: Yankee Stadium would have converted some 25 doubles into walks. His OBP, therefore, would remain about the same in the hypothetical relocation, but his batting and slugging averages would suffer.
I can only guess why Williams took more pitches and hit fewer doubles in Yankee Stadium.
(1) While both parks had short porches along the right field line and Fenway is deeper near the line, Yankee Stadium was deeper in right center and center. A 400-foot fly ball was always good for extra bases in Fenway, while Yankee Stadium produced many 400-foot outs with DiMaggio patrolling center. The depth of Yankee Stadium was not as traumatic for left-handed sluggers as for righties, but it gave those lefties some fits as well. See the dimensions pictured in the illustration below, which represents both parks as they were configured in Williams' day (click to enlarge).
(2) Managers rarely start a left-handed pitcher in Fenway Park because of the short distances in left field. For example, Casey Stengel would notoriously skip Whitey Ford's turn whenever the Yankees traveled to Boston. From 1950 until 1960, his eleven seasons under the Ol' Perfessor, Ford started only five games in Fenway Park. Stengel knew what he was doing. During the course of his lifetime, Ford had a lower earned run average than Sandy Koufax, but Whitey's lifetime ERA in Fenway was a disastrous 6.16!!
In contrast, managers loaded up their rotations with lefties to pitch in Yankee Stadium because the distant fences from left center to straightaway center made that area Death Valley for right-handed sluggers. In the 1950s, where we have complete data available (unlike the 1940s), left handers started 29% of all American League games, and 33% of the games at Yankee Stadium, but only 11% of the games at Fenway. By playing half of his games in Fenway Park, Williams faced left-handed starters in only about 20% of his career games, while DiMaggio's Yankees, playing half of their games in the Bronx, faced lefty starters approximately 31% of the time.
Since a left-handed slugger would face far more lefty pitchers in Yankee Stadium than in Fenway Park, his overall performance would decline in the Bronx even if all other factors were constant. Even a great hitter like Williams was not immune to the platoon disadvantage. He batted only .318 throughout his career in games started by left-handed pitchers, versus .351 in his other games.
(3) Williams himself claimed that pitchers would pitch to him in Fenway because they felt protected by the the deep fence in right-center, but would always pitch around him in Yankee Stadium. He knew his game pretty well, and that explanation is consistent with the substantial increase in walks that he experienced in the Bronx.
Wasn't Williams' sub-Splinter performance in Yankee Stadium just a result of having to face the great Yankee pitching staff there?
Short answer: no. Long answer: hell, no.
Williams didn't seem to have any problem hitting against that vaunted staff in Fenway Park.
Although Teddy Ballgame's line against the Yankee pitchers in Yankee Stadium was .309/.484/.543, it was quite a different story in Fenway Park, where his line against the Yankees was off the charts, with a .375 batting average. (.515 OBP/.663 SLG).
The specific differences between the two performances are much the same as Williams's overall splits between Fenway and Yankee Stadium. His home run rate was almost identical in both parks, but per 600 plate appearances, Williams drew 28 more walks at Yankee Stadium while hitting 30 fewer doubles (!!) That's not a misprint. He hit 46 doubles per 600 plate appearances against Yankee pitching at home, but only 16 in the Bronx.
Overall, how would the move have affected Williams?
If you knew everything above, you would never have asked the Williams/DiMaggio question in the first place, because you would realize that Fenway is a hitters' paradise, even for lefties, and you would realize that Williams did not meet our expectation for Splinter-like success at Yankee Stadium. Williams' career totals would have been significantly diminished if he had played in the Bronx. The mental picture we have formed of Ted Williams' hitting abilities is there because of Fenway, not in spite of it.
The hypothetical move is relatively easy to approximate. We will give him the number of plate appearances in Yankee Stadium that he had in Fenway and vice-versa, while keeping his performance per plate appearance constant with what he actually accomplished in those parks. We will leave his performance in all other parks untouched.
The following chart shows the result of that extrapolation:
Actual Career:
Projected career:
Note that this extrapolation assumes that Williams would have the same number of plate appearances in the Bronx as he actually had at Fenway. That would not have happened in reality. He would have had fewer plate appearances if his home games had been in Yankee Stadium because there are fewer hits and runs there than in Fenway, hence fewer total plate appearances for everyone. (In the course of his career, Williams had 712 plate appearances against Yankee pitching at home, but only 639 at Yankee Stadium, but I don't know how much of that is attributable to run scoring and how much was created by management decisions.) If I were to adjust for a presumed decrease in home plate appearances, and a corresponding increase in road appearances at Fenway, all of his lifetime percentage stats would be a little bit higher in the "projected career" shown above because he would spend a greater percentage of his time in more favorable offensive environments. On the other hand, the counting stats would be lower because of the reduced number of opportunities. He might never have hit that 500th homer if he had been a Yankee.
And what about Mr. Coffee?
If you've been paying attention to the above, you undoubtedly realize that any right handed power hitter at Yankee Stadium would have profited from a move to Fenway Park, although the massive difference in the dimension of the parks in left and left center would be mitigated slightly by the steady diet of right-handed pitchers who take the mound at Fenway. Joltin' Joe's line at Yankee Stadium was .315/.391/.547 as compared to .334/.410/.605 at Fenway.
The difference can be summarized by just two transpositions, and they both make perfect sense.
Per 600 plate appearances:
DiMaggio made 10 more outs at Yankee Stadium, and hit 9 fewer homers, so 9 or 10 of his Yankee Stadium fly-outs would have left the park in Fenway, precisely what we would have predicted from looking at the dimensions of the two stadiums.
DiMaggio hit four more doubles at Fenway, but 5 more triples in the Bronx. This again is completely consistent with what we would have expected, since a lot of liners in the gaps would hit the fence in Fenway and bounce back to the fielders, but would just keep rolling in the vast confines of center and left center in Yankee Stadium.
His rates for singles and walks were nearly identical in both parks.
Performing the same extrapolations used for Williams creates the following projections for DiMaggio's hypothetical career with Fenway as his home.
Projected career
PA 7672 7672
AB 6821 6820
H 2214 2268
2B 389 411
HR 361 410
BB 790 806
BA .325 .333
OBP ..398 .406
SLG .579 .604
OPS .977 1.010
If Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio had swapped home parks, it would have worked out very well for DiMaggio, but not for Williams. As a result of DiMaggio improving while Williams declined, the theoretical swap would have resulted in DiMaggio finishing with a higher career batting average than Williams (.333 to .322) and a higher slugging average (.604 to .587). DiMaggio would also have picked up some 50 additional home runs. Williams, however, would still have the higher OPS by more than 50 points, thanks to a massive difference in on-base percentage (.476 versus .406 ).
Does that mean that DiMaggio was significantly closer to Ted's level than previously believed? No, not really. Slightly, yes. Significantly, no. This extrapolation does not level the scales. It simply tips the scales from an advantage for Williams to an advantage for DiMaggio. The theoretical careers for the two hitters just seem closer together than their real careers because of the imbalance of plate appearances at Fenway. Drilling down the stats, an observer will note that Williams out-hit Dimaggio in almost every park, so if the players had a perfectly level playing field, with the same number of plate appearances in every park, thereby denying the Fenway advantage to both of them, a straight average of the percentage stats in all the ballparks they both played in would look like this:
Williams: .337/.480/.637 1.117 OPS
DiMaggio: .329/.403/.592 .995 OPS
That would still leave Ted Williams with an hypothetical edge of 122 points in OPS, compared to his actual of 139. That leads us to believe that DiMaggio is slightly closer to Williams than their career OPS numbers would lead one to believe.
But just slightly.
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Selling Science Smartly: ‘Pink Ribbons, Inc.’ and Breast Cancer as a Profit Industry
June 10, 2012 Jovana Grbic 2 Comments
Earlier this year, the Susan G. Komen Foundation made headlines around the world after their politically-charged decision to cut funding for breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood caused outrage and negatively impacted donations. Despite reversing the decision and apologizing, many people in the health care and fund raising community feel that the aftermath of the controversy still dogs the foundation. Indeed, Advertising Age literally referred to it as a PR crisis. If all of this sounds more like spin for a brand rather than a charity working towards the cure of a devastating illness, it’s not far from the truth. Susan G. Komen For the Cure, Avon Walk For Breast Cancer and the Revlon Run/Walk For Women represent a triumvirate hegemony in the “pink ribbon” fundraising domain. Over time, their initial breast cancer awareness movement (and everything the pink ribbon stood for symbolically) has moved from activism to pure consumerism. The new documentary Pink Ribbons, Inc. deftly and devastatingly examines the rise of corporate culture in breast cancer fundraising. Who is really profiting from these pink ribbon campaigns, brands or people with the disease? How has the positional messaging of these “pink ribbon” events impacted the women who are actually facing the illness? And finally, has motivation for profit driven the very same companies whose products cause cancer to benefit from the disease? ScriptPhD.com’s Selling Science Smartly advertising series continues with a review of Pink Ribbons, Inc..
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From The Lab: Pharmaceutical Documentary a Blueprint for Hollywood Science Storytelling
May 28, 2012 Jovana Grbic Leave a comment
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“It’s like a war. You don’t know whether you’re going to win the war. You don’t know if you’re going to survive the war. You don’t know if the project is going to survive the war.” The war? Cancer, still one of the leading causes of death despite 40 years passing since the National Cancer Act of 1971 catapulted Richard Nixon’s famous “War on Cancer.” The speaker of the above quote? A scientist at Genentech, a San Francisco-based biotechnology and pharmaceutical company, describing efforts to pursue a then-promising miracle treatment for breast cancer facing numerous obstacles, not the least of which was the patients’ rapid illness. If it sounds like a made-for-Hollywood story, it is. But I Want So Much To Live is no ordinary documentary. It was commissioned as an in-house documentary by Genentech, a rarity in the staid, secretive scientific corporate world. The production values and storytelling offer a tremendous template for Hollywood filmmakers, as science and biomedical content become even more pervasive in film. Finally, the inspirational story behind Herceptin, one of the most successful cancer treatments of all time, offers a testament and rare insight to the dedication and emotion that makes science work. Full story and review under the “continue reading” cut.
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Petrovietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC) 30 YEARS OF FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Petrovietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC) is a member of the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam) – the leading economic conglomerate of Vietnam. Over last 30 years, PVC has made efforts to become a major construction corporation of the petroleum industry with professional management skills and international-level technologies for construction of petroleum-specialized projects and large-scale industrial and civil works as well.
Predecessor of PVC is Petroleum Construction Conjunction Factory, established on 14th September 1983 by the Decision No.1069/DK-TC of the General Department of Oil and Gas with the principal mission of preparing material facilities for petroleum industry. During the period from the inception to 1990, the Factory has gradually overcome the initial difficulties, made changes in the management structure and method to ensure the schedule and quality of projects.
In 1990, the Vietnam Oil & Gas Corporation was founded (the predecessor of the Vietnam National Oil & Gas Group), Petroleum Construction Conjunction Factory plays a major role in design and construction of petroleum works. In 1995, the Factory was renamed the Petroleum Construction & Design Company (PVECC). In the period 1990 - 1997, the Factory completed more than 20 jackets for fixed drilling rigs and more than 10 jacket blocks for DK1 complexes (floating houses) on the Southern continental shelf and on Truong Sa archipelago, contributing to protection of national defense and security for the countrys territorial waters. It has also built and installed successfully a gas pipeline system from Bach Ho oilfield to the mainland with 100km offshore and 20km onshore to operate Ba Ria Power Plant, whereby it affirmed the important role in the field of industrial construction.
On 17th March 2005, the Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation decided to change PVECC to Petroleum Construction Joint Stock Company. In 2007, the Chairman of the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group signed Resolution No. 3604/NQ-DKVN on transforming Petroleum Construction Joint Stock Company into PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC).
30 years have passed so far, PVC has increasingly asserting its outstanding prestige and capability in the implementation of key projects/works of the petroleum industry and the country as well. PVC s important role has been marked in such projects/works as Onshore General Services Base in Vung Tau, gas pipeline projects from Long Hai to Phu My, My Xuan, Dong Nai industrial zones; the national key projects namely Phu My Fertilizer Plant, Ca Mau Gas-Power-Fertilizer Complex, Dung Quat Refinery, Vung Ang 1 Thermal Power Plant, Thai Binh 2 Thermal Power Plant,...
Having matured by projects, since the time of working as a subcontractor for international contractors, PVC has now become an EPC contractor capable to implement larger-scale projects with complicated technical requirements such as : Go Dau LPG Storage, Thai Binh 2 Thermal Power Plant, Nhon Trach 2 Thermal Power Plant, North Bio-fuel Ethanol Plant, Dinh Vu Polyester Plant,...
Especially, PVC’s strong position in petroleum-specialized construction is increasingly asserted by the implementation of most projects in transportation and storage of oild and gas under EPC contracts such as Cu Lao Tao Petroleum Storage, Dung Quat tank truck station and LPG Storage,... In design, fabrication, construction and installation of rigs and rig jackets: PVC has fabricated various key works and structures, notably Dai Hung rig jacket, Moc Tinh 1 rig jacket and topside - Bien Dong Project...
PVC has unceasingly consolidated and developed its traditional fields such as: construction of works for storage and transportation of oil and gas products, mechanical fabrication and installation of petroleum equipment,...
PVC’s brand is also marked by the civil and industrial construction with projects namely Petrovietnam Finance Center, Vietnam Petroleum Institute, Phu My Hung Petroleum Building, Vung Tau Petroleum Hotel, Dragon Tower,...
Through its growning-up way, PVC and its subsidiaries have continuously developed and made contribution to the development of the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group. "Big Targets, Big Efforts" is what PVC leaders and employees understand thoroughly. With a substainable foundation built up on its development route and determination of PVC staff (PVCers), Petrovietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation will make efforts to further develop on the way ahead, contributing to the cause of Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group and the prosperity of the country in general.
Recently, to acknowledge its remarkable dedications to the cause of socio-economic development of the country, the State of Vietnam awarded PVC various noble honors, namely First Class Labor Medal, Labour Hero Title...
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The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office and U.S. Mail, is responsible for providing postal services in the United States.
On February 6, the Postal Service announced that Saturday first-class mail delivery is scheduled for elimination at the beginning of August—the latest and deepest in a series of cuts that threaten to so undermine the service that it will be ripe for bartering off to the private delivery corporations that have long coveted its routes. This matters because the USPS continues to provide a vital public service with many post offices serving as de facto community centers and with the mail becoming a critical prescription drug delivery system.
The U.S. Postal Service raised the price of a first-class stamp Jan. 27 by a penny to a full 46 cents to increase revenues and offset an increasingly large deficit in the USPS budget. Postal volume has dropped from its high delivery rate of 213 billion parcels per year to 140 billion parcels. Needless to say, the volume of mail being delivered is decreasing rapidly, and the postal service can’t survive without the possibility of downsizing.
But the postal service has already downsized. In 1990, when mail volume was similar to now, the postal service employed 825,000 people. Today, that workforce has declined to 425,000 people while handling the same amount of mail. Meanwhile, distribution centers have been closed and consolidated, delivery hours have been reduced, sorting systems have been upgraded to be more efficient and cheaper, and the USPS is now even considering ending Saturday delivery. Yet the post office is still losing money to the tune of $15 million per day. How can this possibly be?
One significant factor in the post office’s financial insolvency is its pension plan. The Republican Party, of course, frequently argues that “public employee pensions are ruining America’s finances,” but in this case it’s actually true.
In 2006 the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act was passed. Along with several reforms to postal regulations, Congress mandated that USPS dump $5.5 billion per year into an employee retirement health benefits fund for the next 10 years, to fund health benefits for employees for the next 75 years. The USPS is also not allowed to raise postal rates to cover the cost of the health benefits fund (a 15-cent increase in the price of a first-class stamp would easily cover the contribution) and is no longer allowed to cover postal debts using end-of-year surpluses; all that money has to go into the health benefits fund.
The USPS has now paid nearly $46 billion into this retirement health benefits fund, which will fund benefits of employees who haven’t even been born yet. They are $8.5 billion in debt but have a $6.9 billion yearly surplus in the benefits fund, which they are not allowed to touch. The money is there — it just can’t be used.
Why would Congress write such an obligation into law? The pension fund was ostensibly created to avoid future financial insolvency from future health benefit payouts, but it is important to remember that the USPS was completely financially solvent and experienced no problems paying health benefits until 2006. The act has, in an attempt to avoid future insolvency, caused immediate and extreme insolvency now. Our elected officials surely cannot be passing legislature that blindsighted, right?
The real reason for passing the pension obligation could be more nefarious than providing for the future at the expense of the present — it is a move to kill the USPS and hand its services over to private companies.
Look at it this way: Having deliberately crippled the finances of the USPS, Congress can say, “Well, the post office is insolvent because of the incompetence of government. Look at how private industry is able to manage an effective parcel delivery system! Let’s give the USPS to FedEx/UPS/DHL/Two Guys and a Truck Moving Co./some other company that donated a lot of money to my campaign!” and then give lucrative postal routes to said company that donated a lot of money to their campaign.
It could also be a move to neutralize political opponents such as the AFL-CIO by targeting smaller affiliated unions like the American Postal Workers Union, which comprises around 425,000 of the 11 million AFL-CIO members. If the USPS is eliminated or sold, the APWU goes down the drain along with a significant percentage of the AFL-CIO’s membership and political clout.
The APWU has actively campaigned against the PAEA’s retirment health benefits obligation since the act was passed in 2006. Postal workers want to keep their health benefits, certainly, but to fund health benefits for workers who haven’t even been born yet is ridiculous, especially if it is going to bankrupt the USPS. When even the union is campaigning against the health benefit fund, you know something is seriously wrong somewhere.
Some may ask, “Well, while barring all this political mumbo-jumbo, why not just privatize the USPS altogether? Just give it over to UPS or FedEx or something. They’re pretty good at deliveries and make a bunch of money doing it.”
This may not prove to be a viable solution. FedEx and UPS both rely heavily on the USPS infrastructure for delivering packages. However, neither is likely to consider acquiring the Postal Service altogether, and for good reason: most USPS routes are not profitable. Charging a flat rate for all shipments, from ones that require a simple truck trip across town to ones that require multiple transfers from truck to ship to train to truck to airplane is, in real terms, simply bad business sense, but it is what we expect from the USPS and have expected for more than two centuries. The Postal Service has historically (since 1980, when USPS subsidies ended) been more than able to cover losses from unprofitable routes with money from extremely profitable high-volume routes.
Covering these losses with other routes becomes less attractive in the free marketplace. Publicly traded companies have an obligation to turn maximum profits for stockholders. This gives two options to whichever private company takes over the USPS:
1. Kill unprofitable routes entirely. This would require rural postal customers to drive out to the nearest city to get their mail.
2. Jack up rates on low-volume routes until they are profitable or cease to be needed (because no one can afford postage!)
If you lived in Deadhorse, Alaska, and wanted to send a letter to your friend in Toad Suck, Ark., you’d likely to have to pay a significant premium to send that letter compared to, say, someone sending a letter from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. Furthermore, you would likely lose daily delivery. The mail plane might come only once a week, if that. Daily low-volume shipments to the middle of nowhere will never make money, so private companies are unlikely to even try. Republican legislators would do well to make note of this because rural American voters and small businesses will be the most heavily affected by these inflated rates.
There is also the constitutional argument against privatizing the USPS: the Postal Clause gives Congress the explicit power “To establish Post Offices and post Roads.” Quite simply, putting the Postal Service outside the control of Congress is unconstitutional, and any privatization efforts would face serious challenges from the Supreme Court.
The USPS can still be saved; it will just take a tiny bit of legislating to remove health benefit fund obligations. This historic institution, which has cost the taxpayer nothing since the 1980s, shouldn’t be allowed to go bankrupt just because of some terrible, poorly thought-out legislation. The USPS keeps the country connected because even in this age, there are still some things that can’t be emailed. Do we really want to hand this trusted public institution into the hands of private industry, where it can be curtailed, altered and eliminated without the consent of the public? I hope not.A proposal to create a “hybrid” United States Postal Service would keep postal workers on their routes while allowing private companies to compete for mail collection, transportation, and processing. Now all it needs is a divided Congress and a reluctant postmaster general to sign off on it.
A new study released today by a non-partisan Washington think tank recommends a radical departure for the struggling United States Postal Service: a public-private partnership that would open up much of the service’s back-end logistics to outside competition.
The idea to partly privatize the Postal Service has been floating around for at least a decade, and it’s been the subject of other recent studies too, including a white paper written in part by former postal employees and released by the National Academy of Public Administration; and an analysis of that funded by Pitney Bowes, a shipping and packaging company that would almost certainly benefit from the post office’s privatization.
But the study released today by The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation adds a bit more to the discussion.
This public-private hybrid proposal centers around private companies competing to accept, transport, and process much of America’s first-class mail. The USPS’s mail carriers would keep their “letterbox monopoly” on existing delivery routes, and the Postal Service would determine a national average for delivery costs that it would charge those private carriers.
The author of the paper, ITIF President Robert Atkinson, likens it to the break-up of AT&T in the 1980s, which allowed competition among long-distance carriers for the first time. “If you want to go to a post office in the future, you might go to CVS or a Safeway or your local bank branch,” says Atkinson. “And then they might contract with FedEx to move that mail, which would all end up at a local USPS processing facility.” From there, mail would essentially be delivered like it has been since the development of the postal service two centuries ago — but, in Atkinson’s view, at much lower costs.
That would mean a dramatically different, and smaller, USPS. Atkinson estimates that 40% of the more than 500,000 workforce would lose their jobs and possibly half of the more than 30,000 post offices would close. But he argues that some of those jobs would be made up by private carriers performing work previously done by USPS.
In theory, opening up the USPS’s services to competition would allow it to operate much more efficiently, and save costs. In its second quarter, which ended March 31, USPS lost $1.9 billion, an improvement over the same period in 2012, when it lost $3.2 billion, largely due to a reduction in operating hours and a consolidation of mail-processing facilities. Still, the Postal Service is losing $25 million a day.
“If it was a private company, it would’ve filed Chapter 11 by now,” says Atkinson.
Atkinson’s study cites numbers from the Government Accountability Office showing that contract postal units, which operate out of a primary business like a supermarket but offer many of the same products and services as an official post office, are much more cost-efficient. According to the GAO, the USPS incurred $0.17 in costs for each dollar of revenue at CPUs compared to $0.51 at post offices.
Most other recommendations for fixing the USPS’s financial problems are much less radical; many include finding new sources of revenue like shipping beer and wine, closing facilities, or continuing to pare down its workforce. On the other end of the spectrum is complete privatization, which would fully get rid of the Postal Service we know today. A hybrid public-private partnership is somewhere in the middle and is probably the most interesting proposal being discussed.
But the hybrid recommendations don’t address a fundamental issue with Post Office finances: the multi-billion-dollar Congressionally mandated payments to pre-retiree health benefits that the Postal Service is required to make each year. Proponents of partially privatizing the USPS argue that while eliminating that requirement would certainly help in the short-term, the trend lines show continued future dips in mail volume and increased use of digital communication among Americans that will eventually have to be addressed by more structural changes.
The biggest problem, however, may getting any serious reforms approved by Congress, which shows no real signs that it wants to fundamentally alter the way the Post Office operates. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, meanwhile, seems more inclined to continue paring back services and finding new revenue streams. In the end, a hybrid proposal may just be another interesting idea that won’t get traction. But, eventually, something will have to be done to right the Post Office’s ship.
“The reality is, this is a bit of a build it and they will come proposal,” says Atkinson. “And it may be that the USPS is as efficient as you can get. But I don’t think that’s the case. If it is, then we haven’t lost anything. USPS would get all the business. But I think the urgency will increase over time to do something. Eventually people are going to say, we have to do something really serious here. And the reality will sink in that you have to take more serious structural positions.”
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WBC13: Winemaking with Bees and Mystics
The smooth walls inside the pyramid angled upwards into darkness, lit only by a muted glow that seemed to emanate from the stone itself. Coming in out of the blazing sun was a relief, but as we walked up into this sacred temple, our ahhhhhs faded into reverent silence.
We stepped out of the hallway into a vast room; as our eyes adjusted, we could make out barrels, crates and bottles. A few shafts of sun angled in through narrow slits in the pointed roof, where a massive crystal hung like some mystical, thousand-year-old chandelier.
For most, the air was still and cool. But for others, there was the slightest sense of something else lingering, something that ran cat-pawed across the nape of the neck ...
This is the magic of the Summerhill Pyramid.
Set on the slopes of Okanagan Lake, Summerhill is hard to miss. There's the pyramid, of course; out front, a gigantic bottle of bubbly poured its contents into a massive flute-shaped fountain (oh, to have one that actually flows with that delectable liquid.) The architecture was equally eye-catching, especially the elongated veranda of the Sunset Organic Bistro that stretched out from the main tasting room.
A 1/8 model of Egypt's famed Wonder of the World, the Summerhill pyramid was built by founder Stephen Cipes, according to the principles of sacred geometry. The belief is that the energy flowing through it aids in the clarification of the wines, enhancing its best qualities as the bottles rest in near-ideal temperatures and a holy, undisturbed stillness.
Clockwise from top left: Eric Von Krosigk and Gabe Cipes; the sparkling fountain; the Pyramid;
dining at Sunset Organic Bistro
Gabe Cipes has become the resident expert on permaculture and biodynamics at the winery. Soft-spoken, moccasin-clad and be-dreaded, he peers out through old-soul eyes at the world, looking for ways to restore its balance. He plants and reaps according to the cycles of the earth and moon, and whether it's a 'fruit' or 'flower' day on the dog-eared schedule he carries with him. He doesn't like it when people come into the pyramid with cameras or cellphones; apparently, it messes with the energy.
What he does in the vineyards goes beyond the basic tenets of organic farming. "Everything that grows here protects and benefits from everything else, with very little human intervention," he said. "It's the solution to the world's current economic and ecological problems."
Then there's the winemaker, Eric Von Krosigk. A born farmer, he flew off to Germany to study the art of making wine and then came back to Canada to lay the groundwork for some of the Okanagan's most renowned wineries, including the one with the big concrete pyramid in the back yard. As we talked, he made the odd joke about the finer points of biodynamics ("It's quite the sight to see Gabe stuffing entrails into cows' skulls right outside the winery door," he quipped) but spoke very seriously about his goal to make the best wines in the world.
And judging by the international medal tally the wines have earned, they're not far off the mark. Whatever it is they're doing here--whether it's influenced by pure science, divine intervention or a little bit of both--they're doing it right.
Honeybees at work on a wild rose bush near the Tantalus hives
A different kind of environmental stewardship was in the works just down the road at Tantalus Vineyards: the apiarian kind.
Helen Kennedy, of Arlo's Honey Farm, was waiting for us, all suited up in beekeeper's armour and wielding a smoker. We watched in awe as she slowly lifted a comb from the hive, its surface still writhing with thousands of bees. All the while she chatted away about these miraculous insects.
Did you know that 60,000 bees can live in one hive? That it takes 12 bees to make one teaspoon of honey? That propolis, a by-product of bee spit and sticky stuff, has been used for years as an antibiotic, an anti-inflammatory and even in the treatment of some cancers?
The worker bees (females, of course) do everything from collecting pollen to raising young and even pushing out the bodies of their expired hive-mates during the winter to keep everything running ship-shape. They travel for miles following the scent of their queen and do a nifty little dance when they get back, just to let everyone know they're home.
I marvelled at how such a tiny creature, running entirely on instinct, could know exactly what needs to be done to keep everything in cohesive balance, while us humans at the top of the food chain can't seem to step anywhere without wrecking it. Helen told us about how neonicotinoid pesticides in crops are contributing to bees dying off in terrifying numbers. World, take note: a staggering 70 per cent of our food depends on honeybee pollination. No bees, no food. No bees, NO WINE!
In order to return the earth to its once bountiful and balanced natural state, we could learn a lesson or two from the honeybees, already centuries-deep in their own innate cycle of energy-saving measures, waste management and population control.
The other stop on our pre-conference tour was at CedarCreek Estate Winery. Good thing we had such a big breakfast, because the folks here had us working for our wine. We hiked up a 45-degree incline through the vineyard, stopping at tasting stations interspersed among the vines. We were rewarded for our efforts with small plates and matching wines from the estate portfolio. And water. LOTS of water. Cuz you don't want to rehydrate on wine alone and then try to tackle that route DOWNHILL, let me tell you.
From left: the long hike uphill at CedarCreek; among the chives; bottles of riesling;
winemaker Darryl Brooker with our group
Many thanks to Tourism Kelowna's Jenny and Catherine, our fabulous guides and organizers, and our bus driver, Berne, from Distinctly Kelowna Tours.
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Mac June 19, 2013 at 9:07 PM
Wonderful article...only in B.C.
Are you going to be allowed back being you took a camera into the pyramid?
2ndFerment June 20, 2013 at 10:03 AM
LOL! Certainly hope so. Magnificent place! Thanks for the compliments.
Holly Bruns June 20, 2013 at 8:02 AM
Lovely post Bethany! I can imagine the pyramid when I read your words. I'm glad you had such a great time!
Thanks for the compliments! It was a fantastic experience. Hope to go to the next one in Santa Barbara, CA.
Wow Bethany... what can I say? Your words are so beautifully chosen to weave together all the special moments of that day. In your descriptions, I get to relive it all. Thank you. I was proud to get to show everyone around to these three wineries - some shining examples of the many neat experiences for people along our 5 Wine Trails in Kelowna (www.kelownawinetrails.com).
So glad you made it to Kelowna, Bethany!
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Ivorian Catholics have joined the world to empathize with France
April 16, 2019 Village Reporter
Ivorian Catholics have joined the world to empathize with France following the destruction of its famous and historic Notre-Dame Cathedral on Monday.
France has received overwhelming support from around the world after the fire outbreak.
“It is with great sadness that we have heard this news since yesterday on international radio stations. I think it is not only a real loss for the whole French community but also for the whole Catholic community worldwide,” said samuel Amani, Librarian.
It is with great sadness that we have heard this news since yesterday on international radio stations
“It’s really with a lot of sadness that Ifoundout this morning on social media. And I really don’t know the causes of this fire, but it’s really very sad for such a large cathedral that gathers all of God’s people. It’s really sad, it’s really too bad. We hope that with God’s help, we can immediately find a solution,” said Audrey Koffi, Accountant.
The main structure of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is still standing after the fire was quenched by firemen in good time.
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The Subtle Art Of Watch Collection by Alexandre Mourreau
Over the past twenty years, collecting watches has become a sport for many; more and more people collect them, and we spend more and more money on it. It starts with just one, but before you know it, you are addicted to watches, and your collection contains many precious, valuable, and exciting pieces.
“For many collectors, it all begins with a particular watch. Maybe you have inherited an Audemars Piguet pocket watch from the early 20th century, and suddenly you are fascinated by the stories that old watches tell. Or your eyes may have been fixed on a 1976 Patek Philippe in white gold, and after getting the watch at an exclusive auction, you couldn’t resist and bid on another in a few weeks,” says Alexandre Mourreau, a Swiss-Italian entrepreneur, event organizer, and influencer who keeps an eccentric passion for collecting supercars and luxury watches.
Since once you start to learn more about the history of watchmaking, the vast number of different watch brands, mechanics, or materials, you simply don’t have enough. Alexandre Mourreau walks us through the “art” of collecting watches – as he calls it and introduces us to some important rules.
Better few pieces, but special
To become a collector or an expert, the number of watches does not matter. You can have a collection of a few extraordinary and valuable pieces or vast and varied collections. Some collectors are particular and like to select only one brand, range, specific models, or from a specific time. Identify your specific passion and choose what type of collector you want to be.
Money doesn’t always mark quality.
The excellent taste makes the difference between the elegance that a watch can convey and the most vulgar ostentation of money. Its price does not need to reach obscene amounts. There are good watches for little money, relatively high-end brands with very wide price ranges, and mid-range brands with quality finishes and materials.
“The feeling of wearing the watch you want is very subjective, everyone will perceive different sensations depending on the piece they are wearing, but it is clear that it will always be something special,” says Alexandre Mourreau. By the way, never assume that Rolex is the most expensive brand in the world.
Three traits of identity
The finishes, robustness, and quality of the caliber. There are watches for all tastes, styles, and needs, but these three aspects are essential to make a good purchase. “For example, the new Rolex Daytona is robust, quality, and has gorgeous finishes that allow it to be used in any environment,” says Alexandre Mourreau.
Recognize a fake
Be careful, because watches do not get rid of impostors. In this, Alexandre Mourreau follows a slogan: buy from the seller before the clock. Especially with vintage collectibles, he recommends going with lead feet, as there is a lot of latent phony. It never hurts to get professional advice. In addition, all purchases must be made at the authorized retailers. Each brand indicates on its website, who are the official agents for each city.
Counterfeits are very similar in appearance and are sold at a lower price, but their quality is unmatched. Sometimes it can even be seen in the finish and in the small details, such as glue or imperfections.
A vintage piece, the safest bet
Getting an old watch, especially if it is a pocket watch, is considered one of the best investments since there are very few new ones that can aspire to collector’s pieces. For some time, its consideration is reaching a level similar to that of the art market or the luxury car. Paul Newman’s Daytona, for example, reached $7.8 million in 2017 at auction. It is irreproducible.
It is a matter of taste, but we should discard a watch with an excessive diameter for special moments that require, for example, wearing a morning suit. More than size, it matters that it fits the wrist so that the case of the watch does not cause discomfort or prevent the shirt sleeve from falling normally.
The material marks its pedigree
Carbon is one of the most appreciated materials in the manufacture of sports watches. It is light, resistant to any impact, and provides a unique aesthetic. Its fibers form unrepeatable patterns that make each watch a unique piece. It is up to 80% less heavy than a watch made of other materials and is ideal for lovers of bulky watches.
As for the material of the crystal, the sapphire, extremely resistant to scratches, is prevailing. It is present in the most elite and upper-middle-range watches, due to its reputation for high durability. However, collector’s watches are usually made of plexiglass, which was the material that was used before.
Distinguish a quartz watch from a mechanical one
The latter uses the force of a motor spring as energy and needs a revision that should be done every five years to control its wear and avoid high friction between its parts. The great classics are usually mechanical. The quartz works with battery or battery and under the control of a circuit.
It is associated with medium or low ranges, although large brands such as TAG Heuer, Breitling, or Patek Philippe manufacture quartz models of high category and consideration in the market.
What makes the price skyrocket?
It is clear that the details count: diamonds, gold, enamels – but what usually gives added value are the so-called complications, which are the functions that go beyond marking the passage of time. And here the possibilities are endless: chronograph, stopwatch, acoustic, mechanical or astronomical signals, among many others.
One of the most peculiar is the perpetual calendar, which informs its wearer of the day, date, phases of the moon, leap years, or the equation of time, with millimeter precision.
Iconic mentions
If you still want to increase the level and reach those exclusive watches that could be the dream of every collector, you would have to go to old pieces made in few units and challenging to obtain or current copies made in a natural and almost artisan way.
This is the case of the Patek Philippe models, which despite their high prices, have waiting lists of up to several years for their purchase. Although the range of brands and models is abysmal, Alexandre Mourreau highlights these six little jewels that are far from being the most expensive on the market:
The 40 mm Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona in Oystersteel comes with a white dial and an oyster bracelet. The elegance of a black cerachrom bezel and tachymetric scale makes this watch one of the most carefully designed pieces. It was created more than 50 years ago and remains a class of its own.
Royal Oak Double Skeleton Balancer
The 41mm is a legendary watch, a piece that appears to belong in a modern art gallery. The metal precision, the bezel, and sapphire crystal exudes royalty, and is quite a popular piece among Hollywood celebrities.
Royal Oak “JUMBO” Extra-Flat
This exquisite piece of craftsmanship comes with a different style paired by the blue dial with Petite Tapisserie motif, white gold indexes, and luminescent coating on the Royal Oak hands. The 31mm watch inspires a luxury yet formidable impulse.
Patek Philippe Nautilus, one of the most coveted
Speaking of elegance, in this case, also sporty, you cannot fail to name the Patek Philippe Nautilus, a magnificent design by Gerald Genta. It is still one of the most coveted watches by brand and watches lovers in general due to its design, quality, and scarcity on the market.
Rolex GMT-Master II “Batman”
The box is made of Oystersteel – Rolex steel – 40 mm in diameter. The design of the handles has been slightly modified to accommodate the new Jubilé bracelet, with a small trick that will exasperate some: The Oyster bracelet cannot replace it. In this way, Rolex ensures that the few that are seen on the street are the new version (reference 126710BLNR), and not adopted by devotees of the previous version.
The two-tone bezel is perfectly executed in black and blue Cerachrome® ceramics, the glossy black lacquered dial on which are raised applied indexes and traditional hands, and with the corresponding Rolex Chromalight treatment. What works\ (and very well in this case) is not touched.
Rolex GMT-Master II “Pepsi”
Rolex has recovered for this model the ‘Pepsi’ arrangement, the nickname with which fans know this historic watch for the bicolor combination of the bezel in blue and red to differentiate day and night hours.
As for the technical details of this new GMT-Master II, the Jubilé bracelet’s choice, one of the most traditional of Rolex, is striking, while the rest of the GMT-Master II versions continue to use the most modern Oyster. In addition to helping differentiate it from other versions, this classic air bracelet (created no less than in 1945) gives the new GMT-Master II a successful vintage air. Another important novelty is being equipped with the new caliber 3285, belonging to the new generation of calibers that Rolex released in 2015. It stands out, among other technical details, for its exclusive exhaust Chronergy® and his 70-hour power reserve.
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New Screenplay
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16 Comments on New Screenplay
Lussier and I are working on a new super secret gig. We have a great producer, big studio and strong actor already with us. I just finished the first draft. Gonna give it a quick read then shoot it over to Lussier to do his pass.
I took some chances. Tried some new stuff. I think it’ll blow him away.
I’m going to attach a couple pages, dear reader, just to give you a taste.
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16 replies on “New Screenplay”
Mikesays:
hahahaha. Awesome.
Can’t wait for one of the movie blogs to report this as you guys adapting the Shining sequel!
Jedisays:
Squeeee. You know how to push my buttons. ;)
Stiles W.says:
How long from start to finish on a first draft for you?
Toddsays:
Depends how detailed my outline. H3D took 8 days of sleep, eat, shit and write. And it was FUN!
If I do the Stephen King ON WRITING method of stream of consciousness, it can take longer. Month is normal.
Oh. Just read the first few pages. So basically, takes you an entire winter in isolation for a first draft.
Texsays:
So this fella Jack … I’m assuming he’s a hard worker?
’cause my remodeling project has stalled and the garage needs cleaning and since we’ve had rain the weeds are getting pretty tall …
Vladlakysays:
Congratulations Todd! I hope you manage to make a great job with this film! ;)
Frakersays:
I hope that this secret gig is sequel to DriveAngry)))))))
Just kidding ,I know that it is not, but still love this movie.
MsNightshadesays:
EPIC SCRIPT IS EPIC.
P.S. Kek, you funny fecker. ILY. For srs.
Anthony Middendorfsays:
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
Is it an adaptaion of Araby ARABY or BIG SUR. Or is hollywood remaking THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI? Kinding…
The “Sunday” computer virus, a member of the Jerusalem virus family discovered in 1989, contained a reference to the proverb. Infected files will contain the string “Today is Sunday! Why do you work so hard? All work and no play make you a dull boy! Come on! Let’s go out and have some fun!” The virus’s payload prints the proverb on the screen and then deletes all files running while the virus is a resident in the memory, as the original Jerusalem did every Friday the 13th.
All work and now play makes K-HjLL a dull boy… :)
Tamrensays:
Oh god. PLEASE say you are NOT joking! Please say you really ARE doing this story?!! I would so
love to see your take on one of my favorite S.K. stories!!
We just finished a new screenplay, it is, however, not The Shining. That was just my way of being funny.
That said, Lussier and I just started an adaptation of a Stephen King book… but, it is still not The Shining. However, we couldn’t be more excited. :)
STILL!! Your brain (& writing) + Stephen King’s brain (& writing) equals Horror Heaven on-screen. Please excuse that sound… it’s me girly sqealing in happiness at the thought! ;)
Peter Killamsays:
After reading Drive Angry and unable to put it down I had to find out what you are up to next as a writer. If it is a new angle on Hellraiser it would be amazing. You are a fresh new talent in the horror genre.
Schaefsays:
This was hilarious! Break a leg on the new gig man!
Todd, I am a big fan of your work. I was wondering if you could give me any advice on how to get started writing screenplays, how to get them to the right people, and maybe some do’s, and donts. Thanks for your time, and I hope you keep the good movies coming.
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The monument to Prince Branimir
The monument to Prince Branimir installed in NIN, here is the residence of the Prince. Duke Branimir was famous for having received from John VIII the title of the Croatian Prince. In fact, Branimir was the first Prince of the independent state of Croatia, which is out of control of the Byzantine Empire and the Franks.
In 879 Prince Zdeslav prior to the Branimir, was killed by his supporters. The Holy Throne in the same year acknowledged that the introduction of Branimir to the throne is legitimate. The Pope blessed Branimir and appointed him Prince, and his residence was located in NIN.
Croats honor the memory of a Prince, which worked to strengthen the independence and power of Croatia. Monument in NIN - gratitude of the Croatian people to their deliverer. Despite the close cooperation with the Pope, Branimir managed to enter the parallel the use of the Slavic and Latin languages during the Liturgy. After the death of his throne was inherited by his third son Trpimir I.
Monument in Neenah is not the only sign of reverence Branimir, besides inscriptions with his name on the altars of the various churches of Croatia. Also one of the most significant state awards in Croatia bears the name of Prince Branimir.
The monument was erected on a stone pedestal in front of the gate of NIN, on the pedestal the inscription - the name Branimir.
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Taking a practical approach to the regeneration of Todmorden
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An Academic’s View
Dr Lindsay Smales is a senior lecturer in planning and surveying at Leeds Metropolitan University and a Todmorden resident who often works with Todmorden Pride. In this article he provides his opinion on the Sainsbury's planning application and for context, we also publish a report from Dr Smales from 2005 relating to the same site.
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Thoughts on the DailySpec, from J.T Holley
On a day when one can be tense or at least answering calls of margin or questioning positions, I give this to all specs that aren't lurkers or bar flies:
The house of the chief rabbi of Dantzig caught fire, and the contents of his good cellar suffered. The Jews took counsel what to do for their beloved rabbi. A handsome subscription was first proposed, but overruled; then another idea was mooted, then another, each less costly than the preceding. At last it was agreed that everyone should visit the house on a certain day, bringing a bottle of fine wine. After an appropriate speech of greeting, everyone would descend into the cellar and empty their bottles into a vat prepared for the purpose. The day came, and the chief rabbi listened with delight to the flattering addresses of his guests. When the ceremony concluded, he went to the cellar with his family, all brimful of kindly feelings, to taste the result. He turned the tap, a beautiful fluid ran into his glass; he raised it with gratitude to his lips, and suddenly his countenance fell; he slipped a second time, and confirmed that the fluid was pure water. The fact was that each guest had said to himself, "What does it matter whether I put in wine which costs money or water which costs nothing? My own contribution will make no sensible difference to the total result."
I also suggest that you click on the Philosophy link of this site that is directly towards the top to the right of the letter "r" in a woman's name that is held in high regard and read the first paragraph and that which follows.
In my humble opinion, of which I hold myself accountable, too much opinion, politics, religion, and diarrhea of the mouth has been shared of late and over the last few years. It has always been present since I've been on this Spec-List and one that will always be present due to the human condition and speculation. If you feel that you don't like this then please start your own blog, self promotion, email distribution list, or newsletter.
However, there are us that remain constant. Diligent in pursuing a better way to profit. One in which follows a Scientific Method or at least a way in which that we can hold ourselves accountable or existentially are aware of our choices and what we share amongst ourselves while deviation from the philosophy is tolerated.
No, I'm not some, diehard, policeman of the List, nor dogmatic narcissitic bastard. I"m simply a speculator like yourself that wishes the Spec-List would get back to its roots as the Chair intended them to be. I've benefited from it and am grateful. If you've have too, then humbly state such. If not then please talk about bbq or something that pours wine into the Rabbi's vat that can be tested/counted or substantiated to any degree other than emotion or opinion.
With deepest respect and friendship,
J.T
p.s. No, I haven't been the victim of a margin call today.
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Sometimes you can take a good thing too far. In college I decided to man the helm of a weekly Wednesday on-campus celebration known as 40s Night. Typically this tradition started during orientation week and served as a way for the freshmen to meet the upper classes in a jovial and quite enthusiastic environment. It would continue throughout the first month of school before petering out as the Portland weather turned sour and everyone became entrenched in classwork. This particular year however, I was taking a semester off. And, through circumstance to be discussed at a later date, was not gainfully employed. Needless to say, I had a fair amount of free time on my hands.
Through the Enthusiast network at our school, I found out that one could obtain 40s of PBR at a very reasonable rate from a liquor distributor on the other side of town. Each week we would scrape together $100 or so, secure a vehicle, and make our pilgrimage.
The first week we were busted by campus security hiding the bottles in a freshman’s first floor room. So for the following week I devised a method of not only keeping the beer hidden, but keeping it cold and mobile at the same time. Every Wednesday we’d secure a large, rolling recycling bin, empty the contents, and line it with a garbage bag. Then we would load in the bottles, surrounding each successive layer with ice. At about 10 pm, after a couple of hours of chilling, we’d roll the thing over to our designated location and open up shop. The cut-rate supplier combined with fair, but inflated pricing allowed for over 100% profit—in no time I would make back the initial investment and then some, drinking for free all the while.
These were some of my happiest times in college. I quickly became know as The-Fucking-Man on campus and made some lifelong friendships with the entering class of that year. Weeks went by and campus authorities started to get annoyed by the Wednesday night complaints from people “trying to study” and who were “getting distracted” by the baudy noise that came from our revelry. Eventually I was told by the class president that the noise was a real problem and we had to do something about it. Rather than take this as a sign that it was time to shut it down, I just moved us to the Student Union where we could close the doors and minimize noise.
A handful more weeks went by and campus emptied out for Fall break. By this time, the administration had really started to put the heat on 40s night and I was squarely at the center of the issue. I was determined that we should have one last, good run and intended to call the whole thing off when everyone got back. But the damage had been done. One thing led to another and, non-student that I was, I got banned from campus for the remainder of the semester.
Our school had a notoriously forgiving policy towards that type of thing, but I had clearly crossed a line. Naturally, as an Enthusiast, this is a line that I crossed on a handful of other, unrelated occasions in the future, but I did learn a valuable lesson from that first time. No matter how awesome an idea, and how well executed, you can’t fly too close to the sun without getting burned. That said, I was fortunate that even at that high altitude, I managed to only singe my wings, rather than go down in a ball of flame. In the end, I will forever look back on those nights of 40s fondly—as my most successful (drunken) venture to-date.
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A story about blue transition.
Several nights ago, I dreamed that I found two tiny bird eggs abandoned on the ground, in danger of being trampled. They were as small as my thumbs and powdery blue.
I picked them up gently to carry them to safety and set them on a shaded bench, where they suddenly began to hatch before I’d expected. One gold beak peeked out after the other, cracking quietly through their shells, the chicks’ necks emerging slowly from the cool blue shadows and craning left and right for sunlight.
I remember worrying that I wasn’t sure how to care properly for those precious baby birds. I remember fearing that they might have been born too early to survive.
But mostly, I remember the bittersweet blueness of those tiny, perfect eggs before they fractured; the fragility of that soft phase just before impending change. Their vulnerable impermanence made them precious. Whether crushed by strangers’ feet or collapsing from within, those eggs were fated to fall apart, the way all sweet shells must ultimately crumble so that life can see the light — so that blue can give way to gold.
Mid-September is a strange time of in-between. It’s no longer the juicy peach of sweet summer at its ripest, when it’s lush-leafed and sticky, but it’s not yet the crisp crunch of fall. The sky seems to hold its breath, whispering slivered hints of minty breezes that slice through the lingering heat like wire through clay. Slice, slice, slice — with the promise of the eventual release of a cool, refreshing sigh. For now, we wait.
Before green leaves turn to gold, the world seems to pause in a state of blue. It’s the soft blue of the transition; the indigo of in-between; the delicate robin’s egg of “not yet” but “eventually” and “almost” and “I hope.” It’s a quiet, fragile shade between summer’s grassy jade and autumn’s copper, wavering between here and there. There’s a serene quality to it and a sweetness to the hushed anticipation, but also an awareness that the blue won’t last. That the calm will collapse. That the peaceful prescience of “eventually” will have to crack, whenever the universe says, “GO.”
I keep leaving my apartment in overzealous outfits of long jeans and sweaters, then returning home mid-day to switch to shorts and tank tops, startled and blinking like a baby bird still learning the world’s fickleness. That’s what change is always like. Shaky. Wavering. It’s almost impossible to feel properly prepared.
I’m trying to take it step by step, crack by crack, giving into the inconsistency of the crumbling. To savor sipping spicy chai tea in cashmere and slippers each morning, then spending afternoons bare-legged and sunny-armed, crunching ice cubes in cold brew. To enjoy being neither here nor there: the excitement of it. The deliciousness of the discomfort of not quite knowing when the switch will turn for good. The thrilling impermanence of “eventually” and “almost” and “I hope.”
By now, I should be used to the blue mood of transitions. This past year has been one in which inconstancy is my life’s only true constant. Just when I think my routine is solid and resolved, just when I think I know who I am and what I want, the ground seems to quake underneath me. I am always breaking my own serene shells, craning left and right for the clarity of sunlight.
My sister just moved to Scotland to begin her two-year graduate school program and is settling into a new apartment, not to mention a new timezone. In Facebook messages, I reminded her of the way I felt when I moved into to my current place about sixteen months ago: blue. I picked out this apartment, and I was thrilled with it: its neighborhood, its fire escapes, its quirks. But still, blue.
I felt the same when I left my first full-time job after months of eager anticipation. The same when I graduated from college and moved to New York. All changes — the predetermined ones, even when they’re self-chosen and desired — are a bit blue. There’s something blue about that in-between, when you’re shifting but not settled.
I have a quote by Paul Coelho written on a sticky note, taped to my window where I see it each morning: “The important stuff stays.”
Those words are the red raft I hold onto when I’m drowning deep in blue, feeling like I’m losing myself in ocean waves of in-between. The important stuff stays. That’s what I remember when I sense the shaky beginnings of an important change, but I can’t control its pace or its precise outcome; when I crave a semblance of stability; when I need strength over fragility.
Even as you transition into new versions of yourself, even as you grow and crumble, even as you stumble into newness you’re not properly prepared for — your essential psyche stays solid. The strongest parts of you will last. In fact, a vulnerable blue period might be the best way to uncover internal stability and to learn the lasting keys to your you-ness.
Besides, eventually, blue always breaks open to gold.
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David Pellegrini says
A beautiful and evocative essay!
Beautiful and so thought provoking!
pellegrinileah says
Thank you so much, Samantha! So glad it resonated with you. xo
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A jet-skier has been ordered to pay towards costs after he admitted speeding and riding without care and caution on Truro River.
On July 10, 2020, Truro Harbour Masters Office received multiple complaints of jet-ski users acting recklessly.
Harbour staff deployed two boats to investigate and located five jet-skiers on the Truro River. The group were warned about their behaviour but they continued to operate at high speed.
Members of the public supplied video footage of the group acting irresponsibly around moored boats.
Joshua Gotts, of Camborne, was subsequently identified as one of the jet-skiers.
In a prosecution brought by Cornwall Council, Gotts appeared at Truro Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, January 13, where he pleaded guilty to four charges; failing to navigate a vessel with care and caution, causing or permitting a vessel to proceed at a speed great than 8 knots above the Turnaware Bar Starboard hand buoy, jet skiing without the written permission of the Harbour Master and failing to proceed with care and caution and at slow speed in or near the small craft mooring areas.
In mitigation, Gotts said he was an experienced jet-skier and that the craft are difficult to handle below 12mph. He added that he was not aware he needed permission from the Truro Harbour Master to use his jet-ski in the area.
Accepting his guilty pleas, the magistrates gave Gotts a 12 month conditional discharge and ordered him to pay £250 (£228 towards the council’s prosecution costs and a £22 victim surcharge).
Councillor Loic Rich, Chair of the Cornwall Council Harbours Board, said: "This prosecution has been brought about thanks to the sterling efforts of our Harbourmaster and Maritime Management, as well as our legal team at Cornwall Council. It is totally unacceptable that some water users behave in this reckless manner. This very easily could have resulted in someone getting seriously hurt or losing their life.
“Where we have evidence of people behaving irresponsibly on the water, we will take action."
Rob Nolan, cabinet member for Environment and Public Protection, said: “Those who act in this irresponsible manner pose not only a threat to other people, but also to the local wildlife.
“There is an area on the river where water users are permitted to travel at high speeds safely. If you want to go out on the water check the rules, get permission and show some respect to other water users and the local wildlife.”
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Cornwall is pioneering a national effort to kickstart the recovery of wildlife and nature, and you can have your say on what is important to you.
Cornwall was chosen by government as one of only five areas to test the creation of a Nature Recovery Plan before it become a requirement of all areas nationally. Sitting alongside the Climate Change Action Plan, it will guide funding and planning policy by identifying the best opportunities to protect, restore and improve local wildlife.
By getting involved, residents will be able to shape local priorities on how to best support nature in Cornwall – whether it's wildflowers for pollinators, more trees to fight climate change, more green spaces in our towns, or a habitat or species you’re passionate about.
Our natural environment is foundational to our health, prosperity, identity and heritage through its diverse features and habitats – from towans to tors, marshland to moorland, and our iconic Chough. It is also central to the fight against climate change and environmental hazards –from flood risks to infectious diseases.
But nature is in crisis, with 41% of species having declined in the UK since 1970 - and Cornwall reflects that trend. This decline is also speeding up due to climate change. The new plan will set out how Cornwall can tackle this ecological crisis.
Cllr Rob Nolan, Portfolio Holder for Environment and Public Protection at Cornwall Council, said: “Cornwall Council is committed to tackling the ecological emergency head on through projects like Forest for Cornwall and Making Space for Nature, and this is matched by the incredible ambition of our partners, communities and businesses. I’m proud that Cornwall’s pioneering work to safeguard our natural environment has resulted in this pilot and hope that our residents will have their say on this crucial next step in our transition to a greener Cornwall.”
Cllr Edwina Hannaford, Portfolio Holder for Neighbourhoods and Climate Change, said: “Taking care of nature will help us move towards our ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2030.
“We all have a duty to protect the environment and we want residents to have their say over how we do this.”
Lord Robin Teverson, Chair of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Nature Partnership, said: “Our Local Nature Partnership has one overriding aim – to reverse the decline of nature and loss of biodiversity in Cornwall and Scilly. The challenge to halt that decline is a critical one, and all of us need to be a part of the solution. That’s why when putting our plans for nature recovery together, full public engagement is vital. Get the right plan, and we really can grow nature here in Cornwall and deliver a green recovery.”
Emma Browning, Partnership Manager of Cornwall’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, said: “The Cornwall AONB is committed to nature recovery. It is key that we unite together with land-owners, farmers, businesses and communities as a collaborative network to deliver what is essential to reverse the decline in biodiversity and promote a green recovery. We are all interlinked with nature in various ways, via the direct work in our landscape through to the food we eat. We all need to play a part in the solution, and collectively this is achievable.”
Residents can have their say on what and where nature matters most to them to help shape the plan until mid-February on the Lets Talk Cornwall website
Exciting plans to extend the community centre in Threemilestone have been granted planning permission by Cornwall Council.
It is fantastic news for the local community and the Langarth Garden Village project, which has been working with Cornwall Council and other partners to support the village’s plans to extend and upgrade the current community centre as part of a wider programme of community investment projects in the Threemilestone and Highertown area.
At the end of last year Cornwall Council’s Cabinet agreed to provide £500,000 towards the costs of the scheme, enabling the much needed and long awaited project to move forward. Councillors also supported the use of funding from developers’ contributions – known as Section 106 agreements – for the Langarth Garden Village scheme to provide new playing pitches in Threemilestone and carry out improvements to the public realm in the centre of the village.
Welcoming the decision, Councillor Tim Dwelly, Cornwall Council’s Cabinet Member for Planning and Economy, said: “When Cornwall Council made the decision to take on a proactive role in planning and delivering the new integrated community at Langarth in 2019, one of our key priorities was to ensure that local facilities and services in existing communities such as Threemilestone do not come under pressure as a result of the scheme, and that Langarth supports improvements for existing residents as well as new ones.
“Improving the community centre a Threemilestone will bring great benefits to Threemilestone, providing more space for community events and enhancing the aesthetic appeal of the building which lies at the heart of the village.
“I am delighted that planning permission has been granted for the extension and can’t wait to see the exciting vision become reality.”
While Threemilestone already has a very successful community centre, the hall was built to support around 1,000 people in the 1970s. With a population of more than 4,000 today, and the village continuing to grow, it is no longer big enough to cater for all the organisations which want to use it.
The building is currently used by the local community for a wide range of sporting, activity, club and other social events. These include education and training courses, local markets, arts and crafts activities, exercise classes, including keep fit and dancing, performances, and a range of contact sports.
The centre also includes a bar and kitchen which enables people to socialise and host family and other celebrations and events.
The popularity of the community centre and the rising population in the village means there is a growing waiting list of organisations wanting to use the hall. There are also currently no public toilets in the village, with the nearest ones in Chacewater, two-and-a-half miles away.
The plans approved include creating a new entrance foyer with an area for people to wait and shelter from the weather, and a digital information screen, improved access, an additional meeting room and storage space, fully accessible toilets with a 'changing places' facility with hoist, shower, and baby changing facilities.
The building will have solar panels on the roof to provide green energy, and a COVID-secure air filtration system.
Work will begin on constructing the first phase in spring 2021, with the Community Centre extension expected to be completed by summer 2021.
"Following my election as Chair to our village Community Centre some 19 months ago, a review of existing facilities and ‘life expired’ equipment was undertaken, and areas of concern quickly addressed,” said Mike Ashcroft, Chair of the Community Centre Management Committee.
“This resulted in identifying what was needed to facilitate an ever increasing demand on the centre. An embryonic plan and ‘wish list’ were then developed with the support of various bodies, including the Community Fund, Truro City and Kenwyn Parish Councils and Cornwall Council members and officers.
“I am super excited to see the commitment to improve the village facilities that will benefit all residents and other users from both within and outside the village. My thanks go to all involved in achieving this much-needed improvement and development of our centre.”
Further plans for the village include removing the central roundabout, providing more parking spaces to improve access to local businesses and health services and a new pedestrian and cycleway link to connect Threemilestone village directly to the new Langarth Garden Village. All of this will be complemented by new green spaces, landscaping and tree planting.
More information about the Council’s investment in projects in Threemilestone is available on the Langarth Garden Village website where you can also view a short film about the project.
Cornwall Council and GLL are calling on central Government to provide additional funding to protect the future of Cornwall’s leisure centres.
Since Cornwall Council and GLL agreed a supplier relief package of £4.2 million in September last year, the industry has been further hit by two more lockdowns.
The current closure will have an even greater impact on leisure centres, coming during the peak period for trade in a normal year.
A national request has been submitted to the Treasury on behalf of leisure providers, the Local Government Association and Sports England of the need for support of £600m.
However, to date the government has launched a new fund of only £100m to cover the period from December 2020 to March 2021.
Councils and suppliers are in the process of submitting complex bids requesting a share of the money.
Adam Paynter, deputy leader of Cornwall Council, said: “We are calling on Westminster to put in place a credible sector-based support package that covers the whole period of the disruption dating back to last March.
“We are applying for a share of the £100m fund but this is simply not enough. The Government must do more to protect our leisure centres.”
James Curry, GLL’s Head of Service in Cornwall, said: “The latest lockdown couldn’t have come at a worse time for the leisure industry. January is traditionally one of our busiest months as people commit to getting healthier and fitter for the summer and re-building our membership figures, which had already been significantly eroded by the pandemic, is a matter of real concern.
“We continue to work closely with Cornwall Council and support them in their bid for a fair share of the £100m National Leisure Relief Fund. Government assistance is vital if our industry is to survive the current crisis and, as COVID has proved, public health and fitness have never been more important.
“GLL is a not-for-profit social enterprise and we are doing everything we can to help our local communities. That’s why we are offering a wide range of exercise classes free of charge online via our Better app and why we are actively lobbying for government funding to help keep our leisure centres going once they can be re-opened.”
Cornwall Council has announced £13m worth of building contracts for three new workspace centres that will grow Cornwall’s economy and support the creation of jobs in Penzance, Liskeard and Hayle.
The three workspaces will generate much needed economic activity during their construction phase and open new job, work placement and training opportunities for the local workforce.
Ultimately, these new developments will play a key role in regenerating the town centres and boosting the local economy by enabling business growth, job creation and training opportunities.
Two of the developments will be supporting the fast-growing creative sector – already of huge importance to the economy of Cornwall.
The Penzance Creative Cluster will be a new 1,500m2 facility at Causewayhead which will provide up to 30 modern studios and workspaces for creative enterprises.
At Liskeard Cattle Market, the new workspace development is part of the larger regeneration programme which will transform the towns old cattle market site, which is partly derelict and under-used since the closure of the livestock market in 2017.
The third scheme is a 1,800m2 extension to the Hayle Marine Renewables Business Park, building on the success of the first phase which completed in 2015 and has reached full occupancy.
New workspaces 'enable creation of around 100 jobs'
Tim Dwelly, Cornwall Council’s portfolio holder for Culture, Economy and Planning said: “These new workspaces will bring business and jobs to three areas and this is crucial in terms of the challenges our towns are facing. This package of investment is a key part of our Economic Recovery Plan for Cornwall.
“The new workspaces will enable the creation of around 100 new jobs in sectors which are fast growing and at the core of Cornwall’s Local Industrial Strategy, ultimately increasing footfall to the town centres and supporting existing local businesses.”
Delivery of these transformational projects will be supported by an investment of £8.7m being sought from the European Regional Development Fund and £7.7m of match-funding from Cornwall Council, as part of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Growth Programme.
Cornwall Councillor for Penzance Central Cornelius Olivier said: “This is a positive step to support our creative industries and provide opportunities to make Penzance, and Cornwall in general, less dependent on the visitor economy. The design and the quality of the build of the Penzance Creative Cluster will make this a welcome development for our town.”
Sally Hawken, Cornwall Councillor for Liskeard East and Chair of the Liskeard Cattle Market Working Group said: “The timetable for the demolition of the old livestock market is now underway, supported by funding from the Government’s Growth Deal Fund. This next stage in the transformation of this important Liskeard town centre site is a boost for our local community and our economy.”
John Pollard Cornwall Councillor for Hayle North said: “The Hayle Marine Renewables Business Park was the first investment on the newly remodelled North Quay and set the benchmark for the major developments that have followed. Its success as a focus for development and employment in this area will continue with the extension and I thank the officers of Cornwall Council who have initiated and led this major boost for the town.”
Each workspace will be built to BREEAM ‘Excellent’ standard and will minimise carbon emissions during both construction and operation.
Completion of the three new workspace schemes is expected in Summer 2022 and once operational, they are projected to add more than £3.7m annually to Cornwall’s economy.
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Support is available for anyone experiencing mental health difficulties on Blue Monday – or any other time of the year.
This is the message from Cornwall Council’s Public Health team and its NHS partners who are reminding residents that they do not have to deal with their issues alone.
It comes on the third Monday in January (January 18 2021), said to be the saddest day of the year due to a combination of bad weather, long nights and the post-Christmas comedown.
With the nation in lockdown, this year’s Blue Monday could be an especially low point for many people.
Statistics suggest that the number of people experiencing possible anxiety and/or depression in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has roughly doubled since the pandemic began.
Concerns focused on finances, the health of family members, fears around catching the virus, isolation and loneliness, and uncertainty about the future.
In response, Cornwall Council and its partners across the health and social care system have pulled together a range of materials including guides, web links, phone apps, z-cards for wallets and crucial information and contact details for anyone who finds themself in crisis.
Many can be found on our webpages and there is a list of other links below.
Support is being offered virtually as well as face-to-face (when restrictions allow), with targeted work going on in high-risk groups and communities. Initiatives include social prescribing at GP practices, a mobile crisis lorry run by charity Valued Lives, and expansion of debt management and mental health advice and support via Citizens Advice Cornwall and the Pentreath mental health charity, under the Mhend project.
More on Mhend (Mental Health Employment Needs and Debt advice), which is aimed at helping the most vulnerable communities, can be found on the Pentreath website and on our media releases area.
Dr Richard Sharpe, public health advanced practitioner at Cornwall Council specialising in mental health, said:
“It is crucial that people know help and support are available if they find themselves struggling with their mental health.
“Feedback from across our communities suggests people are feeling more anxious but may not be coming forward for help and support with their wellbeing. There is also evidence that some people who are already known to mental health services are attending with more severe symptoms which are requiring more intensive support.
“I would urge people to follow the Five Ways to Wellbeing, listed below, and generally to take time to relax, eat well, stay hydrated, and maintain a healthy and active lifestyle that includes good quality regular sleep patterns. We have also provided a number of links below if you need more specific help and support with your mental wellbeing.”
The Five Ways to Wellbeing are:
Connect – Lockdown or self-isolation doesn’t mean you can’t stay in touch with friends and loved-ones through social media, email, facetime/video calling or a good old-fashioned phone call.
Be active – Staying active is vital for your physical and mental health, and lockdown doesn’t mean this is off limits. Check out the Healthy Cornwall website for ideas.
Keep learning – Trying a new hobby or learning something new is a great way to keep the mind active so why not learn a musical instrument, try your hand at photography or become a crossword expert?
Give - Supporting vulnerable people and/or volunteering can help you make new friends as well as make a huge difference in your community. For more information visit the Volunteer Cornwall website.
Take notice – Try to be mindful of your environment and make the time to get as much sunlight, fresh air and nature as you can, while still sticking to the rules.
Cllr Sally Hawken, Cornwall Council’s Portfolio Holder for Children, Wellbeing and Public Health, said:
“It’s OK to not be OK, and no one has to face things alone – this is our message to people.
“Being worried in these incredibly difficult times is completely understandable and being in lockdown for the third time means it is more likely people will experience feelings such as anxiety, loneliness and being overwhelmed.
“But we want everyone to know that help and support is there so please take the time to check out what’s available. This could help you improve your own mental wellbeing as well as the mental health of other people in your community.”
Tim Francis, head of joint strategic commissioning for mental health and learning disability at NHS Kernow, said:
“We are reaching out to even more people with targeted schemes. This includes people in our farming and fishing communities as well as those in our more rural towns and villages.
“Providers from – statutory, third and voluntary sectors are collaborating to tackle the impact of the pandemic to make sure people can access the support they need.”
Dr Yonette Hassell, clinical service and strategy lead for Outlook South West services, which are part of Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, said:
“At Outlook South West we are aware that many in our community are experiencing worry and low mood for the first time as their day to day lives have changed in light of the covid-19 pandemic.
“The guided self-help and courses that we offer at Outlook South West provide strategies to help you get your life back on track. Working with our clinicians you can learn to manage your worry and low mood.”
Further information for anyone struggling with their mental health:
24/7 NHS mental health response line for support and advice: Call free on 0800 038 5300, any time day or night if you are worried about your own or someone else’s mental health. The team behind our 24/7 open access telephone response line will listen to you and determine how best to help.
A range of mental wellbeing guides are available on our mental health webpages. They cover everything from childhood through to older age, pregnancy to suicidal thoughts.
Outlook South West, which is part of Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, has a range of talking therapy services available to people aged 16 and above in Cornwall who experience mild to moderate worry, anxiety and low mood. Outlook South West offers courses (Stress Buster, Finding Yourself Again), guided self-help with clinicians via telephone, video and digital platforms (SilverCloud), and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) appointments. You can refer yourself to Outlook South West by calling on 01208 871905 or completing an online referral form.
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has 12 free online self-help courses that anyone can take from a platform called ‘SilverCloud’.
Charities including Valued Lives, Pentreath, and Mind contain a wealth of information aimed at helping people with mental health difficulties.
For tips, support and advice on all things health-related visit the Healthy Cornwall website.
For mental health safety plans and a list of Apps to support you with your mental health, visit our online mental health safty planning information
If you are in crisis and need support then contact your GP or NHS Direct on 111. Other support available includes:
Valued Lives – 01209 901438
Samaritans – 116 123
SANE – 0845 767800
Papyrus – for young adults – 0800 0684141
CALM – for men – 0800 585858
Childline – for under 19s – 0800 1111
Community Mental Health Team – 0845 2077711
Covid-19: Psychological First Aid: A free online training course aimed at frontline or essential workers and volunteers providing support to others. It explores the psychological impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and what you can do to help other people cope. Access the course for free on the FutureLearn website.
Cornwall Council News feed - Sat, 01/16/2021 - 20:17
Organisations across Cornwall have welcomed the news that the Duchy is to host the international G7 leaders’ summit in June and pledge an event that will leave a lasting social and economic legacy to benefit all of Cornwall’s residents.
The major three-day international event will see leaders from the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US, as well as invited leaders from Australia, India, and South Korea attend.
The event will host world leaders at Carbis Bay, with neighbouring St Ives and other sites in Cornwall, such as Falmouth, hosting international delegates and media – with organisers determined to make this an event for all residents in Cornwall to experience and share.
Julian German, Leader of Cornwall Council, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase the best of Cornwall and the UK on the world stage, and to build our strength and prosperity at home.
“For those reasons we are determined that this event delivers a lasting legacy for our residents, inspires our young people and shows how we can play our part in bringing the world together after the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic – and bringing together all parts of the UK together, leaving no-one and nowhere behind.
“We want a lasting legacy that maximises inward investment, translating our moment on the global stage into trade. A legacy that helps Cornwall bounce forward and make its full contribution to the country’s ambitions in areas like space and satellite, floating offshore wind and other sources of clean energy, and globally significant geo-resources including lithium to power our future.”
Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer QPM, of Devon & Cornwall Police, said: “I am delighted that Cornwall will be hosting this landmark event for the United Kingdom in an area that is not only one of the safest in the country, but also combines breath-taking scenery and innovative businesses with exceptional local hospitality.
“The event will be a real boost for our communities and especially our young people. It provides an opportunity for all my colleagues within Devon and Cornwall Police to demonstrate our operational excellence and world class policing skills on a global stage.
“We are excited to be playing our part working with and supporting our partners to deliver a safe and secure G7 summit. We have been preparing for this event for several months, including speaking with colleagues who have managed similar events, so we can ensure that we continue to effectively serve our local communities in the run up to, during and after the event.”
Visit Cornwall estimates a total economic impact of the Summit for the County of £50m, including both the immediate benefits of the Summit and related events, and projected tourism growth over the next five years.
Malcolm Bell, Chief Executive of Visit Cornwall said: “Cornwall has been voted the best holiday region in the UK for 10 out of the last 11 years in the British Travel Award but is little known to many countries around the world.
“The G7 Leaders’ summit will shine a spotlight on our very special place and the worldwide exposure is promotion we could never buy.
“It will showcase the beauty of Cornwall and provide an opportunity to highlight our heritage, culture and the connections to each country, which will help drive increased numbers of international visitors to Cornwall over the next decade.”
Mark Duddridge, Chair of the Local Enterprise Partnership, said: “Cornwall’s economy is quickly evolving into one of huge significance to the challenges of the time most notably in the delivery of clean energy from our unique geology and location.
“Underpinned by our digital connectivity and creative expertise our traditional industries are developing their offer to deliver more to their customers whilst supporting the recovery of our climate and ecology.
“We welcome the opportunity to showcasing the new Cornwall to visitors from around the World and sharing our excitement for the changes that are now happening around us.”
Peter Andrew MBE, Chair of Corserv Group, said: “The Corserv Group is delighted to have been asked to support the logistical arrangements to welcome the G7 Summit to Cornwall – a fantastic opportunity to raise the profile of our beautiful Duchy.
"Cormac Highways and Environment and Cornwall Airport Newquay continue to work closely with the organising authorities to ensure that the event runs smoothly in June. The Cornwall Development Company will be working hard with partners over this period to secure a lasting legacy in terms of inward investment.
"Over the coming months many of our staff will become involved in the logistical arrangements and we are committed to ensure that the event is a great success for Cornwall and see it shine on the world stage.”
Cornwall Council News feed - Fri, 01/15/2021 - 18:20
Cornwall Council is already providing vital grant support to businesses affected by the tier restrictions and the latest national lockdown which came into force on January 5, 2021.
We’ve already paid grants to pubs that don’t sell food and rely on just drink sales and we’ve also been able to pay around 7,500 businesses who were closed when Cornwall was placed in Tier 3 (31 December – 04 January).
Another 11,500 businesses forced to close in the latest lockdown from 05 January 2021 will receive payments next week. These are businesses who received Local Restriction Support Grants in November and will now automatically be paid the latest Local Restriction Support Grants and one off Closed Business Lockdown Payments (one off grants of £4,000, £6,000 and £9,000).
New discretionary grant scheme
The Council yesterday received confirmation of funding from Government for new discretionary grants. The Additional Restrictions Grant scheme will see up to £11.5 million available for businesses in Cornwall who are not eligible for other forms of financial support but have been forced to close or are severely impacted during the third coronavirus lockdown from 05 January 2021.
Our policy for this Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) scheme and the application form on who will be eligible is being put in place and the application form and full details of the policy will be available on the Council’s website www.cornwall.gov.uk/BusinessSupportGrant on Wednesday 20 January 2021.
Cornwall Council cabinet member for the economy Tim Dwelly said: “As before our priority is to help businesses who have not been able to claim other grants or funds. This includes those who are excluded from the self-employed income support scheme.This could be due to them being set-up as a limited company and/or being a new business.”
Applications will also be encouraged from a range of businesses such as food and drink producers and distributors, who, while not forced to close, have been severely affected because they supply goods and services to the hospitality, retail and leisure sector which are closed.
Cornwall Council also seeks to support businesses in the events sector such as caterers or event venues and other businesses that supply goods or services to parts of the economy that have been shut down.
Businesses with a rateable value of more than £51,000 who did not apply for the Additional Restrictions Grant in November may also be eligible to apply this time around.
Tim adds: “We’re particularly pleased we were able to make grants of £25,000 to larger pubs, hotels and hospitality in the summer. This new discretionary grant will remain available for others in a similar situation who have not yet had a chance to apply."
"These places employ many people and buy goods and services from many businesses in Cornwall and we want to help them survive this crisis”
The other instances of where businesses will need to apply (apart from the ARG scheme) are
Businesses which pay business rates, have been forced to close, but did not apply for the Local Restrictions Support Grants in November 2020, will need to apply for this latest round of Local Restrictions Support Grants and the one off Closed Business Lockdown Payment (one off grants £4k-£9K)
Business rated businesses which were not required to close, but have been severely impacted by the change in tier restrictions on December 26 when Cornwall entered Tier 2 and December 31 when Cornwall entered Tier 3 (December 26 to December 30 and December 31 to January 4).
The application forms for these grants will be posted on the website as soon as possible.
www.cornwall.gov.uk/BusinessSupportGrant
Story posted January 15 2021
Cornwall Council will suspend parking charges in all of its car parks from Saturday (January 16 2021) until the end of the current national lockdown, as part of efforts to further limit the spread of coronavirus and to support residents.
The move will mean that some civil enforcement officers and back room staff, due to a reduced service, can be redeployed to support the Council’s Covid-19 response, as well as help residents who rely on on-street parking at home, or live in resident only parking zone areas.
As many people return to home working arrangements in response to the latest national lockdown, there has been an increase in the number of vehicles parked on residential roads and residents unable to find a parking space near their homes. They will now have the option to park for free in a Council car park.
Councillor Geoff Brown, Cornwall Council cabinet portfolio holder for transport, said: “We are all being asked to stay at home where possible and we want to lead by example, by doing all we can to reduce the risk of spreading the virus.
“The daily operation of our 133 charging car parks requires staff to carry out regular patrols and security officers to collect money from the machines. Given the current lockdown, and the Council’s key role in responding to the pandemic locally, we have a duty to keep our staff safe, as well as ensure all efforts are focussed on dealing with the response - and subsequent recovery - from Covid-19.”
Story posted 15 January 2021
Cornwall Council will provide free school meals over the February half term after the Department for Education told schools yesterday (14th January) they would not be providing funding.
The council will use money from the COVID Winter Grant Scheme to feed over 15,000 young people, who are currently accessing the scheme in Cornwall.
Schools will be provided with funding of up to £15 per eligible child to support their local families.
Cabinet member for Children, Public Health and Wellbeing, Councillor Sally Hawken said: “The important contribution a healthy, nutritious school lunch makes towards children’s wider wellbeing cannot be underestimated.
“Like the rest of the country, the effect of the coronavirus pandemic in Cornwall is profound. Many families have seen their financial circumstances negatively impacted by lockdown, including a significant number working in Cornwall’s tourist and leisure industry.”
One of Cornwall Council’s key strategic priorities is to have fewer children living in poverty, and our plans aim to address many of the adverse outcomes associated with child poverty; including strengthening families and communities and raising the aspiration and achievement of children and young people.
Since 2018 Cornwall Council has a run a programme called filling the holiday gap, which provided small grants to community groups and volunteer organisations to provide activities and food for vulnerable young people. During the pandemic the scheme was used to provide vouchers to those that missed the deadline for the government vouchers.
Councillor Hawken continued: “There was an all-party parliamentary report in 2017 that looked at the impact of the summer holidays, where children couldn’t access school meal provision. It found
found that children were returning to school in a worse educational, health and developmental state than that in which they had left in the summer.
“With that in mind, we were concerned about the impact of the pandemic on those families already struggling here in Cornwall.”
The COVID Winter Grant Scheme, which is worth £1.8 million, has been given to the council to support households across Cornwall. The application process and funding criteria will be announced in the coming days.
For more information on the scheme or to register for free school meals please visit our website.
New support services for young people in Cornwall
Support services for young people in Cornwall are changing, with an exciting new partnership between Cornwall Council and Action for Children.
The leading UK charity, Action for Children, already provides services in Cornwall, including those for young carers, young adult carers and children with learning disabilities.
Action for Children has won the ‘Support Services for Young People Contract’ to provide support for young people aged 11-19 and up to 25 with SEND across the Duchy.
The new service has been developed from what children and young people have told us, taking into account the views of parents/carers and through dialogue with representatives of young people’s organisations. This service will help young people by:
Providing young people with the skills needed to learn about themselves and their strengths and assets, alongside learning about others and society.
Engaging young people in positive activities and networks.
Helping young people to understand their rights and develop their own voice, influence and place in society.
Providing opportunities for young people to acquire and develop practical and technical skills
The service will also support the development of the Youth Parliament in Cornwall.
Cabinet member for children, wellbeing and public health, Sally Hawken, said: “We are passionate about providing young people with the best start in life and I am pleased we are able to expand our partnership working with Action for Children.
“Young people need to have a say in how services are shaped and delivered; this is something that we have a shared passion for, and I look forward to working with the charity to develop and shape services over the coming months.”
Action for Children is partnering with The Dreadnought Centre, Silver Cloud and Exeter University to deliver the services for young people.
Operational director for children’s services at Action for Children in the South West, Rob Wyatt, said: “We’re delighted to be delivering the new service on behalf of Cornwall Council after many years working closely together to deliver vital services to children and young people across the county.
As we continue to work through this pandemic, we remain committed to the delivery of our high-quality support to families who need our help now more than ever.”
New outreach service offers combined mental health support and practical advice to most vulnerable communities
A new project has been launched in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to provide both mental health support and practical advice on money, jobs and housing to the most vulnerable people in our communities.
Funded by Cornwall Council, it will see experts from Citizens Advice Cornwall and the Pentreath mental health charity join forces to provide an outreach service.
Named Mhend (Mental Health Employment Needs and Debt advice), it will initially run as a 12-month pilot set up to respond to people’s immediate needs.
The project is designed to reach those residents who are likely to have been most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
These include people on low incomes accessing high risk loans, private renters, BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) families, farming and fishing communities, and those with health conditions and disabilities.
Local surveys show that job insecurity and other concerns related to the pandemic have led to a probable two-fold increased risk of suffering from anxiety and depression (Source: Healthwatch 2020).
It is also thought that many people suffering with mental health issues - often for the first time in their lives - are not accessing the help and support they need.
The Mhend programme will see three teams of two advisors spread across Cornwall with support offered in several ways from face-to-face (when restrictions allow) or telephone consultations to video calls and web chats.
Dr Richard Sharpe, public health advanced practitioner at Cornwall Council specialising in mental health, said: “The pandemic has had a huge impact on people’s mental health as they are understandably worried about their finances, the health of their family and friends and job stability. As with many things, this has taken a particularly severe toll on those who are already struggling or vulnerable.
“The Mhend project aims to provide a single point of contact for anyone who finds themselves struggling with their mental health and who also needs good, clear advice about what their options are and the support that is available to them. The experts at Citizens Advice and Pentreath are in the perfect position to do that.
“As an example, individuals may be offered a plan for their debt management as well as supporting their mental health with wellbeing activities and signposting to services that can help them move forward in their recovery.”
The 2020 Cornwall Council survey shows that a significant proportion of participants had experienced problems with their employment (including furlough, reduced hours and business closures) and changes to care and support services, and highlighted particularly vulnerable groups.
For example, 10 per cent of BAME residents said they had been made redundant, exacerbating heightened anxieties associated with being at greater risk of catching Covid-19.
The recent Cornwall Council Insights report highlighted a doubling in the number of people on Universal Credit, from 23,000 in January 2020 to 49,000 people in October 2020.
Cllr Sally Hawken, Cornwall Council’s Portfolio Holder for Children, Wellbeing and Public Health, said: “There is evidence that the pandemic is having a significant impact on people’s mental wellbeing. This will have both a short and long-lasting effect on mental health.
“Having employment, as well as somewhere warm and safe to live, are some of the key pillars to protecting and maintaining good mental health. The Mhend project is a great way of combining mental health support with advice on the very issues that are likely to cause people to struggle with their mental wellbeing.”
Gill Pipkin, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice Cornwall, said: "It's really important that everyone has access to good quality advice and information to help them overcome their challenges in life. We are delighted to be working in partnership with Pentreath on this project, which will help the most vulnerable members of the community at this most difficult time."
People can be referred to Mhend, or can also refer themselves by contacting Pentreath on 01726 862727 or by completing the referral form available on the Pentreath website.
More information on mental health support is available on our Coronavirus and Mental Health webpages.
To talk to someone about your mental wellbeing you can call the 24/7 NHS mental health telephone support, advice and triage help line - 0800 038 5300.
Silvercloud is a free online CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) programme for anyone aged over 16 years if age. It allows you to complete therapy in your own time and using programme tailored to your specific needs.
‘Prevention is better than cure’ says Council as latest statistics reveal more than 22,500 potholes repaired in 2020
Cornwall Council has called for better funding for Cornwall’s roads in order to put an end to the blight of potholes, after the latest figures show that highways crews repaired around 62 a day in 2020.
Council investment will see an extra £20m spent on our roads by the end of this year – so far this funding has seen more than 500 roads resurfaced, improving safety and preventing an estimated 2,400 potholes from forming in the first place.
With National Pothole Day (January 15 2021) putting the focus on the quality and safety of the country’s highway network, Cornwall Council hopes it will also highlight the need for better funding at national level. There is currently a £270m backlog in road maintenance and repairs on Cornwall’s 7,300km highway network.
'More investment needed to prevent potholes in the first place'
Councillor Geoff Brown, Cornwall Council cabinet portfolio holder for transport, said: “We all rely on our highway network and road maintenance is a topic that regularly features in our residents’ surveys.
“Making the best use of our resources and targeting funding to where it is most needed has meant Cornwall’s main A and B roads continue to rank among the top 25% in the country.
“But more investment is needed – particularly on minor roads in towns and on our rural network – to carry out work to prevent potholes forming in the first place.”
Crews repair 249 potholes between Christmas and New Year
Heavy rainfall at the end of 2020 saw crews deal with more than 300 reports of potholes and flooding across Cornwall during the 11 days between Christmas Eve and January 3.
Teams from Cormac responded swiftly to reports of damaged roads, repairing 249 potholes and damaged road surfaces, as well as clearing debris from gullies and drains to alleviate flooding which affected many main routes connecting communities.
Report a highway defect and track the progress of the action we’re taking
Penzance to receive £10.4 million to help revitalise the town
Cornwall Council News feed - Thu, 01/14/2021 - 14:12
Penzance is to benefit from a £10.4 million investment following a successful Cornwall Council bid to the Government’s Future High Street Fund.
The Council led bid, supported by local stakeholders, was successful due to the innovative mix of regeneration opportunities brought forward to tackle the challenges that face the town and its high street, even before the effects of the coronavirus lockdowns.
The funding will help deliver plans to bring a wide range of transformational improvements to the town’s high street to benefit residents and businesses, including housing, workspace and the regeneration of vacant high-street properties.
Plans will build on other investment including the Council’s commitment to build a new Creative Industries Hub in the heart of the town.
Cornwall Council cabinet member for economy Tim Dwelly said: “We will continue to work together to make the most of this investment into Penzance to benefit residents and businesses. This successful bid is the result of hard work and support from partners and stakeholders, the Penzance Place Shaping Board and Regeneration Group, businesses and community organisations.”
“Penzance has a lot to offer residents and visitors but as with many towns, COVID has accelerated long term trends, such as online shopping, and this has contributed to a decline in the vitality of the high street.”
“This funding gives us the opportunity for the community, businesses and organisations to come together to deliver on projects that will pave the way for a brighter future where business and community meet, jobs are created, and businesses grow.”
Councillor Jim McKenna, Chair of the Penzance Future High Streets Panel, welcomed the news saying:
“Subject to final confirmation, this funding is great news for Penzance and a reflection of the determination and commitment given by many people in our town to make it happen. Particular thanks to the Cornwall Council officers who have worked so hard on the application process, together with the BID and Chamber of Commerce and others. The fact that Penzance is the only town in Cornwall to receive Town Deal funding is evidence not only of the need we have to reinvigorate our high street 'post-Covid' but also the fact that our collective, collaborative approach has paid off.”
Cornelius Olivier, Cornwall Councillor for Penzance Central said: “I am very pleased that our successful bid will be helping to meet housing need in the town. I also strongly support the objective of diversifying the local economy in order to make us less reliant on seasonal visitors.”
Tim added: “We will continue to work with all towns in Cornwall to explore other opportunities that will help them deliver their vision”.
The Council will now work with partners, stakeholders and businesses in Penzance to accelerate projects supported by this funding.
Future of parks and tennis courts safeguarded for generations to come
The future of four parks and a set of tennis courts is secured after the sites were devolved to the local town council.
Cornwall Council has transferred ownership of Cambridge Field, Chestnut Close play area, Borough Farm play area, Thanckes Park play area and the tennis courts in Thanckes Park to Torpoint Town Council. The move ensures that decisions regarding the future of these assets are led by the local community.
The town council will invest in upgrading these facilities as a local priority and is well placed to undertake the custodianship of the sites for residents.
Councillor Mrs Chris Goodman,Mayor of Torpoint, said: “For several years it has been an aspiration of the town council, on behalf of the community, to devolve the maintenance and upkeep of the four play parks and tennis courts from Cornwall Council, enabling the council to make improvements at all the locations.
“It is expected that the aspirations for the parks and tennis courts will suit the residents’ needs for future generations. The town council is looking forward to working with established groups and other community members who may wish to be involved in developing the parks and tennis courts.”
Councillor Gary Davis, Cornwall Councillor for Torpoint East who also sits on the town council, said: “I am absolutely delighted that the transition has taken place. It has taken a lot of planning and it is good that both councils continue to work closely together to improve the outlook of the town.
“We have ambitious plans to manage and maintain the parks to a high standard as expected by our community, making them more appealing to a wider age range for them to be great spaces where our families can meet and play. Securing a Cornwall Council devolution capital grant as part of the transfer will allow improvements to commence immediately as we look forward to using them through the coming season.”
Like all local authorities throughout the UK, Cornwall Council has had some tough decisions to make when faced with cuts in funding from central Government.
Rather than close parks and public spaces, the Council has worked with town and parish councils and community groups throughout Cornwall to transfer ownership of much-loved facilities to local communities.
Councillor Adam Paynter, deputy leader at Cornwall Council, said: “We are delighted that Torpoint Town Council has agreed to take over these popular parks and sports facilities.
“Cornwall Council is committed to giving local communities more say over their local services. In other towns where facilities have already been transferred the local services are not only protected but have also been updated and improved.
“The transition of the parks and tennis courts to Torpoint Town Council will enable local residents to have more say over how these parks and tennis courts are managed and will help protect these much-loved community assets for generations to come.”
Shielding support for clinically extremely vulnerable residents
Cornwall Council News feed - Wed, 01/13/2021 - 11:53
Cornwall Council, NHS Kernow and Volunteer Cornwall are reminding clinically extremely vulnerable residents that support is available with food shopping, medical prescriptions and mental health throughout the current lockdown.
The government is writing to everyone who has a health condition which makes them clinically extremely vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19 and who may have been shielding previously to stay at home as much as possible during this period of restrictions across England, except to go outdoors to exercise or to attend health appointments.
They have been asked to work from home if possible and if they cannot work from home, they should not attend work. They may be eligible for Statutory Sick Pay, Employment and Support Allowance, Universal Credit or the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme during the lockdown.
Those in the clinically extremely vulnerable group are also asked to avoid all non-essential travel – they should continue to travel to hospital and GP appointments unless told otherwise by their doctor. They are strongly advised not to go to any shops or to pharmacies.
Cornwall Council is working with partners in the health and voluntary sector to continue to support clinically extremely vulnerable residents in accessing food, essential supplies and wellbeing advice during this lockdown.
Those in this group are eligible for free medicines delivery from community pharmacies during this period if friends and family are not able to collect prescriptions or medicines on their behalf. Prescriptions should continue to be ordered from the GP as normal, either electronically or via telephone.
Supermarkets are continuing to provide priority delivery slots to vulnerable individuals and if residents need help getting online, for example to register for an online supermarket account, they can ring Cornwall Council’s support line for those who are clinically extremely vulnerable on 0300 1233334 or contact Volunteer Cornwall.
Volunteer Cornwall can also help collect and deliver food shopping and medical prescriptions, as well as provide befriending support and volunteers who can help with other low level needs.
Emergency food support is available at foodbanks throughout Cornwall. An interactive Help with Food map has been created in partnership with community organisations and is online at Let’s Talk Cornwall https://letstalk.cornwall.gov.uk/help-with-food.
Health services remain available and residents with a complex need or medical question should contact their GP or health consultant.
Anyone who may be worried about their own or someone else's mental health can contact 0800 038 5300 for help and support.
Rob Rotchell, Cornwall’s cabinet member for adults, said: “Together with NHS Kernow and Volunteer Cornwall we are continuing to support our vulnerable adults who have had their lives affected so seriously by the pandemic.
“Please do get in touch with us if you need help with food, prescriptions or if you are feeling anxious and needing mental health support, and we will endeavour to help.”
Dr Iain Chorlton, GP and chairman of NHS Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “It is really important that anyone who is shielding because they are clinically vulnerable makes full use of the support available.
“We all want to get back to a sense of normality and keep our loved ones, friends and patients protected in our ongoing efforts to overcome the pandemic which is why it is so important that everyone follows the Government guidance to keep us all safe and those who are clinically extremely vulnerable receive the support that they need.”
Emma Rowse, Chair of Volunteer Cornwall, said: “Once again, the Cornish community has shown great generosity of spirit and stands ready to support one another during this new lockdown. We have lots of volunteers and community groups on standby to help anyone who needs it, please reach out if you are struggling.”
The clinically extremely vulnerable group includes those with reduced immune systems, for example due to organ transplants, or those with specific cancers or severe respiratory conditions, such as cystic fibrosis. The group list is updated regularly as patients’ conditions or the scientific evidence changes, so the majority will have received a letter previously from the NHS or their GP advising them of their inclusion.
Here is the updated guidance for those who are clinically extremely vulnerable to COVID-19.
For more information or advice contact Cornwall Council on covid19@cornwall.gov.uk or ring 0300 1234 334.
You can also contact Volunteer Cornwall on 01872 266988 or email requestforhelp@volunteercornwall.org.uk
Story posted on January 13, 2020
Number of children in Cornish schools is higher than the previous lockdown
Cornwall Council News feed - Tue, 01/12/2021 - 16:47
Public health leaders in Cornwall are urging parents to think carefully about whether they need to send their children in to school.
Figures from the department for education show that almost four times the number of children are currently in school compared to the first lockdown in March last year.
A Department for Education (DfE) survey showed that a total of 8,457 pupils attended schools in Cornwall yesterday (January 11th) - equivalent to around 13.4% of pupils from surveyed schools. In comparison the average total attendance in April was 1,200, or about 1.6%.
Cabinet Member for Children and Public Health, Sally Hawken, said: “I am extremely proud of our schools and how they have responded to the pandemic, juggling home learning and their in-school provision.
“The whole purpose of a lockdown is to slow down community spread of the virus, which is difficult to do when you have large numbers of children still attending schools.
“If your circumstances allow it, I ask that anyone deemed a critical worker negotiate what works for you with the school so that your children aren't in every day.
“And if your children have difficulties learning from home, talk to your school so they can help resolve those issues.”
Guidance issued at the start of this national lockdown increased the number of people who qualified as ‘critical workers’, which has meant a growth in demand for places.
Councillor Hawken added: “Having children in school is good from a safeguarding point of view but given how much pressure they’re already under we can’t ask too much of them.
“I know home learning is not easy and I sympathise with every parent, but we are also working with schools to be realistic in their expectations of the level and kind of work.
“The number of confirmed cases of COVID is increasing in Cornwall and we all need to work together to slow that spread.”
Cornwall Council seeks reassurance over free school meal provision
Cornwall Council has contacted the companies that are providing food boxes for children who are eligible for free school meals, to seek urgent reassurance about the quality and value of the food after pictures were shared online of ‘meagre food parcels’ being given to families.
We have also asked schools to let us know if they have any concerns about the quality of provision from their caterers so that if necessary, we can follow up.
Cabinet Member for Children and Public Health, Sally Hawken said: “The government guidance is promoting the use of food parcels, but these must be of a good standard if they are going to support our families effectively.”
The guidance from the Department for Education states:
Schools need to provide meal options for all children in school, which must be free for UIFSM and benefits-related FSM pupils, and must also provide meals for benefits-related FSM pupils who are not in school.
For pupils not in school, there is an expectation that the preferred option should be food parcels and that other options such as vouchers should only be considered where food parcels cannot be provided.
Where food parcels are being provided, we encourage schools to monitor the content of boxes with consideration to the guidance above.
Schools should consider the particular circumstances of their school and their families in deciding what approach to take in providing for meals for children not in school. For example, the benefits of providing a balanced and nutritious food parcel and potential opportunities for welfare contact may need to be weighed against the practicalities for parents of collecting food parcels, including associated fuel costs / journeys of collecting food parcels.
The DfE will again be opening up a national voucher scheme through an online portal as soon as possible.
To help schools cover the cost of food parcels additional funding will be made available; up to £3.50 per eligible pupil, per week, where food parcels are being provided and up to £15 per eligible pupil, per week, where vouchers for local shops or supermarkets are being provided.
Councillor Hawken added: “I have been contacted by worried parents, including one mum who shared with me an image of a food parcel she had received. It is not acceptable for less well off families to be short changed in this way.
“I understand that these food parcels were delivered at short notice after the decision to close schools, but we also need to ensure what is being provided is nutritious, balanced and good value for money.
“I welcome the government’s pledge to look into this matter.”
Soaring Covid-19 cases in Newquay are now comparable to areas of London
People in Newquay are being asked to take extra care as figures reveal Covid-19 case numbers in the area are comparable with some areas of London.
The latest statistics are available on the government’s interactive map here.
On Monday (January 11) they showed the seven-day rate in Newquay West to be 878 cases per 100,000 people whereas last week the number tipped over 1,000. Many London boroughs are experiencing similar rates.
Case numbers have also been particularly high in Truro, Penzance, Bodmin, Falmouth and Saltash in recent weeks.
Cllr Sally Hawken, Cornwall Council’s Portfolio Holder for Children, Wellbeing and Public Health, said: “Cases in Newquay have sky-rocketed recently with the virus spreading like wildfire between households in the town.
"It cannot be understated how serious this situation is and everyone needs to do everything they can to stop more people being infected and our health services becoming overwhelmed.
“It is vital to remember the basic guidance – wash your hands regularly, use a face covering when physical distancing is not possible and try to keep your distance from those not in your household.
“Following these simple steps could make a significant difference in reducing the transmission of Covid-19 and help protect you and your friends, colleagues and family from the virus.”
Rachel Wigglesworth, Director of Public Health for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, said: “The number of cases in Newquay in particular is of huge concern and we are urging people to follow the rules and be mindful of how easily the virus can be spread.
“If you have any of the main Covid-19 symptoms – a new continuous cough, a high temperature, or a loss of taste or smell, you must self-isolate and your household must continue to self-isolate while waiting for a test. You also must continue to isolate until you get your test results.
“Anyone who tests positive must self-isolate, along with all members of their household, whether they have symptoms or not.”
For more information on the rules and guidance visit our dedicated web pages.
If anyone has any concerns about whether a business is complying with regulations they should email businesscompliance@cornwall.gov.uk
‘Follow the rules or there could be tragic consequences’ - Newquay carer’s no-nonsense message after contracting Covid-19
A carer from Newquay who contracted Covid-19 is urging people to follow the rules to stop the virus spiralling out of control in Cornwall.
Mum-of-two Francesca Barnecutt, 27, said the actions of those who ignore the guidance could have a devastating impact on vulnerable or elderly people.
Her warning comes as coronavirus numbers continue to soar across Cornwall, with the rate rocketing from around 18 per 100,000 at the start of December to around 340 per 100,000 this week.
Francesca said she wanted to share her experience of Covid-19 to help people understand the impact it can have on people of all ages.
“If you want a clear conscience then stick to the rules,” she said. “If you don’t, you’ll end up spreading it to loved ones and strangers and that could have tragic consequences. Personally, I couldn’t live with that.”
Francesca has been working as a home carer for just over three months and describes it as the most rewarding job she has ever had.
She is unsure how she contracted the virus but with numbers in Newquay higher than most areas of Cornwall she could have picked it up anywhere.
She had a test at the Regional Testing Site in Truro on December 28 after developing mild symptoms and calling the national testing service on 119.
“Going to get my test I felt quite intimidated and frightened,” said Francesca, who has two daughters - Amelia, aged four, and Luna, aged 10 months - with husband Terry. “Seeing all the cars lined up was like an apocalyptic movie or something.
“The staff there were very friendly and clear though and made it really easy. They were really informative and cheerful too.”
The next morning at around 10.30am she was notified of her positive result.
“The moment I found out I put my shoes on and went out to our caravan and stayed there for 10 days,” she said. “The caravan was a godsend really. I had a bed, sofa, TV, toilet, shower, and everything I needed.
“When I first came in, I was struggling and felt very alone. I didn’t know what to do with myself. But then I just decided to make the most of it. Terry could still bring the kids to the window so I could speak to them and have a laugh. I also had time to speak to friends and family on video calls, which was lovely.”
She added: “Amelia has been amazing. She knows all about social distancing and self-isolation and she would come out to see me and say through the window ‘have you still got the germ mummy?’ She was counting down the days until I could come out and give her a big hug.”
Francesca said her experience of the virus wasn’t as bad as some, but the aches, exhaustion, cough and loss of taste and smell had all taken their toll.
The impact of diagnosis and self-isolation on people’s mental health should also never be underestimated, she said.
“I suffer with anxiety so when I first found out it was panic stations,” she said. “I was sure I was going to die or pass it on to my husband. It was a worrying time. Thankfully he had a test which was negative, so I felt a lot better after that.
“This has all put a lot of pressure on him though as he’s had to look after the kids himself, which has been really tough.”
Francesca was contacted by the NHS Test and Trace service but fortunately had not been out much so there were very few contacts for them to chase up.
“That’s why it’s so important not to flout the rules,” she said. “I’m young and relatively fit and healthy, but I could easily have passed it on to an 85-year-old who could have ended up on a ventilator.
“I was also incredibly careful which just goes to show how easily Covid can catch you out. Overall, my message is simple: stick to the rules, play your part in this and don’t be selfish! If you won’t do it for yourself then do it for your family and children.”
Cllr Sally Hawken, Cornwall Council’s Portfolio Holder for Children, Wellbeing and Public Health, said: “I’d like to thank Francesca for sharing her story and her message, which is hugely important as our case number continue to rise at an alarming rate.
“The virus has been spreading from home to home far too easily and we need to stop it in its tracks. Throughout lockdown the rules are simple: stay at home and only go out if it is essential.
“Having a caravan made it much easier for Francesca to self-isolate but everyone must do the following if they develop Covid symptoms or test positive.”
Measures that households should adopt if someone has to self-isolate include:
Try to stay at least two metres (three steps) away from the other people in your home.
Wash your hands as often as possible with soap and water and encourage the rest of your family/ household to do the same.
Encourage everyone to avoid touching their face as much as possible.
Clean or disinfect all surfaces, door handles, phones, keyboards etc as often as you can.
If you have several bathrooms, choose one for the person with symptoms to use, and don’t let the rest of the family/ household use it. Bathrooms should always be well-cleaned after each use.
Avoid sharing objects with other people in the household, particularly crockery, cutlery, glasses, cups, towels and bedding.
Keep your spirits up! Chat to friends on the phone or online, read books, play musical instruments, watch movies, play video games, work out and/or have a relaxing bath.
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The Candy Report Awards: ASU
For the first time this season, I am deciding these awards with just too many people to choose from. Two 100-yard rushers each with 60+ yard runs, two interceptions, one for a touchdown, a 100-yard receiver with a key 63-yard reception, a warrior of a cornerback who took on and shut down one of the best receivers in the nation, a defensive lineman who dominated the opposing team all night long, and is so physical that even just an average block by him sounds like targeting.
The coaches did a great job, plays got in quickly and, probably most importantly, they looked prepared. The team as a whole looked more prepared than they have in forever. They came out ready from the get go, especially on defense.
So who do I give the awards to? I kind of want to give them to everyone, but I am going to choose just three people.
1. The Halloween Spice Drop Award of Being Awesome
There are players who are warriors such as Dylan Wynn, who give everything they have every week. There are players that do more with the skill they have who Mike Hass, who are not denied no matter how good their opponents are. Some players are all of those things, and Terron Ward is one of those players. Finding out that his career at OSU may be over, I wanted to highlight a player who has always given all he had, been key to many great Beaver wins, and who came to OSU with no fanfare or recruiting service accolades — and yet, will leave one of our great backs of all time.
While he came to the Beavers during a time when the pass was king, Ward’s ability to block, catch the ball, and make the first guy miss made him invaluable. The speed and quickness that he hits the hole with led to some huge runs like the ASU game in 2012 or this last contest against those same Sun Devils. Terron has been a great member of Beaver Nation, never complaining about splitting time with Storm Woods, never complaining about a loss or a game that he felt he could have played a larger role in. He is a great ambassador for the program and a huge part of the last three seasons. I am sad his time at OSU came to an end too soon. He would have been a huge piece this weekend, as OSU has to find an answer to Washington’s great front seven. But for one week at least, he helped those around him have their best weekend of the season. For that, these spice drops are for you Terron.
2. The Jujifruit Award of Getting Better All The Time
There has been a lot of talk among Beaver Nation concerning the offensive line. While I have my thoughts on them, I think some of the grief they get is not entirely their fault. That being said, this last week, the line played the best they have played all year. It was the first time since conference play started that OSU started the same line two games in a row. As Gavin Andrews got more familiar with playing guard, and as ASU brought everything, the offense was able to churn along and blitzes were picked up well. Josh Mitchell did an amazing job working at center as the interior part of the line created holes all game. When I think of the offensive line’s performance Saturday, i think of this photo I saw on Building The Dam (full article is here and is well worth reading). You see Andrews turning to go after someone else after knocking his defender to the ground. You see Mitchell attempting to block any defenders that flow back inside, and you have a hole that you could drive a truck through that Woods is running out of.
When we talk about what we want from a line, that was it — players who dominate their guy and then look for someone else, guys who keep working down the field to make sure that the play goes for as many yards as they can, and players who are physically able to execute what is asked of them. It has not always been that way this season. There have been other photos or film moments of guys standing around, confused in the face of twist stunts, or just chasing guys that they missed the block on.
So for me, a huge step was taken last week. ASU doesn’t have a great run defense, but it has a solid total defense that was ranked fifth in the conference, and Oregon State shredded them. So thank you offensive line, for not giving up and always getting better. Players like Dustin Stanton, Andrews, Mitchell, Fred Lauina, and Sean Harlow give us a lot of hope for the future. It was just one game, and the front seven they face this week is going to be a tougher test, but with a lineup that appears to be set, and players beginning to get healthier, there is a chance that we will see another solid effort by this group.
And that can only mean good things for the Beavers.
3. The Good N Plenty Award of Crapiness.
To me, this was the easiest award to give. College Football has often lived by water cooler arguments and heated fan altercations. As part of the Civil War, a game so hostile that we use the same name as the worst war in American history to describe it, we all understand this. We understand that the point of the BCS was to anger people into a little extra passion every year. We know that the reason they don’t shrink the season to nine games and go to a playoff is because College Football is forever more popular when there is no clear winner and tons of speculations.
So it should come as no shock that with the new and-1 method of deciding the National Championship, that the people in charge of this faux playoff would find a way to make it infuriatingly controversial. Rather than just going with the BCS computer rankings or the AP Poll, the decide they need another BCS type system where such giants of College Football such Condoleezza Rice select who should play in the “playoffs.” So they get together every week and decide, publicly of course, who the top four teams are.
And it has absolutely no bearing on the final result. Many of the people I work with think it provides momentum, but it is false momentum that shouldn’t even be a factor because, as we saw this last week, until the last game is played, no one is safe. Momentum will do the ducks no good if they lose the Civil War. All it will mean is that for weeks they were part of a discussion they didn’t belong in, because it was a discussion that was too early. It is like deciding four name choices for a child before you know what sex it is. Guess wrong and you may have to scrap four names that should never have been in contention.
All this total farce of a process does is become another money grab by the people who get the richest off college athletics, the networks. It gives ESPN more money, which they truly need, and allows them to occupy Monday through Wednesday with infuriated fans who feel their team of choice was jilted unfairly from being in the process. One-loss Alabama jumped unbeaten Florida State because they looked good that weekend and the thought of Alabama not being in the top spot feels wrong. But what if Alabama loses in the SEC Championship game? Then that two-loss team will pack its bags and go to the Sugar Bowl or whatever. But they will not be in the championship, so all that their inclusion in the conversation did was piss off FSU fans.
So way to go College Football. While the NFL is the reigning champion of a-holes in sports, you are doing your best to try and keep up with your rich, dysfunctional pro cousin. When this season is over and you have 10 one-loss teams to choose from, there will be plenty of anger to last all the way to next August. But right now all it does is make my life a little more unbearable in Eugene as I have to listen to different National Championship scenarios ad nauseum. Just wait until the end, because unlike the BCS bowl game, there is no rhyme or reason to how these guys votes. There are no point totals to climb and reach, and there are no predictable scenarios. Just a bunch of people that have opinions throwing them out there.
Why don’t they just start a blog or something?
This entry was posted in The Candy Report on November 20, 2014 by Peter Riley Osborne.
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This blog covers software patent news and issues with a particular focus on wireless, mobile devices (smartphones, tablet computers, connected cars) as well as select antitrust matters surrounding those devices.
Judge is seriously contemplating a partial or complete stay of Oracle's lawsuit against Google
I just discovered the latest order by Judge Alsup, the federal judge presiding over Oracle's lawsuit against Google. It's a short order, but its content is staggering: he appears to be giving at least serious consideration to a partial or even complete stay of the case pending the ongoing reexamination of Oracle's patents by the US Patent & Trademark Office.
Such a stay could be ordered before the end of the month. Depending on its scope, even a partial stay could seriously weaken Oracle's case, and depending on the extent to which the case might be stayed, it's possible that even Oracle would at some point prefer a complete stay and employ alternative litigation strategies, such as ITC complaints against Android device makers refusing to pay the $15-$20 per-unit royalty Oracle purportedly demands.
The wording used by the judge even suggests that the question is not if there will be at least a partial stay, but just the scope that it will have. It could also be a complete one.
This is the text of today's order:
At least one day before the hearing, please file a five-page joint summary of the status of the PTO re-examination and update the parties' respective views on the extent to which this action should be stayed pending completion of the re-examination. Time will be short at the hearing due to the ongoing criminal trial.
By "the hearing" he means the upcoming hearing on Google's Daubert motion (related to damages). That hearing will take place on July 21 (Thursday of next week). So the requested update is due July 20 (Wednesday of next week).
It's likely that Oracle and Google will be able to agree on a common text describing the hard facts, but they'll for sure be fundamentally at odds over the question of a possible partial or complete stay. Google always advocated a stay (though it politely deferred to the judge in the most recent filing addressing this question, in May). Oracle wants the case to go to trial this year. The trial is tentatively scheduled to begin on October 31, 2011, with a jury verdict to be handed down three weeks later.
All seven patents-in-suit are being reexamined by the US Patent & Trademark Office. First Office actions -- initial positions taken by the examiner -- have been issued with respect to five of those seven patents. Such first Office actions are always just preliminary, and Oracle has already filed a response in one of those reexamination proceedings, fighting hard to keep the relevant patent alive despite a preliminary rejection of all of the asserted claims.
Based on the preliminary status of those reexaminations, Oracle has (though not definitively) lost three patents. All of the claims of those patents that Oracle wanted to assert have been rejected on a preliminary basis. A fourth patent has been seriously weakened based on the preliminary rejection of many (and especially some very important) claims. A fifth patent has also suffered but came out relatively strong. For the two remaining patents, no first Office actions have been issued yet. At least one of those first Office actions may be filed in the very near term.
The big question: the extent of a partial stay
While the judge asks the parties for input, he's certainly aware of the status of those reexaminations. Back in May it seemed that he was planning to evaluate a possible stay only at a later point in time: shortly before the scheduled trial. But now he doesn't even ask the parties whether there should be a stay. He just wants to hear their opinion on the extent to which the case should be stayed.
Last month, reexamination expert and patent litigator Scott Daniels wrote the following on his Reexamination Alert blog about this case:
The cumulative effect of these reexamination rejections of Oracle’s patent claims may lead Judge Alsup to believe that the reexaminations will have a major impact on the claims for the October trial. If so, Judge Alsup would be encouraged to stay Oracle's infringement litigation pending completion of the reexamination proceedings.
It seems that Scott Daniels was right. The judge has been concerned about the court's scarce resources all along. Today's order again points out the shortage of judicial resources, making reference to a lack of time at the July 21 hearing due to a major criminal trial going on in parallel.
It looks like the judge now believes that the current status of three or four of those reexaminations warrants a partial stay concerning those patents. Theoretically, the case could still continue with the remaining three or four patents, and with Oracle's copyright infringement allegations. In the meantime between now and the tentatively scheduled trial, the outcome of the two reexaminations concerning which the USPTO has yet to take an initial position could further widen the extent of the stay. But if those other two reexaminations go reasonably well for Oracle, it's possible that Oracle would feel pretty good about taking its three or four strongest patents to trial later this year.
Maybe the judge believes that a curtailed case is more likely to be settled before trial. However, I don't think Oracle will let Google off the hook anytime soon unless Google agrees to Oracle's proposed terms. I believe that in the event it's necessary, Oracle will probably take more time and modify its litigation strategy. It's not in Oracle's DNA to give up, and Oracle wants billions of dollars out of this case.
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Florian Mueller is an app developer who used to be an award-winning intellectual property activist. His 30 years of software industry expertise span different market segments (games, education, productivity and infrastructure software), diverse business models, and technical and commercial areas of responsibility. In recent years, Florian advised a diversity of clients on the patent wars surrounding mobile devices, and on their economic and technical implications. (In order to avoid conflicts of interest, Florian does not hold or initiate transactions in any technology stocks or derivatives thereof.) He is now developing games for smartphones and tablet computers.
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Category: Waldorf Maryland 2011
In a "Long Run" show like the Ford Motor Company attraction at the New York World's Fair, sometimes the action in the wings is as exciting as the show itself.
Take the day, for example, when one of the 146 convertibles carrying Ford visitors on the Magic Skyway ride developed a slow leak in a tire. With no provision for "pit stops," Ford maintenance crews came up with a novel solution. Each time the car with the leaky tire entered the service area between debarkation and embarkation points, crewmen used a portable air pump to inflate the tire. Thirty-five times they serviced the car on the move -from mid-afternoon until closing time shortly after ten p.m. and the show went on without interruption.
Ford engineers estimate the Magic Skyway convertibles, traveling a combined distance equal to 34 times around the world, absorbed the equivalent of 15 years' normal usage in six months last season. At the end their doors still closed with a solid click after 3,276,000 slams. Their seats still sprang back after more than 6,600,000 passengers. That's more people than the all-time record-holding Broadway musical, "My Fair Lady," played to in its entire run. When an overheated transformer finally forced the show to shut down one evening, a new transformer was flown from Chicago to Newark Airport, delivered to the pavilion by helicopter and installed before opening time the next day. On another occasion, while the show went on, crews worked just as determinedly to free the finger of a Ford host from a brass ring used to attach a safety chain to a wall. While giving directions to crowds of visitors, the host had slipped his finger inadvertently into the ring and . . . it stuck. Using chisel and hammer, brawny millwrights "operated" on the ringbound finger as delicately as might a surgeon, and soon the finger was free and the host was back at his post undaunted. Pinkerton watchmen who man safety stations all along the Magic Skyway ride grew fond of a sparrow that ventured into the pavilion and stayed for weeks. They contributed bread crumbs from their lunches and had the bird almost trained to eat out of their hands before it disappeared one day - apparently having found its way through a public exit. Even more mysterious was the appearance of two tiny goldfish in one of the pavilion's reflecting pools. Maintenance men discovered them late one night as they were draining and scrubbing the pool. They saved them from going down the drain and reinstalled them, with fish food, in a fountain area from which they later disappeared-perhaps into the pocket of the youthful prankster who had first brought them to the pavilion. Pools throughout the pavilion proved a popular target for pennypitchers. Night crews collected over $2,800 in pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters donated by Fair visitors. Ford saved the entire amount for a charitable contribution. Some of the prehistoric figures in scenes along the Magic Skyway lost their heads over the winter, as the complicated mechanisms that serve as brains controlling their movements were sent back to Walt Disney's WED Enterprises, Inc., at Glendale, California, for adjustments and minor repairs. All heads and all hands, however, are in place in time for the opening of the World's Fair on April 21.
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New Indian cricket team announced, Kohli captain and Yuvraj Singh makes come back
The BCCI on Friday announced the teams for T20 and One Day International. Virat Kohli was named a new captain for both versions of the game while Yuvraj Singh has made a come back in the team.
Indian cricket entered a new era as Virat Kohli was today officially anointed captain for all three formats as he took over leadership for the limited-overs series against England where veterans Yuvraj Singh and Ashish Nehra will make a comeback.
While Mahendra Singh Dhoni, after more than nine years at the helm, will play only as keeper-batsman, the national selection committee under MSK Prasad’s chairmanship named rookie Delhi keeper Rishabh Pant in the T20 squad giving an indication as to whom they consider Dhoni’s successor.
The selection committee meeting today had its share of drama and was delayed by three hours on technical grounds before a go ahead from the Lodha panel set the proceedings rolling.
Today’s meeting was convened by BCCI CEO Rahul Johri after joint Secretary Amitabh Chaudhary stood disqualified owing to the Supreme Court verdict, which sacked the entire BCCI top brass last week.
Among the notable omissions, Ajinkya Rahane has been dropped from the T20 team and Pant replaces him as a batsman who will also be Dhoni’s understudy in limited overs for the time being.
“We know what Mahi is all about, he is a captain by nature, a leader from the front,” Prasad showered accolades on the outgoing captain.
Yuvraj was in splendid form during the Ranji Trophy and scored 672 runs in five games at an average of 84 with a highest score of 260 against Baroda before he took a break due to his marriage.
“We should appreciate how Yuvraj has played. He did extremely well in domestic cricket, which has been appreciated,” Prasad told mediapersons about Yuvraj, who is making a comeback nine months after the World T20 last year.
The two teams saw veteran Nehra, who underwent surgery after sustaining an injury during IPL, make a comeback. His selection indicated the dearth of quality left-arm seamers in the horizon and no one can question Nehra’s craft with the white kookaburra.
Following are the teams for ODI and T20:
Team for 3 ODIs: Virat (C), MSD (wk), Rahul, Shikhar, Manish, Kedar, Yuvraj, Ajinkya, Pandya, Ashwin, Jadeja, Mishra, Bumrah, Bhuvi, Umesh
Team for 3 T20Is: Virat (Capt), MSD (wk), Mandeep, Rahul, Yuvraj, Raina, Rishabh, Pandya, Ashwin,Jadeja,Chahal,Manish, Bumrah, Bhuvi, Nehra
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ESI contributes to Nissan’s breakthrough in carbon fiber parts production for safer and lighter vehicles
ESI Group, global player in Virtual Prototyping software and services for industry, supports Nissan Motor Co in its production process that speeds up the development of car parts made from carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP). Light yet extremely strong, this material will be used to make safer and more fuel-efficient cars.
Safety, comfort and autonomy are key outcomes for consumers. To face this situation, automakers continuously innovate in different fields such as lightweight to help them achieve their expected results. For this purpose, the use of new materials can be key. Commonly used in other industries such as Aerospace and with promising capabilities, Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics (CFRP) were too time-consuming and too expensive to industrialize for the Automotive sector.
Hideyuki Sakamoto, EVP of Nissan Motor Co. explains:
“We have always considered CFRP as a material for future generations of cars. But when it comes to reality, CFRP can be used only for limited models and appears to be more challenging for mass market production. Indeed, costs are high, and complex designs are required to shape CFRP. The challenge was to industrialize its production process in order to reduce costs and development time.”
ESI Group has been supporting Nissan’s CFRP challenge since 2015 in the evolution of its industrial product design and manufacturing methodologies for various vehicle models. The partnership was strengthened in 2018 with the CFRP mass production project.
To overcome the difficulty in shaping CFRP parts, Nissan’s engineers, helped by ESI’s solution, found a new approach: the process of Compression Resin Transfer Molding (C-RTM). The existing method involves forming carbon fiber into the right shape and setting it in a die with a slight gap between the upper die and the carbon fibers. Resin is then injected into the fiber and left to harden.
Nissan’s engineers developed techniques to accurately simulate the permeability of the resin in carbon fiber, while visualizing resin flow behavior in a die using an in-die temperature sensor and a transparent die. The result of the successful simulation was a high-quality component with shorter development time. Using Virtual Prototype of the product, Nissan succeeded: a high-quality component with a development time reduced by 50% and reduced by 80% of single molding.
Cristel de Rouvray, CEO of ESI Group concludes:
“We are proud of the support we have brought Nissan over the years and throughout this project. We have helped them succeed in the full development process, from the design to the manufacturing of mass-produced CFRP parts, thus enabling their breakthrough for lighter and safer vehicles. Nissan’s success embodies our mission to enable industrial players to commit to outcomes. With our Smart Manufacturing solution and our historical expertise in materials, we helped them reach their ambitions”
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Castlevania: The 10 Scariest Monsters Of The Franchise, Rank
Castlevania is one of the oldest and most recognized horror adventure franchises in video game history, and it's gone on to spawn multiple sequels and an animated Netflix series. The game draws heavily on Christian folklore and Greek mythology as a basis for the monsters it has created throughout the years.
While the hordes of Hell are all dangerous tools wielded by Count Dracula, some are far more horrific and scary than others. Here's a list of 10 that can give anyone heart palpitations and night terrors!
advertising Medusa (Castlevania: Lament of Innocence)
Medusa Heads were a continuous nuisance in many Castlevania titles leading up to the PlayStation 2 release of Lament of Innocence. Here, the game's 3D format switched things up quite a lot, including Medusa, herself.
Now a Boss, Medusa's disembodied head was a pure nightmare to behold, complete with piercing stone-gaze eyes, fangs, and animated snakes. The creature would also interact with the player as well, fleshing out an otherwise standard villain that had suddenly grown to immense proportions.
Evil Butcher (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow)
The Evil Butcher might have taken its visual cues from the classic 1985 Ridley Scott film Legend. It's a hulking, troll-like mass of pure malevolence that serves as a cook in Bernhard Castle.
While dumb as a rock, the Butcher is incredibly powerful, attacking with a large cleaver as its main weapon. It also throws various kitchen items at the player. Visually, it's a frightening monster to behold.
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No other boss in Symphony of the Night is as memorable or horrific as Legion. This parasitic life form hides inside a cocoon of mangled corpses that have been fused together in a round shell.
Striking the outer shell causes the screaming corpses to fall to the ground, revealing more of the creature within. Once threatened, it will fire energy beams at the player in an attempt to kill them. It's the living embodiment of a nightmare.
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While the true Cerberus is a three-headed hound, the Bloodlines variant takes only the name, while retaining a traditional single-headed design. Nevertheless, this grotesque canine is no less frightening.
Its snarling head is attached to a mangled body with rotted hindquarters. Its most frightening trait is a piercing scream that is capable of shattering glass, and it breathes fire to boot. Don't pet this doggy!
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This gigantic monster is a culmination of various demons fused together into one large, bloodied bipedal mass. At the center is the evil Dmitrii Vlinov, a dark lord candidate who couldn't control the demons he had summoned.
The very thought of a jumbled mass of demons forming one gigantic, murderous machine is enough to give anyone the willies. It remains of the most intimidating foes in the Castlevania franchise.
Man Eater (Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia)
Try not to think of the Hall & Oates song whilst gazing upon this Castlevania horror. The Man Eater is a horrific creature consisting of a large insect that has made a home inside a collection of evil skulls.
The creature made its first appearance in Super Castlevania IV for the Super NES, but it took on a far more monstrous appearance in Order of Ecclesia. Encounter this baddie in real life, and anyone would flee in terror.
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The Lord of the Flies made a repugnant appearance in Symphony of the Night as a major boss in the inverted castle. Hanging from various meat hooks, this demon inhabited a gigantic rotting corpse that could command various large flies to attack the player.
Striking various parts of Beelzebub's body will cause them to fall off in grotesque fashion, but many players prefer to strike its head with the axe sub-weapon. Whatever the strategy, this monster is one of the most frightening in Castlevania lore.
Forgotten One (Castlevania: Lament of Innocence)
This monstrous creature resembles a gigantic horned demon that has been chained up and suspended with meat hooks. Its body has been skinned, revealing its maggot-infested internals and bones.
It's widely regarded as the hardest boss in the game, and its monstrous roar and deadly attacks are sure to give players reason for pause. One wonders how dangerous the Forgotten One would truly be at the peak of its unchained power.
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The Giant Ghost has made many appearances throughout the Castlevania franchise, most notably as a flaming blue skull with red eyes in Symphony of the Night. Its most frightening form came courtesy of the Dracula X Chronicles on PSP.
This particular version was a remodel of the original three-eyed Ghost from Rondo of Blood, sporting several pairs of fangs and three menacing eyes capable of inducing panic in just about anyone. Thankfully, it's not the strongest enemy in the game.
Dracula's Second Form (Castlevania: Rondo of Blood)
Dracula's true power is hidden beneath his humanoid form, but once unleashed, it can take on several extremely scary appearances. The most intimidating is undoubtedly his appearance in Rondo of Blood for the PC-Engine CD, and the opening prologue of Symphony of the Night.
This horned blue demon was capable of shooting fireballs in different arcs and stomping on the player. It was far more dangerous as a final Boss in Rondo of Blood, with much faster movements and more devastating attacks. The difficulty would be toned down in Symphony of the Night to maintain the story-based approach of the prologue scene.
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The BBC website reports on the Polish extradition hearing for Roman Polanski in the article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31618390
In the very first paragraph, the BBC declares that the USA is seeking to extradite Polanski on charges of sex with a 13-year-old girl.
No, BBC. An adult does not have sex with a 13 year old child. She cannot consent. There is no "having sex with". There is an adult man raping a girl.
And to remove any doubt on the matter, in Polanski's case, let's be explicit about the details. He was charged with drugging a child. He was charged with raping her, both vaginally and anally. As part of a plea deal, he plead guilty to "engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor", commonly known as "statutory rape". Because, you know, it's rape. Of a child unable to consent to sex.
And BBC, in case it escaped your notice, Polanski plead guilty to the charge but fled before sentencing. He is a self-confessed statutory rapist. He is not facing charges. He is facing sentencing for his admitted crime.
Please stop soft-soaping Polanski and report his crimes and situation, honestly and without biased, as you are supposed to.
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ПэЧэ, граф Кэли, кубик Рубика и универсалии
Универсального свойства достаточно, чтобы определить объект с точностью до изоморфизма. Таким образом, появляется ещё один способ доказать, что два объекта изоморфны, а именно доказать, что они обладают одинаковым универсальным свойством.
Определение некоего свойства не гарантирует существование объекта, ему удовлетворяющего. Если однако, такой (A, φ) существует, то он единственен. Точнее говоря, он единственен с точностью до единственного изоморфизма.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Универсальное_свойство
Свобо́дная гру́ппа в теории групп — группа {\displaystyle G} , для которой существует подмножество {\displaystyle S\subset G} такое, что каждый элемент {\displaystyle G} записывается единственным образом как произведение конечного числа элементов {\displaystyle S} и их обратных.
Возможно предъявить явную конструкцию свободных групп, доказав тем самым их существование[1][2]
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Свободная_группа
... любая группа обладает заданием. Задание не обязано быть единственным. Доказать или опровергнуть, что два задания определяют одну и ту же группу сложно (старое название проблемы — одна из проблем Дэна). В общем случае эта проблема алгоритмически неразрешима. ... Ввиду алгоритмической неразрешимости проблемы, поиск цепочки преобразований Титце одного представления в другое является своего рода искусством.
По заданию группы также сложно определить и другие свойства группы, например её порядок или подгруппу кручения.
Граф Кэли симметрической группы S4
Гру́ппа ку́бика Ру́бика — подгруппа симметрической группы S48,
Каждый из поворотов граней кубика Рубика может рассматриваться как элемент симметрической группы множества 48 этикеток кубика Рубика, не являющихся центрами граней.
Порядок группы {\displaystyle G} равен[2][3][4][5][6]
{\displaystyle |G|={\dfrac {8!\cdot 12!\cdot 3^{8}\cdot 2^{12}}{3\cdot 2\cdot 2}}=43\ 252\ 003\ 274\ 489\ 856\ 000=2^{27}\cdot 3^{14}\cdot 5^{3}\cdot 7^{2}\cdot 11.}
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Если p — простое число, то любая группа порядка p циклическая и единственна с точностью до изоморфизма
http://esciencecommons.blogspot.ca/2011/01/new-theories-reveal-nature-of-numbers.html
New theories reveal the nature of numbers
A key creative breakthrough occurred when Emory mathematicians Ken Ono, left, and Zach Kent were hiking. As they walked, they noticed patterns in clumps of trees and began thinking about what it would be like to "walk" amid partition numbers.
By Carol Clark
For centuries, some of the greatest names in math have tried to make sense of partition numbers, the basis for adding and counting. Many mathematicians added major pieces to the puzzle, but all of them fell short of a full theory to explain partitions. Instead, their work raised more questions about this fundamental area of math.
Now, Emory mathematician Ken Ono is unveiling new theories that answer these famous old questions. (Click here to watch a video of Ono's lecture on the topic.)
Ono and his research team have discovered that partition numbers behave like fractals. They have unlocked the divisibility properties of partitions, and developed a mathematical theory for “seeing” their infinitely repeating superstructure. And they have devised the first finite formula to calculate the partitions of any number.
“Our work brings completely new ideas to the problems,” Ono says. “We prove that partition numbers are ‘fractal’ for every prime. These numbers, in a way we make precise, are self-similar in a shocking way. Our ‘zooming’ procedure resolves several open conjectures, and it will change how mathematicians study partitions.”
The problems of partition numbers "have long fascinated mathematicians," Ono says.
The work was funded by the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) and the National Science Foundation. Last year, AIM assembled the world’s leading experts on partitions, including Ono, to attack some of the remaining big questions in the field. Ono, who is a chaired professor at both Emory and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, led a team consisting of Jan Bruinier, from the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany; Amanda Folsom, from Yale; and Zach Kent, a post-doctoral fellow at Emory.
“Ken Ono has achieved absolutely breathtaking breakthroughs in the theory of partitions,” says George Andrews, professor at Pennsylvania State University and president of the American Mathematical Society. “He proved divisibility properties of the basic partition function that are astounding. He went on to provide a superstructure that no one anticipated just a few years ago. He is a phenomenon.”
On the surface, partition numbers seem like mathematical child’s play. A partition of a number is a sequence of positive integers that add up to that number. For example, 4 = 3+1 = 2+2 = 2+1+1 = 1+1+1+1. So we say there are 5 partitions of the number 4.
It sounds simple, and yet the partition numbers grow at an incredible rate. The amount of partitions for the number 10 is 42. For the number 100, the partitions explode to more than 190,000,000.
“Partition numbers are a crazy sequence of integers which race rapidly off to infinity,” Ono says. “This provocative sequence evokes wonder, and has long fascinated mathematicians.”
By definition, partition numbers are tantalizingly simple. But until the breakthroughs by Ono’s team, no one was able to unlock the secret of the complex pattern underlying this rapid growth.
The work of 18th-century mathematician Leonhard Euler (below) led to the first recursive technique for computing the partition values of numbers. The method was slow, however, and impractical for large numbers. For the next 150 years, the method was only successfully implemented to compute the first 200 partition numbers.
“In the mathematical universe, that’s like not being able to see further than Mars,” Ono says.
A mathematical telescope
In the early 20th century, Srinivasa Ramanujan and G. H. Hardy invented the circle method, which yielded the first good approximation of the partitions for numbers beyond 200. They essentially gave up on trying to find an exact answer, and settled for an approximation.
“This is like Galileo inventing the telescope, allowing you to see beyond what the naked eye can see, even though the view may be dim,” Ono says.
Ramanujan also noted some strange patterns in partition numbers. In 1919 he wrote: “There appear to be corresponding properties in which the moduli are powers of 5, 7 or 11 … and no simple properties for any moduli involving primes other than these three.”
The legendary Indian mathematician died at the age of 32 before he could explain what he meant by this mysterious quote, now known as Ramanujan’s congruences.
In 1937, Hans Rademacher found an exact formula for calculating partition values. While the method was a big improvement over Euler’s exact formula, it required adding together infinitely many numbers that have infinitely many decimal places. “These numbers are gruesome,” Ono says.
In the ensuing decades, mathematicians have kept building on these breakthroughs, adding more pieces to the puzzle. Despite the advances, they were unable to understand Ramanujan’s enigmatic words, or find a finite formula for the partition numbers.
“We were standing on some huge rocks, where we could see out over this valley and hear the falls, when we realized partition numbers are fractal,” Ono says. Photo by Zach Kent.
Ono’s “dream team” wrestled with the problems for months. “Everything we tried didn’t work,” he says.
A eureka moment happened in September, when Ono and Zach Kent were hiking to Tallulah Falls in northern Georgia. As they walked through the woods, noticing patterns in clumps of trees, Ono and Kent began thinking about what it would be like to “walk” amid partition numbers.
“We were standing on some huge rocks, where we could see out over this valley and hear the falls, when we realized partition numbers are fractal,” Ono says. “We both just started laughing.”
The term fractal was invented in 1980 by Benoit Mandelbrot, to describe what seem like irregularities in the geometry of natural forms. The more a viewer zooms into “rough” natural forms, the clearer it becomes that they actually consist of repeating patterns (see youtube video, below). Not only are fractals beautiful, they have immense practical value in fields as diverse as art to medicine.
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Shree Somnath Mahadev Mandir, Veraval, Gir Somnath, Gujarat
Somnath temple is one of the most important temples in the country and is considered Aadi or the first of the twelve 'Jyothirlingas'. The Sivalinga here is Swayambhu or Natural formation. Somnath temple was referred to in many ancient texts and is one of the richest temples of those times.
Shri Kashi Vishwanath Mandir, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
The Temple of Kasi Vishwanath is perhaps the most popular temple in the country and is renowned the world over. The temple is in the holy town of Benares or Varanasi on the banks of the sacred River Ganges. The temple forms part of the twelve "Jyothirlinga" Shrine framework of temples dedicated to Lord Shiva and the Siva Linga here is said to be the first "Jyothirlinga".
Vaishno Devi Temple,Katra
Vaishno Devi Temple is the most-sought after pilgrimage of the Hindus. Located at Trikoot Parvat, Mata Vaishno Mandir is the holiest shrine of India and it is famous all over the World. The temple is accessible by a journey of 13 kms from Katra. Katra is a small town that falls in Udhampur district of Jammu. From Jammu, Katra lies at a distance of 50 kms.
Sammakka Saralamma Jatara, Medaram
Sammakka Saralamma Jatara or Medaram Jatara is a tribal festival of honouring the goddesses celebrated in the state of Telangana, India. The Jatara begins at Medaram in Tadvai Mandal in Warangal district.Medaram is a remote place in the Eturnagaram Wildlife Sanctuary, a part of Dandakaranya, the largest surviving forest belt in the Deccan.
Ramalingeswara Temple, Warangal
The Ramappa Temple, also known as Ramalingeswara temple is located in the Palampet village at a distance of about 77 km from Warangal. The temple is another example of Kakatiya Dynasty. This is one of the temples which was named after its chief architect. The temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva and the architecture of this temple is similar to the famous Ghanpur Group of Temples of Warangal itself. The temple is a master piece of Kakatiyan architecture and everyone must visit to get a glimpse in the life of Kakatiya people.
Lepakshi Temple, Lepakshi
Lepakshi is a village in the Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located 15 km (9.3 mi) east of Hindupur and approximately 120 km (75 mi) north of Bangalore. Lepakshi is culturally and archaeologically significant as it is the location of shrines dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and Veerabhadra which were built during the Vijayanagara Kings' period (1336-1646).
Siddeshwara Swamy Temple, Warangal
Siddeshwara temple has a rich ancient history associated with it. The temple was built in 3rd century A.D. Even though built in a time period when life was totally different from today's world, people fascinate about the architecture of this temple a lot.
Sri Kakuleswara Swamy Temple, Srikakulam
Srikakulam has a rich history and is the first capital of the Andhra Kingdom. The ancient Srikakuleswara Swamy temple is located on the banks of River Krishna and is considered to be the 57th of 108 Divya Desams, holiest of shrines dedicated to Lord Vishnu, by Vasihnavaites. The temple has a rich cultural and historical legacy and is one of the oldest temples in the south. Great poets like Srinatha Kavi Sarvabhoumudu, Kasuala Purushottama and Narayanatheertha, the composer of Sri Krishna Leela Tharangini praised the temple in their works. The temple is located in the mandal of Ghantasala, which is a popular Buddhist center.
Sri Mallikharjuna Swamy Temple, Komaravelli
The Lord is believed to have manifested as Sri Mallikharjuna Swamy and made Komaravelli his abode in the eleventh century CE. The Lord married Golla Ketamma from the Yadava community and Medalamma from the Linga Balija community, which explains the association of those communities with the worship services of the Lord.
Srimukhalingeswara Temple, Sri Mukhalingam
Srimukhalingeswara temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva, is a major pilgrimage center in the state. It is located in a village known by the same name, 45-odd kilometers to the north of Srikakulam, on the banks of the holy Vamsadhara River. The temple is known for artistic splendor and stands out as one of the finest examples of Kalinga architecture. Ornate sculptures adorn the Gopurams and walls of this shrine.
Trikooteswara Temple, Narsaraopet
The temple can be dated to the period of the Chalukyas and is said to be built by an ardent devotee named Elchuri Veeresalingam. Over the course of time, the temple fell under the patronage of the Velama Zamindars of Narsaraopet. who used to worship the Lord with great devotion. They made significant contributions to the temple and the tradition continued until the Zamindari system was abolished after India gained independence.
Sri Shakteeswara Swamy Temple, Yanamadurru
Sri Shakteeswara Swamy Temple is Located at Yanamadurru just 5KM away from Bhimavaram.Sri Shakteeswara Swamy has been discovered by excavations many years back. During the excavations Lord Shiva Statue along with Sri Parvathi his 3 month old son Sri Subramanyeswara Swamy are found on a single platform.The Oldest name of Yanamadurru village is Yamapuri later Yamunapuram and now Yanamadurru.
Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Devasthanam, Dharmapuri
Sri Lakshmi Narsimha Swamy's kshetram in Dharmapuri is one among the nava Narsimha Kshetrams in Andhra Pradesh. Prior, this place was directed by the ruler Dharma Varma henceforth the place is known as Dharmapuri. According to the chronicled foundation of the place, however this refuge existed decidedly before 850-928 BC, it was beat by the Bahumani Sultans in the year 1422-1436 and again in the seventeenth century, the asylum was patched up. In this refuge, swamywaru is cut in Shaligram shila
Sri Raja Rajeshwara Temple, Vemulavada
Sri Raja Rajeshwara Swamy Devasthanam ? Abode of Lord Eashwara ? at Vemulawada village of Karimangar District in Andhra Pradesh State is one of the ancient and famous Shivate temples
Sri Bhaktha Anjaneya Swamy Temple, Kondagattu
Sri Anjaneya Swamy vari Devasthanam his situated on hill calld Kondagattu Amidst of hills and forest aria at a distance 40 K.M. from Karimnagar and 16 K.M from Jagityal.The presiding deity, Sri anjaneya Swamy varu is said to be Swayambhoo as seen from the silasasana which is available on the external wall ao the main temple.It shows that parents of singam Balaiah i.e Singam Sanjeevudu and Ashamma from Kodimyal Village had Constructed a temple.
Shree Madanantheshwara Siddhivinayaka Temple, Kasaragod
Madhur Ganapathi Temple is also known as Madur Madanantheswara Siddhi Vinayaka temple. It is one of the famous temples in North Kerala which is 8 km?s away from Kasargod town. It is located in the bank of river Madhuvahini. In front of the temple, Madhuvahini River is flowing and all other sides are surrounded by the paddy fields and coconut trees. The locality of the temple has greenery picturesque which is very natural and makes enthusiasm about the place. The main presiding deity is Lord Shiva.
Ekambareswarar Temple Kanchipuram, Tamilanadu
Ekambareswarar Temple is one of the famous Hindu temples dedicated to Lord Shiva, located in Kanchipuram in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the five major Shiva temples or Pancha Bootha Sthalams (each representing a natural element) representing the element - Earth. The other four temples in this category are Thiruvanaikaval Jambukeswara (water), Chidambaram Natarajar (ether), Thiruvannamalai Arunachaleswara (fire) and Kalahasti Nathar (wind).
AstavaDasha Shakti peetham Shankari Devi, Sri Lanka
Shankari Devi sanctuary in Tricomalee, Srilanka is a noticeable sanctuary for Hindus. However, it is most once in a while went by and it is minimum prominent in all AstavaDasha Shakti peethas.Shankari Devi Temple is arranged in an east drift town of Srilanka, Tricomalee
Sri Chamundeshwari Temple, Mysore
The Chamundeshwari Temple is a Hindu sanctuary situated on the highest point of Chamundi Hills around 13 km from the castle city of Mysore in the territory of Karnataka in India. The sanctuary was named after Chamundeshwari or Durga, the furious type of Shakti, a tutelary god held in love for quite a long time by Mysore Maharajas
Ujjaini Peetham-Mahakali Devi Temple,Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
The Mahakali sanctuary is situated in Ujjain. The devi is called Hara Sidhi Mata. The Maha kali (hara sidhi mata) was the aradhana devi of The colossal King Vikramadithya. It is said that King Vikramadithya has offered his head (sirassu) by slicing it 11 times to devi and each one of those circumstances devi influenced him to live by going along with it back. The embellishment in the sanctuary is diverse every day. To finish everything, there is Parvati devi, in the inside Hara Sidhi Mata, in the base Maha Kali statues.
Sri Kukkuteswara Swamy Temple, Pitapuram, East Godavari Dist, Andhra Pradesh
Sri Kukkuteswara Swamy temple is one of the famous temple in India. It is also one of the astadasa Shakti Peeta and also an ancient Shiva kshethra from Krutha Yuga.
Maa Biraja Devi Temple, Jajpur, Odisha
The Birja Devi Temple, Jajpur was consecrated as Dakshayanis navel part fallen here. The presiding deity of Jajpur Asta dasha shakti peetha is Goddess Girija Devi. Goddess Girija Devi is also worshiped with various names such as Goddess Birija Devi, Goddess Virija. The temple of Sri Girija Devi is a very small construction when we compare it to Puri Jagannath Temple or Lingraja Temple of bhubaneshwar. Nobody knows the exact time of the Girija Devi temples construction. But it was renovated in the 13th Century. Jajpur is also called as Baithangi Theertha or Birija Kshetram or Oddyana Peetha (an Oddiyana is an ornament worn by a woman around her navel).
Pancha Sabhai Sthalams / Sthalangal
Pancha Sabhai Sthalangal refers to the temples of Lord Nataraja, a form of Lord Shiva where he performed the Cosmic Dance. Pancha indicates Five, Sabhai means hall and Stala means place. All these temples are located in Tamil Nadu, India.
Arulmigu Jambukeswarar Akhilandeswari Temple, Thiruvanaikaval, Trichy, Tamilnadu
The temple is one of the Panchabhoota Sthalams (signifying the 5 natural elements) and the sanctum of Lord Jambukeshwara has an underground water stream. And one can see water (neer) coming out of that stream, Hence this temple is also reverred as 'Appu Sthalam' and the ShivaLingam here is called as 'Appu Linga'. The Presiding Deity is Devi Akilandeswari Amman. Akhilandeshwari means 'Ruler of the Universe' (Akilam Universe, Aanda Ruler, Eswari Goddess).
Sri Kalahasteeswara Temple, Srikalahasti, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh
Srikalahasti Temple is situated in Chittoor district of the state of Andhra Pradesh. In South India, it occupies a place of eminence among the holy Siva kshetras. The temple is called as Dakshina Kailasam located on the banks of the river Swarnamukhi. The architecture of Srikalahasti Temple-Chitoor is extraordinary, it has three massive Gopurams which are breathtaking. Another striking feature of the temple is its huge Mantapam with hundred pillars.
Pancha Bhoota Stalas
Pancha Bhoota Stalam or Pancha Bhoota Stala refers to the five Shiva temples, dedicated to Shiva, the most powerful Hindu god among the thirimurthis and also the most mercyful among them, each representing the manifestation of the five prime elements of nature- land, water, air, sky, fire.
Shri Peringottukara Devasthanam, Kerala
Lord Vishnumaya or Kuttichathan is akin to Sastha, Muruka or Vigneswara but this Sivanandana (The Child of Siva) is worshiped not in common but by a special kind of devotees who need extra ordinary result. ?Vishnumaya is easily pleased and humans? are the words of Devotees. Let us look into the glory of Peringottukara Kuttichathan Vishnumaya. On his way for the divine hunt Lord Siva happens to see Koolivaka, a tribal woman. She was a devotee of Goddess Parvathy.
Masik Kalashtami
Kalashtami, which is also known as Kala Ashtami, is observed every month during Ashtami Tithi of Krishna Paksha. Devotees of Lord Bhairav keep fast and worship Him on all Kalashtami days in the year.
Peruvudaiyaar or RajaRajeshwara Temple, Thanjavur
The Brihadeeswarar Temple was built to display the emperor's vision of his power and his relationship to the universal order. On the 275th day of his 25th regal year (1010 A.D) Raja Raja Chola handed over a gold-plated kalasam (copper pot or finial) for the final consecration to crown the vimana. Located in the nerve centre of the Chola empire, the temple attracted musicians, scholars, craftsman and merchants. Most notably, it served as a platform for the dancers who excelled in the traditional dance form of Bharatha Natyam. The Cholas were ousted by the Pandyas.
18 Shakti Peethas / Asta Dasa Shakti Peethas
Astadasha Shakthi Peetas Lord Brahma performed a yagna to please Shakti and Shiva. Goddess Shakti emerged, separating from Shiva and helped Brahma in the creation of the universe. Brahma decided to give Shakti back to Shiva. As such, Brahma's son Daksha performed several yagnas to obtain Shakti as his daughter in the form of Sati.
Rishikesh - The Brahmteertha
The town of Rishikesh lies in the foothills of the Himalayas of the Garhwal region. It is the gateway to the upper Garhwal region and the starting point for the Char Dham pilgrimage (Gangotri, Yamunotri, Badrinath and Kedarnath) and an ideal destination not only for pilgrims but also for the people who are interested in adventure, medtation, yoga and other aspects of Hinduism.
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Karan Prayag
Karnaprayag is a third or the middle one of the Panch Prayag in Dev Bhoomi Uttarakhand. It is believed by many to be the place where Karn of the Mahabharata, was to have worshipped the Sun God. It is the ancient temple, devoted to Uma and Karn.
Rudraprayag lies at the confluence of two rivers Alkananda and Mandakini. It is said that Narad was blessed by Lord Shiva in this place and appeared in Rudra avatar. It is one of the Panch Prayags or five confluences of Alaknanda River. Rudraprayag is blessed with nature's bounty, the climate of which depends upon the height of the region.
Kalighat Kali Temple, Kolkata
Kalighat is regarded as one of the 52 Shakti Peethams of India, where the various parts of Sati's body are said to have fallen, in the course of Shiva's Rudra Tandava. Kalighat represents the site where the toes of the right foot of Shakti or Sati fell. It is a very famous place and a pilgrimage for Shakta (Shiva and Durga/Kali/Shakti worshippers) followers within the Hindu religion.
Dev Prayag
Devprayag is a town in Pauri Garhwal district in the state of Uttarakhand, India, And is one of the Panch Prayag (five confluences) of Alaknanda River. Other than Sangam and Raghunath Ji Temple in Devprayag, one can visit nearby sacred places like Dand Naggaraj (Lord of Snakes) temple and Chandrabadni temple.
Sri Kaleshwara Mukteswara Swamy Temple, Karimnagar, Telangana
Kaleshwaram is the site of the famous Shiva temple called "Kaleswara muktheswara swamy", which is on the border of theIndian states of Telangana and Maharashtra.Kaleswaram is located exactly at the merging point of the River Pranahita (tributary of Godavari) and the Godavari River.
Muktheeswarar or Thilatharpanapuri or Adhi Vinayakar Temple
Swarnavalli sametha Mukthiswarar temple is located at Thilatharpanapuri 2.6kms from Koothanur. Koothanoor is near Poonthottam which is on Mayavaram ? Tiruvarur Road. The nearest railway station is at Poonthottam. The main deities here are Swarnavalli Thayar and Mukthiswarar. The name Thilatharpanapuri comes from two words thil meaning Gingely and tharpana is the Hindu ritual of performing pithru karmas (ritual of paying tribute to ancestors) to ones ancestors. It is also known as Sethalapathy.
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Panch Prayag or Five Confluences
Panch Prayag means "Five Confluences". It refers to the five confluences which takes place at Vishnu Prayag, NandaPrayag, KarnPrayag, Rudraprayag and Devprayag respectively to form river Ganga. Ganga, the most sacred of Indian rivers, is worshipped as the life-giving goddess, which brings salvation to this land.
Shri Vighnahar Ganapati Temple,Ozar, Pune, Maharashtra
The temple is one of the Ashtavinayaka, the eight revered shrines of Ganeshain Maharashtra, India. The Ganesha form worshipped here is called Vigneshwara (spelt also as Vigneshvar(a), Vigneshwar : "Lord of obstacles") or Vignahar (spelt also as Vignahara, "Remover of obstacles") and is associated with the legend of Ganesha defeating Vignasura, the demon of obstacles
Shree Kshetra Ranjangaon Ganpati Devstan, Ranjangaon, Pune, Maharashtra
The Peshwas of Maratha kingdom have contributed to the temple notably, Srimant Madhavarao Peshwa, who is said to have constructed the sanctum around 1790 AD. There are evidences that point the antiquity of the temple to around the ninth and tenth centuries.
Arulmigu Ramanatha Swami Temple, Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu
The Ramanatha swamy temple at Rameswaram is an extremely important Shiva temple and a major pilgrimage center in the country. The temple is the southernmost of the twelve ?jyothirlinga? shrines of Lord Shiva. Situated off the sethu coast of Tamil Nadu on an island, the temple is considered very holy and is compared to the Kasi Vishwanath temple.
Trilinga Desam or Trilinga Kshetras or Trilinga Temples
The Etymology of Telugu is thought to have been derived from trilinga as in Trilinga Desa, "the country of the three lingas" and as per the Mythology, The Lord Shiva has been descended as Shivalingam on three sacred mountains.
Nageshwar Jyotirlinga,Jamnagar, Gujarat
Nageshwar Jyotirlinga is an important temple of Lord Shiva near Dwarka. Here, Lord Krishna Himself used to worship and perform Rudrabhishekam. The Rudra Samhita sloka refers to Nageshwar with the phrase Daarukaavane Naagesham. This shloka is also the source about the controversy of the location of this temple.
Two avatars of Lord Shiva are stuck on earth since 1000 years!
The religious scriptures also mentions about many avatars of Lord Shiva. One of these avatars is still wandering on earth for mukti. The second one has been blessed to be alive forever.
Mahadevar Temple, Ettumanoor, Kottayam, Kerala
Ettumanoor Mahadevar temple is one of the oldest, most popular and wealthiest of Shiva temples in the state of Kerala. The temple has rich a cultural legacy and is renowned the world over for its exquisite murals notable of which is the 'Pradosha Nritham' or the dance of the Lord (Shiva).
Lord Ksheera Rameswara Swamy, Palakollu, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh
Ksheeraramam is one of the most important Shiva temples in coastal Andhra Pradesh and is one of the five Pancharama temples in the state along with Draksharamam, Bhimaramam at Samalkot, Kumararamam at Kotipalli and Amararamam at Amaravathi.
Kumara Rama Bhimeswara Swamy Temple, Samalkot, East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh
The Kumara Rama Bhimeswara Swamy temple is a sacred Saivite shrine and is one of the five Pancharama shrines dedicated to Lord Shiva.
Amareswara Swamy, Amaravathi, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
Amaravati is one of the most important Shiva temples in the south and forms part of the "Pancharama" Framework of Shiva Temples. It is a very ancient temple and is also a major Buddhist center. Devotees can perform Abhisheka to the Lord Themselves here.
The Shri Mahalakshmi Temple of Kolhapur in Maharashtra, India, is one of the Shakti Peethas listed in various puranas of Hinduism. According to these writings, a Shakti Peetha is a place associated with Shakti, the goddess of power.
Sri Brahmaramba Mallikarjuna Swamy Devasthanam, Srisailam, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
Srisailam is one of the greatest Saivite shrines in India and it constitutes one of the 12 Jyotirlingam shrines of Shiva. The presiding deities here are Mallikarjuna (Shiva) and Bhramaramba (Devi).
Shree Somnath Mahadev Mandir, Gujarat
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If you’ve stormed one castle, you’ve stormed them all
by Lincee
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I think we all need to rally together and petition ABC in hopes that they will stick to the hour and a half Bachlorette/Bachelor format. It was so refreshing to follow Ali on each of her castle dates and get straight to the point. However, even after sitting through only 90 minutes of Ali’s complaining and Frank’s whining, I was still a little bored with the relatively uneventful episode.
Of course, we did witness eight collective minutes of Roberto, including a spontaneous dance in the street. [swoon]
Perhaps I was anxious to see the juicy break-up details of Vienna and Jake during their Post-4th of July-Spectacular. (Don’t you know Ali is ticked that these two stole 30 minutes of her hard-earned spotlight?!)
But we’ll get to those crazy kids in a minute. For now, it’s time to storm all the castles in Lisbon while drinking wine and pulling un-brushed hair extensions in messy pony tails. Fun!
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The following information you are about to read is of personal opinion. However, if you or someone on your Twitter account happens to personally know, sort of know, friends with the nephew/former classmate of, thought you saw in the grocery store buying New Moon on DVD or have a Jazzercize instructor that looks exactly like one of the Bachelors on the show…none of this is personal and I’m sure they are all lovely people.
Our Host Chris Harrison meets the boys in the town square of Lisbon, Portugal. He’s wearing a black shirt—a symbol that he’s not there to mess around. This is a huge week. He reminds our remaining Bachelors that Ali will be visiting four home towns…which is a major step in any relationship.
OHCH: “Guys. You’re going to have to step it up this week and make things happen in a major way. And it’s not because we don’t know anything about any of you. It’s because we are smearing the scandalous lives of Jake and Vienna in the last 30 minutes of this show. You have something to say to Ali? You say it. Make sure it’s revealing and make sure it’s quick. Prepare yourself for a pissy attitude. Just ignore her. She’s mad because we wouldn’t fly anyone here to touch up her roots. One last thing. There will be four dates. Since Craig the Informer isn’t here to explain, that means that two of you will share a date with Ali. I’ll see you at the rose ceremony.”
One-On-One Date One
Come Be the King of My Castle
After Ty reads the date card, we are treated to a good two minutes of the boys trying to figure out what in the world this cryptic message could mean? Will he get a crown? Will he have to joust? Will they eat famous hamburgers? Someone mentions a dungeon. Another mentions a guillotine. It isn’t until Ali arrives that all are silenced. We’re not sure if it was the silver sequined mini skirt she was wearing or her horrible accent…
Ali: “Bienvenido a Portugal mi novios! Donde esta el bano?”
Roberto: “Sweet Ali. In Portugal, they say bem-vindo a Portugal, louco.”
Ali: “Lo-u-co? That sounds like loco. Doesn’t that mean crazy?”
Roberto: “Exactly. I’m crazy for you. Let’s explore this romantic city together.”
Ali sets the date up beautifully. She admits that she has passionate chemistry with Roberto, but she needs to see if he has a fun side.
Silly girl. Everyone knows that all sides of Roberto are good. Trust me.
As if luck would have it, Ali scores a digital camera and the pair traipse off to the square to take pictures in front of buildings, beside statues and alongside un-amused guards. Ali encourages Roberto to “jump in the air” while she snaps a picture. Most would hap heartedly give a little bounce…not Roberto. He counts to three and executes a gorgeous roundhouse kick Chuck Norris would be proud of.
Let’s add “black belt” to the ever-increasing Roberto Resume of Awesomeness.
Ali is excited that Roberto is choosing to be fun. They walk hand-in-hand down a cobblestone path when Roberto stops suddenly, smiling with delight.
Roberto: “My dear. Listen. Do you hear the music?”
Ali: “Not really.”
Roberto: “It’s beautiful. When I hear the melody, I can’t help but dance.”
Roberto pulls Ali closes and begins to sway back and forth in the middle of the street with extras walking by as if they don’t notice. Ali looks confused at first. Probably because she never learned that when a gentleman takes your hand and places it on his heart and then covers it with his own hand while dancing is EXTREMELY ROMANTIC. Once she stopped fighting the backwards feeling, she sank into the trance and let the rhythm of Roberto’s hips take her away.
Roberto: “Are we the only ones dancing?”
Ali: “Yes.”
Roberto: “As long as I’m here, there will always be moments like this.”
Then they take it to the next level and become the only ones making out in the street.
If that wasn’t enough, Ali hops onto a trolley and continues kissing Roberto as they make their way to the first of 67 castles we visit during this episode. They sit at the top on a blanket, drink wine and Ali giggles about how Roberto is a mystery.
Ali: “If we go to your home town, will you be nervous?”
Roberto: “Nervous is not an emotion I ever feel.”
Ali: “What will your Mom cook? Will it be better than crackers and salsa like I fixed for you today?”
Roberto: “It will probably be Spanish dishes.”
Ali: “Like nachos? I love nachos. Gee. You’re a mystery. I feel like I need to figure you out. You’re not really this nice. I almost don’t get it. You’re too good.”
Roberto: “I keep things simple. I have fun and make sure you know that I appreciate the little things. I feel lucky. You’re beautiful, smart and I’ve never been with a woman like you. I’m a lucky guy. Let’s make out.”
And Roberto goes on to prove that he’s the best on-screen kisser. Another bullet-point to the resume.
Two-On-One Date
Southern Ty and Frank
Let’s Find Our Future in the Past
Ali meets Ty and Frank in front of a helicopter wearing a yellow tank and see-through white pants. I half expected her to climb into the cockpit. At this rate, she’s bound to have enough miles to fly the darn thing herself. But no. She brought an emery board so she could file her nails. She’s so over helicopters.
Ali sits between the two guys looking bored. Frank rubs her arm up and down and complains that he can’t kiss her. Ty begins tapping the back of the seat, absent mindedly humming “come and knock on our door…”
Then the helicopter flew through a patch of wind turbines. Ali stifled a yawn. They finally reached their destination. Look! A castle!
Ali: “This castle is from a famous king. It was a gift to his queen. Or something.”
Frank: “How many steps do we have to walk up to get there…”
Ali: “I KNOW! I’m tiiiiiiirrrrred and craaaaannnnkkkyyy.”
Ty: “Look! A deer!”
Frank: “I don’t wanna look at a deer. I wanna make out with Alllliiiiiii.”
Ali: “My legs are aching.”
Ali tells the camera that she is super stressed out and doesn’t know if she can take the pressure. She says this sentence four different ways about 20 different times. I cut that part out of the recap. You are welcome.
Frank: “This is wonderful. An intimate dinner with the three of us!”
Ali: “Where’s the wine?”
Lincee: Oh we’ve had enough whine this episode.
Ty: “Even though this sucks that Frank is here, it’s unbelievable. Thank you for bringing us.”
Frank: “Yeah. What he said.”
Ali takes Ty outside in a back alley to make sure once and for all that he is traditional and believes that women should stay home and take care of the children.
Ali: “What would your mom think about me? I’m a worker remember. When I have a job, I typically go to it unless I’m quitting that job to be on a reality show.”
Ty: “She would be happy if I’m happy. Look. I’m all for women furthering their careers and doing what they want to do. You are awesome and I think it’s great that you have ambitions and goals. It tickles me to death that you have a plan.”
Ali finds this endearing and hugs him. She runs back inside to find Frank. Low and behold, he’s nervous and wants to talk about his feelings.
Ali: “What would your family think of me?”
Frank: “Funny you should mention family. We are…close. They trust me. If I like you, they will like you. And that’s good, because guess what? I live with them.”
Ali: “Okay.”
Frank: “I quit my job, went to Europe, came back to pursue my passion and moved back home. I haven’t been home since I was 18. For 12 years not coming back…I mean…”
Then he gets teary. I get confused. I spot the thumb ring and wonder “why?” and Ali begins kissing him so he’ll man up. At some point, they end up in a tree. As Ali is either buttoning or un-buttoning his shirt, she becomes one with nature and I guess has a moment of her own personal clarity:
Ali: “You are everything I want and everything I fear. You’re funny and interesting. What fears you have about me, I have the same one about you.”
Crystal clear.
Ali: “It doesn’t bother me at all that Frank lives at home. Heck. If I don’t land a husband in this gig, I’ll be at the YMCA. I get it. Big whoop.”
Second One-On-One Date
As Kirk waxes philosophically about how the puzzling message isn’t even a complete sentence, Cape Cod Chris suggests that it might be something having to do with a fairy tale. Roberto agrees.
Ali whines about how hard it is to make a decision and uses her thesaurus to figure out different ways to say the word preoccupied.
Ali: “This is so hard. My mind is lost in thought. I’m happy to be meeting Kirk, but it’s going to be hard to focus because I’m feeling distant. Inattentive and engrossed in other thoughts. I hope I can get through this date.”
And what better way to try and focus than to drink a yard-o-beer? Whilst enjoying a jaunty buggy ride in Lisbon’s version of Central Park? As you make your way up to an old…anyone? Anyone? CASTLE!
Ali looks bored. When you’ve seen one famous Portuguese castle, surely you’ve seen them all. Kirk tries to hug it out and enjoy the moment. He can see that she’s totally zoned.
And that’s when he makes his move.
Kirk: “Are you hanging in there with all this? I understand if you are nervous. Home towns are serious. I’m nervous too. I haven’t brought a girl home to meet my parents in almost three years. It’s a big step for me too. I understand. Do you need a pair of pecs to rest your weary head? I’m here if you need me.”
Ali: “I just have a lot on my mind. I thought I was in tune with my emotions. But now I’m wondering if I’m not.”
Ali complains again about how this is hard and she is not feeling the dates due to her stress.
Kirk: “I want you to know that I’m here for you. If you have anything to tell me…good or bad…I want to know.”
Ali: “I struggle with questioning people.”
Kirk: “What do you mean?”
Ali: “What if we end up together and a year from now, will you feel … that I’m good enough?”
Kirk puts down his fork, grabs Ali’s face and looks deep into her eyes.
“You should not think that. That’s crazy. I’m not falling in love with the idea of you. I genuinely care for you. I didn’t know who I was before the mold. I didn’t think I was good enough to deserve the people I was with because of the mold. But now I know I’m deserving of love and happiness. I deserve this. Thanks to the mold, I’m there right now.”
And that’s how you open up on a reality show ladies and gentleman.
Naturally, Ali is over the moon that someone likes her and isn’t a pansy about it. She makes out with Kirk at the dinner table before descending the stairs to enjoy a personal concert by two guitarists and a Portuguese pop artist from the 70s sporting some serious earrings.
Kirk just stands and holds Ali. If you look closely, you can see the disappointment in Ali’s eyes that Kirk did not take advantage of this moment and dance with her. Heck. Roberto didn’t even hear real music and made a romantic moment. This was spoon fed. And Kirk refused to partake.
Good thing the mold saved him at dinner.
Last One-On-One Date
Cape Cod Chris
Love Gets Better With Age
Chris has been waiting for this date since New York. Ali is nervous that she doesn’t have more than “good buddy” feelings for Cape Cod. She thinks he is a slow mover and in a moment of foreshadowing, wishes that he would open up.
Cape Cod Chris: “As long as the date doesn’t involve oil wrestling and a horse, I’m okay.”
He’s darling.
Ali drags Chris over to a parking lot and tells him that they are going to experience the city by moped. For some reason, this intimidates our favorite landscaper/chemistry nerd.
CCC: “The only thing I’ve driven is a bicycle. I can’t be the dude who killed the Bachelorette. That wouldn’t be good…at all.”
Raise your hand if you think Chris is adorable?
Chris instructs Ali to hold on and to stop making him laugh. Ali compares his scooter speed to the speed of their relationship. And that equals SLOW. So she is going to channel our favorite Weatherboy and go for the obvious analogy.
Ali: “He’s going slower and that’s okay. He’s been trough a lot. He lost his mom. I’m sure that has some…sort…of…something…(eloquent Ali). We laugh and joke, but now it’s time for me to get in the driver’s seat.”
Cape Cod Chris hangs on for dear life as Ali cranks around corners. He OMGs right along with Ali and is visibly relieved when they arrive at the winery.
Hey? Where’s the castle?
Ali asks Chris to tell her about his Mom. Again. We learn that she was a nurse, compassionate and her friends still come by to bring dinners and check on the boys. Ali feels his walls coming down, but worries that it still might be too late.
But then she suggests they take a bottle of red wine from Portugal on the home town date.
Huh. Sounds like Cape Cod might be peaking right on time if you ask me!
And just so the icing is laid on nice and thick, Cape Cod presents Ali with a dentist bracelet. All the important women in his life have one. It’s made of along piece of floss which holds special teeth from significant people in his life.
Just kidding. That’s what I wrote down in my notes. Some Guy in Austin later confirmed that Cape Cod Chris was talking about a family friend named Dennis who actually makes the bracelets.
That makes so much more sense. But I promise you he said dentist bracelet.
Cape Cod goes in for the kill and aggressively makes out with Ali. He wants to throw her down in the winery, but he’s too much of a gentleman to do so. Instead, they go out into the meadow. He did his homework. He knows Ali can’t be near a patch of bright green grass without resisting the urge to roll around a few times.
Cape Cod: “You make me feel all warm inside. What does that mean?”
It means you are done dude. You have gone over to the dark side with Ali. Say hey to Frank for me.
Rose Ceremony
Ali steps out of the limo to find Our Host Chris Harrison holding an umbrella so she won’t get her draped shower curtain dress soaked. He escorts her to the Pier One Bureau as she reflects on the time she brought Jake home to meet her Mom and the ghost of her grandmother. Then she complains that decisions are the worst.
Ali thanks the Bachelors for traveling the world with her and ends up extending roses to:
Frank is stoked that his “biggest competition” is gone and then because nervous that there are three guys left that she obviously likes better. He pops a Tums. Roberto flashes his dimples. Kirk wonders if he can bribe the ABC intern to get a message to his Dad about bolting the door to the taxidermy room and Cape Cod Chris begins to swim around in the love bubble he’s created for him and Ali.
Ty gives Ali a deep hug as she walks him out to the rejection limo. He asks that she stays under the overhang so she doesn’t get wet, but that’s too traditional for Ali. She marches out into the rain with thunder grumbling in the background (thank you intern) and asks if he is going to be okay. Ty admits that he is disappointed. Ali says there would not be a future because she eventually wants to have a job some day down the road.
Just as the ABC Psychoanalyst is about to make Ty cry on national TV, Harrison wraps up the party so America can finally get the closure we need.
Bring on the crazies!
JAKE AND VIENNA
We open with Chris Harrison in the Bachelor mansion courtyard. The mood is dim with twinkle lights. The pavement has been freshly washed for extra reflection. The background music is forlorn. Harrison introduces himself.
“Hi. I’m Chris Harrison. I’m told that it is with a degree of sadness that I bring you this update. Typically, we pimp out our star couple Trista and Ryan and take this time to remind you that they have two kids. But this is not a happy update. Jake and Vienna have broken up and the ABC intern owes me 50 bucks. We’ve decided to air their dirty laundry on national television and tell the sad, sad truth about the bitter end of their scandalous relationship. I’m making an extreme amount of cash for this reunion. Sit back. Relax. And watch me pull the strings.”
Jake joins Harrison in the circular driveway. His face shows irritation, smugness and has a hint of douchbaggery. He claims that in a matter of two days, he’s on the cover of five magazines. He’s confused and needs answers.
Harrison takes a swig from his boot flask and invites Vienna to join them on the wicker furniture.
For the next 28 minutes, Harrison picks his way through a minefield of emotions. It’s a balancing act of pushing Vienna right to the edge of hysteria and forcing Jake to unleash the rage that was radiating through his jaw. It was a wonderful mixture of Maury Povich, Oprah and the general smoothness that is Chris Harrison.
In a nutshell, here is what we learned:
– Vienna’s PR team adequately prepared her for the inevitable question: Why did you take your story to the tabloids in such a public way? Vienna answers as if she has been practicing this line for days: “I knew he would run to the media and tell his side. I needed a voice. I haven’t had a voice and I wanted people to know that I did try to make this work.”
– Jake tells Vienna (with his best improv voice) that he is DISGUSTED with her. Vienna accuses Jake of lying. “My impression is that you were a pilot and we would be flying back and forth from Dallas to LA. Instead, you are here pursing a career in acting. (Vienna scores a point in her column.)
– Jake’s response: “At least I’m pursuing a career in SOMETHING.” (Harrison stifles a laugh. I yell BURN at the TV. Jake scores one for his column.)
– Vienna apparently flirted with a guy named Greg whom she met at a charity event and a gay dude named Todd who was in her apartment for reasons unknown.
– Vienna asked no one in particular if ABC had a “polyagraph” test Jake could take. That way, we would all know that he is a LIAR.
– Vienna gave the ring back to Jake twice after throwing a temper tantrum and sulking in the bathroom behind a locked door.
– Harrison asked if Dancing with the Stars was a bad move on Jake’s part. ABC docked him a few hundred thousand for not supporting the Mother Company. Vienna claims she supported him the entire time, even though he would come home and Twitter until the wee hours of the morning. Clearly since they weren’t having intimate relations, that is not a sexual innuendo.
– Vienna tells Chris she doesn’t want this life. Harrison asks if she will be returning to the swamp after this interview. Vienna says that she finally got a job “doing marketing” for a company that works with cancer patients.
– Vienna continues to interrupt Jake as he speaks. He finally explodes and demands that she is quiet while he is talking. Harrison sits back to watch the rest unfold. Vienna cries. And then interrupts him again.
– Jake asks Harrison what guy in America would be with someone who “undermines” him all the time. Chris asks for examples. Jake says that Vienna asks for directions and he answers, then she checks his facts with a GPS. According to Vienna, he then chunks the TomTom out the window in a fit of rage. Harrison encourages Vienna to continue. Apparently, she checks his work when he measures things in the house too. This makes Jake a ticking time bomb. He builds gazebos for crying out loud! He knows how to use a tape measurer!
– And in the best delivered line of the night, Vienna complains that Jake doesn’t fly her dog in from LA enough. The two begin to scrap about the Chihuahua and Harrison causally says, “Yeah. We don’t care about the dog.”
– Harrison channels Dr. Phil and suggests they apologize to each other. As Jake begins, Vienna interrupts and Jake screams bloody murder. Vienna has had enough and walks off the set into the bathroom. We hear her sobbing.
To sum up, Vienna is spoiled and immature. Jake is a douche with anger issues. He had a chance to be the bigger man. All he had to do was just sit and not speak. Alas, that was too much for the pilot/actor.
The best part about the entire segment was seeing Roberto in his baseball uniform. I watched that part three times…once in slow motion. BATTER UP!
Next week should be fun. My bet is that Kirk is a goner. What do you guys think?
All about the shame, not the fame,
Lincee
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Did it strike anyone else as a bit odd that Jake could rattle off the number of magazine covers he was on in the past few days? Not that he was counting…
Hand Raised… I heart Chris L.
OKCBecky
“Ty leans back and sings ‘come and knock on our door…'” Great shout out to Three’s Company! Thanks for the flashback to the 70s!
JennieAnne
Not odd at all. From the beginning, it was about the fame and not the quest for “true love” he and all the others claim.
As for Vienna…yes, she’s immature, but she’s 23. Jake is 31 and was being a complete A$$. At least Mesnick acted somewhat remorseful for what happened; Jakey should have used his new found “acting skillz” to put on the front that he was truly sorry for whatever happened.
Loved the recap. This blog is more entertaining than the show!!! My husband is looking at me like I’m crazy b/c I’m laughing so hard. Oh well… As you say- Bring on the crazies!!!
A. NO more talking about Jake and Vienna- I am tired of reading about them!
B. PLEASE TELL ME SOMEONE NOTICED TY’S AND ROBERTO’S MATCHING FRIENDSHIP DOG TAGS!!!!!!!!!
Lincee, ABC took a giant leap towards becoming the evening Jerry Springer show last night. I was disgusted with all of them; ABC, Jake, Vienna and OHCH. I’m finished watching the Bachelor/Bachelorette but will continue to read your blog. Jake is becoming scary and delusional, thinking he has so many “fans” that will support him thru this. He definitely has a devient personality and serious psychological issues and should never have been allowed to be on the Bachelor. Vienna was the token low class slut on this season but Jake was portrayed as a clean cut, high moraled guy. There… Read more »
Was anyone else just waiting on Ty to whip out a hunting rifle and go after that deer?
And, OHCH’s quote about “yeah, we don’t care about the dog” was by far the highlight of the show this week (besides this blog!)
Dennis is a town in Cape Cod. The bracelets are named after the town. It’s beautiful and it’s mid-cape. So happy he’s from there! Love it; expect to see some beautiful scenery in the home town date episode.
Since I only watched the J+V interview (partially) and the “coming up” part, that’s all I can talk about. (just to get it out of the way) I couldn’t even watch the whole interview with J+V… i’ve seen that kind of controlling behavior before (in my friends’ and family member’s relationships) and am trained to watch for signs of abuse in my job, and I couldn’t sit through the whole 30 something minutes without getting increasingly uneasy. I don’t have enough information to know whether or not Jake is guilty of emotional abuse (none of us do), but what he… Read more »
Lacia C
LOVED the Three’s Company reference!! LOL How appropriate!
I adore Roberto, loved the chuck norris kick….LOL!
If Frank bites his lower lip ONE MORE TIME..he might just bite the quivering pathetic thing right off!
My Awesomeness
Vienna was full of inconsistency – it would drive me crazy…I hate it when people throw out arguments and contradict themselves. Since Jake is the meanest person she has ever met, does that include all the people that are jealous of her, all the girls in the house, her ex-husband, her ex-fiance, all her hometown? Hmmmm…
Team Roberto- ABC please give Roberto more air time, ratings WILL go up. I am sure of it.
So was that girl Frank went to see a girlfriend, his sister or what??
FabuLeslie
Question: Am I the only one who thought that first sparkly skirt was too short? It looked to me like she either grabbed the nearest sparkly lampshade and shimmied it up her legs over her butt, or she just used a hand towel as a sarong and then decorated it with sparkly glitter eye shadow from Kathy Griffin’s make-up girl (love you, Kathy!). I don’t know what happened, but I don’t care how young she is, I was watching those Roberto scenes through my parted fingers over my eyes because I was worried about seeing her cooch and finding out… Read more »
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London can be a lonely old place for a Kiwi wanderer.
The sheer number of people, the lack of anything significantly green in the landscape; this is a pretty tough environment to try and forget you are 18,000-odd kilometres from home.
On this late April afternoon in 2013 Kim Parkinson, a Kiwi expat hailing from Kaikohe in far Northland, finds himself sitting at Chatsworth Bar in west London drinking with Shun Tamura, a five-times capped Japanese league international with links to New Zealand through his time playing union in Wellington.
Among the chat between the pair is a recurring idea of starting up their own rugby league club, but hey, this is an English pub and if the barman had a pound for every time he’d heard this yarn, well, it’s unlikely he’d be here serving these fellas snakebites.
But history shows this idea had legs, and even the following day as the hangover waned, the commitment to the concept didn’t.
The Wests Warriors, New Zealand’s very own rugby league club in the heart of the English capital, starts out as a footy club and quickly becomes a hub of culture and friendship for groups of Kiwis now living on the other side of the world.
“Absolutely, the Kiwi flavour is certainly strong within the club and it attracts a lot of Kiwis,” club manager Tamura tells kiwileaguecentral.com.
“Culture comes naturally to the Kiwi players and it’s something the Aussie and British players have come to learn, respect and love about the club.
“From learning the Maori language and our Kiwi slang, to taking part in the cooking of a traditional hangi and singing songs around a table with a guitar in hand, it’s all part of the brotherly atmosphere we have created.
“We are based around a close knit Kiwi & Aussie community and although we do have a fairly high turnover of talent, due to two-year visas, our players often tell their friends back home about us and put us in touch with those who are planning to come to London and fancy a season or two of league.”
Of the 50 players currently registered across the Wests Warriors’ two teams, 35 possess New Zealand passports, making it the undisputed home of New Zealand league outside of Australasia.
On the field the club has over-achieved with results as well.
In their debut season in 2014 the Warriors enjoyed an unbeaten year in the Entry League, including beating London premier champions the South West London Chargers in the London Challenge Cup – becoming the first Entry League side ever to win a match in that competition.
In 2016 the club’s top side were crowned London Premier champions for the first time, losing just one match on route, while also claiming the Harry Jepson Cup [a champion of champions format tournament].
Along the way the Warriors produced a 108-0 demolition, believed to be the biggest winning margin ever achieved in London league.
Former Richmond Rover and Auckland regional representative David Dyer joined Wests midway through 2016, proving a huge success and finishing the season as their highest try-scorer.
The sense of home and brotherhood was a major drawcard.
“Sometimes I forget I’m living in London when I’m around the people at the club,” 26-year-old Dyer says.
“The culture of the West Warriors makes the team, with a lot of that credit going to our coach Kim.
“He’s stood by creating a family at the club which he understands is important. I think the variety of players plays a key role in the culture. Most players playing in the Wests Warriors are there for the boys.
“The footy itself is certainly different.
“The first thing I noticed was the physicality, In (Auckland) Fox Memorial footy I was probably getting smashed every week, but the footy I have played here isn’t as physical.
“The second thing would be the structure, playing under Bernie Perenara back home we were a well drilled team and most players had been playing league for their whole life.
“The Wests Warriors were a much better team than the competition we were in – so there are probably a number of players in our team that could slide into an Auckland club top side.”
David Dyer joined the Wests Warriors mid-year, finishing as their top try-scorer.
So what is to come in the Warriors’ fourth season in 2017?
The club has qualified for the prestigious Challenge Cup, where they’ll face the Great Britain Police in the qualifying round over January 28-29.
Manage to cause a few major upsets in that competition – which is a dream rather than an expectation right now – and they will quickly find themselves in the mix with some of Europe’s biggest teams.
Notable Kiwi influences at the Wests Warriors:
Nathan Ashe (St. Helens), Matt Ashe (Oldham, Junior Kiwis, Ireland), Karl Te Mata (NZ Warriors, London Broncos, Cook Islands).
Wests Warriors achievements to date:
2013 London 9s champions
2014 London Challenge Cup champions
2014 London Entry League champions
2016 London Premier minor premiers
2016 London Premier champions
2016 Harry Jepson Cup winners
Chasing Auckland jerseys: The Ron O’Regan story
Kiwis abroad – February 15
Lolohea leaves NRL
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Litvak Lab
New Mexico Elevation Gradient >
Grassland - US-Seg
Shrubland US-Ses
Juniper savanna US-Wjs
Pinon juniper woodland US-Mpj
Ponderosa pine US-Vcp
Subalpine mixed conifer US-Vcm
NEW Subalpine mixed conifer US-Vcs
Consequences of pinon mortality for PJ woodlands
Hydrologic Tipping points in semi-arid biomes
Species range shifts with climate change
Consequences of piñon mortality for ecosystem processes
in piñon-juniper woodlands
Funding: DOE-EPSCoR, DOE-BER
Research Team: Marcy Litvak (PI), Robert Sinsabaugh (UNM), Nate McDowell (PNNL), Mike Ryan (USFS), Thom Rahn (LANL), Andy Fox (UA), Amanda Liebrecht (UNM)
Objective: The Southwestern U.S. has already experienced changes in climate that have altered precipitation patterns, and models currently predict an imminent transition to a warmer, more arid climate in this region in the coming decades. One of the questions we have been working on is quantifying the impact these droughts and related disturbances have on both local and regional carbon storage, hydrologic partitioning and water resources. We are also trying to quantify how resilient biomes across the NMEG have been to these disturbances and predict how this may change with predicted climate change scenarios. In my lab, we have focused particularly on the widespread piñon tree mortality throughout New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado in piñon-juniper woodlands (PJ) following the turn of the century drought (1999-2002). Abrupt mortality of 40-95% of piñon pine (Pinus edulis) and 2-25% of juniper (Juniperus monosperma) occurred in less than 3 years throughout the region. Climate projections suggest that episodic droughts, such as the one correlated with these recent conifer mortality events are likely to increase in frequency and severity and expand northward. Given the spatial extent of PJ woodlands (3rd largest biome in the US) and climatic predictions of increased frequency and intensity of drought in the region, it is crucial to understand the consequences of these disturbances on regional carbon and energy dynamics, biogeochemical processes and atmospheric CO2.
We initiated a manipulative study to quantify the consequences of widespread tree mortality on ecosystem carbon and water cycling. We experimentally simulated piñon mortality by killing all of the adult piñon trees in an intact PJ woodland within a 200 m fetch of an eddy covariance tower in September 2009. We have been comparing fluxes in this site to those measured in an intant, undisturbed piñon-juniper woodland that is <5 km away continuously since then. We received follow-up funding from DOE BER in 2012 to continue and expand this research to produce: 1) a quantitative description of the short term (3-4 y) and extended (5-10 y) impact of piñon mortality on the regional carbon and water fluxes to the atmosphere (Morillas et al. JGR-Biogeosciences; Fox et al. paper in prep); 2) an evaluation of various satellite based remote sensing platforms to detect the sensitivity of detecting stress and recovery in disturbed PJ woodlands (Eitel et al. 2011; Krofcheck et al 2014, 2015); 3) an understanding of the mechanisms controlling the response and recovery of ecosystem production and respiration processes following piñon mortality (Berryman et al. 2013, Warnock et al. 2016 a,b, Dean et al. 2015; Liebricht et al., in prep), and improvements in the ability of a land surface model, CLM, to represent these mortlaity events to predict the trajectory of disturbed woodlands, and estimate both the current and future impact of piñon mortality on carbon and water storage across the region. Results for this experiment has also been included in some recent syntheses (Anderegg et al. 2015; McDowell et al. 2013).
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In terms of historical sights, Ribe is a town without compare in Denmark. It is Denmark’s, and Scandinavia’s, oldest town and every corner oozes history. Ribe has the largest number of preserved buildings in Denmark outside Copenhagen, but in Ribe you can walk to them all, while in Copenhagen they are spread over a much larger area. You’ll find about 120 preserved buildings in Ribe.
Ribe’s old town, from the hostel, Danhostel Ribe
Walk from our hostel, Danhostel Ribe, right into the heart of Ribe and visit all the best sights: A self-guided old town walk
Ribe Art Museum (left in the photo) reopened 2010 after a major repair and renovation project
Urban renewal in Ribe
Although Ribe is old, development hasn’t stalled. Urban renewal is ongoing, fitting respectfully into the old city, while differing in both design and materials.
Here are a few examples from the past year.
Ribe Cathedral Square, Denmark
Ribe Cathedral Square
Where Ribe Cathedral was formerly in a hollow following centuries of accumulation of surrounding deposits (the cultural layers), you will now find the paving sloping down.
The renovation of Ribe Cathedral Square, designed by the Danish Schonherr Landscape Architects (Schønherr), rewarded the citizens with a lovely square for events all year round and for hanging out in cafes and restaurants during summertime. The town square is now a beautiful and functioning public space with the Cathedral as a natural centre.
The renovation also improved vehicular and pedestrian movement and appearance, though the outcome has proved controversial and started a debate about the proper balance between the rights of the vehicles and pedestrians.
Kannikegaarden in Ribe, Denmark
Kannikegården – The Canon Monastery
Kannikegården is a building of visionary new architecture on the town square opposite Ribe Cathedral. It is designed by the Danish architects Lundgaard and Tranberg. It belongs to Ribe parish’s parochial church council and houses the parochial church council and the staff at Ribe Cathedral. The building is raised above Denmark’s first Christian cemetery, dating back to the Mid-800s, when the German Apostle Ansgar – known as the “Apostle of the North” – was permitted by King Horik of Denmark to built the first Danish Christian church in Ribe. Nobody knew if and where this church was built in Ribe, until the former building at this place burned down and archaeologists were allowed funds to excavate the area. Here they found the cemetery with these early Christian-Viking graves.
Outside Ribe Cathedral facing Kannikegården is placed a new and modern statue of Ansgar, the “Apostle of the North”.
Outside Ribe Cathedral is a statue of Ansgar, the “Apostle of the North” facing Kannikegården
A later canon’s monastery dating back to the mid-1100s was found in the same excavation and gave the building its name, Kannikegården. Some of the excavation has been preserved , so you can have a look through the building’s perimeter glass facades and see walls from the canon monastery’s dining room. In this way these ancient walls are integrated into the new building, telling a very important part of ancient Danish history to the public.
Kannikegaarden. Lecture room
If you want to know more about Ribe Cathedral, the town square and the statue of Angar, the “Apostle of the North”: Ribe Cathedral.
If you want to know more about the Christian Viking graves: Vikings
Ansgar, the “Apostle of the North” . Ribe, Denmark
Chilling by the river
Chilling by the Ribe River, Denmark
A new wooden terrace by Ribe River only a few steps from the hostel was inaugurated a month ago. The terrace is the result of an exemplary collaboration between citizens of Ribe town and Esbjerg municipality. It is a great place for chilling out with a glass of wine or an ice cream cone while enjoying the view of Ribe River, the old town or the sunset over Ribe and the Wadden Sea National Park.
Both Ribe citizens and guests of Ribe have immediately taken the terrace into their hearts.
Ribe River, the new wooden terrace and the bridge over the river to the hostel
Do you want to know more about Ribe ?
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Danhostel Ribe’s recommendations for 10 free things to do in Ribe
Lonely Planet wrote “The jewel in Jutland’s Viking crown is Ribe: Viking Ribe in Viking Denmark
Denmark’s oldest town seen through the eyes of a young Copenhagen art historian and newcomer
Moped at Ribe Cathedral Square
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You don’t even have to leave your room to enjoy the beauty of Ribe’s skyline – the most photographed view in town.
Book Online at Danhostel Ribe in Denmark. Click the photo, read more about accommodation at Danhostel Ribe hostel, and book your room online.
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Germanys climate action package: Foul compromise or a reflection of society?
Germany's climate action package: Foul compromise or a reflection of society?
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Analyst:
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The climate action package is a classic example of political compromise.
The climate action package is a classic example of political compromise. It aims to support climate protection without overextending private households and companies. Criticism is perfectly justified. In the final analysis, however, the climate action package is also a reflection of the society's attitude towards climate protection: Whilst a majority of Germans support more climate protection, only a few are willing to shoulder the financial burdens. [more]
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Jochen Moebert, Marc Schattenberg
Germany Monitor
The corona crisis has forced many employees to work from home. A consensus seems to be emerging that this is becoming the new normal. Many companies have already offered their employees the option to work from home for several days per week, even post-COVID. An enforceable right for employees to work from home would imply that employers must compensate employees for the additional living space required for home offices. In this paper we analyse the long-term implications of such legislation. We find serious side effects, in particular for the real estate market and the labour market. [more]
Insolvency moratorium: The worst is yet to come
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on growth in the second quarter was dramatic, no doubt about it. But economic data, as well as the daily and weekly real-time indicators that are now being watched meticulously, show that most countries began to reemerge from the slump back in May. In Germany, production was down by “just” 11.5% year over year in June, after a drop of nearly 25% in April. [more]
How strong a Q3 rebound?
Economic and european policy, Macroeconomics
Barbara Boettcher, Kevin Koerner, Marc Schattenberg, Stefan Schneider
Focus Germany
Monthly data point to a strong pickup in economic momentum during the course of Q2, in part due to catch-up effects. Still, after the unprecedented 10.1% GDP contraction in Q2 we expect a 5% increase in Q3 followed by a 2% rise in Q4 (consensus: 5.2% and 2.4%). We now expect German GDP to contract by 6.4% (compared with -9% predicted in early May) followed by a 4% increase in 2021. Still, the pre-COVID output level will not be reached before mid-2022. The current exceptional volatility in monthly data and the further development of the global pandemic imply that the error margins remain exceptionally high. (Also in this issue: Merkel’s strength might become a burden for her potential successors.) [more]
Global headwinds make continental value chains more attractive
Jochen Moebert
The German export sector has had to cope with numerous challenges over the last few years. These include “homemade” problems, above all in the auto industry, but also the shift in US trade policy. Climate change has become an increasingly important issue, too; in fact, it implies massive changes. That is why the long-term trend in many manufacturing sectors appeared unclear even ahead of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, COVID-19 has compounded already existing uncertainties. From our vantage point, a number of reasons support our hypothesis that continental value chains are likely to gain importance. [more]
Immigration may increase the population up until 2030
In 2019, net migration to Germany amounted to +327,100, a significant decrease compared to the previous years. Particularly striking is the sharp decline in immigration from Poland and the sharp increase in the number of immigrants from India. In 2020, immigration is likely to collapse due to the COVID-19 crisis. Subsequently, we expect higher number again. The migration over the coming years might be driven by the skilled worker immigration law which came into force in March 2020. Also, the very good epidemiological situation in Germany compared with many other countries might be a pull factor. If net migration then returns to more than 300,000 people per year, the population is likely to rise from 83.2 million today to over 84 million by the early 2030s. [more]
German parliament XXL – stalled electoral reform ahead of elections 2021
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Barbara Boettcher, Kevin Koerner
With Germany’s rather successful COVID-19 strategy and the recovery and stimulus packages broadly agreed, the question of Merkel’s successor and the next German federal elections in autumn 2021 are gradually getting closer political attention again. Parties are currently not only preparing for the election, but are also arguing about the electoral law: the present law allowed the Bundestag to grow from 598 mandates to the current record size of 709 mandates, with the 2021 election likely to result in an even bigger number of seats. The Bundestag just failed to pass a reform before the summer break and thus in time for the 2021 elections. However, political and public pressure to find a solution is high and will keep the issue on the political agenda. [more]
Corona crisis diverts touristsʹ travel routes
During the corona summer, Germans will probably travel less and for shorter periods of time than in former years. Destinations in Germany and in the neighbouring countries, which are only a car journey away, look set to benefit. In contrast, European holiday destinations which are usually reached by plane will see the number of tourists decline in 2020. Spain will probably be the main loser. Long-distance travel will not play a major role in 2020. The cruise boom is likely to come to an abrupt end. In 2020, the total amount spent by Germans abroad is likely to decline by 10-20%. Once the coronavirus crisis is over, climate and environmental regulation (in particular for the transport sector) will return as the main structural challenge for tourism. [more]
Sounding out the Q2 GDP slump
Economic and european policy, Macroeconomics, Sectors and resources
Barbara Boettcher, Eric Heymann, Jochen Moebert, Kevin Koerner, Marc Schattenberg, Sebastian Becker, Stefan Schneider
How deep is your trough? Daily activity trackers suggest that the economy turned at the end of April as lockdown measures were gradually lifted. But we still expect a double-digit decline in Q2 GDP. The EUR 130 bn fiscal package was somewhat above our earlier expectations but does not change our GDP forecast, especially as still-prevailing pandemic uncertainties might curtail the economic impact of the package. But upside risks to our -9% GDP forecast for 2020 have (somewhat) increased. (Also in this issue: corona pandemic update, German public finances, global trade, German tourism during the corona crisis, German politics goes European) [more]
Saving during the corona crisis: Cash is king
Heike Mai
German households saved surprisingly little money during Q1; their bank deposits were only up by EUR 5.8 bn. In the lockdown month of March, deposits even declined by EUR 11.1 bn, as households withdrew a lot of cash due to the uncertain situation. During the current quarter, however, households will probably build up deposits substantially in order to prepare for potential income losses. By contrast, retail loans continued to increase strongly in Q1 and may cool down only in the medium term. [more]
COVID-19: Crisis resilience made in Germany
Barbara Boettcher, Eric Heymann, Marc Schattenberg, Sebastian Becker, Stefan Schneider
Germany has got COVID-19 under control faster than many other countries. It also recorded one of the lowest infection fatality rates among the G10 countries. The complete fiscal policy U-turn in response to COVID-19 induced economic damage should allow the German economy to weather this crisis better than many other countries – although the impact will still be massive. We have identified six structural features of the German society contributing to its superior collective resilience. Due to these features we expect the German recession in 2020 to be less severe than in most other industrial countries. This crisis resilience should also further improve Germany’s relative position among the major industrial economies once COVID-19 has been overcome. And this will increase pressure on Germany to play an even more supportive role within EMU/EU in the medium term. [more]
EUR 130 bn stimulus to support growth after COVID-19 shock
Marc Schattenberg, Sebastian Becker, Stefan Schneider
The coalition committee agreed on a so-called “Fiscal Stimulus and Crisis Management Programme”. The overarching goal of the programme is to boost the economy, secure employment, unleash Germany’s economic potential, mitigate the adverse economic and social consequences due to the crisis, strengthen the federal states and municipalities and, finally, give financial support to families. The promised rise in “future investment” is per se a good thing to boost the economy. Still, timely implementation could be an issue. Hence, these additional investments will help raising Germany’s growth potential but are unlikely to have any meaningful effects on economic growth in the short run. [more]
Taking stock: Continental vs. global value chains
As a consequence of the COVID-19 crisis continental value chains could gain in importance. Our network analysis illustrates the global trade network pre-COVID-19. We depict the global trade network of 90 countries as well as the most important intracontinental trade relationships. Trade links between Asian and American countries seem especially vulnerable to a reorganization of global value chains. [more]
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Anime Fan Soulja Boy Names Death Note as his Favourite
Self-styled legend - and otherwise styled Father of Modern Rap Music - Soulja Boy has come out as an anime fan in an interview today with magazine Complex UK.
The US singer is known for classic hip-hop hits like Crank That (Soulja Boy) and Turn my Swag On; platinum selling albums such as Souljaboytellem.com; as well as films about his life Soulja Boy: The Movie, and television documentaries concerning the same, as in the current Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood.
He was in Complex UK discussing his new album Stacks on Deck, which came out on March 15th 2016. Yet somehow the conversation turned to anime in general, and Death Note in particular.
“You ain’t ready for this,” Soulja Boy tells me. He’s wrapped in a tight white t-shirt, elegantly ripped Robin’s Jeans, and a small, tasteful chain. His blunt, thick and taut, resembles a pterodactyl’s leg in a land before man, modernity, and swag. We’re sitting in a Burbank studio, a few blocks from the Disney and Warner Brothers lots. I tell him I was born ready.
“We gon’ start it off like this. Bam!” he says, and begins rattling off his favorite anime films. “Naruto. Cowboy Bebop. Death Note. Full Metal Alchemist. Akira.” In Japan, there’s a word for rabid anime fans: otaku. I am not even a tenth the otaku that Soulja Boy is. “Death Note, that’s my favorite one. You ever seen it?”
“No,” I say, meekly. I’m certain that Soulja Boy is about to be upset with me pretending I was born ready for this. I was in no way, shape, or form ready to talk about anime with Soulja Boy. I have failed myself. More gallingly, I have failed Soulja Boy.
~ Soulja Boy is the Father of Modern Rap Music by Drew Millard (Complex UK March 18th 2016)
Soulja Boy is the Father of Modern Rap Music
- Interview by Drew Millard
(Screenshot March 18th 2016)
He actually sounds a little Kira-esque too in the back-story provided by the magazine feature.
There's talk of him starting out at seventeen and appearing Christlike to his followers. Changing the world of hip-hop and rap forever. Writing his own Fate, at least on-line, via Wikipedia with his lines of destiny coming true as Soulja Boy hustled himself into mega-stardom through careful hacks and self-penned publicity.
Not quite a Death Note wielding God of this New World, but you can't help wondering who inspired him at 17 back in 2006.
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Interviews Mindwake
Mindwake Chats of New Album, New Music, and the Plans Following!
French nu-metal go getters MINDWAKE just released their new album, and are already hard at work upon an EP release expected in 2021! Shows are in the works and once they can take place the band will be rockin! The band goes into chat about their future plans and more music making too!
1. Please tell us about the history of your band and its members.
It was long and painful getting there, we tried to make the original line-up work for too long, 6 years, because we really had really strong bonds to begin with, but in the span of those years most of those bonds deteriorated, and as we were finishing our album, we gradually lost most of the original guys, but in the end now we’ve got a real team, an album out, and the few people who heard it seem to like it, so things ain’t looking so bad now!
Mindwake original Lineup, we wrote a good half of B52 together :
-Emile (guitar), Joffrey (bass), J-B (guitar), Charley (vocals), Lou (drums)
Mindwake current line-up :
-Charley : Vocals
-Dorian : Guitar
-Loic : Guitar
-Samir : Bass (also plays bass in Monuments of Misanthropy)
-Lou : Drums ( also doing the solo project A.I.(d) )
2. What’s the origin of the band’s name?
Being high in a car after a rehearsal, and searching for a band name, I think that’s the first idea we found, and it sounded good, was funny to us and didn’t give any hints about the music we’re playing so we decided to keep it.
We live in the south of France, between Nice and Cannes! Our local scene? Over the years, the bands have become rare! If I have to recommend a band in particular with us who has enormous potential and who are our brothers in arms is From Dismay, they make good big fat deathcore, very heavy. Go check them out!
4. How would you describe your style?
It’s funny, at the beginning it would have been hard to answer this question because we mix a lot of different influences and there was no good word to describe what we do, but now, I think that we may fall in the Nu-metalcore niche; in short we’re making our own mix or energic Nu-metal riffs, heavy breakdowns and creepy/nostalgic atmospheres.
5. What have you released so far and what can someone expect from your works?
We’ve just released an album. People can expect heavy, aggressive and moody music.
6. Do you have any new music in the works?
Yes we’re working on an EP we’re planning to release in 2021, writing vocals right now, and at the same time we’re already working on some music for the next album.
7. How about playing shows and touring, have anything planned out?
Obviously the covid situation is not helping, but now that the album is out of the way we’re going to start working on it. Send us a mail at mindwake.booking@gmail.com for serious booking offers.
8. What plans do you have for the future as a band?
We would like to play as much as possible and everywhere, to release all the material we have in stock, to find a label, a booking agency, we would really like to work with structures that could help us achieve our goals.
9. Where can we listen to your band and where can we buy your stuff?
You can listen to our album on pretty much every streaming platform (Spotify, Deezer, Google Play etc…) OR, if you really wanna support us. You can buy our album at mindwakeofficial.bandcamp.com or you can grab some merch at mindwakeshop.bigcartel.com.
10. What is it you’d like a listener to remember the most when hearing your music for the first time?
Hrrmm, Tough one... Probably it’s either going to be the angry parts or the weird parts, it’s difficult to predict, there are a lot of different parts in our album that could be the highlight of the album for very different kind of ears, so it may vary a lot!
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Academics - Art
Art Loop and Pin
Requirements for the Art Academics Belt Loop
Make a list of common materials used to create visual art compositions.
Demonstrate how six of the following elements of design are used in a drawing: lines, circles, dots, shapes, colors, patterns, textures, space, balance, or perspective.
Identify the three primary colors and the three secondary colors that can be made by mixing them. Show how this is done using paints or markers. Use the primary and secondary colors to create a painting.
Requirements for the Art Academics Pin
Earn the Art belt loop, and complete six of the following requirements:
Visit an art museum, gallery, or exhibit. Discuss with an adult the art you saw.
Create two self-portraits using two different art techniques, such as drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, or computer illustration.
Demonstrate how to make paper. Make a sample at least 4 inches by 4 inches.
Make a simple silkscreen or stencil. Print a card or T-shirt.
Create a freestanding sculpture or mobile using wood, metal, soap, papier-mâché, or found objects.
Create an object using clay that can be fired, baked in the oven, or hardened in water.
Photograph four subjects in one theme, such as landscapes, people, animals, sports, or buildings.
Make a collage using several different materials.
Use your artistic skills to create a postage stamp, book cover, or music CD cover.
Use a computer illustration or painting program to create a work of art.
Display your artwork in a pack, school, or community art show.
Your local library, schools, museums, and art galleries are all excellent sources of information about art. Also visit art supply stores and teacher supply stores for more information and art materials. See original works of art at museums, art galleries, exhibits, and artists' studios.
Invite an artist to do a demonstration at a den meeting. Books, videos, and television can provide information about artists and their lives. Watch for children's art classes offered by after-school programs and local parks and recreation departments.
Establish a supportive and nurturing atmosphere where your child can learn to express himself through his art. Praise his work.
Set aside a place where your child can practice his skills and work on projects without interruptions from siblings or pets.
Help your child learn to see color and design in everyday objects, in nature, and in the artwork of others.
Teach your child how to use art materials. Let him experiment with the materials before he tries to create a finished product.
Explain to your child the value of planning ahead. Gathering materials, setting up a work area, and possibly sketching out some preliminary ideas can help a child learn to focus on what he would like to accomplish.
Encourage your child when he becomes frustrated. Explain that he will not like everything he creates. Give him the option to take a break and finish later. Assure him that through trial and error, he will learn to express his ideas through art.
Read labels on all art materials. Avoid materials that are toxic, produce permanent stains, or might cause allergies.
Viewing Art With Children
When visiting a museum or exhibit, let the child set the pace - museums can be tiring. Make the experience fun for both of you. Ask questions that spark the child's interest and help teach him how to view art.
What did you notice first about the art piece?
What general style is the art?
How does the work 'speak' without using words?
What do you think the artist wants the audience to see or feel?
What part of the work gives you special feelings? What kind of feelings?
Styles of Art
Observations of the Real World. The artist imiatates life by using details, lighting, and carefully planned designs that show recognizable subjects.
Creation of Imaginary Worlds. The artist imaginatively combines familiar subjects or scenes in a way that may remind us of the strange combinations of images in dreams.
Expression of Feelings. The artist tries to capture a mood or feeling, rather than show how something looks. He or she may exaggerate, omit details, or intensify colors, shapes or lines to help us identify the feelings.
Invention of Visual Order. The artist creates an arrangement of lines, shapes, and colors that are meant to intrigue our eye and fascinate us.
Art Online Resources
Chunky Monkey Fan Club - cartoon and drawing lessons for kids.
Kidz Draw - information on illustrators and samples of artwork from kids of all ages.
Mindsmile - for artists and art lovers dedicated to supporting art.
Understanding Color - color in the art and science worlds.
ArtsEdNet - from the Getty Center for Education in the Arts.
Big Mike's Wacky World of Illustration - kids interested in an illustration career.
Color Me - includes coloring, matching and crossword puzzles from Humongous Entertainment.
Download a Dinosaur - designs for paper dinosaurs you can print out.
Electric Origami Shop - images and shapes from IBM technology.
Global Show-n-Tell Museum - gallery of paintings and drawings by kids.
MoMA: Art Safari - Museum of Modern Art - compose stories based on four different artworks, drawing your own pictures.
National Endowment for the Arts - helps support art around the country.
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EPL: Burnley vs Fulham
Burnley vs Fulham
The start of the season was extremely poor, but at the crucial moment, Burnley still knew how to get up at the right time. Meanwhile, Fulham are still sinking in the red light area and their performance has not shown any positive signs. In the next round, being a guest of a Burnley regained his confidence. It was indeed very difficult for Fulham to dream of a good result to leave Turf Moor.
Burnley Team - Premier League
Welcoming Sheffield Utd's bottom team at home, Burnley did not miss the opportunity to bring victory and 3 very valuable points. Although there was only a 1-0 victory thanks to defender Ben Mee's goal, that was enough to mark the return of the Turf Moor Stadium team. From a team in the group holding a red light, in just the last December, Burnley accelerated extremely spectacularly. Accordingly, in the last 6 rounds, Burnley only lost 1, drew 2 and won 3 matches. With that result, the current teachers and coaches Sean Dyche are ranked 16th in the rankings. In which they got 16 points from 4 wins, 4 draws and 7 defeats, now they are 5 points better than the group holding the red light. With that difference, Burnley can temporarily be assured of his position and aim for a breakthrough in the coming time. Should remember,
Fulham team - Premier League
As a rookie in the Premier League this season, but in fact Fulham has no shortage of experience in this playground. Besides, their force also has extremely quality stars. But The Whites 'performance clearly failed to meet the fans' expectations. After going through 15 rounds, Fulham got only 11 points and ranked 18th in the standings. That achievement comes from 2 wins, 5 draws and 8 defeats back. Currently the visitors are 2 points behind the safety group and need a boost to revive the team's morale. Remember, in the last 5 consecutive rounds, Fulham were unbeaten, in which they drew 4 and lost 1. This season, Fulham played a very bad attack with only 13 goals, while the defense received 23 goals. lose. In the past, Fulham had 7 times as a guest of Burnley and they drew 1 and lost 6.
Predict the squad before the match Burnley vs Fulham:
Burnley: Pope, Bardsley - Long - Dunne - Taylor, Brady - Westwood - Brownhill - McNeil, Rodriguez - Wood.
Fulham: Areola, Tete - Hector - Odoi - Bryan, Zambo Anguissa - Reed, Kamara - Onomah - Cavaleiro, Mitrovic.
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• RGC Investment Corporation (RIC). This is a wholly owned subsidiary of RGHC. RIC was conceived to implement RGHC’s policy of diversifying its assets and operations in order to reduce the risk attendant to dependence only on one-group of products. Presently, RIC owns two parcels of land and cottages thereon located in Baguio City. RIC derives its revenues primarily from dividend, rental of its real properties and earnings from fund placements.
• RGC Marine Transport Corporation (RMTC). RMTC is a wholly owned subsidiary of RGHC. It was established in 1988 primarily to assure reliability in the delivery to RAGC of vital raw materials. With increasing competition within the industry, combined with the slowdown in business activities, RGHC no longer saw the need to maintain its own fleet as alternative and reliable contractors could be found. In 1999, RMTC sold its remaining operating assets. With the sale, RMTC has ceased commercial operations. RMTC derives its revenue mainly from fund placements.
• Hollington Management Limited (HML). HML is a wholly owned subsidiary of RGHC. It was incorporated in 2006 primarily to serve as the Company vehicle for its investment in the MRT 7 project, through Universal LRT Corporation (ULC). In 2010, HML sold its investment in ULC. Today, HML derives its revenue primarily from dividends and earnings from investments in bonds and financial instruments.
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Broadband affordability
IT WAS QUITE A HORROR-STORY WHEN SOMEONE THOUGHT THAT JUST LOWERING BROADBAND TARIFFS WOULD MAKE THE PEOPLE FLOCK BUT FORGOT SOMETHING…
USF had just started the Broadband project where the criterion for getting subsidy was to prove to the Technical Auditors that the target number of broadband connections were actually working. The idea behind this criterion was that subsidies should not be given just for laying broadband infrastructure. Rather the broadband service providers should be made to ‘sell’ broadband connections – by creating necessary (but lacking) awareness among the people AND by making broadband affordable.
As the bidding allowed multiple winners (mainly to promote competition), one of the winning bidders was PTCL. Someone in PTCL, in his zeal to get the subsidy quickly, decided to acquire the necessary number of broadband connections just by lowering the tariff from Rs 1,199 to an incredible Rs 299 per month! But such a drastic reduction had to have a catch in it and the catch was that if the customer exceeded the download limit of 1 GB, he/she had to pay @ Rs 200 per GB extra. And somehow the reverse of this message got communicated!
Guess what happened when customers received their huge bills at the end of first month? Most of them ran away even before the Tech Auditors could start counting them. But hats off to PTCL because as soon as they realised what had happened they started damage control. They modified the low tariff, introduced a max limit, made it clear to everyone what the low tariff consisted of and compensated the effectees (it’s a different story that they had to form queues for that!). They also rationalised their overall tariffs. It took months to bring back the annoyed customers.
But whoever in PTCL thought of lowering tariff to attract broadband customers wasn’t actually wrong. Affordability is a big issue in Pakistan and continues to be one of the main impediments in growth of broadband. For a country where majority of the people scrape through their daily lives and 24%[1] people live under the poverty-line, it is pretty obvious. Although USF subsidies and overall market conditions have helped to lower broadband tariffs but most of the price-reductions got eaten up by inflation/devaluation and the rest has gone to increase broadband speeds. Consequently now for the same amount of Rupees one can get 4 times the speed of 2008.
Calculations given below show that on average a Pakistani household spends little more than 1% of it’s average spending on telephony. And if Broadband is added to an average household’s monthly spend (at the present rates that vary from Rs 300 to 1,200 per month), the percentage spent on ICT (Voice + Broadband) becomes 1.7% to 3.5% – not a big deal if you look at comparable countries.
That raises an interesting question: If 40% of Pakistani households are in cities and out of those only 30% can be considered to be “average-or-above” then 3.1 Million households fall into a category who can afford broadband. So there should be at least that many Broadband connections in the country! However there are about half of those! “Why” is a separate discussion, that involves multiple issues – availability (of broadband and PCs), awareness, content and necessity – yes, necessity!
Calculating Average household spend on ICT:
2010-11[2] Population 177 Mil
Persons per Household[3] 6.8
2010-11[4] GNP (not GDP) Rs 17,891 Mil
‘Private Consumption’ part of GNP Rs 15,584 Mil
Total number of Cellphones[5] in 2010-11 109 Mil
Total Cellular Cos. Revenues[6] in 2010-11 Rs 262,761 Mil
This gives us an Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) per Month Rs 201
No. of Households – @ 6.8 persons 26 Mil
‘Private Consumption’ divided over 26 Mil HHs Rs 598,714
So the Private Consumption per Household per MONTH Rs 49,893
Assuming 2/3rd of 109 Mil Cellphones were actually in use 72.67 Mil
Thus the No. of Cellphones per Household 2.8
And therefore monthly spend per Household (2.8 x 201) Rs 561
This means that on an average, about 1.1% of overall spending of a household goes to telephony! Let’s now add broadband:
In Pakistan usual Broadband monthly charges vary between Rs 300 to 1,200
Then total spend of a household on ICT (Voice + Broadband) Rs 861 to 1,761
As a percentage of Average household spending would be 1.7% to 3.5%
(Indeed it is acknowledged that these represent average figures meant only to provide some indicators. Also in no case it is meant that tariffs should not be lowered further, to bring benefits of broadband to maximum number of citizens).
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Pakistan
[2] Printed version of “Pakistan Economic Survey 2010-11”, Statistical Appendix, Page 6/7
[3] http://www.census.gov.pk/PopulationSex.htm
[4] Printed version of “Pakistan Economic Survey 2010-11”, Statistical Appendix, Page 12, Table 1.6
[5] http://www.pta.gov.pk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=269&Itemid=658
Posted on January 21, 2012 October 5, 2016 Categories BlogTags Blog, F-10, ICT, ICT4D, Islamabad, Pakistan, Parvez Iftikhar, Piftikhar, Telecom, Telecom Consultant, USF1 Comment
As 2011 Comes to a Close…
AS 2011 COMES TO A CLOSE I THOUGHT I SHOULD HAVE A LAST LOOK AT MY TIME WITH USF (Universal Service Fund) Pakistan! Not that I will scratch it from my memory after this, but fact is that I won’t have much to say about it, except always wishing USF lots and lots of success.
It was an exciting and extremely fulfilling experience spread over four years and seven months. During the first weeks, it was almost weird, I was the only employee whose main concern was hiring a team and making the premises ready (which included getting worn-out carpets replaced with tiles). Very little help was available, exceptions being Mr. Baqai (to whom I am indebted for his invaluable advice and his help in selection of first team members), my former colleague from Siemens Mr. Masood Abassi (who helped me a lot with the logistics) and colleagues of MoIT, including its then Federal Secretary Mr. Farrukh Qayyum.
During those initial days (May 2007) a World Bank Mission came on a visit and since the USF model had been structured by World Bank consultants, the Mission was greatly interested with whatever was going on. I remember one member (Mr. Rajendra?) wanted my opinion as to by when USF would be able to carry out it’s first auction and sign the Subsidy Agreement for services in an unserved ‘Lot’. When I answered that I expected it to be within six months, he looked at me with the skeptic expression of, “He doesn’t know what he is talking about” and remarked that if that were to happen, I should get a Nobel Prize! We signed our first agreement on 4th October 2007 – in 5 months.
The secret of success was simply an awesome core team (for me, our first “team-building exercise” at Bhurban resort was significant). Thanks to the team, we started three programs one after the other, following extensive consultations and open forums with the stakeholders. We gained momentum with every passing month. Until May 2010, that is. That was when things went haywire and we hit a bad patch. There was nothing wrong within the USF (proven by several independent audits), it was all from outside, but very damaging. Thank God that by mid-2011, we came out of it, but the USF program suffered and as a consequence people of those unserved areas where we were steaming ahead, could not get services in time. But every cloud has a silver lining – the crisis convinced many that we had been doing our job cleanly and transparently.
There were several other challenges too, the biggest being the war-like situation in some of the remote USF areas and the (understandable) reluctance of Cellcos to bid in sparsely populated remote areas, where the operational costs are high and revenues are low. But at USF we were determined not to give up and to keep pressing ahead, wherever it was possible.
Now after four-and-half years I look back with satisfaction that, despite loss of more than a year, USF could make significant achievements. A total of Rs. 17 Billion (aprox US$ 200Mil) had been committed by USF as subsidy for ICT services in unserved areas that would surely help bring a silent ICT revolution in the hinterlands of Pakistan. The projects where bidding process was almost complete (but formal launching was to be done) amounted to an additional Rs. 6 Billion ($ 70 Mil). Among the provinces, largest share so far went to Balochistan – rightly so due to its large but neglected area. All this was done in an open, fair and transparent manner as duly acknowledged by all stakeholders.
So far USF provided basic voice telephony services to more than 3,500 villages; brought optic fiber connectivity (information motorways) to 58 unserved Tehsils (sub-districts) by laying nearly 4,000 kilometers of optic fiber cables in remote and difficult areas; sowed seeds of broadband in 256 smaller towns and cities (latest: 334,000 households and businesses had subscribed to broadband connections there) with providing free broadband to 943 Higher Secondary Schools (HSSs), Colleges and Libraries in those towns and cities, and establishing 291 Community Broadband Centers there.
And not to forget the about-to-be-launched program with anticipated most far-reaching impact, ie: an innovative program of broadband telecenters (with village-hotspots!) starting with a pilot project in 24 villages of all the four provinces. The pilot aims at discovering a self-sustaining model to provide education, training and eServices to the vast Pakistani population (above 60%) living in villages. Three to five hundred such telecenters are planned within this fiscal year alone.
There are several on-going projects where contracts are signed and work is under way. These include: 2,500 kms of optic fiber cables to connect another 44 unserved Tehsils in Balochistan, bringing broadband to another 230 HSSs/Colleges/Libraries plus 54 Community Broadband Centers.
Then there are projects where bidding process is complete but contracts are yet to be signed. These include voice telephony for 102 villages of Balochistan; optic fiber connectivity for 5 remote tehsils of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and broadband for 73 towns of Sindh, together with 93 Community Broadband Centers and 206 HSSs/Colleges/Libraries there.
In addition there are projects where pre-bid studies have been done and bids have been invited. These include broadband for 22 towns of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, along with the Broadband Community Centers and broadband for HSSs/Colleges/Libraries. Necessary pre-bid studies for several other projects were either complete or under way.
With such a vibrant and ambitious agenda and a core team of dedicated individuals who are fully capable of taking all kinds of challenges, USF is well on it’s way to make a mark to bridge the digital divide in Pakistan.
I sincerely wish USF Pakistan all the success in the world…
Posted on December 31, 2011 Categories BlogTags Blog, Islamabad, Pakistan, Parvez Iftikhar, Parvez Iftikhar USF Telecenters Universal Service Fund Pakistan, Universal Service Fund, USF11 Comments
Broadband for unserved areas – innovative bidding by USF Pakistan
THE THING THAT INTERESTS OTHER COUNTRIES MOST IN USF PAKISTAN, IS OUR INNOVATIVE BROADBAND PROGRAM! Even this month (Oct. 2011) I will be conducting an ITU sponsored workshop on this topic in Thailand.
Designing the program was rather arduous. Initially we thought we would conduct standard auctions for Broadband too, just like the Rural Telecom Program, where one lowest bidder emerges as the winner and deploys the infrastructure. But ‘the devil lies in the details’. Soon we realized that in case of Broadband for unserved cities and towns, there were a host of other concerns that had to be addressed. We thought:
• If the sole bid-winner is a DSL Operator (likely scenario), how would Broadband get
deployed in areas with no copper cables?
• How would multiple technologies come in to spread Broadband fast?
• With one bidder winning, how would there be competition?
• What if the infrastructure was built but there were no takers in those towns?
• It would be necessary to create awareness among people of these areas. But how?
• What if Broadband tariffs (perceived high), prove to be an insurmountable
hindrance?
• How would those citizens, who cannot afford their own PCs, be served?
• Educated youth are the most important segment for broadband. What approach to adopt that Broadband is introduced in educational institutions of unserved towns?
In other words some innovations had to be brought into the standard bidding process. A lot of consultations with stakeholders and a lot of brain storming sessions of our team (mainly on weekends) resulted in the present Broadband bidding process.
I explain the major innovations – with the rationale of each – that differentiate the process.
First, bidders other than the lowest are also allowed to win (Multiple Winners), albeit only by matching the lowest bid. This makes it possible for multiple technologies (wired and wireless) to deliver Broadband while also generating competition!
Second, the higher one-third of the bidders get thrown out immediately – only the lower two-thirds remain in the race. This is because when you allow multiple winners there is less incentive to bid low in the first place. With this, you try to bid low to avoid getting thrown out!
Third innovation is the OBA (Output Based Assistance) nature of bidding. Even normally (except for 20% mobilisation advance) USF subsidy winners are not paid until they have deployed the infrastructure. But in case of Broadband, they are asked to actually bring Broadband subscribers on board before they get paid. This is to compel the subsidy winners to first deploy infrastructure and then make extra efforts to “sell” it to subscribers, for which obviously they have to create awareness and keep tariffs low!
Fourth – the “sold” subscribers, on the basis of which a subsidy winner claims payment, must have been on board for at least 90-days, so that only genuine subscribers are counted.
Fifth – a very comprehensive and robust Technical Audit is put in place that employs multiple measurements to confirm (or reject) the number of subscribers claimed by the subsidy winner.
Subsidy winners are required to set up “Community Broadband Centers” (CBCs), each with at least 5 PCs plus allied equipment to cater for those who cannot afford PCs.
Similarly for each and every Higher Secondary School, College and Library in the project areas, subsidy winners have to set up “Educational Broadband Centers” (EBCs) consisting of 5 PCs in a LAN, training of two teachers plus free Broadband for 12 months. In most educational institutions of small cities either there are no PCs to terminate Broadband on, or there are no budgets to pay the tariffs.
Other than that, all bidding terms are standard USF, ie: open transparent auctions, technology neutral and one-time subsidies.
Starting in April 2009, so far 256 small cities and towns have benefitted from USF funded Broadband, where 897 EBCs, 258 CBCs and nearly 310,000 subscribers are connected to Broadband and the numbers are growing each day.
Three more Broadband projects have been advertised that will add 122 towns, where 492 EBCs, 151 CBCs and 150,000 Broadband subscribers will be connected.
Through separate auctions, backbone for Broadband, ie: Optic Fiber Cables are being laid to connect all 115 yet un-served Tehsils (sub-districts).
So far USF’s Broadband bidding has been fairly successful – at least experts watching us from abroad tell us so, especially when they compare us with most Universal Service Programs in the developing world. But then, ‘one who rests on one’s laurels is obviously wearing those at the wrong place’! So we are not resting and are now working hard to take Broadband to villages also – through our Universal Telecenters program (described in my Blog “ USF Telecenters – The Simple Concept”).
It is our resolve to take Broadband to every corner of Pakistan.
Posted on October 6, 2011 Categories BlogTags Blog, ICT, ICT4D, Islamabad, Pakistan, Parvez Iftikhar, Parvez Iftikhar USF Telecenters Universal Service Fund Pakistan, Piftikhar, Telecom, Universal Service Fund, USF
“Corruption in USF”
ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES I face is to convince some of those who matter that it is possible to deal in Billions WITHOUT ANY CORRUPTION. I don’t blame them. Corruption has become so pervasive that if and when it is absent, one tends to disbelieve!
So what does one do? It is said that transparency helps. Ostensibly, transparency ensures that the rationale of everything that you do becomes visible to everyone so that they are able to see that the decisions were arrived at on the basis of laid down rules and parameters – and not on any personal whims or favors. On top of that, making one’s work transparent by itself forces one to act clean. The mere thought that others are able to see, acts as a deterrent.
So at USF (Universal Service Fund) Company we try our utmost to keep things transparent and above board:
The set of rules used are the ones available in public domain – the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (commonly known as PPRA) Rules.
Wherever these rules fall short (no set of rules can cover every eventuality), the bidding terms and conditions are elaborated, well in advance. It is considered important that bidders are not confronted with any surprises.
All bidding documents (standard terms/conditions, service specifications, any special conditions and even the templates of the contracts to be signed by the winning bidders) are posted on the website from where these are accessible to everyone. However the exact geographical co-ordinates are not posted on the website. These are provided to bidders who register themselves.
In almost all cases USF does not specify which technology the Service Provider should use to deliver the desired service (Technology Neutrality). In exceptional cases where some technical specifications must be given, then standards defined by International Telecom Union (ITU) are used.
All projects/procurements are advertised in at least 2 prominent national Newspapers – English and Urdu. Additionally the Ads are also placed on own and PPRA websites.
All questions received from the bidders – and their given answers – are shared with all registered bidders. Later these are also posted on the website so that everyone knows exactly what was asked and what were the replies given.
Bids are accepted, at the announced bid-submission date/time, in presence of all bidders and the major contents of the bids (especially bid-bonds) are checked. This ensures that each one of them knows exactly who is bidding and if any bid is incomplete.
Only LOWEST bidders are awarded contracts. Even the Board cannot change that. In case it is already declared that there would be more than one winner, all have to match the lowest bid otherwise they lose out.
At the conclusion of every bidding, the bid evaluation summary consisting of bidding process, it’s history and the bidding result is posted on the website for everyone to see.
It doesn’t stop with culmination of the bidding process:
After signing of the contract 20% mobilization advance is given to the successful bidder, but only after getting an irrevocable bank guarantee of double the value of the advance.
Project time-lines are divided into “milestones” and payments are released only on completion of milestones. To check completion of work at each milestone, Technical Audits are conducted by independent (third party) Technical Auditors, as well as by USF Co. experts.
Technical Auditors are appointed in the same transparent manner, through competitive bidding, among technically qualified firms. Records of these biddings are also posted on the website.
In case of completed projects, any penalties imposed on account of delays or other lapses, are also posted on the website.
There have been a couple of instances where the failed bidders – actually two – expressed their reservations. One of these was a telecom operator and the project was large. So the bidder was allowed to submit his reservations directly to the Board, who checked and ruled in management’s favor. Both bidders continue to participate and, as always, lose sometimes and win sometimes!
Not to take the credit away from a truly “dream team” of USF Co., the processes in place are such that if ever one of us tries to indulge in any corrupt practice, it would not be possible to hide it. And if one would still try, remember USF Co. is audited every 6 months – 9 Audits so far and not a single audit objection. In any case we would not be spared by the fund contributing telecom companies – keep in mind the cut-throat competition among themselves with billions at stake here. On the contrary, they all seem to have developed complete confidence in USF processes – that these are fair and free of any corruption.
Posted on September 18, 2011 Categories BlogTags ICT, ICT4D, Islamabad, Pakistan, Parvez Iftikhar, Parvez Iftikhar USF Telecenters Universal Service Fund Pakistan, Piftikhar, Telecom, Universal Service Fund, USF21 Comments
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Portable Roots
Home/Portable Roots
(English Translation of the original Tamil novel ‘INI”)
The pod burst with a slight plop. It was dry and whithered on the creeper, its task of protecting the seed completed. The seed released into the wind, unfolded its beautiful, white rounded silky parachute and floated away into the distance. No one knew where it would land and grow roots. The roots of a plant anchor it to earth. They also perform important functions in nourishing the plant, by collecting water and mineral salts and transporting them to all parts of the plant. What happens to a plant which cannot put down roots in the earth? Those are the seeds that this book is about…….It is about them who left India to find a new life in the United States….It is about evolution and adaptation.
The first Indian in the United States…
He came on a ship with a sea captain from torrid Madras to bitingly cold Salem, Massachussetts in 1790. The only trace his visit left was on the dog-eared recipe books of the ship’s kitchen. The pungent smell of masala lingered on the ship long afterwards.
Mythili often thought of him when she was really depressed and felt like grumbling about the long flight from India. How tough it must have been travelling for six months on a smelly old lurching ship. “We belong to the second wave” Venkat often told her. Venkat being a Professor gave an academic slant to everything. What he meant to say was that they were very different from the first wave of immigrants who were farmers and from the lower income groups. Post 1965, Indian immigrants were mostly professionals, highly educated, spoke English and were doing well in the USA.
Mythili was brought up to ‘adjust’. But she could still not get used to winter. She could hear her mother’s voice in her ears ‘You are a girl. Learn to adjust’. But winters were too much. The very thought of winter garments made her flinch. The Omar Khayyam poem “the winter garments of repentance fling…” floated through her mind.
First heavy socks, followed by long johns to keep the legs warm from waist to ankles and over them thick jeans. For the upper body, tee shirt, woollen sweater, an overcoat. And gloves, scarf over the ears and boots. She looked like the Abominable Snowman, she thought. All this, just to walk down the steps and clear the snow that had accumulated along the driveway and sidewalk. Even with all these precautions, in less than two minutes flat, for want of good cover, her nose and lips would become so numb, so that she wondered if they still existed. If she did not hurry, her eyes would swell with tears, nose would run, teeth would chatter unrhythmically. The cold wind penetrated to the very marrow of her bones.
Winters were terrible.
Generally, Mythili hated America’s winters, which started sometime in December and continued till early March. She hated the constant snowfall covering the streets, garden, and the neighborhood. She loved the Spring, delighted in Fall and even tolerated the hot summer, but every year bemoaned the onset of Winter. As far as she was concerned, it was really sad that all the lovely flowers and the leaves should give way to the ghostly white shroud of winter. During that first year when she set up home in America, she was enamoured by the first snow fall; the beautiful white flakes reminded her of her favorite white jasmine flowers. But very soon the novelty wore off and she got tired of the white blanket that obliteriated all landmarks. No wonder. For a woman born and raised in tropical Madras, all the cold and snow was just too much.
Venkat would laugh whenever she got irritated by the cold, saying with a twinkle in his eyes: “Mythili, you should learn to enjoy the winter.” Come July, it would be sixteen years since she migrated to the US and she had yet to learn to appreciate winter or even to get used to it. Who could possibly get used to it? Not just the cold, but the stack of clothes one had to wear. How was it possible to like winter when just to walk to the corner grocery store or even ten steps to the car, one had to bundle up in winter clothes and struggle like a Thanjavur doll. The sari would trip you, the shoes burrowed into the snow… ‘Enough’, said Mythili sternly to herself. “ Stop right now!”. Mythili got up, went to the window, drew open the drapes, wiped the glass and looked out. Garden, trees, sidewalks, road, as far as the eye could see were all white with snow. One would be able to believe that just two months ago all this was lush with greenery and flowers. “Unusual snowfall in New York. Mm snow expected” said the CNN Weather Report. She was reminded of what Martha told her at the supermarket the other day: “We have lived in Springdale for over seven years. We have never seen so much snow in February.”
Mythili stared outdoors for a few minutes. Venkat had cleared a narrow path for his car, from the garage to the main street. Only the path matched with the tar of the street. It was the township’s responsibility to clear the snow on the main roads. Large snow removal trucks would clear the snow. To prevent snowdrifts they would spray salt and sand. For the secondary roads, snow blowers would be used to shovel them away and pile up the snow on the side.
The other day, the township employee who was operating the snow blower, after looking at the snow accumulated on her sidewalk, came up to her house and rang the bell. When she opened the door, he said politely: “Good mornin’ ma’am. The snow on the sidewalk in front of your house has not been cleared. Someone could slip on the snow or fall on the ice. The township regulations require you to clear the snow in 48 hours. You could be fined, if you don’t. Since you are new aroud here, I thought I’d remind you of the rules.”
Having tersely informed her of the rules, he started walking down the steps, but suddenly turned back and said: “You know Dr. Johnson, who lives on the next street? Delayed clearing the snow on time. A lady slipped on the snow and sued him. Five hundred thousand dollars! I just thought you’d want to know.”
Touching his cap with a “Good day ma’am”, he quickly walked to the truck and drove away. Because of her backache, Mythili could not shovel snow yesterday. If she did not do it again today, it could be risky. She removed her housecoat and put on the required clothes from the closet. Walking out slowly, as if clad in a sack, she took the shovel from the garage groawing to herself. Even as she shovelled a few times, a dull pain hit her in the back. She leaned on the shovel to catch her breath. This was a man’s work, she thought.
Till last year, she did not have to face any of these problems. Venkat had started teaching at Washington University and later moved to Columbia University. For nearly 15 years they had lived in apartments. However severe the winters, they did not have to worry about shovelling snow. The management of the apartment complex would take care of those chores.
About six months ago, Venkat resigned his position and Professor and took a job as a consultant to a well known company. With their annual income jumping from about $60,000 to over $100,000, things changed rapidly.
Leaving the apartment in Riverside on the banks of the Hudson near Columbia University, they moved to the affluent suburbs buying a house in Springdale. They were living the American Dream. Although the house was heavily mortgaged to the bank, it was theirs! Three bedrooms, spacious kitchen, separate dining room, living and family rooms, two-car garage. The basement was large enough to accommodate a ping-pong table apart from having laundry facilities and utilities.
As she started getting short of breath, Mythili suspended her activities. Lisa who lived a half block away, waved as she drove past. Momentarily forgetting her fatigue, Mythili waved back. It was Mark, Lisa’s sixteen-year-old son, who mowed her lawn during the summer and would ordinarily have shovelled the snow. But, four days ago, he had got hurt playing basketball and would not be able to work for at least a couple of weeks. Which is why Mythili had to struggle. After struggling for nearly an hour, she finally cleared the sidewalk by which time a severe headache had descended along with the backache. Discarding the boots in the garage, she came in and hung her coat in the closet.
She went straight to the kitchen and warming milk in the microwave oven, made herself a strong cup of coffee. The phone rang as she reached for an aspirin.
“Hello Mythili, how are you?”
Padma, from Toronto, Canada.
Hearing the voice of a close friend had the tonic effect of lifting her for of tiredness instantly.
Years ago, Venkat and Padma’s husband Ramani had worked for the same company in India. When the urge to seek new pastures in the western world hit them, they moved to America, while the Ramanis went to Canada.
“Hey Padma! Welcome back. When did you return from India?”
“About two weeks now … meant to call you everyday. But somehow time passed too quickly.”
“Bharati sangham or Mandir work?”
Padma laughed.
“Both. You know, Thyagaraja Aradhana is planned for April. Hyderabad Brothers are to sing at that celebration. Mandolin Srinivas will perform in March … How about using the concerts as an excuse to visit us. It is more than a year since we met, isn’t it?”
Mythili laughed without responding.
“Hey, don’t just laugh and brush it aside.”
“I am not brushing it aside. OK, we would love to come for the concerts; go to the Ganesh Mandir, spend time in front of all the thirteen Sannadis… and also spend four or five days with you all; but … he has taken up a new job. So difficult to take a vacation now.”
“OK, let Venkat come later. How about you and the children? When we returned from India, we brought silver kavachams for each of the idols in the Ganesh Mandir… They are just beautiful… Mythili, you definitely must come atleast to see them.”
“OK, I’ll try to come. How is everyone at home? Did you visit Madurai?”
“Everyone is fine… I’ll call you next week and we will talk some more… you know, tomorrow is Thai Friday . There is going to be Laksharchanai for Ambal. And after the event, food will be served. Have to make arrangements. I have to run Mythili, talk to you soon… bye.”
During the conversation, the coffee in the mug had cooled down. She did not feel like re-heating it. As she poured the coffee down the sink, she heard the front door open.
She looked at the clock. Time for Gowri to come back from school…
Walking into the kitchen, Gowri dropped her books on the table and slumped on the chair.
“How many times do I have to tell you not to enter the kitchen without removing your shoes?”
When Gowri with muttered “Oh shit, come on mother”, Mythili raised her voice.
“You forget that there are idols of Gods here and you are not to come in with shoes on; Why do you mutter? And when are you going to stop using foul language like ‘shit’ and all? Sounds disgusting.”
Gowri laughed aloud, forgetting her irritation.
“Mom, when you ask me not to use the word, you said ‘shit’ yourself.”
Realizing that her daughter was deliberately using foul words to taunt her, Mythili changed the subject.
“Go…on take your shoes off, change the school uniform. I will make hot dosais…”
Gowri did not get up. Arching her brows she asked sauciliy “Mom, I have a question. You say that I shouldn’t wear shoes into this room. But it’s okay to wear slippers. Why is it that your Gods like slippers but not shoes?”
Mythili glowered at her.
“You wear your shoes outdoors and walk over dust and other dirty stuff, which is why I don’t like your walking in with shoes on. You don’t question surgeons entering the operating room wearing sterilized gloves, do you? But when I ask you to walk into the cooking area or prayer room with clean feet, you mock me. ‘Your Gods like slippers but not shoes’. Even if your slippers are clean, I still like you to remove them when you enter the Puja room and open the cabinets containing the Gods. But who pays attention to my likes and dislikes?”
“Why should I take my slippers off when I open the cabinet with the idols?”
“Out of respect, of course…”
“Don’t the white people pray in the churches with their shoes on?”
So saying Gowri took a sheet of paper from the daily newspaper on the table and started to scrape the dirt off her shoes.
Mythili chided her again.
“Paper is Saraswathy. I have told you umpteen times not to step on it even barefoot and you still do it. How can you be a good student if you don’t respect the Goddess of Learning?”
Gowri looked at her mother with wide eyes. “Is Saraswathy only in paper? Not in other things? You keep saying ‘God is omnipresent. He is in a pillar or in an atom.’ So we walk on the floor. Is that wrong? Mom, I don’t understand your logic.”
Mythili swallowed heavily and tried to calm down. She was not in a mood for extended arguments. “Don’t indulge unnecessarily in perverse objections. Go change and come in. I have tons of work to do.” Gowri rose slowly and stretched her limbs. Bouncing out of the room, she suddenly turned around and said, “Hey Mom, I totally forgot. Guess what, Mike asked me if I could go to a movie with him. I said fine. Tomorrow evening. My first date, Mom.”
Her eyes sparkled. Mythili was filled with dread.
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Public Invited to Virtual Town Hall About County Response to COVID-19 & Plans for Phase 1 Road to Recovery
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Clark County Commissioner Jim Gibson is hosting a Virtual Town Hall meeting Monday, May 11 at 6 p.m. about the County’s response to COVID-19 and plans to meet the guidelines provided for in Phase 1 of Gov. Steve Sisolak’s Road to Recovery.
Taking part in the town hall meeting in addition to Gibson will be Chief Health Officer Dr. Fermin Leguen of the Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD), Nevada Restaurant Association President & CEO Katherine Jacobi and Nevada Resort Association President Virginia Valentine and SNHD Environmental Health Director Chris Saxton.
Residents wishing to watch the town hall may do so on the County’s Facebook (www.Facebook.com/ClarkCountyNV) and YouTube (www.YouTube.com/ClarkCountyNV) channels, Clark County Television (CCTV) and the County website at www.ClarkCountyNV.gov.
“COVID-19 has fundamentally affected the way we live our lives,” said Commissioner Gibson, “but the actions of this community have flattened the curve and allowed us to move into Phase 1 of the recovery. This Virtual Town Hall is an opportunity for residents to find out where we stand and what’s next. I encourage anyone with questions to email those in advance to [email protected] and we’ll try to answer them during the town hall.”
CCTV is available in the Las Vegas area on Channel 4/1004 on Cox cable and on CenturyLink on Channels 4 and 1004 as well as in Laughlin on Channel 14 via Suddenlink. Live streaming of CCTV programming is available at www.ClarkCountyNV.gov and www.YouTube.com/ClarkCountyNV. CCTV is also available in Boulder City on Channel 4 and in Moapa Valley on Digital Channel 50.3.
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Imagine Communications is introducing the Selenio™ Network Processor (SNP), an all-IP-capable processing solution optimized for handling uncompressed UHD signals based on the SMPTE 2110 specification for transporting media over IP networks. Designed to usher in a new era in live production, the SNP enables production companies to optimize both studio and mobile facilities to take full advantage of the performance, agility and efficiency benefits of IT-based infrastructures, while at the same time upgrading operations to support UHD picture quality. Imagine will be showcasing some of the capabilities of the SNP at the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas, beginning April 24 (Booth SL1516).
The availability of standards-based IP-to-IP processing capabilities, an industry first, provides media companies with the opportunity to streamline their production facilities, helping to reduce costs and complexity associated with supporting SDI and hybrid SDI-IP workflows, including cabling, power consumption and the need to move signals between IP and SDI domains.
“This is a milestone achievement for Imagine Communications and the media and entertainment industry,” said Mark Senecal, VP of product management, Imagine Communications. “SNP provides our customers with the technology that’s needed to transition their production facilities to a hybrid SDI-IP model or to pure-IP operations, while at the same time positioning their businesses to seamlessly integrate new technology and introduce new capabilities as market dynamics dictate. That’s the power that IP brings to live production and our customers are taking notice.”
Earlier this year, Swiss broadcast service provider tpc (technology and production center Switzerland ag) revealed the construction of a mobile production vehicle that will utilize Imagine’s new processing technology and is expected to be the first in the industry to support uncompressed HD and UHD signals over IP based on the SMPTE ST 2110 standard. SMPTE 2110, now being finalized, is the culmination of the IP standards roadmap endorsed by the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS). The tpc mobile production facility is designed to support HD and UHD formats, and is capable of interfacing with a variety of SDI and IP inputs. SNP and SMPTE 2110 allow the company to process uncompressed high-quality UHD and HD video signals to meet all customer preferences without requiring a mezzanine compression scheme or relying on nonstandard, proprietary interconnection hardware.
An IP-to-IP signal processing platform, the SNP provides the gamut of capabilities required in today’s evolving mobile production industry, including HD-UHD up-and-down conversion and color space adjustments, as well as managing the High Dynamic Range (HDR) adaptations and conversions required for integrating UHD and HD signals. Imagine Communications’ SNP also provides important synchronization and timing functions, overseeing the integration of new signals into the production environment and helping to assure the optimal timing of SMPTE 2110 signals for interoperability with all other compliant equipment.
The Imagine SNP is optimized for UHD production through support for redundant 100-Gigabit Ethernet network connections, each capable of delivering eight uncompressed UHD signals in each direction. Support for these high-capacity network connections, which are now commonplace in IT-based environments, eliminates the requirement to compress UHD signals and improves overall efficiency, as well as contributes to space and power-consumption savings and preserving picture quality and system latency. The standards-based SNP easily integrates with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) IP routing and switching equipment, providing media companies with the flexibility to work with a variety of technology suppliers for signal routing and management.
The high-density SNP utilizes four integral processing blocks, each of which can be assigned a separate application and can be reprogrammed on the fly. The versatility of the SNP helps enable production companies to respond to the requirements of the current job, and then quickly reconfigure to tackle future assignments. The multipurpose nature and quick-configuration capabilities of the SNP can significantly reduce equipment requirements. The SNP system derives its exceptional processing capabilities from the latest generation of FPGA technology, coupled with Imagine Communications’ Zenium™ pure microservices-based software platform, allowing unprecedented density of signal processing functionality within a compact 1-RU package.
The SNP is a critical addition to Imagine Communications’ end-to-end next-generation solution portfolio. It can be paired with other UHD- and IP-ready solutions, including the EPIC™ MV mutiviewer, a next-generation monitoring and control system, and Versio™ modular playout, to form the heart of a state-of-the-art operations environment that is designed to easily integrate new capabilities and evolve in lockstep with market requirements.
In addition to featuring the SNP at its booth (SL1516), Imagine Communications will be participating in the 2017 NAB IP Showcase, a cooperation of multiple standards organizations and AIMS that is dedicated to demonstrating the interoperability of the SMPTE 2110 specification and highlighting the creative and business-building benefits of IP technology.
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An extinct lizard that roamed South East Asia 40 million years ago has been named after which rock star?
In France forbidden items are being smuggled into prisons using what unexpected vector?
James Caan was accused of hypocrisy after he took on the job of social mobility tsar. What did he have to own up to doing?
Hiding his private education
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Sacking receptionist for regional accent
Education authorities in China brought in a ban to stop exam cheating. What unexpected item has been deemed suspect?
Baggy trousers
Still in China... the Communist Party has issued a warning about a "kitsch and unoriginal" trend. What is it complaining about?
Justin Bieber haircuts
Psy dance moves
A primary school in Essex was evacuated after a pupil took in what to show and tell?
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It's Morrison. Dr Jason Head said he'd been "listening to the Doors quite a bit during the research". The choice of Barbaturex morrisoni is a play on the late frontman's epithet "the lizard king".
It's tennis balls. Inmates' friends and relatives whacked tennis balls containing drugs and contraband into exercise yards. In Russia guards caught a cat trying to climb into a prison with mobile phones strapped to its back.
It's employing his children. Initially he urged parents not to help their children into a job. He later admitted he'd employed his daughters at firms he owned or had a financial interest in.
It's bras. Schools in Jilin province installed metal detectors to stop listening devices being smuggled in. The detectors mean other items containing metal, including bras, have been banned.
It's yellow ducks. A giant yellow duck designed by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman has spawned many replicas. "The rubber duck was dragged down from its altar and becomes a mere symbol with no personality," said an article in the People's Daily.
It's an artillery shell. The Year 5 pupil took the 20cm artillery shell into class. The school was evacuated and army bomb disposal teams were called in. They decided the device posed no danger.
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10 recipients receive awards from monarch
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HIS Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam yesterday consented to grace the National Israk Mikraj 1434 Hijrah celebration at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Berakas. The monarch also presented the Award of Excellence in School Leadership, Award for Excellence in Islamic Education, Award for Contribution in Islamic Education and Award of Distinction to 10 selected recipients.
The recipient of Excellence in School Leadership Award was Haji Abdul Rahim bin Haji Gantang and he received a cash prize of $12,000, a certificate, plaque, souvenir and free medical facilities including all expenses in first class ward in public hospitals in the country.
Haji Abdul Rahim had also been awarded Darjah Seri Ugama Yang Amat Bersinar Darjah Ketiga (SSUB), Pingat Indah Kerja Baik (PIKB) and Pingat Kerja Lama (PKL) by His Majesty for his excellence performance.
In an interview, Haji Abdul Rahim told the Bulletin that he was excited and could not believe that he was nominated for the Excellence in School Leadership Award. He was grateful of being chosen for the award.
“By receiving this award, it motivates me to pursue and serve the community in the field of religion and to remind my colleagues and teachers in Brunei to work sincerely for Allah the Almighty.”
The Award for Excellence in Islamic Education was presented to five recipients who teach Al-Quran, Arabic Language, Syariah, Usuluddin and Islamic Religious Knowledge (IRK). The recipients were Hajah Aminah binti Haji Abdul Manap; Hajah Noramalina binti Haji Mohd Ali; Dayang Sarimah binti Ahmad; Awang Ismaidi bin Ismail and Awang Narudin bin Lamit. All of the recipients received a cash prize of $7,000, a certificate, plaque and souvenir, and free medical facilities.
Hajah Aminah binti Haji Abd Manap, Religious Trainee Teacher from Pengiran Anak Puteri Hafizah Sururul Bolkiah Religious School, said she was grateful to Allah the Almighty and the Government of His Majesty for the award.
“In order to be a good teacher, it needs integrity as it can assist you to deliver what you are teaching to the students. As a teacher, it is our responsibility to teach and guide our students.”
The Award for Contribution in Islamic Education went to Haji Bungsu bin Pudin and Haji Abdul Rani bin Ahmad. Both recipients received a cash prize of $5,000, a certificate, plaque and souvenir, and free medical facilities.
Haji Bungsu and Haji Abdul Rani are actively contributing in propagating and spreading Islam by teaching religious knowledge as well as escorting Brunei’s pilgrims. In addition, they are also active in various organisations.
His Majesty later presented the Award of Distinction to Ustaz Drs Haji Mustakim bin Haji Sariyun and Kho Lay Yong. Both recipients received a cash prize of $4,000, a certificate, plaque and souvenir.
Kho Lay Yong, a contract teacher working in Brunei since 1990, who teaches Physics for ‘O’ Level students, expressed his appreciation to the Government of Brunei for the unexpected award.
“I am very grateful to the Government of His Majesty for giving me the opportunity to work in Brunei and able to teach in such a great institution as my students are very obedient and hardworking and most of them have achieved high positions in academic fields.”
His Majesty presents an Award for Excellence in Islamic Education to Dyg Sarimah binti Ahmad - Borneo Bulletin (7 June 2013)
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...however, that an agreement has not yet been reached but that one is expected to be reached shortly. As the magnitude of the crisis and the potential revenue losses are still very much unknown, all clubs are discussing salary reduction in the context of
Unicaja's players and coach agree to pay cut during the pandemic
JUAN CALDERÓN
salary) would remain unaffected. Clubs vote for the Liga ACB to conclude with a tournament in a neutral venue from 15 June Despite concerns aired by players whose contracts were set to expire, the squad unanimously agreed to a salary
Rents are now higher than the average salary of young people in Malaga
NURIA TRIGUERO
...average monthly salary of the working population aged between 16 and 29 in Malaga. 903€ is the average monthly rent in the province. 59.2% of people aged under 30 who live independently in Spain are renting a property. "The average net monthly ... salary of 16 to 29-year-olds in the fourth quarter of 2018 was 892 euros, and the average monthly rent for an apartment in Malaga is 903 euros. That means if someone in that age group wants to live on their own, they will have to pay an amount which is ... equal to 101.3 per cent of their monthly salary," explains economist Joffre López Oller, one of the authors of the report. Just two years earlier, in 2016, rent would have been equivalent to 85.9 per cent of salary. After Palma de Mallorca and
Seleznyov joins, but further moves hindered by salary cap
SERGIO CORTÉS
Ukrainian striker Yevhen Seleznyov became Malaga's first winter signing this week, arriving at La Rosaleda after getting a personal recommendation from coach Juan Ramón Muñiz. The 33-year-old coincided with Muñiz at Dnipro for two and a half years
Malaga sporting director "very happy" with January window but warns about future problems
BORJA GUTIÉRREZ
...million required. With La Liga introducing stricter rules on salary cap infractions next season, Gaspar warned that a lot of work still needed to be done "not only on the sporting side". Director general Richard Shaheen for his part said that the club
The salary gap is widening in Spain and could take more than a century to close
LUCÍA PALACIOS
...in work has risen, but many still earn no more than 1,000 euros a month Spain is one of the most backward countries in terms of equal salaries, coming 129th out of the 149 countries studied for that Davos report. In the past decade the salary gap,
Malaga seal five-million-euro loan to remain solvent and kickstart construction on the Academy
...director Manolo Gaspar successfully juggled the playing staff to comply with the 3.6-million-euro salary cap (confirmed as the lowest in all of Segunda this week and imposed by La Liga) savings elsewhere in the club have not quite managed to guarantee
Opposition calls into question Vélez-Málaga deputy mayor's disability allowance
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Cómpeta councillors vote to give mayor huge pay rise
EUGENIO CABEZAS
...boasted about lowering the salary to 10,000 euros when he took office in June."
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Large marches took place across Spain on Tuesday to mark the May Day public holiday, traditionally used to campaign for better rights for workers. The main trade union groups organised some 70 demonstrations across the country for International Wo
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Lord John de Grey & Margaret de Oddingseles
30422856. Lord John de Grey & 30422857. Margaret de Oddingseles
1274, John born in England, s/o 60845712. Robert de Grey & 60845713. Joan de Valoines.
8/19/1274 at Westminster abbey, Edward I crowned king of England.
4/1277, Margaret born in England, d/o 15212298. Lord William de Oddingseles & 15212299. Ela Fitz Walter.
Bef. 5/27/1295, John’s father died.
6/25/1295, at his father’s estate inquisition, John is 23 years and more.
Bef. 7/8/1295, John did homage for his father’s lands. (S) Yorkshire Inquisitions, 1902, P14.
1295, Margaret, 18 years old, coheir of her brother Edmund.
1/26/1297, John summoned to parliament at Salisbury.
7/22/1298, John fought in the victory at Falkirk against William Wallace.
7/22/1298, King Edward defeated Sir William Wallace (Braveheart) at the battle of Falkirk, Scotland. The Scots defensive position was strong, but based on spearmen with support of some cavalry and archers. Edward’s armored knights were repulsed by the amassed spear points. King Edward brought up his Welsh longbowmen. They cut gaps into the Scottish ranks through which the mounted English knights could charge. The Scots were routed, but Wallace escaped.
[––John & Margaret––]
By 1299, John de Grey married to Margaret.
3/14/1300, Restitution to Ralph son of Ralph Basset of Drayton, … in consideration of 1,000 marks, which Guy, earl of Warwick, … John Grey of Retherfeld, … have acknowledged themselves in chancery … (S) CPRs.
6/25/1300, King Edward led his forces north from Carlisle.
7/9/1300, Siege of Caerlaverock castle in Scotland began. John at the siege.
1300, Ela formerly wife of William de Oddingeseles sued Ralph de Whyteleye of Solihul for a third of a messuage and 25 acres of landin Solyhull as her dower; and Ralph called to warranty John de Clynton and Ida his wife, Peter de Bermyngham and Alice his wife, Morice de Kauntonand Ela his wife, and John de Gray and Margaret his wife, because the said women were the daughters and heirs of William de Oddingseles; and John de Clynton and Ida appeared and stated that the said Peter had no wife named Alice, nor had Morice a wife named Ela, but that Peter had Ela to wife and Morice had Alice. Ralph denied this, and appealed to a jury, which is to be summoned for the Quindene of Hillary. (S) Plea Rolls for Staffordshire, V7, 1886.
1304, John, age 30, is the heir of his paternal grandmother Isabel de Dunston (121691425).
1306, John summoned against the Scots. [Both the Battle of Methvin, and Siege of Dunaverty castle, occurred.]
2/25/1308, Edward II crowned king of England.
10/17/1311, John de Grey of Rotherfeld died. (S) UKNA.
[––Margaret––]
10/20/1311, IPM of John de Grey of Rotherfeld. York: Scolcotes. A capital messuage, … John his son, aged 10 and more, is his next heir. … [multiple land properties] … Lincoln: … Northampton: Duston. The manor … Kent: … Oxford: Cogges. The manor … Rutherfeud. The manor … Baggerugg. A capital messuage, … Warwick: Solihull. 22 marks yearly rent, … Arley. The advowson of the church … Indenture of assignment of dower to the said Margaret, … (S) CIsPM.
1311-12, Margaret, widow of John de Grey, holding in dower Duston for 1 fee. (S) Honors and Kinghts’ Fees, Farrer, 1923, P229.
1/23/1312, Grant to Henry le Scrope … of the custody of the lands in Ketewelle, co. York, late of John de Grey of Rotherfeld, … custody of the heir … (S) CPRs.
6/10/1312, Licence for Margaret, late the wife of John de Grey of Rotherfeld, tenant in chief, to marry whomsoever she will of the king’s allegience. (S) CPRs.
Margaret married 2nd Sir Robert de Moreby. [1 son, Robert]
2/1/1327 at Westminster, Edward III, age 14, crowned king of England.
1331, Richard de la Coppe, presented at Oxburgh by the Lady Margaret Grey, Widow of John de Grey, lord of Rotherfield, daughter and coheir of William Odyngsells, Knt. of Maxstoke in Warwickshire. [Richard Rector 4th & 5th of Edward III.] (S) History of the Counry of Norfolk, V3, 1769, P491.
Margaret died.
(S) The Visitation of the Co. of Warwick in the Year 1619: by William Camden, Publ. 1877, P77. (S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P628.
Children of John and Margaret:
i. John de Grey (15211428), born 10/9/1300 in England.
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Jungle Rock - Caroline James
To celebrate the recent release of Jungle Rock by Caroline James, Brook Cottage Books are running a fabulous promotion day filled with reviews, extracts and a giveaway. I am delighted to take part and if you like what you read, don't forget to head over to Amazon to pick up a copy for yourself.
Genre: Romcom
Release Date: 21st Nov 2016
Publisher: Ramjam Publishing
Romantic comedy author, Caroline James has written an entertaining novella with a Christmas feel Set in the Australian jungle, the book has been described as ‘entertaining and funny, a real feel-good read’ and fans of, I’m A Celebrity, Get Me out of Here are sure to enjoy it.
Handsome young chef Zach Docherty is feeling the heat. Following an exposé in a national newspaper, his fiancée Poppy Dunlop has broken their engagement. Heartbroken at the thought of life without Poppy, Zach drowns his sorrows and, when his agent suggests that Zach becomes a contestant in a reality TV show, Jungle Survival, he reluctantly agrees. Plunged deep in the jungle, into a bizarre mix of talent and trials, Zach meets glamour model Cleo Petra, and the cameras go crazy.
Will Zach survive and be crowned Jungle King? Or will his latest exploits push Poppy further away...
I jumped at the chance of reading Jungle Rock as the latest series of I'm a Celebrity was ending and it was just the thing to feed my jungle addiction. The only problem is that it's only a novella and I could have quite easily read a full novel about Zach's exploits in Jungle Survival.
Zach is a celebrity chef but after being caught in a compromising position with a woman who wasn't his fiancée, his engagement is called off and he heads for the Australian jungle to star in Jungle Rock. Poppy, his ex-fiancée also jets off to America as part of the publicity team for another celebrity chef, but even in America you can catch episodes of Jungle Survival. Zach seems like a lovely normal guy and as the real events surrounding the exposé are revealed I had my fingers crossed that it wasn't too late to win back Poppy.
For a short book there are quite a few colourful characters in it and each of them are so much larger than life that they virtually jump out of the pages. It is testament as to how warmly it is written, that I didn't realise that the characters have appeared in previous books. So Jungle Rock can certainly be read as a standalone as I did just that and enjoyed it immensely.
You don't have to be a fan of I'm a Celebrity to enjoy Jungle Rock but for those of us who love our annual 3 week trip to the Australian outback it's a perfect feel-good read.
“He’s doing what?” Hattie said. She had a mouthful of shortbread and a mug of coffee in her hand and stopped in her tracks as she watched Jo stare at her mobile phone.
“Zach’s going into the jungle. He’s a contestant on Jungle Survival.”
“Oh my.” Hattie smiled and wiped a spray of crumbs off her chest.
“He’s at the airport with Bob; they’re about to board a plane.”
“Well I never.” Hattie put her mug on the desk and stared at her friend. “How do you feel about that?”
“Astonished.”
“It might do him good.”
“Fancy a bracer?”
“Start pouring.”
Cradling mugs of coffee, laced with a good slug of brandy, Jo and Hattie sat in the conservatory and looked out at the garden beyond.
“It doesn’t seem five minutes since he was a little boy running all over this lawn with his brother,” Jo said as she stared thoughtfully across the neatly manicured grass.
“And now he’s running off to Australia.”
In the distance, a group of guests appeared from the meadow, where a clairvoyance course was being run in an old gypsy caravan. Originally horse-drawn, the caravan had been John’s pride and joy, brightly painted with little wooden steps. It was a perfect setting for an intimate group. Boomerville hosted many courses for residents to enjoy and it was Jo’s hope that a stay at the hotel would inspire middle-aged boomers and set them up with new and inspiring skills to use in their later years.
“Another successful event,” Hattie said as she watched the beatific expressions of the participants as they drifted down the garden, confident that the spirits of their dead granny and Rover, the family pet, were beside them, whispering and woofing encouraging words from beyond.
“I wish I could see into Zach’s future,” Jo replied. “I hope he’s not making a terrible mistake.”
“Well, if he is, he’s picked the right place to make it. That show’s watched by millions. Perhaps we should run something similar here?” Hattie closed her eyes and began to plan out a jungle camp, set in the meadow. “The old ‘uns would love it! Prancing about like Bear Grylls, cooking over an open fire, sleeping under the stars. It has ‘winner’ all over it.”
“It has mass suicide all over it,” Jo replied. “Hyperthermia and food poisoning.”
“Think of the low overheads. We could bring Wonder Boy in to teach them how to skin a rabbit or two, a bit of camp-fire bonhomie and all that stuff.”
“Hattie, will you please be serious. My son is currently on his way to the other side of the world, where he’ll be exposed to any amount of danger; he’s emotionally vulnerable and I’m worried about him.”
Hattie sat up and opened her eyes.
“Oh, get a grip,” she said. “Can you imagine what he’s getting paid for this stint? How can he possibly go wrong? They’ll have him stripped down to his six-pack before the opening credits have run. He won’t even need to open his mouth and the phone lines will be pulsating as fast as every female viewer’s heart. Your Zach has made his finest career move yet.” Hattie reached for Jo’s empty mug. “Get that grumpy expression off yer face and let’s send him good luck wishes for his arrival in Aus.” She stood and glanced at the group in the garden. “Perhaps we can get that lot to send him a mystical sign...”
As Jo watched Hattie walk away, she felt cross. She knew that Hattie was probably right but Jo had a niggling feeling that Zach’s trip wasn’t going to run as smoothly or as successfully as everyone expected. A mother had an instinct about her offspring, but in this case, Jo hoped that her instincts would be proved wrong.
ABOUT CAROLINE JAMES
Caroline’s debut novel, Coffee Tea The Gypsy & Me shot to #3 on Amazon and was E-book of the Week in The Sun newspaper. Her second novel, So, You Think You're A Celebrity… Chef? has been described as wickedly funny: 'AbFab meets MasterChef in a Soap…' Coffee Tea The Caribbean & Me, an Amazon best-seller, was a Top Ten Finalist at The Write Stuff, London Book Fair 2015 and the judge’s comments included: Caroline is a natural story-teller with a gift for humour in her writing.” Her next novel, Boomerville will be published spring 2017.
Caroline has owned and run many catering related businesses and cookery is a passion alongside her writing, combining the two with her love of the hospitality industry and romantic fiction. As a media agent, Caroline represented many well-known celebrity chefs and her TV script, So, You Think You’re A Celebrity Chef? was runner up at the Winchester Writers Festival 2016.
She has published short stories and is a member of the Romantic Novelist’s Association. Caroline writes articles on food and celebrity based interviews and is Feature Editor for an online lifestyle magazine. She is a founder member of The Cheshirati and is available for inspiring and entertaining talks on anything related to the hospitality and publishing industry.
www.carolinejamesauthor.co.uk
Twitter: @CarolineJames12
https://www.facebook.com/carolinejamesauthor
Labels: Australia, chef, family, I'm a Celebrity, jungle, reality show, relationships
Caroline James 11 December 2016 at 09:59
Huge thanks Michelle for taking part in the Jungle Rock promo and for your fab review! Very much appreciated, with love Caroline xx
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Haskell Alumni Involved in First Native Horror Film Festival
In: Arts & Entertainment, Feature Stories
Vision Maker Media Assistant Director and Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) Alumnus, Charlie Perry (Prairie Band Potawatomi) is behind “Nightmare Vision”, the first ever Indigenous horror film festival, showing online October 30-31.
Nightmare Vision is a follow up festival to Vision Maker Media’s First Indigenous Online Film Festival which had a successful five week run time earlier this year. Nightmare Vision will be free to the public and feature short films, documentaries, and feature full length films created by and for Indigenous people. Perry said, “We wanted to show Native American’s making contributions to contemporary society and not just being seen as relics of the past.”
Featured in Nightmare Vision is HINU alumnus Joe Singh (Cherokee) whose short films “Beyond the Fear” and “The Vampire Upstairs” will show alongside a two day lineup of Native films including Jeff Barnaby’s award winning feature film “Rhymes for Young Ghouls”. Perry said, “[The Vampire Upstairs] is a great example of if you have a camera and a dream and a good story you can make a film.”
When asked what Singh hopes he inspires in the next generation of filmmakers, Singh said, “Do it, is my advice to the younger generation. Do what you can, the best you can. Unleash the ideas.”
Nightmare Vision and Singh’s films may be found at: https://visionmakermedia.org/nightmare-vision/
Featured Image from left: Charlie Perry and Joe Singh, composite photos curtesy of Charlie Perry and Joe Singh.
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Coming Out Autistic at BlogHer
Jean Winegardner
@stimey
So I am at BlogHer. And it is crazy and wonderful and overwhelming and fun and some of my favorite people are here and I have a lot to say about it and photos to post, but I have something rumbling around that I have to get out.
I've been thinking a lot about my own autism at this conference. Partly because of my social and sensory issues, but also because autism is so central to what I write about.
When people meet you at BlogHer, they ask what you write about. I usually say, "I write a humor blog about autism and rodents," partly because it's true and partly because it's funny to see people try to digest that information. I usually follow up with, "I have a son with autism."
This year, however, when I've said that, it has felt less honest. This is because although I still identify most strongly as an autism parent, the truth is that I have Asperger's and that is an important part of me. As I understand this new lens more and adjust to this new part of my identity, that identification will probably become more important to me.
Not mentioning it when it is pertinent seems dishonest and as if I am hiding a part of myself. Which I don't want to do, both for me and as an example for Jack. I always say that my goal for Jack is to raise a proud, happy, autistic man and he can decide on the rest.
But I can't expect him to be proud and open and full of love for every part of himself if I can't lead by example and do the same. And part of that is being out.
I am out as having Asperger's. I have disclosed that information here. But there is a big difference between writing about being autistic online and actually saying the words out loud to people in real life and accepting the judgments, stigma, and assumptions that might follow.
And, yes, a lot of the people who live in my computer also exist in my day-to-day real life world, but other than four or five people I am closest to, I hadn't yet said to someone's face, "I am autistic."
I went to a BlogHer panel by Deb on the Rocks, Mocha Momma, and Faiqa who talked about the intersection of identity and issues in blogging, in their cases, largely gay, race, political, and Muslim issues. As they spoke of closets and responsibility and power, I thought about the way I feel about the autistic rights movement and how I see it as a civil rights issue and it all felt so parallel to what they were saying.
Then Deb said something along the lines of (and dear lord, I hope I'm not misrepresenting her), if there is an impulse to be closeted, we need to examine why that impulse is there.
I understand why some people would choose to not disclose their autism, but I think that if I can be out about it, if I can disclose it, don't I have a responsibility to do so? On a micro scale for Jack and for me; on a macro scale, for all autistic people who fear identification?
I'm still figuring all this out. This is why I wrote about my diagnosis and haven't touched it since. It's a big identity change/addition/modification/retooling. Please bear with me over the coming months.
What I'm trying to say is that I feel as if not saying, "My son and I have autism," when I am explaining why I write about autism feels disingenuous. Yes, I still own my status as an autism mom and I own it fucking proudly, but now there is more to it.
So this weekend, I started to tell people in person. I started to come out of the neurotypical closet (Or is it an autistic closet? I told you that I'm new at this.) And you know what? It didn't hurt at all. Some people made the small talky comments that means they don't much care, some people glossed over it, some people wanted to know more, and at least one person told me she is an Aspie too. Also, when I kinda freaked out over this sample of the core of a gel mattress, the lady at that Expo booth kind of gave me a weird look and then walked away from me.
(Also, one person congratulated me, which is, without a doubt, my favorite response to my diagnosis and has come almost solely from autistic people.)
It feels strange on my tongue to say it, but it will become more natural. And I know that all the feedback I get won't be good, but at least it will be honest on my part.
So. If you see me walking around the world?
This is me. I write a humor blog about autism and rodents because I like to laugh, my son and I are autistic, and rodents are goddamn funny.
Posted by Shannon Des Roches Rosa on Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Labels: autism, autistic, humor, identity, Jean Winegardner, labels, parenting
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TOP 4 contestants determined with latest rounds of elimination on “Unpretty Rapstar 3”
During the September 16th episode of Unpretty Rapstar on Mnet, the TOP 6 rappers were chosen after an intense solo rap battle.
WARNING: Spoilers ahead!!!
Ash-B, Yuk Ji Dam, Yuna Kim (Euna Kim), and Grace, who were defeated in the previous episode during a mission, were contestants in the elimination rap battle. Out of the four rappers, two were eliminated while the other two would advance to the next round as part of the TOP 6.
The first contestant of the rap battle was Ash-B, who gave an unexpectedly powerful performance. Grace followed Ash-B, and she composed her rap with lyrics such as “Since I only have one life to live, I might as well play hard and live hard.” Yuna Kim was the third contestant and her lyrics strongly reflected her competitive attitude. The fourth contestant, Yuk Ji Dam, was praised with her comfortable presence during her performance.
When the final results were shown, Ash-B and Yuk Ji Dam advanced to the TOP 6 while Grace and Yuna Kim were eliminated from the show.
The remaining six contestants then competed in one-on-one rap battles. Jeon So Yeon was paired with Miryo, Nada with Ash-B, and Giant Pink with Yuk Ji Dam. At the end of the episode, Jeon So Yeon and Ash-B managed to secure their wins against Miryo and Nada, advancing to the semi-finals.
Recently, Miryo confessed her inner thoughts about her participation in the competition show during an interview with the staff.
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FDIC Suits Against Execs May Spark M&A
Copyright: (c) 2010 SourceMedia Inc , Source: The Financial Times Limited
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is again making an example of Heritage Community Bank in Glenwood, Ill.
Nearly two years after the regulator let a film crew tag along as it seized the $232 million-asset company in a segment for the news program “60 Minutes,” the FDIC is going after former officers and directors. In what is expected to be the first of many professional-liability lawsuits against individuals associated with failed banks, the FDIC wants to recoup some losses sustained by its Deposit Insurance Fund in the current economic cycle.
The litigation, or at least the threat of a lawsuit, could be enough to make leaders of other troubled banks squirm, with the broader potential of spurring more distressed sales, industry experts said. “If you are a director of a troubled community bank and you have had your head in the sand, this is your siren,” said Michael Iannaccone , the president of MDI Investments Inc. in Chicago. “It is time to cut a deal that gives you massive dilution or leaves you with nothing, rather than let your bank be taken over and have the FDIC hound you,” Iannaccone said.
That is if a bank can find a buyer. Some lawyers believe a fear of professional liability is hefty enough that some bankers might even pay an acquirer.
“In the late 70s, I remember a seriously troubled bank where the directors paid the buyer to take the bank over, thinking I would rather pay than for us to fail and for the FDIC to file suit,” said Jeffrey C. Gerrish , a partner at Gerrish McCreary Smith in Memphis, Tenn., who represented the FDIC in the 1970s. “It was unusual then, but we might see a few head in that direction again.”
The level of fear may hinge on what happens with Heritage or the other 70 former officers and directors that the FDIC has authorization from its board to seek claims against. While the lawsuit against Heritage is the first community bank claim so far, in July the FDIC sued four officers of the failed IndyMac Bank. (The number of banks that fall under that authorization remains undisclosed, but the FDIC can work under a three-year statute of limitation.)
On Nov. 1, the FDIC sued 11 former Heritage directors and officers for $20 million in the U.S. District Court for northern Illinois, pursuing about half of what the failure is expected to cost the insurance fund. In the complaint, the FDIC alleges gross negligence, negligence and breach of fidicuary duty. The officers and directors “failed to properly manage and supervise Heritage and its commercial real estate lending program,” the complaint said. “Defendants knew, or should have known, CRE lending is a specialized field with unique risks that require thorough understanding and close management.”
In the case of Heritage, the FDIC found that the bank lacked proper controls or foresight on its overexposure to commercial real estate. The lawsuit also claims that management continued to allow Heritage to make dividend payments even as the bank was falling apart.
The leaders of Heritage said they were blindsided like everyone else. “The FDIC’s action is both regrettable and wrong,” the defendants said in a press release. “With the advantage of 20-20 hindsight, the FDIC blames the former officers and directors of a small community bank for not anticipating the same market forces that also caught central bankers, national banks, economists, major Wall Street firms and the regulators themselves by surprise.”
The FDIC is not planning to file lawsuits against the directors and officers of every bank that fails. Greg Hernandez , an FDIC spokesman, said the regulator spends up to 18 months studying a failure to determine the role that management and the board played in the demise.
Gerrish said the FDIC will likely pursue cases where it knows that if proven right, the defendants will have the ability to pay either from their own pockets, or those whose directors’ and officers’ insurance covers such claims. In his estimation, about a fifth of policies have such coverage.
That’s dwindling, said David Baris , of BuckleySandler and executive director of the <org>American Association of Bank Directors. “Carriers are running away,” he said. “Most community banks can only get policies without regulatory coverage now.”
As troubled community banks take notice, so are insurers, said Stephen Fitzsimonds , a managing director of Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services Inc. in Chicago. “The carriers have been pulling back for the last few years because they knew this was coming,” he said. “But now that we have this suit, I think we will see more pull back over the next 12 to 18 months.”
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2013 in Review: A Fireside Chat with EFF's Jillian York and Eva Galperin
China31 December 2013
NSA and FinFisher and drones, oh my! Was 2013 the "worst year for Internet freedom" to date? Jillian and Eva discuss.
A Different Kind of Free Speech
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There are currently 142 people in prison or detention for "politically motivated reasons" in Azerbaijan. Activist and blogger Arzu Geybullayeva reflects on the country's approach to human rights and Internet...
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Bloggers, punk rockers, intellectuals, dissidents, and a pair of Argentine tourists were all detained in Cuba last week, just in time for international Human Rights Day.
Syrian Cartoonist Akram Raslan Reportedly Killed by Regime
Syria13 December 2013
Uncertainty continues over the fate of Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan, winner of the Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning for 2013, arrested in October 2012 by the Assad regime.
Non-Violent Activist Razan Zaitouneh Kidnapped in Syria
Four activists, among them internationally acclaimed non-violent activist Razan Zaitouneh, were kidnapped by unidentified masked gunmen, sparking a call for their immediate release.
Spain: Public Safety Bill or Threat to Civil Rights?
Spain9 December 2013
A new "anti-protest" bill in Spain could prohibit calling for protests via the Internet, circulating riot images during demonstrations, and "violence against street furniture."
Controversy Smolders Over Japan's State Secrecy Bill
Japan6 December 2013
An unusually diverse range of groups are making urgent last-minute appeals against Japan's State Secrecy Protection Bill. Meanwhile, a ruling party leader compared protesters to "terrorists".
UN Experts Condemn Detention of Vietnamese Blogger Le Quoc Quan
Vietnam3 December 2013
Le Quoc Quan was arrested in December 2012 on trumped-up charges of tax evasion -- but experts suspect that the "real purpose" of his detention and prosecution was to silence...
Syrian Activists: Crimes Against Media Workers Must Stop
Syria2 December 2013
Media organizations in Syria speak out against the increasing harassment of journalists by jihadist groups in the country.
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D.W. Griffith
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A biography of the beloved United States president by D. W. Griffith.
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Walter Huston .... Abraham Lincoln
Una Merkel .... Ann Rutledge
William L. Thorne .... Tom Lincoln (as W.L. Thorne)
Lucille La Verne .... Midwife
Helen Freeman .... Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Otto Hoffman .... Offut
Edgar Dearing .... Armstrong (as Edgar Deering)
Russell Simpson .... Lincoln's employer
Charles Crockett .... Sheriff
Kay Hammond .... Mary Todd Lincoln
Helen Ware .... Mrs. Edwards
E. Allyn Warren .... Stephen A. Douglas (as E. Alyn Warren)
Jason Robards Sr. .... Herndon (as Jason Robards)
Gordon Thorpe .... Tad Lincoln
Ian Keith .... John Wilkes Booth
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Reviewer: Makhow - - September 20, 2020
Subject: D.W.Griffith
I neither watched the movie nor seen it ..After reading the comments and how someone could watch a film made in 1930 and apply 2020 criticism speaks volumes to the abandonment of critical thinking in modern day OMERICA ..The standards of the day are concocted and disseminated by the most anti Christian Europeans in recorded history..Criticizing characters in a movie and its script is probably to be expected given the intelligence quotient of the US public today ..Why not attack the makers of the picture and the proliferators of today's propaganda closer scrutiny would indicate they are the same bloodline...
Reviewer: Samananda - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - December 12, 2015
Subject: Can I dub this film....
Please tell me if I can dub this film in my local Manipuri language..and distribute in dvds...Hope this film is very important and so want to distribute among young people in my local area...Ours is very remote place in India...
Please allow me to dub in my local language....
Samananda
samananda.sam2010@gmail.com
Reviewer: Robert B. Livingston - favoritefavoritefavorite - November 21, 2010
Subject: Interesting Document of Civil War Iconography and Early Cinema
This is an interesting film for many reasons.
Only one negro appears in the film (who appears to actually be a white man in blackface)-- and he is a butt of ridicule.
The confederate flag in the movie is historically questionable.
John Wilkes Booth's speech at Ford's theater is included, while Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is completely absent from this film.
Hobart Bosworth delivers the most realistic performance as Robert E. Lee (although lacking a convincing Southern accent). (Many of the Illinois residents seem to have Southern accents.)
The film was adapted for the screen by none other than Stephen Vincent Benet.
Walter Huston's performance of Lincoln's character is ponderous and wooden, and his didactic refrain: "For we must preserve the Union!" gets to be quite tiring, if not amusing to a modern viewer who might be expecting a "punch line".
Perhaps most interesting is that this movie is very similar to many modern movies which tend to dumb down history, toss in a gratuitous romance, and replace nuanced arguments with homilies.
This movie if remade today (by the formulaic requirements of Hollywood marketing) would likely be little different than as it was first produced here by D.W. Griffith.
Nevertheless, a truly moving and nuanced film about Lincoln, his conflicts and his complex personality would be a film that (even today) screams out to be made.
UPDATE November 2010: Spielberg is making a movie about Lincoln starring Daniel Day Lewis:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AI51H20101119
Reviewer: RollnHand - - July 7, 2009
Subject: For Pete's sake, look at Griffith
Everyone seems to know (and argue) way too much about Lincoln. I agree with most, he was a great man who accomplished great things for this country. As far as this film is concerned with teaching about Lincoln, we must always keep in mind the year it was made in and more specifically the director who made it.
As far as the "accuracy" of this film goes, let's first take this into consideration. This is a 1930 film. Sixty-five years have already passed the country by. This is a time that no one seems to take into account the severe difference of media and record keeping versus present day. There are no motion pictures from the Civil War era because no motion pictures existed yet.
Let us also briefly look at the movie industry. Q: Why was it in existence? A: To make copious amounts of money. So why would Griffith make a historically accurate, socially unacceptable, non-money-making film? He wouldn't. Griffith instead made a film that twists some facts, appeals it to the crowds, and makes a lot of money. He did not set out to make educational films.
When you look at a piece of history, you can't look at it in a vacuum. We must look at all the ventures of 1930 surrounding the creation of this film. What was society like then? How did people feel then? We cannot go blindly into this comparing this piece of HISTORY as an accurate resource of information on Abraham Lincoln. We must view and internalize it for what it is, not what it isn't.
Lastly, if anyone here has seen any other Griffith films, they would know his style, his prejudice, and his utter disrespect for many peoples. Obviously a man who encapsulates the KKK as a group of heros has issues (Birth of a Nation). Birth of a Nation had become such a powerfully negatively angled movie, it ended up sparking racial riots.
It seems obvious to me, on an issue such as this, Griffith's work on Lincoln cannot be viewed as historically accurate, but rather used as a window into the mentality of that period of time as opposed to now.
Who cares if they got Lincoln's birthday wrong. This film was obviously not created to teach the truth, but to preach a disposition.
Reviewer: Cromagnon13 - - June 30, 2009
Subject: Lincoln was born in Kentucky
Malscott, before you post a comment on something factual, you should look it up first, to make sure you aren't wrong. You were wrong on two points. Out of two.
Lincoln was born in KY, moved to Indiana when he was 7, and LATER moved to Illinois.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Lincoln#Childhood_and_education
Reviewer: malscott - favorite - June 28, 2009
Subject: an inaccuracy?
ya i see an inaccuracy? at 4:21 Abe says hes from indiana indiany lol history books always told me hes was born in illinois. wonder how that one slipped by.
Reviewer: Bill Still - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - May 8, 2009
Subject: Abe is OK
For crying out loud, give this movie a break! It was one of the first talkies. The confederate flag is barely visible and I'm not so sure it's even an accurate depiction. But no matter, it's history, get over it! There is more than one black. Just doing a quick scan, I saw several scenes of blacks lining a parade route and throwing things to the marchers. You have to have no life at all if you want to criticize this on today's PC grounds. And hey, it's not up to today's standards for fast moving action either -- no car chases. This was done just 50 years after the fact. They didn't have to look up how people dressed or talked in books; it was still fresh in their minds.
Reviewer: overshoe - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - December 24, 2008
Subject: A-L
Reviewer: Telephone Toughguy - - April 9, 2007
Subject: Did not watch the movie
Becuase he was a republican that ruined all those nice southern farmer's lives.
Reviewer: Spuzz - favoritefavoritefavorite - April 23, 2006
Subject: Medveds be damned!
Forever damned as one of the 50 Worst Movies of All Time by those well respected critics (sarcasm) The Medved brothers, Abraham Lincoln is by all means not the worst movie Ive ever seen, heck, I really wouldnt call it bad, it just a bit slow and has some hooty moments, but otherwise might serve as a nice early representation of a president on Film.
Walter Huston, brilliant actor as he is, I dont think quite pulls off the role here. His Lincoln is awfully stiff, goes dreamy eyed when making Some Significant Statement. Actually, all the acting is quite stiff here, I guess being the time, they were still doing Silent Movie Acting and not quite getting the rythym down yet for sound films. Least person to know this is the actress playing Mrs Lincoln, who always jumping around, acting acting acting.
As for the story, Im not American, so I cant really judge of whats true or not, but it does make coherent sense, So I have no complaints about this really.
Reviewer: Therby - favoritefavoritefavorite - January 15, 2006
Subject: An Interesting Look at Abe Lincoln
It may be a more interesting look at how the makers of this film portrayed these times and personalities. The black face and the emphasis on the reason for the war was probably to make sure it could make money in southern states.(just a guess)
Reviewer: 1mile2go - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - May 7, 2004
Subject: Abe Lincoln
A good film, for the time. The mpeg-1 is a fine file. It is an intersting look at his life. I found the model of the Lincoln Memorial to be an accurate idea of what it would look like before it was built. This is a must see, If you are interested in the life of Lincoln. Although it ends with his assisnation at Fords Theater with Booth Jumping down to the stage, then fades to his log cabin and the credits, no follow up.
Reviewer: Buck Hummer - favoritefavorite - May 6, 2004
Subject: Saint Abe Lincoln - one generation removed
The film, actually presents more like a film of a stage play, makes one consider the pacing of viewers in the 1930s, be prepared to be p a t i e n t, no really p a t i e n t. Remember many viewers would have been children during the reconstruction and is poignant to see how reverently the president was remembered.
Reviewer: The Holmes - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - May 3, 2004
Subject: Classic Griffith
This is a historically important film simply for the fact that it is the first sound film directed by D.W. Griffith. You can definately tell that the actors were not used to having to speak thier lines, as the acting is rigid and may seem boring. However, the style of the directing and cinematography is pure Griffith.
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The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook Kindle Edition
Ina Garten (Author)
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Ina Garten (Author), Martha Stewart (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition
Ina Garten and The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook provide the perfect recipe for hosting parties that are easy and fun for everyone--including the cook.
For more than twenty years Ina Garten's, Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, has been turning out extraordinary dishes for enthusiastic customers in the Hamptons. For many of those years, people have tried to get the exuberant owner, Ina Garten, to share the secrets of her store. Finally, the energy and style that make Barefoot Contessa such a special place are shown here, with dozens of recipes and more than 160 breathtaking photographs, in The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook.
Ina's most popular recipes use familiar ingredients and yield amazing results. Her Pan-Fried Onion Dip is the real thing, with slowly caramelized onions and fresh sour cream. Tomato soup is created from oven-roasted tomatoes and fresh basil to intensify the flavors. Meat loaf is as good as your grandmother's, but it's healthier because it's made with ground turkey and fresh herbs. The light and flaky Maple-Oatmeal Scones are baked with rolled oats, whole wheat, and real maple syrup. Now these and other famous Barefoot Contessa recipes can be prepared at home.
Ina says that before she owned a specialty food store she often spent a week making dinner for six friends. Her experience at Barefoot Contessa has given her hundreds of ideas for creating wonderful parties in a few hours. And they're all in this book. Crab Cakes with Rémoulade Sauce can be stored overnight in the refrigerator and sautéed just before the guests arrive. Cheddar Corn Chowder can be made days ahead, reheated, and served with a salad and bread for a delicious autumn lunch. The ingredients for Grilled Salmon Salad can all be prepared ahead and tossed together before serving. The batter for the Raspberry Corn Muffins can be mixed a day before and popped into the oven just before breakfast.
Ina Garten teaches us how to entertain with style, simplicity, and a relaxed sense of fun. There are notes throughout the book for giving cocktail parties, lunches, and dinner parties where everything is done before the guests arrive. And there are easy instructions for creating gorgeous party platters that don't even require you to cook!
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"I enjoy Barefoot Contessa both for its presentation, which is just about the best I've ever seen, and also because the food tastes like home cooking - because it is. I'm drawn in as much by its personality as I am by what they have to offer" (Steven Spielberg, Director)
"Like Ina Garten herself, this stunning, lively new book is about style, simplicity, comfort, and good times among family and friends. Her natural approach to food is frank and forward, and you are sure to treasure each tip, each recipe" (Patricia Wells, author of At Home with Patricia Wells: Cooking in Provence)
"No store more fully embodies the easy, stylish elegance of the Hamptons than Barefoot Contessa. And no one understands what successful entertaining is all about better than Ina Garten. Born of retailing, her wonderful, accessible recipes have been tested on you and me for a very long time and they really work. Bravo!" (Eli Zabar, owner of EAT, The Vinegar Factory)
"Beloved all over the planet (not only for her food), Ina Garten has become the inspiration in the kitchen for so many of us. Her ease, warmth and grace make her shows as delectable to watch as her food is to eat." (Gwyneth Paltrow) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
How to entertain with style, simplicity and a relaxed sense of fun - the perfect recipe for hosting parties and entertaining at home. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From the Inside Flap
For more than twenty years, Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed speciality food store, cooked extraordinary dishes for enthusiastic customers in the Hamptons. For many of those years, people tried to get the exuberant owner, Ina Garten, to share the secrets of her store. Finally, the energy and style that made Barefoot Contessa such a special place are shown here, with dozens of recipes and more than 160 breathtaking photographs, in The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook.
Ina's most popular recipes use familiar ingredients, but they taste even better than you would expect. Her Pan-Fried Onion Dip is the real thing, with slowly caramelized onions and fresh sour cream. Tomato soup is created from oven-roasted tomatoes and fresh basil to intensify the flavours. Meat loaf is as good as your grandmother's, but it's healthier because it's made with ground turkey and fresh herbs. The light and flaky Maple-Oatmeal Scones are baked with rolled oats, whole wheat, and real maple syrup. Now these and other famous Barefoot Contessa recipes can be prepared at home.
Ina says that before she owned a speciality food store she often spent a week making dinner for six friends. Her experience at Barefoot Contessa has given her hundreds of ideas for creating wonderful parties in a few hours. And they're all in this book. Crab Cakes with Rémoulade Sauce can be stored overnight in the refrigerator and sautéed just before the guests arrive. Cheddar Corn Chowder can be made days ahead, reheated, and served with a salad and bread for a delicious autumn lunch. The ingredients for Grilled Salmon Salad can all be prepared ahead and tossed together before serving. The batter for the Raspberry Corn Muffins can be mixed a day before and popped into the oven just before breakfast.
(continued on back flap) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
'At Barefoot Contessa, we've made hundreds of thousands of Banana Crunch Muffins over the years, so I know the recipe works.' From Ina Garten's Introduction
'I enjoy Barefoot Contessa both for its presentation, which is just about the best I've ever seen, and also because the food tastes like home cooking - because it is. I'm drawn in as much by its personality as I am by what they have to offer.' Steven Spielberg, director
'Like Ina Garten herself, this stunning, lively new book is about style, simplicity, comfort, and good times among family and friends. Her natural approach to food is frank and forward, and you are sure to treasure each tip, each story, each recipe.'Patricia Wells, author of At Home with Patricia Wells: Cooking in Provence
'No store more fully embodies the easy, stylish elegance of the Hamptons than Barefoot Contessa.And no one understands what successful entertaining is all about better than Ina Garten. Born of retailing, her wonderful accessible recipes have been tested on you and me for a very long time and they really work. Bravo!' Eli Zabar, owner of E.A.T., The Vinegar Factory, Eli's Bread, Across the Street, and Eli's Manhattan --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Ina Garten is one of America's most loved culinary icons and the author of six previous New York Times bestselling cookery books. In the UK, her hugely popular Barefoot Contessa cookery programmes are screened each day on The Good Food Channel. Ina lives in East Hampton with her husband Jeffrey. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
ASIN : B00BVJG2GK
Publisher : Clarkson Potter; 1st edition (2 April 2013)
X-Ray : Enabled
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59 in Brunch & Tea Cooking (Kindle Store)
68 in Blender Recipes
Corderoy Joan Ann
2.0 out of 5 stars Underwhelming!
The blurb in this book states: “ For more than twenty years, Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed speciality food store, has been cooking and baking extraordinary dishes for enthusiastic customers in the Hamptons.” This book then, is based on the most popular recipes from this food store and is not, as I had thought, based on the television series of the same name. In the latter, I found Ira Gartner’s recipes to be sufficiently exciting and innovative to want to find them again in such a book. However, this book was published in 1999 and would have been before her TV series had started but this distinction was not clear when ordering it.
Most of the recipes are just too simple, and could be found anywhere else and even are ones which one would already have in one’s own cooking repertoire. For example a chicken is simply cooked with lemon juice , olive oil and thyme. And do we really need to know that for “roasted carrots” we just have to add a touch of garlic and dill. An orange yoghurt needs – well some orange zest in it Tomato soup: not much of a surprise there either – cherry tomatoes plus tinned ones, with a couple of herbs added. A recipe for a potato salad can be found in any cookbook. Parmesan croutons: one doesn’t need a whole page to tell us that you need, bread, olive oil, salt and parmesan cheese! There are two whole pages on a fruit platter, one of them with an illustration and the other with the “recipe”. A fruit platter tells its own story – you just need to choose a variety of fruit, and one doesn’t need any guidance to do that. There is a beautiful photo illustrating this, which would have contributed to the book being the price it is, illustrations appearing on virtually every page of the book.
These are just a few examples among many, and one is left asking oneself "so what’s new?”. Her TV series showed much more exciting dishes which were also rather more complicated – a soufflé being one of them, which I had hoped to find in this book, along with a few others which I found innovative and unusual.
All these recipes then are ones which the eponymous food store would have provided and thus by the very nature of it being a “food store” meant the recipes had to be relatively easy to produce with a need for the either being cooked very rapidly for a customer, or pre-prepared. No one is going to find any of these recipes particularly new and it is certainly over-priced for telling us a lot of things with which we are already familiar. Having said that, for a first-time cook the book could, nevertheless, be useful.
I have not entirely given up on Ira Gartner, and might even order her “Cooking for Jeffrey” cookbook. I should imagine that this book would provide recipes for just two to four people, instead of the large numbers (i.e. 8-10) that most of the recipes cater for in this volume, but above all, hopefully will contain recipes from her TV series, which, to use her favourite word, sound really "deelicius".
Hussein Kanji
2.0 out of 5 stars The kind of cookbook if you’re a suburban 1950s American housewife
These recipes are incredibly basic. Most of the savory recipes rely on salt, pepper and garlic. The sweet recipes rely on sugar and a LOT of butter. There is a Szechuan noodle recipe that uses spaghetti and sherry (hah!). There is another dish that is just a bunch of roasted vegetables stacked on top of each other. I would say this is a WASP cookbook suited for people who have never traveled the world, and are terrified of all the flavors out there. I’m regretting this purchase after hearing people rave about it.
CarefulandGreen
3.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful design and photographs but v v few recipes for veggies and vegans..
Haven't been able to use it very much... most of the recipes are no good for people who eat vegan food.. a pity
Margot P
There is nobody quite like the Barefoot Contessa
Zareena Asghar Khan
4.0 out of 5 stars Worth buying
Good recipes. Simple to follow
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It’s time to hand out midseason grades to teams in Class 5A, 6A and Division II-AAA.
615 Preps Highlights: Mt. Juliet 10, Wilson Central 7
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Highlights from Mt. Juliet’s 10-7 victory at Region 4-6A rival Wilson Central on Sept. 18, 2020.
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A2J Lab Staff
October 2, 2018Sandy North
We are always working with partners to ask hard questions about the justice system and develop new ideas for evaluations. Below are some of the questions and designs in our current pipeline:
Evaluation of the Transformative Justice Program
The Problem: The justice system is ill equipped to provide developmentally appropriate responses to criminal conduct by young adults (aged 17-24). This constituency faces chronic un- and underemployment, homelessness and housing insecurity, and other challenges. Despite the need, support services are often either uncoordinated or unavailable completely. The 80% re-arrest rate among young adults is higher than in any other age cohort.
The Questions: Does a community-based social services program reduce recidivism rates and improve other reentry-associated outcomes for felony arrestee young adults? How much new criminal activity is prevented?
The Study: The Lone Star Justice Alliance has designed a court-based re-entry system that provides a front-end release option for emerging adults after they are booked into the county jail. Consenting young adults arrested for low-level felonies will be randomized to receive either standard criminal justice adjudication or an offer to enter a services program. Study participants will be followed for two years after randomization to assess recidivism as well as measures of housing, employment, education, and health.
What We’ll Learn: The comprehensive nature of the program will allow for data on a broad range of criminal justice and quality of life measures.
Citation in lieu of Arrest
The Problem: Nationally, about twelve million people lose their freedom to arrest each year. These arrests have the potential to impact housing and employment outcomes for years to come. They also take officers off the street. A primary justification for arrest, one the United States Supreme Court invokes, is to assure appearance at court proceedings.
The Questions: Is using a citation (like a traffic ticket) in lieu of arrest for certain offenses a solution that can reduce the negative impacts of arrest while preserving court appearance rates and public safety? Is arrest worth the costs, as compared to alternatives?
The Study: With potential to launch in multiple jurisdictions, this evaluation could take one of several forms, including:
1) Individuals identified by law enforcement of committing an offense that is eligible for a permissive citation in lieu of arrest, and who pose no discernible safety risk to themselves or to the officer or to the public, will be assigned by lottery to either arrest or to receive a citation; or
2) Individuals identified by law enforcement of committing an offense that is eligible for a permissive citation in lieu of arrest, and who pose no discernible safety risk to themselves or to the officer or to the public, will be assigned by lottery to either arrest or receipt of citation in lieu of arrest by officer discretion or by random assignment.
What We’ll Learn: If proven effective, using citation could reduce costs and downstream impacts individuals experience due to arrest, while at the same time making more police officers available for other work. This intervention also has the potential to scale nationally.
Drug Courts
The Problem: Formerly incarcerated individuals face overwhelming obstacles as they attempt to reintegrate into society. These obstacles can be pervasive, undermining their stability in a range of areas of their lives, including employment, education, housing, family stability, and health. Substance abuse and addiction have been cited as a particularly intractable challenge for this population: of the 2.3 million individuals incarcerated in the United States, 65% meet the DSM-VI medical criteria for substance abuse or addiction. Based on the theory that substance abuse and addiction contribute to criminal behavior, drug courts and other problem-solving courts have emerged as a treatment-based alternative to incarceration and traditional probation. The current body of evidence, however, is insufficient to support their continued investment without further research.
The Questions: Does participation in a post-conviction drug court program reduce recidivism and improve employment, housing, and health outcomes as compared to traditional probation? For whom and under what circumstances are post-conviction drug court programs most effective? How cost-effective are drug court programs, given potential savings from reduced recidivism and improved employment, housing and other outcomes?
The Study: The A2J Lab has co-developed an evaluation of an existing post-conviction drug court program. The study design would randomly assign participants to either a drug court or a traditional probation program after the initial referral and risk assessment procedures had been completed. Average program completion time is approximately 17 months, and outcome data will be collected for two years post-completion. Outcome data will include both administrative data, including housing and employment data, as well as self-reported data from participant surveys that will allow the research team to capture information about participants’ experiences of the diversion program.
What We’ll Learn: Because of their popularity, drug courts are receiving an increasing amount of resources. By learning how their use impacts participant outcomes, policymakers will be able to decide which programs are the best matches for their communities. The survey element will provide valuable insight into participants’ direct experiences with the program.
Eviction Triage
The Problem: Residential displacement can disrupt a host of life activities and undoubtedly takes an emotional toll on tenants and their families. To mitigate those impacts, we need to know more about how tenants find themselves as defendants in summary eviction proceedings, the role that lawyers play in stopping or delaying those proceedings, and whether existing legal solutions address the problems of eviction as we understand them.
The Questions: How well do lawyers allocate the scarce resource of their time? Does legal representation yield improved outcomes for those facing eviction?
The Study: With its field partners, the A2J Lab has designed a double-randomized study. This RCT will investigate (1) how well lawyers make decisions about whom to represent; and (2) whether outcomes with direct representation are measurably different from those where tenants only have access to self-help materials. After staff attorneys conduct intake and make provisional representation decisions, the A2J Lab will randomize each potential client into one of two groups (the first level of randomization). In the first group, the attorney’s decision will be followed; in the second group, another random decision will replace the attorney’s. Among that second group, a computer-based randomizer will “decide” whether the potential client receives an offer of representation or self-help materials (the second level of randomization).
What We’ll Learn: This RCT design will help identify which eviction defendants’ outcomes truly depend on representation, whether those outcomes are continuances, stays of execution, or even possession of the apartment. It also will reveal whether the offer of direct representation increases the probability of success relative to receiving the self-help packet. Considering the larger social impact of eviction, this study will include non-adjudicatory outcomes measures such as the incidence of homelessness, unemployment, and adverse health effects, among other individual welfare consequences.
Legal Services for Domestic Violence Survivors
The Problem: Victims of domestic violence/sexual assault (DV/SA) experience the highest incidence of ancillary civil legal needs: on average, about eighteen per person in one state [this is crucial because the estimate isn’t nationwide, only from Washington State]. Yet the standard of care for civil legal assistance in the DV/SA context lags behind support for criminal prosecution. Compounding the problem is a severe lack of legal services in high-volume matters such as eviction and small-claims suits. The general expectation, therefore, is that DV/SA survivors will navigate the court system alone.
The Questions: Does supporting DV/SA survivors in accessing available civil legal resources improve social outcomes and/or reduce revictimization? If so, could that model be replicated in other jurisdictions? This high-need, vulnerable population is difficult to study; they also have complex needs that demand the best possible allocation of limited resources. Can service providers employ research tools that indicate what really works?
The Study: The A2J Lab has designed an evaluation to determine the impact of a unique resources referral program that assigns a legal navigator to assess survivors’ needs holistically and match them with appropriate resources. Participants will be randomized to one of two conditions: (1) automatic referral to the program; or (2) referral to other services, including direct referral to legal aid providers without the assistance of the program. The program will use a new survey tool to follow up directly with participants.
What We’ll Learn: The study will provide policymakers with concrete data about whether or not the program works and thus whether it is advisable to replicate (and continue to evaluate) the model elsewhere. In addition, by using new digital tools to survey DV/SA survivors, the evaluation will generate valuable data about whether or not online and text-based survey tools are effective ways to communicate with this vulnerable population.
Effectiveness of Plain-Language Court Forms
The Problem: Over the last several decades, an increasing number of people come to court without a lawyer. Those who focus on self-help support hypothesize that court form simplification leads to properly prepared forms and in turn provides benefits to litigants, court staff, judges and attorneys. However, plain language is a nascent discipline and credible research in the area of plain language legal forms and instructions is thin.
The Question: Do plain language court forms facilitate better legal outcomes for pro se litigants than existing forms?
The Study: For approximately 6 months, any individuals attempting to access divorce court
forms available online for pro se litigants will be randomly assigned to one of two different types of forms: the existing form or the “plain language” form. Following random assignment, a user will be free to proceed with his or her case however he or she chooses, including seeking assistance from self-help centers or hiring a lawyer to assist.
What We’ll Learn: This evaluation will give concrete evidence about what if any impact access to plain language forms has. Increasing the body of evidence about its efficacy will help courts decide how to deploy their resources.
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Where can I find out if a school is accredited?
A complete listing of accredited members is available at aacsb.edu/accredited-business-schools. It is our policy not to disclose the names of schools currently in the process of seeking accreditation. A complete list of member institutions may be found at aacsb.edu/membership/listings. Membership is open to educational institutions, business organizations, foundations, professional associations, and non-profit organizations with an interest in management education. Please see our membership pages for an overview of AACSB membership.
Membership, however, does not denote AACSB Accreditation and should not be interpreted as achieving accreditation. Accreditation is granted only to those institutions which have undergone a lengthy peer review process and been found to satisfy the Eligibility Procedures and Standards for accreditation.
My school is accredited, how can we promote it? Can we use the accreditation seal?
AACSB does not require prior permission to use the seal, nor do we require a review of your marketing materials. As an AACSB-accredited institution, we encourage you to use the accreditation seal, which you can request through our website. We do ask that you only use the seal provided and do not alter the seal's structure or color in anyway.
Earning AACSB Accreditation is a significant accomplishment, and we encourage you to promote your achievement—in print, on your institution's website, and around campus.
As you think about other ways to promote your accreditation, perhaps in a unique, fun, or interesting way, we want to hear from you! Since you are already using the seal, perhaps you want to share a success story? AACSB is collecting examples of schools from around the world that are promoting their accreditation. Share your story with us by sending your photos, stories, and videos to Sarah Ham at sarah.ham@aacsb.edu.
Does accreditation cover the whole institution or just the business school?
By default, AACSB Accreditation is granted to the entire institution. This means that all of the institution’s business and management programs are a part of the AACSB review, regardless of whether the programs are housed in the business school or other units of the university. It is possible, in the case of institutional accreditation, to request the exclusion of certain degree programs. A form must be completed for each program a school wishes to exclude, and the school must demonstrate that they meet three criteria for exclusion:
1. Participation—the degree to which the school participates in the program. If more than 25 percent of the curriculum of an undergraduate program is in business subjects, then it must be included. At the graduate level, this percentage increases to 50 percent.
2. Distinctiveness—the ability for the public to clearly distinguish the program from the AACSB-accredited business programs.
3. Control—the amount of administrative control that the business school has over the degree program in question.
AACSB staff members have the authority to approve common exclusion requests. However, questionable program exclusion requests will be forwarded to the appropriate operating committee (IAC, CIRC, AAC).
What is the difference between Initial Accreditation Committees Y and Z?
There is no substantive difference in the IAC-Y and IAC-Z committees. You can submit your reports to either group. However, it is suggested that when you submit to either the Y or Z committee, you remain with that committee for the duration of the initial accreditation process.
As a student, where can I find a school or program that is right for me?
For information on AACSB-accredited schools and degree programs, we encourage you to visit our Best Business Schools website to explore programs that might fit your needs and goals.
Does AACSB accredit fully online programs and hybrid/blended programs? What are the criteria for these programs?
Many of the institutions accredited by AACSB offer blended and online programs. Criteria E in the standards provides the following guidance:
The school must be structured to ensure proper oversight, accountability, and responsibility for the school’s operations; must be supported by continuing resources (human, financial, infrastructure, and physical); and must have policies and processes for continuous improvement. [OVERSIGHT, SUSTAINABILITY, AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT]
Basic for Judgement
This criterion does not require a particular administrative structure or set of practices; however, the structure must be appropriate to sustain excellence and continuous improvement in business education within the context of a collegiate institution, as described in the preamble to these standards.
The organizational structure must provide proper oversight and accountability for the components of the school’s mission that are related to business and management education.
The school must have policies and processes in place to support continuous improvement and accountability.
The school must demonstrate sufficient and sustained resources (financial, human, physical, infrastructural, etc.) to support the business academic unit (or units) seeking AACSB Accreditation in its efforts to fulfill its mission, strategies, and expected outcomes.
Can you provide sample degree curriculum plans that satisfy AACSB requirements?
AACSB's standards are not prescriptive in terms of specific courses that a certain degree program should include. Curriculum content is addressed in Standard 9. This standard specifies a number of general skill areas and general business and management skill areas that all degree programs should include, in addition to the types of learning experiences AACSB expects to see in certain programs. AACSB does not have a standard curriculum to which we expect schools to adhere; schools have the latitude to formulate a program that is best for the mission of their school and the student population it serves.
Does AACSB verify or evaluate foreign transcripts for students wishing to study in the United States?
AACSB does not evaluate transcripts. However, the appraisal organizations below are used by some schools to evaluate foreign transcripts to establish their equivalence in U.S. schools:
Educational Credential Evaluators
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ece.org
World Education Services, Inc. (WES)
Locations in New York, Chicago, Miami, Washington, DC and San Francisco
Chicago office: midwest@wes.org
wes.org
Center for Educational Documentation, Inc.
The Center for Educational Documentation assists international students with the admission process into U.S. universities as well as for the CPA examination in Massachusetts by evaluating their foreign credentials in terms of U.S. educational standards.
cedevaluations.com
Why does AACSB ask for a list of peer, competitive and aspirant schools? How can I define that list?
From the Initial Accreditation Committee handbook, "Processes to support the accreditation review include the selection of comparison groups to form a relevant context for judgments, inform strategic planning activities, and assist in the selection of Peer Review Team members. Reviewers from comparable institutions are better prepared to make evaluative judgments about the School, to understand the School and its aspirations, and to offer suggestions for the School’s improvement."
Schools can identify these groups themselves or use DataDirect to assist in their efforts. You can find DataDirect FAQs and online tutorials at aacsb.edu/datadirect.
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On Saturday May 9th , the Automobile Club of Monaco will stage the first edition of the Monaco e Prix as part of its efforts to encourage the development of renewable energies. The Monaco ePrix will be the 7th round of an exciting new FIA international Motorsport series, featuring electric-powered single-seater racing cars. It has 3 core values – Energy, Environment and Entertainment. It reveals a vision for the future of mobility in a racing environment.
Due to the Sovereign Prince’s strong personal commitment and to the actions conducted by his Foundation to promote a sustainable development and a transition to a low carbon economy, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation actively supports this new championship by being one of its official Foundation partners. The first edition of the Monaco e Prix will be presented as a free-entry event in order to raise the awareness of new energy solutions within the community and particularly within schools, colleges and universities.
The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation invites these institutions and the students to commit their active support for the Monaco e-Prix.
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On Saturday May 9th , the Automobile Club of Monaco will stage the first edition of the Monaco e Prix as part of its efforts to encourage the development of renewable energies. The Monaco ePrix will be the 7th round of an exciting new FIA international Motorsport series, featuring electric-powered single-seater racing cars. It has 3 core values – Energy, Environment and Entertainment. It reveals a vision for the future of mobility in a racing environment. Due to the Sovereign Prince’s strong personal commitment and to the actions conducted by his Foundation to promote a sustainable development and a transition to a low carbon economy, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation actively supports this new championship by being one of its official Foundation partners. The first edition of the Monaco e Prix will be presented as a free-entry event in order to raise the awareness of new energy solutions within the community and particularly within schools, colleges and universities. The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation invites these institutions and the students to commit their active support for the Monaco e-Prix. Please complete the application form for your tickets and we look forward to welcoming you there – the racing will be ELECTRIC! To book free tickets, click on this link.
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A Car Accident Guide: Types of Vehicle Collision Damage
After a collision or accident, a car’s doors may be crushed, the paint may be chipped, or the fender may be dented. Individuals in the auto body trades are taught that collision damage can be classified by structural and cosmetic damage. Some cars sustain a combination of both damage types. Find out how an accident affects the operation and safety of a vehicle and how to identify types of collision damage.
Anatomy of an Accident
Auto safety and car accident repairs have evolved in recent decades. Modern cars are designed with a crumple zone, or crush zone. Auto engineers construct special parts inside the car that are designed to be damaged, crushed and broken during an accident. A strong frame encloses the occupants, while crumple zones exist in the front and rear of the car.
When an accident happens, the crumple zones absorb crash energy and redistribute it. Crumple zones help keep vehicle occupants safe and unharmed. The first car to use crumple zones to protect passengers was the 1959 Mercedes-Benz W111 Fintail.
Hidden Damage vs Cosmetic Damage on Cars
Collisions result in different types of vehicle damage. Like a scrape or bruise, some damage is visible to the eye. Other damage, like a broken bone below the skin, is hidden inside the structure of the car and requires an automotive or auto body mechanic to evaluate it. Hidden, or internal damage, can affect a vehicle’s suspension, mechanical or electrical systems.
Cosmetic damage on cars does not affect the function or structure of the vehicle. In fact, many people still safely drive cars with cosmetic damage such as scratches, dents and dings. However, it is important to repair cosmetic damage before it progresses—for example, paint scratches can turn into rust spots that disintegrate metal over time.
Structural Damage to a Car
Collisions can harm a vehicle’s structure, or frame. Examples of structural damage include frontal damage and rear damage. In frontal damage, car hoods buckle to absorb impact, prevent windshield damage and protect the driver and front-seat passenger. Rear damage also relies on a crumple zone at the vehicle’s bumper to keep the oncoming vehicle from harming the fuel tank, trunk and backseat passengers.
An individual in the auto body trade can examine damaged vehicles for cosmetic and structural damage, while an automotive repair technician can evaluate hidden mechanical damage and determine how to make improvements. Some collision damage might be irreparable—in these cases, the owner may need to purchase a new vehicle instead of relying on car accident repairs.
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December 10, 2017 autoloons Car News
TVS Apache RR 310: Production-spec Akula finally arrives!
The Auto Loons rarely talk about bikes but some do capture our attention, for one reason or another. The TVS Akula, or the Apache RR 310 as it is now officially called, is one such bike. The reason being that at one point I myself was considering a handy, peppy 200cc-250cc bike and while the standard Honda CBR, Yamaha R3 and the much more budget-friendly KTM RC200 were on my list, the Akula had caught my eye at the 2016 Auto Expo in North India. No longer on the bike market, but the TVS has still been on my radar for the potential it has and the fact that it kept getting delayed for some reason or the other. Now it’s finally here, and worthy of a closer look.
Right away, I’ll admit that I am disappointed with the final look (pictures above for reference of Akula shown in 2016) for the bike and the changes made to the final production model for whatever reasons. I’m not happy with the name either. I understand that TVS has had plenty of success with the Apache model series, particularly the RTR 200, but I would have still much preferred the name ‘Akula’ over the ‘Apache RR 310’. If it’s your top-of-the-line performance bike, don’t make it sound like a serial number like the McLaren MP4-12C or like the mid-range Honda bikes CBR250R. These bikes are as much about the show as they are about peppy performance and saying “I have an Akula” is much better than saying “I have an Apache RR 310”. Fact.
Anyway, initial rant-reactions aside, let’s get into some of the specifications and details of the best bike TVS has launched till date. The Apache RR 310 has a 312cc single-cyl, 4-stroke liquid cooled engine from the BMW G 310R, which is tuned to produce a max output of 33.5bhp@9700rpm and 27.3Nm@7700rpm. The high-revving unit is mated to a 6-speed gearbox and TVS claims a top speed of 160kph with a 0-60kph time of 2.9 seconds on this 170kg bike.
TVS has used their years of racing experience to develop an all-new, light-weight trellis-frame chassis for better stiffness and handling. It’s also one of the first Indian bikes to have been designed using wind-tunnel testing for aerodynamic efficiency. It is a fully faired sports bike but has a riding position suitable for longer rides as well, according to those who have been able to ride the bike. The sporty vertical speedometer-cum-tachometer is quite unique in appearance for a bike in this class and reportedly displays 18 diagnostics.
The Apache RR310 gets Race Spec KYB Suspension, dual-channel ABS and Electronic Fuel Injection, all as standard while running of Michelin Sport Street Tyres. It has 300mm front petal discs in front and 240mm at the back for shedding speed. Launched in two colours – ‘Sinister Black’ and ‘Racing Red’ with go-faster stripes, the RR 310 does have a road presence with the LED twin projector headlamps adding to the supersport look. The clincher that will help this 312cc Indian-made sports bike succeed? Those looks and that performance are yours for just Rs. 2.05 lakh, ex-showroom. Also, when you do buy one, you can have the premium experience of visiting the TVS plant and watching your Apache RR 310 get built. It’s got me saving up for one, what do you think of the RR310? Share your thoughts in the comments below the gallery.
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Man charged with felony murder in crash that split car in half, killing victim
By Charly Edsitty
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A man has been arrested and charged with felony murder after trying to run away from the scene of a deadly, violent crash Sunday night in southwest Houston, police say.
The call for help came in around 9:30 p.m. on the Southwest Freeway outbound near Harwin, before the Hillcroft exit.
A driver in a Honda was exiting the freeway when a driver in a Cadillac hit the Honda from behind with so much force, it pushed the car into a pillar, splitting the car in half.
The driver of the Honda was thrown from the car, and then the Cadillac landed on top of him.
The driver of the Cadillac has been identified as 62-year-old Jose Talamantes.
DEADLY CRASH: Overnight, a driver was killed after being hit from behind *so hard* it split the car. Awful! pic.twitter.com/hlL30R7knP
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According to witnesses who saw the gruesome crash, Talamantes tried to run away. The witnesses followed him, and police took him into custody.
Detectives are investigating whether the driver of the Cadillac was under the influence at the time of this crash.
"He is currently being transported to the Joint Processing Center to be further evaluated for intoxication. He is already being charged with failure to stop and render aid resulting in death and there may be additional charges filed tonight as well," said Sean Teare with the Harris County District Attorney's Office earlier in the night.
Talamantes has two prior DWIs.
In an unrelated incident, another intoxication-related crash occurred on the south side, where a pedestrian was hit and critically injured on Scott Street. According to police, the driver hit the victim, who was not in a crosswalk, and the person slammed into the windshield and flipped onto the back window and then to the ground.
The victim in the Scott Street crash is expected to survive the injuries but is still listed in critical condition. The driver has been identified as James Anderson.
SEE ALSO: Driver slams into pedestrian near bus stop on Houston's south side
Police say the victim was not in a crosswalk at the time but was rather near a bus stop when the car slammed into them.
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Object Video Unveils OV6 Video Analytics Application
ObjectVideo (OV)6 contains a major science revision of the software’s core content analysis engine, which significantly improves target detection, separation, tracking and classification of objects within the video scene
ObjectVideo®, Inc., the Leader in Intelligent Video, today announced the general availability of version 6 of its industry-leading video analytics product. ObjectVideo (OV)6 contains a major science revision of the software’s core content analysis engine, which significantly improves target detection, separation, tracking and classification of objects within the video scene. These software improvements provide better analytics performance and reduced timeframes to set up multiple video channels producing optimal results. Users in a variety of industries will benefit from the new software, especially those who are utilizing its human and vehicle counting capabilities in business intelligence-gathering environments like retail and transportation.
Additionally, OV6 configuration is simplified through the use of enhanced calibration tools that guide the user through a few straightforward, intuitive steps. This feature reduces the time and expense of downstream support for any project or solution requiring video analytics. OV6 is available as software running within a Windows/Intel environment, including Windows 7, and can be incorporated as part of a larger video management system (VMS) or DVR/NVR solution.
“OV6 is a great step forward in making video analytics more practical out-of-the-box. Users will benefit from the greater accuracy and faster performance,” said Raul Fernandez, ObjectVideo CEO. “As a company, we will continue to bring these kinds of product innovations to the market, so that users can continue to make video analytics a valuable part of every video system deployment.”
Other features of the new OV6:
* Greatly improved optimization now allows for 64 or more channels of video analytics on a typical server or PC platform.
* A comprehensive set of web-based User Interfaces, which include rollover view magnification for more precise calibration and rules viewing.
* ObjectVideo supports this product release with an OV6-compatible version of its Event Counting Suite software for business intelligence solutions.
* The inclusion of a new OV services browser, which automatically finds all OV Ready-discoverable devices on the network. Using this new tool, configuring OV Ready-compliant devices is as simple as clicking a link to launch the interface.
* The new OV6 platform allows ObjectVideo to introduce new product features more quickly, such as Flow Control, Crowd Estimation and accurate color-based detection to subsequent releases.
OV6 will be available for demo at ObjectVideo’s booth (#1095) at the ISC West expo, in Las Vegas, NV, USA from March 28-30, 2012.
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“He understood for the first time that black-and-white was the only true medium for film as an idea, film in the mind. He almost knew why but not quite . . . it was completely necessary, black-and-white, one more neutralizing element, a way in which the action becomes something near to elemental life, a thing receding into its drugged parts.”
Don DeLillo, Point Omega
After years of primarily black-and-white photography, I’ve been drifting towards color these days. Perhaps it’s because this summer feels extra-vivid. But I’m still drawn to monochrome moods. Sometimes color gets in the way. It conjures specific memories and decades: the cool pastels of the early 1960s, the overheated textures of the 1970s. With all the filters at our disposal today, the technical constraints of color that defined a fair chunk of the twentieth century have become an aesthetic shorthand with buttons labeled retro, kitsch, purple haze, sepia, magic hour, pinhole, etc.
But whether you encounter a black-and-white photo in an old shoebox, hanging on a gallery wall, or displayed on your screen, it always looks pretty much the same. You’re not looking at the photographer’s favorite decade, you’re looking at the subject.
I wonder if there’s anything to learn from my recent drift towards color and my desire to return to monochrome. Perhaps there aren’t any lessons beyond the allure of novelty and the craving for clarity. Which brings to mind a challenging quote from Andrei Tarkovsky that I’ve been pondering:
“It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good.”
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Collins English Dictionary’s big publicity stunt
Posted in Uncategorized by Anthony (Tony) Emerson on July 9, 2009
The Collins English Dictionary lost all authority earlier this week when it announced that Twitter (both as a noun and a verb), Twitterati, and Twitterverse will become entries alongside such conventional and long-established terminology as ‘Google.’
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I guess I missed the memo that announced when company names became dictionary-worthy material. I’d start a petition but I think I’m going to wait for somebody else to do it. I don’t want to be that guy.
But I will take an anti-Collins Dictionary stance on this one. Just because the word Twitter is used in the day-to-day language of many industries (many industries referring to the internet marketers and mainstream media pundits who actually believe it’s the next big thing) does not mean it deserves an entry in a dictionary (even a less-renowned dictionary).
This is almost undeniably a well-played PR stunt that carries not only implications on the quality of HarperCollins as a publisher but also possible consequences to the Twitter brand name.
Outside of the (slim) possibility of brand genericide – which could eventually lead to Twitter losing its trademark rights – this solidifies the company’s choke-hold on the (downright unpopular) wider world of microblogging. Furthermore, it’s assuming that Twitter is still going to exist in its current form in the long run.
Remember when MySpace became a media sensation? Obviously, journalists (and investors) assumed that because of its massive audience, it was going to remain the most prominent social network for years to come. Now MySpace serves primarily as a big billboard for Sacha Baron Cohen’s third of three “foreign weirdo” personalities. I’m just glad Collins English Dictionary didn’t make MySpace a noun and verb.
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Jennifer said, on July 10, 2009 at 4:09 pm
It is ridiculous, but it does serve to inform some people about what Twitter is. Plus, they can always remove it from future editions.
Having an entry on Google also makes sense – even though there’s two serious competitors, they still hold all the market share. It’s not like anybody will ever say “just Bing it” or “just Yahoo it.”
Evan said, on July 10, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Although I think ever since words like “bootylicious” and “bling” were inserted into dictionaries all hope was lost in the conservation of conventional diction, I think officially defining these words, and fads like “twitter” (which is exactly what it is, a fad) gives these ephemeral words a since of immortality or historical reference. These words, whether corporately affiliated or not, help to describe an era. SEE: groovy
Tony Emerson said, on July 11, 2009 at 12:54 am
Absolutely. I guess I’m glad words like “fiddlesticks” are in the dictionary. My beef with it, which I probably should have touched on in the post, is that Twitter is overstated in terms of cultural impact – and overestimated in terms of pervasiveness – by the media. In that sense, the media catapults it into a dictionary-worthy spotlight just by sheer brand mentions, but it’s really just because these media people are the ones who are using it the most.
I'm Anthony (Tony) Emerson. As an advertising graduate from The University of Texas at Austin, I tend to view marketing with a critical eye. As an SEO professional, I tend to view web sites with the same. As a geek in general, I tend to be pessimistic and often whiny. Welcome to my blog.
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Wonder Woman: Challenge of the Amazons Review
When we went to go see Wonder Woman in the movie theater, the scene where Diana steps out of the trench and charges the enemy lines brought tears to my eyes. When I looked over at Stephanie, I saw the same, and she said, “this is the movie I’ve been waiting for since I was a kid.” It is ridiculous we needed to wait until 2017 to see this iconic character starring in her own film. As a more focused take, it seems insane that it took until 2020 to see Wonder Woman be the star of her own board game.
Ravensburger’s Wonder Woman: Challenge of the Amazons puts you in the role of Diana and her Amazon companions as they defend the sacred isle of Themyscira from invasion by their enemies—will you succeed in your mission to defend this slice of paradise?
Before beginning Wonder Woman: Challenge of the Amazons, players choose which hero they will be taking the role of, each with their own unique player power. The players also choose which villain their heroes will be fighting against, which determines the fine details of how the enemy forces will spawn, advance, and attack as the game proceeds.
At the start of each turn, enemy forces will spawn and move around the map based on card draws from the Enemy Deck. Players are dealt a series of hero cards, which have different emblems that represent the number and type actions those cards allow players to take. Players can use the cards to move, attack enemies, remove obstacles, and deploy allies, depending on their overall strategy and their response to immediate threats.
Two of these cards are dealt face-up, allowing players to discuss possible strategies based on the revealed cards, but three are dealt face-down, unknown to all until after the discussion. At this point, players pick up all the cards, then select three to be played face-down. One at a time, players reveal these cards, resolving any powers or effects, then take the actions associated with the emblems on that card. After all players have taken their actions, the enemy attacks, reducing the team’s defense value depending on the presence and distribution of threats on the board.
During gameplay, players will move their characters around the map to deal with threats as they pop up but will also gain the ability to use powerful relics in their battle against the enemy. In the end, players will have to satisfy a win condition. For instance, the player who has the Sword of Hephaestus is the only one who can deal the final point of damage to Ares for him to be defeated allowing the players to claim victory. However, if the island’s defense value is reduced to zero, the enemy is triumphant as the forces of evil overwhelm Themyscira.
It’s a Wonder Woman game, not only starring the Princess of Themyscira herself, but also several characters that appeared in the comic books over the years. To say that we love to see a game with an all-woman set of characters would be an understatement, and it’s just icing on the cake to see some diversity in those playable roles as well. While the theme is one hundred percent pasted on, it still resonates well with the table, allowing players to assume the roles of some of their favorite characters from the Wonder Woman comic franchise.
Cooperative games tend to follow a pretty standard formula: odds seem stacked against the players at the onset of the game, lots of fires to put out, strategizing and economizing your actions becomes more important as the game goes on, and the difference between victory and defeat may hinge on one choice or one turn of the card. Wonder Woman: Challenge of the Amazons, does not break much new ground in this regard. As players race around the board, gameplay starts off interesting, but becomes rather repetitive. While the enemy deck tries to keep things interesting through the movement of the main enemy, things end up feeling more like a game of whack-a-mole by the time you’ve reached a few plays.
What Wonder Woman does excellently is provide an interesting spin on the cooperative genre by introducing programming mechanics and some imperfect information to the gameplay. Since players can only plan before they look at all the actions available to them, it is possible that a player may decide to alter their plans based on better cards they just gained access to. Allowing players to veer off their charted course can cause ripple effects into other plans, augmenting them in some cases, while hindering them in others. Some action cards grant special abilities based on their placement in the queue, or synergize with other cards, which adds some added strategic choices to a player’s turn. The method of action selection and implementation allows Wonder Woman to stand apart from other similar cooperative games.
An issue we debated was determining whether Wonder Woman was too luck-dependent, considering that actions can only be taken if you have cards with the corresponding emblems. Some felt that the game was entirely reliant by the random card draws, and not having the emblems you need at a specific time put you in a bind as you developed and implemented your plans. In addition, a concern was raised that you could theoretically be stuck in the same location all game with a terrible set of card draws.
However, a few of us felt that this is the basis from which we draw enjoyment from these types of cooperative games, in strategizing around the obstacles that are put up in your way. Wonder Woman does put more of an emphasis on the luck factor by severely limiting your actions, so we would recommend it for groups that have a tolerance for how much you are able to mitigate the luck inherent in top-decking.
Wonder Woman: Challenge of the Amazons does a good job of providing a game with a highly anticipated theme, and some fun tweaks to the traditional cooperative game with programming actions. While the game can get repetitive after a few plays, it would be a good title for anyone new to the cooperative board game scene and is straightforward enough for older children to play together with adults. This title has plenty of points of entry, that can reach a good number of gaming groups.
Final Score: 3 Stars -– A solid addition for fans of Wonder Woman and cooperative board games.
• Amazing theme with excellent representation
• Programming aspect of gameplay is a nice twist on co-op games
• Multiple enemies add their own variation to rules and gameplay
Misses:
• A bit repetitive as a game session progresses
• Theme, while awesome, is definitely pasted on
• Too luck-dependent at times
Credit: Wonder Woman: Challenge of the Amazons Review
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By Jessica Galang Canadian Startup News October 3, 2018
Hopper raises $128 million CAD Series D
Montreal-based travel app Hopper has raised a $100 million CAD Series D, bringing its total funding to date to $235 million CAD.
The funding was led by OMERS Ventures. Existing investors Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Accomplice, Brightspark Ventures, Investissement Québec, BDC Capital IT Venture Fund, and new investor Citi Ventures participated in the round.
“Travel is a $1.3 trillion industry. Online travel is $662 billion, with mobile comprising $264 billion of that,” said Frederic Lalonde, CEO and co-founder of Hopper. “As the world continues to shift from web to mobile — and to apps in particular — an estimated 70 to 90 percent of time spent online is actually taking place on mobile. Of that, 92 percent of all mobile time is spent in apps — and not mobile web. Hopper is in a unique position to become the go-to way to book travel.”
Hopper plans to use the funding to expand its market and invest in its AI capabilities. It also plans to double its headcount; in the last year, Hopper has grown to nearly 200 employees in Montreal, Cambridge, and various offices around the world.
In the past year, Hopper has received over 30 million installs.
In the past year, Hopper has received over 30 million installs, rolled out its hotels feature to over 20 markets, and is on track to surpass $1 billion in sales. In May, The Canadian Press reported controversy with the company after Air Canada and Westjet said it would sever ties with Hopper after its ‘secret fares’ confused travel groups in suggested it had access to another set of fares. The company apologized.
“Secret Fares is a Hopper-specific marketing strategy and not a unique class of airfare,” a spokesperson told the CBC at the time. A search through the Hopper app shows that Westjet and Air Canada flights are available through the platform.
Hopper said over the past year, it’s experienced 154 percent growth YoY. It credits its ecosystem for enabling its growth; with a closed environment and the ability to have one-on-one conversations with the user, it can use machine learning to learn users’ preferences and make recommendations.
“Mobile travel is growing 20 percent year over year. By continuing to innovate on mobile and ultimately change the way consumers plan and book travel, we believe Hopper has a tremendous opportunity globally,” said Damien Steel, managing partner at OMERS Ventures. “We’re proud to continue supporting Hopper as the company further establishes itself as the leader in mobile travel booking.”
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Whistle Mountain Designer Interview
by: Ted Alspach
Below is an email interview between Whistle Mountain’s designers, Scott Caputo & Luke Laurie, and Bezier Games. Scott Caputo's responses indicated by SC, Luke Laurie's responses indicated by LL.
Q: Tell us a little about Whistle Mountain, what genre is it?
SC: Luke and I wanted to smash together our two "superpowers" and see what emerged. I do tile-laying games and Luke does worker placement games, so we have created a new genre, a tile-laying worker placement game. It really does feel like the best of both mechanics.
LL: Mechanically, I’d describe Whistle Mountain as a medium-weight Eurogame that uses worker placement, tile laying, and resource-management mechanics. Players are building a vertical scaffold on the board and then superimposing larger building tiles each with unique functions. This construction continuously changes the options for worker placement, making some resources plentiful and others scarce as the game evolves. There is an external threat imposed by rising water that results from the rapid building, and players are working against time pressure to get their workers into safe positions before the end of the game. One really fun aspect of the game is the way that players can leverage their abilities, card powers, and the construction of the board to create huge combo turns where they can pull off a bunch of exciting and effective actions on a single turn.
*Images contain prototype components*
Q: How long ago did this project begin?
SC: This project began in August 2016, so it will be about 4 years from when the game started to when it is released.
LL: Scott and I started working on this game together in 2016. We talked about bringing together our strengths as designers: Scott would bring his expertise in tile-laying games, and I would bring my skill with worker placement. It would be like a chocolate and peanut butter combination. And it is! I think this game is one that we each couldn’t have built alone. Only through our collaboration could we build such a game.
Scott started with the idea of worker placement where workers placed next to the tetris-like tiles, and buildings would be built on top of those tiles, but he didn’t have a workable theme. We collaborated on line and kicked around a bunch of ideas, and met to work on the game for the first time in San Jose in June of 2016. We settled on the idea that the structures being built were scaffolding, that they would be built vertically, that rising water would create a sense of urgency and pressure, and that you need to save your people. Over the next few months we tinkered with various starting powers, turn sequence rules, a deck of interesting cards, hand management, and rewards for your successes. With the framework in place, we had a game. We gave ourselves 2 years to refine it and get it ready for a publisher.
Scott and I attended various events periodically throughout that year where we could bring out the latest version and see how the work was progressing. We called the game “Airships and Gadgeteers”.
Our first in-person work on the game in June of 2016 in a hotel lobby.
Here is the game at Pacificon in 2016.
By February of 2017, the game was shaping up nicely, though we still had some work to do on card play and building effects.
Q: What was the inspiration behind Whistle Mountain?
SC: Originally, we were inspired by the movie, Metropolis, an old black and white movie about workers who operate machines below the city streets in increasingly dangerous conditions. It was one of the original steampunk movies. The theme has obviously changed a lot. Whistle Mountain is more of a cheery steampunk now, but we still have zeppelins and airships. There is still a danger to the players' workers. As the players build up the main board, snow melts on the mountain and the waters rise, potentially drowning workers.
LL: It began with Scott and I having mutual admiration for each other’s work, and with Scott’s ideas for combining tile laying and worker placement.
Metropolis film stills from IMDB.com
Q: The cover and artwork has a similar feeling as Whistle Stop, are the two games related?
SC: I am a designer on both games and there are tile-laying mechanisms in both games, but players will enjoy an entirely new experience. Hopefully, Whistle Mountain will appeal to people who enjoyed Whistle Stop and may attract even more board game enthusiasts.
LL: Whistle Mountain takes place in the same “universe” as Whistle Stop. It shares some of Scott Caputo's design sensibilities in the way that the game board grows and changes as the game progresses. It also has the aspect where every player is playing together on a shared space that is constructed collectively. Players are competing to use that shared space the most effectively.
Q: Who do you think will enjoy Whistle Mountain? Who is this game for?
SC: This is a game for board game enthusiasts. It offers a meaty and engrossing gaming experience that lasts 90-120 minutes. In the lingo of the industry, I would say it is a Eurogame, but it is a Eurogame with a ton of player interaction and tension--can you save your workers from the rising waters? It is a Eurogame with a lot of puzzly decision making--where to place your airships and where to place your tiles is so important. It is a Eurogame with engine-building and combo-creation as you can gain upgrades which can let you pull off some truly remarkable moves.
LL: We think that Whistle Mountain will appeal to a very wide audience. Fans of Whistle Stop and Energy Empire will really enjoy it, it has similar depth and game length. Players who like tile laying, engine building, and players who really enjoy a good worker placement game. Players who like games with a spacial aspect like Feast for Odin will enjoy the Whistle Mountain, but Whistle Mountain has a much more accessible game length. The flow of the game is continuous and smooth - players are either placing one of their airships on the board, or they’re pulling them all back and forging new structures. Whistle Mountain has ongoing tension that adds a level of excitement that’s uncommon in Eurogames. There is not a set number of rounds or turns, there’s just that rising water that threatens everyone!
Q: How is Whistle Mountain different from your other titles?
SC: I would say this is my most involved, richest gaming experience I have ever created. I really love the increasing tension of the rising water. This is a specialty of Luke Laurie's designs. He really believes that there should be an external threat that all players need to manage. In this game, it is the flood waters which can drown your workers and submerge machines you were hoping to visit. You really have to make a plan to save your workers while simultaneously trying to score the most points from doing the other elements in the game.
LL: The combination of an ever-changing geometric board with worker placement is really unique. It’s different from our other games, but it’s also different from other games on the market.
*Image contain prototype components*
Q: What about Whistle Mountain makes you want to play it again and again?
SC: There is a ton of replayability in the game which dramatically affects the game experience. Players start the game with a Starting Ability which gives a special ability for the whole game. So, there is a lot to explore in the game from choosing different Starting Abilities. Then, there are a lot of Upgrades you can earn in the game which have special abilities too. Then, there are different large machine tiles, each of which has game-changing effects. Each board will grow and change in different ways--it's really a remarkable transformation to experience.
LL: Every game is completely different. It’s different not just because of the wide variability in buildings, cards, and upgrades, but also because of how the gameplay evolves because of player choices. There are many ways to approach playing, and each player’s style will change how the game unfolds.
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Internet Health Test aims to tell you if your ISP is violating net neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission surprised us all earlier this year when it put forth new net neutrality guidelines that were hugely pro-consumer. Yes, there may be a loophole or two. And yes, some internet service providers are already looking for different ways to hurt subscribers that don’t violate net neutrality. In the current climate, however, we’re not sure a more favorable set of rules could have been crafted by the FCC and its former cable lobbyist boss, Tom Wheeler.
Of course, creating better net neutrality guidelines is one thing — but policing ISPs and ensuring they adhere to the new rules is an entirely different can of worms.
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BattlefortheNet.com is a website supported by three well-known open internet groups: Demand Progress, Fight for the Future and the Free Press Action Fund. This week, the site announced the launch of its new “Internet Health Test,” a free test it urges all users to perform regularly in order to help ensure that their ISPs are not violating net neutrality.
“After repeatedly watching Internet service providers slow down people’s Internet connections we’re not going to just sit back and trust Comcast, Verizon and AT&T to follow the new open Internet rules,” Fight for the Future campaign manager Charlie Furman said. “The Internet Health Test is our way of sending a message to ISPs everywhere that we’re watching and we won’t let anyone throttle the Internet.”
Performing the test is simple. Just visit http://battleforthenet.com/internethealthtest/ from your computer and click the “Start the test” link. A new window will open and perform a series of speed tests, searching for any signs of degradation in the process.
“Large Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have degraded the performance of their customer’s traffic as a tactic to convince content and application providers to pay added ‘tolls’ to deliver content that Internet users have already requested and paid for,” BattleForThenet.com says on its new Internet Health Test website. “The battleground — where this degradation takes place — is at ISP interconnection points. These are the places where traffic requested by ISP customers crosses between the ISP’s network and another network on which content and application providers host their services.”
The site continues, “This test measures whether interconnection points are experiencing problems. It runs speed measurements from your (the test user’s) ISP, across multiple interconnection points, thus detecting degraded performance.”
According to the site — and to logic — the test becomes more and more effective in policing ISPs as more people use it.
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The average US consumer now pays for three streaming video services
By Andy Meek @aemeek
As big tech and entertainment giants like Apple and Disney roll out new streaming TV services later this year to rival existing players like Netflix and HBO, it’s certainly leaving consumers with a dizzying array of choices to pick from in order to get their streaming fix.
On Monday, Apple is expected to finally unveil what it’s been working on in the streaming TV space, including details of its planned offerings and the original series its commissioned. This will give consumers already subscribed to everything from cable TV to Netflix just one more option to think about.
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Meanwhile, Deloitte is out today with the results of its 13th annual Digital Media Trends survey, which reveals a slew of fresh insights into things like what consumers are spending their money and time on when it comes to streaming content.
Deloitte says that the average US consumer is currently subscribed to three streaming video services, suggesting that the stakes among all the rival players should be which ones can successfully position themselves as must-haves. Netflix, for example, is something many consumers might have a hard time giving up, while something like CBS All Access or Starz might be regarded as interesting and nice-to-have, but not necessarily essential.
According to this new report, 43% of consumers also still split their loyalties and subscribe to both streaming and conventional pay television services. Meaning, the cord-cutting phenomenon still has room to grow and to eat into the profits of legacy companies.
The abundance of choice, naturally, also is increasingly leading to frustration among consumers, according to the survey. Some 47% of consumers, for example, say they’re frustrated by the explosion of subscription offerings that increasingly mean the content they want to watch is spread across rival offerings.
In terms of millennials, the survey found that almost 40% of them binge watch every week, watching an average of four hours of content in a single sitting. And most millennials report depending on social media to learn about new shows to watch.
“With more than 300 over the top video options in the US, coupled with multiple subscriptions and payments to track and justify, consumers may be entering a time of ‘subscription fatigue,'” said Kevin Westcott, vice chairman and US telecom and media and entertainment leader at Deloitte LLP. “As media companies and content owners wrestle with how to retain and grow their subscriber base, they should not only continue to strengthen their content libraries, quality, distribution and value, but also keep a close eye on consumer frustrations, including advertising overload and data privacy concerns.”
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New Delhi is turning up the heat on PoK – Asit Ranjan Mishra
Posted on Sep 18, 2019 by VOI
Defence minister Rajnath Singh’s statement on August 18th that any future talks with Pakistan will focus on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) has brought the focus back on the disputed region – Asit Ranjan Mishra
How did Pakistan occupy a part of J&K?
The princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was ruled by King Hari Singh at the time of Partition. While he wanted to remain independent, armed Pashtun tribesmen from Pakistan invaded J&K in October 1947 and occupied a large tract of the province. The king then sought India’s help and signed the instrument of accession in return for military aid. This led to the first direct military conflict between India and Pakistan. Even as the war was underway, India sought intervention of the United Nations on 1 January 1948. UN ordered an immediate ceasefire, leaving a part of J&K that’s now known as PoK on the Pakistan side.
Is PoK a separate entity in Pakistan?
PoK comprises the so-called Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan. Pakistan ceded a part of PoK, called the Trans Karakoram Tract, to China in 1963. AJK has its own constitution, a prime minister and a president, though real power is vested with Pakistan. The administration of Gilgit-Baltistan was handed over to Pakistan by AJK in 1949. It isn’t fully integrated into Pakistan and its constitutional status under that nation remains in a flux. Pakistan has often rejected demands to grant Gilgit-Baltistan the status of a fifth province, fearing it would compromise its demand for resolution of the Kashmir issue.
Where does Aksai Chin come into the picture?
Aksai Chin is a disputed territory between India and China. India claims the border region as part of Ladakh, while China claims the area as part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
What has been India’s position on PoK?
India’s position has been that since the king of J&K signed the instrument of accession with India, the whole of J&K, including PoK, is legitimately an essential part of India. After increasing terrorist violence and Pakistan’s attempts to highlight the Kashmir dispute internationally, both houses of Indian Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution on 22 February 1994, emphasizing J&K as an integral part of India, and that Pakistan must vacate parts of the state under its occupation.
What’s the significance of Singh’s statement?
While Singh’s statement shifts India’s position on J&K to offensive from defensive, it also puts China on notice as it seeks to push ahead with its plan for China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, India considers CPEC a national security threat as it proposes to pass through Gilgit-Baltistan, thus bringing China’s military power closer to India’s western border. China objected to India classifying Ladakh as a Union territory, saying this “involves Chinese territory”, which India has denied. – LiveMint, 20 August, 2019
› Asit Ranjan Mishra is a senior editor at Livemint.
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A review of Gisèle Prassinos’s collection of surreal anti-fables, The Arthritic Grasshopper
Posted on July 25, 2019 July 23, 2019 by Biblioklept
I can’t remember which particular Surrealist I was googling when I learned about Gisèle Prassinos. I do know that it was just a few weeks ago, and I’ve had an interest in Surrealist art and literature since I was a kid, so I was a bit stunned that I’d never heard of her before now—strange, given the origin of her first publication. In 1934, when she was 14, Prassinos was “discovered” by André Breton, and the Surrealists delighted in what they called her “automatic writing.” (Prassinos would later reject that label, and go as far as to declare that she had never been a surrealist). Her first book, La Sauterelle arthritique (The Arthritic Grasshopper) was published just a year later.
Prassinos reading her work to the Surrealists; photograph by Man Ray
I somehow found a .pdf of one of her stories, “A Nice Family,” a bizarre little tale that runs on its own surreal mythology. The story struck me as simultaneously grandiose and miniature, dense but also skeletal. It was impossible. Surreal. I wanted more.
Luckily, just this spring Wakefield Press released The Arthritic Grasshopper: Collected Stories, 1934-1944, a new English translation of a 1976 compendium of Prassinos’s tales, Trouver sans checher. The translation is by Henry Vale and Bonnie Ruberg, whose introduction to the volume is a better review and overview than I can muster here. Ruberg offers a miniature biography, and shares details from her letters and visits with Prassinos. She situates Prassinos within the Surrealists’ gender biases: “For a young writer such as Prassinos, being involved with the surrealists would have meant gaining access to resources like publishers, but it also would have meant being fetishized and marginalized.” Ruberg characterizes Prassinos’s tales eloquently and accurately—no simple feat given the material’s utter strangeness:
Taken collectively, their effect is a piercing cackle, a complete disorientation, rather than an ethical lesson. The politics of these stories are absurdist. They upend the world by making children dangerous, by reanimating the dead, by letting the carefully tended domestic deform, foam, and melt. No social structure holds power in the world of these stories—not on the basis of gender, or nationality, or class. The force that reigns is chaos.
Let’s look at that reigning chaos.
In “The Sensitivity of Others,” one of the earliest tales in the volume, we get the sparest narrative action seemingly possible: A speaker walks forward. And yet dream-nightmare touches impinge on all sides and on all senses. The opening line shows a world that is never stable, and if monsters and other dangers lurk just on the margins of our narrator’s shifting path, so do wonders and the promise of strange knowledge. Here’s the tale in full:
I still have no idea what to make of the punchline there at the end, but those final images—a father, a faulty library, a power failure—hang heavy against the narrator’s trembling walk.
Many of Prassinos’s anti-fables conclude with such apparent non sequiturs, and yet the final lines can also cast a weird light back over the previous sentences. In “Photogenic Quality,” a dream-tale about the act of writing itself, the final line at first appears as sheer absurdity. A man receives a pencil from a child, whittles it into powder, blots the powder on paper, and throws the paper in the river (more things happen, too). The tale concludes with the man declaring, “Brass is made from copper and tin.” It’s possible to enjoy the absurdity here on its own; however, I think we can also read the last line as a kind of Abracadabra!, magic words that describe an almost alchemical synthesis—a synthesis much like the absurd modes of transformative writing that “Photogenic Quality” outlines.
You’ll see above one of Allan Kausch’s illustrations for The Arthritic Grasshopper. Kausch’s collages pointedly recall Max Ernst’s surreal 1934 graphic novel Une semaine de bonté (A Week of Kindness). Kausch’s work walks a weird line between horror and whimsy; images from old children’s books and magazines become chimerical figures, sometimes cute, sometimes horrific, and sometimes both. They’re lovely.
Surreal figures shift throughout the book—monks and kings, daughters and mothers, deep sea divers and knights and salesmen and talking horses—all slightly out of place, or, rather, all making new places. Even when Prassinos establishes a traditional space we might think we recognize—often a fairy trope—she warps its contours, shaping it into something else. “A Marriage Proposal,” with its unsuspecting title, opens with “Once upon a time” — but we are soon dwelling in impossibility: “the garter snake appeared in the doorway, arm in arm with the snail, who was slobbering with happiness.” Other stories, like “Tragic Fanaticism,” immediately condense fairy tales into pure images, leaving the reader to suss out connections. Here is that story’s opening line: “A black hole, a little old woman, animals.” At five pages, “Tragic Fanaticism” is one of the collection’s longer stories. It ends with a four line poem, sung by five red cats to the old woman: “Go home and burn / Darling / You’re the only one we’ll love / Trash Bin.”
I still have a number of stories to read in The Arthritic Grasshopper. I’ve enjoyed its tales most when taken as intermezzos between sterner (or compulsory) reading. There’s something refreshing in Prassinos’s illogic. In longer stretches, I find that I tire, get lazy—Prassinos’s imagery shifts quickly—there’s something even picaresque to the stories—and keeping up with its veering rhythms for tale after tale can be taxing. Better not to gobble it all up at once. In this sense, The Arthritic Grasshopper reminds me strongly of another recently-published volume of surreal, imagistic stories that I’ve been slowly consuming this year: The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington. In their finest moments, both of these writers can offer new ways of looking at art, at narrative, at the world itself.
I described Prassinos’s tales as “anti-fables” above—a description that I think is accurate enough, as literary descriptions go—but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something that we can learn from them (although, to be very clear, I do not think literature has to offer us anything to learn). What Prassinos’s anti-fables do best is open up strange impossible spaces—there’s a kind of radical, amorphous openness here, one that might be neatly expressed in the original title to this newly-translated volume—Trouver sans checher—To Find without Seeking.
In her preface (titled “To Find without Seeking”) Prassinos begins with the question, “To find what?” Here is a question that many of us have been taught we must direct to all the literature we read—to interrogate it so that it yields moral instruction. Prassinos answers: “The spot where innocence rejoices, trembling as it first meets fear. The spot where innocence unleashes its ferocity and its monsters.” She goes on to describe a “true and complete world” where the “earth and water have no borders and each us can live there if we choose, in just the same way, without changing our names.” Her preface concludes by repeating “To find what?”, and then answering the question in the most perfectly (im)possible way: “In the end, the mind that doesn’t know what it knows: the free astonishing voice that speaks, faceless, in the night.” Prassinos’s anti-fables offer ways of reading a mind that doesn’t know what it knows, of singing along with the free faceless astonishing voice. Highly recommended.
[Ed. note–Biblioklept originally ran this review in August of 2017.]
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2 thoughts on “A review of Gisèle Prassinos’s collection of surreal anti-fables, The Arthritic Grasshopper”
Will C. July 26, 20191:05 am Reply
Great article! Hate I missed the original run on it.
Vigour of Film Lines July 26, 20199:37 am Reply
Reminds me of Georg Heym’s short stories a bit, thanks for your thoughts on it!
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How can you leave Sky, buy a new 4K TV and still save money within 15 months?
Bye Sky: you can get this new TV and still save money
When Sky decided to put up its prices in the middle of the coronavirus crisis, I decided to leave Sky. Paying Sky £27.20 per month for its most basic Entertainment package seemed like an utter waste of money when you could get most of the same channels for free on Freesat.
I explored various options for replacing the Sky+ box under our TV. The newly released official Freesat UHD-4X recorder, for instance, which costs £230 from Currys – or about ten months’ worth of Sky subscriptions.
However, our telly was beginning to shows its age. The Samsung LE37B553 was still working perfectly, but it was limited to Full HD and lacked many of the smart features you get with modern sets. And, following a tip-off from my Twitter correspondent Keith Radcliffe, I discovered that several of the TVs in Samsung’s range came with integrated Freesat, meaning I could potentially dodge the cost of a separate set-top box.
In the end, I plumped for the Samsung UE50RU7470UXXU from Currys, a 50in 4K model with built-in Freesat or Freeview (take your pick). It cost £400, or 14-and-a-bit months of a Sky subscription using my new metric.
A week later, with the Sky+ box now gathering cobwebs in the garage, I’m sure we made the right decision to leave Sky, but here are the pros and cons of switching Sky for a Freesat television.
We’re saving £27.20 per month, meaning the TV will effectively pay for itself within 15 months.
Samsung TVs have an excellent set of built-in smart apps, including catch-up and streaming services such as the BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. And that means no extra boxes under the TV or dongles hanging out the side.
Most of the same channels are available on Freesat as they are on Sky’s basic package. The big misses are Sky’s own channels, such as Sky One (we’re suckers for Portrait Artist of the Year) and Sky Atlantic, but you can get these on Sky Now (£8.99 per month for the Entertainment package) if you’re desperate.
You can record television shows by plugging a USB thumb stick/hard disk into the back of the TV. I had an old 2TB drive lying around that has been pressed back into service.
The Freesat electronic programme guide is not as good as Sky’s, nor are the recording facilities. For example, I can’t find a way to get the Freesat ID from the Samsung TV that you’d need to do remote recording using the Freesat app.
The television only has one Freesat tuner, so you can only record one show at a time and you can’t watch something else whilst recording a different channel. This is the biggest downside so far, although with all the catch-up services built in, we lean on those for watching shows we might otherwise have recorded.
Freesat currently only broadcasts in HD, not 4K. So, if you were a Sky Q customer previously, you may notice a drop in picture quality.
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