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Bill Batson Arts
Nyack Gift 2020
Flash Sketch Mob™
by Bill Batson May 29, 20129:15 am
Nyack Sketch Log: Candice Robins Streamstudio
Behind this non-descript row of storefronts is the creative enterprise of artist, hairdresser, health advocate and burgeoning environmentalist Candice Robins. Robins advances a deeper brand of aesthetics that connects your outer appearance to your inner wellbeing. When some people hear the word salon, they imagine a hairdresser’s workshop, other’s a place for artistic exploration. Welcome to Candice Robins Streamstudio, where you can find both and much more.
The name Streamstudio was inspired by the deceptively tranquil Nyack Brook, that runs behind her shop. The body of water that transects the village is normally calm but when swollen, like last Saturday, the steep slope and a narrowing bed creates a torrent. Her proximity to the brook has led Robins to become active in local efforts to protect our regions waterways, and the village from flooding, causes that fit seamlessly into her personal and professional journey.
Candice received her visual arts training in the California Bay Area, during the period when students were founding the free speech movement and occupying the People’s Park in Berkeley. Candice studied under legendary artists including Viola Frey, Dale Chihuly, and Peter Voulkos. “I have been blessed to work with the top people in my fields,” Robins told me when we spoke recently.
Untitled, Oil on Canvas with gold leaf, 2010
While working as a waitress in Lake Tahoe after college, a good friend gave Candice the speech that all visual artists eventually receive: fine art won’t pay the bills, in order to survive you have to find a trade. This admonition led Robins to return to the East coast where she found a pursuit that would engage her creativity and a mentor that would elevate her craft.
When Robins arrived in New York in the early 1980’s, she apprenticed with one of Vidal Sassoon’s creative partners David Daines. For Robins, New York in the 80’s was as artistically vibrant as Paris in the 1920’s: an era where art movements where being invented and the lines between disciplines began to blur.
As a visual artist, Robins could easily navigate between the art world of Soho and the fashion scene on Madison Avenue. She developed relationships with the leading artists of the era including Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Bequia Harbor, Oil Pastel, 1996
Eventually, Robins became the lead hairdresser for the Elite Models agency. She was a favorite of New York fashion designers and was back stage at all the major runway shows. Her work would bring her to Paris and Milan. She established her own hair studio, Avalon on Broadway between Prince and Spring Street. Her business was successful enough to allow her to commute between New York and Bequia, a seven square mile Island in the Grenadines, where she was started a family.
When her son Elijah was ready to start school, Robins followed a familiar emigration pattern of generations of artists before her and came to Nyack. Her original intent was to continue seeing clients in New York, but the terrorist attacks of September 2001, made creating a salon in Nyack a logical and comforting alternative.
During her years in New York, Robins was known as the “Hair Healer.” “Your hair is a barometer of your health,” she contends. While in Lake Tahoe, Robins began studying the herbal ingredients that form the tonics and lotions we apply to our hair and skin. “Before the advent of chemicals and synthetics, everything that we put on our bodies was made from plant material,” she told me. Robins, who makes her own products now, is a likely to recommend that you ingest organic products, like virgin coconut oil, as she is to apply something to your hair and scalp.
Candice and Elijah live steps away from the Hudson. The river plays a major role in both of their lives. Elijah has continued the seafaring tradition that is a part of his West Indian heritage. He is an accomplished sailor and a sailing instructor at the Nyack Boat Club.
Robins was inspired by one of her clients, Strawtown Studio founder Laurie Seeman to become a vocal advocate for Nyack Brook and the Hudson River. “We may live near the river, but we have turned our backs on her,” Robins asserts. She wants people to imagine the River as a place where people can once again safely swim and fish.
So you may see Candice attending a green infrastructure committee meeting in Village Hall, or advocating alternative health treatments on Facebook. Or you can visit the Streamstudio for a beauty treatment or an art exhibition. But on one day each week you won’t see her unless you have a pair of binoculars. She’s just joined the crew of a sailboat racing team, and every Sunday Candice can be found riding the wind in the middle of the Tappan’s Sea.
Streamstudio is located at 192 Main Street. Visit for a haircut, organic hair color or an art exhibition, by appointment. Contact Candice at (845) 538-5101, robins.candice@gmail.com or visit her on Facebook.
Bill Batson
Bill Batson is an artist, writer and activist. He has worked for non profits, labor unions, and government in New York State as an organizer writer and public relations specialist.
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Bahamas > Shop: Eclectic
Atlantis Shops
Atlantis’ Royal Tower holds its Crystal Court Shops, the resort’s most high-end scene with duty-free shops including Cartier, Versace, Bulgari, Gucci, and Lalique. Shops in the Coral Tower are more affordable. Atlantis Kids has good toys and children’s wear, including Atlantis logo products. Marina Village has more of a tropical, waterside flair, and its shops expand beyond the luxury, duty-free...
The best thing about Festival Place is it’s air-conditioned. Mighty welcome on a hot Nassau day. It’s cute, too, with storefronts that resemble colorful Bahamian cottages. And it’s fun, because there’s a Junkanoo band playing on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. There’s a hitch: It’s a cruise ship passenger trap. But have a look. It sells tacky souvenirs, but other nice...
Despite its faux re-creation of a Bahamian village and its association with Atlantis, this waterside gathering of shops and restaurants turns out to be a good place to find authentic Bahamian and other quality souvenirs. A couple of shops carry exclusively Bahamian-made arts and crafts, while others sell jewelry, rum cakes, resort wear, and such. The eateries run the gamut...
Nassau’s two iconic shopping experiences span the range: straw market and duty-free luxuries. Straw markets, through the ages, have become diluted flea markets for knock-offs and imported basketry. The most famous is the newly rebuilt Nassau Straw Market on Bay Street. Ironically, you can find more authentic crafts at the cruise ship port’s Festival marketplace. Bay Street also holds a...
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Cortico-cortical connections
I wonder what the principal ways of (direct) cortico-cortical connections are.
I came up with the following possibilities:
vertical: a cortical neuron connects to another one in roughly the same cortical column, but in another layer
horizontal: a cortical neuron connects to another nearby one, preferably in the same or neighboring layer
"intragyric": a cortical neuron connects to another one in the same gyrus (see here)
interhemispheric: a cortical neuron connects to another one in the same (or neighboring) area of the opposite hemisphere
Are all of these relevant? And/or are there relevant but completely different ways of cortico-cortical connections, e.g. "intergyric"?
Addendum: Maybe too late I found a concise summary in the Wikipedia articles on white matter and association fibers (the latter term I wasn't aware of when I asked my question), which doesn't contradict and complements Bryan's answer:
intracortical (Bryan: "intracolumnar" vs. "horizontal")
short association fibers ("also called arcuate or U-fibers [...] connect together adjacent gyri")
long association fibers which "connect the more widely separated gyri and are grouped into bundles" (often called fasciculi, but probably not exclusively)
commissural fibers (Bryan: "callosal projections")
There definitely seems to be no reserved name for something like "intragyric" fibers (see second addendum here).
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Hans-Peter Stricker
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Your question "are all of these relevant" doesn't make much sense to me, but I am going to assume you are talking about it in terms of terminology and answer that way.
The "vertical" connections you describe are usually referred to in the context of cortical "columns" and are therefore referred to as "intracolumnar." Within a column, intralaminar connections by far dominate the total number of synapses, but connections between layers are also important (note that my answer Cortical projections from layers 2/3 back to 4? covers some of this as well, though that question is much more specific).
Horizontal connections refer to connections between cortical columns of the same cortical area (e.g., from V1 to V1 with a different orientation selectivity). These are often stronger between the same layers, but simply saying "horizontal" does not specify that you mean intralaminar horizontal connections.
"Intragyric" is not a word that is used - I think you made it up. Gyri aren't really specialized functional units, and although there may be some brain areas that are localized within a gyrus many span either several gyri or share a gyrus with other areas (for example, "Heschl's gyrus" isn't even just one gyrus). Therefore, you can't really generalize "gyric" connections as being in a particular class, you would have to refer to the specific areas that are connected to understand the nature of those projections.
Interhemispheric connections are fairly ubiquitous in neocortex, and they make up several white matter tracts that connect the hemispheres, most prominently the corpus callosum. As such, those connections are also often referred to as "callosal" projections.
Other terminologies that are used are "top-down" versus "bottom-up" according to the position of areas in the cortical hierarchy. "Lower" areas are considered to be those with primary sensory and motor functions, whereas higher areas are associative/executive areas. The canonical reference for these projections is Felleman, D. J., & Van Essen, D. C. (1991). Distributed hierarchical processing in the primate cerebral cortex. Cerebral cortex (New York, NY: 1991), 1(1), 1-47. The key feature of top-down versus bottom-up projections is a difference in the interlaminar pattern of connectivity between different cortical areas. It can be hard to really parse the precise hierarchical of some of the higher-order cortical areas, and the patterns of top-down and bottom-up are fairly mixed for areas at similar levels of the hierarchy, however.
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$\begingroup$ I guess, it's easier to connect inside a gyrus than across gyri. But I may be wrong. $\endgroup$ – Hans-Peter Stricker Oct 10 '17 at 16:54
$\begingroup$ That's why I put "intragyric" into quotation marks. $\endgroup$ – Hans-Peter Stricker Oct 10 '17 at 16:55
$\begingroup$ How do we know that gyri aren't "really specialized functional units"? We even don't know it unequivocally for cortical columns: see The cortical column: a structure without a function (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1569491) $\endgroup$ – Hans-Peter Stricker Oct 10 '17 at 16:58
$\begingroup$ I specified "horizontal" by saying "in the same (or neighboring) layer", i.e. "intralaminar". $\endgroup$ – Hans-Peter Stricker Oct 10 '17 at 17:01
$\begingroup$ I wouldn't rely on that one paper: people still talk and think in terms of columns. I fully agree that they are not as discrete as people once thought, but it still makes sense to talk about intracolumnar units. I totally disagree that it isn't clear that gyri aren't really specialized functional units: there are several dissimilar functions that are held within gyri, and the boundaries of cortical areas often do not stick within a gyrus. This is very clear on any map of the human cortex. And for "horizontal" I was referring to use in the literature rather than how you used it. $\endgroup$ – Bryan Krause♦ Oct 10 '17 at 17:06
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Matt’s earlier social work career was primarily in front line mental health and addictions across the lifespan in both community, and in acute care. Matt also has worked in child protection assessment and investigations with MCFD and as a civilian social worker for members of the Canadian Armed Forces.
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‘Can’t put all of Sandalwood in poor light’
ByY Maheswara ReddyY Maheswara Reddy / Updated: Sep 3, 2020, 06:00 IST
Ragini Dwivedi
As KFCC issues a statement, CCB officials summon actress Ragini
The drug controversy that surrounds Sandalwood refuses to die down. Now, the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) has stepped in, expressing displeasure on Wednesday over the media reports on the alleged drug menace in Sandalwood.
It is not fair to showcase entire Sandalwood in a poor light against the backdrop of allegations made by Indrajit Lankesh and others on usage of drugs by artistes and others at get-together parties. We have more pressing problems at hand than these allegations,’’ said KFCC president D R Jayaraj.
Jayaraj opined that director Indrajit Lankesh should have approached the KFCC if he had information on the alleged use of drugs by artistes and others in Sandalwood. “We might have taken suitable action against those artistes for drug abuse if the information is correct. As of now, we can’t do anything since police are investigating it,’’ he said. Stating that KFCC has the power to punish the artistes or technicians for drug abuse, the KFCC president said the organisation never hesitates to take punitive action against artistes and technicians for drug abuse. “The KFCC may ask Kannada movie producers not to engage with such artistes and technicians,’’ he said.
Meanwhile, former KFCC president Sa Ra Govindu said that Indrajit Lankesh’s statement on usage of drugs in Sandalwood has disappointed him. “I am not saying that no one takes drugs in Sandalwood. A few people who made or acted in one or two movies would be taking drugs but they do not represent or belong to the Kannada film industry,’’ Govindu said. Govindu made it clear that KFCC would not summon anyone at this stage.
Notice to Ragini Dwivedi
CCB officials have sent a notice to the Kannada actress Ragini Dwivedi asking her to appear before them for questioning in connection with the drug abuse in Sandalwood.
On Wednesday the officials picked up Ragini’s friend, Ravi Shankar, an RTO officer, from his office in Jayanagar. According to the sources, he has been detained by the police for questioning in connection with drugs. The officials have sent a notice asking Ragini to appear before them at 10 am on Thursday.
The CCB has also given a notice to the filmmaker and journalist Indrajit Lankesh to appear again for further questioning on Thursday at 11 am. Though he had claimed he gave officials all the evidence, the officials said he only mentioned a few past incidents and took a few names but did not give them any material or evidence. Based on the information gathered from drug peddlers, officials are now preparing a list suspects in Sandalwood.
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Biography by Louis Published on Jul 19, 2019
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Tana Marie Mongeau famed as Tana Mongeau is an American internet personality, YouTuber as well as a rapper. She regularly posts 'story time' videos and ranks about her social life in her own youtube channel, "Tana Mongeau".
A Tiny Guide to Bella Thorne and Tana Mongeau's Freshly Thawed Breakup Beef
Thorne and Mongeau were part of a throuple with the Pig Pen-esque aspiring rapper Mod Sun last year, the details of which were never quite clear. Currently, Mongeau may or may not be engaged to another YouTuber, Jake Paul (brother to Logan Paul, that guy who posted a deeply inappropriate video in Japan’s so-called suicide forest) and Thorne is busy going on podcasts to promote her forthcoming book. On Wednesday night, however, both ladies decided to go at it on Twitter, which, coincidentally, is also a solid promo for Mongeau’s currently-filming MTV reality show, Tana Turns 21. Tana and I are no longer good. She broke girl code I’m over it,” Thorne tweeted, to which Mongeau replied, “????? imagine taking every time ur mad at me to twitter but then telling ppl how much u care about me... wtf is this b :/.” Thorne quoted the tweet and added, “U legit started dating me for twitter.. how about u answer ur phone and talk to me instead of being on Twitter.” Mongeau replied once more, saying “dude what are you doing bella? like I have no idea why you’re mad, I’ve been texting you every minute since you tweeted, and for you to be tweeting me something as hurtful as saying I dated you for Twitter is literally fucking nuts & if you honestly think that damn I lost you.”
Early Life of Tana Mongeau
Tana Mongeau was born on 24th June 1998 as Tana Marie Mongeau in Las Vegas, Nevada, US. Her nationality is American and her ethnicity is White. She was born to Richard Mongeau and Rebecca Mongeau, her parents. She was raised in her hometown, Las Vegas. She told an unnamed man stalked upon her in 2nd grade, and talked about it in her video titled "My Stalker took pictures of my sleeping body". She celebrated her 21st birthday as of 2019. Her other early life details will be added soon.
Body Measurements of Tana Mongeau
The Blonde hair, Tana Mongeau stands at the height of 5 ft 5.5 in and has a balanced body weight of 55 kg. She has a well-maintained body figure. She has a body measurement of 34-25-37 inches. Her eye color is black. Overall, she has got a healthy body with a charming smile on her lips attracting a lot of people towards him.
Career of Tana Mongeau
Tana became popular with her "storytime" videos.
She gained huge popularity after her video "Kicked Out Of Wall Mart" was out.
She posted on her Snapchat that she was being investigated by the FBI after someone hacked into her emails and “sent a bombing and shooting threat to McCarran International Airport” on 10th February 2017.
She posted the popular video "The N-Word" on her youtube channel on 24th January 2017 that gained over 7 million views. After that, she started posting many videos such as "An Apology".
She also debuted as a singer, in the music video "Hefner" alongside Bella Throne.
She then released her many songs: "Deadahh"(2017), "W"(2018), "F**k Up"(2018), "Cloud 9"(2018) and "God Hates Lil Phag"(2018).
She is also renowned for her work in "Minute Match-Ups"(2015), "Escape the night"(2016) and "Merry Christmas" from Bella Throne Mongeau (2018).
She is also an MTV reality star, and very soon she is going to be featured on a new program “Tana Turns 21” as announced on 29th April 2019.
Her fourth solo single music video, "FaceTime", was released on 18th May 2019.
In May 2019, Mongeau was said to be a cast in "Featured Creator" at the convention by VidCon.
Marital Status (Engaged), Boyfriend, Sexual Orientation, Dating
Tana Mongeau is not married yet but she is currently engaged to her boyfriend Jake Paul. The couple announced that they got engaged in social media on 24th June 2019. The couple had been dating since April 2019. As of today, the couple is living a happy life without any disturbances.
Previously, she dated Somer Hollingsworth in 2015. The couple met each other in Reno, Nevada, where Tana had been for the weekend with her buddies. Later the duo split their relationship.
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The net worth of this famous and successful internet personality is estimated to have $1 million as of 2019. She has a great earning from her popular youtube channel "Tana Mongeau". She earns around $108.6k-$1.7 million per year from her YouTube videos. She also makes money from her endorsements and from different brands that sponsor her videos. There is no doubt that she is satisfied with her earnings.
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barn reuse
Corralling the Party Barns
They’re rustic, lofty, and awe-inspiring. Supported by a sturdy skeleton of timber and a base of stone nestled into the land, its appeal is seemingly timeless. The structure effortlessly fits into its landscape, whether in Pennsylvania, Ohio, or across the ocean in the United Kingdom. The bank barn. A simple beauty of which I can’t get enough. (Not to mention dairy barns, vaulted barrel barns, Dutch barns, prairie barns….)
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Maybe it’s the news I seek, but I feel as if there’s an influx of articles and project profiles about converting old barns into residences, guest houses, schools, theatres — even a basketball court/recreational wonderland. Bring it on, I say. Converting an old building to a new use never gets old to an architect like me.
There’s even a How to Guide (aptly titled, How to Take One Old Barn and Call it Home) from the team who can seemingly fix anything and everything: the experts at This Old House. Converting an old barn into a new home isn’t a task for the faint of heart, but big things can yield even bigger rewards, I like to think. The article touches on common issues you’ll face: structural (is it safe? how’s the foundation?), is it energy-efficient (you can bet it’s not — yet!) and water sealed (again — no way, no how), the pluses and minuses of such a large, open space, and more.
At Blackburn, we’re working to revive a metal pole barn currently used as a recreational lodge in North Carolina. While the barn isn’t centuries old, like many of the bank barns I admire, it’s an interesting challenge for my staff and me. The owner would like to expand the barn’s use so that it may host business events and entertainment functions. Our goal is to respect the barn’s form and the local context, while providing a renewed aesthetic and use. Design plans include replacing the metal cladding with a painted wood or composite siding to provide a more traditional look. We’ll also incorporate more natural light into the barn through an enclosed glass entrance, which will in turn make the space feel more inviting. The floor will be lowered to increase the space’s capacity and the hayloft area will become a conference center for up to 80 people. Heavy timber framing with steel plate connections will add to the rustic yet finished interior.
I’ll post updates about the project as the work progresses. In the meantime, how about some inspiration for your own conversion project? Here’s just a sample of what I’ve found lately. If you stumble upon a great adaptive reuse project (whether it’s a barn, an old warehouse, a church), I hope you’ll share it here. I can’t seem to get enough.
New York Times: The Call of Converted Barns
New York Times: An Upstate Farm Brings a Fashion Photographer Back to His Roots
Inhabitat: 300 Year Old Barn
Inhabitat: Beautiful Bank Barn Conversion (OK, a shameless plug for a Blackburn project)
Martha Stewart: Rustic and Refined Barn
Martha Stewart: Summer Guesthouse
Martha Stewart: Farmhouse Renovation
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Re-Use Architecture by Chris van Uffelen – Braun Publishing
We just received a copy of Chris van Uffelen‘s new book called Re-Use Architecture from the German publishing house, Braun. This substantial book highlights adaptive reuse projects throughout the world: Blackburn’s New River Bank Barn project is part of the stunning collection.
As van Uffelen asserts, building conversion is more relevant than ever as recycled and eco-friendly solutions are becoming the norm. It’s a gratifying challenge for me to “save” an old barn or convert a worn out structure into something different while paying respect to its former use. I can’t help but appreciate a book that makes showing off these type of projects a mission.
We’ve been fortunate to have received attention for the New River Bank Barn, which was a memorable and exciting project for our firm. I still can’t help but feel proud when I look at the “before” photo of the 1800s bank barn, which was in severe disrepair. Most of the structure was preserved, but re-clad in SIPs panels to provide insulation and structural support. The SIPs panels are sandwiched between the original barn walls and a new board-and-batten exterior. The northeast-facing wall of the original structure was removed entirely and glazed, opening the interior to expansive (and very private) views of the property to the Potomac River. Steel columns were added and wrapped in indigenous fieldstone to support the new glass wall, which was designed with mullions that align with the original frame columns and purlins so that the framework fits aesthetically with the original structure.
Our work could only be done thanks to the owner’s foresight to envision a new future for the old structure. I couldn’t be more pleased to have been given the opportunity to “save” the bank barn, which now hosts gatherings and parties for the owner’s friends and family. Re-Use Architecture is available at Amazon and major book retailers.
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Darius Walker added to practice squad; McClover added to roster
By Megan Manfull on August 31, 2008 at 3:09 PM
The Texans looked to bolster their defensive line by adding Stanley McClover, a 6-foot-2, 263 pound defensive end. So far, he is the only player the team has acquired from the waiver wire. He has some …
Meet the players on NFL’s waiver wire
By Megan Manfull on August 31, 2008 at 10:26 AM
Here’s a comprehensive list of players available starting today. I’ll give updates throughout the day as the Texans make moves. Well, that’s given that they make some moves. There are a few running …
Brown lands on injured reserve; Texans to scour waiver wire
The Texans finally decided to place running back Chris Brown on the injured reserve list. The move is not surprising but is still a disappointment to a franchise hoping to have Brown and Ahman Green …
21 players down, one to go. Will you miss them?
The Texans are still one cut shy of the 53-man roster, but the bulk of their early work is done. They decided four weeks was enough of the Rosevelt Colvin experiment. The veteran linebacker with …
Finally, preseason officially ends; Do you want it cut to fewer games?
I forget how painful it is to watch the final preseason game. Only one starter played between both teams – Texans right guard Mike Brisiel. Otherwise, it was a mismatch of players all fighting for the …
Who do you hope moves off the bubble tonight?
By Megan Manfull on August 28, 2008 at 7:05 AM
OK, finally, the preseason is about to end. Tonight’s game against Tampa Bay will be a showcase of backups for each franchise. The coaches will be watching closely to see who is going to make Friday’s …
No surprises as Texans make first cuts
With Jameel Cook already released, the Texans only had to clear up four roster spots by the end of the day. They placed CB Dunta Robinson on the physically unable to perform list and offensive tackle …
Texans coaches taking pass rush issues seriously
Often times coaches like to downplay their disappointments in the preseason. After all, they aren’t totally game planning for the opponent and they aren’t opening their playbook. The Texans aren’t …
Texans’ receiver Williams to undergo surgery in Dallas
The Texans have reported that wide receiver Harry Williams has regained some movement but that he will remain in Dallas to undergo fusion surgery on his vertebrae. He suffered a small fracture and …
What do you expect Friday night from Texans?
OK, unless something goes terribly wrong for the Texans, the passing game should continue to run like it’s in midseason form. But with that in mind, this is the first (and only) preseason game where …
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Boston Conservatory at Berklee Announces Matthew M. Marsit as Chair of Instrumental Studies
Boston Conservatory at Berklee announces the appointment of conductor and clarinetist Matthew M. Marsit (M.M. '12, orchestral conducting) as chair of instrumental studies.
Guest Conductor Ken-David Masur Joins Boston Conservatory Orchestra and Concerto Competition Winner Yushan Bai
On April 8, Boston Conservatory Orchestra performed works by Bernstein, Ravel, Thomas, and Schumann under the baton of guest conductor Ken-David Masur, associate conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Victoria Livengood and Billy Porter to Receive Honorary Doctorates at Boston Conservatory at Berklee Commencement Ceremony
Boston Conservatory at Berklee Executive Director Cathy Young will present honorary doctorates to opera superstar Victoria Livengood (M.M. '85, voice) and Tony Award–winning performer Billy Porter at the Conservatory’s commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 12 at the Berklee Performance Center. Both artists will deliver commencement remarks for the Boston Conservatory at Berklee class of 2018 at the ceremony.
Boston Conservatory at Berklee Announces Its Spring 2018 Performance Season
Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s spring performance lineup features dynamic works of dance, music, opera, and theater.
PODCAST: Inside Berklee—Michael Shinn
In this Inside Berklee podcast, Dean of Music Michael Shinn talks about today's classical music landscape, what he hopes to achieve as the Conservatory's new dean of music, and how the merger with Berklee distinguishes and advances the Conservatory's excellence in music training.
Boston Conservatory at Berklee Announces Music Division Leadership Changes
As of fall 2017, the Music Division leadership structure has been revamped to include three music chairs that oversee various areas of study within the division.
Kimberly Haack Appointed Deputy Chief of Staff for Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Kimberly Haack, who previously served as the Conservatory’s director of external relations, has been appointed deputy chief of staff for the Office of the Executive Director at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Fall 2017 Performance Season Presents an Array of New and Classical Works
Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s fall performance lineup features an array of new and classical works of dance, music, opera, and theater.
Michael Shinn Named Dean of Music for Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Michael Shinn, D.M.A., has been appointed dean of music for Boston Conservatory at Berklee. His appointment will begin on August 15.
Berklee College of Music to Present Sadiya Ramos with Beyoncé’s Formation Scholars Award
Berklee College of Music will award Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s Formation Scholars Award to Sadiya Ramos (B.F.A. '20, contemporary dance), a sophomore studying dance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
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Rumor: Netflix Eyeing Tom Holland To Play Link In A Legend of Zelda Project
Movies, Television, Video Games
A new rumor claims that Netflix is eyeing Spider-Man actor Tom Holland to play Link in a Legend of Zelda project.
The rumor comes from We Got This Covered, where writer David James explains, “That a movie and TV show are both being discussed and furthermore, Netflix is eyeing Tom Holland to play the lead role of Link.”
Scooper Grace Randolph also put her weight behind the rumor.
Randolph took to Twitter where she wrote, “This is TRUE.”
Related: Get a Sneak Peek of ‘The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts’
She continued, “Tom Holland is wanted for Legend of Zelda but it’s very very early days – right now more of a Netflix wish.”
Randolph then compared the casting to Henry Cavill on The Witcher writing, “This would be on par with Henry Cavill on The Witcher so I see the thinking.”
Related: Report: Legends of Zelda TV Show in The Works
Rumors about a Legends of Zelda project began circulating back in October 2018 when producer Adi Shankar said he was working with “an iconic Japanese gaming company to adapt one of their iconic video game series into a series.”
Shankar claimed he would make the announcement of what he was working on November 16th and that the success of his adaptation of Castlevania “created this opportunity.”
A post shared by Adi Shankar’s BOOTLEG UNIVERSE (@bootleguniverse)
TheWrap would would then claim that Shankar was “in talks to produce Legend of Zelda TV series based on video game.”
However, this would prove to be false as Shankar revealed on November 16, 2018 that he was working on Devil May Cry.
Related: Cosplay of the Day: Zeruda Sama as Princess Zelda
In a follow-up post he confirmed he was working on Devil May Cry writing, “I’m weirdly sensitive about this photo. So excited to be turning Devil May Cry into a series.”
While Shankar might not be working on a Legends of Zelda series, it does appear there are a number of rumors indicating there is interest in adapting the series to TV whether that’s live-action or animated.
Holland’s star has exploded since he landed the role of Spider-Man. After appearing in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, he provided the voice of Walter in Spies in DIsgues. He would continue supply his voice to a number of other films including Dolittle where he voiced Jip. He also voiced Ian Lightfoot in Onward.
More recently he starred in The Devil All The Time on Netflix.
His upcoming projects include Cherry, where he plays Nico Walker, Chaos Walking, where he played Todd Hewitt, and Uncharted, where he will play Nathan Drake. He will also reprise his role as Spider-Man in a third untitled Spider-Man film.
Would you be interested in seeing a Legend of Zelda live-action series? Would you want to see Tom Holland play Link?
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Get to know the PNB dancers through the Q&A posts.
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Q&A with Kuu Sakuragi
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PNB EventsThe Pacific Northwest Ballet has incredible events promoting arts in the community. From black-tie formals to Live Stream videos.
PerformancesPacific Northwest Ballet is a Company of nearly fifty dancers that presents more than 100 performances each year of full-length and mixed repertory ballets at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Seattle and on tour.
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PNB on TourPacific Northwest Ballet presents more than 100 performances each year. The Company has toured to Europe, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canada, and throughout the United States, with celebrated appearances at Jacob’s Pillow and in New York City and Washington DC.
Director’s NotebookPacific Northwest Ballet Artistic Director, Peter Boal examines the works on the current repertoire.
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Sellers Rest Easy: eBay Found the Ultimate Fortune-Teller Powered by SAP HANA
Remember back when you had to drive to the store to buy something? Or what about fighting your way through crowds during the holiday season because there weren’t any other options? Before the ecommerce era, shopping was time-consuming and stressful. It was often difficult to find sought-after products and even more challenging to bargain shop for the best deal. Small business owners were limited as well, only able to sell to local consumers. At the time, these issues were not even perceived as challenges – that was simply the way it was. But in retrospect (much like with the proliferation of mobile phones) it’s painful to think of life without these conveniences and I often wonder just how small businesses survived. Luckily for over 100 million eBay members, and the 30,000 new ones that join each day, these problems will disappear soon.
As the world’s largest marketplace, eBay has been helping small businesses like Wheel & Sprocket achieve greatness and users like Jack Sheng reach a feedback score of over two million for nearly two decades. Business is certainly booming for eBay, but analyzing one billion transactions per day does have its challenges. The company needed a better way to sift through its massive 100 petabytes of data to separate the signals from the noise. In other words, eBay wanted to provide key intelligence to sellers, improving predictability and communicating areas of opportunity in timely fashion.
eBay needs more than 300 analysts, just for their North America marketplace, studying data on a full-time basis. A large part of their process tends to be manual relying on a degree of luck and lots of experience. Consequently, signals are missed leading to delayed corrective action. SAP demonstrated a solution which would give eBay real-time insights into the health of their marketplace using machine learning and predictive analysis powered by the SAP HANA platform. SAP HANA is able to analyze 500 metrics and select the best model automatically to determine true positives with 100% accuracy at 97% confidence. This reliable automated detection system will free up bandwidth so eBay analysts can spend their time on strategic tasks and eBay can focus on what it does best: connecting buyers with things they need and love.
Learn how eBay leverages Predictive Analytics on SAP HANA:
Download the Customer Journey App in iTunes and look for eBay to be added shortly
The Beer Store Taps SAP to Refresh Customer Satisfaction
Nice note Ryan
Its good to know such business cases for SAP HANA. Real-time analytics and course-correction will soon become business fundamentals thereby increasing business efficiency and effectiveness.
Yes, I’m very excited to see how (as David mentions in the video) these business cases continually evolve in the future.
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Blue & Green Tomorrow
Today Achieve, in partnership with the Case Foundation, released a five-year retrospective on the Millennial Impact Project.
The project has input from over 75,000 millennials (born 1980 to 2000) to date, providing new insights into how this generation activates and engages with those causes that they care about. The report explores six new trends about the millennial generation’s engagement with causes:
FINDING 1: Intrinsic passion for a cause is what inspires millennials to act charitably.
FINDING 2: Millennials volunteer and give charitably in modest amounts to multiple nonprofits.
FINDING 3: Older and female millennials give more financial support than young and male millennials.
FINDING 4: Peer-to-peer engagement, including that which occurs in the workplace, is a critical influence on and vehicle through which millennials charitably give and volunteer.
FINDING 5: Opportunities to use and develop skills are prime motivators for philanthropic engagement by millennials.
FINDING 6: Millennials primarily use digital technology like websites, social media, mobile platforms and applications to access information about and donate to causes and nonprofits, yet each platform plays a distinct role.
From 2011 to 2016, the Millennial Impact Project has aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding of millennial interests, engagements and motivations as they relate to causes, whether it’s by giving, volunteering, social media sharing, activism, employment or voting in a national election. The qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection applied reveal a socially-conscious generation that is passionate, well-informed and poised to engage when they care about an issue.
“Our research found digital technology is playing a vital role in how millennials engage with causes and influence each other to do so,” said Derrick Feldmann, Achieve president. “As crowdfunding campaigns like #GivingTuesday continue to grow, it’s critical that organisations alter their approaches so they can engage this generation’s inherent desire to do good.”
This report complements the ongoing 2016 Millennial Impact Report (Waves 1 and 2, already released), which seeks to uncover the ongoing trends related to this generation’s political ideologies and cause engagement. The final wave of survey data (Wave 3) is now being completed and will capture post-election day data associated with millennials’ politically-related behaviours, including Election Day voting activity and presidential candidate selection. Results from the third wave will be released in early 2017.
Early trends in Wave 1 and 2 identified before the election, include:
Education and health care remained the first and second highest social issues of interest for millennials, but employment/wages edged out the economy as the third-highest issue of interest.
More than a quarter of millennials surveyed did not want to vote for either major party candidate in November.
Millennials continue to have some level of trust in government to do what is right, though the majority don’t rate that trust as high.
Millennials still consider themselves activists, but without showing a strong affinity for direct action in support of or opposition to an issue.
“This unprecedented look at how the millennial generation thinks of and acts on charitable causes offers important insights into the actions and motivations of this growing and diverse generation,” said Jean Case, CEO of the Case Foundation. “At the same time, initial research into millennials’ politically related behaviours identified new information that diverged from the pre-election expectations of many. The retrospective, in combination with early data from the 2016 Millennial Impact Report, are critical to understanding this growing and diverse generation and we look forward to the results of the next round of politically focused research so we can get a deeper understanding into millennial behaviour and attitudes at the voting booth and on social issues.
To learn more about the Millennial Impact Project and view all of the reports, including: the 2016 Millennial Impact Report; #GivingTuesday2015; the Millennial Impact Four-Year Summary; the Millennial Impact Top 100; and the Millennial Impact Benchmarks; visit themillennialimpact.com/research.
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Wılıı̀deh stop signs among proposed YK reconciliation projects
Published: April 6, 2020 at 3:52pm Emily Blake April 6, 2020 Last modified: April 6, 2020 at 3:58pm
A file photo of a stop sign in multiple languages on McDougal Road in Fort Smith, NT. Sarah Pruys/Cabin Radio
While the City of Yellowknife’s reconciliation plan is still being drafted, staff have outlined forthcoming initiatives they hope will improve relations with Indigenous people.
On Monday, city councillors studied a memorandum listing a number of reconciliation projects planned for this year – like updating stop signs to include the Wılıı̀deh language. The projects will go to city council for approval next week.
Meeting by video link, city administrator Sheila Bassi-Kellett told councillors staff worked with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation (YKDFN) on proper spelling and pronunciation for the stop signs.
The project will begin with signs downtown, she said, then Old Town and Ndilǫ, before spreading to other areas of Yellowknife.
Councillor Julian Morse noted some residents felt the City was “abandoning reconciliation” when its Indigenous relations advisor position ended in February – just 18 months after the position had been created. (The position had one occupant, Maggie Mercredi, in that period.)
The role had been created using federal funding. Councillors rejected a plan in early December 2019 to keep the position using City funds.
But Morse on Monday said Yellowknife has been a leader in municipal reconciliation and has a good relationship with YKDFN. He pointed to Yellowknife’s support of proposed boundary changes as an example, which would include returning some land to the First Nation.
“There are not a lot of communities, I think, that are taking these steps,” he said.
Morse also praised the City’s plan to support the creation of a monument to residential school survivors and their families, as well as those who lost their lives. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has recommended residential school monuments be installed in every capital city in Canada.
“I think it would be great to see Yellowknife be one of the first, if not the first capital city to put a monument up,” Morse said.
Many plans ‘still conceptual’
Other reconciliation projects include a memorandum of understanding with YKDFN and an Elder-in-residence program at the public library. (That program is on hold while the space is closed to the public during the Covid-19 pandemic.)
Funding for these projects will come from $50,000 allocated in the City’s 2020 budget for the purpose of reconciliation.
Once the reconciliation plan is complete, the City hopes to create an internal committee and external reference panel to guide its implementation – alongside a strategic advisor.
Bassi-Kellett said those plans are “still very conceptual” at this stage. However, she anticipates at least half of the internal committee will be Indigenous staff members. The reference panel will reflect Yellowknife’s population, including people from a variety of First Nations as well as Inuit and Métis residents.
The reconciliation plan is intended to be a “living document” that sets out broad principles guiding the City’s reconciliation work, as well as concrete steps and timelines for implementation and monitoring.
That includes creating “an overall environment that welcomes and supports Indigenous persons within all City facilities and locations,” and the continued education of City staff in learning about Indigenous ways of being.
According to the meeting agenda, the City had planned to have the draft plan ready for June 2020. Recent pandemic planning has affected this timeline. When the draft is now expected is not clear.
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California (1927 film)
341 California
Etymology of California
California is a 1927 American Western silent film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and written by Marian Ainslee, Ruth Cummings and Frank Davis. The film stars Tim McCoy, Dorothy Sebastian, Marc McDermott, Frank Currier and Fred Warren. The film was released on May 7, 1927, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Tim McCoy as Capt. Archibald Gillespie
Dorothy Sebastian as Carlotta del Rey
Marc McDermott as Drachano
Frank Currier as Don Carlos del Rey
Fred Warren as Kit Carson
Lillian Leighton as Duenna
Edwin Terry as Brig. Gen. Stephen W. Kearny
California at the Internet Movie Database
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341 California is an asteroid belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt, that has an unusually high albedo.
It was discovered by Max Wolf on September 25, 1892 in Heidelberg.
341 California at the JPL Small-Body Database
Discovery · Orbit diagram · Orbital elements · Physical parameters
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California is a place name used by three North American states: in the United States by the state of California, and in Mexico by the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur. Collectively, these three areas constitute the region formerly referred to as Las Californias. The name California is shared by many other places in other parts of the world whose names derive from the original. The name "California" was applied to the territory now known as the state of California by one or more Spanish explorers in the 16th century and was probably a reference to a mythical land described in a popular novel of the time: Las Sergas de Esplandián. Several other origins have been suggested for the word "California", including Spanish, Latin, South Asian, and Aboriginal American origins. All of these are disputed.
California originally referred to the entire region composed of the Baja California peninsula now known as Mexican Baja California and Baja California Sur, and upper mainland now known as the U.S. states of California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. After Mexico's independence from Spain, the upper territory became the Alta California province. In even earlier times, the boundaries of the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean coastlines were only partially explored and California was shown on early maps as an island. The Sea of Cortez is also known as the Gulf of California.
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Radio Stations - California
California released:
Traveler released:
Kid From California
Higher Than This
Is Everybody Happy
Which Side of the Sun
Rocker Arm Reel
A Walk in the Irish Rain
Scissors, Paper & Stone
My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin'
A Farmer's Son
California Traveler
I'll Dry Every Tear That Falls
Uncle Pen
Band of Angels
I Love ZYX Italo Disco Collection 14 released: 2012
I Love ZYX Italo Disco Collection 14
Pancho Villa (Star de Cantina) (12" version)
Volerei (vocal-maxi-single)
More Than a Kiss (Peking-Duck-mix)
Song for Denise (Audiophile maxi dance mix)
Again (extended version)
Nuit de folie (version Longue)
Don't Cry Tonight (Special remix)
L'amour (Flashback remix)
Stay With Me Tonight (extended version)
Stay (extended version)
You & Me (remix)
Še 1000 km released: 1999
Vdihni globoko released: 1993
California band released: 1992
Še 1000 km
Ustavil bi čas
Ledena ptica
(Še) 1000 kilometrov
Reci, da si nora name
Stara barka
Srečna družina (Happy family)
Moje hrepenenje
Kraljica poročnega potovanja
Travica
1000 kilometrov
Vodnjak ljubezni
Ne pozabi me (unplugged)
Vdihni globoko
Lopovi
Moj dan
Brezdomci
Nisem avtomat
Ni več razloga
Moje sonce
Svetniki
Pot domov
Zgodaj prepozno
Veliki ideali
Goloba
Kdo smrdi
California band
V meni je California
Rad letel bi
Nočna ptica
Nisem kriv
Prišel bo čas
Otožna dama
Vrag naj te vzame
Moja pot je polna ognja
Kolombina
Nikoli nazaj
Punca bistre glave
Jabolko
Prijatelju
Dan potem
My Mind's the Weapon: A Tribute to The Movielife released: 2010
My Mind's the Weapon: A Tribute to The Movielife
Taking It Out and Chopping It Up
I Hope You Die Soon/10 Seconds Too Late
Face or Kneecaps
Walking on Glass
Kelly Song
You and Me vs. Them
Single White Female
Once in a Row
Sailor Tattoos
Up to Me
If Only Duct Tape Could Fix Everything
Keep Never Changing
Maybe It's Nothing
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Analysis: Reports of Runnin’ Utes’ resurgence greatly exaggerated, embarrassing loss to lowly Cal shows
Deseret News 17 Jan 2021
California Golden Bears guard Makale Foreman (10) and guard Joel Brown (1) celebrate after beating the Utah Utes at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan ... California 72, Utah 63 . “It was kind of a perfect storm for us not to finish the ball game ... “It was kind of a perfect storm for us not to finish the ball game....
Lottery jackpots climb: Powerball rises to $730 million and Mega Millions jackpot at $850 million
Record-Courier 17 Jan 2021
There still were some winners in the Saturday night drawing, including 14 tickets that matched all five white balls to win $1 million. The $1 million-winning tickets were sold in California (2), Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Texas (3) and West Virginia....
Pelicans' bumpy road trip continues in Sacramento
Sports Illustrated 17 Jan 2021
The Pelicans' Lonzo Ball, a Southern California native, did not play either game in his homecoming because of knee tendonitis, although Eric Bledsoe returned Friday after missing one game because of right eye irritation....
UPDATE: No Winner For Saturday’s Powerball Drawing; Jackpot Estimated To Grow To $730 Million
It was the eighth-largest jackpot ever with the odds of winning at one in 292.2 million ... 14 tickets matched all five white balls to win $1 million. Those $1 million-winning tickets were sold in California (two tickets), Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Texas (three tickets) and West Virginia ... lottery history....
College Basketball Schedule
Citrus County Chronicle 17 Jan 2021
Sunday, Jan. 17. EAST. American U. at Navy, Noon. Mass.-Lowell at Binghamton, Noon. Army at Boston U., 1 p.m. Hartford at UMBC, 1 p.m. Hofstra at Delaware, 1 p.m. Holy Cross at Colgate, 1 p.m ... W ... St ... N ... W ... Ball St ... UCLA at California, 9 p.m ... California Baptist at Chicago St., 2 p.m ... Ball St ... California Baptist at Chicago St., 1 p.m ... Southern Cal at California, 8 p.m....
Reporter's Notebook: Meeting Tommy Lasorda
Daily Press Victorville 17 Jan 2021
Then came a Facebook message on Jan. 8 from my son ... After interviewing dozens of California League ball players over the years for my YouTube channel, Lasorda would be my first with someone from MLB proper ... Before addressing the audience, Lasorda led the crowd in a rousing rendition of the classic tune, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” ... ....
Utah basketball: Suggestions that Utes are backsliding after surprising home loss to Cal irritate Larry Krystkowiak
Utah Utes forward Timmy Allen (1) knocks the ball from California Golden Bears forward Kuany Kuany (13) during the game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. Cal won 72-63 to drop the Utes’ record to 5-6 overall. Spenser Heaps, Deseret News ... Some things never seem to change. “We can’t take anything lightly ... ....
California counties ‘flying the plane as we build it’ in a plodding vaccine rollout
It has been one month since the first vaccines arrived in California, and slightly more than five weeks since the state first outlined priority groups for vaccinations, then passed the ball to counties to devise ways to execute the plan. Like most states, California opened its rollout with strict rules about the order of distribution....
California counties 'flying the plane as we build it' in a plodding vaccine rollout
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Antetokounmpo leads Bucks to win
Taipei Times 16 Jan 2021
PRICE OF ADMISSION ... AFP, LOS ANGELES ... The Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James moves to the basket against the New Orleans Pelicans’ Nicolo Melli, left, during their NBA game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on Friday. “We showed him bodies. He wasn’t able to step back. We made him pass the ball,” Antetokounmpo said of Doncic ... ....
Byron Cardwell, nation’s No. 8 running back, nearing decision; Oregon Ducks making strong push
The Oregonian 15 Jan 2021
The 6-foot, 203-pound ball-carrier, out of Morse High School (San Diego, California), indicated Oregon was somewhere between a longshot and a serious contender, but had ground to make up to truly enter the mix ... the Ducks will be on it, along with California and Texas A&M....
'Parasite' director to head Venice film festival jury
Sina 15 Jan 2021
AFP. In this file photo taken on February 10, 2020 South Korean film director Bong Joon Ho poses with his engraved awards as he attends the 92nd Oscars Governors Ball at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California ... "I';m ready to admire and applaud all the great films selected by the festival ... ....
How to experience some of California’s biggest music festivals — from your car
Orange County Register 15 Jan 2021
(Fingers crossed and sleeves rolled up for that to happen.) We’re already seeing some festivals elsewhere in the country move dates into the fall, such as Governors Ball in New York, but nothing new to report just yet out here. Meanwhile, there is a way to experience some of Southern California’s biggest festivals safely from your car....
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Indiana University staff and students needed a new option. Processing $2 billion of annual receivables for 95,000 students can be quite the undertaking.
The program the university was using to help students catch up was confusing and ineffective, and the institution didn’t want to send students to collections. Indiana opted to implement past due payment plans with Nelnet Campus Commerce.
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With over 20 years of experience in higher education in marketing, enrollment management and student financial services, Nadine joined the Nelnet Campus commerce team in May 2018. She is passionate about marketing, the client experience and delivering on the brand promise. Born and raised in South Africa, Nadine came to the U.S. as an international student and completed a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in marketing and a Master degree in Business Administration at Andrews University in Michigan. Nadine is a champion of the student experience and loves to mentor young professionals. She resides in Lincoln, Nebraska with her husband Vaughan and children Adele (7) and Brendan (4) – they love traveling, playing and family time.
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Indiana University staff and students needed a new option. Processing $2 billion of annual receivables for 95,000 students can be quite the undertaking. What made things tougher was when some of those students started falling behind on monthly payments. The program the university was using to help students catch up was confusing and ineffective, and the institution didn’t want to send students to collections.
Brittany Hubbard, associate treasurer and university bursar, knew the campus was ready for a change, and her 19 years of university experience told her Nelnet Campus Commerce had the solution.
Life Before Past Due Payment Plans
To help students avoid becoming past due, the university offered students a Personal Deferment Option (PDO). Technically, the PDO wasn’t a catch-up payment plan — students would pay a smaller fee to defer their balance rather than taking steps to pay it off.
The name “Personal Deferment Option” also didn’t seem to make sense to many students. At least functionally, the PDO simultaneously was — and wasn’t — a payment plan.
As Brittany said, “A payment plan by any other name is just confusing.”
Once an account became past due, students lost the opportunity to set up a PDO and were typically entered into Indiana University’s earliest version of past due payment plans. These plans were processed manually. To add to the confusion, the university’s billing system still sent out a bill each month.
Indiana University’s collectors would send letters and call to tell the student to disregard the bill and remind them of the payment they needed to make. This manual process was all done with paper calendars and paper promissory notes — and it clearly was inefficient and confusing to the students who experienced it.
When Indiana University moved from a manual to an automated collections process it helped — but it still wasn’t enough.
Nelnet Campus Commerce had been processing the university’s payment plans, and it had been going well. Brittany talked to the Nelnet team about a past-due option and discovered Nelnet Campus Commerce’s Past Due Payment Plans.
The Past Due Payment Plans integrated easily with Nelnet’s payment system that the students were already using. Plus, if a student started falling behind, they would be automatically notified and offered options to catch up. The university didn’t have to dedicate staff to track down students or make a series of payment adjustments manually.
Like every Nelnet Campus Commerce solution, implementation of the Past Due Payment Plans followed a customized step-by-step process for the university. Brittany and her team had direct access to the Nelnet Campus Commerce team and an integration manager who specialized in the institution’s ERP, PeopleSoft 9.2.
Life With Past Due Payment Plans
Before Nelnet’s solution, past-due students weren’t able to access their accounts. To regain access, students had to pay the entire past-due balance and the minimum monthly payment. That meant the financial office had to spend valuable time manually supporting these students.
With Nelnet’s Past Due Payment Plans, students could take action on their own without ever stepping into an office — freeing up valuable time for Brittany’s team.
Students found the new system easy to use. Without the university doing any advertising, students began enrolling the very first month Nelnet’s Past Due Payment Plans were available.
From February to November 2019, Indiana University had 1,309 past due payment plans and processed more than $1.4 million. That was revenue that would have been greatly reduced if the university had gone with a collection agency.
Past Due Payment Plans are far easier to manage than the manual payment plans the institution previously used. There’s no risk to the institution, and students are able to remain enrolled.
“My goal is for everybody to pay what they owe on the day that it’s due — online, through ACH, and nothing bounces,” said Brittany. “However, this Past Due Payment Plan is to help families that need it. If we can prevent a family from having to take an additional PLUS loan or private loan by offering them this low-cost payment plan, that’s the benefit.”
Want to hear Brittany’s full experience with Past Due Payment Plans? View her on-demand 1-hour Nelnet Campus Commerce webinar, “Automating Payment Plans.“
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New legislation brings order to digital markets
by Laura Halenius
12 January 2021 - Updated on 13 January 2021
Brussels (Brussels Morning) The European Commission submitted new legislative proposals in December 2020 that aim for fairer digital practices and services for businesses and consumers.
The proposals are based on European values: human rights, personal freedom, data protection, liberty, democracy, equality and the rule of law. While the legislation can lay a solid foundation for ensuring these values, successful implementation will require substantial efforts.
With the new legislation, the Commission hopes to ensure that consumers gain access to a wide selection of safe products and services. In other words, what is currently illegal outside the internet, such as stolen goods, will also be illegal online.
I would also secure a free and level playing field for European businesses when competing in digital markets, just as it does in conventional markets, prescribing illegal content can be removed from services.
The regulation of the digital markets is value-based
The purpose of the Digital Markets Act is to prevent tech giants from abusing their position as the gatekeepers of the single market. Best-known among these are Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, whose market dominance is so formidable currently that, according to a Commission risk analysis, they could potentially stop or at least significantly delay business users and their competitors from offering their services to consumers.
A typical example of wielding power over competitors is the battle that flared up between Apple and Epic Games last year. Epic Games added an option in its popular Fortnite game that allowed players to make in-app purchases without using Apple’s App Store.
The reason for so doing was Apple’s policy of taking a 30% cut of each in-app purchase, which Epic Games considered unreasonable. Apple retaliated by banning Fortnite completely from its App Store. The new regulation seeks to eliminate such abuses of their dominant market positions by tech giants to support the growth of small tech companies, small and medium enterprises and start-ups.
On the other hand, the legislative proposal for the Digital Services Act aims to shift significantly more responsibility onto tech giants like Facebook and Amazon for content marketed and sold on their platforms.
Accordingly, in future, digital services offering products, services or content to consumers should be subject to binding EU regulations in which the rights and responsibilities of platform users, tech companies, and authorities are clearly defined and apportioned.
Tech companies would also be obliged to disclose how they use algorithms to select content for individual users. These changes would give researchers access to more extensive data and, with that, better opportunities to evaluate the ethical conduct of tech companies.
Digitisation akin to the advent of traffic lights 150 years ago
The timing of the new legislative proposals could not be more opportune given that the global pandemic has opened the floodgates of a digital transition involving every European. Online retail sales have exploded, video and audio meetings have become a primary channel of communication in business, friends and families have learned to rely on social media to keep in touch and transactions with authorities are taking place online whenever possible.
In December 2020, Margrethe Vestager, European Commission executive vice-president for a Europe fit for the digital age, compared the new proposals to the introduction of traffic lights 150 years ago, when automobiles began to replace horse-drawn carriages.
The analogy between digital services and traffic is apt. Today, data is the pulse of our society and best serves that vital purpose free of monopolisation and without algorithm-based systems that create discriminatory practices and inequality.
Digital responsibility key to maintaining citizen-user trust
There is still a long way to go from legislative proposals to implementation, and chances are the companies affected by the proposals will continue to lobby forcefully against them. There are, however, positive signs that suggest the digital landscape will look different in the future.
Legislation speeds up development, but it can only serve as a signpost and necessarily leaves plenty of practical questions unanswered. In fact, companies and the government should embrace digital responsibility even more extensively than the laws require to maintain the trust of citizens and customers. Building trust is a long process but destroying it takes seconds.
Trust is the fuel that keeps data moving in digital society and spurs the emergence of new digital services to make our day-to-day lives easier. The current framework of digital responsibility must be expanded and it will take completely new tools and reporting practices to make sure we don’t lose the all-important trust of the people.
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Laura Halenius works as a Senior Lead at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. In charge of EU relations, she focuses on collaborating with various stakeholders towards a human-driven European data economy.
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Tata Sky to air films from Palador’s library
MUMBAI: Palador Pictures has partnered with DTH service provider Tata Sky as per which selected American, European and Asian films will be aired on Tata Sky’s pay-per-view service – Showcase.
Starting 12 October, Tata Sky will telecast eight movies from the Palador library for the coming five weeks. The movies span different genres and showcase works of filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa, Jim Jarmusch, Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang, Wong-Kar Wai and the likes. One of the movies to be aired on 12 October is Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, winner of numerous global awards.
Tata Sky’s subscribers can order any of the movies once and enjoy it multiple times up to midnight. Every week, Tata Sky will replace the foreign films with a new set from the Palador library.
Palador Pictures founder and managing director Gautam Sikhnis said, “We have worked hard to create a collection of the best-of-the-best movies from across the world and are currently nurturing around 1000 titles in our ever-growing library. And now, the task of taking them to the discerning Indian viewers is made easy with Tata Sky satellite television service. We promise a future of the best of world cinema to every Tata Sky subscriber.”
Tata Sky Ltd managing director and CEO Vikram Kaushik added, “Our tie-up with Palador enables us to introduce our subscribers to classics in the world cinema category made by legendary film makers. These films will be available in DVD quality picture and will have only one ad-break thereby enhancing the viewing experience for our subscribers.”
Palador Pictures invested over $ 4 million (Rs 16 crores) to acquire legal rights to nearly 1,000 English and foreign language film titles in the world cinema category. The company has raised private investments of $ 6 million with a revenue target of $ 20 million by March 2009.
The films on Tata Sky will be shown are as follows:
12 – 18 October: Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa
19 – 25 October: Throne Of Blood by Akira Kurosawa
26 October – 1 November: The Eye by Oxide Pang Chun & Danny Pang
26 October – 1 November: Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch
2 – 8 November: Two English Girls by Francois Truffaut
2 – 8 November: Coffee And Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch
9 – 15 November: In The Mood For Love by Wong-Kar Wai
9 – 15 November: End Of Violence by Wim Wenders
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Humanity’s greatest fear is about being irrelevant
Ian Tucker in conversation with Genevieve Bell for the Guardian
Writing for the Guardian, Ian Tucker talks to Genevieve Bell, the Australian anthropologist working at the Intel headquarters in Oregon, to explore our anxieties about rapidly developing technology, and artificial intelligence:
Genevieve Bell is an Australian anthropologist who has been working at tech company Intel for 18 years, where she is currently head of sensing and insights. She has given numerous TED talks and in 2012 was inducted into the Women in Technology hall of fame. Between 2008 and 2010, she was also South Australia’s thinker in residence.
Why does a company such as Intel need an anthropologist?
That is a question I’ve spent 18 years asking myself. It’s not a contradiction in terms, but it is a puzzle. When they hired me, I think they understood something that not everyone in the tech industry understood, which was that technology was about to undergo a rapid transformation. Computers went from being on an office desk spewing out Excel to inhabiting our homes and lives and we needed to have a point of view about what that was going to look like. It was incredibly important to understand the human questions: such as, what on earth are people going to do with that computational power. If we could anticipate just a little bit, that would give us a business edge and the ability to make better technical decisions. But as an anthropologist that’s a weird place to be. We tend to be rooted in the present – what are people doing now and why? – rather than long-term strategic stuff.
A criticism that is often made of tech companies is that they are dominated by a narrow demographic of white, male engineers and as a result the code and hardware they produce have a narrow set of values built into them. Do you see your team as a counterbalance to that culture?
Absolutely. I suspect people must think I’m a monumental pain. I used to think my job was to bring as many other human experiences into the building as possible. Being a woman, being Australian and not being an engineer – those were all valuable assets because they gave me a very different point of view.
We are building the engines, so the question is not will AI rise up and kill us, but will we give it the tools to do so?
Now, the leadership of Intel is around 25% female, which is about what market availability is in the tech sector. We are conscious of what it means to have a company whose workforce doesn’t reflect the general population. Repeated studies show that the more diverse your teams are, the richer the outcomes. You have to tolerate a bit of static, but that’s preferable to the self-perpetuating bubble where everyone agrees with you.
You are often described as a futurologist. A lot of people are worried about the future. Are they right to be concerned?
That technology is accompanied by anxiety is not a new thing. We have anxieties about certain types of technology and there are reasons for that. We’re coming up to the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the images in it have persisted.
Shelley’s story worked because it tapped into a set of cultural anxieties. The Frankenstein anxiety is not the reason we worried about the motor car or electricity, but if you think about how some people write about robotics, AI and big data, those concerns have profound echoes going back to the Frankenstein anxieties 200 years ago.
Charlotte Mandell, Dan Fox, Shaun Whiteside and Jen Calleja on their highlights of the year.
As 2016 finally teeters on its last legs, we decided to take a look back over a few of the year’s highlights for us. This year we were proud to publish excellent essays by Dan Fox, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Svetlana Alexievich, and Ben Lerner; as well as works of fiction by John Keene, Ed Atkins, Clemens Meyer, and Agustín Fernández Mallo with the second installment of his brilliant Nocilla triology.
For this blog post we asked a few of our translators, and an author, to reminisce over some of their own cultural highlights of 2016: Charlotte Mandell, Shaun Whiteside, Jen Calleja, and Dan Fox tell us about their most memorable experiences of the year in literature, music, and the arts.
Charlotte:
For the past year I’ve been working on my translation of Mathias Énard’s long novel Boussole (Compass), so much of my reading has been connected in some way to that: Edward FitzGerald’s elegant translations of Omar Khayyam; Germain Nouveau’s poetry, in the Pléiade edition that Sarah (one of the main characters) bemoans no longer features him; Xavier de Maistre’s very funny Journey Around My Room. There are so many books mentioned in Compass that it would take years to read them all, but I’d certainly like to try, starting with Leg Over Leg by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a book that Sarah claims is one of the best novels of the nineteenth century in any language, not just in Arabic.
I suppose the cultural highlight of the year for me was a gorgeous production of the seldom-performed opera Iris by Mascagni, conducted by Leon Botstein, at the Bard Music Festival last July. It was beautifully sung by the soprano Talise Trevigne; the beginning of the third act, with its mysterious, Wagnerian overture, was one of the most haunting things I’ve ever seen in a live performance: Iris is shown falling in slow-motion, while tendrils of smoke rise up from the trash heap below. A screen between her and the audience made it look even more other-worldly and ethereal.
There’s an exciting new publishing collective, an offshoot of Lunar Chandelier Press, called the Lunar Chandelier Collective, which published several innovative poetry books this past year, each one very different from the other: Heart Thread by my husband, Robert Kelly; Uncreated Mirror by a powerful young poet named Tamas Panitz; Waters Of by a lyrical and sensuous poet named Billie Chernicoff; and Porcelain Pillow, a poem that combines memoir and essay, by Thomas Meyer. Robert actually had four books published this year: The Hexagon, a long poem published by Commonwealth Books; Opening the Seals, a meditation on proto-language, published by Autonomedia Press; Heart Thread; and The Secret Name of Now, a selection of shorter, lyrical poems, from Dr. Cicero Press.
One of my favorite novels of the year, The Night Ocean, isn’t actually out yet — we received an advance copy of it from its author, Paul La Farge. Its cast of characters includes H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Barlow, and William S. Burroughs, and the narration is so beautiful and intricately wrought that any summary would do it an injustice.
Finally, I’ve been caught up lately in Nocilla Dream by Agustín Fernández Mallo, from Fitzcarraldo Editions — another difficult-to-summarize novel, having to do with the interconnectedness of things and the illusory nature of reality. It’s elegantly and convincingly translated by Thomas Bunstead. I’m looking forward to the next installment, Nocilla Experience. I’m also very excited about Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems, just out from New Directions: there’s a fascinating article about it by Dan Chiasson in the recent New Yorker, here, with this memorable sentence: “Her idiosyncratic punctuation sometimes feels like triage for the emergency conditions of her muse.”
Charlotte Mandell has translated fiction, poetry, and philosophy from the French, including works by Proust, Flaubert, Genet, Maupassant, Blanchot, and many other distinguished authors. She translated Street of Thieves by Mathias Enard for Fitzcarraldo Editions, and has received many accolades and awards for her translations, including a Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for Zone, also by Mathias Enard.
At the start of BS Johnson’s pitch-black comic novel Christy Malry’s Own Double-Entry (1973), the book’s anti-hero, Christy, begins his adventure by taking an accountancy course. Here he learns the principle of double-entry bookkeeping: for every debit, there must be a corresponding credit. Christy is a miserable young man who rationalizes his dreary lot with the belief that the world has conspired against him. Deciding that the metaphysical books need to be balanced, he begins to apply the double-entry system to his life. Christy draws up a two-column ledger: one for ‘Aggravations’, the other for ‘Recompense.’ Each time life aggravates or ‘debits’ him he awards himself recompense, usually an act of minor vandalism. When for instance, he is forced to take a detour on his way to work, his compensation is to scratch the expensive stonework of a nearby building. As his sense of aggravation grows larger, the credit he demands becomes more gruesome.
What, I wonder, would the accounts look like for the calendrical crock of cowshit that called itself 2016?
AGGRAVATIONS RECOMPENSE
Donald Trump and related misery
Neo-fascism
22% of Great Barrier Reef coral dead
Record decline in Arctic sea ice
Pulse nightclub shooting, Orlando
Murder of Jo Cox
Death of David Bowie
Death of Prince
Death of Pauline Oliveros
Death of Sonia Rykiel
Death of Leonard Cohen
Death of Leonard of Mayfair
Death of Malick Sidibe
Death of Alan Vega
Death of Doris Lamar-McLemore (last speaker of the Wichita language)
Death of William Christenberry
Death of Jenny Diski
Death of Victoria Wood
Death of Harper Lee
Death of William Trevor
Death of Sharon Jones
Death of Kenny Baker
Death of David Mancuso
Death of Raoul Coutard
Death of Elaine Lustig Cohen
Death of David Antin
Death of Dario Fo
Death of Prince Buster
Death of Don Buchla
Death of Edward Albee
Death of Elie Wiesel
Death of Caroline Ahearne
Death of Abbas Kiarostami
Death of Billy Name
Death of Tunga
Death of Peter Shaffer
Death of Bernie Worrell
Death of Tony Feher
Death of Alvin Toffler
Death of Carla Lane
Death of Tony Conrad
Death of Ken Adam
Death of Merle Haggard
Death of Umberto Eco
Death of Pierre Boulez
Death of Alan Rickman
Death of Terry Wogan
Death of Jacques Rivette
Death of Zsa Zsa Gabor
Death of Scooter, the oldest cat in the USA
This myopically Western-centric and mostly arts-fixated list could go on. I am stumped for ‘Recompense’ line items that could truly balance the bereavement, fear, heartbreak and anger that the past year has brought. Nothing on my roll-call of admiration and pleasure is going to stop climate denial or bring down Donald Trump. But these talismans of open-minded thought, empathy and action serve as a reminder for me to keep going.
Denzil Forrester, White Columns, New York, and Tramps, London
Mark Leckey, ‘Containers and Their Drivers’, MoMA PS1, New York
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, The Serpentine Gallery, London
Paulina Olowska, Metro Pictures, New York
Bruce Conner, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jessi Reeves, Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York
Danny Lyon, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Kerry James Marshall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Diane Simpson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Nicole Eisenman, New Museum and Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Lukas Duwenhogger, Artists Space, New York
‘The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissim’ by Kristin Dombek
‘Respectable: The Experience of Class’ by Lynsey Hanley
‘The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories’ by Lynne Tillman
‘Here is Information. Mobilize.’ by Ian White
‘Arrival’
‘Embrace of the Serpent’
‘A Bigger Splash’
‘Moonlight’
‘Stranger Things’
‘Black Mirror’
‘Atlanta’
‘Camping’
‘Captain Fantastic’
‘Lodestar’, Shirley Collins
‘Last Signs of Speed’, Eli Keszler
‘Juarez’ and ‘Lubbock (on everything)’, Terry Allen
‘We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service’, A Tribe Called Quest
Borealis Festival, Bergen. (At this small, yet brilliant music festival, I discovered the stunningly strange father and daughter improvised pop duo Yeah You; a blistering footwork set from Jlin, the hypnotic Egyptian Females Experimental Music Session, and the premiere of Object Collection’s new opera ‘It’s All True’ – based on the complete archive of recorded gigs by the post-hardcore band Fugazi.)
The two works that made the biggest impression on me bookended the year. In January, it was a song: ‘I Can’t Give Everything Away’, the final cut on David Bowie’s final curtain album, Blackstar, released days before his death. Opening with warm string synths in respirating refrain, as if struggling for breath, and a plaintive harmonica line that directly echoes Bowie’s 1977 track ‘A New Career in a New Town’ (what better description could there be for an afterlife?), the song begins with an admission with anxiety about the future; ‘I know something’s very wrong…’ Over skittering drums, and an increasingly frenetic saxophone, the words ‘I can’t give everything away’ are a line being drawn between the personal and private, or a defiant assertion of personal sovereignty. I’ve given you all the love I can, it seems to say, but now I must take care of myself or I will be reduced to nothing.
In December I saw Arthur Jafa’s seven-and-a-half minute video ‘Love is the Message, The Message is Death’ at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York. Cut to Kanye West’s song ‘Ultralight Beam’, Jafa’s video pulls together reportage footage, cellphone video, and archival film of police shootings, civil rights marches, block parties, iconic performances by black musicians, and the burning surface of the sun. West’s sparse, roboticized gospel track –problematised by the singer’s recent support of Donald Trump – wrings pathos from the multiple video textures on screen, from the high-res to the low-grade and pixellated. Jafa’s film has the quality of a trailer for a documentary, a tantalising promise of a longer cinematic survey of African American social history, but its compressed expression of the complexities, contradictions, tragedies and triumphs of the black experience in the USA is gut-wrenching. I don’t know what could possibly balance the books.
Dan Fox is a writer, musician, and co-editor of frieze magazine, Europe’s foremost magazine of art and culture. He is based in New York, and has published Pretentiousness: Why it Matters this year with Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Shaun:
What a year. Book-ended (more or less) by two black-edged farewells: Blackstar and You Want it Darker, just in case the message of 2016 hadn’t got through. Both rare much more than coded farewells, and have seldom been off the stereo in our house. Goodbye, Bowie and Len.
In literature, the great event for me was Sam Garrett’s translation of the Dutch classic The Evenings by Gerard Reve, first published in 1946 and never before translated into English. It’s a dark, existential sitcom, very unsettling and in places very funny indeed. As a Dutch commentator described it: “Nothing happens, and it seems to have been written by a psychopath.” Well done, Pushkin Press, and worth the 70-year wait.
The exhibition has to be Bosch in ‘sHertogenbosch: the weirdness of the late medieval imagination laid bare in a comprehensive show bringing together works from all over the world, except the ones in the Prado, which it eventually joined when the show moved there. Wonderful.
In film, my favourite was the touching, subtle and ultimately conciliatory divorce drama After Love by Joachim Lafosse. He coaxes extraordinary performances from his actors, not least from the children.
But the most heart-stopping experience of all, on every level, was Akram Khan’s Giselle at Sadler’s Wells, to a semi-industrial score by Vincenzo Lamagna. This borrowed not only from classical ballet and Martha Graham, but from Bollywood and, most dramatically, Japanese horror movies. It was quite stunning, with dancers constantly transformed from objects into people and back into objects again. The scary second half in particular was a real treat, and Alina Cojocaru was of course amazing. Would almost restore your faith in humanity.
Shaun Whiteside is a translator from French, German, Italian and Dutch. His translations from French include novels by Amélie Nothomb, Patrick Rambaud, Michèle Desbordes, Georges-Marc Benamou, and Georges Simenon, as well as works of non-fiction by Pierre Bourdieu and Anne Sinclair. He translated Football by Jean-Philippe Toussaint for Fitzcarraldo Editions, and lives in London.
Jen:
Exhibition – Helen Marten, Tate Britain/Serpentine Gallery
I went to see the Turner Prize with a very good friend of mine and we both experienced a kind of epiphany when we saw Marten’s work. Afterwards we bought her book Parrot Problems, and while flicking through saw that she was due to have a solo exhibition at the Serpentine. We headed straight there and spent what felt like hours taking in her poetic reflection of contemporary life, it’s almost as if it’s everything in existence refracted through dreams back into materiality and image. I couldn’t be happier for her win (the last time I fell in awe with a Turner Prize winner was Richard Wright, I think) and I especially commend and celebrate her sharing of her prize money with the other artists shortlisted (for the second time in as many months) against the winner/loser hierarchy.
Fiction – Michelle Steinbeck, Mein Vater war ein Mann an Land und im Wasser ein Walfisch (My Father was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water) & Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers
I’m currently in Zurich working on my first novel and I’ve been savouring this short book by Swiss writer Steinbeck. It’s a dark contemporary fairy tale where anything can happen, and opens with a woman accidently killing a child with an iron, stuffing it in a suitcase and being told by a wise woman to track down her father to give the suitcase to him. One critic said that she had to be sick in the head to write something like this but to write this kind of thing you have to be absolutely attuned to the structures of reality and your own consciousness. This book isn’t translated into English yet, sorry. But you can read a review in English in the latest issue of New Books in German.
I read Max’s GITTWF – that just won its one hundredth award this week – on a flight to Italy. Well actually, I read it within the first hour or so and didn’t have anything else to read for the rest of the flight. In that short time I laughed, cheered, was left breathless, and then left devastated. For a writer also writing a novel in juxtaposing fragments it’s got a reassuringly small word count and a massive impact that still wakes me in the middle of the night or interrupts my thoughts while waiting in queues.
Poetry – Jack Underwood, Happiness
Jack’s poetry has spoken to me for years and he definitely made me feel that there was a place in poetry for my kind of writing and the kinds of things I wanted to write about. I’ve returned to this book may times this year, soothed by the melancholic hesitancy, depiction of personal embarrassment and unstoppable worrying.
Non-Fiction – Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts & Chris Kraus, I Love Dick.
These have been two life- and game-changing books for many people. I did that whole ‘resist the hype’ thing I always do and then bought Nelson based on a recommendation from a friend who then bought me Kraus because she was moving to Australia. Just the quality of writing, the integrally experimental forms, and the unsurpassable honesty of both books have changed autobiographical, essay and feminist writing forever. Rebecca May Johnson and I are making loose plans to start a reading group next year and these will be the first two books for sure.
Record – Anxiety, Anxiety
Glasgow’s Anxiety made the perfect punk record. It’s not just the record though, they break out the best unhinged, be-gloved live show I’ve seen since getting to watch Vexx many times around the UK last year. After listening to this record constantly, you should listen to frontman Michael Kasparis’ solo project Apostille, which sounds pleasant on record, but live is like watching a mean and sarcastic wailing goblin addicted to dancing sweating profusely over various electronics, and bassist Helena Celle’s new synth record is subterranean and distorted, absorbingly submerged like it’s bubbling up out of water.
Jen Calleja is a writer and literary translator from German. She translated Nicotine by Gregor Hens for Fitzcarraldo Editions and her debut collection of poetry Serious Justice is published by Test Centre. She is currently translating Kerstin Hensel for Peirene Press and Wim Wenders for Faber & Faber. Throughout December and January she is index writer in residence working on her first novel.
Devils in Dalston
Anna Aslanyan writing for the Times Literary Supplement
Last week Anna Aslanyan caught up with writer, filmmaker, and psychogeographist Iain Sinclair in the wake of the publication of his latest book My Favourite London Devils. For the Times Literary Supplement, they talk about the memories that haunt his writing of London:
“You couldn’t imagine anything like this here”, Iain Sinclair said, gesturing at the interior of Burley Fisher Books, a year-old venture in Dalston. Sinclair has lived in and tirelessly explored this part of East London for nearly half a century; back in the 1970s, he ran his Albion Village Press from home and was a “trader in forlorn and forgotten literature”, selling books from stalls. The new bookshop, in the middle of what has been branded the coolest place in Britain by the media, sells books and bagels by day, while by night, true to its promise to “be an asset to the local community”, it runs events.
It was packed for the recent launch of Sinclair’s new book My Favourite London Devils, a collection of essays dedicated to authors who, like himself, found their muse in London. Written over the past decade and a half, these pieces were recovered from storage and revised by Sinclair. Read together, they prove yet again that London is an inexhaustible theme, and that Sinclair’s take on it never stands still, mirroring the city in flux.
The book’s subjects range from famous to “eternally rediscovered”, to “reforgotten” – until, that is, Sinclair got on to them. Joseph Conrad – who on his return from the Congo was treated at the German Hospital in Dalston – and his The Secret Agent (1907) are mentioned in a piece written in the wake of the 7/7 bombings. One vignette shows Peter Ackroyd at a poetry reading in Earl’s Court, and together with another of the devils, Michael Moorcock, he and Sinclair have an eventful night out. Ackroyd has said that Sinclair’s poem “Lud Heat” was an inspiration for his novel Hawksmoor (1985).
Carsten Höller in Kinshasa – Democratic Republic of the Congo
Carsten Höller in Purple Magazine
In 2014, Belgian Artist Carsten Höller premiered Fara Fara, a 13 minute film on a double screen exploring and reimagining Kinshasa’s vibrant music and dance scene. Later a 2015 Venice Biennale favourite, he remembers his travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Purple Magazine:
I’m on the plane to Kinshasa with four Europeans, none of whom has ever been to sub-Saharan Africa before. N’Djili Airport has been poshed up since I was there last, in 2011. To my disappointment, the little tourist information kiosk, where all they had was one postcard with some lounging bonobos, has disappeared. Same for the chair that was screwed to a wall because it lacked hind legs. We say hello to Papa Wemba in the lounge — our father of the rumba, Notre Père Rumba, as one of his albums is called. He came on the same Air France flight as us. There used to be huge crowds outside the airport when he came back from Europe, but not anymore.
We head straight to Zamba Playa, where Werrason is playing in front of a few hundred people. The five-lane highway to the city is brand new. It’s Chinese, but well done. They give us plastic chairs, placed in front of the stage, first row. Of course, no other whities. I wonder how my co-continentals feel about that. Finally, Primus. Werrason addresses the crowd, asking which of the two versions of the same song they like better. This is Congolese democracy. Madness. At the parliament, he says, “People, sit down,” to cool down the frenetically excited. He’s the only musician I’ve ever seen trying to calm down his public.
More Primus. Bellou drinks Turbo King, which is a strong dark beer. He’s our “cultural manager,” as he puts it. He is with Carlos, our driver and LeBrun and Maître Bola, who are here for our security. The music promoter Steve — with whom I organized Werrason (2004) and Koffi Olomidé (2005) concerts in Stockholm — also shows up. I am with Elin, George, Giovanna, and Pierre, and even at 11 PM, it’s very hot indeed.
Bercy Muana, the animateur with a third eye tattooed on his forehead, jumps and shouts like a psychotic wildebeest. Werrason is still trying to appease, but by now this seems more like an attitude, and he smiles. I am told that Bercy, whom they call “Goosebumps,” is coming from Ferre Gola. They call Werrason “King of the Forest.” And they call Bellou “Hakuna Matata” and “The Banker From Paris.” We finally make it to Chez Ntemba, my favorite nightclub in the world. The Primus is like machine oil. We all get dédicaces — shout-outs — from DJ Frank. No extra names for us, though. Over the years, Carlos has called me “Mopao,” but that’s an exaggeration because it means “big boss.” Koffi Olomidé is called that. My four fellow travelers have already lost all connection to spaceship Europe.
We are here to work on a book about a film that has not yet been made. Maybe it never will be, like an endless project, or like Synecdoche, New York, with Philip Seymour Hoffmann. The book can be the script for the film. Elin will write the text. George is the cutter. Giovanna is the editor and photographer. Pierre is the photographer; I told him I want old-style paparazzi pictures, with the camera in one hand and the flash in the other. That’s why we are here: they need to see and hear this.
Luigi Ghirri’s Brilliant Photographic Puzzles
Teju Cole writing for the New York Times Magazine
Author and photographer Teju Cole delves into the illusionary world of Luigi Ghirri for his New York Times Magazine column, On Photography:
I look at Luigi Ghirri’s work daily: There’s a postcard reproduction of one of his photographs on my fridge. It depicts four women, turned away from us and toward a mountainous landscape. They could be taking in an actual vista — the perspective is correct — but the mountains and their intervening lakes have text superimposed on them, and so we realize the women are standing before an image of a landscape, either a poster or a mural. Ghirri took the photograph in Salzburg, Austria, in 1977. I find it reassuring, amusing (that slight stutter in parsing it), simultaneously simple and complex in ways that are difficult to explain.
Luigi Ghirri was one of the outstanding photographers of his generation. His work was largely made in Europe, and most of it focused on a small area of northern Italy, the region of Emilia-Romagna, where he was born and where he died, in 1992, of a heart attack at the too-young age of 49. Today, his work is in a peculiar posthumous phase, both celebrated and elusive. Perhaps no Italian photographer of the 20th century was more influential: There are traces of his gentle, lucid, cerebral style all over contemporary photography. As of a few years ago, I had seen his images in articles and exhibitions, but information about him was hard to come by. I bought several books dedicated to his work that were in Italian, a language I don’t read. An English-language collection, published as “It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It … ,” was in print but scarce.
Ghirri’s pictures are calm and mysterious — just a bit out of reach, like his books. His constellation of favored themes is distinct: maps, landscapes, windows, still lifes, interiors, fog, the seaside, the objects in artists’ studios, people obscured in some way and many images that test the divide between the world and an image of the world (murals, miniatures, postcards), often bearing an ironic gleam. You feel that in each picture there’s more than meets the eye, but the feeling remains unresolved.
Ghirri’s work is in full color, like that of William Eggleston, the American photographer with whom he has the strongest kinship and who admires him greatly. But Ghirri does not share Eggleston’s intense hues, the angry reds and livid greens that Eggleston hunted down in unspectacular everyday subjects. Ghirri’s favored palette is pale, soothing, often tending toward pastel, as if the images did not wish to speak too loudly or overassert their presence. Contrary to the current trend in art photography, his pictures are printed small, sometimes no bigger than the size of a snapshot. On a gallery wall, even at such modest scale — or because of the scale — they are remarkably effective. In a group show, they stand out like brilliant individual lines of poetry amid the undifferentiated prose of much larger pictures.
The recent publication of “Luigi Ghirri: The Complete Essays 1973-1991” (Mack) enriches and complicates our sense of Ghirri’s achievement. Right from the beginning of his career, he wrote frequently and with great intelligence about his own work and the work of other photographers. “The Complete Essays” comprises 68 texts, most of them brief, in which he presents an allusive, fragmented and recursive account of his photographic philosophy. Some of his arguments can be abstruse, and rarely does he give interpretations of individual pictures. But at several moments, he produces lines of epigrammatic clarity that echo the lucidity of his photographs. “Every part of the landscape, from the roofs of houses to signs on walls, seems to await recognition via his loving eye.” The sentence, which appears in an essay on Walker Evans, applies very well to Ghirri himself.
Olga Tokarczuk in Asymptote
We are delighted to be publishing Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights in May 2017. Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland’s best and most beloved authors. In 2015 alone she has received the Brueckepreis and the prestigious annual literary award from Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as Poland’s highest literary honor, the Nike, and the Nike Readers’ Prize. Here is a short excerpt from Jennifer Croft’s translation of Flights:
I studied psychology in a big, gloomy Communist city. My department was located in a building that had been the headquarters of an S.S. unit during the war. That part of the city had been built up on the ruins of the ghetto, which you could tell if you took a good look—that whole neighborhood stood about three feet higher than the rest of the town. Three feet of rubble. I never felt comfortable there; between the new Communist buildings and the paltry squares there was always a wind, and the frosty air was particularly bitter, stinging you in the face. Ultimately it was a place that still, despite construction, belonged to the dead. I still have dreams about the building where my classes were—its broad hallways that looked like they’d been carved into stone, smoothed down by people’s feet, the worn edges of the stairs, the handrails polished by people’s hands, traces imprinted in space. Maybe that was why we were haunted by those ghosts.
When we’d put rats in a maze, there was always one whose behavior would contradict the theory and would refuse to care about our clever hypotheses. It would stand up on its little hind legs, absolutely indifferent to the reward at the end of our experimental route; disdaining the perks of Pavlovian conditioning, it would simply take one good look at us and then turn around, or turn its attention to the unhurried exploration of the maze. It would look for something in the lateral corridors, trying to attract attention. It would squeak, disoriented, and then the girls, despite the rules, would usually take it out and hold it in their hands.
The muscles of a dead, splayed frog would flex and straighten to the rhythm of electrical pulses, but in a way that had not yet been described in our textbooks—it would gesture to us, its limbs making clear signs of threats and taunts, thereby contradicting our hallowed faith in the mechanical innocence of physiological reflexes.
Here we were taught that the world could be described, and even explained, by means of simple answers to intelligent questions. That in its essence the world was inert and dead, governed by fairly simple laws that needed to be explained and made public—if possible with the aid of diagrams. We were required to do experiments. To formulate hypotheses. To verify. We were inducted into the mysteries of statistics, taught to believe that equipped with such a tool we would be able to perfectly describe all the workings of the world—that ninety percent is more significant than five.
But if there’s one thing I know now, it’s that anyone looking for order ought to steer clear of psychology altogether. Go for physiology or theology instead, where at least you’ll have solid backing—either in matter or in spirit—instead of psychology’s slippery terrain. The psyche is quite a tenuous object of study.
It turned out it was true what some people said about psychology being a major you choose not because of the job you want, or out of curiosity or a vocation to help others, but rather for another very simple reason. I think all of us had some sort of deeply hidden defect, although we no doubt all gave the impression of intelligent, healthy young people—the defect was masked, skillfully camouflaged at our entrance exams. A ball of tautly tangled emotions breaking down, like those strange tumors that turn up sometimes in the human body and that can be seen in any self-respecting museum of pathological anatomy. Although what if the people who administered our exams were the same sort of people, and in reality they knew exactly what they were doing? In that case, we would be their direct heirs. When, in our second year, we discussed the function of defense mechanisms and found that we were humbled by the power of that portion of our psyche, we began to understand that if it weren’t for rationalization, sublimation, denial—all the little tricks we let ourselves perform—if instead we simply saw the world as it was, with nothing to protect us, honestly and courageously, it would break our hearts.
What we learned in college was that we are made up of defenses, of shields and armor, that we are cities whose architecture essentially comes down to walls, ramparts, strongholds; bunker states.
Every test, questionnaire, and study we conducted on each other, as well, so that by the time we got through our third year I had a name for what was wrong with me; it was like discovering my own secret name, the name that summons one to an initiation.
Ur-Fascism
Umberto Eco writing for the New York Review of Books in 1995
Thinking back to his childhood under Mussolini, Umberto Eco outlines the fundamental features of Eternal Fascism:
In 1942, at the age of ten, I received the First Provincial Award of Ludi Juveniles (a voluntary, compulsory competition for young Italian Fascists—that is, for every young Italian). I elaborated with rhetorical skill on the subject “Should we die for the glory of Mussolini and the immortal destiny of Italy?” My answer was positive. I was a smart boy.
I spent two of my early years among the SS, Fascists, Republicans, and partisans shooting at one another, and I learned how to dodge bullets. It was good exercise.
In April 1945, the partisans took over in Milan. Two days later they arrived in the small town where I was living at the time. It was a moment of joy. The main square was crowded with people singing and waving flags, calling in loud voices for Mimo, the partisan leader of that area. A former maresciallo of the Carabinieri, Mimo joined the supporters of General Badoglio, Mussolini’s successor, and lost a leg during one of the first clashes with Mussolini’s remaining forces. Mimo showed up on the balcony of the city hall, pale, leaning on his crutch, and with one hand tried to calm the crowd. I was waiting for his speech because my whole childhood had been marked by the great historic speeches of Mussolini, whose most significant passages we memorized in school. Silence. Mimo spoke in a hoarse voice, barely audible. He said: “Citizens, friends. After so many painful sacrifices … here we are. Glory to those who have fallen for freedom.” And that was it. He went back inside. The crowd yelled, the partisans raised their guns and fired festive volleys. We kids hurried to pick up the shells, precious items, but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.
A few days later I saw the first American soldiers. They were African Americans. The first Yankee I met was a black man, Joseph, who introduced me to the marvels of Dick Tracy and Li’l Abner. His comic books were brightly colored and smelled good.
One of the officers (Major or Captain Muddy) was a guest in the villa of a family whose two daughters were my schoolmates. I met him in their garden where some ladies, surrounding Captain Muddy, talked in tentative French. Captain Muddy knew some French, too. My first image of American liberators was thus—after so many palefaces in black shirts—that of a cultivated black man in a yellow-green uniform saying: “Oui, merci beaucoup, Madame, moi aussi j’aime le champagne…” Unfortunately there was no champagne, but Captain Muddy gave me my first piece of Wrigley’s Spearmint and I started chewing all day long. At night I put my wad in a water glass, so it would be fresh for the next day.
In May we heard that the war was over. Peace gave me a curious sensation. I had been told that permanent warfare was the normal condition for a young Italian. In the following months I discovered that the Resistance was not only a local phenomenon but a European one. I learned new, exciting words like réseau, maquis, armée secrète, Rote Kapelle, Warsaw ghetto. I saw the first photographs of the Holocaust, thus understanding the meaning before knowing the word. I realized what we were liberated from.
Jan Dammu in Asymtote
Four poems by Jan Dammu have been translated from the Arabic by Suneela Mubayi. Jan Dammu was born in Kirkuk, Iraq, in 1943. He spent most of his life in Baghdad’s bars and cafes, living a counterculture lifestyle until moving to Australia (via Jordan) where he died in 2003:
Schubert the Greek
Is it a new birth,
insomnia’s sediments
from feathers, memories,
and bullets?
A new departure, a counter-departure.
There is no equality yet between
snow’s shadow and shadow’s ash.
Should one take refuge in Narcissus (or Bacchus)
for the sake of decoding the talismanic rose
or the butterflies that flit
in the corridors opened by our sleep
that fossilize us?
How distant are the paved roads of childhood.
How close are the roads of death.
Greek sculptures are capable of
the liquidation of minds that alienation’s echo
filled with dirt.
Schubert once more, and the tears are not enough.
It is our duty to toss the keys into the President’s hands.
Bore deeper into your aversion, O reality,
as that might be more becoming for the ripping up of the stars.
Stars! A foot in search of something that resembles it. A foot that sprouts leaves with dreams. A foot that severs.
The axe that was crafted to cut trees trunks will remain an axe always.
The final arrival to the realm of my arms was on Tuesday.
Between rain and reality, god’s shadow
descends.
Here I am, en route to practice my humanity.
The room is box-shaped, just like the heart,
With the last of my cigarettes, anxiety reaches its most ferocious state.
I descend.
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Estop or Go at the PTAB
Posted by Ed Walsh on Oct 7, 2015
The price of challenging a patent in an IPR or post-grant review is often said to include estoppel that would block, at a minimum, other challenges at the Patent Office to any claims for which a final written decision is issued by the Board. We recently commented on a potential exception to this rule. A further exception is being debated in International Business Machines Corporation v. Intellectual Ventures II LLC, IPR2014-01465 (Paper 29).
In that case, the Board is being asked to determine the effect of a final written decision confirming claims being challenged in a second, still pending IPR trial. The applicable rule states that the same petitioner may not “maintain” another proceeding once a final written decision is issued. The patent owner seeks to have the trial previously instituted (based on a second petition) entirely terminated. However, its motion also addresses the possibility that the trial might not end, but that the petitioner would just be excluded from further participating in the trial. As trial in the second IPR is nearly over, scheduled for an oral hearing just days after the decision in the first IPR, precluding the petitioner from further participation in the trial might nonetheless allow the Board to render a decision based on the petitioner’s already submitted evidence and briefing. Thus, the meaning of “maintaining” a proceeding once estoppel applies has the potential to significantly impact the outcome in this case.
The Board’s ruling is likely to provide greater clarity around the effects and limits of estoppel following an unsuccessful challenge in an IPR. Accordingly, it should be watched and factored into strategic decisions for petitioners who file, or would like to file, multiple challenges against the same claims of a patent. Patent owners similarly need to watch this case, to appropriately determine how to deal with multiple challenges to a patent.
Topics: Petitioners, Patent Owners, IPR Estoppel
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Zero Crossings – March 16, 2015, featuring an interview with conductor Leslie Dunner
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Today’s show featured an interview with Leslie Dunner, who is a finalist candidate for the post of Music Director with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.
On Saturday, March 21 at 8PM Dunner will lead the Orlando Philharmonic through a program that includes Samuel Barber’s Second Essay for Orchestra, Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto (featuring Rimma Bergeron-Langlois) and Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable” at Orlando’s Bob Carr Theater.
The music aired during the program included:
Leslie Dunner – Motherless Child Songs I. Motherless Child; II. I Gave My Love a Cherry; III. Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen; IV. Deep River, from Open Boundaries (Innova)
Mary Watkins – Five Movements in Color I. Once Upon a Time; II. Soul of Remembrance; III. Urban Suave and Dance Survivalist; IV. Slow Burn; V. Drive By Runner, from Recorded Music of the African Diaspora (Albany)
Jean Sibelius – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 47, I. Allegro moderato, Hilary Hahn and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Listen to the show here:
Zero Crossings – March 16, 2015, Leslie Dunner, Conductor
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Rebroadcasted conversations with Walter Isaacson, on the life of Benjamin Franklin; David McCullough, on John Adams; and Joseph Ellis, on his book, "The Founding Brothers."
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Historian David McCullough introduces his latest book, "1776," which explores the perilous first year of the American Revolution. 53:59
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Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Modelling of Diablo IV's Cinematic "By Three They Come"
posted 2020/10/25 at 11:03 AM by Jaydaa
In an ArtStation Magazine article by Amelia Savery of Blizzard's Global Communications, we get a fantastic behind the scenes look at the modeling process that was involved in the "By Three They Come" cinematic that revealed Diablo IV to the world at BlizzCon 2019. In It’s a Gate: The Modelling Behind Diablo IV’s “By Three They Come' we learn more about the cinematic modeling process where artists leveraged concept art and live-actor performances to deliver compelling yet convincing close-up human performances to convey the darker and grittier narrative of Diablo IV.
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As we look back now nearly a year later on what would have been the weekend of BlizzCon 2020, it's still incredible to me how much emotion the cinematic reveals of BlizzCon 2019 can still evoke, especially Diablo IV's "By Three They Come". While some of that initial emotion comes from the nostalgia of growing up in the world of Sanctuary and of course experiencing this trailer live with thousands of the most hardcore Blizzard fans in the world, I can still watch the Diablo IV Announcement Cinematic in the quiet of my own home with nearly as much excitement and anticipation.
A lot of that is attributed to the quality performance assembled by Blizzard in what I now learned was a 16-month long journey. This article provides a lot of contextual depth to the process involved in executing that vision to create realistic human performances that contributes to the darkness and terror of the world of Sanctuary.
Even before BlizzCon 2019 started, attendees knew they were in for something different and possibly darker than Blizzard had ever offered players before when mysterious content warnings started appearing around the venue. The morning of the Opening Ceremony, the excitement in the air was palpable as players awaited what Blizzard had to offer them and "By Three They Come" did not disappoint.
BlizzCon 2019 Opening Ceremony Content Warning
Amelia Savery via ArtStation Magazine
At the beginning of BlizzCon 2019, the lights fell over tens of thousands of people in the Anaheim Convention Center as the blue-hued countdown to the show slowly turned red. The sound of wind, bells tolling, a burnt wooden door slamming repeatedly against its frame. The hysterical, breathy, frightened prayers of a cleric punctuating the air, and with that, the world of Diablo IV was finally revealed to the world.
The article highlights a lot of the struggles the modeling team needed to overcome when creating these new characters without being a direct 'one-to-one' recreation of actor references.
Shannon recalled, laughing. “Are we going to even be able to show it? We understood the environmental challenges but for this piece, what was really going to be difficult was the character performances, the dialogue, and the close-ups.” From the beginning of development, performance was key. “There was a lot of character moments where the camera is in the character’s face and they’ve got to give convincing, human performances,” Shannon said.
Although actors were cast for reference, the modeling team was also provided concept art—their task was to push the boundaries of realism back and forth between the actors and the art, both on a character-by-character basis and overall, until they landed in a perfect spot.
Lead Character Modeler, Jason Huang offered insight into how these Diablo IV character's models differed versus Warcraft characters, such as Varian Wrynn, that you might be more familiar with here at Wowhead.
For the overall look and feel of the characters, the team was careful to push and stylize where they could to break away from photo-realism. “At Blizzard, going back to Warcraft, we’re always pushing it way more. StarCraft . . . no, StarCraft proportions are whack too,” Jason explained, laughing. “They have, like, massive shoulders. So, a lot of that stuff is what a lot of our IPs work with—very stylized but a realistic sheen. If you take Varian, the forms of his face are realistically rendered, but if you were to squint your eyes and look at him as a silhouette, he’s got huge shoulders, his chest is like a barrel. It’s not realistic. On Diablo, that’s where I would pull back—from the broader forms and proportions to the details like wrinkles, minuscule details. Let’s work with more subtlety.”
Huang establishes challenges and goals of the character models and what makes a character convincing in the world of Sanctuary and Diablo IV.
, "I am scared of characters not being convincing or believable. They don’t have to be realistic, they don’t have to be live-action, but they have to be convincing enough that the viewer is not taken out of cinematic because there’s something off about the character. As long as these characters are believable in their world, in the way we are presenting them, then I am good with it.”
Definitely checkout the full article for additional fantastic concept art and design philosophy for Diablo IV.
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Comment by Kushiri
I love this kind of content. More please. More behind the scenes is always good.
Comment by Emmetcullen
Really interesting read!
I think the Three Thy Come trailer is the best trailer I have ever seen hands down, it is unreal.
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Comment by Lakaiya
This stuff is fascinating!
Comment by Nymrohd
It is absolutely stellar. I kept rewatching it for weeks after Blizzcon and now I am tempted to watch it a few more times again
Comment by ThaDuder
I still periodically go back and watch this cinematic. Overall I think it's Blizzards best and that's saying something.
Comment by RichardMNixon
Someone put the same caption on each image in the article.
Comment by Arnathon
I've never had such a strong reaction about a Blizzard cinematic. And while I know they always put their heart and soul into it, this was THE teaser cinematic of the ages of gaming so far.
Just the fact that they went back to the horror-themed roots of Diablo, that feeling when you first stepped into the cathedral in the first game and heard the chilling sound of drums playing, screams of suffering from the depths, demons approaching. Because back then, Diablo was a bit of a horror-ish RPG.
And of course in this cinematic, we finally got to learn what Kadala TRULY needed all those blood shards for! :D
Comment by Ashley
Well, time to watch it again, thanks for the reminder! By far one of my favorite cinematics they've ever done.
Comment by rhuulum
If only we could get the cinematic in 4k. It was so incredible but I have no way to see it as good as it looked at blizzcon : (
Comment by Aenwyrm
Bandit guy makes me think of Bronn or Beric Dondarrion
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By Megan Peters - July 29, 2020 11:16 am EDT
Studio Ghibli is charging ahead with its plans to open a theme park in 2022. Earlier this week, the company gathered at the park's future site in the Aichi Prefecture. It was there an official groundbreaking ceremony was held to usher in the start of Ghibli Park's construction.
The event called for the appearance of several high-ranking execs who are working on the theme park. For those needing a bit of info on the ambitious project, Ghibli Park was announced years ago for Japan. The park, which is expected to total $323 million to fund, will spotlight five movies done by Hayao Miyazaki. The park itself will be housed in Aichi Prefecture in the area where the 2005 World Expo took place.
The groundbreaking ceremony ushered in official work on the park despite the fact that construction has been on-and-off for months now. The outbreak of COVID-19 forced crews to halt work for some time, but labor resumed not long ago as Japan has managed the virus well enough.
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The ceremony also gave fans a better look at concept art for the park and its five areas. The movies represented in the park include a number of classics. My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle will be included in the park. In fact, there is a version of Satsuki and Mei's house standing within the park already as the home was built for the 2005 World Expo. Ghibli Park has decided to keep the house as-is and incorporate it into My Neighbor Totoro's area.
At this point, there is no word on when the park will open in 2022, but fans are hoping it is ready to visit by the summer. The destination will become a favorite with tourists, and fans are going to be better able to travel in the summer than spring. For now, netizens will have to wait and see how the construction on Ghibli Park goes before making vacation plans, but our fingers are crossed that everything stays on schedule.
Are you hoping to visit this Studio Ghibli park once it opens in 2022? Let me know in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @MeganPetersCB to talk all things comics and anime!
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Finding Josh’s Voice
“When he stopped speaking to me and my husband and his brother, that’s when we really started to seek out some help.”
First Josh stopped speaking in pre-school, and then he stopped speaking to his family. Concerned and confused, his mother Dylana sought help and found the Child Mind Institute’s Brave Buddies program. Over the course of the intensive program, Josh found his voice and is today making progress that seemed impossible just one year ago.
Josh is 5 years old now. When did you start noticing that Josh was struggling a little bit with certain things?
Dylana: I first noticed that he had issues with talking when I enrolled him into preschool. On Joshua’s first day of school when I went to pick him up the principal pulled me to the side and told me that he didn’t speak to anyone. I was really shocked because Joshua has always been known to be very verbal at home, so we thought maybe he was just a little anxious. We decided to give it a few more days and he would say I don’t like school and I don’t want to go. We gave it about two more months and throughout that time, nothing. Not a word to anyone. Although he would play with the kids and show expressions, he would not speak with them. And then we knew there was a serious problem when he came home from school and he woke up from a nap and he stopped speaking at home. So then he would periodically stop talking at home and then at that point we figured that there’s something serious going on and we pulled him out of school.
How did you feel when he stopped talking at home?
Dylana: I was devastated. All things started to run through my head. Is this autism? Is there something really wrong with my son? How was this going to affect his academic career and his social career? How is he going to learn and build relationships?
“The principal pulled me to the side and said Josh didn’t speak to anyone. I was really shocked because Joshua has always been known to be very verbal at home.”
Was there anything specific at school that contributed to this?
Dylana: I think a lot of educators have heard the term selective mutism but they don’t really know what that means and how to deal with children with selective mutism. So even though the principal was familiar with it, I don’t think she knew how to deal with him. In speaking with her, she was questioning if maybe he was just being a little manipulative because he did not want to be in school. Not really understanding that it was something much deeper going on with him.
Tell me about home and what it looked like on a day-to-day level?
DYLANA: In the beginning when he wasn’t speaking at school, he would come home and he would speak with us fluently. About two months into this, we noticed he would wake up from a nap and he would just start pointing for things. And when I would try to ask him direct questions. I was almost trying to demand him to speak to you but with selective mutism, it actually makes things worse. It heightens the anxiety. Because then with his grandparents and everyone who usually speaks to him were really wondering what’s going on with him and why isn’t he speaking. So when he stopped speaking to me and my husband and his brother, that’s when we really started to seek help and we found the Child Mind Institute.
“It was heartbreaking for me to see him like that and not know what to do to help him.”
How do you think Joshua was feeling?
Dylana: When he wouldn’t speak at school he seemed himself. When he stopped speaking at home you could see his frustration. And almost like a depression. He would cry and he would be sad. I even looked into child play therapy for him and when he would go he would draw with darker colors. This was affecting him emotionally as well. It was heartbreaking for me to see him like that and not know what to do to help him.
How about your family? Were they supportive?
Dylana: They are very supportive. My mother, my in-laws they were very supportive. They just didn’t know what was going on. There was a lot of explaining. Once I became educated by the specialist at the Child Mind Institute, I had to then educate my family so that they would not aggravate the situation unnecessarily. And then for people who didn’t understand then I had to keep him away from them.
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Was there an incident or specific time or moment when you said now I need to get some help?
Dylana: Absolutely. When he stopped speaking at home because I felt like I am probably the closet person to him. I was a very safe place for him. When he stopped speaking to me I knew something was wrong. That is when I decided to pull him out of school. He was not in school for several months because at that point we were working with the Child Mind Institute getting him assessed. At that point he did get a diagnosis for selective mutism. And then I had to find the right school environment for him. I researched so many different schools. I had to actually go and see if it was a good fit. Because I knew that the school he was in was a great school but it was not a good fit for Joshua. Several months later I found a school that was really a safe haven for him and a good environment for him to thrive.
What has that journey been like?
Dylana: Initially, it was a lot of meetings with the specialist to be educated on what selective mutism is and what it’s not. The skills and the techniques that that will help him to feel comfortable to verbalize and to communicate. To me that was priceless because then I was able to use those skills with his teachers and with people who I knew he would spend time with. I needed to be empowered so that I can really help him wherever he went.
“What’s wrong with my son? Will he get better?”
What are some of the things that you learned?
Dylana: I learned that if Josh is in a new environment, one thing someone should not do is to question him within the first 10 to 30 minutes, depending on his comfort level. Instead of questioning him you would just reflect on things he is doing. You can compliment him or you can tell him how nice he is looking. You can talk to him about what he is doing or his interests and maybe tell him that you are interested in some of the same things without asking him direct questions.
How do you feel having these tools?
Dylana: It is empowering because it works. When he first went to school, it was hard because he would kick and scream because he didn’t want to go, he wanted to stay with me. I would just pull away and leave. He would have a bad day. We figured out a strategy. Me, Josh and his teacher would meet on the rug in the lobby for five minutes and he would bring a toy. I would talk to him in advance that we would talk to Ms. Richards about Scooby Doo and he would be okay with that. We would play and I would talk with him and then I would include her into the conversation and that would allow that warm-up, that comfort and then he would eventually speak with Ms. Richards right there on the rug. When I said good-bye he was already communicating with her so then she became that safe person when I had to leave.
How did it make you feel when you first started to hear Josh speak again?
Dylana: Giddy, happy. It was great. I saws that the skills were working. It is definitely something that works. When I saw Josh talking, I felt hopeful, extremely hopeful. I felt that things are going to continue to get better and better. People are going to see that this little boy has a big voice, a very big voice.
What do you want for him?
Dylana: I want him to be confident. I want him to be secure. I want him to know that he has a great voice and he has great ideas and thoughts and that they should be shared. He should not feel fearful to speak and to voice how he feels. If I could record him you might be shocked to see how verbal he really is.
Close your eyes and think about a moment when you were really scared. What would you say to yourself about what you know now?
Dylana: I would tell myself that no matter how bad things get there is always the light at the end of the tunnel and there is always a solution to every problem. And always keep the faith because out of something bad always comes something great.
“I want him to know that he has a great voice and he has great ideas and thoughts — and that they should be shared.”
Do you think there is a stigma around talking about mental health?
Dylana: There definitely is a stigma around mental health. It is definitely more acceptable if something is physically wrong with you opposed to mentally wrong with you. However I think because I don’t hold a negative stigma toward it when I communicate what’s going on with Josh to people. I don’t feel that either. I take it for what it is. Maybe also because I am in graduate school and I’m working with special education.
What was the experience like at Child Mind Institute?
Dylana: It was a total relief when I got there. The specialist I worked with is amazing. One of the first things that she said was “when” Josh starts speaking. And one of the first things she said was when he starts speaking and I said okay. And it took about one or two sessions that she met with Josh and he spoke with her. Based on who he was and her assessment of him, she was very confident that Josh would start communicating and he did really quickly. Taking him to Child Mind Institute was a safe place for him. It’s a place where he can have fun, where he can verbalize and can communicate and he walks out and seems more confident and more at ease. I’ve had a great experience at the Child Mind Institute and they’ve really helped to change our lives.
“Always keep the faith because out of something bad always comes something really great.”
What is the parent treatment like?
Dylana: When they have the Brave Buddies program, you can do a one or five day. They have a parent session, which is like a training. All the parents get together and talk about some of their experiences. It could be a negative experience in school. Some kids only speak to one teacher. Some kids only speak to other kids. Some kids only speak to teachers. Exchanging stories is really helpful because you learn little tricks and ways to bribe the kids. Bribing is not always a bad thing. Certain things like giving them brave bucks which is a reward system so that when they do communicate they get rewarded with brave bucks and when they get enough brave bucks they can go get ice cream or get a treat. In addition to that, you learn how to communicate with your child. They call it warming them up. You reflect on how they are doing before you start asking them open-ended questions or choice questions.
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AstraZeneca admits the best results in its COVID-19 vaccine study came from a dosing error, and experts are raising new questions about the shot
AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford are facing criticism over their COVID-19 vaccine trial results after admitting a mistake in the vaccine dosage.
During the trial, some patients got two full doses of the vaccine, whilst others had a half-dose in their first shot, followed by a full dose.
An AstraZeneca executive on Wednesday described the “mistake” as “serendipity”: The vaccine was 90% effective in the group with the initial half-dosage, compared to 62% effective in the full-dosage group.
The head of US Operation Warp Speed said in a call with reporters Tuesday that patients that received the half-dose were under 55 years old, per the New York Times.
Some health experts have expressed concern about the mistake. “Astrazeneca/Oxford get a poor grade for transparency and rigor,” one biostatistician at the University of Florida said.
AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford on Wednesday acknowledged a dosing error in their COVID-19 vaccine trial — and some health experts have said it has eroded their confidence in the shot.
The COVID-19 vaccine is on average 70% effective, according to the latest large-scale trial results announced Monday. The vaccine was found to be 62% effective in those who had two full doses, but rose to 90% effective in those who had a half-dosage in their first shot.
On Wednesday, AstraZeneca admitted that the half-dosage was initially a “mistake,” Reuters first reported. The plan was for patients in the British trial to receive two full doses of the vaccine one month apart, but some received a half-dose for their first shot instead.
“We went back and checked … and we found out that they had underpredicted the dose of the vaccine by half,” Mene Pangalos, an AstraZeneca executive responsible for the company’s research and development, told Reuters.
The half-dosage appeared to increase the vaccine’s effectiveness, and Pangalos described the error as “serendipity.”
“That, in essence, is how we stumbled upon doing half dose-full dose (group),” Pangalos said. “Yes, it was a mistake.”
The trials included more than 20,000 volunteers in the UK, Brazil, and South Africa.
In a press release on Monday, AstraZeneca said less than 2,800 patients were given the smaller dosing regimen, compared with almost 8,900 patients who received two full doses.
Some experts have raised concerns about the mistake.
On Tuesday, Moncef Slaoui, the head of the US vaccine program, Operation Warp Speed, said in a call with reporters that participants receiving the half-strength initial dose were under 55 years old, per the New York Times.
If the half-dosage wasn’t tested in older patients, this raises questions about the efficacy of AstraZeneca’s vaccine, as younger people generally have a stronger immune response than older people to vaccine shots.
In addition, efficacy results were pooled from clinical trials in Britain and Brazil that were designed differently, per the Times.
John LaMattina, a former president of Pfizer’s global research and development unit, said in a tweet it was “hard to believe” the Food and Drug Administration would issue an emergency approval for a vaccine whose most effective dose has only been given to 2,300 people.
—John LaMattina (@John_LaMattina) November 24, 2020
John Moore, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College told the Times: “The press release raised more questions than it answered.”
Natalie Dean, a biostatistician specializing in vaccine study design at the University of Florida, posted on Twitter: “Astrazeneca/Oxford get a poor grade for transparency and rigor when it comes to the vaccine trial results they have reported.”
She questioned how AstraZeneca had monitored the trials.
“I really don’t know what to make of the results,” Dean wrote in a follow-up tweet. “I’m glad this is not the first vaccine to read out, because it is awfully confusing for experts and non-experts alike.”
—Natalie E. Dean, PhD (@nataliexdean) November 24, 2020
Read more: Wall Street analysts lay out how the unexpected pause in AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine trial could slow the race to halt the pandemic
AstraZeneca didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider but a spokeswoman told the Times that the trials “were conducted to the highest standards.”
This isn’t the first hurdle that AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford have faced. Their vaccine trials were paused after an “unexplained illness” in one UK trial participant in September. But they were soon given the green light to restart.
In November, drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna announced that trial results suggested their respective vaccines were 95% effective in preventing COVID-19.
Although AstraZeneca’s vaccine came in at 70% effective, manufacturers say it’s considerably cheaper and easier to distribute.
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Amazon has finalized the casts for the last two episodes of Season 1 of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, its sci-fi anthology series from Ronald D. Moore, Michael Dinner, Bryan Cranston and Sony Pictures TV. Annalise Basso and Maura Tierney are set for the episode “Safe and Sound,” with Essie Davis, Liam Cunningham and Ruth Bradley in “Human Is.” Series exec producer Cranston, who had been announced as acting in an unspecified episode of the show, will appear in “Human Is.”
The show, based on short stories by the award-winning novelist, was commissioned by Channel 4, which will air the series later this year in the UK. It will launch on Amazon Prime in the U.S.
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Barack Obama And The Death Of Normal
I was on an airplane last night as the election was decided. As the plane landed after midnight on the East Coast, I confess that my hand was shaking as I turned on my phone for the news. I did not want to see dishonesty and divisiveness and raw political hackery rewarded. It is hard enough for anyone to actually address the problems, to move this country forward, to make the intransigent American ruling class yield even a yard of the past to the inevitable future. But going backwards last night would have been devastating. I read the returns in silent elation; a business trip had me traveling in business class and the gnashing of corporate teeth all around precluded a full-throated huzzah on my part. I abhor a gloat.
But the country is changing. And this may be the last election in which anyone but a fool tries to play — on a national level, at least — the cards of racial exclusion, of immigrant fear, of the patronization of women and hegemony over their bodies, of self-righteous discrimination against homosexuals. Some in the Republican party and among the teabagged fringe will continue to play such losing hands for some time to come; this shit worked well in its day and distracted many from addressing any of our essential national issues. But again, if they play that weak-ass game past this point, they are fools.
America is different now, more so with every election cycle. Ronald Reagan won his mandate in an America in which 89 percent of the voters were white. That number is down to 72 percent and falling. Fifty thousand new Latino citizens achieve the voting age every month. America will soon belong to the men and women — white and black and Latino and Asian, Christian and Jew and Muslim and atheist, gay and straight — who can walk into a room and accept with real comfort the sensation that they are in a world of certain difference, that there are no real majorities, only pluralities and coalitions. The America in which it was otherwise is dying, thank god, and those who relied on entitlement and division to command power will either be obliged to accept the changes, or retreat to the gated communities from which they wish to wax nostalgic and brood on political irrelevance.
You want to lead in America? Find a way to be entirely utilitarian — to address the most problems on behalf of the most possible citizens. That works. That matters. Last night, it mattered just enough to overcome the calcified political calculations of men who think that 47 percent will vote against them because they are victims, or that 53 percent are with them because the rest of us vote only from self-interest and without regard for the republic as a whole. It was a closer contest than common sense and the spirit of a truly great nation should dictate. But unless these white guys who have peddled “normal” for so long — normal as in racial majority, normal as in religious majority, normal as in sexual orientation — unless they have a hard moment of self-reflection and self-awareness, well, it will not be this close again.
Eighty years ago, the Democratic party became a national utilitarian enterprise, molding the immigrant waves of Irish and Italian and Jew into a voting bloc that stunned the political opposition and transformed American society, creating the world’s greatest economic engine in the form of a consumer class with vast discretionary income. The New Deal asserted for American progress — shaping and influencing administrations both Democratic and Republican — for three decades before running aground on the shoals of the civil rights movement, resulting racial fears and resentments, and, of course, the Southern strategy of political cynics.
Well, a new voting bloc as formidable as the New Deal coalition certainly isn’t yet complete, and the political results are still fitful. To be sure, venality has transformed the upper house of our national legislature into a paralytic failure, with a new standard of a filibuster-proof supermajority now the norm. The lower house of that legislature reflects less of any national consensus than it does the absurdity of post-census gerrymandering. Never mind Obama. If Romney had won this election, our government would be just as broken. It is the legislative branch that remains an epic systems failure.
For lost and fretful white men, unwilling to accept the terms of a new America, Congress is the last barricade against practical and inevitable change. But there, too, the demographic inevitabilities are all in play. All the gerrymandering in this world won’t make those other Americans, those different Americans, go away. And the tyranny of minority and lack of compromise that you employ to thwart progress now will likely breed an equal contempt when the demographics do indeed provide supermajorities.
Hard times are still to come for all of us. Rear guard actions will be fought at every political crossroad. But make no mistake: Change is a motherfucker when you run from it. And right now, the conservative movement in America is fleeing from dramatic change that is certain and immutable. A man of color is president for the second time, and this happened despite a struggling economic climate and a national spirit of general discontent. He has been returned to office over the specific objections of the mass of white men. He has instead been re-elected by women, by people of color, by homosexuals, by people of varying religions or no religion whatsoever. Behold the New Jerusalem. Not that there’s anything wrong with being a white man, of course. There’s nothing wrong with being anything. That’s the point.
This election marks a moment in which the racial and social hierarchy of America is upended forever. No longer will it mean more politically to be a white male than to be anything else. Evolve, or don’t. Swallow your resentments, or don’t. But the votes are going to be counted, more of them with each election. Arizona will soon be in play. And in a few cycles, even Texas. And those wishing to hold national office in these United States will find it increasingly useless to argue for normal, to attempt to play one minority against the next, to turn pluralities against the feared “other” of gays, or blacks, or immigrants, or, incredibly in this election cycle, our very wives and lovers and daughters, fellow citizens who demand to control their own bodies.
Regardless of what happens with his second term, Barack Obama’s great victory has already been won: We are all the other now, in some sense. Special interests? That term has no more meaning in the New America. We are all — all of us, every last American, even the whitest of white guys — special interests. And now, normal isn’t white or straight or Christian. There is no normal. That word, too, means less with every moment. And those who continue to argue for such retrograde notions as a political reality will become less germane and more ridiculous with every passing year.
Lots of waste and shouting and ignorance still to come, of course. But last night was a milestone.
THE BEST piece I’ve read on the election. Thank you so much.
Travis F. says:
I agreee great article and well spoken, the only critique is that I am a white guy, and i didn’t condone any of the stuff you have mentioned. Obama was my choice because, right now, he is the best option in my opinion. Romney was not the way to go. I just wanted to say that targeting white guys isn’t the answer. Not all of us are or ever were like what you’ve described.
David Simon says:
Nothing I wrote precludes such a possibility on your part or anyone else’s.
Jon S. says:
Become a minority like Elizabeth Warren claimed to be (Cherokee).
There’s enough DNA testing to do it.
That’s what I’m going to do.
I can play this game too.
White guy says:
Not that there’s anything wrong (with being a white guy).
There is a *lot* wrong with that. They were the cause of all the problems, and they must be made to suffer. We cannot be tolerant of their beliefs, and their beliefs must be stopped. Voting is not enough. They and their beliefs must be silenced forever. The Christians and the whites now must feel the oppression they out upon all.
Don’t troll. It doesn’t advance any of the discussion here in a serious way.
whte guy says:
i’m being over the top… but the very fact that you felt compelled to say “Not that there’s anything wrong with being a white man, of course.”… i think that says plenty.
I apologize and would like to redirect if you’ll forgive me…
Hope and change – the whole *point* was that we had to change the US from what it was to something new and different. Right?? So give the conservatives a break with the 1776-2012 comments. I mean, they are only taking the president at his word that the country based on the Constitution needed to be changed from that path.
Being a white Christian (who doesn’t hate anyone…. even homosexuals), my much bigger concern is that there was only one country like the US was. One country that let you sink or swim of your own. That didn’t penalize you for success. Where there was self-determination, not government determination. Where congress would “make no law establishing religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” – not “separation of church and state”. Now, we have France. Or Belgium. Or England.
Why couldn’t we leave the US as the Consitutionally-directed country when it was the only one like it? Socialists are why we can’t have nice things!!
And now, we will vote for a guy who will gladly punish achievement, where the government will determine if you have to have a camera shoved up your ass at the airport (fuck you, Bush), where we will indiscriminately blow up 7th century Muslims 10,000 miles away (fuck you, Obama), and where the old, rich white Christians are all Republicans – except for the ones that are in Hollywood… and New York… and New Jersey.
Christians have done a *horrible* disservice to themselves and Christ due to their hatred of homosexuals (i’d much prefer the government get the hell out of *all* marriage), and i guess, this is the outcome.
So i don’t really blame you, but you’re not helping yourself when the entire government (the new, acceptable religion, and college is the holy sacrament) is going to implode when you put a guy who couldn’t run a McDonalds is put in charge of the government – just to spite a Mormon. It doesn’t help any of us.
lastly – it is totally disingenuous that its taken for granted that *every single* white person who *didn’t * vote for Obama – well, that was a racist act by racists. That’s fucked up. But that’s what i’ve read all day – and that was really what drove me to my original post. Your comment that isn’t not wrong to be white was the straw.
Brother, ask yourself why I would include such a line.
It isn’t for the benefit of people who agree with me. They understand implicitly that the entire essay is celebrating the power of political inclusion. That line is there for the retrograde Fox-fed populace who would, before they got two paragraphs into the text, rush to assume that my insistence that non-white, non-male electoral cohorts are AS VALUED as white men in the current electoral demographic was somehow an attempt to denigrate white male voters, when in fact, the text simply argues electoral equality of a kind that the country is only now encountering. And if you read the comments in detail, you will see I am correct in playing some modest defense — not against liberal denigration of white male voters, but against the plethora of moronic posts about whites being discriminated against once they are no longer a majority or reparations or…
The insensitivity of certain factions of white America when it comes to other cohorts — women, blacks, Latinos, gays — and the fulminant sensitivity when it comes to their own place in the political firmament is as hilarious as it is predictable. That is why that sentence is entirely, utterly necessary. You might want to read it again and correct your judgment as to its purpose and audience.
Further, nothing in this essay assumes or argues that there aren’t many individual white voters who turned against Mr. Obama for reasons other than race. Or for that matter that Mr. Obama didn’t glean certain black votes because of racial solidarity, irrespective of the issues. Of course this is so.
But that doesn’t preclude us from looking intelligently at the systemic truth here: Mr. Romney only carried white males, and it is the contention of this essay that Republican policy positions and rhetoric have succeeded in driving every other minority and plurality in the electorate out of the GOP camp, while Democratic rhetoric and policy positions have encouraged a much larger, much more viable electoral tent. This is simply true. Unless the GOP embraces a new American electorate, one in which the fastest growing cohort is one that they have sufficiently alienated to have assured Mr. Obama this week’s victory, they are a party destined for the margins.
Republicans may learn the lesson. They may adapt. Or not. But the numbers are the numbers, and the alienation of every other electoral cohort but white males in this election speaks to an institutional intolerance by the GOP. It says nothing about individual white voters, and I said nothing about individual white voters. If you’d examine the actual text, you’ll find that you are getting mad at assumptions that are your own.
Amen to that one. I moved away from Europe 15+ years ago exactly for this reason. Being punished for success. Now this once great country happily revoted a socialist president that represents exactly the opposite that made this country so great and why so many came here from all over the world. A very sad day for America handing over the spirit, the freedom of each individual and of the country to the government, especially to someone that beside some “nice” speeches over the last four year didn’t get anything done, has no vision, and promotes the attitude ‘Oh, we have to be taken care of!’ So that vote was sort of like what we are laughing at in Greece.
rwahrens says:
I don’t get it. There is NOTHING in Barrack Obama’s actions, rhetoric or political goals which have anything to do with “punishing people for their success”. Why is it that asking people who have garnered a majority of the income of this country in spite of being a small single digit minority to pay a similar percentage of that huge, staggering income in taxes to what the rest of us pay is called “punishment”? What is it about the words “fair share” that trigger that reaction?
Nobody’s trying to limit your freedom. You are as capable of whining about your loss of entitlements now as you used to be, so why are you whining?
If Obama “didn’t get anything done”, then go talk to Boehner, who is even now doubling down on his obstructionism, as if he slept through the entire campaign.
Your attitude about those less fortunate than yourself is telling. I suggest that you re-examine your motives and re-read the post above.
When are you people going to actually look up the definition of the word “socialism?”
Medicare, Social Security….hell, the GI Bill…are these things socialism? Have they brought about an end to the Republic? We don’t have anymore millionaires…or billionaires because of all the redistribution going on?
Class warfare becomes the rallying cry of those who have no substantial, fact-based counter-argument to the idea that we have a civic duty and responsibility to take care of our own. Does this mean I am in favor of people who can work, but just won’t work, sitting around collecting Government benefits? Of course not. My wife and I work our asses off, and most of the time, at the end of the month, if we have a few bucks to shove in a savings account, we’re thrilled.
But that doesn’t mean we should ignore the fact that there really are people in this country who from the time they’re born do not have a fair shot at the opportunities even I had…and I was by no means a particulary privileged child. And in the United States of America, a 1 year old child that’s born with brain cancer should have all the health coverage needed whether his or her parents have insurance or not.
I suppose I should be thrilled that it appears based on early reaction that there will be no change in attitude from the right…they will continue to demean and belittle those who are directly responsible for the President’s re-election…but i’d like to believe that people can be enlightened. Perhaps not.
To me, the most heartbreaking season of Mr. Simon’s “The Wire” was season four…if you just pay attention to the fate of Duquan Weems…what that child’s life is like when we meet him, and where he ends up in season 5….and then you think about how many kids lives inspired that story line…it’s overwhelming.
Can Barack Obama, who is a massive fan of the show incidentally, change all that? If he had a magic wand, or enough political capital, or balls, to say the kinds of things that first term Presidents can’t say, maybe some of these issues could be addressed, and I’ve gotten a little off topic, but my point is that all this nonsense about being punished for success…that everybody needs to be taken care of…that’s garbage.
However, climate change is real, women really do care whether they have control over their own bodies, and yes, occasionally, it is a good idea for supposedly free, democratic nation, led by a Government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” to help those who need it.
Group health insurance is socialism.
If socialism is the taint that you can’t abide, then cancel your group health insurance and pay the free-market cost of your medical expenditures out of pocket, as an individual operating under pure market conditions.
You want to band together with other Americans and obtain health insurance as a group, at a group rate, relying on actuarial tables and such to ensure that group participation allows those of us who get sick and require costly procedures don’t pay the full cost of those procedures while others remain healthy to contribute their premiums? You’re up for that and you want to scream about socialism?
Fucking Trotskyite.
Sabina Pade says:
Seems to me that socialism, as a concept, bears a freight, for many Americans, that is alien to its actual spirit.
Generations of us were led to associate socialism with the repressive totalitarianism of the Soviet Union, or the austere inwardness of Mao’s China. We were given to believe that socialism is an expression of evil – something that would take away our freedoms – and that we should combat it with all our might. Americans who died in the fight against socialism were heroes.
Those among us who have actually lived in modern-day socialist countries, which include all of Europe, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, and Singapore, tend to understand that socialist government is neither undemocratic nor fundamentally brutal or repressive, and that it can offer a majority of its citizens a greater range of meaningful freedoms – a better quality of life – than can the unfettered free market.
Socialism is also not a prescription for economic failure. The world’s most prosperous, stable countries – think Switzerland, Scandinavia, and the Benelux region – are socialist. Greece and Spain, systemically corrupt, are outliers.
Perhaps one of the most useful discussions we Americans, as a society, could hold, would be an examination of what we actually mean when we say, “socialist”.
“Punished for success” is the lamest, whiniest argument I’ve heard in a while — and I’ve been hearing quite a few lame and whiny arguments during this election season. Get over yourself. Being asked to play by the same rules as the poor in this country is not punishment. I suspect that one who feels “successful” may also feel entitled to privilege in every arena in life, and it may feel like punishment when a spoiled child is denied one request after a certain period void of any rejection or denial in life. Grow up and get your thumb out of your mouth.
Punished for success = Asked to make a proportionate contribution to the republic of which they are a citizen.
Greed is greed.
MJ OHIO says:
The fear and loathing I have been reading from conservatives here is simply amazing. Or maybe ‘disturbing’ is a better adjective.
What the President is proposing would be something along the lines of $3 of spending cuts for each $1 of new revenue. Would that not make America, on balance, LESS socialist than it is now?
And somehow you believe that a return to the Clinton era tax rates on the wealthy would be the end of self-determination in America? I am thinking there is not one, not ONE, young aspiring entrepreneur in America that is going to take his ball and go home because the tax rates on millionaires went up a few percentage points. I seem to remember the 90’s as a time of great ingenuity in America – ya know – the Internet and the information revolution. A lot of people got rich there in case you didn’t notice. How exactly was achievement in the 90’s punished? Can you explain that to me? Were Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or even Mark Cuban toiling while chained to some heavy handed socialist government when they were making their fortunes in the 90’s?
Rick Roberts says:
David, you can write your ass off. I will definitely be back for more. —Rick 🙂
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Jacktheman says:
“Special interests? That term has no more meaning in the New America.”
*spits coffee all over keyboard*
Have you ever been to California where the deep capture of its state Legislature by public sector unions, trial lawyers, et al is sending the state hurtling towards its own fiscal cliff and rapidly destroying democracy?
I am not saying that every group does not have political interests. I am saying that ALL OF US have quote-unquote special interests, and therefore that freighted term “special interest,” used by the GOP to long denote the alliance of the Democratic party with blacks, Latinos, women, unions, gays, et al has no meaning. What is this vaunted special interest that is so unique in the annals of political intrigue? Something that certain constituents seek and pursue through elected representatives.
If we are all soon to be pluralities, if there is no political norm, then EVERYONE is in effect a special interest, even the whitest of white guys, as I specifically said. Even libertarian flakes who want essential government function to be ignored and their basic contributions as citizens of a republic returned to them. Even they are arguing “special interests” of a kind.
That quote is about the death of a political norm, from which “special” interests can be distinguished.
Try to focus, man. Unclench from your ideology and read what is on the page in some actual context.
Fair enough, but even in context the reference to “special interests”, which, as they pertain to political discourse almost exclusively concern groups, parties, institutions or organizations and not to individuals, doesn’t seem to make much sense.
“Even libertarian flakes who want essential government function to be ignored and their basic contributions as citizens of a republic returned to them.”
There you go again with the mis-characterization. I thought you said you weren’t going to address Libertarianism again “on this string”?
You’re right. Let’s save that for another time.
I’m back on film set now and we should let the election essay and all of this wind down or reach its plausible conclusion.
Actually…I’m hoping you return from a day of shooting, and you’re flipping through the channels…and you settle on Fox News…and the remote sticks, you can’t turn the station…and there’s Hannity, railing on about how The President was re-elected because he ran one of the “dirtiest, most shameful campaign’s this country has ever seen” and his supporters just want hand-outs.
And i’m hoping this causes you to write another essay, this time focusing on the role of these talking heads in “informing” their viewers…
If you haven’t already, check out Pat Buchanan on the G. Gordon Liddy show.
The meltdown is that of the Republican id. Or at least that portion of the Republican party that wanted to believe that America was intended as a white, Christian nation.
I happened to see Mr. Buchanan on with Sean Hannity the night after the election. I hate to even admit that, but I suppose schadenfreude has something to do with my inability to look away from that mess after events such as Tuesday night…
He’s written around 237 books describing how immigration is destroying this country…and uses every opportunity to spout the same message over and over.
Maybe he can team with Donald Trump and revolt.
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Romney, like you, seemed to believe there exists “the mass of white men.” If he were right, he’d have won.
Don’t play semantic games. That’s silly.
There are a mass of white men. They are the largest American plurality after white women. And Mr. Romney got the votes of nearly two thirds of them. And incredibly, even at that margin it wasn’t enough because of how thoroughly alienated other cohorts are to the Republican message.
I’m making a basic point here, brother. And others — even Republicans — are making the same point. And all the semantic snark in the world doesn’t address that point. So try to focus on what is actually being discussed.
Ben O'Leary says:
I agreed with just about everything up until the statement that special interests are no longer in play. Just because racial demographics are changing and public opinion on social issues is becoming less puritanical doesn’t mean that politicians are catering to special interests. The role of money in politics has only gotten worse. $1 billion each was spent by each campaign. Isn’t that a massive disgrace to democracy regardless of the increased voting power that minorities now have?
*doesn’t mean that politicians aren’t catering to special interests
I didn’t say that special interests weren’t in play. You said that.
I said we are all special interests. All of us. And so the term has less political meaning than it once did.
On a different note what’s your prediction for the federal response to marijuana legalization in colorado and washington?
Not a clue. But I want to believe that drug reform is a second-term venture for any sane politician. That Mr. Obama did not tackle it in his first term is to be expected. But now, I want to hope.
Chris Keiner says:
I know that people get all up in arms about the amounts of money spent on elections, but it needs to be put into perspective. For instance, Proctor and Gamble spends roughly $10 billion a year, 5 times the total spent by both campaigns combined, on advertising. So more money is spent to get us to buy toothpaste and shampoo by 1 company then is spent to help us determine who should run our country. Not saying it is good or bad, but just that it needs to be kept in perspective.
I have an issue with the vetting of these ads though. When someone can place a spot in the middle of Ohio claiming that a manufacturer is going to move jobs overseas, and people believe it to the extent that they are calling their employer to ask whether jobs are in jeopardy, that goes a bit beyond selling toothpaste.
Though, in general, I hate hate political ads anyway. I think they make people lazy. Sound bites and suggestive images replace real research. Television “journalists” cover the horse race and ignore a substantive discussion of issues. Who can blame them? that’s what attracts eyeballs. Who wants to hear an hour of television devoted to a REAL debate of economic policy. In some cases, these truths don’t really matter – a certain segment of the country will vote for whoever their party nominates. The Republicans could have nominated Marlo Stanfield, claimed he was champion of “Small business”, having employed so many himself, and 55 million people would vote for him.
Definitely, the demographic trend is not the Republicans’ friend. How can you win a group’s vote when you promise to deport loved ones of that particular group? Being anti-gay or creationist is a nonstarter in the big cities, and that’s where the population keeps growing. Demeaning people for believing in global warming when their homes are getting hit by hurricanes sounds silly to the person being demeaned (me). I see scientific evidence that’s pretty convincing, and then some asshole comes along and talks trash about what I believe, my house keeps getting hit with freak storms and who am I’m supposed to believe, the data or the asshole?
As to the economy, who really believes it was any good under Bush? Did anyone vote for Bush in 2000 based on the economy? If people always voted based on economics, they would have voted to keep Al Gore on to continue Clinton’s policies. Let’s move on to one group that really is getting creamed: young people. No jobs, and high college costs. Every year college costs go up partly because of budget cuts, so what student in their right mind would vote for some dude promising to cut the budget before raising taxes? On top of that it’s insanely hard to get healthcare if you don’t have a job, so your supposed to vote for the dude promising to get government out of healthcare, except when it comes to old farts on medicare?
What a winning strategy!
Been very impressed at my first visit to this site, thru a friend’s email… but cpl things I dont understand: one is the “maker-taker” division… we all get something from government, much as some of us decline to recognize it… if all I get is the ability to incorporate, that’s government assistance, shielding me from certain liabilities and giving me advantages in the markerplace… the second thing I dont get is Obama as socialist… were he a socialist, he would, like me, have said “medicare for all” instead of Obamacare… and did I miss his nationalizing of the banks or the auto industry? Like it or not, we are all a mix of socialists and capitalists. Always been that way… even homesteaders got dead Indians and cheap land from the government…
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Seamus says:
Wow a lot of people are upset with this post , just remember
But in the end, this new normal will prove itself utterly compatible with rapacious capitalism. We’ll have presidents of colour and senators who are women and lesbians and they will all continue to pander to the true powers that be. The colour of money will unite them all.
Now that’s moving forward. Yippee.
Let’s be honest here… People DO vote their self-interest more often then not… and they also vote for the more “likeable” candidate… who this time around was NOT the super rich white mormon. The federal government hasn’t had a chance to bungle the Sandy cleanup yet, the country still faces extremely difficult decisions about where to go with spending decreases AND tax increases… and we need to figure out how to have people understand the old economic model is dead and buried, and that to thrive in this world requires as much luck as preparation and skill… people like to assign grandiose meaning to things, when in actuality there have only been three 1 term presidents since WWII. It takes a tremendous decline in the affairs of this nation to not earn a 2nd term in the day of 10 term congressman and senators serving almost for life.
“There’s nothing wrong with being anything. That’s the point.”
That was my favorite sentence. It’s a really simple idea but it’s so hard for the national zeitgeist to just, fucking, accept already.
Humans still have a ways to go until we learn to stop fucking messing with each other.
As a middle-aged white guy in the upper 5% income bracket, I welcome the changes that have been occurring and will continue to occur. I also welcome the end of any chance that the Southern Strategy will allow a Republican to win a national election ever again.
ROLLTIDE4EVER says:
Yet, another article denouncing those filthy “teabaggers”, blah blah….As if the last Bush was elected by the tea party (remember bipartisan No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D?). The reality is that both parties are owned by the same “moderates” that folks like you pine for. There’s not a huge difference between these last four presidents (I excused Reagan b/c you had Tip O’Neill to work with so we’ll never know). Nixon and Gerald Ford were some of the biggest progressives around, but folks like you would insist they were “conservative”. Like Reagan once said in 1976, “the heart of conservatism is libertarianism.” When the GOP veered away from Barry Goldwater (my have the times have changed) and became Dem Lite—-there was no room left for freedom.
Without responsibility, you can’t have freedom—without freedom, you have have innovation and flexibilty. The concept that a strong central control of just about everything will accomplish what most people seek (economic mobility, strong families, safety) is ludicrous. You’re quick to lambast the conservatives, but what about the progressives’ role in this nightmare? Minimum wage has killed legit jobs for the Namonds of the world (young AA male unemployment has climbed since 1950). Welfare destroyed so many families, reducing the father to being irrelevant. What about occupational licensing disenfranchising those who can’t answer irrelevant questions on the licensing exam? How about the fact that NYC’s taxi industry is a scam from the top to the bottom, catering to a few cartels in the area?
I love “The Wire”, but the fact that you still think politics is a salvation is very disappointing. Gov’t has not been the solution but the problem.
Yes, Somalia and Wajiristan are doing so well without government.
This is a republic. We are the government, and when we lose control of our government or turn away from it, we cease to be a republic. Democracy and responsive government is a messy, daily struggle that requires the commitment of a citizen collective. The battle is never entirely won, but it can be easily lost when ideologues begin to think that the responsibility for functional governance lies anywhere but with ourselves.
So much in American daily life proves that our problems are more profound and sophisticated than a catchphrase. But if you must fulminate to the point of a ridiculous, Reaganesque statement, let me offer a more coherent alternative.
Government in a democracy cannot be the problem. Bad government can be the problem, to be sure. But better government is the only rational solution. We need citizens — committed, communal, creative. We already have enough ideologues and luftmenschen. Apply elsewhere.
David, I’m uncomfortable with the racial premise of your original article and the infuriating yet all-too-common mis-characterization of the Tea Party movement but you write eloquently, intelligently and persuasively.
And then you come out with this, which does massive damage to your credibility as an astute political observer:
Libertarianism isn’t about no government (I think you’ll find that is called Anarchy) — it’s about limited, fiscally responsible government that interferes with personal liberty as little as possible.
I have to believe that President Obama was playing to his base with his “you didn’t build that” nonsense because he even he has to know that Libertarians are quite aware of the need for central government to provide infrastructure, man the Federal Reserve, etc, and are not arguing against it.
Don’t get me started on libertarianism. This isn’t the place. This is a long string and getting longer.
And my essay has nothing to do with libertarianism. It is about inclusion and the electorate and the GOP future.
I’ll be happy to heave heavy insult on the cowardice and vacancy of libertarianism at some other time.
Obamney says:
Anarchy isn’t about no rules. It’s about no rulers.
Sounds utterly ineffective.
I prefer representative government and leadership.
G Duk says:
RollTide – so what exactly are your solutions? What are the top 5 things that need to happen?
It’s easy, so very easy, to point out the flaws in something. But to have credible solutions for those flaws, that’s the key. Human beings are imperfect so of course our systems and our cultures are imperfect. Perfection is impossible. Improvement, however, is possible, and looking back at American history, we’ve had good days and bad days and it isn’t random when things get better and it isn’t random when things get worse. We’ll always have some corruption, but in the end, you can’t just point fingers.
How would you fix things? If you could change laws or repeal laws or add laws, what would you do? I’m talking specifics, not some broad ideology about “small government” that we’ve all heard a million times before. What laws need to be changed, removed and added?
Your claim that the Republican party has become “Dem Lite” speaks volumes. The GOP has, by any measure, turned hard right in this country. The current crop, represented by the Tea Baggers, makes Reagan look like a New Deal Democrat.
I think too many white people read the line “angry white man” and then get upset that they are being characterized as unreasonable even if they don’t share the viewpoints of the Republican party and they fail to see what Mr. Simon is saying. David speaks bluntly and that has a tendency to put people on the defensive.
The Republicans in their current state offer no opportunity to the minority voters that are growing in number. They cater to one voting bloc and that bloc is shrinking. Until they abandon their stance of telling these rising voter blocs that they are not welcome within their party they will have great difficulty winning the presidency. While some Republicans might feel like that’s not the message of their party, you only have to look at the poll results to see that is how they are perceived.
It doesn’t mean that the Democrats are “right” in their viewpoints but at least with them, these minority blocs have a chance to make their voices heard and to gain influence within the political system and get representation. That’s something that is not currently offered by the Republicans and to not see this means a person is denying reality.
Herman Wilson says:
Its not that he speaks bluntly, he speaks like a cretin, like some white trash ditch-digger. I really don’t care if he wrote War and Peace—sure the new GOP is moribund, but, the new normal will this: minorities will smoothly move into positions of power and do NOTHING to stop the ravages of carnivorous capitalism. Oh, there will be many liberals who will look panoptically at “ceos -of-color” who control everything and dream of a new , more equitable future…but theyre Pollyannas, nothing more. Liberals need to move on from identity politics, we took off to fight for the rights of gays, blacks, etc but the m/o of liberalism, why we started, work, workers…has been forgotten. The Randian right never forgot profit, not once in 30 odd years. As we’ve been making language less offensive, theyve shipped millions of jobs overseas, downsized, degraded workers, screwed the environment and the liberal establishment does nothing. Obama talks a good game but his spine is owned by Wall Street.
“…speaks like a cretin, like some white trash ditch-digger…”
Apart from your own eloquence, who else speaks in a manner that pleases you?
Can you make your points without the ad hominem? Try.
Many of these responses seem similar to the interview you did with Reason. They are claiming that your viewpoint is invalid because you have not addressed a wide variety of unrelated issues.
I have seen everything from outsourcing to the licensing of New York taxicabs to the policies of Ronald Reagan brought up in these posts. But they refuse to offer up any evidence to dispute the position that the Republicans have isolated themselves within a shrinking constituency.
So I would like to thank you for continuing to engage this topic when so many seem unwilling to stick to the point being made. Especially when some of these posts involve personal insults.
You make a point and then rather than probing that point in detail, they rush to some other point that suits their agenda. Helluva way to discuss anything intelligently. I expected better of Reason, somehow. Naive, I know.
I like to call that game Tea Party Whack-a-Mole! Once you nail one bad idea squarely into oblivion somewhere the cretins pop up with another falsehood. And thinking of that phenomenon makes me think of Minchin’s “Storm”:
I’ll keep it short. This article is incredible propaganda and wreaks of trash. Have a nice day.
Thanks for your brevity. Best,
Anastasia Beaverhausen says:
I don’t want to be “that guy”, but it’s “reeks”, not “wreaks”. I don’t even think “wreaks” is a word. Carry on.
Yeah, I tried to be charitable. He seemed so overwrought to begin with.
Ottoman Solo says:
“Wreak” is totally a word! It’s a verb, most often seen in the phrase “wreaking havoc.” As in the sentence “Barack Obama wreaked havoc among the fat and terrified rent-seeking parasites of the world, and their cries rang up to heaven, and God laughed his ass off at them, and I stroked my erection and sipped a delicious Coke Zero.”
But it is the wrong form to use for olfactory matters, and this fellow felt the original post “reeks of trash.” So in this case…
Beau – how is this article propaganda? Seriously, I’m curious.
Remember, propaganda is about “influencing the attitude of a community toward a specific position”. What position is that?
Also, could you please cite an example of an opinion piece that is not “propaganda”?
Andy Jones says:
A brilliant, lucid post which captures the choice of the GOP at a critical point in their history. Are they to go the way of the Whigs or reform and become inclusive?
Mike Lande says:
Thanks for an excellent write up!
I appreciate your valiant effort in trying to extend the discussion with those who wish to argue, but it might have been better not to allow comments at all. Your beautiful essay stands on its own merits and is crystal-clear truth to anyone with half a brain. Discussions among those who wish to argue for argument’s sake or just generally create mischief belong somewhere deeply buried in the comments section somewhere on the Fox News website.
And yet, as Mr. Obama noted the other night, real democracy is messy.
Cody P says:
Except for this: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/18/1121685/-Fox-News-disabled-their-online-comments-section-in-May-Why
While shutting down their comments section keeps their website from being flooded with the vitriolic, racist ranting of their target audience, it also gives the impression that Fox News will brook no dissent whatsoever.
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pjg says:
David, as a white male, I feel amazing reading this. The present and coming changes will be amazing for our society. As a twice Obama voter, I feel even more heartened than I did in 2008. This “change” seems more palpable. Thanks for putting your thoughts to word. Really felt the emotion stirring inside me. Thanks!
Jeff Goodman says:
Geoff Kaplan says:
David, Like you I was raised in Maryland and still live there. I have never been prouder to be a Maryland resident then now ,two days after the voters in my state reaffirmed both the DreamAct, allowing undocumented children of taxpaying parents to attend our universities at in-state tuition rates, and legislation allowing gay marriage. I may pay a higher tax rate than most of America, but that is insignificant to me compared to the fact that i live in a state that is leading America into the 21st century rather than attempting to drag it back into the 19th century. Hopefully we will continue on the course of inclusivity rather exclusivity.
I feel the same. Voted absentee from New Orleans, but made sure that I did mostly because of the ballot questions.
Elated about gay marriage as well. Sad to see gambling expand.
This post reminded me that tea partiers in Texas are attempting to get rid of the Dream Act, or the Texas version of the act, which obviously would not increase the appeal of the Republican party to the ever-growing Hispanic population there.
Only in America can you fail at ever fascet of your job, refuse to lay out a plan for KEEPING your job and just talk shit about your opponent.. and still win.
I suppose that is how one would view recent events if one were sitting high atop what Jon Stewart calls Bullshit Mountain.
Is that you Hannity?
Sharon Mahan says:
Where have you been Larry? I am so proud of America for seeing that the Republican candidate lied, and lied, and lied. He should have stayed himself and not dipped to the conservative right wing. Abortion WILL NEVER go away. And the gay population will not go away either and it is high time that they are given equal rights! This is a new world and we will move FORWARD!! I support my President whole heartedly!
Only in America can you brazenly critique people with falsehoods while using incorrect spelling and grammar.
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I think a good metaphor would be an only child gaining a sibling… it used to be all about you (white male Christians). Slowly, we’ve seen this stop being the case. First, for individuals. Any INDIVIDUAL in America could/can achieve anything, but there were/are still major inequalities when you look at a social group as a whole. Now, it’s about trying to bring equality to entire populations. Very difficult. This is when numbers games come into play. Do African Americans on average make as much as Caucasians do for the same jobs, women vs. men, gay vs. straight, etc. etc. etc. to your hearts content.
And, yes, it’s true. Sometimes when a new child enters a family, the first child becomes neglected, and I can understand that some people feel like, “oh, so now I don’t count?” But a proper transition means you DO count, just as much as anyone else counts. And I don’t see anyone with any real political power who is trying to do anything but that. It’s not about pushing down white people or the previous majority, it’s that there no longer is a majority.
Or, to put it another way, the only child here isn’t being replaced with another only child. The kid’s getting a sibling. The horizons expand. And you can pout about it and stamp your feet, but eventually I think you’ll come to love your sibling and be glad they’re there and that you’re not all on your own and that the family has grown. Because the family is growing…
Also, I think it’s important to acknowledge that a lot of these emotions have been played out before, such as during the era of Reconstruction after the Civil War, and with the immigrant explosion of the early 20th century.
Those damn Irish, they took our jobs!! The Godfather Part II people, seriously. It’s good. Watch it. Not entirely unlike The Wire, and I assume most people here are fans (or at least interested) in The Wire.
sugaredpeas says:
I almost went and started posting links to Nativist and Know Nothing propaganda. This is pretty much word for word what folks were saying about Irish immigrants in the mid-19th century.
How’d that turn out again?
Tommy "Obama" Carcetti says:
Is this the same David Simon that wrote “The Wire”?
The Baltimore of “The Wire” was a preview of “Age of Obama” leadership before Obama was in the picture: a multi-racial coalition in which the demographic balance had already tipped toward plurality. Yet the *same problems* were still perpetuated regardless of the color of those in power.
So now the whole US is Baltimore. Obama is our Tommy Carcetti. Yeah, they’re nice guys, but they’re ultimately powerless to change the situation. Is Obama going to end the War on Drugs? Is Obama going to end brutal immigration policies? What about poverty? Education reform? Imperial wars? These questions are almost irrelevant because we know that he *can’t* change any of these things under the current system. In the era of Super PACs, Obama’s loyalties to continuing the system as is are as strong as ever.
It’s the same system, just with shifting demographics. Can’t we admit that capitalism is the problem? If liberals do nothing to change our ideas of what is possible then we will all be McNultys, Lesters, and Omars trapped in Baltimore.
-Reed
Thanks for enlightening me about The Wire. I had other ideas about what I had written and filmed but I feel much better now, girded as I am with your elucidation of my work. Feel free to write back at some future points if you have an idea about what I should write next and what it should represent within the context of your preconfigured political beliefs.
We got off on the wrong foot. My provocation wasn’t mean to be a personal dig.
I am curious why so many liberals feel so attached to Obama, even though they know that he won’t change the problems that they pose.
I don’t think there are as many people convinced that he won’t solve problems.
However, speaking only for myself, it’s nice to see a President finally try. There’s a lot the President isn’t doing. The man still calls what happened to New Orleans a “natural disaster”…though I suppose you could call the people responsible for the levee’s natural disasters…but regardless…for me, I like that he has tried to make life a little better for a whole lot of people who don’t even register on the GOP radar.
I am not wholly satisfied by Mr. Obama and I am not wholly disappointed. I could go issue by issue and delineate but this isn’t the string for it.
And Mr. Obama is certainly tethered — beyond his control — to an intransigent Congress that is truly a broken and inert institution in our political life.
I do believe that at worst, Americans have voted for things not getting worse faster. And at best, if the House of Representatives takes a moment to contemplate that political compromise is the essential lubricant for any functional democracy, some better result may be achieved over the next two years. And perhaps, if they spend that time making a spectacle of themselves in their intransigence, the American people will stay on point and the last two years of Mr. Obama’s tenure will be marked by a Democratic Congress.
His first two years saw half-loaf attempts at public-option health care and Wall Street reform, along with a successful rescue of the auto industry and an emergency resuscitation of the financial sector which collapsed in a manner that had nothing to do with the current administration’s performance. More might have been achieved had forty Republican senators and Joe Lieberman not set a new standard for political involvement — that of a 60-vote supermajority.
But again, whatever Mr. Obama fails to achieve is likely something that his opponent had no intention of attempting. Every election is not a competition between a candidate and the Platonic ideal of a leader. It is between two actual choices.
If the extreme right wing of the party reacts to Tuesday’s outcome the way the usual talking heads have reacted, then the likelihood of the Democrats taking the House during midterms is likely. Mitch McConnell has basically already stated as much, in terms of how he views the election and its meaning. That’s one dope I wouldn’t mind seeing get caught up in one type of scandal or another and getting escorted to the unemployment line….or, a prestigious new show on Fox News.
Willard Filmore says:
Likewise, you should feel free to address a relevant critique of your opinion that points out that you out to know better than to write this kind of slavish nonsense in light of what has transpired under Obama’s leadership in the past 4 years. But if you’re content to stop at snarkily condescending dismissiveness, I’m sure most of the brain-dead dolts who admire you and your witless political insights will probably not hold it against you.
I believe I’ve been addressing critiques of my opinion for half the damn day. More than most bloggers would endure. I could probably do with a little more dismissiveness, if you think about it. I’ve actually been pretty sincere about engaging and keeping the discussion going, no?
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I think you are reading an awful lot into a reasonably close election result.
Point is, they won’t be close in the future if the GOP can’t figure out a way to appeal to anyone other white men.
True, I do generally vote republican and was hard pressed this election and last election to drum up much enthusiasm for the candidates. But, if we’re going to talk about the GOP having to reevaluate their stance, I agree, but I also think the Dems should to. This lack of any middle ground with either party is absurd. Their grasping at every tiny thing anyone says and then twisting it to mean something else shows both to be desperate and just makes me hang my head and wish we had a system that promoted valid third party candidates.
Democracy is messy and elaborate, and compromise is the necessary lubricant at all points.
But frankly, I see the Dems and Mr. Obama throwing more on the negotiating table than the Republican leadership in Congress. At key points,
you will remember, they actually abandoned agreed-upon middle-ground compromises in favor of extremity. If they can’t find a plausible middle now, then you have to hope for voters to make an additional statement two years from now. By then, the economy will have suffered real damage from the continued budget impasse and the uncertainty that Wall Street loathes.
Paul Badgett says:
Neal, have you ever heard of free speech, and that crazy thing called the America’s Constitution?
William Boot says:
How can a guy who facies himself the champion of the American working class, particularly the black American working class, celebrate a tidal wave of unskilled immigrants who have, over the past four decades, decimated the quality of life for blue-collar Americans?
Don’t get me wrong. Automation and outsourcing have hurt as well, probably more, but there was nothing whatever that could have been done to stop either (and the benefits of both, worldwide, greatly outweigh the costs). But the supply of unskilled American labor has quintupled since the 65 Immigration Act while the population as a whole has only doubled.
Immigration isn’t the only reason why wages for unskilled work stopped growing around 1970 and started their steady decline, why unemployment among those who lack any college is 50% higher than the national average and why most unskilled workers can no longer afford the sort of life they could have in the 1960s. But it’s a really big one.
And no, this is not temporary. The new Americans are not going to follow in the footsteps of their 19th century predecessors and, over the generations, become as skilled and productive as Americans who were here for generations before them. Every test of IQ has shown that post 65 immigrants who come in on anything but an H1-B visa have an IQ around 90, ten points lower than than the American norm. (Want to guess the percentage of fourth-generation unskilled immigrants in California who graduate a four-year college? 5 percent. That’s for people whose grandparents were born here.)
They will always be an anchor on the country as a whole, forcing the government to confiscate the hard-earned money of more productive citizens because they cannot create enough value to pay for their own housing and medical care; diverting most school resources to the extremely difficult task of getting their kids to pass the most basic of hurdles; hurting productivity in every American company forced to discriminate against more talented applicants from races that don’t get legal favoritism.
But, frankly, productive and bright people will always do fine in America. The real victims, the ones whose lives will be wrecked more and more, will be the less genetically gifted Americans whose families were here before 1965. Because the downward spiral only continues for them.
Within the next fifteen years automation will take away the two biggest jobs they have left: driver/trucker and cashier. And, as the aging of the country (and the necessity of paying all those retirement benefits) further erodes the ability of productive workers to support anti-poverty programs, their quality of life keeps going down. Do you really think a comprehensive Medicaid will be possible when 30% of the country is receiving it and another 30% is receiving Medicare?
Time to celebrate, indeed.
I don’t agree with your characterization of what has devalued the black community economically. And I see no either-or between people seeking a better life as immigrants or among those trapped in innercity America. I see the forces arrayed against both as consistent and connected.
But that’s a bigger topic than the one at hand, sorry. And I am quite ready to address a critique elsewhere entirely.
But too much on this thread already, don’t you agree?
“Every test of IQ has shown that post 65 immigrants who come in on anything but an H1-B visa have an IQ around 90, ten points lower than than the American norm.”
This has got to be the most racist thing I’ve ever read. You must listen to 10 hours of talk radio a day to believe such garbage.
But eventually, they will be voting Republican. So at least the GOP has that going for them.
Sorry. I know. I couldn’t help myself. Apologies to all the Republicans.
Just trying to bring one of the many wayward strains back to the original topic.
Henry Brick says:
Seriously, IQ scores? Are you honestly inferring that post 65′ immigrants are inherently genetically inferior to the waves of immigrants before them? Do you really think that given several generations of integration they wont be just like any other group of Americans?
Sounds very much like 19th century style scientific racism. But, then again, maybe you’re a big fan of ‘The Bell Curve’.
Nobel Peace Price for Mark Zuckerburg and the social media?
Are pluralities and coalitions a direct result to the increasing popularity of social media, online connectvity, and increased awareness of critical issues? Do they appeal to and enhance our empathetic natures?Thoughts?
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Alex Steed says:
Thank you so much for writing / articulating this. I have friends visiting from Australia and they asked me what I believed this election meant for the country. I offered a rambling, stream of conscious explanation to them before stumbling upon this and then suggesting, “You know what? David Simon said it best. Here you go.”
Again, thank you. As far as I am concerned, this essay will likely be found in future anthologies about the cultural shifts that will have occurred in 21st Century America.
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jeffc says:
So are you saying that as a “white male”, I must conform to the new normal or be trampled and cast aside in the wake??
Do what you want. But if you belong to a political party that is doing its absolute best to alienate every other cohort but white males — to marginalize their interests, to suppress their vote, to reduce the scope of their civil liberties and personal rights — then you will need to get used to losing more and more elections. That is what I have said, in sum.
I don’t know why I said it other than that I believe it happens to be true.
Conform? You can do what you want, personally.
If you want to operate a national political party and you want to advocate policies that alienate the affections of every voting cohort other than white males, you can do that too. But in the coming years, you’re also going to have to get used to losing more elections.
That’s all I’m saying.
I might have to join this “one size” fits all party operating today that you speak of. Is this Dem, Rep or Lib, so that I can start my indoctrination process immediately. I do so want to be part of the utopian society you speak about!!
Don’t know about utopias.
I just want to live in a republic that best represents its citizens. Getting there, bit by bit.
You do mean ALL citizens, equally right? No matter the content of those views, both similar and different, regardless of race, creed or color? Is that what you are referring to as the “new normal”?
Brother, what part of the essay eluded you?
“There’s nothing wrong with anyone being anything.”
Right, I did read that and agree with you. So Barack Obama and the Dem party’s views, stances and policies do represent all things to all people of this Republic that can make them equal in all ways and all things w/o barriers, right? And the only thing in their way are the Reps, Libs and any other opposing views and or policies that do not conform to them. in other words a utopian society with all minds thinking exactly the same way with a Gov. that can pass laws and rules (or not) that meets all needs and ideas to all individuals. There will be no more ruling class to exploit others, except those ideals to keep us all thinking the same.
At best, we can say that Mr. Obama pulled more votes and therefore more support, and we can also say that this support for his views and those of his party came from cohorts in the electorate that are growing at a much more rapid rate than the electoral cohorts that supported the GOP. This is what we can say. This is what I have said.
At worst, we can say that more Americans pushed the lever for Mr. Obama because they thought things might not get worse faster if they did. And again, the Americans that did so represent cohorts that are increasing in terms of the percentage of the American electorate.
I agree with Mr. Obama, but even if I supported Mr. Romney, the core argument of this essay still stands. The Republicans, unless they become more inclusive in their political stances and arguments, are on a train to nowhere, demographically.
How many different ways can I say it? Let’s pray for this to be the last, shall we?
ok thanks, just trying to get a good understanding of your own views. Door slam, accepted.
Sorry if that was curt. I didn’t mean to be. I just feel as I keep saying the same things over and over.
Yes, I prefer Mr. Obama to Mr. Romney. Yes, I am more left-leaning than not, albeit I go issue to issue without much interest in ideology.
But none of that matters to the core argument of the essay. It would all still stand if I thought Mr. Obama was a hump and Mr. Romney was the next Lincoln. This is about a political party that is no longer operating a big tent, and will need to do so if it is to remain relevant.
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Leica SL Typ 601 Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera System: the Logical Joining of DSLR and Mirrorless
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Today, Leica announced the Leica SL 24-megapixel mirrorless camera system. With a snazzy (boring) video visibly blurred on my 4K and/or Retina displays.
Interesting to see WTF* used in a marketing video by a mainstream company. I guess profanity is now hip enough? But I like apropos double entendre.
The Leica SL is the logical evolution forward from the DSLR, dispensing with the dead weight of an optical viewfinder (unusable for critical focus**) but otherwise merging some of the best of DSLR and mirrorless systems. So I applaud Leica for being the first company to take the logical step of building a mirrorless DSLR replacement. Which tradition-bound Canon and Nikon ought to have done two years ago.
While Sony has focused on making mirrorless full frame small, there exists no rule that says mirrorless must be so. Already, the Sony A7R II is too small and its ergonomics suffer for it, namely the buttons and 4-way controller. By dint of its larger form factor, the Leica SL has (had) the opportunity for excellent DSLR ergonomics. But from the look of the Leica SL camera rear, the SL shares too many genes with the Leica S. Since the S was for me was an operational time-wasting headache in the field, the rear of the Leica SL does not hold out much hope—minimalism for the sake of appearance, resulting in myriad operational time-wasting chimping exercises. Those flat buttons around the LCD screen are awful (placement, response, feel, etc), but there they are on the SL! At least there is a small 4-way controller at camera rear. As much as I’ve griped about the Sony A7 series controls, from what I see of the SL I’ll take the Sony A7R II controls over the SL any day. But I’ll keep an open mind, pending an actual hands on. And I hear that the SL is quite responsive, so for some shooters just pressing the shutter button, that might be all that matters.
Apparently the 4.4MP EVF has no peer, and is spectacularly good compared to everything else. A super high res EVF is a no-brainer mandatory feature for a DSLR replacement; I’ve been asking for such an EVF for about two years now, but kudos to Leica for a “first” in this area.
* Generally stands for 'What the f*ck.
** A high quality optical viewfinder (OVF) is expensive and bulky and of course indispensable for some types of shooting (sports, etc). But for most purposes, it is just dead weight and it is impossible to achieve critical focus on Canon or Nikon with the awful focusing screens designed for autofocus.
Roughly speaking, the camera and lenses are like shooting a Nikon D810 with Zeiss Otus:
Leica SL camera with battery: 846g / 1.856 lb, about $7450
Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90mm f/2.8-4 ASPH: 1140 g / 2.5 lb , about $4950. The 24-90 offers OIS (optical image stabilization).
Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux-SL ASPH (due “end of 2016”).
Leica 90-280mm f/2.8-4 APO Vario-Elmarit-S (unclear when available).
= about $13000 and 4.4 pounds for a starter system with an extra battery or two.
What’s it for?
I’m a bit baffled by the target market, other than video:
Is it a replacement for the M240, at least in part?
M lenses can be used with the M-Adapter L, but it’s unclear how they perform (sensor cover glass thickness and ray angle concerns). Leica R and Leica T and Leica cine lenses can also be used with an adapter.
The 24MP resolution is a waste of time for serious landscape use when 36/42/50 megapixel options exist at far lower cost.
The native lens line is currently one (1) monster-sized zoom (which I hear may have serious focus shift issues at the long end, the kiss of death for sharpness). In the pipeline are a 90-280mm f/2.8-4 and a 50mm f/1.4 Summilux-SL ASPH (“end of 2016” for the 50/1.4).
It’s too bulky and obnoxious for street shooting with the 24-90.
Where are optimized-for-mirrorless autofocus SL lenses similar in size to Zeiss Loxia lenses? That would have been interesting. Instead we get quite large and heavy lenses with the SL.
Particularly given the cost of the Leica SL, one has to ask why the new S wasn’t given a makeover with the EVF. Now that would have made sense.
The target market... see the comment by Jorge T at end.
In Body Image Stabilization (IBIS), as on Sony A7 series.
Leaf shutter lenses. At this high end, I want leaf shutters for high speed flash sync.
UPDATE: Leica confirms no EFC shutter (mechanical shutter only). UPDATE 2: an EFC shutter option will come in a firmware update.
Does it have an EFC shutter? The specifications indicate that it is a mechanical shutter (30 minutes to 1/8000). Though the specifications do not rule out some EFC mode, IMO the lack of an EFC shutter makes a camera DOA as far as I’m concerned. The M240 shutter damages image at 90mm on up due to its shutter vibration. It damaged every photo I took at 280mm at 1/125 and slower, with varying degrees of sharpness loss down to 90mm focals (with lens adapter). If the SL behaves similarly, look out.
Sensor resolution was state of the art 4-5 years ago. Should be 36+ megapixels.
Articulating rear LCD.
Native lens line will be years in coming, particularly prime lenses at critical focal lengths, with only one lens, the 50/1.4 Summilux-SL due out by “end of 2016” and no other prime lenses announced. The camera will likely be outclassed by Sony and maybe Nikon and Canon by the time the 50/1.4 arrives.
One might ponder the relative value proposition of a ~50 megapixel Nikon or Canon DSLR with EVF and Zeiss Otus lenses (28mm, 55mm, 85mm). For less than the cost of the Leica SL with 28-90, the Nikon D810 or Canon 5DS R with two Otus lenses can be had right now—though no EVF option there, and no 4K video. But what happens in 2016 with CaNikon?
Value is not what you get now; it’s what the system delivers over its lifespan. A bit over two years ago I took a risk and bought the M240 and the 50/2 APO at a huge cost that I now deem foolish. I may borrow the new SL system for testing, but I can’t make these prices work for owning—$13K for a starter system has no ROI on owning it. Extras and other lenses will easily push this system to the $20K mark or higher.
The Leica SL offers an interesting combination of true 4K video and a very wide ISO range.
Presumably the sensor quality is top notch given the modest 24 megapixel resolution, but 24MP is far lower than the Sony A7R II (42MP) and the Canon 5Ds R (50MP). As I’ve shown with many comparison over the past few years, a 36/42/50 megapixel image downsampled to 24MP has no competition on its relative freedom from digital artifacts (aliasing, moiré, etc) and the per-pixel detail, versus a native 24MP sensor.
While 24 megapixels is ample for many purposes, when I invest time and sweat in a hike lugging a camera and tripod, I really want the details. Heck, I want the details handheld, and I get that with the in body stabilization of the Sony A7R II. Speaking to details, the lichen on the Tetrahedron Boulder series the Canon 5DS R would go to mush at 24MP, since the details are not that far off sensor resolution. I’ll take the details: I like the goodies I find after the shot at 42MP or 50MP. While 24MP is just fine with reportage and grab shots and various stuff (plenty of things), there are also many shooting applications in which more detail is rewarding. And since the same effort has to go into making the image, I’m no fan of low-res.
Based on all the M9, M240 and S, 24MP without an anti-aliasing filter will have ugly moiré and aliasing under some circumstances. If the lenses are good, this means severe “Christmas tree” speckles on things like fine white aspen or birch tree branches. I’ll take 42MP or 50MP, which are much less prone to such digital flaws.
Now here’s my gripe: Leica clearly has taken the “tech” forward. So why can’t my M240 not lock up every day I shoot it in the field, why is there no “My Menu” option after two years, and why is the toy-grade low-res EVF still the only option for the M240. How can I possibly justify flushing $13K into yet another Leica body when support for existing models is lackluster at best? Leica does not deliver value to the buying proposition, and that is proven by action (inaction).
Key features highlighted in the product description below. Clearly video is a key feature in the SL, as its discussion comes early and amply in the description. It will be interesting to see whether the 24-90mm has “breathing” and/or is parfocal.
Not mentioned is whether it has an electronic first curtain shutter (EFC shutter). This is a critical feature, so its omission is concerning.
Best-in-class may be an understatement for the Leica SL (Typ 601) Mirrorless Digital Camera, an outstanding full-frame model that is offering professionals the "new Leica experience." This generation of Leica is aimed to take the top spot of modern imaging technology and by the implementation of an outstanding 24MP CMOS sensor and Leica's Maestro II processor, it will deliver among the best in image quality with sensitivities ranging from ISO 50-50000. The sensor also forgoes the use of a low-pass filter in order to maximize possible detail, especially with the use of Leica's outstanding lens lineups. And, to make the camera a true professional's tool, Leica has incorporated internal DCI 4K (4096 x 2160) video recording at 24 fps, along with the L-Log gamma for maximum dynamic range.
Beginning with stills, the sensor and processor combination delivers high-resolution images at a rate of up to 11 fps. The 2GB internal buffer also allows for bursts of up to 33 DNG files or unlimited JPEGs. The Contrast AF system is claimed to be the fastest among full-frame cameras with 49 fields to work with. This ensures that photographers will not miss the decisive moment.
Video is outstanding, with UHD 4K (3840 x 2160) at 30 and 25 fps available in addition to DCI 4K. Alongside this impressive resolution is the ability to utilize the L-Log gamma, a super flat profile that maximizes the dynamic range of the image and gives editors more information to work with in post production. Video is easily recorded internally via the UHS-II and UHS-I standard SD card slots at 4:2:0 8-bit sampling rate though it can be output over HDMI with 4:2:2 10-bit sampling. Super35 and full-frame options are also available, depending on your resolution and frame rate.
Also available is Full HD (1920 x 1080) and standard HD (1280 x 720) at up to an impressive 120 fps for slow motion. Numerous other video recording features were implemented on the SL (Typ 601) to make high-quality recording easier, this includes focus peaking, exposure simulation, clipping/zebras, grid overlays, aspect ratios, and safe area. Audio is also supported with a built-in stereo microphone and both a 3.5mm headphone jack and 3.5mm microphone input. Manual and auto audio control is available.
Made in Germany from two blocks of solid aluminum, the SL (Typ 601) fits right in with Leica's other precision made imaging tools. This body is designed for intuitive use, with numerous dials and buttons in addition to the implementation of a rear 2.95" 1.04M-dot rear LED touchscreen for hybrid operation as part of Leica's Professional user interface. The body also offers a spacious 0.66" EyeRes 4.4MP EVF with a fast refresh rate of 60 fps and a magnification of 0.8x for more natural handling and composition.
The weather-resistant body has a variety of other features packed into it with dual SD card slots, one with the UHS-II standard and a backup with the UHS-I standard, as well as a 1.3" top monochrome LCD screen for quickly viewing and changing exposure settings. Along with all of this, the SL (Typ 601) has built-in Wi-Fi connectivity for remote control and image capture using the Leica SL App and a GPS unit for geo-tagging your photographs.
Leica SL (Typ 601)
Milled from two solid blocks of aluminum and packed with the latest and greatest in imaging technology, the Leica SL (Typ 601) is a full-frame mirrorless camera ushering in the new, professional Leica experience. The SL takes on all fronts with outstanding 24MP stills and high-quality DCI 4K video, along with a best-in-class 4.4MP EVF with a magnification of 0.8x. Optimized for speed as well as quality, it delivers one of the fastest AF systems available in a full-frame camera as well as a burst rate of 11 fps. With exceptional quality and fast operation, the SL (Typ 601) allows shooters to take on nearly any scene with ease, be it nature, sports, action, or press photography.
24MP Full-Frame CMOS Sensor & Leica Maestro II Processor
Packed with a phenomenal 24MP full-frame CMOS sensor that omits the low-pass filter and the Leica Maestro II processor, the SL (Typ 601) will deliver sharp, finely detailed images throughout the wide sensitivity range of ISO 50-50000.
This setup will also enable speed, with burst shooting up to 11 fps for up to 33 DNG frames, or unlimited JPEGs, thanks to a 2GB buffer. DCI 4K video is also supported at 24 fps along with Full HD at up to 120 fps for slow motion capture. Furthering the camera's performance is a fast Contrast AF system, which Leica claims is the fastest available in a full-frame camera, which uses 49 fields to lock on quickly and accurately. Ultrasonic dust cleaning further ensures image quality remains at its peak by removing small particles without the need for deep cleaning.
[diglloyd: Glad to see a true ISO 50, which presumably means very high pixel quality. But 24MP is low-res in 2015, and unacceptable too many of my purposes].
Leica L Bayonet Mount
First seen in the Leica T, the renamed L bayonet mount offers users the ability to connect full-frame SL-series glass which benefits from electronic communication for blazing fast autofocus, electronic aperture control, and optical image stabilization. The mount also works with existing and future TL-series lenses, though in a reduced resolution APS-C crop mode. Additionally, as with most mirrorless today, the L mount can accept a variety of adapters, such as the M-Adapter T which provides shooters with access to the entire M-mount lens library. Leica will have adapters for the S, R, and Cine series as well, ensuring compatibility with a range of Leica's best lenses.
DCI 4K Video Recording & L-Log gamma
High-quality video has become a highly important feature for numerous hybrid shooters and Leica has taken steps to deliver the best video available with the implementation of DCI 4K (4096 x 2160) video at 24 fps for true, cinema quality. Alongside this impressive resolution is the ability to utilize the L-Log gamma, a super flat profile that maximizes the dynamic range of the image and gives editors more information to work with in post production. L-Log gamma also allows for better color matching with existing systems and has similar characteristics to Cineon, which is used for film digitization.
This is easily recorded internally via the UHS-II and UHS-I standard SD card slots at 4:2:0 8-bit sampling rates. When output over HDMI however, this can be improved to 4:2:2 10-bit sampling, ensuring the maximum image quality possible with the full-frame sensor. Super35 and full-frame options are also available, depending on your resolution and frame rate.
The SL offers also UHD 4K (3840 x 2160) at 30 or 25 fps and Full HD (1920 x 1080) and standard HD (1280 x 720) at up to an impressive 120 fps for slow motion. Numerous other video recording features were implemented on the SL (Typ 601) to make high-quality recording easier, this includes focus peaking, exposure simulation, clipping/zebras, grid overlays, aspect ratios, and safe area. Audio is also supported with a built-in stereo microphone and both a 3.5mm headphone jack and 3.5mm microphone input. Manual and auto audio control is available.
[diglloyd: is this camera primarily for video? A lot of efforts here].
4.4MP EyeRes Electronic Viewfinder
Spacious and comfortable, the high-resolution 0.66" 4.4MP EyeRes EVF found on the SL (Typ 601) features a best-in-class magnification of 0.8x along with a field of view of 37°. This system also has a refresh rate of 60 fps, ensuring crystal clear and smooth imagery for the best shooting experience possible.
[diglloyd: Outstanding! Now offer this for M240, even if the frame rate is low].
2.95" 1.04M-Dot Rear LED Touchscreen
Hybrid operation as part of Leica's latest Professional user interface is enabled through the use of the 2.95" rear LED touchscreen. This display offers a high resolution of 1.04M-dot for crisp imagery during shooting. This screen also features a variety of different assist tools for capturing video and stills. In addition to this, the screen has anti-fingerprint and anti-scratch coatings along with a wide viewing angle of 170°.
[diglloyd: yawn. At this price I expect a iPhone style Retina display].
Contrast AF System
Claimed by Leica to be the fastest autofocus available in a full-frame camera, the SL (Typ 601)'s Contrast AF system uses static, dynamic, and automatic with face detection modes . This offers point, field, and zone options which can be broken down into 9 zones, 37 or 49 fields for excellent customization in locking down your target. Also, it has a Touch AF setting for tapping where you want to focus and an AF assist lamp will help in low-light conditions.
[diglloyd: but what area of the frame is covered, can it be used in zoomed Live View, etc. Some critical behaviors are not mentioned here].
For security, Leica has incorporated two SD card slots into the SL (Typ 601), one with the fast UHS-II standard and one with the UHS-I standard. This ensures that professionals will be able to maintain a backup as they are shooting in case of card failure or loss. Also, it expands the capacity of the card during exceptionally long days of shooting or recording video.
Body Design & Menu
With a full, heavy-duty grip and a variety of buttons and dials, the SL (Typ 601) is designed to be one of the simplest, fastest, and most intuitive cameras to operate. The menu is optimized for speed and to be easy-to-understand, limiting time getting used to a new system and ensuring that you can find and adjust critical settings when you need to. Hybrid operation in the form of the latest Leica Professional interface is available thanks to the implementation of a rear touchscreen. This makes swiping through settings and images intuitive and enables Touch AF and shutter functionality. Additionally, the body has a top 1.3" monochrome LCD that shows current settings for making fast changes without looking at the rear screen or viewfinder.
Flash System
Equipped with both a TTL-capable hot shoe and an X-sync terminal, users will be able to easily add light to their scene. The hot shoe features dedicated contacts for TTL automatic exposure with compatible flash units, such as the SF 64 and SF 26, or manual firing of third-party flashes with the center pin. Additionally, the X-sync terminal enables the use of strobes or radio systems that require the use of a PC sync port and the SL (Typ 601) has a maximum sync speed of 1/250 second.
Milled from two blocks of solid aluminum and hand-finished in Germany, the SL (Typ 601) is once again a beautifully put together masterpiece from Leica. The use of aluminum guarantees durability over time and the body and lenses were designed to be sealed from the elements, protecting the body from intrusion from dust and water during less-than-ideal weather conditions.
[diglloyd: this is ludicrous: the main issue in durability is the controls, buttons and such, which on the S have been fraught with issues every time I used the thing. A metal body is all well and good, but the chassis is not the weak link].
Built-In Wi-Fi Connectivity and GPS System
Staying connected is important in this day and age, so Leica has put an integrated Wi-Fi module on the SL (Typ 601). This allows users to connect to the camera using a phone or tablet via the Leica SL App, providing full control over settings such as aperture and shutter speed as well as triggering of the shutter. This makes it incredibly easy to work from a distance or with unusual angles and positions.
A built-in GPS module furthers the camera's connectivity by automatically stamping time and location data onto your images. This allows users to quickly navigate their catalog by location and date to find their favorite shots or to remember where you stumbled upon that near perfect landscape. This unit also has a sensitivity of <1°.
DNG format for compatibility with a variety of software and operating systems.
Exposure bracketing from 1, 2, or 3 aperture steps for 3, 5, or 7 images which can be saved individually or automatically output as an HDR JPEG.
Saves 14-bit DNG and 8-bit JPEG files in Adobe RGB, ECI RGB, or sRGB color spaces.
White balance modes: preset auto, daylight (5200K), cloudy (6000K), shade (7000K), tungsten (3200K), HMI (5600K), fluorescent warm (4000K), fluorescent cool (4500K), flash (5400K), gray card, and manual from 2000K to 11500K.
Drive modes include single, continuous slow at 4 fps, continuous medium at 7 fps, and continuous fast at 11 fps.
Interval mode available for setting up time lapse.
Time exposures up to 30 minutes.
Exposure compensation of ±3 EV in 1/3 or 1/2 EV steps.
Comes with strap and lens cleaning tissue.
Reader comments on Leica SL
Jorge Torralbe writes:
It finally hit me this morning after talking with a very wealthy close friend who is close to Leica ! There really is no sense in reviewing their products!
Have a look at my rant
[excerpt] “Then it dawned on me. My friend said something that caught me by surprise. Totally unexpected and never saw it coming. He said to me, Leica does not need to compete. Leica is for it’s own niche market. It’s for those who want to wear the label. He went on to say he would never be seen with a Sony again. He was embarrassed to have one around his neck and would put tape all over it to mask the word Sony.”
DIGLLOYD: the pitiable state of tying one’s personal value to a physical good are obvious (as if status could “rub off”, which for the insecure and weak-minded it does!). That topic is covered implicitly and ad nauseum in online forums.
I do not factor in cost when evaluating product performance, though I discuss value at times. Inserting cost directly into an evaluation corrupts objectivity. It is thus a factor to set aside; I want to make my own judgment about the merits. That said, a system costing 3X or 5X more necessarily should be held to much higher standards, and thus deserves rich and detailed criticism if it underperforms much less expensive systems. Those things must be duly noted, but more important is exploring the performance regardless of cost, so that readers can make their own value judgment, which is necessarily tied to specific personal considerations.
Roy P (S owner) writes:
I can’t believe they put the S back on this, especially considering this is supposed to be a versatile camera, good for many kinds of photography, that would need efficient change of settings.
In the S, as frustrating as the paucity of the controls is, at least the camera is used in more deliberate work. With the SL, I think this cheap approach to body design will be a major hindrance. Amazing that somebody at Leica considers this a good design.
The EVF sounds like the most impressive feature of the SL. The 24MP sensor, as expected, underwhelms. But here is the pièce de résistance: a plastic sheet protector for the glass for a mere $25. Unbelievable. Every $300 Xiaomi smartphone has a scratch resistant glass on it, and Leica needs a stick on plastic sheet to protect the LCD on its new flagship $7500 camera!
DIGLLOYD: indeed, the EVF sounds awesome and wow I’d like that on a Nikon D900.
Sapphire glass or at least “gorrilla glass” ought to be standard. The talk about durability from the metal body is rather silly in the context of a screen being scratched. Under what conditions would a metal body matter given the vulnerability of the rear LCD to scratches or cracking? See also ExpertShield Screen Protector for Camera Screens, Smart Phones, Tablets, etc.
Howard C writes:
Leica in my view completely missed the boat with the Leica SL. They could have made a camera that would have played to all of their strengths by designing a somewhat smaller version of the SL with a 50 MP sensor and a full line of manual focus f/2.8 lenses or f/4 that are small and lightweight. There is a serious market out there for such a camera and lens lineup.
DIGLLOYD: Agreed. Who wants these monster leica lenses? They are a huge divergence from the M appeal.
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Does Vocational Education Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mongolia
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
Do Children Benefit from Internet Access? Experimental Evidence from Peru
CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (1)
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018) View citations (1)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2019)
Do Children Benefit from Internet Access?: Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country
IDB Publications (Working Papers), Inter-American Development Bank
The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health: Evidence from a Schooling Expansion in Romania
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
Parental Monitoring and Children's Internet Use: The Role of Information, Control, and Cues
Parental Monitoring ande Children´s Internet Use: The Role of Information, Control, and Cues
Documentos de Trabajo, Instituto de Economia. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Interactions Between Family and School Environments: Evidence on Dynamic Complementarities?
Home Computers and Child Outcomes: Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (14)
Also in Research Department Publications, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department (2012) View citations (4)
IDB Publications (Working Papers), Inter-American Development Bank (2012) View citations (2)
The Effect of College Education on Health
Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2012) View citations (8)
School Tracking and Access to Higher Education Among Disadvantaged Groups
Also in Working Papers, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago (2008) View citations (1)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2011)
Breadth vs. Depth: The Timing of Specialization in Higher Education
Also in Working Papers, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago (2007)
Home Computer Use and the Development of Human Capital
See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2011)
Self-Selection and International Migration: New Evidence from Mexico
See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2014)
The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk
Discovering One's Talent: Learning from Academic Specialization
See also Journal Article in ILR Review (2011)
General Education vs. Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition
The Effect of Computer Use on Child Outcomes
Working Papers, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago View citations (1)
The Impact of College Graduation on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (12)
Breadth vs. Depth: The Effect of Academic Specialization on Labor Market Outcomes
Working Papers, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
Vocational Training versus General Education: Evidence from an Educational Reform in Romania
Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, (C), 41-56 View citations (8)
See also Working Paper (2018)
The effect of college education on mortality
Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, (C), 99-114 View citations (21)
Is College a Worthwhile Investment?
Annual Review of Economics, 2015, 7, (1), 519-555 View citations (14)
One Laptop per Child at Home: Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7, (2), 53-80 View citations (40)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96, (1), 78-91 View citations (63)
The impact of Israel's class-based affirmative action policy on admission and academic outcomes
Economics of Education Review, 2014, 40, (C), 123-139 View citations (5)
The Impact of College on Migration: Evidence from the Vietnam Generation
Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47, (4) View citations (66)
ILR Review, 2011, 64, (2), 375-405 View citations (7)
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011, 126, (2), 987-1027 View citations (98)
Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95, (11), 1538-1549 View citations (36)
Breadth versus Depth: The Timing of Specialization in Higher Education
LABOUR, 2010, 24, (4), 359-390 View citations (6)
General Education versus Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition
The Structure of European Higher Education in the Wake of the Bologna Reforms
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Has the federal budget opened the door for an early election?
I did a short interview yesterday with ABC News Radio on the Budget and whether it opens the door for an early election. Click here to listen.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on May 10, 2018 May 27, 2018 Categories electionsTags AusVotes2018, federal budget, federal election, slide
No more Mr Nice Guy: Brace for a ‘cage fight’ election campaign
Weekly column for The New Daily.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on March 30, 2018 May 27, 2018 Categories elections, Political parties, PoliticsTags federal election, slide
Turnbull looks more dodgy than decisive these days
Malcolm Turnbull’s popularity has taken another hit in the polls today, and it’s not totally surprising. He might think he’s being nimble over the budget and election timing, but it just looks evasive.
Weekly column for The Drum.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on March 14, 2016 Categories PoliticsTags Budget, double dissolution, federal election, Malcolm Turnbull
The ploys are back in town as Parliament resumes
The first stanza of this election year will be characterised by political parties trialling election strategies to see which have traction with voters and which are a waste of precious campaign funds.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on February 1, 2016 Categories PoliticsTags ACTU, Coalition, education, election campaign, federal election, Gonski, GST, health, IR, Labor, Liberal, online campaign, tax reform, TURC, unions, workplace relations
The best 2016 election date the PM could choose
The Political weekly: The federal election should be held in August or September this year. If it is called for any time before that, particularly the first half of 2016, voters will have no choice than to think PM Turnbull is taking us for fools.
For The New Daily.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on January 9, 2016 Categories PoliticsTags Arthur Sinodinos, David Leyonhjelm, federal election, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Dutton, Richard Di Natale, Scott Morrison, sexism, The New Daily, Tony Nutt
Malcolm, welcome to the job. Here’s your to-do list
Having won the face-off with Tony Abbott, the Prime Minister-designate Malcolm Turnbull now has two more pressing tests to deal with.
Analysis for The New Daily.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on September 15, 2015 Categories PoliticsTags by election, Canning, double dissolution, federal election, leadership, Liberal, Malcolm Turnbull, moderates, progressive
Royal commission stand-off could define the election
Labor and the Government are locked in an arm wrestle over Dyson Heydon and the union royal commission that will define their election strategies.
If there’s certainty about anything that will happen this week in politics, it’s that the Labor Opposition will do everything it can to bring down the royal commission into union corruption. Labor knows that doing so will seriously disrupt the Government’s re-election strategy.
The royal commission has always served a dual purpose for the Government. Over the short term, it’s been a mechanism for digging into the union pasts of Labor leaders in the hopes of tainting Julia Gillard’s legacy and crippling Bill Shorten’s future.
But over the longer term, the royal commission was intended to create voter distrust for the union movement – and by extension, Labor – by highlighting the worst behaviour of union officials.
The Government intended to exploit the resulting antipathy for unions by drawing Labor into a battle over laws meant to curtail union power. Accordingly, a bill to re-establish the Australian Building and Construction Commission is due to be debated in the Senate today.
Also to be debated today is the re-introduced bill aiming to establish a Registered Organisations Commission, which would have the power to “supervise” the conduct of employer organisations and unions, including the use of coercive investigatory powers and criminal penalties. Once Labor and the Greens combined to defeat this bill, which they can with the support of three other Senators, the Government would then have a double dissolution trigger.
At least that was the plan: the momentum created by the mounting evidence of union rorts at the royal commission, paired with Labor’s protection of unions by defeating the ABCC and ROC bills, theoretically would have created a favourable anti-union re-election climate for the Government either at the end of this year or in early 2016.
Labor knows this momentum can be arrested by killing off the royal commission.
It won’t be enough to protest about the perceived or real conflict of interest that has arisen from Dyson Heydon’s foolish acceptance of an invitation to speak at a Liberal Party function, or even to boycott the commission’s proceedings.
If the inquiry continues to publicly gather evidence of union thuggery, dodgy deals and rorts, then the vast majority of disengaged voters will more likely dismiss complaints about the royal commissioner’s bias.
Only by bringing the royal commission to an early end will Labor have any chance of repairing the damage already done to the party – and its leader – through guilt by association with the dark element that patently exists within the labour movement.
According to another Drum columnist, Michael Bradley, Heydon’s removal would bring the inquiry to an end. But it is highly unlikely Tony Abbott will sack Heydon or impose on him to stand down – if reports are correct that the royal commissioner was his personal appointment, the PM can hardly afford to admit to another failed captain’s pick.
And given the royal commission has unearthed actual evidence of less than desirable union practices, it’s unlikely voters will raise arms against Heydon in the same way they felt compelled to do over the excesses of the former speaker, Bronwyn Bishop.
However, if Labor does manage to bring down Heydon and thereby the royal commission, the Government will have to rewrite this re-election strategy.
At least one commentator has pointed out that John Howard faced dire opinion poll ratings like those currently being experienced by Abbott, but that Howard turned this around with an ambitious reform agenda that led to re-election (albeit with less than an outright majority of the vote).
Yet there is nothing to suggest Abbott or his Government have the political nous required to devise, let alone run, an election campaign based on serious reform.
Treasurer Joe Hockey’s efforts to end our “entitlement” mentality have failed, thanks to an ill-judged first horror budget, an indulgent second magic pudding budget, and footage of stogies being puffed and helicopters landing on golf courses.
Parallel efforts to get the premiers to take the running (and grief) on increasing John Howard’s GST have been somewhat more successful, but the case for an increase (to pay for schools and hospitals) is much less electorally compelling than the original argument for the tax’s introduction (which included the scrapping of several other taxes and a tax cut for everyone earning up to $60,000).
Then there is the business community’s most favoured reform, workplace relations, which the PM will not even contemplate for fear of raising the ghost of WorkChoices.
Without a reform agenda, the Government is left with national security and asylum seekers – two sides of the same coin as far as the Prime Minister is concerned – on which to fight the next election. However, Labor’s recent decision not to rule out boat turn-backs makes it more difficult for the Government to argue it’s tougher on asylum seekers than the Opposition.
Whatever policies end up dominating the next 12 months and the next federal election campaign, trust and competence will be the underlying themes. This will not be so much a matter of “who do you trust to tell the truth?”, because no one expects politicians to be honest, but “who do you trust to run the country?”. This trust will be dependent on the extent to which voters are convinced the competing parties have cohesive, competent teams with economically responsible but fair policies.
Labor may manage to kill off the royal commission and neutralise public concern about its association with unions, but it will still have to contend with its Rudd-Gillard past and all that entails.
However, an even more difficult challenge faces Abbott and his team. The Coalition Government has proven to be neither cohesive nor competent over the past two years, and seemingly incapable of balancing economic soundness with the public good. It is on this that the Government will be judged on election day, and no amount of union corruption will spare it from that scrutiny.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on August 17, 2015 July 5, 2016 Categories PoliticsTags Dyson Heydon, federal election, Labor, rorts, royal commission, Tony Abbott, TURC, unions
Pollies feeling the heat in Queensland
The Queensland election offers the spectacle of a conservative government headed by a deeply unpopular leader facing off with a still-shellshocked Labor headed by an almost invisible opposition leader. It makes perfect sense to view these proceedings as a possible forbearer of the federal election to come.
Weekly article for The Hoopla.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on January 13, 2015 Categories PoliticsTags #Qldvotes, Campbell Newman, federal election, GST, independents, minor parties, Queensland, state elections, The Hoopla, Tony Abbott
Socks, jocks and Tony Abbott
Socks, jocks and Tony Abbott. This week’s post for The Hoopla.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on September 3, 2014 Format QuoteCategories PoliticsTags Abbott Government, Clive Palmer, federal election, mining tax, MRRT, Tony Abbott
2013 in politics: the power of three
Considered the holiest of numbers by Christians and Wiccans alike, the number three has eerily presided over our past political year. From people to politics and policies, the rule of three was ubiquitous.
The most obvious triumvirate was Gillard, Rudd and Abbott, three prime ministers in one year, which is not as uncommon as one might think. In fact, this was the fifth time that we have had three PMs within one calendar year: the others were in 1904, 1939, 1941 and 1945.
Not only did the nation have three leaders in quick succession, so did the Labor Party. Kevin Rudd’s dark revenge fantasy played out to its inevitable end, with Rudd finally stalking Julia Gillard to ground and Bill Shorten arising from the bloody remnants of the party to bring Labor’s tally to three party leaders in four months. The worst the Liberals could do was three in eight months when the party shifted from Hewson to Downer and then Howard, the then-touted ‘Lazarus with a triple bypass’, in the 1990s.
But even before we were graced with our third PM for the year, Australians were well-familiar with the rule of three in political communication. Not a day had passed without us being bombarded with the Coalition’s three word slogans, vowing on the attainment of government to stop the boats, axe the tax and eliminate the debt. Apparently the necessary caveat – but only if the Senate will let us – couldn’t be condensed into three words and had to be ditched as a non-core slogan.
Rudd’s quest to be a thrice-anointed PM – after his elections by the Australian people in 2007 and the Labor caucus in 2013 – was thwarted. For yes, the man’s ego was so immense that he thought he might actually win. But he was prevented from doing so by three not insignificant matters: voter concerns about Labor’s unity, competency, and adherence to core Labor values such as equality and social justice.
The dominant factor was competency, though, and in electing the Abbott Government, voters quite justifiably assumed they were getting the grown-up government they were promised.
In the gloomy days that followed the not-as-much-of-a-landslide-as-expected, Labor dusted itself off and for the first time in history had not one but three leaders simultaneously. While the two contenders for election to the Labor leadership, Albanese and Shorten, traversed the country doing and saying leadership things, acting Labor leader Chris Bowen was doing and saying leadership things too. Labor members loved the new-fangled ‘democracy’ imposed on the party by Rudd (to prevent any further coups like the one he’d just pulled on Gillard), while the rest of Australia’s political classes looked on in bemusement.
And then finally, over 60 days since being elected and after early stumbles on women in Cabinet and the wedding-rorts saga, the members of the Abbott Government placed their shiny arses on the green leather benches and showed us they could do chaotic and incompetent just as well as the previous mob.
Since then the carbon tax has not been scrapped, the boats haven’t stopped, deficits have become an acceptable necessity and debt is no longer a dirty word. Public service cuts may or may not continue because they may or may not have already been counted. It’s become acceptable to say sorry to pretty much every nation in the region unless it’s one that Australia has been caught spying on. And a broken promise is not broken even if there’s physical evidence that you made it and that you broke it.
Even amongst the detritus of this incompetence, the power of three continues to rule. Australian businesses have faced the challenge of keeping up with three climate action policies (Gillard’s carbon price, Rudd’s ETS and Abbott’s Direct Action). The combined wrath of the nation’s teachers and education ministers brought about an extraordinary triple-backflip from Pyne on Gonski. And those who don’t have the cojones to take responsibility for unpopular decisions establish a Commission of Audit, Productivity Inquiry or Royal Commission to take the flak for them.
Meantime, the indignities wrought on asylum seekers defied even the rule of three and became almost too horrifyingly numerous to count.
Kevin Rudd may have entertained the fantasy that he could win the 2013 election by sheer force of will and popularity. Tony Abbott would have never suffered from such a delusion. He knows full well his success was more dependent on voters being sick of the other side than them preferring him and his policies.
In the end it came down to perceptions of competency – Labor was seen (whether fairly or not) as chaotic and ineffectual while the Coalition was seen as holding the promise of a dependable and competent government.
So, as the remainder of 2013 is measured in long summer evenings and the ruling triumvirate is the beach-barbie-cricket, Prime Minister Abbott would do well to ponder one last three word slogan. Without delivering “a competent government” in 2014, Abbott’s own days may well be numbered.
This post first appeared at ABC’s The Drum.
Author Drag0nistaPosted on January 1, 2014 January 1, 2014 Categories PoliticsTags Bill Shorten, Coalition, federal election, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, voter expectation4 Comments on 2013 in politics: the power of three
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Fighting in eastern Ukraine kills 43 in 24 hours
Battles in the rebel-held city of Donetsk killed 34 residents and nine troops in just 24 hours. (File Photo: Reuters)
The Associated Press, Kiev Wednesday 20 August 2014
Government troops fought to gain control of the rebel-held city of Donetsk and a key highway in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday - battles that left 34 residents and nine troops dead in just 24 hours, authorities said.
The Ukrainian troops are trying to encircle Donetsk, the largest city still in rebel hands, and also drive the rebels out of the city of Luhansk.
Several neighborhoods in Donetsk have been hit with artillery fire in the last few days and fighting on the outskirts has become more intense.
The Kiev-backed administration in Donetsk quoted the death toll of 34 “local residents” killed and 29 wounded as of noon Wednesday, a figure it said did not include any government troop deaths.
Earlier, a Ukrainian official said nine troops were killed and 22 wounded in overnight fighting in Ilovaysk, a town near Donetsk, as the government sought to retake a major railroad and highway that leads to Russia.
Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian National Security Council who gave that toll, said fighting continued in Ilovaysk on Wednesday even though government forces have gained overall control over the town.
Among those killed in Ilovaysk was a Ukrainian-American known by the nom de guerre of Franko, said Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the interior minister.
He said Franko was an American citizen with a military background who had been living in eastern Ukraine for the past 10 years and who obtained Ukrainian citizenship before joining the battalion.
The situation in the besieged city of Luhansk, a rebel stronghold just 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Russian border, remained critical Wednesday as the government and rebels fought running battles in city streets, local authorities said.
Luhansk has been without electricity, running water or phone connections for 18 days and residents are reported to be standing in lines to buy bread baked on portable generators as food grows scarce.
The Kiev government also has pursued diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict, which the United Nations says has killed more than 2,000 people and displaced over 340,000 since fighting began in mid-April.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will host German Chancellor Angela Merkel this weekend in Kiev before meeting next week with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.
Ukraine has accused Russia of arming and supporting the rebels, a charge that Russia denies. The fighting began a month after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.
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They also attached a yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag to the top of the 176-meter (580-foot) building.
While Moscow police detained four suspects and charged them with vandalism, a crime punishable with up to three years in prison, Poroshenko in a video message welcomed the flag-hoisting, calling it a “symbolic” gesture.
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Mark Victor Hansen: the Flim Flam Man
Reprint of a blog post from 2008.
Photo by Sebastian Davenport-Handley on Unsplash
He blew into town with the media winds at his back, a big smile on his face and the promise of riches for all. His name was Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of the highly successful Chicken Soup series of books. Though it was purportedly a leadership seminar, he was actually promoting his newest book, The One Minute Millionaire. Yes, you can have it all.
The following article first appeared in Duluth’s Reader Weekly, November 7, 2002. It was my take on a motivational speaker who I would tar a scam artist. But what is motivating me to reprint it here is a statement he made while flapping his gums about the greatness of mankind and what we can achieve if we pull together and put our minds to it.
He said one project he was organizing, that would amaze the world, would be painting the Great Wall of China by 2008. He pointed out that the Great Wall was the only man made structure on earth visible from outer space. It would be a huge undertaking to paint this but it would be accomplished because, golly gee whiz, we’re so great we can do anything.
Well, I’ve been waiting. So far, gathering an army of people to paint the Great Wall of China has not yet made the news, and I have a feeling that if Hansen is talking about it at all, it will be something he tells his audiences will happen in 2015. He would likely be surprised that someone in his Duluth audience actually took notes to hold him accountable for what he says.
I realize that some people will feel I’m being harsh when I say these things. Hansen’s books have encouraged and entertained a lot of people. Frankly, it could be argued that the money-changers in the Temple in New Testament times were helping people, too.
Anyways, here’s my story…. a bit long for blogging, I know. I’ll try not to make a habit of it.
Chicken Soup for the Ripped-Off Person’s Soul
In October 2002 I had the privilege of witnessing the most audacious display of shameless hucksterism. In case you missed it, Mark Victor Hansen was in town, guest lecturer for the Leadership Series of The College of St. Scholastica. For those unfamiliar with Mr. Hansen, he is co-author of the spectacularly successful Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
The three-hour talk purported to be a success seminar for entrepreneurs and leaders. In actuality, it was little more than a three-hour sales pitch a la Simon Sez. Half the audience seemed happily under his spell.
Affable and boisterous, he laughed almost continuously. Peppered throughout he shared fragments of actual and real content, though seldom citing sources and not concerned about whether any of the pieces hung together.
From one perspective, the talk was a fast paced jabber of name dropping, and braggadocio. If being rich is good because you can help others, being super-rich is even better because you can brag about it. His lifestyle requires him to earn two million dollars a year, he told us. He also let us know how he and his partner Jack Canfield are in the Guinness Book of World Records for the speed at which they produce and sell books.
The guy’s technique was typical of the standard flim flam con artist. How many times did he “almost” tell the price of these books that were supposedly worth $167 dollars? But hold on a second! He told us his signature will be worth more than the price we pay for the books because his good buddy Red Skelton said his autograph is worth eight hundred dollars, and “I’m going to be more famous than Red,” he implied. Do the math. Pay one hundred today, get the guy’s signature because he’s in town, and we walk away more than seven hundred dollars ahead. Plus we get to keep the books!
In twenty years of attending professional seminars, I can’t think of a single one where you pay nearly seventy dollars to attend and get no written materials, no notebook, nothing. That’s because this guy was not interested in giving anything. That would be an expense. The lesson is that to get rich you eliminate expenses and just take the money.
Wait, he did give us something. It was a thirty day tattoo which we could wear to promote his books. Hmmm. (Tap someone on the arm and say, “Got it?”)
Hansen’s fast talking style was straight from the carnival. He made outrageous statements with such rapidity that your mind couldn’t keep up to analyze them. At one point he said that for every one hundred dollars that we sent to his amazing money machine (in the form of buying his books) his organization would send $250 to eliminate third world hunger.
Someone asked why they don’t end poverty here in America first and he mocked her. That’s right. He made a face and belittled her. It was embarrassing.
He could do that because the crowd was on his side, the side of truth and illumination. But wait, not only was the crowd on his side, God was on his side, too. God wants us all to be shamelessly rich. The Bible says so, Hansen said. Look at Jesus. Why would the first disciple he converted be a tax collector if Jesus didn’t have money? Jesus was rich like Mr. Hansen, right? Jesus needed an accountant.
In other words, this whole Leadership event was a big scam. What’s unfortunate is that a lot of innocent believing people are left in the wake of jokers like this, still hurting, confused by what they experienced because much of what he said was good. But how do you apply it? The message doesn’t hold up to critical analysis.
In the past I have written about the gullibility of our times and American superficiality. This guy plays it like a master. The more I thought about it, the more stewed I got because a lot of earnest, trusting people paid hard earned cash to be there. 225 paid attendees times $69…. That’s over fifteen thousand dollars for three hours work. No wonder he was laughing continuously.
The next day I was curious how the sponsors of the event felt. Did Marcia Doty feel used because he took some personal information about her and stroked her in front of the whole crowd as part of the pitch he was putting on? Did the other media people feel they had been taken?
That’s how good this guy was. He completely sold out of his books. And everyone seemed happy. That just never happened before, I was told. He’s turning the whole world into One Minute Millionaires. Hallelujah.
In the old days these snake oil salesmen were tarred and feathered.
Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “The writer who laughs all the way to the bank is crying inside.” This guy is laughing all the way to the bank, for sure. And it appears he’s not crying inside, which means he is either (a) not a writer, or (b) absolutely devoid of conscience.
Somehow, I can’t escape the feeling that we were witnesses to a tragedy and we didn’t even know it.
Originally published at pioneerproductions.blogspot.com
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Alamo Colleges District Launches AlamoONLINE
At a press conference today, the Alamo Colleges District literally rolled out its new online college initiative, complete with a VIA bus on site, emblazoned with an ad promoting AlamoONLINE — College. When & Where You Want It.
“In our efforts to make a college education accessible to as many residents of our region as possible, developing and promoting our online offerings plays a key role,” said Alamo Colleges District Chancellor Dr. Mike Flores. “With AlamoONLINE, we are ramping up our efforts to be the first choice of students seeking an associate degree or certificate online by offering in-demand programs, the highest quality instruction and robust support services, all at the most affordable cost in our area. We will continue to expand the programs we offer completely online as part of our strategy to enable more individuals to improve their social and economic mobility and the well-being of themselves, their families and their community,” he added.
Joining Flores for the launch event were Alamo Colleges District Board of Trustees Chair Marcelo Casillas, St. Philip’s College President Dr. Adena Williams Loston, together with Dr. George Railey, Jr., vice chancellor for academic success, and Dr. Luke Dowden, chief online learning officer and associate vice chancellor for AlamoONLINE.
Studies show that 75% of online college students live within 100 miles of their school’s campus. The Alamo Colleges District’s service area covers Bexar county and seven surrounding counties, so more online degree and certificate programs are important for students who may prefer to save time and money by completing their associate degree or certificate online rather than commuting.
AlamoONLINE will increase awareness of the district's colleges’ online associate degree and certificate programs across the entire service area as well as the entire region. The Alamo Colleges are not new to online learning, as the district’s colleges served more than 7,000 students enrolled exclusively online during the Fall 2018 semester, and the number of totally online students is expected to continue to grow.
Through AlamoONLINE, the district’s online offerings are being highlighted with a marketing campaign that includes bus ads, billboards, and digital ads. AlamoONLINE represents the range of opportunities for students pursuing degrees, certificates, or awards delivered online from Northeast Lakeview College, Northwest Vista College, Palo Alto College, San Antonio College, and St. Philip’s College. More than 70 fully-online programs will be available beginning in Fall 2019. To help build the colleges’ online learning capacity, promote their programs to prospective students and assist students through the admissions process, we have hired a team of enrollment coaches. In addition, the Alamo Colleges District has lowered the out-of-district, fully-online tuition rate, effective Fall 2019, to ensure our Texas residents, who do not live in Bexar County, have an affordable educational option. Through AlamoOnline, the district hopes to attract a sizable portion of the 277,000 adults in the San Antonio area who have some college credits and no degree to an online offering at one of the five colleges.
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We have established that in the collaborative work-from-home environment, poor connectivity impacts not just a single home worker, but rather it has a multiplier effect that impacts the effectiveness of the overall team. Introducing Workput | The Equipe IT admin panel
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Here is one of the places where the Workput concept comes in. Introducing Workput
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Accountability, Asset sweating, Austerity cuts, Ben Ingham, Democracy, EDDC, EDDC Governance, Independent Councillors, Scrutiny, TiggerTories
“Senior role in East Devon’s ruling cabinet has been axed”
So, the “transformation” role in Ben Ingham’s TiggerTory cabinet has been abolished by said leader.
How convenient – no more pesky questions about the Leader’s pre-election promise to move from a Cabinet system to a committee system, more representative of the diverse groups that now exist.
Councillor Millar, understandably, believed “transformation” meant changes to the way officers AND councillors would work. Instead it seems Leader Ingham sees “transformation” as applying to more commercialisation of council services and more revenue-boosting asset-sweating or selling. In other words, a continuation of the previous Tory policies – local government as business rather than public service.
More BOGOF (buy one, get one free) than transformation!
“… No reason for the decision of the leader of the council to not replace the portfolio holder position is stated in the papers ahead of the meeting. …
Instead, the cabinet collectively will take on responsibility for delivery of the Council Plan and the associated strategies of Fit for Purpose, Careful Choices and Commercialisation of Services.
The report says that Cllr Jess Bailey, Corporate Services Portfolio holder, will take on responsibility for Digital by Design and Systems Thinking, while Cllr Geoff Pook, Asset Management Portfolio holder, will now be responsible for Commercialisation of Assets rather than Revenue Generation.
… Next Wednesday’s meeting will also see changes made to committee membership as a result of the political balance of the council changes following Cllr Millar’s resignation from the Independent Group.
The council now consists of 19 members in the Independent Group, 19 Conservatives, 11 from the East Devon Alliance, eight Liberal Democrats, two Green Party members, and one Independent, Cllr Millar.
Sitting as an Independent, he is entitled to two seats across all the committees, and the full council is recommended to approve a proposal that would see the ruling Independent Group lose a seat on both the Overview Committee and the Licensing and Enforcement Committee.”
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/senior-role-east-devons-ruling-3442021
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Abbeyfield care homes in Budleigh and Axminster under threat of closure
Owl says: The tip of a very big iceberg … with the Titanic speeding towards it.
“Devastated residents and families of those living at a care home which is under threat of closure fear it could result in the deaths of those who are very old and vulnerable.
Long-established Abbeyfield Shandford in Budleigh Salterton provides nursing and personal care for 28 people, and of those five are aged 100 or over. It employs 35 staff.
In January it first announced it was reviewing the service and then stated it would continue to be provided.
However, in September it began a consultation into the future of the home which will run until November.
Abbeyfield Society, who own the home, have said it will carefully consider all submissions from residents, relatives and staff before a final decision is made.
It has confirmed if a decision is made to close the home in Station Road, no residents will be expected to leave until January 2020 at the earliest.
The consultation has resulted in a petition being launched which has already been signed by hundreds of local residents. …
… “Abbeyfield have made out it’s a failing care home and needs huge upgrading and expenditure, but it doesn’t. The last inspection by the Care Quality Commission was this year and it was rated good.” …
[Abbeyfield spokesperson said] “In the case of Shandford, we carefully considered a number of factors, including whether the increasingly complex needs of residents can continue to be well served in a building which requires significant renovations to bring in it line with best-practice standards. …
“”This situation is further compounded by the long-term recruitment challenges we have faced, meaning that we have often relied on agency staff – despite the best efforts of the local management team. This not only places significant further financial pressures on the home at a time when the wider funding of social care is under strain, but also means we cannot always provide the continuity of care that residents deserve. …”
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/deaths-feared-care-home-closed-3438701
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Time to ditch Barclays, before it ditches more of us?
“More than 120 MPs have accused Barclays of abandoning its most vulnerable customers amid a growing backlash over the bank’s move to stop its savers withdrawing cash from post offices.
In a damning letter to chief executive Jes Staley, the MPs criticised the bank for the ‘retrograde decision’, which they warned will only add to the ‘cash crisis’.
The politicians, co-ordinated by Labour MP Chris Elmore, urged the bank to reconsider and offered to meet American Mr Staley.
The Daily Mail has been calling on the banking giant to reverse its decision and has encouraged readers affected by it to write to Barclays.
The 124 MPs said they were ‘extremely disappointed’ by Barclays. Their letter said: ‘Quite simply, amidst the current uncertainty many people face around access to cash and wider banking services, this decision appears to be a retrograde step which will impact your poorest customers hardest.
‘It sends a message – rightly or wrongly – that those who cannot properly access the digital economy will have the carpet dragged from under their feet as our high street banks continue to abandon the communities that have sustained them for decades.’
Barclays faced a huge backlash after announcing it would stop its customers from withdrawing cash at post offices in January. The decision is estimated to save the bank £7 million a year, and comes after 3,312 high street bank and building society branches closed their doors between January 2015 and August this year.
At least 481 were Barclays branches, according to the consumer group Which?.
Gareth Shaw, head of money at Which?, said: ‘Barclays has shown real disregard to the needs of its customers through its reckless move to cease cash withdrawals from the Post Office. MPs are right to challenge this ill-conceived decision that risks leaving many of their constituents facing an uphill struggle just to access the cash they need.
In a damning letter to chief executive Jes Staley, the MPs criticised the bank for the ‘retrograde decision’, over the bank’s move to stop its savers withdrawing cash from post offices, which they warned will only add to the ‘cash crisis’
‘We’re calling on the Government to urgently intervene with legislation that protects cash for as long as it is needed.’
Free-to-use cash machines are also disappearing at an alarming rate. Some 500 were closed every month last year, according to the ATM network Link.
The Access To Cash Review, an independent investigation into the cash crisis, found that about 17 per cent of the UK’s adult population – 8 million people – would find it difficult to function in a cashless society.
Natalie Ceeney, chairman of the Access To Cash Review, said: ‘As [the Daily Mail] has pointed out, this is affecting customers across the country especially those who are older, poorer, living in a remote area or may be disabled. This will be filling up MPs’ postbags, so I’m glad to see widespread support for the campaign.’
Banking trade body UK Finance has repeatedly directed customers who do not live near cash machines or bank branches to the 11,500 post offices across the country which offer everyday banking services. Barclays was also sending out this message as recently as June.
A petition urging Barclays to reverse the decision had nearly 9,500 signatures last night. …”
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-7585989/Post-Office-cash-ban-Barclays-customers-poorest-124-MPs-tell-bank.html
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The Netflix Effects on Australian Local Entertainment Production
Netflix is a worldwide producer of streaming movies and TV programs. It also has subscribers amounting to 75 million and above. It began as an American DVD-by-mail service in 1998 but later on it started streaming in 2007. In 2013 Netflix made history by being announced as the first web-series company to receive an award during the Prime Emmy. The company has transformed from being a small enterprise concerned with hiring out DVDs to providing a video-on-demand streaming service. The arrival of video streaming services into the Australian television market created the impact on the local market and subscription providers. Due to the dominance of Netflix, other platforms and online broadcasters have brought transformative development in Australian broadcasting industry, which provides the audience an exclusive way on how the content is created, consumed and circulated. However, this has posed a threat to local media content consumption, as foreign programs are taking over the broadcasting industry.
Netflix has also been cried foul for causing decrease in jobs in the market. The advent of the company has resulted to competitors leaving their DVDs retails shops, then joining the streaming service because of unfavorable competition, which reduced the video circulation center hence creating unemployment (Griff, 2004, pp. 22-33). Economically, it has reduced revenue of local Australian traditional broadcaster that was trying to cope up with the decline revenues due to increase in number of divided audience. Due to flexibility of the independent content creators and availability of funding to release the content, the digital platform was acting as TV network .This has caused media shareholders to raise serious concerns about increase in deregulation and privation in the sector that could have a negative effect on the Australian production industry. Advent of Netflix in Australian market has both negative and positive effects to the economy as whole.
Entrance of streaming could the end of local content
Many media commenters in Australian markets have foreseen that the introduction of streaming services will drive out the Australian produced screen stories. Although the arrival of Netflix has introduced diversification and competition into the market that is good to consumer, the local production of drama showing TV received it as potential bad news (Ellingsen, seismic shift, 2014, p. 110). The Netflix has made aggressive distribution strategies, which are to go beyond international and give its audience access to various numbers of comedies and local children series (Zwolenski & Weatherill, 2014). They also highlighted that local content will be included in their online catalogue hence positioning itself distinctly in the Australian market. The Netflix has used the local actress such as Rebel Wilson to pre-launch their advertisement campaign which has been seen as upholding local content for local audience.
Online streaming has changed the way the local content is consumed by supporting the distribution of original content while turning off distribution of existing local contents. Although streaming services provides new pair of distribution opportunities, Australian content is more likely to disappear with availability of foreign content which is preferred by nationalistic audience. The streaming service is also likely to cause more Australians to consume a little of local content rather than more of foreign content. This is the reason why torrents and streaming are as common among people as they don’t want to view the news show that other countries already have. Because of the above case, the internet is paving the way for future television. Netflix is gaining a huge popularity as people are eagerly waiting for the next season of its content.
Effects of Netflix.
Netflix has a positive impact on the environment as it has reduced energy required to ship products over longer distances and avoid carbon footprint in the local market. Although this is true, the usage of streaming services also consumes a lot of energy, the study indicates that energy used while browsing Netflix products for 30minutes will be more than the energy used in delivering the DVDs. Profit making being the driving factor of the company, energy conservation is not among the Netflix priorities.
The technological shift caused by Netflix has hugely impacted local television content production decisions and distribution strategies. Critics argue that consumption of Netflix and OTT in Australia market has caused interference in social life of Australians. Streaming service is having the negative impact as it lacks ratings and its contents being unregulated compared to the local productions which are regulated. Consumption of Netflix has reduced the bond people used to enjoy during consuming of local TV entertainment, as families had specific times where they gather together and sit down in front of TV and watch programs (Matrix, 2014., p. 119). However, the streaming service provides an unlimited time to watch the show as well as offers no advertisements; another appealing offer for consumers.
The Netflix has caused shake up in the local market, causing the local competitors’ to experience shortfalls in revenues due to large loss of their market shares. Netflix also continued to penetrate easily in the market as it had many opportunities such as join the industry of classic television binge viewers that typically belonged to the Pay TV providers. They have also made it easy for viewers to watch any program they love on different types of devices. Rival services Stan, Quickfix and Presto were all fighting in the same industry, but they lacked competitive advantage and maturity in the market. They also lacked originality of contents and proper existing content deals. Although they provided their products to consumers at low prices, consumers still consumed Netflix services as substitutes and later on finding themselves dumping local companies over Netflix. Estimation indicates that 340,000 Australian subscriber’s use the American service which indicates a reduction of revenues of local companies’ therefore increasing unemployment which has negatively impact on the economy. (Mullins, 2015., p. 36)
Sustainability of Australian screen
The Australian local entertainment can improve and protect its local content consumption by changing the way they structure their original programs, schedule and cast. The local TV entertainment has to come up with innovative methods for online streaming service to distribute their content that resembles the one of their competitor Netflix. In the past, television industry was forced to depend on unreliable and inaccurate feedback from consumers to measure how well their programs were doing. Netflix having operated for a long period in industry it has access to big data therefore, it can easily record the number of consumer of content and receive correct and reliable feedback. Netflix also uses algorithms to insight into audience behavior using ‘factor-based approach’ to pursuing its content. The approach enables it to know how many subscribers watch a particular program and it can predict how many are going to watch the following program. The technology capacity has made the Netflix to know its consumers better. With the development of this technology over a period the local Australian broadcasting can tap into it to recognize true practices and preference of local content consumers. The technology could be of importance as it helps the local companies to manufacture content that serves both commercial functions and a national purpose.
Although there is fear that Netflix will cause downfall of local content in the Austrian market, the research conducted by US-based analysts firm HIS suggested that viability of the domestic streaming will remain relevant as it revealed that Netflix will pose little threat to the rivals such as Foxtel, Stan and Quickflix. The researchers identified the impact Netflix had when it was launched in Europe and they founded out that the effects on local entrainment industry was not adverse. Therefore they proved that while impact will have some damage on Australian local entrainment, this will be limited to the TV show downloads and personal sale movies. They claimed that the effect of Netflix introduction in the Australian market would not pose an overly negative impact to the existing streaming video on-demand service as increase in revenue of competitors being the evidence. They also revealed sales of DVD disc and Blu –ray that has been under stiff competition from online piracy and structural alteration in the entrainment market will be less affected.
Continuous awareness of the streaming service has created hope for local existence as they are viewing for possible partnerships with foreign content producers. Although it seemingly a long process, the cowering local market are hopeful of this development. To increase supply to already overcrowd local market the analysts suggest that the Australian local producers of streaming service should partner with the Netflix to meet the customers demand while sustaining the local industry. This arrangement will provide new opportunities for local entertainment production community. Therefore, this will improve the income for the local companies as they can compete squarely as they make profits. It will also reduce the rate of unemployment as those staff thought of losing their jobs because of the collapse of local broadcast industry will be protected. The social fabric will also be maintained as local content will be integrated with the foreign one to give the viewer’s diversity of its kind while enjoying watching with the TV with their families.
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Main — Political — 17 September 2018, 19:58
Three men in a boat and Akhmetov overboard
On 13 September, For Life party leader Vadym Rabinovych made a statement on his Facebook page in which he called on all actors from the notional "opposition field" to pull ranks for the "rescue of Ukraine". His call was addressed to the Opposition Bloc, above all. A short hour (!) later, one of the leaders of the Opposition Bloc, Serhiy Lyovochkin, replied on Twitter. Something like "it's all good, why not, let's do it". That was fast, right?
Naturally, this public show was played for the sole purpose of legitimising a decision which has already been taken. It was blessed by the presidential administration and Vladimir Putin, or at least that is what those involved in the process say. This decision suggests the following breakdown: presidency for Petro Poroshenko, premiership for Yuriy Boyko, a broad coalition in the next parliament, speaker's post for Viktor Medvedchuk (I am not kidding) and – here comes the most dangerous part – "peace in Donbas" on the Kremlin's terms.
The plan has been designed in detail and is ready to be implemented. The only problem is that Rinat Akhmetov's wing of the Opposition Bloc is absolutely opposed to it.
LB.ua has been digging deep.
Sonya Koshkina, LB.ua editor in chief
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Vadym Rabinovych at the conference of the Odesa regional office of the Opposition Bloc, 26 March 2018
Here comes the crack: Medvedchuk as a "third partner"
"We are being given the third partner. His last name is Medvedchuk," Yuriy Boyko solemnly told fellow party members in January 2017 upon return from yet another visit to Moscow. He has been going there as often as if he works there.
As we know, in 2014 the Opposition Bloc was created in a hurry on the debris of the Party of Regions and anything that was left of it as a concoction aimed at entering parliament (similarly to People's Front in the notional "liberal field"). The Opposition Bloc, which scored a decent 9.43%, had two main shareholders – Rinat Akhmetov's and Dmytro Firtash's groups – which shared everything 50-50. The faction was formally co-chaired by Oleksandr Vilkul and Yuriy Boyko. The former represents Akhmetov's wing, the latter stands for Firtash's people. Vadym Novinskyy is authorised to hold negotiations with other parties on behalf of Akhmetov's group. Serhiy Lyovochkin is the wingman of Yuriy Boyko and has long been friends with President Poroshenko.
Suddenly, in winter 2017, it turned out that they would have to share their political assets with a third partner being incessantly planted on them by Moscow which treats all Ukrainians politicians, even the most ardent adepts of the "Russian world", as "sly khokhols [derogatory for Ukrainians], who would sooner or later betray you. The only exception to this rule is Viktor Medvedchuk.
While Firtash's peoples were ready to form an alliance with Medvedchuk "out of the love of art", this was not the case with Akhmetov's group. Why would they anyway?
That is when the idea of a "civilised divorce" was born. The Opposition Bloc was ready to split, they even came up with the names for two new factions and their leaders. However, it turned out that in case of a split, MP mandates of all Opposition Bloc members would be annulled
Photo: Max Trebukhov
by law. Every one of them.
So they cannot be together but cannot be apart either. So the tempers had to be contained with a view to continued living under one roof (the only loss is Yevhen Murayev, who was expelled, that is why he kept the mandate).
In autumn 2017, Nestor Shufrych joined Vadym Rabinovych's party (Murayev was among the leaders back then), which was quickly gaining popularity because of active TV presence. This does not mean the scored points would still work for elections (this is important, let's get back to this later – ed.note).
In 2018, Shufrych's senior partner Viktor Medvedchuk also found his way to For Life. By that time, Yevhen Murayev was still involved in the party de jure but not de facto because after his quarrel with Rabinovych he could not understand his role or share in the process.
By the way, about the share.
If we are to believe bad mouths, the 50% package of party shares cost one of the prominent new members a "tenner". The second half of shares is allegedly controlled by Vitaliy Khomutynnyk and Pavlo Fuks.
"Coercion of Akhmetov to peace"
At the start of last week, we recorded a big interview with Mr Shufrych for LB.ua. Among other things, he shed some light on the negotiations between the Opposition Bloc and For Life. In his words, the most active representatives of the latter were Rabinovych and Viktor Medvedchuk. As we know, Novinskyy is in charge of interparty contacts. And there is no love lost between Medvedchuk and "old Donetsk" figures.
Photo: gazeta.ru
Viktor Medvedchuk
And then came Wednesday [13 September] with the "unification" calls by Rabinovych and Lyovochkin who just recently had been engaged in an open mudslinging war.
They were relying on agreements reached by Medvedchuk and Lyovochkin, which were allegedly confirmed by Yuriy Boyko during his last meeting with Putin (which have been happening increasingly more often than in the case of Romeo and Juliet). The essence of their agreements is as follows: the union of Boyko-Lyovochkin and Rabinovych-Medvedchuk ensures the unification of the notional "white-and-blue", consolidation of their voters and as a result, Boyko's participation in the runoff. There he will face off "the main fighter against pro-Russian revanche", Petro Poroshenko. Later, by the time of a parliamentary election, they will form a broad coalition together, Boyko will become prime minister, Medvedchuk will be elected speaker and together they will rule the country.
The country, for its part, will get peace in Donbas, which may quite possibly be the main message to voters of both the "white-and-blue" and Poroshenko. However, in fact, it would be on Putin's terms, who from the day one of the aggression had been planning to return the occupied areas to Ukraine on conditions of a broad autonomy, and thus foiling any attempts of Ukraine at Western integration.
Let me repeat myself that the plan was approved directly by Putin. I should say that after talking to a number of Boyko's close allied, I got an impression that he sincerely believes he is a "pig in clover" because Putin seems to be talking to him as an equal, what is more, he is making serious agreements with him.
It seems Yanukovych's sad experience has taught him nothing.
An objective consideration reveals at least two drawbacks in Boyko's "plan".
Photo: Max Levin
Yuriy Boyko
Poroshenko's position is the first one. Certainly, he would prefer Boyko over Tymoshenko as the opponent in the runoff. Therefore, having read Rabinovych's Facebook post and Lyovochkin's tweets, the presidential administration was uncorking all the sparkling wine in stock. However, the would-be "white-and-blue" coalition would be very naïve to think that they would get anything after Petro's victory if they agree to play a "two-sided" game in the presidential election.
The next important moment is that Akhmetov's people are flatly against the merge between a part of the Opposition Bloc and For Life. The group's shareholders and political frontmen learnt about the developments… from the media. However, only recently Firtash's people assured the presidential administration that Akhmetov's group reportedly supported the merge. As one of the leaders of that group arrogantly told me on Thursday evening: "What would they do?"
Certainly, this demarche by the partners in the Opposition Bloc deeply irritated the leader of this wing and his closest allies.
"Serhiy Lyovochkin made this statement on his own behalf, as an MP and deputy head of a faction co-chairman (Boyko's – ed.note), " MP Vadym Novinskyy said in an exclusive commentary to LB.ua.
Also, a "final decision must be taken by the congress".
The essence of his message is hidden between the lines: they performed this tumble without running it past Akhmetov's group.
Mildly put, this is against the rules and unwritten principles.
Vadym Novinskyy
"The Lyovochkin-Rabinovych plan is understandable. It is called "coercion to peace"," one of the top members of Akhmetov's group says. "Their task is, by escalating the situation in elites and mass media, to create conditions under which we would not object to the nomination of Boyko as a single presidential candidate from our camp. Lyovochkin and Bankova [presidential administration] think for some reason that he stands a chance of making it to the runoff with Petro Poroshenko. Where Poroshenko would certainly defeat him. However, Firtash's group will collect its dividends in the parliamentary election. Not to mention Viktor Medvedchuk's longing to take the parliament speaker's seat. But this is not going to happen, no-one broke us over the knee!" the source said.
"The final decision (on the merge – from the presidential candidate to the list for the parliamentary election – ed.note) must be taken by the congress," Novinskyy said tactfully. He perfectly knows that Akhmetov's group controls not only the majority of the faction but also most of the party's regional offices and, therefore, the congress.
"Rinat will never accept this merge. Never. Literally: his soul will not accept it," his allies in the Opposition Bloc said.
They say that one could hardly persuade Akhmetov to support candidate Yuriy Boyko when he has own comprehensible candidate, Oleksandr Vilkul, who in fact has launched his presidential campaign.
Oleksandr Vilkul
"We have indeed been thinking about a single candidate, but certainly not about Boyko," one of the founding fathers of the Opposition Bloc said. "As for the parliamentary election, everyone runs on their own. They can unite after they get to parliament."
The second reason here is that Boyko and Rabinovych share 12% of the presidential rating together. Sociologists are well aware that ratings of politicians joining forces do not sum up, the resulting score is lower. According to Akhmetov's people, "white-and-blue" voters amount to 35-40%. "Boyko will get 10% at best, the southeast does not and will not accept him. Can you imagine how they will greet him at plants and mines?" they add.
The third reason is that any cooperation of the conditional "white-and-blue", which has just been established, will shatter after the presidential election without any chance of getting a dream result in the presidential one, in which Akhmetov will have an interest in several political niches in addition to his own "ex-Regions" project.
Having analysed all pros and cons in a hurry, Akhmetov's people decided to give their answer at the congress, relying on support from regional offices. So, quite soon, we will be able to witness a final split between Akhmetov and Firtash and the start of new "white-and-blue" projects instead of the announced mega-alliance of the "revanchists".
Темы: Petro Poroshenko, Dmytro Firtash, Rinat Akhmetov, Opposition Bloc, Yuriy Boyko
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Vietnamese stock market still booming amid pandemic: SSC Chairman
The Vietnamese stock market has flourished amid global uncertainties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, said Tran Van Dung, Chairman of the State Securities Commission (SSC).
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Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The Vietnamese stock market has flourished amid global uncertainties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, said Tran Van Dung, Chairman of the State Securities Commission (SSC).
“The stock market so far this year has developed significantly with the VN-Index rising by 27 percent since July and 9 percent since the beginning of this year,” he said.
Market liquidity has soared to more than 10 trillion VND per session in recent sessions. The VN-Index has regained the milestone of 1,000 points even though there was time VN-Index fell to 650 points as a result of COVID-19, he added.
He attributed the development to many factors such as the Government's policies, the potential of economic development in Vietnam and the resilience of Vietnamese enterprises amid the pandemic.
Dung said: "Although Vietnam has to confront two waves of COVID-19, the impact of the disease itself so far is negligible. We are more influenced by the disruption of the global supply chain and the common difficulties met by the global economy.
“This showed the government's reasonable policies to ensure the safety of the people while still considering facilitating economic development. Although the tourism sector saw a decline in foreign visitors but domestic tourists were still crowded. We see a huge increase in Vietnam's exports and we report a large trade surplus. We still keep a relatively stable exchange rate and inflation rate.”
“Vietnamese enterprises are quite resilient amid pandemic as statistics showed that 84 percent of listed and trading enterprises were profitable as of the end of the third quarter. However, we believe that micro and small businesses were still seriously affected in recent times.
Dung was speaking at the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF) held early this week to announce results of the 33rd Chairs’ Meeting via videoconference.
It was the final event among the activities within the scope of the ACMF in 2020 held under the chair and coordination of Vietnam’s State Securities Commission (SSC).
In its latest announcement, FTSE Russell said Vietnam still remained on the equity index watchlist for possible upgrade to “secondary emerging market” from “frontier market,” which was a positive result, Dung said.
He said: “The Securities Law and the Law on Enterprises and Investment will both take effect in early 2021, creating a better and transparent investment environment, which is a plus for the economy and the stock market.
"In 2020, thanks to the upgrading of Kuwait, Vietnam’s weight in MSCI Frontier Markets Index and MSCI Frontier Markets 100 Index has been raised to 25.8 percent and 30 percent, attracting a lot of attention from international investors. I think we can say confidently that we can meet the target of upgrading Vietnam market before 2025 set by the Government.
“State Securities Commission has worked actively with the World Bank, to timely update information with FTSE Russel and MSCI on laws and market situation in Vietnam, besides learning more about the practice of other upgraded markets.”
At the meeting, leaders of capital market management authorities in ASEAN countries spoke highly of Vietnam’s efforts in promoting the implementation of targets in capital market integration in the region, deepening regional linkage with the international community for sustainable development, and improving adaptation and institutional capacity of ASEAN.
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Pico Interactive Announces Neo 2 Virtual Reality Headset to Expand Enterprise Offerings
The All-in-One solution incorporates new eye-tracking technology from Tobii and takes advantage of Boundless XR from Qualcomm Technologies to improve performance for businesses around the world
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pico Interactive, a global tech company that develops innovative virtual reality (VR) and enterprise solutions, today announced its latest VR headset, the Neo 2 – an all-in-one (AIO) device with 6 degrees of freedom (DoF) head and controller tracking that delivers key VR solutions to businesses. Pico’s Neo 2 line includes two headsets: the Neo 2 and the Neo 2 Eye.
Both models feature cutting-edge technology that incorporates the Qualcomm® Snapdragon 845™ Mobile Platform. To further expand on Neo 2’s capabilities, Firefox Reality and Hubs by Mozilla will be incorporated in both headsets in late Q1. Firefox Reality is an open, accessible and secure browser built specifically with VR in mind to create the best possible web browsing experience. Hubs by Mozilla allows users to collaborate online around virtual objects, spaces, and tasks – all without leaving the headset.
In partnership with Tobii – the world leader in eye-tracking – the Neo 2 Eye model improves daily enterprise operations and applications. The Pico Neo 2 also supports wireless streaming for PC, which allows the Neo 2 to wirelessly connect to a nearby PC. Additional specifications of both (Neo 2 and Eye) headsets include the following:
Display: 4K resolution, 101 FOV, 75 Refresh
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Weight: Less than 340g without headband, Counterweighted Battery for Maximum Comfort
“Pico is building exceptional standalone VR headsets with the enterprise in mind and we are proud to incorporate our eye-tracking technology into the Neo 2 Eye,” said Henrik Eskilsson, CEO, Tobii Group. “Eye-tracking is rapidly becoming foundational in VR as it enhances device capabilities, enables better user experiences, and produces actionable insight.”
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By combining the latest VR technology with a simple and easy-to-use design, businesses can deploy various applications through Pico’s Neo 2 headset with much lower management overhead and increase employee (user) engagement. The Pico Enterprise Management Program provides an added layer of custom support and technical resources designed for businesses, including AAA Support for direct connection with the development team, and flexible logistics and device customization (loading screen, firmware, etc.) options.
“Few non-tethered headsets offer this level of visual quality, design and support, and we’re excited to offer a new VR headset built for businesses,” said Henry Zhou, CEO of Pico Interactive. “We’re focused on ‘user first’ in all sense of the term and are constantly looking for ways to improve our product offering. With the launch of the Neo 2, we are giving businesses around the world the opportunity to elevate the way in which operate – from training to providing unique experiences through VR. For example, we have partnered with companies that are reducing pain in hospital settings to companies that focus on in-flight entertainment.”
Neo 2 headsets will begin shipping in Q1, 2020. For more information on Neo 2 and Pico Interactive, please visit www.pico-interactive.com.
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Pico Interactive focuses on innovative VR and AR solutions which enable businesses to create and experience the best in VR and Interactive Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI). With operations in the United States, Europe, China and Japan, Pico Interactive focuses on creating amazing VR platforms for any application and is built around the principle of “user first design.” To date, over 200 thousand Pico VR headsets have been sold worldwide across a variety of industries, including healthcare, education, marketing and training services. To learn more, visit www.pico-interactive.com.
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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (November 15th 2019)
By Julius, June 9, 2018 in Other Consoles
Yeah, okay, I get that it's May 4th, but relative to the game's release, this update feels a little on the late side to me? Even if it does look cool (albeit a little bare).
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Start of New Franchise, EA Confirms
EA CEO Andrew Wilson confirmed that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will be the start of a new franchise, suggesting more games, including a Jedi: Fallen Order 2, are being planned. During an earnings call, EA CEO Andrew Wilson said that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is the “first title in an entirely new franchise.” This is the first official confirmation that Jedi: Fallen Order isn't a one-off adventure.
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Seemed to sneak under the radar a bit with the Indiana Jones news today, but the next-gen update for the game is up.
Also, went back and read some of the thoughts I and others left when this first released, and having played Demon's Souls recently, I find it hilarious just how many of my issues with this game were clearly influenced by From's games.
I hadn't played any at the time, but seriously: the lack of fast travel points to try to teach you the level layout? Falls flat because the levels are super bland by comparison (and lacks the awesome shortcuts). The enemies with their backs to you like @Hero-of-Time mentioned in one of his posts way back? Means absolutely nothing and comes across as buggy because of how harmless these enemy types are.
Sounds like I'm ragging on the game (still love those last few hours where it gets more linear and focused, best part for me by far), but yeah, now I've played a Souls game this is absolutely a Souls-lite like so many more familiar with those games were saying at launch, and it just falls flat looking back trying too hard to be like those games rather than being its own thing. No-one is playing a Respawn-developed Star Wars game for anything but a good time, so the lack of fast travel just hurts the game because that's not what anyone was hoping for. Really hope they can get that right next time around!
Edited January 13 by Julius
I hated Demons Souls and Bloodborne but had no issues with Fallen Order. This felt so much more like it was influenced by Metroid Prime.
I was always exploring every nook and cranny so the lack of fast travel never really bothered me.
Its a shame that the PS5 upgrade isn't on par with that of the Series X but a free update, providing a solid frame rate and even a small bump in resolution, is nice enough.
Probably going to pick it up for playing on PS5 as its in the January sale on the PS store at the moment and although I've already played it through at release on the Xbox One, I've got a hankering for playing again.
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Episode 47: Jennifer Pharr Davis - from Overall FKT on the AT, to a balanced full life
Podcast: Episode 47: Jennifer Pharr Davis - from Overall FKT on the AT, to a balanced full life
Jennifer famously set the Overall record on the Appalachian Trail earning her National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, but is also the author of 7 books, a public speaker, runs a guide service, and is happily married with two children.
So how did she go 11 DAYS faster than her previous effort?
"I resolved to not set a limit on what I could do - no matter what happened, I would leave the Trail with that question answered."
"I was on the Trail I loved, with the person I loved, doing what I loved."
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Spurs man's former club says they were desperate to sell him
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg joined Tottenham Hotspur in the summer transfer window.
Spurs made a number of moves to strengthen Jose Mourinho’s squad, and Hojbjerg was a central figure in their business.
In addition to the Denmark international, they also brought in Sergio Reguilon from Real Madrid, Matt Doherty from Wolves, Joe Rodon from Swansea City, and Joe Hart from Burnley.
Carlos Vinicius and Gareth Bale have also arrived on loan from Benfica and Real respectively.
Hojbjerg has been excellent, too, playing in all eight of their Premier League games, even providing an assist in the 6-1 win over Manchester United.
However, his old manager, Ralph Hasenhuttl, has now confirmed that Saints were keen to sell their former captain in the summer.
He was entering the final year of his contract and Saints did manage to extricate Kyle Walker-Peters from Spurs in exchange.
Speaking to Kicker, in an interview transcribed by Hampshire Live, he said: “We wanted to sell him because he only had one year of contract and didn’t want to renew.
"In return, we got Kyle Walker-Peters, an English youth national player from Tottenham."
Hojbjerg made 30 starts for Saints in the Premier League last season but was stripped of the captaincy towards the end of his spell and was left out of the squad for games against Watford, Manchester City, and Sheffield United.
Spurs paid £15m for Hojbjerg.
This was a bit of a win-win.
Hojbjerg has been excellent since his move to Spurs, becoming a genuinely integral member of Mourinho’s squad.
Walker-Peters, at Saints, has been equally important; he has played in every game in the Premier League thus far too.
Southampton paid £12m for him, meaning that Spurs have effectively spent just £3m on a player who has slotted into their squad seamlessly.
For both sides, this has been an excellent deal.
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CohnReznick Sponsors a Dive Inside the Business of Baseball
Photo Credit: Peter G. Aiken/USA TODAY Sports
By Pat Evans
Accounting firm CohnReznick is taking an authentic approach to its MLB sponsorship. Through a video series called Business of Baseball and Front Office Focus, CohnReznick lends its name to an inside look at professional baseball. The series is produced by MLB Network, where it airs, along with, MLB.com and CohnReznick’s website.
MLB confirmed CohnReznick as a sponsor of the video series to FOS. The two parties collaborate on ideas, but MLB declined to speak on the sponsorship further.
“Our team really wanted something that was authentic, not just a way to slap our name onto something, but to own something,” says Frank Longobardi, CEO, CohnReznick. “We are able to align some of our core values with what’s being talked about in Business of Baseball and Front Office Focus. That makes us feel good, as we felt we could drive content and value with our strengths.”
While service-oriented companies have sponsored sports for decades, it’s becoming more common for non-consumer brands to find ways to cut through the clutter,” says Joe Favorito, a sports marketing and communications consultant.
“These companies are tying to something that resonates,” Favorito says. “Consumers have millions of choices. If it comes down to personal choice, they remember the company for who their spokesperson is or the story being told.”
The Business of Baseball series launched during December’s Baseball Winter Meetings, where CohnReznick was the presenting sponsor of the meetings for MLB Network. Over the course of the video sponsorship, there will be approximately six Business of Baseball videos and up to 35 Front Office Focus clips through the season.
“They’re topics, like hospitality and security, that are the same types of things we deal with our clients,” Longobardi says. “We wanted to show similarities of how Major League teams go through some of the same things our clients go through.”
Each of the videos feature commentators and baseball executives. Front Office Focus highlights discussions with executives from the league’s 30 teams about issues ranging from team strategies to club operations, while Business of Baseball looks into how franchises transform the game through analytics and management, but also how they redefine the fan experience.
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A recent episode, “The Business of Food,” featured a look at how food experiences now play into a fan’s trip to a ballpark., like a sit-down interview with Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer by CohnReznick Managing Partner Cindy McLoughlin talking about how the game day experience has evolved to include a culinary aspect. The restaurant industry is evolving inside and outside the ballpark.
“When you look at stadiums and games, it’s not just about baseball anymore,” McLoughlin says. “Fans expect an overall experience. People get to stadiums to stand in line, they need to get their Shack Burger.
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“That led us to Danny Meyer to really peel back why it’s a benefit to him and how those synergies line up.”
The video topics originated in a brainstorming session featuring CohnReznick’s team and MLB. The topics center around issues with innovation and analytics to elevate customer experience and retain loyalty. From these conversations, MLB could consider matching a team with a relevant topic.
“It puts us front and center with a really good brand,” Longobardi says of the partnership. “In any business, you want to align yourself with good organizations, and this relationship does that well and connects the right type of people we’re trying to attract, the C-Suite individuals to middle market to small public companies.”
The sponsorship has allowed CohnReznick to provide clients, potential clients and employees with strong relationship building opportunities at games and events.
“It really has allowed us to spend some time with key clients and be able to spend quality time with our employees and enjoy ourselves,” Longobardi says. “We can more closely align MLB brand with our clients and our staff, and that makes it a unique experience.”
By tying in with behind the scenes content, CohnReznick hopes to resonate with clients beyond just a name on the screen.
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While there is a formula that is used to determine child support, no such formula exists when determining Oklahoma alimony. A judge will consider several fact-based factors when determining how much alimony to award. A non-exclusive list of some of the components a judge will take into consideration include:
Demonstrated need during the post-matrimonial economic readjustment period
The parties’ station in life
The length of the marriage
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Tag: uk art
Axe Head Collective Joins GS Artists
AXE HEAD COLLECTIVE @ GS ARTISTS 10 19 Photo by Mitja Zupanc
GS Artists is pleased to welcome as interns the Axe Head Collective, four postgraduate Swansea College artists.
Axe Head to Everything at GS Artists, October 2019
Photograph by Dylan Fyodor Monk
Axe Head Collective was founded in 2017 by four UWTSD Swansea College of Art Fine Art undergraduates, Alina Skorohoda, Demian Johnston, Jeremy Gluck, and Melissa Rodrigues, who, having become friends and discovered an ease in communication and collaboration, determined to curate a self-directed group show at Volcano Theatre.
Named after a quip from Alina, to considerable aplomb the first Axe Head to Everything show took place in March 2018 at Volcano, featuring nine UWTSD undergrad fine artists. The following November the four curated a show of their work exclusively for Creative Bubble, Studio 95 – Promote Harder. And in March 2019, the second Axe Head to Everything show, subtitled Cut & Run, took place at Volcano.
With work spanning painting, installation, video, sound art, and digital art, the Collective aspires to collaborate with and celebrate Swansea’s thriving art community, curating further shows and soon seeking funding to this end.
Interning at GS Artists is a fantastic step forward for the Collective, and for GS Artists will bring to the table diverse skills including exhibition curation and planning, public relations and social media expertise, energetic engagement with the UWTSD and wider local artist community.
Axe Head Collective looks forward to learning requisite skills and following in the footsteps of UWTSD postgraduates now co-directing the gallery and, of course, benefiting from working closely with Jane Simpson, whose experience and initiative inspires and motivates them to grow under the GS umbrella into a Collective with a future in the local and larger art community.
An Axe Head exhibition at GS Artists is opened October 18th, 2019, running until October 31st.
Axe Head Collective Artist Statements and Instagram
Alina Skorohoda @skorohodalinaart
Alina’s artwork explores the notion of woman’s duty to the world. She responds to the feelings of obligation that haunt women everywhere. Alina uses domestic objects in her work. Through altering these objects, she questions attitudes, fears and unwritten rules which have formed a hostile environment for women and their behaviour within it.
Demian Johnston @demonstuff
Demian’s practice looks to develop internal mindscapes involving multiple symbols and thoughts to bridge the physical process and mental or spiritual state, and individual and collective consciousness. Building on a growing body of work featuring dynamic installations with energy concentrated by their confinement, his work is rarely figurative, encompassing dimensions of unpredictability and naturalness.
Jeremy Gluck @nonceptualism
Working as a fine artist in digital art, film, installation and mixed media, Jeremy Gluck’s uncompromising works confront the viewer, encouraging a physical, sensitive, or conceptual experience of each. Radical artistic engagement is the mission statement.
Rejoicing in subverting the artist’s self-concept and corrupting the canon in ways playful and perverse, undermining previous hierarchies and perceptions of what is ‘art’ and is not, Gluck’s work reflects the powerful dichotomy, which exists between the narcissism of the digital age and the need for a stark, political commentary on the post-millennial landscape.
Through the utilisation of a raw typography and a monochromatic palette, Gluck invites the audience to consume less and engage more, therefore negating the idea of art having a literal presence.
Melissa Rodrigues @missbalencantefineart
Rodrigues’ work uses a variety of materials to explore issues of displacement, belonging, and cultural identity. Addressing issues concerning the movement of people across the world, immigration, sense of belonging, cultural identity and the rhetoric of otherness are the bases from which Rodrigues’ work blossoms. Rodrigues’ work has developed with the notion of cultural identity and aims to explore the influential factors in the construction of a cultural being. Lately Rodrigues’ work has a new element added to it, recognising textile as a piece that plays an important role in collectiveness and collective identity, Rodrigues has been exploring and researching the routes of these pieces of cloth throughout history, their importance in our understanding of self as members of social groups, and the misconceptions about them. For this piece, Rodrigues proposes a destruction of labels, symbols, preconceptions and expectations we place in and on “others”, based in our understanding of “them”, instead seeking similarities.
Axe Head to Everything II: Photography by Mitja Zupanc
Posted on May 30, 2019 November 16, 2019 Categories Galerie BLOGTags art, collaboration, collective work, students, uk art, UWTSDLeave a comment on Axe Head Collective Joins GS Artists
Sarah Poland Artist At Work
Treasure in Stillness
Sarah Poland has been GS Artist‘s latest resident, using the space to create new works. Supported by the Galerie Simpson Artists team and very generously by a Research and Development grant from Arts Council Wales. On Sunday May 26th, at 2pm she will be quizzed by Artist Alex Duncan about her activities.
She says of the time, `This opportunity has enabled intense work and playful development through use of the gallery space. Having the extensive space to lay out works and view them all together has helped create surprising relationships and unexpected collaborations. Endlessly moving work around the room, I create situations where I observe the changes in surface, the magic of the oak gall and its ability to change on differing supports. There is a fascinating ‘coming and going’ of the colour and in different moments, colours flicker and come to the surface or recede within the overall structure.
Making larger work I can engage physically and spatially, hoping to build relationships between the materials and the abstract, between nature and transformation, The presence of landscape and being in it is the source. The project title Treasure In Stillness relates to the wisdom found when one is still and also to the duality of combining an art practice with the challenges of motherhood”
Posted on May 29, 2019 May 30, 2019 Categories UncategorizedTags abstractart, art, art gallery, Featured, gall ink, installation art, outsider art, sarah poland, swansea, uk artLeave a comment on Sarah Poland Artist At Work
Tim Davies Show
Tim Davies -Artist at Work.
GS Artists are delighted to be hosting the latest in our series of ‘Artist At Work’ residencies. Tim Davies is occupying 217 High Street and creating a new series of works. The residency recognizes the difficulty for professional artists to create new experimental works and so offers the surroundings of the gallery, 24/7 access and the support of the GS team, over a period of 6~8 weeks.
Tim is working on a series entitled ‘Survival is not a crime’ He’s says about the plans for the space – “A few years ago I made a work called “Figures” (One year to heaven) which was a written description of all the photographs used in a broad sheet paper for a whole year. This was done daily from August the 17th of one year to August the 17th of the next and from front page to back (missing out retrospective moments as found in obituaries etc).
I saw this as an alternative portrait of that time – as reliable or unreliable as any other means. I accepted that it was my reading of the images and that it would vary from person to person – as many times as the image was read (accepting also that the image was ‘taken’ and then selected by another) – but it was a way to witness humans (figures) in various circumstances and their responses to them from global to local and from the banal to the traumatic. This I understood as not just an observation of others but a reflection of ourselves(members of the human race) through a means of empathy or at least an invitation to empathize if at all possible and at whatever level.
By removing the image and describing the scene in words the emphasis was less on the pictorial and more on the figurative, although of course site provides context and so would be noted when relevant. Occasionally too I would note the words they may have said to a journalist, been overheard or placed on a placard.
These words or quotes I have been looking at more closely for this project – working title ‘Survival is Not a Crime’. This time I have extended my search into online media. This is an especially disturbing time as the gap between the haves and the have-nots, truth and untruths has widened. I’m collecting the voices of dismay and disbelief”
The residency culminates with the Second Soup Talk on February the 17th…more details tbc…
Tim Davies, is one of Wales’s leading artists, he is primarily an installation artist whose work often derives from environmental or political concerns, working in a range of different materials, including film found imagery and sculpture. He was born and brought up in west Wales. After working and studying in London, Norwich and Canterbury he returned to Wales in 1994. He lives and works in Swansea.
Much of his work involves meticulous, repetitive and time-consuming actions. Pristine, orderly formalism is evident from early work through to more recent video installations, but the end result is often beguilingly simple, minimal and aesthetically beautiful. The labour-intensive process undertaken by Davies speaks loudly with a quiet voice.Winner of the Mostyn Open Prize in 1997 and the National Eisteddfod Fine Art Gold Medal in 2003, he has exhibited extensively including the UK, Ireland, Eastern Europe, Hong Kong, Australia and central America. including ; 2013 Drift National Museum Wales, Cardiff, 2012 In and Amongst Fold Gallery, London, 2011 Tim Davies – Wales at Venice 54th Venice Biennale, 2010 Year to Heaven Chapter, Cardiff, 2010 Seeriad/Series Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia, 2009 Between a rock and a hard place Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, 2009 Kilkenny Shift Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland.
Soup Talk-Tim Davies in conversation with Simon Periton
Posted on February 20, 2019 May 30, 2019 Categories Galerie BLOG, UncategorizedTags abstract art, art, artist, cymru, installation art, Old-feature, text art, uk art, walesLeave a comment on Tim Davies Show
Snipping the ribbon!
The opening of Simon Periton’s show ‘YOUR WAR, MY LOVE’ on the 28th of September and the official opening of GS Artists Swansea gallery at 217 High street with the Lord and Lady Mayoress of Swansea snipping the ribbon!
Photography by Mitja Zupanc
Posted on November 19, 2018 May 30, 2019 Categories Galerie BLOG, UncategorizedTags art, event, gallery, gallery opening, simon periton, uk art, walesLeave a comment on Snipping the ribbon!
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Assignment of the right to claim under spanish case law
by Gestion Gimenez Salinas | Jul 10, 2019 | Article GS, Debt recovery, Publicaciones | 0 comments
On 26 September 2002, the Supreme Court defined the assignment of receivables as the “replacement of the creditor with another person respect to the same credit, (and) implies a change of creditor, the new creditor having the same right as the previous one and the binding relationship remaining unchallenged”.
For understanding how this right operates, we must start from the unanimous case law of the Supreme Court (TS), which understands that the assignor and the assignee may freely agree an assignment of receivables (see STS 04/02/2016. Not surprisingly, article 1112 of the Civil Code sets forth that “all rights acquired under an obligation are transferable subject to the laws, if not otherwise agreed”.
Such precept provides for the assignment in its broadest sense, only regulating two exceptions to the free transfer of the credit: (i) the law may provide for otherwise or (ii) unless otherwise agreed (pactum non cedendo, concept that we will deal with below).
To these two exceptions, we must only add the prohibition to assign such receivables when the creditor may determine the characteristics of the provision, since they are personal and non-transferable rights. In this regard, we transcribe below the old Judgment of the Supreme Court, dated 8 October 1968: “For any rights acquired under an obligation to be transferable pursuant to that set forth in this article, not only must such rights belong to its holder on a private basis, but also the subjective modification implied by this legal figure must not be forbidden by any legal precept, or be opposed to the nature itself of the right questioned, which is the case, for example, of those rights arisen from legal custody, filiation, right to a name and, in general terms, those of a merely personal nature”.
Developing the aforementioned article 1112 CC and within the Sale and Purchase Chapter, the Civil Code regulates the assignment of receivables in articles 1526 et seq. Such placement within the legal text has led the case law to clarify that it is not a sale in itself, but the assignment may find its cause in the sale and in any other legal businesses (Judgment of the Supreme Court of 1 June 2011).
As regards the determination of the price of such legal business, the TS in its Judgment of 30 April 2007 already established that the creditor assignee “may claim the entire assignor’s credit, regardless of that paid up (special sale and purchase), and the debtor is only obliged to pay that actually owed (breached)”.
Accordingly, the allegation of unfair enrichment was refused, “because there is no impoverishment since, whatever the creditor, the debtor entity pays what it must pay (that owed) and the possibility to claim the entire credit amount, and not what was paid for it, is grounded on the law, as indirectly inferred from the regulation of the so-called “buy-back of contentious receivables” (arts. 1535 and 1536 CC.).”
Assignment of the right to claim
The issue hereby analysed is how the case law provides for the assignment of the right to claim.
For example, what happens when a consumer assigns to a third party the right to claim towards a company, for the latter to assume the costs and risk of the out-of-court and court claim in return for a share in the result.
The example that comes to mind in this case is that of companies engaged in managing compensations internationally due to flight delays or cancellations. These companies may operate by assigning the rights to claim for expediting the procedures and bureaucracy, which are usually different in each country.
In the light of this assignment of receivables (or assignment of the right to claim), the defendant companies usually allege lack of active legal standing for understanding that the action corresponds to the affected consumer only. In this point, we must make a brief summary of the different positions adopted by the Courts in Spain:
2.1. Firstly, we find some judgments that have admitted the exception put forward by the defendant of lack of active legal standing, for understanding that the action personally corresponds to the affected consumer.
In general terms, such judgments defend that in such cases where there is a document authorising a third party to claim in the consumer’s name, there is not an actual assignment of receivables. Judgment 7 February 2018 issued by Commercial Court Nº 1 of Santander, (Cendoj: 39075470012018100003) explains this case as follows:
“The plaintiff appears as the credit assignee due to a delay of two passengers. From the attached documents nº 6 and nº 7 and the consultation of its web results that no payment has been made to the assignees and no credit has been actually assigned, but the management of its collection has been committed, and as a result of the litigation initiated, if admitted, the “assignor” shall be paid an amount, discounting the relevant commission.
The assignment of receivables is a disposal business seeking acquisition thereof by the assignee. It is a credit transfer carried out on an inter-vivos basis and which fulfils an economic function of movement of credits within legal transactions. It is not really an abstract business, but the, we could say, generic cause of the transfer of the credit right, shall always require a variable element, which is the specific purpose or function of the transfer on a case by case basis.
Pursuant to the foregoing and despite the systematic placement of art 1526 CC, even from the terms of precepts such as article 1528 CC, sale is not the only possible cause, but the multiple choices permitted (sale, donation, financing – discount-, discharge, warranty, trust, etc.) do not admit the “collection management” precisely because there is not a credit transfer.”
This position has been sporadically admitted by other Courts, such as Commercial Court Nº 7 of Madrid (Judgment of 10 May 2018) or Commercial Court nº 2 of Bilbao (Judgment of 17 December 2018).
The Judge of Santander expressly excludes the collection management as an admitted cause of the assignment, for understanding that such business is inconsistent and does not imply an effective transfer of the credit.
The question is if the fact that the assignee may assume the costs and risks of the claim as its own, holding the assignor harmless, cannot be considered as an effective transfer, because we could consider that the creditor assignee is really paying a price for the transfer of the right, consisting of the assumption and actual pay-out of the costs and risks of the claim.
Indeed, we could understand that having the creditor assignor fully delegated the management of its right of credit to the person who will assume the costs and risks thereof, the right has been actually transferred.
The foregoing would lead us to consider that, if the claim is successful, the person receiving a remuneration or reward – and not part of its credit – is the assignor and not the assignee, since the latter is realising its credit right.
On the contrary, if the claim is unsuccessful, the assignee would be the only one to assume all losses, the assignor being released, to the extent it has transferred its right.
2.2. The position mostly supported by Courts is the one refusing the exception of lack of active legal standing, for understanding that the assignment of the right to claim is valid.
All these Judgments consider the assignment as a contractual title granting full legal standing of article 10 LEC to the creditor assignee that has acquired the credit.
We transcribe below Judgment of 27 March 2018 issued by Commercial Court nº 6 of Madrid (Cendoj: 28079470062018100003):
“We are therefore dealing with a transfer of the credit title in order to claim, finance and manage in and out of courts any possible compensation for flight incidences; a lawful business cause admitted in Law which grants the assignee to any third-party debtors of the assignor the title to claim as if the former was the one to claim.
This business cause must be recognised and remarked since the same enables the claim by the consumer/passenger against companies of different countries, subject to different regulations and different out-of-court and court remedies to be carried out in the language of each company, with important personal, temporal and material costs which are assumed by the assignee at its business risk [-of being rejected-] and in return for a percentage remuneration [-if admitted-]; which is made available to passengers by the different claim companies which, concurrently and globally, offer consumers such collection management services.
Judgment of 15 November 2018 issued by Commercial Court nº 1 of San Sebastián (Cendoj 20069470012018100330) also explains this matter very well, when considering that in these cases there is no exception limiting the possibility to transfer the credit:
“Therefore, there is no legal prohibition to assignment as we are not dealing with a non-transferable or absolute right in its nature, so that there is no objection to the assignment of receivables. In brief, the rule of exception to the transferability of receivables does not apply, i.e., (i) the specific nature of the credit in question, either because the creditor determines the characteristics of the provision or because, for example, it is an ancillary right to another principal one from which the former cannot be detached; (ii) the existence of a contractual prohibition (pactum de non cedendo); or (iii) a legal prohibition.
In fact, STJUE of 17 February 2016 confirms the thesis put forward in this ruling when allowing a third-party other than the passenger to claim against the flight company to compensate for the damages caused due to a delayed flight.
What is assigned is a credit right against a company, fruit of the existing commercial relationship and above all, fruit of the existence of a fact triggering compensation. The fact that the same is not quantified, does not prevent the identification of that transferred, which is the possibility to claim to the third party. This right held by the passenger is the right assigned and which is identified in the contract submitted in these proceedings”.
The Commercial Court nº 2 of Palma de Mallorca (Judgment of 12 December 2018), Commercial Court nº 3 of Mallorca (Judgment of 20 December 2018) or Commercial Court nº 13 of Madrid (Judgment of 20 February 2019) have also ruled uniformly.
Pactum de non cedendo: “prohibition to assign the rights to claim” clause.
Contracts entered into between a company and a consumer usually contains a general condition imposing the consumer the “prohibition to assign the economic rights arisen from the incidences generated by compensation rights in favour of consumers, as well as contractual breaches, capable of triggering a compensation”. That is, a clause whereby the consumer undertakes to exercise any possible actions personally and not to assign its credit to third parties.
Recently, Commercial Court nº 1 of Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, by means of Judgment of 22 April 2019, has declared the nullity of such clause for considering it unfair, contrary to good faith and causing unbalance between the parties.
The Judge considers that such clause “intends or seeks to prevent the exercise of the right to claim in a series of cases where, despite this case, where there is an objective responsibility, due to personal or other concurrent circumstances, the passenger or holder of such responsibility decides to assign such right. Therefore, since it is an unfair clause, the same is not applied in these proceedings”.
Consequently, this type of clause is recently being declared null, considered as excluded and does not prevent the consumer from assigning the right to claim in order not to discourage the initiation of actions before the Courts.
Assignment of receivables formalism
We must ask ourselves if the so-called assignment of receivables requires any formalism for being fully effective. Judgment of 20 December 2018 issued by Commercial Court nº 3 of Palma de Mallorca has stated that in these cases, since the contract is not assigned, but only the credit, such assignment does not require any public document or, logically and as established in our Civil Code, the debtor’s consent.
This is also confirmed by Judgment of 19 December 2018 of Commercial Court nº 1 of San Sebastián, which states that the assignment does not require any special formalism.
The assignment of a right to claim to a third party for the latter to manage such right on its own name and risk is actually an assignment of receivables ex art. 1112 CC and, as such, is perfectly valid, with the only limits mentioned above (law, agreement otherwise and absolute rights).
We must remind that the Civil Code expressly allows the assignment of “doubtful receivables” (Art. 1529), or “litigious receivables” (1535) with no more conditions other than those seen above.
Therefore, we understand that restrictive interpretations by courts to the assignment of this type of rights to claim are not only contrary to their regulation in the CC, but they may also unduly limit commercial transactions and unjustifiably hinder the right to effective judicial protection.
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I don't know. I just can't see Magneto's story being interesting enough to carry an entire movie. Is it going to be Schindler's List with a Mutant?
don't know. I just can't see Magneto's story being interesting enough to carry an entire movie. Is it going to be Schindler's List with a Mutant?
pretty much
The Wolverine movie is gonna suck. Call it trolling, but I have this awful fear that Wolvie can't carry a movie on his own. He works great against a team of "normal" mutants, but stick him alone....will it hold up? A loner can't be a good loner unless he has a group to seperate himself from. So I expect it to suck.
I'm sure it will bank because 13 year olds, and 30 year olds remembering their childhood, think Wolvie is still cool, but it will still suck.
Golgo 13 0
He's not carrying this on his own though. His character will have many others to play off of.
I can only assume you haven't seen the first two X-Men movies and Hugh Jackman rockin' the shit in them.
Otherwise I have no clue why you'd make such a comment.
Yeah, I have no clue what your talking about. Wolverine is a very interesting character that can carry a movie on his own. I was thrilled when I heard about this movie being made.
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I recently finished a lenghty read of Avengers on CD Rom and for the most part it was terrible. But the movie adaptations of the Hulk and Iron Man leading up the Avengers movie is being done so well that I just hate the fact that the X Men trilogy was so poorly done. X2 was the great but the first and third films were so bad that I have little interest in them attempting another run. The use of Cyclops alone was just ridiculous. But this Wolverine movie looks very good and they are actually focusing on a plot.
Maybe this will generate enough steam for a fourth film with Mardsen, Jansen, Ben Foster, Shawn Ashmore and somebody to play Beast so we can re-live an original X Men story or even X Factor against Apocalypse since it takes place after Jean's return and could get into Archangel.
It just sucks that with so many potential stories we got Liberty island and mutants with baseball bats and rifles.
I was never a big Cyclops fan, but I agree that they really mishandled his character...hell he was gone for over half of X2 and well, we know about his fate in X3. Cyclops may be an uptight douche, but he's a very vital and integral part of the X-Men and shouldn't be overshadowed by anyone other than Wolverine.
Well, I too was never a Cyclops fan, and I was glad they didn't focus on his character that much, since the animated series of X-Men sucked because it had Cyclops as the main focus, and it was nothing but soap opera crap.
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I dont know, that trailer looked pretty fucking awesome. Liev Schrieber is such a great casting choice for Sabretooth its ridiculous. That shot of him in the fangs smiling, ripped straight from the comic books, and he's a pretty decent actor too. It feels more like "X2" than X3 ever did.
Twisted Intestine 0
You know that Wolverine has a (2) successful comic series on his own, right? I'm not sure, but I think the Wolverine comics sell better than the X-Men comics.
EDIT: I'm in a bad mood this morning. Anyway, I think you're wrong. The end.
The Metal Maniac 0
A loner can't be a good loner unless he has a group to seperate himself from.
You may not be aware of the story here, so lemme explain a little: Wolverine joins the Weapon X program, a clandestine government project working with mutants.
The Weapon X program? That's a group. Of mutants. For him to separate himself from when he inevitably flips the fuck out.
The problem with Cyclops is that he's too boring.
I think the X-Men franchise can be fixed if FOX can bring back Singer seeing how Ratner did a horrible job with the last film. Besides, there's more villains they can use: The White Queen, Sauron, Mr. Sinister, APOCALYPSE.
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Yeah, I think X-Men is fine with the right mind behind it. That team is so rich in characters and stories that even removing so many iconic ones doesn't kill it. And without bringing anyone back from the dead they still have Wolverine, Storm, Beast, Iceman, Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Angel there, plus a "powerless" Rogue who probably isn't powerless if they don't want her to be considering the Magneto hint in the film. Even if you cut out Wolvie, Storm, Nightcrawler, Rogue, and Beast because of the actors you still have a solid core with plenty of characters to add (plus a Gambit introduction in Wolverine, although depending on the timeline of that film he may be out of the mix).
But I think it makes some sense for them to just sort of splinter the franchise off. Wolverine (and presumably Magneto) have the X-Men tags. You need not do "X-Men 4" when you could just spread the world out like it did in the comics. A movie based on Beast, Iceman, and Angel trying to put together the pieces of the Jean, Cyclops, and Xavier story from X3 title "Uncanny X-Men"? A side story of Rogue and Gambit? A Kitty, Colossus, and Nightcrawler led "New X-Men"? I don't know. I'm sure some or all of those ideas suck to some but the point is that even playing off the classic X-Men stories there's still a lot of side stories they could do. And that's saying nothing for what they could just write on their own.
Supposedly, according to SuperHeroHype.com, they're trying to get a "Young X-Men" movie made.
http://www.superherohype.com/news/x-mennews.php?id=7159
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Source: BlackBook, [email protected], Max_Rebo
In some odd Friday evening news, BlackBook magazine talked to Josh Schwartz, the writer and executive producer of shows like "The O.C.," "Gossip Girl" and "Chuck" (soon to be getting his own comic book!) and found out that he'd taken over the job of writing a screenplay for a Young X-Men movie (that title still hasn't been confirmed) which originally was to be written by Zack Penn. What's even odder than that juicy news is that BlackBook then took the story down, even though you can still see the original post at the link below. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, we were able to grab some of the original text which had Schwartz saying some rather unflattering remarks about his superhero peers and predecessors:
Something he can talk about, however, is news that he will pen the screenplay for the next installment of X-Men, a prequel of sorts. "I'm very well aware that I'll be bludgeoned by purists, but I love its mythology, and it comes with a pretty hefty paycheck." Of the project, he beams with excitement about the opportunity to involve lesser known X-Men characters who haven't yet been portrayed on film. It will center on teenage characters at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. "It's not like I'm adding new characters like Toaster Head, or anything like that." Despite his enthusiam, he's cautious, given the double-edged sword inherent in the seemingly inexhaustible renaissance of the genre. "The Hulk looks like it's going to be terrible. And why does he look like he's fighting against the monster from Cloverfield? I mean, with Transformers, it's not like fans were going to come back saying, 'You used the wrong car.' This, however, is a different story." Of his predecessors and their successes (or failures), he says, "Brett Ratner didn't have a lot of credibility going in to the third X-Men movie, but I think Bryan Singer [who directed the first two installments] got a free pass on Superman Returns because of his work on X-Men."
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I think it should be like in the 90s.
So they can have like 782 different "X-Men brand" movies on the go with various characters appearing in multiple films and every few years they can have a big crossover where you have to watch all of the movies to get the whole story.
And there should be way more characters that have "shooting huge fucking guns" as their mutant powers.
And Rob Liefeld should direct.
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The Face of Evil
He's the Police Chief to Logan's Harry Callahan. The audience is naturally going to dislike him. There isn't really much to do with the character. X-Men is so rich in the number of characters that it is better just to leave him dead, I think.
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Purple Jesus Has Spoken.
I didn't think Smokin' Aces was that bad for what it was, and I think Reynolds was pretty good in it.
Final Scene
Smokin Aces was weird. It was ok, but there was one awesome scene where Ray Liota and another hitman were shooting each other a bunch of times in the elevater, until they shot all the lights out, and its complete darkness. That was badass. I did think it was funny that Affleck was hyped as being the main star of that movie, but was only in the first 15 minutes.
Boon 0
Trailer.
Meh. Not enough Deadpool.
haws bah gawd 0
BAH GAWD! BAH GAWD! THATS A HAWS!
Nice trailer. Glad to see after promising, and then pulling him from the past 2 X-Men films, Gambit is finally making an appearance. I'm looking forward to this one!
It looks okay. From the looks of things Reynolds wont be in the Deadpool outfit which kinda sucks but I can see why they haven't.
"It looks okay"
Understatement of the fucking year. That shit looked amazing.
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Reynolds hasn't been in an oscar level movie or anything, but he's been in plenty of passable to decent movies.
I think the trailer looked pretty badass.
Interesting note: I viewed the trailer on Marvel.com, and it was placed under a little blurb. In that blurb, they indicated that Emma Frost was in it (probably a cameo of her younger self; I spotted a young Storm as well). That could potentially set her up as a future villian.
RavishingRickRudo 0
So Wolverine vs. A Helicopter.
I AM THERE.
JasonX 0
What does Gambit have to do with Wolverine's origin? I can't remember.. or is this not canon from the comics?
Nope; they know that the original comic Team X (the un-official codename for Wolverine's spy team) won't get people into theaters, which is why we are getting Gambit and Deadpool tossed into the mix.
In particular, Gambit's probably there to make up for the way they omitted him from the main X-Men films (since God forbid the movies have Gambit/Storm as a major couple, as Chris Claremont originally intended, before Jim Lee and Scott Lobdell decided to sweep Storm/Gambit under the rug in favor of shoving Rogue/Gambit down fans throats).
Yeah, I can't wait for this.
Does anyone know what's next for these movies? Like, I heard they're gonna do a Magneto flick, but are there plans to do any more movies in the X-Men universe, or are they waiting to see how these movies do first?
Back when Nightcrawler debuted in X2 there was buzz that we'd see a spin-off from him but with the way Alan Cumming left the series I don't see him reprising the role.
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SEA Games 2019 Esports Event Closes with Record Stream of 20 Million Views
Razer™, the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, is celebrating the conclusion of six hugely successful esports tournaments as part of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 2019). As the first major sporting event to include esports as a medal sport, the closing ceremony signifies a new dawn for the esports industry.
Prior to its appointment as the official esports partner of the SEA Games 2019, Razer has been on a decade-long mission to legitimize esports. With the success of the SEA Games 2019 esports events, Razer is now placing its focus on the Olympics.
“The esports event was a resounding success and the games are a testament of our esports talent in the region,” said David Tse, Global Esports Director at Razer. “While we may have achieved success in the SEA Games, this journey to legitimizing esports is not over. We will continue to strive for esports’ inclusion in the Olympics and we look forward to the next SEA Games in 2021.”
Overwhelming Support from Fans across the Globe
As the first esports medal event, fans from all walks of life tuned in remotely or visited the San Juan Arena to watch the competitions live. On the first day alone, Razer’s streaming platforms recorded over one million views with approximately 70,000 concurrent viewers.
At its peak, the San Juan Arena was filled to maximum capacity and Razer’s streaming platforms registered 20 million impressions with 90,000 concurrent viewers. Audiences also spent over 200,000 hours watching the streams on YouTube, making it one of the top 10 trending gaming videos worldwide on the platform.
“We’ve seen some pretty exciting gameplay and a superb level of competition among the SEA Games esports athletes. A formidable force, these youths have shown grit, resilience and tremendous respect for their craft and supporters,” said Alvin Juban, Philippine SEA Games Esports Union, Co-President & National Team Manager. “We’re proud to host them and we hope to see them celebrating again in the next SEA Games.”
Razer Receives Honorary Recognition from PHISGOC for Conceiving and Supporting the Event
For its efforts in helping esports receive the same recognition and coverage as traditional sports, Razer has been given an honorary recognition by the Philippine Sea Games Organizational Committee (PHISGOC). A presentation of an official certificate of recognition has been made and will be followed by an announcement on PHISGOC’s social channels.
“PHISGOC recognizes Razer, the Official Esports Partner, for being the originator of the push for esports to be included in the 30th SEA Games, through their Co-Founder and CEO, Min-Liang Tan, and our Speaker of the House of Representatives of Philippines and Chairman of PHISGOC, Alan Cayetano,” said Juban. “The great success of the esports event in the last one week has proven our vision and strong partnership with Razer.”
Full List of Medalists
Game Titles Gold Sliver Bronze
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Philippines Indonesia Malaysia
Hearthstone Malaysia Thailand Singapore
Arena of Valor Thailand Indonesia Vietnam
Dota 2 Philippines Thailand Vietnam
StarCraft II Philippines Singapore Vietnam
Tekken 7 Thailand Philippines Philippines
The SEA Games is an international sporting event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee. This year’s SEA Games event has been organized by PHISGOC. A total of nine countries participated in the SEA Games 2019 esports events.
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Sinister By Association: Evil Links Found between SB Democrats, Illuminati, and ASUCSB
According to sources close to both organizations, the Illuminati and the Santa Barbara County Democrats (along with the UCSB Campus Democrats) have partnered up to increase civic enfranchisement in Isla Vista for the November election.
The Isla Vista-centered measures and candidates that the Dems and the Illuminati have been supporting include dedicated sources of revenue, increased representation for the IV Community Services District, and engaged and experienced candidates running for office in Santa Barbara County.
A spokesperson for the Illuminati commented: “We’ve really gotten involved in voter registration canvassing because a former AS President recruited us. We originally got in on this initiative because we wanted to learn new ways to implement our own recruitment techniques from him, but it wasn’t long before we legitimately fell in love with the vision that Isla Vistans have for their community.”
But many informed critics say that there are ulterior motives. Alumnus Mason Drew Marsh says: “Why the hell would they want to increase street lighting in Isla Vista? Clearly, they want to kill the fun, beachy vibes! We haven’t had real safety measures for the last sixty years; why would we start now unless there were darker forces at work?”
The Illuminati also has gotten very cozy with the Associated Students of UCSB. This is an accomplishment considering how difficult it is to even interact with the exclusive Association’s members. But apparently, the political establishment of ASUCSB has been close with the Illuminati for quite some time. When asked about her affiliation with the Illuminati, the External Vice President of Statewide Affairs used references to Beyoncé (also an Illuminati member) to bypass the Illuminati’s secrecy rules to tell us more about the organization: “I love Beyoncé’s music! She’s such a talented artist. Wait, which OSL are you asking me about? Why did you ask me about Beyoncé?”
There are many naysayers who say that these links are just a nonexistent conspiracy being hawked by a hack tabloid. But with the help of Mason Drew Marsh, we have drawn a map conclusively showing how the Illuminati triangle had been embedded into the geography of the UCSB campus via the voter registration tables at the UCen, the SRB, and the Arbor.
We have reached out to Chancellor Yang for comment, but his office declined, saying that he is currently in the Italian Alps for a secret meeting. It was not disclosed as to what kind of meeting this is. More to come as this exposé series develops. We can’t stop, and we won’t stop, on this mission to uncover the truth.
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Surgically removed prostate tissue kept alive and ‘working’
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, University of Helsinki and Stanford University have developed a technique to keep healthy and cancerous prostate tissue removed during surgery alive and functioning normally in the laboratory for up to a week.
The new technique could not only enhance research of prostate biology and cancer but could also hasten the creation of individualized medicines for prostate cancer patients, the investigators said. Previous attempts to culture live prostate tissues resulted in poor viability and lost “tissue architecture,” the researchers said, making them less than useful for research or therapy development.
“Our technique could help scientists more accurately predict how living prostate tissues respond to therapy,” said Marikki Laiho, director of the Division of Molecular Radiation Sciences at Johns Hopkins. “It holds promise for testing anticancer drugs that work best.”
For the study, published in the Nov. 1 issue of Cancer Research, the scientists refined their multistep tissue culture technique and performed experiments to test the tissues’ viability and utility in research. Laiho worked with Stanford University researcher Donna Peehl to pilot the technique in a research project completed in 2007.
Customarily, pathologists store tissue samples in paraffin wax, which kills the tissue, resulting in samples that are essentially frozen in time. In many research laboratories, scientists experiment with prostate cancer cells that have been grown in flasks filled with nutrients and kept under strict temperature conditions. But these cells are not connected together in the tightly knit architecture of tissue that exists in the actual prostate gland.
“Tissue architecture may hold clues to why certain therapies work and others fail, and may be a better model of the intact, in vivo prostate gland,” said Laiho, who is the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor of Radiation Oncology at Johns Hopkins.
Laiho said that one key to success for the international team was to work with surgeons and pathologists to speed up delivery of tissue samples to the pathology lab from the operating room.
In the pathology lab, scientists cut thin slices of prostate specimens taken from 18 patients who had undergone surgery on the prostate gland at the Helsinki University Central Hospital or The Johns Hopkins Hospital during 2007–2009. Specimen slices had to be a precise thickness to allow cells throughout the tissue to maintain a healthy exchange of gases and growth factors.
Then, Laiho and her team placed the tissues in a liquid solution composed of a complex mix of 64 ingredients to maintain the proper chemical and nutritional support for the biological functions in the tissue. The scientists validated the presence of biomarkers specific for each type of cell within the prostate tissues to ensure that they were viable.
The scientists caution that although their method gives them a more “real-life” model of the prostate with live tissue samples, it comes at a cost: Even with support, the tissues are short-lived, and experiments on fresh specimens must be completed within one week, which may be too short a time for some types of research.
The Johns Hopkins–Helsinki team has already used its tissue-culture technique to measure levels of proteins known to repair DNA damage caused by carcinogens and other environmental agents. The researchers found that one of these proteins, p53, is not activated consistently enough to repair DNA damage. They also found that one of the first proteins to arrive on the DNA repair scene, H2AX, is activated at expected levels in all but one of the architectural compartments in prostate tissue. Low levels of H2AX were found in the so-called “luminal” compartment of prostate tissue, in the part of the prostate gland that produces secretions to protect sperm cells.
Laiho said that the tissue-culture technique was a key component of understanding which DNA repair proteins may or may not be activated in different parts of prostate tissue and could help scientists develop therapies that target these DNA repair proteins.
The Johns Hopkins and Helsinki investigators plan to use their new tissue-culture technique to test the response of experimental drugs on prostate cancer tissues.
Funding for the study was provided by the Academy of Finland, Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Fund, K. Albin Johansson Foundation, Biomedicum Helsinki Foundation, Finnish-Norwegian Medical Foundation, Finnish Medical Foundation and Helsinki Biomedical Graduate School.
Other scientists from Johns Hopkins contributing to the research were Zhewei Zhang, Zhiming Yang and Angelo De Marzo.
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Kent Lee
Volunteer Turned Executive Director.
A nationwide search for a new executive director guided Pacific Arts Movement (Pac Arts), presenter of the annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF), a little closer to home than they thought. In September, Pac Arts welcomed past volunteer and board member Kent Lee into the executive director role taking over for Pac Arts Founder Lee Ann Kim. Prior to Pac Arts, Kent served as the Director of Development and Marketing for the Boy Scouts of America, San Diego-Imperial Council.
“As a Pac Arts volunteer in 2010, I would never have expected the incredible privilege to step into this leadership role within the organization six years later,” Lee said to Giving Back Magazine. “Year after year I’ve been continually moved by the unique way Pac Arts’ mission inspires a movement of compassion in the San Diego community.”
Kent and the Pac Arts team are looking forward to a wonderful 17th San Diego Asian Film Festival this November 3 – 12. As the largest exhibition of Asian cinema on the West Coast, SDAFF is proud to showcase more than 140 films from 15 countries in 18 languages across six venues in San Diego County. These hand selected films will hold viewers’ feet to the fire with themes of injustice interwoven with immigration, family, art, sexuality and the music industry.
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OUR POLLUTED PILBARA:
We began as an action group in early 2020, with our focus being; to raise awareness of the current re-zoning of Residential to Commercial that is in the process, affecting a large number of Residents and Property Investors of Port Hedland.
This is a very complex and comprehensive matter that has lacked major communication to the Residents and Owners which will cost families significantly. We have created this movement to draw attention to the lack of communication and fight for FAIR compensation.
This is not only impacting families financially, but also and more importantly their health and well-being...
PORT HEDLAND COMMUNITY PROGRESS ASSOCIATION:
We began as an action group in 2001, our focus was to help community-centric ideas get momentum, we rallied support to save the Gratwick Swimming Pool and were trying to address other inequities with a public interest.
The Port Hedland Community Progress Association Inc was officially formed on 7 September 2006. We are made up of a small group of stakeholders in our town, who wish to see a better Port Hedland for all. Our purpose is to align with Community, Government, Industry and other groups and bodies to promote and progress the community and towns throughout the area of Port Hedland.
The PHCPA acts as a vehicle to encourage idea sharing throughout the community and explore relevant issues in the town, and create pathways that will progress ideas to reality. It is open to anyone who wishes to see progress in Port Hedland.
How we work;
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Our Polluted Pilbara, together with the PHCPA are encouraging all Australian's to stand together and support our cause for the Safety of Residents and Future of the Town of Port Hedland. We are encouraging idea sharing throughout our community to further explore relevant issues throughout the town and create pathways for a better Future.
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Rising Star Award Honors Immigrant Entrepreneurs Making a Difference in New Jersey
Written by Judy Chapman
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Suchitra Kamath, Minuteman Press Franchise Owner in Edison, NJ, Honored at Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards
EDISON, N.J., Oct. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Suchitra Kamath, President/Owner of the Minuteman Press franchise in Edison, NJ, was honored with the Rising Star Award at the Sixth Annual New Jersey Immigrant Entrepreneurs Awards at the Asian Indian Chamber of Commerce Multi-Chamber Event in Monmouth Junction on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. “We congratulate this year’s winners for their contributions to the State of New Jersey and recognize the importance of immigrants to NJ’s economy and society,” says Katherine Kish, Executive Director, Einstein’s Alley.
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Why would an Afro-Peruvian defendant want an all white jury
I write today to warn everyone regarding a probable defense effort during jury selection to exclude all potential jurors who are black, notwithstanding the recent defense claim that the defendant is Afro-Peruvian, whatever the hell that means.
The simple truth is that this defendant self-identified as white until after he killed Trayvon Martin. When he was accused of racially profiling Trayvon, he rather conveniently decided that calling himself White Hispanic and more recently Afro Peruvian would dispel any suspicions that the killing was racially motivated.
Instead, given the convenient timing of his declarations and his confusion of race with nationality unintentionally showcases his intellectual limitations and the desperate lengths to which he will go to deny that he is a racist.
He doth protest too much, methinks.
Therefore, do not be surprised if the defense attempts to use its peremptory challenges to exclude black jurors from the jury.
Recall, that unlike a challenge for cause, a lawyer does not have to explain the basis for a peremptory challenge. Recall too, that the SCOTUS prohibited the use of peremptory challenges by prosecutors to systematically exclude blacks from serving on juries with black defendants in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), because such systematic exclusion violates a defendant’s Fourteenth Amendment right to Equal Protection of the laws. See also Miller-El v. Dretke, 545 U.S. 231 (2005).
We have an interesting wrinkle in this case because, if it happens, the defendant will be the party systematically excluding jurors because they are black or non-white, whereas, in Batson and Miller-El the prosecution systematically excluded blacks violating the defendant’s right to equal protection of the laws.
The issue the prosecution must be ready to argue and Judge Nelson must be ready to decide before jury selection is whether the Batson and Miller-El prohibition against the prosecution’s discriminatory use of peremptory challenges applies equally to a defendant.
I believe the answer is “yes,” because to rule otherwise would constitute official judicial approval of discrimination against black jurors in jury selection, so long as the defendant is doing the discriminating. I do not see that happening, if for no other reason than blacks have just as much right to serve on juries as whites.
Consider this language from Justice Blackmun’s majority opinion in JEB v. Alabama ex rel. TB, 511 U.S. 127, 128-129 (1994), in which the Court extended the Batson rule to gender.
In Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U. S. 79 (1986), this Court held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment governs the exercise of peremptory challenges by a prosecutor in a criminal trial. The Court explained that although a defendant has “no right to a `petit jury composed in whole or in part of persons of his own race,’ ” id. , at 85, quoting Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U. S. 303, 305 (1880), the “defendant does have the right to be tried by a jury whose members are selected pursuant to nondiscriminatory criteria,” 476 U. S., at 85-86. Since Batson, we have reaffirmed repeatedly our commitment to jury selection procedures that are fair and nondiscriminatory. We have recognized that whether the trial is criminal or civil, potential jurors, as well as litigants, have an equal protection right to jury selection procedures that are free from state-sponsored group stereotypes rooted in, and reflective of, historical prejudice. See Powers v. Ohio, 499 U. S. 400 (1991); Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co., 500 U. S. 614 (1991); Georgia v. McCollum, 505 U. S. 42 (1992).
Although premised on equal protection principles that apply equally to gender discrimination, all our recent cases 129*129 defining the scope of Batson involved alleged racial discrimination in the exercise of peremptory challenges. Today we are faced with the question whether the Equal Protection Clause forbids intentional discrimination on the basis of gender, just as it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race. We hold that gender, like race, is an unconstitutional proxy for juror competence and impartiality.
White defendants certainly do not have a right to an all white jury. As Justice Blackmun said, they have a right to a jury selected in a non-discriminatory manner.
Therefore, the selection process must be non-discriminatory and that must necessarily apply to all parties and to the Court.
A final thought to consider:
If the defendant is the race-blind Afro-Peruvian that he claims to be, then he ought to submit his case to an all black jury.
What do you think the odds are that he would agree?
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192 Responses to Why would an Afro-Peruvian defendant want an all white jury
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KittySP says:
Professor, please explain what, if anything, in w8 medical records could be considered “discoverable, leading to relevant, admissible evidence that would aide the defense in preparing their sorry excuse of a case?!
I pray Judge Nelson denies this motion same as request to depose Atty. Crump. This witness’ personal struggles following the death of Trayvon should have absolutely no bearing on the states case against him.
ChrisNY~Laurie says:
I don’t know if you have read the Defenses latest motion, MOTION FOR SUBPOENA DUCES TECUMSEH FOR STATES WITNESS, CIVILIAN WITNESS 8 or not, so I’m providing a link because I want to know if they are supposed to give their “good cause” or if the Judge just takes their word on it. I don’t see the relevance and think its ridiculous to invade her rights just to see if she was at the Hospital on the same day as either Trayvon’s funeral or wake when they can just ask her in her depo. Clearly they don’t want the Judge to know the stupid reason, is that why they don’t list it? I mean witness 8 is not accusing Fogens of harming her, so how can it be relevant in this case?
Is this going to be another motion denied?
Click to access sdt_w8.pdf
Do not fail to see the forest for the trees in Zimmerman case
willisnewton says:
I believe GZ will get a fair trial. What do others think? So far the judges have seemed good to me, and while I have not agreed with every decision I do think they have all been reasonable thus far.
I think ON COURT the arguments on both sides have been aired well and with due deliberation and consideration the judge(s) have been fair to the defendant. The fact that he is currently out on bail says a lot to me, for were I the judge I would not have granted bail the second time. IMO he clearly worked to decieve the court about hidden money and a passport, more importanty. However the GPS device foiled his probable escape plans anyway and the fact that he WILL face justice satisfies my sense of right and wrong.
Again, I ask others – given all we’ve seen thus far, do you believe this man WILL receive a fair trial or not?
Oh he’ll get a fair trial if he’s fool enough not to enter a plea.
And while we are at it: has he been treated fairly by the courts thus far? Do you agree with the decisions made on all the various motions set before the judges?
Let’s get those complaints and concerns out in the open – whatever happens in the MSM and on the Internet on blogs is neither here nor there unless and until it has a material effect on the decisions of judge and jury. Before we continue to speculate about the future what is the opinions of how it has all gone thus far?
I’d be interested in hearing from any dissenters and those who feel they may hold a minority opinion here especially. Is this man getting a fair trial thus far? What decisions do you disagree with personally and why?
cielo62 says:
Willie- we are not a jury. We don’t owe GZ a fair trial. Our responsibility is to fairly look at the available evidence, and brother, there’s plenty of that!
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type1juve says:
I think he will get a fair trial. I don’t agree with him getting bail the second time, but I’m not a judge either. Judge Nelson’s rulings have been fair and on point thus far. The one thing I do have an issue with is why no gag order has been issued thus far given the efforts of the defense to taint the jury pool.
Yes, I think he will. As much as they like to complain, so far he has been treated rather well.
mountainmanpat says:
To paraphrase….
“God I love the smell of fried fogen’s in the morning”
Now back to our regularly scheduled coffee 🙂
THIS one is better!
Lonnie Starr says:
Kentucky Fried Fogens for lunch and Cajun fried Fogen Gumbo at nautical twilight. Fogens, they’re not just for breakfast anymore!!!
Unless the racist jurors hate black people more than any other race, I see no reason for them to acquit Zimmerman. He clearly looks Hispanic and I don’t think their racist friends would be too happy about them acquitting someone that is not Caucasian. The idiot racists can dance all they want to the death of Trayvon, but that does not change the fact that Zimmerman himself is also non-Caucasion (I am Caucasian and I consider the word minority offensive). If a racist hates anyone that isn’t their own color, I see no reason to acquit Zimmerman. Then again, racists have a delusional way of thinking so I would not be surprised if they did acquit him.
Jalessa White says:
The only thing BLACK about Zimmerman is his Heart!
Got that right!
rayvenwolf says:
Sparky’s best jury would have to be stacked with people who have no like for teens/young adults or heck children in general. Racial makeup aside one or more parents on the jury and his buns are gonna be burnt black.
Some built in bias towards young black males might help, but frankly he’s better off with people who think anyone under the age of 21 is in fact the devil incarnate, despite having been that young once themselves.
How would a racist jury work for him, since he’s now Afro Peruvian? LMAO
You have a point there. He does seem to be the kind who would yell at kids if they played outside making too much noise, stepped foot on his lawn and would take their ball if it went into his back yard – and he would still call the police on them.
Interesting. I hadn’t thought of that – yup, Fogen would probably end up as one of those sour old men.
IIRC…..He had made complaints about kids playing in the street…?
Doesn’t everyone?
A March 2012 interview with a youngster from RTL confirmed that in fact every time Fogen was out “on patrol” he harassed youngsters. EVERY DAMN TIME. He also followed and harassed full grown (over 18) Bpa-lack residents, even homeowners. It’s on the record already. The police let him do this; they were informed about it; they were aware of it.
That white Ransberg guy who had Burgess’ stolen laptop in his knapsack was arrested along with the other three blacks on 2/7/12. Everyone and his brother should be searching for a photo, to see if that’s the guy who mysteriously shows up to meet Trayvon at the 711 store. They also had a large screen phone that the police took away, saying that it was being used to traffic in stolen merchandise. So, why isn’t the media interested in whose data was on that phone?
Oh, is it possible that this phone could have linked back to someone important? There’s good reason for conspiracy theories to fly, at least there’s more reason for it than there is to disbelieve the moon landing, eh?
Its like Spongebob Squarepants opposite world show. GZ is the first black man that wants an all white jury. White folks are donating half a million dollars to a black man that killed a child. Conservatives complaining about a black man being railroaded by the system no matter how many lies he told… its like opposite world.
MOM wants a delay so GZ will have time to grow an afro, then walk in with a cane, gold chains and rings, a goblet and 3piece orange polyester suit after a good suntan. It’s opposite day.
I almost spit my water. What an image!
With some Curtis Mayfield playing as he makes his grand entrance….
@MMPat. OH NOOOO!!! Bobby Womack. For instance, Across 110th Street.
I was thinking more about “Fogen’s Dead” from the Superfly album
@MMPat
That would be GZ’s exit song after his conviction. LOL!!
I forgot the supafly hat with a feather and a shirt, no tie with the top 4 unbuttoned exposing a hairy chest and the fur lined trenchcoat that goes all the way down to his ankles. Was thinking Isaac Hayes, Shaft(sorry mother, I know you loved that)
“he’s a complicated man but no one understands him but his cousin”
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Ty Flair says:
If the shoe was on the other foot,an Trayvon did the killing he would of had a all white jury. They would of made sure to say Fogen was white. They say jury of your peers,so since he is mix he gets black,white,and peru. You claim to be innocent so it should not matter what the jury is. You no you is guilty and your fear of black people tells it all.
If Robert Zimmerman Sr. is not GZ and RZJ’s biologic father, who named Robert Zimmerman Jr. and why did they name him after RZS? This is so confusing.
Like I say above if they were addopted as infants.
Then there new parents chose the names.
New Names.
Wouldnt it be great if they both turn out to be illegal aliens.
Weezeejr an foggen that is.
Romudumbass and his brother Romuretard
Adopted by an Afro / Peruvian she-wolf / succubus
What about Afro-Cuban exiles brought to the USA as young children ? 😉
Its kind of ironic that weezeejunior an foggen have no grasp of the reality of raceism .
In central an Southern American Countries.
Its is rife an this includes the entire region obviously not the entire population.
But its very sad .
And this is how it works they have all sorts of descriptors for Natives or Spaniards that have Black ancestory.
Mulato ect theres to many to name.
Now the darker your skin is the further down the chain you are .
Pure African bottom of the totem.
Then it goes up the lighter yours skin is say 50 50 still low down the pecking orser.
Then one third African an on an on tilll maybe like fooggen you have a smigen way way way back in your family roots.
An these are the most vile evil sick raceists you could wish to meet towards Africans
Even Nazi Skin Heads might ask them to tone it down a bit.
An this is the heritage he wants to lay claim to.
To dissprove that he is raceist?
Fix cannot stupid.
I’m under the impression that Fogen and Jr are Gladys children from another relationship – ?
If not, no I don’t see any failure to acknowledge the white portion if Papa Z is their blood father as Hispanics are considered caucasian anyway. And they operate in an Anglo-predominant culture and are good English speakers anyway, so what’s to acknowledge?
On the only tv show gladise has apeared on with junior at her side.
Havent seen the clip but read a transcript .
An she say an those boys I treat them as if they were my own.
I was under the impression that gadises siter is the nuturall mother.
An they were adoppted by the zimmerclan.
So unless robert senior was haveing seuall intercourse with his sister in law.
How do we know whom there bio father is.
Do they know.
Can someone tweet weezzeejunior an ask whom are his an foggens genuine bio parents.
I also got that from the phone chat when he blamed his father?
For picking an Anglo Name
As in when bith certificates changed if addoption was legal
Then I suppose new documents would be required.
Does there aunt/mother? live in Peru or States?
He may well be their biologic father – I think it is their mother who isn’t really their mother but their aunt or something.
Yes, I recall Gladys saying this, and in one of the earliest blogs here, I believe someone posted more about the situation. As far as I know, we don’t really know that Papa Z is the bio father. Not that this matters, since they grew up with Papa Z at the helm as far as we know.
If the point of jury selection is to seat an impartial jury, why is it done by the prosecution and defense at all? They will impose their own partiality in their choices. Would it not be best that it was done by an impartial panel of people with no dog in the fight?
It would be interesting if the potential jurors were behind a curtain (maybe a voice cjanger too) so no one would know anything about them but their answers.
onlyiamunitron says:
It would be really interesting when they figure out they can lie like a rug and get away with it.
Q. Are you black?
A. (local Grand Kleagle) Sho’ nuff, boss, black as the ace of spades.
Rachel said,
Jury duty is not supposed to be easy. Jurors need to own their decisions. I think it’s very important for them to face the parties when their verdict is announced.
I do not like the idea that they should be permitted to hide from their decisions.
I am also opposed to using professional jurors because I think they would be like people who serve on grand juries, see themselves as quasi cops and prosecutors, and find everyone guilty.
You misunderstood me. I said potential jurors – so they it could not be seen if they are black, white, disabled, old, young, etc. Of course once the jury is selected they should be seen!
I need to hear the sound and pattern of speech, which is often more important than what they say, and see how jurors react to my questions physically during voir dire. I get much useful information that way. I also have to see how they react to my client. The limitations you describe would render voir dire useless, IMO, plus reinforce suspicion and fear that the anonymous process is necessary to protect them because my client is dangerous.
Sorry, but I think it’s a bad idea.
Sorry, but that makes no sense. First of all, why would that be one of the voir dire questions? A question might be more like have you ever had an unfavorable encounter with a black person. And it would make no sense for them to lie because once the jury was selected and they see that the person lied, they would be off that jury.
That question is too easy.
Better to use a hypothetical.
For example, if you were walking down the sidewalk and saw a young black male stranger in the next block walking toward you with no one else around, would you:
a. continue walking toward him; or
b. cross the street so that you could avoid him.
You do have a real good point there. Othe nonverbal language says more than words. I guess I wan’t thinkng clearly at all.
“Would it not be best that it was done by an impartial panel of people with no dog in the fight?”
Who gets to decide if they really are impartial or not?
You need to look at all of these questions as though you were a defendant whom the state (with their virtually unlimited resources) believes they can convict, and wants to convict, even though you know that you are in fact innocent, and then decide what you think is or isn’t fair.
I agree that if I look at it through the eyes of the defendant I would want something entirely different than an impartial jury. I would want one that favored me. I also get your point about resources. But I’m still not sure it would not be best for an impartial jury to be selected by a panel that is impartial to begin with.
A jury is selected by each side eliminating the people it doesn’t want on the jury.
The jury is composed of the people who are left after everyone the parties don’t want is excused.
A funny joke Karma could play on Fogenhats is a jury with white women, black people, mexicans, and an arab guy
Watching his racist head explode during trial would be mind blowing as those groups above are the ones Fogenhats victimizes
@Jun
That would be funny. It would also be funny if GZ had an all White jury whose spouses are Black.
Or a jury of 18-19 year olds of any “race”.
God’s plan will be fascinating, I’m sure of it.
@Jun, Zena & All — Also an all white jury with blended-famly black sons, who as our president alluded to, “looked like Trayvon.” So many traps awaiting for the Fogen defense team. … ;
Uh oh, it has been discovered that Afro-Peruvians are an albino hate group, so now the Z’s have become Afro-Octopusians.
Lonnie, you said I owed you a new keyboard for some crack I made back in January; you owe ME one NOW! 😆 ❗
I guess that makes us even. 😀
Lonnie, make that two keyboards you owe… LMAO
Wow, so George Zimmerman is the first black defendant ever in history to want an all-white jury….
@Crane-Station (gulp) ROFLMAO
Having seen it in action a couple of times … once on an all-female civil jury of six … and once on a Murder 1 jury of 12 with 11 females weighing the fate of a white male teen who fatally shot a black male teen (where the lone lily-livered white male juror initially tried to get the defendant off), my message to Fogen would be this: Don’t for a split second think that you’ll get an easier ride with white women.
You might be amazed at the swift verdict a white female jury is capable of delivering for what you’ve done.
A freakin men.
Trained, I was thinking the same thing.
The State should attempt to get as many women especially women with young and teenage children on the jury.
George’s ‘no regrets’ statement during his Hannity interview will have them begging to give George the needle.
Amen, amen, amen. Never, ever, ever underestimate a white woman. We take our shit seriously, dude. We know what it’s like to be oppressed.
Don’t forget white Hispanic women, too, with many “primos and primas” to consider! We don’t look kindly on arrogant child killers.
“I write today to warn everyone regarding a probable defense effort during jury selection to exclude all potential jurors who are black,”
Well this something that l was alluding to last year when l posted the demographics of Seminole County.
I knew that the last refuge of the defense would be playing the race card.
Oh well I’m not one to say ‘ l told you so’ LOL
And if it had been a black guy who shot a white guy, the defense would be trying for as few whites and as many blacks on the jury as possible.
The defense team isn’t there to provide justice, they’re there to fight tooth and nail for their client against the full might and force of the state, to serve as a counterbalance to it.
The result of that clash is supposed to be justice.
The state is supposed to be able to take everything the defense throws at them and still convince the jury beyond a reasonable doubt.
As we have seen time and time again, not everyone charged by the state and subsequently convicted by the state is actually guilty.
So if the innocent are to have any hope at all, or if society is to have any faith in the justice and accuracy of rendered verdicts, the always outgunned defense has to be free to make the prosecution really sweat for it.
If the races were reversed, this whole thing would have played out way differently, so I’m not sure your devil’s advocating has any application here.
But seriously, eff this guy. What he’s doing is the definition of that old right-wing favorite “race-baiting”, and he’s totally allowed to do it, yet any time an actual Afro-Peruvian demands justice or freedom from racism / oppression, they’re the ones playing the race card. Yep!
Yeah, he’s totally allowed to do it, because the defense needs to be given as much latitude as possible, because, assuming Zimmerman’s guilt for the sake of discussion, otherwise their ability to defend innocent clients would be impaired, and if you’re innocent but have still wound up charged and on trial, you need all the help you can get to not get steamrollered by the state.
That is not the case here
It is the defendant attempting to create an unfair situation for the victim
There is no situation for the victim. The victim’s only situation is that they are deceased.
Thiis is all about the state versus the defendant.
Well, the deceased the victim, has rights and protections under the law, and the issue that the defendant is bringing up is who started the whole altercation
It is about the victim because the state and the feds are standing up for the victim
The victim deserves to be heard fairly as well, considering he is unavailable
If this had been a black guy shooting a white guy the black guy would have been promptly arrested and charged with Murder 1, assigned a public defender and plead to Murder 2 and served the rest of his life in prison.
This is not about being fair to a victim who has been killed; it is about being fair to the State, which has a responsibility to protect future victims from being killed. If the prosecution does not do its job, you get defendants like Fogen running around realizing they really DO have the power of life or death over anyone they dislike, anyone they profile, anyone they create a good “story” slandering, anyone they want to control, anyone they believe should be unable to challenge their authority.
That is the all-important job of the State. Trayvon’s gone because the SPD did not do its job from September 2011 until February 26, 2012. Had they done their job then, Trayvon would be alive today. NOW the State of Florida has to run to catch up to protect future innocents from being killed by armed racist (or armed non-racist) self-appointed gods.
Well, don’t forget that I wrote a couple of articles about it last year too.
9/18: Zimmerman: Jury Selection and Batson v. Kentucky
9/20: Zimmerman: Motion for a Change of Venue
demographically, the only race unlikely to be on the jury is Asian
Considering the numbers and demographics of Seminole County, and especially Sanford, there will likely be at least one or two black people on the jury
They can’t be discriminatory in jury selection and anyways, I had a feeling that Fogenhats would be playing games with jury selection
Is there any penalties for not properly seating a jury?
Depending on which side you’re on, you lose. Seriously though, what do you mean by “improper” jury and “penalty”?
Tampering with a jury to create an unfair position for the victim because as it stands, it sounds like that is what the defense is trying to do
The jury is supposed to be impartial and no favor for either party
And never in the entire history of the world has a prosecutor tried to get a jury that would be on their side.
The two sides battle all of this stuff (who’s on the jury, who’s admissible as an expert witness, etc.) out in front of a supposedly impartial judge. That’s the way the system is set up to protect the innocent individual from the might of the state.
I’m laughing because I know a woman who served on a jury in Oregon. She was a conservative looking slim white woman with white hair. She answered every question honestly and she seemed absolutely perfect for the kind of jury that Fogen would have wanted. (She ended up on a jury that had nothing to do with the kind of case Fogen’s is, however; that’s beside the point.) Her husband and two kids are Black. That would never have come out in voir dire and in fact COULD NOT legally come out in voir dire. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Fogen has a lot to fear in this world; it is really hard to control EVERYTHING, even when you have a gun!
@Xena: “Osterman didn’t help by saying that GZ cut-out leaving his home and wife after seeing Blacks in a car out front. It turned out that they were visiting some neighbors. Apparently, GZ sees all Blacks as a threat — other than the one who works for $700 a week as his security.”
But that means he STILL sees black guys a threats, just when they are working for you at $700/week – they are threats to someone else. And that is WHY you have a black guy bodyguard, because they ARE a threat (in his opinion), more so than a white guy – do you see what I mean?
Anyway, IF GZ REALLY wants to prove he is so nonracist, wouldn’t it behoove him to WANT at least 1 if not 2 black people serving on his jury?
And isn’t it just more proof of racism to think he wouldn’t get a fair trial if the jury is made up of black jurors as well as white and/or any other ethnicities? Someone at the outhouse said the other day there cannot be any black people on that jury. What, like there are no white people who could or would come to the conclusion that GZ just outright killed him and it was not self-defense? I know for a fact I am NOT the only white person who thinks it was not self-defense.
Jury selection is always, IMO, the most important part of the trial – and this is going to be a very difficult jury to select.
@Rachael (((((Applause)))))
Your analysis of how the killer and accused murderer of Trayvon Martin perceives Black men as threats hits the proverbial nail on the head.
Someone at the outhouse said the other day there cannot be any black people on that jury.
That “someone” used the handle “TheGeorgeZimmerman.” If it wasn’t the real GZ, then it was an impersonator speaking in first person as him. The blog owner allowed it, so only “the real” GZ can challenge it as his own words if he disagrees.
What, like there are no white people who could or would come to the conclusion that GZ just outright killed him and it was not self-defense? I know for a fact I am NOT the only white person who thinks it was not self-defense.
Funny thing about racists — when they see the pictures of the rallies with White people in them, they still see Black. Some of the most portent photos from those rallies are of Whites holding signs supporting justice for Trayvon.
Also, Zidiots should go on Youtube and see the many videos by Whites that are not supportive of GZ.
blushedbrown says:
@Rachael
tonydphotog says:
I’m white, and it’s definitely not self-defense.
it has been made especially hard considering what Omara has done with Junior and their assault on the media for 90% of this case, instead of doing work
If the state has a strong enough case, it’ll get a conviction anyway, right?
So no problem, right?
Do you want a fair trial, or just one where you’re not offended?
There’s a reason why we have an adversarial system and why the defense is allowed a lot of latitude.
Because if the state has a strong enough case, it’ll get a conviction anyway.
And if it doesn’t, maybe the case wasn’t strong enough to deserve having been brought in the first place.
Unitron said,
I believe the probability of a fair trial diminishes significantly if the party with the burden of proof is prohibited from making public statements about the case and the evidence while the opposing party is permitted to make as many public statements as it desires without regard to whether any of those statements are true.
So if the party with the burden of proof (which in the actual trial will be the prosecution) feels that the defense is going beyond that which it is legally allowed, then that party, the one with all of the resources of the state at its disposal, is powerless to do anything about it?
Yes, with the single exception of requesting a gag order, which Judge Nelson denied.
Then that must be the way the law works and the defense is within those constraints.
How is going around spreading propaganda and lies, considered, copping up a fair trial?
A fair trial is where both sides get heard in a fair manner, and within their media pleadings, there is no fair hearing for the victim or the state, and it causes a probability of difficulty seating a jury considering the massive influx of misinformation
How is it fair to make up lies about a victim, when the victim is unavailable to defend themselves against such claims and can only defend themselves within a trial by the state?
How is it fair that a dead kid has to prove his innocence in a matter where the defendant killed the kid, and made claims that the kid attacked him?
There’s nothing fair and just about how they are assaulting the media
If someone were to god forbid, kill you Unitron, would it be fair for them to do what the defense is doing to Trayvon, and you can’t even get a fair hearing on your innocence in the matter?
The fair hearing will be when the prosecution gets a conviction of my killer, regardless of what the defense has done.
Except for the whole being dead thing, I think I have a lot more chance of justice as the victim with the state trying to convict my killer than if the state were trying to convict me for a killing which I did not commit.
Such is the power of the state.
And if the state feels the defense is doing something illegal in its statements to the media, do you seriously contend that the state is powerless to do anything about it?
Pretend, just for a moment, just for the sake of understanding the point I am trying to make about the necessity for our adversarial system as a preventer of injustice, pretend that there is something we do not know, that there is something which is not as it seems and that Zimmerman is actually innocent.
In those circumstances, which is more important?
Trayvon’s reputation, or George’s freedom and future, such as it would be?
How many innocent men and women would you be willing to imprison to protect the reputation of the deceased?
I think it is important that the judgement is made within reason, logic, and impartiality and fairness to both parties
I can see your point if the case was about who did it, but it is not
The defendant clearly stalked and went after this kid with a gun, then confronted the kid, a struggle ensued, and then the defendant killed the kid, and is staging a self defense claim
In a hearing like that, it is what I stated in my first line
The defense is attempting to use underhanded methods to taint the jury
That is not a fair hearing with reason and logic and impartiality for both parties
The notification email said you were replying to you, but I’m going to be egotistical and assume it was to me and that WordPress just screwed up.
(assuming that WordPress screwed up is just playing the odds)
Well, then if it’s actually illegal the prosecution will do something to prevent it.
Unless for some reason they think it’s to their advantage not to do so.
And if it’s not illegal, then it must mean that it’s allowed.
Are there any methods to taint a jury which are not underhanded?
kimmi says:
If everything else you said were true, then if those men and women were really innocent, then the state probably wouldn’t be able to get a conviction anyway, right?
Dragging a murder victim’s reputation through the mud with lies by a defense attorney for the sole purpose to find a defendant not guilty, should not be allowed by any ethical rules of conduct, imo.
Google The Innocence Project sometime.
None, because if everything else you said above were true, then if those men and women were really innocent, then the state probably wouldn’t be able to get a conviction anyway, right?
Professor, if you get a chance and don’t mind, could you please delete the incorrectly posted post(s) above. Thank you!
Darn, I goofed up the blockquote again!!
Well accordingly, the word “fair” is used to describe a trial
It may not be illegal, however, the methods used are far from using a fair hearing in methods, because it fails to empathize with the possibility that the victim is not here to defend themselves, and what they are spewing in the media has not been checked for credibility but is being sold as credible, and attempts to lament the system by claiming the victim is guilty, without due process
What they are doing, attempting to taint a jury, by keeping what was already gone from the news for a long time, is making the trial unfair to be had and this is about a fair trial
In what the defendant is claiming, the victim too has the same rights and has a fair say in those rights, although the defendant silenced the victim
It is not a fair hearing
When it hits trial and the jury is impartial, then it is a fair hearing
Until then, what the defense is doing is underhanded, and not considerate of fair play
OnlyIAU, the question of whether the case should have been brought in the first place has already been answered. The prima facie case was made, the probable cause affidavit was filed and was not vacated, Judge Lester ruled, and his ruling was not overturned or even challenged. If there is some result other than a conviction, that does not negate the fact that there was a valid charge and due process thereafter.
Did we decide that we were all being civil here now? If so, I will self-censor what I was planning on saying about this guy.
Also, I wouldn’t want CNN to accuse me of terrorist threats against Fogen.
Malamiyya says:
Just so that it’s clear: “Afro-Peruvian” may sound made up. And it may be a convenient thing for GZ to claim at the moment. And real Afro-Peruvians might laugh at George for claiming to be one. But the category isn’t an invention. It’s more-or-less the equivalent of saying Afro-American, and there’s even a Wikipedia entry that goes through its history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Peruvian
Like you said, just so it is clear – “it may be a convenient thing for GZ to claim at the moment,” having never identified himself as anything but white before.
If it seemed convenient, I have no doubt that George would claim to be Native American. And if he were offered enough boxes to check, he might even claim to be Racially Conflicted, which might be a significant underlying factor in what drives him.
Am suprised Fogen hasn’t laid claim to be a a FSU grad and genuine Seminole by now the way his stories keep growing.
@Trained Observer
I found what I was looking for, so you can understand the joke.
Warning some graphic language.
The phrase “Come On, Son” is like the phrase “Forget it bout it” Depending in the context used, it came mean different things.
@Blushed … Please consider my horizons permanently widened, thanks to you. C’mon, sons and daughters, too. … 🙂
Awww thanks….
LOL at cmon son
I think it is a another lie for some agenda of theirs
They have all been claiming to be white for a long time and suddenly just recently have claimed to be Afro-Peruvian
I know in the beginning they had a real blurry photo of some random black guy whom they claimed was their grandfather
Then they went on a campaign about the white man being railroaded by the system
and now it is Afro Peruvian LMAO
It does not mean much anyways
Just because you are black, it does not mean you can’t hate black people or a black person for being black
To me, they are white or white hispanics, as that is what they claimed to before they were accused of murder
>>>LOL at cmon son
LOL with Jun
LOL! I predict that ZERO Afro-Peruvians will be called to jury duty. Plenty of White Hispanics will, though. And THIS white Hispanic believes GZ is dead in the water GUILTY.
lady2soothe says:
@ Jun
(Lets see if I’ve managed to get the blockquote right this time)
It’s called Internalized Racism and it occurs when people targeted by racism agree with the distortions of racism, as exhibited by Gladys Zimmerman per Veronica Zuazo GZ’s ex-fiancée, “it was the mother who taught her children racial prejudice. She taught her children to wed whites for social and political gain.” The Zimmerman Family gave carte blanche to *Internalized Racism* which is often accompanied by a real effort to distance yourself from your heritage, therefore GZ came to believe racist assertions about his own people.
INTERNALIZED RACISM: In a society where racial prejudice thrives in politics, communities, institutions and popular culture, it’s difficult for racial minorities to avoid absorbing the racist messages that constantly bombard them. Thus, even people of color sometimes adopt a white supremacist mindset that results in self-hatred and hatred of their respective racial group. Those people may loathe the physical characteristics that make them racially distinct such as skin color, hair texture or eye shape. Others may stereotype those from their racial group and refuse to associate with them. And some may outright identify as white. Overall, minorities suffering from *Internalized Racism* buy into the notion that whites are superior to people of color. Think of it as Stockholm Syndrome in the racial sphere. The impetus to turn racism inward occurs when they see whites receiving privileges denied to people of color.
I still did something wrong but if you’ll all bear with me and let me keep practicing on you I know eventually I’ll get the blockquote thing right!
Make sure to close out the blockquote function by using the slash before blockquote at the end.
Opercarla says:
I really enjoyed the law lesson today Professor. Thanks!
I don’t care what color the jurors are. I just hope that they are intelligent enough to see beyond this bs that the defense is pushing.
Yes, and I’m hoping old geez Army guys who might relate to Wolfinger and Fogen Sr. can be avoided.
FactsFirst says:
Donated….
Thanks, Professor!!!
To quote Yoda….”fogen?…..screwed he is”
Oh yeah….Follow
To quote the killer and accused murderer, “It’s all God’s plan.”
If you pick 6 people at random from the population of Seminole County, and come up with a representative sample, demographics say 5 will be white and the other one has a 50/50 chance of being either black or other non-white.
No conspiracy needed.
In fact, it would probably take major shenanigans to avoid a majority white jury in that county.
Ooops! Forgot to check “Follow”.
I agree, unitron. If they happen to get 2 blacks on the jury it will be a miracle simply due to demo factors. It could certainly happen though. I hope so. Fogen deserves a jury of Trayvon’s peers, IMHO.
Assuming 1 or 2 blacks are among the 6 seated in the box after the panel has been passed for cause, I contend that Batson would prohibit the defense from disqualifying them with peremptory challenges.
That is, unless they have a legitimate reason independent of race to support a challenge, Batson would require the Court to deny it.
I think it would stand because it is plain discrimination and racism and the conclusions to your posted filings with court have to do with the 14th which is equal protection under law, and he is attempting to use racism to prevent that, which is discriminatory for the victim
“…which is discriminatory for the victim”
The victim is the victim, but the alleged offense is alleged to have been committed against the state and the laws of the state (and I think some places even use phrases like “against the dignity of the state” or something like that), therefore a jury which is fair to both the state and the defendent is what the law calls for.
Jun, not “discriminatory for the victim” but “discriminatory for the People of the State of Florida.
Seminole County demographics have changed dramatically in the last decade or so. Since Florida summons notices come from both Supervisor of Elections listings and the DMV, the likelihood has increased for what the professor calls a miracle, or maybe even 4 white/2 black and/or other, or possibly an even split in a random pull. Much depends on compliance from the summons list, apparently projected at 300 to 500.
Does anyone besides me get the impression that Junior disrespects his dad by his failure to acknowledge his dad’s race?
I think it is a plan to not have GZ appear non-racist by refusing to acknowledge their father’s race.
I think there is a reason for this and probably has to do with hate-crime charges they see coming down the road. It is obvious GZ profiled a black male and who knows what is on GZ texts that will incriminate him.
Oh, well, I take that back a little . . . truly, they may be diminishing the white business, like you say, JM.
@jm. You know, I too get the impression that it’s GZ’s phone and internet communications that reveal his true nature, and that includes racial bigotry. We get a glimpse of that from his MySpace page.
Osterman didn’t help by saying that GZ cut-out leaving his home and wife after seeing Blacks in a car out front. It turned out that they were visiting some neighbors. Apparently, GZ sees all Blacks as a threat — other than the one who works for $700 a week as his security.
Xena I think this whole campaign to paint GZ as not white but rather AFRO-Peruvian by the Z family and MOM is because they know there is incrimating evidence of a hate crime.
Why bother going to all this trouble with PR media appearances trying to ensure the public believes GZ isn’t white and his father isn’t Caucasian but AMERICAN, hoping the conclusion would be drawn that an AFRO-Peruvian non-white person like GZ would not profile a black teen who he reported was suspicious, up to no good, an azzhole and a punk. Surely AFRO-Peruvian non-white GZ wouldn’t profile a black kid, right?
I think Team Z is protesting way too much and there is a very good reason. Looking at the haunted overweight GZ, I think he knows he has more problems than second degree murder charges.
I could be off base here but I am suspicious of the PR tour that is basically all about the non-racist, non-white AFRO-Peruvian GZ.
@jm
You’re not off base at all. Since the feds interviewed GZ’s friends and co-workers, we can bet that they delve into GZ’s siblings too. Some of their questions must have made Junior very nervous because he knows the honest answers. Remember, Junior dropped off the face of the earth for months and came back with his racist diatribes around October last year.
Junior still hasn’t released anything correcting Randy Hahn.
Yes and while discussions of race are informative in this matter, the fact we must remember is that race is a side issue here, the charge is 2nd degree murder, not racial discrimination such and the like.
I do not believe there will be much, if any racial issues raised in the course of the trial. At least the SP has indicated that they are not seeking to get involved in litigating such matters.
Thus the defense might just as well be discussing coal mining in Brazil for all the relevance race is expected to have on reaching a verdict of guilt.
@Lonnie Starr
Exactly. O’Mara is attempting a distraction, almost along the lines of defending GZ by saying if he’s not racists, then he killed in self-defense. The law and standards for proving self-defense apply to the accused regardless of the race of the victim. I wish that a journalist would write on that issue. GZ has to prove self-defense even if his victim were purple with yellow polka dots.
Hey a major redirection worked with Baez and CS. Maybe MOM is hoping to do the same.
O’Mara can forget trying to make someone else guilty. GZ admitted that he killed Trayvon. Forensics evidence that Trayvon didn’t touch GZ.
I didn’t follow the Casey Anthony case but after the jury rendered its verdict, I did read how they came to it. While some people are of the impression that Baez distracted the jury to believe that Casey’s dad was involved in the death of his grandchild, the jury did not consider that. Casey plead not guilty to murder and there was no affirmative defense involved like in GZ’s case. What the jury saw was that the state failed to prove that Casey murdered her daughter.
Evidently, Baez believed that the way to place doubt in the minds of the jury was to say that Calee’s death could have happened another way. What are O’Mara’s options if he wants to do the same? There are none. GZ gave physical demonstrations on how he killed Trayvon.
If fogen was bold enough to use that offensive handle on his Myspace page just imagine what his text messages reveal. Now remember that calm before the storm, before he was arrested. I have no doubt that he was bragging and talking shit about murdering Trayvon. Oh yes, I think team Z is very worried about what the Feds have on him. I believe that’s what this media blitz is all about.
truthseeker66 says:
No. Jr is rejecting being “white” cause it is inconvenient at this time. It’s all PR.
The thing is Junior was claiming to be white for a while, then claimed to be a white hispanic, and now he claims that he is afro peruvian
It is hard to argue that that family is not racist when there is a huge issue of their own racial identity as if it is a big deal and exonerates them somehow, otherwise why would they claim to be white for so long, but suddenly protest so much to be afro peruvian?
PiranhaMom says:
@Truth –
I’m waiting to see if anybody wil flat-out ask Jr. “Is your Dad your biological father? How about your brother?”
If he is, the apple fell wa-a-a-ay far from the tree in this case.
Two sides to a story,
>> “I’m under the impression that fogen and jr are Gladys children from another relationship-?”
That would be most interesting as there are 4 zimmermann kids
Eldest..daughter. Name, date of birth unknown
jr…born 1981
gz…born 1983
Grace C/susie/dawn (whatever) born 1986
That appears to bolster the notion they are not the biological offspring of either rz sr. or his wife Gladys.
@looneydoone
Are you researching the family tree? Just curious……
@ Would be interesting to find out that the two nephews (on Gladys’s side)were given to the Zimmermans but either (a) they did not go through the formal adoption process, or (b) the boys were brought here without immigration visas – and somehow Pops Zimmerman had his contacts get them Social Security numbers.
30 years ago there wasn’t the pressure on illegal immigration that there is today.
blushedbrown,
Am I researching the family tree ? That would necessitate first knowing who they are, no ? They are quite mysterious. I found nothing about Rz Sr, Gladys, and/or their offspring, but am curious if anyone knows jr’s date of birth.
There’s mention of an elder sister in several articles, no name and/or birthdate for her either
@Looney
All I have at my fingertips right now are the name, dob and last known address for Pappa and Mama Zim…..
I really never tried an extensive search on jr or sister…….
But if I do come across anything of value for you I will post. 🙂
Thanks. A birthdate for jr would be most appreciated.
@looneydoone. DPTM once had a post on Junior’s arrests. Criminal cases provide the month and year of birth. For instance, ShelLIE’s birthday is this month. Maybe someone from that blog has retained the materials and can fill you in on Junior’s month and year of birth. I had it at one time (being interested in astrology) but cannot put my hands on it now.
Thanks for the tip. I’ll check DPTM and see what’s available re; jr’s birthdate
new artist you might enjoy. Emanuela Bellezza
She’s the one who performed “fotografia” with Juanes
Ooooo. As soon as I get a hot minute I will give her a listen. Thank You!!!!
No, I thought RZJr said his dad’s race was AMERICAN! LOL!
cielo62: “No, I thought RZJr said his dad’s race was AMERICAN!”
Is that a dodge or is RZJ just plain stupid?
@cielo62
LOL!! Well, so much for Junior’s education on civil rights.
@Cielo,
I get it:
“Inside every fat (White) man
is a thin Afro-Peruvian
struggling to get out?”
@Cielo –
Do I get it?
struggling to get out … “
PiranhaMom- yes, you get it! In GZs car, it’s 2 Afro- Peruvians!
Now wait a damn minute……..6 years ago I weighed 267……now down to 180 / 185…
There are NO AFRO PERUVIANS in me….never have been either..
Mothers side….Great grandfather Black…..Great grandmother Navajo……
@MountainMan,
Hey, maybe some skinny Afrojos got out! Or Navafros!
Congrats on the weight loss. I’m have a serious talk with my inner Viking-Algonkians about getting off my hips. (It’s all that Danish pastry plus the Fry bread that put them there.)
My weight loss began with back probs…..surgery….and a DX of degenerative disc disorder……….Pretty much first words from the doc?………”Get rid of the weight”
Oh BTW my grandmother on my fathers side was a Chicagho 🙂
@Mountain Man.
We hybrids are resilient, yes? Yesss!
BTW……Cielo…..have you sent me any cat videos on youtube?
MMP- cat videos? That’s Xena’s specialty. I don’t think it was me…
Musta been that Caterpillar that was just here….
Your comment all of the sudden gave me the mental image of a bunch of Afro / Peruvian clowns climbing out of the clown car in the circus……..Thanks for the laugh 🙂
@MountainMan, @ Cielo –
My guess was that Cielo’s SpellCheck read the typo “cas” as “car” and that Cielo intended it to read”case.”
What sayest thou, Cielo? Or thy SpellCheck?
Gotta admit, the picture of those Afruvians bursting out of the car is a hoot!
Outta the schtruck, I should say …
Hmmmm – maybe we’ve discovered the accomplice.
If George keeps on eating those pizzas, INS is going to investigate his body!
Ya know….U lurn sumtin new ebbery day
I never knew that pizza was Afro / Peruvian cuisine……..go figger?
MMP and PirhanaMom~ DANG! My Ipod does some weird “corrections”! YES I meant “case” but “car” DID look funny after I went back to check! Wait! Is all that MISinformation or DISinformation? 🙂
Go ask Alice…..I think she’ll know…..
Right now Alice has her hands full with Knox and Stutzman.
MountainMan,
The pepperoni is alpaca …
Ya know….in all seriousness…..a lot of people up here raise Llama’s….elevations are close to their natural environment…
Raised both for their wool……and to be used as pack animals……less damage done than by horses or mules.
Watch out! Afro-Peruvians coming through!
Doesn’t the title of this Article tickle you to death? Why indeed! Afro Peruvians should want to stay as far away from white people as is humanly possible, in GZ’s world. For, even while he attempts to deny racism, he uses racially divisive constructs to do it. “Balcks” are prejudiced against him, because they think he’s “White”, but he can’t be prejudiced against blacks because he’s black himself, and is therefore prejudiced against Mexicans and in favor of Hispanics of whose Heritage he is so proud of, that he has theretofore taken great pains to hide from. Oy Vey!!!!
If this isn’t the most powerful spin cycle known to man, I don’t know what is. The Super Collider at Cern has nothing on GZ!
I think Junior simply uses words as if they are magic talismans that have no actual meaning. He and the rest of his family seem to just say words in ways they think will get the results they want in the audience they are playing to. “We are Afro-Peruvians with paternal American race components” is code for “We get to decide who is what and thus my brother’s perception and declaration that Trayvon Martin was a suspect and thus a killable criminal was authorized and nobody gets to challenge it.”
The mark of an abuser, however, is that he uses words to justify his abuse. There is nothing new in that. It’s the oldest abuser technology in the book and by that, I mean the oldest book too.
@malisha — as my baby bro (a pretty bright fella) would say — zimmermans open their mouths and all i hear is “words words words words words words words words”.
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Sense and Sensibility: Money and Inheritance’s Effects on Relationships and Social Ability
Jane Austen’s novel, Sense and Sensibility, embodies her objection to the arbitrary social rules of the regency era through the actions of her characters (Hearn). The rules of society effect every decision one makes because of the constant desire to have what others cannot afford. Eighteenth century England’s value of dowry, fortune, and estate constrict the main characters of Sense and...
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Journal 1 Sense and Sensibility NC 01 01
Graded Assignment ENG203A–B/204A–B: Literary Analysis and Composition | Sense and Sensibility | Lesson 1: Sense Session 1 .cGraded Assignment Journal, Part 1: Sense and Sensibility The questions in this Journal Assignment cover readings in Lessons 1–4 of the Sense and Sensibility unit (Chapters 1–22 of the text). You will probably want to wait until after Lesson 4 before you answer these...
Sense and Sensibility Characters Development
Book Review 1 Development of Major Characters English Lit. Honors, Per 5 Quarter One Sense and Sensibility The first of Jane Austen’s published novels, Sense and Sensibility, portrays the life and loves of two very different sisters: Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The contrast between the sister’s characters results in their attraction to vastly different men, sparking family and...
Sense and Sensibility: Neo-classicism vs Romanticism
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin was a moralistic novel depicting the two main forms of attitudes at that time; the neo -classics and the romantics. The period in which it was written, nineteenth century England, was laden with social etiquette and customs imposed on people of that time; and thus the characters of Jane Austin’s novels. The novels’ two main protagonists; Elinor and...
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Close Reading of Sense and Sensibility
1. Although Elinor knew before that Edward and Lucy would probably be married, she was still very hurt by the news. This entire secrete marriage seemed somewhat odd to me, as a reader, because Jane Austen doesn’t foreshadow this event in the text. Robert Ferrars and Lucy Steele hardly seem to know each other. It seems to me that Jane Austen just placed this relationship into the plot instead of...
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“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” — — “If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” — Page 91 — “Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” — — “I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly...
Jane Austen- Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility: An Ironic Expose on the Economics of Marriage Sense and Sensibility is the second novel written by Jane Austen and the first to be pub- lished. It is full of satiric wit, and for this reason is often grouped with the Juvenilia and Northanger Abbey as an immature effort that Austen made before finding her true literary voice. Irony, however, makes it easier to pinpoint...
Sense and Sensibility Data Sheet
Book Data Sheet – Sense and Sensibility Setting – The setting for Sense and Sensibility is in England in the early 1800s, somewhere in a country setting. During this time, your social class and wealth was very important. The main classes were the wealthy people or the ‘lesser gentry’. The Dashwoods were part of the lesser gentry. Characters – Mrs. Dashwood – Mother of Elinor, Marianne...
Sense and Sensibility: Elinor & Marianne
Two sisters choose separate paths of how to handle the emotion of their hearts’ deepest desires. One decided to follow their heart and the other was more “sensible”, ignoring their hearts’ pleas. Sense and Sensibility, a wonderful novel written by Jane Austen, presents a specific story of how some went through life struggling because of divided social classes. Money being...
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Jillian Dinmore Mrs. Bell World Lit Per. 1 24 October 2012 Independent Novel Essay Society places many pressures upon people with regards to specific gender roles. There are stereotypical male and female character roles that pervade literature in all cultures. In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility sisters Elinor and Marianne represent “sense” and “sensibility,” respectively. Although...
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Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, first published in 1811, explores the social and cultural expectations of this period through the moderation of the important characteristics of sense and sensibility. The novel is a sharply detailed portraiture that represents the large difference between power and disempowerment relating to that time of between the English eighteenth and early nineteenth...
Sense and Sensibility-Chapter 1,2, 3 Summaries
This very first chapter introduces us to the Dashwood family in their estate at Norland Park, Sussex. Mr Hemry Dashwood came into the house as the legal inheritor of the Norland estate. Before he died, he has written a will but not everybody seems to accept it. He hopes that his son, John Dashwood for the first marriage will keep his promise, that is, to take care of his stepmother and sisters....
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Anil Ambani signs $825 million deal with Spielberg
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Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Big Entertainment (RBE) has finally signed its much-hyped 50:50 joint venture with Hollywood’s iconic director Steven Spielberg’s Los Angeles-based production house DreamWorks Studios to produce six films per year. This is the most high-profile deals in global cinema.
Anil Ambani and Spielberg said the movies (produced by DreamWorks) would be globally distributed by Walt Disney, while the exclusive rights for India, including DTH, DVD and theatre rights, would rest with Reliance Big Entertainment.
Spielberg said he was looking forward to visiting India to meet filmmakers. This venture with Reliance opens a new door to our future. Their visionary step has given us a new set of dreams to work toward.
DreamWorks Studios will get an initial funding of $825 million and the first production would start this year for release in 2010. Of the $825 million, $325 million will be equity infused by Anil Ambani as his personal investment, $150 million will come from The Walt Disney Company as a distribution advance, and the rest will be funded by JP Morgan via debt.
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How government spending goes to certain voters – and shapes inequality
Governments face pressure in the years ahead to ramp up social security payments to help people affected by the coronavirus pandemic. However, in the UK, it has historically been voters who support the parties of government who get the money. My research, outlined in a paper awaiting full review, shows how this redistribution has contributed to inequality and poverty over the years.
Images posted by parents of the meagre food parcels they have been given in lieu of school meal vouchers have been a stark illustration of this trend.
As a result of spending decisions based on voter demographics, child poverty has risen over the past decade while pensioner poverty remained stable. Put simply, the Conservatives rewarded the pensioners (and high-income non-pensioners) who voted for them while levying cuts on the low-income parents who did not.
Electoral competition and redistribution used to be a simpler matter. Low-income voters could be expected to support left-wing governments, who gave them higher social security payments in return, while higher income voters supported right-wing parties, who rewarded them with tax cuts. Middle-income voters generally held the casting vote. Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives, for example, reduced taxes for middle and high-income voters while cutting social security payments for all those on low incomes, including pensioners.
The times – and electoral coalitions – then began to change. When New Labour came to power, electoral coalitions were no longer divided solely by income. Age and whether you were a parent began to play a role. New Labour did still increase taxes on the rich but didn’t increase social security payments for everyone on low incomes. Labour prime minister Tony Blair promised “to end child poverty”, while Gordon Brown promised to do the same for pensioners, but they did not promise to end all poverty. Child and pensioner poverty subsequently fell between 1997 and 2010 whereas poverty among non-parents actually rose.
More complex electoral coalitions would remain after New Labour left power. In a striking change from the Thatcher era, the Conservatives made it clear that they “would not touch pensioners” when they came to office in 2010. This commitment did not, however, extend to others on low incomes. Almost all of their subsequent social security cuts hit non-pensioners. Since 2010, pensioner poverty has remained stable whereas non-pensioner poverty has begun to rise. Child poverty, in particular, has been growing as low-income parents experienced cuts to social security.
One eye on the ballot box
These changes in poverty were driven by government spending decisions. Politicians always have one eye on the next election and they know taxation and social security policies are among the most powerful tools a government can use to win votes. Citizens reward incumbents with their vote when they feel like government decisions have made them better off. Indeed, David Laws, a Liberal Democrat cabinet minister in the coalition government, said he believed that the Conservatives did not cut pensions precisely because they viewed older voters as “a key electoral target”.
Identifying a voter base
We can tell which voters are a priority for governments by looking at the electoral coalitions that brought them to power. To show how these electoral coalitions changed, I measured the difference between the proportion of pensioners and non-pensioners, by income level, that voted for the Conservative-led government in 2010 and Labour in 1997.
I measured votes for the Conservative-led government by weighing the votes for the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in line with the number of seats each party won in 2010 (84% Conservative, 16% Liberal Democrat). Using votes only for the Conservative party in the calculation would also give almost identical results.
Nearly all pensioners were more likely to vote for the Conservative-led government in 2010 than they were New Labour in 1997. Of the working-age population, only those on high incomes were more likely to vote for the parties that ended up forming the coalition government. Middle and lower-income non-pensioners were less likely to vote for them.
Source: Understanding Society.
The Conservatives then channelled money through the taxation and social security system to the groups that voted for them.
How electoral decisions shape lives
We can see the impact of this strategy when we look at the combined effect of government changes to taxation and social security payments on people’s incomes between 2011 and 2019.
High-income non-pensioners who were more likely to vote for the Conservative-led government received tax cuts and, similarly, pensioners received higher social security payments. Middle and lower-income non-pensioners, who were less likely to support the Conservatives, had their social security payments dramatically cut.
Source: UKMOD Microsimulation Model.
The effects of this redistribution were large. Tax cuts for high-income voters and social security cuts for low-income non-pensioners led to a substantial rise in inequality and poverty. By calculating what each person would have earned if there hadn’t been a change in government in 2010, I estimated the impact that electoral incentives had on the evolution of inequality and poverty. I found that, had there been no change in government in 2010, inequality would be lower and 784,000 fewer people would be in poverty.
Source: UKMOD Microsimulation Model & Author’s Calculations.
Crucially, however, the Conservatives did not treat all low-income people alike. They had a clear electoral incentive to reward pensioners, who were more likely to have voted for them. Their reward was higher pensions that stopped pensioner poverty rising. There would, however, be a quarter of a million fewer children living in poverty had there been no change in government in 2010.
This research shows spending decisions often relate heavily to which voters brought a government to power. As much as we’d like to see a massive boost for people left destitute by this pandemic, post-crisis spending decisions may actually depend more on what these voters demand.
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In Italian cuisine, ragù (pronounced [raˈɡu]) is a meat-based sauce that is commonly served with pasta. An Italian gastronomic society, Accademia Italiana della Cucina, documented several ragù recipes. The recipes’ common characteristics are the presence of meat and the fact that all are sauces for pasta.
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Cardi B is not happy about the comments Nicki Minaj made on Queen Radio Monday (October 29). During the episode, the 'Chun-Li" rapper alleged that her friend, Love & Hip Hop star Rah Ali, "beat Cardi's a** real bad" during the infamous Harper's Bazaar ICONS party on September 7.
The "I Like It" star took to Instagram to post 11 (yes, 11) videos calling out Minaj and her "lies."
“This is the thing, Nicki Minaj. How you say I got ragged by Rah Ali when there is so many footages of that night, every single angle, and where am I getting ragged at?” the 26-year-old began her first of several video clips. “Why would I be sitting in line here like, ‘Oh yeah, I did this, I did that,’ knowing that the next day there was going to be so much footages of that same night.”
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She then accused Minaj of lying...a lot. “You lie so much you can’t even f***ing keep up with your f***ing lies,” she said before referencing the emcee's money offer to anyone who has leaked footage of the fight. “First you say you got the footage, the camera man got the footage, but now you talking about you want to pay someone a $100,000 to give you the footage?”
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About 10% of hospital patients face a new illness during their stay – often after coming in contact with equipment embedded in the fetus and surfaces. This results in about 100,000 deaths per year in the US alone; Worldwide, 700,000 people die each year as a result of drug-resistant infections, including tuberculosis, HIV and malaria. The World Health Organization has recently described antibiotic resistance as "global health urgency."
One company, BioCote, manufactures antimicrobial commercial purchase paint, offering a promising mechanism to fight the so-called "superbugs"
In response, the US Food and Drug Administration and several leading paint companies united around the development of a variety of antimicrobial coatings that can be applied to medical equipment and consumables. These additives are first introduced into paint, ink or varnish during the manufacturing process; The paint is then applied to a surface that, after drying, becomes resistant to microbes, molds and fungi. A company, BioCote, manufactures commercially available antimicrobial paint, offering a promising mechanism to combat so-called "super teeth": antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can infect hospital surfaces and damage patients who are already immunocompromised. Ironically, it is also known that chemicals in antibacterial products – gels, antiseptics and hand disinfectants – used to purify hospitals and clean techniques encourage these antibacterial strains, killing both good and and bad bacteria. After their appearance in the early 20th century, antibiotics have saved countless lives by eradicating diseases caused by harmful bacteria; but just as excessive use of drugs has weakened their efficacy, antimicrobial paint is not a safe measure.
It is safe to say that while they do not rely exclusively on one method, hospitals can now add.
Crypt-anchors can put an end to counterfeit medicines
Fraud costs more than £ 3 tons a year for the world economy. From corporate corruption to fake electronics to identity theft, double-handed distribution is widespread in almost every industry, and healthcare also includes: in some countries almost 70% of some drugs are fake.
Earlier in February, the World Health Organization announced that a fake drug from leukemia packed in the UK market to look like a genuine drug Iclusig is circulating in Europe and America. And doctors have found traces of ecstasy and Viagra ingredients in pills that are presented as an anti-malarial medicine. It turns out that guaranteeing the authenticity of the medicine is almost as difficult as monitoring bank accounts or consumer electronics for several reasons. Complex supply chains, which are made up of dozens of suppliers in many countries, make it difficult to prevent drug abuse. The legal medicine market goes beyond that of illicit drugs, a fact that is not lost by drug dealers; and when the patient does not recover from having taken a (dummy) drug, doctors usually blame the disease rather than the pill. A drop of water visibly activates the code, assuring users that the pill is both authentic. and Safe to Consumption
This can be changed soon, thanks to a team of IBM researchers crypt-anchors : counterfeit-proof digital prints that can be embedded in products and related with a block prove their authenticity (the block is a growing list of digital records called blocks linked by encrypted code).
Smaller than grain sand, these crypt-anchors can take many forms: small edible computers or optical codes that can be placed on pills to separate from counterfeit drugs, on which diamonds are measured and marked to distinguish them from imitation stones.
Researchers have suggested an example of embedding crypto-anchor in an eerie shade of magnetic ink that can then be used to paint a malaria pill. One drop of water will visibly activate the code, assuring users that the pill is both authentic and safe to eat.
Since their identification codes can not be duplicated or copied, the crypt-anchors are highly protected by offering patients, doctors and healthcare providers
BRCK: Free Public Wifi
We accept internet connectivity for granted , but many people do not have reliable access to a network connection. Breaks in digital communication during a health crisis can have devastating consequences: omitted doses, inaccurate records, poor decision-making, medical errors, and incomplete information on outbreaks of disease.
In Africa, a continent whose 1.1 billion inhabitants mostly rely on mobile internet, connectivity is extremely poor; The problem is compounded by the fact that users are often trying to access content on a remote server somewhere in the United States or Europe. restricted areas. The Content Delivery Network (CDN), instead of a simple hardware router, effectively replaces blurring – and expensive – cellular data, allowing users to view the internet and social media at no extra charge, as anyone in the Mozaza signal range can connect to the Internet
The Moja server network hosts Facebook, Netflix, and Youtube content, but it's easy to see how this improved connection can have a huge impact on disease management: Remote users will be able to send one to others d and share information in real way. Thus, BRCK's hardware is designed to face the challenges of weather and the environment: It works through robust, waterproof aluminum routers with multiple power ports, ensuring that applications run smoothly, even when conditions are difficult.
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Ta'ziyah: The Sunnah Method of Consoling the Bereaved
Hadrat Mawlana Muhammad Saleem Dhorat hafizahullah Read 12566 times
Islām is a way of life, which guides and assists mankind through every situation. For dealing with moments of grief too, Allāh ta'ālā has conveyed instructions through His Messenger sallallāhu 'alayhi wasallam. There can be few instances that cause greater grief than the death of a loved one. Following the instructions brought by Rasūlullāh sallallāhu 'alayhi wasallam will help lessen the grief and sorrow of the bereaved immensely, and make those who console them worthy of great reward. This is done through the Sunnah of ta'ziyah.
What is Ta'ziyah?
Ta'ziyah means to console, comfort and give solace to someone who is suffering grief. The Islāmic concept of ta'ziyah at the time of someone's death is one of consoling the bereaved with such words or actions as will remove or lessen their grief. The aim of ta'ziyah is to strengthen the broken-hearted and give them hope at a time when their hope may be waning; it is to lighten the load of the bereaved. To say or do things that augment or reawaken grief is not ta'ziyah, it is taklīf (giving hardship to others).
Virtues of Ta'ziyah
There are great rewards for ta'ziyah. Rasūlullāh sallallāhu 'alayhi wasallam said:
A Muslim who consoles his brother will be clothed with garments of honour by Allāh on the Day of Qiyāmah. (Al-Bayhaqī)
Whoever consoles a bereaved mother will be dressed with a (special) garment in Paradise. (At-Tirmidhī)
Whoever consoles an afflicted person will receive the same reward [as the sufferer will upon his sabr]. (At-Tirmidhī)
When a Muslim is afflicted with a difficulty of any sort, be it the loss of a loved one or any other hardship, and he bears it patiently then Allāh ta'ālā rewards him for his patience. From this hadīth we learn that one who consoles an afflicted person receives the same reward that the afflicted person receives due to his patience. The patience exercised by a bereaved person, and consequently the reward, is obviously great, therefore the reward of someone who consoles the bereaved through the sunnah of ta'ziyah is also great.
How to Carry Out Ta'ziyah
There are no set words for ta'ziyah. One should visit the bereaved and console them, bearing in mind the following points: (Ta'ziyah can also be performed over the phone if necessary or by letter.)
a) Encourage patience, reminding the bereaved of the virtues of patience.
b) Make du'ā for the bereaved, asking Allāh ta'ālā to grant them reward in return for their loss. A du'ā that can be read is:
A'dhamallāhu ajrak, wa ahsana 'azā'ak, wa ghafara li mayyitik.
Translation: May Allāh ta'ālā increase your reward, and grant you good consolation, and forgive your deceased.
Note: In cases where the deceased is a minor, not yet bāligh, the last part of the du'ā (wa ghafara li mayyitik) is omitted, as the question of forgiveness for a minor does not arise. The parents should also be reminded that Rasūlullāh sallallāhu 'alayhi wasallam said that when a child passes away he intercedes for his parents before Allāh ta'ālā and takes them into Jannah.
c) Make du'ā for the deceased, an act that will bring cheer to the hearts of the bereaved.
d) Mention the positive aspects of the situation for both the bereaved and the deceased. Ibn 'Abbās radhiyallāhu 'anhu says that at the time of his father's death, a bedouin was able to console him as no one else had been able to. The bedouin recited a poem, the last part of which was: 'Better for you than 'Abbās is the reward you will receive after him, and Allāh is better than you for 'Abbās.'
Through these words the grieving son was reminded that although he had suffered a loss, the gain brought by patience is superior to the loss. He was then reminded that his father may have lost the company of his son, but he had gone to meet his Creator. What is better for 'Abbās radhiyallāhu 'anhu, being with his son or being with Allāh ta'ālā?
e) The meaning of the verse 'to Allāh we belong, and to Him we will return' should be explained. We all belong to Allāh ta'ālā, so when he takes one of us away we should not complain. And although we become separated from a loved one, it is only a temporary separation, for we will soon be returning to them. At the demise of his grandson, Rasūlullāh sallallāhu 'alayhi wasallam consoled his daughter with the words:
Inna lillāhi mā akhadha wa lahū mā a'tā, wa kullun 'indahū bi 'ajalim-musammā, faltasbir waltahtasib.
Translation: Whatever Allāh takes is His, and whatever He gives is His, and everything has an appointed time. So be patient and seek rewards. (Al-Bukhārī)
For the deceased, it is simply a case of their appointed time having arrived; as for those left behind, it is a time to be patient and acquire great reward as a result.
f) Inform the bereaved that you intend to do some optional good deeds and send the reward to the deceased. This will please and comfort the bereaved.
g) When going for ta'ziyah do not enquire into details of the illness or circumstances that preceded the death.
The Time for Ta'ziyah
According to the Sharī'ah, there are only three days for ta'ziyah, i.e. it should only be carried out within the first three days after the death has occurred. There is an exception for people who live far away, or are out of the country or sick and so are unable to attend within the first three days: they may come for ta'ziyah even after three days. The intent of the Sharī'ah is to allow people to forget their grief, not have them sitting around nursing it indefinitely. For this reason, it is sunnah for an individual to go only once for ta'ziyah.
The fuqahā have written that as soon as the burial has been completed, the bereaved should get back into the normal routine of their lives, one of its benefits being that it prevents the prolonged coming and going of visitors, which only serves to keep the grief alive when it should be forgotten.
It is sunnah for neighbours or friends to prepare food for the immediate family of the deceased during their moment of grief. This should be done for one day, though it is also permissible to do so for the full three days. The objective is to lighten the burden of the bereaved and ensure that food is available for them at a time when they may be too distraught to keep track of mealtimes.
Sending Reward for the Deceased
Another important point to remember during the time of bereavement is īsāl-uth-thawāb. This means to perform some optional good deed, e.g. tilāwah of the Qur'ān, tasbīh, sadaqah or nafl salāh, and then to ask Allāh ta'ālā to send its reward to the deceased. When hearing of someone's demise, along with ta'ziyah, one's time is best spent in īsāl-uth-thawāb. The fuqahā have written that sadaqah (giving in charity) is the best way of doing īsāl-uth-thawāb, one reason being that by spending on something that will be of lasting benefit to people, the deceased will earn a perpetual reward.
These points cover the sunnah method of ta'ziyah. It is a simple and effective way of helping those suffering loss. Any other practices or customs that may be carried out in the name of ta'ziyah are baseless.
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Republican Senators Want To Question Trump’s Russian Translator On Putin Meeting
BY Steph Bazzle July 18, 2018
The idea may have started with Democratic Senator Jeane Shaheen, but support for a hearing with Trump’s interpreter from his private meeting with Putin is growing, now including multiple Republican legislators.
Photo Credit Kremlin via Wikimedia Commons
While Trump’s words in the public press conference left America reeling, we can only speculate on what was discussed or promised in the meeting between Trump and Putin.
Only one American citizen joined Trump and Putin in the room, and many see her as the only hope for the U.S. ever learning what took place behind closed doors.
The push for an interview with interpreter Marina Gross began with Senator Shaheen, who, on Tuesday, called for a hearing.
I’m calling for a hearing with the U.S. interpreter who was present during President Trump’s meeting with Putin to uncover what they discussed privately. This interpreter can help determine what @POTUS shared/promised Putin on our behalf.
— Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (@SenatorShaheen) July 17, 2018
However, the demand has now grown, with several Democratic senators and at least two Republicans supporting the idea.
According to CNN, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake(R) has said he would support sharing the interpreter’s notes from the meeting in a classified session, available to those congressional committees whose decisions could be affected by the information.
Bob Corker (R, Tenn.) has gone further, saying he’s actively looking into precedent and determining whether either a hearing or a review of the translator’s notes would be permissible.
Corker has spoken openly about his disappointment over Trump’s involvement with Vladimir Putin, and about this meeting in particular.
The dam is finally breaking. Thankfully.
As the president taxes Americans with tariffs, he pushes away our allies and further strengthens Putin.
It is time for Congress to step up and take back our authorities.
We have legislation to do that. Let’s vote.
— Senator Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) July 17, 2018
According to Business Insider, Marina Gross has served as an interpreter for U.S officials since at least 2008 and can be seen in photos working alongside First Lady Laura Bush.
So far, the only hints that the American people have about what might have been discussed between Trump and Putin are an announcement from Russia suggesting that the two came to an agreement on matters of national security, and one tweet from Trump about North Korea.
According to Newsweek, Russia announced Tuesday that the country’s Defense Ministry is ready to take action on agreements made between Trump and Putin Monday, mentioning Syria and specifically referring to:
…practical implementation of the agreements in the sphere of international security.
Trump, on the other hand, announced that Russia is going to “help with North Korea.”
….Russia has agreed to help with North Korea, where relationships with us are very good and the process is moving along. There is no rush, the sanctions remain! Big benefits and exciting future for North Korea at end of process!
Barring a recording or a sworn statement from an interpreter, there is nothing to confirm or refute any claim either leader may make about what was said in the private meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
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EU's chief Brexit negotiator anxious about negotiations
September 07, 2020 18:14·
UK ready for any outcome of post-Brexit trade negotiations with EU – Johnson
Another EU diplomat, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, echoed that in referring to Britain's divorce deal with the bloc a year ago:"Without correct implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement, I can not imagine the EU would conclude a treaty with a country that does not abide by its treaty commitments".
European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen known as the United Kingdom to order, saying on Monday (September seventh) that it was required "underneath worldwide legislation" to respect the EU withdrawal settlement signed with Brussels."I belief the United Kingdom authorities to implement the Withdrawal Settlement, an obligation underneath worldwide legislation and a prerequisite for any future partnership", she tweeted.
In a statement on Monday, Johnson gave an EU summit on 15 October as the deadline for an EU-UK trade deal to be agreed in order to be ratified before the UK's transitional period expires at the end of 2020.
Talks on a new relationship from 2021 between the estranged allies plunged into a fresh crisis on Monday after Britain warned the European Union that it could effectively override the divorce deal it signed earlier unless the bloc agrees to a free trade deal by october 15.
The new legislation, called the Internal Market Bill, has not been published but is understood to override the legal force of the Withdrawal Agreement in areas including state aid and Northern Ireland customs.
It does this by effectively keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods. "Ursula von der Leyen isn't as interested in Brexit as [Jean-Claude] Juncker was", the source said, referring to the European commission president and her predecessor.
"So, there is no sense in thinking beyond that point".
"It looks that we are only at the beginning of a painful correction lower in the pound", said Valentin Marinov, head of Group-of-10 foreign-exchange strategy at Credit Agricole SA, who sees the pound dropping to US$1.20 in the event of no deal.
Michael Cohen’s Memoir Features Disturbing Stories About Life With Trump
Trump was keen to court them, and yet, according to Cohen, was deeply disparaging behind their backs. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden already warned that Trump would employ unsavory tactics.
The British government had said it wanted a "zero tariff, zero quota" regime.
Britain's chief Brexit negotiator says Britain wants "to get back the powers to control our borders and that is the most important thing". "It's interesting the leak appeared in the Financial Times, which has an global audience", the European Union diplomat said.
This week will see the final phase of the negotiations, with Lord Frost's team calling for "more realism" from the European Union to break the deadlock and meet the transition period deadline for a comprehensive bilateral deal.
"We'd much rather have a deal and that's why we're continuing these negotiations with the EU". They require time to solve.
Johnson will say negotiators will continue to work hard to try to close a deal.
MEPs in Brussels attacked Mr Johnson.
Former leader of the Lib Dems Lord Menzies Campbell accused Boris Johnson of "throwing his toys out of the pram" in Brexit negotiations, warning it holds no weight with the EU.
"Instead of taking Northern Ireland hostage again, it would be better that you keep your word and stand by the Withdrawal Agreement. The principle behind the protocol of checks on some of those goods entering through Northern Ireland ports is in the Northern Ireland protocol and we remain committed to it".
Leinster overcome Munster to claim slot in Pro 14 final
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Navy launches search after sailor goes missing from aircraft carrier
The Nimitz and the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton were conducting search and rescue operations . Navy officials have limited port calls because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chelsea Completes $91 Million Signing Of Kai Havertz From Bayer Leverkusen
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YouTube rising star Ethan Is Supreme tragically dies aged 17
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Fati makes history as Spain thump Ukraine
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Kerala Ambulance Driver Arrested For Allegedly Raping Teen Covid Patient
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Serena Williams survives Sloane Stephens in third-round U.S. Open test
I just try to think about how fortunate I am to have been in this position and, honestly, to be Serena ". Williams beat Sloane Stephens of US 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the fourth round of the tournament.
78 people have tested positive for COVID-19 at University at Buffalo
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Murder investigation under way after man killed and seven injured in Birmingham
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Five porters allegedly detained by China's PLA in Arunachal Pradesh
So kindly request to the state government and Indian Authority to take immediate action to bring these boys back to their home. Few months earlier, a similar incident happened. "A befitting reply must be given to PLA".
Rescuers search Beirut rubble for second day after pulse detected
On Friday morning, rescue workers were slowly removing debris with their hands and shovels digging a hole in the building. After hours of searching, the work was suspended briefly before midnight, apparently to search for a crane.
Tech leads United States stocks’ biggest rout since June
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Asteroid approaching: A "probable danger" 2010 FR asteroid flies over Earth today
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HOA, Condo, co-op corruption, fraud, theft roundup (Aug 2017)
August 28, 2017 deborahgoonan affordable housing, Corruption, Fraud & theft, HOA Community Association Disputes & Legal Matters, Management companies Comments Off on HOA, Condo, co-op corruption, fraud, theft roundup (Aug 2017)
Money in the form of many large bills
Prosecutor: Hasbrouck Heights Property Manager Stole $100G From Condo Group (NJ)
Hasbrouck Heights Patch
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ — A borough man has been charged with embezzling more than $100,000 from a Bergen County condominium association.
Raymond Gonzalez, 62, was charged with theft and two counts of forgery, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal announced Wednesday.
The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office received a complaint in March 2016 that Gonzalez, the owner and operator of RPM Management, had accessed and stole money from the association, Grewal said in a news release.
Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Financial Crimes Unit discovered that from 2011 to 2016 had access to credit account opened for the association, Grewal said.
https://patch.com/new-jersey/hasbrouckheights/hasbrouck-heights-man-embezzled-more-100k-condo-association-prosecutor
When a NJ condo association gave the manager access to its credit accounts, the money started to disappear. It always amazes me how these alleged thefts carry on for several years before anyone on the board catches on.
Aventura property manager accused of stealing money from cash vending machine (FL)
Donovan Staley, 33, also schemed to defraud owner of Safety Electric, police say
By Amanda Batchelor – Senior Digital Editor
Posted: 4:09 PM, August 23, 2017
Updated: 4:09 PM, August 23, 2017
AVENTURA, Fla. – A property manager for a condominium building in Aventura was arrested Tuesday for stealing money from a cash vending machine in a laundry room and for attempting to defraud the owner of Safety Electric, authorities said.
According to an arrest report, the owner was contacted by the Admiral Port’s building engineer to repair an emergency electrical situation.
https://www.local10.com/news/crime/aventura-property-manager-accused-of-stealing-money-from-cash-vending-machine
This is one of those rare cases where a condo manager and a service vendor for the association were actually caught in a kickback scheme. The article is a bit unclear, but it appears the owner of Safety Electric blew the whistle on Mr. Staley.
Agent Accused of Affordable Housing Fraud (CA)
Back in 2008, a local real estate agent purchased a below market rate (BMR) one-bedroom condo on the eighth floor of the newly built SoMa Grand for $221,698.
As part of the purchase agreement for the affordable unit, the agent signed an affidavit affirming that he would occupy unit #812 as a principal place of residence and acknowledged that “BMR units are to be owner-occupied and never used as investment or rental property” per the terms of the affordable housing program.
But according to another housing related lawsuit filed by San Francisco’s City Attorney this morning, the agent, Gregory Garver, had rented the unit to a tenant from 2012 through mid-2016 for $2,400 a month.
http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2017/08/real-estate-agent-accused-of-affordable-housing-fraud.html
Many expensive cities in the U.S. now require developers to set aside a few units in every condo (or apartment) project for meeting affordable housing goals. These policies serve only a fraction of the actual need for affordable housing. That’s what makes this report particularly maddening. A real estate agent allegedly took advantage of his license and inside knowledge to pose as the owner-occupant of an affordable condo. Then, after he owned the unit, he rented it out at market rates to tenants, and, more recently, has attempted to sell the unit at a tidy profit.
Cops: Condo worker stole $20,000 worth of items (FL)
Thursday, August 17th 2017, 10:25 am EDT
When a Singer Island man returned home after a month of traveling, he said he noticed many things missing but no signs anyone forcefully broke into his condo.
Police tracked the man’s gold bracelet engraved with his name on it and discovered Steven Kos pawned it, according to a Riviera Beach Police arrest report.
Kos is an employee at East Pointe Condominiums in the maintenance department, the condo association’s manager said.
A detective checked the names of employees at East Pointe with access to keys for the condos into a pawn database. When the detective searched Kos’s name, he said he saw Kos pawned several items matching the description of items reported stolen by the victim.
Police say the bracelet, worth $5,000, was pawned for $1,365. They believe Kos also pawned the man’s 18k gold platinum ring, worth $1,700, for $150.
http://www.wflx.com/story/36157677/cops-condo-worker-stole-20000-worth-of-items
A condo is carefree living, right? Just lock and go. No worries. Or…maybe not. In this case, an employee of a Florida condominium with access to keys, allegedly let himself into a condo when the unit owner was out of town, then stole several valuable items and sold them to local pawn shops. Makes you wonder if the condo board (or manager) conducts background checks for their hired help.
Fort Collins accountant sentenced for felony theft (CO)
Sarah Jane Kyle, sarahkyle@coloradoan.com Published 12:46 p.m. MT Aug. 17, 2017 | Updated 1:37 p.m. MT Aug. 17, 2017
A Fort Collins accountant who pleaded guilty to felony theft in June was sentenced to community service and probation this week.
Meredith Kanter, also known as Molly Hoff, pleaded guilty to felony theft in June after two criminal cases alleged she stole money from a Fort Collins nonprofit and a condo association.
In addition to paying restitution to both clients, Kanter was sentenced to 300 hours of community service and three years of supervised probation for both cases.
n June, Kanter pleaded guilty to an amended count of theft, a Class 4 felony, in a case alleging she wrote herself five fraudulent checks from Windtrail Park Condo Association in 2016. According to Kanter’s arrest affidavit, issued Dec. 20, Kanter’s business was contracted for the association’s bookkeeping services at the time and had been since April 2013.
http://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2017/08/17/fort-collins-accountant-sentenced-felony-theft/577156001/
A former bookkeeper for a condo association admitted to writing more than $6,000 in fraudulent checks to herself. The condo association ordered an audit when they learned Meredith Kanter (aka Molly Huff) was facing charges for stealing from a local nonprofit. But if the condo association had not done the audit, there’s no telling how much more money would have gone missing before it was discovered. Another report that proves the cost of an annual audit is money well spent.
Man who bought HOA-foreclosed homes faces federal fraud charges (NC)
Posted 2:18 p.m. today
Updated 7:17 p.m. today
WRAL
RALEIGH, N.C. — A Wake Forest man made more than $1 million by swooping down on homes in foreclosure and using an intricate shell game involving fraud, forgery and offshore companies, according to federal authorities.
Xavier Milton Earquhart faces 14 counts of bank fraud, five counts of engaging in monetary transactions involving criminally derived property and one count of aggravated identity theft. He is being held without bond in the Harnett County jail.
http://www.wral.com/man-who-bought-hoa-foreclosed-homes-faces-federal-fraud-charges/16855812/
It took three years, but federal investigators finally collected enough evidence to arrest Earquhart on multiple counts of fraud. They say he purchased titles to homes in HOA foreclosure, then filed fraudulent paperwork stating that mortgages were paid in full, when, in fact, they were not. However, the false paperwork was enough to fool mortgage banks into lending him more than $1 million dollars. The HOAs sold the properties for mere pennies on the dollar, but Earquhart was able to obtain sizable loans based on the market value of the homes. In the end, the rightful owners of these homes were kicked to the curb for small sums, all to support a complex scheme to defraud banks.
I-Team: Dozens of renters of HOA foreclosure properties evicted amid dispute over title ownership (FL)
Properties bring in huge profits with low costs
Adam Walser
11:24 PM, Jul 28, 2017
1:23 AM, Jul 29, 2017
TAMPA – In Florida, homeowners’ associations can foreclose on homes when owners don’t pay their dues…sometimes for as little as a few thousand dollars.
Investors who buy the liens get temporary titles and can rent those houses until banks foreclose.
But as the I-Team discovered, leasing these properties can pose plenty of potential problems for renters.
“It was a little over 1300 square feet. There’s a half bath on the bottom floor and two full baths on the main,” said Chelcie Miller, describing her former Carrollwood Rental townhome.
“We came over, looked at the house and fell in love with it,” said Jorge Taveras, describing the house he rented in Riverview.
But what started out as dream homes, eventually became nightmares.
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/i-team-dozens-of-renters-of-hoa-foreclosure-properties-evicted-amid-dispute-over-title-ownership
Another cautionary report for tenants. Beware of landlords like convicted felon Barry Haught. Haught and a former business partner purchased more than 100 homes at HOA foreclosures for very little money. Then they turned around and leased those homes to tenants, failing to disclose that the homes were also subject to bank foreclosure. When a bank forecloses, tenants are forced to vacate the home on short notice, within 30 days. When Haught and his business associate stopped working together, titles were transferred to Haught, who demanded a new lease from tenants who were already paying rent according to the former lease. In short, it is a terrible mess for unsuspecting tenants.
Former property manager gets jail time for Collingwood condo fraud (Ontario, Canada)
‘This is pure greed,’ says Justice Nancy Dawson
NEWS Aug 15, 2017 by John Edwards Collingwood Connection
A Springwater woman was sentence to about four-and-a-half years in jail for defrauding condominium corporations in The Blue Mountains, Barrie and Collingwood of more than $909,000.
On Monday, Justice Nancy Dawson sentenced Springwater Township native Rhonda McCarthy to 30 months for 18 counts of fraud over $5,000 and two years less a day for two counts of fraud under $5,000.
She was also given six years probation, ordered to pay restitution and a fine of about $909,000. McCarthy will also have to have pay a victim surcharge of $3,600 and will have six years to pay both this and the fine. She will not be allowed to work in a position where she is in control of money.
https://www.simcoe.com/news-story/7502109-former-property-manager-gets-jail-time-for-collingwood-condo-fraud/
Rhonda McCarthy was an employee of Illustrious Property Management for more than two decades. She was convicted in Ontario for stealing more than $900,000. For that methodical and heinous crime, McCarthy will serve up to 4 1/2 years in prison, 6 years on probation, and pay fines in addition to restitution. She covered up her crimes for years by shuffling money between dozens of her condo accounts.
Judge throws out $458,000 condo sale, says Clearwater attorney tricked bidders (FL)
By Susan Taylor Martin, Times Senior Correspondent Published: August 22, 2017
CLEARWATER — Pinellas County Circuit Judge Jack St. Arnold on Monday threw out the $458,100 sale of a gulf-front condo because of what he called an “unscrupulous” and “conniving” scheme to trick bidders at a foreclosure auction.
His ruling means that the owners of Orlando Realty Group will get back the money they bid on what turned out to be a second mortgage held by a company connected to Clearwater attorney Roy Skelton. Only later did the bidders discover that a different lender had a superior first mortgage and could soon foreclose, leaving them with no condo and out nearly a half million dollars.
While he rapped Orlando Realty for not doing sufficient due diligence before bidding, St. Arnold had especially harsh words for Skelton.
“Clearly you set a trap for unwary buyers,” the judge said.
http://www.tbo.com/news/business/realestate/judge-throws-out-458000-condo-sale-says-clearwater-attorney-tricked-bidders/2334631
This is a case of two opportunistic investors hoping to make a fortune on someone else’s misfortune. Once again, it involved HOA foreclosures in Florida. This time, a judge threw out a sale that involved a make-believe second mortgage default and an undisclosed first mortgage in foreclosure. You have to read the details to believe it.
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Energean finishes 3D offshore seismic survey in Montenegro
Montenegro's hydrocarbons agency has announced that Energean, the Greek oil and gas group, has completed a 3D seismic survey of two offshore natural gas blocks in the country's waters.
The 3D seismic survey began on 10 February and was completed in nine days. It was carried out by the Ramform Titan vessel of Norway's Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), a contractor of Energean.
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Ramfom Titan ship. Source: PGS
Currently, Energean has declared 100% working interest as is the sole operator of the Montenegrin offshore blocks 4218-30 and 4219-26, which cover a total area of 338 km² of shallow waters.
The blocks were officially awarded to Energean when the company and the Montenegrin government originally signed the concession agreement in March 2017.
The concession deal itself was signed by the Montenegrin government back in June 2016 and later approved by the parliament in December.
The 3D seismic survey forms part of a larger mandatory work programme covering the two blocks, which also involves geological and geophysical studies. Energean estimated in 2017 that the total cost of the initial exploration phase would be €4.4 million.
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Jurgen Klopp explains why Carlo Ancelotti’s Napoli can cause Liverpool problems despite civil war at the club
‘They will try everything and we expect them to absolutely be at their best.’
By Adam Lanigan
Updated October 14, 2020 5:26 pm
Liverpool’s German manager Jurgen Klopp takes part in a press conference (AFP via Getty Images)
Jurgen Klopp is expecting Napoli to cast aside their current problems and bring their best game to Anfield for tonight’s Champions League encounter.
Having lost twice to Carlo Ancelotti’s side in the three matches they have played, including a 2-0 away defeat in September, the Liverpool manager is right to be wary of the threat Napoli bring.
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But the Neapolitans have arrived on Merseyside with the club in the middle of a civil war.
Following a draw with Salzburg earlier this month, players refused to go on a training camp, which has sparked the anger of owner Aurelio De Laurentiis and the club’s supporters.
Wages have been frozen, players have been fined and the owner is determined to force out star names, like Belgian forward Dries Mertens and central defender Kalidou Koulibaly.
It has made the position of ex-Chelsea boss Ancelotti extremely difficult and results on the pitch have suffered. Runners-up in Serie A in the last two seasons, Napoli have won one of their last seven and are now 15 points behind leaders Juventus.
Read more: Liverpool team news: Expected 4-3-3 Champions League line-up vs Napoli
Despite all that, a game where a win would take them into the Champions League last-16 could be enough to spark a revival, according to Klopp.
“I met Carlo in Geneva on the Monday after the Manchester City game (at the Uefa managers’ meeting) and we had a little chat about it,” he says.
“Carlo didn’t tell me a lot and I didn’t ask a lot, but everybody can read what is in the newspapers. But he was in really good shape.
Carlo Ancelotti SSC Napoli coach at Stadio San Paolo on 9 November 2019 (Getty Images)
“Obviously it is all discussed in Italy, but it must feel like a relief for them to play a big game away and not be faced with all the other things.
“They will try everything and we expect them to absolutely be at their best.”
Tonight marks the 100th game Klopp has had in European competition, and one which has been marked by four finals, with three in four seasons at Liverpool.
It all started for him in 40-degree heat in Armenia in 2005 when in charge of Mainz, and despite his successes, it is something the German refuses to take for granted.
“Playing in Europe changes everything,” he admits.
“It’s really interesting, it opens your mind.
Read more: Liverpool’s Andy Robertson thanks late goals for Premier League unbeaten streak
“In Armenia, it was 40 degrees. Then in the next round, we played in Reykjavik in Iceland, and it was minus something in the summer as the wind was so strong.
“You have these experiences and you learn from them.
“If you cannot win the league and you cannot go for trophies, the target has to be Europe and international competition.
“We always enjoyed that a lot – the trips and all that stuff. It was just exciting. It still is exciting and I love it. That didn’t change.”
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Bill and Kay Wood
Homicide and Missing Person Case
NAME: James William “Bill” Wood (Homicide)
CRIME LOCATION: 2698 Highway R-63
Norwalk, IA
DCI CASE NUMBER: 2011-044536
CRIME DATE: July 30, 2011
NAME: Kaidena “Kay” Lozelle Wood (Missing)
DOB: January 16, 1939
MISSING FROM: 2698 Highway R-63
HAIR: Gray or Partially Gray
SCARS/MARKS: Vertical abdominal scar
PROSTHETICS: Hearing aids in both ears
WARREN COUNTY CASE NUMBER: 11M0878
NamUs MP # 11855
INCIDENT TYPE: Involuntary disappearance/suspected homicide
MISSING SINCE: July 30, 2011
Case Summary compiled by Jody Ewing
Late on Saturday night, July 30, 2011, the home of Bill and Kay Wood of rural Norwalk, Iowa, was destroyed by fire. Around midnight and into early Sunday morning, five fire departments responded to 2698 Highway R-63 in Greenfield Township just south of Des Moines’ city limits and the Des Moines International Airport.
The fire extinguished, the couple were nowhere to be found. They’d last been seen midmorning Saturday at an auction house in Stuart, Iowa. An auction flyer depicted a number of pricey items — everything from old guns and diamonds to Indian artifacts and fancy furniture.
Courtesy photo KCCI Des Moines
The Wood’s red Chevy pickup turned up at a Kansas City, Mo., apartment complex the day after the fire.
On Sunday, July 31, 2011, Bill and Kay’s red Chevrolet Silverado pickup turned up at a ritzy apartment complex in Kansas City, Missouri. Witnesses told detectives they’d seen the man with the pickup, and described him as being in his late 40s to early 60s with a slender build, short gray and white hair, and between 6 feet 2 inches and 6 feet 6 inches tall.
That same day, officials discovered a body amongst the charred remains of the couple’s home.
DCI agents began going door to door to question neighbors Monday morning, August 1, 2011, and Division of Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Michael Motsinger announced Monday afternoon that the body found was burned too badly to be identified during an autopsy conducted that afternoon.
DNA testing would be done to see if the body was that of Bill or Kay Wood.
Motsinger also said the fire had been termed suspicious, something the community already suspected.
Warren County in Iowa
Norwalk in Warren County
Two hundred miles south, authorities sought out the “person of interest” seen at the Kansas City apartment building. Bill and Kay’s relatives and a number of volunteers spent days searching the area surrounding the Wood’s home.
Young at Heart and In Love
Prior to their marriage, Bill and Kay had both been widowed. They’d just celebrated their third wedding anniversary July 14 — only 16 days before Bill’s death and Kay’s disappearance.
Family members described them as deeply in love, often holding hands like teenagers.
They’d chosen to live in Bill’s home in rural Norwalk south of Des Moines, which quickly filled up with mementoes of each of their lives. Kay — who’d worked at Dahl’s grocery store on Fleur Drive — collected china dolls. Bill, a retired ironworker currently employed with J.W. Perry, Inc. in Des Moines, kept a 1940s gas pump in the front yard and also had a Model A Ford he drove in parades.
J.W. Perry General Manager Andrew Knott told KCCI that Wood’s co-workers were “somber,” and said the fact that Wood was about to turn 80 told a lot about him. “The fact that he’s still working at his age,” Knott said.
Co-workers had planned a surprise 80th birthday party for Bill, scheduled for the following weekend. Bill would have turned 80 years old August 5.
Devastating News
Bill Wood (Courtesy David Dearinger)
On Friday, August 19, 2011, the Iowa Department of Public Safety announced in a press release that the body found in the home had been positively identified as that of Bill Wood.
Autopsy reports showed Wood died of multiple gunshot wounds, though he was not shot in the head as an initial press release stated.
When DCI agents informed family members of their findings that Friday morning, Bill Wood’s brother Henry Wood told KCCI that everyone broke down.
“It’s one thing to think it, but it’s another when somebody comes out and says this is what happened,” Bill Wood said. Wood said it also hurt to hear his brother died in such a violent way.
“It really hurt to think, you know, somebody shot my brother,” he said in the KCCI interview. “Now we know that he was shot, I guess we find some comfort in that that would be better than burning. We hope it was quick. We hope it was painless.”
Kay Wood (Courtesy Iowa Dept. of Public Safety)
Wood said the family would never have closure until Kay was found.
In his comments to the press, DCI Agent Motsinger said officers working the investigation were continuing their efforts to locate her.
“We remain hopeful a suspect will be found and encourage anyone with information to contact DCI or the Warren County Sheriff’s Office,” Motsinger said.
Kay’s daughter Patty Shaw expressed the family’s lost hope after the DCI announced the findings.
“I think in our hearts we were hoping they were together just because you want that,” said Shaw. “If they’re going to go, you want them to be together.”
“He liked nice stuff”
Three weeks after the fire, why questions continued to plague the couple’s family. They explored possible scenarios related to the Stuart auction.
“I think there is a really big chance that something happened in Stuart,” Henry Wood told KCCI in a story that aired Aug. 22. “Bill probably has some antiques that are very rare. He liked nice stuff. He probably had expensive stuff. If he found something he wanted, he bought it.”
Courtesy photo DCI / KCCI Des Moines
Witnesses told detectives they’d seen a man with the Wood’s pickup, and described him as being in his late 40s to early 60s with a slender build, and short gray and white hair.
The family wondered if Bill and Kay’s love for expensive antiques somehow may have contributed to Bill’s death and Kay’s disappearance.
“Just somebody there that may have seen that they bought something expensive or they could’ve even been talking to somebody and mentioned what they have,” Bill Wood’s sister, Carolyn Harkin, told KCCI. “It has to be a robbery of some sort.”
Family members went to the Stuart City Hall where they posted sketches of the man police said was seen walking away from the Wood’s pick-up in Kansas City. The Iowa DCI still didn’t know the man’s identity.
A month dragged on with many unanswered questions.
Maintaining hope
The couple’s families told KCCI on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 that they’re doing what they can to not get caught up in the rumors surrounding the case.
“We have to continue to be focused and as composed as we possibly can be so we can hear everything that’s happening, see everything that’s happening…so that if someone does call we don’t get caught up in that call,” said Kay’s daughter, Lisa Harris.
Harris said she and her siblings are determined to find their mother and bring her home, regardless of whether it is to get her medical attention or to give her a proper burial.
They wait.
Reward Offered
On Monday, Oct. 10, 2011, the Wood’s families held a press conference announcing a reward fund they’d established. They hope a reward might motivate someone to come forward with information. The fund consists of both cash donations and pledges payable upon conviction.
If you would like to donate, visit woodrewardfund.com.
About James “Bill” Wood
James William “Bill” Wood, Sr., was born Aug. 5, 1931, in Spring Hill, Warren County, Iowa, to James F. and Grace L. (Williams) Wood.
He served as a Private Second Class with the US Army during the Korean War.
He died at his Norwalk, Iowa home Sunday, July 31, 2011, and his death ruled a homicide.
Courtesy photo RH, findagrave.com
Bill is buried in Webb Cemetery in Norwalk, Iowa.
Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m., Friday, August 26 at Overton Funeral Home in Indianola with burial following in the Webb Cemetery in rural Norwalk.
Those left to cherish his memory are his wife, Kay Wood; children, Mary (Steve) Garr of Bussey, IA, Jim (Dee) Wood of Marana, AZ, Doris (Ross) Allen of Libertyville, IA, Grace (Wes) Bonnett of Bussey, John (Tracie) Wood of Indianola, Melonie (Doug) Wood and Billy (Amee) Wood all of Des Moines; step-children, Mark Warywoda and Leann Warywoda both of Des Moines, Cathy (David) Neumann of Maine, Patty (Rod) Shaw of Des Moines, Rodney (Erica) Harris and David Harris both of Maine, Aleisa Harris of Des Moines and Mike Harrris of Spring Hill; 21 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; two great great-grandchildren; siblings, Glen (Marcia) Wood, Bob (Vicki) Wood, Marie Wilkens, Zelda (Doug) Dyer, Howard (Linda) Wood, Carolyn (Mark) Harkin and Henry (Jan) Wood.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Marylyn Wood; parents, Jim and Grace Wood; sister, Rosemary Jones; and grandson, LeRoy Benge.
Visitation was held from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, August 25, at Overton Funeral Home in Indianola with family present from 6 to 8 p.m. Memorials may be given to Mercy Hospice.
*Obituary courtesy Overton Funeral Home
Information Needed
Anyone with information concerning Bill Wood’s unsolved homicide or Kaidena Wood’s disappearance is asked to call Det. Sgt. Mike Morrison at the Warren County Sheriff’s Office at (515) 961-1122, or Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Special Agent Mike Rowe at (641) 342-6263.
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Iowa Department of Public Safety / Missing Person Information Clearinghouse
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NamUs — National Missing and Unidentified Persons System
James William “Bill” Wood, Sr. (1931 – 2011) — Find a Grave Memorial
Seven Years Later, Mysterious Homicide and Missing Person Case Remains Unsolved,” by Michael DaSilva, WHOTV.com, July 30, 2018
“Warren County Murder Still Unsolved After Four Years,” by Michael Dasilva, WHO-TV Channel 13, July 29, 2015
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73 Responses to Bill and Kay Wood
Meaghan Pike says:
The Auction company should be a place to really scope out. I used to date the owner’s son who is in prison now, and would work for his Dad when we dated to help set up auctions and help them run and pack up. At that point in time, I was a drug addict and all the help he hired to help at auctions were troubled people that were paid under the table. I also live in Stuart and have of course heard the gossip and the names people suspected. Since gossip is always a mixed bag of credible and not credible, you listen but don’t believe everything you hear. But all the names mentioned around town were people that had worked for the auction house, and their acquaintances. I hope they find Kay, and the killer/killers and give the family a small measure of justice.
This person of interest looks like Nick wood!
It’s almost April 2020 and no leads; no arrests; no justice; no nothing!
I remember hearing about this and thinking it must have been someone out of state. I couldn’t remember any other robberies / home invasions / murders that happened before or after this incident. The person or persons who done it had to be watching them for a while. I bet he even made, at least, 1 visit to the home to scope it out. I don’t know, but now it’s been 8-9 years later — does the DCI have any better possibilities?
I remember the video of the guy getting out of the stolen truck in Kansas City. Ok, did they check for ANY DNA? Did they find anything?? This makes me think there was more than 1 person involved. How did the guy get to their house? If they met at this Stuart Auction – any close surveillance cameras? Showing video of Bill & Kay’s vehicle with the same vehicle (suspicious) behind them?
It’s just so hard for me to believe that the DCI has no leads or any new news in the past several years.
I feel sorry for that family. I can’t even imagine. I hope the DCI is speaking with them every once in a while — even just to say they have no new leads; does anyone have anything new to share that they remember; or simply how are you guys doing? Would be a nice gesture that they care and are still actively pursuing this case.
I hope to turn on the news one day, and this mystery is found to be solved.
Tornado_Jay_Tee07 says:
I am sure this case is listed everywhere – but I am going to make sure it’s listed everywhere! My goodness…The DCI….. **SIGH**
Tornado_Jay_Tee07 or JAKE
Just saw 48 hours and the case of Isreal Reyes. Someone like this would explain why there have been no leads. This murderer committed suicide before they could identify all the people he killed. He had no pattern.
I hope they interviewed people at the auction. Seems to me someone may be going to specific auctions, watching buyers and later stalking and robbing people who are vulnerable. Very sorry for the family.
Even when it happened, after a certain number of months it gets classified as a cold case due to the fact that unless it’s solved within the first 48 hours, the likelihood that it will get solved diminishes greatly, thus the term “cold case”. This term in no way should be construed to mean that they will stop following up on leads etc. It does mean that the likelihood of attaining things such as physical evidence drops considerably after even just 48 hours.
Still looking for answers
So frustrated with no answers for Mom & William! There seems to be no help for us. I dont think DCI is doing a damn thing on this case. I dont like that we have no guidance and no real communication. I sometimes feel that they dont give a shit about the family left behind. Even more important, is it because they were elderly or do they have something to hide.
Kay & William deserve better than this!!!!!
Melonie Wood says:
Patty. Not a day goes by i dont think about them. I read so many different unsolved cases almost daily that have happened in iowa. Alot of elderly.. Seeing alot of cold cases solved recently but not there.. Alot gets brushed under the rug and my heart breaks.. So much was out there for them to follow. I dont believe it should have come to a dead end.. Dad and kay were killed on my youngest daughters birthday. So to us it is always a day of heartbreak. Instead of celebration. We need closure… I pray that some day it will ne our turn..
I know, Melonie…it is just so very unfair to Mom & William…they really do deserve better than what we have received from DCI and the gang. I know had this been one of their loved ones they’d have this case solved so fast but since it was just an elderly couple, they dont care. Well, I care and I know the rest of the family for both care. Why do we have to fight so hard to have them do their damn job.
I dont know.. I keep hoping there is something or somebody that has a better idea. We need the case opened again. Something isnt being said. Ive always wondered about those unsolved cases shows.
I have sent the story to a couple of them but no response from them, it’s like everyone has blinders on…hoping and praying we all have answer soon
All the media cares about is money and sensationalism. If we want to get through to them we need to get multiple people to send messages. We could put stuff out on the group on fb and the missing page.
And XOXO
Seven years with no publicly known advancements in this case makes me ill. What happened to Kay and Bill broke my heart from its beginning 7 years ago and still does. I cannot imagine Kay’s terror and that horror remains because my age and gender are so similar. I have had this case on Google email alerts for years so that I stayed updated on developments.
The long silence on this case is frustrating because we don’t know if stems from the beginnings of investigative policy to not share information, or if it is from a total lack of leads. Then there is a trend that my mind is conflicted about: our society’s lack of regard for the elderly. As an example, I was angered during this last winter’s flu epidemic that states and the CDC did not track hospitalizations and death rates among the elderly. My mind struggles with the seeming societal logic of that and a personal belief in each person’s value regardless of age. The length of time Bill and Kay’s family waited for autopsy results was among the initial aspects of this case that was appalling to me.
I have tried on several occasions to bring some light on this case; most recently with a YouTube channel that focuses on cold cases. That channel has 354,000 subscribers, but it again seems to not see merit in Kay and Bill’s case.
To the family, and those who loved Kay and Bill, my heart and prayers remain with you.
Helen you have no idea how much your statement means to me.. Thank you from me and my family for remembering and keeping them alive . Closure is all we ask for. People keeping this case alive instead of dead with thier file. From the bottom
of my heart thank you!!
Melonie. Wood
Thank you Helen
It is once again the upcoming anniversary of my father and stepmothers deaths. Also their grandaughter malinda jos 14th birthday. Every year i pray something new has been found. Please God let this come to rest. And bring us some closure. .. I love you… Melonie
IT’S BEEN ALMOST 7 YEARS GRANDPA! IT’S BEEN REALLY HARD WITH OUT YOU! NEXT WEEK I’LL BE 14!! BUT THAT WILL ALSO BE THE SAME DAY IT’S BEEN 7 YEARS WITH OUT YOU…. I’VE GROWN INTO A STRONG YOUNG WOMEN AND HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH IN LIFE. THINGS WERE SO TUFF GROWING UP AND I KNOW IF I WERE TO HAVE YOU EVERYTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN A BIT EASIER. I KNOW WRITING HERE DOESN’T CHANGE ANYTHING BUT IT TAKES A BIT OF THINGS OFF MY SHOULDERS. I HATE THE MAN WHO DID THIS. I TRULY AND DEEPLY DO. I WANT YOU BACK SO GOSH DARN BAD. IT’S SUCKS YOU’RE NOT AROUND. SO MUCH CRAP HAS HAPPENED. BUT I THANK YOU FOR THE YEARS I HAD WITH YOU AND ALL THE MEMORIES I HAVE TO CHERISH I LOVE YOU GRANDPA- with all love your grand daughter Malinda wood
jumma mubarak images says:
love you aunt kay and uncle bill, reading this article breaks my heart. :(
jumma mubarak says:
Can’t believe after all this time that adam Schumacher hasn’t been investigated
atif says:
I think they made a segment into a film already
THE BEAST OF BODMIN MOOR
Jim Farrell says:
I notice there is an “about” section for Bill but not one for Kay. What more can we know about her? It states they were widows when they met but that is all that is given.
I have heard throught the grapevine that the policehave been informed of who done it, gave the person who informed them alie detector test(which was passed), yet the police are doing nothing about it. Throughanother story its rumered that one of the people being accused has people in “authority” thatdoes her”bidding”. Meaning they let her do ANYTHING she wants. Furthermore, they arrest anyo e she tells them too. Shes got the freedom to kill someone or have someone thrown in jail. Which ever she feelslike doing.
You are right about it…I talked to them too…I had 411 about it …and detectives looked like if they did not care a bit…is there a number where a family member can be contacted…
I am Kays grandaughter contact me on fb my name is Brandi Weber my profile pic is gram and william.
Patrick Kerrigan says:
The thought I had was that this information should be shared with the people connected with Antique Roadshow. Also the same with other businesses that conduct antique auctions. Since there has been a another murder of a couple involved in antiques.
I can’t believe it’s been nearly six years
I remember the day I was told. It was two days after my brothers birthday. It was the night/morning after his party and I have the last card they gave to anybody in our family. I went through middle and high school remembering the pain and thinking through this. It still breaks my heart that somebody would do something this heinous and that it could’ve been because of some stupid auction.
I just want closure. Even if My great-grandma Kay is dead, and we can’t talk to her again, I just want to know what happened. The pain and speculation hurts and it messes people up. It messes families up and it makes mental health work.
I love them so much. I miss them so much.
I will go into my Senior year with pain in my heart that they can’t see me achieve my dreams like they wanted to.
And they they can’t see my brother do that either.
Jody Ewing says:
Jo, I’m so sorry your great-grandparents’ case remains unsolved and so many questions have gone unanswered. It’s a terribly heavy burden to bear, especially not knowing what happened to your great-grandma or the “whys” behind these crimes.
Please enter your senior year with confidence and determination to still achieve the goals and dreams you set out to achieve. (And this includes your brother.) These are “your” dreams – your lives – and they matter every much as your great-grandparents’ lives mattered. Don’t give up on seeing justice service in this heinous crime, but don’t let those responsible get away with destroying even more lives by holding you back.
Investigators have never given up on solving this case, and just because they’ve made no arrests doesn’t mean they don’t know who did it and aren’t working to make charges stick once they’re filed. They get only that one chance. Anyone who’s lost a loved one knows it alters our perception of the world in which we live, but it doesn’t mean you can’t still live yours to its fullest potential, just as those now gone would have wished.
My deepest condolences to all your family members.
SCNC says:
Can’t believe after all this time that adam Schumacher hasn’t been investigated…… at least given a hard, hard look….. fucking snake works at fed ex I think? Carma is a bitch…… every one is fooled by the church, family guy image….. well, behind the mask……..P*%#& of. S*#”
Adam Schumacher is he from Stuart area?
Warren prosecutors suck that’s why this hasnt been solved, if this were to happen in polk county alot more intensive investating would take place. I live less than few miles from the woods murder and this isnt the 1st time foul play happens across county lines it’s sad but an entire family was murdered 32 years down the street my folks live on few miles fro. The woods and an murdered woman body also found by hunters to complete separate case from the woods. I hope they find whoever’s did this but I also hope warren county finds better prosecutors
I heard about this horrific crime when it happened and extended my prayers to the family on the facebook page set up for Bill & Kay. Unfortunately, time and the lack of news updates has let this case drop from the public consciousness far too soon. I still think of Kay and what she and Bill must have endured that night, and what the families have withstand for the last 5 1/2 years. I continue to pray that Kay is found and that the family may be reunited.
skylinn smith says:
Did anyone call the number the man (Greg) left?
Diana Wilson says:
Jacob Jimerson says:
R.i.p grandpa wood
Penny McDonnell says:
Shared, and I will keep sharing.
Joshua Pepe says:
Dude the wife did it…
Iowa Cold Cases says:
Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion, but it’s extremely disheartening to see a comment like this. There is more to this story than can be published here, but rest assured, Kay was every bit as much a victim as her husband.
There was a case profiled on NBC’s Dateline tonight that had some similarities to this case. Gary and Jan Tyrrell were found murdered in their Springfield, MO. home in May of 2014. They were also avid antique collectors. It’s a longshot that the same killer was involved, but I’ll link to the case here:
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2015/08/26/porter-pleads-guilty-murder-springfield-couple/32425165/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2016/02/18/springfield-murder-missouri-tyrrell-nbc-dateline-coin-collector/80563020/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=
Kimberly Bridges says:
Love the way the judge said, “Everything they were, you are not.” What kind of idiot thinks someone will loan a person with a gambling addiction $250,000!!
Carol Kean says:
Long shot? Maybe, or maybe not. Thanks for this, Kim!
I love the way readers, “ordinary citizens,” make connections that case investigators might have no way of noticing without that extra pair of eyes. We need an algorithm that sifts through all the cases, looking for a common denominator. In this case, “avid antique collectors,” retired man and wife, Midwest, small town, might raise a red flag. From there, comparing tips from citizens – e.g., in 1975, one might report that a black pickup truck was seen in town on a certain day and it was unusual, a 1960-62 Chevy pickup, gloss black with short box and stepside, “chopped” (lowered to the ground), with chrome wheels, “not something one saw in Waverly every day.” The algorithm won’t know this unless some person reports it, and LE duly records it in the case files.
Readers, when you think of things like this, please contact whoever is named at the Cold Case site. Jody Ewing is one person working here (recently, I’ve stepped in trying to help), and she cannot follow up on every lead presented. By all means, keep posting here — someone else might have an “aha” moment and back you up on your insight or observation. But please pass on your information to the authorities in charge of the case; we cannot expect them to be aware of every new comment that shows up here, nor can we forward every comment ourselves. THANK YOU for reading and commenting.
Carol, i like your comment. However, in reviewing other cold cases we come across people that knew stuff about a victim’s plans before they disappeared or were murdered. However, since they were out of town, were never interviewed.
Also, their is a cold homicide from January 2001 in Iowa. The only information provided to this site, was the victim’s name, age, address, and he was slain. The agency wants information from the public.
I wonder how he was slain. How, was it determined. There are no details on how he was supposedly slain. Was, there signs of forced entry, or not. I don’t if the victim, was married, divorced, single. It appears they did not investigate, and they want us to tell them what happened, or investigate the case.
If I submitted a police report that said the victim Mr. X was slain, with no further information, my boss would want my badge and identification on his desk.
I wonder if they entered this case into the FBI’s VICAP system. Probably not, since they determined the facts. Where is Sgt. Joe Friday, when we need him.
Tanna says:
I was in prison with an girl named malissa who believed her brother had something to do with this and i have the card of an special agent he left me that im calling tomorrow
Did you get ahold of the detectives?
linda thurman says:
Dear Family of Bill and Kay,
Not a week goes by that Bill and Kay come to mind and I think of all of you and say a prayer. your in my thoughts always and praying that some peace will come to you soon.
sincerely, linda
It makes my heart happy that people still care about my family’s feelings as we still haven’t had complete closure, thank you.
malinda says:
i will see you again someday and when i do im never letting go i know you missed out on alot some bad things happend when you were gone but i thought of you to keep me sain mommy says hi and misses you with all her heart ariel did not cry but i know deep in side she did i miss you —mindy your grand daughter
Mindy, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and comments here, and please know how sorry I am for your loss. I honestly thought this case was one that would be swiftly solved, and it’s hard to believe it’s been more than four years since I first heard the news.
Grandparents play such a very special role in our lives, and it saddens me that you lost him at such a young age. Investigators are still working on this case and I have confidence they’ll be able to put all the pieces together and bring about justice in this senseless crime. All my best to you and your family. Jody at ICC
Please contact me 515-344-9533.
Did anyone ever contact you?
this is the grand daughter of bill im am now 11 and i miss him very much
Mary Huffman says:
Omg you girls have been through. So much. I was hoping that you had new info. So sorry she was awesome. Tears and prayers for the family God bless all of you. Think of you guys every time I see your names on Facebook. Don't give up hope.
jacob nathanial jimerson says:
one day ill see you again and i can tell you what you have missed in life so you can kick my ass. i love you grand pa -jacob
i miss you grand pa we all do
i think they need to re open the case i want them to find this guy i want this to end with the guy behind bars
Bill Kowalski says:
I’ve been worried about that poor woman since I heard about this. I can only imagine how awful it must be for her loved ones. I hope this is resolved soon. Even if the killer isn’t found, if he is at all decent he might leave some clue so her whereabouts can be found.
Lisa Lawshe says:
I was just wondering, if anyone has been able to read the police report on this case.
Brandy Bonnett says:
We realize that now that you are doing good by trying to spread the word…I was just upset at first to think that the case was considered cold, mainly because of the name of the website (Iowa Cold Cases)…It was just too soon for me to think that it was a shut case. Thank you for making this a more widely known case. :)
No problem at all, Brandy. We’re happy to help, and anxiously await any kind of news on your grandfather’s case as well as Kay’s. Everything about this case is so terribly sad and tragic. My heart goes out to you and your family. Please stay in touch.
Please tell me someone called you.
P — I have contacted Greg off-list. I also provided the DCI (this past March) with information an eyewitness shared with us. The sketch of the person of interest in this case is a clear match for one of the two individuals seen in Kansas City with the red pickup that belonged to Bill and Kay.
I’m thinking that even thought this case is still under investigation, like the Ashley Okland case, it was added to the website to create more widespread awareness of it.
That is exactly right, Eloise! Thanks for the comment!
Did anyone ever contact Greg @ the phone # he left. Noticed there are two comments
Just curious as to why you consider this a “cold case” when it is very much under investigation? Just because there has not been current articles with new information about the case does not mean that they are not working on leads or other angles. I am Bill woods grandchild and I don’t want family and friends to lose hope by seeing articles like these that consider the case “cold”.
I am wondering why this is considered a ‘cold case’?
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There are a set of math problems out there that are part of a thing called the “Millennium Prize.” It is basically a handful of exceptionally difficult math questions that each carry a $1 million prize for solving. In theory, a mathematician could wander into a college with a yellowed notebook and a solution to the problem and walk out (after many weeks of deliberation and a final agreement by the mathematics community) as a millionaire. Math has been done this way for a long, long time. Mathematicians would peddle their craft for cash and patronage since the time of Archimedes, the Greek math-man who solved a gold density problem using his bathtub and ran about the streets of Athens naked shrieking “eureka”. Kings would pay good money to have a man (pretty much only men did math for most of history) who would count and calculate for them, both for economic purposes and for curiosity’s sake.
Lookit that guy, he’s so cute when he’s excited to figure out that mass displaces water.
Towards the 1500s, algebra (from the Arabic word for “bringing together”, al-jabr) was beginning to be taught commercially and to the public. This meant that there were mathematicians who built careers teaching math to the public and required more students. One of the best ways to prove that you were a great mathematician was to hold a public contest of calculations with other mathematicians. Each person would be given a list of equations and a third party would hold the prize money, the mathematicians would scurry off and solve as many as they could and come back to claim the prize if they solved more equations or solved the equations faster. In their work, Robber Barons and Politicians in Mathematics: A Conflict Model of Science, Sociologists Randall Collins and Sal Restivo took to calling the Prize-Fighting mathematicians “Robber Barons” because the climate of contested solutions encouraged secrecy and theft. A mathematician’s formula would be his most prized possession because of the prize money and the prestige that it could bring. A winning solver would have money to burn and students lining up at their doors. Mathematicians who published their theories would no longer have an edge over other mathematicians in the contests, and would lose revenue and teaching income for it. This encouraged some shady business at times, and discouraged the publishing of math books. Two illustrative examples of the problems with “Robber Baron” math:
Fermat’s Last Theorem: in the margin of one of his Arithmetica books, the mathematician Pierre de Fermat wrote that he had solved one of the unsolvable questions of math! But that it was too large to fit in the margin. Then he died. Without writing it down. For the next three hundred and sixty years, mathematicians strained and failed their way to solving Fermat’s problem until we were able to solve it in 1994.
This is Pierre de Fermat, and he trolled the Math world from the grave.
Tartaglia and Cardano: A mathematician with a wicked stutter in the mid 1500s named Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (thought to be the first person to create the science of ballistics by applying math to cannonball trajectory) discovered a formula for cubic equations and set about absolutely crushing every math contest in Milan. When a down-and-out ex-physician named Girolamo Cardano heard about the winning Tartaglia, he dressed up as an aristocrat and offered patronage to Tartaglia. After what amounts to blackmail and threat of violence, Cardano was given the formula under the oath that he not tell anyone. Cardano happily galumphed about Italy using the formula to win contests until he ran into another mathematician named Annabale della Nave, who claimed to have come up with Tartaglia’s solution in the early 1500s. Cardano took that claim as justification to break his promise and published a book with Tartaglia’s life work in it. Cardano gave some credit to Tartaglia, but took the book’s profit for himself. Tartaglia rapidly produced a scathing counter to the book that tried to stake a claim in his own discovery, but was largely ignored.
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There are a handful of other examples of the math competitions going on throughout history, perhaps most notably Newton and Leibniz, but those stories are for another time. It should also be noted that competitions like those of the Renaissance did spur a great deal of innovation. Mathematicians would fall over themselves to find solutions to some of the greatest questions ever posed in their era. By the same key however, the limited incentive to share meant that theoreticians would be constantly weighing the lasting use of their theories with the single burst of cash that publishing a new book of theories would produce. In the end, many mathematicians would pass their theories along to students or publish a compendium of their work on their deathbed, so barring obvious examples like Fermat, the actual impact of laissez-faire math on progress is disputable.
Randall Collins and Sal Restivo, Robber Barons and Politicians in Mathematics: A conflict Model of Science, (The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol.8, No.2, Spring 1983), published by Canadian Journal of Sociology.
S.T.S. Historic Contests in Mathematics, (Mathematics News Letter, Vol.8, No.3, Dec. 1933), published by Mathematical Association of America.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Niccolo-Fontana-Tartaglia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Fontana_Tartaglia
Tartaglia – The Stammerer, (The Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 23, No. 6, October 1930) published by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
David Bergamini and the Editors of LIFE, LIFE Science Library: Mathematics (Time Inc., 1963).
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Policewoman Breaks Down After The Man She Was Handcuffing Spits in Her Eye
by Eboni BrownPosted on May 2, 2020 May 8, 2020
WE must really stay prayed up in times like these. Things are going to get worse before they get better. Temisan Oritsejafor, a 41 year old male who was out on bail at the time for a previous assault on a police officer was arrested for assaulting a neighbor. Police officer Annie Napier detained him after the neighborhood assault and as she was handcuffing him, he spit in her eye. She was later seen telling other officers, “He got me in my eye, I’m alright, I’m just worried about coronavirus” while they try to console her. Napier stated, “As frontline officers, we know that we put ourselves in potential danger, but we now face the added risk of Covid-19 infection which then also puts our families at risk”
She continues, “It’s a shock when someone spits in your face and very unpleasant, so I’m pleased the force and the courts take these assaults so seriously. PC Napier suffered no ill effects and remains on active duty. Oritsejafor, who suffers from schizophrenia and is bipolar, admitted common assault and two charges of common assault on emergency workers at Warwick Crown Court on Tuesday. The judge advised that he should expect a significant jail term at his future hearing. Superintendant Jenny Skyme, of West Midlands Police Department added, ‘It is vulgar and unacceptable to spit at anybody, but even more so a key worker who is putting themselves at risk to keep people safe and catch criminals”. “Our officers are bravely and repeatedly on the front line despite the understandale safety concerns across the country. This type of assault on our staff is deplorable and shouldn’t, and won’t be tolerated”.Meanwhile, a man who claimed he had coronavirus before he spat in the faces of two NHS nurses has just been sentenced to eights months in prison.
The 25 year old was arrested after he repeatedly punched and kicked his girlfriend’s 19 year old roomate at a flat in Bury St Edmunds. After becoming visibly beligerent, police had to restrain him with straps as he kicked out at police, telling officers that he had Covid-19 and threatening to spit at them. Officers decided Fitts needed medical treatment for injuries to his hand and took him to the West Suffolk Hospital, according to the courts.
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The Sudanese army will make an "important statement soon," state television and radio announced on Thursday morning, as thousands of protesters camped outside the military headquarters in Khartoum demanding the resignation of President Omar al-Bashir.
" Sudanese army will issue and important statement soon. Wait for it, "a television anchor said.
State media offered no further details, as the rally outside the army complex entered its sixth day. Reuters reporter said military vehicles were deployed on key roads in the capital.
As people waited for further word, state television and radio played patriotic music, reminding older Sudanese or how military takeovers unfolded during previous episodes of civil unrest. "People are coming in droves," said one onlooker
The news of an announcement from the army came as analysts warned Sudan could descend into anarchy if its political crisis is not resolved peacefully and rival factions within the security establishment fight for power
The country, one of Africa's biggest and most strategically important, has been paralyzed by months of protests against the 30-year rule of its autocratic president, Omar al-Bashir.
Since Saturday, thousands of people have camped on a crossroads in the center of the capital, Khartoum, calling for Bashir to step down.
Attempts by security forces to break up the demonstration have killed at least 22 – including five soldiers, who organizers said were defending the protesters – and injured more than 150.
A Sudanese woman holds a national flag during a demonstration in front of the military headquarters in Khartoum. Photograph: – / AFP / Getty Images
The main protest area in Khartoum has expanded slightly since the weekend, witnesses said. Makeshift medical facilities and water distribution points have been set up while protesters have organized cleaning patrols to sweep away rubbish. There have also been reports of protests elsewhere in the country of 40 million people, including Port Sudan in the north-east.
"These kinds of anti-government demonstrations are not new, but this time a much wider swath of society is involved… including professional classes who for decades were either driven overseas or co-opted [by the regime]”said Zach Vertin, an analyst at the Brookings Institution thinktank and author of a new book on Sudan and South Sudan.
an expert on Sudan with Human Rights Watch, said the current round of protests had been boosted by "a greater mobilization across the board".
Another new factor is the apparent split within the security forces. Some elements within the military appear to include demonstrators against armed militia loyal to Bashir and the feared intelligence services. “This is unprecedented. We are in a new landscape now, "said Verin.
Sudanese soldiers reportedly protecting anti-government protesters amid violent crackdown – video
On Tuesday, demonstrators were seen hoisting soldiers on their shoulders while others joyfully saluted soldiers in armored vehicles.
"This is an obvious endorsement that is better understood as a co-opting of the protest movement," said Magdi el -Gizouli, an analyst with the Rift Valley Institute. “The events of April 6 and 7 have been rehabilitated by the army and affirmed their political weight.”
There have been reports of senior police commanders and militia leaders pledging not to harm the protesters, though it is unclear if these have been officially endorsed.
Protest leaders have called on the army to resolve the crisis, possibly taking temporary control of the government. All are mindful of what instability could cause. Any chaos could have a very high cost, ”said Saif al Din Abdelrahman, a Sudanese economist and expert in Nairobi, Kenya.
Sudanese soldiers flash the victory sign as they stand among protesters at a demonstration near the military headquarters in Khartoum. Photograph: AP
Analysts point to four possible future scenarios. One is a brutal crackdown by security forces loyal to the president. “There could be very serious violence. Massacres could ensue. In 2013, security forces were mowing down people ruthlessly and 200 died, ”said Henry.
But Bashir might as well make concessions in the hope of retaining some power, perhaps accepting a more ceremonial role and pledging not to stand in elections in 2020. This is unlikely to satisfy the protesters, and would need backing from within the military and the ruling National Congress party.
The US, Britain and Norway have all called on the Sudanese authorities to deliver a credible plan for a peaceful transition of power. But a problem here is that Bashir faces charges of genocide and crime at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and thus the possibility of arrest, trial and lengthy prison sentence in travel overseas. “It would have been much easier for a transition if there was no ICC. The indictment leaves few options [for Bashir]"Abdelrahman said.
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Posted on August 1, 2016 by insidecroydon
Government figures confirm the dire over-crowding on our commuter rail services, but as transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON reports, the Department of Transport refuses to take any immediate action
It will come as no consolation to all those commuters from Croydon, Coulsdon or Norwood Junction who have been forced to stand on their train journey to work this morning, and anticipating a similarly uncomfortable return home this evening, but three services run by pariah rail operator Govia Thameslink Railway are among the 10 most overcrowded in the country.
Another overcrowded Southern service: the Tory Government’s answer is to axe 350 trains per day
Two of those trains impact passengers travelling through East Croydon, with the 07.00 from Brighton to Bedford listed as the most overcrowded train service in Britain.
The Overcrowded Trains Top Ten was published last week by DafT, the Department for Transport, the Government ministry which has steadfastly refused to act over Govia’s woeful performance record – despite calls for them to lose their “franchise” (in reality having their contract cancelled) from the Labour Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and the Tory MP for Croydon South, Chris Philp.
The figures are based on research from 2015, and so will not reflect the added misery of the 350 trains axed from the timetable by Southern Railway operator Govia last month, an emergency measure because of the company’s continued and long-term failure to deliver to its timetable, and done with DafT’s and the Tory Government’s agreement.
The 07.00 Brighton to Bedlford Thameslink service, by 8.20 and its arrival at Blackfriars, has more passengers crammed into its eight carriages than any other rail service operating in this country. The reverse service, at Blackfriars at 5.40pm, is worth a miss, too, since that makes the Cattle Truck Top Ten at No8, according to DafT’s own figures.
The third Govia service in the list of most uncomfortable rail services is a Beckenham Junction train to Bedford, where getting a seat is deemed virtually impossible by 8.20 each morning when it pulls in to the Elephant and Castle.
According to another tranche of transport department stats, 1 in 3 passengers travelling to London each day on the 397 services that arrive between 8am and 9am have to stand up for their whole journey. That’s nearly 100,000 people.
Passengers boarding at East Croydon are often out of luck in the search for a seat for their journey, because their train will have arrived all ready overcrowded with commuters from Brighton and Sussex, and many tourists and their luggage on board from Gatwick.
And according to DafT – who are, after all, the people who are supposed to be managing this situation on behalf of the public – the daily return journey is little better, with 17 per cent of passengers – almost 37,000 people – standing up on outward-bound services from London stations between 5pm and 6pm.
DafT say that 581,400 rail passengers arrived at London terminals during the morning peak of a typical autumn weekday in 2015, an increase of 3.2 per cent over the year before, and a sign that the Government has failed to plan effectively to meet rising passenger demand. Every major London station operated in excess of its capacity, with the worst being Blackfriars where nearly 15 per cent more passengers arrived than services were designed to handle.
The DafT report said: “The worsening crowding levels show that capacity provision is not coping with rising levels of passenger demand, which has been the case in London and a number of other cities.”
Manuel Cortes, leader of the TSSA rail union, said: “These figures mean that thousands of commuters into London have to travel in cattle truck-style conditions while also paying the highest fares in Europe just to do so. It is a scandal that this is still happening 20 years after the failure of rail privatisation. We need a publicly run railway with real focus on improving capacity and cutting fares.”
Paul Maynard: new rail minister, same old policy
Tory MP Paul Maynard, who replaced the useless Claire Perry, after she was sacked as rail minister in Theresa May’s cabinet reshuffle, points to a £40 billion public investment in the rail network, developments such as Crossrail and £6billion being spent on Thameslink and London Bridge Station, plus 3,700 extra carriages, but then adds that such improvements won’t come on stream until 2019.
If there was the political will to achieve some gain for passengers, Govia could be stripped of its contract today, its services handed over to Transport for London, which has a better reputation for managing its trains and its staff. But the Government appears to have another agenda altogether, and that is not to provide a satisfactory service for season ticket-holders, railway-linked businesses or visitors to this country.
It is always instructive, when boarding a train at East Croydon, to observe the reactions and body language of tourists, recently arrived at Gatwick, when confronted with our rail service into London. They are clearly underwhelmed. Mick Whelan, of train drivers’ union Aslef, at the weekend spoke of his disappointment “for those tourists who come to this country expecting a first-class public transport system in a first-world economy”.
Whelan said, “Sadly, the privatised train companies are failing to deliver and this government is letting them get away with it. If you’re standing on your train today, then you’ll be standing on your train in 10 years’ time because the government doesn’t care enough to do anything about it and the companies only care about making money, not delivering a service.”
And in the meantime, from next week, passengers face a five-day strike over the unresolved dispute with Govia over the use of guards. Unions claim that their offers of talks to Maynard’s new boss, transport minister Chris Grayling, have been ignored. It’s as if the Tory Government doesn’t want to resolve the dispute…
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Figure. Patients With Early-Stage Breast Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy
Table 1. Baseline Characteristics of the Study Population by Use of the Recurrence Score (RS) Assaya
Table 2. Baseline Characteristics of the Study Population by Receipt of Chemotherapya
Table 3. Factors Associated With Receipt of Chemotherapy in 44 044 Patients
Table 4. Factors Associated With Receipt of Chemotherapy Among 11 135 Patients 70 Years and Younger
Supplement.
eTable 1. Baseline Characteristics of the Study Population by National Comprehensive Cancer Network Risk Category (N = 44,044)
eTable 2. Baseline Characteristics of Patients 70 Years or Younger by Receipt of Chemotherapy Within 12 Months (n = 11,153)
eTable 3. Baseline Characteristics of Patients 70 Years and Younger by National Comprehensive Cancer Network Risk Category (n = 11,153)
eTable 4. Baseline Characteristics of Patients 70 Years or Younger by Use of the RS Assay (n = 11,153)
eTable 5. Subgroup Analysis of Associations Between Use of the Recurrence Score (RS) Assay and Receipt of Chemotherapy Within 12 Months After Diagnosis (N = 44 044)
eTable 6. Subgroup Analysis of Associations Between Use of the Recurrence Score (RS) Assay and Receipt of Chemotherapy Among Patients 70 Years and Younger (N = 11 135)
eFigure. Hospital Referral Region (HRR)–Level Analysis of Changes in the Adoption of the RS Assay and Chemotherapy Use for (A) All Patients and (B) Patients Younger Than 70 Years Residing in Major HRRs in 2008-2009 Compared With 2005-2006
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Precision Medicine in Breast Cancer Care
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Dinan MA, Mi X, Reed SD, Lyman GH, Curtis LH. Association Between Use of the 21-Gene Recurrence Score Assay and Receipt of Chemotherapy Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Early-Stage Breast Cancer, 2005-2009. JAMA Oncol. 2015;1(8):1098–1109. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.2722
Association Between Use of the 21-Gene Recurrence Score Assay and Receipt of Chemotherapy Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Early-Stage Breast Cancer, 2005-2009
Michaela A. Dinan, PhD1,2,3; Xiaojuan Mi, PhD1; Shelby D. Reed, PhD1,2,3; et al Gary H. Lyman, MD, MPH4,5; Lesley H. Curtis, PhD1,3
1Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
2Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
3Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
4Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
5Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
JAMA Oncol. 2015;1(8):1098-1109. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.2722
Importance Guidelines recommend consideration of chemotherapy for most patients with early-stage, estrogen receptor–positive, invasive breast cancer in the absence of additional prognostic information. The 21-gene recurrence score (RS) assay has been shown in limited academic settings to reduce physician recommendations for adjuvant chemotherapy. Associations between the adoption of the assay and receipt of chemotherapy in the general population have not been examined.
Objective To examine whether adoption of the RS assay in a nationally representative sample of patients with early-stage breast cancer was associated with use of chemotherapy.
Design, Setting, and Participants Retrospective cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries who received a diagnosis of incident breast cancer between 2005 and 2009 using Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results data set with linked Medicare claims.
Main Outcomes and Measures Receipt of chemotherapy within 12 months after diagnosis.
Results A total of 44 044 patients had low-risk (24.0%), intermediate-risk (51.3%), or high-risk disease (24.6%, lymph node positive) as defined by National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines and met the study criteria. We observed no overall association between receipt of the RS assay and chemotherapy (odds ratio [OR], 1.03 [99% CI, 0.88-1.19]). In multivariable analysis, there was a significant interaction between NCCN risk and use of the RS assay, with assay use associated with lower chemotherapy use in high-risk patients (OR, 0.36 [99% CI, 0.26-0.50]) and greater chemotherapy use in low-risk patients (OR, 3.71 [99% CI, 2.30-5.98]), compared with no receipt of the assay (P = .006 for the overall interaction). Results were similar in prespecified subgroup analyses of patients 70 years and younger, with the exception of a shift toward lower chemotherapy use during 2008 (OR, 0.90 [99% CI, 0.77-.1.05]; P = .09) and 2009 (OR, 0.81 [99% CI, 0.66-0.99]; P = .007). In unadjusted analyses, overall chemotherapy use decreased over time in patients 70 years or younger with high-risk disease and those receiving the assay.
Conclusions and Relevance The impact of the adoption of the RS assay on receipt of chemotherapy was strongly population dependent and was associated with relatively lower chemotherapy use in groups with high-risk disease and relatively higher chemotherapy use in patients with low-risk disease. Overall use of chemotherapy decreased during the study period in patients who were most likely to receive chemotherapy.
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines recommend consideration of adjuvant chemotherapy in estrogen receptor (ER)–positive, node-negative breast cancer for all but the smallest tumors.1 However, clinicopathologically similar tumors can have different metastatic potential,2 raising the need to reconsider the relative benefits and risks of chemotherapy across risk groups. The Oncotype DX 21-gene recurrence score (RS) assay is an independent predictor of prognosis and the benefit of chemotherapy in tamoxifen-treated, ER-positive, node-negative breast cancer.3-7 Several studies have suggested that use of the assay is cost saving or cost-effective, compared with conventional approaches,6,8-10 possibly as a result of more appropriate allocation of chemotherapy to patients most likely to benefit.11
Patients’ treatment decisions can vary substantially depending on the patient’s age, comorbid conditions, finances, and personal preferences and priorities. Studies of patients’ treatment decisions after use of the RS assay have found that many patients do not follow guideline-based or physician-recommended treatment.2,12,13 In addition, even with a low or intermediate genomic risk score, many physicians may still be reluctant to withhold chemotherapy, particularly in younger patients.2
Current evidence suggests that use of the RS assay reduces the likelihood of physicians recommending chemotherapy.2,6,9,12 However, it is unknown whether adoption of the assay has reduced overall chemotherapy use in the general population. Therefore, we examined associations between use of the RS assay and receipt of chemotherapy in a nationally representative cohort of patients who received a diagnosis of incident breast cancer between 2005 and 2009. We hypothesized that adoption of the assay was associated with lower odds of receiving chemotherapy.
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We examined whether adoption of the 21-gene recurrence score (RS) assay in a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries with early-stage breast cancer was associated with use of chemotherapy.
A total of 44 044 eligible patients had low- (24.0%), intermediate- (51.3%), or high-risk disease (24.6%, lymph node–positive) as defined by National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines.
Assay use was associated with lower chemotherapy use in high-risk patients (OR, 0.36 [99% CI, 0.26-0.50]) and greater use in low-risk patients (OR, 3.71 [99% CI, 2.30-5.98]), compared with no assay use.
Data were from a Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) and Medicare linked data set, a collaborative effort between the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The SEER data represent approximately 28% of the US population with cancer.14 We used SEER data from 2005 through 2009 to identify patients’ clinical and demographic characteristics. We used Medicare claims data from 2004 through 2010 to confirm Medicare enrollment and health care resource use. We used claims from the year before diagnosis to identify comorbid conditions. The institutional review board of the Duke University Health System approved this study. Informed consent was waived due to the retrospective nature of the study.
We identified all patients who had a diagnosis of breast cancer between 2005 and 2009 in the 12 SEER registries that were continuously active from 2000 onward. To identify patients likely to have complete Medicare claims related to breast cancer management, we required that patients have a primary diagnosis of breast cancer (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification code 174.x or 175.x) on an inpatient, outpatient, durable medical equipment, hospice, home health, or carrier-based Medicare claim between 2 months before and 4 months after the SEER-reported diagnosis. We included patients 66 years or older at diagnosis, except those whose diagnosis was made at autopsy.
We excluded patients who had discontinuous Medicare Part A and Part B coverage (ie, fee-for-service Medicare) or were enrolled in Medicare Part C (managed care) from the year before diagnosis through the end of the study period or death. As a result, all patients in the study survived at least 1 year after initial breast cancer diagnosis. We also excluded patients with in situ disease because chemotherapy and use of the RS assay are not recommended for this group. We excluded patients with metastatic disease given the lack of RS assay utility in this group. We limited the analysis to patients with ER-positive tumors, in which the RS assay has been clinically validated and for which its use was initially recommended. Although the initial studies of the RS assay were limited to patients with node-negative disease, we previously observed use of the RS assay in node-positive disease in this cohort,15 and it has since been reported that the RS assay may predict disease-free and overall survival in these patients.16 For these reasons, we elected to include patients with NCCN high-risk disease, including patients with node-positive disease, in our study.
The primary study outcome was receipt of chemotherapy (Current Procedural Terminology [CPT] code Q0083-Q0085, G0355-G0363, J8510-J9999, or 96400-96549) reported on any outpatient or carrier claim between 2 months before and 12 months after diagnosis.17 The primary exposure of interest was use of the RS assay as reported on a carrier claim between 2 months before and 6 months after diagnosis. To identify claims for the RS assay, we rank-ordered each patient’s claims containing CPT code 84999 (ie, unlisted chemistry procedure) from the highest to lowest payment amounts and by the claim date. We then retained the first record, which represented the most costly, earliest procedure. We reviewed these records manually to confirm that those with the highest payment in each year were performed by the same provider (eg, Genomic Health) and reimbursed by the same Medicare carrier (eg, Palmetto GBA), indicating claims for the RS assay. We counted only 1 assay claim per patient. If a patient had multiple claims, we used the claim with the highest line payment on the first submitted claim date. If a patient had only zero-payment claims, we used the first claim and flagged it as not being reimbursed.
Clinical variables, including TNM staging classifications, were available through the SEER Patient Entitlement and Diagnosis Summary. We categorized patients with missing node status as having node-negative disease and patients with microscopic nodal disease (N1mic) as having N1 disease. We used the most recent NCCN guidelines, which are nearly identical to the 2007 guidelines, to categorize patients into 3 risk groups: low, intermediate, and high.1 Low-risk patients were those with ER-positive, node-negative tumors either 0.5 cm or smaller in size or no more than than 1.0 cm with no unfavorable histologic features as assessed by the site-specific extent of disease (ie, Paget disease, invasive disease, inflammatory disease, G3 or anaplastic histopathologic subtype, T4 disease). Intermediate-risk patients were those with ER-positive, node-negative tumors either 0.6 to 1.0 cm in size with unfavorable features or greater than 1.0 cm in size. High-risk patients were those with node-positive disease. Although patients with ER- and progesterone receptor–negative or human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–positive tumors greater than 1.0 cm in size are also considered high risk, our study was limited to ER-positive tumors and HER2 status was unavailable. We used the SEER Patient Entitlement and Diagnosis Summary to obtain demographic variables, including age at diagnosis, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, and local census tract characteristics. We grouped the SEER registries by census region. We used Medicare inpatient, outpatient, and carrier claims for the year before diagnosis to detect National Cancer Institute comorbid conditions.18
We describe the baseline characteristics of the study population by year of diagnosis using frequencies and percentages for all variables. We used χ2 tests to test for differences between groups. We used a multivariable logistic regression model to examine associations between use of the RS assay and receipt of chemotherapy. To minimize colinearity within the model, clinicopathologic factors included in the multivariable regression analysis were limited to grade, tumor size greater than 2.0 cm, and NCCN risk group. We did not include stage or nodal status because these are effectively captured by tumor size and NCCN risk variables. We conducted a prespecified subgroup analysis of patients aged 65 to 70 years to reduce confounding due to associations between age and use of the RS assay or receipt of chemotherapy. Significance tests and confidence intervals for estimates from all models were based on robust standard errors to account for the clustering of patients by registry. We used SAS, version 9.3 (SAS Institute), for all analyses.
In addition to estimating overall associations, we estimated associations between use of the RS assay and receipt of chemotherapy in prespecified subgroups by adding a subgroup variable and an interaction term between the subgroup variable and the RS assay indicator to the models. We assessed differences between subgroups by testing the significance of the interaction term. We estimated the RS assay associations in each subgroup using model contrasts. Because of the multiple comparisons in this analysis, we report 99% confidence intervals and used α = .01 to establish statistical significance. All tests were 2 sided.
Sensitivity Analyses
To exclude the potential impact of immortal time bias and potential misclassification of chemotherapy in the adjuvant vs recurrent settings, we performed a sensitivity analysis that required all patients to survive 6 months after diagnosis, and we limited ascertainment of both the RS assay and chemotherapy to this same 6-month window. To address issues of selection bias associated with receipt of the RS assay, we also conducted a hospital referral region (HRR)–level analysis to examine associations between adoption of the RS assay and changes in chemotherapy use for the overall and younger than 70 years cohorts and provide a complementary population-based perspective. Hospital referral regions are defined by the 2008 Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care19 and have been used previously to study tertiary medical care variation in regional health care practices, including receipt of cancer-directed care.20-22 We limited analysis to major HRRs, operationally defined as those with at least 100 observations, to compare absolute changes in use of the RS assay and chemotherapy during the before (2005 and 2006) and after (2008 and 2009) periods. We chose not to use a propensity score–matching approach. Although such approaches are able to match for observed factors, they are unable to adjust for unobserved factors such as performance status that would have resulted in persistent bias.
We identified 44 044 Medicare beneficiaries who received a diagnosis of ER-positive, nonmetastatic, invasive breast cancer in the SEER registries between 2005 and 2009. Table 1 shows the baseline characteristics of the study population stratified by use of the RS assay. Use of the assay was higher among patients 70 years or younger, patients with fewer comorbid conditions, and patients with T1c tumors, node-negative disease, and intermediate-risk disease. eTables 1 through 4 in the Supplement show the baseline characteristics of the study population by risk category, receipt of chemotherapy, and use of the RS assay.
Table 2 shows the baseline characteristics of the study population stratified by receipt of chemotherapy. Overall, 14.3% of patients received chemotherapy within 12 months after diagnosis. Among patients who had chemotherapy, more than 80% received it within 4 months after diagnosis. Among patients who underwent chemotherapy and testing with the RS assay, more than 90% received chemotherapy within 3 months after testing. Receipt of chemotherapy was more frequent in patients younger than 70 years, patients with fewer comorbid conditions, and patients with high-risk disease.
In multivariable analysis, we observed no association between use of the RS assay and receipt of chemotherapy (odds ratio [OR], 1.03 [99% CI, 0.88-1.19]) (Table 3). Age and disease risk played dominant roles in predicting chemotherapy use. Compared with patients 70 years or younger, patients in older age groups were successively less likely to receive chemotherapy. Compared with patients with low-risk disease, patients were more likely to undergo chemotherapy if they had high-risk (OR, 20.3 [99% CI, 17.8-23.2]) or intermediate-risk (OR, 3.67 [99% CI, 3.23-4.17]) disease. There was a significant interaction between use of the RS assay and risk group (P = .006). Among high-risk patients, use of the RS assay was associated with a lower likelihood of receiving chemotherapy (OR, 0.36 [99% CI, 0.26-0.50]), whereas patients with low-risk disease who underwent testing were more likely to undergo chemotherapy (OR, 3.71 [99% CI, 2.30-5.98]) (eTable 5 in the Supplement).
Because of the strong dependence of chemotherapy use on patient age, we performed a prespecified analysis limiting the multivariable analyses to patients 70 years or younger (n = 11 135) (Table 4 and eTable 6 in the Supplement). Similar to the primary analysis, we did not observe any association between use of the RS assay and use of chemotherapy (OR, 1.02 [99% CI, 0.81-1.28]). In univariate analysis, use of the assay was associated with decreased use of chemotherapy (OR, 0.65 [99% CI, 0.56-0.75]; P < .001). However, this association disappeared after adjustment for risk, suggesting that the association of the RS assay with chemotherapy in univariate models was largely confounded by risk. We also observed a steady decrease in the likelihood of chemotherapy use over time. Interaction models of risk and use of the RS assay demonstrated trends similar to the main analysis, with use of the RS assay associated with decreased use of chemotherapy in high-risk disease (OR, 0.34 [99% CI, 0.20-0.57]) and increased chemotherapy in low-risk disease (OR, 4.46 [99% CI, 3.15-6.31]; P = .01 for the interaction).
The rate of chemotherapy use remained relatively stable in the overall study population at 14.3%, with use varying by NCCN risk (Figure). However, from 2005 to 2009, receipt of chemotherapy among patients undergoing testing with the RS assay decreased from 20.0% to 14.6%. As expected, chemotherapy use was substantially higher in patients 70 years and younger and varied by risk. In this younger population, chemotherapy use declined from 29.1% in 2005 to 24.0% in 2009 (P = .004). The decline in chemotherapy use was limited to patients with high-risk disease (67.6% in 2005 vs 56.4% in 2009; P = .002) and patients who had RS assay testing (26.4% in 2005 vs 16.1% in 2009; P = .005).
Sensitivity analyses limited to the 6-month window for chemotherapy and survival result in estimates nearly identical to those of the primary analysis. This suggests that neither immortal time bias nor the use of chemotherapy in patients with recurrent disease had any substantial impact on the results of the main analysis. Hospital referral region–level analysis comparing regional adoption of the RS assay and changes in overall chemotherapy use did not reveal significant associations between regional adoption of the RS assay and changes in chemotherapy use in the overall and younger than 70 years populations (eFigure in the Supplement).
To our knowledge, ours is the first investigation of the association of use of the 21-gene RS assay and receipt of chemotherapy in a nationally representative sample of patients with early-stage, ER-positive breast cancer in community settings since the introduction of the RS assay in 2004. Contrary to our hypothesis, we did not observe a change in chemotherapy use in the overall study population after the adoption of the RS assay between 2005 and 2009 or a general association between receipt of chemotherapy and use of the assay in multivariable analyses or HRR-level analyses. However, there was a significant interaction between use of the assay and NCCN risk category. Use of the RS assay was associated with decreased chemotherapy use in high-risk patients and increased chemotherapy use in low-risk patients. Because of the substantial impact of age on the use of the RS assay and chemotherapy, we performed a prespecified subgroup analysis of patients aged 66 to 70 years. In these patients, we observed an overall decrease in the receipt of chemotherapy from 29% to 24% that appeared to be limited to patients with high-risk disease and patients who underwent RS assay testing. In this observational analysis, we could not determine to what extent decreased chemotherapy use reflects the influence of RS assay adoption or unrelated changes in practice over the same period. However, our data support the hypothesis that use of the assay may have decreased chemotherapy use in general practice among younger patients with high-risk disease in whom receipt of chemotherapy would have otherwise been likely but that it may have increased chemotherapy use in patients with low-risk disease in whom chemotherapy would have been unlikely.
Most studies have consistently supported the ability of the RS assay to change physician treatment recommendations compared with recommendations made on the basis of clinicopathologic characteristics alone, with reported reductions in chemotherapy use ranging from 10% to 20% with use of the assay.2,8,12,13,23-26 However, not all studies reported declines in chemotherapy use.24 In our study, we observed a differential impact of the RS assay depending on the patient’s pretest likelihood to receive chemotherapy. Evidence consistent with this finding comes from a study by Eiermann et al8 that examined both node-negative and node-positive (ie, high-risk) patients from a total of 15 German medical centers before and after inclusion of RS assay results into their recommendation for chemotherapy. They found that assay results changed recommendations of a tumor board to exclude chemotherapy in 28% of patients and include chemotherapy in 9% of patients for node-positive disease, whereas the recommendations changed less drastically for node-negative disease (18% and 6%, respectively).8 The RS assay risk scores in previous work have been associated with chemotherapy use of 10% (low RS), 36% (intermediate RS), and 72% (high RS), although no clinicopathologic correlates were available in these patients to help disambiguate the relative effect of assay risk score.6
It should also be noted that much of the retrospective evidence regarding use of the RS assay and its impact on the use of chemotherapy did not emerge until after 2009. However, much of the key randomized and prospective evidence regarding use of the RS assay in ER-positive, node-negative disease was available for patients and physicians by the end of the study period. These studies included the major meta-analysis by the Early Breast Cancer Trialists Collaborative Group in 2005 demonstrating a benefit of chemotherapy in all women with early-stage disease, prospective prognostic (2004) and predictive (2006) validation of the RS assay, and guidelines that led to its recommended use by the American Society of Clinical Oncology by 2007.3,27-29
In most published clinical series, roughly half of patients had a low-risk RS, with median or mean ages in the mid-50s. It is unknown how the distribution of the RS from previous clinical series compares with patients in our study population, in which patients were on average at least a decade older. Overall rates of chemotherapy in our study were significantly lower than that reported rates of chemotherapy of roughly 40% in patients with ER-positive, node-negative disease who had the RS assay. In our sample, which included roughly 25% with node-positive disease, we observed 14.3% chemotherapy use among the overall population and 26.5% among patients 70 years or younger, which supports a significant influence of age on chemotherapy use. Although beyond the scope of this study, we previously reported details regarding the adoption of the RS assay in this population.15 In our HRR-based sensitivity analyses, we confirmed Medicare reimbursement of the RS assay in all major HRRs included in the study by the end of the study period.
Our study has some limitations. Only RS assays paid for by Medicare could be detected in the analysis. It is unlikely, but unknown, whether many RS assays among Medicare beneficiaries would be paid by third-party insurers or out of pocket. The claims-based approach used in this study to detect use of the RS assay has been described in detail by our group and others supporting the validity of using administrative claims data to detect use of the assay.15,30 We did not know the results of the assay, only that patients received the test. Any data or discussion of high-, intermediate-, and low-risk disease in this paper refers to NCCN risk categories. Patients in the SEER registry are overall more likely to be non-white and to live in low-poverty and urban areas,31 which may affect the generalizability of our findings. Importantly, the study population was limited to women 65 years or older, and would therefore include just under half of all newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer. Younger women are far more likely to undergo chemotherapy, be heterogeneously insured, have differential access to the RS assay, and therefore the impact of RS assay adoption on chemotherapy in younger women in nongovernment insured settings remains an open question. In our study, HER2 status was unavailable. Patients with ER-positive/progesterone receptor–positive and HER2-positive disease would be much more likely to receive chemotherapy, would not receive the RS assay, and would therefore create selection bias in favor of demonstrating lower chemotherapy rates among RS assay–tested patients. Last, the years of data available represent the initial uptake of the RS assay because the test only became available in 2004, with study limited through 2009 due to a lag in SEER-Medicare data availability. Use of the RS assay during this initial adoption phase may have been enriched for a population of early adopters that may differ systematically from patients in later years who undergo testing following widespread and less selective use of the test.
An additional limitation of the data is that to our knowledge the RS assay risk score is currently not available for study within any nationally representative or population-level cohort, which would be needed to evaluate whether RS assay results are being used to appropriately guide the use of chemotherapy in individual patients. However, the goal of the present study was to examine to what extent adoption of the RS assay at the population or system level has influenced rates of chemotherapy, an effect that has been predicted but never empirically examined at the population level. Payers, policy makers, and institutions seeking to assess the impact of RS assay adoption on rates of chemotherapy use must make these decisions at the system level before knowing the results of the test. To address this question, we believe that the approach used in the present study, which remains agnostic as to the actual RS assay results, is the appropriate approach to evaluate the impact of RS assay adoption on chemotherapy use at the system or population level. Nonetheless, the extent to which the RS results are being used to guide chemotherapy within individual patients in the general population remains an important area of ongoing research.
Patient and clinicopathologic factors significantly influence receipt of chemotherapy and use of the RS assay in routine clinical practice. Previous studies suggested that use of the RS assay, depending on the patient population, may reduce overall chemotherapy rates by up to 20%. Our data suggest that use of the RS assay may have decreased chemotherapy use in general practice among younger patients with high-risk disease in whom receipt of chemotherapy would have otherwise been likely but that it was associated with greater chemotherapy use in patients with low-risk disease. The impact of the RS assay on chemotherapy use is likely population dependent and is influenced by the population’s pretest likelihood of undergoing chemotherapy. The impact and association of RS assay adoption with costs and outcomes at the national level is an important area of future health policy breast cancer research.
Accepted for Publication: June 19, 2015.
Corresponding Author: Michaela A. Dinan, PhD, Duke Clinical Research Institute, PO Box 17969, Durham, NC 27715 (michaela.dinan@duke.edu).
Published Online: August 27, 2015. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.2722.
Author Contributions: Dr Dinan had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Study concept and design: Dinan, Reed, Lyman.
Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: Dinan, Mi, Lyman, Curtis.
Drafting of the manuscript: Dinan, Lyman.
Statistical analysis: Dinan, Mi.
Obtained funding: Dinan.
Administrative, technical, or material support: Dinan.
Study supervision: Dinan, Reed, Curtis.
Funding/Support: This work was supported by grant K99HS022189 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Role of the Sponsor: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Disclaimer: This study used the linked SEER-Medicare database. The interpretation and reporting of these data are the sole responsibility of the authors.
Additional Contributions: Damon M. Seils, MA, Duke University, provided editorial assistance and prepared the manuscript. Mr Seils did not receive compensation for his assistance apart from his employment at the institution where the study was conducted. The authors acknowledge the efforts of the Applied Research Program, National Cancer Institute; the Office of Research, Development and Information, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Information Management Services, Inc; and the SEER Program tumor registries in the creation of the SEER-Medicare database.
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I have two daughters that love it when I read them books and tell stories before bed time. They especially love my improvised stories where they give me a subject or characters and tell me, “tell us a story on that, daddy!” It stretches my creativity a bit, but it is a lot of fun for them as well as myself. I have been thinking of the parallels of improvising on the bandstand in jazz with being a great storyteller.
There are a number of things we can learn from storytelling. One of the obvious parallels are that we communicate with a rhythm section and audience when we improvise (or at least we should strive to be doing that). But, I wanted to take a look at what characteristics a good storyteller has and how as improvisers we can learn from them. It is difficult to do this if you have not already learned your scales, can play your instrument with a certain level of proficiency and have an understanding of harmony, etc. I would suggest you check out some of the many other posts/tips on this site that will help that stage of your development and then come back to this.
I will admit I am not the greatest storyteller (although my daughters would argue otherwise), so I found an online source of characteristics from iLoveLiteracy.com that I thought were great. They are listed below:
moves through a logical sequence of events
has interesting characters
includes details to develop the plot, characters and setting
includes a problem that must be solved
uses attention getting introductions
tries to build suspense
makes eye contact with the audience
speaks at the right volume and speed for the audience to hear and understand them clearly
While reading that list I took inventory of how I approach improvising on the bandstand and took note of things that I did similarly and those that I know I can improve. Below are a few parallels that I see with jazz improvisation:
improvises through the harmonic progression in a logical manner
interesting motifs, licks or melodic fragments
develops the motifs, licks or melodic fragments to tell a story
reacts to musical cues from other band members
makes a clear opening statement (see Out of the Gate) to beginning of improvisation
builds the improvisation with dynamics, articulation and phrasing that creates an overall arc that includes a climax
makes eye contact with the audience. I am guilty of this because I tend to close my eyes while improvising
improvises in a way that the audience can understand them on some level (i.e. melody connects with the average listener while an array of technical virtuosity may not)
Try this out at some point in the coming days/weeks. As an improviser are you an effective storyteller? If not, work on becoming one by practicing some of the parallels above. People remember great storytellers…
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Jason Klobnak is a versatile trumpet player that has been performing as an active musician, author, clinician, composer and educator. His band, J's Ruckus, is Denver's blend of Post-Bop, Soul, Gospel, and Hip-Hop. They perform infectious and up-lifting originals for audiences hungry for a memorable live experience. J's Ruckus released their latest album, Suck Less, in March of 2020 and their first EP, Sermons, in July of 2019. Both were recorded live in front of an audience. Suck Less was recorded to a packed auditorium at Arapahoe Community College's Waring Theater in Littleton, CO. Sermons was recorded in front of a sold out crowd at the Soiled Dove Underground. The JKQ (the Jason Klobnak Quintet/Quartet) is Mr. Klobnak's Hammond B-3 centered groups. The JKQ released their third full-length album in March of 2018 called Friends & Family. It has been very well reviewed, on numerous Top 10 lists for Jazz radio stations across the country (including Denver's KUVO 89.3FM which named it May 2018's CD of the month), and in Jazzweek's Top 100. Each composition was written for specific family and close friends (that might as well be family). Their second album, New Chapter, was recorded in part thanks to the Pathways to Jazz Grant from the Boulder County Arts Alliance. In 2015 and 2016, New Chapter was in the Top 75 on the Jazzweek charts and on the Top 10 playlists for over a dozen radio stations worldwide. Their first album, Mountain, Move made the Best Recordings of 2013 list from AllAboutJazz.com by C. Michael Bailey. His very well reviewed Christmas single, Hark the Herald, in 2016 as part of a creative project with musicians James Roberson and Nathaniel Kearney Jr. Besides the JKQ, Mr. Klobnak is a B.A.C. (Best American Craftsman-custom trumpet), Denis Wick (mouthpiece and mutes) and Westone Audio endorsed artist (ES20 and Tru Customs). Mr. Klobnak has played and recorded for numerous groups ranging from jazz, soul/R&B, indie-rock/pop and gospel. In addition to performing, he has also written two improvisation-based books called Targeting: Improvisation With Purpose and Breaking the Monotony and is currently an adjunct professor and brass instructor at Arapahoe Community College. Mr. Klobnak holds a bachelor degree from Drake University (Des Moines, IA) and a Master’s degree from the University of Denver, Lamont School of Music (Denver, CO).
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The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish
Reason and Fancy during the Scientific Revolution
Lisa T. Sarasohn
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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, led a remarkable—and controversial—life, writing poetry and prose and philosophizing on the natural world at a time when women were denied any means of a formal education. Lisa T. Sarasohn acutely examines the brilliant work of this untrained mind and explores the unorthodox development of her natural philosophy.
Cavendish wrote copiously on such wide-ranging topics as gender, power, manners, scientific method, and animal rationality. The first woman to publish her own natural philosophy, Cavendish was not afraid to challenge the new science and even ridiculed the mission of the Royal Society. Her philosophy reflected popular culture and engaged with the most radical philosophies of her age. To understand Cavendish’s scientific thought, Sarasohn explains, is to understand the reception of new knowledge through both insider and outsider perspectives in early modern England.
In close readings of Cavendish’s writings—poetry, treatises, stories, plays, romances, and letters—Sarasohn explores the fantastic and gendered elements of her natural philosophy. Cavendish saw knowledge as a continuum between reason and fancy, and her work integrated imaginative speculation and physical science. Because she was denied the university education available to her male counterparts, she embraced an epistemology that favored contemplation and intuition over logic and empiricism.
The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish serves as a guide to the unusual and complex philosophy of one of the seventeenth century’s most intriguing minds. It not only celebrates Cavendish as a true figure of the scientific age but also contributes to a broader understanding of the contested nature of the scientific revolution.
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Subjects: History of Science and Technology, European History, Gender Studies
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PEA and JWH133 control SP-induced histamine release in RBL-2H3 cells via a CB2-mediated mechanism. Histamine release by ELISA was performed after that RBL-2H3 cells were stimulated with SP (10 μM) and treated with AM630 (0.1 μM) in the presence or absence of a PEA (10 μM) or b JWH133 (0.1 μM), for 15 min at 37 °C in a 5% CO2 atmosphere. Absorbance was measured at 450 nm. Each bar shows the mean ± SEM. *p < 0.05 and ***p < 0.001 compared with Vehicle. °°°p < 0.001 compared with SP. ≠≠≠p < 0.001 compared with SP + PEA 10 μM. ≠p < 0.01 compared with SP +JWH133 0.1 μM
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Torn between loyalty to where he was raised and allegiance to his brothers in blue, former Marine Daniel ”Hondo” Harrelson has everything it takes to be an excellent leader and bridge the divide between his two worlds. Hondo’s elite unit includes David “Deacon” Kay, an experienced S.W.A.T. officer who always puts the team first, despite feeling overlooked for the lead job; Jim Street, a cocky but promising new member of the group; Christina “Chris” Alonso, a skilled officer and the team’s canine trainer; and Dominique Luca, an expert driver who gets them in and out of high risk situations. Overseeing the unit is Jessica Cortez, the captain of L.A. Metro who values her job above all else, including her off-the-books relations with Hondo. Hondo’s team enjoys an intense rivalry with another L.A.-based unit led by Mumford, an aggressive leader who likes to do things his way. With Hondo leading the charge, these dedicated men and women bravely put themselves at risk to protect their community and save lives.
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When Hondo's imprisoned childhood friend asks him to protect his son from gang violence, the favor brings SWAT into contact with a new local crime outfit. Also, when Luca's grandfather, a SWAT legend, passes away, he struggles with his grief and a painful family secret.
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When a misconduct complaint filed against Hondo gets him taken off active duty, Deacon steps up to lead the team in finding a robbery crew that is hitting marijuana dispensaries. Also, when Tan notices a similarity between the current robberies and a case from his time with Hollywood LAPD, he asks for help from an informant with whom he has a complicated history.
As the SWAT team goes inside a prison riot to rescue civilian hostages, Hondo suspects the inmates have an ulterior motive behind the uprising. Also, when Deacon's wife, Annie, stops by headquarters to celebrate Deacon's 10th anniversary with the SWAT division, her visit takes an unexpected turn.
Hondo teams up with an old DEA friend, Special Agent Katrina "K.C." Walsh, on a task force aimed at unmasking the secret leader of a fentanyl drug-smuggling ring. Also, Jessica and Michael Plank, president of the Police Commission, begin implementing her new law enforcement community initiatives.
Hondo and the SWAT team join forces with the FBI on a manhunt to find members of a militia group planning a domestic terror attack by weaponizing cyanide. Also, as Jessica's new police initiatives with Michael Plank, president of the police commission, move forward, she braces herself for the negative impact the plans could have on her relationships within the department.
Hondo and Jessica's secret relationship comes to a crossroads when Michael Plank, the president of the police commission, discovers their affair. Also, when Hondo and the team assist with the federal investigation to bring in an undocumented fugitive, they find themselves at the center of a citywide immigration debate.
Hondo and the team go on the hunt for a serial killer who escaped justice two years prior by faking his death. Also, Hondo worries that Buck Spivey, the team's former leader, is spiraling into depression in the aftermath of being fired from the department.
The job becomes personal for Hondo when his criminal informant friend is killed while seeking information about a robbery crew that a joint SWAT and FBI task force is trying to capture. Also, when the FBI task force leader acts erratically, Jessica worries the woman's behavior will endanger the team in the field.
When a young heiress is kidnapped for ransom, Hondo and the SWAT team go on a citywide search to bring her home before she is harmed. Also, the team worries that Mumford is moving too fast when he announces he's getting married for the fourth time.
As the team works to de-escalate a hostage situation, the mission takes a dangerous turn, which impacts the team; Street tires of his complicated romantic entanglements and agrees to let Chris make over his online dating profile.
Hondo confronts his long-held resentment towards his ailing father, Daniel Harrelson Sr., when he and his sister, Briana, try to convince their dad he's no longer well enough to live alone. Also, when the SWAT team works as patrol officers for a day, Chris is partnered with Mumford, who intends to make her a surprising offer.
Jim Street debates whether or not his mother, Karen, should live with him upon her prison release after Hondo and Chris warn him against it. Also, Hondo and the team are assigned to protect Irina Zemanova, a high-profile Russian journalist visiting Los Angeles, from being assassinated.
Hondo's life and career are endangered when his bosses and his godson's kidnapper, Jae Kim, discover he's been secretly surveilling Kim with the help of retired DEA agent Katrina Walsh. Also, Street and his newly paroled mother, Karen, both have trouble acclimating to her prison release.
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Georgia After Montenegro’s NATO Accession
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Montenegro’s recent accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sent an important political message to Russia’s post-Soviet neighbors: NATO’s door remains open to new members no matter the security environment. This signal will likely propel many post-Soviet countries to revitalize their relationships with the Alliance. In particular, it will likely trigger the resumption of discussions over Georgia’s almost two decades-long bid for NATO membership.
Since 2002, close strategic cooperation with the United States and a determined pursuit of NATO membership have comprised the key pillars of Georgia’s security policy. With Alliance membership constituting a top priority objective, Tbilisi’s NATO aspirations have become a critical instrument in its foreign policy decision making. Notably, these aspirations serve as a framework for Tbilisi’s regional relationships: Georgia has cultivated good, neighborly relations with Alliance member Turkey and NATO partners, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Conversely, Russia’s vocal antagonism toward NATO enlargement has contributed to Georgia’s hostile relations with its large neighbor to the north.
Georgia’s threat perception is laid out clearly in two strategic documents: the National Security Concept and the Strategic Defense Review (2017-2020). These documents articulate that Russia’s destructive posture vis-à-vis Georgia’s breakaway regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and the prospect of a Russian military incursion constitute the country’s chief security threats. While the Georgian government invests in its deterrence and defense capabilities to protect the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the size of Tbilisi’s defense budget ($310 million in 2017, including a $32.5 million loan for arms procurement), does not allow for substantial acquisition of new equipment and advanced weapon systems. The need to restructure personnel also will likely slow the modernization and professionalization of Georgian land forces.
Georgia’s Evolving Role in NATO’s Black Sea Security Architecture
Sharing key interests and core values with its Western counterparts, Georgia spares no effort in becoming a full-fledged member of the West’s political and security institutions. Not only has Georgia made remarkable advancements in its integration with the European Union, but Tbilisi also enjoys sustained support from and comprehensive integration with NATO. At the NATO Wales Summit in 2014, Georgia was one of five countries chosen for Enhanced Opportunities Partnership (EOP) status under NATO’s newly launched Partnership Interoperability Initiative (PII). This effort, intended to deepen NATO’s connections with its valued partners, outlines tailor-made enhanced cooperation opportunities for each selected country. For Georgia, the agreement stipulates the extended presence of NATO military specialists on its soil along with regular political consultations and information sharing with the Alliance. It allows Georgia to host Alliance-sponsored military training facilities and to participate in multi-purpose combat missions by contributing to the NATO Response Force (NRF).
The EOP effectively provides all of the privileges that Alliance members receive except for the collective security umbrella enshrined in Article 5 of the 1949 Washington Treaty. Thus, while Georgia has yet to become a full-fledged member of the Alliance, it is nonetheless exceedingly considered an important element of NATO’s strategic planning and security concept for its south-eastern European flank. Accordingly, at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Spring Session held in Tbilisi on May 26-29, 2017, Alliance officials clearly articulated that since security in the South Caucasus is crucial for the Euro-Atlantic community, political and practical support to Georgia must be expanded.
Prior to this session, Georgia similarly hosted the NATO Military Committee in early March 2017 to discuss the implementation of the Substantial NATO-Georgia Package (SNGP). An initiative endorsed at the 2014 Wales Summit, the SNGP entails a set of measures designed to bolster Georgia’s defense capabilities by developing closer security cooperation with members of the Alliance. It comprises support at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels and endeavours to hone Georgian armed forces’ defensive skills via joint training missions, such as the annual “Agile Spirit” military drills. Much of this cooperation takes place under the guise of the Joint Training and Evaluation Center (JTEC) in Krtsanisi, Georgia, an element of the SNGP established in 2015. Tbilisi is further set to build additional infrastructure to be utilized as assets for the Alliance in line with training sites in Vaziani and Senaki. In particular, the establishment of the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC) akin to the same-purpose center operating at the U.S. base in Hohenfels, Germany, was announced in early April. The U.S.-Georgia JMRC will be located at the Vaziani facilities and will be up and running by mid-2018.
The sustained involvement of NATO countries in assisting the reform of Georgia’s armed forces has culminated in the “More NATO in Georgia and more Georgia in NATO” concept, articulated by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the JTEC inauguration. This concept represents somewhat of an alternative to a Membership Action Plan (MAP)— discussion of which was notably absent during Stoltenberg’s visit to Georgia—insomuch as it provides all of the necessary instruments that the MAP recommends, but avoids a clear strain between NATO members and Russia that the extension of the MAP would entail.
Circumventing concerns about Russian backlash, the implementation of NATO reform programs through the “More NATO in Georgia” concept has received robust support within the Alliance. To date, this approach seems the most foolproof option for underpinning Georgia’s institutional resilience by implementing all the required reforms to conform to NATO criteria. The measures derived from the “More NATO in Georgia” approach have boosted Georgia’s defense and deterrence capabilities; however, it has not mitigated the security challenge presented by Russia’s assertiveness.
With regard to the NATO Response Force initiative, since joining in September 2015, Georgia has carried out the Operational Capability Concept Evaluation and Feedback Programme (OCC E&F) that enables troops to be trained and fielded under NRF command. By successfully completing intensive exercises simulated on a mock battlefield, the “Alpha” Company of the 12th Light Infantry Battalion, the 4th Mechanized Brigade, and the “Charlie” Company of the 12th Infantry Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade received 2nd-level qualification to be used in NATO rapid operations for three years. As such, these units, comprised of Georgian personnel, are now at NATO’s disposal and can be deployed to reinforce vulnerable Alliance flanks when needed.
However, above all, Georgia’s progress is exemplified in the evolution of the NATO-Georgia bilateral relationship into a new multilateral format. The NATO-Georgia structure has transformed into an important stage for providing other Alliance partners with sustained access to NATO facilities and training opportunities located within Georgia. By becoming a hub for NATO’s deepening practical collaboration with partners, Georgia has developed into an important platform for the Alliance in the Black Sea region.
During its visit to Georgia in late March 2017, the NATO Military Committee highly praised Georgia’s progress in security sector reforms via the 15 current SNGP projects. The committee’s comments clearly illustrated NATO’s perception of the SNGP as an essential investment in Georgia’s security. After all, Georgia’s enhanced security in recent years can largely be attributed to the almost regular presence of Allied troops in the country for bilateral or multilateral drills.
Just days prior to the NATO meeting, the Georgian Defense Ministry announced plans for the “Noble Partner-2017” multinational drills, scheduled to occur on July 30, 2017. These NATO-backed drills will combine troops from eleven different countries, including Georgia’s neighbors, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Thus, pleased with Georgia’s progress to date and aware that the development of Georgia’s infrastructure is inextricably linked to NATO’s Black Sea power projection, the NATO Military Committee announced its intent to increase the number of SNGP projects to 20 by the end of 2018.
At the same time, Tbilisi is progressively adapting to the evolving security environment in the wider region, seeking to be drawn into NATO’s Black Sea maritime initiatives. Since the 2014 Wales Summit, Georgia has emerged as a key participant in NATO’s dialogue about increasing its presence in the Black Sea. Specifically, Georgia is working with the Alliance to discuss strategies for reinforcing NATO’s maritime capabilities in line with the 2016 Tailored Forward Presence initiative in Romania and Bulgaria.
In February 2017, negotiations between Georgian Defense Minister Levan Izoria and Brussels paved the way for Georgia’s concrete participation in NATO’s Black Sea initiatives. These negotiations further granted Romania a “supervisor” role in overseeing Georgia’s involvement. Possibly as a result of Georgian-Romanian consultations, the Alliance has accepted Georgia’s proposal to renovate its Poti seaport to make it accessible to NATO vessels. Georgian Chief of General Staff Major General Vladimir Chachibaia discussed this issue specifically in a news conference on March 2. Speaking of NATO’s potential support for strengthening Georgia’s and Ukraine’s naval capabilities, the Brigadier General emphasized the strategic importance of establishing infrastructure capable of serving NATO vessels given the restrictions outlined in the Montreux Convention of 1936. This initiative, in conjunction with Ukraine’s plan to purchase warships from NATO states, will enhance the strategic value of the Alliance’s partners in the Black Sea. Commending Georgia as one of the Alliance’s most valued partners, during a visit to Tbilisi in May 2017, NATO’s Deputy Secretary-General Rose Gottemoeller underscored Georgia’s critical role in helping the Alliance “form a deep understanding of the security situation in the Black Sea region.”
In regard to Georgia’s military cooperation with the United States, on April 11, Minister Izoria reported that a new round of the U.S.-sponsored “Georgia Train and Equip Program” will be launched in March 2018 with the goal of establishing at least nine NATO-standard rifle battalions. In addition to increased military-to-military cooperation, the political-economic relationship between the United States and Georgia is also deepening.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili’s visit to Washington, D.C. this past May resulted in President Donald Trump signing a legislative act that recognizes Georgia’s breakaway regions as occupied by Russia. However, considering President Trump’s uncertain stance on NATO, it remains unclear as to whether the United States will vocalize support for Georgia’s NATO bid during Defense Secretary James Mattis’ expected reciprocal visit to Tbilisi. The visit of Vice President Mike Pence to Tbilisi is now scheduled for late July, suggesting that the Trump administration is paying more attention to Georgia’s role in the region. Though the U.S. president approved NATO’s recent expansion in the Balkans, his unpredictable relationship with the Alliance might present an obstacle to Georgia’s pro-Western path.
For this reason, Tbilisi seeks to demonstrate to the Trump administration that Georgia is not the troublemaker country that it was perceived to be in the aftermath of the 2008 Russo-Georgian war. Rather, as the U.S. recalibrates its foreign policy priorities, Georgia has supported U.S. interests in the Black Sea region through its partnership with NATO. While membership in the Alliance remains a distant prospect for Georgia, the “More NATO in Georgia” approach integrates the aspirant country into NATO’s orbit without granting official status.
Rhetoric Versus Tangible Support
Considering mounting tensions between Russia and the West, Washington’s historically vocal support for Georgia’s NATO bid has only exacerbated Georgia’s security environment. As Russia asserts itself more aggressively in its Near Abroad, any improper or untimely voice backing Georgia’s NATO accession appears risky and, in some sense, provocative. Given that NATO has expanded exercises in Georgia in response to Russia’s increased presence in the Black Sea, such rhetoric makes Russia uncomfortable about Georgia’s NATO prospects.
Nevertheless, this dynamic does not mean that NATO should retract its political support for Georgia nor abandon Georgia’s membership prospects. On the contrary, the United States should stand firm in its commitment to Georgia’s sovereignty and use its weight in international forums to protect the country’s territorial integrity from Russian aggression. Losing Georgia as an Eastern European democracy and the West’s sole strategic pillar in the South Caucasus would severely impair the United States’ standing in the region and buttress Russia’s strategic advantage. Additionally, authoritarian backsliding in Georgia would advance Moscow’s goal of discrediting liberal Euro-Atlantic values and causing discord within the transatlantic community.
Despite various programs to train Georgian troops and reform the country’s armed forces, no significant measures have been taken to assist in the modernization of Georgia’s military inventory. As NATO’s mission has evolved in the post-Cold War era to focus primarily on peacekeeping and counterterrorism operations, the Alliance’s military needs have similarly adapted. Rather than requiring partners to participate in full-scale combat operations, today, the Alliance increasingly needs partners capable of urgently contributing troops to smaller-scale crisis management missions. As a result, less attention has been paid to modernizing Georgian military equipment.
Ultimately, the United States must redefine its approach vis-à-vis Georgia. Specifically, it should adopt the approach that Russia uses to reward its allies in the region, namely supplying technical assistance and state-of-the-art military equipment at non-market prices. Unlike Russia’s allies, Belarus, Armenia and Kazakhstan, who receive low-cost, up-to-date arms from Moscow, Georgia cannot afford to replace its obsolete Soviet equipment, so key NATO members should consider selling discounted defense equipment to Georgia.
Georgia is currently in the process of applying for a costly military loan from France to purchase a Vertical Launch MICA short-range, ground-based air defense system. This loan will place a substantial burden on the country’s relatively humble defense budget. Deals of this sort should be supported by the comprehensive implementation of the U.S.-Georgia 2016 framework agreement on security cooperation. Moreover, the Memorandum on Deepening the Defense and Security Partnership signed by then-Secretary Kerry and Prime Minister Kvirikashvili in July 2016 creates a legal basis for providing substantial aid, including a wide-range of advanced arms, to boost Georgia’s security. Material and technical support under these preferential terms will enable NATO to aid Georgian security in the event of conflict reescalation with Russia and will further instill the Georgian population with pride in being a valued U.S. and NATO partner in the South Caucasus region.
At this critical juncture in Black Sea security dynamics, the United States and NATO must bear in mind that rhetoric alone is futile. Rather, it provokes adversaries and further endangers the West’s valued partners in the region. Instead, NATO should continue to build up its strategic partners, enhancing both troop operability and aiding the acquisition of modern military equipment. By adopting tactics similar to those of Russia in order to shape special relationships with Georgia, and even Ukraine, NATO can diminish the nervousness of its partners. Unlike empty words, these meaningful forms of reassurance will demonstrate to NATO’s Black Sea partners the tangible benefit of standing with the Alliance.
Eduard Abrahamyan
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1st Concrete Deck Poured for New Jackson Avenue Ramps; 2nd Pour Anticipated This Week
Visible, dramatic progress is being made on the Jackson Avenue Ramp Replacement Project. But the nearly $7 million project will take a few months longer than initially estimated.
"We know that the Old City businesses on Jackson Avenue are feeling the effects, and we're wanting to get this done as quickly as possible," Downtown Coordinator Rick Emmett said. "But at the same time, this is a once-in-a-century opportunity to strengthen building foundations and ramp supports, ensure modern safety guidelines and take the necessary steps to make sure this new bridge holds up for another 100 years, just as the original 1920 bridge did."
The project team headed by Bell and Associates Construction has poured concrete for the first half of the Jackson Avenue ramp on the west side of Gay Street. This week, they anticipate pouring concrete on half of the east ramp.
The concrete is poured over stay-in-place deck forms and two layers of epoxy coated rebar using a bridge deck screed (pictured below). After the pour, brown burlap sheets are saturated and cover the new deck to allow for a proper curing environment.
Retaining wall supports will be constructed before the last decks can be built. Then sidewalks will be added, and then - one of the last steps - the historic red pavers will be placed back onto the top of the ramps.
Knoxville City Council at its Sept. 8, 2020 meeting voted unanimously to authorize a contract amendment, increasing the cost by about $500,000 in additional federal transportation funds and extending the completion date to Dec. 8, 2020. (Including design work and right-of-way acquisition, the project's total cost is about $8.7 million. The City's investment is about $270,000.)
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8 edition of Sexology found in the catalog.
by William H. Walling
Published 1909 by Puritan Pub. Co. in Philidelphia .
Statement edited by Wm. H. Walling.
LC Classifications RG121 .W24 1909
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Donald Wilson: USS Hancock and the Battle of Leyte Gulf
The USS Hancock arrived at the twenty-mile-long atoll of Ulithi in the western Caroline Islands on October 5, 1944. Ulithi had an anchorage large enough for the fleet and had been captured by U.S. troops just two weeks earlier. The ship was part of a carrier task force assigned to hit Japanese air and sea bases in the Ryukyus, Formosa, and the Philippines, preparing for landings at Leyte in the Philippines. Donald Wilson couldn’t write any of this information home.
Ships at Ulithi, taken December 1944.
Return to Combat
The next day, the Hancock sailed for its first combat operation. Donald Wilson and his new carrier would take part in nearly every major naval Pacific campaign for the rest of the war. They would lose 221 men in combat.
During the next two weeks, planes from the Hancock and sixteen other carriers attacked airfields on Okinawa and the Nansei-Shoto (Ryukyu) Islands, then moved into the Formosa Sea.
Donald Wilson’s battle station was six decks down—in the Interior Communications Room, the main control room for circuit monitoring and trouble shooting—where, at age 28, he was in charge.
Right before joining the crew of the brand new USS Hancock (CV-19), Don Wilson played ball with a team from Electrical Interior Communications school. He is standing second from left.
The fleet pounded ammunition dumps, hangars, barracks, and industrial plants on Formosa. Japanese planes struck back at night. One plane was shot down within 500 yards of Donald’s ship. A 500-pound bomb landed on the carrier’s deck, damaging a gun platform, but luckily landed in the water before exploding.
Even six decks down, these attacks were frightening, Don Wilson wrote me decades later. Because they had wired an amplifier and speaker in order to monitor, listening in on fighter-direction and air-plot circuits, they knew when a plane had managed to get through Combat Air Patrol. In the I. C. Room they kept track of dreaded bogies on their own plotting board. Deep in the ship, they could imagine the enemy planes boring in closer and closer. Donald had also wired a phone system, relay and switch, so that in an emergency, when the Bridge Officer of the Day dialed, the call would break in automatically.
CEM Donald M. Wilson, shakedown cruise of the Hancock.
For the next several days the carrier’s planes descended upon enemy airfields and shipping in the Philippines.
Then the Hancock retired to Ulithi for a few days before being ordered back to the Philippines.
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Intercepting retreating enemy ships, the carrier became part in the greatest naval battle of all time—the four-day Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Japanese began desperately lashing out with suicide kamikaze attacks.
A 250-plane raid damaged five U.S. ships. Two were carriers. Dozens of men were killed. Kamikazes—prepared to die for their emperor—lunged at U.S. naval forces almost daily, especially singling out aircraft carriers.
Also that October, Donald’s parents in Iowa had just finished moving things–including a flock of chickens–from the landlord’s farm near Minburn to an acreage of their own near Perry.
Taken from the north side of the house. Clabe cut down a crate to fit in the truck of the car. That’s how they transported Leora’s chickens to their new home.
While Don was in combat, his younger brother Danny was on a Liberty Ship headed to Italy and combat as a P-38 Lightning pilot.
And the Kansas City Quartermaster Depot received effects of Dale Wilson’s from New Guinea during that month. They sorted and cataloged the items, then sent some of it on to Clabe and Leora Wilson, who had to sign for it when it arrived in Iowa.
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doublegenealogytheadoptionwitness says:
Movie theatres used to run a preview of news and lookbacks. Kept us aware before we indulged ourselves. How effective it would be, should a glimpse of that flotilla show, when we open social media for the day.
nwpaintedlady says:
Great morning blog post to start my day
A four-day sea battle is astonishing! How horrible to be in something like that.
joynealkidney says:
Uncle Don said that as daunting as it was, they were one of hundreds of ships in different task forces in the Pacific by then. Nothing like the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway when they were one of ONLY TWO aircraft carriers–one lost in each battle, including his at Midway!
williamrablan says:
Thanks for the personal insight into a battle I’ve studied. Gives a look into the lives of the people who could only sit there, watch, and hope and pray..
Be sure to check out my Wednesday post–recapped the dedication Saturday. I almost forgot to do this one on Leyte!
Will do. I was busy at work and missed it.
It is almost hard to imagine these battles at sea; thank God for the brave souls who ventured out.
All the lives lost, all the lives lived… so many individuals in each effort. I used to try to ignore anything to do with the war, when my parents were alive but these days, somehow it holds me.
When my parents were alive, no one talked about it. Both Dad and his brother were also pilots. Never talked about it. I had to know what had happened to my mother’s brothers, now making sure their losses aren’t forgotten. One of the three was married, no children to remember them.
LEORA WILLOUGHBY says:
Thank you. Uncle Don was a super hero to my Dad.
My super hero, as well. Uncle Don was the younger brother. I don’t know why he’s on the left on the Freedom Rock, but I just left it alone. He really was the family hero, wasn’t he?
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Rep. Eric Swalwell, California Democrat, warned gun owners Friday that any fight over firearms would be “a short one,” because the federal government has an extensive cache of nuclear weapons.
After Joe Biggs tweeted that Mr. Swalwell “wants a war” over the Second Amendment, Mr. Swalwell responded, “And it would be a short war my friend.”
“The government has nukes.Too many of them. But they’re legit,” the congressman tweeted. “I’m sure if we talked we could find common ground to protect our families and communities.”
Mr. Swalwell quickly added that “No one is nuking anyone or threatening that,” but by then it was too late.
“Swalwell 2020: Nuke the Resisters,” tweeted conservative pundit Ben Shapiro.
Swalwell 2020: Nuke The Resisters https://t.co/FNjtgWsp3g
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 16, 2018
How quickly Democrats went from “we only want sensible restrictions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the insane” to “we will nuke your ass if you don’t hand over your weapons” - that’s what Dems regaining some power does https://t.co/G2ank3YOzE
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) November 16, 2018
Eric, I get that your use of “nukes” was sarcasm, and, yep, twitter doesn’t do nuance.
But understand how many of us gun clinging Americans recoil at the word “confiscation” and will do whatever we have to do to defend our guns against a government that would take them. Thanks https://t.co/GDDsm0gt0U
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) November 16, 2018
Mr. Swalwell has long tangled with gun-rights supporters over limits on firearms access. In May, he proposed outlawing “military-style semiautomatic weapons” and requiring owners to sell them to the government or face prosecution.
He told the “gun trolls” erupting over his Friday nukes comment, “Don’t be so dramatic.”
Don’t be so dramatic. No one is nuking anyone or threatening that. I’m telling you this is not the 18th Century. The argument that you would go to war with your government if an assault weapons ban was in place is ludicrous and inflames the gun debate. Which is what you want. https://t.co/oX0rY7Nbs1
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It's an ambitious concept: A free outdoor concert featuring a half-dozen cover/tribute bands spanning six hours on a Labor Day weekend in Park City. Bonus incentive: Glenn Beck is not hosting, and there will be no fake flag burnings. ---
Saturday, Sept. 5, 3-9 pm: It's the first annual Utahpalooza at The Canyons Mountain Resort in Park City, masterminded by Tony Oros (right). As the frontman for several tribute bands (most infamously as Nigel Thames of Liquid Joe’s mainstays Metal Gods, as well as Rattle & Hum, Mullet Hatchet, et al) across the country, Oros is pals with working musicians far and wide--so he decided to throw a Labor Day weekend party and invite them all to play on one stage for one all-day show in his adopted hometown. It’ll be that rare occasion when "Freebird" requests are encouraged and honored.
On the bill: Metal Gods (metal, of course), Mullet Hatchet (Southern rock), Rattle & Hum (U2 tribute), Trinidaddio (Caribbean music), Skinny Tiez (new wave), Vinyl Williams (local musical whiz-kid, original tunes), School of Rock (young 'uns rockin') and an All-Star Jam featuring players from all of 'em, as well as local comedians and "celebrities" (real or impersonators?).
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Two new films starring Marley Shelton prove it’s real hard to be a girl.
by Greg Beacham
Forget that heavily leathered and bespectacled collection of audio-visual club refugees up in the mountains who just had their little exclusive film festival. It’s time for the Marley Shelton Film Festival at your local cineplex.
If you play your cards right, you could go to movies all weekend starring this generically attractive, generically talented, generally unknown 26-year-old blonde who’s got a lengthy résumé of TV movies and straight-to-video work. The planets have aligned for her in 2001, with no less than four films arriving in theaters—including two starring turns in two recent weeks. How she did it, nobody knows. Why Hollywood let her do it is an even better question. But it’s clear she’s the hardest-working nobody in showbiz.
One of the pictures is Valentine, a slasher flick designed to appeal to the angry, lonely loser in us all on the most romantic of holidays. It begins with a flashback in which a junior-high kid is humiliated and ostracized for what frankly seem to be perfectly justifiable reasons. We fast-forward to the present, where the girls who dissed him have all turned into dynamite babes who torture men while simultaneously bemoaning the lack of good guys out there.
When trouble starts over Valentine’s weekend, we assume it’s this guy who’s wearing a Cupid mask and trying to kill the dynamite babes, but—and here’s the good part—we can’t be sure it’s him! Is it him? Isn’t it him? The questions could last for minutes.
Shelton is the sympathetic member of the group, which also includes Denise Richards and her impenetrable phalanxes of hair, breasts and teeth. You don’t date Denise, you launch tactical assaults. Anyway, we get no more than a few perfunctory scares from director Jamie Blanks, who tries just about as hard as the depressingly tame script.
There’s no way for Shelton, Richards and the rest of the actors to win here. If they play it straight with a played-out concept like this, they just look silly—like actors in the films the Scream series made fun of before it started making fun of itself. If they went for camp value, there would be no point in watching another Scream retread. Shelton is boring and one-note, but that’s exactly what she’s supposed to be.
It’ll take a vicious imagination and some serious risks for a slasher film to ever truly scare us again. Like Shelton’s performance, Valentine is just a tired reshuffling of stuff that wasn’t cool the first time we saw it.
There’s no such problem in Sugar and Spice, where a group of even younger girls also have trouble involving love, violence and strange masks. It’s the story of Jack and Diane, two American kids et cetera. When cheerleading captain Diane gets knocked up with twins, her parents kick her out. She and quarterback Jack need money quick—so she schemes with the rest of her cheerleading squad to concoct an elaborate bank-robbing scheme.
The cheerleaders range from a strict Christian to the daughter of a convict, and there’s another one who’s obsessed with Conan O’Brien. But the best performance comes from Shelton, who’s hyperkinetically upbeat in the face of everything that could possibly go wrong in this sarcastic little script. She and fellow generic ingenues Mena Suvari and Rachel Blanchard get enough quirk time to make themselves memorable—which is more than anybody in the cast of Valentine could pull off.
The yell squad Brings It On and Sets It Off in a cool little heist that has complications, of course. By the time it’s all said and done, Sugar and Spice falls somewhere short of that much-sought-after Heathers cynicism vibe—though it’s still much further along the sophistication scale than the standard Sarah Michelle-Melissa Joan-Jennifer Love teen fare. Sometimes it’s loud when it should be clever, and other times its characters strain against the boundaries of their caricatures. The comic tone never quite finds a brilliant groove, but it keeps a steady stream of easy laughs coming.
In final analysis, both entries in the Marley Shelton Film Festival deliver what they promise. Valentine gives us dead bodies, people jumping out of hiding places and a solution so stupid you’ll be grateful you’re not a screenwriter. Sugar and Spice is simultaneously mean and syrupy, with enough creative spark to carry through the dull spots. When the festival returns next season, I’m hoping for additional weekend screenings, better parking and at least two interesting films.
Valentine (R) H Directed by Jamie Blanks. Starring Denise Richards, David Boreanaz and Marley Shelton. Sugar and Spice (PG-13) HH1/2 Directed by Francine McDougall. Starring Mena Suvari, James Marsden and Marley Shelton.
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