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IHOP says it's changing name to IHOb. Huh?
by Paul R. La Monica @lamonicabuzz June 6, 2018: 8:43 PM ET
From Backrub to Google: Companies that changed their names
IHOP stands for International House of Pancakes. The chain has been around for 60 years and has used the IHOP acronym since 1973. So what in the name of a Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity is IHOP thinking by changing its name to IHOb?
IHOP tweeted and posted to its Facebook page on Tuesday that it plans to "flip" the "P" in its name on June 11.
The announcement clearly got people talking.
People started to wonder if the b stood for breakfast, brunch or bacon, which would make sense.
But some had more amusing suggestions, such as broccoli, burritos, bitcoin and even breakdancing.
International house of bitcoin
— Greg Harmon, CMT (@harmongreg) June 6, 2018
There were also numerous votes for bears, beets and Battlestar Galactica -- a reference to a popular meme from the American version of "The Office."
This is what the B stands for. @IHOP pic.twitter.com/6aIDg4XBZD
— ƤΛɄȽ 🐧 (@Paul_Is_Penguin) June 6, 2018
The IHOP social media team was clearly having fun with the speculation -- and they came up with some goofy suggestions of their own for people to vote on in a Twitter poll, such as butternut squash (yum!) and barnacles (yuck!)
IHOb? What could it b? #IHOb
— IHOP (@IHOP) June 5, 2018
Is this just a short-term marketing gimmick?
Spokespeople for IHOP and Dine Brands (DIN), the restaurant company that owns IHOP as well as Applebee's, were not immediately available for comment.
And it's not as if Dine Brands needs to reinvent the company. The stock is up nearly 25% this year because sales are growing at both IHOP and Applebee's.
Some people speculated on Twitter and Facebook that this could simply be a fun way to reintroduce pineapple upside down pancakes to the menu.
It's also hard to imagine why the company would want to mess with a name that's so well-known and beloved. It would also likely cost a big stack of pancakes (bancakes?) to change restaurant signs and menus at the nearly 1,800 IHOP restaurants.
But the IHOP social media team was quick to reassure fans, responding to users with b-themed messages like "there are o-b-viously so many possi-b-ilities," "No need to b stressed, this is going to b great!" and "brebare yourself for something awesome."
Related: Inside the last-ditch effort to save sugary cereals
For what it's worth, there are currently no live trademark requests filed for IHOB with the United States Patent and Trademark Office -- just two dead filings for companies looking to trademark IHOB for barbecue restaurants.
A WHOIS search for the www.ihob.com domain name comes up with a registrant cryptically listed as "Data Protected Data Protected."
There was no phone number listed. The registrant had a Toronto mailing address of 123 Data Protected and email address of noreply@data-protected.net. An email to that address by this reporter got an undeliverable bounce back reply.
The IHOP.com domain name on the other hand is registered to IHOP Restaurants LLC.
There also is no Facebook page for IHOB. But there is an IHOb Twitter account -- and it is already verified, despite the fact that it has less than 300 followers...compared to the nearly 320,000 for IHOP. The IHOb account hasn't tweeted yet and the profile picture is the generic head and shoulders logo.
So you have to give credit to the IHOP marketing team for creating some mystery and keeping people guessing. I'm hoping that the b will stand for blueberry bagels. Mmm. Blueberry bagels.
CNNMoney (New York) First published June 6, 2018: 10:30 AM ET
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5 More Real-Life Korean Celebrity Couples With The Best Fashion—And Are So In Love (Part 2)!
Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin Are Dating—Confirmed!
Photographer Charisma Lico Becomes The Beautiful Subject As She Marries Aren Santos
Jovi Figueroa
What does it look like when the photographer takes the other side of the camera? Beauty. Love. Perfection.
Many dub 2018 as commercial and editorial photographer Charisma Lico’s year, as her portraits headlined many local magazine covers and big brands’ campaigns. We can remember her stunning work with Metro magazine for the recent cover of Sarah Lahbati wearing Vania Romoff, as well as the Metro.Style covers of Richard & Juliana Gomez and Alex & Toni Gonzaga to name some. But for us—and for her, surely—2019 is her year. It is a year of love, of a blossoming beauty; it is this year that she tied the knot with Arch. Aren Santos.
“He proposed on my 25th [birthday]!” Charisma recalls Aren’s proposal back in 2017. "I was clueless about it for I thought we were just going to have dinner in Tagaytay for my birthday. With the help of our friends, they filled the pathway with candles, which I didn’t see since I was blindfolded and it also rained after, haha! But I really appreciate all the effort! There, we stood under a huge tree while I was blindfolded, our song played, he took away the blindfold, and proposed.”
On January 9, the months of preparation finally led to a beautiful, intimate wedding at Narra Hill in Batangas, where Charisma and Aren finally said their "I dos."
Many would expect a grand, big celebration for someone who has been making a buzz in the local media the past year. But Charisma and Aren chose a simpler wedding with their closest loved ones.
What, or rather, who, stood out big-time was Charisma, looking the most beautiful and breathtaking in her white Elizabeth Hallie lace gown. It was a gown that underwent thorough thought and decision-making, but something that eventually turned out perfect.
“I was pretty indecisive at first with the wedding gown since I’m not really a girly girl. I initially didn’t know what I wanted. Some would suggest that I wear a serpentine cut gown but realized I won’t be able to move so much with it,” Charisma shares. “So I and my stylist and best friend, Danae Vernisse, opted for an A-line gown. Comfort was still a priority. When it comes to the fabric used, I’m really into lace and long-sleeved mock necks so we considered those style points.”
The gown itself was a practical choice, too. Once the long-sleeved lace top was detached, the gown transformed into a more daring, sweetheart-cut neckline with thin straps for her evening reception look.
Instead of a church setting, the couple opted for a more outdoorsy ceremony. Reminiscent of Aren’s proposal, the couple exchanged their vows under a huge tree at Narra Hill. Everything was laid back, dressed in lush greens and beautiful flowers, with the people basking in the quiet nature and the overflowing love from the couple and their families.
It was, in Charisma’s words, “Nothing too fancy or grand, we just had a simple rustic-theme for our wedding.” But the smiles on the couple and their family’s faces that day made everything look priceless. This time, there were no theatrics or art direction needed to nail the perfect shot. No elaborate styling or studio lights to make a picture that would earn a thousand likes. This time, it was only Charisma and Aren, and their love for each other, highlighted and shining in every smile, every dance, every moment they held each other and finally knew that he was hers and she was his.
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“It’s true when they say that details get blurry on the day of the wedding itself because it seemed like everything was fast-paced and to be honest I loved everything about it, from the march of the entourage up to the last activity of our reception program. I didn’t expect to enjoy our wedding so much but we praise God for the blessings we experienced through it. Sounds cliché but it’s definitely the best day of our lives—for now. We know that with God, our best days are yet to come.”
It was indeed, a day for the books—and for the ’gram! But most of all, it was a day that marked the start of the rest of their lives together as husband and wife.
Photographs by The Proud Rad courtesy of Charisma Lico
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10 Reasons to see Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon
The latest Transformers movie has been critically panned from virtually every corner. Danny Leigh off that BBC show with Claudia Winkleface is even calling for strike action to boycott the movie in The Guardian and thus send a message to studio execs. But outside elite film critics there must still be a demand for Michael Bay’s franchise. And I bet those of you that are glass half full kind of people, are crying out for some positivity. Wail no more optimistic readers.
1) Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon is based on a pretty sound and promising premise. It draws on one of the most historic moments in human civilization, the 1969 moon landing, to give a story about toys some narrative heft for the adults. The space race, we discover, was not just a competitive dash to the stars but a sprint for the wreckage of an Autobot ship, containing some alien tech with Godlike powers. But hang on the astronauts look round for a bit and then come home again rather uneventfully…
Aside from the idea there’s the title itself. I mean it’s pretty damn cool to make a film with the same name as a legendary Pink Floyd album! Oh wait, there’s a word missing. But they say Dark Side of the Moon in the movie? Maybe Michael Bay (or some lawyers) decided it was snappier to drop a word.
2) Or perhaps no one wanted to limit this film to just the one “side”. There are at least three sides available because Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon is out in 3D. In fact with the juggernaut of 3D films slowing, its supporters in the industry are said to be pinning their hopes on Bay’s blockbuster because his trademark CGI pyrotechnics look stunning via the magic shades. I saw it in 2D because I wasn’t keen on paying more for a film I didn’t really want to endure. But let’s stick with the positives.
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen makes a case for being one of the worst films of all time. I haven’t even seen it (mostly because of the sheer force of the derision) but you know a film is bad when its director and star use words like “shit” and “crap” just seconds after they are no longer contractually obliged to promote it. The original Transformers was surprisingly good though and critical consensus is that this is substantially better than the sequel. The downside for Michael “Boom-Bang-Bam” Bay is that most reviewers are merely saying Transformers 3 is better to illustrate how atrociously bad the second instalment was.
3) Damn I said I would stick with the positives didn’t I? Well there are always two big ticks alongside Michael Bay’s name. He is consistent and he always provides plenty of bangs for your buck. I saw the first Transformers by accident all those years ago and I was won over primarily by Bay’s competent handling of stuff frequently exploding into thousands of shards of glass and chunks of concrete. In Transformers 3, if you stick with it for over an hour, you get to see Chicago flattened. In one scene the human characters slide through a skyscraper as it collapses. Then they slide through it again. Then more stuff blows up. Then some more. Then there’s some slow mo. And a bit more. Something else goes bang. You lose interest.
4) Alright there are some negatives. Like the constantly annoying and yelping Shia LaBeouf.
5) But surely these are more than outweighed by the presence of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley? It was a big ask to find someone to replace Megan Fox’s assets but British lingerie model Rosie was named FHM’s sexiest woman of 2011. Physically she easily fills the implausibly hot girlfriend role. Bay knows he’s working with a thing of beauty, panning the camera down her body in the middle of action sequences.
Unfortunately her performance has been chewed, swallowed, digested and vomited onto a pile of steaming fresh elephant dung by every single critic. Surprisingly I thought her acting was worse when she was simply required to scream. We see her getting dressed from behind briefly at one point and in a couple of revealing dresses but not sufficiently unclothed to warrant the price of admission. Having said that Bay does his best to reduce every single female extra to eye candy by ordering them to strut about or look scared in something short.
6) On the plus side! John Malkovich appears in what might be a mildly amusing but pointless cameo in a film that was at least an hour shorter.
7) Ken Jeong also shows up as essentially his character from The Hangover, minus any of the sometimes funny rudeness. He is vital to one of the many baffling and needless sub plots. Which leads me to reason number eight…
8) A glorious two and a half hour runtime may make any of the microscopically good things in this film meaningless but it has its beneficial effects as a sedative. You’ll be capable of falling into a sleep so deep that a succession of nuclear wars wouldn’t wake you after Bay has left you numbed and extremely bored by repetitive scenes of endless destruction.
9) Actually there aren’t even 10 fake reasons to see it.
I have completely failed to live up to my nickname of Optimist Prime…
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Blu-Ray Review: Buried
Being buried alive is up there with drowning and burning to death on the commonly accepted list of the worst ways to snuff it. Cinema has a long history of exploring and exploiting these fears for our viewing pleasure and pain. Certainly there are countless films about infernos or choking on salt water. There are classic scenes in tunnels with dust and dirt threatening to submerge our heroes. But never before has a film been quite so confined beneath the earth as Buried is.
Buried opens, after a slick titles sequence that gives the impression of descending through the soil, with a completely pitch black screen, affording me an opportunity to discover and enjoy high definition darkness. Paul Conroy, a civilian truck driver in Iraq, wakes up in a box below ground before our eyes in this nothingness. This is Buried’s only location, a wooden coffin. It therefore might not seem the best film to enjoy on Blu-Ray, as there are no luscious visuals and locales to gasp in wonder at. The ever so slightly sharper picture and sound quality does truly allow you to appreciate the astounding technical achievement of Buried though.
The textures of the sand and the splintered wood feel real enough to touch at such intimate proximity. Conroy’s face, along with all the varied expressions it shifts through, looks incredibly lifelike. The excellent soundtrack, along with Conroy’s rasping breathing, is crisp and clear. The flame from a lighter looks vivid and dazzling in the sparseness of the coffin.
And the additional special features that come with a Blu-Ray disc are worth a look for once. As Ryan Reynolds, who plays Conroy, says in an interview, realising such a concept from a good script was a feat of engineering as well as filmmaking. Director Rodrigo Cortes explains that seven different coffins, each used for different types of shots, were used to make the 90 minutes or so of film. The variety of camera angles and techniques is incredibly impressive, with Reynolds highlighting that unlike a lot of films the same shot was scarcely used twice here. Most of the shots are entirely realistic, placing you firmly in Conroy’s shoes, with just a couple of exceptions, zooming out and away from him to really emphasise his isolation and loneliness.
One of the crew members interviewed says that if Hitchcock were alive today this is the sort of thing he’d be doing. There is undoubtedly the sense that new ground is being broken, in terms of storytelling and filmmaking. The majority of mainstream releases these days are miles away from the level of audience immersion on show in Buried. Even on an ordinary TV screen in a comfortable living room you feel Conroy’s claustrophobia and live his rollercoaster of emotions. This is as much down to Reynolds’ captivating performance as the fine detail and execution of the production team.
Reynolds copes with everything the script asks of him with very little to work with. He takes us from panic to paranoia, from despair to determination and back again. He deals equally well with anger and heartbreak, often conveying an emotion simply through breathing or a look in his eye. He is helped by some good voice performances by those he interacts with on the phone, his one real lifeline, its battery constantly withering away. Particularly good is Brit hostage negotiator Dan Brenner, played by Robert Paterson, who is convincingly professional and genuinely sympathetic. He managed to calm me down as well as Conroy.
Somehow Buried contains what I can only describe as an action scene, in which both the acting of Reynolds and the inventive wizardry of the director, combine with unbelievable effect. Without giving too much away, there is a snake involved. I was literally on the edge of my seat. And the reason this scene was so scary, gripping and exciting, was how well established the character and situation is beforehand.
As well as inexplicably pulling off a believable and enthralling thriller in a box, Cortes’ directing and Chris Sparling’s script also manages some thought provoking dialogue on major issues of our time. The way these topics are explored is seamlessly part of the action and not forced. During the course of Conroy’s phone conversations we explore not just the depths of his character, but the limits and immorality of bureaucracy and the subjective nature of the word “terrorist”. Buried therefore also has political credentials, without ever leaning too far to one side of the debate.
With similar limitations to Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, Buried is a film reliant on its lead actor. Whilst James Franco was good, Reynolds is even better. In fact Buried is better full stop. For the moving climax alone, that will have you unable to look away through confused tears, it is worth watching. Buried delivers a master class in acting, cinematography, dialogue and political comment. It is a unique and bruising ride of a story. And a must see film experience.
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Alex Zanardi undergoes second neurological operation
Alex Zanardi has undergone a second round of neurological surgery 10 days after being admitted to hospital with severe head injuries sustained in a handbike road accident.
Ex-Formula 1 and CART driver Zanardi struck a vehicle while taking part in a handbike event in Siena on 19 June, leaving him with head and facial injuries. Zanardi underwent surgery upon admission and has remained in a medically-induced coma since, with the most recent update being issued last Wednesday confirming his condition remained serious.
In a new bulletin issued on Monday by Siena University Hospital, it was confirmed that Zanardi had undergone a second surgery after a CT scan presented “an evolution in the patient’s state which made is necessary to have a second neurosurgical intervention”.
The surgery lasted two-and-a-half hours, after which Zanardi returned to the hospital’s intensive care unit where he remains in a coma.
The hospital reported that Zanardi’s condition “remained stable from the cardio-respiratory and metabolic point of view, serious from the neurological point of view”
“The intervention carried out represents a step that had been anticipated by the team,” according to the university’s health director, Roberto Gusinu. “Our professionals will evaluate day by day the evolution of the situation.
“In agreement with the family, the next bulletin will be issued in about 24 hours.”
Zanardi has enjoyed a prolific career in handbike racing, winning four gold medals at the Paralympic Games in 2012 and 2016.
The 53-year-old former F1 driver also won the CART championship twice, prior to an accident at the Lausitzring in 2001 that resulted in both his legs being amputated.
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New Modern Warfare and Death Stranding..Whatever it was
Dan Hastings
A new and fairly lengthy trailer for Death Stranding has dropped and it shows us a shit load more about the game…not that it has helped me figure out what the hell is going on yet. I’m sure in traditional Kojima fashion, there will be a million hidden secrets in the trailer for people to start digging up. I am starting to get hyped for this game, but at the same time, I have no idea what I am getting excited about.
There were some brief gameplay scenes that show some combat, a bike you can drive and a few of the things you have in your inventory. Shout out to that kick ass looking magic ladder. I can’t wait to see what things people end up doing with this to clip outside of the games environment. And what is going on with all those invisible dead lads hanging in the forest. This game seems nuts! Check out the trailer for yourself!
Still confused, or even more confused about what this game is now? What’s going on with that baby? Does it have a gopro in there with him or something? It certainly has tickled my interest anyway. We have a release date now! Do we start taking bets now about it being delayed?
In other news, a new Modern Warfare, but back to its origins? It doesn’t look like a HD remake but rather a franchise reset. I forget the name of that lad with the cigar, but he’s back. Where would the world be without my informative character descriptions. Price, is his name Price? Whatever, he’s the lad with the big ass mutton chop sideburns.
The trailer doesn’t really have anything all that special in it, it is more the reveal that its a new Modern Warfare game that is exciting. I tell ya, this game better have a fuckin story. None of that battle royale bullshit. I want a new COD story!
If you do not believe me or want to double check my character description, here is the trailer for the new Modern Warfare game.
Death Stranding is an upcoming open world action video game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. One of the key aspects of the game is the connection between life and death.
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Green alert: How indigenous people are experiencing climate change in the Amazon
by Jenny Gonzales on 27 May 2020 | Translated by Maya Johnson
Late rainfall, intense drought, dry riverbeds, more forest fires, less food available — indigenous communities across the Brazilian Amazon suffer social transformations due to climate change.
Indigenous people believe that climate change has even affected their physical health: previously controlled diseases like measles and yellow fever, they say, have inexplicably reappeared in the rainforest, and even indigenous women’s menstrual cycles are beginning at an earlier age.
Indigenous people have found many ways to take action and lessen the harm. These approaches include selecting and growing seeds that are more resistant to drought and heat, investing in frontline firefighters and even a smartphone app that offers information about climatic variations.
In the Bico do Papagaio region, north of Tocantins state, Antonio Veríssimo Apinajé recalls his life as a boy in the Taquari village, in the 1970s. “It would rain non-stop for three or four days in a row, from January to June. The rivers and springs filled up. The rainy season used to begin in October, when my family planted manioc, corn and rice. In June, the dry season would come, which lasted until September.”
Not anymore, says the leader of the Apinajé indigenous people. “There are years in which the rains take a long time to come, sometimes only in November, December, even January. Only then can we plant. In April, the rains are already stopping. If we don’t have water, we can’t irrigate [our crops]. The manioc is small, the corn doesn’t ‘swell’. Rainfall has diminished a lot over the last ten years.”
The Apinajé leader isn’t alone; indigenous Brazilians have been observing sweeping climate change impacts across the Amazon and other regions, and reporting how that transformation is affecting their daily lives. Many say that nature has been providing signs of a massive change in the weather for at least 15 years. And more dire, they say: things seem to be accelerating recently.
The scientific community, using satellites and other measures, is in agreement: recent studies show that the Amazon is drying out and has already reached, or is very close to reaching, a biome tipping point. At least half of the rainforest could become degraded savanna over the next 50 years, some researchers say, if global climatic change, Brazilian deforestation and Amazon fires aren’t greatly reduced. And, as indigenous people have noted, global warming of late is quickening its pace and may bring ecological collapse far more quickly than thought.
A region destroyed by fire in Rondônia, reported by Operação Verde Brasil, part of the Prevfogo federal fire prevention program. Image by Vinícius Mendonça/IBAMA.
“When the water runs low, it is the first sign,” says Antonio Veríssimo. It means that the rains will be late — a factor that, together with intense and prolonged drought, ends up harming crops and reducing the variety of foods available in the villages. Once again, this is an observation with which scientists, Brazilian farmers and dam builders can concur.
Maria Leonice Tupari, head of AGIR, the Association of Indigenous Women Warriors of the state of Rondônia, says that in Sete de Setembro, the indigenous territory where she lives, “the river frequently dries up, and the water that is left forms a sort of bay where the fish try to survive. When the rains return, the [thermal] shock of the cold rainwater mixing with the warm river water kills the small fish.”
As if diminishing natural resources weren’t enough, Maria Leonice is also concerned with the reappearance of illnesses in local villages. “Diseases that had been controlled are coming back, like measles and yellow fever… I believe that this is related to the climate, to the destruction of nature. And then a virus came to show us how fragile we are, to make us reflect on things,” she says, referring to the arrival of COVID-19 inside indigenous villages. At mid-May, the virus had already infected over 500 indigenous people in Brazil. Scientists are in concurrence here as well, noting that humanity’s wholesale invasion of the Amazon and other tropical rainforests is increasing the risk of planetwide pandemics, and also yellow fever.
The increasingly hot climate may also be altering the bodies of Kiriri women in northeastern Bahia state, who reported the situation to Sinea do Vale, coordinator of the environment for CIR, the Roraima Indigenous Council. “The Kiriri women believe that the extreme heat is causing pre-menstrual tension to hit indigenous adolescents at an earlier age.” There is, in this case, no corresponding scientific proof of such an effect that Mongabay could locate in a search of the literature. However, a 2018 study did find that air pollution could cause “irregular menstrual cycles,” and it is plausible that soot particulates from record Amazon fires — worsened by climate change — could be causing the observed problem, though more study would be needed.
Medical help is given to indigenous people in Assunção do Içana, in the Alto Rio Negro region (Amazonas). Image by Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil.
Climate change brings more fires, smoke affects villages
The combination of an increasingly hot and dry climate resulting in far more numerous and intense Amazon wildfires — especially as land grabbers clear more rainforest, or as farmers clear fields for planting — is also negatively impacting indigenous reserves, especially those located along the so-called “Arc of Deforestation” stretching from Rondônia state in the west of Brazil, to Pará state in the east.
Such is the case with the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Territory where Maria Leonice Tupari lives. It is the ancestral land of the Suruí Paiter people, along the border between Rondônia and Mato Grosso states. Today the reserve is surrounded by cattle ranches. “The farmers like to burn large swaths of land to clear pastures. Last year, any little thing could start a fire, from cigarette butts to glass bottles [intensifying sunlight on dry bush]. It was litter from trucks thrown into the dry grass alongside the roads,” that served as tinder, she reported.
According to the leader of the women warriors of Rondônia, fires gave rise to another serious problem in 2019, one of the worst years on record for forest fires in the Amazon: “The smoke from the fires made many people sick, suffering from strong headaches, eye irritation and respiratory problems. The smoke was terrible. Especially children and the elderly needed to be taken to regional hospitals, which were already full of people from the cities who had also been poisoned.” It is scientifically well documented that particulates from fires and other pollution are a major cause of death and disease globally, according to the World Health Organization.
Six hundred miles away, on the edge of the Rio Tocantins, Antonio Apinajé shares the same fear: “We get worried when there are fires in the region because, depending on the time of day and force of the wind, the fires can fly. We live near to the forest and the Cerrado vegetation; it is scary even to think about it. That heavy smoke stays in the air for two or three months,” says the Apinajé leader.
To reduce damage to Amazon and Cerrado biome vegetation, Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA under its National Forest Fire Prevention Combat Center (Prevfogo) hires indigenous people during fire season to act as firefighters on the indigenous lands where they live. “They know the territory better than anyone, they know where the vegetation most at risk from fire lies, where the fires tend to start and how they spread,” explains Prevfogo director Gabriel Constantino Zacharias.
The IBAMA initiative began in 2013 with 400 indigenous firefighters — a third of the total number of firefighters available at the time — and has grown over the years. But in 2019, under the Bolsonaro administration, numbers fell for the first time: there were 760 indigenous firefighters in the field in total, 20 fewer than in the previous year.
“The first year of an administration usually involves budget restrictions,” Zacharias said of Bolsonaro management policy. In August of last year, both Germany and Norway suspended contributions to the Amazon Fund because of increasing deforestation in Brazil. A portion of those funds annually financed the buying of firefighters’ clothes and boots. Between 2104 and 2018, the Fund invested US$4 million for Prevfogo activities in the nine Amazon states.
Indigenous Prevfogo firefighters working to combat a burn in the Xingu Indigenous Park. Image by Vinícius Mendonça/IBAMA.
House of Seeds
In Tocantins, the Apinajé people are adapting to climate change by dedicating time to researching seeds that are more resistant to drought, high temperatures and shorter growing seasons.
“Instead of using rice that needs five or six months to mature, we are now planting a short duration variety that matures in only three months,” says Antonio Apinajé. “We also found a species of manioc that grows in seven months as compared to the one we planted before, which usually needed a year.”
The availability of water equally influences choices on what to plant, he says. “Manioc and beans don’t need much rain, but rice, pumpkins, corn and bananas do. That’s why we are planting less of those crops.”
A little over a year ago, the Apinajé people — 2,800 individuals spread among 42 villages inside the indigenous territory that carries their name — created the Seed House, a seed bank to store crop species that are most productive and resistant to heat. The Apinajé plan to broaden the collection’s variety via exchange of seeds and knowledge with other indigenous peoples, small-scale family farms, and traditional Afro-Brazilian communities.
The initiative has now been adopted in other Amazon states: in Roraima for example, leaders are forming a network of seed banks between various indigenous regions and territories. “The project is on hold because of COVID-19, but we will start up again as soon as possible,” said Sineia do Vale, representative of the Wapichana people on the Roraima Indigenous Council.
Last August, the council promoted the organization of a seed bank within the Raimundão Indigenous Territory in Alto Alegre municipality. It also promoted cultivation of more heat and drought resistant corn, manioc and pepper seeds on two hectares. These are the crops most consumed by local communities, and if the initial effort goes well, seeds could be distributed to other communities.
These actions are part of a pioneering environmental management plan attentive to the climate change factor, conceived after consulting inhabitants of the Malacacheta, Jacamim and Manoá-Pium Indigenous Territories.
Interviews were conducted by over 200 Indigenous Territorial and Environmental Agents (ATAIS, in Portuguese), leading to the publication of a book entitled Amazad Pana’adinhan — Indigenous Communities’ Perceptions on Climate Change — Serra da Lua Region, Roraima.
Disregarded by researchers until recent years, “ancestral knowledge is being discussed by scientists in many parts of the world to help understand climatic issues,” says the Wapichana leader.
A seed trading event organized by the Roraima Indigenous Council. Image courtesy of CIR.
Fighting fire with cell phones
A collaboration between scientific and indigenous knowledge has also led to the creation of technological tools, including the Indigenous Climate Alert. Developed by IPAM (the Amazon Environmental Research Institute), this app provides data on concentrations of heat, risk of drought and deforestation to help indigenous people monitor their territories and surrounding regions. The information can be accessed even when there is no cellphone connection.
Indigenous people can also use the app to share alerts about fires and illegal activity on their lands, including illegal deforestation, predatory fishing and wood extraction.
“On one hand, indigenous people play a huge role in mitigating climate change, but on the other, they live directly with [those changes] and are therefore the most affected,” says IPAM researcher Martha Fellows Dourado. “The Climate Alert arose as a tool to support territorial management inside indigenous territories at point zero — inside the communities themselves.”
The app is in use today in the states of Roraima, Maranhão and Mato Grosso, and the goal is for it to be available and utilized in all of Brazil’s demarcated indigenous reserves. In the next few months, the Indigenous Climate Alert will play a new role related to the COVID-19 pandemic; users will be able to follow the spread of the disease in villages and cities.
Beyond technology, Leonice Tupari invokes the spirituality of the forest-dwelling peoples as a way of adapting to the sweeping changes that seem to be coming: “We must respect nature and connect with her. We are spirits here on the Earth, incarnated as material, connected to fire, earth, wind — to all that exists. People have distanced themselves from her. They no longer walk on the earth, nor do they feel the breeze. We must feel water, and I’m not talking about the water that comes out of the shower. Our spirituality is connected with Nature.”
The Indigenous Climate Alert app (ACI), developed by IPAM with funding from the government of Norway, allows people to monitor heat concentrations, deforestation and climate data inside Indigenous Territories of the Brazilian Amazon. Image courtesy of IPAM.
Banner image of a land devastated by the fire in a Huni Kuin community, state of Acre, in August 2019. Image courtesy of Centro de Cultura Indígena Huwã Karu Yuxibu.
This story was first reported by Mongabay’s Brazil team and published here on our Brazil site on May 14, 2019.
Article published by Xavier Bartaburu
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Samsung tries to keep AI under control
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Samsung AI research chief explains AI philosophy
The world’s biggest corporations compete head-to-head to remain ahead of the pack in developing artificial intelligence (AI), a leading global future technology trend.
Samsung Electronics is not an exception as Korea’s largest company maintains seven AI centers in five countries of South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Russia.
Although AI is expected to provide a competitive edge for business, it can cause big troubles if it is abused or mishandled. Samsung’s AI research chief Gary Geunbae Lee talked about the issue.
“Although AI is meant to improve people’s lives, the possibility of its abuse cannot be ignored, so ethical compliance is very important,” Lee said.
“There are three ethics that Samsung follows in regards to AI – fairness, accountability, and transparency.”
He said that the development or use of AI should not result in discrimination or prejudice. Hence, he stressed that Samsung assumes total responsibility for the technology and maintains transparency in its data collection and management process.
Another big topic is privacy.
“Samsung greatly prioritizes data security and privacy. We adhere to all the related laws and regulations on data security, including the GDPR1 in Europe. We are working toward implementing technology that detects security vulnerabilities in our AI codes to ensure our customers can use AI-enabled products and services safely,” he said.
“At the same time, we are incorporating AI into our security software to develop identification capabilities that will provide further peace of mind for users.”
Lee added that the final goal of Samsung in developing AI is about adding value to consumers’ lives thanks to the integration of AI into their everyday products and services.
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Tv star killed: Riley Young-Hudson news
Tc star killed Riley Young Hudson news
Boy, 12, who appeared on TV show Benefits Street killed after being hit by car
A popular schoolboy familiar to millions after he appeared on TV show Benefits Street died after being knocked off his mountain bike, an inquest heard.
Riley Young-Hudson, 12, was fatally injured in a collision with a car.
Despite frantic efforts to save him, he died three days later at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle on April 1.
The youngster cycled into the path of a blue Audi, which was unable to stop in time, Teesside Coroner’s Court heard.
His mum Louise Jenkins paid an emotional tribute to Riley, Teesside Live reports .
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Does this video show cop going too far in grabbing kid on bike? (Opinion)
Jeff Deminski
Screengrab: NorthJersey.com
This one is a judge-for-yourself.
There are growing calls of wrongdoing aimed at a cop who was caught on video appearing to grab a 15-year-old boy by the neck and taking him to the ground. The incident happened in Ridgewood Sunday when one officer tried to stop the boy who was on a bike and part of a much larger group of bicyclists, police have since said. He appears in the video to be trying to stop the kid by putting his hands on the handlebars. When the boy tries backing away, another cop comes up from behind and appears to grab him by the neck, then a struggle ensues to bring him to the ground.
See a video of the moment here, courtesy of NorthJersey.com. Warning: This video contains violence and graphic language.
In the video, the boy can be heard yelling at the cops to get off of him and complaining about his stomach, but he was never hospitalized. Nor was he charged with a crime. Instead he was issued citations for vehicle offenses.
How did it start and what are people saying?
Police say they were aware of a large group of kids on bikes from nearby Hawthorne and Glen Rock apparently causing some type of disturbance on the roads. So when they came into Ridgewood the police say they tried stopping them to talk to them about their behavior, first using verbal commands and sirens.
An organization called Ridgewood for Black Liberation tweeted, “Ridgewood police used excessive and unacceptable force against a Latinx minor today...we are working with lawyers right now to ensure that this kind of disgusting display of force does not go unaddressed."
Emily Rizzo, an organizer for that group, told NorthJersey.com, “These grown men beat a child in front of a group of children riding bicycles, traumatizing each and every one.”
Karol Ruiz, co-president of immigrant rights group Wind of the Spirit, is saying the kids were just biking through Ridgewood and is calling for the state AG to investigate. “This is one more example demonstrating the need for the reforms of the Office of the Attorney General proposes and much more," NorthJersey.com quoted her saying.
So did this cop do anything wrong? Rizzo’s assertion that law enforcement “beat” the boy seem inflammatory and specious. But was it necessary to take him down with the level of force seen in this video? Personally I’d like to know more before condemning any officer here. I’d like to know exactly what these guys were doing on their bikes that was alarming to law enforcement. I’d like to know if the youth is known to the cops involved and has any history with them. I’d like to hear and see everything that happened before and after.
And I’d really like it if we could all stop judging police only by 45 second cell phone videos that don’t necessarily show the whole story.
The post above reflects the thoughts and observations of New Jersey 101.5 talk show host Jeff Deminski. Any opinions expressed are Jeff Deminski's own.
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This past fall 13-year veteran teacher, Nicole Darmofal, joined the Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School family. Slated for our secondary division as the seventh-grade life science teacher and seventh and eighth-grade social studies teacher, she also took on the role of National Honor Society advisor for our high school students. Attending Eastern University the entirety of her post-secondary education, she earned her bachelor’s in secondary education, social studies and history and a Master of Education for history, America and European.
Darmofal (top left) helps students learn about the flight pattern of birds by comparing to paper airplanes.
Darmofal says she “always loved history” and describes herself as “total nerd about it.” Her interest was cultivated from an early age. Growing up in Livonia, she would play army games with the children in her neighborhood closest to her age who happened to be ten boys. Directly next door was a family of seven, who were all involved in military service. She had WWII veterans as grandparents, and her parents would be sure to stop by historical sights while traveling on summer family vacation.
In the classroom, Darmofal understands that not all of her students share her passion. “You have the interest, or you don’t, but you have to make it interesting,” she says. “Any kinesthetic learning for history should be incorporated into the classroom curriculum.” During a WWI lesson, Darmofal took her eighth-grade students into the gym and engaged them in a trench warfare activity. Students physically crawled through a mock-up trench and were given scenarios to play out of what soldiers endured. “The students loved it, and all of them remember trench warfare to this day!”
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She knows the importance of connecting with the students, to make them feel at ease and be someone they aren’t afraid of. “I had two awesome high school teachers [who] academically pushed me and genuinely cared about my well being overall,” shared Darmofal. Whether it was in class or athletic tryout, her confidence was built up and she felt she had a support system. It was these teachers who inspired her to enter academia herself to keep lifting up students.
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UK patient ‘free’ of HIV after stem cell treatment
This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47421855
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A UK patient’s HIV has become “undetectable” following a stem cell transplant – in only the second case of its kind, doctors report in Nature.
The London patient, who was being treated for cancer, has now been in remission from HIV for 18 months and is no longer taking HIV drugs.
The researchers say it’s too early to say the patient is “cured” of HIV.
Experts say the approach is not practical for treating most people with HIV but may one day help find a cure.
The male London patient, who has not been named, was diagnosed with HIV in 2003 and advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2012.
He had chemotherapy to treat the Hodgkin’s cancer and, in addition, stem cells were implanted into the patient from a donor resistant to HIV, leading to both his cancer and HIV going into remission.
Researchers from University College London, Imperial College London, Cambridge and Oxford Universities were all involved in the case.
‘Not an anomaly’
This is the second time a patient treated this way has ended up in remission from HIV.
Ten years ago, another patient in Berlin received a bone-marrow transplant from a donor with natural immunity to the virus.
Timothy Brown, said to be the first person to “beat” HIV/Aids, was given two transplants and total body irradiation (radiotherapy) for leukaemia – a much more aggressive treatment.
“By achieving remission in a second patient using a similar approach, we have shown that the Berlin patient was not an anomaly and that it really was the treatment approaches that eliminated HIV in these two people,” said lead study author Prof Ravindra Gupta, from UCL.
Prof Eduardo Olavarria, also involved in the research, from Imperial College London, said the success of stem cell transplantation offered hope that new strategies could be developed to tackle the virus.
But he added: “The treatment is not appropriate as a standard HIV treatment because of the toxicity of chemotherapy, which in this case was required to treat the lymphoma.”
CCR5 is the most commonly used receptor by HIV-1 – the virus strain of HIV that dominates around the world – to enter cells.
But a very small number of people who are resistant to HIV have two mutated copies of the CCR5 receptor.
This means the virus cannot penetrate cells in the body that it normally infects.
The London patient received stem cells from a donor with this specific genetic mutation, which made him resistant to HIV as well.
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The UK researchers say it may be possible to use gene therapy to target the CCR5 receptor in people with HIV, now they know the Berlin patient’s recovery was not a one-off.
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Music streaming website SoundCloud sent shockwaves through the industry last week after suddenly laying off 40 per cent of its.
By Benjamin Boles
Music streaming website SoundCloud sent shockwaves through the industry last week after suddenly laying off 40 per cent of its staff and closing their London and San Francisco offices, leading to speculation that the company is on the verge of going bankrupt.
Chicagos Chance the Rapper (whose career largely started on the platform) got many music lovers hopes up by tweeting Im working on the SoundCloud thing, and then following up that message with a promise that SoundCloud is here to stay after having a conversation with CEO Alex Ljung.
I’m working on the SoundCloud thing
Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) July 13, 2017
The implication for many was that the musician was putting up his own money to keep the website going, but the companys official response suggests that all that actually happened is that Ljung gave Chance the same spiel that everything is okay that the company has put out through its official PR channels.
Unfortunately, those promises arent very reassuring.
The last big scare surrounding SoundClouds finances was in January, when reports emerged that it could run out of money before the end of the year. That crisis was averted after the company managed to secure another $70 million in debt financing, which makes this newest round of panic all the more concerning. Chance the Rapper may be successful, but theres no way hes sitting on the kind of cash needed to bail out SoundCloud.
The truth is, monetizing anything on the internet is hard, and music is an especially hard nut to crack (see MySpace, RDIO, etc). The business model of many internet startups seems to be a variation of the Underpants Gnomes in South Park:
1. Collect underpants.
3. Profit.
In this context, the underpants are investors who will float enough money to a popular service that they can continue losing huge amounts of money until the business is big enough that it starts to turn a profit. The details of how increasing scale will turn losses into profits are usually vague and often dont work out.
Even a company as ubiquitous, mammoth and profit-driven as Uber managed to lose a staggering $708 million in the first three months of this year, which was seen by many as a good news story, as thats a few hundred million less than it lost in the same period last year.
Theres a valid argument that Uber could eventually turn its mind-boggling losses into profit, although that may depend greatly on how quickly they can replace their human drivers with robot cars. In the meantime, their business is mostly about attracting more investment money to burn, and using it to undercut traditional cab companies so that they can increase their scale (or collect enough underpants) to a point where profit materializes.
In SoundClouds case, bleeding money until they achieve market dominance is extremely unlikely. The company has in recent times tried to reposition itself to compete against streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, but thats pretty much an impossible battle to win. Unlike those services, SoundCloud has never been used as a substitute for radio, and chasing that model is likely where most of that investment money has disappeared.
If SoundCloud is to survive and thrive it needs to develop a realistic vision of what exactly it has to offer. While not perfect, SoundCloud is extremely good at its core purpose: providing cheap and easy hosting and streaming for independent music. That’s why it’s become so popular and had such a huge cultural impact. SoundCloud rap is an actual genre now, and the platform has been an invaluable tool for every genre of independent music. Toronto’s current hip-hop renaissance likely wouldn’t have been possible without it, and you’d be hard-pressed to find any local independent musicians who don’t have a presence on the platform.
SoundCloud features the largest collection of independent music in the world, which is why its impending demise has created such panic among musicians. Volunteer collective Archive Team has pledged that it will begin to backup SoundCloud’s enormous database, but theres so much music living on the site that a full archive is next to impossible.
So if SoundCloud cant compete with the big internet radio models, how can it maintain its business if investors lose confidence?
It could model itself more after Bandcamp and focus on helping artists sell downloads, but anyone moving significant units would put their music on iTunes.
SoundCloud is closer to being a large-scale distributor and collection of music than a store, and maybe that intermediary role could hold the key to a viable business model. Many SoundCloud artists have no label, or are on labels with extremely limited resources. If SoundCloud could help get those artists on Spotify and iTunes, that could be a way of getting some money flowing to both the company and the musicians.
They could also branch out into licensing, as thats where the real money for independent music often is, and an area that many musicians dont have the resources to pursue on their own. SoundCloud could reposition itself as a modern version of a music library, providing musicians with a more streamlined way to offer their tracks up for commercial use and get royalties from that use.
Admittedly, thats probably a long shot, too, but at least its better than continuing to collect underpants without a plan.
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Common Names: saber-tooth cat (or sabertooth cat), sabercatSmilodon fatalis had a body mass ranging from 350 to 600 pounds, similar in weight to the modern Siberian tiger Fossils of Smilodon fatalis are not particularly common in Florida, but there have been many fossils found across the United States, including a prolific collection in Rancho la Brea in Los Angeles, California.Late middle to latest Pleistocene Epoch; late Irvingtonian and Rancholabrean land mammal agesAbout 700,000 to 11,000 years ago Scientific Name and ClassificationSmilodon fatalis Leidy, 1868 Source of Species Name: not stated in Leidy’s original description, but from the Latin word fatalis, meaning of fate or destiny. But presumably Leidy’s intent was based on the standard English usage of the word ‘fatal’, meaning deadly or causing death .Classification: Mammalia, Eutheria, Laurasiatheria, Carnivora, Feliformia, Aeluroidea, Felidae, Machairodontinae, Smilodontini Alternate Species Names: Machairodus floridanus, Smilodon californicus, Smilodon floridanusFigure Overall Geographic RangeSmilodon fatalis lived in southern and central North America, Central America, and western South America (Kurten and Werdelin, 1990). The type locality is in southeastern Texas (Leidy, 1868).The genus Smilodon contains three widely recognized species: Smilodon populator, Smilodon fatalis, and Smilodon gracilis (Kurten and Werdelin, 1990; Turner, 1996). Two species names widely used in the older scientific and semi-popular literature, Smilodon californicus and Smilodon floridanus, are almost always now regarded as junior synonyms of Smilodon fatalis. Berta (1985) proposed that Smilodon populator and Smilodon fatalis were actually a single species, with the former name having priority. This approach has been followed in a few other studies, but today most experts on extinct felids regard the two species as distinct. Smilodon populator in this scenario is limited to portions of South America east of the Andes.
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Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who has spent the last several weeks disseminating Edward Snowden’s revelations about National Security Agency eavesdropping practices, caused a stir this weekend with an interview he gave to Argentina’s La Nación.
“Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the U.S. government in one single minute than any other person has ever had in the history of the United States,” Greenwald told La Nación‘s Alberto Armendariz (my translation). He goes on to talk about how Snowden has to avoid landing in the custody of the “vengeful” U.S. at all costs, how Russia is a good place for him for now, and how Snowden’s objective is letting the world know how the NSA is violating privacy rights. Snowden is not out to destroy the U.S., Greenwald says. If Snowden dies, however, Greenwald adds, watch out:
He has already distributed thousands of documents and made sure that various people around the world have his complete archive. If something happens to him, these documents would be made public. This is his insurance policy. The U.S. government should be on its knees everyday praying that nothing happens to Snowden, because if anything should happen, all the information will be revealed and this would be its worst nightmare. [La Nación, my translation]
In an interview with The Associated Press, Greenwald elaborated on what Snowden is sitting on: “In order to take documents with him that proved that what he was saying was true he had to take ones that included very sensitive, detailed blueprints of how the NSA does what they do.” These documents, Greenwald added, “would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it does, which would in turn allow them to evade that surveillance or replicate it.”
Greenwald’s interview with La Nación reached the U.S. largely through a Reuters article that reported the quotes in English. Greenwald was annoyed enough by this act of translational journalism that he responded in a blog post at The Guardian:
Like everything in the matter of these NSA leaks, this interview is being wildly distorted to attract attention away from the revelations themselves. It’s particularly being seized on to attack Edward Snowden and, secondarily, me, for supposedly “blackmailing” and “threatening” the US government. That is just absurd. That Snowden has created some sort of “dead man’s switch” — whereby documents get released in the event that he is killed by the US government — was previously reported weeks ago, and Snowden himself has strongly implied much the same thing….
That has nothing to do with me: I don’t have access to those “insurance” documents and have no role in whatever dead man switch he’s arranged. I’m reporting what documents he says he has and what precautions he says he has taken to protect himself from what he perceives to be the threat to his well-being. That’s not a threat. Those are facts…. The only people who would claim any of this was a “threat” or “blackmail” are people with serious problems of reading comprehension or honesty, or both. [Guardian]
That explanation didn’t impress Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, who said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday that the comments from Greenwald (or “that reporter”, as he calls him) about the U.S. getting on its knees are “out of line.” Despite the considerable respect he has for The Guardian, Bernstein added, “that’s an awful statement, and the tone in which he made it.”
It’s one thing to say that Mr. Snowden possesses some information that could be harmful, and that could be part of the calculation that everybody makes here. It’s another to make that kind of an aggressive, non-reportorial statement [that] a reporter has no business making. [Bernstein on Morning Joe]
That, too, prompted a response from Greenwald: “I realize Carl Bernstein hasn’t done any actual reporting for a couple decades now, but he should nonetheless take the time to read what he’s opining on.” Reuters gave “a complete distortion of what I actually said,” Greenwald told Politico. “The point I made is the opposite one: That Snowden has been as responsible as a whistleblower can be in ensuring that only information the public should know is revealed.”
Let me get this straight, said Elaine Radford at The Inquisitr. Snowden is sitting on the documents that would cause the worst damage to the U.S. in its entire history, and he’ll unleash them if anything happens to him — nice government there, pity if anything should happen to it — but it’s not blackmail?
First, “considering that the United States wouldn’t go on its knees to Nazis, Nikita Khrushchev, or Osama bin Laden, Greenwald seemed to be expecting a bit much,” Radford said. Second, if he’s trying to make Snowden more sympathetic to Americans, asking America to get on its knees is pretty counterproductive — “most of us think we settled that one sometime around 1776.” But the big point, is “I don’t see how you can take the claim as anything other than a threat of blackmail.”
Like any other reporter, Greenwald is entitled to report what his source has claimed. Greenwald may even have a duty to report it if Snowden is in fact trying to blackmail the United States into dropping its criminal case against him. That in itself seems perilously close to the crime of extortion to me….
The Snowden “worst damage” dead man’s switch threat seems to suggest that Snowden has plans to destroy America by some sort of hacker attack or release of harmful information if he doesn’t get his way. You know, I don’t want to hang a guy because a reporter gave a bad interview. But c’mon. If the Snowden “worst damage” comment actually reflects how Edward Snowden thinks, it’s way past time to stop calling this man any kind of hero. [Inquisitr]
By: Peter Weber, Senior Editor, The Week, July 15, 2013
July 16, 2013 - Posted by raemd95 | National Security | Argentina, Blackmail, Carl Bernstein, Edward Snowden, Extortion, Glenn Greenwald, National Security Agency, Treason, US government
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BISC110/S10: Series 3 Experiment 8 Photosynthetic Pigments
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1 Series Three Photosynthesis Lab 8 : Photosynthetic Pigments
3 PART I: Pigment Extraction and Separation
4 PART I Procedure
5 PART II: Spectrophotometery
6 PART II Procedure
8 Link to Labs in this Series and the Last Series
Series Three Photosynthesis Lab 8 : Photosynthetic Pigments
We are now beginning a series of investigations related to photosynthesis. In this laboratory period, we will extract and examine pigments of plant leaves. Some of these pigments, namely chlorophylls (a and b) and carotenoids are involved in absorbing light that is used to drive photosynthesis in higher plants. In the next two laboratory sessions, we will examine various factors that influence the resulting photosynthetic electron transport rates.
PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS
Chlorophyll a and b impart the green color that one associates with plant leaves. Carotenoids, which are yellow pigments, are also present in leaves but are usually masked by the chlorophylls. It is only in the fall when the chlorophylls are degraded faster than the carotenoids that the yellow color becomes visible to us. The chlorophyll and carotenoid contents of plants can vary markedly with its age, or depend on environmental factors such as light intensity or quality during growth. The pale green appearance of a willow tree in early spring is markedly different from its olive-green of late summer. The intense dark green of "shade adapted" plants differs from the lacy green colors one sees at the top of a forest canopy. In today’s lab we will measure the relative concentrations of photosynthetic pigments in leaves of several different plant species.
Carotenoids and chlorophylls are found in the chloroplasts and are associated with the thylakoids, the internal membrane network of these organelles. It is now established that all chlorophylls are organized as discrete chlorophyll-protein complexes within the lipid matrix of the photosynthetic membrane.
The majority of chlorophyll a molecules (and all chlorophyll b and carotenoid molecules) function as antenna pigments. In combination with proteins, they form the light-harvesting complexes, which absorb and funnel light energy to the reaction center chlorophylls, thereby allowing the plant to utilize a broad spectrum of wavelengths for photosynthesis. Some of the chlorophyll a molecules serve specialized functions in the reaction centers of photosystems I and II, where the light energy is used to drive the reduction of components of the electron transport chain.
Leaves contain usually 7 different carotenoids (neoxanthin, violaxanthin, lutein, zeaxanthin, antheraxanthin, β-carotene and α-carotene; see Fig.1) that function in light harvesting. All carotenoids are derived from a skeleton of 40 carbon atoms, linked with alternating unsaturated bonds. The terminal carbons are arranged in rings. Carotenoids such as lutein that contain oxygen are termed xanthophylls. As mentioned before these carotenoids appear yellow or orange in color, because they absorb light in the blue part of the visible light spectrum. One can determine the characteristic patterns of light absorption of an isolated pigment in solution at different wavelengths. These so-called absorption spectra (singular = spectrum) will allow you to identify which pigments you have isolated from the leaves.
Luteine
Zeaxantin
Violaxanthin
α-carotene
ß–carotene
Antheraxanthin
Neoxanthin Figure 1. Molecular structures of carotenoids typically found in a leaf
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zeaxantin.PNG
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Violaxanthin.svg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha-carotene.png
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beta-carotene.png
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neoxanthin.svg
Figure 2. Molecular structures of chlorophylls a and b
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chlorophyll_a_b_d.svg
In order to obtain an absorption spectrum one must first use a solvent to dissolve the chlorophylls and carotenoids from the thylakoids of the chloroplasts. In today’s lab, students will work with one species of plant. Each pair of students will use 100% acetone to extract and identify the photosynthetic pigments from the plant.
In addition to the chlorophylls and carotenoids you may also extract water-soluble anthocyanins, which are red or purple in color. These pigments are localized in the vacuole, and are not involved in light absorption for photosynthesis. It is not clear what role they play, but some evidence suggests that they protect leaves from harmful UV B radiation and deter herbivores due to their bitter taste.
The various pigments that you extract will be separated by making use of their differential polarity (which influences their solubility in various solvents) and by their differential rates of migration through a solid medium. In this case, migration will be up a sheet of filter paper. This method of separation is called paper chromatography.
The chromatography paper usually contains pure cellulose, which is a linear polymer of D-glucose with β-1,4 linkages and many polar side groups. The stationary phase refers to water that is tightly bound to the cellulose structure and fills the interspaces of the matrix (the paper fibers). The mobile phase refers to any solvent (known as the developing solvent) that is partially miscible (mixable) with water. Pigments that are highly water-soluble or that have the greatest hydrogen-bonding capacity will move more slowly along the paper, while less polar compounds travel faster with the developing solvent (petroleum ether, in this case). Paper chromatography is usually used for separating highly polar compounds such as sugars, amino acids, and some pigments.
The chromatography solution we shall use is a saturated solution of a polar solvent, n-propanol (1% vol/vol) in a relatively non-polar solvent, petroleum ether. As the solvent mixture ascends the 3MM filter paper (the matrix) by capillary action, the more polar component of the solvent adsorbs to the filter paper to become thousands of droplets of the stationary phase. These bound, stationary droplets are successively washed by the passing of the more non-polar, mobile phase. Those photosynthetic pigments having greater solubility in the more polar solvent will be retained or partitioned in the stationary phase, whereas other pigments more soluble in the non-polar, mobile phase will move up the chromatogram.
Once the pigments are separated on the chromatography paper according to their polarity, they can be extracted with a solvent. The identity and purity of the band can be tested by recording its absorption spectrum.
PART I: Pigment Extraction and Separation
In this portion of the lab, you will extract pigments from leaves and separate the different pigments using paper chromatography.
PART I Procedure
All glassware used for pigment isolation and separation must be rinsed with 70% ethanol immediately after using it. CAUTION: Pour used solvents into the waste container in the HOOD. DO NOT POUR FLAMMABLE SOLVENTS INTO ANY SINK DRAIN. The solvents you will be using today: acetone, n-propanol and petroleum ether are all irritants to the eyes, skin and respiratory passages, so handle with care.
A. Extraction of Pigments (work in hood only)
1. Extract photosynthetic pigments by grinding 2g of your leaves, torn into small pieces, in a mortar with a pinch of clean sand and a total of 10mL of 100% acetone. Initially, add only a small amount of acetone to begin the grinding process. It is much easier to grind the leaves if the extract is a pasty consistency. Add more solvent in small increments while continuing to grind the leaves. For some species you may need to add more than the suggested 10mL of acetone. Pour the extract into a 15mL centrifuge tube and centrifuge in the benchtop centrifuge for 3min. Remove the extract to a 10mL graduated cylinder using a Pasteur pipette. Record the volume of the extract in your lab notebook. Cover the extract with Parafilm® to prevent evaporation. This extract will be used for chromatography.
Clean-up: Wash mortar and pestle immediately with 70% ethanol. Discard ethanol in labeled waste bottle in hood. Discard centrifuge tube in hazard bag in hood.
B. Separation of Pigments by Paper Chromatography
1. In the hood (wear gloves) Prepare 25mL of chromatography solvent by first adding 25mL of Petroleum ether into your chromatography jar followed by 250µL of n-propanol. Attach the lid tightly to allow saturation of gases in the jar. Label your jar with colored tape.
2. Obtain a piece of 3MM filter paper, being very careful not to touch the flat surface. Place the paper on the covered table, and draw two dots with a pencil about 2cm from the bottom (narrow edge), and 1cm from the left and right edges. Do not use a pen, because pen marks will develop with the pigments.
3. Using an eye-shadow applicator, apply the pigment extract between the dots in the manner demonstrated by your instructor. Do NOT extend the line to the side edges--leave 1cm space on each side. You may need to make more than one application of extract to obtain sufficient pigment in each band, and therefore, good absorption spectra. Apply the extract with the edge of the applicator, not the wide face. This will give a thinner line. Wait between applications for the extract to dry, otherwise you will get a very thick line. The number of applications will depend on the type of plant used and the concentration of the extract. If the line is very faint, more applications are needed. Ask your instructor, if enough extract has been applied.
4. Quickly, place the chromatogram in the chromatography jar in the hood, pigment line down and attach the lid tightly. Be sure the chromatography solvent (which contains petroleum ether with 1% n-propanol) in the jar will not stand higher than the line of applied pigments, that is, be sure the solution will migrate through the line and move the pigments up the paper rather than to diffuse them from the paper into the standing solvent.
5. Observe as the solvent front moves up the paper. Stop the process when the solvent front is about 2 cm from the top. Note that the pigments move up the paper very quickly. How long does it take? Check after 5 minutes. At the end, there should be 3–5 bands of pigment: 2 green bands and 1–3 yellow bands. Generally, there is a yellow pigment band (migrating with the solvent front), followed by 2 green bands, and finally 0–2 yellow bands.
6. Remove the chromatogram and allow it to dry in the hood.
PART II: Spectrophotometery
In this portion of the lab, you will examine the absorption spectra of the separated pigments and determine the concentration of chlorophyll a by generating a standard curve using a spectrophotometer.
Light is a form of electromagnetic radiation. It travels through space in rhythmic waves, and the distance between the crests of the waves is called the wavelength. Wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation range from less than a nanometer to greater than a kilometer, and this wavelength is inversely proportional to the amount of energy present. The entire range of electromagnetic radiation is called the electromagnetic spectrum, which is diagrammed in Figure 3.
Figure 3. The Electromagnetic Spectrum.
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The radiation in the visible portion of the spectrum is detected as colors by the human eye. Color is determined by the wavelengths of light that are reflected by molecules in the substance, while the other wavelengths are absorbed. Therefore, an object that appears red absorbs the blue-green wavelengths of light and reflects the red wavelengths. Our perception of color is qualitative, but there are instruments that quantify the amount of light absorbed at a particular wavelength by a solution. These instruments are called spectrophotometers. As shown in Figure 4, a simple spectrophotometer contains a light source that is focused on a prism or diffraction grating, which splits this light into individual energy bands. These bands are further focused through a narrow slit, which can be moved across the spectrum to select a specific wavelength. This monochromatic (one wavelength) beam of light is passed through a cuvette containing the sample to be measured. As the light passes through the sample, some of it is absorbed by the molecules in the solution. The remainder of the light is transmitted through the sample, and impacts a photodetector that changes light energy into an electrical current. The magnitude of this current is proportional to the light intensity. The detector signal is amplified by a photomultiplier and is fed into the display meter as a number (digital) or a stylus deflection (analog), which indicates the amount of light absorbed by the molecules in the solution. Most spectrophotometers can also indicate the amount of light that is transmitted through the solution.
Figure 4. Diagram of the Light Paths in a Spectrophotometer.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spetrophotometer-en.svg
The Beer-Lambert Law
The amount of light that passes through a solution in a spectrophotometer is called transmittance (T), and can be defined mathematically as, T = I/Io, where I is the intensity of the light transmitted through the sample, and Io is the intensity of the incident light on the sample. The absorbance (A) is the negative log of the transmittance, A = –log T. Absorbance is directly proportional to the concentration of the absorbing molecules in the solution and the distance the light travels through the solution. Therefore, absorbance can be used as a quantitative measure of the concentration of a solution. These concepts are expressed mathematically in the Beer-Lambert Law:
The molar extinction coefficient is a constant that is dependent upon the chemical nature of the absorbing material and the wavelength employed for the absorbance measurement. The path length is determined by the width or diameter of the cuvette used to contain the sample. Absorbance is unitless.
Quantitative analysis of many biological materials is based on: a) the material itself exhibiting light absorbance at a particular wavelength, or b) the biological material reacting with a chemical reagent to form a colored product in such a way that the absorbance of the product is a quantitative measure of the concentration of the biological material. Because these materials must be dissolved in a solvent before an absorbance reading can be obtained, absorption by the solvent is a potential source of error. To insure that the absorbance reading will reflect only the absorbance of the molecules to be quantified, spectrophotometers are initially set to zero absorbance with the solvent that was used to dissolve or dilute the solutions. The tube containing the solvent is called the blank.
PART II Procedure
A. Determination of Absorption Spectra (work in pairs)
1. With a pencil, number the bands in your chromatogram from the top down. Use the lab's digital cameras to take a photo of your chromatogram. Download your photo onto the desktop of one of the lab computers (Appendix J). Open a Word document and insert the photo in the form of a picture. Save the file as a Word document and email it to yourself and your partner in FirstClass.
2. Cut the chromatograms into horizontal strips as directed by your instructor. Take care to cut the strips so that they contain no more than one horizontal band of pigment. It is best to work with only one pigment at a time to avoid contamination of samples. If the band is light, use the lesser volume of acetone indicated in step 3.
3. Pipet 1mL of 100% acetone into three 13mm test tubes. Taking each of the 3 types of pigment (top green, bottom green and one yellow) separately, cut the strip into small pieces that can be submerged in the solvent. Cover the opening of the tube with Parafilm® to prevent acetone evaporation. Bring the test tubes and your matched glass cuvettes to the Beckman spectrophotometer. Carry the cuvettes in a cuvette rack, as they are expensive. Do not dispose of their plastic tops! Refer to the directions for using the Beckman DU®530 spectrophotometer in Appendix C (Program #5, 400–700nm).
4. Once the baseline has been run from 700–400nm, using 100% acetone in the cuvette, run an absorption spectrum for each pigment, rinsing the sample cuvette with acetone (from a squirt bottle in the hood!) between readings. The peaks and valleys will be adjusted automatically by the spectrophotometer, by changing the range of % absorbance on the y-axis. You can use the cursor to obtain the wavelengths of the spectral peaks, or estimate them from the printed spectra. These peak wavelengths will be useful for determining the identities of the pigments associated with the spectra.
5. When all the spectra have been recorded, print the chlorophylls together either on one graph or separately (Appendix C). Print the carotenoids as a separate graph. Be sure to label which band from the chromatogram corresponds to each spectrum.
B. Prepare Serial Dilutions of Chlorophyll Derived Stock Solution
Each pair will use a stock solution to prepare a series of 4 dilutions of a dietary supplement that contains chlorophyll among other compounds (stock chlorophyll derived compounds at 0.05mg/ml). Each dilution in the series will differ from the previous dilution by 1/2, so the dilution ratio for each tube is 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8. Calculate the concentrations of the chlorophyll derivative that the tubes (in micrograms/ml) will contain after the dilutions have been prepared, and record them in your lab notebook.
1. Label four 13mm test tubes with the dilution ratios: 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16.
2. With a 5.0mL serological pipette add 4.0mL distilled water to each tube.
3. Using a clean pipette, add 4.0mL of stock solution to the tube labeled 1/2 and mix by inversion (not vortexing). Use square of Parafilm® to cover test tube opening. Keeping thumb on Parafilm®, invert test tube twice.
4. Use a clean pipette to add 4.0mL of 1/2 dilution to the tube labeled 1/4; mix.
6. Use a clean pipette to add 4.0mL of 1/8 dilution to the tube labeled 1/16; mix.
C. Determination of Absorbance versus Concentration
You will now use all four dilutions (stock, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16) to demonstrate the relationship between absorbance and concentration. Do not read the stock solution, as this will give you an absorbance value that is too high. Set the Spectronic20+® spectrophotometer to the wavelength that gave maximal absorption for chlorophyll derivative in Part A and zero the instrument using water as the blank (Appendix B). Read the absorbance of the four concentrations and record them in your lab notebook next to the appropriate concentrations. Using the Excel directions in Appendix D plot these data to generate a simple scatter plot. Be sure to label the axes and give units, if appropriate, (ug/ml on the x and A no units on the Y). Is there any apparent relationship between the absorbance values and the concentrations of the four solutions? Does this relationship follow the Beer-Lambert Law?
D. Data Analysis and Determination of an Unknown Concentration of Chlorophyll Derived Solution
This section of the lab will address some of the ways that analytical data are presented and evaluated. For this, you will be using the absorbance and concentration values obtained for your chlorophyll derived solutions in Part C.
1. Linear Regression Analysis
Linear Regression is a method of data evaluation that enables us to create a linear plot of absorbance data versus concentration for a series of solutions. This plot can be used as a measure of compliance with the Beer-Lambert Law and to predict the concentrations of unknown samples. The plot generated by the linear regression method is called a standard curve, and is described by the equation y = mx + b, where m is the slope of the line, b is the y intercept, and x, y are the data points. Because all data may not be perfectly linear, a measure of how well the regression line fits the actual data points, called the correlation coefficient (R2), is also determined. The calculations for linear regression are quite tedious, so computer programs are often used to assist with the calculations. We will be using Microsoft Excel to calculate and plot linear regression data today. The data must be entered such that the independent variable (concentration, in this case) is plotted on the x-axis. The dependent variable (absorbance, in this case) will be displayed on the y-axis. A sample standard curve can be found here:
Reference: Dunne RP (1999) Spectrophotometric measurement of chlorophyll pigments: a companson of conventional monochromators and a reverse optic diode array design. Mar Chem 66:245-251
The linear regression equation and the R2 value are printed on the graph. A R2 value equal to 1 is indicative of perfect correlation among all the data points, and R2 values of 0.99-0.97 indicate good linearity. If acceptable linearity is demonstrated, the regression equation can be used to calculate the concentrations of unknown solutions by substituting the absorbance of the solution into the equation as the y value and solving for x.
To verify the linearity of your dilution series data, use Excel (Appendix E for regression plots) to plot a standard curve using the concentrations and corresponding absorbance values for these solutions determined in Part B. Is your standard curve linear? If so, what does this tell you about the relationship between concentration and absorbance? If your standard curve is not linear, consider the types of errors that may have contributed to this lack of linearity.
2. Determination of Unknown Concentration
There is an animation showing how to determine the concentration of an unknown available at: [| http://www.wellesley.edu/Biology/Concepts/Html/standardcurve.html]
Your lab instructor will give you a test tube with an unknown concentration of chlorophyll derived solution. At the appropriate wave length, measure the absorbance and determine the concentration of this solution. Before you leave the lab, please hand in your standard curve along with the measured chlorophyll derived solution's concentration.
Laboratory Cleanup
1. Wash glassware with 70% ethanol as soon as possible.
2. Discard all ethanol in labeled bottle in hood.
3. Place glass pipettes tips down in pipette canister.
4. Discard Pasteur pipettes in red sharps container.
5. Rinse cuvettes with 95% ethanol and leave upright to dry.
6. Discard eye-shadow applicator.
Turn in at the beginning of Lab 9
Write a results section (data analysis) for your pigment lab work today, answering the question, Which specific photosynthetic pigments in spinach leaves are identified by partition chromatography? This analysis should include a composite figure made from either an overlay graph of your absorbance spectra OR from making a composite figure showing EACH of your separate spectra as parts of a single figure (with an identification system for the parts that makes it clear which spectrum comes from which numbered fraction on your chromatogram). You will need to scan the spectra to get digital versions for this assignment. There are scanners in the Science Library and in the Knapp Center. The last figure should be your chromatogram because it will need to have the key to the identity of the numbered pigment fractions and you can't give the conclusions (the id) before you present all the data that leads to those conclusions. All figures should have appropriate figure legends.
The narrative portion of this results analysis should start with the experimental goals (In order to discover....) and then briefly give a general description of the experimental methods employed to answer the question addressed. This is results and not materials and methods, so do NOT include a step by step description of your procedure with details like volumes of reagents, etc. Figures should be inserted at the end of the paragraph that introduces the figure directly by figure number. Since you have labeled the pigments on the chromatograph as 1, 2, etc., the figure legend should include a key of answers to the identity of the numbered separated pigments and reference the spectra figure to explain how the identities were determined. The analysis narrative will, necessarily, include references to outside sources of information for reference peak absorbance spectra of pigments and for the chemical structure of the pigments that accounts for their differences in polarity and migration in your chromatography solvents. Your evidence for your conclusions about the ID the photosynthetic pigments is made from a combination of comparisons of your measured peak absorbances to known spectra, relative mobility due to chemical structural differences that cause differences in polartiy, and from transmitted color. Be sure to include ALL of those parameters (chemical structure and polarity related to migration, transmitted color, and peak absorbance) in your identification analysis.
2. In your lab notebook, prepare a flow chart for the Hill Reaction (Lab 9).
3. Review the mechanisms of electron transport and proton flow in photosynthesis in your textbook.
Link to Labs in this Series and the Last Series
Lab 8: Photosynthetic Pigments
Lab 9: The Hill Reaction
Lab 10: Variables Affecting the Hill Reaction
Lab 11 Gene Regulation/Enzymology
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McIntosh Supporters Eye Snap By-Election
The Anne McIntosh problem is not going away for the Tories, with the latest speculation being that the MP might trigger a by-election to try to win the backing of her Yorkshire constituency. McIntosh denies that there are plans to stand as an independent without Tory opposition – after her own association booted her in January- though she tells Guido that she has made ‘no decision as yet’ on what she will do. But then she would say that wouldn’t she…
McIntosh’s dwindling number of fans think it will be easier for her to win as an independent in a separate by-election, possibly held the same day as the European Elections in May, than it would to win at the General Election. The only thing worrying her supporters is that UKIP might pip their girl at the post.
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NFL as Colonialism: An Asian Perspective
The NFL's facade of unity has given way to the realities of American racial division, and that is what we need.
Five Alive
As a non-white guy, no other sport — no other institution— seems to hint so clearly at the legacy of slavery as the NFL. But as a non-black guy, I resist seeing slavery in football because black Americans embrace the sport in large numbers, and I don’t often hear them voice this themselves.
For me, the NFL appears like one of those double-picture illusions that switch between, say, a young woman and a pickle-nosed old hag. The double-picture that I see switches between a kind of capitalist re-enactment of slavery, and the dominant mainstream picture: an ultra-nationalist celebration of American military imperialism, to which no dissent is tolerated.
The NFL, I believe, self-consciously biases the picture so that we all tend to see a patriotic militarism in the game, sending F-16’s streaking over the stadiums while “our men and women in uniform” unfurl a God-sized flag over the battlefield. The NFL does this, I believe, because it knows we all must be united in the defense of our country, and unity is great for the business of football.
But, as an Asian guy in America, this military image of the NFL is not a particularly pleasant picture either. American military pomp brings to my mind a modern history of war atrocities and colonial subjugation targeting the people of Asia primarily through indiscriminate carpet bombing of civilians, a history that is no less brutal or lethal than its history of slavery. Its only saving grace is that it was perpetrated outside of this country, and thus mostly out view of most Americans. But as an Asian in America, I cannot help but draw the connection between the NFL and an ideology of imperialism.
This imperial ideology — an insistence that American firepower has limitless jurisdiction in world affairs — is happening again now in Asia, as America casually threatens North Korea with total and infernal destruction, and warns China that it may be next in line. And it’s not as if this began with Trump. Take Obama’s “pivot to Asia,” which was little more than shifting every available warship to the South China Sea with such urgency that we couldn’t even keep ourselves from crashing into cargo ships.
So while the slavery image of football brings me great unease, the military image of football feels even more alienating, as I feel only Asians, along with perhaps Muslims and Native Americans — insignificant as we are — could really understand this. For example, it is not at all a pleasant experience for me to watch a B-52 Stratofortress make a guest appearance at an NFL game as both black and white fans lose their collective patriotic shit. James Baldwin wrote in his essay Stranger in the Village that he, a black man, could never look upon the Chartres Cathedral in Paris and see what a white man sees; but, conversely, a white man could never experience Chartres in the way a black man does. The B-52 flyover is my Chartres.
What Kaepernick has been doing is great, and he should be universally supported on the basis of American constitutionalism as well as universal principles of human rights. He’s a man who holds an ethically sound belief and is doing what he must to politicize it. That he faces such resistance only suggests that he is making progress and in the right direction.
What Trump said, although vile, was equally important, because he’s that one old bastard with enough senility, authentic racism, and military service avoidance to speak to the NFL owners and fans in the undisguised parlance of white supremacy. Their applause and celebration of Trump’s depravity was terrifying yet also for me validating, as it reveals that these racists view the NFL the same way I do, and so I’m not crazy. To both me and some of these racist fans, the NFL appears as a modern-day nostalgia fantasy for the past eras of institutionalized subjugation of black people. What was Trump calling out to them for, after all? Two things: for white owners to punish a black player for daring to speak out, and to increase the brutality that the mostly-black players (70%) must endure.
And while apologists may reply that plenty of white players would suffer from more on-field brutality as well, there’s no denying that from the coaching class on up to management and ownership, it‘s almost all white, and the kind of white Trump cares most about:
And that owner, they don’t know it. They don’t know it. They’re friends of mine, many of them.
Roger Goodell may or may not be a good man, but he puts on a pretty good show of being blandly decent. His response to Trump is telling:
The NFL and our players are at our best when we help create a sense of unity in our country and our culture.
A “sense of unity.” Not actual unity, just the sense of it, a mere belief that we are one. To hell with Goodell’s corporatized sidespeak. What Trump is forcing us to do, through sheer senility, is to abandon these false beliefs and confront what the NFL really is: a more or less accurate reflection of a deeply divided nation that refuses to learn from its own history. The lesson we must and will learn out of this is that one side is right, the other side must be defeated, and a cheerful sense of patriotic compromise and negotiation cannot delay this reckoning forever.
As an Asian guy in America, I am relieved this reckoning is finally happening, because we Americans too easily plaster over serious racial problems through forced celebrations of our imperial mandate.
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Perth cricketer’s skull fractured in UK
Posted in Local News, tagged 26, A man hit, A young Perth, A-grade debut, ALL news, attacked, backwards, bashed, brick, Chris Thomson, Clayton West, cricketer, England, face, face with a brick, fell, fell backwards, fly home, footpath. His attacker, fractured, fractured skull, greeted, head, head injuries, heavily, hit, in UK, injuries, intensive care, Leeds, left, left in taxi., Local News, man, mother, mother Jeannette, Mt Lawley, news, nightclub, on Wednesday, out of, out of intensive care., outside, perth, Perth cricketer’s, perth wa, playing, several months, severe, skull, skull fractured, son, struck his head, suffered, summer, taxi, Thomson, Thomson’s, WA, WACA club, went, west, West Yorkshire., yorkshire on June 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »
A young Perth cricketer bashed with a brick outside a nightclub in Leeds in England might not be able to fly home for several months because severe head injuries that have left him unable to talk.
Chris Thomson, 26, suffered a fractured skull when he was attacked early on Monday.
A man hit him in the face with a brick and he fell backwards and struck his head heavily on the footpath. His attacker left in taxi.
Thomson, who made his A-grade debut for WACA club Mt Lawley at the end of the summer, was playing for Clayton West in West Yorkshire.
Thomson’s mother Jeannette went to England on Wednesday and was greeted with the news that her son was out of intensive care.
Source www.thewest.com.au
Socceroos beat Japan, Cahill scores two
Posted in Sport, tagged 10th minute, 2006, 2010, against, Australia, Australia won 2-1, Australia's World Cup, blocked it, Blue Samurai, box, brilliant reflex, Cahill, campaign, cheer, crossbar., crowd, eight, final phase, free kick, games, goalkeeper, goals, green and gold army, head, heroics, history, internationals, Japan, Japanese defenders, left foot shot, long ball, long-range, MCG, MCG crowd, Melbourne, Melbourne crowd, Mile Sterjovski, ovation, over, powerful shot, qualifying., real chance, rebound, second half, Seigo Narazaki, Socceroos, Socceroos against, Socceroos goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer, South Africa, Sport, star, Tim Cahill, top of the group, triumph., trouble, Tulio Tanaka, two, unbeaten, victory over Japan., Vince Grella, world cup, World Cup qualification on June 17, 2009| 1 Comment »
Socceroos star Tim Cahill relived his 2006 World Cup heroics with two second half goals against Japan to ensure Australia ended their qualifying campaign for South Africa 2010 in triumph.
Australia won 2-1 at the MCG on Wednesday night, meaning they went unbeaten through the eight games of their final phase of qualifying and stayed ahead of Japan at the top of their group to earn Asian bragging rights.
Cahill, who scored the first two goals in Australia’s World Cup history to spark a famous 3-1 comeback victory over Japan in Germany in 2006, was again the shining light for the Socceroos against the Blue Samurai.
While both sides were already guaranteed World Cup qualification before Wednesday night’s match, Cahill’s second half heroics at least gave an MCG crowd of 69,238 plenty to cheer about.
There had been precious few moments for the green and gold army to get excited about before the break, as Australia continued the effective but unadventurous style that had served them well previously in the campaign.
Their one real chance of the first half came in the 10th minute, when Cahill ran onto a long ball in the box.
His left foot shot was not hit with enough venom to trouble goalkeeper Seigo Narazaki, who blocked it away.
But the rebound ended up with Mile Sterjovski, whose much more powerful shot required a brilliant reflex move by the `keeper to deflect it over the crossbar.
Cahill had another chance from the resultant corner, with a header from the box, but was wide of the target.
Japan did most of most of the attacking for the rest of the half and eventually opened the scoring through Tulio Tanaka in the 40th minute.
Tanaka made a well-timed run into the middle of the box from a corner kick and leapt over Cahill to head it home.
It broke a seven-game streak of clean sheets for Socceroos goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer, who had spent his previous 710 minutes in goal without conceding.
But the rare blot on their defensive copybook stirred the Socceroos into life after break and they attacked constantly in the opening stages of the second half.
It took a brilliant Cahill header to level the scores in the 59th minute.
He produced a huge leap above two Japanese defenders at the left side of the box to connect with a long-range Vince Grella free kick and head it into the right side of the net.
The goal seemed to inspire Cahill to press even harder for the winner, getting onto the end of several promising attacking moves in the following minutes.
He eventually gave the Socceroos the lead in the 76th minute, when a Nicky Carle corner kick from the right side floated over a pack of players in the box.
Cahill, lurking at the back, got enough of his right leg to the ball to send it home and lift the crowd to their feet.
It was his 16th goal in 33 internationals and he was later given a huge ovation as he walked to the bench in the 86th minute, having once again lifted Australia to a comeback victory over Japan.
But, asked after the match about his scoring record against Japan, Cahill would only speak about the Melbourne crowd, a possible snub to the media who have criticised the Socceroos’ playing style.
“I’d just like to thank the crowd, the lads, a great turnout in Melbourne, I’m so proud to be here, so proud to play tonight so I think the credit just goes to the crowd, you were brilliant,” he said.
“This is a step forward for us, it’s great to finish top of the group.”
Source : www.thewest.com.au
See through the rebate debate health insurance
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The strategy : To work out how the changes to the health insurance rebate affect me.
I suppose it means I’ll be paying more for my health insurance. That’s the gist of it though it will depend on whether Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull delivers on his threat to block the legislation. As you may have picked up from the federal budget, the Government needs to find savings to fund higher pension payments.
One proposed measure is means testing the health insurance rebate, which currently allows you to claim a tax rebate of 30 per cent of the cost of your health insurance if you’re aged under 65, 35per cent if you’re 65 to 69 and 40 per cent if you’re 70 or older.
Most people ask their health fund to reduce their premiums to take account of the rebate rather than paying the full premium and claiming the rebate in their tax return. For someone under 65, a monthly insurance premium of $250 could be reduced to $175. That won’t change if you earn up to $75,000 if you’re single and $150,000 for families. But if your income is higher, your rebate will be reduced or cut out altogether.
How will that work? Let’s look at singles first. If you earn $75,001-$90,000, your rebate will be reduced to 20 per cent. If you earn $90,001-$120,000, the new rebate will be 10 per cent.
Once your income exceeds $120,000 you will be ineligible for the rebate.
For families, the combined income limits are $150,001-$180,000 for the 20per cent rebate, $180,001-$240,000 for the 10 per cent rebate and the rebate will disappear altogether once family income exceeds $240,000.
All income thresholds will be indexed to wages and will be adjusted for families with one child in the same way that thresholds are already adjusted for determining whether you have to pay the Medicare levy surcharge if you don’t have private health cover. The threshold is currently lifted by $1500 for each dependent child.
The Government says the definition of your income for the rebate will be the same as for the Medicare levy surcharge. Challenger’s head of technical services, Alex Denham, says this definition is changing from July 1 to include your taxable income, reportable fringe benefits, salary sacrificed to super or any personal deductible super contributions made and net investment losses. So higher-income earners won’t be able to use strategies such as salary sacrifice to get or increase their rebate.
Would I be better off dropping my health insurance and paying the Medicare levy surcharge? The proposed measures also include a rise in this surcharge precisely to stop this sort of behaviour.
The 1 per cent surcharge will rise to 1.25per cent once income exceeds $90,000 for singles or $180,000 for couples and to 1.5 per cent for incomes exceeding $120,000 or $240,000. That extra tax may cancel out any savings from dropping your health cover.
MLC’s head of technical services, Andrew Lawless, says a better option may be to make changes to your policy, such as increasing the excess you pay before claiming on the cover or reducing cover on ancillary benefits. However, to avoid the surcharge you must have hospital cover with an excess of $500 or less for singles or $1000 or less for families or couples per calendar year.
When will the changes come in? Not until July 1 next year, so you have time to check the final details if the measures are passed and weigh up your options.
It’s worth noting that the Medicare levy surcharge income limits will be indexed from their current levels of $70,000 for singles and $140,000 for couples to the new $75,000 and $150,000 levels at this time.
Socceroos qualify for 2010 World Cup
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AUSTRALIA have booked a ticket to the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa with a scoreless draw against a determined Qatar at the Al Sadd Club in Doha.
Needing only a point to officially seal qualification, the Socceroos got the job done against a youthful Qatar side to ensure back-to-back World Cup appearances for the first time.
The home side proved tougher opposition than they had in three previous losses, but Australia could feel unlucky not to have won after Tim Cahill struck the post with a spectacular bicycle kick in the first half and Qatari keeper Qasem Burhan made several brilliant saves in the second.
The win means the Socceroos cannot finish any lower than second in Asia’s Group A, with the top two teams earning qualification.
They joined Asian rivals Japan as the first two sides to qualify for next year’s tournament, after the Blue Samurai sealed their spot with a 1-0 win over Uzbekistan earlier on Saturday.
Hosts South Africa are exempt from qualifying.
Both sides made a tentative start in front of a small but vocal Doha crowd, with the Socceroos content to keep possession in the hot and humid conditions.
Qatar’s star striker Sebastian Soria Quintana looked dangerous early on and had the first real chance of the half after getting in behind Chris Coyne, but he flashed his shot across the face of goal.
The Socceroos muscled their way back into the game before Cahill was denied one of the great goals by the woodwork in the 27th minute.
Josh Kennedy, who impressed up front, flicked on a Mark Bresciano free kick with his head, before Cahill found himself in space, controlled with his chest and drilled an overhead kick into the right upright.
Harry Kewell became increasingly menacing after switching to the right win, going close to scoring himself before creating another move which led to Vince Grella firing a volley just over the bar in the 33rd minute.
Qatar had two chances late in the half with Cahill blocking Quintana’s effort and Mark Schwarzer punching away an ambitions long shot from Ahmed Faris.
Australia stepped up their game early in the second half with a flash of chances within a 10-minute period.
The first came to an unlikely source in defender Chris Coyne, who had his shot cleared off the line after attempting to turn in a headed Cahill effort.
The impressive Everton midfielder was again another stunner when his powerful drive was brilliantly saved in the 57th minute by Burhan.
Burhan was called into action again to tip over a Kennedy shot from out wide and once more in the 63rd minute when Kewell collected a brilliant Grella ball, cut inside Ibrahim Majed and forced another great save by Burhan with his right foot.
Continued to threaten and fired across the face of goal in the 80th and although they didn’t get the goal they perhaps deserved, it meant little when the whistle blew to ensure another historic World Cup appearance.
The Socceroos now have matches against Bahrain and Japan at home to celebrate.
Source www.news.com.au
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There is much to learn and you already know how much I travel if you have been following me. My learning will be restricted to perhaps an hour per week.
Once I get the appearance and features the way I want them, I will begin to communicate on a more frequent basis. In the meantime, keep your head down and your powder dry.
BTW, the new domain is mappinghappenings. Well, I did not wake up with a pain in my neck, heart, or chest. Sometimes it is difficult to predict the response you get from them. I think that makes life interesting. As social, communicating creatures we spend too much time trying to elicit a response from others, whether it be verbal or nonverbal. By nature, we desire control and predictability in our environment, and that includes our interactions with the people around us.
When thrown off balance by not getting what we expect or want, we often become frustrated. To complicate matters even further, there are some who expect the unexpected in their quest for self-affirmation.
And, since we often assume a person we are communicating with is like-minded, we give them what we desire to get back. Perhaps unconsciously we assume everyone is just like us, or in some cases, not like us. See how complicated this gets? It is the same with music.
I do believe that people, including myself, play certain music, or certain styles of music, over and over again because we are seeking self-affirmation in its predictability. Then there are those who love the unconventional, and for them when I put on a commercially successful piece of music, something that is overplayed in the media, they become bored and that brings frustration.
For them unpredictability has become self-affirming. They think they like what they like and that is all that they like. For many, there are no strange familiars. There is just black and white, sacred and profane, good and bad, yin and yang.
In reality it is all gray; all a blur. The big paradox for me is that the more you try to drill down and focus, seeking clarity, the more things blur. This is a crudely simple example of the application of the uncertainty principle. But for me what keeps life fresh and exciting is opening myself up to something new; new sounds, new people, new places, new ideas, new sensations, new ways of doing something.
When there is too much sameness in my life I become restless. Yet there are times I seek refuge in the familiar and the conventional. When I was just five years old, I liked putting dissonant and discordant sounds together.
The abrupt and unfamiliar excited me. When I was five, I was not seeking a response from anybody else in these aural explorations. I was simply entertaining myself. At that age, I remember hearing a certain song on the radio that I fell in love with. It was interesting to me because of the incorporation of frog and bird calls into the music. A few years later, on Pittsburgh radio station WRYT, there was a classical music program, which often played selections of modern tone classical composers such as Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern.
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That was exciting for me because it was different and very much what I imagined in my head when I was just five years old — had I been a composer when I was five, I would have written similar music.
When I was in grade school, in the evenings I would play with the knobs on our AM radios and pull in distant stations none of our radios had FM until my freshman year in high school. Being broadcast in French I did not understand what was said, or which artists were being played.
I just knew I really loved these wild sounds. It was only later that I was able to put names to the artists I had heard. When I was in junior high psychedelic rock began to affect contemporary rock music.
This was a welcome treat for me with all the mixes of instruments from the Near East, Middle Eastern scales, odd time signatures, found sounds, swirling Farfisa organs and fuzz drenched guitars. This is not to say that I never listened to or enjoyed popular and conventional music styles. But I would not say that I had a preference for any particular style. Man, that cover with the trout masked Captain in his top hat and coat, and the red-to-hot-pink background was such an irresistible attraction!
When I got it home during break dagcy put it on the turntable, I have to say that there was just nothing like it I had heard before. Abrupt time changes, odd mutated blues patterns, free jazz style horn blowing dxrcy a wild multi-octave Captain all over the map, sometimes not even able to fit in his obscure lyrics before the end of the song.
There was a familiarity with the styles incorporated into his music, but the way they were pasted together came off like a quilt designed by the blind.
It took some time to warm up to this. The big lesson here was that there dwrcy music out there that could still challenge me. Another lesson was that if you listen enough, it becomes familiar; you begin to anticipate what is next, and then it does not sound so weird.
You begin to hum his odd tunes and sing his oddball lyrics and it suddenly makes sense. However, tragmented doing so I instilled fear and trepidation in all but my closest friends. I feel sorry for those who do not have dimmucci desire to take the time to push the envelope. The multimedia performance and recording artists known as The Residents pushed the envelope much further than Beefheart. The Residents were very experimental and absurdist at first but things changed over time, just as The Beatles changed over time.
Their thematic works became much darker and their music less unconventional. This prompted me to seek out their music. I immediately fell in love with this, and still consider it one of their greatest achievements.
It is true psychedelia in my book; conventionality slightly bent to put you a bit off kilter. The lyrics and the monophonic delivery is haunting. The spoken word portions sound mentally damaged. It is gripping in a waltz-through-a-slowed-down-world manner. After this I had to find everything they ever did. What I found was that each release was extremely different from the others until perhaps the last 10 years. I kept my collection complete up until the past three years when I decided the music was becoming a parody of itself.
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Hardy and Homer, if you are reading this, I am sorry. All were already accomplished musical talents when they were diagnosed with schizophrenia with the exception of Sky Saxon and perhaps Craig Smith that manifested itself following years of hallucinogenic drug experimentation.
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My feeling is that had it not been for the drugs the underlying mental illness for most of these artists may have been kept in check but then again, we will never know for sure. I feel a bit guilty about my interest in those who may have been victims of developmental disabilities or mental illness who found an avenue to record and express their musical talents.
This was a school for the developmentally disabled and it must have had a music program as several albums were pressed in the s of performances by the students. Other recordings I have stumbled upon include those of Daniel Johnstona singer-songwriter who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia futurr bipolar disorder.
He produced several cassette tapes in the s and marketed them himself. There is a melancholy delicateness and childlike naivety, not dissimilar to that of Brian Wilson, to his songwriting and singing that draws me in.
I am not sure what to make of him but his music is full of childlike enthusiasm, in the same manner as Jad Fair of Half Japanese. However, Jad is true to rock and is a bit more in touch with the rest of the world. Every human sound imaginable by mouth can be heard in total free-form abandon.
Fischer was known for his ability to create a song on-the-spot, and primarily sang unaccompanied. Many of his songs were autobiographical and presented a picture of a family that did not know how to handle a child with mental illness who primarily communicated with song.
Wesley Willis was a Chicago street singer who dagcy suffered from schizophrenia. He accompanied himself on keyboard and amazingly had a punk rock band, The Wesley Willis Fiasco. Most of his frahmented were quite funny as well as being grossly vulgar, but repetitive in style and lyrical structure. Willis was also a compelling visual artist and much of his artwork appears on his album covers.
He died from complications following surgery at the age of The five artists listed immediately above only recorded in limited pressings, and are not widely known outside the world of collectors.
Each is quite fkture from the other but for all of them their problems are quite evident after a few minutes into these recordings. I am not sure of the reason for my interest in such music. I certainly do not listen with the intention to make fun of their disabilities. I simply find them to be curious and interesting. Perhaps it is due to my psychology background. It is too complicated. I will end this entry dimucxi but I am far from done with this subject.
In my next entry I will discuss other outsider artists who are simply eccentric, or determined and accomplished experimenters. This morning I woke up to the sad news that David Bowie had passed away. I guess you never expect this to happen, yet it is inevitable with all of us. Bowie was one of those artists for whom I feel a great loss.
He was continuously creating and reinventing himself right dlmucci to the end.
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DEATH ANGEL – Ted discusses his first song for a DEATH ANGEL album + band announces worldwide chart entries!
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After the celebrated release of Bay Area thrash metal legends DEATH ANGEL’s new album, »Humanicide«, the band is giving fans yet another look inside the making of the record. Today the band has revealed a new album trailer in which guitarist Ted Aguilar discusses writing his first song, ‘Alive And Screaming,’ on an album in his 17 years with DEATH ANGEL. Watch the 9th trailer for »Humanicide«: https://youtu.be/0S3VrRzipxE
DEATH ANGEL’s new album, »Humanicide«, was released on May 31st and has since received an outpouring of acclaim from critics and endless praise from fans. The record also garnered some of the band’s highest charting positions of their career!
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‘Humanicide’ OFFICIAL VISUALIZER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVDEMDxNNrQ
‘Humanicide’ OFFICIAL PLAY THROUGH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5VwlqcQXnE
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Trailer #1 – Writing »Humanicide«: https://youtu.be/Xmj54V4T2jQ
Trailer #2 – Working With Producer Jason Suecof: https://youtu.be/M1BGfLzfCrc
Trailer #3 – »Humanicide« Cover Art & Wolf Trilogy: https://youtu.be/k72JuA8zVYM
Trailer #4 – About ‘The Pack’: https://youtu.be/K8EqMaAdOw8
Trailer #5 – The Album That Made You Want To Become A Musician: https://youtu.be/fADfyLcHk3A
Trailer #6 – Lyrical Concepts On »Humanicide«: https://youtu.be/JadfrHfL6j8
Trailer #7 – Consuming Music Now vs Then: https://youtu.be/ITm1-rzDNIk
Trailer #8 – Mark Osegueda’s Stand Out Tracks On »Humanicide«: https://youtu.be/CSV5Dm4QqNA
»Humanicide« – Track Listing:
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07. The Pack
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With their newly released album »Humanicide«, DEATH ANGEL has maintained their throne in the universe of thrash while still managing to remain progressive in their style. They apply a wide variety of different elements to their music, always pushing to add newness to their sound. This time around they’ve included everything from acoustic bits, to guest musicians, to even (for the first time) the notes of a piano. All 10 songs flow seamlessly yet each leaves its own distinct impression. The first single and title track ‘Humanicide’ triumphantly represents the entirety of the album, immediately energizing the listener.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Friday that it would temporarily allow eight importers to continue purchasing Iranian oil when it re-imposed sanctions on Monday to try to force Iran to curb its nuclear, missile and regional activities.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who announced the decision, did not name the eight as "jurisdictions", a term that includes importers like Taiwan, which the United States does not consider the country.
US President Donald Trump left the Iranian nuclear agreement in 2015 and is trying to regret Iran's oil-dependent economy and force Tehran to cease not only its nuclear ambitions and a ballistic missile program, but to support Syrian, Yemeni, Lebanese and other Middle East -Eastern parts.
On Twitter, in a message aimed at emphasizing the "maximum pressure" policy against Iran, Trump included a photo modeled with a poster in the entertainment industry: "Sanctions will arrive on November 5th."
China, India, South Korea, Turkey, Italy, the United Arab Emirates and Japan are major importers of Iranian oil, while Taiwan sometimes purchases Iranian crude oil but is not a major buyer.
Turkey was told to be temporarily licensed to buy Iranian oil, its minister for energy to reporters, as well as Iraq, as long as he did not pay for the US dollar, three Iraqi officials said.
India and South Korea are also on the list, a source who knows the case who spoke under anonymity conditions said. Exceptions can be granted under US law for up to 180 days.
India's Oil Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, on Saturday said that India and other leading oil buyers benefit from the American freedom they have given.
"In the current geopolitical scenario, India has succeeded in convincing international leaders," Pradhan told reporters in New Delhi.
Oil prices fell Friday on a weekly loss of more than 6 per cent since investors were concerned about the overcrowding after the US resigned.
Brent's futures fell by 6 cents to $ 72.83, while US raw materials fell by 55 cents, resulting in a $ 63.14 exchange rate loss of $ 0.86 per share.
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin also said Washington told the Brussels-based SWIFT financial messaging service and is expected of any Iranian financial institution that the United States plans to blacklist on Monday. He refused the names of the targeted institutions.
Trump began the reopening of sanctions on May 8, when it announced that it would withdraw the Iranian and World Pact's 2015 agreement during which Tehran agreed to reduce its nuclear program to mitigate sanctions.
"This part of the campaign is aimed at depriving the system of death and destruction revenues in the world," said Pompeo.
According to Pompeo, Washington releases temporary resignations to the eight Iranian oil importers "just because they have proven a significant reduction in their crude oil and cooperation in many other areas".
Two stop importing, and the other six will greatly reduce them, Pompeo said.
Later, he said that the ultimate goal was to stop all Iranian crude exports.
"Finally, we would place it on zero crude oil, which would take a couple of months," Pompeo told Fox News in an interview with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "We were able to do this in a way that did not affect oil prices. That's good for American consumers."
Iran has said it is not concerned about the reintroduction of US sanctions that cover not only the oil and gas sectors but also the shipping, shipbuilding and banking sectors.
"America will not be able to take any action against our great and brave nation … Know and we are able to steer the economic affairs of the country," said Bahram Qasemi, spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry on state television.
But ordinary Iranians are worried that even more painful pressures will be imposed on businesses who buy raw materials for patients and the elderly who are unable to save life-saving medicines.
"I can not buy rice to feed my kids or pay my rent," said Pejman Sarafnejad, 43, the three sons of Tehran.
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The European Union, France, Germany and Britain, the nuclear convention, who are trying to survive, said he was sorry for Washington's decision to re-issue sanctions. The EU establishes a special mechanism to circumvent United States financial sanctions against Iran.
The United States is able to put pressure on other nations not to end the purchase of Iranian oil under a 2012 law allowing the president to cut off foreign banks, including central banks, from the US financial system, with the exception of , if you reduce your purchase considerably.
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As noted earlier, Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is taking heat from the right-most members of his party for his stance on climate change legislation. But at an event in his home state yesterday, Graham held firm on his belief that addressing climate change “is a worthy endeavor” – even for Republicans.
“I have come to conclude that greenhouse gases and carbon pollution is not a good thing,” Graham told the crowd in Columbia, S.C. yesterday. “All the cars and trucks and plants that have been in existence since the Industrial Revolution, spewing out carbon day-in and day-out, will never convince me that’s a good thing for your children and the future of the planet.”
“Whatever political push back I get I’m willing to accept because I know what I’m trying to do makes sense to me,” Graham said. “I am convinced that reason, logic and good business sense, and good environmental policy, will trump the status quo.”
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Forum with Chilean transition experts: “There is no transition against the FANB, there will be a transition with the FANB”
Oscar Izurieta, ex comandante en Jefe del Ejército. Foto: Agencia UNO.
Chilean General Óscar Izurieta Ferrer and former Secretary General of the first government of Michelle Bachelet and former member of the Chilean Constitutional Court, José Antonio Viera-Gallo, participated in a new edition of the series of forums organized by the Presidential Commission for Foreign Relations and called “Encounters for Venezuela”.
The moderation was in charge of Sergio Bitar, former Chilean minister and academic who has studied the transition processes in many parts of the world. The participants agreed that the transition will incorporate Venezuela’s FANB and that the ideologization of Maduro’s regime will not stop the institutional spirit that remains within the institution.
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They said that one must have confidence in change, as in similar processes regimes collapsed when least expected. Also present at the event were the president in charge, Juan Guaidó, and the entire international team of the interim government, headed by Foreign Minister Julio Borges and the ambassadors.
Chilean General Óscar Izurieta Ferrer sent a message to the Venezuelan Armed Forces. “Restoring territorial control is fundamental for Venezuela and here the FANB will have a very important role. The FANB has equipped itself with many elements produced in China and Russia, but will these be what the FANB needs? When there is a transition, the FANB will be able to enjoy a regime open to the world, they will be able to enjoy their profession in Venezuela. Who does not want to enjoy their profession? There is no transition against FANB, there will be a transition with FANB,” he said.
General Izurieta said that “it is very difficult to be a military man without loving your country above all” and that in Venezuela there is hope because the vast majority of the military are not corrupt. He said that during the Pinochet dictatorship there was a clear division between the army and the repressive apparatus of the regime. He maintained that in the Chilean transition it was fundamental for Pinochet to remain as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
For his part, José Antonio Viera-Gallo said that one must have full confidence in change, since in his opinion it will happen when least expected and that it is important that the Armed Forces understand this. “No political regime is forever. We saw all the dictatorships fall: the regime in Iran, communism in Poland and the Soviet Union. The military who support Nicolas Maduro must understand that this regime is not forever and that there will be a change. The opposition forces must show themselves as a better alternative to the situation of the dictatorship,” he said.
He said that the statements of Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López should not be paid much attention and compared them to the Chilean case. “Pinochet once said: I will die, generations will pass and there will be no elections… And look what happened,” he reflected. Viera-Gallo pointed out that in the Chilean case there were no paramilitary groups, unlike in Venezuela.
“There was a separation between the repressive apparatus and the military institutions. The monopoly of force should be in the hands of the Armed Forces. The Chilean politician also emphasized that there was a negotiation prior to the plebiscite between forces of change that supported the dictatorship and the opposition in order to advance towards democratic normalization.”
President Guaidó thanked the analysts for their support and stated that the democratic forces have offered all the guarantees to promote a transition together with the Armed Forces. He detailed the situation of persecution and human rights violations experienced by the Venezuelan military and recalled that they work together with the world to continue to put pressure on the regime and produce change in the country.
Finally, Commissioner Julio Borges thanked all participants for their support and reiterated that the forum initiative will be maintained with new speakers on the Chilean transition.
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Bay of Plenty Road Race, John Youl and the Frank Matich Lotus 19’s…
Posted: September 8, 2017 in Features, Obscurities, Sports Racers
Tags: Bay of Plenty Premier Road Race, Bib Stillwell, Brabham BT7A Climax, Cooper T53 Climax, Cooper T55 Climax, Elfin 400 Traco Oldsmobile, Frank Matich, Jim Palmer, John Youl, Lotus 19 Climax #950, Lotus 19b Climax, Mount Maunganui
(Fistonic)
Frank Matich’s Brabham BT7A Climax leading Jim Palmer’s Cooper T53 Climax around the 2.897 Km Mount Maunganui road circuit, New Zealand, 28 December 1963…
Mount Maunganui is a beach town at the southern end of Tauranga Harbour in The Bay of Plenty in the north of New Zealands North Island. Only two ‘Bay of Plenty Premier Road Race’ meetings using public roads around the towns wharf area were held, in 1962 and 1963. The circuit was oblong in shape, the startline was in Totara Road and ran down Hewletts Road, onto Tasman Quay and then Hull Road. The creation of the permanent Bay Park circuit in the area supplanted the road course which was created by Joseph and Graham Pierce and Feo Stanton. To create the track they had to tar-seal a section over a railway line and then remove it after the weekends racing to allow the trains to operate the following morning!
Race winner Jim Palmer, Cooper T53 Climax, Mt Maunganui 1963 (Fistonic)
The 1963 event was won by Jim Palmer from John Youl’s Cooper T55 Climax and Tony Shelly’s Lotus 18/21 Climax. Both of the Australians, John Youl and Frank Matich used the meeting as a ‘warm-up’ for the 1964 Tasman series which started at Levin, the following weekend, on 4 January 1964.
Grid positions for the 15 lap final were determined by the results of two heats; Matich comfortably led his until encountering timing problems with his Coventry Climax engine, Palmer took the win with John Youl victorious in the other heat.
In the championship race, Palmer started well and lead Shelly, Matich- off the back of the grid, quickly passing the smaller engined cars and Youl but Shelly soon led, and Matich grabbed 3rd as Youl spun. Matich set a lap record of 1:10.4 as he moved the very latest ‘Intercontinental’ Brabham BT7A into 2nd behind Shelly. He took the lead on the next lap whilst Youl closed on Palmer. Shelly was passed by Palmer with 3 laps to go with Matich left out on the circuit with an inoperative throttle, and John Youl also passing Shelly. Palmer won from Youl, Shelly then Rex Flowers Lotus 20B Ford, Roly Levis’ Lotus 22 Ford and Neil Whittaker’s Cooper T43 Climax.
John Youl, Cooper T55 Climax (Fistonic)
In fact the race was very much a portent of the Tasman Series (won by Bruce McLaren’s Cooper T70 Climax) with all four of Matich, Palmer, Shelly and Youl being competitive with Matich having a swag of mechanical problems only finishing one of the 5 rounds he started, at Longford, in 3rd place.
In the NZ Tasman races Palmer, Shelly and Youl all contested they drove extremely well, almost as a group in their outdated cars- Cooper T53, Lotus 18/21 and Cooper T55 behind the leading bunch of Australasian Internationals- Brabham, Hulme, McLaren and American Tim Mayer.
Youl was 4th in the first 3 NZ rounds and then travelled back to Australia before Teretonga to prepare for the first Australian round at Sandown where he finished 3rd. His beautifully prepared 1961 (ex-F1 and then Brabham’s car for the Australasian Internationals in 1962) Cooper T55 with its innovative Geoff Smedley designed and built twin-plug Coventry Climax FPF head had done 5 meetings with routine maintenance but no rebuild. His 3rd at the AGP was followed by a DNF at Warwick Farm with crown wheel and pinion problems. He then had a great 2nd at Lakeside and was 5th at Longford, his home race in a strong finish to the series.
In fact Youl was very much the ‘form driver’ of this group having finished 2nd and then taking 2 wins in the final three rounds of the Australian Gold Star series in the later months of 1963, at Sandown, Mallala and Warwick Farm. Noteworthy is that these performances were against Lex Davison, Bib Stillwell and David McKay all of whom were aboard much more modern equipment than Youl. He was second in the Gold Star to Stillwell’s Brabham BT4 Climax in 1963 as he was in 1962.
Palmer, later multiple NZ Gold Star winner and ex-F1 driver Shelly had virtually identical results in the four NZ Tasman races, and finished all of them which is admirable at a time the 2.5 FPF’s were notoriously brittle being pushed to the limits as they were.
Without doubt Frank Matich had the pace of the Internationals in the ’64 Tasman but he had no chance of success without better preparation/luck/greater mechanical sympathy- Geoff Smedley joined him not so long after Youl’s unfortunate retirement from the sport at the end of 1964. Grazier Youl was one very fine driver who deserved a ‘factory’ drive such was his pace in the ex-Brabham Cooper T55 to fully realise his potential. I don’t know enough about the man to place him in the pantheon of Australian single-seater pilots but for sure he was very handy behind the wheel…
Matich chasing Colin Ngan, Cooper Bobtail in the sportscar race won by FM- love these industrial background shots (Fistonic)
Matich in his Lotus 19B Climax…
Frank Matich above blasting his very highly developed Lotus around the Mounts working wharves, such a distinctive background!
Frank’s Lotus was far and away the quickest sportscar that weekend, he won the race from the Lotus 15 Climax of Barry Porter and the Lola Climax driven by J Riley. The Matich 19B was destroyed at Lakeside in 1965, hospitalising the Sydneysider in the process. Out of those ashes was born the Elfin 400 Olds or Traco Olds as FM called it, and Matich SR3 and SR4 programs, all great cars.
In the same way that the Lotus 18, Chapman’s first mid-engined design (F1/FJ) redefined the sophistication of the path the Coopers had blazed so well, so too did the 19 amongst sportscar grids. The car used much of the 18 hardware albeit adapted to comply with sportscar rules- FIA Group C. Chapman detailed the car with Len Terry also playing a role in its design.
The cars spaceframe chassis was made of 1 inch and ¾ inch steel tube of 16 and 18 guage, there was a scuttle hoop of perforated sheet steel to provide further cross-sectional bracing. The first car, chassis ‘950’, was initially fitted with an aluminium body with subsequent cars using bodies made of fibreglass. The front and rear body sections were hinged for ease of access with two horizontal doors for driver and passenger! access and egress. Wheels were Lotus 15 inch ‘wobbly-webs’, disc brakes were 10.5 inch and 9.5 inches in diameter front / rear.
Dimensions; 141 inch long, 65” wide, a height of 31/32 “, the wheelbase was 7’ 6”, front track 49” and rear track 47.5 “. The cars weight was quoted at 1232-1250 pounds less driver but with 8 gallons of fuel. Said girth was dependent upon the engine fitted, over time this included the FPF’s around which the car was designed and also various American small-block V8’s. Similarly, whilst the Lotus sequential, 5 speed ‘Queerbox’ was specified the cars were also fitted with Colotti and Hewland gearboxes ‘in period’.
Lotus 19 Climax cutaway, technical specifications as per text (Thatcher)
When completed chassis ‘#950’ was tested by both Moss and Chapman, Moss had been racing Cooper Monaco’s amongst the swag of cars he competed in at the time, his opinion of the 19 relative to the Monaco, a design several years older would be interesting. Its said that the 19 was the first car Stirling drove after recovery from his 1960 Spa Lotus 18 accident.
Only 16 or 17 of the cars were built, the limiting factor for build numbers was the supply of Coventry Climax FPF engines which were of course the engine de jour for the British F1 ‘garagistes’ at the time.
The seminal research over the last decade or so on the fate of the various Lotus 19 chassis was carried out by enthusiasts/experts/journalists/engineers/drivers on ‘The Nostalgia Forum’ (TNF). What follows is based upon the contents of that highly interactive forum, with the ability of so many knowledgeable people to test evidence, the summary of ownership and changes in specification over time. The contributions of Ray Bell and Bryan Miller are specifically acknowledged.
Frank Matich raced two Lotus 19’s; the ex-UDT Laystall 19 chassis ‘950’ raced by Stirling Moss which was destroyed in a testing accident at Warwick Farm in 1963 and a replacement 19B which was delivered by Lotus Components sans chassis number. It was also destroyed, again in a testing, or more specifically an accident during a practice/qualifying session at Lakeside on 24 July 1965.
I have written tangentially about these cars in an article about FM’s rivalry with Bib Stillwell’s Cooper Monaco and other articles on Frank Matich, and very specifically about the 19B, Matich’s accident in it at Lakeside and its role in relation to the design/conception of Garrie Coopers Elfin 400, the first delivered of which was raced by Matich. I don’t propose to cover that all again, click on the links at this articles conclusion to read what I’ve already been written.
The first Matich Lotus 19 Climax, chassis ‘950’ shot at Homestead Corner Warwick Farm in 1962, compare the photo with the similar one of the 19B at the same corner below (Ellacott)
When Frank Matich was looking for a replacement for his oh-so-successful Lotus 15 Climax it was immediately obvious to him that the car to have was a 19 given the success of Moss, Ireland, Gurney and others in the cars on both sides of the Atlantic.
His ex-Leaton Motors mechanic Bruce Richardson, working in the UK for Reg Parnell Racing at the time, contacted UDT Laystall in England on FM’s behalf to determine if they were interested in selling one of their three 19’s. Frank knew Moss having met him on the great Brits previous trips to Australia. Shortly after Richardson’s contact Matich ‘…discussed with Stirling buying the (UDT Laystall) car (#950) Stirling was racing in the USA…who advised Frank, who wished to have the car shipped directly from the States to Australia that the car was pretty tired and it would be best for the car to return to the UK for a full rebuild and then be sent out from the UK. The car duly arrived in late 1961 and Frank was not happy with the state of preparation and he called Stirling to intervene’ Bryan Miller wrote.
Matich had been shafted by UDT Laystall, far from the first time we poor Colonials had been short-sheeted by less than honest operators who relied upon 12000 miles of Ocean to get away with sins of omission or commission! Moss, not involved in the commercial aspects of the deal at all, righted the wrongs with a financial adjustment in favour of the Sydneysider. The story goes something like this.
Rather than rebuild the car the UDT folks used the opportunity to bolt some of the shit bits they had lying around the workshop they didn’t want from their three cars to good ‘ole ‘950’ and shove it on a ship at Southhampton for Sydney!
Matich ordered the car with the Colotti box fitted to ‘950’, they sent him a ‘Queerbox’, very much not the better alternative although Matich said later to Bell ‘they weren’t a bad box as long as you set them up well’. Frank specified a regular windscreen, they sent a high one, ‘The crankshaft was obviously carrying a very old crack, it was very unlikely that it hadn’t been previously detected’ according to Frank, Ray Bell wrote. ‘There was a lot of that sort of thing about the car, so its clear Moss went into bat for Frank’. Moss drove the car whilst in Australia for the International series of races that summer (he raced Rob Walker owned Cooper T53 Climax and Lotus 21 Climax in NZ and Australia in January/February 1962) and was able to see for himself the state of the car as delivered from the UK. ‘Onya Stirling!
Having overcome those obstacles the 19 very rapidly became the fastest sportscar in the country, indeed, one of the fastest cars in the Australia- his dices with Bib Stillwell’s older but very well prepared, sorted and driven Cooper Monaco wonderful spectator drawcards across the continent.
Lotus 19 Climax ‘950’ in the Lakeside paddock probably during the International meeting in early 1963. Coventry Cliamx FPF engine and Lotus ‘Queerbox’ clear as is copious ducting for brake cooling (Mellor)
#950’s demise occurred during a test session at Warwick Farm…
Matich’s backyard was Warwick Farm from the time the circuit opened at the wonderful Liverpool horseracing facility. He did all of his serious testing there, it was close to his various bases on Sydney’s North Shore, and he was always developing his cars with tweaks major and minor. This process of continuous development of bits for all of his cars, factory built or otherwise, was sustained right to the end of his career in early 1974. By then he was building world-beating Formula 5000 cars, indeed no-one did more miles around the Western Sydney outskirts circuit than FM.
In 1963 he raced the Lotus and works Elfins- a Clubman, Formula Junior and an ANF 1.5 variant of the FJ with which he contested the AGP, at, you guessed it, Warwick Farm. He was 8th in the race won by Jack Brabham’s Brabham BT4 Climax. On one of these test days Bell records that ‘The very reason for its (950’s) demise…was the fitting of new uprights (from Lotus)…Matich had come in from testing saying it felt funny and asked Bruce (Richardson, by then back from the UK and FM’s chief mechanic) to go out and drive the 19 while he followed him in the Elfin openwheeler. The upright broke and he went into the fence’. The fence was the very solid and unyielding WF Pit Straight fence which comprised 2 inch thick planks of wood bolted to railway sleepers. The chassis was rooted, it was too badly damaged to be repaired so a replacement was ordered from Lotus Components.
‘The original 19 chassis (950) went to Ray Hopwood, a friend of Franks. I think it was he who buried it under his house after deciding he wasn’t able to use it, which had been his intention’ wrote Bell.
Bell then speculates about the commercial arrangements between Lotus and Matich about the new 19 frame given the demise of ‘950’ was as a result of the failure of a new Lotus upright which was too thin. What is clear, whether Chapman gave him a special price or otherwise is that wealthy Sydney businessman Laurie O’Neill paid for the chassis either in whole or in part. Bruce Richardson confirms the chassis was acquired from Lotus, and therefore is not one of the unaccounted for Lotus 19 chassis- there are about four of these chassis on the TNF list. For sure some components from ‘950’, all possible, would have been retained to bolt to the new frame which Miller reports ‘Frank did not think his car (19B) ever carried a chassis plate, he held no memory of ever seeing one on the car but at that time it was of no importance’.
In late 1963 Matich imported a brand new Brabham BT7A to contest the annual Australasian International Series (from 1964 The Tasman Championship) and local Gold Star, Australian Drivers Championship events.
Almost immediately he became the quickest local openwheeler driver- and one who gave nothing away to the visiting Internationals either. Given the weakness of the Lotus sequential ‘box, Bell ‘…Frank regarded the crownwheel and pinion as marginal…referring to easy starts to protect it…and he often lost the start to Stillwell in their 19 to Monaco clashes…’ Matich fitted the 19B with a Hewland HD5 ‘box given the experience others had of it in cars like it in the BT7A and being well aware of the shortcomings of the Queerbox. By then he had both the support of O’Neill and Total so had an adequate budget to do things properly. The cars chassis was adapted to suit the ‘box at the rear. During the short period the 19B raced it was evolved, beside the BT7A, with various Brabham bits. There appears to be no definitive list of the modifications but brakes, wheels, some suspension parts and other Brabham ‘bits and pieces’ are cited as modifications from standard Lotus 19 spec. Equally there is no neat list of bits which were transferred from the first Matich 19 ‘950’ to the 19B, albeit the ex-Moss chassis was definitely buried under a house, this fact attested by several sources including Richardson, Bell and Miller- none of whom have a vested interest in the opinion they proffer.
Not the Australian Tourist Trophy but the 19B late in its life in early 1965 after a change of Total livery, from light blue to white, here, again at Homestead Corner, Warwick Farm (Ellacott)
Australian Tourist Trophy 1965…
Frank Matich was a professional racing driver, the family Weeties were provided by race and related commercial success, to win the 1965 ATT was therefore important to him. He won the race the year before at Longford in the 19B but for 1965 the field had greater depth.
Ken Miles was coming from the US to race a factory Shelby AC Cobra, Frank Gardner was returning home to race Alec Mildren’s Mildren Maserati, a Birdcage Maserati engine fitted to a chassis built by Bob Britton- a Lotus 19 clone!, the Lotus 23 lookalike built on Britton’s Lotus 19 jig. There were also some pesky Lotus/Ford Twin-Cam engined Lotus 23’s which were quick enough to win should the big guys run into trouble. In fact the latter is what occurred, Pete Geoghegan won the race in a Lotus 23 after the retirement of others.
Matich took the 19B to the Gold Star round at Lakeside in July, his primary focus that weekend was racing his Brabham. Spencer Martin won the Gold Star round in the Scuderia Veloce Brabham BT11A. But the Lotus shared the Matich transporter with the Brabham on the journey north to fettle the car in preparation for the ATT in November. It was during practice that FM lost the car in the fast right hander behind the pits at over 120mph when the throttle jammed, destroying the car and hospitalising him with burns to his hands and back. Damage to the car was to its front, especially the left front. Various sources suggest (not Bell or Miller) that the car may have been damaged further after the accident for insurance purposes.
The accident was the catalyst for Total to end the relationship with Matich. Boral Ltd acquired Total’s business in Australia and they did not want to be involved in motor-racing. The remains of the 19B, owned by O’Neill remember, were then used as a point of dimensional reference during the build of the Elfin 400 Traco Olsmobile at Elfin’s Conmurra Road, Edwardstown, South Australia factory in late 1965. The 19B donated its gearbox and some other minor components to the Elfin build. Even though the remains of the 19B were seen by various people at Elfins over the years the remains of the chassis have never seen the light of day and were probably, at some clearout, disposed of. The future value of these cars was not foreseen then of course!
Despite all of the foregoing, that is, the total destruction of both cars as racing entities, the ex-Moss/Matich Lotus 19 #950 races on, reconstructed around a replacement chassis built in the 1980’s. So far, surprisingly, the 19B has not been rebuilt/reconstructed/resurrected despite Peter Brennan noticing, whilst looking at a Lotus 18 very recently and concluding that the pedals in his Elfin 400 are probably from the 19B…go for it PB, cars worth $750K have commenced reconstruction with far less of the original car than that!…
(B Caldersmith)
Matich leading Bib Stillwell’s Cooper Monaco and a gaggle of Lotus 23s at Warwick Farm in 1963.
‘The Nostalgia Forum’ Lotus 19 thread particularly the contributions of Michael Oliver, Ray Bell and Bryan Miller, Graham Vercoe, sergent.com, Bob Homewood, Glenn Ducey
Milan Fistonic and Peter Mellor- The Roaring Season, John Ellacott, Bob Thatcher, Brian Caldersmith
Lovely frontal shot of Frank Matich, Lotus 19B Climax, this car probably the most highly developed of its type in the world-V8 variants excepted. Car developed by FM and his team in Sydney, building upon his first 19 which was written off in a Warwick Farm testing accident. Plenty of Brabham bits inclusive of wheels fitted to this car (Fistonic)
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Stop Trying to Make Killer Bees Happen
Unless you're a farmer. Then you want them.
Marc Herman
An African bee extracts nectar from a flower as pollen grains stick to its body in Tanzania. (PHOTO: SAJJAD FAZEL/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)
The semi-annual killer bee panic isn't even about bees this fall, but about a Chinese wasp that several vaguely-sourced reports claim has killed 42 people in Shaanxi province. Europe is also worried, as these "thumb-sized" monsters are allegedly massing outside Kent. They are, of course, not massing outside Kent, or you would be watching a YouTube video of it right now; it would be awesome. Still, the story plows ahead in all of its Yellow Menace-ish glory: the local, proper English bee will pose no match, and English gardens will look noticeably more wan come spring, after the invaders from China pillaged but failed to fertilize.
Closer to home, a Texan man died back in March after bumping a hive of so-called "Africanized" bees, and suffering 1,000 or so stings.
Factually, this would all represent a sad but ultimately ridiculous side note to the larger environmental question the bee migrations pose—so called "Africanized" bees, a crossbreed of European and African strains experimented with in Brazil in the 1950s—have proven highly resistant to infections that have caused die-offs of the non-mixed strains. Those die-offs have potentially disastrous implications for agriculture, meaning that resistant, Africanized bees coming to your town is a good thing, economically and scientifically speaking.
In practice, that story's a tough sell, where the Bee Rampage story is an evergreen. Here's a report out of Florida just yesterday:
"We don't know what type of bee it is, but we're going to make sure we get out and see what it is, see if its a regular domestic bee or an Africanized bee," said Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young.
Beware of bees in Gadsden County. The sheriff's office is getting a whole lot of buzz lately, prompting Sheriff Young to suit up and learn more about the insects.
This after a hive with thousands of bees was found at a local home.
While it's unlikely the bees are Africanized bees there's still some concern.
The concern is more of a nuisance factor.
Thousands of bees from hives have been found to be getting into people's homes. Eight thousand to 12,000 bees are believed to be living in this hive. Robert Green spotted it in his pecan tree Tuesday and reported it to law enforcement.
"I watch a lot of nature shows so I keep up with the Africanized bees," said Green. "My first thought, could this bee [sic] Africanized bees?"
Could it, sheriff? What then?
High Country News' Ray Ring, dean of the killer bee beat, brings a note of sanity to the proceedings. Ring notes that, yes, the killer bees are coming, but they aren't actually killing anyone. He calculates 60 million people live in U.S. territory already hosting the insects. Of those, something in the high 59.9 million-person range have never been stung by one killer bee, much less by 1,000.
He doesn't mention non-U.S. places with "Africanized" bees. So far as anyone can tell, bees and humans are still co-existing more or less peacefully on the African continent. If these things are heading north in a rapacious swath, they seem awfully decent about leaving our Latin American neighbors alone, too; Reports of bee deaths south of the border are scarce. Ring, who first covered the story 10 years ago, writes that bee deaths in the U.S. total between a dozen and two dozen, which amounts to a rounding error when compared to fatal traffic accidents or gun violence. "Do we count the bulldozer driver in Texas who jumped off to run from bees and got run over by his own machine?" he asks.
To sum up: Maybe this isn't about bees at all. Consider the story that crops up every year. Long ago, a strain of bees is brought from Africa to the New World for use in the agricultural industry. A few escape, interbreed with tranquil, European bees, creating a hybrid no one can really define. This happens, of course, in Brazil. Termed "Africanized," these creatures start heading north in swarms, where the last non-interbred European strain is losing its productivity, in the face of malaise that's lowered resistance, competitiveness, and reproductive capacity.
Meanwhile, in Asia:A super wasp resulting from who-knows-what goes on a tear through three medium-sized towns outside the media hubs, leveling everything in its path, and heading, horde-like, to Europe, to kill the flowers.
Perhaps it betrays this reporter's university education in the politically correct late '80s (so, "education"), but it's possible this whole story was never about insects.
Ray Ring's excessively informed, fabulously-written take on the bee situation is here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpO4gvW6D3Q
WaspsAfricanized BeesCulture
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Radiculopathy and myelopathy at segments adjacent to the site of a previous anterior cervical arthrodesis
J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1999 Apr;81(4):519-28. doi: 10.2106/00004623-199904000-00009.
A S Hilibrand 1 , G D Carlson, M A Palumbo, P K Jones, H H Bohlman
1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospitals Spine Institute, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA. alan.hilibrand@mail.tju.edu
DOI: 10.2106/00004623-199904000-00009
Background: We studied the incidence, prevalence, and radiographic progression of symptomatic adjacent-segment disease, which we defined as the development of new radiculopathy or myelopathy referable to a motion segment adjacent to the site of a previous anterior arthrodesis of the cervical spine.
Methods: A consecutive series of 374 patients who had a total of 409 anterior cervical arthrodeses for the treatment of cervical spondylosis with radiculopathy or myelopathy, or both, were followed for a maximum of twenty-one years after the operation. The annual incidence of symptomatic adjacent-segment disease was defined as the percentage of patients who had been disease-free at the start of a given year of follow-up in whom new disease developed during that year. The prevalence was defined as the percentage of all patients in whom symptomatic adjacent-segment disease developed within a given period of follow-up. The natural history of the disease was predicted with use of a Kaplan-Meier survivorship analysis. The hypothesis that new disease at an adjacent level is more likely to develop following a multilevel arthrodesis than it is following a single-level arthrodesis was tested with logistic regression.
Results: Symptomatic adjacent-segment disease occurred at a relatively constant incidence of 2.9 percent per year (range, 0.0 to 4.8 percent per year) during the ten years after the operation. Survivorship analysis predicted that 25.6 percent of the patients (95 percent confidence interval, 20 to 32 percent) who had an anterior cervical arthrodesis would have new disease at an adjacent level within ten years after the operation. There were highly significant differences among the motion segments with regard to the likelihood of symptomatic adjacent-segment disease (p<0.0001); the greatest risk was at the interspaces between the fifth and sixth and between the sixth and seventh cervical vertebrae. Contrary to our hypothesis, we found that the risk of new disease at an adjacent level was significantly lower following a multilevel arthrodesis than it was following a single-level arthrodesis (p<0.001). More than two-thirds of all patients in whom the new disease developed had failure of nonoperative management and needed additional operative procedures.
Conclusions: Symptomatic adjacent-segment disease may affect more than one-fourth of all patients within ten years after an anterior cervical arthrodesis. A single-level arthrodesis involving the fifth or sixth cervical vertebra and preexisting radiographic evidence of degeneration at adjacent levels appear to be the greatest risk factors for new disease. Therefore, we believe that all degenerated segments causing radiculopathy or myelopathy should be included in an anterior cervical arthrodesis. Although our findings suggest that symptomatic adjacent-segment disease is the result of progressive spondylosis, patients should be informed of the substantial possibility that new disease will develop at an adjacent level over the long term.
Cervical Vertebrae / surgery*
Intervertebral Disc Displacement / surgery
Spinal Cord Compression / diagnosis
Spinal Diseases / surgery*
Spinal Fusion*
Spinal Osteophytosis / surgery
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MALAYSIA: COURT SET TO RULE ON USE OF ‘ALLAH’ AMONG NON-MUSLIMS
Judges to determine whether Malaysians of other faiths can use the Arabic word.
MUMBAI, India, July 6 (Compass direct News) – With the Kuala Lumpur High Court in Malaysia scheduled to determine the legality of the word “Allah” in non-Muslim literature tomorrow, what is at stake goes beyond the sanctioned name for God among non-Muslims in the majority-Muslim nation.
Such a limit on free speech in Malaysia is especially biting for Muslim converts to Christianity; already the Malaysian government does not recognize their conversions and marriages and still considers their offspring to be legally Muslim. With non-Muslims increasingly feeling the sting of discrimination and Muslim elites feeling a need to assert a national Islamic identity, the skirmish over “Allah” is clearly part of a greater cultural war.
Malaysian authorities and Malaysia’s Roman Catholic Church have continued to lock horns over use of the word “Allah” in the Malay-language edition of the Herald, the church’s newspaper, as they await the ruling. The newspaper had been allowed to use the term until a final court decision, but the Kuala Lumpur High Court on May 30 overturned that brief reprieve.
The Catholic newspaper has provided a panoply of historical uses of “Allah” among Christians in Malaysia. The Rev. Lawrence Andrew, editor of the Herald, quotes examples from a Malay-Latin dictionary dated 1631, and the Dutch-Malay Dictionary of 1650 lists “Allah” as the vernacular translation for God.
“This is testified by the fact that we have a Malay-Latin Dictionary printed in 1631, in which the word ‘Allah’ is cited,” Andrew said. “To have a word in a dictionary means that that particular word has already been in use in the community prior to the dictionary. The word for ‘God’ in Latin is ‘Deus’ and in Malay, it is ‘Allah.’ Upon the arrival of the Dutch…a Dutch-Malay Dictionary was produced in 1650 where the word for ‘God’ in Dutch was ‘Godt,’ and in Malay, ‘Allah.’”
According to church sources, the Malay term for “God,” Tuhan, came into vogue only after deadly May 13, 1969 communal riots as part of a national unity campaign.
Andrew noted that “Allah” is an Arabic term derived from the same roots as the Hebrew Elohim, and that the word pre-dates Muhammad, Islam’s prophet. Besides ignoring history, Andrew says, the government also conveniently ignores its universal use among Christians in the Middle East.
“Since the status quo remains, we will not use the word ‘Allah’ in our publication” until the court says otherwise, Andrew said. “In fact we have not been using it since our January edition.”
Since 1970, the government of Malaysia has consistently championed Islam as a parallel source of identity and nationalism among the politically dominant Malay-Muslim majority. Dress codes, cultural norms and the Malay language underwent a rapid Islamization in tandem with discriminative actions against minority groups.
Christians were particularly hard-hit by the effort in the name of national unity. Licences are rarely issued for church buildings in the capital city, Kuala Lumpur. New evangelical congregations had to meet at either hotels or warehouses for their Sunday services while Islamic semiotics and terminologies swamped the intellectual and official discourse. Conversion of Christians to Islam were particularly trumpeted by the media.
These efforts have largely failed. Local churches continued to grow, and the number of secret Muslim converts to Christianity began to rise.
At the same time, pandemic corruption and political authoritarianism have gradually led to a sense of disenchantment with political Islam among many. This erosion in Malay-Islam dominance has led to political bankruptcy, as evidenced by disastrous results for the ruling coalition during March 2008 general elections.
Given these political realities, Malay elites believe they can ill afford to be seen as soft on minority “encroachment,” and observers say this need to ingratiate Islamists lies at the root of the tussle over non-Muslim use of the word “Allah.” Officially, however, the government says only that use of the word among non-Muslims could create “confusion” among Muslims.
The Herald has a circulation of 13,000 and an estimated readership of 50,000. The newspaper is sold in Catholic churches and is not available from newsstands.
Malaysia’s population is about 60 percent Muslim, 19 percent Buddhist and 9 percent Christian. About 6 percent are Hindu, with 2.6 percent of the population adhering to Confucianism, Taoism and other traditional Chinese religions.
Arabicization of Malay Language
The debate over “Allah” follows an effort by the government to promote the Arabicization of the Malay language at the expense of Sanskrit and Malay terms. When a Malaysian student has to refer to a pig in an essay or test, the required term is the Arabic khinzir.
Other Malay terms such as pokok (tree) and bunga (flower), long used to refer to loan principal and interest respectively, have been expunged from school texts in favor of the Arabic kaedah (base) and faedah (benefit).
Some sources indicate that the Arabicization of the Malay language, however, has come with unintended consequences, such as making Christian mission work and translation easier. Since the Malay vocabulary has its limitations, Christians can use time-tested Arabic-derived terms to provide meaningful context.
For a long time, the only Malay Bible available in Malaysia was the Indonesian “Al Kitab,” which, included the word “Allah.” As Bahasa Malaysia (official name of the Malay language in Malaysia) and Bahasa Indonesia are very similar, the “Al Kitab” can be easily understood by a native speaker of Malay. As a result, the “Al Kitab” was viewed as an unwelcome missionary tool by Malaysian authorities. Its legal status was heatedly contested behind closed doors during the 1981-2003 reign of then-Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad.
Significant Christian indigenous populations in East Malaysia use Bahasa Malaysia as a language of wider communication. The Malay-language content of the Herald reportedly serves just that need: using the national language with universal terms across a multi-lingual Babel of tribal Catholic communities in East Malaysia.
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2 edition of Decatur House. found in the catalog.
Decatur House.
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States.
by National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States.
Published 1967 in Washington .
Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820.,
Decatur House, Washington, D.C.
First published in Historic preservation, v. 19, no. 3-4, July-Dec., 1967.
Statement Senior editor: Helen Duprey Bullock. Editor: Terry B. Morton.
Contributions Bullock, Helen Claire (Duprey) 1905- ed., Morton, Terry B., ed.
LC Classifications F204.D4 N3
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Improved infrastructure needed to develop Kanpur into a smart city
A KMC official on condition of anonymity said that the lack of the interest on the part of senior officials is responsible for the poor maintenance of fountains at city's crossings
September 02, 2015, 13:30 IST
KANPUR: While the Industrial City has found place in the list of the smart cities, a lot is required to be done to actually make it comfortable with all basic amenities at the disposal of the denziens. But, the responsibility of making the city smart will ultimately rest on shoulders of the government departments who are incharge of the city's beautification. But the question is: Could the industrial city be developed as a smart city given its poor infrastructure?
When team TOI moved out to check maintenance of the city's crossings it was found them lying in a dilapidated state and not properly maintained. Also, the fountains installed at some of these crossings, were dysfunctional as thieves had damaged the fountain crossings and stolen their parts.
The fountain does not exist anymore at the Narhona crossing while at Bakarmandi crossing, the fountain was not at all functional. A beautiful fountain installed about a year back at Kidwai Nagar crossing during the beautification drive also closed down due to lack of its maintenance. Similar is the fate of fountains at Chawla market crossing, Halim College crossing, Ghantaghar crossing and Meghdoot crossing on the Mall Road where beggars and destitutes sleep.
A KMC official on condition of anonymity said that the lack of the interest on the part of senior officials is responsible for the poor maintenance of fountains at city's crossings.
For the past several months, district magistrate Roshan Jacob has been striving to get the city maintained with construction of roads and lifting of the garbage. Even divisional commissioner Mohd Iftikharuddin on several occasions had emphasised on improving the city's infrastructure, but all in vain, said another KMC official.
"Roads are lying in a such a poor state that commuting has become a difficult task. Due to the digging work, roads are covered with dust. When such is the condition of the roads, it is useless to talk about beautification of the crossings", said Ranvir a local.
The city crossings needed to be beautified before doing makeover of the industrial city into a smart city, said a denizen. The responsibility of maintaining the crossing lies on Kanpur Municipal Corporation and Kanpur Development Authority, he added.
Aman Rajawat, an ex-IITian said that the concept of smart city could be realised only when there are smooth roads, proper lighting, good infrastructure otherwise everything else would be meaningless.
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Mohd Iftikharuddin
Kanpur Municipal Corporation
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Frederick Ahl’s new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and This is an Aeneid that the first-time reader can grasp and enjoy, and whose. FREDERICK AHL, trans. Virgil, Aeneid. Introduction by Elaine. Fantham. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, Pp. With index and maps. Frederick M. Ahl (born ) is a professor of classics and comparative literature at Translation of Virgil’s Aeneid (), Book I, lines – and –
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The result, at any rate for a reader on this side of the Atlantic, is an intermittent failure of tone and dignity which is not the same thing as paralysed costume grandeur. Because it has the same number of lines as the original, it is particularly useful for those wishing to cross-reference the Latin.
I would be sorry to see Fred Ahl’s Virgil unnoticed here, for its aeeid virtues. Elaine Fantham’s Introduction is informative and unintimidating, guiding the reader through the action of each of the twelve books and exploring its features and major areas of critical debate, as well as outlining the historical background to its composition.
The Trojan prince Aeneas escapes the destruction of Troy by the Greeks and sets sail with his father Anchises and his son Ascanius in search of a new home.
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He offers a line of between 12 and 17 syllables, containing six feet, each stressed on the first syllable, with the opening syllable of the line always stressed. Frederick Ahl’s new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of Aened epic poem in a way that has never been done before.
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His style is so dense, and he is so clever. The edition includes comprehensive annotation and a valuable indexed glossary which can be used equally well with the Latin original. Yet there are at least as many admiring stars as irritated crosses in the margin of my copy.
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Starlink: Battle for Atlas for the Nintendo Switch at Best Buy
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Today on Redhead Mom, we are excited to share about Starlink: Battle for Atlas for the Nintendo Switch, available at Best Buy.
The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product.
In our home, we love to use technology and that includes playing video games. We have the XBOX One, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS. One of the places we like to purchase our technology and video games from is Best Buy. Not only do they have a variety of products at great prices, but they also have super friendly and helpful staff willing to help us find what we’re looking for. Plus, they’ll price match!
Thanks to Best Buy, we got to check out Starlink: Battle for Atlas for the Nintendo Switch. As part of this review, we received the Starlink: Battle for Atlas Starter pack, Weapons kit, Pilot kit and Starship pack. These came in two separate shipments and when the first shipment came, our kids were really excited to check it out. But when the second shipment came, they were even more excited to see the weapons kit and a different starship!
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Starlink: Battle for Atlas is an open-world space saga that features modular toy technology that allows players to assemble and customize real-world physical starships, link the starships to their game controller, and launch into an epic adventure across the Atlas star system, either in single player or with a friend in two-player split-screen local co-op.
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41 Responses to “Starlink: Battle for Atlas for the Nintendo Switch at Best Buy”
My kids would like to buy this with their Christmas money.
This is such a fun game! My son has it and he loves it. He’s always fiddling with the wings and weapons.
Our children also have a Nintendo Switch! I should check this out; they would love it!
Debra Schroeder says:
Too funny, both of my grown sons about themselves Nintendo Switches for Christmas. Although, I have no clue what games they bought for it.
I know some kids who would absolutely love this! I will have to look into this for sure – looks fun.
Tiffany Barry says:
My kids would absolutely love this! They are really getting into playing video games with us on the weekends, and we love it.
Stephanie Jeannot says:
I did not know that they price match That is interesting. Good to know. I have not been therein a while actually. Maybe I will go.
I have heard the grandkids talk about this. They keep me up to date on the latest thank good
This game is freaking sweet! I got it as a gift, and I haven’t put it down yet. It’s a ton of fun, and the Starfox pack makes it even better.
Cherri Megasko says:
My grandsons got a Nintendo Switch from Santa this year, but they’re not quite old enough yet for this game. It sounds like a lot of fun though!
My son has been asking for the Starlink pack for a while now as he’s been playing with Nintendo at his friend’s house. This looks like a great deal if you ask me.
Shar says:
Oh my goodness my little boy would absolutely love this! We just got a switch so I may have to pick this up too 🙂
Denay DeGuzman says:
What awesome Nintendo games for kids! I need to stay on top of all this techie fun.
Melissa Chapman says:
My son loves Xbox and all the video games. I would like to get this Starlink game for him and see how he l.ikes it. I see kids his age in the picture so I know it is age appropriate
We love to play video game too. I think that my kids will love this one too. We should try it!
This sounds like a fantastic gift for the kids. Best Buy always has the best tech gifts, that’s for sure.
My son WANTS one of these SO bad! I know he would love it. Maybe we will get something like this for his birthday.
Looks like the kids were pretty happy with their gifts! Wishing you all the best in the New Year! xo, Suzanne
Jasmine Hewitt says:
this looks like a fun game. maybe i’ll get a chance to try it
I’m pretty sure I’m the only person whose kids haven’t asked for a Nintendo Switch. They aren’t really interested video games, just apps on our tablet and phones.
Omg how fun!!! I bet my daughter would love to play this game!!!
Lara | Grits in the City says:
Wow these games are so much fancier these days! Our son is still too young for these but have a feeling we will know much more about these games before too long.
The nintendo switch has been a seriously huge hit in our house! We love that there is something for everyone to play!
Destany says:
How fun!! My son is a big gamer. I’ll have to let him know about this … assuming he doesn’t already know 🙂
Roch says:
Wow! This sounds like a really cool and innovative game. It’s a great gift for kids this holiday season.
This looks like a fab game, just looked it up and its really reasonably priced too
I love Best Buy (got my laptop for an affordable price), and I’ll always use them for a long time. My sis buys a lot of tech toys for her children on Best Buy, I’ll give her a heads up about Starlink: Battle for Atlas set. She will be glad. Thanks for sharing.
Terri Beavers says:
Both of my grandsons (and their dads, lol) would love the Starlink: Battle for Atlas. Even though Christmas is behind us, I know they’d love this game for their Birthdays.
My nephew is really into Star Wars and anything galactic, so this looks right up his alley. Now I have his next birthday present!
KIM CROISANT says:
Yep, great toy/gift/present for a boy. I son would love it.
Those look like cool and fun toys for kids. I think my son is going to have a blast playing with those.
Preet says:
Oh wow, this is awesome. This looks something that my kids would really love. I’ll have to check this out
Marysa says:
What a great gift! Looks like a lot of fun. I’m not too familiar with these but I’m sure the kids would love it.
Sounds like an amazing gift idea! All my kiddos birthdays are coming up. I know a couple would enjoy this!
Tabitha Blue says:
This sounds like a fun game!!! My son just got a switch for Christmas, and I’m sure he’d love this game now too! 🙂
Cecilia Harvard says:
I will have to check out this game for our nintendo switch. It sounds like such a fun one, thanks for sharing.
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Testing Hierarchical Models of Personality with Confirmatory Factor Analysis
September 7, 2019 CFA, confirmatory factor analysis, Hierarchical CFA, Personality Measurement, Personality Structure, SEM, Structural Equation ModelingUlrich Schimmack
Naive and more sophisticated conceptions of science assume that empirical data are used to test theories and that theories are abandoned when data do not support them. Psychological journals give the impression that psychologists are doing exactly that. Journals are filled with statistical hypothesis tests. However, hypothesis tests are not theory tests because only results that confirm a theoretical prediction (by falsifying the null-hypothesis) get published; p < .05 (Sterling, 1959). As a result, psychology journals are filled with theories that have never been properly tested. Chances are that some of these theories are false.
To move psychology towards being a science, it is time to subject theories to empirical tests and to replace theories that do not fit the data with theories that do. I have argued elsewhere already that higher-order models of personality are a bad idea with little empirical support (Schimmack, 2019a). Colin DeYoung responded to this criticism of his work (DeYoung, 2019). In this blog post, I present a new approach to the testing of structural theories of personality with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The advantage of CFA is that it is a flexible statistical method that can formalize a variety of competing theories. Another advantage of CFA is that it is possible to capture and remove measurement error. Finally, CFA provides fit indices that make it possible to compare models and to select models that fit the data better. Although CFA celebrates its 50th birthday this year, psychologists still have to appreciate its potential for testing personality theories (Joreskog, 1969).
What are Higher-Order Factors?
The notion of a factor has a clear meaning in psychology. A factor is a common cause that explains, at least in a statistical sense, why several variables are correlated with each other. That is, a factor represents the shared variance among several variables that is assumed to be caused by a common cause rather than by direct causation among the variables.
In traditional factor analysis, factors explain correlations among observed variables such as personality ratings. The notion of higher-order factors implies that first-order factors that explain correlations among items are correlated (i.e., not independent) and that these correlations among factors are explained by another set of factors, which are called higher-order factors.
In empirical tests of higher-order factors it has been overlooked that the Big Five factors are already higher-order factors in a hierarchy of personality traits that explain correlations among more specific personality traits like sociability, curiosity, anxiety, or impulsiveness. Instead ALL tests of higher-order models have relied on items or scales that measure the Big Five. This makes it very difficult to study the higher-order structure of personality because results will vary depending on the selection of items that are used to create Big Five scales.
A much better way to test higher-order models is to fit a hierarchical CFA model to data that represent multiple basic personality traits. A straightforward prediction of a higher-order model is that all or at least most facets that belong to a common higher order factor should be correlated with each other.
For example, Digman (1997) and DeYoung (2006) suggested that extraversion and openness are positively correlated because they are influenced by a common factor, called beta or plasticity. As extraversion is conceived as a common cause of sociability, assertiveness, and cheerfulness and openness is conceived as a common cause of being imaginative, artistic, and reflective, the model makes the straightforward prediction that sociability, assertiveness, and cheerfulness are positively correlated with being imaginative, artistic, and reflective.
Evaluative Bias
One problem in testing structural models of personality is that personality ratings are imperfect indicators of personality. Some of the measurement error in personality ratings is random, but other sources of variance are systematic. Two sources have been reliably identified, namely acquiescence and evaluative bias (Anusic et al., 2009; Biderman et al., 2019). DeYoung (2006) also found evidence for evaluative bias in a multi-rater study. Thus, there is agreement between DeYoung and me that some of the correlations among personality ratings do not reflect the structure of personality, but rather systematic measurement error. It is necessary to control for these method factors when studying the structure of personality traits and to examine the correlation among Big Five traits because method factors distort these correlations in mono-method studies. In two previous posts, I found no evidence of higher-order factors when I fitted hierarchical models to the 30 facets of the NEO-PI-R and another instrument with 24 facets (Schimmack, 2019b, 2019c). Here I take another look at this question by examining more closely the pattern of correlations among personality facets before and after controlling for method variance.
From 2010 to 2012 I posted a personality questionnaire with 303 items on the web. Visitors were provided with feedback about their personality on the Big Five dimensions and specific personality facets. Earlier I presented a hierarchical model of these data with three items per facet (Schimmack, 2019). Subsequently, I examined the loadings of the remaining items on these facets. Here I presents results for 179 items with notable loadings on one of the facets (Item.Loadings.303.xlsx; when you open file in excel, selected items are highlighted in green). The use of more items per facets makes the measurement model of facets more stable and ensures more stable facet correlations that are more likely to replicate across studies with different item sets. The covariance matrix for all 303 items is posted on OSF (web303.N808.cov.dat) so that these results presented below can be reproduced.
Measurement Model
I first constructed a measurement model. The aim was not to test a structural model, but to find a measurement model that can be used to test structural models of personality. Using CFA for exploration seems to contradict its purpose, but reading the original article by Joreskog shows that this approach is entirely consistent with the way he envisoned CFA to be used. It is unclear to me who invented the idea that CFA should follow an EFA analysis. This makes little sense because EFA may not fit some data if there are hierarchical relationships or correlated residuals. So, CFA modelling has to start with a simple theoretical model that then may need to be modified to fit some data, which leads to a new model to be tested with new data.
To develop a measurement model with reasonable fit to the data, I started with a simple model where items had fixed primary loadings and no secondary loadings, while all factors were allowed to be correlated with each other. This is a simple structure model. It is well known that this model does not fit real data. I then modified the model based on modification indices that suggested (a) secondary loadings, (b) relaxed the constraint of a primary loading, or (c) suggested correlated item residuals. This way a model with reasonable fit to the data was obtained, CFI = .775, RMSEA = .040, SRMR = .042 (M0.Measurement.Model.inp on OSF). Although CFI was below the standard criterion of .95, model fit was considered acceptable because the only source of misfit to the model would be additional small secondary loadings (< .2) or correlated residuals that have little influence on the magnitude of the facet correlations.
Facet Correlations
Below I present the correlations among the facets. The full correlation matrix is broken down into sections that are theoretically meaningful. The first five tables show the correlations among facets that share the same Big Five factor.
There are three main neuroticism facets: anxiety, anger/hostility, and depression. A fourth facet was originally intended to be an openness to emotions facet, but it correlated more highly with neuroticism (Schimmack, 2009c). All four facets show positive correlations with each other and most of these correlations are substantial, except the strong emotions and depression facets.
Results for extraversion show that all five facets are positively correlated with each other. All correlations are greater than .3, but none of the correlations are so high as to suggest that they are not distinct facets.
Openness facets are also positively correlated, but some correlations are below .2, and one correlation is only .16, namely the correlation between openness to activities and art.
The correlations among agreeableness facets are more variable and the correlation between modesty and trust is slightly negative, r = -.05. The core facet appears to be caring which shows high correlations with morality and forgiveness.
All correlations among conscientiousness facets are above .2. Self-discipline shows high correlations with competence beliefs and achievement striving.
Overall, these results are consistent with the Big Five model.
The next tables examine correlations among sets of facets belonging to two different Big Five traits. According to Digman and DeYoung’s alpha-beta model, extraversion and openness should be correlated. Consistent with this prediction, the average correlation is r = .16. For ease of interpretation all correlations above .10 are highlighted in grey, showing that most correlations are consistent with predictions. However, the value facet of openness shows lower correlations with extraversion facets. Also, the excitement seeking facet of extraversion is more strongly related to openness facets than other facets.
The alpha-beta model also predicts negative correlations among neuroticism and agreeableness facets. Once more, the average correlation is consistent with this prediction, r = -.15. However, there is also variation in correlations. In particular, the anger facet is more strongly negatively correlated with agreeableness facets than other neuroticism facets.
As predicted by the alpha-beta model, neuroticism facets are negatively correlated with conscientiousness facets, average r = -.21. However, there is variation in these correlations. Anxiety is less strongly negatively correlated with conscientiousness facets than other neuroticism facets. Maybe, anxiety sometimes has similar effects as conscientiousness by motivating people to inhibit approach motivated, impulsive behaviors. In this context, it is noteworthy that I found no strong loading of impulsivity on neuroticism (Schimmack, 2019c).
The last pair are agreeableness and conscientiousness facets, which are predicted to be positively correlated. The average correlation is consistent with this prediction, r = .15.
However, there is notable variation in these correlations. A2-Morality is more strongly positively correlated with agreeableness than other agreeableness facets, in particular trust and modesty which show weak correlations with conscientiousness.
The alpha-beta model also makes predictions about other pairs of Big Five facets. As alpha and beta are conceptualized as independent factors, these correlations should be weaker than those in the previous tables and close to zero. However, this is not the case.
First, the average correlation between neuroticism and extraversion is negative and nearly as strong as the correlation between neuroticism and agreeableness, r = -.14. In particular, depression is strongly negatively related to extraversion facets.
The average correlation between extraversion and agreeableness facets is only r = .07. However, there is notable variability. Caring is more strongly related to extraversion than other agreeableness facets, especially with warmth and cheerfulness. Cheerfulness also tends to be more strongly correlated with agreeableness facets than other extraversion facets.
Extraversion and conscientiousness facets are also positively correlated, r = .15. Variation is caused by stronger correlations for the competence and self-discipline facets of conscientiousness and the activity facet of extraversion.
Openness facets are also positively correlated with agreeableness facets, r = .10. There is a trend for the O1-Imagination facet of openness to be more consistently correlated with agreeableness facets than other openness facets.
Finally, openness facets are also positively correlated with conscientiousness facets, r = .09. Most of this average correlation can be attributed to stronger positive correlations of the O4-Ideas facet with conscientiousness facets.
In sum, the Big Five facets from different Big Five factors are not independent. Not surprisingly, a model with five independent Big Five factors reduced model fit from CFI = .775, RMSEA = .040 to CFI = .729, RMSEA = .043. I then fitted a model that allowed for the Big Five factors to be correlated without imposing any structure on these correlations. This model improved fit over the model with independent dimensions, CFI = .734, RMSEA = .043.
The pattern of correlations is consistent with a general evaluative factor rather than a model with independent alpha and beta factors.
Not surprisingly, fitting the alpha-beta model to the data reduced model fit, CFI = .730, RMSEA = .043. In comparison, a mode with a single evaluative bias factor had better fit, CFI = .732, RMSEA = .043.
In conclusion, the results confirm previous studies that a general evaluative dimension produces correlations among the Big Five factors. DeYoung’s (2006) multi-method study and several other multi-method studies demonstrated that this dimension is mostly rater bias because it shows no convergent validity across raters.
Facet Correlations with Method Factors
To remove the evaluative bias from correlations among facets, it is necessary to model evaluative bias at the item level. That is, all items load on an evaluative bias factor. This way the shared variance among indicators of a facet reflects only facet variance and no evaluative variance. I also included an acquiescence factor, although acquiescence has a negligible influence on facet correlations.
It is not possible to let all facets to be correlated freely when method factors are included in a model because this model is not identified. To allow for a maximum of theoretically important facet correlations, I freed parameters for facets that belong to the same Big Five factor, facets that are predicted to be correlated by the alpha-beta model, and additional correlations that were suggested by modification indices. Loadings on the evaluative bias factor were constraint to 1 unless modification indices suggested that items had stronger or weaker loadings on the evaluative bias factor. This model fitted the data as well as the original measurement model, CFI = .778 vs. 775, RMSEA = .040 vs. .040. Moreover, modification indices did not suggest any further correlations that could e freed to improve model fit.
The main effect of controlling for evaluative bias is that all facet correlations were reduced. However, it is particularly noteworthy to examine the correlations that are predicted by the alpha-beta model.
The average correlation for extraversion and openness facets is r = .07. This average is partially driven by stronger correlations of the excitement seeking facet with openness facets than other excitement facets. There are only four other correlations above .10, and 9 of the 25 correlations are negative. Thus, there is little support for a notable general factor that produces positive correlations between extraversion and openness facets.
The average correlation for neuroticism and agreeableness is r = -.06. However, the pattern shows mostly strong negative correlations for the anger facet of neuroticism with agreeableness facets. In addition, there is a strong positive correlation between anxiety and morality, r = .20. This finding suggests that anxiety may also serve the function to inhibit immoral behavior.
The average correlation for neuroticism and conscientiousness is r = -.07. While there are strong negative correlations, r = -.30 for anger and deliberation, there is also a strong positive correlation, r = .22 for self-discipline and anxiety. Thus, the relationship between neuroticism and conscientiousness facets is complex.
The average correlation for agreeableness and conscientiousness facets is r = .01. Moreover, none of the correlations exceeded r = .10. This finding suggests that agreeableness and conscientiousness are independent Big Five factors, which contradicts the prediction by the alpha-beta model.
The finding also raises questions about the small but negative correlations of neuroticism with agreeableness (r = -.06) and conscientiousness (r = -.07). If these correlations were reflecting the influence of a common factor alpha that influences all three traits, one would expect a positive relationship between agreeableness and conscientiousness. Thus, these relationships may have another origin, or there is some additional negative relationship between agreeableness and conscientiousness that cancels out a potential influence of alpha.
Removing method variance also did not eliminate relationships between facets that are not predicted to be correlated by the alpha-beta model. The average correlation between neuroticism and extraversion facets is r = -.05, which is small, but not notably smaller than the predicted correlations (r = .01 to .07).
Moreover, some of these correlations are substantial. For example, excitement seeking is negatively related to anxiety (r = -.24) and warmth is negatively related to depression (r = -.22). Any structural model of personality structure needs to take these findings into account.
A Closer Examination of Extraversion and Openness
There are many ways to model the correlations among extraversion and openness facets. Here I demonstrate that the correlation between extraversion and openness depends on the modelling of secondary loadings and correlated residuals. The first model allowed for extraversion and openness to be correlated. It also allowed for all openness facets to load on extraversion and for all extraversion facets to load on openness. Residual correlations were fixed to zero. This model is essentially an EFA model.
Model fit was as good as for the baseline model, CFI = .779 vs. 778, RMSEA = .039 vs. .040. The pattern of secondary loadings showed two notable positive loadings. Excitement seeking loaded on openness and open to activities loaded on E. In this model the correlation between extraversion and neuroticism was .08, SE = .17. Thus, the positive correlation in the model without secondary loadings was caused by not modelling the pattern of secondary loadings.
However, it is also possible to fit a model that produces a strong correlation between E and O. To do so, the loadings excitement seeking and openness to actions can be set to zero. This pushes other secondary loadings to be negative, which is compensated by a positive correlation between extraversion and openness. This model has the same overall fit as the previous model, both CFI = .779, both RMSEA = .039, but the correlation between extraversion and openness jumps to r = .70. The free secondary loadings are all negative.
The main point of this analysis is to show the importance of facet correlations for structural theories of personality traits. In all previous studies, including my own, the higher-order structure was examined using Big Five scales. However, the correlation between an Extraversion Scale and an Openness Scale provides insufficient information about the relationship between the Extraversion Factor and the Openness Factor because scales always confound information about secondary loadings, residual correlations, and factor correlations.
The goal for future research is to find ways to test competing structural models. For example, the second model suggests that any interventions that increase extraversion would decrease openness to ideas, while the first model does not make this prediction.
Personality psychologists have developed and tested structural models of personality traits for nearly a century. In the 1980s, the Big Five factors were identified. The Big Five have been relatively robust in future replication attempts and emerged also in this investigation. However, there has been little progress in developing and testing hierarchical models of personality that explain what the Big Five are and how they are related to more specific personality traits called facets. There have also been attempts to find even broader personality dimensions. An influential article by Digman (1997) proposed that a factor called alpha produces correlations among neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, while a beta factor links extraversion and openness. As demonstrated before, Digman’s results could not be reproduced and ignored evaluative bias in personality ratings (Anusic et al., 2009). Here, I show that empirical tests of higher-order models need to use a hierarchical CFA model because secondary loadings create spurious correlations among Big Five scales that distort the pattern of correlations among the Big Five factors. Based on the present results, there is no evidence for Digman’s alpha and beta factors.
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Heritability of brain volumes in older adults
The Older Australian Twins Study
Seyed Amir Hossein Batouli, Perminder S. Sachdev*, Wei Wen, Margaret J. Wright, David Ames, Julian N. Trollor
The relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors to brain structure change throughout the lifespan. Brain structures have been reported to be highly heritable in middle-aged individuals and younger; however, the influence of genes on brain structure is less studied in older adults. We performed a magnetic resonance imaging study of 236 older twins, with a mean age of 71.4 ± 5.7 years, to examine the heritability of 53 brain global and lobar volumetric measures. Total brain volume (63%) and other volumetric measures were moderately to highly heritable in late life, and these genetic influences tended to decrease with age, suggesting a greater influence of environmental factors as age advanced. Genetic influences were higher in men and on the left hemisphere compared with the right. In multivariate models, common genetic factors were observed for global and lobar total and gray matter volumes. This study examined the genetic contribution to 53 brain global and lobar volumetric measures in older twins for the first time, and the influence of age, sex, and laterality on these genetic contributions, which are useful information for a better understanding of the process of brain aging and helping individuals to have a healthy aging.
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Batouli, S. A. H., Sachdev, P. S., Wen, W., Wright, M. J., Ames, D., & Trollor, J. N. (2014). Heritability of brain volumes in older adults: The Older Australian Twins Study. Neurobiology of Aging, 35(4), 937.e5-937.318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2013.10.079
Batouli, Seyed Amir Hossein ; Sachdev, Perminder S. ; Wen, Wei ; Wright, Margaret J. ; Ames, David ; Trollor, Julian N. / Heritability of brain volumes in older adults : The Older Australian Twins Study. In: Neurobiology of Aging. 2014 ; Vol. 35, No. 4. pp. 937.e5-937.318.
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Mulholland Drivel Or Mulholland Thrive? Lynch Gets The Take Two Treatment
Posted on July 18, 2017 February 6, 2018 by Robb Sheppard Posted in Take TwoTagged Blue Velvet, cinema, David Lynch, entertainment, Eraserhead, film, Justin Theroux, Lost Highway, movie, movies, Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts, Thriller, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart
Welcome to Take Two, the series that’s big enough to hold up its hands and say “I was wrong.”
From your first watch to your second, has a movie gone from marvelous to meh? Has an initial viewing ever left you cold, only to later warm the cockles of your heart? Have you ever been so stubborn, “anti-mainstream” and cantankerous that you’ve point-blank refused to admit that a certain film has any merit at all whilst everyone else claims it’s the cinematic second-coming? Then you’ve come to the right place.
The David Lynch resurgence is in full swing: TV audiences are in the throes of Twin Peaksfever again; David Lynch: The Art Life performed well on the festival circuit whilst Mulholland Drive has been treated to a 4K restoration and re-release after being named BBC Culture’s Greatest Film of the 21st Century by BBC Culture. That’s a lot of people pretending they know what’s going on. With that being said, Take Two journeys back to Mulholland Drive.
Mulholland Drive in One Take
David Lynch was a director that I knew I was supposed to like: an auteur whose work was unconventional, uncanny and surreal to the point which the term Lynchian was invented to represent it. However, there seemed to be a disparity between those who said that they liked Lynch, and those who actually liked Lynch.
His debut feature Eraserhead (1977) was better known to me in its poster form, adorning many a student wall alongside Betty Blue and Che Guevara, with students equally unfamiliar about each, in my experience. The Elephant Man biography in 1980 furthered Lynch’s interest in the outcast through a more mainstream lens. Or so I’m told; I was banned from watching it at an early age. 1984’s sci-fi Dune, however, was based on the Frank Herbert novel and for me, sat happily alongside Star Wars and Flash Gordon: something that surely makes Dune a worthy future Take Two, even if just for Sting‘s performance.
Blue Velvet (1986) birthed an iconic performance from the late Dennis Hopper as the disturbed and deviant Frank Booth, most memorably huffing from his gas tank (reportedly, full of helium), whilst Wild at Heart (1990) was often cited as an influence on True Romance and Natural Born Killers, both of which I was a huge fan (although that didn’t translate to Wild at Heart). Finally, Lost Highway’s soundtrack featured everything from Bowie to Lou Reed, Nine Inch Nails to Smashing Pumpkins, but, at least to me at the time, no memorable narrative or events.
In short, I don’t think me and Lynch would get on.
Mulholland Drive (2001) first caught me by movie magazine recommendation, further reeling me in by the trailers’ tales of Hollywood’s seedy underbelly, film production power plays and the promise of self-discovery. Or, as a popular television provider now describes it: “Mobsters, dwarves, amnesiac lesbians in Hollywood.” How could you say no to that?
Mulholland Drive (2001); source – Les Films Alain Sarde
So, hell-bent by my determination to “get” David Lynch, I settled down to my second favorite Mulholland (after…Falls). Originally produced as a TV show pilot which never made it to air, Mulholland Drive revisits the director’s vision without the ABC network cramping his creative chic. Unfortunately, I agreed with ABC, and lasting impressions of the film were, well, few and far between.
Memory recalls a slick, neo-noir centered on the car crash-induced amnesia of “Rita” (Laura Elena Harring) and the naïve, wannabe actress Betty (Naomi Watts). The pair set about trying to discover Rita’s true identity, back-dropped by mobsters manipulating casting decisions that eventually unfurl to involve Betty.
The relationship turns intimate (I remember those bits) and soon we’re dealing with a dead actress and the repressed memories/sexual fantasies of Watts’ character. Oh, and tiny people that crawl out from under the doors. Yep.
I’ve always had beef with the standard of acting in Lynch productions. I struggled with the soap opera-style exaggerative gestures, and this was a huge problem for me with Mulholland Drivethe first time around. Harring, in particular, reminded me of that old Hugh Grant ‘joke’: “So wooden, it was like someone threw a chair into the room.” Not very big or clever, but you get the point.
A Twitter friend said he struggled with the film and only really remembered the scary man. Huh? There’s a scary man? I remember that Twin Peaks’ The Man from Another Place (Michael J. Anderson), AKA The Arm, AKA The Dwarf appears in a Red Room of sorts, but something’s definitely amiss with my memory, never mind Rita’s.
What I do remember, though, is that it made more sense to me than Lost Highway; the young me clearly needed a more linear narrative and straightforward direction. I certainly needed things spelled out for me to a degree and that’s the last thing Lynch wants to do. I’m not ashamed to say that I didn’t have a scooby as to what was going on after the realization that Betty is the dead actress either. You know that episode of The Simpsons where Homer’s just watched Twin Peaks and responds with “Brilliant…I have absolutely no idea what’s going on”? That.
All of Lynch’s calling cards are present from the outset, particularly the lingering scenes: the title sequences follows a limo as it weaves through the Hollywood hills, evoking the Torrance’s car in The Shining opening. The same sense of foreboding is inherent in the long wandering scene through the parking lot from the diner to the “scary man.” It’s excruciatingly tense, and the jump scare still gets you after all that.
Angelo Badalamenti’s score conjures the same spirit of jazz that haunted Twin Peaks and complements the content perfectly: all off-beats and haunting sax refrains. The links persist through the Red Room and Anderson’s character, which are at once jarringly unsettling to anyone who’s experienced Twin Peaks. But instead of evoking some dreaded “expanded universe,” such crossovers to previous Lynch work somehow feel incestuous and unnerving as opposed to comforting and familiar.
Similarly, my newly found familiarity with Twin Peaks prepared me for the soap style acting, which now presented itself from a different perspective. Whereas in Twin Peaks it was (hopefully) subverting the genre, Watts’ acting is deliberately ham-fisted as she exudes excitement about her move to Hollywood…until we witness her audition and eventual breakdown. At this point she delivers a virtuoso performance that highlights just how masterful her “ham-fisting” was. Think Lennon skilfully singing slightly off-key.
It’s not all so serious, though. There’s humor to be found, particularly on the bungled hit for a book of phone numbers, which verges on violent slapstick before turning into a hoover homicide. Director Adam (a fresh-faced Justin Theroux) also provides comic relief with his blowouts and temper tantrums, especially when he comes a cropper after challenging Miley Cyrus’ dad to fisticuffs.
Lynch proves to be a master of direction throughout Mulholland Drive, most efficacious in the Silencio club scenes. The audience is force-fed the fact that everything they see on stage is pre-recorded, but the powerful rendition of ‘Llorando’ moves them to the verge of tears, before they’re ripped back to reality, the singer collapses… and yet the singing continues.
Is it still weird for the sake of being weird? Nope. The odd and obscure feel apposite as soon as we realize that all is not well with Watts, and this is the hook that Lynch keeps us squirming on. The plot unravels skilfully from clue to clue, even when they seem peripheral. The “scary man” from the car park later seems so removed from the narrative that when he re-emerges at the climax, he’s all but been forgotten about. And you jump all over again. Who is it though? Does it matter?
But what was in the blue box that is eventually unlocked? Merely a MacGuffin or something more mysterious than that? You know what? I don’t need to know. I didn’t need to know the contents of the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. Or the last words uttered in Lost in Translation. So why do I need to know this? Why do you?
All I do know is, it’s still lingering in my mind days later.
Referenced earlier was my urge to “get” David Lynch: to fully understand the intricacies of the worlds he creates and to have an explanation for every extraordinary occurrence. Why? Shouldn’t film, as an art form, make us question our beliefs and our perceptions? To plunder the imagination and the neuroses? Mulholland Drive achieves this and then some. In questioning perceptions, it’s raised questions about the rest of Lynch’s work and an urge to go back and find answers for myself.
I think maybe me and David do get on.
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Regime Takes a Stand Against Plagiarism: Mark Roberts Reviews Regime Issue 2
on Oct 14, 2013 January 8, 2014
Regime: Magazine of New Writing. Issue 2, 2013.
As much as I would like the whole issue of plagiarism to go away, it appears that the recent scandal is set to haunt us for some time yet. In particular Graham Nunn’s situation has become a tricky one for a number of publishers who are finding that the Nunn poem they had accepted and published is probably not his at all. Added to the difficulty faced by these publishers in the fact that Nunn isn’t returning their calls – so what is to be done. Well Regime magazine has gone on the front foot – I=in a statement on its website last week called ‘Plagiarism in Regime Magazine’ (http://www.regimebooks.com.au/plagiarism-in-regime-magazine-statement-by-the-editors/) it announced:
Several weeks ago the editors of Regime Magazine were approached with concerns that a poem in the second issue of Regime Magazine was plagiarised. Graham Nunn had submitted the poem, titled ‘Empty Gardens’. This poem, in the opinion of the editors, is the work of US poet John Yau. It seems that Mr Yau’s poem ‘Bare Sheets’ was copied, a small number of changes were made to it, and then it was submitted without acknowledgement to Mr Yau and without his agreement”.
They went on to say:
We feel as though we the editors, and, more importantly, the readers of Regime Magazine have been deceived. We have written to Mr Yau and apologised and do so now again publicly. As poets, we are disappointed that his work has been mistreated and disrespected.
Regime has gone further. It has recalled copies of the magazine from bookshops and has taken steps to remove Nunn’s poem from their online and from their print on demand channel. All this, of course, has come at a cost to the magazine and one can debate as to whether it was actually necessary to withdraw the magazine from sale. Nevertheless they have made a strong statement on their position. They have also clearly stated that they had approached Nunn for a explanation before taking this action but had received no reply.
Along with a number of other Australian magazines Regime have tightened up their submission process ensuring that all contributors have to sign a declaration that the work they are submitting is their own before actually submitting – thereby putting the legal responsibility for the ownership of the work firmly on the author.
Regime issue 2 has actually been sitting on my desk for a month or so waiting for review. As long as I avoid the Nunn poem now seems as good a time as any to look under the Regime hood and check out their engine.
Published out of Perth Regime positions it self as an Australian journal of “poetry, short fiction and performance writing” with an international outlook. While the majority of writers in issue 2 are Australian, there is also a sprinkling of international writers, most of which were new to me. US poet Frederick Pollack’s ‘Reception Theory’ was a particular favourite with its almost prose like descriptions:
Again and again in the late work,
spring leaves block
his view of a street. Should he use
‘a street’, with its general appeal,
or insist on ‘the Parkway across the river’
for its petty honesty?
There are also writers like Rose Hunter who, though born in Australia, now lives overseas and has published, it seems, almost exclusively, outside Australia. Her poem ‘[umbrellas]’ is one of a number of poems in the journal which plays with the page, with split lines in the middle of the poem effectively visually breaking the poem into two triangles. It’s a technique that makes us stop and think about how to actually read the poem and to consider what might be a jagged stanza break.
While there are some well know names among the writers in issue 2 – Andrew Burke’s ‘Unintentional Art’ and Kate Middleton’s ‘Globe are standouts – the real strength of the issue is in the quality of the work by names I haven’t come across before. Helga Jermy’s ‘Jury Duty’, for example, is a finely balanced poem matching the mundane with the graphic reality of a trial:
and we’re just peers peering in on
back stares of discomfort, wondering
if the kids are home from school,
if the paintings reached the gallery,
last night’s Tuscany pork will stretch
to a kind of cassoulet, then graphic
piecings to inattention, busts
through flesh and bone
Indeed while I would not probably classify every poem in this issue a ‘success’ (an entirely subjective judgement of course), it is safe to say that each poem is interesting and it is possible to understand why it was selected – something that is not always possible to do with some contemporary literary journals.
There is also a smorgasbord of short fiction in Regime 2 and much of what I’ve said about the poetry in this issue also holds true for the fiction. Petri Ivalo Sinda’s ‘Meltdown Express’, for example, reads like an extended prose poem (all 13 pages):
I rummage among my futures, chasing after each one but they’re like a flight of starlings exploding out of a tree. I grab at them. I want to catch history in my hands and hold on for all I’m worth.
It is an extended personal, sociological, geographical, political, architectural and psychological study of the modern city and our space in it. It is an intense and exhaustive read – a good introduction to a writer who it will be interesting to follow over the coming years. Of course there are also more conventional stories in the issue, Michelle Faye’s ‘Blowie’ for example, where two young boys are taken on a night time fishing trip with their father and uncles. The younger brother’s sense of inadequacy underpins the story and is told with sympathy and understanding. But there is also an acceptance which makes us understand that this is, at least for the moment, is how it has to be.
In may ways Regime 2 is more an anthology than an issue of a journal. At 193 pages (191 if you remove the two Graham Nunn poems) it is a substantial collection and one that is well worth the cost of admission. One hopes that, despite the current setback and the financial hit they will obviously take by withdrawing copies from sale, they will be able to continue to produce further issues which bring together such talent.
– Mark Roberts
Mark Roberts is a Sydney based writer and critic. He currently edits Rochford Street Review and P76 Magazine (http://rochfordstreetpress.wordpress.com/p76-literary-magazine/).
You can purchase print on demand copies of Regime 2, as well as finding out much more about the journal at http://www.regimebooks.com.au/regime-02-magazine-of-new-writing/
Issue 9, Mark Roberts, Regime
Andrew Burke, Australian Fiction, Australian poetry, Frederick Pollack, Graham Nunn, Helga Jermy, John Yau, Kate Middleton, Mark Roberts, Michelle Faye, Petri Ivalo Sinda, plagiarism, Regime, Rose Hunter
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A great piece by Mark Roberts about the recent plagarism scandal in Australian poetry and a review of the second issue of Regime magazine, in which my poem ‘At the Greyhounds’ was published.
A shame (in the sense of ‘deeply unfortunate’) that any magazine would be out of pocket for this. And a shame (in the sense of ‘shameful’) that the perpetrator has not even bothered to return correspondence relating to his plagiarism, particularly some would say given his previous penchant for self promotion.
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How is hard surface area calculated?
For billing purposes, stormwater charges will be based on the amount of hard surface on your property. Hard surfaces within the city’s right of way (roads, boulevards and sidewalks) are not included in your property’s hard surface area.
The hard surfaces of a property will be measured using high-resolution aerial photography. This will provide the basis for the quarterly bill. Due to the possibility of error using aerial photography, each property’s hard surface area was reduced by 100 square feet before calculating the stormwater utility charge.
Newly-developed properties will have their hard surface area determined using the approved site plan. Property owners will have the opportunity to appeal the measurement. In these cases, the property owner can provide their own measurement and submit it to the city for review.
The example above shows a parcel with a house, garage, deck (with pavement below) and areas of brick, gravel and concrete pavement.
The diagram above shows impervious areas of the property above in gray and pervious areas in blue.
The hard areas (shown in gray in the example above on the right) of a property will be calculated to the square foot and are billable.
The area in yellow (the sidewalk and street right-of way) are non-billable.
1. Who else has a stormwater utility?
More than 1,500 local governments across 40 states have enacted this type of utility, including the cities of Detroit, Ann Arbor and Birmingham.
2. Why is stormwater run-off a problem?
Stormwater begins as rain or snowmelt that flows over land rather than seeping into the ground. It flows over hard surfaces (impervious surfaces) such as roofs, driveways, and walkways, as well as pervious surfaces such as grass, gardens, and woodlands into the city’s combined sewer system. The more hard surface (impervious surface) on your property, the more stormwater runoff is contributed to the sewer system.
This drainage flows into the same underground pipes as sewage and must be treated at the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) wastewater treatment plant before it can be released back into the environment.
The City of Royal Oak is billed by the Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner for the conveyance and treatment of combined sewage at GLWA.
Pervious Surface versus Hard Surface
3. What are some examples of pervious & impervious surface areas
Lawns and vegetation have a limited ability to absorb water based on site specific conditions. Once saturated or frozen, water can no longer be absorbed into landscaped areas. Often, only a limited amount of impervious surface areas can be directed to an impervious area before its ability to absorb the additional water is diminished.
Buildings, garages, sheds, houses, etc. are hard surfaces that directly shed stormwater off their roofs. These surfaces eliminate large impervious areas where water can infiltrate.
Pavements like concrete and asphalt are designed to drain stormwater to a low point to prevent ponding on the surface. Water does not infiltrate standard pavements.
Standard brick pavers are typically installed over compacted base material, and the joints in between the pavers are also filled in with compacted material. These act similar to pavements, and typically do not allow any stormwater to infiltrate.
Gravel materials used for parking, roads, driveways and walkways is tightly compacted, and does not allow for infiltration. Water will always find the path of least resistance, and will tend to run downhill over compacted gravel rather than infiltrate into the underlying soils.
While stormwater may be contained within pools during a rain storm, the pool itself does not allow water from other parts of the property to soak into the soil. When the pool is drained, the stormwater that was collected will be sent to the sewer system. Considering pools as impervious surfaces is consistent with many other stormwater utilities throughout the country.
4. How is hard surface area calculated?
5. What are the benefits of a stormwater utility?
A stormwater utility covers the critical service of carrying stormwater runoff away from properties, conveying it within the city’s combined sewer system to treatment facilities and ultimately discharging it to the Detroit River. Properly operated stormwater infrastructure prevents flooding and backups, expensive repairs, and pollution of natural waterways. While the city currently operates a combined sewer system, the method of funding this operation and the associated costs for treatment has been determined to be outdated by current standards. The city’s proposed stormwater utility will proportionally bill users for their use of the system and will encourage activities that promote better stormwater management and lessen the burdens of the system, making the existing infrastructure more adaptable to severe rain events.
6. How did you measure the hard surface area on my property?
The city used low-altitude, high-resolution aerial photography to determine the hard surface area on each property. The city will perform aerial flyovers every three years to update the hard surface database.
Using aerial photography is the best possible way to measure each property’s individual hard surface area. However, mapping of aerial photographs does have a degree of inherent error. The hard surface area on each property was therefore reduced by 100 square feet to account for error in the measurements.
The image below is an example of aerial photography. The area outlined in blue represents the hard surface area. The pop-up block indicates the Billable Hard Surface Area of this property is 91,215 sq. ft.
To view your property go to: https://royaloak.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=88ea895ad7f34bdb885f3994d431f972
7. How does the sewer system work?
Royal Oak has a "combined" sewer system, which means that all the stormwater from rain and snow is mixed with all the sanitary sewage from private sewer leads into one pipe. Parts of the city do have separate stormwater pipes and sanitary sewer pipes, but these all ultimately drain to the same county drain and are combined. This means that the city has to pay to treat all the sewage AND stormwater that enters the system.
8. Are roads and public rights-of-way charged the stormwater utility fee?
Roads and public rights-of-way maintained by the city are exempt from the stormwater utility fee because they function as part of the stormwater collection and conveyance system. City-owned properties such as parks and parking lots are subject to the stormwater utility fee.
9. Why should I have to pay for rain falling on my property?
While stormwater is a result of rain and snowmelt, the stormwater fee is not related to how much rain falls on your property, but rather the facilities used to manage stormwater such as sewers, manholes, catch basins and wastewater treatment. The more hard surface a property has, the more it uses the stormwater system components.
10. As part of the settlement agreement in Schroeder vs. The City of Royal Oak, MUST the city implement a stormwater utility?
The settlement was based upon language in the Drain Code that requires the city to bill for its portion of the debt on the Kuhn RTF on an ad valorem basis. However, billing for stormwater costs based upon the amount of stormwater that a property contributes to the stormwater system is more rational and more equitable than billing for stormwater costs based upon the amount of water consumed at that property.
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Interview With S.I. Writer, Bloomington Native, Steve Rushin
August 13, 2015 Scott Cummings Leave a comment
Ever wondered how the jockstrap was invented? Or how about the evolution from catching balls with bare hands to the gloves of today? It was said that shaking hands with a catcher without any protection was like “shaking hands with walnuts.”
Sports Illustrated writer and Bloomington, Minnesota native Steve Rushin wrote about the jock strap, how Americans were more skilled throwing grenades compared to their European allies because of baseball and more historical oddities.
The book is called 34-Ton Bat, The Story of Baseball as told through Bobbleheads, Cracker Jacks, Jock Straps, Eye Black and 375 Strange and Unusual Objects. Here are 10 questions about his life growing up in Bloomington, The Met, how he landed his Sports Illustrated writing gig and about his recent visits to Target Field with his young children.
Q: In 1979 on your 13th birthday you became an employee of the Minnesota Twins and as you say in your book “it unlocked a hidden world”. Tell me about your memories of the Met in your hometown of Bloomington, Minnesota. What was the highlight?
A: Before I worked at the Met, I went as a fan. I’m one of five kids and my Dad would stop at Cal’s Market on Old Shakopee Road after Mass on a Sunday and buy a one-pound bag of peanuts to last the day. Late in the game, we might get a Frosty Malt, but we weren’t allowed to sail the lids onto the warning track, like so many of our lucky peers were doing.
When I started working at the Met, in the commissary, making the food that the vendors sold, it was a revelation. I was backstage, in the ballpark before it opened to the public, and saw people like Reggie Jackson from ten feet away. When you’re 13, and have only ever seen someone like Reggie on TV, it’s a shock to see him up close, unfiltered by a screen, as if you never realized he existed in the flesh.
The highlight of working those games—and there were so many—was getting to pull the tarp when it rained. To be 13 and running across a big-league field, in front of about 8,000 fans with garbage bags on their heads? I knew even then that life was unlikely to get better.
Q: Did you know Twins Daily Writer and Founder John Bonnes, @TwinsGeek on twitter, growing up in Bloomington?
A: I didn’t. If I had, I’d know much more about the Twins now. And then. But growing up in Bloomington you were never more than one degree of separation from the Twins. My brother was a lefthanded pitcher at Bloomington Lincoln and claims to have owned Hrbek whenever he pitched against Kennedy. I mentioned this to Hrbek once and he just laughed. I think he’s heard that from a lot of guys he faced in high school.
Q: Was there a certain moment that inspired to you be a writer? Did you have a mentor?
A: I learned to read watching Sesame Street and cereal boxes were my earliest literary influence. Another early influence was Oscar Madison, the sportswriter on “The Odd Couple.” He was a slob, ate hot dogs at ballgames and spent a lot of time loafing around his gigantic apartment in New York. That seemed like a good life. I once spent an evening with Jack Klugman for a Sports Illustrated column and thanked him for the inspiration. He said I wasn’t the first sportswriter to tell him that.
My Mom, more than any one person, made me a writer. She got me a library card and encouraged me to read and would leave me at the B. Dalton bookstore for an hour when she shopped at Southdale. I would completely lose track of time, or even my surroundings, and get absorbed in a book. I didn’t know it then, but reading is the best preparation for writing.
Q: Is there an unusual story about landing your job at Sports Illustrated?
A: A junior college basketball coach had a three-on-three basketball tournament in his backyard in Bloomington. A buddy and I played in it. It was called the Saunders Hoop Invitational Tournament, or S.H.I.T. We were in high school. Sports Illustrated ran a long story on a huge 3-on-3 tournament in Michigan, and I wrote a letter to the editor of SI about our 3-on-3 tournament in Bloomington.
The trophy was a Cool-Whip tub covered in aluminum foil. The author of the article in SI, Alexander Wolff, wrote to me to ask me more about our tournament, because he was writing a book on pickup basketball in America. So I wrote back to him, we became pen pals, and when I started writing stories in college, I’d send them to Alex, who passed one along to an editor SI, and eventually—just before I graduated from Marquette—the magazine ran my story. That got me a three-month internship as a fact-checker there and I never left. The junior college basketball coach who hosted the S.H.I.T., incidentally, was Flip Saunders.
Q:What baseball writers do you most admire? Past and present?
A: Where to begin? I grew up reading Pat Reusse and Doug Grow in Minneapolis. My Dad traveled a lot, and in the age before the internet he’d bring home three-day-old newspapers from L.A. or New York, so I’d get to read columns by Jim Murray and Red Smith. I read all of Roger Angell’s books. They were some of the books I’d lose myself in at B. Dalton. When I arrived at SI, we had Peter Gammons and Steve Wulf and later Tom Verducci and Tim Kurkjian, all of whom were so good that the main thing I learned from them was not to try to be like them. There is more good baseball writing than there has ever been, and I won’t list all the current people I read for space considerations and fear of leaving someone out.
Q: I see that you recently visited Minnesota and took in a game at Target Field with your children. What did that mean to you and was there a certain part of baseball that you felt you needed to teach them? For example, did you explain the meaning of Minnie and Paul to you daughter who thought one of them was Babe Ruth?
A: The kids, thank goodness, like baseball. We were in Minneapolis when the Twins were out of town and took a tour of Target Field. The kids have this fantasy of being locked into a stadium overnight, like in “Night at the Museum,” and getting to eat all the popcorn and nachos and batting helmet sundaes they can, while running the bases and attempting to go yard. Sadly, we were not locked in at tour’s end, but we did come back on our last night in town for the Twins’ homestand-opener against the Orioles. They saw Hicks make a catch with his back to the plate and Dozier win it with a walk-off home run, and my 6-year-old son did ask—while pointing at the Twins logo in centerfield—“Who’s Babe Ruth shaking hands with?” We live in New England, and mostly go to Red Sox games, so it was nice to give them the experience I had as a kid: watching the Twins outdoors while learning how to crack open peanut shells.
Q: What got you interested in writing your current book, the 34-Ton Bat, The Story of Baseball as told through Boobleheads, Cracker Jacks, Jock Straps, Eye Black and 375 Strange and Unusual Objects?
A: That book evolved from wanting to know my grandfather. My Mom’s Dad was a member of the 1926 New York Giants but only played in one game, at catcher. I wanted to know what it was like to be at the Polo Grounds that Sunday afternoon in June of 1926, in hot flannel uniforms, without batting helmets, during Prohibition, and so forth. My uncle happened to still have the catcher’s mitt my grandfather wore that day, he mailed it to me, and I put it on and it was like shaking hands with the grandfather I never knew. My grandfather, Jimmy Boyle, died before I was born. I did what anyone would do with a baseball mitt, and placed it over my nose and mouth like an airplane oxygen mask. I could smell this ballpark in Harlem from 85 years ago. That led to me writing about the most compelling objects of the game—hats and mitts, of course, but also bobbleheads and ballpark organs and beer cups—all those things that beguiled me while working at the Met as a teenager.
Q: Could you discus the process you went through at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in researching the book?
A: The Hall of Fame Library is a wonderful place. You have to put on white gloves to handle the files, so everyone in there looks like Mickey Mouse. I pored over files on ballpark concessions and novelties and souvenirs. I found an old foil hot dog wrapper in one file folder full of old newspaper clippings on hot dogs. Tom Shieber, the curator, was walking past me when it happened and took the wrapper to file elsewhere. I loved that this guy has a job in which he files foil hot dog wrappers from, I don’t know, Shea Stadium in 1978. I’d take those photocopied files home, and if I had any other questions, when I couldn’t be in Cooperstown, a brilliant researcher there named Bill Francis would try to help me answer them. I knew I was on to something when Bill had not been previously aware of some minor fact. He hadn’t realized that Milwaukee had a bring-your-own-beer policy in the ‘50s and ‘60s, or that the urinals at Ebbets Field were a disaster. These discoveries were a small triumph for me, because Bill knows everything.
Q: Is there a story that stands out to you in the book that you enjoyed researching and writing about? Anything that surprised you?
A: There is an interesting, otherwise-lost-to-history story in the book about an eccentric guy named Foulproof Taylor, who invented a protective cup for boxers and later a batting helmet, neither of which boxing or baseball was yet ready for in the 1920s and ‘30s. Foulproof was once famous in New York boxing circles for wearing his cup to gyms and asking fighters—world-famous fighters like Primo Carnera—to punch him in the groin as hard as they could. Most of them happily obliged. Foulproof was once the world champion of sack racing, but he began a slow fade into obscurity in the 1960s. A relative of his—a writer named Diane Taylor–proved a great source in keeping Foulproof’s story alive, and I was happy to tell that story in the book.
Q: What new project is in the works? Any new books?
A: I’m writing a memoir of my ‘70s childhood, specifically my growing up in the ‘70s in—of all places—Bloomington, Minnesota.
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Big Magic (angol) Creative Living Beyond Fear
Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages us to uncover the “strange jewels” that are hidden within each of us. Whether we are looking to write a book, make art, find new ways to address challenges in our work, embark on a dream long deferred, or simply infuse our everyday lives with more mindfulness and passion, Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees
SELECTED BY Good Morning America's "READ THIS!" BOOK CLUB Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine femal power, a story women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.
The Dying Animal Philip Roth
Philip Roth - The Dying Animal
David Kepesh is white haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder and haunts him for the next eight years. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960's freed him from his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an emancipated manhood beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years, he had refined that exuberant decade of protest and licence into an orderly way of life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of Eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of this newly hatched woman - a masterpiece, as Kepesh describes Consuela, of 'volupté' - undo him completely. His worldliness, his confidence, his reason desert him, and on the brink of old age, a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The lighthearted erotic tale with which he began evolves into a poignant, tragic story of love and loss.
Ariel Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath - Ariel
This all-new edition of Sylvia Plath's shattering final poems--with a foreword by Robert Lowell--will appear during National Poetry Month.
Lucky Man Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox - Lucky Man
The same sharp intelligence and self-deprecating wit that made Michael J Fox a star in the Spin City television series and Back to the Future films make Lucky Man a lot punchier than the usual up-from-illness celebrity memoir. Yes, he begins with the first symptoms of Parkinson's disease, the incurable illness that led to his retirement from Spin City (and acting) in 2000. And yes, he assures us he is a better, happier person now than he was before he was diagnosed. In Fox's case, you actually might believe it, because he then cheerfully exposes the insecurities and self-indulgences of his pre-Parkinson's life in a manner that makes them not glamorous but wincingly ordinary and of course very funny. ("As for the question, 'Does it bother you that maybe she just wants to sleep with you because you're a celebrity?' My answer to that one was, 'Ah... nope.'") From a Canadian, working-class background, Fox has an unusually detached perspective on the madness of mass-media fame; his description of the tabloid feeding-frenzy surrounding his 1988 wedding to Tracy Pollan, for example, manages to be both acid and matter-of-fact. He is frank but not maudlin about his drinking problem, and he refreshingly notes that getting sober did not automatically solve all his other problems. This readable, witty autobiography reminds you why it was generally a pleasure to watch Fox on screen: he's a nice guy with an edge, and you don't have to feel embarrassed about liking him. --Wendy Smith
Salem Falls Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult - Salem Falls
When Jack St. Bride arrives in the small town of Salem Falls, all he wants is to escape his past. He's spent the last eight months in jail, after being falsely accused of having an affair with an underage student at the school where he taught. In Salem Falls, he gets a job as a dishwasher at a local diner and tentatively begins a romance with the diner's owner, Addie, who is still mourning the death of her young daughter, born after Addie was raped in high school by three drunk boys. As she and Jack fall in love, they both see hope for the future. But their newfound love is threatened when the residents of Salem Falls learn of Jack's conviction and begin harassing him. When, predictably, a teenage girl accuses Jack of raping her, he finds himself back in jail, fighting a serious charge and the town's prejudice. Addie wrestles with her doubts and memories of her own rape, but she believes in Jack and goes on a quest of her own to find out the truth about Jack's initial conviction, even as the Salem Falls trial opens.
Dead in the Family Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris - Dead in the Family
If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven't seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric's vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric's 'brother' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie's tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton. In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.
Fablehaven Brandon Mull
Brandon Mull - Fablehaven
For centuries, mystical creatures of all description were gathered to a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic in a cynical world. Enchanting? Absolutely! Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite . . . Kendra and her brother Seth have no idea that their grandfather is the current caretaker of Fablehaven. Inside the gated woods, ancient laws give relative order among greedy trolls, mischevious satyrs, plotting witches, spiteful imps, and jealous fairies. However, when the rules get broken, an arcane evil is unleashed, forcing Kendra and Seth to face the greatest challenge of their lives. To save her family, Fablehaven, and perhaps the world, Kendra must find the courage to do what she fears most.
This Is Not a Test Courtney Summers
Courtney Summers - This Is Not a Test
It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she’s forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live. But as the days crawl by, everyone’s motivations to survive begin to change in startling ways and soon the group’s fate is determined less and less by what’s happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life–and death–inside. When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?
High Five Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich - High Five
High fives all around! The New York Times bestselling author of FOUR TO SCORE puts Stephanie Plum, America's favorite bounty hunter, back behind the wheel in her fifth high-octane thriller. What's Stephanie up to now? * Her Uncle Fred has disappeared. * A body turns up in a garbage bag. * She's got a nasty bookie following her around town. * Grandma Mazur has her hands on the stun gun. * Stephanie can't keep a car for more than forty-eight hours. * Two men are trying to get her into bed. * She has nothing to wear to the Mafia wedding. * And there's an angry little man (don't call him a dwarf!) who won't leave her apartment. Bail jumping in Trenton is down to small potatoes. Stephanie's only open case is a small bond for a small violation, committed by a small person who raises Stephanie's frustration level in big ways. So short of money and long on bills, Stephanie comes up with a plan --diversify! Signing on as an intern with entrepreneurial Super Bounty Hunter Ranger, Stephanie ventures into Ranger's mostly morally correct and marginally legal operations. None of this makes vice cop Joe Morelli a happy man. The cop in him can't help but wonder as to the source of Stephanie's expensive new cars. And the rest of him, the man who's been friend and lover to Stephanie, can't help but wonder if there's more to the partnership than meets the eye. The internship is downgraded to second priority when Uncle Fred goes missing. Even though Grandma Mazur is sure he was abducted by aliens, Stephanie sets out to look for Fred. He's a perfectly average senior citizen, and he's disappeared without a trace while running errands. He's left his ten-year-old Pontiac station wagon locked up nice and neat in the Grand Union parking lot, the cleaning is carefully arranged on the back seat, and his wife is at home, waiting for him to return with the bread and the milk and the olive loaf bologna. Locked in the top drawer of his desk are photos of a body, dismembered and stuffed into a garbage bag. And locked away in the computer files of a another average citizen are the clues that will lead Stephanie to Fred. Criminally original and stone brilliant, this Intermediate Bounty Hunting Survival Manual is blockbuster entertainment.
The Scarlet Letter (Oxford Bookworms) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter (Oxford Bookworms)
Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne. And what will happen to her sinful lover - the father of her child?
The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May & June Robin Benway
Robin Benway - The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May & June
_I hugged my sisters and they fit against my sides like two jigsaw pieces that would never fit anywhere else. I couldn’t imagine ever letting them go again, like releasing them would be to surrender the best parts of myself._ Three sisters share a magical, unshakeable bond in this witty high-concept novel from the critically acclaimed author of Audrey, Wait! Around the time of their parents’ divorce, sisters April, May, and June recover special powers from childhood—powers that come in handy navigating the hell that is high school. Powers that help them cope with the hardest year of their lives. But could they have a greater purpose? April, the oldest and a bit of a worrier, can see the future. Middle-child May can literally disappear. And baby June reads minds—everyone’s but her own. When April gets a vision of disaster, the girls come together to save the day and reconcile their strained family. They realize that no matter what happens, powers or no powers, they’ll always have each other. Because there’s one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.
Point of Retreat Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover - Point of Retreat
Hardships and heartache brought them together…now it will tear them apart. Layken and Will have proved their love can get them through anything; until someone from Will’s past re-emerges, leaving Layken questioning the very foundation on which their relationship was built. Will is forced to face the ultimate challenge…how to prove his love for a girl who refuses to stop ‘carving pumpkins.
The Lost Symbol Dan Brown
Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol
The most anticipated publication of the decade, The Lost Symbol is the stunning new thriller featuring Robert Langdon. Six years in the writing, it is Dan Brown's extraordinary sequel to his internationally bestselling Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code. Nothing is ever what it first appears in a Dan Brown novel. Set over a breathtaking 12 hour time span, the book's narrative takes the reader on an exhilarating journey through a masterful and unexpected landscape as Professor of Symbology, Robert Langdon, is once again called into action.
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created.
Dexter in the Dark Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay - Dexter in the Dark
Dexter Morgan is busy planning his wedding to Rita to complete his nice-guy disguise. But when a student is found burnt, molested and headless - seemingly sacrificed to an ancient god - and Dex is brought in as forensic analyst to help investigate, he realises he could be dealing with someone a whole lot more sinister than he is. Soon it seems the dark passenger in Dexter's head has gone into hiding. And when something creeps out your friendly neighbourhood serial killer, you know it's serious... As Halpern and Dexter are stalked by death, it looks like it's getting personal - especially as Dex now has a family to protect. Gradually, Dexter realises his stepchildren might share his extracurricular interest in death. Could he help them target their bloodlust, just as he steers his own? But to do that, Dex must cope with a certain mutilated sergeant from his past, and more importantly... stay alive ...
Dexter is Delicious Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay - Dexter is Delicious
America's most-read, most-watched, and most beloved serial killer - Dexter Morgan - is back. After selling more than one million copies and inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and purely entertaining novel yet. Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his dark urges in check by adhering to one steadfast rule . . . he only kills very bad people. But now Dexter is experiencing some major life changes - don't we all? - and they're mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing girl, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as cannibals. And, most disturbing . . . these people have decided they would really like to eat Dexter. Jeff Lindsay's bestselling, dark, ironic, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud hilarious novels about the lovable serial killer with no soul (but a redeeming desire to kill only people who deserve it) have gained a legion of fans and assumed a place in our culture.
Book of the Dead Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell - Book of the Dead
The "book of the dead" is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace-not only personally and professionally, but geographically. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues-including Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy-offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsies to communities that lack local access to competent death investigation and modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, until the new battles start-with local politicians, with entrenched interests, with someone whose covert attempts at sabotage are clearly meant to run her out of town. And that's even before the murders and other violent deaths begin. A young man from a well-known family jumps off a water tower. A woman is found ritualistically murdered in her multi-million-dollar beach home. The body of an abused young boy is discovered dumped in a desolate marsh. Meanwhile, in distant New England, problems with a prominent patient at a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital begin to hint at interconnections that are as hard to imagine as they are horrible. Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying, as the ones that face her now. Before she is through, that book of the dead will contain many names-and the pen may be poised to write her own. The first name in forensics. The last name in suspense. Once again, Patricia Cornwell proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall.
Taming the Bicycle Mark Twain
Mark Twain - Taming the Bicycle
American life comes under the scrutiny of Mark Twain's wit in this delightful collection of short stories. Here, he comments on politics, education, the media, religion, and literature. The true subject of Twain's satire and burlesque is that strangest of all animals, the human being. In his novels, travel narratives, stories, essays, and sketches, Twain exposes such a variety of human foibles that one is left either laughing at the folly of human enterprise, blushing with shame at human behavior, or cursing the gods that would create such a silly animal. Twain does all three, often at the same time.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Oxford Bookworms) Mark Twain - Nick Bullard
Mark Twain - Nick Bullard - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Oxford Bookworms)
Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost - much, much worse.
Certain Girls Jennifer Weiner
Jennifer Weiner - Certain Girls
Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started chronicling their ex-sex life in the pages of a national magazine. Now Cannie's back. After her debut novel - a fictionalized (and highly sexualized) version of her life - became an overnight bestseller, she dropped out of the public eye and turned to writing science fiction under a pseudonym. She's happily married to the tall, charming diet doctor Peter Krushelevansky and has settled into a life that she finds wonderfully predictable - knitting in the front row of her daughter Joy's drama rehearsals, volunteering at the library, and taking over-forty yoga classes with her best friend Samantha. As preparations for Joy's bat mitzvah begin, everything seems right in Cannie's world. Then Joy discovers the novel Cannie wrote years before and suddenly finds herself faced with what she thinks is the truth about her own conception - the story her mother hid from her all her life. When Peter surprises his wife by saying he wants to have a baby, the family is forced to reconsider its history, its future, and what it means to be truly happy. Radiantly funny and disarmingly tender, with Weiner's whip-smart dialogue and sharp observations of modern life, Certain Girls is an unforgettable story about love, loss, and the enduring bonds of family.
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A Crazy Intense Color War
Disputed call gave ‘Coke - Pepsi’ game to the seniors; juniors still have not conceded
(Ashley Botnick )
Ashley Botnick
COLOR WAR 2018: Intense competition, shortcuts and penalties, a hard-boiled egg genius and a senior three-peat make it memorable
These stories appeared in the Boiling Point’s Issue 4, in early March, less than two weeks after Color War ended, but we are just posting them now to our website. We delayed uploading this content as a sign of respect for the victims and survivors of the gun attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Color War broke out Feb. 20, just a few days after the shooting took place, and many were still processing the horrific event while playing silly competitions. We have focused our coverage on the students from MSD who have spoken to Shalhevet students and faculty on two different occasions since the shooting, along with the security review at our school, the walkout on March 14, and other updates.
Because we are committed to reporting what is happening in our community truthfully, we took a different approach in our March print edition, where a schoolwide security meeting was the lead story that ran alongside photos of the Egg Roulette competition in Color War on Page 1. Some of our readers were confused, even critical, about our decision to place the serious story with silly photos. But the reality was these two things happened almost simultaneously, and the next print paper was weeks away.
While the consequences of the Feb. 14 shooting will be never be entirely in the past, after having thoroughly covered that event, we believe it is now appropriate to post our coverage of Color War.
— Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief
For many students, Color War is the highlight of the school year; for everyone it’s the most elaborate of any schoolwide actiivty. This year it was even longer than last, running from from 3:30 pm Tuesday until 8:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 20 – 22.
Teams were made up of all the students in each grade. Freshman wore black, sophomores wore green, juniors sported red and the senior class of 2018 donned purple. They wore it not only in their clothes but also on their faces with paint, in their hair with colored spray and any other way they could find to express pride for their team.
All day Wednesday and Thursday, the grades competed against each other in a myriad of competitions, vying for an overall first place title. This year’s seniors, the class of 2018, had won it last year and the year before, so everyone’s drive to win was intense.
Events ranged from the fast-paced Apache Race to quirky games like the Egg Roulette and Hungry Hungry Hippos, to less physical contests like the skit, “College Bowl,” an art competition and the team song. Four students from each grade were selected by the Student Activities Committee (SAC) to be team captains.
Numerous faculty members, led by Judaic Studies teacher Ms. Ilana Wilner, Student Activities Dean Dr. Jonathan Ravanshenas and SAC co-chairs Summer Gershon and Ariel Cohen, planned coordinated, and judged the events.
In the end, the seniors were said to have received the most points for the third year in a row. The sophomores came in second, the juniors came in third and the 9th grade came in last, officials reported.
As usual, there was some debate over who placed where and how. As in past years, point totals were not shared with students or The Boiling Point by the referees, who worried it might hurt the feelings of students who did not receive a lot of points and that they might then argue with the referees about it. So we can’t provide those details.
Still, one contest is the Boilnig Point Coverage competition, in which each team is assigned one event to cover. Some of the articles and photos in this issue were submitted for points — you can find them below, along with original editorials.
We hope you enjoy reliving this year’s Color War. And for the record, the seniors won the Coverage competition, and the freshmen came in second, according to Mrs. Keene, who judged it.
This story is a finalist for NSPA’s 2018 Digital Story of the Year in the category of Multimedia Sports Story Package.
CC Coverage Hungry Hungry Hippos from Shalhevet Boiling Point on Vimeo.
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Zoey Botnick
SAFE: Members of the Red and Green teams ran to their partners’ laps as they tried to stay in the game.
COLOR WAR: Disputed call gave ‘Coke – Pepsi’ game to the seniors; juniors still have not conceded
By Molly Litvak and Lucy Fried
By Molly Litvak, Staff Writer, and Lucy Fried, Torah Editor
The stakes were high as a sea of students, each grade wearing a different color, flooded into the gym for the last event of the first day of Color War.
The whole school was there, some 250 students and about 50 staff. Seniors wore purple, juniors wore red, sophomores wore green and freshman wore black.
“At that point in the day, the Black team was already losing, so I just wanted everyone to have fun and have a good time,” said freshman captain Shani Menna. “After all, that’s what Color War is about anyway.”
But the popular bar-bat mitzvah game called “Coke/Pepsi” became one of the most hotly contested of Color War and introduced an abundance of tension and dispute into the two-day contest, as the juniors and seniors battled at the end.
Some thought the seniors’ eventual victory was arbitrary, while the seniors argued that they should have won sooner and that judges had prolonged the game to give the juniors more chances. And everyone agreed the judging had gone on too long.
“The judges kept redoing it after someone got out, they just kept putting them back in and restarting,” said freshman Akiva Rubin.
“Coke/Pepsi” is a giant back-and-forth race in which pairs standing on either side of a room respond to calls of particular words. After hearing a dvar Torah about Purim from senior Ilan Bouskila, each color sent in about 13 pairs from its team to play.aaas
Molly Litvak
If the judge called “Coke,” one member from each pair would run to the other side, and if he or she called “Pepsi,” the other member would run.
The phrase “Seven-up” would force everyone to freeze in place, and if “Dr. Pepper” was called, then each pair would link arms in the center.
These were the basic rules of the game. But Shalhevet’s Student Activities Committee, which ran Color War, had added a twist. If the judge called out “Rabbi Block” — a Shalhevet Judaic Studies teacher — each pair had to cry, “Oy yoy.” And if the judge called “Shakespeare,” they had to jump up and down and say, “To be or not to be.”
If a pair did not do the move correctly or was not fast enough, they would be eliminated. Additionally, anyone who moved when they weren’t supposed to would be out. The last pair still in would win and get 500 points for their team.
For the first couple of rounds, nothing happened. Soon after, judges began eliminating pairs. The Black team was the first to be fully removed from the game, followed by the Green.
“I got out in Coke and Pepsi because they said Coke while we were already on Coke, and I moved so I got out,” said freshman Joey Blumofe. “It was still fun.”
Joey was not the only person to get out this way, as it was the main method used to disqualify people. This technique was used repeatedly until most of the contenders were gone.
Finally, there was only one pair each representing the Red and Green teams, and two representing Purple. However, it was getting harder to cut players.
In an attempt to get people out more quickly, SAC adviser Ms. Ilana Wilner announced, “Last one to the other side is out — doesn’t matter if you did the right thing, you’re out.”
The atmosphere of the gym became tense and excited as the last few pairs tried their best to win. Multiple times, the judges were forced to quiet down members of the teams who were watching because they were making too much noise. It was not unusual for a player or team member to argue a judge when they were eliminated.
Eventually the last Green pair lost and soon after that there was only one pair from each from Team Purple and Team Red.
Junior Hannah Friedman, who was a part of the second-to-last Red pair to be eliminated, felt her team should have won.
“It seemed like they kept doing re-dos until the Purple team won,” said Hannah.
The final junior pair was Asher Dauer and Sam Navon, and last seniors pair were twin brothers Sam and Zack Hirschhorn. The judges repeatedly called one pair out and then changed their minds.
Team members started complaining. Accusations of bias sprung from both the seniors and the juniors as the judging continued and the competitiveness increased.
Finally, the juniors were called out when they failed to jump up and down on the word “Shakespeare.” They disagreed with this call.
“Well for starters we didn’t lose, we actually won,” Sam Navon said later.
“The rules were for when they call ‘Shakespeare’ you bounce up and down, we did that and the other team didn’t yet, they allowed the game to keep going.
“The refereeing was just absurd, and they gave them these 500 points they didn’t deserve… Asher and I won that, we were faster and better.’
Debates continued on Schoology hours after school had ended. There, seniors defended the Purple team’s win.
“Oscar was the judge and called multiple times that we won and they kept giving you chances, what more do you want?” commented senior Elie Helfand, referring to security guard Oscar Hernandez.
Zack Hirschhorn also argued that the juniors were let off the hook many times.
“You lost four rounds ago. Dauer admits it,” Zack commented in all caps.
Akiva Rubin thought judges kept Purple pairs in the game on purpose even if they weren’t actually better than pairs of other colors.
“By the end there was so many more Purple team members [in the game] than other team members,” said Akiva.
At a school-wide davening the next morning, Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg jokingly settled the dispute, announcing that the winning points from the game would be given to the sophomore Green team. This provoked groans from both Purple and Red teams until SAC chairs Ariel Cohen and Summer Gershon announced this would not be the case.
Ariel did not participate in the competition but still had something to say about it.
“That was one of the most intense games of Coke and Pepsi I’ve ever seen,” Ariel said.“I’m glad it finally came to an end but it was fun.”
Purim was only days away. In his dvar Torah, Ilan spoke about the importance of matanot l’evyonim, the commandment on Purim to give gifts or money to the poor. He specifically emphasized the importance of it in the eyes of the Rambam — Maimonides, a well-known and influential Torah scholar of the Middle Ages — who said it came before all other mitzvot on Purim.
“The Rambam says that the mitzvah of matanot l’evyonim is so important and so powerful that we should spend more time on matanot l’evyonim than of all the other mitzvot on Purim combined,” said Ilan.
“We shouldn’t be staying at home, we shouldn’t be spending our time giving gifts to our friends, we should spend the vast majority of our time on matanot l’evyonim.”
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Shine United Launches New Brand and Packaging for Moon Cheese
Shine’s New Packaging Positions Snack Brand for Success
Your favorite cheesy, crunchy, keto snack is looking a little different these days. That’s because Moon Cheese recently underwent a brand refresh so their looks on the outside match the fun, crunchy cheese bites on the inside.
Shine United was tasked with performing this integrated rebrand that included an overhaul of their look and feel which was translated into new packaging, a new website, content to fuel their social media presence, and much more. This endeavor began shortly after Shine became Moon Cheese's Agency of Record in mid-2019.
"The new design is full of energy, excitement and personality," said John Krull, Shine's Vice President and Creative Director. "The new packaging has great shelf appeal and seeks to create a greater emotional connection between the consumer and the product."
Shine set about designing a variety of concepts that spoke to the product's health benefits – all-natural, 100% cheese and crunchy – but also embraced the brand's desire to connect with users in a wholly original way.
"Our creative teams were able to approach the Moon Cheese rebrand with fresh eyes and a wealth of insights driven by consumer research conducted by Shine which allowed them to develop a design platform that is original and stands out from a crowded field of competitors," said Nick Newlin, Shine's Vice President and Group Account Director. "The new website, social media channels, consumer emails and even their trade show materials work together to better tell the story of Moon Cheese."
Since its inception in 2001, Shine United has been revered for its bold brand evolutions, innovative marketing strategies and breakthrough creative executions. Shine has received much acclaim for its work within the food and restaurant vertical, as well as work done in the healthcare, outdoor and active sport categories. Shine's portfolio includes work for Toppers Pizza, Erbert & Gerbert's Sandwich Shop, HuHot Mongolian Grill, Festival Foods, Food Network and Wisconsin Cheese.
"The new brand is fantastic and truly delivers," said Marcia Hunt, Moon Cheese's Chief Marketing Officer. "Shine's creative team strategically used our consumer research insights to steer the development and designs in a way to meaningfully connect to consumers and stand out on shelf. We're very pleased with the new brand and we're excited to continue to grow this partnership."
Shine is continuing to work with Moon Cheese on launching new product flavors, expanding their business into Canada and providing market research to help them understand the expanding needs of their consumers.
Visit https://mooncheese.com/ to see the new brand in action.
About NutraDried
NutraDried Food Company LLC, based in Ferndale, Washington State, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of EnWave Corporation that is leveraging REV® technology to produce innovative snack food products. NutraDried was the first partner of the Company to take REV®dried snack cheese to market at commercialscale. Operating primarily in the dairy vertical, NutraDried manufactures the clean label snack, Moon Cheese®. This 100% crunchy-cheese-snack product is sold across the United States through over 25,000 retail stores. For more information on NutraDried Food Company, please visit www.mooncheese.com.
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Shine United is a $51 million advertising, design and digital agency located in America's Heartland – Madison, Wisconsin. Best known for its innovative brand positioning and creative firepower, Shine has been tapped by brands like Harley-Davidson, Mizuno Running, Discover Card, Amazon, Kohler, WeatherShield Windows, UW Health and Quartz (health insurance). Shine's food and restaurant brand experience includes Toppers Pizza, Erbert & Gerbert's Sandwich Shop, HuHot Mongolian Grill, Festival Foods, Food Network and Wisconsin Cheese. Shine was named one of the best small agencies in the country by One.A.Magazine, and one of the best places to work in the country by Outside Magazine. Shine’s work has been featured in Communication Arts, Print, Graphis, AdAge and The New York Times. Learn more at ShineUnited.com. #ShineOn.
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There is one great HDR app that stands out among its competitors. Want to know what it is? Check it out!
With lots of manufacturers of digital cameras making stunning advancements in the area of dynamic range imaging technology, it’s quite obvious that there’s still so much to be accomplished.
In any case, we cannot ignore the role that these cameras have continued to play in helping to make the High Dynamic Range imaging software technology what it currently is today. After all, there wouldn’t be any photos for the HDR software to merge if the cameras haven’t been doing their jobs of capturing the images in the first place.
The High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging software-technology primarily works by bracketing images of the same scene, having multiple exposures, and merging them together by means of a tone mapping application.
This approach makes it possible for you, as a photographer, to capture the full range of scenes or images within your camera’s reach.
Nowadays, the quality of a photo-shoot isn’t merely judged by the lens or photographer’s capabilities, rather, it’s measured by the quality of its dynamic range. In a nutshell, a High Dynamic Range image is simply one whose quality can be related to what our optical eyes see in the natural or real world. And there is some software that now makes this possible. They include HDR Darkroom, Aurora HDR, and several others.
Available for both Windows and Mac users, the app is effective, and can be used to accomplish a variety of tone mapping tasks.
Some Cool Features of HDR Darkroom
One of the significant features of HDR Darkroom is its user interface. Its simplicity is amazing! The way the app makes it possible for you to easily engage its presets to get started is noteworthy.
HDR Darkroom takes away the uncertainty often associated with trying to find the best possible approach or settings to get you started. This makes it possible for users of different skill levels to confidently engage HDR Darkroom and still come out with brilliant results, alternatively to apps like Full Dynamic Range.
HDR Darkroom features three import methods when you get on it. These are the “New HDR, Single Photo and Batch”. Where “New HDR” makes it possible for you to make your selection from a set of bracket-images that you would like to process, the “single”, allows for a single photo tone mapping while the “batch processing” is used in processing a batch of High Dynamic Ranges employing the same settings.
Another cool feature is the “Align” option. HDR Darkroom highlights two options; one is the ‘fast’ or ‘basic’ option, while the other is the ‘Advanced’.
Its de-ghosting is seamless. HDR Darkroom features a check-box de-ghosting tool that’s powered by its algorithm engine. The downside, however, is that you’ve got absolutely no control whatsoever to determine what part of the image you’d rather have the app focus on.
HDR Darkroom presets option, unlike contemporary HDR apps, starts you off on its default preset setting, the ‘Classic preset’. It also has fifteen (15) others that you could switch to. The bottom line is that you’d have to start off from the presets after which you can customize the settings to suite your need. Slider tools for customizing HDR Darkroom presets include Exposure, Saturating, and Vignette. Its advanced option gives you more editing-flexibilities.
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The app remarkably handles a wide variety of HDR tasks. It, however, lags a little under extreme HDR requirements. Although its presets make up for quick and easy switch between its HDR effects, its overall fine-tuning capabilities can be lacking in extreme situations.
More often than not, a ‘highlight’ reduction often led to a distorted and muted detail and color respectively. Furthermore, its Exposure, Saturating, and Vignette sliders could sometimes apply more effects than necessary, especially on the tone curve.
The app can, in some instances, be RAW-shy as it tends to give an unusual magenta cast in the highlight which ordinarily isn’t the case when it processes JPG images. This suggests that Darkroom does handle JPEG files much better than it does RAW.
Achieving HDR imaging perfection in HDR Darkroom with extreme photos often require that you do some finishing in Lightroom or Photoshop which can sometimes be unnecessarily laborious or burdensome. Thankfully Aurora HDR is another app that fantastically handles a wider range of simple, complex or extremely complex HDR tasks so well, without ‘flinching’.
Aurora HDR: a Powerful Alternative
Aurora HDR as described, “features easy-to-use and versatile workflow for every style of HDR, and photographer of every skill level. No need for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom or any other software. It's the first all-in-one HDR photo editor with a native RAW support, powerful adjustments, layers, fantastic HDR photo effects, textures, presets and more”. The app gives you incredible and unlimited freedom to create mind-blowing HDR images.
Being the result of a joint project by the Mac Photo giant, Macphun, and the world renowned HDR photographer, Trey Ratcliff, Aurora HDR can be described as an HDR app-compendium that includes all the features that are missing in other HDR editors, and so much more!
Whether you intend on creating a stunning HDR image from a single photo or multiple brackets, Aurora “combines everything the world knows about high dynamic range photography and takes it light years further”.
It is more feature-rich, faster and more powerful than HDR Darkroom or any other known HDR application. Aurora HDR indeed offers you a whole new photo-editing experience which you can try for free using free Aurora HDR offer.
Aurora is highly efficient. It is fortified with well over 75 HDR tools which are designed to give every aspect of your photo its well-deserved perfect look. It does great as a standalone or a plug-in to Aperture, Photoshop, Lightroom and Photos for Mac. Aurora HDR remarkably fits into your workflow, and even surpasses your hopes.
Aurora HDR: A Perfect Alternative to HDR Darkroom
Aurora is no doubt a perfect alternative to HDR Darkroom. Besides surpassing Darkroom in functionality, Aurora is more pocket-friendly and less time-consuming.
HDR Darkroom is both Mac and Windows compatible, as opposed to Aurora HDR which is currently Mac-only. This is a major plus for Aurora as it places the app in its undebatable place as the best Mac-only app HDR soft available on the planet today.
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Will Somali voters determine Bristol’s 2015 General Election?
Somali Media Group April 14, 2015 April 14, 2015 Community, Politics
Abdi O. Mohamed – The simple answer to this question is that many in the community feel they could make a great contribution to the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) vote in Bristol, which is anticipated to be key to the results of the elections in May. But the longer answer would entail an understanding of how their vote can influence change.
The Somali population in Bristol has increased substantially over the last fifteen years and they now make up the single largest migrant group in the city. Equally, anecdotal evidence indicates that the number of Somali voters has doubled and they can arguably determine the results of the 2015 general election as well as the local elections that will happen in certain wards, particularly the inner city wards.
A 2013 report by Operation Black Vote found that the ethnic minority vote is bigger than the majority held by the sitting MPs in Bristol. For instance, in Bristol East and Bristol West constituencies where Somalis mainly concentrate, the BME voters are 16.4% and 25.5%, respectively. More importantly, the report found that the largest BME voters in these two constituencies are African, with the largest group being people of Somali ethnic heritage, according to the Bristol City Council Census 2011 data. It is therefore possible that the Somali vote will partly decide the power balance in the upcoming general election in May 2015.
Somali community leaders believe they are a force to be reckoned. “Voting is very important,” said Said Burale, a committee member of the Somali Forum. “Somalis must vote, because it shows that they have ‘voice’ and can influence the political power.” Khalil Abdi, a community activist, said: “It is very important that Somalis participate in the political process so as to raise and tackle issues that have impeded integration and community cohesion.”
This shows that understanding the importance of participation in the political process has improved within the community, which is known to talk a lot about politics, though they mainly focus on Somali politics back home. Moreover, it indicates that the number of Somali voters will increase in May not because they want to exercise their rights but because they want to influence change. This would also mean they have already started to engage with the local and national politics in the UK.
“Somalis must vote, they must exercise their rights and must use their voice,” said Ruqiya Hassan. “At the same time they must understand how to hold politicians or elected officers to account. Many people want to complain but they don’t know how to do it,” she added. Ruqiya is an 18 year old who is looking forward to casting her first vote on 7th May. “My mother and the rest of the family have voted Labour but I must see what’s on offer because, as a British Muslim young person, I can’t get employed – let alone find a decent job – because of islamophobia and going to university is too expensive and unaffordable nowadays.”
Somalis have faced many challenges, which have been identified as barriers to integration and participation. The main issues that have rated top of the list of community concerns include unemployment, education and training, culturally appropriate health services and islamophobia – amongst many. Nevertheless, they possibly seem to understand that the only way to voice their concerns is through the ballot box.
Many in the community are disillusioned with the political process due to lack of acknowledged follow-up response to any of the issues they have raised. On the other hand, a sizeable number of Somali voters strongly believe that their vote can make a big difference. The Somali saying ‘no wells were dug for them, no rescuers on the way’ can perfectly explain the current situation of the community, but their vote will not only prove decisive at the election outcomes but will, of course, empower them to gain a recognised voice too.
Abdi O. Mohamed – @AbdiOboobe
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As it happened, Euro 2012: Germany begins title quest; Netherlands rocked
By Richard FarleyJun 9, 2012, 11:23 AM EDT
If you were with us yesterday, you know how this works. It’s not quite a minute-by-minute, but it is a place that will keep you up-to-date on everything that’s happening in today’s Euro 2012 action.
That action kicks off at noon Eastern with the Netherlands taking on Denmark in Kharkiv, Ukraine. At 2:45 p.m. Eastern, tournament favorites (or co-favorites, I don’t want to upset anybody) Germany face Cristiano Ronaldo, Nani and Portugal.
The group (Group B) is being billed as the Group of Death, but between today’s games and tomorrow’s Group C match ups, we’ll just call it a pretty spectacular first weekend of the tournament.
And we’ll be here throughout. Refresh this page to get the latest updates, and in the interim, here’s some linkage:
PST’s Euro 2012 home
Saturday’s soundtrack: Previewing today’s matches
Yesterday’s recap: Falling in love with Russia once more
Also from yesterday: Poland 1-1 Greece | Russia 4-1 Czech Republic | As it happened
There was also the crew on Twitter ([SD], [RF], [ND], [JP])
And the coverage at NBC Sports.
As the day goes on, we’ll have post-match thoughts and our big Saturday review, but for now, we’ve got some soccer to blog:
(All times Eastern)
1640: Germany 1-0 Portugal: Final, and Germany gets their victory. The match could have gone either way, as Pepe’s late first half chance showed. Ultimately, Germany’s reliance on crossing (particularly from the right) in the second paid off.
1637: Germany 1-0: Portugal: Another very good chance for Portugal. Ronaldo is through on the left and pulls one back for Nani from 12 yards out. He shoots but has it blocked by Holger Badstuder and goes out for a corner.
Lars Bender is on for Thomas Muller.
1632: Germany 1-0 Portugal: This game should be tied, and it’s not. A long ball is held up by Nelson Oliveira, who has to take it to the line. He cuts it back for Nani whose ridden off the ball, leaving an open chance at the right post for Silvestre Varela. He can’t lift it over Manuel Neuer, who claims the shot, preserving the lead.
1630: Germany 1-0 Portugal: Germany spent so much of this match in possession and now can’t get the ball back. Portugal’s applying more pressure than Germany has at any point of this match, and although there haven’t been any clear cut chances, there have been a lot of near-chances. One of these could come good.
Mesut Ozil is off. Decent day that people are drooling over – that’s how that works. Toni Kroos is on. He’ll have a decent spell that people will drool over.
1627: Germany 1-0 Portugal: The Portuguese are coming back. Attack built down the left is cut back for the oncoming Fabio Coentrao, whose blast takes a “cheeky” deflection before going over the bar. Minutes later a cross from Nani finds the woodwork, albeit the top of the bar.
1625: Germany 1-0 Portugal: The game’s opened up. Shocking, huh? Portugal’s midfield has to play like midfielders and we get a real soccer game? Who would have thought? We’re even seeing Miguel Veloso, who’s spent most of the game sitting right in front of the defense, venture toward Germany’s area. This is crazy.
1623: Germany 1-0 Portugal: Gómez is now coming off for Klose. Klose was originally slated to come off earlier, but then the goal happened. He hasn’t ben that bad. When we last saw Gómez, he was ruining Bayern’s chance at Champions League glory. Today he’s done well to get on the end of the crosses he’s gotten, obviously converting what started to be the winning goal.
1616: Germany 1-0 Portugal: Breakthrough, and it’s exactly how they wanted it. Germany had abandoned building through the middle an decided if they were going to win, it was going to have to come from wide. And that it did, with a ball from the right finding Mario Gomez in the middle. The Bayern man hammered it down and to the near post, beating Patricio. Germany has their lead.
1613: Germany 0-0 Portugal: Two pluses for a Germany team looking less and less likely to get their three points: Ozil has done a decent job or orchestrating things, while Thomas Muller’s crossing from the right has been very good. Here he puts a dangerous ball into the six from the sideline. Patricio swallows it up, but a near post runner could have done something with that.
1608: Germany 0-0 Portugal: That was a close one for Germany. Joao Moutinho, with a head of stream entering the final third, finds Ronaldo coming from from the left. From 16 yards out, Ronaldo winds up, but just as he looks to let go Jerome Boateng gets back to put a foot, blocking the shot. Regardless. it was the first time Portugal has been able to generate something that didn’t involve playing long, wide, then in.
1602 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: We’ll see if this continues, but it seems Germany may be resigned to playing the ball down the flanks, avoiding that trio in Portugal’s midfield. Over the last couple of minutes, it’s been stay wide, pump it in, with Mari Gomez putting one header over the bar. We’ll see if this continues.
1600 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: Just as Aleksandr Kerzhakov and Robin van Persie did before him, Lukasz Podolski seems to be volunteering to be this match’s misfiring attacker. He’s had two or three chances which, while not great, have made him look back. Here, he has a ball played to him in the left side of the area, which he promptly puts out for a goal kick.
1557 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: Perhaps this half will settle in at some point, but it looks like the game may be a little more open over this final 45. Portugal is more readily coming out of their own half (downplaying the notion they’re playing for a draw). Germany has been able to threaten a couple of times, too, with the team causing Portugal trouble once they get Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira moving.
1554 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: Twice we’ve seen a little more of what Paulo Bento wants Portugal to do. They’re hitting the ball long and wide and allowing those all-world wings to go get it. Opening the half, it was Nani with a chance to do work. This time it’s Ronaldo who forced another corner kick.
1549 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: We are back. No changes that I’ve heard of.
1534 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: Halftime. Stats. Possession: Germany 61-39. Shots: Germany 6-3. Shorts on target: 3-1. All numbers courtesy of UEFA.
1532 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: Halftime. Portugal was impenetrable at the back and generated the best chances. It’s a very Portugal performance, and while some are saying they’re set up for a draw – well, they always set up this way, which is why so many of their recent matches have ended 0-0. Are we destined for another?
1531 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: Controversy? A corner by Portugal sees Pepe put the ball of the underside of the bar. The ball goes down and nails the line, drawing some appeals for goal from Portugal. Replays showed the ball wasn’t in … so whew?
1526 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: Germany causes some excitement with their latest threat but can’t get the ball on goal. Muller plays a ball in that comes back across for him at the right post. He shot does wide of the far post, though Portugal looked a little bit lost as Germany knocked it around. Also of note: All of Germany’s buzz-worthy moments have come from right-center out. Two opportunities for Podolski were from passes from the right. A cross to Gomez in the first minutes produced a shot, while this latest flurry came from wide right.
1521 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: It’s more of the same. Germany has the ball but they’re not doing anything with it. This isn’t quite the case of the complacent Dutch that was saw in the first game. Portugal’s midfield three is sitting deep (Miguel Veloso’s scarcely five years in front of Pepe and Bruno Alves). They’re maintaining their shape as Germany tries the left and the right. Now, you see the midfield fo Schweinsteiger and Khedira slowly creeping forward, but there don’t seem to be a lot of options for Germany.
1514 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: Germany remains in control, not that they’re coming close to scoring. Portugal’s midfield three has managed Germany’s movement well. Patricio’s gone relatively unbothered in goal, and for all their possession, Germany has yet to fin something that works in the final third.
1503 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: Fist real chance for Portugal. A ball played down the left for Ronaldo allows him to size up Jerome Boateng. A series of step overs free the right back and allow Ronaldo to go left and put a ball across the six. Nobody can get on to it, but it forces a corner, where Bruno Alves can get onto a ball played to the middle of the box.
1458 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: Germany doesn’t want to pass to Mats Hummels anymore. Holder Badstuder, in possession near the center circle, looked at his central defense partner and then though better of giving him the ball. He played it to Philipp Lahm instead, but the captain was more magnanimous. Unfortunately, Hummels was slow to the ball, allowed Helder Postiga to close him down, and them played a poorly weighted ball back to Manuel Neuer. The Germany `keeper cleared it but only under heavy pressure from Postiga. For his trouble, Postiga got carded, sliding into Neuer.
1455 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: The first glimpse of one of Germany’s most effective tactics, though it yielded only a week chance. Thomas Müller, hugging the line on the right, plays a ball across the top of the area to Lukas Podolski. Coming in from the left, the new Arsenal man doesn’t hit it right, seemingly catching it with the outside of his laces. Patricio with an easy save.
1454 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: A couple of fouls (Gomez, Muller) and a bit of a tussle between Postiga and Hummels and this game’s starting to see some life.
1449 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: Still too early to say much except Germany’s first minute was impressive. The atmosphere in this match, however, seems world’s better than the nap-inducing opener.
1446 – Germany 0-0 Portugal: The last match of the day has kicked off. Portugal going from right to left.
1442 – And, here are the teams:
Portugal: Patrício, Alves, Pepe, Coentrão, Pereira, Veloso, Moutinho, Meireles, Nani, Ronaldo, Postiga SUBS: Eduardo, Beto, Costa, Rolando, Lopes, Custódio, Quaresma, Micael, Viana, Almeida, Oliveira, Varela.
Germany: Neuer, Hummels, Badstuber, Lahm, Boateng, Khedira, Schweinsteiger, Özil, Müller, Podolski, Gomez SUBS: Wiese, Zieler, Schmelzer, Höwedes, Mertesacker, Gündoğan, Schürrle, Bender, Kroos, Götze, Reus, Klose.
Hummels does start in central defense over Mertesacker, deemed not quite ready (or good enough) to start. The rest is as expected for Germany, including Gomez starting over Klose.
1441 – The anthems are being played, and Germany-Portugal is about to start. Here’s our report from the last game.
1351 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: Final. Before I got punch out an Offshore Drilling, some numbers: Possession: Netherlands 53-47. Shots: Netherlands 28-8. Shots on target: 8-8.
1351 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: Final, and the Netherlands are in trouble. They may now need to win out to get out of group, and off the back of losing to Russia in 2008’s quarterfinal, they’ve not been upset in their last two Euro matches.
1350 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: Review of the play showed Lars Jacobsen clearly handled the ball, but the best part was Klass-Jan Huntelaar’s Michael Ballack impression, sprinting toward the official with veins popping out of his neck.
Robin van Persie just blew another good chance.
1347 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: The Dutch have anther handball shout in the penalty box, their second or third of the match. Whether it was a handball or not, it’s almost not the point. The Netherlands have again just stopped playing to appeal to the official. Rather than attack a ball that’s only nine yards from goal, they’re hoping to be bailed out.
1342 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: Dirk Kuyt, the Netherlands’ final sub, comes on for Gregory van der Wiel, who had sub-par game. The Netherlands haven’t mounted a meaningful attack in some time. Either they’re saving for one last push or are over it. Regardless, if there’s one man who can spur them on, it’s Kuyt.
1333 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: An amazing pass by Sneijder puts Huntelaar in. With the outside of his right foot (from the left), Sneijder puts Huntelaar behind the defense from 40 yards out. Huntelaar doesn’t get the ball away quickly enough and sees his shot saved by Andersen. Van Persie is there to kept collect the rebound, but the two’s hacking at Andersen bring a whistle.
It was the Netherlands’ best chance of the night, but it’s starting to look like that’s the kind of night it’s going to be.
1331 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: With the changes, the Netherlands are playing with Huntelaar as a No. 9, van Persie as a ten. Van der Vaart is in central midfield, and Welsey Sneijder’s playing to the left of center. Arjen Robben’s high on the right, with van Bommel holding.
Christian Eriksen’s off. Schøne’s on.
1328 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: Van Marwijk desperately needs to get new blood on the field. The Dutch, having not scored through that early first half push that saw them put 102 shots on goal, look discouraged. Now, in the 71st minute, the subs come on. Van der Vaart is on for de Jong, and Huntelaar is on for … Afellay? I guess it has to be that way, but he’s been good, today. But who else would you take off? A defender? You can’t right now, especially with Denmark pushing a little in the last few minutes.
1326 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: Part of the problem for the Dutch has been evident during Denmark’s last spell of possession. There is either a lack of intensity or lack of confidence in their defenders, so nobody’s challenging the Danish attackers, trying to get the ball off their feet. It would be nice of they picked it out a little. As is, the Danes are able to not only eat up some time but also create the odd chance, here forcing a corner.
1324 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: At what point does Bert van Marwijk start making changes? We’re already in the 67th minute, and the Dutch are still playing with both van Bommel and de Jong.
And as I type, ven der Vaart and Huntelaar hand in cards.
1320 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: A foul is given by Lacobsen on the charging Willems, giving Wesley Sneijder a chance to serve a ball in from the left flank, 35 yards out. His inswinger is perfectly placed at the far post, about 8-9 yards out, where John Heitenga has beaten his man. The offside flag it up, though, but Denmark needs to bea bit worried. That’s twice this half that Heitenga has been able to get up and above the rest of the Danish defense.
And as I type, a cross for Arjen Robben sees the right winger head a ball wide from about eight yards out.
1318 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: Sneijder with another good ball for Sneijder in that channel between Kjaer and Jacobsen. The Dutch seem intent on attacking there, although Kjaer does well this time, considering Jacobsen was a little up the field when Sneijder played his ball. Corner kick sees Andersen strong coming off his line to claim it.
1316 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: Klass-Jan Huntelaar, Dirk Kuyt and Rafael van der Vaart are warming up … I don’t think funny is the right word, but I’m giggling. Lightly.
1312 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: The urgency the Dutch have shown in attack hasn’t translated to the defense. An attack that starts with a long ball down the right (retrieved by Eriksen) moves left, where Simon Paulsen takes on Arjen Robben then Gregory Van der Wiel. He gets to the line, cuts a ball back, and the pass is left to die nine yards from goal even with the far post. Two players sprint for it, and Afellay clears it out for a corner.
1308 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: The Dutch seem to realize the task at hand and have already generated three good chances. One, however, begs the question: What’s wrong with Robin van Persie? A 30-yard great ball along the ground from Sneijder finds van Persie running through the left channel. Squaring up to goal he takes a horrible touch that ruins his scoring chance.
Since, the Dutch have generated another chance for van Persie, a shot by van Bommel, two opportunities for Afellay … and it looks like the Danes are in for a long 45 minutes.
1304 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: We’re back with no chances. The Dutch have 45 minutes for get their goals. Remember: They still have to face Germany. Obviously, Denmark does, too, but points lost here not only make first place difficult, it opens the door for a very capable Danish side.
1249 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: Halftime stats … Possession: Netherlands 56-44 Denmark; Shots: Netherlands 13-5 Denmark; Shots on goal: Netherlands 3-5 Denmark.
All number courtesy UEFA.
1248 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: Halftime, and although the Dutch seems to control the game, they didn’t play with any urgency until after the goal. Even then, they didn’t generate the number of chances they’re used to. But make no mistake about it: the Netherlands have had most of the chances, haven’t converted, and the Danes executed when it counted.
1244 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: Another good chance for the Dutch, and some bad defending from Denmark. A long ball from John Heitenga sees van Persie win a head down to Sneijder at the edge of the box. Van Persie peals off toward the right, and nobody follows him. Sneijder finds him, giving RvP an open chance, but he doesn’t get it out of his feet fast enough to prevent Andersen from closing down the angles.
1243 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: The Danes are coming into the match (beyond the scoreboard). For the first time since very early, the possession number has dipped below 60 percent for the Dutch. After a long spell of possession that saw Christian Eriksen and Michael Krohn-Dehli keep the Dutch defenders on their heels, Stekelenburg’s forces into a diving save.
1240 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: Ibrahim Afellay is one of three Dutch starters who weren’t part of the main XI in South Africa. He’s displaced Dirk Kuyt, and just now, he showed why. Coming in from the left, Afellay takes advantage of a lunging challenge from Daniel Agger, letting a shot go from just outside the box. If floats over the bar, but Afellay did well to wait for and take advantage of a bad choice from Denmark’s captain.
1237 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: Stephen Andersen nearly gave away Denmark’s lead. Trying to get the ball into midfield, the Danish goalkeeper didn’t see Arjen Robben. Going in on goal with only one defender to beat, Robben moves onto his left foot from 16 yards out an nails the left post.
1226 – Netherlands 0-1 Denmark: The Danes’ first meaningful chance has put them ahead. Left back Simon Poulsen is allowed the carry the ball from 40 yards out to deep along the left flank, drawing defenders. A deflected cross finds left wing Michael Krohn-Dehli just outside the box. He collects, attacks, make one move to the outside, and is in on goal. Marteen Stekelenburg comes out be sees the shot go through his legs for the opening goal.
1224 – Netherlands 0-0 Denmark: With Denmark playing so conservatively in defense, we’re seeing some of the Dutch defenders become a little more adventurous when the team’s in possession. John Heitenga was just seem lingering in midfield, providing support when Mark van Bommel went wide. In the same sequence, Gregory van der Wiel felt comfortable enough to move into the middle from his right back position.
1219 – Netherlands 0-0 Denmark: To this point, this game has been pretty dull, but the Dutch seem willing to start taking some chances. Along the right Robben is in possession. Van Persie comes over and back (35 yards out) and take a ball to feet. Robben goes on a run and comes onto a ball flicked behind the defense. Going in alone on Andersen, Robben slows up and tries to play a ball across to Sneijder. Kjaer comes back and slides onto a ball that ends in Andersen’s arms. Wasted chance.
1217 – Netherlands 0-0 Denmark: Robben gets his first chance to come in from the right onto his left foot. From 23 yards, he forces a driving stop from Stephan Andersen.
1212 – Netherlands 0-0 Denmark: That was nice, if ultimately not that dangerous. Van Persie’s about 26 yards out and curls a ball from the right toward the far post. Wesley Sneijder is making a run from midfield and barley beats Simon Kjaer but can only chest it back across the face of goal. Van Persie can’t quite get there in time.
1208 – Netherlands 0-0 Denmark: Early, van Marwijk’s switched Arjen Robben (normally RW) with Ibrahim Afellay. Going down the left, Robben creates a chance for Robin van Persie, cutting it back toward the sot. The ball seemed slightly behind RvP, who definitely didn’t have space to run onto the shot. He pushes his first chance wide of the near post.
1207 – Netherlands 0-0 Denmark: It’s a pretty tame start. The Dutch are hogging the ball, and the Danes aren’t too intent on making them share. A couple of flashes of brillance from the Oranje but nothing worth writing about. The atmosphere’s uninspiring.
1202 – Netherlands 0-0 Denmark: Nigel de Jong went 48 seconds before committing a foul. New man.
1201 – “[Player] said to interest Manchester United.”
And … we’re off.
1159 – Captains Mark van Bommel and Daniel Agger excahnge handshakes and banners. Agger survives.
1155 – Teams are coming out on the field in Kharkiv, which looks nowhere near ready to replicate the atmosphere we saw yesterday in Poland.
1146 – Another update via UEFA as we’re about 15 minutes away from kick off in Kharkiv:
David Crossan, Metalist Stadium: My Ukrainian colleague Viktor tells me one of the reasons orange is so prominent here is because the Dutch are playing all three group games in the city and as such the locals have decided to get behind them.
1129 – Here are the teams for the noon game, Netherlands-Denmark, via UEFA:
Denmark: Andersen, Kjær, Agger, S Poulsen, Jacobsen, Kvist, Eriksen, Zimling, Krohn-Dehli, Rommedahl, Bendtner SUBS: Lindegaard, Schmeichel, Bjelland, Okore, Wass, C Poulsen, Schøne, Silberbauer, J Poulsen, Kahlenberg, Pedersen, Mikkelsen.
Netherlands: Stekelenburg, Van der Wiel, Heitinga, Vlaar, Willems, Van Bommel, N De Jong, Robben, Sneijder, Afellay, Van Persie SUBS: Vorm, Krul, Mathijsen, Bouma, Boulahrouz, Schaars, Strootman, Van der Vaart, Kuyt, Huntelaar, L De Jong, Narsingh.
One note on the Netherland’s starting left back:
David Crossan, Metalist Stadium: So left-back Jetro Willems becomes the youngest ever EURO player at 18, beating Enzo Scifo’s record from 28 years ago.
1116 – Good morning. I’ll admit: I’m going to have to get used to this routine. It’s still kinda early here in Pacific time. At least, it’s early for me.
Lineups are coming in a few minutes. Picks? Though part of me wants to think the Dutch will drop points, I’d put my money on both the Netherlands and Germany getting full points today.
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WATCH: U.S. 2 Mexico 2 (Match Highlights)
By Mike PrindivilleApr 3, 2014, 7:15 AM EDT
Donning the new rocket-pop away kits, the U.S. Men’s National Team drew 2-2 with rivals Mexico in front of 59,066 fans at University of Phoenix Stadium.
The U.S. jumped out to a two goal lead in a clinical first half performance before El Tri clawed their way back into the match, pushing high up the pitch and scoring twice to end the match on level terms.
With the draw, the U.S. increased its unbeaten streak to five games (2-0-3) against Mexico.
MORE: Mexico comeback leaves U.S. drawn against rivals
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January 28, 2012 by Phil
I’ve decided, as I can’t collect my Middenheim warband quite as quickly as I’d like, I’d write a dramatis personae for the heroes to keep the plastic-crack itch at bay, but mainly because it’d be fun and kinda nice to have that background to work with once I do get my grubby little mits on the toys in question. And so I give you…The von Braun Irregulars.
Count Kaiser von Braun
Count Kaiser von Braun was once one of Middenland’s most renowned generals. Raised in the town of Grossfurre at the edge of the Mirror Moors, von Braun ventured to the City of the White Wolf in search of a life of meaning in the ranks of the Imperial Army. A natural leader and master tactician, it didn’t take long for his prowess on the battlefield to catch the attention of the Swords of Ulric and although was inducted into their ranks he found their savagery on the battlefield distasteful. He remains the only person to leave their ranks by any means other than death on the battlefield or old age. But it was this decision that would see von Braun’s meteoric ascension through the ranks catching the eye of his liege lord, the Elector Count of Middenheim. Attached to the Elector Count’s personal guard he quickly found himself at the forefront of countless battles and attending councils of war that would otherwise be closed to him. The bold nature that saw him travel through the perils of the Drakwald alone as a youth and to leave the ranks of the Swords drove him to interject a number of times during such councils. Were it not for the merit of his strategies he’d have been flogged a dozen times over.
Such was the Elector Count’s faith in von Braun’s abilities, when he became the youngest General in Middenland’s history, he was not only given his own regiment but often given operational command of the Northern armies, heading councils of war and winning countless victories. But that’s not to say that von Braun was not a man of action. Indeed once battle was joined, he was oft found where the fighting was thickest, at the head of his regiment – the von Braun Irregulars – striking down his foes with a mighty warhammer.
von Braun’s prowess on the battlefield earned him the nickname Ironhide as nothing could seemingly fell the giant man despite sustaining a score of wounds over the years, many of which were dealt saving the Elector Count’s life. However all men’s luck eventually runs out and that was no less so than with von Braun. Taking command at the great gates of Middenheim during a Chaos incursion, into the lands of the Empire, von Braun was wounded by a deamonblade almost unto death. Only his iron will kept his body alive whilst other men’s souls would have fled instantly.
Although von Braun eventually recovered he was weakened and the world had moved on without him. An upstart general had taken command of his Irregulars in his absence and wasted their lives terribly. Determined to rebuild their number and regain his strength, his liege had other ideas, deciding that von Braun had served the Empire with courage and honour and deserved to live out the remainder of his days in peace. Although von Braun argued passionately that he was still a worthy member of the Imperial army, his liege would hear none of it and decreed that von Braun would be elevated to the position of Count and be returned to Grossfurre as it’s master and protector.
Upon arrival home, von Braun discovered a town at the mercy of Beastmen raiding parties, crops that could barely feed its people and tradesmen struggling to make coin.
With members of the, now, disbanded von Braun Irregulars gravitating towards Grossfurre in search of life with renewed purpose, von Braun immediately founded the Grossfurre Militia and set them upon the Beastmen lurking within the Drakwald. It took two years for the surrounding forests to finally be rid of the vile creatures and as the raids became less the town began to prosper. Forest was felled and more land made available for farms and businesses and with it the town’s coffers swelled and tithes began to flow to Middenheim along with a parade of fit and healthy young men schooled at the training ground that now serviced the entire Mirror Moors region.
However, von Braun was a man of action and peace sat ill with him. A life of mediating petty squabbles of his townspeople and tax collection bored him and he gradually took to drink to ease the passing of days spent in an office. So when word reached Grossfurre of the calamity that befell Mordheim and the tales of glory and riches that awaited all those brave enough to sally forth into the ruins, von Braun knew that his chance to bring glory once more to Middenheim had arrived. Gathering together his finest warriors, he set off with barely a backwards glance.
Helmut Gruber
A hulking bear of a man, Helmut Gruber was a career soldier and in the first intake of men into von Braun’s Irregulars. Indeed, it was these first few fighting men who determined the regiments name as von Braun initially refused to take fresh recruits, choosing men only from regiments that were on the verge of disbanding due to casualties. As such every man jack of them were seasoned veterans from all over Middenhim, each with their combat experience and fighting style. The result on the field was devastating as no opposing general could accurately predict how the enemy units before him would respond to a charge. Helmut Gruber was one such veteran. Skilled with a bolas, Gruber was able to collapse enemy charges by felling unit champions and thus tripping those behind them, allowing Gruber to dispatch his foes with mighty swings of his ancient warhammer. A gift from his father and his father before, all the way back to an ancient ancestor who was honoured to a part of the White Wolf bodyguard for the Warrior God Sigmar. So the story goes, Sigmar forged hammers for each of his bodyguard as a symbol of the trust he shared with them.
It seems that protecting others is in the blood as von Braun’s predisposition for getting himself into some close scrapes lead to Helmut Gruber saving his general from many a grizzly death with a tell timed throw of his bolas or swing of his hammer. Although merely a sergeant, Gruber found himself forming a firm friendship with his commanding officer and was elevated to be his personal bodyguard. An imposing figure, it would only take a stern glance from Gruber to quell any agitator from saying the wrong thing or straying too close to von Braun. And if that didn’t work, hefting his gold capped warhammer usually did.
Much like von Braun, Helmut Gruber spent his entire life at war and was with von Braun at the gates of Middenheim when he was dealt the fateful blow. An injury that would lead to von Braun retirement and the Irregulars put in the hands of a fool. Gruber places the blame squarely on his own shoulders as he believes he failed in his duty to protect the General, despite being overrun himself with foul creatures of Chaos. The fact that either of them escaped alive from that section of the wall was surely only through the blessings of Ulric.
Following the von Braun Irregular’s disbanding, after the Disaster at Hangman’s Wood in Nordland, Gruber was unable to settle into civilian life despite being reunited with his wife and children after years apart. Vowing to make amends for the ill fate that he had brought upon the Irregulars and their former commander, he left his family and headed South for Grossefurre. Ulric, it seemed, had touched the souls of others as, as he journeyed South, he stumbled across former comrades also heading South for Grossefurre eager to have purpose in their lives once more.
When the rag-tag group of warriors entered the towns walls von Braun met them all as brothers and immediately formed them into the towns militia with Helmut Gruber at its head. Although deeply humbled by the honour, he accepted the position but none of the trappings that came with the title. Accepting only simple lodgings and food to sustain him, Gruber was determined to make amends for his failing by any means.
It was no surprise, then, when word reached Grossefurre of Mordheim’s fate that he immediately volunteered to accompany von Braun on his adventure, hoping to seek a glorious death in defence of his friend and master as only then will honour and Ulric would be satisfied.
Heidi von Braun
Kaiser von Braun fathered Heidi with a young widow of a Northern land baron, during a rare stint of leave. Although overjoyed when news reached von Braun he was to be a father, he made it clear that he would not play a part in his child’s life. He was a solider and duty left little room for family not to mention the fact that death was an ever-present companion and peril. He vowed to send a portion of his pay to the child’s mother so they need never be without, and with it letters detailing his adventures across the Empire and beyond so although they may never meet his child would know that he was a good man and his absence was for a noble reason.
As a result, Heidi von Braun grew up with a head full of adventures. Her father’s money was wasted as she consistently failed to attend her tutorials with private scholars, far happier to wander into the wilderness armed with a home-made spear and short bow. Countless times she was returned to her mother’s bosom at the hands of an Imperial patrol who had found her attempting to, and in most cases succeeding, slay a goblin or ungor. By the time she reached her teenage years, Heidi was a skilled hunter, an expert marksmen and adept with a blade. Helped in no small part by using her feminine charms on a number of local free company.
When her mother passed away suddenly of pneumonia she sought out her father in the hope of living the life of adventure she’d always dreamed. The reality was quite different. Granted an audience with von Braun she was horrified to discover the powerful man she’d always imagined, was now a drunk who had all but lost all zest for life. With nowhere else to go she resigned herself to honing her skills in the Drakwalds before travelling to Marienburg to sell her services as a mercenary.
In many ways, Heidi’s arrival brought von Braun back from the edge of the abyss as more and more of his time was taken up either attempting to school her and when she failed to turn up, seeking her out in the darkest parts of the Drakwalds. Heidi was also forced to re-evaluate her father when he single-handedly saved her as she fought for her life against three bestigors who had ambushed her whilst on a hunt. There was no denying that the overweight man was still a powerful and skilled warrior. von Braun too had to admit that Heidi was a capable warrior and resigned himself to rather than teaching her things that would set her up for marriage and a life of peace, he would teach her warcraft instead.
However, when news reached von Braun of Mordheim and with it rumours of great treasures and rare stones his mind was made up instantly. Heidi begged her father to let her go with him and had it been an other expedition he might of relented but he’d also heard other rumours. Tales of foul creatures, daemons cavorting in the streets and atrocities committed on men and women alike. Although he couldn’t stop his daughter from becoming a warrior, he could protect her from the horrors that awaited in the City of the Damned. Unbeknown to von Braun, however, Heidi was an expert tracker and setting off two days after him, she soon had his trail and was following him all the way to Mordheim and glory.
Ana Vass – Lady in Waiting
Ana Vass had led an unremarkable life prior to Heidi von Braun’s arrival. As with all women of Middenland she was hardy and skilled with a sword, but her lot in life was little more than darning socks and repairing slacks for her father and twelve brothers as they worked the land and hunted. When Kaiser von Braun arrived and moved into the long abandoned manor on the edge of the town she went there in search of work. Life for Ana wasn’t much more exciting within the walls of the Manor but it gave her a wage, she was free to use the manors library and was granted leave to explore outside pursuits. When his daughter arrived in Grossefurre Count von Braun assigned Ana to her daughter as lady in waiting. Wherever his daughter went she was to follow. As much to report back to him any transgressions as much to assist his daughter.
However, Heidi’s penchant for exploration and tendency to get herself into life threatening situations meant that within days of meeting the von Braun daughter Ana had killed an ungor that sought to attack Heidi whilst she did battle with its herd brother. Grudgingly impressed by Ana, Heidi began covertly teaching her sword craft. This was as much for Heidi’s survival as it was for Ana’s as Heidi identifying the benefits of having an able companion, even if she was on her father’s employment.
Ana’s abilities quickly grew through Heidi’s teachings and from watching the men train in the militia barracks that Count von Braun had ordered built in the years since coming to the town. Although Heidi was unparalleled with a spear and black powder weapons, Ana was adept with twin short swords and her smaller frame and greater agility meant that she was one of the few that could get past Heidi’s guard. Despite the social gulf between them they became friends and their excursions into the forest became ever more frequent and daring even to the point when Count von Braun has had to come to their aid.
When Heidi made her decision to follow her father, Ana had preempted the lady’s wishes and already her things ready, along with her own. Heidi initially refused to allow Ana to come but realised that she, like Heidi herself, would simply follow her anyway she relented, realising that a companion on such a treacherous journey would be no bad thing.
Erasmus Klocke
A hot-headed but capable warrior, Erasmus Klocke was a ferocious man both on and off the battle. Despite being a capable tactician, his overly pious nature meant that he never rose beyond the rank and file in no small part to his consist admonishment of the men in his unit him for their lack of faith in Sigmar. And in Middenheim such talk sat ill. Were it not for his prowess in a fight he probably would have been met with an ‘accident’.
When the von Braun Irregulars disbanded Klocke wandered Middenland offering his services as both preacher and blacksmith in exchange for food and lodging. Klocke believed that manual labour regardless of one’s higher calling kept the soul pure and grounded, far away from the lofty dillusions of grandeur that befalls so many men. Eventually his travels brought him to Grossefurre and was elated to find many of his old comrades in a uniform startlingly similar to that of their old regiment.
When Erasmus Klocke was presented to von Braun by Helmut Gruber, he was saddened to see what had become of old Ironhide and instantly knew that coming to Grossefurre was Sigmar’s will. Despite von Braun’s better judgement he allowed the self-appointed warrior priest to stay within the town and the zealot immediately set about constructing a temple to Sigmar and a smithy, within which he forged himself two new hammers one named Kampf the other Glauben. With these hammers in his hands he’d preach to the masses of the virtues of sacrifice and duty, always keeping one eye on the door to see if von Braun would return to his true path. Every day, when von Braun failed to show, Klocke would walk across town to the manor and enter von Braun’s offices and ask his former General if he had anything to confess. And every day he got the same answer; Many things, priest, but not today.
It was this simple act of charity towards von Braun that no doubt kept Klocke from having any unfortunate accidents whenever he dumped into his former brothers in arms. Although Kampf and Glauben were always within reach should they need reminding of his martial abilities.
When von Braun announced his intention to travel to Mordheim Klocke insisted on coming. To the surprise of the entire party von Braun immediately agreed claiming that his abilities as a warrior and a smithy would be invaluable to the expedition but with a wry smile Klocke accepted his place knowing full well that before the end he would hear von Braun’s confession.
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Dan January 7, 2021 Alabama, Industry News Release, USDA-FSA
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(USDA/FSA) — Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 13 Alabama counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Autauga, Cherokee, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Elmore, Lowndes, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, Washington and Wilcox counties who suffered losses caused by Hurricane Zeta that occurred from October 28 through October 29, 2020, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
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According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, a life-threatening storm surge is expected along portions of the northern Gulf Coast beginning later today, with the highest inundation occurring between Port Fourchon, Louisiana, and Dauphin Island, Alabama.
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A Genealogy of the Returned Exiles
1So all Israel was recorded in genealogies, and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their breach of faith. 2Now the first to dwell again in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants. 3And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem: 4Uthai the son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, from the sons of Perez the son of Judah. 5And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons. 6Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their kinsmen, 690. 7Of the Benjaminites: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Hodaviah, son of Hassenuah, 8Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, Elah the son of Uzzi, son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah; 9and their kinsmen according to their generations, 956. All these were heads of fathers' houses according to their fathers' houses.
10Of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin, 11and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, the chief officer of the house of God; 12and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer; 13besides their kinsmen, heads of their fathers' houses, 1,760, mighty men for the work of the service of the house of God.
14Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; 15and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zichri, son of Asaph; 16and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
17The gatekeepers were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their kinsmen (Shallum was the chief); 18until then they were in the king's gate on the east side as the gatekeepers of the camps of the Levites. 19Shallum the son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of his fathers' house, the Korahites, were in charge of the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, as their fathers had been in charge of the camp of the Lord, keepers of the entrance. 20And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the chief officer over them in time past; the Lord was with him. 21Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 22All these, who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds, were 212. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. David and Samuel the seer established them in their office of trust. 23So they and their sons were in charge of the gates of the house of the Lord, that is, the house of the tent, as guards. 24The gatekeepers were on the four sides, east, west, north, and south. 25And their kinsmen who were in their villages were obligated to come in every seven days, in turn, to be with these, 26for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted to be over the chambers and the treasures of the house of God. 27And they lodged around the house of God, for on them lay the duty of watching, and they had charge of opening it every morning.
28Some of them had charge of the utensils of service, for they were required to count them when they were brought in and taken out. 29Others of them were appointed over the furniture and over all the holy utensils, also over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the incense, and the spices. 30Others, of the sons of the priests, prepared the mixing of the spices, 31and Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with making the flat cakes. 32Also some of their kinsmen of the Kohathites had charge of the showbread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
33Now these, the singers, the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, were in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night. 34These were heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, according to their generations, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem.
Saul's Genealogy Repeated
35In Gibeon lived the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, and the name of his wife was Maacah, 36and his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab, 37Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth; 38and Mikloth was the father of Shimeam; and these also lived opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen. 39Ner fathered Kish, Kish fathered Saul, Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal. 40And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal, and Merib-baal fathered Micah. 41The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.
Compare 8:35; Hebrew lacks and Ahaz
42And Ahaz fathered Jarah, and Jarah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. And Zimri fathered Moza. 43Moza fathered Binea, and Rephaiah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. 44Azel had six sons and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan; these were the sons of Azel.
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Home NFL Dallas Cowboys – Jason Garrett Finding New Ways to Lose
Dallas Cowboys – Jason Garrett Finding New Ways to Lose
Ehud Riven
Eventually, it came down to Dez Bryant not making a catch, dropping yet another pass. For once, most of the blame won’t go to Tony Romo, who along with all of the Dallas Cowboys, should be feeling good about themselves despite the 31-29 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
When it comes down to it, you can use the magnifying glass and take a closer look at three issues that lost the Cowboys the game. Dropped passes, with Dez Bryant reaching 7 on the season, 3 on the day, allowing Jacoby Jones to return a kickoff 108 yards (tying an NFL record) and terrible clock management from Jason Garrett, Tony Romo and the offensive line.
For once, it was actually a good game for the guys protecting Romo. A lot of two tight end looks allowed for the Cowboys to establish a running game early, as DeMarco Murray, later leaving the field with another injury, ran for 93 yards. Felix Jones had 92 and a touchdown. The Ravnes allowed a franchise-record 227 yards. Dallas have over 40 minutes of possession, somehow finding ways not to win the game.
There were the penalties – 15 of them, 6 in the fourth quarter alone. Dallas entered the day having committed 4 penalties per game in the 4th quarter this season, most in the NFL. Some of them were bad officiating, which was extremely poor throughout the game, mostly against Dallas, but the Cowboys got that touchdown on the penultimate drive, and eventually fell to a dropped pass on the two point conversion.
That left them with the onside kick to save the day, and they somehow managed to get it, despite the terrible odds against the onside kick move this season in the NFL. The Baltimore Ravens made the mistake of having the first line of returners forget about blocking and trying to retrieve the ball. The second line needs to retrieve, the first to block.
But the Cowboys’ final drive was a mess. The same issue of barely getting the play off on time wasted the Cowboys a last opportunity to try and give Dan Bailey decent field position for a field goal. Instead, they wasted it on arguing, not deciding if to take a timeout or spike the ball or try a quick no huddle. Instead they wasted the time on the clock and called a timeout with 6 second left, giving Dan Bailey a chance to win it from 51 yards. His kick swerved slightly to the left, and the Cowboys lost a game they should have won.
There was plenty of good things to take from this game – An offensive line that’s not disciplined, but finally able to produce some solid protection for its quarterback and create a running game on the outside, mostly thanks to Tyron Smith, adjusting to his new role as left tackle.
In the very shaky NFC East, it looks like the Giants are just a tad ahead of the rest. The Cowboys have the talent and tools to be a force in the division and make the playoffs despite the 2-3 start. They just need to get Romo, Garrett and the offensive line to stay on the same page for an entire game.
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Barring a last-minute change of plan, the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF has given Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, “one-week” notice to sign a new contract with the federation, Bestchoicesports.com.ng reports.
The ‘directive’ was part of resolutions reached during a video conference meeting held by the executive committee of the federation on Thursday, 14 May 2020.
During the meeting, the committee received an interim report of the NFF team led by its President to recent meetings with the Federation’s Partners and Sponsors noting that consultations are ongoing and the NFF President is expected to brief the Board on further developments at its next meeting.
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The Executive Committee mandated the “General Secretary to liaise with the Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Mr. Gernot Rohr with a view to concluding all matters around Mr. Rohr’s new contract within the next one week.,” it stated.
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New F-35 Upgrades to Cost $3.9 Billion, Government Watchdog Says
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Proposed plans to modernize the F-35 joint strike fighter program would need almost $4 billion of new funding, according to a government review of Defense Department policies.
The first wave of proposed F-35 modernization plans "is projected to be over $3.9 billion through 2022, which would exceed the statutory and regulatory thresholds for what constitutes a major acquisitions program and would make it more expensive than many of the other major acquisitions defense programs already in [the Pentagon’s] portfolio," the Government Accountability report, released this week, said.
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The US Government Accountability Office’s latest report on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program indicates the DoD’s plans reflect an incremental approach. "The research, development, test and evaluation funding needed for the first modernization phase, known as Block 4, is projected to be over $3.9 billion through 2022," says the report on DoD’s follow-on modernization purchasing strategy for the F-35.
The joint strike fighter is the most expensive weapons program in US history at $1.4 trillion. Last month, an internal government report indicated acquisition costs jumped from $379 billion to $406.5 billion.
The Defense Department is expected to ask Congress to authorize modernization funds in February 2018, the report notes.
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Snow Job: Giant Pumped Hydro Scheme Set to Destroy Australia’s Favourite National Park
May 21, 2020 by stopthesethings 7 Comments
Future generations will wonder why this one destroyed the planet, while claiming to save it, using completely useless industrial wind turbines and solar panels.
Whether it’s dumping hundreds of thousands of toxic solar panels and windmill blades into landfill, or the toxic lakes in China where the rare earths are processed that make them, the so-called ‘green’ energy revolution is anything but.
Touted by ex-PM Malcom Turnbull and his hapless sidekick, Josh Frydenberg as the Nation’s mega-battery, the heavily-hyped Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme (shelved in the 1970s because it was uneconomic then) has been heralded as the saviour for the Australian wind industry.
The line goes something like this: if we use 3 MWh of wind power to pump water through 27 km of tunnels, over an elevation of 900m, later, when power consumers actually need it, Snowy Hydro could return 2 MWh to the grid.
Never mind squandering 1/4 to 1/3 of the electricity originally generated; never mind that with the inclusion of the $85 per MWh REC the cost of the wind power involved exceeds $110 per MWh; never mind that the owners of Snowy 2.0 will charge a further $150-300 per MWh to re-deliver power to the grid; never mind that, in reality, the power used to pump the water uphill will largely come from coal-fired power plants, delivered overnight when it’s cheapest.
STT has, of course, focused on the economic nonsense outlined above, whereas those charged with protecting Australia’s favourite National Park, Kosciuszko, are more concerned about the wholesale destruction about to be meted out across a pristine alpine environment by a completely pointless project.
Snowy 2.0: it’s all downhill
Gary Dunnett
The Snowy Mountains Scheme stands head and shoulders above every nation-building project in Australia, with the possible exceptions of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House.
It shouldn’t be any surprise that in 2017 Malcolm Turnbull, the prime minister at the time, responded to Snowy Hydro’s pitch for the Snowy 2.0 project by announcing this “electricity game changer”. All it needed was a new tunnel and underground power station between two existing reservoirs, costing $2bn and taking just four years to construct.
The project would deliver massive storage to counteract the intermittency of renewable generators, it would be constructed wholly underground with negligible environmental impacts, and it would launch a new chapter in the nation-building story of the Snowy Mountains.
Australians respect leaders of vision. We also expect their projects to be subject to detailed evaluation of the claimed costs and outcomes. In the case of Snowy 2.0, that takes the form of four environmental impact statements.
The reality that has emerged since the public exhibition of the main works EIS is wildly different to the vision for a low environmental impact electricity game changer. The National Parks Association of NSW, along with a group of environmental, energy and economic experts, has been scrutinising Snowy Hydro’s claims and has concluded that they just don’t stack up.
Far from having a negligible impact on Kosciuszko National Park, Snowy 2.0 would demolish hundreds of hectares of threatened species habitat; drive the stocky galaxias, a native fish, into extinction; spread the declared noxious pest redfin perch and the virulent EHN virus throughout the headwaters of major river catchments (Murrumbidgee, Snowy and Murray); depress groundwater and stream flows above the tunnel; and dump 20 million tonnes of excavated soil, contaminated with asbestos and acid-forming rock, into Kosciuszko National Park.
Snowy Hydro has downplayed the significance of these costs, offering the assurance that only a small percentage of the park would be destroyed. The reality is that Snowy 2.0 is the largest, most destructive development proposed in an Australian national park, let alone one as irreplaceable as the National Heritage-listed Kosciuszko.
On the benefits side of the ledger, Snowy Hydro claims Snowy 2.0 will enable the transition to a carbon-neutral future. The implication is that the development’s contribution to emissions control justifies sacrificing the park.
Do these claims stack up? Not according to the experts who have analysed the claimed contributions of Snowy 2.0 to the National Electricity Market and the transition to renewals. They point out that the amount of energy storage provided by Snowy 2.0 isn’t needed until 2030. The Snowy Scheme already has significant capacity through the Tumut 3 pumped storage station, which has barely run since it was constructed a half-century ago. Surely this untapped capacity should be used first?
Far from drawing on “excess” renewable energy, Snowy 2.0 would draw most of its pumping energy from coal-fired power stations while they remain in the system. Rather than reducing emissions, Snowy 2.0 would incur more than 50 million tonnes of greenhouse gases from its construction and first decade of operation.
Even when there is no coal-fired power on the system, is it ideal to have a single massive storage in a remote part of NSW? The best location for storage is at the point of generation or as close as possible to consumers. This is why most renewable projects are incorporating on-site batteries. Likewise, the spread of domestic batteries points to a more distributed model for storage, which in combination with the rollout of demand management systems largely negates the need for a large-scale storage.
Who knows what storage solutions will be available in a decade or two? What is clear is that the world is turning away from pumped hydro, with demand management, batteries and potentially renewable hydrogen the current predictions for low environmental cost mass storage.
A fundamental problem for Snowy 2.0 is that it is less efficient than alternative storage options, losing about 40 per cent of energy cycled. That inefficiency is built into Snowy 2.0, a function of the water friction losses along the 27km tunnel between reservoirs, the longest in the world, and the high transmission losses because of its excessive distance from source generators and consumers. There are cheaper, more efficient, less polluting and less environmentally damaging storage alternatives, even within the Snowy Scheme.
The conclusion is unavoidable. Snowy 2.0 is not a necessary evil to be inflicted on Kosciuszko National Park for the sake of reduced national greenhouse emissions.
On the contrary, Snowy 2.0 emerges as an environmentally damaging, inefficient, unnecessary and polluting project that incurs excessive costs while offering little benefit — a white elephant of monumental scale.
Approving the destruction of so much of Kosciuszko National Park for a phantasmic environmental benefit would be perverse. Our alpine icon is suffering from the abuses of past development, feral pests and the ravages of the recent fires.
NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes needs to give Kosciuszko a chance to recover, not deliver another assault.
Gary Dunnett, Executive Officer, National Parks Association of NSW
As chief of the National Parks Association NSW, Gary Dunnett might know a thing or two about Australia’s High Country, but he displays a staggering level of ignorance when it comes to his claims about storing electricity.
Apart from pumped hydro, the other purported solution to the chaos delivered by wind and solar is said to be giant lithium-ion batteries, of the kind peddled by Elon Musk.
The reefer-smoking, Californian carpetbagger managed to offload one unit in wind power obsessed, South Australia, collected $150 million, and was never seen again. That costly little Vanity Project is capable of powering Australia’s renewable energy capital for all of four minutes.
As STT has been pointing out for some time now, the concept of grid-scale battery storage is just that: a concept.
There is no industrial scale electricity storage system using batteries operating anywhere in the world: not in that high-tech leader, the USA; nor in Europe’s wind power capital, Denmark; nor in that wind and solar power champion, Germany.
For want of a better term, grid-scale battery storage is a ‘myth’.
The capacity of the few batteries that have been installed next to wind or solar projects is utterly trivial in the grand scheme of things. And domestic battery storage is even less significant.
His claims about hydrogen being converted from fossil fuels – coal or methane – using mountains of electricity, stored and then used at some later time at a vaguely economic cost is even more fanciful. Sure, at a technical level, it can probably be done, but the cost of the power generated would be astronomical.
If Gary Dunnett wants to protect his beloved Kosciuszko National Park and have reliable, affordable power that does not generate carbon dioxide gas in the process, he ought to be talking about nuclear power and nothing else.
In the wash up, it seems to us that Dunnett is just another NIMBY, who is all in favour of renewable energy, right up to the point where it’s about to land on his doorstep.
Filed Under: Australia, Australia's renewable energy target, Batteries, Big wind industry, Big wind politics, Environmental costs, Pumped hydro Tagged With: Australia's energy crisis, Battery storage renewables, Cost of Snowy 2.0, Hydrogen renewables, Kosciuszko National Park, Kosciuszko National Park Snowy 2.0, Snowy 2.0 environmental harm, Snowy 2.0 environmental impact, Snowy 2.0 Malcolm Turnbull, Snowy 2.0 National Park, Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro
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Rudolf Huber says:
Just imagine an oil or gas operation would destroy an entire valley down to the last bug. The world would be up in arms – there would be screams for justice in every world capital and there would be televised justice. Rightly so. But when a project that the Green Industrial Complex deems essential destroys an entire valley or razes ancient forests, thats just OK. The world needs this. The hypocrisy is vomit-inducing.
Crispin bpm says:
As Australia dilly-dallies on energy policy, the coal trains continue. How much longer can the government ignore this simple fact?
Build some new HELE coal plants!
It is simply hypocritical to export coal whilst refusing to use it ourselves.
It makes no sense!
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Champ says:
I would love some journalist to find out how much turnbull and his pathetic excuse for a son stand to benefit from investment in renewables that are now going ahead thanks to his snowy 2.0 push..
Indeed. You might start by sending this to every journo you think has some understanding of the RE scam
https://stopthesethings.com/2017/03/13/born-lucky-stars-align-perfectly-for-pms-son-with-mammoth-bet-on-wind-power-outfit-infigen/
Bill Quinn says:
Reading the blurb put out by the CEFC it appears that Turnbull and Son through Nexif and Infigen have pocketed in excess of $400 Million of Taxpayers hard earned cash for their RE Boondoggles. Whenever I try to post this well hidden information in the paper supposedly for the Informed Australians my posts get immediately binned, although I did get 1 past a while ago setting this most disgusting inside Fraud on the Country. The tentacles of the Miserable Ghost still seem to spread far and wide although by observing the Data at that wonderful website aneroid.com it can be seen that Dear Little Alex does not seem to be able to get much more than 20% of the rated power out put of his Lincoln Gap Windfarm on windy days. Maybe Angus Taylor is doing a better job than most give him credit for.
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Man Secretly Marries 3 Women, Gets Them to Stay 1km From Each Other For His Convenience
Amira Adibah
Source: Daily Mail & News Ghana
Three wives in three years without getting busted by the authorities? This guy sure knows how to keep a low profile!
A man in China reportedly married three women within three years and arranged for them to live within close proximity to each other. He has been taken to court after his wives discovered each other.
The 36-year-old man, Zhang from Henan somehow managed to tie the knot three times from 2015 to 2016 to three different women as he manipulated the system by marrying each of them in different provinces, as reported by Shanghaiist.
Source: Daily Mail
Apparently, the multiple marriages were undetected as the civil affairs authorities of different provinces are not under the same database, according to Daily Mail.
Zhang then mentioned how he was unaware that it was illegal to be married to more than one woman at once.
For his own convenience, Zhang, a real estate company owner, decided to get apartments for his three wives that were all within a kilometre radius. Zhang married his first wife in 2015 and met his other two wives when they were looking for property and got in touch with him.
Zhang would make trips back and forth between households and got away with being absent from home on many occasions by claiming that he was on business trips when he was really just with one of the other wives.
He has fathered at least one child from each wife and is able to support all three families due to his real estate business.
Zhang’s second wife started being suspicious of her husband after reading his texts with another woman. She followed him on his ‘business trips’ and discovered his first wife who lives nearby at a residential area.
She also discovered his third wife, who was pregnant with his child, after texting an unknown number that was constantly calling him, as reported by Daily Mail.
His second and third wives told the reporters that he was still a good husband, with the second wife claiming he that he was “caring and considerate” before saying he would help her wash the dishes after dinner.
However, they still reported him to the police after finding out his secret in March last year. His first marriage was the only one that was legal, but she has now divorced him.
“After I get out, I will see who can forgive me and I will be with her,” Zhaing told reporters, according to Shanghaiist.
Zhang has been charged with bigamy last November and will be taken to court. He could be sentenced up to two years in jail, if convicted.
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What Is Your Alter Ego Language?
by Ayaan Ali
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Alter Ego is defined as an alternative self that is different from the actual person. It doesn’t mean that they will be completely different, though they could be, they will be different significant enough to call them as a different personality. You could see them in many of the literary works where you could find the alternate self of the author, through his description of the key characters in the story. You could also tell them as your best friend.
It is said that this term was coined by a Roman philosopher known as Cicero. The existence of another self was fully described in the 18th century when Anton Mesmer who was a German doctor used hypnosis to separate alter ego of a person from his real self. He through his experiments proved that people might behave differently from their hypnotic state. He often found that people were completely different from what they generally show to the world. While he also said that it is very hard for the other person to find they’re alter ego for themselves. It requires a great level of introspection and to look beyond our ego to realize that there exists a completely different personality within us.
The aforementioned concept sounds very amusing and it has been adopted in many of the famous literary works. The most famous one being the Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. It basically says that there are two personalities within ourselves. One is good and the other is bad and they are constantly in war with each other. Who will win is always in our hands. They have become so famous that they have become synonymous with a split personality and alter ego. Other famous works are The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and an Indian Malayalam film Ustaad.
It is one of the interesting concepts in the field of psychology and many researchers had dedicated their entire life to know more about alter ego and split personality. If we look at it from a scientific perspective then you will realize that science is still at a very premature stage to understand the workings of the brain and so we can’t expect science to give concrete answers about these complex psychological problems.
“Nice words and nice appearance doesn’t conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.”
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“If you really want to be different, you’d better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.”
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“Well,” Mr. Cheeseman interjected. “Perhaps there’s an easy solution to this. Maybe Captain Fabulous has an alter ego.”
“What’s an alter ego?” asked Gerard.
“It’s a superhero’s true but secret identity,” said Chip. “You know, the way that Superman is really Clark Kent.” “Superman is really Clark Kent?”
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Vegan Influencers Launch Limited-Edition ‘PETA x Delikate Rayne’ Faux-Suede Cap
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Los Angeles – Vegan stars and influencers Mýa, Evanna Lynch, DΔWN, Daniella Monet, Harley Quinn Smith, Cammie Scott, Yovana Mendoza, Jenné Claiborne, and Renee Olstead have teamed up with PETA and Meg and Komie Vora of Los Angeles womenswear brand Delikate Rayne for a new vegan fashion campaign that urges both consumers and businesses to consider the animals who are exploited and killed for fashion—and change the game.
The campaign features a new video in which the women share the reasons why they choose vegan leather, faux fur, wool-free knits, and other animal-friendly fabrics—and why they encourage their combined 8 million followers to do the same. The campaign also includes a limited-edition PETA x Delikate Rayne faux-suede cap, 20 percent of the proceeds of which will go toward PETA’s lifesaving work for animals.
R&B singer Mýa says, “The true test of any nation is how it treats its innocent beings, and animals obviously fall into the category.” Harry Potter actor Lynch agrees: “I remember as a teenager, going shopping for purses and… someone trying to sell [one] to me as genuinely leather as if that was a good thing. I was, like, but isn’t leather somebody’s skin?” Musician DΔWN is hopeful about the change that constructive dialog can bring: “We don’t have to agree, but the conversation needs to be had, and I think we weren’t even having the conversation before. That’s changing.”
The PETA x Delikate Rayne collaboration launches on the heels of the passage of a ban on fur sales in Los Angeles; announcements by major designers such as Coach, Burberry, Gucci, and Diane von Furstenburg that they’re going fur-free; and pledges by hundreds of retailers—including Topshop, H&M, and Gap—to stop using mohair and angora wool.
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Gerard Baden-Clay, “False Pretender” – Murderer – Found GUILTY (New Posters Welcome)
Baden-Clay has been exposed as an egocentric sybarite obsessed with his own indulgences; a man who paid scant regard to the emotional damage he inflicted on those he claimed to love.
He is not a man for whom remorse and repentance are a priority. Instead, Baden-Clay is driven by self-interest. The great tragedy is that the victim of his unbridled selfishness not only paid the ultimate price for her generosity of spirit and attempts to rebuild the family unit, but also has had her memory dragged through the mud by a guilty man increasingly desperate to cover his tracks.
Killer Gerard Baden-Clay captured on a security camera in the back of the police van transporting him to prison after his conviction yesterday. Picture: Peter Wallis
Detectives discovered that, far from the family man he pretended to be, Baden-Clay was a serial womaniser with his profile on a swingers’ internet site and a series of affairs. Allison left the mark of guilt on his face. As Allison Baden-Clay fought for her life, with her left hand she scratched her husband Gerard’s right cheek. Allison had been on the ground at the back of the carport, next to the couple’s silver Holden Captiva. The Holden Captiva where police found Allison’s blood in the boot, along a plastic trim. A blonde hair was found in the dried blood.
Source: http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/toni-mchugh-talks-about-love-affair-with-gerard-badenclay-in-60-minutes-interview-with-tara-brown/story-fnii5s41-1226990589761?nk=dae0ac4cbb8222d822eafa6db37b5f9a
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Two years ago the moment I saw the notorious TV interview with GBC and OW, I KNEW that this guy was lying and that we would sadly never see Allison alive again. The body language was so obvious to me he might as well have had an “I killed her” notice pasted to his forehead. He radiated evil, very difficult to explain such an awareness in a logical way.
The feeling of utter revulsion about what he had done, even though I did not know the specifics then, caused me to follow this case since that day. Thanks to Moonlight and everyone else here with whom I have been able to share part of this journey.
Unfortunately today on the day we have all been waiting for so very long, the day that justice was finally served for Allison, I had commitments that prevented me from being online. But I did of course hear the news and I am overjoyed that the jury did reach the right verdict.
It will not bring Allison back, but a very callous, evil man has been unmasked and has been stopped from ruining any further lives by cunning deception and manipulation.
I have a feeling there may have been more complicity from one or more ‘others’ than what has been admitted to at this point. Time will tell…
RIP Allison!!! You were very much loved and appreciated. You have always been and your memory will always be like a ray of sunshine!
I agree, the moment that brought many of us together, the interview with GBC whereas he lied his dead and evil heart out.
We all had this collective feeling that he was going to get away with murder, and we grouped together, out of care for Allison.
My darling horse who took me looking for Allison died last year. RIP my beautiful boy.
And good for you Moonlight, with your kind and caring heart. You have never wavered in this case, have spent hours too countless to mention in keeping justice for Allison alive. That you were part of the search for Allison speaks volumes of who you are. I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your beloved horse.
May history record that Moonlight’s beloved horse was part of the search team for Allison Dickie Baden Clay.
May his beautiful horse soul rest in peace.
As I recall this horse wanted to head in the “right” direction all along, having instructutions “We are looking for Allison.”
A very special life.
Hugs from Moonlight to the police – thank you.
Ahh Moonlight I am so sorry to hear about your boy!!! Hold on to hose precious memories you have of him! He still lives – in your heart. xx
I’m so sorry to hear about your beloved horse, Moonlight. When did this happen?
Thank you, melbomartin. He died on the 27th August, 2013.
My sympathies – a beloved animal companion is a joy.
Thank you so much, melbomartin, he was a joy and came to us having been mistreated, he was flighty and worried about everyone. I miss him terribly.
Thank you, RIP, he was one of those rare souls, very sensitive and very beautiful.
Sounds like you were soul mates!! xx
It does make you wonder sometimes if some defence lawyers are at all ethical or they just take on a case for the sake of the money. I suspect that some will do whatever it takes to defend a client even if they believe their client is guilty.
It appears that even one of GBCs expert witnesses, the toxicologist who said that medications that Allison had taken could have had negative side effects resulting in confusion and unpredictable behaviour, was once indicted as co-conspirator for murder in a case in the USA. So that’s the best GBCs team could do to find a toxicologist who would want to speak up for GBC.
http://www.smh.com.au/queensland/badenclay-witness-once-coconspirator-in-us-killing-20140715-zt7xu.html
I am more and more in awe of the work that was done by Crown prosecutor Todd Fuller and the jury for seeing through the many lies and deceptions that GBC put up.
G’day Dan , thanks for that link ….
You’re all probably aware of my dislike of lawyers and Dan’s link is yet another example of just how low they sink to try and free the guilty.
I wonder if the Honorable (now there’s an oxymoron) Mr Byrne and Dr Robertson would like to join us here and explain to the Baden Clay Girls why the pair of them attempted to taint not only their mothers name but gave a testimony of untruths …
Reading Dr Robertson’s history one would never trust him but more so Mr Byrne who would have been proud to see a wife killer released to bring up 3 children who’s Mum’s life he snuffed out.
Adjectives evade me to describe just how low this pathetic poor excuse for a human is and how low he will stoop and for what ??
Does he get enjoyment placing absolute scum back into situations where they can again ruin more lives ? Is it for money ? Does he think it’s a game ?
Personally I think he should be struck off and never again allowed to ply his slime trade in an attempt to send another murderer back into mainstream Australia to hurt once again.
Sorry to rant , but he (Mr Byrne) is no better than the proven wife killer GBC is .
To all you good folk who for two long years fought for Justice for Allison I cant imagine how you and I would be today if Mr Byrne and his band of merry liars had not been exposed and the jury given the truth. I can tell you now , we’d be a devastated and broken group … however thanks to many many individuals and groups justice has been served.
This is not over yet , you can see it in the faces and voices of the cops , they will be like a mob of Jack Russell’s and they’ll never let go until they are satisfied they can do no more.
Seeing Det Ainsworth sniffing about give me hope others will be exposed for their part in helping Gerard attempt to cover his trail.
I feel EXACTLY the same Mike, and can not say it any better!! I find it repulsive that such despicable behaviour can be allowed in the name of justice!! It’s bad enough that Gerard and his family participated in a vile yet unsuccessful attempt at character assassination. But to see someone supposed to uphold the law do so was terrible.
Things we didn’t know – INSIDE THE INVESTIGATION
GBC was part of an adult web site. He said that he was married but didn’t want to be
Police bugged the flowers at Allison’s funeral
Police bugged GBC’s phonecalls
Scratch mark details sent to UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency for advice
No indication yet from lawyers of an appeal, they have 28 days.
Life regimented
Simple meals
Two one hour visits from family and friends per week
Source: Channel 9 Today Show
“Family” meaning the Cult of BC. “Friends” … well, none now as far as the eye can see.
1. Appeal is, “Odds on”
The solicitor said that GBC is adamant that he isn’t guilty.
Source: Interview with resident solicitor on “Mornings”.
2. Justin Quill, director of Kelly Hazel Quill Lawyers, advised the ABC that Baden-Clay may have “very good” grounds to appeal the conviction.
Justin Quill, “Potentially there is an appeal on conviction – that could be on a whole stack of grounds. Those grounds could be the exclusion of particular pieces of evidence. It could be taking the judge to task on the precise wording of the charge or the answers to the questions. Baden-Clay will not be able to appeal the length of the sentence.”
I think it’s up to the courts to decide whether there’s enough grounds to appeal in the first instance. If it’s deemed that there is, I think unless they come up with some startling evidence, they have buckleys. There’s always legal argy-bargy but I think that although it seemed infuriating to me at times, and very worrying, Justice Byrne was careful with his wording and direction to the jury throughout the trial. No doubt he has many years of experience of the arguments that will be raised in appeals like this.
1. It has also been reported that five years ago, a woman named Melissa Romano approached Baden-Clay for real estate work – and instead he asked her to kill his wife.
The Courier Mail reports: “She told police she laughed at the time, but he insisted he was serious.”
Detectives reportedly investigated the comment, but concluded it was likely a “throwaway line”.
Read more at http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/how-police-caught-baden-clay/#MvKIxdz6BSugJstA.99
What a way to turn on a potential lover hey? Go GBC, your charms are useless now.
2. Baden-Clay trawled for sex on the website AdultFriendFinder under a false name.
Baden-Clay used the pseudonym Bruce Overland on the site, writing that he was “Married, but don’t want to be – looking for some sex on the side,” Yahoo News reports.
When I read this this morning, I couldn’t help but wonder what Olivia thinks of her brother now. No doubt the QPS had gathered all of this information during the investigation. How will she explain this away? What does her husband, the Townsville North Baptist Church pastor think of it and explain it to his flock?
I mean honestly. “Allison was depressed, gained weight and lost her libido. My poor brother, who did everything in that house, had to find solace somewhere.” Really? Even if Olivia by some huge stretch of the imagination convinced herself that GBC was innocent of murdering his wife, that Allison had walked on a dark night to Kholo Bridge and lay under a bridge to die, how does she explain this away? Her brother the morally corrupt, deceiving, lying husband… He spread his net wide and has affected so many.
I’m guessing there would be much hand-wringing and heart-searching between Olivia and Ian Walton right now. As for EBC and NBC, who knows? They are like alien human beings to me.
I felt that OW was lying just as much as her brother, she was low saying what she did about Allison in the car, when Allison was probably pregnant. OW, in person, has been described as “strange”. Disgusting family. Perhaps they’ll explain it away so that they can live with themselves, let us hope that their flock has more brains that to continue to follow them blindly, as does happen with some groups of people.
Bruce Baden-Overland gets around. You’d think he’d cover his tracks a bit better, wouldn’t you? Maybe it just got too hard, keeping up with all the pseudonyms.
Good old Brucy does get around. This subject was raised in 2012, with regard to the culture in some parts of 4069. One of the stories is that the car keys are put into a bowl and then people would choose a set, and off they would go with someone. This type of thing has been going on for 30 years, as older generations have advised…
Secrets?…………
Bluddy Hell , it’d be my luck if I chucked my keys in the ring to win Elaine …… lol
LOL, Mike.
Good grief – clearly I’m living in the wrong postcode!
LOL, Mel.
There are competitions between some people as to who keeps their future grave the most respectable.
Sorry, I laugh, it is unbelievable and true.
There are some wonderful older families in Brookfield, just wonderful, salt of the earth, and boy, I treasure them when I have had the opportunity to chat.
JUSTICE BYRNE: SUICIDE THEORY WAS PREPOSTEROUS
THE judge presiding over Gerard Baden-Clay’s murder trial has said there was no evidence his wife Allison took her own life.
Justice John Byrne challenged the notion — promoted by defence questioning — that a “depressed” Allison may have committed suicide.
“My concern about it frankly is this,” Justice Byrne said during the trial, without the jury present.
“The evidence doesn’t seem to me at this stage to identify any possible basis in which she could have died from suicide.
“She didn’t drown. She didn’t overdose. She did not fall from the bridge, because there were no fractures. So what is the suicide hypothesis, if it is to be put? What is it?”
Gerard Baden-Clay leaves court in a prison vehicle after jury returned guilty verdict Picture: Jack Tran
Justice Byrne made the comments after the jury left the room following the conclusion of the Crown’s evidence. They were unable to be reported at the time for legal reasons. But the next day the defence announced Baden-Clay would give evidence.
Crown prosecutor Todd Fuller QC told the jury Baden-Clay had blown Allison’s depression out of all proportion to try to avoid conviction.
Justice Byrne made the remarks in discussions with the defence and prosecution about the comments he planned to make in his summing up.
“The reason why I am anxious about it is I don’t want to be put in the position where I am constructing a straw man,” he said at the time. “Where the jury looks at it and says that proposition is preposterous. How could it be suicide? What did she do? Walk 13km in the dark to the bridge along the road, somehow getting entwined in her hair on the way the leaves that were found at the back entry? And then how did she commit suicide when she got there? Because they may reason, as Sherlock Holmes used to, that once you eliminate all that is impossible, what remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Yes, I think Justice Byrne was frustrated as to what the defense’s case actually was all along. As it turned out, there was no case.
The defense had no defense to build and that explains why they tried to wiggle out by clinging to the last straw of ‘no case to answer’ and hoping that the judge would be stupid enough to be persuaded by that claim. Luckily, Justice Byrne applied the kind of logic that the jury would be expected to apply, which would lead to an absurdity: suicide after walking 13 km to the bridge in the dead of night with not a light to go by and no footpath to assist the treck, and finally suicide with no marks left. Yeah right.
The attempt by the defense to slip out by proposing ‘no case to answer’ was really a desperate one because as is shown in their adducing of evidence that they had barely anything to build a defense with.
The next desperate attempt was to let GBC give evidence when he didn’t have to. Possibly in some kind of attempt to make him look innocent and get the jury on his side.
The only winners in this unethical approach is the defense lawyer who knew that they had no case but went with it as far as possible to extract as much money out of GBC as he could. Not bad money.
True Dan, but GBC was not paying the money. We paid it. Personally, I think the defense would’ve strongly advised their client not to take the stand. But good old Gerard knew better. He literally shot himself in the foot and showed his true character, which hung him along with all the circumstantial evidence presented by the Crown. I don’t think GBC could ever look innocent. The defense were desperate alright and lost big time.
We paid for his defense lawyer? I thought we only pay for the Crown Prosecutor.
The Queensland defence lawyers with the most smug of attitudes at the moment must be the ones that took the big money for his bail application, and then walked away before trial.
Unfortunately Dan, it was OUR money.
Taxpayers footed the bill through Legal Aid.
Well ever human deserves a fair trial, however he should have been strongly encouraged to think about his plea. Then again, his personality type would have prevented him from admitting fault and so the lies continued to the end. I’m sure he will die lying. What a waste of a human.
This is what is good, Dan.
GBC’s ego is what I believe kept him in jail, along with karma that came and smacked him on the bottom.
If GerRED didn’t think he was smarter than everyone, thinking he could run the show, getting himself out of murder, with his own “suicide theory”, reading his law books, his lawyers would have got him off, the way they do.
I think GBC’s original solicitors walked away because of GBC’s ego, seeing that they won’t win.
Pretty good, huh, if you think about it? He did the deed and then, through his ego and arrogance, tripped himself up.
I don’t think that the fear of the backlash of public opinion will allow an Appeal to be successful.
I’ve always thought GBC would be a defense’s worst nightmare. And so it was.
They were perhaps more clever than I realised initially. Otherwise, why would they have let him sit there, talking himself into a conviction? Genius really when you think of it.
I suppose that’s one way to deal with having to represent someone who is clearly guilty and lying his head off.
The situation was very strange, melbomartin. Do you think GBC was so arrogant that he ran the show, and his arrogance was his own undoing?
Moonlight, yeah … I have to wonder. He wouldn’t have been an easy client to deal with. So sure of himself and convinced he could pull this off. Can’t imagine the hell it was dealing with the clan as well.
It would have been so tempting to let him drop himself in it. “Yes, go ahead and defend yourself. That’s a great idea!”
Oscar Preposterous has been involved in a nightclub brawl.
His family has released the following statement:
“We do … believe that Oscar is grappling with an extreme level of emotional pain that is manifesting itself in some of his recent unwise actions and choices.”
Yep. I’ll second that.
Yes GHS, unwise actions and choices abound in South Africa and Australia. 😉
LOL…and everywhere else I think! The aim is to stay clear of them. ☺
This crime will go down as one of the worst in Australian recorded history.
Most dastardly, most salacious, most vulgar and most low. Lower than a snake’s belly.
Introduce A Cur of the lowest kind.
And he thought he could get away with it.
He thought he was smarter than the rest.
He used a smear campaign to try and sully her reputation.
That smear campaign occurred after her death, most notably publicly in the Court of Law, in Brisbane Queensland Australia.
That alone is an abominable sin.
That same low down smear campaign was somehow supposed to exonerate and extol his reputation. The reputation of a Cur.
Yes QCL, Gerard has always thought he was smarter than everyone, and able to talk himself out of anything. He thought it was a smart idea to take the stand, he could bluff and bluster his way out of it with his smooth voice and charming ways. Not this time. No doubt this case will be remembered in the Australian criminal history books. Gerard is a law unto himself, he feels entitled to lie under oath in the Supreme Court of Queensland. I’d bet my bottom dollar right now he is cursing Allison for scratching him and putting him where he is now!
I find people like Gerard very frightening. If/when he comes out of prison, the statistics are high that he will commit a similar offence in a similar manner. Why? Because he believes he can get away with it. Yesterday when he was found guilty of murdering his wife Allison, he couldn’t breathe (interrupting Priscilla Dickie’s emotional reading of her victim impact statement), and shook violently on the stand. Why? Because he felt sorry for himself, knowing where he was going for the next 13 years at least. He has never considered anyone else in his life, and this was the first time he was being ‘genuine’ and not lying. He was in fear because no-one will protect him now.
Exactly. He felt fear, probably for the first time. This is but a taste of what he put Allison through. Jail will be no picnic for him. I suspected he would appeal but I also think he’s got zero chance of being successful with it.
So yes, I agree with those of you who commented similarly.
Sad for Allison wrote …..
” Yesterday when he was found guilty of murdering his wife Allison, he couldn’t breathe (interrupting Priscilla Dickie’s emotional reading of her victim impact statement), and shook violently on the stand ”
After 2 years of waiting followed by weeks of lies , a smear campaign , tales of deceit , a family torn apart by one man in a blur we had a guilty verdict , victim impact statements and sentencing … I sat here at my computer in a tiny remote Victorian town trying to come to terms with swift justice after the slow tedious , repetitive process of law … I informed Diane of Kate Kyriacous’s latest tweet saying that GBC was having breathing difficulties , her response was not one of her usual concerned thoughts but she stated in a quiet but terse manner ……..
” Go Allison , choke the bastard , let him feel as you would’ve , show the world your victim impact statement ”
It was a defining moment as it sunk in the depths this man and his despicable family have dragged this great country down to … the trial of multiculturalism failed in a moment and I found myself thinking send these bastards back from whence they came seeking a better life and they have the audacity to think they can do as they please , well ‘Hyphen Seekers’ you’ve run your race , your lives are in tatters , marriages are on the rocks , religious beliefs are gone and normal Aussie’s like our group here have had enough and together with many many other groups and individuals have banded together as one and stopped you and your evil ways … now get out of our lives and the lives of your granddaughters … you’re no longer welcome , needed or wanted , my dear departed Mum was not one to use profanity of any sort but I can hear her words , she simply say with tightened lips ……….. ” Piss Off “
The Supreme Court have released this document now that the verdict has been reached. It’s from the legal pre-trial debate in February and gives an interesting insight into what was discussed by the defense and prosecution as being allowable, and ruled as such by the Judge. It goes into some detail about what Dr Milne was allowed to discuss from the autopsy on Allison and what he was not. Click on the full text pdf here: http://www.sclqld.org.au/caselaw/QSC/2014/156
Who is the expert ??
By Golly , I am , and should be allowed to testify at any appeal , infact I’m genuinely surprised I was not called upon to do so … let me explain.
From the above link ….
” CRIMINAL LAW – EVIDENCE – ADMISSIBILITY – OPINION EVIDENCE – EXPERT OPINION – MEDICAL EVIDENCE – whether interpretation of scratch marks is within the common experience of laypersons – whether evidence of injury interpretation is based on a reliable body of knowledge or experience.”
I have photographic proof that as a 17 year old attending my brother’s wedding I had a moustache therefore I was already shaving … today I’m 61 yrs of age and still have a moustache , although it’s now white (ok , a whitish grey ! , oright It’s bluddy grey ! lol )
That gives me 44 yrs of shaving experience around the said ‘ mo’ and also around my extended side burns , hell , if that’s not enough to be an expert at shaving , nicks , cuts , missed bits then I’m a dismal failure.
Now in my expert opinion from photographs of GBC there is no way possible those marks were made by a razor.
A cut or nic in my experience only occurs very rarely and only with a new or seldom used razor and NEVER with a blunt item .
Secondly if you observe the area on GBC’s face that was marked is infact a ‘ fleshy’ spot , with no bone under it therefore nothing but a moveable piece of flesh that would give way making it impossible to cut using a ‘safety razor ‘ designed to protect from abnormal use.
With the thousands of times I have removed facial growth I’d estimate I have cut or nicked myself on no more the 10 – 15 occasions and that the depth of the abrasion was so small it would be invisible in a day or so.
Given GBC’s version of what occurred is ludicrous , if you began cutting away flesh the natural reaction is to stop , not to scrape away again and again and then to have us believe you’d call upon a child to adhere a dressing is although feasible to me quite unnatural unless you needed that child to remember the supposed cut.
Therefore (in my finest Rumpole voice) …
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury in my expert opinion those marks are consistent with fingernail scratches and have nothing to do with the use of a Safety Razor and I say the defendant is a LIAR !!
Having given my expert testimony I could then step down and find where Brisbane’s version of ‘Pommeroy’s Wine Bar ‘ is and partake in a few chilled beverages.
You sat shaking uncontrollably after you were judged guilty of your wife’s murder, and I fear some of the proceedings that followed might have escaped your attention. Let me recap.
Judge John Byrne, in the temperate tones of a senior judge, told us that while you had no criminal history, you were certainly not of good character.
We’d already learnt that.
You see Gerard a decent man would never belittle his wife in the way you did each day. He wouldn’t reduce women to play things, telling the world on a website he didn’t want to be married, and taking his mistress along for a ride.
He wouldn’t laugh at his wife’s underclothes, or tell her she smelled. He’d be bright enough to understand he married up the chain, so to speak, and would treasure every day his wife wanted to be by his side.
Knowing he killed her, Gerard, a decent man couldn’t sit in court besmirching her reputation, telling fanciful stories of her having suicidal tendencies and being unable to cope.
He wouldn’t be able to look his or her parents in the eye, from the witness stand, and paint such an utterly untrue story, knowing that his own daughters would eventually read it.
He couldn’t, after killing his wife, calmly cut over scratch marks engraved by his dying wife, pack his worried children’s lunch, all the time drafting such a complex and sordid lie.
That brings me to how you have treated your children Gerard. A decent man could never have taken their mother away from them in the dead of night. He couldn’t look them in the eye the next morning, going about his business as though nothing had happened.
Gerard, I remember everything about the funeral of my father. Despite being a child, the tiniest images stick. Your daughters will remember you putting your arms around them during the funeral of their own mother. And they’ll know you were the reason for their tears.
Yes, Gerard, you might not have heard Allison’s mother Priscilla, through your blubbering in court, explain how your children miss their mother terribly and cry for her at night.
What lies did you tell them that night of Allison’s funeral, as they struggled with the question of why their mummy didn’t come home?
A decent man, Gerard, would understand how they would need her, now each night, and later as they navigate the curses and triumphs of being a teenager.
They’ll miss her at each birthday and Christmas, at their graduation, and at little junctures, like the hug only a mother can give. Remember she didn’t leave them. You took her away.
A decent man would know that. He’d know they’d want to hug her on their wedding day, and ask her advice as, down the track, they bring up their own children.
Thank goodness Allison’s parents are in their lives to light the memory spark if it ever risks fading.
You might not have heard their victim impact statements, given your post-verdict shaking and carrying on, but Geoff Dickie told you he’d given you permission to marry his daughter, never to harm her.
A father should never have to say that Gerard.
The strength of Allison’s mother Priscilla, through this sickening ordeal, gave us a glimpse of Allison’s strength. “God bless my daughter,’’ she told us to our own quiet cheers, “for leaving those scratch marks on Gerard’s face.’’
They’ll heal Gerard. They probably already have. But your lack of decency – apart from the murder of your wife – has been laid bare forever.
“I know you did it,’’ Allison’s brother Ashley told you, “and you know you did it – and whatever time you spend in jail will never be enough for taking the life of my beautiful sister Allison.’’
In 15 years’ time, Gerard, when parole comes your way, it won’t only be Allison’s brother reminding decision-makers of one more comment made by Judge John Byrne.
“You are given to lies and other deception,’’ Judge Byrne ruled, “so much so that whatever you may say on any application for parole 15 years or more hence, will need to be assessed with considerable scepticism.”
Think about that Gerard. You’ll have plenty of time now.
Madonna King
Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/blogs/that-thinking-feeling/dear-gerard-decent-men-dont-belittle-their-wives-20140716-3c0od.html#ixzz37hkAJ7j4
Thank you so much, GHS, for posting this heart felt piece. Well said, very well said.
“A Decent Man”, that is what it comes down to.
THANK YOU to the decent men out there.
Thank you so much, Sad for Allison.
I shall have a read, in the near future. I am so upset at what happened to Allison, that it gets too much and I didn’t know her. Her poor, darling, family and friends.
What is missing in GBC? He really needs something, he will probably never believe what he did.
Is Gerard missing something? YES
What does he need? A BULLET.
(Sorry, one step too far….)
Gerard needs a heart and a soul to feel something for those apart from himself. I don’t think he’ll ever ‘get’ those, nor exhibit any remorse for his actions.
Hahahaha GHS 😀
queenslandcountrylady | July 17, 2014 at 10:48 am
They should have called on you Mike. I am surprised they didn’t.
You just reminded me of something Rumpole:
“I could win most of my cases if it weren’t for the clients. Clients have no tact, no bloody sensitivity. They will waltz into the witness box and blurt out things that are far better left… unblurted.”
Haha, so true QCL!
HILDAAAAAAAAAA , have been sneaking into court to watch the Old Rumpole in action , thank heavens today I ‘bade’ that fool of a client farewell …. lol
Dearest Everyone,
GBC has launched an Appeal, here is the new page:
http://wp.me/p4j4Zo-s4
I hope it gets thrown out on all elements.
Is there no end to this family’s delusion?
I think not GHS. His father most probably is a narcissist, his mother a ‘victim’ type personality. Both totally delusional, EBC making a comment in court the day I sat behind them blaming the counsellor for recommending that Allison discuss her emotions with GBC saying ‘that was silly of her”. Olivia, well we’ve all seen she’s delusional too, and she and her father happy to take the stand and lie under oath in their delusion. I think the only fairly ‘normal’ member of the BC family is his brother Adam.
No, GHS, that is how they work, in my view, thinking they outsmart everyone else. Most of their lives, due to their arrogance, people humour them. This time, well, they went too far.
I’ve had internet problems the last few days. Couldn’t read any blogs for some reason and nothing would load. Thanks for all the updates … you’ve got me up to speed on what’s happened since the conviction.
The appeal is predictable but as I posted earlier, I think it’s doomed to failure. He’s been totally exposed now and it seems unlikely any appeal would be allowed. No doubt the defence will be assiduously picking holes wherever they can but given the rug was pretty holey to start with, it won’t be easy.
Bought my yellow ribbon and have been wearing it this week. I like the idea of remembering Allison through an act of kindness. Seems very appropriate and symbolic. Her goodness and decency should be celebrated and her family should know that she did not die in vain. We will remember her. I think her greatest legacy will be towards others who have suffered through domestic violence. This insidious plague infects all socioeconomic groups but as we’ve seen, some are better at covering up who they are.
But not forever .. the truth will win out in the end. Won’t it Gerard?
I am so sorry for your computer problems, melbomartin.
Remembering Allison through an act of kindness, is just lovely, it will be lovely if this is something that people will take hold of.
People seem too competitive and will take anyone down they can for the sake of their ego, when kindness is the emotion…
Dear melbomartin, have you tried free Malwarebytes and Spybot? I run these programmes, often
We have something like that installed but I think it is a combination of ISP and line problems. It’s been off and on for a while. Something about this area and the increased net traffic I think. Thank you though! All good for now so let’s hope it stays that way.
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Le Marque Chapter Exerpt
Posted on November 27, 2013 by texasfootballroadtrip
I decided I’ll post an excerpt from each chapter of Kiss a Fat Dog. Chapter One covers the La Marque High School Cougars. Hope you enjoy it and CTS!!
… “Remember, you’re at La Marque. Best fans in the world, but they also know everything.” Defensive Coordinator Lawrence is very confident about tonight, telling his charges, “This defense, right now, is about where we were in the fifth or sixth week last year.” Coach Jackson expects the Tornadoes to come out flying, but thinks they’ll fade once the emotion settles down and as long as the Cougars don’t give them an excuse to think they’re in the game.
Several coaches recommend I go to the pep rally in the gym after school. They tell me a La Marque pep rally is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. I find out what they’re talking about, but it turns out I have seen its like before. The suggestive, rhythmic dancing from the girls in their skimpy sequined costumes may not be the norm in Texas, but I’d seen many similar high school groups in New Orleans during Marti Gras. The crescent of coastal Texas including Galveston, Houston and Beaumont has more in common with Tidewater Louisiana than other parts of its state. Texas is only one state, but it has more cultural regions than most countries.
After the pep rally, the Cougars come to the office to get their game uniforms, Navy blue jerseys with gold numbers, COOGS stitched below the neck, matching pants with ‘CTS’ on the right hip and blue socks. The players head to the cafeteria for their team meal and a short devotional by Pastor Lee before getting on the air-conditioned school buses that will carry them two miles to the stadium.
Etheredge Stadium is impressive, but not because there’s anything noteworthy about its architecture or size. The place is simple and functional; just two slopes of steel bleachers, topped by an adequate pressbox, Spartan locker rooms, a basic scoreboard and a natural turf field. What’s striking is the care taken preserving the place. Though it must have been built 50 years ago, the 11,000 seat stadium looks brand new. Like a perfectly restored 1970 Dodge Dart, nothing showy, but clear reverence for the traditions this place holds. The field is perfectly manicured and stenciled, the Cougar paw painted at midfield for the game, as the buses arrive from La Marque at 5:00.
It’s another hot and muggy evening in Galveston County. The players, coaches and fans are already dripping sweat as the game begins. The stands are about half full. This is a rivalry game, but nobody expects much from G-Ball, and their fans don’t travel well. Not one to overlook any opponent, Jackson has looked nervous all day. He’s a deeply superstitious man; on the sidelines he always dresses all in black and has several game day rituals that must be followed each week. He gives a stick of gum to the same chosen assistant during warm-ups, makes a point to find his young daughter in the stands who always holds up a self-drawn sign. A few years ago he wore something that wasn’t black and his team lost. Since then, he’s careful to stick to his routines.
During his pregame talk, Jackson reminds his squad of the linemen challenge tug-of-war they lost to new 3A rival Coldspring this summer. Coldspring taunted them after the loss, “Welcome to 3A.” To remind his team of this humiliation and hammer home the point that all must pull together to accomplish anything, Jackson has brought a thick length of rope for a player to carry onto the field each week. “Don’t let go of the rope” is the teams’ theme for the season….
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Pushing the Borders of Taste: Frontier(s) Largely Delivers on The Promise of Its Title
Andrew WelshFilm ReviewsEli Roth, Film Review, Frontier(s), Gore, Graphic Violence, High Tension, Horror Film, Hostel, New French Extremity, Torture Porn, Violence, Xavier Gens3 Comments
In the 2000’s, the horror genre was arguably dominated by three trends: (1) Torture Porn, (2) Remakes, and (3) the New French Extremity movement. The classier European cousin to ‘Torture Porn’, the New French Extremity movement pushed against what one previously thought could and couldn’t be shown on screen. From High Tension to Inside to Martyrs, ‘New French Extremity‘ proved to be one of the more transgressive periods in horror history. While not receiving the same level of attention of some of its counterparts, Xavier Gens’ Frontier(s) is an overlooked title that’s worth a look for fans of hardcore horror.
Following the election of a controversial far-right candidate as French president, Paris erupts into riots. Set against this political backdrop, a group of young French Muslim Arabs attempt a bank robbery to secure money to get out of the country. When one of their members is shot and abandoned at a hospital, the others flee the city and take refuge in a family-operated inn along the border. Things quickly go from bad to worse as the innkeepers turn out to be neo-Nazi cannibals with no intentions of letting their guests leave.
Gens Stitches Together Ideas From Several Better Films
No one is going to accuse Frontier(s) of being the most original movie. Director Xavier Gens, who also wrote the screenplay, liberally borrows from several better horror films. Perhaps the most obvious influence is Eli Roth’s Hostel. Roth’s fingerprints are most evident in the film’s aesthetic. The dilapidated structures and claustrophobic halls are reminiscent of Hostel’s abandoned Eastern European factories. There’s also more than a tip of the hat to the Backwoods Horror sub-genre, particularly The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Young urbanites running afoul of rural folk is nothing new for horror fans. Frontier(s) even builds a bizzaro family dinner into its climax.
…Frontier(s) straddles a fine line between tribute and shameless imitation.
Gens’ neo-Nazi villains don’t exactly tread fresh ground in the horror genre either. ‘Nazis as monsters‘ is a familiar, if not entirely common, trope. Ultimately, like any attempt at homage, Frontier(s) straddles a fine line between tribute and shameless imitation.
Gens’ Bigger Ideas Never Fully Realized
Some credit should go to Gens for trying to infuse his film with bigger ideas. It’s certainly not hard to see where he was aiming. A horror film about young French Muslims terrorized by neo-Nazi cannibals set against the backdrop of Paris riots and the election of a right-wing populist surely meant to say something profound. Faculty of Horror co-host Alexandra West, author of Films of the New French Extremity: Visceral Horror and National Identity, has discussed these ideas in (much better) detail.
In spite of his best intentions, any pointed political subtext is lost in the progressive onslaught of intense violence in Frontier(s).
In spite of his best intentions, his political subtext gets lost in the onslaught of intense violence. By the time Gens’ blood-soaked climax unfolds, casual horror fans have likely turned the movie. Comparatively, the hardcore crowd will be too immersed in the carnage. Many of the ideas that seemingly surface also border on tasteless. It’s somewhat unfortunate because one could easily imagine how relevant some deeper commentary would be in today’s political climax.
Frontier(s)’ Intense and Over-the-Top Violence Compensates for Its Limitations
Frontier(s) may borrow here and there, , but like its New French Extremity counterparts, its violent set pieces are so wildly over-the-top as to be almost incomparable. There’s a lurid level of creativity on display in Frontier(s) in its execution of cruelty and violence that exceeds much of what the American ‘Torture Porn‘ cycle released. One character is cooked alive in a boiler, while another character is butchered with a table saw. Gens more than capably stages his graphic violence, aided by some disturbing make-up effects.
Gens more than capably stages his graphic violence, aide by some disturbing make-up effects.
Less impressive are the performances in Frontier(s). You likely won’t be able to label any one actor as wooden or outright terrible. Several actors turn in characterizations that are as outlandish as the film’s premise and violence. Karina Testa and Aurélien Wilk, as Yasmine and Alex, impress with their steady and gruelling portrayals – they overcome the heavy-handed premise and manage to always seem believable. But let’s face it. No one is watching Frontier(s) for the acting and nothing is so poor as to drag things down.
A Lesser But Serviceable Entry in the New French Extremity
Xavier Gens’ Frontier(s) never reaches the heights of other New French Extremity releases like High Tension or Inside. Yet for all of its faults, Frontier(s) remains a very watchable hardcore horror film. Gens excels at ratcheting up the intensity and delivering the uncompromising gore. To date, Gens has never delivered another film that approaches Frontier(s). Certainly not to every horror fan’s tastes, Frontier(s) will appeal to fans of the New French Extremity movement who may have missed this title.
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10 Chicago VC Firms You Need to Know About
Kristin Pryor September 14th 2015 12:30 pm
Chicago is usually towards the top of the list when it comes to startup hubs in the United States. It's no surprise that Tech.Co had its first events in that city, (back when we were simply known as Tech Cocktail), providing demo space and networking opportunities for Chicago startups to connect with multiple kinds of resources, but most importantly, investors.
Some very successful startups have come out of Chicago. A few names that will likely be familiar to you include GrubHub, Belly, SitterCity, and Groupon. Aside from having innovative products and exemplary business chops, all of these companies had the help of VC firms to get off the ground and scale.
Built in Chicago recently posted a list of 23 VC firms in the city that are helping startups raise the capital they need. The list is pretty detailed including information on what kinds of companies they invest in, what stages they usually invest in, from seed to Series C, as well as a sampling of the companies in their portfolios.
The entire list is here, but here are 10 that really stand out:
Lightbank
Notes: Invests in companies from seed round to late stage. Influential leader in Chicago tech investing.
Investments: 100+
Exits: 11 acquisitions
Notable portfolio companies: Groupon, Sprout Social, Techstars, Belly
Sandbox Industries
Notes: Founded in 2003. Connects entrepreneurial talent with corporate resources. Three main business lines: venture funds, accelerator programs, and an innovation consulting business.
Investments: 33
Exits: 5 acquisitions
Notable portfolio companies: NaviHealth, Lumiata Health, FanGo Software Systems
OCA Ventures
Notes: Focuses on equity investments in tech companies with significant potential to grow. They’re particularly interested in companies that do innovative work with technology, services, mobile commerce, and web 3.0.
Investments: 50+
Notable portfolio companies: Whittl, Pear, Base CRM
Jumpstart Ventures
Notes: Venture fund that primarily invests in seed and early-growth technology companies in the Midwest. Founded in 2011, Jumpstart Ventures has invested in many of Chicago’s most promising tech startups.
Notable portfolio companies: WeDeliver, Spartz Media, SwipeSense
Adams Street Partners
Notes: They have over four decades of experience and have investments in companies in over 30 countries across the globe.
Exits: 10 IPOs and 21 acquisitions
Notable portfolio companies: Craftsy, Smule, Scytl
Baird Venture Partners
Notes: Baird Venture Partners is the US arm of Baird Private Equity. They invest primarily in early- and growth-stage companies in various industries, including business services, healthcare, and life sciences.
Notable portfolio companies: edo Interactive, Signal, Sittercity
Pritzker Group Venture Capital
Notes: Founded in 1996. Helps helped over 100 companies through every stage of growth.
Exits: 1 IPO and 14 acquisitions
Notable portfolio companies: Roniin, SMS Assist, Options Away
JK&B Capital
Notes: They Specialize in software, IT, and communications markets, and have over $1.1 billion of capital under management.
Notable portfolio companies: Actiance, EarlySense, Viewfinity
IllinoisVentures
Notes: Started on the campus of University of Illinois. They focus on seed and early-stage technology companies, specifically those that are research-derived in the IT, physical sciences, life sciences, and clean technology industries.
Notable portfolio companies: Rithmio, Revenew, Persio
Hyde Park Angels
Notes: A syndicate of angel investors made up of former executives, entrepreneurs, and VC's looking to invest in seed and early stage businesses in the Midwest. They also provide strategy, coaching, and domain expertise to its portfolio companies. They mostly invest in business and financial services, consumer products and services, digital media and technology, and healthcare.
Notable portfolio companies: YCharts, TurboAppeal, Rithmio
Kristin Pryor
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Kristin is an aspiring entrepreneur who is enthusiastically navigating her way through the DC startup space. She has an unending passion for learning and is never satisfied with the status quo. During the day she is an ops, biz dev, and marketing maven for Fission Strategy
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Iron Mike and Captain Hook are ready to step into the ring one more time for a special exhibition fight taking place in California tonight. It’s set to be the PPV event of the year, so don’t miss a second of the action. Read on as we explain how to watch a Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr live stream wherever you are right now – plus tell you essential information about the Tyson vs Jones fight including its time and price.
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He faces arguably his toughest opponent to date in former four-weight world champ Roy Jones Jr, though, and it’ll be interesting to see which version of Iron Mike we see in the ring shortly. Can the 54-year-old Tyson roll back the years and show the same kind of ruthless streak he was once famed for? Or will he more closely resemble the figure who lost his last competitive fight 15 years ago in limp fashion to Irishman Kevin McBride?
Like Tyson, 51-year-old Roy Jones Jr is fighting Father Time as much he is the man opposite him the ring tonight. Yet he’s arguably the favorite and is widely regarded as the best all-round boxer of his generation – and maybe of all-time. After Michael Spinks, he’s only the second light heavyweight champion to win the heavyweight division proper as part of a dynamic career that saw him win belts at Middleweight, Super Middleweight, and Cruiserweight en route to an impressive 66-9 record.
With a fantastic main card that also features Jake Paul vs Nate Robinson, this looks set to be an exciting night of boxing action and one of the most entertaining sports events of the year. Follow our guide below to get a Tyson vs Jones live stream and watch the big fight online, no matter where you are in the world right now.
How to watch the Tyson vs Jones fight from outside the country
Below we’ve listed all of the best places to live stream the Tyson vs Jones fight online in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – as well as highlighting which countries have the cheapest Tyson vs Jones PPV prices.
If you’re abroad and discover that your usual coverage is geo-blocked, then the only alternative that we know is to use a VPN to dial in to a country that does have one. The software is perfect for this as it allows you to change your IP address and appear to be in a completely different location – and all through a safe, encrypted connection.
Use a VPN to watch a Tyson vs Jones live stream from anywhere
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Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr live stream: fight time and how to watch in the US
Boxing streaming service FITE has nabbed the rights to show Tyson vs. Jones Jr. along with the full card in the US via its website, mobile and smart TV streaming apps.
The Tyson vs Jones PPV is priced at $49.99, and can also be accessed via the TysonOnTriller.com website, which is set to serve as the central hub for Saturday’s much-anticipated event.
For those looking to go down the linear route, the fight can also be ordered via major cable operators in the US – check with your local provider to see if the fight is available.
Not in the US? Remember you can watch the same services you would at home with the help of a VPN.
Tyson vs Jones live stream: UK time, price and how to watch the fight online
British fight fans looking to watch Tyson vs Jones and live stream the fight will need to go down the pay-per-view route, with BT Sport Box Office holding exclusive broadcast rights to the main event and its undercard.
It’s priced at £19.95 to purchase. With that you’ll get reruns of the fight as well, so you can even watch it again – if it’s as good as it’s looking it will be. Build-up and coverage of the undercard is set to begin at 12am GMT Saturday night /Sunday morning.
Ring walk-outs for Tyson and Jones Jr are currently expected at around 3am GMT.
Not in the UK? Then you’ll need a VPN to watch this live stream as if you were back at home
How to watch a Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr live stream in Canada
As is the case in the US, FITE has the PPV rights to the Tyson vs Jones fight. Pricing is also the same, with access costing CAD$49.99.
As well as being able to access the fight via the streaming services website, and apps, the fight can also be ordered via major Canadian cable operators such as Rogers.
Outside of Canada? Don’t worry, all you need a reliable VPN and you can watch the Tyson vs Jones fight just like you would at home.
How to watch Tyson vs Jones: live stream the fight in Australia today
Tyson vs Jones is a PPV event Down Under and therefore available on Main Event , which Foxtel cable subscribers will find available through their package.
Those without cable or simply looking for a different way to get a Tyson vs Jones live stream in Oz should look no further than sports streaming service Kayo Sports, which offers Main Event coverage of the fight for the same $59.95 price.
An added benefit of getting the fight with Kayo is that it essentially bags you a FREE Kayo trial with your purchase, as you get full access to Kayo Sports through Thursday, December 3 in addition to Tyson vs Jones. There’s plenty for boxing fans to get excited about in the service’s on-demand library, including the rather topical ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, Chasing Tyson.
The four-hour event is set to kick off at the positively sanguine hour of 1pm AEDT on Sunday, November 29, with Tyson and Jones expected to make their ring walks about 3pm AEDT Aussie time.
Not in Oz? Don’t forget that with a good VPN you can tune in to the same coverage you’d watch at home.
How to live stream Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr and watch the fight online in New Zealand
Sky Sports has the rights to the Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr fight in New Zealand and, as in other countries, it’s a Sky Arena PPV affair.
Tyson vs Jones costs NZD$39.95 and can be ordered on the Sky Sports website now, with the main card set to get under way at 3pm NZDT on Sunday, November 29 and the main event expected to start around 5pm.
Sky Arena is channel 065 in New Zealand, but if you don’t have Sky, you can also purchase the Tyson vs Jones fight through Sky Sports Now.
The fight isn’t available for mobile streaming on Sky Go in New Zealand, however.
Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr: price and PPV details
Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr appears to be an exclusively pay-per-view (PPV) event around the world.
Here’s how much it costs in a number of countries where boxing is popular. Roughly speaking, Tyson vs Jones is cheapest in the UK or New Zealand, with both £20 and NZD$40 working out at just under $30 based on current exchange rates – some $20 less than it costs in the US.
Tyson vs Jones price (US): $49.90
Tyson vs Jones price (Canada): $49.99
Tyson vs Jones price (UK): £19.95
Tyson vs Jones price (Australia): $59.95
Tyson vs Jones price (New Zealand) $39.95
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Tyson vs Jones fight time, date and location
The Tyson vs Jones fight takes place tonight (Saturday, November 28) at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California.
The main card is expected to get under way at around 9pm ET / 6pm PT, which is 1am GMT in the UK and 1pm AEDT in Australia the following day (Sunday, November 29).
Ring walks for the main event are roughly expected to be as follows.
Tyson vs Jones ring walk times tonight
Tyson vs Jones time in the US and Canada: 11pm ET / 8pm PT / 10pm CT
Tyson vs Jones time UK: 3am GMT (Sun, Nov 29)
Tyson vs Jones time in mainland Europe: 4am CET (Sun, Nov 29)
Tyson vs Jones time Australia: 3pm AEDT (Sun, Nov 29)
Tyson vs Jones time in New Zealand: 5pm NZDT (Sun, Nov 29)
Tyson vs Jones fight rules: is there a no knockout clause and will there be a winner?
Dubbed ‘Frontline Battle’, tonight’s fight is the first event of a series produced by Mike Tyson’s new Legends Only League and will be for the newly created WBC Frontline Battle Belt. Both fighters have agreed to eight 2-minute rounds and no headgear for the exhibition fight.
While sanctioning board the California State Athletic Commission is enforcing a “no knockouts” rule, both fighters have nevertheless indicated it’s not a directive they’ll be observing once they step into the ring.
However, as Tyson vs Jones is an exhibition fight, it won’t be officially scored like a competitive fight, according to a number of insiders.
Instead, the WBC will be having celebrity guest judges score the fight remotely, but the situation appears to be that those scores will be purely for entertainment purposes and that a winner won’t be announced.
📋 Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr exhibition fight reported rules:⏱️ Eight, Two-Minute Rounds🥊 Bigger, 12oz Gloves⛑️ No Headguards❌ No Knockouts🙅♂️ Fight Stopped If There’s A Cut🚫 No Official Judges Or Winner🧑⚖️ WBC Have Ex-Fighters Judging🤷♂️ (Their Scores Are Unofficial)November 25, 2020
Tyson vs Jones full card
Saturday’s unique event in LA also features an intriguing undercard that includes face-offs between former New York Knicks NBA guard Nate Robinson and YouTube star Jake Paul, with KSI’s trainer Viddal Riley set to for a boxing bout against MMA fighter Rashad Coulter. The main support fight is a slightly more conventional super-middleweight pairing between former champ Badou Jack and Blake McKernan.
Main card
Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr.: 8 rounds exhibition at heavyweight
Jake Paul vs. Nate Robinson: 6 rounds at cruiserweight
Badou Jack vs. Blake McKernan: 8 rounds at light heavyweight
Viddal Riley vs. Rashad Coulter: 6 rounds at cruiserweight
Jamaine Ortiz vs. Nahir Albright: 8 rounds at lightweight
Irvin Gonzalez vs. Edward Vasquez: 8 rounds at featherweight
Juiseppe Cusumano vs. Nick Jones: 8 rounds at heavyweight
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Clicker Live Shows You What's Playing On The Web Right Now
Erick Schonfeld @erickschonfeld / 11 years
Live video is starting to take off on the Web on livevideo sites such as Livestream, Ustream, and Justin.TV. And every network TV website also offers live video from time to time. It’s hard to keep up. What is needed is a TV Guide for live video on the Web.
Online video guide Clicker is taking a stab at that with the launch of Clicker Live. It is starting with thousands of feeds of premium live video on the Web. The clicker site will have a new Live tab where live shows will be promoted as “On Air Now” and can be searched. There is also a calendar showing what’s coming up, and you can browse by topic or title. Here are some examples of the types of shows and live video streams that will be indexed on Clicker Live:
(for instance, Livestream alone is now streaming more than one billion viewer minutes per month). Justin.TV and Ustream are seeing similatr growth and But it’s hard to know what’s on
High Profile Live Shows from: YouTube, Ustream, Livestream.com, Justin.tv, Stickam.com
Major broadcast and cable news network feeds including CNN, FOX, FOX Business, ABC, CBS News, AP
Wall Street Journal News Hub
Live sporting events and sports coverage; for example: ESPN3, MLB, CBS Sports, FOX Sports
Whitehouse.gov Press Conferences and Events
Over 50 local market newscasts from ABC, FOX and others
Local Government webcasts
Weekly tech, Internet, and entertainment shows; for example: CNET, ThisWeekIn.com, Leo Laporte, Kevin Pollack’s Chat Show
Weekly political shows; for example: Young Turks, B-Cast, Ed Morrissey
Live Concerts and Red Carpet events
Celebrity Livestreams; for example: streams celebrities from Ashton Kutcher to Shaq
Animal Cams
Clicker launched at TechCrunch50, and recently raised $11 million in a B round from Benchmark, Redpoint, and Jafco. It also helps you find Flash-free videos on the iPad. Now it’s got live video covered too.
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The Time It Takes: Joe Lycett and Alison Hammond front new BBC One game show
BBC One has announced new game show The Time It Takes, with Joe Lycett and Alison Hammond .
The BBC describes the new show as "The only quiz in the world where the contestants decide how much time they have to answer the questions."
Contestants will face a number of time-based scenarios such as what takes longer - unwrapping every Werther’s Original in a family pack, completing a Rubik’s cube underwater or deflating an air bed and putting it back into its original box?
In The Time It Takes, the challenger who gets the most questions right in their given timescale will be one step closer to winning a dream holiday. But do not fret dear viewers, all is not completely lost for the player with the lowest score, as they will receive a very special The Time It Takes tea-towel before leaving the show.
Comic Joe Lycett will host the show alongside sidekick referee sidekick Alison Hammond.
Alongside the time it takes Alison to do weird and wonderful tasks, and the downright mundane everyday ones, there will also be a chance for audiences to discover how long it takes some of the UK’s favourite celebrities to enact certain assignments: Ore Oduba, The Sooty Show, Joel Dommett, Debbie McGee, Paul Chuckle, Four Of Diamonds, Jess Wright and Mark-Francis Vandelli all make special studio guest appearances and throw themselves into the chaos of the timers!
Further special celebrity guests offering pre-recorded video timers across the series include Nish Kumar, Natalie Cassidy, Ainsley Harriot, Frankie Bridge, Kimberley Wyatt, Jamie Laing, Katherine Ryan and Richard Blackwood.
Host Joe Lycett said: "Never before has so much relied on someone knowing how long a kettle takes to boil. The Time It Takes is one of the most brilliantly daft shows I’ve ever been involved in - and that’s saying something.”
Managing Director of programme makers Hat Trick Productions Jimmy Mulville said: “The Time It Takes is a brilliant format which is brought to life by the hugely talented Joe Lycett. It’s both exciting and funny - just what you want at tea-time on Saturdays.”
Series Producer Meriel Beale added: “The Time It Takes is very funny and incredibly silly and happily so is Joe Lycett. I'm very excited to be working with such a star and I've no doubt his warm, generous wit will be lapped up by BBC One viewers.”
The Time It Takes will air on BBC One this Autumn.
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Cross country hires third coach in three years
Philadelphia-area native James Snyder brings a new face and a new attitude to cross country.
18 July 2013 Andrew Parent Cross Country, Sports, Track & Field
Temple cross country will once again introduce a new face in charge of leading the team as it gets set for a new season.
Track & field coach Eric Mobley announced Wednesday that Philadelphia-area native James Snyder is the program’s latest hire, taking the position of assistant cross country and track & field coach.
Although he will not be given the title of cross country head coach yet, Snyder will handle the day-to-day coaching responsibilities for the men’s and women’s cross country teams, as well as the distance teams come track & field season, per a Temple Athletic Communications press release.
He will also enjoy many of the perks of being a head coach, the most significant of those being full recruiting responsibility.
“This is my first time coaching my own athletes,” Snyder said. “The other positions I had were all in an assistant capacity. That was one of the attractions to this job. I can finally have my own group of kids that I can recruit who I want to recruit… and build my own program.”
Snyder was a multiple letter winner for George Mason’s cross country and track & field teams, and is a magna cum laude graduate in exercise science. He earned his master’s degree in exercise science from Appalachian State University while also serving as a graduate assistant for the school’s cross country and track & field programs for two years.
The Downingtown, Pa. native is coming off a season working for Florida State University’s cross country and track & field program as the operations assistant, handling various administrative duties such as planning team travel, managing equipment budgets and coordinating on-campus recruiting.
He said the prospect of coming back home and living close to his family again was something he couldn’t pass up.
“To coach close to home and to get to coach these teams is an opportunity I can’t pass up,” Snyder said. “I remember running at Belmont plateau in [Downingtown East] high school and it’ll cool for me to be able to go back to there and other places like that and coach. I’m excited about the opportunity.”
“I had been thinking of moving back to the Philadelphia area for a long time,” Snyder added. “My family lives really close to here. My parents live a half hour away from here in Downingtown and my sister lives [near Penn State], so this wasn’t an opportunity to pass up.”
Snyder will be the third Temple coach to handle the cross country coaching duties in three seasons despite being the first to not hold the official title as cross country head coach.
Despite two prior cross country coaching changes in the last year, Snyder is excited at the prospect of a long-term career coaching back home.
“I think one of the reasons I was considered for this job was that I’m from around here,” Snyder said. “I know there’s been a lot of turnover with this job in the past and because of that, this is where I want to be. In conjunction with my coaching, this is a great place to build a program. My intention is to be here. This is where I want to settle down. I’m back close to home, my family is all here and I have no intention of leaving.”
Cross country will not only undergo a coaching regime change, but will also be transitioning into the American Athletic Conference in the fall, a change that the new coach is embracing as it gives all new teams a clean slate heading into the 2013 season.
“I think it’s really exciting because in a lot of ways the slate is wiped clean,” Snyder said. “We’re all on an equal playing field feeling each other out seeing who’s going to be the team to step up. A lot of these teams have sprint-dominated track teams, so cross country’s on a much more even field. Beside [the University of Connecticut] on the women’s side because they have a very solid team every year, women’s is an open field. The men’s side is a completely open field, and anything can happen.”
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Transform And Roll Onto The ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ UK Set With These 2 New Behind-The-Scenes Teasers!
Posted September 20th, 2016 by Stuart Conover
If you can’t get enough early footage of Michael Bay‘s ‘Transformers: The Last Knight‘ than you’ll be thrilled to see these new clips. The film has released more teasers than previous ones and even an interactive set video to enjoy. In these clips, we’ve got the introduction of Hot Rod who is showing up as a Lamborghini Centenario, the return of Bumblebee who upgraded to a 2017 Chevrolet Camaro, the ex-Decepticon who is now an Autobot Drift which is a Mercedes-AMG GT-R, and finally Crosshairs who is a Chevrolet Corvette C7 Stingray. There was clearly quite a bit of money on the set that day and the crowds all appeared to be appreciating what was happening.
First up let’s take a look at the clip starring all four in order and is one of our first looks at Hot Rod who, if they at all pretend to follow the films, will one day become a Prime and lead the Transformers:
The Transformers, including the Lamborghini Centenario, worth a cool £1.6m #Transformers5 #Newcastle pic.twitter.com/Lgl4gpvrXs
— Ian Stokoe (@Ian_Stokoe) September 18, 2016
Next up we see the Transformers rolling into action with the military joining in:
Causal Sunday morning in Newcastle.. transformers being filmed @SundayBrunchC4 #Newcastle #Transformers pic.twitter.com/3Tu6A7UEsl
— Eve Violet Gargett (@evieviolet22) September 18, 2016
It looks as if ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ will be getting at least one race scene in the film and it’ll be curious to see if the Autobots stick strictly to their car modes here or also end up in their robot form to fight off Decepticons or whoever the antagonist here ends up being.
Are you looking forward to checking out ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ when it comes out? What do you think of these recent behind-the-scenes clips? Share your thoughts below!
‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ is currently filming in the UK. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Liam Garrigan, Laura Haddock, Stanley Tucci, Gil Birmingham, Isabel Moner, and Anthony Hopkins and is set for release on June 23, 2017.
Source: Cinema Blend
Stuart Conover is an author, blogger, and all around geek. When not busy being a father and husband he tries to spend as much time as possible immersed in comic books, science fiction, and horror! Would you like to know more? Follow him on Twitter!
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Stuart Conover is a father, husband, blogger, published author, geek, entrepreneur, editor of Horror Tree, horror fanatic, science fiction junkie, lives in a world of comics, and a casual gamer (all of this when his wife lets him of course.) He fell in love with science fiction and horror at the same time while watching the movie Alien at probably far too young of an age while still being extremely impressionable and has been happily obsessed with both since! Around the same time, he had also developed an unhealthy addiction to comic books that continues to this day!Want to talk about anything geeky? Reach out on Twitter - @StuartConover
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Mark Cooper and the Swindon Town sack race..?
A home defeat for Mark Cooper’s Swindon Town on Saturday after leading MK Dons at half time was enough for an increasing number of supporters to demand chairman Lee Power removes the manager. With Cooper still in the Town dugout, Ron Smith asks whether now is the right time to change manager?
One victory in ten games in all competitions plainly isn’t acceptable, yet I remain in support of Mark Cooper’s management at Swindon Town. I appreciate a number of readers won’t agree and that view was made very clear on social media and BBC Wiltshire after the MK Dons match. That match saw a stumbling second-half performance during which the Franchise’s resurgence and eventual goals looked certainties, such is a low confidence in the Swindon side to hold onto a lead, let alone push on to deliver a convincing victory.
Town’s current position 8th in League One and eight points off the play-offs isn’t a crisis for a side where the pre-season objective was “to avoid relegation”. A canny transfer strategy involving the recruitment of young players from the Premier League (Spurs) and ‘rejects’ from any level originally looked promising as a means to provide a competitive squad with budgetary constraints. Two-thirds of the way through the season and unfortunately this youthful optimism has suffered from burnout and a lack of experience to push through the winter months to secure a play-off berth. As a result, Cooper is in an unusual position – fighting for his job while perhaps overachieving.
Looking back at previous Swindon sackings since John Gorman was fired after an away defeat at Bristol City – perhaps an ominous sign to come for Cooper – eight of the nine sackings resulted from a period of poor form relative to their overall points per game record. Jimmy Quinn’s final ten games marked a minor improvement relative to his whole 18 month term in the dugout. Should he be unjustly sacked now, Mark Cooper’s recent ten game record is the joint fifth worst record amongst this motley crew. With just three defeats from the ten games, Cooper’s side is the toughest of these to beat.
Final 10 Games (All Comps) W D L Overall League Pts/G Final Ten Pts/G Lg Pos When Sacked
John Gorman 2 2 6 0.86 0.8 16
Steve McMahon 3 2 5 1.33 1.1 16
Jimmy Quinn 4 0 6 0.95 1.2 24
Andy King (1) 2 3 5 1.2 0.9 20
Andy King (2) 2 1 7 1.36 0.7 23
Iffy Onoura 2 4 4 1.14 1 23
Maurice Malpas 2 3 5 1.17 0.9 17
Danny Wilson 0 3 7 1.38 0.3 20
Paul Hart 1 3 6 0.63 0.6 24
Mark Cooper? 1 6* 3 1.38 0.9 8?
No recent Swindon manager in a league position higher than 16th has been sacked. Both John Gorman and Steve McMahon departed with Town in 16th in Division One, two and three points respectively above the relegation zone, soon to be dragged into a relegation fight. The remainder have also have been sacked after being embroiled in relegation scraps, or following relegation. Performance in the cups was also a factor, with Maurice Malpas being sacked for a league position three points off the relegation zone and an early knockout from three cup competitions.
Given that Swindon haven’t sacked managers in their recent history for being in a position as strong as Mark Cooper, why should supporters argue for his dismissal? Perhaps the short-sightedness of the Premier League and the winning-at-all-costs attitudes, which broadly equates to changing the manager at least once a season, is creeping into the mindset of supporters lower down the pyramid?
In the end there has to be a sound business and footballing reason for Lee Power to dispense with Mark Cooper. With Town three points away from achieving the magical 50 points – that has been enough to avoid relegation in the previous eight League One seasons – and a run of wins away from being within a very outside chance of a top six finish, even securing a mid-table finish wouldn’t represent a disaster.
I acknowledge there’s criticism about the style of play with “boring” being the most common description I’ve read, but I certainly don’t find Town boring. It’s always captivating and fascinating for whatever reasons, and of course, frustrating to watch at times recently.
There has been a noticeable downturn in goals scored per game and the frequency of victories since mid-November, a period during which discontent about style were largely silenced. A few months later and the criticism is more vocal highlighting what Town’s style under Cooper seemingly needs, in the eyes of the masses, are goals. Or alternatively, a complete about-turn in strategy to reimplement Di Canio’s ‘loved’ 4-4-2 direct football. Actually the difference between the two manager in respect of average goals per game is quite narrow, Di Canio achieving 1.6 compared to Cooper’s 1.5 per game.
If Cooper was given the boot you have to ask what could any successor achieve that Cooper couldn’t at this point in the season? Could you give yourself a better chance of winning promotion now? Certainly not. Indeed, looking back at our recent history following sackings, the sacking didn’t avoid the eventual fate the decision was seeking to stave off.
In the end, time is what’s needed for a manager who was surprisingly thrust into the role in August. It seems wrong to equate Cooper to some of our greats at this point in time, but you must remember the early promise of Glenn Hoddle’s Swindon in 1991/92 being top in November only to suffer a winless eight game run and defeats in March before finishing 8th; patience led to great rewards. Bert Head’s youthful side took five years to secure promotion, similarly Danny Williams built slowly with 7th, 8th and 10th placed finishes before glory. Therefore, Power’s strategy, with Cooper at the helm, is perhaps best judged next season. They know there will be a nucleus of the existing squad to continue working with while adding talent in the summer and changing the pre-season routine to avoid the fatigue that’s crept in.
Having written this, I do fear for Cooper’s future and whether he’ll be able to get the vital victories to win over the negative reactions. Swindon have very tough games coming up in March including Wolves (h), Bristol City (a), Preston (h) and Sheffield Utd (h) which, results depending, will define everyone’s commitment to realism and whether we are prepared to ‘endure’ at least one season of mid-table mediocrity for once.
The more fundamental problem is that the damage could’ve already been done with the negative reactions so far, but only you can change that. This, or even this season, isn’t the right time for a managerial change. So give him time and support our manager.
Right, I’ve had my say. Time for you to complete this poll and please add a little more to be debate in our comment section.
*The JPT Area Final 2nd leg is counted as a draw as the tie was decided by a penalty defeat.
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Looking at our fixtures, the way the team are playing and the teams we still have to play, my (pessimistic) forecast is for 1 victory and 4 draws, giving us a nerve-wracking total of 54 points come season end. We should stay up, but below Bristol City.
The crunch will be the summer – can we keep Pritchard? Will Nile Ranger deign to stay with us? Will Power keep faith with Cooper? Will Cooper keep faith with playing football? Will our young squad find their maturity soon enough? And will the fans keep their patience?
Lots of questions. I’m nervous about the last one, and just hope that the pressure from the happy-clappers and the get-it-forward brigade will not force the hand of Power, and that he has the balls to see this project through into 2014/15
I’m all for Cooper staying through to next season, as a project like this one needs time, patience and a couple of defenders
TheWashbag
I think we’ll get a few more than 54 points, but breaking the 60 point barrier will be tough.
As for Pritchard, we won’t be able to keep him for beyond, likewise with Ranger, someone else in the Championship will take a punt with him.
As for fans keeping patience, I really doubt that will be case, but I hope it doesn’t end out that way.
I question the excuse that the team are tired I would like to see a little more direct attacking and the ability to change the style of play to suit the opposition the other teams are aware of our style of play and cash in on our weakness all to often but we must stick with the lads through to the end of the season
Is it just me but I have believed all season that Ward as been the bulk of Swindon weakness. This is the main reason we concede so many goals.
STFC007
At the start of this season’s campaign many Town fans were not very optimistic and hoping for a mid-table finish.
However for most of the season we’ve been hanging around 7th / 8th spot which subsequently raised expectations among many fans that a PO place could suddenly be within reach.
The team played well the first half of the season, but as soon as there were some injuries and suspensions, we did not have sufficient depth quality to replace them – the recent notable exception being TAH.
The home form had been great, the away form not so. But instead of the away form improving, the home deteriorated. Teams have played more direct against us, allowing us to pass the ball around, but targeting some of our weaknesses.
I believe it’s the individual mistakes by the players that costs us. The disappointment of not reaching the JPT Wembley final and then not winning several games on the trot had fans looking for someone to blame.
I will never ask for someone to lose his/her job, because I would not want anyone to do this to me either.
Before he was appointed I had heard of Mini and Tommy but not of Mark. Similarly I had never heard of Kevin MacDonald either.
If there is to be a change, I hope it’s at the end of the season. It would be lunacy if the Swindon Town board – whose fans hoped for a mid table finish rather than relegation – sack their manager because they are unlikely to make the play-offs.
On the flip side, if we genuinely cannot afford a manager with a proven successful track record – and therefore somewhat increasing the chances of success – then this is OK with me as long as the club do not set themselves unrealistic targets at the same time.
There have been many managerial changes in the FL this year. Many haven’t worked out, the notable exception being Nigel Clough, who may just elevate Sheffield United from possible relegation to PO outsiders….
March 10, 2014 11:20 pm
Great article Ron. I’m insulated from seeing the style as I don’t get to the games, being based in Oz, but I do remember the Danny Wilson days where superb performances in 67 and 68 against West Ham, Forest and Sheffield Wednesday in the cup were offset by disappointment in the League.
It wasn’t until we secured Frank Burroughs, John Smith and Peter Noble in 1968 that we finally got the team into shape to sweep all before us in 69.
You can’t buy success in League One without risking oblivion, as we saw under PdeC. You need to build up and that takes time. My expectations were raised after a good start like everyone’s and I’m disappointed but we have the nucleus of a good young side and we need to keep building.
The young players will mature and learn and so will Mark Cooper.
As it is, I’m sure this discussion is irrelevant. Lee Power seems to have a vision which includes playing a certain way and planning for the long term. Getting rid of Mark Cooper after a season in line with his plans makes no sense.
stfconly
March 11, 2014 9:21 am
Steve’s point final is excellent: Cooper won’t be sacked (nor should he be) as Power’s long term plan is progressing, albeit with a blip of late. This season should be most difficult as it is the transitional one. Next season we should avoid:
– a scratch squad assembled in a rush – hence uneven nature of team. Such as having no striker into autumn.
– complete lack of preseason for a huge chunk of the squad, which has seemingly contributed to numerous strains and pulls. There has been some bad luck with injuries to Reis and Smith.
– A change in manager on the eve of the season, and an assistant coming in.
– a substantial chunk of the wage bill not being on the pitch – William, Benson, Rooney, Roberts, TaH, Navaro etc.
The obvious caveat is that loans need to be sorted earlier so they can be fit and duplication avoided in position.
Next season will be the time to make any assessment as then Cooper will have had a chance to contribute to recruitment, drill the shape and the fitness so it remains throughout the season, and can play a settled team, shape and style.
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Rowan bans hover boards after reports of safety hazards
Ashleigh Albert
As of January 14, Hover Boards have been both prohibited from possession and use on the Rowan University campus.
According to an email all students received from Travis Douglas, Assistant Vice President for Residential Learning & Inclusion Programs, students who are found in possession of the item will be in violation of the list of prohibited items on campus, and the Hover Board will be confiscated.
Though some students may view the ban as unfortunate, it was implemented for practical reasons.
“Back in December, the university was made aware that there were many Hover Boards across the nation which were resulting in fires,” Douglas said.
The case is so severe the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (U.S. CPSC), a federal organization which oversees product safety, is investigating these incidents and their causes. Engineers from U.S. CPSC are currently investigating what specifically causes these fires to occur, confirming that there is an unknown defect on at least some models of Hover Boards.
Despite the evident safety hazards associated with possessing Hover Boards, Douglas also said the university prohibited these items due to other safety concerns.
“Hover Boards are used differently than, for example, bikes. They require a different kind of balance,” Douglas said. “There have been many incidents reported by national news services where riders of Hover Boards have been involved in injuring pedestrians.”
Both of these concerns together indicated to the university that there is a very serious safety concern involving Hover Boards, so the decision was made to restrict their use on campus. Douglas noted that most New Jersey and Mid-Atlantic region colleges have also taken similar restrictive actions. Fortunately, no accidents having to do with Hover Boards have been reported on the Rowan University campus.
“We didn’t want to wait for an incident to happen at Rowan, so we decided to move forward with the restriction,” Douglas said. “It became necessary to restrict them for now as even national organizations struggle to figure out the causes of the defective models specifically.”
At the present moment, there is no end date to the ban on Hover Boards, but the university may revisit the policy if they begin to better understand the problem.
“The ban could possibly be lifted if we learn that some models are safer in the future,” Douglas said.
U.S. CPSC has detailed an official report on their concerns and research on Hover Boards, and the organization even urged customers to avoid buying Hover Boards during the holiday season back in December 2015.
“The U.S. CPSC’s report was to be taken seriously,” Douglas said. “Therefore, this is a fairly straightforward policy and for now, it’s going to stay in place. We really do have the student’s safety at its heart.”
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1. Learning Paths
1.1. Learning about Blockchain Basics
1.2. Learning about Mimblewimble Implementation
1.3. Learning about Bulletproofs
2.1. Elliptic Curves 101
2.2. Introduction to Schnorr Signatures
2.3. Introduction to Scriptless Scripts
2.4. The MuSig Schnorr Signature Scheme
2.5. Fraud Proofs
2.6. Bulletproofs and Mimblewimble
2.7. Building on Bulletproofs
2.8. The Bulletproof Protocols
2.9. Pure-Rust Elliptic Curve Cryptography
2.10. zk-SNARKs
2.11. Rank-1 Constraint System with Application to Bulletproofs
2.12. Amortization of Bulletproofs Inner-Product Proof
2.13. Trustless Recursive Zero-Knowledge Proofs
3. Consensus Mechanisms
3.1. Understanding BFT Consensus
3.2. BFT Consensus Mechanisms
3.3. Introduction to Applications of Byzantine Consensus Mechanisms
4. Scaling
4.1. Layer 2 Scaling Survey
4.2. Layer 2 Scaling Survey Executive Summary
4.3. Directed Acyclic Graphs
4.4. Laser Beam
5. Merged Mining
5.1. Merged Mining Introduction
6. Digital Assets
6.1. Application of Howey to Blockchain Network Token Sales
6.2. Non-fungible Tokens Survey
6.3. Confidential Assets
7.1. Mimblewimble A High-Level Overview
7.2. Mimblewimble Transactions Explained
7.3. Mimblewimble-Grin Block Chain Protocol Overview
7.4. Grin vs. BEAM; a Comparison
7.5. Grin Design Choice Criticisms - Truth or Fiction
7.6. Atomic Swaps
7.7. Lightning Network for Dummies
7.8. Introduction to SPV, Merkle Trees and Bloom Filters
7.9. The RGB Protocol - An Introduction
7.10. Introduction to Tor and I2P
7.11. Distributed Hash Tables
7.12. Mimblewimble Multiparty Bulletproof UTXO
8. Network Analysis
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8.2. Probability of a Byzantine Takeover of the Digital Assets Network
9. Labs
9.1. Mermaid Demonstration
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Grin vs. BEAM, a Comparison
Comparison of Features and Implementation in Grin vs. BEAM
Grin Unique Features
BEAM Unique Features
Proof of Work Mining Algorithm
Governance Models and Monetary Policy
Conclusions, Observations and Recommendations
Appendix A: Cuckoo/Cuckatoo Cycle Proof of Work Algorithm
Grin and BEAM are two open-source cryptocurrency projects based on the Mimblewimble protocol. The Mimblewimble protocol was first proposed by an anonymous user using the pseudonym Tom Elvis Jedusor (the French translation of Voldemort's name from the Harry Potter series of books). This user logged onto a bitcoin research Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel and posted a link to a text article hosted on a Tor hidden service [1]. This article provided the basis for a new way to construct blockchain-style transactions that provided inherent privacy and the ability to dramatically reduce the size of the blockchain by compressing the transaction history of the chain. The initial article presented the main ideas of the protocol, but left out a number of critical elements required for a practical implementation and even contained a mistake in the cryptographic formulation. Andrew Poelstra published a follow-up paper that addresses many of these issues and refines the core concepts of Mimblewimble [2], which have been applied to the practical implementation of this protocol in both the Grin [3] and BEAM [4] projects.
The Mimblewimble protocol describes how transacting parties will interactively work to build a valid transaction using their public/private key pairs (which are used to prove ownership of transaction outputs) and interactively chosen blinding factors. Blinding factors are used to obfuscate the participants' public keys from everyone, including each other, and to hide the value of the transaction from everyone except the counterparty in that specific transaction. The protocol also performs a process called cut-through, which condenses transactions by eliminating intermediary transactions. This improves privacy and compresses the amount of data that is maintained on the blockchain [3]. This cut-through process precludes general-purpose scripting systems such as those found in Bitcoin. However, Andrew Poelstra proposed the concept of Scriptless scripts, which make use of Schnorr signatures to build adaptor signatures that allow for encoding of many of the behaviors that scripts are traditionally used to achieve. Scriptless scripts enable functionality such as payment channels (e.g. Lightning Network) and atomic swaps [5].
The Grin and BEAM projects both implement the Mimblewimble protocol, but both have been built from scratch. Grin is written in RUST and BEAM in C++. This report describes some of the aspects of each project that set them apart. Both projects are still in their early development cycles and many of these details are changing on a daily basis. Furthermore, the BEAM project documentation is mostly available only in Russian. As of the writing of this report, not all the technical details are available for English readers. Therefore the discussion in this report will most likely become outdated as the projects evolve.
This report is structured as follows:
Firstly, some implementation details are given and unique features of the projects are discussed.
Secondly, the differences in the projects' Proof-of-Work (PoW) algorithms are examined.
Finally, the projects' governance models are discussed.
The two projects are being independently built from scratch by different teams in different languages (Rust [6] and C++ [7]), so there will be many differences in the raw implementations. For example, Grin uses the Lightning Memory-mapped Database (LMDB) for its embedded database and BEAM uses SQLite. Although they have performance differences, they are functionally similar. Grin uses a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) to represent its mempool to avoid transaction reference loops [8], while BEAM uses a multiset key-value data structure with logic to enable some of its extended features [7].
From the perspective of features, the two projects exhibit all the features inherent to Mimblewimble. Grin's stated goal is to produce a simple and easy to maintain implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol [3]. BEAM's implementation, however, contains a number of modifications to the Mimblewimble approach, with the aim to provide some unique features for its implementation. Before we get into the features and design elements that set the two projects apart, let's discuss an interesting feature that both projects have implemented.
Both Grin and BEAM have incorporated a version of the Dandelion relay protocol, which supports transaction aggregation. One of the major outstanding challenges for privacy that cryptocurrencies face is that it is possible to track transactions as they are added to the mempool and propagate across the network, and to link those transactions to their originating IP addresses. This information can be used to deanonymize users, even on networks with strong transaction privacy. The Dandelion network propagation scheme was proposed to improve privacy during the propagation of transactions to the network [9]. In this scheme, transactions are propagated in two phases: the Anonymity (or "stem") phase and the Spreading (or "fluff") phase, as illustrated in Figure 1.
In the stem (anonymity) phase, a transaction is propagated to only a single randomly selected peer from the current node's peer list. After a random number of hops along the network, each hop propagating to only a single random peer, the propagation process enters the second phase.
During the fluff (spreading) phase, the transaction is propagated using a full flood/diffusion method, as found in most networks. This approach means that the transaction has first propagated to a random point in the network before flooding the network, thereby making it much more difficult to track its origin.
Figure 1: Two Phases of Dandelion Peer-to-peer Transaction Propagation [9]
Both projects have adapted this approach to work with Mimblewimble transactions. Grin's implementation allows for transaction aggregation and cut-through in the stem phase of propagation, which provides even greater anonymity to the transactions before they spread during the fluff phase [10]. In addition to transaction aggregation and cut-through, BEAM introduces “dummy” transactions that are added in the stem phase to compensate for situations when real transactions are not available [33].
Grin is aiming to be a simple and minimal reference implementation of a Mimblewimble blockchain. It is therefore not aiming to include many features to extend the core Mimblewimble functionality, as discussed. However, the Grin implementation does include some interesting implementation choices that it has documented in depth on its growing Github repository's wiki.
For example, Grin has implemented a method for a node to sync the blockchain very quickly by only downloading a partial history [11]. A new node entering the network will query the current head block of the chain and then request the block header at a horizon. In the example, the horizon is initially set at 5,000 blocks before the current head. The node then checks if there is enough data to confirm consensus. If there isn't consensus, the node will increase its horizon until consensus is reached. At that point, it will download the full Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO) set of the horizon block. This approach does introduce a few security risks, but mitigations are provided and the result is that a node can sync to the network with an order of magnitude less data.
Since the initial writing of this article (October 2018), BEAM has published its solution for fast node synchronization using macroblocks. A macroblock is a complete state of all UTXOs, periodically created by BEAM nodes [12].
BEAM has set out to extend the feature set of Mimblewimble in a number of ways. BEAM supports setting an explicit incubation period on a UTXO, which limits its ability to be spent to a specific number of blocks after its creation [13]. This is different to a timelock, which prevents a transaction from being added to a block before a certain time. BEAM also supports the traditional timelock feature, but includes the ability to also specify an upper time limit, after which the transaction can no longer be included in a block [13]. This feature means that a party can be sure that if a transaction is not included in a block on the main blockchain after a certain time, it will never appear.
Another unique feature of BEAM is the implementation of an auditable wallet. For a business to operate in a given regulatory environment, it will need to demonstrate its compliance to the relevant authorities. BEAM has proposed a wallet designed for compliant businesses, which generates additional public/private key pairs specifically for audit purposes. These signatures are used to tag transactions so that only the auditing authority that is given the public key can identify those transactions on the blockchain, but cannot create transactions with this tag. This allows a business to provide visibility of its transactions to a given authority without compromising its privacy to the public [14].
BEAM's implementation of Dandelion improves privacy by adding decoy transaction outputs at the stem phase. Each such output has a value of zero, but is indistinguishable from regular outputs. At a later stage (a randomly calculated number of blocks for each output), the UTXOs are added as inputs to new transactions, thus spending them and removing them from the blockchain.
BEAM has also proposed another feature aimed at keeping the blockchain as compact as possible. In Mimblewimble, as transactions are added, cut-through is performed, which eliminates all intermediary transaction commitments [3]. However, the transaction kernels for every transaction are never removed. BEAM has proposed a scheme to reuse these transaction kernels to validate subsequent transactions [13]. In order to consume the existing kernels without compromising the transaction irreversibility principle, BEAM proposes that a multiplier be applied to an old kernel by the same user who has visibility of the old kernel, and that this be used in a new transaction. In order to incentivize transactions to be built in this way, BEAM includes a fee refund model for these types of transactions. This feature will not be part of the initial release.
When constructing a valid Mimblewimble transaction, the parties involved need to collaborate in order to choose blinding factors that balance. This interactive negotiation requires a number of steps and it implies that the parties need to be in communication to finalize the transaction. Grin facilitates this process by the two parties connecting directly to one another using a socket-based channel for a "real-time" session. This means that both parties need to be online simultaneously. BEAM has implemented a Secure Bulletin Board System (SBBS) that is run on BEAM full-nodes to allow for asynchronous negotiation of transactions ([30], [31]).
Requiring the interactive participation of both parties in constructing a transaction can be a point of friction in using a Mimblewimble blockchain. In addition to the secure BBS communication channel, BEAM also plans to support one-sided transactions where the payee in a transaction who expects to be paid a certain amount can construct their half of the transaction and send this half-constructed transaction to the payer. The payer can then finish constructing the transaction and publish it to the blockchain. Under the normal Mimblewimble system this is not possible, because it would involve revealing your blinding factor to the counterparty. BEAM solves this problem by using a process it calls kernel fusion, whereby a kernel can include a reference to another kernel so that it is only valid if both kernels are present in the transaction. In this way, the payee can build their half of the transaction with a secret blinding factor and a kernel that compensates for their blinding factor, which must be included when the payer completes the transaction [13].
Both projects make use of a number of Merkle tree structures to keep track of various aspects of the respective blockchains. Details of the exact trees and what they record are documented for both projects ([16], [17]). BEAM, however, makes use of a Radix-Hash tree structure for some of its trees. This structure is a modified Merkle tree that is also a binary search tree. This provides a number of features that the standard Merkle trees do not have, and which BEAM exploits in its implementation [17].
The features discussed here can all be seen in the code at the time of writing (May 2019), although this is not a guarantee that they are working. A couple of features, which have been mentioned in the literature as planned for the future, have not yet been implemented. These include embedding signed textual content into transactions that can be used to record contract text [13], and issuing confidential assets [18].
Proof-of-Work Mining Algorithm
BEAM has announced that it will employ the Equihash PoW mining algorithm with the parameters set to n=150, k=5 [32]. Equihash was proposed in 2016 as a memory-hard PoW algorithm that relied heavily on memory usage to achieve Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) resistance [19]. The goal was to produce an algorithm that would be more efficient to run on consumer Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) as opposed to the growing field of ASIC miners, mainly produced by Bitmain at the time. It was hoped this would assist cryptocurrencies that used this algorithm, to decentralize the mining power. The idea behind Equihash's ASIC resistance was that at the time, implementing memory in an ASIC was expensive and GPUs were more efficient at calculating the Equihash PoW. This ASIC resistance lasted for a while, but in early 2018, Bitmain released an ASIC for Equihash that was significantly more efficient than GPUs for the Equihash configurations used by Zcash, Bitcoin Gold and Zencash, to name a few. It is possible to tweak the parameters of the Equihash algorithm to make it more memory intensive and thus make current ASICs and the older GPU mining farms obsolete, but it remains to be seen if BEAM will do this. No block time has been published at the time of writing of this report (May 2019).
Grin initially opted to use the new Cuckoo Cycle PoW algorithm, also purported to be ASIC resistant due to being memory latency bound [20]. This means that the algorithm is bound by memory bandwidth rather than raw processor speed, with the hope that it will make mining possible on commodity hardware.
In August 2018, the Grin team announced at the launch of its mainnet that it had become aware that it was likely that an ASIC would be available for the Cuckoo cycle algorithm [21]. While acknowledging that ASIC mining is inevitable, Grin is concerned that the current ASIC market is very centralized (i.e. Bitmain), and it wants to foster a grassroots GPU mining community for two years, in the early days of Grin. After two years, Grin hopes that ASICs will have become more of a commodity and thus decentralized.
To address this, it was proposed to use two PoW algorithms initially: one that is ASIC Friendly (AF) and one that is ASIC Resistant (AR), and then to select which PoW is used per block to balance the mining rewards between the two algorithms, over a 24‑hour period. The Governance committee resolved on 25 September 2018 to go ahead with this approach, using a modified version of the Cuckoo Cycle algorithm, called the Cuckatoo Cycle. The AF algorithm at launch will be Cuckatoo32+, which will gradually increase its memory requirements to make older single-chip ASICs obsolete over time. The AR algorithm is still not defined [23].
Both the Grin and BEAM projects are open-source and available on Github ([6], [7]). The Grin project has 75 contributors, eight of which have contributed the vast majority of the code. BEAM has 10 contributors, four of which have contributed the vast majority of the code (at the time of writing). The two projects have opted for different models of governance. BEAM has opted to set up a foundation that includes the core developers, to manage the project. This is the route taken by most cryptocurrency projects in this space. The Grin community has decided against setting up a central foundation and has compiled an interesting discussion of the pros and cons of a centralized foundation [22]. This document contains a very in-depth discussion that weighs up the various governance functions that a foundation might serve, and evaluates each use case. The Grin community came to the conclusion that while foundations are useful, they do not provide the only solution to governance problems, and have therefore opted to remain a completely decentralized community-driven project. Currently, decisions are made at periodic governance meetings that are convened on Gitter with community members, where an agenda is discussed and decisions are ratified. Agendas and minutes of these meetings can be found in the Grin Forums governance section. An example of the outcomes of such a meeting can be seen in [23].
Neither project will engage in an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) or pre-mine, but the two projects also have different funding models. BEAM set up a Limited Liability Company (LLC) and has attracted investors to it for its initial round of non-profit BEAM Foundation that will take over the management of the protocol during the first year after launch [24]. The goal of the Foundation will be to support maintenance and further development of BEAM; promote relevant cryptographic research; support awareness and education in the areas of financial privacy; and support academic work in adjacent areas. In the industry, this treasury mechanism is called a dev tax. Grin will not levy a dev tax on the mining rewards, and will rely on community participation and community funding. The Grin project does accept financial support, but these funding campaigns are conducted according to their "Community Funding Principles" [25], which will be conducted on a "need-by-need" basis. A campaign will specify a specific need it aims to fulfill (e.g. "Hosting fees for X for the next year") and the funding will be received by the community member who ran the campaign. This will provide 100% visibility regarding who is responsible for the received funds. An example of a funding campaign is the Developer Funding Campaign run by Yeastplume to fund his full-time involvement in the project from October 2018 to February 2019. Refer to [26].
In terms of the monetary policy of the two projects, BEAM has stated that it will be using a deflationary model with periodic halving of its mining reward and a maximum supply of BEAM of 262,800,000 coins. BEAM will start with 100 coins emitted per block. The first halving will occur after one year. Halving will then happen every four years [32]. Grin has opted for an inflationary model where the block reward will remain constant, making its arguments for this approach in [27]. This approach will asymptotically tend towards a zero percent dilution as the supply increases, instead of enforcing a set supply [28]. Grin has not yet specified its mining reward or fees structure, but based on its current documentation, it is planning on a 60 grin per block reward. Neither project has made a final decision regarding how to structure fees, but the Grin project has started to explore how to set a fee baseline by using a metric of "fees per reward per minute" [28].
In summary, Grin and BEAM are two open-source projects that are implementing the Mimblewimble blockchain scheme. Both projects are building from scratch. Grin uses Rust while BEAM uses C++; therefore there are many technical differences in their design and implementation. However, from a functional perspective, both projects will support all the core Mimblewimble functionality. Each project does contain some unique functionality, but as Grin's goal is to produce a minimalistic implementation of Mimblewimble, most of the unique features that extend Mimblewimble lie in the BEAM project. The following list summarizes the functional similarities and differences between the two projects.
Similarities:
Core Mimblewimble feature set.
Dandelion relay protocol.
Grin unique features:
Partial history syncing.
DAG representation of Mempool to prevent duplicate UTXOs and cyclic transaction references.
BEAM unique features:
Secure BBS hosted on the nodes for establishing communication between wallets. Removes the need for sender and receiver to be online at the same time.
Use of decoy outputs in Dandelion stem phase. Decoy outputs are later spent to avoid clutter on blockchain.
Explicit UTXO incubation period.
Timelocks with a minimum and maximum threshold.
Auditable transactions as part of the roadmap.
One-sided transaction construction for non-interactive payments.
Use of Radix-Hash trees.
Both projects are still very young. At the time of writing this report (May 2019), both are still in the testnet phase, and many of their core design choices have not yet been built or tested. Much of the BEAM wiki is still in Russian, so it is likely that there are details to which we are not yet privy. It will be interesting to keep an eye on these projects to see how their various decisions play out, both technically and in terms of their monetary policy and governance models.
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This section contains some information on topics discussed in the report, details of which are not directly relevant to the Grin vs. BEAM discussion.
Appendix A: Cuckoo/Cuckatoo Cycle Proof-of-Work Algorithm
The Cuckoo Cycle algorithm is based on finding cycles of a certain length of edges in a bipartite graph of N nodes and M edges. The graph is bipartite because it consists of two separate groups of nodes with edges that connect nodes from one set to the other. As an example, let's consider nodes with even indices to be in one group and nodes with odd indices to be in another group. Figure 2 shows eight nodes with four randomly placed edges, N = 8 and M = 4. So if we are looking for cycles of length 4, we can easily confirm that none exist in Figure 2. By adjusting the number of edges present in the graph vs. the number of nodes, we can control the probability that a cycle of a certain length exists in the graph. When looking for cycles of length 4, the difficulty, as illustrated in Figure 2, is that a 4/8 (M/N) graph would mean that the four edges would need to be randomly chosen in an exact cycle for one to exist [29].
Figure 2: Eight Nodes with Four Edges, no Solution [29]
If we increase the number of edges in the graph relative to the number of nodes, we adjust the probability of a cycle occurring in the randomly chosen set of edges. Figure 3 shows an example of M = 7 and N = 8, and it can be seen that a four-edged cycle appeared. Thus, we can control the probability of a cycle of a certain length occurring by adjusting the ratio of M/N [29].
Figure 3: Cycle Found from 0-5-4-1-0 [29]
Detecting that a cycle of a certain length has occurred in a graph with randomly selected edges becomes significantly more difficult as the number of graphs gets larger. Figure 4 shows a 22‑node graph with 14 random edges in it. Can you determine if a cycle of eight edges is present? [29]
Figure 4: 22 Nodes with 14 Edges, can you find a Cycle Eight Edges Long? [29]
The Cuckoo cycle PoW algorithm is built to solve this problem. The bipartite graph that is analyzed is called a "Cuckoo Hashtable", where a key is inserted into two arrays, each with its own hash function, in a location based on the hash of the key. Each key inserted in this way produces an edge between the locations generated by the two hashing functions. Nonces are enumerated for the hashing functions until a cycle of the desired length is detected. This algorithm has two main control parameters. It is difficult to establish the M/N ratio and the number of nodes in the graph. There are a number of variants of this algorithm that make speed/memory trade-offs [20]. In Grin, a third difficulty parameter was introduced to more finely tune the difficulty of the PoW algorithm to ensure a one-minute block time in the face of changing network hash rates. This was done by taking a Blake2b hash of the set of nonces and ensuring that the result is above a difficulty threshold [29].
https://github.com/philipr-za
https://github.com/hansieodendaal
https://github.com/SWvheerden
https://github.com/anselld
Some clarification by BEAM CEO Alexander Zaidelson https://github.com/azaidelson
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The Sienci Mill One was a strange tool to start with – bare-bones to be barely usable yet with potential of turning into a much more capable machine. Here’s the mods and improvements I made to finally get it cutting aluminum!
Today we find ourselves in my former printcave – the printers have moved on to the studio, but I’m keeping the dirtier tools here in the basement. And one of those tools is the Sienci Labs Mill One CNC, which for the rest of the video, I’ll call Bob for stupid, but obvious reasons. Bob is a moving-bed CNC router, kinda similar to the Carbide 3D Nomad, and as-is, it was ok, it was usable for light wood cutting and so on, but there were a few things that were bothering me about it, and in my mind, if I fixed those, I would be able to use it for at least cutting aluminum, and that would make it a massively more useful machine for me. The folks making this open-source router were happy to see some mods, so I went at it and now it cuts aluminum. Sorta. But better than before. So let’s go through what issues I tried to fix, what worked and what didn’t.
Okay, let’s get going with the end brackets here.
So, Bob has a pretty sleek build with three axes that are built similarly, but also use identical printed parts. Especially for 3D printed parts, they really don’t need to be identical, but still, it’s cool to see that multifunction built in.
So it’s a main aluminum profile that they’ve got some openbuilds wheels running on, a leadscrew in the center, some sort of a carriage that runs on it and then these brackets at the end that either bolt the track to the frame or hold a stepper motor to drive the leadscrew. Or both.
Now, these are the original brackets, and with those, the X and Y axes were incredibly easy to twist about, and you could see the profile actually sliding around on the MDF.
Of course, flex like this is deadly for cutting any harder material, and since there is still plenty of flex in the other bits, making this machine more rigid in whatever way you can manage is kind of important. My simple fix for these brackets: Adding two more bolt holes as little ears – these actually fit in all the places where the original part is used, on top of the Z-axis it would look a bit silly, but but with two extra holes drilled on each end of the X and Y axes, those were already significantly stiffened up.
I don’t have a before, but I can take out two bolts and kind of show you the difference. I could have made these parts even more rigid, though.
The other bit is this spindle or router mount. By default, it’s less than half as tall and only uses two screws to attach to the aluminum profile, and as such, it does flex when the router and the endmill engage with your material and produce cutting forces.
So yeah, made that longer, added two more screws, done. There’s a little adapter sleeve in here because I didn’t nail the router’s diameter first try and I didn’t want to reprint the entire thing. Oh well.
Now, on the choice of router for Bob. There’s two, three maybe different types of spindles used in hobby machines. One is this style of trim router.
Then there’s the low-end brushed or brushless “spindles” with around 400W of power, which are basically just a motor with an ER11 collet screwed on.
And then there’s the brushless water- or air-cooled spindles, typically a kilowatt or more. Now, aside from form-factor, cost and noise, the biggest factor for whether a spindle is going to work for you is the RPM range. I do like the simple brushless ER11 spindle that’s now living on the MendelMax Mill, but that only goes up to 12k RPM. Sounds like a lot, but because these machines aren’t really rigid enough to be running ¼” or 6mm endmills, the go-to tooling is ⅛ – and that needs to be run quite fast to cut properly. I’m running this single-flute endmill at about 20k RPM and I have a feeling that I maybe should even be going a bit faster. The Makita I’m using can be set between 10 and 30k RPM and that range should work for both smaller and larger tools than what I’m using.
It’s also a very cheap option, actually, since it doesn’t need a power supply or driver or anything, but the downside is that the collet it comes with only clamps 6mm endmills – not ⅛”. You can buy a custom-made ⅛ collet, but after shipping and tax, that would cost me as much as the entire tool.
So for now, I’m using these adapter collets, which do add a bit of runout, but hey, if they’re good enough for Winston Moy, then they sure are good enough for me.
If you don’t know Winston Moy, go check him out, that guy is a wizard on the Carbide 3D machines, which punch in the same weight as Bob.
So ok, that’s the router or the spindle. Which cuts… your workpiece. And by default, you get no option for workholding on Bob, there’s just this slab of Delrin that isn’t flat or square with your axes, so you really need some sort of wasteboard that you can then mill flat and true in the machine itself.
Of course, you could tape something to the stock Delrin, but I wanted it a bit more secure, so I has Bob mill a few holes into itself and then tapped them to M8 to screw down the wasteboard properly.
I’ve also got a few holes that I can use to bolt down a small little machine vise.
I have been offered an upgraded bed assembly by the folks at Sienci Labs, I think at MRRF last year, but because I was only traveling with a light carry-on back then, I couldn’t really take those heavy steel parts home with me. Maybe, at some time in the future, this linear rail setup might end up in another hard staredown with me.
Mechanically, there’s not much else to the machine, other than, maybe, the frame? So of course I modded the frame as well. By default, the only thing keeping this thing square are these corner brackets and, to an extent, the rails and their end pieces. But there’s no diagonal support, or anything, so if I wack one end, the entire thing might just settle down out of square by a millimeter or two. And it was out of square, actually. By about that much.
So I added yet another mod, and that’s a bottom piece to the entire MDF frame, I cut this square square as best as I could and then just wood-glued it to the existing frame while forcing it to line up. I think I may have made access to the openbuilds wheels in the bottom here a bit harder by doing that, but I can always cut a hole back into the bottom if I need more access.
So the last two changes that I made were actually much less about hardware but more about making better use of the hardware that is now there. I think I’ve covered all the low-hanging fruit when it comes to improving the mechanics and anything past that is going to require significant effort for replacing parts and adapting to the new ones.
So what’s left? First, I tried a bunch of different tools, endmills, and kind of a secret sauce seems to be using a single-flute cutter. In fact, Sienci Labs had provided me with two of these nice, shiny ⅛” single-flute endmills, but just like items in video games, you kind of end up saving the powerful stuff way too long and never actually use it.
In my case, I’m using these cheaper ⅛” single-flute endmills and they’re amazing. They’re super sharp and do a great job with chip clearing. What they allow you to do is to still shave off a decent chip at “reasonable” cutting parameters without putting too much stress on the kinematics of these rather floppy machines. I like it.
Also, no coolant or lubrication or anything. I found out that if you get your feeds and speeds right, overheating of your part and the chip welding and gumming up you get from that just stops being an issue. So any sort of fluid I’d add to the cut to cool or lubricate would just have the chips stick to the part instead of flying off, and that causes its own set of issues.
If anything, I’d use a bit of compressed air to cool and clear chips.
But I think the biggest upgrade was actually free – in changing away from using estlCam or Kiri.Moto to to doing CAM in Fusion360. The recommended CAM for Bob is Kiri.Moto, which now is available stand-alone, but if I remember correctly, it used to be only available as a plugin for OnShape. An OnShape changed their license terms so that any form of commercial use, including even what I’m doing, requires you to buy a license, starting at $1,500 per year. That’s as much as buying an entirely new CNC router… every year. So kinda pointless. With the standalone version, that would be sorted, but it’s still a fairly limited tool that treats CNC machining kinda like 3D printing – one button auto-generates everything. I guess that can work for softer, non-critical materials, but you have little control over the exact cuts that are being made. ESTLcam is mostly a 2D tool and requires imports and exports of your models, so using Fusion and just being able to pull over designs from the “Design” into the “Manufacturing” workspace is super convenient and efficient.
And yeah, it’s free – at least for small businesses and hobbyists, and if you do need a license it’s way less expensive than other options. Oh, and the CAM is actually really, really good. So I spent a bit of time tuning in my settings and I’ve now got a reliable set of presets for cutting aluminum, and I guess they should also work for acrylic, hardwood and anything else that cuts similarly. For softer materials, I guess I can always still crank up the feedrate.
I’m sorry about the not-so-great quality of these clips, I recorded some of these with my phone – which died right after I was done, so instead of a 4K clip, I’ve only got the compressed 1080p backup. Oh well.
So I started with this usually pretty horrible rolled aluminum, this is AlMg0.5 or AlMg3 or something, 1050 or 6060, and usually it just gums up endmills like crazy. If I can cut this, then I should be able to cut any other grade of aluminum as well, and I think I’ve achieved that. It’s not fast – not that I expected it to be on this machine, but it’s a clean-enough cut that I’m happy with it and it’s dimensionally… ok. The endmill still takes off material after the third spring pass, so, I don’t know, there’s still some work to do. But hey, it’s proper aluminum chips on a machine that’s built from wood, mostly, with some 3D printed parts, leadscrews and linear rails that barely even qualify as “rails”, so I’m happy. And it does the job I wanted it to do – to cut some parts for some test jigs that I’ll use in the next season of my Filaween filament tests.
But yes, there is still room for improvement. With the vise mounted and a part in there, the machine basically runs out of Z travel, and at that tall of a lever arm on the bed, the flex that’s still present in the bed assembly makes for some… challenges when cutting. Replacing the bed with proper linear rails and a ballscrew doesn’t seem too hard, though, especially now that I’ve got the frame closed off at the bottom.
I also need to rethink this wasteboard.
On the one hand, it’s already adding height to the bed – and height is a limited resource, but this MDF used to be 10mm thick and after planing it down twice, there are only about 7 or 8 mm left, which isn’t really enough to screw parts down into, so I’ve always had to screw down into the Delrin base – which is normally not considered a consumable part, so any holes in there are permanent.
Also, the leadscrews used here, well, they are leadscrews, so they have some backlash. The GRBL firmware for whatever reason refuses to include backlash compensation – even Marlin support that – and the spring-loaded pretensioning thingies on the leadscrew nuts don’t really do a fantastic job, either, the spring is too weak to overcome the cutting forces, so you end up with cuts one direction being pushed by the non-springy part of the nut, which works great, but then cuts the other way are basically being dragged along only by the spring, which makes for somewhat inconsistent cuts. I mean, at this point, you can get a backlash-free ballscrew – with proper axis bearings instead of relying on the bearings in the motors – for just about 30 bucks, so to me that’s a no-brainer upgrade. Just takes some effort to install.
But again, the goal was to cut aluminum, Bob now cuts aluminum. I think the folks from Sienci Labs have learned from the Mill One, because when I look at the Longmill, which is the only machine they sell now after the Mill One was discontinued, it looks like pretty much everything I did on this Mill One is already improved or designed differently on the Longmill. If you want to know more about that machine, here’s the interview I did with them before it got launched on Kickstarter last year.
Sienci Lab's new long, budget CNC router! #MRRF2019
So yeah, I now have a way to cut aluminum – there’s surely more potential for optimization, but for now, this is usable. I’m happy!
So I hope you guys are safe and sane, too, if you enjoy these videos, consider subscribing or even supporting the channel directly. Also, please feel free to tell me in the comments below what I’m still doing wrong with this machine – this is something that I also want to learn more about because being able to work with metals sometimes is really, really useful. Anyway, friends, keep on making, and I’ll see you in the next one.
Relevant parts:
6mm to 1/8″ collet adapter (get the black and silver ground ones)
Makita RT0700
Sienci Mill One
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Kerry Morgan
Why choose organic?
Beauty that
protects the planet
We do good so you can feel good and look good, naturally
Organic products are kind to the earth, as they have no:
Harmful pesticides
GM ingredients
Controversial chemicals
Parabens and phthalates
Synthetic colours, dyes or fragrances
They’re also kind to you as they have all their natural antioxidants, vitamins and minerals
That’s why we’re pioneers in certified organic health and beauty, having been certified by the Soil Association since 1991. Wherever you see the Soil Association or COSMOS Organic logos, you can rest assured of the quality and integrity of the organic product you are buying – so don’t forget to #LookForTheLogo.
We also follow the Precautionary Principle – you won’t find anything in our products we believe could cause you or the planet harm, just lots of ethically sourced, natural and organic ingredients.
Click here to find out what ingredients we avoid.
Discover the causes
we’re campaigning for…
World Land Trust™
The World Land Trust (WLT) works to save threatened habitats acre by acre, creating protected nature reserves around the world safeguarding some of the planet’s most vulnerable habitats and wildlife. Our packaging is Carbon Balanced through the World Land Trust™, which means that we offset the amount of CO2 used to make our packaging by protecting tropical forest. Since 2012 we’ve helped save over 1,000,000m² of endangered forest, offsetting 250 tonnes of CO2.
Microbeads ban
We’ve never used plastic microbeads in any of our scrubs and polishes and are proud to have successfully lobbied the UK government, alongside Greenpeace and Fauna & Flora International to lobby the UK government to #BanTheBead. We’re now continuing the campaign around the world with our international partners. You can choose products free from plastic ingredients with the Good Scrub Guide, Beat the Microbead App and Look for the Zero guide. Find out what else we’re doing to help protect our oceans here.
The vital bee is under threat and our pioneering Bee Lovely campaign has raised over £120,000 for bee friendly causes since its launch in 2011. With over half of UK bee species having declined in the past 50 years and 97% of wildflower meadows having disappeared since the 1930s, we’re proud to support bee-friendly organisations with sales of our nourishing and uplifting Bee Lovely range. We are also proud to have played a key role in the successful campaign to secure a ban on neonicotinoid insecticides, having handed in a 120,000-strong petition to 10 Downing Street calling for an EU-wide ban.
Organic is best
We believe buying organic is a vote towards a more sustainable future. This is why we campaign for organic, working with the Soil Association asking people to #LookfortheLogo, especially during Organic Beauty and Wellbeing Week. For more information about why Organic is best click here.
Certified ethical sourcing
The world’s first health and beauty company to be awarded 100/100 for ethics (in an independent audit by the Ethical Company Organisation), we trade sustainably and ethically. We believe that our mission to enhance and protect people's health and wellbeing starts with the very first seed, long before our ingredients arrive at our eco factory. That’s why we build strong, lasting relationships with growers who use organic, sustainable and wild-harvesting practices. We certify products with the following organisations to independently verify our ethical standards, so you can just #LookForTheLogo.
We certify our products with the Soil Association, internationally recognised for their incredibly high standards for organic food and beauty. This guarantees that a product contains the highest levels of certified organic ingredients. Our new products are now certified (by the Soil Association) to the new robust organic standard for health and beauty worldwide COSMOS Organic.
We believe that beauty and household products should be cruelty free, and are proud to be Leaping Bunny approved. A global programme, Leaping Bunny requires cruelty free standards over and above legal requirements.
All of our cosmetic, personal care and household products are approved under the Cruelty Free International Leaping Bunny programme, the internationally recognisable gold standard for cruelty free products. We adhere to a fixed cut-off date policy and proactively monitor our suppliers to ensure that our products adhere to the Leaping Bunny criteria. Our supplier monitoring system is also independently audited.
For more information about Cruelty Free International, Leaping Bunny and Leaping Bunny criteria please visit wwww.crueltyfreeinternational.org
FairWild
FairWild ensures a fair deal all along the supply chain and support for the sustainable use of wild-harvested ingredients. In 2013, we’re happy to say we introduced the world’s first FairWild™ certified organic frankincense.
Vegetarian Society
All of our products are vegetarian and many are also suitable for vegans (see our individual product pages or contact Customer Services for details of our vegan products) and we only use sustainably sourced, organic honey, beeswax and propolis.
As an ethical company, we’re mindful of our responsibility to mitigate climate change and think it’s important to lead by example. That’s why, as well as trading ethically and sustainably, we actively reduce or off-set carbon emissions throughout our business.
In 2008 we became the world’s first high street retailer to be certified CarbonNeutral® by Natural Capital Partners, having reduced our net carbon emissions to zero. Through them we purchase annual carbon credits in support of their Makira Forest Protection Project (pictured here) in Madagascar. This helps protect one of the world’s top five biodiversity hotspots by limiting deforestation and working with communities to support low-impact farming practices.
Having installed 700m2 of solar panels at our eco factory in Dorset, we now generate more than 5% of our own electricity, topped up by a 100% UK sourced renewable tariff. We also choose 100% renewable electricity and gas for our stores.
In 2017 we became the first national company to commit to the ‘Refill’ scheme, actively encouraging customers to come in and refill water flasks, to reduce the usage of single-use plastic bottles. Find out more about our progress on sustainability.
We use recyclable packaging, sourced from the UK wherever possible to reduce transport miles. All our gift boxes and product cartons are FSC® (Forestry Stewardship Council) sustainability-sourced, and use World Land Trust™ certified Carbon Balanced packaging. This means that we offset the amount of CO2 used to make our packaging by protecting tropical forest. Since 2012 we’ve helped save over 1,000,000m² of endangered forest, offsetting 250 tonnes of CO2. Find out more about our iconic blue bottles and what you can recycle.
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Eddie Jones happy to battle back as Wales threaten horror movie twist
By By Andrew Baldock and Duncan Bech, PA
Eddie Jones compared Wales’ threat of a comeback in England’s 24-13 victory over Wales at Parc y Scarlets to watching the horror film ‘Psycho’.
An 11-7 lead failed to reflect the visitors’ control of the first half and a hard-fought third quarter was fraught with danger as Wayne Pivac’s men threatened a comeback when successive Dan Biggar penalties reduced the deficit to 18-13.
But England powered home through the boot of Owen Farrell to secure their place in the Autumn Nations Cup final, which will be played in front of 2,000 fans at Twickenham next Sunday.
“At half-time it could have been a ‘Psycho’ horror movie. The woman goes to the shower and you know what’s coming from behind the shower curtain,” head coach Jones said.
“Wales did a few things at the end of the first half to put us off our game and then we had a choice at half-time of how would we react. Would we allow them to continue to do that or do we stick to our game?
“The boys showed really good tactical discipline to stick to our game. We had one little wonky period for around 10 minutes in the second half but generally we had game control so I was really pleased about that.”
England’s last defeat was against France at the start of the 2020 Six Nations – a competition they subsequently won – and since then they have compiled a series of solid if unspectacular wins.
Henry Slade scores England’s first try (David Davies/PA)
Jones, who saw Henry Slade and Mako Vunipola touch down for his pre-match favourites, wants to end the year with a bang.
“We don’t feel like we’ve played our best rugby yet so it’s our last game. It’s our grand final of 2020 and we want to make sure we put on our best performance,” Jones said.
“We want to make sure we put on a performance that lights up people’s eyes when they sit there and they look at the team and they want to be part of the team.”
Wales head coach Wayne Pivac struggled to mask his frustration with referee Romain Poite following a seventh defeat in the last eight Tests.
“We were probably a bit disappointed going in at half-time,” Pivac said. “The 11 points are probably ones that we would argue the toss with.
There's a real battle going on down in Llanelli. ⠀Ffyrnig yw'r gair ym Mharc y Scarlets.⠀#WALvENG pic.twitter.com/K1elWUBnvi
— Welsh Rugby Union 🏉 (@WelshRugbyUnion) November 28, 2020
“Dan Biggar was tackled in the air, and a try came from that.
“The TMO (television match official) called in to say it was a tackle in the air, but the referee played on.
“Dan Biggar was clearly taken in the air. The TMO comes in and calls that, but he is over-ruled by the man in the middle.
“We then asked for him (Poite) to have a look before the conversion was taken, but our captain was dismissed 20 metres away.
“That was disappointing, and the scrums also need to be tidied up. There are a lot of resets and a lot of scrum penalties being awarded, and in some cases, we think, wrongly so.”
Wayne Pivac and Wales will take their concerns to World Rugby (David Davies/PA)
Asked if Wales would raise issues with World Rugby, Pivac added: “We’ve been doing it every week, to be honest with you.
“Behind the scenes we review the performances of our players, and in doing that, we do pick up things that we send through to World Rugby.
“We’ll certainly be doing that on this particular occasion, because I wasn’t happy with the first try of England’s.”
It was a much-improved performance by Wales but ultimately, they were unable to threaten a team currently seven places above them in the world rankings.
“We asked for a lot of energy, we asked for a bit of passion,” Pivac said.
“We wanted to start well and I think we got the good start after weathering the storm, with the breakout try.”
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Arsenal have been dealt a blow in their pursuit of Emi Buendia, with Norwich City reiterating their stance that the playmaker will not be sold in the January transfer window. Standard Sport understands that Arsenal tracked Buendia last summer, and are keeping tabs on his situation during the current transfer window. With Mesut Ozil set to join Fenerbahce, the Gunners are in the market for an attacking midfielder - though Emile Smith Rowe’s impressive performances have helped fill the void for Mikel Arteta.
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II Samuel 2:4
INTRO 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
4 The men of Yehuda came and there they anointed David king over the House of Yehuda. David was told about the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Shaul.
va-ya-VO-u an-SHAY y’-hu-DAH va-yim-sh’-khu SHAM et da-VID l’-ME-lekh al BAYT y’-hu-DAH va-ya-GI-du l’-da-VID lay-MOR an-SHAY ya-VAYSH gil-AD a-SHER ka-v’-RU at sha-UL
ד וַיָּבֹאוּ אַנְשֵׁי יְהוּדָה וַיִּמְשְׁחוּ־שָׁם אֶת־דָּוִד לְמֶלֶךְ עַל־בֵּית יְהוּדָה וַיַּגִּדוּ לְדָוִד לֵאמֹר אַנְשֵׁי יָבֵישׁ גִּלְעָד אֲשֶׁר קָבְרוּ אֶת־שָׁאוּל׃
2:4 The men of Yehuda came and there they anointed David king over the House of Yehuda
At God’s instruction, following the death of King Shaul, David goes to the holy city of Chevron. There, he is anointed king by the people of Yehuda. Though the prophet Shmuel had already anointed him, his anointment by the people demonstrates their acceptance of his reign. King David rules from Chevron for seven and one half years (see verse 11). This shows that Chevron is not only the burial site of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs Avraham and Sara, Yitzchak and Rivka and Yaakov and Leah; it is also the cradle of Israel’s monarchy. Today’s Jewish community of Chevron serves a critical function by preserving Jewish sovereignty over this ancient and historic city, and the right of all to pray at the Cave of the Patriarchs.
Ariel view of the Cave of Machpelah and city of Chevron
The Cave of the Patriarchs in Chevron.
Samuel Map
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Home » Science » NNPC unveils COVID-19 contacts-tracing app
NNPC unveils COVID-19 contacts-tracing app
by TheNewsGuru
in Business News, Nigeria, Technology
…Deploys online petroleum products procurement solutions
In line with the Transparency, Accountability and Performance Excellence (TAPE) agenda of the present Leadership of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and the commitment to continually deploy Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for the purposes of operational efficiency and accountability within the corporation’s system, the National Oil Company has developed a contacts-tracing software application that would be deployed in all its locations across the country.
A release today in Abuja by NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, quoted the corporation’s Group General Manager, Information Technology Division (ITD), Danladi Inuwa, as saying that the novel app was part of the NNPC’s sectoral contribution to curb the spread of the pandemic within its formations and Ministries, departments and agencies of the government.
“The Contacts-Tracing Solution is ready to be deployed, all the technical testing have been done and the solution is ready to go live. Everywhere you go around NNPC locations would be covered by this novel application which would reveal all information about persons visiting any official and should there be any medical challenge, the NNPC Medical would be able to track from the information at the data base all the contacts and advise properly,” Inuwa averred.
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He said the application could also be used by members of staff of the corporation to document their private visitors at their homes, stressing that the novel application would enable the workforce to adjust adequately to the ‘new normal’ way of living to minimize the spread of the disease.
The IT expert stated that in order to minimize human contacts in business transactions at the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a Downstream subsidiary of NNPC, in the face of COVID-19, the corporation has also deployed a Sales and Distribution application in the Oil and Gas Secondary Model Portal that would enable marketers buy petroleum products online.
He said the application, known as the Customer Express, would also enable marketers to register, validate and revalidate their Bulk Purchase Agreements online within a week, adding that the portal provides a dashboard that enables the corporation to track every molecule of products being imported, transported and sold at every given time.
“The Portal shows what product is in transit in terms of volume, what quantity is in the jetty, what volume has gone into the pipelines, what quantity has gone into NNPC depots, private depots and refinery depots. So, we have accurate accounting of every molecule of products that we have in our system,” Inuwa disclosed.
The NNPC ITD head said already, the members of Major Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) are now purchasing products online seamlessly while the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Depot and Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPMAN) and other relevant Downstream stakeholders are expected to start transacting business on the platform soon.
He stated that an application that can show the volume of stocks in the tanks of all NNPC Retail stations across the country has equally being deployed and the ticketing digitized, affirming that more technological innovations would be deployed in the months ahead.
Inuwa stated that despite the recent lockdown in the country, the NNPC business value chains were not affected as the corporation was well-prepared, adding that the NNPC had over 4,000 virtual meetings, 9.3million minutes of audio time, 6.7million minutes of video time and 2.1million minutes of screen shared times.
He added that the robust IT business continuity plan had enhanced the corporation’s workforce efficiency.
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UNMASKED: Biden, Comey, Brennan, Plus 16 More Obama Insiders Requested the Identity of Michael Flynn
May 13, 2020 May 13, 2020 Ohio Star Staff
Former Vice President Joe Biden and the directors of the three main U.S. intelligence agencies submitted so-called “unmasking” requests for information about Michael Flynn contained in highly classified intelligence reports, according to documents released Wednesday.
The documents show that an unmasking request was made in Biden’s name on Jan. 12, 2017. Similar requests were made under the names of James Comey, John Brennan and James Clapper, the former directors of the FBI, CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence, respectively.
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Speaker Pelosi’s Coronavirus Bill Includes Billions for Eligible Illegal Aliens
Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced her party’s coronavirus relief package, which includes billions of dollars in carve outs for illegal aliens, grants to sanctuary cities, and other protections for the undocumented community.
House Democrats released the HEROES Act on Tuesday, a bill that provides a total of $3 trillion in stimulus funds to state and local governments, along with other industries affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The legislation — which was not negotiated with the GOP or the Trump administration — includes $500 billion for state governments and $375 billion for local governments.
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Commentary: Time for Trump and Barr to Declassify Everything the Obama White House Knew About Michael Flynn
The Justice Department has dismissed all charges against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, after spying on his Dec. 22, 2016 conversation he had with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak, leaking it to the Washington Post on Jan. 12, 2017, sending the FBI to ask about it on Jan. 24, 2017—all resulting in Flynn’s firing, prosecution and guilty plea, that he has since motioned to withdraw.
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Biden Denies Knowing Anything About Flynn Investigation Before Admitting He ‘Was Aware’
Presumptive Democrat Presidential nominee Joe Biden denied knowing anything about the investigation into Michael Flynn until he was reminded that he was in the room at the White House with other top Obama officials on the day the matter was discussed.
Biden’s memory was jogged by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos during an interview on “Good Morning America,” Tuesday.
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Trump Halts Federal Retirement Investments in Chinese Funds
President Donald Trump will cut the federal government’s retirement fund investments in Chinese equities, according to a Monday letter obtained by Fox Business.
The White House does not want federal employee retirement funds to have money invested in Chinese equities, national Security Adviser Robert O’Brien and National Economic Council Chair Larry Kudlow said in a letter to U.S. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia Monday.
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Commentary: Communism Survivor Warns What Will Happen If Americans Take Freedom for Granted
Too few have learned about the horrors of communism. Fewer still have escaped it and lived to tell the tale.
Amy Phan West is one such survivor. In 1984, Phan escaped Vietnam’s communist dictatorship by concealing herself in the bottom of one of her father’s fishing vessels before it set out to sea.
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POLL: Biden’s Support Among Women Drops After He Denies Sexual Assault Allegations
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s favorability rating is dropping among women amid an increase in media coverage of Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegations, a national poll found Tuesday.
Biden’s net favorability rating among women slid 6 points since April, leaving the former vice president with a 44% positive and 46% negative rating, according to a Morning Consult poll published Tuesday.
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Judge in Michael Flynn Case Isn’t Tossing Charges Just Yet
The federal judge handling the case against Michael Flynn signaled Tuesday he is not yet ready to grant the Justice Department’s request to throw out charges against the former national security adviser.
Emmet G. Sullivan, a district judge in Washington, D.C., said that he will allow for the submission of amicus curiae briefs, in which individuals and organizations who did not take part in the case can argue for or against the Justice Department’s request to withdraw charges against Flynn.
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Ohio Reevaluating Policy About Ohioans Who Refuse to Work Amid Coronavirus After a Recent Hack on Its Unemployment Website
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Ohio officials are rethinking the policy of removing unemployment benefits for workers who refuse to work during the COVID-19 ordeal, according to the cleveland.com.
On Friday, VICE reported someone hacked into the state’s unemployment benefits system website. This hack allowed people to send “junk data” to part of the website where employers “can report employees who quit or refuse work when it is available due to COVID-19.”
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Editorial (current)
GOOD MORNING MR. PRESIDENT: Let’s dialogue
Mr. President, the recent price reduction of fuel in The Gambia is very welcoming as oil price has reduced globally.
Production of oil in Saudi Arabia and Russia increased because they did not agree on price and the coronavirus has also caused a reduction in the demand of oil in the world so the price also dropped drastically from $50 to $20 a barrel.
Mr. President, with last week’s redeployment of permanent secretaries to various ministries, the issue of expertise should have been put in consideration.
Always appoint people in places they know.
For PS Youth and Sports, appoint those with knowledge and passion for sports considering the fact the country is developing in sports as it is important in the world and its business in bringing foreign exchange. There are some PS’s who have spent decade or more in a particular ministry thus moving the person to a ministry that he or she has little knowledge of could derail national development.
Mr. President, as father of the Nation and during this unforeseen circumstance, it would appropriate for your government to call for a dialogue with all the political parties in the country.
If we can borrow a leaf from your Senegalese colleague Macky Sall, he invited all opposition leaders, human rights activists, trade unionists and media chiefs to take part in discussions on ways of tackling the covid-19 pandemic and other national issues.
Mr. President, as your covid-19 food relief programme items are being taken to all the regions for distribution to the communities, the most vulnerable should be given priorities and everyone treated fairly and in a transparent manner; the money is from the taxpayers.
Mayors, council chairmen and ward councilors should be included in the distribution process; they represent people. They too should not politicise the food distribution process for their own gains as this has nothing to do with politics.
Mr. President, it has been observed that your government has a rift with some municipalities and councils and that is not good for our nation.
Municipalities and councils are very important for grassroot development and no nation can achieve all its domestic development aspirations if these institutions are sidelined.
The central government should work hand-in-glove with councils and municipalities across the country for the sake of national development. We are in difficult times and therefore we must forgo our political differences and work towards a common goal.
Mr. President, the only enemy we all have today is the novel coronavirus (covid-19), and we must unite to fight against it.
Finally Mr. President, we will keep emphasising the need to strengthen our efforts to tighten security at the porous borders to stem the inflow of people from our neighbouring countries. We have to understand that it worth everything to avoid community transmission of covid-19, and in order to avert that, more stringent measures have to be in place. We are in extra ordinary times so we need extra ordinary measures to survive.
Since it’s confirmed that Gambia has all together 17 confirmed cases of covid-19 with the 12th case being imported through a porous border, your government must redouble its efforts to avoid more cases.
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Your Mission, Her Mission
Does your woman think of you before herself?
Does she make your priorities her own priorities?
Does she surprise you with acts of kindness and appreciation?
Does she inherently know that your success is her success?
Does she admire you? How does she show it?
Does she know what you need before you know it yourself?
Does she plan ahead to ensure you’re taken care of?
Does she care to know who, not just what you are?
Does she take time to learn about or participate in the things you are passionate about?
Does she look forward to having sex with you?
Does pleasing you please her?
Does she do any of these things with genuine desire or is she fearful of your displeasure?
Is your woman ‘high maintenance’?
Is pleasing her or avoiding her discomfort your mission in the relationship?
Is your relationship defined by how well you measure up to her expectations?
Is your woman’s success more important than your own?
Are you the sentimental one in the relationship?
Do you plan ahead to ensure she’ll be in the right mood?
Do you perform chores in the hopes that it will make her amenable to you sexually?
Do you believe your relationship is (or should ideally be) an equitable one?
Does her family take priority over your own at holidays?
Is your relationship based on quid pro quo?
Is she ever surprised by your anger?
Is your relationship perpetually a “work in progress”?
Is your relationship’s success defined by qualifying to her metrics?
Do you measure the quality of your relationship by how well you meet her needs?
These are tough questions for most guys. I’m often asked how to vet a woman for a relationship or marriage and the hard part of coming up with a list of qualifications is that you have to actually be in a relationship with that person to really judge a woman’s suitability for a long term commitment. Hot sex is a great ‘up-sell’ for women to convince a man to commit, and it’s usually at the top of a guy’s list of must-haves for his commitment, but you don’t really understand her motivations or genuine desire until you are already in a relationship. Now you have emotional investment in her (caught feelings) at the same time you’re realizing she’s really not the person you thought you were vetting her for.
The ‘Asshole Alpha’
A hard thing for most Blue Pill, Beta men to appreciate is the genuine desire a woman has for an Alpha man. When that guy sees a relationship that’s based on a woman’s dedication to please her Alpha man, his Beta Hamster goes into action. A lot of things don’t line up with what he’s been conditioned to believe about women and how a relationship should go.
His first presumption is that the Alpha guy is a ‘manipulative asshole’ and if he ‘respected’ her she would be better off for it. It’s certainly not how he would treat her. Default respect for women plays well for a Blue Pill mindset. If you read through my first set of questions above the most common impression a feminized mind will have is that I’m implying a woman ought to be beholden to an Alpha man. While it’s true that, ideally, a solid conventional relationship is founded on a man’s ambition and success, and his woman sharing that mission, she has to want to be a part of it. Forcing a woman to be a part of a man’s world is actually the methodology of a Beta man.
Monogamy can occur either because a female chooses to be faithful to a male, or as a consequence of a particular lifestyle.
Promiscuity, Tim Birkhead
Exploring the Desire Dynamic has been a key feature in all of my writing. Understanding that genuine desire cannot be negotiated is usually one of the toughest parts of the Red Pill to accept when a guy is just coming into it. It’s hard because most men already realize the principle; they’ve just been building lives around the contingencies, and forming deep rationales, to avoid accepting it. I have readers tell me all the time that what I put forth in my books and essays is stuff ‘they already knew in the back of their heads‘, they just didn’t have the words to articulate it. Your relationship sucks, or your marriage is soul-destroying not because you can’t seem to live up to a false ideal (which is true), but because your woman has no genuine desire to be a part of your world. Modern marriages fail, not because of trust issues, or security, or even ‘her needs not being met’ – they fail due to a lack of genuine desire.
Most women today are in monogamous relationships as a consequence of a particular lifestyle.
Blue Pill men have a hard time with this as well. A relationship based on a woman’s choice to be faithful to a man, based on her genuine desire, looks a lot like what he’s been taught a lopsided manipulative relationship is all about. The prime-directive of feminism (the female Blue Pill) is that a Strong Independent Woman® should “never do anything for the express purpose of pleasing a man.” Part of a Blue Pill man’s lifelong conditioning is to think like a feminist woman thinks.
Most Blue Pill men are male feminists by default. Whether they vocally identify as one is largely a formality; Blue Pill men think like feminist women, because their social education came from feminist women.
When a Blue Pill male encounters the rare conventional relationship – one based on a woman’s genuine desire and a man’s Frame and ambitions – and he sees a woman doing things for the express pleasure of an Alpha man, his first impression is that she is with him by coercion. That conventional relationship model doesn’t fit with what his female teachers taught him was the egalitarian ideal. Thus, rationalizing that a beautiful woman would only feel obligated to please an asshole is because she has low self-esteem, she’s forced to please him because she’s destitute, she’s codependent, he overtly uses Dread on her, etc. This becomes his ego defense of his Blue Pill conditioning. His default presumption is that she is with that guy as a consequence of a particular lifestyle. It never enters his thought process that she is with that Alpha by choice.
Most men are uncomfortable with being the object of genuine desire. Even the idea of having a woman do something inspired for his express pleasure makes them feel like they’re falling into the role of Asshole Alpha. Promise Keepers in particular hate this impression of themselves and will go to great efforts to quash it in themselves, by deriding it in other men.
If you read the first list of questions above and thought, “Damn, that sounds harsh or manipulative. What about her needs?” this is your Blue Pill training coming to the surface of your consciousness. Just the thought that, as a man, you might ever be truly desired by a woman gets conflated with ‘abuser’ status. Either that, or the first consideration is to default to Bank Slate thinking – “What about her?” This is the egalitarian, presumption of ‘equal-and-opposite’ as the ideal thinking.
Most Blue Pill conditioned men, and virtually every Fempowered woman, defaults to “What about her?” as their Mental Point of Origin. Guys do this because it’s been hammered into their brains since grammar school that ‘putting women first’ is the surest way to gaining their intimate favor. As such, the idea that they might ever ‘come first’ with a woman becomes an alien thought to them. Not only that, but they see the hypothetical Alpha I mentioned above as the villain to defeat in order to prove his quality. That ‘quality’ is based on his ‘putting women first’, so an Alpha Asshole becomes a golden opportunity to display how well he’s learned his Blue Pill lessons from his female teachers.
Without the Red Pill, without the insight to question his conditioned belief-set, this mindset is impossible to break in a guy. For the most part he’s attached his Game – his hope of solving his reproductive problem – to that Blue Pill, Village training. Some guys may never break the cycle. They never see the code in the Matrix. Most men fall into a grind of constant qualification to women because they have never, and will never, be the object of genuine desire of a woman. Their mental models prevent them from ever being that object to a woman. They would feel awkward, dirty, for making anything about them.
When a man’s Burden of Performance can be directed towards qualifying himself to women, men will begin to conflate their masculine identities with how well they can ‘put her first’.
The religious Trad-Con mindset revels in this, but the ideal comes from the same source – feminine primacy. Directionless, purposeless, men find a purpose in making the pleasing of a “quality woman” ideal the metric by which they measure their manhood. The Feminine Imperative figured out how to make women’s security the measure of a man long ago. It was written into men’s sense of duty and his Gods’ will. They must become less so she becomes more. It didn’t always used to be that way, but since the advent of romantic love as an ideal, it’s been the game men were told they had to play. And now, men’s natural competitiveness is channeled to outperforming his rivals in how better he can serve the Feminine Imperative.
IV. Don’t play by her rules
If you allow a woman to make the rules she will resent you with a seething contempt even a rapist cannot inspire. The strongest woman and the most strident feminist wants to be led by, and to submit to, a more powerful man. Polarity is the core of a healthy loving relationship. She does not want the prerogative to walk all over you with her capricious demands and mercurial moods. Her emotions are a hurricane, her soul a saboteur. Think of yourself as a bulwark against her tempest.
16 Commandments of Poon, Roissy
I can make appeals to men to make themselves their Mental Point of Origin, but few actually wrap their heads around the concept. Fewer still will give themselves permission to do so. The reason for their difficulty is that their reproductive success was pinned to the Blue Pill mindset they’d had beaten into their psyches a long time ago.
The equal partnership ideal is antithetical to how men and women evolved to be complements to the other. That ‘equal’ partnership is predicated on a man endlessly proving his dedication to ‘putting her first’ that his hindbrain believes will lead to a woman’s genuine desire for him. His hope, his understanding, is that if he works at his relationship long enough, if he puts her first, eventually she will appreciate him and desire him based on his efforts and performance. But it is just this priority in his life – the priority he’s linked to what little sense he allows himself to have of his manhood – that defeats his ever getting to that state of a woman’s genuine inspired desire.
Respect Reconsidered • Part II
Respect comes very cheap today. In the last essay i made the case that there are gendered forms of Respect, each with their gendered understanding of what a universal idea of respect should entail. The same misunderstanding applies to our gendered concepts of Love; each sex presumes the other accepts and acknowledges their own ideals about love – men approaching love from outwardly expressed idealism, while women’s is rooted in inwardly (though increasingly outwardly) expressed opportunism.
For the most part this division of approaches to Love is something both sexes hold personally, and unless that person is an artist or a poet the expression of that approach to love is something we reserve for those we come to love. Love, like religion, is usually something we have a personal belief about, but it’s generally something we don’t broadcast to those we don’t love.
Respect is different. Our ideas of what defines respect is something we will broadcast because that ideal for Respect is something that’s socially expedient in getting the things we want. The first time I was told, “You don’t respect women!” was when I was 19. Even then, in my Blue Pill delusions, I saw a contradiction. The women (and sometimes men) who were telling me I didn’t Respect women were almost always after something. No one tells that you ought to be more respectful because they want you to be a better person, nor are you corrected because the ideal of respect was even a primary concern. No, people tell you to show respect when they want something or they have an interested invested in you deferring respect to the person or thing they believe you ought to be paying respect to.
Pay Tribute or Pay Respect?
In fact, the idea that one ought to “pay” respect to something or someone else really sets the context for the utility that Respect represents to them. You “owe” respect to an ephemeral ideal in the same way you “pay your dues”, like a personal debt that someone insists you owe because you want to be reverent of the concept of Respect. And this basis for Respect is why I say Respect has been cheapened today.
Even when I was 19 and women would attempt to shame me into deference to women with Respect, I saw the contradiction between women and men’s concepts of Respect. My male idea of Respect was one of the few things my father had imparted to me. So, naturally, I questioned the idea, “What do women actually do that’s worthy of my respect?” Respect was earned. Lord knows I hadn’t done much to deserve anyone’s respect at 19, but I did know that deeds and acts were something a man had to do to gain respect – and maybe somewhere along the way acquire integrity (another container word). My smart ass response was “I don’t know any women who deserve my respect.” And that was true, but every Blue Pill conditioned guy I knew then would tell me, “You’ll never get girls to like you with that attitude mister.”
So, basically, if I wanted a girl to be intimate with me I had to feign respect for her because she’s a girl? The Blue Pill teaches men, yes, and the better you are at pretending it the more a woman will appreciate you. This is where the debasement of Respect (as an ideal) in our feminine-primary social order begins. Unmerited respect for women only reinforces the Women are, Men must become principle. Men must become, men must qualify, men must perform. As such, male respect is something that is almost always in flux. Women’s respect just is, and thereby female respect is something more static.
Respect for the Sake of Respect
In a gynocentric society the predominant definition of respect, the one that is transferred to virtually all aspects of that social order, is the female concept. Automatic, deferential, but ultimately unmerited respect simply for being – female respect – is considered a useful tool, but cheapens the ideal of respect and what makes a person respectable.
When I outlined the difference between male and female concepts of Love, one of the first things men do is get indignant. They don’t like the idea that women don’t share their own ‘love for the sake of love’ idealism. My point was that women “fundamentally lack the capacity to love a man in the way he thinks should be possible for her.” This is difficult for a Blue Pill conditioned guy to wrap his head around. Much of who they are was built on the premised goal that women will “love him as much as he loves her”, so to suggest that this isn’t possible for him means that “women fundamentally lack a capacity to love men, period.” They conclude that if women cannot share his idealistic approach to Love then they cannot legitimately love him. His concept should be the only acceptable concept and therefor rejecting his concept is rejecting its legitimacy.
This same singleminded interpretation applies largely to women and their form of respect. If men would hold a woman to a merited, male, standard of respect, rather than a default deference to respecting her for no measurable reason, then those men don’t believe in Respect at all. It’s her way or it isn’t real.
Most men are afraid to appear disrespectful to women. This fear is compounded by the mass effect of a globalized sexual marketplace
When I was 19 I was concerned that I’d done something wrong. Why would women presume I didn’t respect them? I was perceived as a Jerk and I just knew that that wasn’t what women really wanted. I didn’t know it then, but this was a shaming tactic being used to keep me in line as a prospectively useful Beta. In a way I suppose it was a meta-shit test. An Alpha man wouldn’t care if women thought he was respectful. A sure sign a guy is Beta would be reflected in how he responds to being accused of disrespect of women (really ‘womankind‘).
In truth, a default respect for women is really worthless from a male perspective. I’m sure that just my typing this out will be enough to trigger most women, but if you are triggered, it’s more important to consider why you are. A default respect for females may seem like a socially correct perspective for an “upstanding leader of men” Blue Pill Alpha archetype, but it is men who adopt the attitude that women must qualify themselves to him who engender genuine respect among women.
Flipping the Respect Script
This is an important lesson in Game as well. One of the first things many of the old school PUAs would teach an AFC (Average Frustrated Chump) is to flip the script with respect to who is qualifying whom. The natural presumption for most Blue Pill men is that they must always qualify to a woman. Usually this entails proving his quality in various ways (buy her a drink, pay for dinner, carry the conversation, etc.), but the operative assumption is that she is the one whose Frame he is entering into. The PUA fundamental then was to flip this ‘natural‘ script; to get her to pursue him. In doing so, her subconscious confirms his high value – why else would she pursue? If a guy could cleverly tease this pursuit out of her it then creates a perpetuating feedback loop about him [until he fucks it up somehow by reverting to qualifying to her].
Flipping the qualification script with a woman presents one very difficult hurdle for the AFC: he must risk offending the social convention that tells him he must never disrespect a woman. This is where the larger, social, respect dynamic becomes apparent.
From a Beta male, Respect is cheap. Most Betas’ attention comes for free and is steeped in the idea that he must never upset the respect dynamic. But just like love, attention and interest, women don’t value Respect that is easily had. Too much circulation makes the price go down, and scarcity makes the price go up. We constantly tell men to make, and consider, themselves ‘the Prize‘, but to do this a man must risk offending a default female respect to shift the Frame to a default male respect. This is counterintuitive part of unplugging and learning Game.
That deference is what is expected. To respect women is common. What is uncommon is a lack of female respect. Therefor a default respectful deference is basic and plain to a woman. But it is the man whose respect a woman must earn who make the most significant impact and inspire the greatest emotional investment on her part. As I’ve stated in many essays, never deny a woman the satisfaction of believing she’s figured you out with her feminine intuition. Women expect a worthy Alpha to command respect amongst his peers, but also to expect her to earn his respect. And in her meriting it, she then holds a new respect for him.
Respect, as social dynamic, is an attempt to govern the terms of communication. Respect also has its utilities. It’s a rational for an easy dismissal of uncomfortable facts. For instance, Mansplaining presumes a lack of respect for women by a man who is trying to define what ought to constitute respect. It is a means of controlling a narrative. A “lack of respect” is an easy way to poison the well in any debate and also serves as the basis of a lot of straw man arguments.
Higher Love
Respect is defined by the party who decides what it is, and who should have it. In this way Respect is intimately linked with Frame, and since women’s form of respect is the socially predominant one today, the starting point of most intersexual exchanges begins with the presumption that a woman should control the Frame by means of a default, unearned respect. And to some hopelessly Blue Pill men who invariably mix that conditioning with religion, this respect then becomes a form of Reverence for the female.
In Part I of this series I dropped this line:
[…] I’ve been exploring the way men and women idealize the concept of divine love from a god or some metaphysical source. Each sex has a gendered concept of love that they believe the other sex shares with them, but in fact doesn’t naturally come to without some education or experience.
To which a commenter left me this in the comments thread:
“God is love”. Rollo, this is just one more on the heap of things I am struggling with regards to my “christian faith”. I am very much looking forward to reading Alpha God and eventually your 4th book.
Unconditional love is the main message of the new testament. Could it be that Christianity is really that feminized not just by “the village” and feminized church today but actually? Could the New testament be a watering down of the old Jahve Religion?
While I’m not planning on exploring Red Pill concepts of “unconditional love” on this blog, I will be picking apart the implications of how men and women’s differing concepts of love come to define, or set the understanding of an ideal of a ‘higher love’ (don’t sing the song, don’t sing the song,…).
So what does this have to do with Respect?
Everything if you consider the gender whose definition of what Respect should be is the socially predominant on at any point in history. Performance defines men’s existences. Performance determines respectability for men and earning one’s way into Heaven might be the highest form of respect, right?
More next week.
Respect Reconsidered – Part I
Thank you for your patience in my absence. I’ve been focusing intensely on the 4th book for the past 2 months and I will be for the foreseeable future. The good news is I’m ‘in the zone‘ so to speak. I have the ability to occasionally get myself into a flow state where an idea I was originally working on branches off into other ideas that I have to follow or else I risk losing the branch altogether.
This is just how my mind works. Regular viewers of my podcasts understand this in real-time. I can start off with a solid premise – often one I’ve been considering (repeating) since the early days – and as I’m making it I consider how it affects other ideas and I have to follow that thread. I know, it’s annoying sometimes, but I do my best to organize my thoughts once they’re all out on the table.
I do this in my ideation process when I’m writing too. Right now I’m looking at no fewer than eight notebooks (9 if you count my gym log) that I keep to return to when I’m exploring ideas. Two of these are full. The oldest I’ve had since my first book was published, but I keep returning to it because I scribbled down ideas regarding religion and the Red Pill back then. This was from an era when I was much more active on Dalrock’s blog and I was hammering things out with a lot of guys struggling with Red Pill awareness, and reconciling it with their religious convictions. It was then I came across an unpublished reconsideration of the concept of Respect. I titled it Respect Reconsidered with the intent of coming back to an essay I wrote in 2012 called Respect. This original essay was inspired by some of my earliest conversations on the venerable SoSuave forums circa 2002-2010. I still think it holds up pretty well, but my reinterest in the topic of respect has come anew from my working on this fourth book.
So, at the risk of giving away a little bit of book 4, I’m going to delve into the concept of respect today.
God is Love?
Book 4 is about squaring Red Pill praxeology (deal with it) with religion. As a part of this I’ve had to re-outline my original premise on Love and how men and women approach love from different concepts. I wont bore you with reiterating it here (there’s a whole category on love in the side bar), but suffice to say that men and women come to love, and have an understanding of love, based on gendered ideals that are specific to our biological and psychological differences as men and women. Most intersexual conflicts between men and women are rooted in the presumption of a mutual, commonly understood concept of what love is to both sexes. The truth is men and women hold differing mental models of what legitimate “real” love means to them. Each sex arrives at this understanding as a result of their experience as a man or a woman, and then molded by outside influences and innate idealism.
This was an important distinction to consider while I’ve been exploring the way men and women idealize the concept of divine love from a god or some metaphysical source. Each sex has a gendered concept of love that they believe the other sex shares with them, but in fact doesn’t naturally come to without some education or experience. It’s this presumption and misunderstanding that is the source of conflict between men and women and how they expect the other to Just Get It with respect to how they’d have the other sex love them.
But if men and women have different, innately gendered concepts of love is it possible that there are other higher concepts they might not share the same ideas about, but presumes the other sex just gets? I believe so, and Respect is at the top of the list of those higher concepts.
Respect is earned?
When I was having my now infamous discussion with Andrew Tate a month ago we (quite unintentionally) hit upon the concept of respect and how men and women view it differently. A lot of my female viewers – particularly the newer female viewers – despised the truths that we were discussing about the nature of women:
“No woman would ever agree to ‘share a hot Alpha’! Any woman who would must not respect herself.”
“No woman wants to have sex with a guy she doesn’t respect! If she’s not fucking you with any real desire it’s because she doesn’t respect the guy she’s with.”
“You can’t expect a woman to submit to a man she doesn’t respect.”
These were a few of the comments and responses that got me thinking; Respect is an idea that men and women hold different concepts of as a result of our innate sexual differences. The criteria that would prompt respect in a woman is not the same that prompts it in a man.
A lot gets made about mutual respect being a keystone of a good relationship. It’s one of those sayings like “Open communication is the basis of a healthy relationship” or “Relationship take a lot of work.” Respect is another truism that sounds right. Because it’s so ambiguous, and it’s generally only legitimized according to one sex, it’s easy (mostly for women) to use a “lack of respect” as leverage or an alibi to excuse behavior or a misunderstanding between men and women.
The concept of respect today is cheap. We use it far too readily to explain away why we, or someone we identify with did what they did. We use a convenient, subjective understanding of respect as a qualifier for describing what we agree or disagree with. And we use this cheapened “respect” to grade a person’s integrity according to what we think others should agree or disagree with – usually by how it aligns with our own interests.
Male Respect is not the same as Female Respect
The popular concept is that Respect is something that should be a default setting. People deserve respect. Disrespecting someone, or ambiguously implying a ‘dis‘ might be enough to get your ass kicked. Today’s globalized concept of respect is the subjective female concept – respect is always on. This is a respect based on ‘grace‘, it just is, and it should be freely given to discourage the idea that anyone is greater or lesser than another. We all deserve respect is very much a collectivist form of respect.
At first I thought that maybe Respect was something being confused with common courtesy, but no. There are two main dictionary definitions of what respect is, and this is where we will see the gendered difference between these concepts:
1. A feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements.
2. Due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of others.
1. The showing of politeness in one’s attitude and behavior toward others.
Courtesy and the feminine form of Respect (2.) are very similar. Today’s global respect is rooted in the feminine form. I’ll explain this below, but a default respect based on race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, religion and other aspects of human diversity is the feminine concept; unearned and by default always ‘on’.
Women just are. Men must become.
This is an old Manosphere maxim. I’ve used it many times to describe the male Burden of Performance. To be a human male is to exist in a dominance hierarchy until your last day. Men must perform. In fact, it is part of our inborn nature to want to perform for women because it is the most deductive way to solve men’s reproductive problem. When a young boy sees a pretty girl for the first time his natural impulse is to find a way to draw her attention. Ride a wheelie down the street on his bicycle or some other, usually risk taking, feat to prove physical prowess and a capture her attention. Most male animals do some form of this showing off to get a female interested in eventually breeding with him. The PUA concept of Peacocking and why it’s effective finds its roots in this dynamic. Call that being a Dancing Monkey if you like, but performance comes naturally to men.
Competence, physical prowess, creative intelligence, dominance, social proof and preselection are the metric by which we rate a man’s respectability. The Burden of Performance is not only about women determining who they’ll choose to mate with, it’s also about men’s merit-based ranking of respectability and admirability. This applies to all social interactions (family, career, military, athletics, etc.). It is a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements that makes a man respectable. How we define this respectability by context of cultural, moralistic or personal metrics is the topic for the next essay in this series.
Male Respect is for Male Space
Of course, this definition can apply to exceptional women, but this concept of respect is male in origin. This male form of respect is part of a male dominance hierarchy. Women can insist on being included in this definition, but it rarely works out in their favor – at least not in the same way that a default female form of respect works for women. One reason women (the Feminine Imperative) insists on assimilating Male Space is in order to restructure it to have access to this male form of respectability. The problem is that in restructuring that space to accommodate their deficits, women fundamentally alter the nature of that male form of respect.
TheWarrior Princess strong female lead mythology that Hollywood writers think is empowering to women isn’t believable because our hindbrains understand the deception that’s being played on it. We’re supposed to respect this fictitious archetype in a male form of respectability, but it falls short for us because 100,000 years of evolution prevents our hindbrains from suspending our disbelief.
We know what usually happens when women are called to measure up to a male Burden of Performance. Today, transgender male athletes competing and dominating in female-division sports are a sharp reminder of this performance-to-respect distinction in gender. The gynocentric element that squawks the loudest about gender being a social construct is the same element that complains about male athletes putting female athletes to shame in the same sport or activity while masquerading as female. As a result, we don’t respect men who pretend to be women, and then outclass them in competency, in order to appeal to a male form of performance-based respectability. Our hindbrains, men and women’s, reject the legitimacy of what we’re expected (by a gynocentric social order) to respect by merit.
Men earn no admiration from beating girls, but women always are afforded admiration for defeating men. Why? Because our hindbrain presumes a state of performance superiority on the part of men.
Female Respectability
Women’s respectability comes by default.
Respect by virtue of just being female is due to all women, irrespective of performance. In a gynocentric social order this form of respect is the common one applied to social forms of respect. I’m still on the fence as to whether common courtesy is a part of this form of respect. As I mentioned above, default courtesy and respect are due to any and all based on race, creed, religion, etc. This is the due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of others. So it could be that courtesy is the expression of this default respect when we’re talking about larger narratives of respect (race, religion, culture, etc.) In either instance, respect is unmerited and really cheapened in a feminine-primary context.
But for women, just to be a female is to be entitled to respect; and only in the circumstance of intra-sexual competition among women is this form of respect ever challenged. Default respect for women is utilitarian for virtually all women. The entitlement to respect is constantly leveraged for advantage and special dispensation among women with men.
Women just are, is the premise here. Female respectability is never merit based, though it can be lost if a woman is convinced that she “has no respect for herself” or if someone casts that woman as self-loathing, but this is only effective when it comes from other women. In a feminine-primary social order men can never challenge a woman’s respectability without the risk of incurring some social backlash or damage to his own performance-based respectability. And labels of sexist, misogynist and chauvinist await any man who would challenge the default respect that is due to women.
Chivalry, Virtue and Female Respectability
A lot of this impression is the result of the old social contract and men’s evolved instinct to protect women. This protector instinct will also be the topic of another essay, but suffice to say that the evolved imperative to protect women (sperm is cheap, eggs are expensive) crosses over into the chivalrous notion of protecting the honor of a lady. At various points in human history (western and eastern) this protector instinct has crossed over into societal practices. During the era of Courtly Love a woman’s virtue became something to defend – and by defending that virtue a man merited respect by earning a woman’s favor. I’ve detailed this dynamic in prior essays; the romanticized form of Chivalry was a means to female power in an epoch when the entire social order was effectively a Male Space. Romanticized Chivalry was the feminism of its time.
The Feminine Imperative understood the protector tendency in men and exploited it in the practices of courtly love or romantic love being elevated to a requisite criteria for male respectability. The social pedestalization of women that forms the basis of the old social contract we know today was started in the ideals of romanticized chivalry. A big part of men’s Burden of Performance under the old social contract was his dedication to protecting a woman’s honor if he himself was to be respectable in the male form of respect.
Feminists will of course bleat that “In the past women were treated like property“.
Yet at some point along the way, even while a woman was a man’s ‘property’ (arguable) she was still held above the male form of respect and a female form of respect became her due. Even in the old Patriarchal Abrahamic religions wives and most in-group women were held in high regard and served as role model archetypes for female respectability. The only way to really lose this due-respect was to be a prostitute or an adulterous woman – both bad bets for men’s parental investment trade-offs and ensuring his own paternity in the long run. Being a nag was also something a respectable woman would avoid, but the operative here is that, default respect for women didn’t require anything like the male Burden of Performance.
Respect Your Elders – “Okay, Boomer,…”
One last point to note is that respect for one’s elders used to be included in this default form of respectability. This is no longer the case today, at least for men. My theory is that by virtue of being older the presumption was one of attained wisdom. Maturity implies mastery, or at least it used to. So, a default respect for one’s elders entered into religious canon. Honor thy father and mother, for instance, is a reflection of this default respect.
But in today’s gloablizing social media marketplace being old is a weakness and a liability unless what makes that man respectable is relatable to his prior performance. And even then respect is just a courtesy if it appears at all. Default socialized respect for women is generally a given in gynocentrism, but mature men are held to the performance burden of young men, because we have such access to seeing this performance difference in real time today.
There is a similar questioning of respect based on a position of authority for men. School teachers, martial arts instructors, policemen, civil authorities and military officials are examples of this diminishing respect. There is a saying that even if you don’t respect the man you should respect the office, but today this is no longer the case. Position no longer indicates respectability the way it used to under the old social contract.
Next week, I’ll be publishing part two of this series.
An Essay for Women
A Hierarchy of Relationship Needs • Part II
Hypergamy is a dualistic mating strategy. Women have two conflicting mating strategies. I wonder how many of you have stopped and actually considered what that’s like for a woman?
It’s not easy, and it’s even worse for those who are aware of it because knowing it doesn’t change it. Like she can’t help it that the thug makes her wet…
Society constrained women from pursuing their short term, Alpha Fux urges in many ways. But it doesn’t now. So all women pursue the hottest guys, the guys who turn them on the most and now that they can earn and support themselves, why the fuck not?
If you were a woman, would you strap in with some chode for the duration cuz he was “steady”? So what he can’t make you cum, I mean that’s not all there is to life, right?
Get this – women were trapped with men they didn’t want to be with in many situations in the past.I know, bringing up a female POV is always verboten here. But in fact, the Red Pill has made me much more empathetic to what it’s actually like for women. You see, if you spend a lot of time with different women, having sex with them, they open up. They tell me how they feel about being monogamous at all. Many young women do not want children at all. And why not? Because it doesn’t serve men? That’s the point – they want to serve their impulses and their needs.
I don’t say it’s good. I don’t think we are headed in a good direction. But I also understand why women behave the way they do. And I don’t feel ill-served by it because it suits my mating strategy.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never been verboten to discuss women’s perspectives on this blog. On the contrary, I think sussing out why women are the way they are is essential to understanding intersexual dynamics. Despite some guys yelling, “Who cares what women think!”, understanding women’s innate motivations is key to understanding intersexual dynamics.
And that disinterest is the first obstacle I think a lot of guys, especially in today’s Manosphere, need to get past in order to figure out what would work best for themselves in the new sexual marketplace. PUAs have always been interested in what makes women tick. Understanding their motivations and mating strategies is key to solving a reproductive problem. MGTOW and others may feign indifference to those motives, but even their ‘solutions’ are still rooted in knowing why women do what they do.
For the most part, my blog has been dedicated to understanding the mechanics of how both sexes go about solving their reproductive problem. My critics seem to think that just asking questions about those mechanics or coming to a consensus about them based on the dots I connect is negative and/or bitter. And I get it from both sides. There are the guys who’ll say the Red Pill is obsessed with getting laid, and therefore is pointless because it gives women an undue importance in a guy’s life. And then there are the guys (and a lot of women) who’ll say “Rollo, all you ever do is focus on men, why isn’t there a Rational Female book you’re working on?“
When I get asked about writing a book for women my first impulse is to suggest they just read the The Rational Male first. I have no plans to write a female specific book in the future (nor will I be participating in any misguided convention marketed a “making women great again”) because I think that what I outline in all my books is, or should be, equally relevant to female readers. Women will complain about ‘tone‘ and why can’t I just wrap up this information in a nice pink-covered edition of the book, but it’s the content that’s important. Women are innate solipsists and would love nothing more than to read about themselves and their own natures – if for no other reason than to get off on the indignation I might inspire – but they really don’t want a rational discourse about it. They want an emotional delivery.
And this is the difficulty I’m facing in coming to this part of my series; most women really don’t want to learn anything objective about themselves. It doesn’t feel good. In this essay I’m going to outline a few things women can do to make themselves a better catch in the sexual marketplace. So, yes ladies, this is finally a Rational Male post directed at you.
If you read the the six simple directives Rich Cooper enumerated in his tweet from the last essay you’ll already be ahead of the curve. However, I understand I am committing a Red Pill sin here in that I am attempting to appeal to your reason. Despite the accusations of misogyny I do, in fact, believe women can use a capacity to reason – and therefore do have agency – it’s just that reason is always downstream from emotion in women’s mental firmware. And I should add that the larger social narrative of feels before reals is a direct result of this prioritization of women in a female-centric social order.
Women don’t wanna be told shit.
There’s even a cute name for when men try to explain something to a woman her ego doesn’t want to acknowledge – Mansplaining. This is the next obstacle. The Fempowerment narrative (really an effort in social engineering) has conditioned generations of women since the Sexual Revolution to presume an inherent correctness in whatever it is that satisfies the Feminine Imperative. If something benefits womankind it must therefor be the correct solution for a woman personally and society on whole. I sometimes refer to this as The Sisterhood Über Alles. The cultural meme The Future is Female is a recent example of this.
This resistance to acknowledging anything even marginally objective or unflattering about female nature (or even that humans might have an innate nature) is the primary reason I rarely bother with trying to explain anything Red Pill to women. Women don’t wanna be told shit, and when I get a request for a female-focused approach to something it’s because women want to feel something (usually indignation), not learn anything. Even in a social scope women refer to their organizations and movements as the resistance. This cultural meme is an extension of women’s personal edicts as taught to them by Fempowerment.
Asking women to drop their own, learned, hubris is the first hurdle to educating them. The next is confronting their innate solipsism. In Girl-World everything is about them. This proclivity for self-importance and self-aggrandizement in women has been ruthlessly exploited by commercial and ideological interests for almost two centuries now. It is also the key component in the spread of feminism and the embedding of feminist ideological ideas in our social fabric.
A Blue Pill for Women
In a few videos I’ve detailed how there is a similar effort in western(izing) culture to condition women to fit a new social contract. Feminism and the Fempowerment narrative is just one aspect of this Blue Pill for women. But the next hurdle for women to understand a Red Pill praxeology can be distilled to one message Fempowerment teaches women:
Never do anything for the express pleasure of a man.
A woman’s Blue Pill conditioning is founded on the 70s feminism era notion of the Strong Independent Woman meme. She don’t need no man. She is independent – independent of what? She is not dependent on any man, and anything she might do to specifically please a man is antithetical to that independence. To please a man is to participate in their own “oppression” by the Patriarchy.
That’s the origin of the mechanics of the meme we now take for granted. Ladies, from the time you were five years old this independence of men message has been hammered into your psyche by everything from popular culture, to your schooling, to your religion, to your single mothers and your Blue Pill conditioned fathers.
The present-day social segregation of the sexes I keep harping on this year is a direct result of this independence meme being baked into women’s souls from the earliest ages for generations now. I have to laugh when I read women tell me how ‘little girls are so repressed still today’ when a Fempowered social order has eliminated even the thought of not giving girls and women every form of advantage and special dispensation imaginable for over 50 years now.
So, ladies, you must unlearn that which you’ve learned. Understand that solipsism is in your mental firmware.
Understand that you’ve been conditioned to feel that men and any opinion they have are irrelevant to your being. Men should serve you and be thankful you gave them the opportunity to do so.
Understand that this social order is predicated on the female experience superseding, and being more legitimate, than the male experience.
Understand that Hypergamy and your innate self-interest are being fed by a social order that profits on your self-absorption – only to discard you when you figure out the game too late in life.
Understand that there are social conventions established at every phase of your life to explain away why you aren’t living the life of strong independence that narrative conditioned you for since the age you started watching Disney Princess movies.
Most importantly, female reader, understand it’s okay that you should want to do something for the express pleasure of a man. It’s okay to appreciate the masculine for the sake of it. This is the number one thing you have to unlearn. Men and women are different. Our natures are complements to each other, but we are not equals – and it should be a source of pleasure for you to appreciate and enjoy those differences.
Yes, a man must live up to his Burden of Performance in order for you to evaluate his merits. I’m in no way suggesting that you drop anything with regard to your Hypergamous filtering. I’m saying you need to unlearn the hubris you’ve been conditioned for. Unlearn the ego-inflation that social media has deliberately instilled in you. And most importantly, unlearn the notion, the pride, of independence from men.
Learn this now ladies, you will never get close to the connection you want to feel with a man until you learn to appreciate him as a masculine complement to your feminine nature. You are not his equal, you are his complement, and as Roissy once said, a woman wants to submit to a worthy man’s mission as his complement. We are better together than we are apart. The sum can be greater than the parts, but not if you are the independent, self-fulfilling, autonomous ‘things‘ that feminism and the Blue Pill would have you believe is the key to its fantasy of an egalitarian, androgynous, goal-state for human beings.
So. Was any of that triggering for you? Illuminating women to the reality of their own conditioning is in some ways even more dangerous and difficult than unplugging guys from their own Blue Pill delusions.
Most women fancy themselves as “Alpha Females” but never really understand that the fantastical Strong Independent Woman® archetype (really it’s a brand) they hold in their heads is actually based on a masculine dynamic. They’re actually alpha males with breasts and a vagina. It’s really hard for women to give that fantasy up, particularly when they live in an era when men are portrayed as vile, stupid, untrustworthy and ‘dependent‘ on women’s powerfulness to save them from themselves.
The female Blue Pill instills this sense of empowerment in women based on false narratives about a straw-man masculinity. Hypergamy is dualistic – Alpha Fucks/Beta Bucks, Cads/Dads – but half of that desire, the desire for provisioning, parental investment, familiarity and comfort, is rooted in a need for security. Women are the weaker sex. In our ancestral past women (and their offspring) were dependent on men for protection from a chaotic environment. That need for security is still something women seek out in today’s men.
But in this era, men are weak. Bumbling buffoons. “Economically unattractive” and largely incapable of protecting her or her young. This is the message the female Blue Pill teaches little girls and old women. As a result, men cannot be trusted to provide anything like physical protection, and increasingly they can’t be relied upon to help pay the bills. So, women must step up and fulfill their own security needs – often by direct resource transfer from men, but that’s immaterial to the message that Fempowerment embeds in you ladies.
To compound this impression of men, women (and men) are taught that they are in fact blank slate equals of the other. All individuals are really just chaotic, unknowable products of whatever social order constructed them. There are no natures or differences between the genders – and there are at least 68 of those that we know of, right?
The female Blue Pill teaches women that not only are men not to be trusted for security, but that part of that independence from men will be necessary for their own survival. This insecurity about men being capable of providing security is the basis of women masculinizing themselves.
In turn, this is the reason all of what I write here and elsewhere is so triggering for women. How dare I suggest women ought to ‘man down’?! Man can’t be trusted to ‘be men’, just look at them!
This is why women resist the awareness that the Red Pill brings to them. It presumes they must drop all their preconceptions about the nature of men and adopt a femininity that is now alien to them. The Blue Pill will tell you that the discomfort you feel in being more feminine is ‘just how you are‘, but it’s really due to decades of constant social conditioning to make you feel self-conscious in being feminine.
But, most of all, dropping that masculine pretense needed to provide her own security implies she make herself vulnerable to emotionally investing herself in a man who’s dishonest in his own quality. The Existential Fear for women is to invest herself in a man (and his progeny) who tricked her Hypergamous filters into believing he was Alpha when he was in fact Beta. By flipping the Blue Pill script, by suggesting that women drop the masculine pretense and adopt conventional gender complementarity (submission), it is akin to me suggesting she ignore her Hypergamous instincts.
That is why this is triggering you ladies.
All that said, how can a woman make herself more valuable to a man once the sexual side of the equation is satisfied? Women constantly complain about being “sexually objectified” by men. They want to be appreciated for more than just being a piece of ass, but in the same world advertise their sexuality as their primary value virtually everywhere. From a very early age women understand that their primary agency in this life is their sexual value to men – and they quickly learn how to leverage it.
Ladies, if you want to be valued for more than your sexuality your going to have to develop actual value beyond your sexuality. Sex is the glue that holds a relationship together. Learn that, accept that. But once you have that down, what else are you to him? What can you do to expressly please him and what can you do to express your appreciation for him?
You must learn the concept of value added. For women this value comes from an inherent understanding of her own femininity and what it offers to the masculine that it cannot provide for itself or does only with greater effort.
If you want a dominant, Alpha, conventionally masculine man to be your boyfriend/husband start by living like a man like that can actually exist in the world. Most guys adapt to whatever it is that will get them laid. When a guy believes in the fantasy of an egalitarian relationship with a woman it’s because he believes it’s the best path to solving his reproductive problem. You can counter this by expecting him to adopt conventional masculinity.
One of the biggest favors my wife did for me was in her expecting me to “be the man” in our relationship and later marriage. Until I met her damn near every woman I was intimate with was convinced that egalitarianism between men and women was ‘natural’, or should be at least. It was a shock to my Blue Pill system when my wife expected me to drive her car when we were dating. From the earliest days of our relationship she insisted that I fill the dominant masculine role and she was going to fill the feminine role. This expectation and our filling those roles modeled masculine and feminine behavior for our daughter who now also has a conventional perspective on gender that most of her peers do not.
New Old Ideas
Learn to cook.
Do laundry.
Keep the home organized and clean.
Stay thin.
Be sexy, learn to seduce him.
Initiate sex with him.
Have genuine sexual desire for him (and let him know when you don’t) and be a genuinely enthusiastic lover.
Wear a dress.
Embrace his family.
Take his surname.
Have a job, but not a career.
Trust him to be your source of security.
Encourage him when you face challenges.
Reassure him.
Play with him, and play with him
These are just a few of the acts that you can do to manifest your femininity, but they must be part of a genuine desire and willingness to be his complement. You cannot negotiate desire. This primarily applies to sex, but the resentment that comes from obligation also flows over into other aspects of your relationship.
You have to want to be feminine. Just as men eventually need to internalize the Red Pill and make that awareness deeper than just the situational, so too must you want to be his complement. He has to be the guy you want to be feminine for. He must be the man whose babies you want to have for him.
If you find yourself making rules for him, if you make sex a reward for desired behavior, he’s not that guy.
Women make rules for Beta men to comply with. They’re like little ultimatums he must follow, but understand that this is your hindbrain asking that Hypergamous question; ‘Is he the best I can do?’ Recognize this in yourself.
Women break rules for Alpha men. Is your desire for this man so significant that you will break the rules that the female Blue Pill has taught you? Will you break with the conditioning that taught you never to do anything for the express pleasure of a man? Even the most staunch feminists confess to loving a dominant Alpha male who exercises his will over her own. Why do you suppose that is?
Will you break the greatest rule you have for yourself and submit to him because you have the genuine desire to do so? You’ll be happier and healthier if you can answer ‘yes’, but if not, do both him and yourself the courtesy of breaking it off and go sort yourself out before you try again.
The Truth About Standards
Most men never vet women for anything like long term acceptability. A lot of guys would have you believe they have high standards for the women they self-righteously allow into their lives, but for the most part this is internet posturing from Trad-Cons and ‘spergs‘ who’d like their circle of virtual friends to believe they have more options, or more learn-ed wisdom, than other men. After-the-fact rationalizations about how discerning a guy was in choosing his wife or girlfriend are a necessary insulation for men’s egos when they come into the Red Pill community. They get uncomfortable when the Red Pill Lens forces them to take a better look at their own choices.
The flip side to this are the guys who’ve already been burned by a woman, and by association the totality of Gynocentrism. They also tend to reverse engineering their lack of vetting. A wife who was once his Quality Woman becomes the bitch who turned on him – the living example of all women and their Hypergamous nature. Likewise, these guys never truly vetted their ex. In someways they may have been as equally naive about the nature of women as the guy still married and self-convinced that he’s done his due diligence in selecting the perfect mate.
Now add to all this a religious belief-set that is founded on marriages staying solid foundations of family formation and resistant to divorce (thus ensuring contentment and righteous living). Here we add another layer of self-blinding on top of men’s haphazard long-term mating strategy founded on his necessitousness. Surely a man’s true religion is the key to a loving and happy wife, appreciative children, strong family ties and quality of life? Men will always seek validation in the choices they invested their lives in – particularly in the face of realities that contradict them.
All of this is related to men’s long term mating strategy. I’ve written extensively on men’s innate mating strategy and the existential importance of men ensuring their own paternity. But just as women’s Hypergamy is a manifestation of their biological nature, so too are men’s imperatives in their own mating strategies. However, a distinction needs to be made with respect to Alpha Fucks/Beta Bucks equalist comparisons with women’s strategies. Men and women’s mating imperatives are both antagonistic and complementary depending on the nature of the men and women coming together to reproduce.
Men’s innate, unconditioned, biological imperative is unlimited access to unlimited sexuality. Left to his own volition, and unimpaired by women’s Hypergamous filtering strategies, men’s innate drive is to opt for variety of sexual experience.
Critics will counter with “Well, women look for variety too dontcha think?”
While there is some truth in this, women’s desire for broader sexual experience is motivated by a search for better quality in the men she has sex with, not quantity per se. Monogamy (as we know it) is really a tool for low SMV men to socially ensure reproduction and paternity (at least in theory).
For men the motivation is about quantity. Yes, men love variety in women. Yes, men would rather there be no hindrance to getting to that sexual experience with that variety. This is why pornography is ubiquitous today, and has always been a motivator for men – unlimited access to unlimited sexuality. There’s a reason why young Muslim men are promised 70 virgins in paradise if they martyr themselves. Variety and ensured paternity, even if it has to be in the afterlife, is clearly a strong motivator for men. Rockstars and religious zealots all strive for the same goal, they just come to it in different ways.
Men are so motivated by sexual experience that it supersedes the need for food. Research shows brain cells specific to men fire up when mates are present and override the need to eat. Take this as you will, but it does reinforce the idea that for men, sex is in fact a biological need.
Left unhindered human (Alpha) males will opt for securing multiple breeding partners; in some cases sequestering them for his long-term use. Locking away harems in secured compounds is something powerful men have done since our tribalistic past. Secure mates – secure paternity with them. There’s a reason why eunuchs guarded harems. The notion that men and women were ever naturally monogamous is an idealistic social convention. True monogamy in the animal kingdom is an extreme outlier. It’s just this prioritization of sexual opportunity that makes vetting women for monogamy compete with reproductive opportunism.
Strategic Pluralism
Most men are not Alpha males. The vast majority of men in this life and in eras past only had sexual access to a precious few women in their lives – if at all. Even in social conditions that rewarded monogamy and punished infidelity men and women have always found ways to manifest their antagonistic mating strategies. As few as 8,000 years ago (post agrarianism) 1 male reproduced for every 17 females. And as few as 4,000 years ago women were out-reproducing men. Again, read and make your own conclusions, but the point is human mating strategies find ways to circumvent social conventions.
On paper, monogamy is not a bad idea. As a social convention monogamy has been a stabilizing force in human evolution, but it in no way aligns with our innate sexual proclivities. Monogamy is a sexual strategy that primarily benefits low SMV men because most men will never experience (relatively) unlimited access to unlimited sexuality outside of pornography.
In Red Pill spheres we encourage men to consider themselves the prize. I personally believe that the most important step in unplugging a guy from his Blue Pill conditioning starts by internalizing the concept of Mental Point of Origin, but why is this often the most difficult step for men? It’s hard to think of oneself as a ‘winner’ when all a guy has done is lose for most of his life. The numbers don’t add up, and all the pep rallies a guy can pay for wont account for much until the day a girl actually responds to the “new you“. Feeling good about yourself is great, but most men want a solution to their sexlessness. Remember, sex really is that important to your male hindbrain. Food < Sex, got it?
According to Strategic Pluralism Theory (Gangestad & Simpson, 2000), men have evolved to pursue reproductive strategies that are contingent on their value on the mating market. More attractive men accrue reproductive benefits from spending more time seeking multiple mating partners and relatively less time investing in offspring. In contrast, the reproductive effort of less attractive men, who do not have the same mating opportunities, is better allocated to investing heavily in their mates and offspring and spending relatively less time seeking additional mates.
From Why Is Muscularity Sexy? Tests Of The Fitness Indicator Hypothesis
A lot of men get confused about the masculine imperative, but for the most part I think Strategic Pluralism Theory outlines most of mens’ mating strategies. In the Pareto Principle I delved into how women separate men into different sub-groups. The popularized oversimplification of this goes something like this:
“20% of men are fucking 80% of women.”
This is a misnomer. Granted, it used to have the good intention of getting men to believe that a small percentage of guys are having sex with a majority of women, and well, it might as well be them, right?
I’m sure that was meant to be a kind of motivational encouragement for guys learning Game, but it’s effectively wrong. The reality is 100% of women are interested in fucking about 20% of guys. We can see this repeatedly illustrated in various online dating stats and the realities of what Tinder has done to the SMP. But that’s the principle, not the practice. Just because a woman wants to get with a twentieth percentile man in no way means she will be getting with that guy. The issue here is the want not the get.
The Scarcity Mentality
Most men live in a state of sexual scarcity. So to implore a man to believe he’s actually the prize, or he should consider himself the prize, is an alien thought to him. Whether he acknowledges it consciously, his hindbrain understands the realities of his present-state sexual market value and it understands the reproductive equation it’s tasked with solving in (hopefully) a prosocial way.
Any time a woman actually shows an intimate interest in a low SMV man he will instinctively overlook the “deal breakers” his rational mind would otherwise give him pause to consider. Remember, sex supersedes hunger in the evolved scope of things for men. There are no considerations for ‘red flags’ with a woman when reproduction is of more strategic importance to his hindbrain.
When I’m listening to shows like Before the Train Wreck I hear the same predictable problems voiced by young men over and over again. There are consistent red flags these man should’ve seen before committing to a woman. And as a third party to this, we’re always dumbfounded by how the guy couldn’t have seen the signs before acting or committing to a woman’s mating strategy in order to facilitate a compromised version of his own strategy. Men’s rational process (particularly young men’s) are bypassed by sexual instinct and the hindbrain realization that his breeding opportunities are few and far between.
75% of college men would agree to have sex with a (semi-attractive) female they just met on campus while 0% of women would do the same with an unfamiliar male. Most men simply do not vet women for long term compatibility. The nature of our biology and our access to reproductive opportunities makes vetting a hindrance to solving a reproductive equation. In short, most men can’t afford to miss out on breeding opportunities.
As I outlined in Instinct, Emotion and Reason, our rational process requires time to be fully useful to us. The Instinct and Emotional processes are far quicker in their assessments and immediate effect on us. While men may innately prioritize reason before emotion, Instinct beats all other processes in speed and efficiency – if not accuracy. In our feminine-primary social order we further complicate (and disadvantage) men today by teaching them that their emotional response is the “correct” one to base decisions on. We conditions men to prioritize the Emotional process from a very early age. Again, all this makes actually vetting a woman for intimate acceptability almost offensive to the average (Beta) man today.
And this discomfort with holding any standards for women to receive his intimate approval also serves women’s sexual strategy.
You Just Got Lucky
There is a social aspect that comes into play with respect to men pairing up with women. As western societies have become more gynocentric the need to establish limitations on men’s mating strategies, and the simultaneous unfettering of women’s strategies, becomes apparent. In short, men simply aren’t allowed to hold standards for women to follow. And it’s offensive for men (not women) to even suggest the criteria women might need to ‘live up to‘ for men’s consideration of commitment.
How to keep a man in 6 simple steps
1. Learn how to cook amazing dishes
2. Be feminine (long hair, makeup, nails etc)
3. Don't nag him over trivial things
4. Be debt free
5. Don't be a single mom
6. Know how to please him in bed
— Richard Cooper (@Rich_Cooper) July 14, 2019
Rich Cooper’s engagement on this one Tweet should illustrate what I’m getting into here. I’ve seen other variations of this message serve as outrage fodder for local news programs. The point is that a man making even marginal requirements for a man’s investment in a woman is met with extreme hostility. If your goal is getting social engagement there’s no better way to get it than by having the audacity to tell women they should qualify to a man – in any context. The idea that there is a man somewhere on planet earth who would voice his conditions for intimacy with women is unconscionable in gynocentric society.
But why? Why do women and their ‘allies‘ become so incensed by this? Because it commits the cardinal sin of the female power structure; it removes a degree of control away from women’s Hypergamous choice. If a woman must qualify to a man – in any context – it also sins against the maxim of the Strong Independent Woman®:
Never do anything for the express purpose of pleasing a man.
Notice how hostile women become when any man would place conditions on his terms for intimacy/commitment. This is a challenge to women’s unilateral control of Hypergamy in the social order. But more so, it is an affront to women’s Existential Fear:
The Existential Fear in women is that their innate Hypergamous Filter, their Feminine Intuition, might be fooled, and by being fooled she may either die or have her reproductive potential compromised for her lifetime by bearing and raising the child of man who is a suboptimal Hypergamous choice for her – a man who exerted his will over her Hypergamous choosing filters.
That a Beta male would ever hold conditions for his commitment triggers indignation in women.
Even Alpha men must never put terms on their commitment; men should feel blessed that any woman would have them. When Beta men reflexively default to social self-deprecation around their wives or LTR we see this social convention confirmed. We are conditioned to feel “lucky” that a woman lowered her standards to accept a man as her mate.
This is the intersexual poker game women play with men on whole. Entitlement, solipsism, anxiety over optimizing Hypergamy, all that competes with the foreknowledge that her attractiveness will decay over time. Women’s hindbrains know that their sex appeal, their agency in achieving that optimization, is ultimately perishable. Now add to this the anxiety that a Beta male might ‘trick’ her into choosing him as a mate and you can see why the Sisterhood will rally against men holding any demands for their interest in a woman.
Men often acquiesce to the mindset that they ought to feel fortunate that a woman would ever have them. They also foster this necessitousness in other men, usually as a form of Beta Game.
This endemic sense of metaphysical gratitude is what prevents men from even considering having standards for women. It also polices other men from holding standards themselves. How dare you be so arrogant as to expect a woman to live up to your demands? Just be glad the gods took pity on you and granted you a wife when so many Incels are at home with dick in hand. Tsk, tsk.
When a man ever has the temerity to evaluate women’s worth he’s made into a pariah. Today we expel boys from school for making lists rating the girls in their classes. Meanwhile women develop apps to do exactly the same for the men they’ve dated to inform other women. In a fem-centric social order only women are allowed to hold standards. This fact is a manifestation of a larger power dynamic between the sexes today.
A list of qualities a woman should have to please a man, to hold his long-term interests, goes viral and makes the evening news. Those men then become the easy, chauvinistic, villain to hate – “Can you believe that men like this still exist?!”
In my last post I made mention of how women were in crisis mode about the lack of ‘economically attractive’ men today. The articles about this crisis center on the idea of “eligible” men. Even the wildly popular show The Bachelor is built around the idea of men’s ‘eligibility’ to be considered for women’s approval. Qualify. Prove your quality. Be worthy of a woman’s love. Be ‘eligible’.
A female-primary social order – an order dedicated to maintaining feminine social control – needs to ruthlessly control which man is eligible for women’s consideration. It’s never the other way around. ‘Eligible’ is a way of psychologically maintaining a superior station of value for women.
Always bear in mind, women break rules for Alpha men and make rules for Beta men. But on a social scale it helps maintain the power imbalance if even Alpha men believe the same mythologies as Beta men.
This essay is the first in a series meant to establish a hierarchy of relationship needs that men might consider to help them accurately vet the women they allow into their lives and to enact these standards.
Are Men Adapting to the New Sexual Marketplace?
I revisited the topic of Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) last Saturday on Rule Zero. I don’t like rehashing old debates I’ve learned will ultimately go nowhere. You simply wont reach most people who don’t want to be reached. Once they’ve had some experiential lessons in life, reinforced it with the tribalistic need to affirm the beliefs derived from that experience and then invest their egos in them it becomes kind of pointless. I’m not saying just give up on people, far from it, but do understand what you’re up against. This is why I say unplugging men from the Matrix is dirty work, and a lot like triage. Know what’s worth expending energy for.
Most men, and nearly all women, don’t form a belief set based on multiple, independently funded, peer reviewed studies or statistical analyses. We go with experience first and then modify it from there.
I did a bit of preparation for this talk. My schedule last Saturday only permitted me an hour so I wanted to be succinct and throw out at least something new to the conversation. There’s a lot of tribalism in the Manosphere today and it’s no surprise that MGTOW as a tribe in growing – but likely not for the reasons most MGTOW would be willing to admit. MGTOW is becoming atomized and commercialized in the same manner as I predicted the Red Pill would (and has) last year.
What that means is MGTOW is rapidly becoming the same commercial vehicle for grifters that the Red Pill was just a year and a half ago. Life Coaches, Relationship Experts, Fitness Gurus, even Christian men’s ministry pastors are all looking online to find out ‘where have all the men gone?’ When men were found in the Red Pill this is where the grifters would coalesce. Thus, you had every ‘brand-of-me’ self-improvement hack calling himself “red pill”. A few of them still do. A few of them read verbatim from my book(s) and plagiarize it as their own. But more now I see these same grifters referring to themselves as MGTOW without realizing (or even caring) what it really means to men.
MGTOW is the new ‘brand’ that lifestyle ‘coaches’ are adding to their twitter profiles and YouTube channel About pages. They see the potential for growth by association. Even if they get owned in their comments and feeds, adding the tag MGTOW will draw clicks. A few of these ‘coaches’ had a familiarity with the tribe and decided to finally commit in the hopes that it would boost views, others are former ‘power-of-positivity‘ life-coaches who slide into MGTOW because the definition of what makes a man “go his own way” is so loose now that it can align with virtually anything the guy had written about before his new affiliation.
It’s a real short step from “Make yourself your Mental Point of Origin” to “Make yourself #1 in your life” and then to “Go your own way.” I’ve had at least four “dating experts” (one female) claim Mental Point of Origin was their own idea in their subscriber emails as recently as August. Grifters used the Red Pill and are now using MGTOW to legitimize their brands today. In 2015 the MRAs decided to appropriate the Red Pill as their own brand to name a feminist’s “journey of self-discovery” movie The Red Pill. This appropriation is continuing with MGTOW now.
As I said on the Red Man Group back in May, the Red Pill is going to have a real PR problem in the coming year. Everything I predicted in my State of the Manosphere address a year ago has come to pass and I predict it will only intensify in the 2020 election cycle. The Gender War needs a convenient, easy-to-hate villain to point to in order to reinforce the Future is Female narrative.
Very soon MGTOW will have the same PR problem. And once the next Eliot Rodger or Alex Minasian incident occurs you’ll see these grifters scatter from MGTOW like roaches when the lights come on. When there are dead women on the sidewalk somewhere, and the MSM is using terms like ‘MGTOW’, ‘Incel’ and ‘radicalization’ that is when all the ‘tribes’ of the Manosphere will throw each other under the bus. That’s when you’ll know who was ‘playing MGTOW’ for likes.
One thing this re-debate of MGTOW has made me reconsider is whether men are adapting to the new realities of the sexual marketplace or just looking to make their necessities a virtue. At its simplest MGTOW is men refusing to make women the measure of their lives, and then molding their lives to their own plan. This pairs nicely with virtually every pet ideology and ‘positivity’ grift in the ‘sphere today. Even Tradcons will agree with MGTOW if it means “Be the best man you can be“. It agrees with Mental Point of Origin. It agrees with Roissy – “You shall make your mission, not your woman, your priority.” It agrees with “Women should only ever be a complement to a man’s life, never the focus of it.“
If that was all there was to MGTOW it would simply be Red Pill. What “MGTOW” life-coach grifters don’t realize is that MGOTW is a derivative of the Red Pill. I’ve always argued that once a guy becomes Red Pill aware he cannot help but live in some different fashion. Even the guys who go into complete denial can’t unsee the truths of intersexual dynamics. It’s what you actually do with that new awareness that sets apart Red Pill praxeology from MGTOW in practice. There’s more to MGTOW than just refusing to make women the measure of a man’s life – it’s also deciding what actually is deference to women. And that’s where it becomes highly subjective.
In my last post I outlined how women were upset there weren’t enough ‘eligible‘ men to marry in the current (westernized) sexual marketplace (SMP) today. Of course the two most common responses were either:
Women are the victims of the SMP they created. Women’s solipsistic, socially enabled entitlements to an ‘economically attractive’ man (a man who exceeds her own productivity by 58%) only proves the point that women’s social media bloated egos have made them unrealistic tyrants. Now their beliefs and actions have come home to roost.
This is proof-positive that MGTOW is working! Finally women are waking up to the realities of their beliefs and actions. If enough guys abandon the SMP altogether then women will be forced to come back to reality and choose men based on other criteria than ‘economic attractiveness’.
One point I struggled to make on last week’s show was that I wondered if MGTOW believed that, from an evolved perspective, men and women are better together than they are apart. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to pursue that question in depth; do MGTOW largely believe that, if social circumstances were different, men and women evolved to be complements to the other and the best social outcome would be for the sexes to be together rather than segregated?
For the last 60 years feminism has effectively driven a wedge between men and women. The Gender War of today exists because of a systematic segregation between men and women (don’t @me with the cultural marxism/’evil juice’ shit for the moment). Honestly, I’m sick of reading about how negative it is to merely point out the realities of this ‘gender cold war’ by Success Porn grifters, but is not MGTOW an adaptation to this segregation? Is not MGTOW an exacerbation of this segregation. When I read mantras like ‘Dogs, Dudes and Dolls’ it sounds an awful lot like ‘Cats, Girlfriends and Vibrators’.
Is MGTOW an adaptation to the conditions in a sexual marketplace that was (and still is) contrived by feminism/gynocentrism?
The following quote is from a long time commenter and friend Deti. This was from a larger discussion that began here if you want to get some context. Sorry guys, I just don’t have the space to repost the whole thread, but I don’t want this to get lost. Hopefully, it will inspire further discussion in this post’s comments:
I read Novaseeker as saying in his comments on this post, that women have adapted within this particular milieu. In other words, women noted the changes and have adapted to them. It helps that the changes were geared to them and prepared with them in mind. But women have adapted, and men have not.
About 100 years ago, it was all geared toward men and the sexual and marriage marketplaces were prepared with men in mind. They were prepared to advantage men and disadvantage women. Women responded to and lived within that milieu in a number of ways.
Using soft power, manipulation, deceit, subterfuge, behind the scenes machinations. Most women were more or less OK with marrying an OK guy, having OK sex, and living an OK life.
Of course, sometimes women cheated on the downlow. Sometimes women cuckolded husbands. I mean real actual traditional definition of cuckolding, which is a married woman getting pregnant by an Alpha and passing the child(ren) off as the Beta Husband’s. There’s no way to know how often that happened, but it wasn’t really rare – Maybe anywhere from 5 to 20% of children then weren’t fathered by their bio-moms’ husbands. In rare cases, not marrying and becoming spinsters, living as bohemians or as “favorite cousins” or “favorite aunts” with male relatives, working as teachers or seamstresses or some other job, and being live in nanny/maid. In rare cases, divorcing and living off family money or a husband’s alimony money. Living as widows and not remarrying.
The point is that women learned how to adapt. There are a lot of reasons for that, but they did adapt.
The main responses men have used today to adapt to changing circumstances have been:
Game/PUA/Seduction – Use the changes to men’s advantage and go for easy sex and the bachelor lifestyle.
MRA – Fighting the changes to advocate for either equalizing the laws or rolling them back to a return to Marriage 1.0 and pre-sexual revolution status.
MGTOW – Check out of the new system, refuse to support or participate in it, and eschew relationships with women to varying degrees.
About, oh, 20 years in, I think we can safely say that option 2) is dead in the water and has been for some time. About the only real reforms here are that divorce and family laws are slowly, very, very slowly, moving toward 50/50 residential custody and away from alimony (except in the case of longer term marriages with breadwinner spouse/dependent nonemployed wife). Unless you have been married more than 20 years and support a housewife, you probably will not be paying alimony except for temporarily. Thats about the entire sum and substance of how “equal” it’s going to get between men and women.
That leaves 1) Game; and (3) MGTOW.
It’s hard to tell what will come out of this. I think we can say:
• Marriage 1.0 is dead and we are never going back to it for at least 2 more generations. If you think you’re going to have a “traditional marriage” where you don’t have to do much to maintain it or you can let up on your attractiveness levels, think again. Because that is not going to happen. If you’re going to marry a woman, you need to improve your attractiveness, marry a woman who is not financially dependent on you, and cultivate your own life separate and apart from her. You need a contingency plan in the event the marriage goes south. And with all that, you need to consider whether you want to risk bringing kids into the mix. You absolutely need a prenuptial agreement, even if it gets judicially torn up or modified later.
The bottom line is, people are still marrying, it’s just that it’s all being pushed out later and later, and people are staying single longer and spending less time married. Many women are meeting the men they eventually marry in their early to mid 20s, and then marrying in their late 20s and early 30s. That’s a paradigm that’s increasing in frequency; this idea of long term dating and engagements lasting 2 to 5 years while both the man and woman establish their careers.
If you want long term relationships you should consider marriage alternatives like living together, or being exclusive while living apart. You absolutely must avoid at all costs these polyamory/polygyny situations, and open marriages. You absolutely must avoid women who want to continue AF’ing it even after they marry. That must be an absolute no go, not an option, ever.
• Men have to improve and increase their sexual attractiveness to create, maintain, and sustain relationships with women. You can’t let up here. That’s IF you want relationships with women.
• More and more men will go pure MGTOW and will severely minimize if not eliminate their relationships with women. For a growing number of men, this option is going to be the best one, because (a) they did the work and still couldn’t attract women; or (b) they don’t want to do the work and it’s easier to stay as is than to try.
For most men, avoiding women entirely, except for paying hookers, is a no go. The thirst is that strong. The male sex drive is that potent. Most men want to have some contact with women, even if it’s just random hookups now and again. And the only way to do that is to make yourself as sexually attractive as possible. That just is so. Women are the ones who pick sex partners, and they have no problem with sharing attractive men with other women. So if you want sex partners, you have to make yourself sexually attractive. And you have to know male and female sexual nature, so that you know what you’re getting into, you know what you’re seeing, you know what women are doing, and you know what women really mean when they talk.
For men, improving one’s own attractiveness increases one’s power in the market. It increases his ability to control some of the selection process. It gives him an abundance mentality. It gives him the power to walk away from situations that disadvantage him. It gives him the ability to tell women “no” and to reject women who cannot or will not give him what he wants and needs.
On the other hand, going your own way can also increase your power in the market. It maximizes your control over your own life. It sharply reduces your responsibilities to others, and increases your opportunities. It frees up your resources to expend the way you want. Sharp reductions in responsibility means a sharp reduction in the needed resources for day to day living, meaning you can work less and increase your leisure time.
I think that more and more men will go pure MGTOW, which is essentially “make the best of a tough situation, be single, and don’t have a family. At least that’s better than getting divorce raped and it’s less work than going to the gym, getting in shape, and eating clean. This way I can eat what I want and work 30 hours a week, and live by myself in my apartment”. It’s kind of similar to women 100 years ago, where the path of least resistance was for Bertha BigGirl, Martha Dumptruck, and Plain Jane to “find a decent, OK man to support me, and probably have at least 3 of his kids. At least it’s better than living with Mom until she dies, and then having to live with my brother and his wife, and taking care of their kids.” And similar to the spinster, the MGTOW will be low status, or at least perceived as low status. But for the spinster and the MGTOW, their lifestyles will be at least better than whatever else they could have gotten.
Guys, Nova is absolutely correct in that men by and large are not adapting.
I think that what’s going on is that many men are saying “want to stay the same, don’t want to do a lot of work, but I still want women to be attracted to me and to be able to date a lot and eventually get married and have a family like (a) mom and dad had when I was growing up; or (b) like I didn’t get to have growing up.” Well, you can’t have that, at least not without working for it. If you want something you’re going to have to work for it. If you want women and sex, you’re going to have to make yourself attractive to women. And the way you’re going to do that, the only way to do that, is to stand out. And the way you stand out is by improving every area of your life – your job, your body, your finances, your lifestyle, your hobbies, your social acumen, and everything else that involves you going through your life.
The funny thing is that when a man stops caring so much about it, forgets about women, and sets about improving his life, he starts attracting women.
That’s the current state of things, I think.
I don’t disagree that we’re presently at a turning point in intersexual relations. After the advent of unilaterally female controlled birth control and the Sexual Revolution that followed the upheaval in how men and women come together and relate was inevitable. Now that we’re 50 odd years past that point we’re figuring out how reproduction, love, marriage, and something as simple as boy-meets-girl is going to look for future generations. The internet and a social media acculturation on a global scale has seen to it that it will likely never look like it did under the old social contract. There’s a theory that post-agrarian societies experienced a similar shift in intersexual dynamics in our ancestral past. Socially enforced monogamy was the obvious intersexual shift.
Right now we’re seeing a similar shift in intersexual relations. Is it simply better for men and women to live segregated lives? I don’t believe so, but it seems like a larger cultural narrative believes it’s time for both men and women to go their own ways. Until one side concedes, fuck any notion of evolved complementarity is the narrative I guess.
I do disagree with Deti in that I think men are adapting. They always have. It’s that the adaptation is counter to what we might hope is the natural order between men and women.
Unmarriageable
This week there’ve been a rash of articles all outlining the latest statistics about marriage in this decade. US marriage rates are at a 150 year low and, if you believe the all-female article writers, it’s of course men’s fault for failing to be marriageable. These articles are referencing a study published last week titled Mismatches in the Marriage Market and this study reveals large deficits in the supply of potential male spouses. One implication is that the unmarried may remain unmarried or marry less well‐suited partners.
That’s right gentlemen, you’re unmarriageable and the ladies want you to shape up. If you want to experience marital bliss – despite all the inherent personal dangers for men in today’s “marriage economy” – you must make yourself “economically attractive“:
“Most American women hope to marry, but current shortages of marriageable men — men with a stable job and a good income — make this increasingly difficult,” says lead author Daniel Lichter in a press release.
The stats don’t lie and they are pretty bleak. More women are enrolled in college than ever before and more are expected to enter through the middle of the coming decade. Now, a degree doesn’t guarantee a woman a job, and it says nothing about the majors and job sectors women prefer, but a college education does reinforce the idea that women are entitled to marry an economically attractive man who himself has an education and enough aspiration to make something of himself to become marriageable.
That’s some real shit right there and we’re not even half way through this post. We’ve gotten to the point where the truth of the past five decades is apparent; gendered politics has actively, openly, disadvantaged men in terms of education. Whether this hobbling of men is via educational dispensations (Title IX) or social conventions (divorce, child support, Duluth model feminism) the outcome is now unignorable.
In most western societies today there is a separate standard of justice that applies to women. Women are receive far fewer consequences and are sentenced much more leniently than men for committing the exact same crimes. These are easily proven statistics, but even when they are brought to light the gynocentric social order doubles down and justifies them because, women.
My intent here today isn’t to depress anyone. Neither am I drawing attention to this because I’ve made a new turn to the Men Rights Movement. No doubt there’ve been many article already written about the female hubris inherent in these revelations – revelations the Red Pill community has been pointing out for almost two decades now.
The manifestations of about 50 years of social changes produced by a feminine-primary social order are unignorable. Even mainstream media sources are finally seeing these stories as the red meat du jour for the masses now. A lot of the Red Pill principles and I and many other men in the Manosphere have been drawing attention to about intersexual dynamics are now coming to light in popular consciousness.
Aww Quit Complaining
Last year I delivered the State of the Manosphere Address, and in that talk I outlined the rise of what I saw as a new Gender War (or gender cold war). Naturally I was called a reactionary, and have been since described as “overly negative” even by the organization that asked me to deliver that speech. But yet, everything in that outline has come to pass in less than a year. Of course, the easy dismissal is to blame this on election year propaganda. More than one mainstream talkshow conservative has jumped on the Toxic Masculinity bandwagon, pointing out how the Left and mainstream feminism are one and the same.
However, there have been many swings of the political pendulum in the past 50 years. Conservative zeitgeists have contributed to the same feminine-primary social order that’s resulted in men being unmarriageable today. It’s just been good politics to appeal to the Feminine Imperative no matter what side of the political aisle you happen to sit on.
But I’m a man. I’m not supposed to be overly concerned with issues like this. As long as I’m measuring up to my Burden of Performance any marginal raising-of-awareness to truths like the ones above make me seem like I’m complaining. And that’s something men are never allowed to do. It’s a very effective way of silencing men. Get them to feel like they ought to silence themselves. Real men don’t complain.
Meanwhile, it’s Broke Men who are hurting American Women’s Marriage Prospects. My good friend Dalrock once wrote a series of post around the idea that feminism would be so much more successful if men would only cooperate with it. When women are unable to optimally complete their mating (and life’s) strategies it’s men’s fault for being uncooperative. It’s men’s fault when women’s life plans don’t come together as Sheryl Sandberg told them it would. It’s men’s fault when they won’t play the approved role they should when women hit their Epiphany Phase and their sexual priorities shift.
Confirming the Red Pill
If you needed a better illustration of the Solipsism inherent in women’s nature you’ll be hard pressed to find it on a bigger scale than the dozens of stories bemoaning the lack of marriageable men today. Furthermore, it goes to prove another Red Pill truth: as a man, women don’t care who you are as much as what you are. I’ve taken a lot of heat over the years over my assessment of how men and women have different concepts of love. Men love idealistically. I rarely get any pushback on that assertion, but when I layout how women’s Hypergamous natures predispose them to a concept of love based on opportunism men and women lose their minds.
Yet, here we are. Women enthusiastically proving my point for me without me having to do any heavy lifting. As women become more comfortable in Open Hypergamy we see this embracing of their nature proudly flaunted. Naturally women will double down on this.
“Of course women don’t wanna marry no bum!”
And then the Trad-Cons join the chorus,
“It’s men’s fault they aren’t measuring up to being the men all women are entitled to.”
There are dozens of studies that correlate divorce with women earning more than their husbands. In fact, women are reluctant to admit that they out-earn their husbands. Throughout the history of this blog I’ve shown the evolved reasons for this dynamic, but what the articles all dance around is women’s natural evolutionary desire for men who exceed them in all aspects. But because we’ve opted to believe in, and standardized on, social constructionism we lay all of that on “societal expectations” of men and women. In a future essay I’ll be defining how the cope of humans being ‘above it all’ in their evolved instincts is the root source of many deliberate misgivings about intersexual conflict. For now, understand that blaming any inconvenient intersexual truth on a nebulous “society” is the go-to rationale for a feminine-primary social order.
“If only men would evolve and rise above what society foists on them we women would be happy” versus “Men need to accommodate women’s success by making themselves more ‘economically desirable’“
And “Oh, but love is important too, *wink wink*.”
“Many young men today have little to bring to the marriage bargain, especially as young women’s educational levels on average now exceed their male suitors’,” Lichter says.
It’s interesting that some articles advocate for marriage as a “stabilizing force” in society, all while never (maybe deliberately) seeing the economic risks of disaster that the divorce industry incentivizes in women. There’s nothing stabilizing about promoting marriage between men you’ve deemed “economically unattractive” and women who feel entitled to a man who exceeds their Hypergamous expectations. There’s nothing ‘stabilizing’ about the incidence of divorce between couples where the man is unable to out-earn his wife.
Naturally we want to make this a ‘his‘ problem. He can’t get over the fact that she makes more, has more education, etc. He’s insecure in his masculinity and must feel threatened by Her success. Or it could be the fact that on an instinctual level he understands that it’s an evolved imperative for a man to provide for and protect his family. This is the fallacy of Rise Above It. No matter how enlightened and progressive we’d like to think we are nature drags us back to reality. It’s not a socially constructed problem – if it were it would be easily solved – it’s a human nature problem. Women reveal the true Hypergamous nature in articles like these. They want a man who they can naturally look up to, respect and admire. That’s the natural truth coming out, but they source the problem in a socially constructed fantasy that it’s men’s insecurities that are holding them back from completing women’s mating/life strategies.
Women don’t need to get married anymore. The average age of first marriage is hovering around 27 years old for most couples. Studies also show that more than half of young people in America don’t have a romantic partner. We’ve all but eliminated the Beta Bucks side of the Hypergamous equation for women. Open Hypergamy (and Open Cuckoldry) are the logical outcomes of this provisioning insurance we’ve made ubiquitous for women over the last 40 years. Yet, women still want to be married to a man who outclasses them in all areas of life. They feel they deserve that guy. Their hindbrain knows they do, but the nebulous society still encourages women to believe there’s never been a better time for them to be single. This is the message women are being fed as they complain about men’s not living up to being their “equals”.
Nearly half of working-age women will be single in 2030, a new Morgan Stanley study predicts, a demographic that will drive increased sales for companies in the athletic wear, cosmetics and clothing sectors.
The investment bank’s “Rise of the SHEconomy” report says 45 percent of working-age women between 25 and 44 in the U.S. will be single women in 10 years, Forbes reported.
Single women will drive the economy in the next decade and savvy businesses are already planning on exploiting this demographic. But yet it’s men’s fault for not being marriageable and/or avoiding marriage altogether?
Too many people think I’m down on marriage. Apparently 23 years of what most guys would consider an ideal marriage isn’t enough to convince them. Honestly, as an institution – socially enforced monogamy – I think marriage, based on evolved gender difference complementarity has been the foundation of the success of western culture. But maybe we’re at a turning point in human history where traditional marriage is left behind, replaced by feminine-primary polygamy with all its inherently violent risks. It seems we’re heading in a direction where we convince Beta men it’s in their reproductive interests to abandon their evolved need to be invested in their own paternity – and that attending to and raising the children of men that women selected before them makes them ‘better men’.
There’s a lot more to the anti-marriage reasoning than just the “losing half my stuff” arguments.
It really sucks for a guy like me who’s managed to make a Red Pill aware marriage work in spite of all this. Guys get confused. How can I be anti-marriage and still married? But it’s just that dichotomy that tells the you about the nature of what marriage has become for men today. The way we do marriage today has the potential to be the most damaging decision a man can make in his life. It may even end his life. But despite all that I still believe men and women are better together than we are apart. We still evolved to be complements to the other.
It’s the coming together and living together, and all the downside risks to men today that I have no solution for at the moment. Maybe it’s going to take a war or a meteor striking the earth to set gender parity back in balance, but at the moment there’s only a future of sexual segregation to look forward to.
Bargain Abasement
“Men conquer worlds, women conquer men.” – Pook
From the time boys are about five years old, we’re taught self-control. Anyone with a young son understands the challenge in this, but for the most part the control we teach our boys differs from what we teach (or don’t teach) our girls. For the most part, this control is necessary to curb boys’ natural proclivities to take risks, but in a feminine-primary social order this inhibiting risk comes from a need for female security . Our young minds, boys and girls, lack the capacity for abstract thought. In fact, our brains continue to develop to their fullest potential right up to 20-21 years of age.
For millennia, adult men, fathers, mothers, the Village that is our larger social order, understood the need to place limitations on boys innate impulsiveness – usually for their own good. While these restrictions and discipline have always been a needed part of boys’ upbringing, today that self-control is taught in the context of how a young man can be more ‘correct’ by his female teachers. In the time of our old social contract teaching young men self-control and self-discipline was a means to self-mastery as an adult man. In the new social contract our gynocentric education system (and socialization) teaches boys discipline in the hopes that they will provide the security that women need.
And the way this is taught is by embedding a deep sense of shame and self-loathing of the male gender into ever-younger generations of future men. Mental Point of Origin is a constant theme in all of my literary work. I want to stress here that crushing any sense of self-priority or self-importance from boys and young men is the prime directive of a gynocentric education system. Last Saturday we discussed the “worshiping of women” on our new show Rule Zero. In this episode I pointed out that men are taught to place womankind on a pedestal from an early age. This meta-pedestalization of the feminine begins when boys are taught self-abasement as part of self-control. Essentially, all control becomes for boys is reducing themselves while aggrandizing (supporting) girls and later women. This is the main reason why wrapping your head around Mental Point of Origin is so difficult for men later in life. Their Blue Pill conditioning taught them to be servants as a means of proving their self-control.
Most women, certainly all feminists, will do their best to convince us that it’s still little girls who are taught to repress their naturally boyish natures. But it’s a cliché now to believe that little girls would be every bit as ‘curious about how the world works’ if not for a nebulous society that represses their passion for discovery. Since the Sexual Revolution our social order has done its damnedest to reverse gender roles – boys are taught to emulate the feminine, girls emulate the masculine. The Disney corporation has been the most active social agent in western culture in fomenting this reversal. Every story across all genres follows the same plot; a repressed little girl would make an even better boy if not for these Patriarchal rules she must break from. The story of Mulan is a good example. The girl Mulan must impersonate a boy in order to prove herself as a masculine equal – and to get closer to the Alpha male she naturally wants to pair with. Our popular fiction today all follows a similar teaching; girls need to break away from self-control to be more empowered.
The notion that little girls are ever taught to repress their natures is laughable in real life. If little boys are taught like they’re defective girls, then girls today are taught that they can literally do anything – and be free of any lasting consequences. In fact any restrictions, any pretense of a girl/woman requiring a degree of self-control is immediately associated with repression. This old order idea of female repression is a favorite trope for the Fempowerment narrative. The most marginal, well-meaning, criticism of women or the feminine is always steeped in ‘judgmentalism’. Being ‘judged’ is always a concern for women. For the past 3-4 generations of women, being freed from ‘repression’ is also to be free from judgement. They have an entitlement to avoid consequence.
Abasement
On last week’s Rule Zero episode we asked a question: why is it so many men will abase themselves with women? If you’ve been Red Pill aware for a while it’s easy to just dismiss these guys and think they’re all just low self-esteem losers, but the belief is endemic to the 80% of Beta men. The combination of having been raised to prioritize the concerns of women above his own interest, and the notion that doing so will make him a better romantic catch in the eyes of women (who already feel entitled to him being a useful servant) turns self-abasement into a form of Beta Game.
Why does a man get down on one knee to propose marriage to a woman? Surely this old social contract form of abasement was an expectation of men. It’s in practically every romantic story ever told.
Under the old social contract a man was presumed to be above a woman in status. The old intersexual hierarchy of love followed from the man to the woman and then later to the child(ren). It was a natural, understood, dominance hierarchy prior to the Sexual Revolution. In all the old stories Disney has ever retold the presumption of this hierarchy defines the plot of the story. Of course now we’ve grown accustomed to gender swaps and expectation swaps in these retellings, but when a woman gets down on bended-knee to propose to a man – as her empowering teachers have taught her is acceptable – there’s something awkward when a woman abases herself to a man.
One of the prime directives of feminism is this:
Anything a woman might do just to please a man is abasement. It smacks of the repressiveness little girls are told still holds them back in spite all the world’s attempts to advantage them. Doing something, wearing something, being something or behaving in a way that might intentionally please a man is the antithesis of the Strong Independent Woman® ideal. But yet, women are taught that they should expect to live in Sadie Hawkins’ World where they should feel empowered to ask the man on a date and ask him to marry her if he merits it. Again, it’s all part of the gender reversal we’re expected to embrace.
But when you see it, when a woman is doing the proposing, it doesn’t feel empowering. It feels awkward, backwards. Social constructionism says that awkwardness is the result of society teaching you stereotypical gender norms; but those norms haven’t been the standard for at least 4 generations. Disney’s taught us different for some time now. But it still looks weird. The man is supposed to initiate. The man is supposed display and she is supposed to choose. The man is supposed to abase himself, right?
Male abasement is a sign of submission in an age that expected him to be an Alpha already. There used to be a time when men were expected to be the masters of their lives. Men understood their Burden of Performance and built a life around creating (conquering) their own worlds. Certainly this achievement was motivated by finding a wife, but more so because of his innate sense of idealism.
The Ideal Man
The old social order expectations of men are still what women feel entitled to in the new order:
Superior Physicality: He must be more than her equal in height and strength. Muscularity is an ideal in men. Women hold far more strict and static ideals of male beauty than men have ever held for women.
Superior Dominance: He is respected, deferred to and sometimes feared by his peers. He holds status, power (in the traditional sense) and honor that is confirmed and reinforced by others – but only insofar as it can be useful to a woman. Women tend to have an immature understanding of the nature of power.
Superior Confidence/Competence: He must be more innovative and competent than herself. Competence is directly tied to the Hypergamous doubt – “Is he the best I can do?” If she is more competent (or she believes she is) than he is it upsets the natural intersexual dominance hierarchy and ultimately his Frame control. Confident competence is the foundation of a woman’s need for long term security.
Superior Mastery: He must be a master of himself and the world he directs. Again, this is tied to a woman’s need for security which he must ensure in the long term; even into his old age. He must “Just Get It” with her and understand women in general – this is derived from experience and being supremely desired by other women.
For all of this mastery the ideal man is expected to possess, the fantasy is that he must abase himself to her due to her uniqueness. The power of love is what he must defer to. Even today, in a post Sexual Revolution era, this chivalric ideal is still an unspoken expectation. That ideal is a superior man who abases himself to her, and only to her. This is the Beauty and the Beast archetypal story. The fantasy ideal man is only beholden to her particular charms. Men conquer worlds, women conquer men.
A few years ago (2012-13) I did a series of posts about the chivalric ideal. In those essays I proposed that the western concepts of chivalry, bastardized by the influence of ‘courtly love’, were an extension of power by the feminine. Essentially chivalry was feminism 1.0 in that it leveraged men’s obligations of honor to benefit the Feminine Imperative. Chivalry was a Male Space into which women inserted themselves (via courtly love), assimilated the principles and rewrote the rules to better fit themselves. We still see vestiges of this today when women post something on Facebook or Twitter stating that “only a ‘real’ man does the things that benefit me, my sexual strategy and my ensured survival and happiness.”
Male sacrifice now extends to a man abasing himself for an entitled benefit of womankind. It’s no longer just an expectation of undying love and commitment, it’s a surrendering of his evolved imperatives.
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The Power of Life and Death: ‘Bean Counters’ given Death-Panel Powers
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Terri Schiavo Foundation intervenes to help save 13-year-old ‘brain-dead’ patient
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Life-or-death medical decisions typically have been made by families and doctors, but Bobby Schindler, of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, said that has been changing for some time.
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That’s because “ethics panels” and medical facility “boards” were getting involved in making determinations about who lived and who died, based on the factors of their illness, needs, treatment, expenses and resources.
But now he warns that the government, through Obamacare, will be taking over.
“People need to realize that ethics boards, hospital boards have been making decisions [about treatments] we’re receiving or not receiving. It will be worse with government-controlled health care,” he told WND today.
“They’re taking medical decisions out of the family’s hands and putting it into the hands of bean counters.”
That such government intervention in life will happen already has been confirmed by physician and former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who admitted Sarah Palin was right – because health care will have to be rationed under Obamcare, “death panels” will have to decide who gets critical care and potentially life-saving treatments.
Schindler said his organization is set up to fight for the handicapped or otherwise helpless when facing a life-endangering situation, and that’s how he got involved in the fight for the life of Jahi McMath.
She was undergoing a tonsillectomy at a California hospital when things went horribly wrong. Doctors soon declared her brain-dead and, but for the fight by her parents, already would have shut off a ventilator to which she is attached.
Now the hospital, Children’s Hospital Oakland, says it will not allow doctors to perform procedures involving breathing and feeding tubes that would allow the 13-year-old to be moved safely to another hospital.
Chris Dolan, a lawyer for McMath and her family, said in a statement posted online at the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network that he continues to request permission for the needed tracheostomy procedure so that she could be moved.
“Amazing research opportunities exist but Children’s Hospital Oakland holds the key to Jahi’s death sentence – a simple tracheostomy procedure, despite a mother’s plea and the money to pay for it. Instead they starve her,” he said. “Our please is for a courageous ENT specialist physician to step forth and give this mother the choice and this child a chance.”
Schindler told WND his organization comes in where the need is for a long-term care facility or alternative to hospital intensive care unit occupancy.
“We provide the resources to fight against what’s there,” he said.
Another hospital was on stand-by, he said, ready to accept Jahi McMath and provide treatment.
“We have a facility that would take her,” he confirmed. “But Childrens Hospital from Oakland is preventing that from happening.”
Any decision to terminate a life should not be made quickly, he said, and given time there are many things that could happen for Jahi.
His group has for its mission the development of a national network of resources and support for the “medically dependent, persons with disabilities and the incapacitated who are in or potentially facing life-threatening situations.”
It originally was set up to benefit Terry Schindler Schiavo, who died in 2005 after being deprived of food and water on the orders of Circuit Court Judge George W. Greer of Florida’s Sixth Judicial Court.
She had been stricken in 1990, at the age of 26, with a mysterious cardio-respiratory arrest for which no cause has ever been determined.
She was diagnosed with hypoxic encephalopathy – which is a neurological injury caused by lack of oxygen to the brain. She was able to breathe on her own and maintain vital function. She remained in a severely compromised neurological state.
Officials at the Oakland hospital have said they are not willing to let an outside doctor work in their facility, and their own doctors are forbidden from helping since hospital officials consider the teenager a corpse.
Hospital attorney Douglas Straus said, “Performing medical procedures on the body of a deceased human being is simply not something Children’s Hospital can do or ask its staff to assist in doing.”
According to reports, he earlier had said the hospital would allow a doctor found by the family to insert a feeding tube and replace the ventilator keeping Jahi’s heart beating.
“They’re speaking out of both sides of their mouths. They say one thing and we go down that road, and then they say something else,” Dolan said of hospital officials. “The hospital said, ‘Bring us a doctor’ and we said, ‘Tell us the conditions’ and now, they’ve wasted a half a day of our time. We don’t have much time.”
The hospital has said it would release the girl with written permission from the coroner.
The girl had a tonsillectomy and other related procedures early last month to treat sleep apnea.
According to her family, she went into cardiac arrest after she started bleeding in the recovery room.
Hospital officials three days later declared her brain-dead.
However, the chief of a foundation that is responsible for the International Standard Version of the Holy Bible, a trained theologian, says the family of Jahi McMath has a legitimate argument against the hospital’s contention that she is “brain-dead” and her medical treatments should be halted.
She’s not dead.
At least, not according to the Bible’s definition, said Dr. William Welty, a Ph.D. who graduated from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and later taught New Testament Greek at Simon Greenleaf University.
Welty told Dolan, an attorney representing the family of Jahi McMath, that he could be an expert witness on death according to the Bible, in an email that was made available to WND.
“I have followed the Jahi McMath medical debacle for a number of days now. I am a professional theologian in the evangelical tradition of which Ms. McMath’s mother Nailah Winkfield appears to be part,” he wrote.
“As I am an expert in biblical theology, including Greek and Hebrew, with respect to the question of what evangelical Christians believe about death, I might be able to be of assistance in the way of providing expert testimony about what the conservative biblical tradition to which Ms. McMath’s mother belongs actually teaches, which is that death is defined not as absence of brain waves but rather the lack of a circulating blood supply,” he wrote.
“As the Bible states that the life of the flesh is in the blood (citing Leviticus in the Hebrew Scriptures) and not in brain wave activity, perhaps a compromise stipulation could be presented to ask the court to order that if Ms. McMath is disconnected from life support, if her heart continues to beat on its own that she should be maintained by fluid nutrition at the hospital’s expense, given that the hospital’s negligence is the proximate cause of this difficulty.”
Welty told WND that the Bible doesn’t define death as a cessation, reduction or absence of brain activity.
It defines life as being in the blood, and “as a closely held religious belief,” the family of the 13-year-old has a right to practice their faith.
He said while science contends that it understands death, and life, and the narrow divide, he pointed out a recent report that indicates that may not be so clear.
According to a Scripps Howard News Service report only days ago, “there’s growing evidence that revival is possible for at least some patients whose hearts and lungs have stopped working for many minutes, even hours. And brain death – when the brain irreversibly ceases function – is also proving less open and shut.”
“For decades, doctors have recorded cases where people immersed in very cold water have been revived after hours have gone by,” the report said. “Many studies have found that hypothermia protects the brain by decreasing its need for oxygen and staving off cell death. Body cooling has become common for many patients after cardiac arrest.”
The report continued, “Defining brain death is becoming more complex as researchers find signs of activity in both human and animal subjects whose brainwaves at first show they’ve ‘flat-lined’ to the point that there is no brain function. … Scientists at the University of Montreal reported in September on the case of one Romanian patient who was in an extreme deep coma after treatment with a powerful anti-epileptic drug. Although the electroencephalogram (EEG) showed no activity in the man’s cortex (the master processor of the brain), there was activity in the hippocampus, the region responsible for memory and learning.
“Just how conscious the brain remains after cardiac arrest in frequently debated and researched. Various studies of cardiac arrest survivors shows many experience profound mental or emotional change. About 20 percent of survivors say they heard or saw something while they were clinically dead,” the report said.
Welty said the simple facts are that science thought it understands death, but doesn’t.
He said the one absolute regarding death is that the body tissues decay, and if that’s not happening, there remain questions.
And with those questions unanswered, he said, hospitals and others should choose the conservative path and not take positive action that would bring about death.
SOURCE: WND News
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Rui January 2, 2014 At 8:45 pm
The medical system and all institutions that don’t put God in first place are becoming completely dehumanized. It’s shocking how an hospital refuses to help a person whose heart is still beating. And it’s even more shocking how they put so many barriers to those who want to help.
At least this child and her family trusted their lives to the Lord Jesus. God Bless them.
And God Bless you and a Happy New Year for you
πίστις January 3, 2014 At 9:14 pm
Thank you Rui God bless you too..Happy New Year!
eutawangelLynne January 4, 2014 At 2:34 am
If she is brain dead…how can her heart pump on its own? My understanding is that no heart beat can be maintained without the brain unless artificial.
That was my understanding…
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Unity Homes Celebrates 2nd Anniversary
“The typical American home is a performance dinosaur, and is too much of a long-term burden for homeowners and society. Unity Homes aims to help make this species extinct.”
Tedd Benson
New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan (standing, center) visiting the Unity Homes production facility in October 2013.
On October 9, 2012, Bensonwood launched Unity Homes with the goal of making ultra-efficient, off-site-built homes affordable for the average home buyer. To date, Unity Homes have been built along the East Coast as far south as Asheville, NC and as far north as Montpelier, VT, and have been praised as possibly the “greenest prefabs on the market” by TreeHugger’s Lloyd Alter.
Designed to consume 50 to 75 percent less energy than standard newly-built homes, Unity Homes currently has four distinct 2 to 4 bedroom styles ranging in size from 1,028 to 2,450 sq ft. The home models are the Tradd (a classic tall cape), Xyla (an American bungalow), Värm (a Swedish contemporary) and Zūm (a passive solar optimized modern). All four of the highly-customizable styles have been built.
Three interpretations of the Värm design shown here illustrate the highly-customizable nature of Unity Homes.
In the two years since its launch, Unity Homes has developed ways to raise the quality and performance of sustainably built homes while continuously trimming cost to make them ever more affordable. The company has already reached its original goal of trimming the typical build time to 30-35 working days for most projects and expects to get it down to around 20 working days in the future.
Although Unity Homes first appeared in 2012, the seeds of the idea began much earlier. In 1991, Bensonwood began the long-term process of standardizing home production using computer-assisted design (CAD) software to optimize floor plans.
“I have long believed that the average American home should have a much higher standard of build quality, durability and energy performance,” Tedd Benson said in a 2012 Green Building Advisor article about the Unity Homes launch. After years of building a reputation for higher-end timber frame projects, Benson and the Bensonwood team wanted to bring his building innovations to the market-rate factory-built world.
There was also a philosophical element to Benson’s plan, describing the typical American home as a performance dinosaur, and too much of a long-term burden for homeowners and society. Then, as now, he wants to make that species extinct and transform the industry by offering an affordable home at a higher standard of efficiency.
The LEED Platinum-certified, Net-Zero Energy president’s home at Unity College in Maine.
In 2008, Bensonwood received critical acclaim for its roles in fabricating the LEED Platinum-certified Unity House, a net-zero energy residence built on the campus of Unity College in Maine for the college president and his family.
The project was important, not only because the building was designed to maximize energy performance, but because it highlighted the Passive House standard for airtightness—the most cost-effective and easily achievable aspect of the Passive House standard.
Inspired by the project’s success and what the company learned from it, four years later Bensonwood launched a separate company producing high-performance prefab houses. The company was dubbed Unity Homes because it was thought the perfect name to express the democratic, egalitarian nature of these homes designed for the average American family.
Despite being in the throes of the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression, Benson realized that the company’s Bensonwood’s Open-Built® “operating system” capabilities and production capacity were being underutilized and warranted expansion. Tedd Benson also wanted to avoid reducing staff and a new division would allow the company to weather the housing downturn.
A 40-Year-Old Startup
Building system team members assembling wall sections for an early Unity Home.
Unity Homes’ strategic vision began with a seemingly simple premise. “What if building only took 30 working days, all costs were known, the house quality was above anything the buyer had previously experienced, and the home could be net-zero-energy forever?”
For nearly a year, the entire Bensonwood team worked together to design and engineer the Unity Homes offerings and develop all the information, renderings and floor plans.
An early Net-Zero Unity House planning session.
With no outside funding and many long hours, the company created a “40 year old start up,” Tedd Benson quipped at the time. In the end, Unity Homes was able to achieve both energy performance and price point goals with its high-precision panelized construction methods, keeping 60% of construction inside its production facility. Each home is organized into easily accessible “layers,” making for easier future upgrades and repairs.
By the time Benson announced the new company’s launch in an October 9 post on his blog site, “The New House Rules,” Unity’s first two homes were already in production.
Montage: A Streamlined Process
In Montage Building, pre-designed, high-performance elements can be easily reordered to fit homeowner budget, lifestyle or location.
The Unity Homes team sees these houses as more than another entry into the green prefab market, but rather as a complete rethinking of how houses are built. Many people in North America buy houses that might not last as long as they do; Unity houses, like the custom Bensonwood homes, are designed to last for generations.
Additionally, instead of prefab or modular, Tedd Benson prefers the term “montage” to describe the homes, which essentially means “assemble” or bring together disparate elements to form an integrated whole. That use of montage refers not only to the building process where panels are assembled at the home site, but also to a unique approach to vernacular design. The homeowner would not incur the cost of hiring an architect, nor would they be choosing from a limited product line as with most modular or prefab houses, but be allowed a range of customization to fit their lifestyle, budget and location.
Produced in Bensonwood’s Walpole, NH “studio,” the panelized wall, floor and roof assemblies are typically ready to ship to site in a few weeks. This work is concurrent with site prep and in parallel with other component fabrication such as the precision-cut beams and millwork.
The onsite assembly of the weathertight shell is usually accomplished in one to three days, depending on complexity and garage options. From there, Unity Homes can be finished quickly because of the open layout and packaging of systems, such as pre-assembled HVAC modules. While a standard new home takes 150 days to build, Unity Homes can now shave the building cycle down to as little as 30-35 days.
The Unity Homeowner Experience: “Rewarding and Fun”
Tedd Benson has always stressed the importance of owner involvement in the homebuilding process, but J.C. and Nancy Woodward of Fitzwilliam, NH, took it to another level. J.C. and Nancy initially came to Bensonwood looking for a custom home, but after several discussions with associates, architect Chris Adams suggested they consider one of the new Unity Homes about to be launched. The Woodwards were intrigued and chose the Värm style—J.C. also chose to act as general contractor to cut cost.
An early Värm in New Hampshire was finished by the owners to reduce cost.
The site was prepped in late 2012, production began in February 2013, and by April the crew arrived with the home’s shell, which Woodward would finish out himself with help from some local subcontractors. Having built another house 25 years prior, he expected the typical chaotic construction scene with a host of endless problems to address. Because of the obvious attention to detail and quality, Woodward says, any problems that arose were small ones and easily solved.
J.C. was there from 7 a.m. until evening every day and was stunned at how quickly and smoothly the home came together. He was also impressed by how, “every person on the Unity team deeply cared about my project’s success.” From architect Chris Adams “wringing function from every square inch” to make the house feel a lot bigger than its 1,700 SF footprint, to project manager Tony Poanessa repeatedly “going the extra mile” to make the project run smoothly, Woodward describes the experience as rewarding and fun. In fact, he was so inspired he is now taking a CAD drafting course at Keene State College and hopes to work as a project manager himself someday.
The airtight homes possess many of the standards of passive house: optional triple-pane windows, high levels of dense-pack cellulose insulation (R35 OBPlus Walls® and R44 roof), buttoned-up building shells with a Passive House level of airtightness to 0.6 ACH @ 50 Pascals or better, energy recovery ventilators, air-source heat pumps and more to reduce energy use by 50% to 75% compared to standard new houses. The homes’ operational efficiencies with low energy loads mean less power use and smaller HVAC systems. They’re also capable of achieving net-zero energy if the owner decides to add a modest solar electric system.
Health & Comfort
Stressing health and comfort as much as energy efficiency, Unity Homes are well-lit, quiet, draft free and moisture controlled.
In addition to the energy-saving features, standard specifications of the two- to four-bedroom homes include low-VOC paints and finishes, all-electric water heaters, Moen fixtures, EPA WaterSense toilets from Kohler, and high-quality woodworking and cabinetry.
In addition, they’re comfortable, light-filled and spacious, have great air quality and are fitted with high-quality materials, finishes and fixtures. Another less-considered element is that they are quiet—something too often missing in our homes. Silence is a feature increasingly accepted as vital to health and emotional well-being; and with doors and windows closed there are no traffic sounds from the street, airplanes overhead, barking dogs or noisy neighbors. Tedd Benson often refers to these as providing vital “sanctuaries or “sacred spaces” for family.
Heavily influenced by the thinking of John Habraken and Stewart Brand, Benson and associates developed the Open-Built platform to allow simple modification of structures as occupant needs change. The central idea behind Open-Built is to “disentangle” the building’s interior and exterior systems into separate, functional layers, which improves the efficiency of the construction process. That disentanglement also allows for long-term access, meaning homeowners and professionals can accomplish changes, upgrades and renovations with less demolition and rework.
All systems within the Unity Homes will be continually scalable, with most mechanical and space upgrades able to be accomplished by the homeowners.
The ultimate goal of all green prefab manufacturers is to get the quality control and efficiencies possible in a factory at an affordable price. A common complaint is that Unity Homes and its peers are not affordable when compared to conventional stick-built housing, despite the fact that these are not conventional houses.
In truth, cost for this “beyond code” design and performance is competitive with current on-site, building-code-based construction when all factors are considered. These include: resale value, energy bills, maintenance and repairs, health effects and remodeling cost.
Nevertheless, driving down cost is a top priority in the Unity Homes mission. Unity plans to broaden the market for their homes by continually reducing cost to match the cost of conventional building, which varies widely between geographical regions. The company has already achieved this in many areas of the Northeast.
Eventually, Benson says, as more builders use and demand high-performance products, competition will increase among manufacturers, creating a virtuous cycle of improved performance and lower costs. He is emphatic, “Americans deserve better homes, and the industry has the capacity to build them, we’re just not doing it on a consistent basis. If this type of building was industry wide, the costs would drop for everyone.”
Tedd Benson is pretty clear about his future plans for Unity Homes: expanded production facilities across the country to lower shipping costs, continual improvement in the production process, and lower cost.
Eventually, Unity Homes wants to merge its current panelization process with modules that would allow Unity to complete mechanical rooms, bathrooms and kitchens at its facility, and leave only 20% of the building process for on-site construction.
Last, but not least, he wants Unity Homes to stand as a sustainable model for the industry, and with that to change how Americans view homebuilding from something to be dreaded and endured to something that is rewarding and even fun. In the end that will be a source of healing not only for future homeowners but for the planet.
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Unity Home Pioneers: Part of a Greater Movement
For those wondering if the green movement in homebuilding is on track to address personal and environmental needs, that train has already left the station. New-home buyers wanting to be part of the larger movement towards low-impact, healthy living while at the same time moving towards F3 (fossil-fuel-free) energy independence, have taken a hard look at Unity Homes’ family of high-performance, customizable homes—and decided to invest in the future.
In the two years since launching in 2012, Net-Zero-ready Unity homes have sprouted up in three regions of the country (the northeast, southeast, and mid-Atlantic). Moreover, their owners, green home pioneers and early adopters of the new homebuilding technologies, have selected homes from all four of Unity’s design platforms—Tradd, Xyla, Värm and Zūm: an architecturally diverse collection of homes—customizing them to their personal lifestyle preferences.
So, who’s buying these highly versatile, architecturally diverse homes, and what’s motivating them to invest in a low impact, high-performance lifestyle? To answer that question, let’s visit a few recent Unity homebuyers, all of whom coincidentally (or possibly not) are related to the health and wellness industry.
Downsizing in Southern Vermont: A Nurse/ Midwife Customizes a Xyla 212
How did Laurie Coursin, a Certified Nurse/Midwife and mother of an Antioch University student and pottery maker, come to discover Unity Homes? In her words, “The stars just all lined up.”
Elaborating, Laurie continued: “ For the past 14 years, I’ve been living in a timber frame home Tedd Benson built 30 years ago in Gilsum, New Hampshire. I am actually the second owner, so I had had no direct experience building my own home, or working with Bensonwood. I’ve loved the quality of the home and wish I could keep it, but I needed to downsize and wanted to be mindful of the latest advances in sustainable, energy efficient living. So, I wanted to build a mini-version of my home, but the whole process seemed overwhelming to me.”
Then, a bit of serendipity happened, according to Laurie: “It was at this time, that a pediatrician in the Keene, NH area told me about Unity Homes, so I gave them a call, and from that time on, it seemed like it was meant to be. From the start, I met with Unity sales person, John Dunbar. As it turned out, I had helped deliver one of his babies! So, from the outset, the Unity folks felt like a family to me—so supportive—and they’ve made the process so hassle-free. Beyond that, John showed me how high-performance homes like Unity were the wave of the future.”
And in order to live as lightly on the land as possible, Laurie also wanted the perfect location for her new high-performance home. Again, in her words: “I had become interested in an intentional community, Putney Commons, just across the Connecticut River in Putney, VT, and found an 11-acre parcel of land, with 6 existing homes (mine would be the 7th of 9 planned) that would be perfect for me. In addition to investing in sound land stewardship, I would be able to walk to the Quaker meeting house I frequent, as well as to the co-op and the library. And I’d be part of a like-minded community!”
As for green energy, Laurie plans to buy into a solar farm (Soveren Solar’s Vermont Community Solar program), to power her home’s high tech HVAC system, with Air Source Heat Pump and HRV (Heat Recovery Ventilation). And since the intentional community doesn’t permit wood burning, she plans to use a small, gas-fired Yodul stove to replace her old fireplace, for the warmth and ambiance it provides.
Regarding the ability to customize her Xyla 212 plan, Laurie was able to extend the garage to add a special pottery-making room. “I wanted to build a pottery studio for my son while he’s away at college;” Laurie said, adding, tongue-in-cheek, “It may be the only way I’ll get to see him.” Her design also includes a custom connector between the house and garage that incorporates a bath, laundry and entry. To further illustrate the flexibility of the Unity Homes platforms, when it was determined that the original site would have some site preparation challenges—leading to higher than anticipated costs—an alternate lot was selected and the original floor plan was modified to fit the new site without significant changes to the shell components.
Summing it all up, Laurie took a longer view: “At the end of the day, I want to be a responsible home buyer and citizen, so I can have some impact on the world my son, and his children, will inherit.”
A Unity Tradd Rises in Central Vermont for a Young Doctor’s Family
When Kimberly White, a homemaker and mother of two children, now aged 4 and 6, and her husband, Joshua, a medical doctor moved east from Minneapolis, Minnesota, they bought a plot of land in picturesque Barnard, Vermont and rented a basement apartment in a commercial building while researching high-performance home builders.
In Kimberly’s words: “We really wanted to be self-sufficient, and build a beautiful, healthy, solid house—and one that’s also good for the environment.”
They had learned from experience, Kimberly indicated: “I was pregnant with our second child at the time we came east. We had moved from an 80+ year-old stucco house in Minneapolis, with drafty windows and doors and gas heating, to a dank apartment with few windows—a space that was hard to keep warm enough for two small children—so building a tight, energy-efficient home was at the top of our list as we began looking for high-quality, green home builders.”
Regarding their insistence on quality, Kimberly offered: “My husband is very forward thinking. After we had done a lot of soul searching, at one point he said, ‘This is going to be our home—our life! Where our kids will grow up. It needs to be a healthy, comfortable environment. And with the way the economy is going, the price of energy is going to be a major factor when considering a home’s design.’”
On how they found Unity Homes, Kimberly said: “My husband is an avid researcher. He began looking into quality builders in the area and Bensonwood and Unity kept coming up. So we visited their New Hampshire facilities, and then took a tour of a nearby Unity home. What really struck us besides the overall quality,” Kimberly said, “was the tightness and even temperature of the home. The homeowners said that they often had to crack a window when they used the fireplace. That really spoke volumes about the quality and tightness of the house,” Kimberly noted.
The White’s bucolic wooded property, up a steep, winding road, has a couple of ponds and nice views, the perfect setting for their new Tradd 123, a 3,084 SF classic tall cape with 3 bedrooms, and 2.5 baths, plus a walkout basement that will be living space in the near future. The home will be rapidly raised and finished this fall, in time for the holidays.
The home’s standard open living plan has exposed timbers and the first floor includes the living, dining and kitchen areas, a powder room and a laundry room. Upstairs are the master with bath, and two additional bedrooms with shared bath. An unfinished walkout level rounds out the space plan. Because Unity floor plans are highly customizable, the second floor was flipped so that the master bedroom could take advantage of the views. Lastly, for outdoor living enjoyment, the home has a 287 SF porch and deck. An elongated, freestanding, 581 SF 2-car garage will accommodate their tractor.
Besides the reconfigured floor plan, the Whites opted for several upgrades, including an ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilator) air handling system to complement the standard air source heat pump.
In concluding, Kimberly re-emphasized: “It was really important to us that the home not only be healthy for our family, but healthy for the environment as well.”
A Retired Doctor & Teacher Retire to a Unity Xyla in Southern Connecticut
When Nikki and Joanna were contacted for the purpose of this interview, they were flush with excitement and anticipation after having just viewed their completed weather-tight Xyla 212 shell rise as if by magic, within a week’s time, in the coastal Connecticut town of Guilford. Nikki, a retired family doctor, and her partner, Joanna, a retired teacher and practicing artist, were drawn to Unity Homes for a variety of health, environmental, and aesthetic reasons, but seeing the home materialize so quickly was a real thrill.
Not long before, the two weren’t sure a high-performance home was even achievable within their means. As Nikki explained, “Though we were familiar with the passive solar standards out there, and wanted to live lightly on the land, we didn’t think we could afford an environmentally-advanced home.”
Then, describing how they discovered Unity, Nikki continued, “We were originally involved with a co-housing group in Bethany, Connecticut, but we were concerned that things were moving slowly and that, at our age—in our early sixties—getting a truly sustainable home was going to take too long. Sensing our frustration, a builder who had previously recommended Unity Homes to the co-housing group, directed us to the company website.”
According to Joanna, “One of the primary reasons we came to Unity was how well the homes were constructed, with large sections finished in the factory, unexposed to the damaging effects of weather. Our present home is a 50-year old house, with drafty windows and doors and a gas furnace. We thought of retrofitting it for energy efficiency, but it was totally impractical, if not impossible. With our new home, we want to reach Net -Zero energy, so we plan to add PV (photovoltaic) panels to our Xyla.”
The couple wanted a large master bedroom, a yoga studio, and a home office/studio. To achieve this within the Xyla 212 platform, a master bump-out was added to the plan and interior partitions were reconfigured—all while retaining the core volume and window configuration.
On the ease of achieving their wish list, Nikki had this to say: “The Unity model was a great combo, where the design is already set, but the space plan had the flexibility to meet our needs. For example, we wanted a larger master bedroom, so they put the whole team on it—you know, in-house designers, engineers. They ended up taking a master bedroom from a larger Xyla and added it to the Xyla 212 plan. We also really liked having many of the design decisions pre-set, while at the same time, having the flexibility to change the floor plan.”
In addition to the master bump-out, they did specify a number of finish choices to make the home uniquely theirs, like a special Japanese Shoji screen pocket door, a screen porch and cedar siding on the exterior to better weather the shore climate.
On the style of their Xyla 212, Joanna had this to say: “We really love the design. We find it organic and aesthetically pleasing, and we love the post and beam, the exposed timbers. We also really like the low profile—it being built low to the ground, which will make for easy, single-floor living as we get older.”
Summing up, Nikki spoke of the growing movement towards green living: ”It seems like everyone we’ve talked with in this area, even people overhearing our conversations and joining in—a waitress, a real estate agent, a cop—they were all interested in environmental building…in what we’re building. They all wanted to know what we were doing.”
Nikki then added, “We get the sense there’s a real movement building towards green living, and for Joanna and me, it feels really good to be out ahead in that movement.”
Posted in Air Source Heat Pumps, ASHP, Floor Plans, Renewable Energy, Solar Power Photovoltaic, Contemporary Homes, energy efficiency, Energy Recovery Ventilator, ERV, F3 Fossil Fuel Free, Garages and Barns, Green Building, Homebuilding, HRV, net zero, Prefab Home Floor Plans, prefab homes, Prefab Traditional Homes, Solar Power, Sustainability, Tradd, Unity Homes, Varm, Xyla, Zum Homes
Tagged Energy Efficient Homes, Green Building, Green Home Builder, Green Prefabricated Homes, Net-Zero, Net-Zero Homes, on-site assembly, Prefab, Prefab Homes, PV, Small Energy Efficient Homes, Sustainability, Sustainable Design, Tradd, Unity Homes, Varm, Xyla, Zum
Unity Homes’ Air Source Heat Pumps: Pulling Energy Out of Thin Air
By Rheannon DeMond
Bensonwood/ Unity Homes Energy and Sustainability Specialist
Heat pump technology has been around for over a century, and even though the technology has advanced, the principles are still the same. There are some who are still critical about Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) technology, but we at Bensonwood and Unity Homes prefer to use them whenever possible as they’re especially well suited for highly- insulated, airtight homes with very low heating and cooling loads. In fact, our building envelopes are so energy efficient that our smaller, open floor plan homes can often be comfortably heated and cooled with one central unit. Regardless of home size, however, Air Source Heat Pumps are an extraordinarily efficient and feasible option for our homes, and this article will cover why we think this technology is the best all-around choice.
Unlike combustion-based systems that produce heat at around 80-95% efficiency, ASHPs move heat from one location to another using the energy drive from the refrigeration cycle. This process is very similar to how a household refrigerator works. The increased energy drive allows a heat pump to produce 100 kWh of heating and cooling energy using only 20-40 kWh of electricity, resulting in efficiencies of 200-350%.
How much electricity is consumed is dependent on the temperature differential between the outdoor and indoor air. In fact, a common reason people have shied away from using ASHPs in the past is because the efficiencies drop in cold temperatures, making these units not as ideal for cooler climates. However, recent advances in the inverter technology of these systems now allow ASHPs to operate down to -17°F, and produce heat at 100% of its capacity and efficiency down to 0°F.
ASHP technology is efficient and here is a real life example to put it a little more in perspective:
For a 1,780 SF northern Vermont home that requires around 57.1 million Btus per year to heat:
Heating with #2 fuel oil would cost around $1,600 a year at current rates.
Heating with a propane-fired system would cost around $2,000 a year.
Heating with wood would be the least expensive option at around $850 per year (but the effectiveness is highly dependent on the user, stove design and kind of wood being burned.)
It should be noted that all of the aforementioned options use combustion, which we know is bad for the environment.
Electric resistance heat would cost around $2,500 per year and the impact that would have on the environment would be dependent on the source of electricity.
Air Source Heat Pumps can generate the same amount of heat for only $1,090 per year, and they can provide efficient cooling in the summer!
If the electricity used to operate an Air Source Heat Pump is generated by a renewable energy source, then the system has little to no impact on the environment. Oil, gas and wood-fired systems create heat using combustion. Combustion creates carbon dioxide, which is harmful to the environment and is a leading cause of unsafe emissions released into the atmosphere every day.
Using the same northern Vermont home as an example, the difference in electrical usage between electric resistance heat and the heat produced from an ASHP is around 9,500 kWh per year. A great way to look at those savings is how it will reduce the impact on the environment, as well as your wallet.
This EPA website allows one to input estimated energy offsets and see how those savings will reduce the impact on the environment. A savings of 9,500 kWhrs is the equivalent to eliminating the CO2 Emissions from 737 gallons of consumed gasoline, or 7,037 pounds of coal burned or 15.5 barrels of oil consumed. And that is just one year. Imagine what the environmental savings would be over 30 years.
Air Source Heat Pumps can be ducted, centrally located or zoned with multiple head units. The system uses small copper refrigeration lines for connections, which minimizes required mechanical space and makes zoning much simpler. They offer a variety of head units that fit easily in both new and existing construction projects, and with their low operating loads these systems can be easily powered by a small renewable energy source.
Installation Costs and Return on Investment
We’ve already discussed how Air Source Heat Pump systems can save money on annual utility bills, but for something so efficient one would think it has to cost more money than conventional systems, right? Wrong. These systems are very cost competitive with most other systems, and remember, they provide whole house cooling and heating, so they may even end up being less expensive.
So what is the return on investment on a system that will not cost the consumer any additional money? It is immediate, but on average this system will pay for itself in energy savings in less than six years!
Cold Climate Operation
The one downfall to these systems is that at around -17°F there is a chance these systems will shut down and stop producing heat, which is what scares some people away. What these people do not understand though is how infrequently the temperature drops below minus 17°F in most of the United States. Even in the coldest climates this is not a common occurrence, so not using a system that is as efficient as this one because of that one fact is not the right approach.
A simple back up source of heat can be installed for use in these rare occurrences. In our homes we use electric resistance for back up heat, because it is inexpensive and can also serve as zone heating. There are also systems available with electric resistance back up heaters that will continue to operate into these low temperatures.
Other Types of Heat Pumps
After heating and cooling, domestic hot water consumes the most household energy, but luckily they also make a heat pump for that. Heat pump water heaters operate at high efficiencies, and have settings to ensure a steady rate of hot water. When compared to electric resistance, oil and propane powered systems, these units will see a return on investment in less than three years. The only catch is that how efficiently they operate is dependent on the ambient air around the system, so installing a unit in a cold basement would not be ideal, but if you have a continuous source of heat to pull from, these units are a great and affordable solution.
Geothermal or Ground and Water Source Heat Pumps (GSHPs) operate using the same heat pump technology as air source, except they move heat using the consistently warmer temperatures of the earth and ground water. Because of this they can operate at efficiencies of 300-600%. These systems are very popular in European countries with very strict guidelines for energy usage.
GSHPs are growing more popular in the cold climates of the United States, but they have high upfront installation costs and a small pool of qualified installers. Like most emerging and efficient technologies, it may take some time before these systems are offered at prices that offer an attractive return on investment.
Buildings are responsible for around 40% of the carbon emissions released into the atmosphere every day, and with the fluctuating cost and availability of fossil fuels, and threat of irreversible climate change, another solution is very necessary. With the advancements in heat pump technology and decreasing costs of renewable solar energy, achieving net zero energy consumption is not just feasible, but a great investment as well.
Posted in Air Source Heat Pumps, ASHP, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Design, energy efficiency, ERV, F3 Fossil Fuel Free, Green Building, Homebuilding, Indoor Air Quality, net zero, Sustainability
Tagged air source heat pump, ASHP, Energy Efficient Homes, Green Building, Indoor Air Quality, Small Energy Efficient Homes, Sustainability, Unity Homes
Project Update: A Solar Studio
When Keene, New Hampshire photographer Steve Holmes wanted a studio space, he was driven by a lifestyle decision to connect his business to family and home. He also wanted more touch points for an enhanced client experience, where they could initially meet Steve, discuss the shoot, be photographed, then review the finished work.
Holmes, who specializes in portrait and wedding photography, came to Bensonwood through a recommendation from a friend for whom we recently built a home in Idaho. Holmes knew what he wanted for his studio and provided Bensonwood architect Randall Walter with Adobe Illustrator sketches of his ideas.
The Holmes Studio as completed complements the local vernacular; the exterior is a traditional shed-barn design, while the interior has a clean, contemporary look with a more refined feel. It features high ceilings to accommodate professional lighting and ample windows to allow plenty of soft, natural light from the north side into the studio space.
The versatile 1,224 square foot space features a covered porch and a greeting room to meet with clients and show them portraits, a bathroom, dressing room, workshop and storage space. A large, rigid projection screen on the back of the massive sliding, barn-style door dividing the office and studio spaces was Steve’s idea, which woodworking team leader Kevin Bittender made a reality in Douglas fir, customized with Better Barns hardware and a low-VOC fini sh.
Because of his engagement in the process, Steve found the design-build process very enjoyable. He especially likes the feature of the 3,000 pound single beam that spans the length of the building, adding a subtle nod to the rustic New England vernacular and balancing the contemporary interior design with the heavy timbers for which Bensonwood is so well known.
Solar Source in Keene, New Hampshire supplied the grid-tied photovoltaic system that, over a year, produces more electricity than the studio needs. Holmes says he really enjoys watching his electric meter spin backwards as the 13.85 kW solar electric system feeds energy back to the utility.
Posted in Renewable Energy, Solar Power Photovoltaic, Sustainable Design, Bensonwood, Commercial Construction Projects, energy efficiency, F3 Fossil Fuel Free, Green Building, Low VOC, net zero, Project Update, Solar Power
Tagged Bensonwood, Custom Timberframe, F3 fossil fuel free, Green Building, low-VOc, Net-Zero, Small Energy Efficient Homes, Sustainable Building, Sustainable Design, Timber frame
Passive House: The House of the Future | Sheri Koones
From our old friend Sheri Koones in the Huffington Post yesterday. We appeared in her popular 2012 book Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid: Your Path to Building an Energy-Independent Home.
The Passive House (or Passivhaus) (PH) was first established in Germany and is quickly becoming a standard in many parts of the world, including the United States. Whereas other important standards, such as LEED), focus on many environmentally friendly aspects of the home, such as site location, sustainability, materials, water efficiency and so on, Passive House only focuses on energy and ventilation.
Posted in Montage Prefab, Passive House, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Design, Green Building, Homebuilding, net zero, prefab homes, Residential Construction, Sustainability, Unity Homes
Tagged Green Building, Passive House, Prefab, Prefab Homes, Prefabricated Home, Sherri Koones, Sustainable Design
LEED Platinum-Certified Bensonwood Project Wins 4th Award
A view of the Burr and Burton Mountain Campus Academic Building as you approach from the road.
The LEED Platinum-Certified Burr and Burton Academy Mountain Campus in Peru, VT, which Bensonwood designed, engineered and built, is a recipient of the 2014 Governor’s Awards for Environmental Excellence.
Environmental excellence awards have been given since 1993 to recognize efforts and actions of Vermonters to conserve and protect natural resources, prevent pollution, and promote environmental sustainability. To date, more than 200 efforts have been recognized.
“These projects contribute significantly to Vermont’s environmental quality and encourage others to take similar actions to protect our resources,” said Deb Markowitz, Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. “They demonstrate the importance of innovation and partnerships in enhancing and sustaining Vermont’s environmental quality.”
Award winners will be recognized at the Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility Annual Spring Conference on May 14 at the Davis Center on the University of Vermont campus in Burlington.
The front entrance of the LEED Platinum-certified, net-zero energy building.
This is the fourth award in the past four months for the building. BBA’s Mountain Campus also won Efficiency Vermont’s 2014 Better Buildings by Design “Best of the Best” in Commercial Building Design and Construction, recognizing innovative and integrated design approaches for energy efficiency in Vermont’s commercial and residential buildings.
The ultra-efficient masonry heater in the school building is integral to warming the building.
In November, the Mountain Campus earned a prestigious Engineering News-Record “Award of Merit” and in January 2014, it won the “AIA New Hampshire Merit Award.” The AIA jury said: “The respect for the environment is as integral to the architecture as it is to the mission of the school. The jury appreciated how the structure, columns, and framing define the composition and are a metaphor for the forest setting.”
Like Unity Homes and other Bensonwood custom timber frame projects, the building was largely prefabricated offsite and erected quickly in the forested setting to minimize impact to the local ecology.
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Unity Home Rises on Connecticut’s Gold Coast
Another Unity Home Rises on Connecticut’s Gold Coast | The New House Rules.
It is always rewarding to build for repeat clients, which is the case with our current Unity home in Essex, Connecticut, our seventh since launching the new line of residences in October 2012. The two-story, 2,450 square foot Tradd is Net-Zero ready, is expected to exceed the Passive House standard for air tightness, and like all Unity Homes, can go from foundation to finished home in 30-40 working days.
Our local on-site builder for both Unity homes in Essex, A. Joseph Shea, was instrumental in bringing Bensonwood’s Unity Homes and the two Essex couples together.
This latest Unity, our first Tradd 134, is a 4-bedroom, 3.5 bath shore home customized with solid-sawn Douglas fir timbers and high-end finishes and mechanicals. The custom Tradd will serve as the guest house to the main house; a home for which Bensonwood built an addition back in 2012.
The retirement-age clients had considered building a fully-custom home with Bensonwood, but chose Bensonwood’s sister company, Unity Homes, instead because of its streamlined design-build process. They didn’t want to spend a lot of time making the myriad decisions a full-phase custom design process can require. Instead, they were able to visit Unity’s Walpole, NH facilities and, after just one day of finalizing the design and selecting finishes, moved to contract.
The energy-efficient, prefab green home is currently in fabrication at our Blackjack Road facilities, concurrent with the site work. Its weathertight shell will then be raised on site in a matter of days, later this month, and finished during the summer. Like theXyla, Zūm, and Värm Unity Homes, it features sustainable wood construction, ample use of natural light, low VOC building materials for greater indoor air quality, paints, adhesives, and sealants, as well as dense-pack cellulose insulation, solid, sound dampening construction, and draft-free even-temperature comfort.
Posted in Floor Plans, Sustainable Design, net zero, prefab homes, timber frame, Tradd, Unity Homes
Tagged Custom Timberframe, Green Prefabricated Homes, Net-Zero, Prefab Homes, Tradd, Unity Homes
Passive House Wins Award for “Best Energy-Efficient Project”
Steven and Barbara Landau’s Norwich, Vermont, Passive House won The Builders and Remodelers Association of Greater Boston (BRAGB) Prism Gold Award for “Best Energy-Efficient Project.” Bensonwood, who designed the prefabricated insulated panels and constructed the timberframe shell, was honored as part of a highly-skilled green building team that included energy modeling and mechanical consultantsZeroEnergy Design, consulting architect Paul R. Bilgen, general contractor Estes and Gallup, and custom window and door maker, Architectural Openings. The innovative, sustainable home previously won the 2012 Efficiency Vermont “Best of the Best in Residential New Construction” Honor Award.
The 17-inch recycled foam sheet insulation provides R-75 value and a vapor barrier below the slab. All hot water is provided by two rooftop, flat-plate solar collectors with an electric on-demand water heater for backup. One kilowatt heating mats located under floor tiles in the bathrooms supply radiant heating, and air exchange is managed by a Heat Recovery Ventilator whose operation automatically adjusts, depending on temperature, humidity, and occupancy. In the kitchen/living room a sealed combustion chamber wood stove serves both as cooktop and bake oven, as well as a source of supplemental heat. The eco-friendly 2,457 square foot home also earned 41 Home Energy Rating index points, meaning it is 59% more efficient than a standard new home.
BRAGB, a trade association affiliated with the National Association of Home Builders and Home Builders Association of Massachusetts, has represented the building industry since 1944 and is one of the leading trade associations in New England.
Posted in Architects, Montage Prefab, Passive House, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Design, Bensonwood, Green Design Awards, net zero, prefab homes, Project Update, Residential Construction, Solar Power, Sustainability
Tagged Bensonwood, Green Building, Net-Zero Homes, Passive House, Prefab Homes, Sustainable Design
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Carly Paoli to give back to community in forthcoming concert
World-renowned classical star and the voice of Pope Francis’ Jubilee Year of Mercy, Carly Paoli will perform at an exclusive Christmas concert next week. Ms Paoli, whose rendition of Ave Maria was chosen as the official song of the pope’s 2016 Jubilee celebrations, will take part in a concert at St John The Baptist’s CofE... Read More
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The Most Charming Covered Passages In Paris
Marcia Aguirre
Tucked away from the noisy boulevards and overcrowded museums lay Paris’s quiet yet unbelievably charming covered passages. Built in the 19th century, their stained-glass ceilings, mosaic floors, and iron latticework will whisk you right back to the Belle Époque. Here you can find delightful curio shops, classic boutiques, and cafés all sheltered from the weather yet bathed in natural light. Join us as we take you through Paris’ most beautiful covered passages.
Galerie Vivienne | © Lionel Allorge/WikiCommons
Galerie Vivienne
Entrée du Passage Choiseul | © LPLT/WikiCommons
This exquisite passage is just a step away from the Palais Royal. Built in 1823 by Marchoux – its creator attempted to name the passage after himself but to his disappointment lost out to the name, Vivienne. It was an extremely popular commercial spot until the the Haussmann renovations enticed most major shops away to Madeleine. Its revival came in the 1980s with the opening of the Jean-Paul Gaultier boutique. Today the extraordinary Galerie Vivienne gathers luxury boutiques, as well as peculiar art, book and fabric shops, an inviting tea room, and lovely bistros. The elegant canopy and colors offer a rare light into the passage, and the original mosaic floor and artistic detailing make it one of the most worthwhile visits in Paris.
Galerie Vivienne, Paris, Île-de-France, 75002, France
Passage Choiseul
Passage du Grand Cerf | © Theud-Bald/WikiCommons
This passage is a registered historical monument, which comes as no surprise considering its rich history. Built in 1825, this is where Louis-Ferdinand Celine, the celebrated 20th century French novelist credited with modernizing literature, spent his childhood. By the 1970s, the passage became quite trendy when Kenzo opened a boutique here (now located at Place des Victoires). Nowadays, Passage Choiseul is famous for its boutique restaurants, art galleries, book shops, an original bar à sieste (or ’sleeping bar’), and the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens.
Passage Choiseul, Paris, Île-de-France, 75002, France
Passage du Grand Cerf
Passage des Panoramas | © Jean François Gornet/WikiCommons
This passage, with its arcades of neat glass, was built in 1825 on the site of the Hotel du Grand Cerf. It is, without any doubt, one of the most beautiful in the city. Its pleasing interior bursts with curious crafts, artisan shops, and high-quality fashion and jewelry, making it an ideal place to buy original gifts. It’s not easy to find, but the challenge is worth it. Hint: you can access it near rue Saint-Denis or Place Goldoni.
Passage du Grand Cerf, Paris, Île-de-France, 75002, France
Passage des Panoramas
Galerie Véro-Dodat | © Jean François Gornet/WikiCommons
The oldest of the covered passages in Paris, Passage des Panoramas was built in 1799 and crosses through the second and ninth arrondissements. Originally housing a bazaar filled with souks hawking exotic oriental wares, today it is filled with characterful bars and restaurants including Noglu (one of Paris’ few gluten-free eateries). It is also popular for its philatelist boutiques, so if you are a stamp, postcard, or coin collector, you should consider visiting this lovely retro place.
11 Boulevard Montmartre, Paris, 75009, France
Galerie Véro-Dodat
This neoclassical-style galleria is situated in the beating heart of Paris, close to the Louvre and Palais Royal. Compared with other covered passages, Galerie Véro-Dodat is not that large, however a clever trompe l’œil was conceived to enlarge the space: to give the feeling of depth, the designers used a grid of diagonal black and white tiles on the marble floor. When you walk through the passage, don’t forget to look up at the ceiling, which is decorated with heavenly inscriptions and paintings. At normal eye-level, you will find the usual charming shops, art galleries, restaurants, and for fashionistas two flagship Christian Louboutin boutiques. You can also contemplate luxury footwear at the museum at the entrance of the passage.
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Rubbish Boss Fights: Sonic Unleashed (Part One)
By The Game of Nerds April 2, 2018 August 12, 2019
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When Sonic Unleashed was released in 2008, it left a lot of people wanting. It was a game that so many people had been pretty hyped for, hoping that it would be the installment that would revitalise a declining franchise, but it was just sadly let down on a good few points. But don’t get me wrong here, I happily played the heck out of the game even years after it was released and criticised. There was more than enough in the fast-paced, exhilarating daytime levels and good looking setting variety to keep me entertained for hours at a time. Ultimately, it was a game that I ended up putting so much time into that, at the end of it all, I just wanted it to stand up to all its critics and strike back a bit. And although I can point to things like the general look of the game and what not, there is one indefensible point of this game that really blows everything else out of the water. My goodness, the ending in this game was shockingly bad.
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Sonic Unleashed was a game where you literally saw first hand not only yourself progressing along, but you knew exactly how much of the game you had left to complete. There would be two levels in each of the parts of the world you visited, one for the daytime and one for the night, and then a final boss fight before that particular part of the world was ‘stuck’ back together. As a progressive missionline it couldn’t have been much simpler really. Whenever you have such a visually obvious progression in a however, you need to do everything to ensure that the final boss fight you’re building up for is going to be worth the effort everyone has been putting in. If it doesn’t, you have absolutely no room to hide the disappointment if it doesn’t make the grade. To say that Sonic Unleashed failed to make the grade would be a gross understatement.
Back onto the game though, with all the pieces of the world reunited we come to the game’s final level: Eggmanland. In not wanting to divulge too much into the ins and outs of the actual game, Sonic (aka you) must navigate through an agonisingly long level in what can only be described as a weird industrial theme park-wannabe. Checkpoints are few and far between across this level and the player is consistently required to switch between day and night forms just to keep progressing. The level alone will require close to an hour’s worth of playtime and we haven’t even hit the actual bosses yet. Longer and less checkpoints is not a winning formula in trying to ramp up the scale for a final level and the game really suffers for it here.
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Right, first boss time. Dr. Eggman in true Sonic style turns up for the third time in the game, only in this encounter he comes equipped with yet another giant robot! Honestly, the lack of impact Eggman has at this point really can’t be over exaggerated by now. It does feel like the game had forgotten about needing the doctor to be a serious opponent to Sonic and is just thrown in as a bit of a stop gap. I know Dr. Eggman is not exactly known for being the darkest character in the world, but throughout the game he just feels like a side character who is never too far away from one too many bad jokes. Eggman’s “Egg Dragoon” is easiest one of the easiest bosses you are going to encounter and the only real annoyance it presents is how many times you’re going to have to replay it because, again, no checkpoints.
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The Weeknd Responds to the Grammy Nominations
Posted on November 27, 2020 Location: Los Angeles, New York, USA 2 min read 144 views
Since the Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 2021 Grammy Awards on Tuesday, things turned left for some celebrities. A conversation among celebrities, pop critics, and fans surfaced on the internet about the Weeknd not getting any nominations.
The Canadian pop star released his latest album, “After Hours in March”. After Hours, sounds like the kind of album that would bring the Weekend nominations for the Grammy Awards, but it didn’t. Even with the second single, “Blinding Lights” being the biggest hit of the year. Fans and even music critics loved it. So why didn’t the Weekend get any nominations for his work? The Weeknd was robbed out of six nominations that he should have gotten from the amazing album released this year. Receiving zero nominations not only shocked his fans including himself. The Weeknd Tweeted, “The Grammys remain corrupt. You owe me, my fans, and the industry transparency”
The Grammys are known for not giving nominations to celebrities based on their hard work. This is a shocker to all of us because, with all the success After Hours received, it deserves to be nominated. According to Rolling Stone, Recording Academy Chair and Interim President/CEO Harvey Mason Jr. made a statement about the issue. “We understand that the Weeknd is disappointed at not being nominated. I was surprised and can empathize with what he’s feeling. His music this year was excellent, and his contributions to the music community and broader world are worthy of everyone’s admiration”.
The Weeknd not being nominated for any awards doesn’t make any sense. People thought it related to him being able to perform at the Super Bowl and not the Grammys, but that is not the case. Harvey Mason Jr. stated, “We would have loved to have him also perform on the Grammy stage the weekend before the Super Bowl, unfortunately, every year, there are fewer nominations than the number of deserving artists”. “To be clear, voting in all categories ended well before The Weeknd’s performance at the Super Bowl was announced, so in no way could it have affected the nomination process”.
The Weekend not being nominated for any awards at the Grammys is a bummer. At least he and fans know what a great artist he is especially what a great album After Hours is.
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2019 FORD F350 SUPER DUTY
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United States: U.S. Supreme Court Rules "State Action Doctrine" Does Not Protect State Licensing Boards
by Mark E. Rust , Annamarie Daley , Laura Seng , Kendall Millard and Paul Olszowka
On Feb. 25, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state professional licensing boards comprised of professionals, which long had presumed they enjoyed immunity to claims under the antitrust laws, are in fact not protected by the "state action doctrine" of Parker v. Brown. The decision should be considered by all professionals who serve as members of state licensing and professional regulatory boards.
In a 6-3 ruling and opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Court upheld the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. That court had affirmed an administrative law judge who sided with the Federal Trade Commission against the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners after the board issued cease and desist letters to non-dentists who provided teeth whitening services. The case raised the issue of whether such boards, which are actual state agencies, are wholly exempt from the antitrust laws under the Parker doctrine, which was established in 1943, or whether such boards, when they are comprised of active market participants (i.e., practicing dentists) are subject to the "Midcal" test. That test, established in the case of California Retail Liquor Dealers Assn. v. Midcal Aluminum, required that defendants carrying out a state policy prove they were "actively supervised" by a state pursuant to a "clearly articulated and affirmatively expressed" state policy before availing themselves of the Parker doctrine defense.
In the North Carolina case, the state did not have a clear legislative policy on who was permitted to perform teeth whitening, but the Dental Board reacted to complaints by dentists that non-dentists were setting up shopping mall kiosks and performing such services for far less than dentists charged. The board issued a series of cease and desist letters to those practitioners, which eventually caused non-dentists to cease their activities all across the state. Eventually, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed an administrative complaint against the board, alleging concerted action by the dentists to prevent non-dentists from competing in the market for teeth whitening services.
The Court found it significant that the Dental Board was comprised a large number of dentists who were potential competitors with other professionals who could perform such services. It ruled that where state boards "had a controlling number" of "active market participants" such boards can only be protected from the antitrust law if their activities are actively supervised by the state.
Neither side had argued that the North Carolina activities were actively supervised by the state. Instead, the board argued that it was protected from antitrust suits simply because it was an agency of the state. The Court ruled that the need for supervision turns not on the formal designation given by states to regulators, but on the risk that active market participants will pursue private interests in restraining trade. While the Court had previously applied this standard to private entities fulfilling an activity based on state law, it never before applied it to an actual state agency, such as a licensing Board.
In a dissent joined by Justices Scalia and Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the court misunderstood Parker, which was never intended to ensure that regulatory practices in a state were fair or were not anti-competitive. The doctrine, he wrote, was meant to acknowledge the sovereign power of the state. The Midcal test, he noted, had always been applied to private, non-state actors who were carrying out state policy but, because they were private, needed active supervision by the state to be protected from the antitrust laws. By restricting the reach of the Parker protections to agencies of the state not "controlled" by "active market participants," Alito wrote, the Court not only weakens the protection but also raises the issue, to be decided at a later date, of what is meant by "control" and what constitutes "active market participants."
These issues will now need to be contemplated by "active market participants" such as practicing physicians, dentists and other professionals who serve on licensing boards. While the FTC brought the action in this case, and sought only injunctive relief, the question will also arise whether such participants can be subject to private rights of action and claims for money damages brought by those whom licensing boards regulate.
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