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𝕺𝖓𝖊 𝖛𝖔𝖎𝖈𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉 𝖇𝖚𝖙 𝖎𝖙 𝖙𝖆𝖐𝖊𝖘 𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖔𝖋 𝖚𝖘 𝖙𝖔 𝖇𝖊 𝖆 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖉 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉. 𝕭𝖊 𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖌𝖆𝖒𝖊 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖗𝖘
Dear President Obama, thank you for being.
By Grace Abaho Sr February 15, 2016
Dear President Obama,
I greet you in the name above all names. I waited to write to you my second letter after your final SOTU (state of the union) address not as my last letter to you but as a letter of appreciation for the almost concluded two terms of office .Allow me to first express how so humbled to write to a man whose name has been engraved upon the marble of history. I have fortunately had a few days to prepare otherwise I would make very terrible sentences herein. Again, I am lucky to address a man whose kindred spirit is ingrained in equality and the pursuit of happiness. The last time I wrote to you, I critiqued you. Today, I have very deep gratitude for how fundamentally influential you are and will forever be to my Life and I pray to the life of my descendants. I remember well, in the 2007 democratic primaries that shaped the arc of history of the American Dream, I didn’t support you then.Actually,apart from the inescapable thing we have in common,blackness,I didn’t pay attention to you until you beat my favourite democratic candidate then, sen.Hillary Rodham Clinton, a woman of valour.
Onward, you emerged winner of the democratic ticket for national polls. For sure, that’s when you got my undivided attention for the very first time. I respect you for that Mr.President. Insignificant as I am, it took a lot of convincing. Surely, you won me to your side and gave me hope that indeed America needed you. Quick forward; the audacity of hope a speech that you delivered at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Massachusetts and Dr.King’s I have a Dream became the most hope triggering speeches I have ever heard. I do not know how many times I have revisited these two speeches. They are surely something an optimist needs to tell to the cynical. As a student of Dr.King’s teachings and ardent follower of his works, I got the audacity to believe that you were the true revelation of his dream. In you; I saw a president; the first black president of the United states of America. I want to say that yes, as punctuated by a repeated phrase ‘I have a Dream’, your words in the audacity of hope and Dr.King’s words became even more meaningful when you emerged winner of the 2008 presidential election.
January 2009, I remember vividly, we didn’t have Dstv at home then but I stayed out for the most part at the neighbour's to watch the most historical inaugural ceremony in the world so far.That night, while you spoke, I thought about two things: one was how Dr.King would feel if he were seated right there and the other was the wonders of optimism---the audacity of Hope. Along the way, tears of joy uncontrollably found their way down my chin. I sure understood you heartily when you broke down as you gave your gun Violence,therefore.I know what it means to empathise;I have often told my peers here that to not empathise is to create more monsters.
Back to that night of your first presidential inauguration, I had for a long time looked around for someone who would be the near equivalent of Dr.King’s oratory abilities; you were proof positive. I know you have heard a more far much worthier complement (from your wife, Michelle) but please allow me to say that you are one of the greatest orators of the 21st century. I cannot elocute as gracefully as you did in 2004 and as Dr.King did in 1963, with ‘I have a Dream’ and the ‘Audacity of Hope’ respectively. Because of you and Dr.King, I have a Dream, the power in the audacity of Hope. A dream that possibly one day you and I shall sit and talk about Hope and many other things I could fetch a leaf on from you.
Away from that, the greatest achievement being becoming the first black president of the United States, the second was making Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton the secretary of state. I remember well, in the 2008 Democratic Convention after Hillary had lost you; while addressing the convention, she and her husband President Bill Clinton called upon Americans to trust you with their vote. I am so certain the 18 million voters that Hillary had to her side in the early Democratic primary, whom she called to rally behind you, were so pivotal in your political career. Returning a favor just after being successfully elected and inaugurated as President of the United States was the most humane way to show gratitude. I am also darn sure it cemented a very strong bond not only with the Clintons but also with the American electorate. As an outside universal supporter, it was and still is one of the greatest politically mature decisions I have seen in my lifetime so far.
Presidency is not somewhere you land and sleep down on some bed of roses. As J Adams once said; “no man who has ever held the office of presidency would congratulate a friend upon obtaining it”. This is surely a very true statement for me all the way. I have seen some of the people I admire as great presidents, those who have served effortlessly, been only paid back my ungratefulness. A very immediate example is you Mr.President.With the ‘vow of obstructionism’ the republicans took after your first presidential victory, your biggest achievement has been being a victor amid all that yammering, fear mongering and bickering, Kudos Mr. President! Also to this, emerging a two times democratically elected president is telling and proof positive that yes you did great in your first term of office. As Paul Krugman put it a few weeks ago; ‘the republicans have successfully failed at trying to fail the President’. If you and read from John 1:5; “the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it”. Allow me to toast to a successful president; President Barack H Obama.
A former president of the United States F Jefferson once said; “no man will ever bring out of the presidency the reputation which carries him into”. I totally agree. Profoundly, there are those who are disappointed with your almost concluded 8 years of presidency but again, there are those who are heartily thankful. This is two-fold: those that had hyper ventilated hopes and weren’t all met and those that expected you to fail but swam along with the tide along the way. To me, your presidential work and presentation has been very convincing enough to crown you a successful president.Well,you had a few miscalculations in some places but if there is anything the Americans and the rest of the world ought not to look for from you is perfection because that’s looking for the impossible.
I have grown up very conscious of this; thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he leaves in paradise”. In the word of the scripture; “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing”-Luke 23:34 Before I leave this part of the vitriol you have had to leave with, allow me to thank your dear wife, Michelle Obama, for being phenomenally supportive all the way. I remember well, in her 2012 DNC speech she set a pace; cleared blockages you had to deal with right before they even happened. These words, Michelle’s words, always echo at the back of my mind:
“….like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much they did. In fact they admired it……..and standing before you four years ago, I didn’t want any of that to change if my husband became president.Well,today,after so many struggles and triumphs and moments that have tested my husband in ways I have never imagined, I have seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are---it reveals who you are….i love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he is going to do even when its hard---especially when it is hard. I love Barack for to him there is no such a thing as ‘Us’ and ‘them’. He doesn’t care whether you are a democrat or republican or none of the above, he is always willing to listen to good ideas. And I love that in the toughest moments, when we are sweating it and there is no margin for error, Barack never gets distracted by the noise and chatter…..”
Mr. President, you and your daughters, America and the rest of the world are blessed to have Michelle as the first lady of the United States. Especially you, Mr.President.May God bless her phenomenal soul.
As an air of finality, I want to say that I do not write this you as any authority figure but as a very great admirer of your Life’s work and achievements. You have achieved a lot in your almost done 8 years of presidency, they speak for themselves loudly, I can’t repeat them here. Your importance will not slide off when you are done with your presidency. I can assure you, you will forever be a towering legend and a beacon in the arc of history of not only the American dream but also, the whole world. You are the true redefinition of Hope. God bless you and your beautiful family. God bless America and; the whole world.
Grace Abaho.
Grab him by the ballot
By Grace Abaho Sr October 22, 2016
Morality can be so interesting to watch when a very immoral person like Donald Trump is playing the morality police. It has been a turn of events since the last debate —when the Donald learned he was losing terribly, he resorted to the final deep end drive into the conquest for the bottom of the barrel—his campaign has been always about impure rhetoric but this time, he didn’t pretend for a second, what I don’t understand though is why a man would pride in being remembered for the creepiest things ever said for a man as old as 70 years. I have seen the very big hypocrites of the republican party ditch their party leader on the side of the road albeit I can’t fathom why and how they stood on his side this long—if there’s one sure thing, putting up with the stupidity that tags along being in the Donald’s cult is a twenty four-hour exercise equivalence, it’s a very tough place to be: full of vile utterances and always denying facts even understood by a five year old. This article
We were eight Years in Power, a legacy adored.
By Grace Abaho Sr August 06, 2016
When I wrote the memoir for my role model , President Obama and his beautiful family, I thought I was saying bye with tears of joy and I wouldn’t be tempted to write anything again before I met him in person—well, I was so wrong, I have since written many pieces where his legendary name surfaces as a re-enforcer to my points [remember, as Mrs. Clinton said recently while delivering her acceptance speech , he is the ‘explainer in chief’]. The beautiful first family:Photo taken off the web What I have learned from this great man and his phenomenal wife, FLOTUS Michelle Obama, is absolutely beyond description: all I can say is that it makes me wake up each day with morale to work hard and one day inspire people like these two have inspired my person over the years. Yes, I have learned over the years that good deeds are contagious—we either do and write about them or live by them our entire lives.That maybe the greatest riddle of our time is the unforgettable question from the iconic
Hillary Clinton is Presidential
I want to begin with what Donald said about Hillary as he openly endorsed her for the job: “she is a fighter and she never quits, I admire that about her”. The last many three decades of the republican witch-hunt on the Clinton family have molded the incoming 45th of the United States, Hillary Clinton: she and her husband have been through the fire but have still soared so high, proof positive that nothing baffles the achemes of the enemy like a composed soul. Being a Clinton maybe hard but might as well be one of the most rewarding experiences in self-composure and self-discovery. As I said in the first debate commentary ; for those who had doubts, she mopped the floor with an ignorant bigot—she did it again and we are proud of her. The last couple of days have been filled with the most sickening news of the republican flag bearer’s advice; “Grab their p***y”; seeing many republicans un-endorse their nominee and billions of people around the world have the republican party for
When they go low, we go high.
By Grace Abaho Sr July 26, 2016
T his wallpaper and I almost fought a duel to point of death, to take over on my phone and laptop screen saver space, but I had to give up very easily because these beautiful words come from one of the most inspirational people in my life . President Obama you are a very blessed man, no wonder you immediately proudly tweeted: “ incredible speech by an incredible woman.Couldn't be more proud and our country has been blessed to have her as FLOTUS.I love you, Michelle ”. Michelle Obama stole the show, rather perfectly it turns out—and then there was Sen.Booker,they certainly had to be prime speakers, leave alone for Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders who never minces words when it comes to putting Donald Trump in his place. I have waited for this day, almost very impatiently, until it dawned—it was a very rewarding night for me here in Uganda after the continuous and disastrous bigotry from the Trump camp. I must say with pride that if there is anything
Hillary Clinton is certainly prepared to be President
By Grace Abaho Sr September 30, 2016
President Obama & Sec Clinton having a chit-chat T he Question of whether she is the most qualified candidate America has ever had for a presidential candidate has never been so answered; for those who had doubts, she came to stage and spoke it with illustration(s), verve and swagger throughout the 90 minutes of the debate at Hofstra University. She eloquently made it clear to her opponent that not only did she prepare for the debate, that her opponent seemed to have been so yappy about; but also proved and lived to the hype of what was expected of her: she mopped the floor with the Donald, I have never laughed so loud, at an ignorant bigot being thumped by an intelligent woman. Hillary Clinton at the Debate.Source:Huffington Post The greatest riddle of this political time; the election time, is one: will Americans hand over the presidency to the man whose ignorance is covered under the avalanche of lies and delusion of grandeur—I attempted to draw a clea
IN DEFENSE OF Dr. KIIZA BESIGYE: Andrew Mwenda, Lets PUT THIS TO BED, at ONCE!
By Grace Abaho Sr March 04, 2016
In the TV Series, REVENGE, Chronicling the life of a Distraught Emily Thorne: SEASON 1, EPISODE 7 "Charade”, As Hamlet said to Ophelia, "God has given you one face and you make yourself another." The battle between these two halves of identity who we are and who we pretend to be is unwinnable. (This is referring to Shakespeare's famous tragedy Hamlet. These words are said to Ophelia, Hamlet's girlfriend, in anger and frustration). Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside. A duality governed by the balance of light and darkness. Within each of us is the capacity for both good and evil. But those of us who are able to blur the moral dividing line hold the true power.
ENVISIONING PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON: “THE BARACK-HILLARY LEGACY”
By Grace Abaho Sr June 30, 2016
Photo source: daily dot I am deeply honored to be telling the vision that has since been on my mind for a while in the most possible way I have ever imagined. I have wracked my mind how best I would tell it; it was not until I was admiringly looking at Mrs. Clinton’s photos recently and I got the picture (above) that would best tell what I envision in the Presidency of the first female President of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton . As I have noted time and again, if there is anything that I admire about President Obama and Mrs. Clinton among the very many things, it’s their authentic selves—especially in the realm of political maturity , for purposes of this article. As I noted earlier in the road to President Hillary Clinton , her resilience is certainly a thing anyone in the world would admire, she is indeed is a fighter—“fighting for us, we are stronger together”, do those words ring a bell? By now they should be the words every sane American has subscrib
Barack . H. Obama, the Lasting Imprint.
By Grace Abaho Sr April 10, 2016
I may never be the President of the United States or even my country, Uganda , but I am going to die one day and when I am no longer here, my son and those that read about my name should know that President Obama & Michelle have inspired my person, a lot. I was reading Christopher Hitchens book, Mortality, a while ago and reviews of his memoir, Hitchens 22 , these words really touched me a lot: “ I have more than once woken up feeling like death. But nothing prepared me for the early morning in June when I came to consciousness feeling as If I were shackled to my own corpse ”—he goes on to quote Saul Bellow : “ Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything ”. I told my surrogate mother, Tabitha Scaife , I would do this before I leave the face of the earth and she said, “ Do it sonny, I believe you are very well equipped ”. Ma, thanks for elevating my confidence . Love you, to Life!
Grace Abaho
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From Iceland — Exhibition Tackles Gender Equality At Mengi
Exhibition Tackles Gender Equality At Mengi
Signe Smala
At the start of next month, a new art exhibition – “An Issue of Structure” – opens at Mengi. It aims to illuminate the reality of gender equality and acceptance in Nordic countries, in the words of the author Snövit Hedstierna, by “blowing up social situations and giving ground for new versions of the truth.”
The exhibition uses spatial and audio installations to address and reveal the discrepancy between statistics and reality related to gender equality in North. As organisers say in a statement to the press:
Although Nordic countries – Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Denmark – are considered to be some of the most gender equal in the world, according to The World Economic Forums “Global Gender Gap Report”, other reports, such as FRA Violence Against Women, reveal that these countries have a high rate of violence and abuse.
The Swedish artist Hedstierna has carried out approximately 250 in depth interviews with women, queer, transgender and gender-fluid people in Nordic nations, collecting testimonies of their private experiences related to gender, equality and sexuality. 6,000 hours of work has resulted in an online audio archive and the exhibition “An Issue of Structure”, which is currently visiting the countries where featured stories originated.
“My main focus is to shed light upon the hidden, forgotten and untold by addressing questions of human existence and value and of gender- and identity-based rights,” Hedstierna said. “I strive to bring attention to the oppression of women and of transgendered, queer and other subjects who live in a state of ‘otherness’ relative to the hetero-normative.”
Large scale architectonic physical formations, such as labyrinths, corridors and sloping floors are combined with audio installations to throw off visitors’ senses, evoking a feeling of discomfort which, accompanied by audio testimonies, symbolizes the struggle experienced by people whose stories are voiced.
“The subject matter I work with is often ignored or trivialized by public media and I therefore feel compelled to employ large gestures and formats: long durational works, oversized prints, multi-channel video, and expansive installations,” the author says.
For the curious, here is an audio trailer for the exhibition.
Hedstierna
Mengi
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The presentation is for an audience interested in Global Value Chain related issues and using various production based GVC indicators in the UIBE GVC index system as a tool in their academic research and analytical public policy related work. It also covers some technical details for researchers who are interested in learning the basic input-output mathematics and the computation method to actually compute these GVC indicators from the public available Inter-Country Input-Output (ICIO) database.
Webinar Highlights:
Understand the economics and statistics foundation of the production based GVC index system.
Learn how to Identify GVC activities through decomposition of production activities and how to measure GVC participation based on the decomposition of production activities, including both mathematical derivation and economic Intuition behind the decomposition.
Understand how these indices are saved in cloud drive online and their organization structures
Dr. Zhi Wang,
Senior Policy Fellow of Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University
Professor and Founding Director, Research Institute of Global Value Chains, University of International Business and Economics
Dr. Zhi Wang is a Senior Policy Fellow of Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is also a professor and founding director of the Research Center of Global Value Chains at University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. He obtained his Ph.D in applied economics at University of Minnesota with a minor in computer and information sciences in 1994. He worked as a Lead international economist at the Research Division of U.S. International Trade Commission for more than 10 years before his current appointment.
His major fields of expertise include computable general equilibrium modeling, value chain in global production network, measuring trade in value-added, data reconciliation methods, economic integration among Greater China area, Chinese economies, and international trade. Because of his contribution to the GTAP database and to its use in contemporary policy applications, and his methodological contributions in reconciling re-export trade data, he was selected as Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Research Fellow multi-times. He also served as the US co-chair of the APEC Trade in Value-added (TiVA) technical group in 2015, lead the efforts to build APEC TiVA database. He also selected by Fulbright senior scholar program offering general equilibrium trade policy analysis classes at Chengchi University in Taipei and Tsinghua University in Beijing during 2005 and 2007 respectively.
He has been published in world leading economic journals, including the American Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Regional Sciences, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Journal of Policy Modeling. He is the co-editor of the 2017 and 2019 Global Value Chain development report published by the World Bank and WTO. He is an author or contributor of several books including Global Economic Effects of the Asian Currency Devaluations (PIIE, 1998), The Implications of China-Taiwan Economic Liberalization (PIIE, 2010), and Trade in Value Added: Developing New Measures of Cross-Border Trade (CEPR and the World Bank, 2013).
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The top four musical acts were in the Top 20 overall.
by Brian Cantor Jun 4, 2020, 10:13 am
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West - Selfie via @kanyewest on Instagram
Forbes released its annual Celebrity 100 list, ranking the highest-paid entertainment, sports, literary and media celebrities based on pretax earnings from June 2019-May 2020. The list includes a variety of high-profile music names.
Kanye West, who earned $170 million in that period, claimed #1 among musicians — and #2 overall (below Kylie Jenner). The artist garnered a significant percentage of income from his deal with Adidas for the Yeezy brand. He also released new music and a “Sunday Service” series.
Elton John took second place among musicians (and #14 overall) with $81 million. He enjoyed a highly successful “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour.”
Ariana Grande grabbed #3 among musicians (and #17 overall), courtesy of $72 million in earnings. Along with releasing more hits, she ran the successful “Sweetener Tour.”
The reunited Jonas Brothers have fared quite well in the past twelve months, earning #4 among musicians and #20 overall with $68.5 million. Like John and Grande, they scored big from their tour (“Happiness Begins”).
The Chainsmokers also benefited from a strong tour (“World War Joy”), taking #5 on among musicians and #21 overall with $68 million.
Other high-ranking musicians (or at least names with a big music component to their careers) were as follows:
6) Ed Sheeran – $64 million (#23 overall)
7) Taylor Swift – $63.5 million (#25 overall)
8) Post Malone – $60 million (#28 overall)
9) Rolling Stones – $59 million (#32 overall)
10) Marshmello – $56 million (#35 overall)
11) Shawn Mendes – $54.5 million (#39 overall)
12) Billie Eilish – $53 million (#43 overall)
13) BTS – $50 million (#47 overall)
14) Drake – $49 million (#49 overall, tie)
15) Jennifer Lopez – $47.5 million (#56 overall)
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Written by Brian Cantor
Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. He has been a leading reporter in the music, movie, television and sporting spaces since 2002.
Brian's reporting has been cited by major websites like BuzzFeed, Billboard, the New Yorker and The Fader -- and shared by celebrities like Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj.
Contact Brian at brian.cantor[at]headlineplanet.com.
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The Chargé in Brazil (Scotten) to the Secretary of State
Rio de Janeiro, April 12, 1939—1 p.m.
[Received 2:49 p.m.]
113. Department’s 57, April 11, 6 p.m. Supplementing Aranha’s statement in my 110, April 11, noon, the Director of Exchange this morning informed me that it was found necessary to increase the proportion of the Government’s share of exchange derived from export drafts from 10% to 30% because it was decided that 10% was inadequate based upon last year’s official remittances which amounted to 9,549,998 pounds. This amount is roughly 17% of Brazil’s total exports in 1938, which amounted to approximately $295,000,000. Moreover it [Page 387]was deemed advisable to establish a reasonable reserve fund for governmental purposes. The Director informs me in confidence that the Government may allocate part of the reserve fund for remittances of earnings and dividends.
Although the Bank of Brazil has not fixed a limit for its bought position on compensation marks, the Director informs me that it is his intention to maintain the position at a safe level for normal trading operations with Germany. With respect to the compensation mark situation the Director states that the bank has now adopted the following policy: The Bank of Brazil will maintain the monopoly and will allow German banks to purchase compensation marks only for the liquidation of their own collections and all transactions will be subject to the control of the Bank of Brazil. The Director states that he has issued instructions to alter the quotations on compensation marks in accordance with the fluctuations of exchange of international acceptance on the free market. Although the German banks are now quoting a selling rate of 6 milreis and a buying rate of 5 mil 500 reis for compensation marks, the Director states that he will take steps at once to bring these quotations into line with the policy outlined above.
The Director of Exchange is entirely disposed to allocate exchange for the remittance of dividends and earnings when the exchange position of the bank permits. The Director has called for a statement of the actual amount of arrears of earnings and dividends now due to American companies operating in Brazil. At my suggestion the Director will today receive the manager of the local subsidiary of the American and Foreign Power Company to discuss their exchange problems.
The Director states that the Government decided upon an official buying rate of 16.500 milreis in order to acquire at this lower rate exchange for official requirements of the Government. It appears to the Embassy that an official selling rate for dollars based in part upon the official buying rate of 16.500 milreis is more advantageous to American exporters than the former rate of 17.300 milreis. For example, today banks are selling dollars in liquidation of import bills at 18.500 milreis exclusive of the 5% tax. If the official buying rate were 17.300 the selling rate in the free market for dollars for payment of imports would be increased correspondingly.
On the day the decree law went into effect firms offered export drafts on the free market at 19 milreis and gradually reduced quotations to 18 milreis yesterday. The milreis firmed today with banks buying 70% of export drafts at from 18.300 to 18.400 milreis and banks are selling dollars for the liquidation of import bills at from 18.420 to 18.500 milreis exclusive of the 5% tax.
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Women’s History Month Kingston seeks ideas for events
by staff/ January 17, 2020 /Comments closed
Women’s History Month Kingston (WHMK) was founded last March in collaboration with Black History Month Kingston organizers as a series of events to highlight women’s history through different mediums and a diversity of perspectives.
The first-ever citywide Women’s History Month celebration in Kingston had over 25 community events (the majority of them free), featuring local venues, organizations, businesses and people.
New this year is a submission form to schedule events to be included in the 2020 community series. Ensuring an egalitarian process that supports event organizers and participants, the WHMK submission form is open now through Feb. 10. When an event which aligns with the mission of WHMK joins the community collaboration, organizers are connected with a broad network of sponsors, partners, resources, and participants. The mission of WHMK, says those behind it, “is to celebrate the diversity and contributions of people who identify as women. Launching from the historical (and sometimes forgotten or unrecognized past), the goal is to empower people, here and now, towards an inclusive future where anyone’s impact can be revered.”
To submit an event to the Women’s History Month Kingston Steering Committee, simply fill out the WHMK 2020 Event Submission Form, which is available online at whmk.org.
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The biological level of analysis
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Discuss the use of compliance techniques.
State what you are doing in the essay
This essay will attempt to offer a balanced review of the use of compliance techniques.
Define compliance
Compliance is another important aspect of behaviour within a group.
Compliance can be defined as, according to Aronson et al. "a form of social influence, which is the result of direct pressure to respond to a request."
For example, when people comply to buy certain products, even though the direct pressure may not always be apparent to the individual
Conformity occurs when the situation does not exert direct pressure to follow the majority, but the pressure is often perceived by individuals as influencing their behaviour.
It also involves publicly conforming to the behaviour or views of others but still privately maintaining one's own views.
Introduce key researcher, Cialdini & define compliance techniques
Cialdini, a key researcher into compliance and persuasion has outlined compliance techniques, ways in which individuals are influenced or persuaded to comply with the demands or desires of others.(The result of direct pressure to respond to a request)
Authority – people comply more often with those in positions of authority, e.g. famous people
Commitment – once people have agreed to something, either by their behaviour or tfqfatement of belief, they are likely to comply with similar requests
Liking – people comply with requests from people they like
Reciprocity – people often feel they need to “return a favour”
Scarcity – opportunities seem more valuable to people when they are less readily available
Social Proof – people view a behaviour as correct if they see others performing it
State when compliance techniques are used
Sales tactics (persuading customers to buy products)
Outline/Signpost factors to be discussed
Two of these compliance techniques will be discussed in the following essay.
Compliance Technique 1: FOOT-IN-THE-DOOR (FITD)
Explain & define FITD
Getting people to make a commitment and therefore increase compliance by first asking for a small request, with the hope of persuading them to agree to a larger request (actual target).
Assumes that agreement with a small request increases the likelihood of agreement with a subsequent larger request.
Example: you may be asked to donate a small amount of money (gold coin) which is followed by a request to sign up for a program that gets you to pay $10 a week
Explain why FITD is effective
People perceive themselves as helpful for complying with the small request and want to continue to be seen as helpful so they continue complying with requests.
People want to be consistent and therefore tend to comply with the request
Supporting Study 1: Dickerson et al (1992)
To support the foot-in-the-door compliance technique
The team wanted to see if they could get university students to conserve water in the dormitory showers
To so this, researchers asked them to sign a poster that said "take a shorter shower. If I can do it, so can you!"
Then they asked them to take a survey designed to make them think about their own water usage and water wastage
Shower times were then monitored
It was found that those students who had signed the poster and done the water survey (forcing them to think about their own water wastage) had showed times of an average of 3.5 minutes
This was significantly shorter than the average shower times across the whole dormitory
When participants signed up to the petition that they felt like they had already committed to the cause
Connection of study to question
This study demonstrated the use of FITD as participants were asked to sign a poster (small request) and then take a survey (larger request)
The FITD compliance technique was shown to be effective in making participants save water and take shorter showers
Supporting Study 2: Freedman and Fraser (1966)
Researchers asked households in California whether they would allow them to place a big ugly public-service sign reading “drive carefully,” in their front yard.
Another set of homeowners were asked whether they would display a small “be a safe driver” sign.
Nearly everyone agreed to this request.
Two weeks later, these homeowners were asked by a "volunteer worker" whether they would display the bigger and ugly “drive carefully” sign.
In the first set of homeowners, only 17% of householders agreed with putting the large sign in their front yard
In the second set, 76% of them complied with this request
This study relates to the FITD because when participants were asked a small request (small sign), there was a higher compliance rate.
FITD was shown to be an effective compliance technique.
Compliance Technique 2: LOW-BALLING (LB)
Explain LB
Involves changing an offer to make it less attractive to the target person after they have agreed to it.
For example, a car salesman offers a customer a good deal which they accept. The salesman then finds an excuse to change the deal and make it less attractive to the customer. Often customers agree to the new, less desirable offer.
Explain why LB is effective
People want to act consistently with their initial decisions/commitments
People have become invested in and/or committed to the decision Supporting Study 3: Cialdini et al. (1974)
A study demonstrating the LB technique in a university setting is by Cialdini et al. (1974).
Researchers asked a class of first-year psychology students to volunteer to be part of a study on cognition that would meet at 7am.
A second group was asked the same, except they were not specified with the time.
For the first group, 24% of students were willing to participate
For the second group, 56% agreed to participate and all took part after later having told that it was at 7am, despite being allowed to withdraw
On the day of the meeting, 95% of students that agreed to participate showed up for the 7am meeting.
Cialdini"s study shows the effectiveness of LB compliance technique in that 56% of students complied with participating in the study when LB was used, as opposed to 24% when LB was not used.
Supporting Study 4: Burger and Cornelius (2003)
Students were contacted by a female caller who asked if they would donate five dollars to a scholarship fund for unprivileged students.
There were three experimental conditions:
LB condition: students were told that those who contributed would receive a free smoothie coupon.
Students who agreed were then informed that the caller had realized she ran out of coupons and the students were then asked if they would still contribute.
The caller made the same request as the LB condition, but before they answered, the caller interrupted to let them know that there were no more coupons.
Participants were asked to donate money without mentioning coupons (control).
77.6% agreed to make a donation.
16% of participants made a donation.
42% made the donation.
LB is based on commitment.
It is only effective when people make an initial public commitment.
After which, they feel obliged to act in accordance with it, even if the conditions that they committed to had changed.
This study indicates that the LB technique is effective as the most students complied with making a donation in the LB condition where they were told that they would not receive a coupon after they agreed to make the donation
Optional Theory & Study: Is lowballing more or less effective than FITD?
A: Hornik et al. (1990) compared the effectiveness of FITD and lowballing in increasing the response rate of randomly selected Israelis to telephone interviews on public health issues.
Their results showed that whereas both techniques were effective, lowballing was significantly more effective in inducing compliance among the participants.
Interestingly, a technique combining both the FITD and the lowballing techniques emerged as an even more effective technique compared to the other two techniques applied on their own.
Compliance techniques are
Ways in which individuals are influenced to comply with the demands or desires of others, therefore a change in behaviour is observed, however the individual"s inner and private intentions may be kept hidden, as the comply and therefore confirm to the request of an individual.
Used in marketing, advertising, as sales tactics to persuade customers to buy products
Although the research has its strengths and limitations, compliance techniques have a significant impact on human behaviour, as seen by its observation in and application to real life situations.
FITD
FITD compliance technique aims to increase compliance by first asking for a small request followed by a large request
Dickerson et al. (1992) and Freedman and Fraser (1966) showed that FITD was effective.
LB technique involves changing an offer to make it less attractive to the target person after they have agreed to it.
Cialdini et al. (1974) and Burger and Cornelius (2003) showed LB to be effective.
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M.D. Jackson earned her Masters of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology while working a full time job, and working part time at her own business. Her other degrees include a Bachelors of Science in Psychology and an Associate of Arts in Business. As a sideline to her psychology degrees, Jackson studied brainmapping and neuoscience. Her strength is in human and family relations counseling. Currently, she teaches psychology and works as a counselor. Author of the short story "The Angel Tree" published in Chicken Soup for the Soul Miracles, which goes on sale Feburary 4, 2020.
Artisitically Jackson is a cultural artist creating both Native American and Day of the Dead Art. Strong southwest influences are a stapple of her style. Other areas of interest are art, architecture, culture, world religions, traveling, kayaking, exploring, painting, crafting, antiques, and Interior Design.
As a humanitarian Jackson started the Peaceful Society Movement dedicated to creating understanding and love toward ones fellow man.
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"My profile name is of course my first name and then only 3. The 3 means only 3 children. I feel blessed to have my children and they mean the world to me so that became my email and thusly my hub name. However, this profile was created long before we adopted several other children". We have nine kids total, all are grown.
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The Get List: Tokyo Catch: Thoughts
In which I feel sort of bad saying how crummy some service I’ve gotten has been, but sort of don’t, too.
When I first discovered Tokyo Catch a few months ago, I was very impressed. While the selection of prizes was small, the games were well-balanced, maybe even a bit biased toward a player with some crane game skill/experience. Plus, their shipments came almost unbelievably fast, even shipped from Japan. And the prizes they had tended to be very good.
Let me start the next part by saying I get annoyed at the constant complaints that crane game apps are rigged. A lot of this is related to the idea that one should win a certain number of times on a free ticket. Or being shocked that items are placed in machines in ways that look really gettable but aren’t. But that’s exactly how crane games operate and make money. It is not really a giveaway (unless you’re quite lucky) and it is certainly not a store. If you want a plush or a toy or a figure at minimum cost, Mandarake and Mercari and Yahoo Japan Auctions and American importers — one of them, at least — can probably get it to you for cheaper. I mean, it’s light gambling with a small skill element. That’s crane game business. But that said, the cranes at Tokyo Catch do seem to have been nerfed somewhat.
Mind you, I’m not even necessarily saying something like crane strength has been intentionally changed — it could even just be employees getting much better at spacing and positioning. This wouldn’t have turned me away from the service, though of course it reduces its initial appeal. But what can’t be denied is that their customer service is really bad.
In the several months I’ve been playing these things online (and spending way too much), I’ve had two instances where Toreba machines froze or otherwise glitched unfairly. Both times I reported it and was refunded, although it probably took a week to a month. In much less time playing Tokyo Catch, I’ve had this happen at least twenty times. Actually, those are just the ones I reported. There have probably been at least ten more that I didn’t report, either because they were from free tickets this last month after I decided not to spend money on the app anymore, or because of — well, the fact that I have never gotten a single refund from Tokyo Catch.
When a machine glitches, there is a report button. But apparently this doesn’t indicate to them which machine has glitched. Of the twenty plus error reports I’ve sent, I’ve heard back less than five times. Each time it was a form letter asking me to dig back through my history to find which machine and send them the ID. But it’s always days or weeks later, and I’m so brain-bustingly busy with work that I’d rather sacrifice a few dollars and give up on an app than spend that much time looking. I replied with that once and they said they could look it up…and then never got back to me.
I started writing this about a week ago and hesitated to put it up, but then someone asked. So I’m publishing it as a review/caution, I guess (see also similar sentiments in their app reviews – wow, has that score gone down!) but also because my last interaction with them was telling. They contacted me through this blog to tell me that they liked it and wanted to give me about five bucks worth of free tokens. I replied with my user name and…they never contacted me back. A couple of weeks later (today) I get the exact same message via Twitter. Kind of says it all, right? I just took it as a sign to put this up.
To be quite honest, I kind of wanted to ask that they instead just refund me for my wasted plays instead, since that’s considerably more than the free gems they were offering. Instead, I just deleted the app!
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Even if it is a master of foreign exchange speculation, there are also times of loss, so in the case of loss, we should accept this fact and realize our mistakes in time. In the case of profit, it is necessary to make profit in time and stop profit is an effective way to lock in profits.
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The so-called blind trading refers to that no matter what the trend of the foreign exchange market is, no matter what the trend will be in the future, or what factors will affect it, they will only trade at the current price. In this way, if the foreign exchange market changes suddenly, it will increase the probability of traders losing money.
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When people have limited choices in terms of energy and ability confidence, they usually can't evaluate the options they choose.
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Disaster Preparedness Resources
In times of crisis, artists and arts organizations are often among those most affected. The arts are also one of the first things regions, communities and neighborhoods turn to in times of need. This resource provides tools that artists, arts agencies and organizations can use to prepare themselves and their community for unexpected disasters and emergencies.
CERF+ Emergency Assistance
Artists who have suffered from a recent, career-threatening emergency, such as an illness, accident, fire, or natural disaster, can apply for grants and/or brokered assistance through CERF+.
National Coalition for Arts’ Preparedness & Emergency Response
The National Coalition for Arts' Preparedness & Emergency Resources (NCAPER) is a taskforce of national, regional, state, and local arts organizations, public agencies, and foundations. The coalition provides preparedness tips and other helpful resources for arts organizations.
Heritage Emergency National Task Force
The Heritage Emergency National Task Force (HENTF), co-sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Smithsonian Institution, is a partnership of 42 national service organizations and federal agencies that offers resources and training to protect cultural heritage in our nation’s states, tribes, territories and local communities from the damaging effects of natural disasters and other emergencies.
Americans for the Arts Disaster Preparedness
Americans for the Arts provides a checklist for arts organizations to help guide their emergency and disaster planning.
Performing Arts Readiness
Performing Arts Readiness seeks to increase knowledge and ability of performing arts organizations to create and execute emergency recovery plans. They offer free webinars and onsite training, conference presentations, grants, and tools to help build disaster preparedness.
ArtsReady
ArtsReady is an online emergency preparedness service by and for arts/cultural nonprofits. They provide arts organizations with customized business continuity plans for post-crisis sustainability. ArtsReady and dPlan also released the Pocket Response Resource for Arts & Cultural Organizations and a curated and annotated Resource Library of free emergency-planning resources.
Get Ready + Resilient
The “ArtUp: Get Ready + Resilient” webinar, by Jenifer Simon of CERF+ and Brett Beasley of Ceramicist, helps artists better protect their career, prepare for emergencies and get back on their feet after challenges through resources available from CERF+ The Artists Safety Net.
The State Historical Society of Iowa provides resources for the basics of disaster planning, disaster planning and management, and specifics for protecting official, historical records.
Online Platforms for the Arts
The following are platforms for sharing, meeting, and broadcasting about the arts, which may help expand your reach in times of crisis: Twitch, Loom, Zoom, Discord, Connect the Arts, Google Hangouts and Google Meet.
The Facebook Watch Party feature allows artists, arts agencies and organizations to view and share videos with members of Facebook groups.
Vimeo Virtual Events allow users to engage in a live streaming experience. This resource helps artists, arts agencies and organizations avoid cancellation costs and to expand the reach and impact of their events.
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IP licensing leader Tessera renamed Xperi Corp in rebranding push
March 6, 2017 Bruce Berman Litigation, News, Research, Transactions, Uncategorized Leave a comment
One of the leading public IP licensing companies, or PIPCOs, Tessera Holding Corporation, has changed its name to Xperi Corporation, an indication that it has altered its direction.
The renaming is an apparent effort to place more emphasis on new lines of business outside of patent licensing after acquiring DTS, as well as facilitate the company’s lagging stock price. Tessera reported disappointing results that surprised Wall Street in late February.
The name change was announced on February 22. On February 23 Tessera/Xperi reported that it had missed its Q4 earnings by $.25 per share.
Stalling Stalwart?
Tessera (TSRA), InterDigital (IDCC) and Rambus (RMBS) have been the lead players among PIPCOs, with industry-leading market values of $2.2B, $2.9B and $1.4B respectively.
Tessera/Xperi ( XPER) reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of 32 cents per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 25 cents. Also, revenues of $70 million missed the consensus mark.
Following the weak earnings release, share of the leading chip packaging and interconnect solutions provider slipped more than 13% in the after-hours trading. Over the past year, shares of Tessera Technologies underperformed the Zacks categorized Electronics Manufacturing Machinery industry. While the industry gained 27.66%, the stock generated a loss of 2.13%.
TSRA was 44.65 on February 22 with approximately $2.2B market cap. XPER is 35.55 on March 2 with a $1.7B valuation. A 2015 article the investment weekly Barron’s questioned how Tessera accounted for “recurring” revenues, which the publication said were really patent litigation settlements paid out over time, not royalty income.
In May 2016 Vringo changed its name to Form Holdings (FH).
“2016 was a transformational year with the combination of Tessera and DTS, which today we are excited to have rebranded as Xperi, reflecting our new vision of bringing together digital and physical experiences in smart, connected and personalized ways,” said Tom Lacey, Chief Executive Officer.
Acquisition of an Acquisition
On September 20 Tessera Holding announced its $850 million deal to acquire DTS, a premier audio solutions provider for mobile, home, and automotive markets. Only a year or so before that DTS entered into an agreement to acquire HD Radio developer iBiquity Digital Corp.
Tessera/Xperi says that its technologies and intellectual property are deployed in areas such as premium audio, computational imaging, computer vision, mobile computing and communications, memory, data storage, 3D semiconductor interconnect and packaging.
“We invent smart sight and sound technologies that enhance and help to transform the human connected experience.”
On February 8, 2016 Tessera’s shares were $26.57. They reached $44.74 on December 12, and excellent year by any standard, but closed flat at $44.65 on February 22. Since then its shares are down by $9 or about 20%.
On Yahoo! Finance, TSRA, the old stock symbol, shows the price of shares at the close of the session on February 22. A Google search of TSRA takes you to the new stock symbol for the company, XPER, which shows an end of Friday price of $35.10.
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A bibliography on Spanish online politics and Politics 2.0
By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 26 December 2009
Main categories: Cyberlaw, governance, rights, e-Government, e-Administration, Politics, Participation, Engagement, Use, Activism, Writings
Other tags: politics_2.0
For a paper I am preparing about Politics 2.0 in Spain — and that has already produced a definition of Politics 2.0 — I had to gather quite a good bunch of literature. There is quite some information about online politics, some about politics 2.0, but very few about Politics 2.0, especially academic literature about Politics 2.0 in Spain, which is scarce. Thus, writing that paper has required some interesting academic juggling.
Below I’ve listed the bibliography that so far I’m using to structure and back my paper. Beyond the bibliography that follows, three events helped much in collecting insights, ideas and find many interesting references. My gratitude to the speakers at these events:
5th Internet, Law and Politics Conference: The Pros and Cons of Social Networking Sites
Citizen Politics: Are the New Media Reshaping Political Engagement?
4th Internet, Law and Politics Congress: Towards citizenship 2.0?
Tag cloud of the bibliography
e-Politics
e-Readiness
ICT & Information Society
ICT Infrastructure
Participation & Uses
Politics and Political Science
Anduiza, E., Gallego, A. & Jorba, L. (2009). The Political Knowledge Gap in the New Media Environment: Evidence from Spain. Prepared for the seminar Citizen Politics: Are the New Media Reshaping Political Engagement? Barcelona, May 28th-30th 2009. Barcelona: IGOP.
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A definition of Politics 2.0
Main categories: e-Government, e-Administration, Politics, Information Society, Participation, Engagement, Use, Activism, Writings
Other tags: politics_2.0, web_2.0
In 2005, Tim O’Reilly published a seminal article — What Is Web 2.0 — in which he provided a definition for the term Web 2.0, which had gained a huge momentum during the previous year since the first edition of the Web 2.0 Conference in October 2004.
The concept gathered both technological and philosophical (in the sense of behaviours and attitudes) issues. At the technological level, it dealt about the importance of the web as a delivery (of content and services) platform by excellence; data as the core component of all kind of communications and interchanges; software as a service and not a product, then becoming more important access to software than its “physical” purchase; predominance to RSS and associated procedures for the exchange of content; or (while keeping the importance of the web as a platform) the need to create technologies that were portable across devices. At the philosophical level, and both cause and consequence of the technological advances, the spread (and enabling) of a contribution and participation culture by the society at large (and not only by institutions or organized associations); the acknowledgement that anyone could actually contribute with their knowledge and opinion (the “wisdom of crowds”); the raise of a culture of mixing, assembling and aggregating content; and the will to have rich user experiences when interacting online (vs. A passive, unidirectional, monotonous approach which had been common ground in the previous years).
Besides the “formal” definition of the Web 2.0, it has more often been described through some tools and the new and characteristic ways of using them: the blog and the nanoblog, the wiki, social bookmarking, photo and video sharing websites, tagging and “folksonomies”, syndication and aggregation, etc.
After this philosophical approach – boosted by the technological advancements – many have adapted some of the core definitions to many aspects of life. Thus, for instance, Education 2.0 often referred to as a shift from unidirectional lecturing towards a more participatory approach of learning, based in collaboratively creating learning materials, an intensive usage of web 2.0 tools, or openness and sharing of the process of learning, just to name a few. And along with Education, we can find debates around Research 2.0, Culture 2.0, Government 2.0, Journalism 2.0, Enterprise 2.0… and Politics 2.0.
But, quite often, we do not find specific definitions for such concepts, taking for granted that the reader will be able to do the translation from the Web 2.0 to the Whatever 2.0. I here provide my own definition of Politics 2.0, which I needed for a paper I am preparing about Politics 2.0 in Spain:
Ideas: not closed and packaged propaganda. Ideas that can be spread, shared and transformed by members of the party and partisans, sympathizers and supporter, and the society at large;
Open data: ideas are backed by incredible amounts of data and information made openly available to the general public, and most time provided with open licenses that allow their reuse and remix;
Participation: of all and every kind of people and institutions, blurring the edges of the “structures” and permeating the walls of institutions, making communication more horizontal and plural;
Loss of control of the emission of the message, that now can be transferred outside of mainstream media and diffused on a peer-to-peer and many-to-many basis by means of web 2.0 tools;
Loss of control of the creation itself of the message: being data and participation available, web 2.0 tools at anyone’s reach, and with minimum digital competences, the message can even be created and spread bottom up;
Acknowledgement, hence, of the citizen as some who can be trusted (and used) as a one-man think-tank and a one-man communication-media;
Reversely, possibility to reach each and every opinion, target personal individuals with customized messages, by means of rich data and web 2.0 tools, thus accessing a long tail of voters that are far from the median voter;
Construction of an ideology, building of a discourse, setting up goals, campaigning and government become a continuum that feedbacks in real time.
I admit that this is neither a usual or a formal description, nor a comprehensive set of characteristics. I believe, though, that it could serve in providing a fair framework to contextualize and explain what’s happening at the intersection of Politics and the Web 2.0.
PS: dedico aquesta entrada al José Antonio Donaire, l’Ernest Benach, el Carlos Guadián, i el Ricard Espelt, en qui no he deixat de pensar mentre l’escrivia.
Citizen politics (VII): Round Table
By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 30 May 2009
Main categories: e-Government, e-Administration, Politics, Meetings, Participation, Engagement, Use, Activism
Other tags: andrew_chadwick, brian_krueger, bruce_bimber, citizen_politics_2009, politics_2.0, rachel_gibson, victor_sampedro
Notes from the workshop Citizen Politics: Are the New Media Reshaping Political Engagement? held in Barcelona, Spain, on May 28-30th, 2009. More notes on this event: citizen_politics_2009.
All politics is both personal and local… and national… and… Have to manage the way to connect the personal to the local.
Emergent e-campaign strategy: depends on infrastructure and the tools; and of the logic of networked communities, whether they are autonomous or not. A difference between building “real” communities, or populist platforms addressed to many in general (to the “herd”).
A major challenge: how to measure actions, people, quality, etc. A need to modelize “digital natives” and the way they interact between each other and through technology.
Main research approaches in Politics 2.0, all of them interrelated:
Foci, key factors /
Level of Analysis
Elite (supply) Campaign change, tools, national/local power, adoption diffusion Inter-party comptetition, campaign site analysis
Mass (mass) Party membership, supporters, volunteers Electoral mobilization
Víctor Sampedro
We should not embrace the discourse and language of marketing or consultants, of populism, of counter-hegemonic collectives.
We have to assess the validity of our data, and collaborate both with the industry and the subjects of our studies.
We have to clarify what we understand by counter-power measures of ICTs and also, the concept of empowerment, and the concept of mobilization.
Is it a grassroots approach really a better system? Shouldn’t leaders lead? Is there still a role for leaders to “educate” the voter or to find “better” solutions and show them to the citizen?
Brian Krueger
Everything that’s great can be used against you : we should be thinking about Internet surveillance and monitoring. We know little about it and should be paying more attention to it. And this includes the sheer sensation of being monitored, as it has behavioural effects (e.g. self-censorship). Evidence shows that people feel monitored if they’d type “impeach Bush” or “assassinate Bush”. Open political criticism is tied to the feeling of being watched. And this sensation of being watched most probably changes your own behaviour, even if you’re not actually watched. And it’s likely to change how and how much you are participating.
Bruce Bimber
Motivation, attitudes, trust… the umbrella were to begin exploring participation. And then focus also on the changes that the new media are infringing to the landscape.
How would the landscape look like when “all” the people would have been socialized with these new media?
How different Web 2.0 tools differentiate one another? What different specific applications do they have?
We’re right to talk about choice, but we do still have not good models how to measure how choice happens and why.
More effort should be made in analysing how citizens can affect agenda-setting, on a decentralized and bottom-up communication scheme. And also how horizontal communication happens, how peer-to-peer can pass the message on.
Should focus more not on how people mobilize, but what the specific motivations and contexts are. What keeps people awake at night.
Andrew Chadwick
We need more appreciation of social network environments (i.e. tools), and balance technological determinism with social determinism, keeping in mind how technology did change some human behaviours.
How do we contextualize a campaign or social movement, specially when social movements increasingly look like parties and parties increasingly look like social movements, and borrow each one’s instruments and techniques.
Look at how citizens cognitively negotiate information overload in an age of information saturation (not scarcity).
Can we do politics in a space owned by the market and private interests? Can the citizens build their own forums, create their own network effects and avoid commoditized online spaces?
We do need to start looking in more sophisticated ways how people are exposed to online content, including accidental exposure.
There are many cross-section analyses, but few panel-data analysis, which are usually acknowledged to be more robust (though more difficult and expensive). And we should use more the “free range” data that people automatically create with their actions (e.g. logs) instead of “battery raised” surveys. And combine methods.
We should be aware of how mobile technologies might be changing the economy of attention and politics.
Bruce Bimber: mobility is more about time, more about “always on” rather than physical space or ubiquity (Chadwick fully agrees).
Rachel Gibson & Bruce Bimber: there are places where the local factor really matters and shapes how the institutions work or are built and managed.
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Citizen politics (VI): Online Public Sphere
Other tags: citizen_politics_2009, politics_2.0
Granularity in citizen’s online engagement
Dissatisfaction with the debate around e-Democracy and the concept of the public sphere. A new approach is needed and it would be worth looking at it from Yochai Benkler’s point of view, who states that granularity (of collaboration) determines the success of a (collaborative) project.
The online scenario has change with the appearance of the Web 2.0. Thus, online politics should be reshaped accordingly, and make possible more granular ways to participate.
Usability is one of the things that have radically changed in recent years. Web 2.0 platforms are simple and more easy to use. It is also easier to aggregate simple and small contributions together.
Low threshold political behaviour is central in most Web 2.0 political websites.
Web 2.0 do not solve the trust issue, but they have no doubt addressed this subject and they are far better than other solutions (newsgroups, IRC, etc.).
Community engagement requires third places not explicitly political/politicized (squares, bars, etc.) and this is going online now too. Facebook-like platforms are places where politics can piggy-back other conversations and meetings.
More granularity does not necessarily means less quality (i.e. because there is “less effort” and “less commitment” in just e.g. sending a single petition to the Prime Minister). Numbers matter. And, indeed, more granularity implies less risk.
Granular participation needs reconceptualization of decentralized politics. How to measure this? What’s the role of the intermediaries? Do we need them? Will political content be created?
How to support new patterns of interaction between politicians or policy-makers and the citizens? Will this interaction take place in third places? Will people welcome politicians in these third places? Will politicians be willing to enter these places?
Participation in online creation communities
Mayo Fuster
Online Creation Communities (OCCs) are collective action performed by individuals that cooperate, communicate and interact, mainly via a platform of participation in the Internet, with the goal of knowledge-making and which the resulting information al pool remains freely accessible and of collective property.
Political relevance: they are spaces for civic engagement in the dissemination of alternative information and for participation in the public sphere; and citizen engagement in the provision of public civic information.
Two cases: Openesf.net and Wikimedia Foundation.
There is very strong inequality in participation: active participants (1%) that heavily contribute and are responsible for most of the content; contributors (9%), a low percentage of participants that make small or indirect contributions; and lurkers (90%), a large presence of individuals that do not participate. This pattern repeats everywhere and everywhen.
For Openesf.net the distribution is: 82% lurkers, 14.3% contributors and 3.7% active participants. Distribution of profiles varies depending on what is understood by participation.
97% of participants in Openesf.net presented themselves as individuals, not as members (or even representatives) of organizations.
Participation as an eco-system:
Participation is open, the system is open to participation
Participation has multiple forms and degrees which are integrated: a critical mass is essential to initiate the project; weak cooperation enriches the system; lurkers provide value as audience or through unintended participation that improves the sys tem
Participation is decentralized and asynchronous
Po is public
P is autonomous, each person decides which level of commitment they want to adopt and on what aspects they want to contribute
Participation is volunteering
Norms, technology and information: Pondering the infrastructural choices of “e-participation”
Anders Koed Madsen
Analysis of portals to gather political or public-service-like content: How do the different portals shape and materialize the abstract pormises of citizen participation? Which elements give promises of new modes of citizen-engagement?
1st dimension: Structured semantics vs. unstructured semantics. This is a basis for both transmission and deliberation, though there is a trade-off between noise-reduction and diversity of inputs. There are also differences in how interaction is facilitated. Reacting citizen vs. proactive; moderated vs. unmoderated; agenda setting vs. open agendas; etc.
2nd dimension: Rationalistic content vs. non-rationalistic content. Differences in forms of content. The semantic choice can constrain the dialogue.
3rd dimension: Loose moderation vs. strict moderation.
How the election of these dimensions can affect content?
Brian Krueger: does really a bigger size in the network implies a more useful network? Isn’t there a trade-off between size and usefulness? Is there a way to create networks that are useful to share knowledge?
Ismael Peña-López (re: Chadwick’s): One variable missing in the equation of how Web 2.0 have changed the landscape is the focus of most Web 2.0 platforms, or who benefits from them, shifting form the organization to the individual. Contributing to newsgroups benefited the community, uploading photos on Flickr benefits me; participating with a political party benefits… the party, but participating in TheyWorkForYou or FixMyStreet benefits… me! It is, again, a switch from push strategies (be engaged, then work for the party/candidate) to pull strategies (work for you, then be engaged). In some way, the Web 2.0 allows for including the concept of utility in the equation of political engagement.
Ismael Peña-López (re: Krueger’s comment on Chadwick’s): useful for who? the bigger the network, the more useful for aggregate purposes (more data, more content) though it can be overwhelming at the individual level. In fact, the ideal would be huge networks made out of many small personal networks. Indeed, to share knowledge there must be that shift from working for the others (push) to working for oneself (pull) and then reuse/aggregate this content so that it is connected with other content and people, building a network up.
Citizen politics (V): Impacts on Knowledge and Participation
The Political Knowledge Gap in the New Media Environment
Eva Anduiza, Aina Gallego and Laia Jorba
Knowledge gap hypothesis (Tichenor, Donohue and Olien, 1970, 159-160): As the infusion of mass media information into a social system increases, segment of pupulation with higher socioeconomic status tend to acquire this information at a faster rate than the lower status segments .
What is the impact of new media on the knowledge gap? There’s much more information of any kind; more choice and possibilities, etc. Two approaches:
Cognitive abilities are more relevant, so the knowledge gap is due to capability; same with motivation.
On the other hand, serendipity (when surfing the Internet at random) can play an important role in decreasing the knowledge gap
A survey on Internet uses and political knowledge showed that Internet users are more knowledgeable in political issues (leaving aside age, education and other variables that could influence political knowledge).
There is also a positive interaction between Education and Internet use, meaning that more educated people can learn more about politics in the Internet. But also a negeative interaction between Interest and Internet use, that is, less interested people learn more on the Internet about politics than interested ones. Why is it so?
Reinforcement and mobilization: the influence of the Internet on different types of political participation
Marta Cantijoch
What’s the impact of the Internet on political participation? We’re seeing a decrease of representational forms of participation and an increase of protest and other extra-representational activities. Reasons could be dissatisfaction, disaffection (as less involvement) and apathy, discontent (but eager to get involved), etc.
Three theoretical profiles:
Disaffected: low levels of involvement, dissatisfied with the political system, low feelings of engagement. Expected not to participate whatever
Critical: High political involvement and feelings of engagement, but low satisfaction wiht the sisyte. Expected to get involved in extrarepresentative activities
Institutionalised: High political involvement, and feelings of citizen duty, matched by the political system. Expected participation in representative models.
What happens with these three profiles when the Internet comes in? More information available, higher diversity of discourses, unplanned exposure to information. If the Internet fosters extra-representative forms of participation, Disaffected and Institutionalized citizens will be mobilised, but Critical ones will find their eagerness not to mobilize reinforced.
A survey+analyses were performed to measure turnout, representational and extra-representational participation according to Internet use, and voluntary search for information and proclivity to be exposed to serendipitous political information.
Findings are that the more the Internet use, the higher the probability to be mobilized at al levels. In other words, using the Internet increases the likelihood of participation in extra-representational modes, though it has minimal effects amongst disaffected (mobilizing in institutionalized and reinforcing amongst critical citizens).
On the other hand, being exposed to more political information also increases the probability to mobilised, regardless of it being voluntary (active search) or involuntary exposure to political information.
Political participation, alienation and the Internet in Spain and the United States
Political alienation can be explained, from the demand side, by several reasons. Putnam (1995, 2000) states that it might be because of a loosening of personal ties with the civil society. Also due to a generational shift in participatory repertoires away from hierarchical political engagement.
On the supply side, Stoker (2006) or Hay (2007) explain it by the increasing complexity of politics. Political marketing could well be another reason.
Does low specific and diffuse support negatively impact participation? Are there differences between offline and different online forms of participation? Is there evidence that the politically alienated offline are participation online? Do we find differences between Spain and the US?
After two surveys (Spain and US), we test trust in the central governemnt, in political parties and the local government, responsiveness of authorities, complexity of politics and elite interests domination. In both countries we can group (principal components analysis) the variables in two factors: diffuse support (concerning the former three) and specific support (latter three).
US: In general, either diffuse or specific support seems not to affect political participation. Only diffuse support has a weak association with offline political participation in the US. Reading online political news does have a political impact in participation at any level. And there’s a segment of the population that expend a lot of time surfing the Internet as a way of expressing aspects of their lives, participating in Web 2.0 related platforms.
Spain: A negative relation between being for a major party and online participation. Diffuse support is positively related with online participation, while specific support is positively related with offline support. Again, reading political news leads to higher probability to participate, whatever the means.
There is either no or a negative relationship between participation and support. We find evidence of younger cohorts particularity participation oin Web 2.0. Some evidence for cultural shaping of the Internet as there are difference sin how the major parties relate to the Internet.
Bruce Bimber: What happens with long-term participation and whether we believe it is good or bad? Is it really useful so treat the Web 2.0 differently from online participation? For older generations there might be a difference, but is that difference there amongst younger generations?
Ismael Peña-López (re: Aina Gallego’s paper): reasons why less interested learn more through the Internet could be that more interested have a wider range of information sources and rely not on serendipity. On the other hand, because their threshold for new information is higher than non interested. It would be useful, then, to add a couple more variables: (1) do you rely on other sources to get political information and how many (2) how well do you think you are informed on political issues.
Rachel Gibson: It might also be a case that the information you find on the Internet is low quality and thus it has a negative effect on your knowledge level.
Citizen politics (IV): New Mobilization Strategies
Assessing Internet Mobilization – A Methodological Approach for Integrating Web Analysis and Survey Data
Camilo Cristancho and Jorge Salcedo
Analysis on two demonstrations against the crisis: how were they organized and how were people mobilized.
How did you find out about this protest rally: face to face (44%), e-mail (31%), traditional media (15%), website (10%).
Online mobilization is received by the same profile of individuals who get mobilized by offline channels: participants are both activists and Internet users.
Online contact is limited to association networks. Organizations are more likely to use face-to-face and less likely to use e-mail.
Past participation types have an influence on future ways of contact: people that have taken action online are more likely to get e-mail. E-mail mobilization is linked to past forms of online engagement, though there is no previous consent to get these e-mails.
Surprisingly, on a second order mobilization, activists contacted online shifted to offline to propagate the message.
Associations which mobilize the majority of people do not have a high presence in cyberspace: there is an inverse relationship between presence and e-mail mobilization.
Internet mobilization has a great potential for expanding participation. On the other hand, need for visibility leads to clusterization and concentration.
Opt in or Tune out: Online Mobilization & Political Participation
There is a huge difference between solicited contact between online and offline models: online contact from mobilizing institutions is 62% unsolicited vs. 38% solicited. In offline contact, 24% is solicited and 76% is unsolicited. It thus looks like online activists are always “the same people”, and it is easier to expand your base for mobilization by going offline. At least in theory. At least in a first order of things.
Expanding participation by online means would then depend on several things, and it depends whether you want to activate the active (mobilization from solicited political e-mail) or you want to activate the inactive (mobilization from unsolicited political e-mail).
So, does unsolicited political e-mail induce individuals to participate in politics?
Unsolicited online mobilizing measures do not seem to have an influence on being actually mobilized. Same with offline, though, if it has any impact, it is more due to the system (being offline) than because of it being solicited or unsolicited.
There’s another point to be made: major institutions (parties, political organizations) do not normally engage in unsolicited mailing. This might be another reason why unsolicited e-mail is not effective: because it is used by already “marginal” organizations, so it’s the organization (not the means) what does not matter.
Research should be made on a 2-step mobilization process, where more focus is put on the role of friends and family, so that to avoid the appearance of spam. Need for more studies on peer-to-peer engagement.
The Impact of Online and Offline mobilization on Participation Modes
Sarah Vissers, Marc Hooghe, Dietlind Stolle and Valérie-Anne Mahéo
Is mobilization tool-specific or is there a spill-over effect of online mobilization on offline participation and of face-to-face mobilization on online participation and visa versa?
An experiment was designed with two organizations trying to mobilize (online and offline) two different groups of people (+ control group) to rally for environmental issues.
Results show that in the long run, mobilization rates drop, but for the group belonging to a lower socio-economic profile, the web (web tools) has a positive impact in maintaining mobilization rates.
For face to face, it always has a positive effect on both groups regardless of their socio-economic profile, but web mobilization has a negative effect in the long run in the higher socio-economic level group.
Effects of mobilization processes tend to be tool-specific.
Pre-existing levels of Internet skills had no effect on the mobilization potential of Web mobilization.
Strong differences between students and participants with lower socio-economic status. Mobilization most effective for least-mobilizsed and least-interested.
Andrew Chadwick (discussant): A distinction between impersonal unsolicited e-mail and interpersonal unsolicited e-mail. Where’s the line that separates spam from “ambient information”? What about the economy of time? We should do more research on the availability of time amongst activists, and see whether they go online because they cannot attend face-to-face meetings, or they precisely go online because they have plenty of time to commit in more ways. And also use time as a proxy of the degree of involvement of a specific individual in a specific action, and thus be able to compare offline and online activities with a common “currency”.
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What does the new SARS CoV-2 mutation really mean?
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What does the new SARS CoV-2 mutation really mean? This latest virus variant from the United Kingdom is not the first change SARS-CoV-2 has made since the inception of the pandemic. Various strains have already made their way through our country.
And that may render COVID tests inaccurate.
Viruses mutate and SARS CoV-2 is not different. It changes to survive and evade our immune systems. Back when the pandemic first arrived in this country, people from different coasts, had different versions.
Dr. Karen Kaul is a NorthShore University HealthSystem pathologist.
“We know, for example in New York, the tendency was several months ago to get the viral strains that came from Europe,” she said. “Whereas our West Coast tended to get the strains that came from China. And that made sense. It really reflected the travel patterns of the people who were carrying this virus around the world.”
So why is the u-k strain causing so much uproar now? Kaul, who has spent months analyzing viral samples, said she is not surprised.
“We know that since the beginning of this pandemic there have been several different versions of this virus different flavors,” she said. “They are all different because the DNA sequenced the genome the RNA sequence are all a little bit different.”
The biggest concern now, as vaccines to give the immune system the power to fight COVID are being distributed, will they work against new, mutating strains?
“All evidence presently suggests that they will,” Kraul said. “Some of the vaccines are aimed at a portion of the virus that is, in part, involved in this mutation. But it doesn’t appear that the mutation changes the viral proteins to a degree that would render the vaccines in effective.”
But where the mutations may wreak havoc is in the lab where scientists work to identify the virus that causes COVID-19 and give people an accurate diagnosis.
“If you have a change in the genome, it makes it possible that these diagnostic test might miss that fragment of the genome that they are meant to detect,” Kraul said.
And there is another worry – whether antigen tests will be able to tell people if they have immunity.
“If we encountered a strain of the virus that had dramatic altered genome, and subsequently the proteins encoded by that genome enough, it is feasible that the proteins might be different enough that the antigen test might lose sensitivity in terms of detection,” Kraul said.
Bottom line is, as with many elements of battling this killer virus, there are no guarantees and those on the front lines will have to pivot again and again in the new year to fight 2020’s major threat.
“This is nothing new in medicine and I think what’s important for us however is to be aware of this. (But) not to panic because it doesn’t mean the virus is necessarily worse,” Kraul said.
One of the major problems in this country is we have no database to collectively analyze variants. The fragmented data, according to experts, puts us at a disadvantage in efforts to fight COVID across the country.
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SchoolMessenger is a web-based mass communications tool utilized by the Corona-Norco Unified School District. The system enables the district and its schools to personally communicate with district employees, as well as parents/guardians, and students to support emergency preparedness, school community involvement and student attendance.
The district utilizes voice, email and text messaging to communicate with employees and parents/guardians. Recipients are contacted using contact information provided through QSS/Staff Emergency Cards (employees) and Q ParentConnect (parents).
If you are receiving calls and do not have any children in the district, please email communications@cnusd.k12.ca.us or call 951-736-5084 and leave a message.
If you are a parent and have questions or concerns about SchoolMessenger, first contact your school. If questions or concerns are not resolved, please email communications@cnusd.k12.ca.us.
SchoolMessenger allows the district and school sites to send messages via phone, email and text message. The system is configured to send text messages to cell phone numbers in SchoolMessenger whose recipients have agreed to receive them.
Individuals will receive text messages ONLY if all three of the following requirements* are met:
The individual opts-in.
A cell phone number is on file with the district.
The message sender includes content for a text message
*These requirements address any concerns related to the accuracy of the database and costs associated with receiving text messages.
How do recipients opt-in to receive text messages?
Text the word “YES” to 67587 from each wireless device they wish to receive texts on.
Confirm the text device number(s) are in SchoolMessenger. Note: Depending on the data synchronization configuration it may take 24 hours or more for numbers to be updated from the district SIS database.
How do recipients opt-out of receiving text messages?
Recipients not wishing to receive text messages to a particular number can simply do one of the following:
Don’t opt-in, and don’t reply to the opt-in invitation message.
Text “STOP” to 67587 at any time.
Opt-out online at http://schoolmessenger.com/txtmsg
Request that the SchoolMessenger system administrator add the number to the account’s phone number block list.
Can the text messages come from a district phone number instead of the SchoolMessenger short code?
No, short codes are the industry standard and the only fast and reliable way to deliver mass text notifications.
I received a text message that says it’s from SchoolMessenger. What does it mean?
That was the opt-in invitation message sent by SchoolMessenger if it was from 67587 and it said: <<Insert Customer Name>> text messages. Reply Y for aprx 3 msgs/mo. Txt HELP 4info. Msg&data rates may apply. See schoolmessenger.com/tm
To continue receiving informational text messages from the school district reply with “YES”.
If you don’t reply, you will not receive any future texts from SchoolMessenger.
I opted in, but I’m not receiving texts?
Ensure that the district has included your correct device number in the database (Student Information System or HR System) in the SMS phone fields that are synchronized with SchoolMessenger. It may take 24 hours for this number to be active after being changed or added to the district’s system.
Send a text with the word “YES” from that specific device to 67587. You should receive an opt-in confirmation message from the service.
If you want to receive texts on multiple devices, each device number must have an opt-in receipt.
Confirm that the district has attempted to send a SchoolMessenger broadcast that includes a text message to your phone number. If you have tried all of the above, please contact your wireless provider to determine if your account is setup to receive messages from a short code account.
Is there a SchoolMessenger app?
YES! SchoolMessenger InfoCenter™ gives busy, on-the-go parents powerful new ways to stay connected to the school or district. Help parents access critical information on their schedule and on whatever device they choose.
Downloading the app allows parents to select how they prefer to be contacted.
Try InfoCenter for yourself now. Visit go.schoolmessenger.com
Learn more about InfoCenter by visiting the help area.
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Nearly a week later, the Dursleys leave Harry in your home to go to an (organized) honors ceremony for London’s best kept rural yards. While they are away, Mad-Eye Moody and various other members of the “Advance Guard” concerned take Harry from Privet Drive. They come to 12 Grimmauld Place, which is the head office of the Order of the Phoenix.
This time, Voldemort’s proximal target is not located at Hogwarts but in the safes of the Ministry of Magic, where a revelation of worrying about his mysterious and possibly deadly relationship with Harry protected. Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix Audio Book 5 Jim Dale. Hagrid’s vital ties with numerous fantastic creatures and also his giant kinfolk verify critical in allowing Harry, Hermione, and to Ron to get out of Hogwarts in time to join the Order of the Phoenix az in a pitched battle within the ministry. Although the Order of the Phoenix endures significant deaths, the ministry’s official placement ends up being untenable, as well as the fight against Voldemort ends up being a matter of open warfare.
Harry’s grown-up supporters develop the secret Order of the Phoenix metro to plan for the impending war versus Voldemort. However, Harry’s risk-free sanctuary at Hogwarts threatened when the ministry assigns among its most officious bureaucrats, Dolores Umbridge, to overhaul its instructional criteria. Umbridge likewise turns out to be a sadist, bring upon stiff penalties on Harry when he continues his assertions.
Dumbledore, as well as Voldemort, show up at around the same time. They have a duel where Voldemort tries to possess Harry to get Dumbledore to kill him, but he does not. Fudge and also various other ministry agents get here, and also Voldemort gets away. Fudge is compelled to admit that Voldemort has returned, as well as renews Dumbledore as headmaster.
Although he is still mourning Sirius, Harry knows this will do him no good with the fight versus the Death Eaters promptly approaching. So, says goodbye to his buddies and go back to his Auntie and also Uncle’s home.
Throughout one of his O.W.L. exams (Hogwarts fifth year tests), Harry has a vision of Sirius being held as well as hurt by Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries. He is distraught and also he as well as his buddies burglarize Umbridge’s office to use her unpoliced fireplace to move to number twelve Grimmauld Place. Nonetheless, all Harry finds there is Kreacher, that informs him Sirius has required to the Ministry of Magic. Harry returns from the fireplace only to understand his good friends have actually recorded by Umbridge and also her team. Umbridge asks Snape to obtain her Veritaserum, a potion which will force Harry to level concerning who he was speaking. Snape, nevertheless, states he has none. Recognizing Snape is an Order member, Harry attempts to send Snape a message that Sirius is in trouble. He is unsure Snape understood or will do anything about it, nonetheless.
Harry stuck at Privet Drive with the Dursleys’ for his summer season break with no contact from the wizarding globe. He has turned to take newspapers from trash cans as well as sneaking around hearing the information to discover Voldemort’s plans. After entering into a disagreement with his uncle, he opts for a walk to a nearby park and also sees Dudley. Dementors then attack the two, but Harry can save them both by using the Patronus Charm. Mrs. Figg, the Dursley’s next-door neighbor, exposes that she is a Squib and has entrusted with caring for Harry on Dumbledore’s orders.
There are lots of glass orbs in the Division of Mysteries, which are full of revelations. One has Harry’s name on it. Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix Audiobook Jim Dale. He picks it up and also lots of Death Eaters (Voldemort fans) suddenly appear around the team, demanding Harry hand over the prophecy. Using their protection abilities, the students can hold them off till the Order of the Pheonix gets here. Throughout this fight, Sirius is eliminated, much to Harry’s devastation. Harry drops the prediction as well as it shatters.
So, Harry and Hermione promptly design a strategy where they tempt Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest, where she is carried away by Centaurs. He, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Neville, and also Luna all mount and take a trip to the Ministry of Magic. When there, they get to the Division of Mysteries as well as realize that Voldemort had been tricking Harry – Sirius is not there.
Once back at Hogwarts, Dumbledore describes numerous points to Harry. He informs him Snape recognized Harry’s caution and notified members of the Order of the Pheonix. Dumbledore likewise clarifies that the prophecy had said that a boy would indeed be born in July with the capability to beat Voldemort. It additionally said that neither might live while the various other survived. Voldemort had heard part of this prediction and also attempted to eliminate Harry to prevent it from ending up being right. Nonetheless, by doing this, he gave Harry the power to defeat him as well as sealed his destiny. Dumbledore says Harry must go back to his Aunt and also Uncle’s home this summertime since when Harry’s mom died, she secured him with her love. As long as Harry is in the house of Aunt Petunia, his mommy’s sibling, he is risk-free.
Professor McGonagall recognizes that something is amiss, as well as she brings him to see Dumbledore, who raises the sharp to conserve Ron’s dad from Voldemort’s evil. Dumbledore after that turns to Snape to educate Harry Occlumency, which will help him to defend his mind against Lord Voldemort’s strikes. Sadly, Harry is not very successful at Occlumency as he is unable to empty his mind of every though and could not shut it off from external impacts. His connect to Voldemort is shown every time his scar burns when Voldemort is feeling a severe emotion.
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The Tony Abbott gravy train collects more Coalition cronies
By David Donovan | 18 December 2013, 9:00am | comments |
Meme circulating on Twitter last night (via @NSWLabor)
The Tony Abbott gravy train hurtles along at a frenetic pace, picking up fellow travellers at every stop and showing every sign of careering out of control. Managing editor David Donovan comments.
THE APPOINTMENT of former MP Sophie Mirabella and conservative spin doctor Tim Wilson to well-paid cushy public positions yesterday raises further significant questions about the probity of the Abbott administration and its approach to public finances.
Questions that were already being asked about its ideological, nepotistic and vindictive approach to governing are now reaching a crescendo.
The Abbott Government in its first weeks in power was subject to enormous attention due to its flagrant and widespread abuse of travel entitlements. People contrasted the Coalition's bitter condemnation of Peter Slipper's apparently trivial $1,000 charge against the tens of thousands of dollars Prime Minister Abbott and his colleagues had claimed, for such important matters of state as going on fun runs, competing in triathlons, going on elongated cycling excursions and even attending friends' weddings. There appeared to be a "what we can get away with" attitude prevalent within the Coalition mindset, which was in no way dissipated by Abbott's utter refusal to launch any investigation into the entitlement scams or tighten the rules in any significant way.
Also in the first weeks in power, the Coalition began a process of purging political foes.
Hours after gaining power, Abbott sacked four public service chiefs who were presumably seen as being too close to the former Labor Government, including top Treasury official Martin Parkinson. This followed on the example of Abbott’s mentor and hero, John Howard, who purged himself of six departmental heads immediately after becoming PM. Former Treasury secretary and Westpac chair Ted Evans reportedly expressed his disgust at these latest political sackings, saying:
"It's hard enough to get top class people these days. To see them treated in a political fashion is more than disappointing, it's sad for the country frankly.
"We'll end up as bad as other countries ... where appointments are purely political, the U.S. for example."
Three days after the September 7 election, incoming Foreign Minister Julie Bishop sacked highly regarded former Victorian premier Steve Bracks as Australia's Consul-General in New York. Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek reflected the prevailing view, describing the move as "petty and vindictive".
At around the same time, new communications minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that the entire NBN board had suddenly decided to resign en masse. Of course, it soon emerged that Australia’s second richest politician had, in fact, asked them all to go. In its place, Turnbull appointed a three man board, including as temporary CEO Howard crony, former Telstra CEO and, more recently, nuclear industry apologist Dr Ziggy Switkowski.
Then, in late October, it emerged that Labor appointee Mike Kaiser had been sacked as an NBN Co executive to make way for one of Malcolm Turnbull's close personal friends, J.B. Rousellot, who worked with Turnbull at Ozemail, as well as in Turnbull's advisory firm and with whom the Communications Minister owns a yacht. At the same time, Turnbull also appointed former Ozemail colleague Justin Milne to a key executive role.
Other notable jobs for the boys include the appointment of Labor turncoat and Abbott confidante Warren Mundine – someone generally poorly regarded in the Indigenous community – to head his Indigenous advisory committee, and yet another Howard crony, market fundamentalist climate denier and former ABC chair Maurice Newman, to become head of Abbott's business advisory committee.
But yesterday came perhaps the most alarming examples of cronyism so far, with Sophie Mirabella and Tim Wilson being appointed to highly paid Government positions on the same day the Treasurer Joe Hockey announced the Australian Government was going to make deep cuts in welfare, education and health spending due an entirely confected “budget emergency”.
The irony was intense.
Sophie Mirabella was a Liberal MP so outstandingly unpopular, she was voted out of her safe rural conservative Victorian seat this year by a previously little-known Independent. Her main achievement in her legal career, prior to being elected to parliament in 2001, was in 1995 successfully pursuing a live-in relationship with the then Melbourne University dean of law, Colin Howard – a man 40 years her senior – before being granted power of attorney by him and making herself the sole beneficiary of his lucrative estate, which she duly inherited upon his death. This is, as you might imagine, the subject of a bitter and ongoing dispute with his adult children.
Mirabella is a close ally of Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who rewarded her yesterday as one of his three new appointments to the troubled Government-owned shipbuilding firm ASC Pty Ltd. The announcement was made at 5pm yesterday, just after Australia had won back the Ashes and when most news was focusing on Joe Hockey's nervous and misleading MYEFO announcement.
Opposition treasury spokesperson Chris Bowen asked the obvious question about this appointment, noting the previous governments more bipartisan approach:
"What does she [Mirabella] understand about the Australian Submarine Corporation which other eminently qualified people from industry couldn't have contributed?," he told ABC television on Wednesday.
Mr Bowen said Labor had appointed people from "right across the board" to senior positions, including former Liberal leader Brendan Nelson to a diplomatic posting.
He suggested the timing of the announcement bespoke a guilty conscience:
The fact this announcement was made late in the afternoon on a busy news day, when Australia had won the Ashes and the government was involved in the mid-year economic review, spoke volumes, he said.
"Says to me, they're not particularly proud of the appointment either," Mr Bowen said.
It was the announcement by Attorney General George Brandis that Tim Wilson would become Australia's newest Human Rights Commissioner ‒ or, in his words, “freedom commissioner” ‒ that left most people up in arms with jaws on ground.
Wilson was, until yesterday, an oleaginous spin doctor for extreme right-wing lobby group the Institute of Public Affairs — a paid campaigner for the interests of mining, big tobacco, fossil fuel interests and big business in general. The IPA has, as one of its core policy objectives, the abolition of the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Tim Wilson has been notably critical of the Australian Human Rights Commission in the past, especially in his support for the so-called "free speech" of conservative commentator and convicted racist Andrew Bolt. It was this, no doubt, that has led to his appointment to the AHRC by cultural warrior George Brandis.
Wilson himself is a notable "small government" advocate and, until yesterday, a Liberal Party member (he says he resigned from the IPA and Liberal Party upon getting the AHRC job). How he can justify a $325,000 per annum paid government sinecure at an organisation he called to be closed down is almost impossible to reconcile. More difficult still is the thought that the Coalition Government could consider him a suitable person to fill that role.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported Labor and The Greens slamming this blatantly ideological move:
The shadow attorney-general, Mark Dreyfus, described Mr Wilson's appointment as ''dubious to say the least''.
''How can Mr Wilson possibly undertake the role of a Human Rights Commissioner when it's obvious he has such contempt for the commission itself?'' Mr Dreyfus said.
''By appointing Mr Wilson, Senator Brandis has sent a strong signal about exactly the kind of blatant political agenda he wishes to pursue as Attorney-General."
Greens legal affairs spokeswoman Penny Wright described Mr Wilson's views as ''extreme'' and said Senator Brandis had ''laid his ideological cards on the table''.
''The Attorney-General has already made it clear he thinks some human rights are more important than others, including that free speech ought to trump anti-discrimination laws,'' she said.
There is no other conclusion than that, like snooty Young Liberals having taken over the university student union, they are giving their mates jobs while thumbing their noses at everyone else. In short, they are trolling us.
It is similarly hard to escape the conclusion that, for the conservatives, gaining power is not about furthering the good of the country — it is about furthering their own causes – ideological and financial – along with those of their fellow travellers.
With Joe Hockey's faux budget emergency sweatily delivered yesterday, expect the Government to soon begin slashing welfare and selling off whatever few remaining Government assets are left after the Howard years to major Coalition donors at firesale prices.
This process has, indeed, already begun in Queensland under the Newman Government.
All aboard! All aboard! The Abbott Gravy Train is leaving the station. Big business and Coalition cronies make your way up to first class. Everyone else, squeeze in where you can. Hold on tight, people on the roof, you could be in for a very rough ride.
All drawings in this piece are by John Graham. The originals of John's art featured on IA may be purchased by contacting the editor via email at editor@independentaustralia.net.
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Best broadband deals and early Black Friday 2020 discounts in the UK sales
by InterNewsCast 20th November 2020 018
As many of us are now working from home, it has never been more important to have a speedy (and reliable) internet connection. If you find that you’re the one on the Zoom call who’s always buffering, it might be time to update your broadband package.
But it can be hard to find the best broadband provider for your needs, especially when their sites are full of jargon – talking of ‘upload speed’, ‘download speed’ and ‘Mbps’. To help make sense of this, we have included a complete guide below on all of the terminology you need to know when you’re shopping for a new broadband package, as well as the average bandwidth you need, depending on your household size. Let’s start at the beginning.
How to find the best broadband provider for you
In order to compare broadband deals, you need to understand the jargon:
Download speed (Mbps). This is the most important bit of information, as it tells you how much data can be transferred each second (measured in Mbps – megabits per second). If you have a slow download speed, your laptop will freeze when loading pages or streaming videos. So, as a rule of thumb, the higher the Mbps number, the better your connection (although this can vary by location and you may need a WiFi extender to boost your signal).
Upload speed (Mbps). This measures how fast your internet connection can transfer data to the server. This is important for tasks like sending emails or calling someone on Zoom. The average upload speed in the UK is 6.2Mbps.
What download speed do you need? Choosing the broadband package with the highest download speed (Mbps) isn’t necessary if you live in a household of one or two people, or if you only use the internet for sending emails and watching shows on iPlayer and Netflix. That being said, you could benefit from a speedier connection if there are a lot of people in the house using the internet simultaneously.
The average home speed in the UK is now 64Mbps, according to the annual home broadband report from Ofcom. Nearly three-quarters of UK homes have “superfast” broadband packages of 30Mbps or higher.
With that in mind, the following guide from Cable.co.uk is a useful tool for estimating how much bandwidth you need:
If you live alone or with one other person, and the most speed-intensive things you do online are stream TV shows or films: 10-11Mbps.
If you live in a household of 3-4 people and you stream TV shows separately (although not on a 4K TV): 35-108Mbps
If there are 5 or more people in the house and you’re often on the internet at the same time: 65-516Mbps
Standard broadband. This is the old-school broadband, which is still commonly used today. It works by using ADSL technology to transmit your data across a network of copper telephone lines. This broadband coverage covers most of the UK, but it tends to have a lower download speed (it can reach up to 20Mbps, but the average download speed is just 10-11Mbps).
‘Superfast broadband’. This is a hybrid of fibre and cable technology, available across 96 per cent of the UK. It gives a download speed of at least 24Mbps, often more.
Fibre-optic / ‘ultrafast broadband’. This broadband is faster than standard broadband because it uses light to travel along fibre-optic tubes. It can give you ultrafast broadband, of 100Mbps or higher, but is only available in 55 per cent of UK households, according to Ofcom.
Now that you’re familiar with the terminology, it’s time to get down to the broadband comparison itself. Taking into account speed, price, and Black Friday discounts, the following are, in ranking order (starting with the best value), the best broadband deals for 2020.
1. Virgin Media
We believe Virgin Media is the best broadband provider because of its impressive speeds and competitive pricing. It is the only main broadband provider to use fibre-optic cables to ensure a speedy connection, yet its prices aren’t that far away from some of the standard broadband packages.
We have been particularly impressed with the Virgin Black Friday broadband deals. We think the best deal is the M100 Fibre Broadband, which has an average download speed of 108Mbps and upload speed of 10Mbps and costs just £24.99 per month (18-month contract; then £44 a month).
However, there are other great Virgin Deals, all on 18-month contracts:
the M200 Fibre Broadband, with its average speed of 213Mbps (£30.99 a month)
the M350 Fibre Broadband, ideal for streaming in UHD, with its average download speed of 362Mbps (£36.99 a month)
the M500 Fibre Broadband, useful for hardcore gamers, with its average download speed of 516Mbps (£42.99 a month)
2. Talk Talk
We were particularly impressed by the range of deals on offer at Talk Talk, as well as its promise never to raise the price of your broadband mid-contract. For Black Friday, Talk Talk is offering three months of broadband free with any of its three packages: the Fibre 35, 65 and 150.
The Fibre 35 has an average download speed of 38Mbps, making it ideal for browsing and streaming. It costs just £23.50 per month (on a 24-month contract) and you get three months free, giving you a saving of £70.50. The Fibre 65 has an average speed of 67Mbps, which makes it good for super fast streaming and gaming, and costs £26 per month. It’s, again, a 24-month contract, with the first three months free, so you save £78. Lastly, the Fibre 150 gives you 145Mbps for £32 per month on a 24-month contract, and you save £96.
It was a close call between Vodafone and Talk Talk for the number two spot. For the price of £23.50 per month, you could get a speedier internet speed of 63Mbps at Vodafone (on the Superfast 2 package), compared to just 38Mbps for the same price at Talk Talk (the Fibre 35 deal).
However, it works out more cost-effective to go for Talk Talk’s Fibre 65 deal (67Mbps) at £26, with three months free (bringing the total to £546). Compare that to Vodafone’s Superfast 2 package (63Mbps) which costs just £23.50 but doesn’t have the three months free advantage of Talk Talk, coming to a total of £564 – slightly more money for a slightly slower download speed.
But don’t let that put you off. As a whole, Vodafone has some great Black Friday broadband deals. The Superfast 1 (35Mbps) costs just £22 per month on a 24-month contract. Plus, Vodafone is offering two Black Friday bundles – the Superfast 1 or 2 deal with a year’s subscription of Apple TV+ for £28 or £31.50 per month, respectively.
Plus, it is one of the first providers to offer a GigaCube router – a portable wireless router that coverts Vodafone’s 5G and 4G networks into Wi-Fi. It’s particularly useful if you have slow internet at home, or live in an area not covered by super-fast broadband. It costs from £30 a month (for 100Mbps), although you can get unlimited data for £50 a month on an 18-month contract.
4. Sky
Sky’s Superfast Broadband package (59Mbps) costs £25 per month on an 18-month contract; it’s not terribly expensive, but when you consider that you can get double the internet speed (108Mbps) at Virgin for the same price (a penny cheaper, in fact) it doesn’t seem like such a great deal.
But that’s when Sky’s bundles come in. For instance, you can get Sky TV + Superfast Broadband + Free anytime calls for £39 per month for 18 months (down from £67). Or the Superfast Broadband, Sky TV and Sky Sports bundle for £54 a month for 18 months (down from £92). You can even build your own TV and Broadband bundle, with discounts of up to 50 per cent on TV packages.
5. Plusnet
As part of Black Friday, Plusnet is literally giving away money with its Reward Cards. These cards, worth either £50 or £60, depending on the broadband deal you choose, are preloaded with money that you can spend either online or at most high street retailers that accept Mastercard.
To claim a card, of course, you must first set up your broadband package. If you’re looking for a bog-standard broadband package, the Unlimited Broadband deal at Plusnet costs just £17.99 a month for 10Mbps download speed – ideal if you don’t need much from the web.
However, Plusnet’s other two deals offer better value for money – especially the Unlimited Fibre Extra deal, offering 66Mbps for £24.99 a month, on an 18-month contract, and a £60 reward card. If you need just 36Mbps, however, Plusnet’s Unlimited Fibre deal (£21.99 a month) might be for you.
6. BT
No list of the best broadband deals could be complete without broadband giant BT. Granted, it does rank fairly low in our list – but that’s because it is fairly expensive for the average download speeds it offers.
The Fibre Essential deal (33-36Mbps) costs £26.99 a month on a 24 month contract; when you compare that to, say, Plusnet’s Unlimited Fibre Extra package of 66Mbps for £24.99, it doesn’t seem like a great deal.
However, to celebrate Black Friday, BT is giving away three months of free broadband, and it’s worth noting that it offers 24 month contracts – so you are locked in to a lower price for longer (compared to the 18-month contracts of Virgin, Sky and Plusnet), which is a definite cost-saving benefit.
Plus, we appreciate that there are three download speeds to choose from – the aforementioned Fibre Essential, as well as the Fibre 1 (50Mbps for £27.99 a month) and the Fibre 2 (67Mbps for £31.99 a month).
7. Hyperoptic
This new kid on the block is a breath of fresh air in the broadband market. Firstly, it works using fibre optic cables – but, unlike Virgin, it brings the fibre network straight into your home – making for a speedier and more secure connection. There’s a price match guarantee, and Hyperoptic will even allow you to try them out alongside your current provider before you decide to switch.
They are almost unbeaten on price and value, too. The Superfast package (150Mbps) is £29 a month for a 12-month minimum commitment (then £35 per month). The Ultrafast package (an incredible 500Mbps) is £35 a month on a 12-month contract (then £50 per month). And, finally, the Hyperfast is £40 a month for an incredible 1Gbps (1,000Mbps) on a 12-month contract (then £60 per month).
The only reason we could not rank Hyperoptic higher up in our list is because it is only available in certain regions; go to their website to see if you are eligible.
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Mindy Mizell: The Compassion Window
Posted: November 8, 2012 in journalism
Tags: aftermath, aftermath needs, compassion fatigue, compassion window, disaster, New York City, relief supplies, Sandy, South Bronx Storehouse, Superstorm, Upper West Side, World Vision
Mindy Mizell – World Vision
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“The impact of Sandy will be felt for months if not years to come.” Yet New York’s Mindy Mizell knows that this will be a big story in the media for only a matter of weeks, at best. She says “We need to remember that there are going to be people who still need our help whether we still see this on the news or not.”
In other words – while the compassion “window” will only be open so long – the needs of those hard-hit by Sandy will remain.
And as the media coverage for Sandy’s aftermath begins to fade, a few images linger for Mizell.
“The streets were packed with cars and taxis. People had to stay above ground with the subways still closed,” Mizell says, “The only reliable way I had to get to work was my Piaggo, scooter.” Mizell lives in New York with her husband, Travis Galey, who works for CBS News. Mindy is World Vision U.S. Media Relations Director. Mizell says, “God has a way of putting me in the right place at the wrong time.”
When she says the “wrong time” she means when she’s assigned to a natural disaster.
Mizell has been Media Relations Director at World Vision since 2010. Her news career has taken her from Roswell, New Mexico to Baltimore to Washington, D.C. to Oklahoma City. Since she joined World Vision and “re-purposed” her journalism, Mindy Mizell has traveled all over the world hoping to draw reporters’ attention to issues like hunger, malnutrition, extreme poverty and natural disasters. But last Monday morning she was at home in Manhattan when the natural disaster came to her.
Damaged Relief Supplies
World Vision South Bronx Storehouse
Relief supplies in the South Bronx Storehouse were damaged by Sandy before staff ever got to deliver them. Flood waters from the nearby East River destroyed dozens of boxes of relief supplies.
Mizell cleaning minor damage
Manhattan – Upper West side
Mizell admits she was lucky. While at this writing, thousands are still without power, she says the lights at her home only flickered a few times. Damage to their apartment was confined to blown down branches.
She and Travis live on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the upper left side of this now-famous picture in the current issue of New York.
But Mizell hasn’t been home much to notice. In the last two weeks Mindy has done dozens of interviews for local, national and international media, working 12-14 hour days. “We had so many media requests that my phone died while in transit and I had to charge it with the BBC crew in their cars while I did the interview.”
But again Mizell says she was lucky. Instead of broken windows and downed trees she just came home to her Schnauzer, Brinkley.
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When the promotion of a film solely focuses on a single actor it shows that he or she has arrived. When that actor is just two films old, it says a lot. The entire promotion of Kappela focuses on Anna Ben, who made her mark with her debut in Kumbalangi Nights and proved her skills in Helen, which marketed the film keeping her centre-stage. With Kappela, Anna shows that she is here for the long run.
Jessy (Anna) stays in a village named Poovarmala in Wayanad, with her parents and a younger sister. She leads a simple life, helping her mother with tailoring work and spending time with her friend and next-door neighbour Lakshmi. Things change when she accidentally dials a wrong number. And a young man named Vishnu (Roshan Mathew), who is an autorickshaw driver in Malappuram, answers the call. It doesn’t end there. The man keeps calling her back and, initially Jessy is irritated by this. She soon falls for his charm. Since Jessy doesn’t have a smartphone, neither she nor Vishnu can see each other. However, they fall in love and dream of a life together. She wishes to see him just once but their plans to meet gets postponed due to circumstances.
Benny (Sudhi Koppa) is a local businessman and landowner who likes Jessy and wishes to marry her. Though his overbearing mother objects to the alliance, he goes ahead. A worried Jessy makes plans to meet Vishnu at Kozhikode and decide about their future. One day, when her parents and siblings are away, she catches a bus to Kozhikode.
Vishnu promises to meet her at the Kozhikode bus station but fails to arrive on time. Jessy takes refuge in the toilet at the bus station after feeling uncomfortable in the crowd. Meanwhile, Vishnu arrives but loses his phone. A boy steals his phone and walks away, but he is stopped by Roy (Sreenath Bhasi), who grabs the phone from him. It’s a topsy turvy ride from there on.
Mohammed Musthafa has been in the industry for a while as an actor. With Kappela he makes a confident debut as a director. The story and screenplay is not new. The novelty lies in the way the story is filmed. Musthafa takes his time establishing the characters of Jessy and Vishnu, their daily lives, relatives, friends, dreams and struggles. The aim of the director is to open the audience’s eyes to the way people perceive things; that appearances can be deceptive. However, there are some problematic bits. For instance, the film encourages moral policing. And it is doubly problematic in a state like Kerala and the Malabar region, infamous for some recent cases of moral policing. Moreover, in an attempt to deliver a message, the film chooses to belittle the scope of women to make their own choices.
Anna Ben is such a joy to watch. She emotes easily and conveys Jessy’s innocence bordering on naivete, her joys, fears and pains without going overboard at any point. Roshan Mathew impresses as Vishnu, with his easy charm and good looks. Sreenath Bhasi has been miscast and doesn’t do justice to the character curve of Roy, despite his brooding looks and menacing disposition. Playing the tough guy with a golden heart, Bhasi instead comes across as a psychopath or a borderline pervert with his creepy act. Starting from Kumbalangi Nights, Bhasi has been doing some impressive work. His short role in Trance shows his range. But making the transition from a sidekick to playing the lead is no mean task.
Kappela is cute little film with great performances. And it definitely keeps you hooked till the end. However, the problematic bits in the film linger on even after you leave the hall.
(The review has been edited after publication to reflect the editorial position of The Kochi Post)
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Toms Varghese is a writer based in Thiruvananthapuram who contributes to several publications on diverse topics.
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VIFF 2019 Review: In The Tall Grass
By Jon The Blogcentric on 10 October 2019 | 1 Comment
In The Tall Grass is a thriller of people lost in a field of tall grass and come across something of the paranormal that’s terrifying to their existence.
With the VIFF comes the return of films in the Altered States category: of thrillers, horror and even the paranormal. My first chance came with the film In The Tall Grass. It was worth it.
The film starts with a pregnant Becky DeMuth and her brother Cal traveling to San Diego to find a way to give up her baby. They pass an old bowling alley and stop by a church. Just as they stop by, they hear the voice of a young boy crying for help. The voice is coming from a field of tall grass they’ve parked beside. They also hear the mother of the boy begging anyone to not come in. Becky and Cal are naturally curious and walk in top help the boy. It’s only a matter of time they find themselves lost and even risk getting stuck by the wet sticky mud. Even as they’re distant, they hear each other’s voices which is not really theirs, but mystically transmitted. They decide to leave, but they can’t and are stuck for the night.
During the night, Cal encounters Tobin, the lost boy, who is scared, bruised and holding a dead crow. Becky meets up with a man named Ross, who is very friendly and offers to lead her. Tobin reveals to cal that the field the grass does not move dead things and Becky will not make it out of the field alive. Tobin leads Cal to the centre of the field which consists of cut grass bordering a big mystical rock with hieroglyphics which Tobin tells Cal to touch. Before he does, Becky arrives, but is taken away by an unseen figure.
Travis, the father of Becky’s child, arrives in the same area of Becky and Cal. He notices the car parked by the church. He also notices the field of tall grass. He hears Tobin’s voice and is led into the field. Tobin leads Travis to Becky’s corpse. Travis breaks down, but loses sight of Tobin. At the same time, we see Tobin with his father Ross and mother Natalie at the church along with their dog Freddie. Possibly a reference of what happened earlier. Freddie runs into the field of tall grass and the three chase after him. It’s there where Travis hears Tobin’s voice and the three of the family are scattered around the field. Ross comes to the centre with the rock and touches it as night falls. Tobin is discovered by Becky and cal all all are confused by the timelines.
As the three are one group, Becky and Cal decide to leave and use Tobin to navigate a path back to the road on top of Cal’s shoulders. Becky receives an unknown phone call saying that Cal should quit hunting Travis.The grass soon appears to be entering Becky’s uterus and she becomes unconscious. Cal and Tobin come across Ross, who reunites with Tobin. Ross brings them to the rock but are startled when they see Natalie and she says she saw Becky’s corpse earlier. As they try to make their escape, Ross is chasing them all down and gives them the impression there’s no escape and they’re all under Ross’ control. Ross tells them all the rock shows them of what’s happening.
Becky, Cal, Travis and Tobin succeed in escaping the field into the abandoned bowling alley. As Cal and Travis make their way to the top, they discover the dog Freddie escaped via a hole. However a spat between Travis and Cal brew as Travis brings up he senses incestuous feelings between Cal and Becky. Cal throws Travis off the roof. That succeeds in alerting Ross to their location. Tobin, knowing how this alerted Ross to their whereabouts, runs back into the field. Becky and Cal try to escape together, but Becky won’t leave Travis alone in the field. After she runs off to find Travis, Cal is strangled by Ross. It’s evident anyone in the grass field is affected by a time loop. If anyone dies, there will be another of them alive. If anyone touches the rock, they get a sense of control and invincibility.
During the return to the grass, Becky admits she was going to give the baby up for adoption. Becky is soon captured by Ross who tries to sexually assault her, but she escapes. Grass creatures however emerge and grab a hold of her and carry her to the rock. There, the rock develops imagery that detail the baby will die and Becky will be tortured. Becky passes out in reaction. As she awakens, she is tricked by Ross who poses his voice as Cal. Travis meanwhile stumbles across Becky’s unconscious body. Ross then kills Travis and captures Tobin to get him to touch the rock. Becky stops him, but dies. Travis decides to touch the rock to get a better understanding of the grass.
The film ends with one last scene involving Becky, Cal, Tobin and Travis. It gives the impression that all know what is happening and the film ends with what should be.
This film is a film that is based off of a short story written by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill. We’ve had Stephen King adaptations before and often adapting a Stephen King story to the big screen is hit-or-miss. This is a very complex story. This involves six people who go into a field of grass with paranormal powers. It threatens their lives and creates another life for them. Then there’s the rock that gives whoever it touches a sense of invincibility and control and threatens others.
Overall this film is a maze and a puzzle. Trying to piece this puzzle together is a tricky thing. Trying to create this maze of confusion is also a tricky thing. Watching it, it’s easy to get thrilled by the paranormal and nervous for what will happen next. However in looking back, I felt there were some areas that didn’t make too much sense. Even when it becomes clear that Ross starts as the controlling one and then it becomes Travis, that seemed odd. Even how Ross was the controlling conniving one, that even seemed cheesy at times.
The film does however keep one intrigued in the paranormal elements. Depite its flaws in the script and storyline, it does succeed in grabbing a hold of your attention and keeping you intrigued in the story. The paranormal elements don’t come across as cheeseball as it adds to the thriller aspect of the film. Overall despite its flaws as a film, I feel this is a good story for fans of paranormal fiction. I just feel it could have been done better as a movie.
This story is a mixed bag for Vincenzo Natali. Yes, it’s confusing, but the paranormal will keep one intrigued from start to finish and it will keep one hoping for the best for the main characters. Laysla de Oliveira was very good as Becky. Isn’t it something how the first two VIFF films I saw starred Laysla? She captured the role well in both it’s comedic elements and it’s dramatic elements.
Avery Whitted was also good as Cal. Will Buie Jr. also did an excellent job as Tobin: the frightened boy in the middle of it all. His role was the best at keeping the horror/thriller aspect of the film and was the most no-nonsense performance of all. Patrick Wilson was hard to make sense of as Ross. He came across as a conniver, but I feel he lacked the sinister element. Harrison Gilbertson was good as Travis, but he appeared he could have done more.
In The Tall Grass is a Netflix thriller that works well to be shown on the big screen, if imperfectly. It may not make the most sense, but it does keep people thrilled and intrigued about what will happen next and how it will end.
Posted in: Entertainment - Film and Movies, Movie Reviews: 2019, VIFF - Festival and Reviews | Tagged: Avery, Becky, Buie, Cal, Copperheart, De Oliveira, entertainment, Gilbertson, Grass, Harrison, Hill, Humboldt, In, Joe, King, Laysla, Natali, Netflix, Patrick, Rachel, Stephen, Tall, VIFF, Vincenzo, Whitted, Will, Wilson
Movie Review: Ender’s Game
By Jon The Blogcentric on 21 November 2013 | 1 Comment
Asa Butterfield plays child genius Ender Wiggin in the family sci-fi thriller Ender’s Game.
Very rarely do I go to see a live-action family film nowadays. There isn’t usually one that makes me want to go out and see it. However Ender’s Game was one that caught my eye. It’s based on the novel written by Orson Scott Card.
It’s the future and the Earth is under threat from alien Formics. They’ve already attacked in the year 2086 but their advances were halted by a small reserve force which involved an attack which had commander Mazer Rackham sacrifice himself in the battle to win. The International Fleet or IF was created shortly after to protect the Earth from the Formics.
Years later, IF commanders Colonel Hyrum Graff and Major Gwen Anderson are screening out teenage cadets as part of their next battle. They’re impressed with the intelligence and strategic thinking of cadet Andrew Ender Wiggin both with his playing of virtual games and his ability to deal with rejection in a fake dismissal. Ender is a complex boy. He’s smart as he can deliver what it takes to win virtual games but has a sensitivity as he feels like a misfit because he’s the ‘third born’ and frequently confides with his older sister Valentine. However it’s when Graff and Anderson visit the Wiggin household that things change. They offer him a place in their battle school. It’s after an intimate talk with Graff that Ender accepts because: “it was what he was born for.”
On the trip to the school via the shuttle, Ender and the other recruits or launchies are given lessons of the school by Sargent Dap. Ender further impresses Major Anderson when she asks him to create a mind game for the sake of analyzing recruit’s emotional states. He creates a mouse and giant game where he causes a surprise win to Anderson’s amazement.
The intrigue on Ender continues to grow. Ender is then promoted to the Salamander Army headed by Commander Bonzo Madrid. Bonzo is a fierce trainer with an unlikeable personality. One of his top students, Petra Arkanian, takes a liking to Ender and teaches him how to shoot free time. Bonzo starts a feeling of dislike to Ender especially after he cheats with Petra during a training game and they win with a surprise attack. Ender continues with his mouse mind game where he also has a Formic, an image of his sister, a snake he kills off and his brother in the game. The military are further amazed with Ender and switch him to the Dragon Army. To everyone’s surprise, he defeats the other two army’s including the Salamander Army headed by Bonzo in a weightless battle contest.
Despite Ender amazing the heads of the military, things start to take a turn for the worse. Bonzo is infuriated with Ender after his army loses and challenges him to a fight. Ender seriously injures Bonzo in self-defence leaving Bonzo badly injured enough to return to Earth. The emotional toll weighs in on Ender and demands to be flown back to Earth and leave the army. It’s right after Valentine convinces him to stay and fight that he continues on.
Ender learns of his mission through a travel to a Formic outpost of the IT. It’s there through the image of the deceased Mazer Rackham that he learns of his mission and of his most deadly devise on their ship. Ender then becomes a commander and assembles the best launchies and trainies he’s been working with. They continue training up for a ‘Graduation Day’ exercise. Gaduation Day turns out to be a game but it turns out to be a lot more. After the outcome, everybody is happy with Ender and themselves for what they have done, except Ender. He’s remorseful and it’s only after meeting with one of the Formics in his mind that he makes clear what his next mission is.
The movie is intended to be both a sci-fi action film for the family and the first book of a potential series. The film shows Ender Wiggin as a fighter who triumphs via brain more than brawn. It was once said in a US Marines commercial years ago: “To compete, you have to be strong. To win, you have to be smart.” Ender’s that smart competitor who’s able to make his mind do incredible things even to the point of the supernatural in the virtual world. That was the type of hero Orson Scott Card intended with Ender Wiggin. However Ender is unique in terms of his sensitivity and feeling for others, including his enemies. In fact a unique quote from Ender appears at the beginning of the film: “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.” It’s there where we understand Ender Wiggin and how he’s able to do what he does. He’s a very unique protagonist in both how he thinks and how he feels and how someone so young can do all this.
You may remember how back in the summer I talked about big-budget action thrillers losing at the box office. I figured that the fall season would provide a better picture for them. It has been better but the outcome has been better for the more established movie franchises like Riddick, Insidious and Thor. Ender’s Game is a sci-fi thriller that is the first of the trilogy of Ender Wiggin novels. Any hope of future films rode on the success of Ender’s Game. The film debuted at #1 but with a weekend intake of only $27 million, it was questionable whether it would hit its $110 million budget. The latter weeks have shown it wouldn’t as it gained less and less. It now stands at just $55 million. It’s unfortunate that the success didn’t pan out, especially since this is 28 years in the making. However all is not lost. If there are no additional films, it may be turned into a television series.
Harrison Ford did a good job as Colonel Graff, even though I’ve seen him play better and stronger action roles. He shows that even after three decades he can still make the thriller. Viola Davis was probably the best scene stealer as Major Gwen. She showed that she’s able to upstage Harrison at times. Asa Butterfield was also very good as the protagonist Ender Wiggin. Actually he’s a major reason why I saw this. He impressed me in Hugo and I was looking forward to seeing how he would do in Ender’s Game. He did a very good job of playing a child soldier that was both an outside soldier and an inside soldier. Also he was able to give Ender more dimension with his sense of emotions and feelings. Asa helped make Ender a unique character. Ben Kingsley was also good in his role of Mazer but lacked scene-stealing qualities. The young supporting characters were also very well done. Haille Steinfeld made Petra likeable, Abigail Breslin was very convincing as making Valentine the source of Ender’s mental strength and Moises Arias was very successful in making Bonzo dislikeable.
Gavin Hood did a very good job in terms of directing. The screenplay was also done well but I feel the ending could have been done better. His best effort is the South African film Tsotsi which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film but he already has experience in directing sci-fi with directing X-Men: Wolverine. The movie’s qualities that most stand out are its visual effects and the score by Steve Jablonsky. The film did have some controversy as Orson Scott Card’s opposition to the same-sex lifestyle and gay marriage has caused outspoken critics and pundits. Card has defended his views each time. As for my feeling, I feel Card’s opinions should not matter in terms of this film because his opinions are not made present in the film anyways.
Ender’s Game is an impressively smart sci-fi film for families and young adults. It’s a very smart story that’s very well-done. However it does fall prey to the box office because of its lack of buzz and tight competition of other sci-fi releases this November.
Posted in: Entertainment - Film and Movies, Movie Reviews: 2013 | Tagged: Abigail, Asa, Breslin, Butterfield, Card, Davis, Ender, Ender's Game, Ford, Formic, Hailee, Harrison, Orson, Scott, Steinfeld, Viola, Wiggin
Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
By Jon The Blogcentric on 14 June 2013 | 1 Comment
Captain Kirk and Spock bring Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch) to justice in Star Trek Into Darkness.
The Star Trek franchise has really come a long way since its days as a television series, hasn’t it? Movies, a new series in the 90’s, a loyal following of Trekkies and even a 2009 remake of the original. Now Star Trek returns to the big screen with a remake of the sequel entitled Star Trek Into Darkness. Does it still entertain current audiences?
The movie opens with Captain Kirk defamed and demoted from his Captain position after Spock’s life is jeopardized while prevent a volcano from erupting on the planet Nibiru that would have wiped out all civilization and would have exposed all of Nibiru’s lives to the Enterprise. Admiral Pike has been reinstated but believes Kirk deserves a second chance and successfully lobbies for Kirk to be his first Officer.
The movie moves forward to London two centuries from now. A bomb has just exploded and the perpetrator is believed to be Starfleet agent John Harrison. The meeting about how to deal with Harrison is disturbed by Harrison’s jumpship. Kirk destroys the jumpship but Harrison is able to escape to the Klingon planet of Kronos. Meanwhile Pike was killed in the attack which promotes Kirk back to captain of the Enterprise. Kirk is left in charge of dealing with the Enterprise and Harrison whether to have Harrison killed by the torpedoes on board the Enterprise or brought to justice.
Their first attempt at capturing Harrison is by arriving on the Klingon planet even though they know Klingons are set to attack them. Harrison kills the Klingons but appears to surrender when aware of the torpedoes against him. It’s when Khan is held inside the Enterprise that is true identity is learned, Khan: a genetically engineered superhuman designed as a weapon 300 years ago for a war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. On top of that, the torpedoes each have one of Khan’s crew cryogenically frozen inside. In the meantime Admiral Marcus, engineer of Khan and captain of the USS Vengeance which Khan designed, demands Khan’s release. The Enterprise refuses and that leads to a war leaving the Enterprise severely damaged.
Soon after many giveaways happen to the intentions of both Khan and Marcus which almost leads to the destruction of the Enterprise had it not been for Scotty’s fast thinking on the Vengeance. A confrontation between Kirk, Spock, Marcus’ daughter Carol and Khan leads to Khan succeeding and gaining control of the Vengeance. Khan will only allow the crew of the Enterprise free if given the torpedoes. They agree but just when it’s thought that Khan has the advantage, a surprise occurs. This leads to a battle between Khan and leaders of the Enterprise with a not-so-typical ending to the movie.
This is a continuation from what started in 2009 when the first Star Trek was remade. If you remember then, they attempted to remake the very first Star Trek movie with a modern faced cast and with modern special effects. The end result was one popcorn movie remake that worked well not just with audiences but critics alike. it even became the first Star Trek movie to win an Oscar: winning Best Makeup. Here in 2013 comes a new challenge of remaking The Wrath Of Khan with the new modern cast and the new special effects.
I’ll admit that I have not seen the original Wrath Of Khan so I cannot compare it to Into Darkness. What I can do is compare it with the 2009 remake of the original. The original was good as it was able to remake and even modernize the original well with good writing, good acting and excellent effects. Into Darkness was also very good in its own way with the acting and the directing and especially the effects. There were times where the original actors (William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy) make appearances in the movie with is not uncommon for Hollywood to do in terms of movie remakes and movie versions of TV shows. However Shatner was given a good role that was atypical. As for the story, it was your typical Hollywood formulas in the story but what it lacks in original it, it makes up for in entertainment. It succeeds in being a thrill ride for those who see it with battles and even an ending that it not your typical predictable Hollywood ending.
The acting from the actors was also good. One thing I liked about the 2009 remake is that none of the actors were trying to fill the shoes of the actors past. Chris Pine knew he wasn’t to be a copy of William Shatner. Zachary Quinto knew he wasn’t to fill the shoes of Leonard Nimoy. John Cho knew that he’s not in George Takei’s shadow. Anton Yelchin knew not to compare himself to Walter Koenig. And Zoe Saldana was not trying to be Nichelle Nichols either. Each had their part to do and doing it made it work. The actors again continue to do it in Into Darkness. Mind you the role of Spock was given a new challenge by having him convey emotion despite being a Vulcan. Even Benedict Cumberbatch did a very good job in playing Kahn, even if Khan came across as an unoriginal Hollywood villain.
J.J. Abrams can add this movie to his cloud as one of the top sci-fi directors in Hollywood. He started well with Mission Impossible III, progressed with the first Star Trek in 2009 and did it again in Super 8. Although Into Darkness doesn’t compare to the first Star Trek, it does not hurt his reputation at all and even adds to his consistency. The highlights of the movie of course were the visual effects as should be expected with any sci fi movie. People don’t go to a sci fi movie for the script. They go to escape to another world. And Star Trek Into Darkness succeeds into taking us into our world two centuries from now and into the many worlds in the Star Trek universe. It was a very good trip into escapism that most will enjoy.
Star Trek Into Darkness is a sequel remake that puts its most emphasis in the escapism and the excitement of the action. It succeeds again in giving the audience a trip to another world while staying true to the Star Trek theme. The big question is if there’s to be a remake of The Search For Spock in the future, how soon will it come out and what will the end result be?
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JM#152 – Helene Rickhard
Helene Rickhard has been making synth waves across Oslo over the past two years. After g a break from DJing, she’s taken up the reins again, with DJ sets that have set her apart from the rest of a scene. With a penchant for enchanting melodies crafted from ancient electronic circuits and a primal rhythmic instinct, she’s garnered a reputation as one of Oslo’s more idiosyncratic DJs.
Eighties synth wave, minimal wave, new world ambient and cosmic disco constitute her DJ sets with her unique flair for the unusual and esoteric underpinning her sets. She’s been a regular fixture at Jaeger since returning to the booth, and after some coercing, we finally get her on the Jaeger Mix.
Playing to the context, Rickhard creates a tempered mood, going from some exotic ambience to lethargic rhythms and vintage synthesiser sounds coaxed from drum machines. Often quirky, and completely mesmerising, Rickhard’s set skates through an alternative narrative of early electronica, and thrives in the more obscure corners of early synthesiser music.
It’s a mix that translates well into the recorded format where its enigmatic charm really comes to the fore. The Jaeger mix comes a week before Helen Rickhard is set to join us for the Boiler Room weekender, where she’ll open up the floor in the afternoon on the Saturday, leading us into the second day of the weekender.
Hello Helene and welcome to the Jaeger mix. What did you prepare for this mix?
It starts with a few ambient tracks before it turns a bit more uptempo and eventually a bit more happy. It’s mostly a lot of 7 inches and album tracks in the synth/new wave, italo/disco, electro, library-genre in there, and also two great vinyl rips I got from friends in exchange for other stuff. I’m crazy for melodies so it’s a lot of vocals and melodies all over the place.
What were some of the highlights for you?
I would say Mistral- Jamie is one and the video is also very strange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAbYY9Ff7OM
It’s a very peculiar context, essentially a live mix recorded for a blog. How did you approach this differently from what you usually do in the DJ booth?
I think I approached it a bit as I would when I record a mixtape at home that is intended for listening in different settings and roughly figured the order of the tracks, just to make sure I didn’t mess up..!
I know that you like those eighties synth wave and minimal wave sounds. How did you arrive at the sound?
Yes! I love a lot of minimal synth and new wave and post-punk stuff, and my sets and mixtapes would almost always contain something of that. It might because I grew up hearing a lot of these simplistic melancholic synth pop tunes. But its really only a part of what I would play and my tastes stray all over, and one day I want to play only stupid and super cheeky disco, and the other day dark industrial synth and new beat and then some prog, or just 90s balearic stuff depending on the setting, my moods, and the general state of things.
There’s some music that you made on Soundcloud from earlier, which was kind of ambient avant garde electronica. How did you go from there to the music you play as a DJ?
Much of the reason for that is really that I overdosed myself on parties and dance music and 80s nostalgia and italo disco and stuff like that for a very long time, and found out that I had to allow more diverse sounds into my ears.
So for a long while I stayed away from dance music, but when I came back to it again I felt a lot more freedom and openness towards it than earlier. And I actually do play ambient and new age music quite often as a DJ too, usually in forest festivals and outdoors. I really think ambient and balearic since the 90s had and should have a natural place beside dance music because it’s just good to relax a little also!
What’s your earliest memory of listening to a piece of music and realising you had some affinity for the artform?
That would probably have been something classical since my parents are very into that, but I was drawn to electronic sounds very early. My first experience with that was from computer games on C64 and childrens tapes, and the eurovision song contest, and also hearing The Robots by Kraftwerk on the radio made a big impact. I saved up money for a crappy Casio keyboard and spent hours trying to play the melodies from The robots and Axel F theme and other stuff like that .. The first record I got I asked my dad to go and buy me in 84, it was the 7″ single of the awful Digiloo Digiley song with The Herreys.
There was a collaboration with Rune Lindbæk from last year, Kvitsand but what else is happening on the music front for you in terms of solo work?
I don’t have that many specific plans, but Tore Gjedrem from Ost&Kjex asked me to participate on a new compilation on his Snick Snack label in 2020 that i think will be very cool. And I tend to start a lot of tracks and projects all the time, so I plan to maybe try to finish some of those as well.
How has the stuff that you’re playing in your sets lately influenced what you’re doing in terms of making music?
I suppose it maybe does on a more subconscious level. I think I’ve become a bit more objective from DJing maybe, but also very critical..!
You’re playing our Boiler Room weekender next week. Any thoughts on how that set might go?
Yes, I’m very excited about that and a little nervous, but I hope it will go well!
And what else is waiting on the horizon for Helene Rickhard?
I will keep playing at Taffel at Bortenfor, a very cosy downtempo/balearic night I’ve done along with Olefonken and Broder Ibrahim from Snorkel Records and Rulefinn every Thursday for a couple of years now. And in September I’ll play at Camp Cosmic in the south of Germany, a cosmic disco festival that gathers a lot of amazing djs.
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William Orbit – Silent Signals
Orlando Riva Sound – Zen
WU-LI – Blomstertid
Pond – Auf Ziedenstrasse
Mistral – Jamie
Meo – Cikuana
Ragnar Grippe – Time and Space
Le Panther Rose – Le Panther Rose
Graham Gouldman – Bionic Boar
Thomas Dolby – The devil is an englishman
Sapho – Train de Paris
Space Pilots – Empty Space Security
Premiere Classe – La fille qui rite
Spliff – Heut’ Nahct
Monica Beale – Desert Shore
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Sonny Rollins - Road Shows, Vol. 2 Streaming
Ernie Krivda - Live at the Dirty Dog (CIMP, 2010)
Patti Smith - Outside Society (Sony Legacy, 2011)
Books: The Killer is Dying by James Sallis (Walker...
Critics playing jazz
Jen Shyu and Mark Dresser - Synastry (Pi Recording...
Christian Artmann - Uneasy Dreams (Self-Released, ...
Bud Powell - Jazz Giant (Verve: 1950, 1988, 2001)
Books: I Am Maru by mugumogu
Reed Trio - Last Train to the First Station (Kilog...
Books: Beast of Burden by Ray Banks
The Grateful Dead - What a Long Strange Trip It's ...
Chris Potter and the DR Big Band - Transatlantic (...
Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orchestra - Trilogy (Mos...
Athenor – En Form For Bla (VHF Records, 2011)
Books: American Gods: Tenth Anniversary Edition by...
Warren Wolf - (Self Titled) (Mack Avenue, 2011)
Books: Southern Gods by John Honor Jacobs
William Parker - Solo Bass/Crumbling In the Shadow...
Duke Ellington - Meets Coleman Hawkins / And John ...
A Note concerning promotional copies of music.
Downbeat Readers Poll 2011
Sonny Rollins - On Impulse/There Will Never Be Ano...
Books: Steve Hamilton - Misery Bay (Minotaur Books...
Deep Blue Organ Trio – Wonderful!
Pharoah Sanders – Village of the Pharaohs/Wisdom t...
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - Bird & Diz (Ver...
Ernie Krivda - Blues for Pekar (Capri, 2011)
RED Trio + John Butcher - Empire (NoBusiness, 2011)
Mal Waldron Quintet - The Git Go-live At The Villa...
The Dave King Trucking Company – Good Old Light (S...
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousnes /Lord Of L...
Nick Hempton - The Business (Posi-Tone, 2011)
Don't miss NPR's streaming of the new Sonny Rollins album, Road Shows Vol. 2.
Labels: jazz, Sonny Rollins
Saxophonist Ernie Krivda leads a swinging live performance from the Detroit jazz club The Dirty Dog on this well recorded album. Claude Black on piano, Dan Kolton on bass and Renell Gonsalves on drums join Krivda on quite lengthy explorations of four well-known standards and an extemporaneous blues jam that ends the program in a fun and joyful way. Apparently this album was recorded at the end of a long residency, and the empathy these musicians have built is quite palpable. The version of Thelonious Monk’s “‘Round Midnight” is particularly poignant, with the band caressing the melody in a thoughtful unhurried manner before breaking out into solos which are quite rich and memorable, Claude Black in particular is fascinating to focus on in this song. They swing mightily on three other standards, “I’ll Remember April,” “You Stepped Out Of a Dream” and “All the Things You Are.” The group lays into these songs with fresh vigor, not cruising at all, but using them as the excellent vehicles of improvisation they are for finely crafted solos and ensemble passages. The concluding performance and the only Krivda original “A Blues By Any Other Name” finishes the set in fine fashion with everybody getting a chance to stretch out and blow with verve and a sense of adventure. This was a very nice example of small club jazz that used to be prevalent across the country, but has waned in the wake of the economic slowdown. The group has a ball jamming on standards and blues and the enthusiasm is palpable to the crowd and the listener. This was a swinging small group session of meat and potatoes modern jazz. The group plays standards and blues with a confident bravado and the ballads with a heart-on-sleeve lushness. Live at the Dirty Dog - CIMP
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Vocalist and poet Patti Smith’s role as the “Godmother of Punk Rock" really too confining, as is any one disc collection that tries to rein in the best work from this mercurial artist. But as an introduction to her work it does an excellent job of providing insight into the depth and breadth of her music. More of an art-rocker than a punk, Smith combined her poetry and love of the visual arts to a rock 'n' roll beat and cleared the way for women to fully enter the rock and roll arena. Her most well known songs are here in roughly chronological order beginning with her cover of Them’s “Gloria” with its long original introduction and the scalding “Free Money” from her seminal debut album Horses. As the Patti Smith Group developed and grew into its own identity, she became even more risk taking with the mind-blowing and controversial “Rock ‘n’ Roll Ni**er” live performance from the Radio Ethiopia album included in this collection, along with the in-your-face “Pissing in the River.” She never strayed too far from pop music forms, as displayed by the hit “Because the Night,” co-composed with fellow New Jerseyian Bruce Springsteen. Smith took several years off from the music scene to raise a family, but after the death of several close family and friends she returned to recording, sounding stronger than ever. Examples of her post sabbatical recordings on this collection include the gripping “Summer Cannibals” and the powerful pro-Tibet song “1959.” Also included are some interesting covers, a full out electric band cover of The Byrds “So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star,” and a fascinating acoustic cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” As much as a one disc compilation can capture the essence of an artist as complicated as Patti Smith, this one does and succeeds quite well. A prime introduction to neophytes coming to her music and a potent reminder of her power to longtime fans, this album is highly recommended. Outside Society - amazon.com
Labels: Patti Smith, rock 'n' roll
Books: The Killer is Dying by James Sallis (Walker & Company, 2011)
The Killer Is Dying: A Novel by James Sallis
While James Sallis ostensibly writes crime novels, the crime itself becomes almost incidental to the haunted and melancholy lives of the characters he composes. Christian is a hit-man, someone who takes pride in a clean kill. He also slowly dying of an unnamed disease, taking his faculties bit by bit. When the man he is hired to kill is attacked by another pro, Christian makes it his final mission to find out who and why. Jimmie is a teenager, living by his wits in his house after being abandoned by his parents, and falling through the cracks of the school and government systems, he makes a living and pays bills by buying and reselling online merchandise. He also begins to have strange dreams which turn out to be incidents from Christian's past. Finally, Detective Sayles is trying to track down the attacker while grieving for his dying wife who has left him for hospice care. Reading about the intertwined lives of these three men would seem like a depressing endeavor, and there is indeed a palpable sense of melancholy that runs through the book, but it is Sallis' mastery of storytelling and the sheer beauty of his prose that keep things fresh, mysterious and compelling. We know little of the lives of these men before we meet them, and some background information is given, but the book is a meditation on loneliness and the desire to be part of a larger community, whether that is traditional family, online or through work relationships. The book is beautifully written in spare, clean prose and the story is deeply thoughtful and memorable. The Killer Is Dying - amazon.com
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Labels: books, James Sallis
Roanna Forman at the Boston Jazz Blog kicked off a very interesting discussion by asking several prominent jazz critics the question "Do Jazz Critics Need to Know How to Play Jazz?" She got a lot of thoughtful responses from a wide range of well known jazz writers that ran the gamut in their answers. After this article appeared it opened up a wide range of discussion and commentary, particularly from Hank Shteamer who had some absolutely stellar comments like:
"I tend to avoid the word "critic" in favor of "thinker-about-music" or similar,"
"If someone were to ask me what qualifies me to write about jazz, I would simply have to answer, "I love it.""
Patrick Jarenwattananon at A Blog Supreme, had a very nice post, which enticed quite a bit of commentary.
This is something that I have wrestled with myself for a long time. I originally called this blog "Jazz and Blues Music Reviews," but changed it to "Music and More" a few years ago because I wasn't comfortable with being a "reviewer" or God-forbid a "critic." I have no technical knowledge of music whatsoever, so if you catch me using musical terms in the wrong context please forgive me. Music, for me, is a purely emotional response, and I use this blog as a musical diary, to write about the music I listen to and enthuse about the music I like.
I remember one time several years ago when I was dramatically enthusing about a particular saxophonist to a friend who happened to *be* a professional musician, saxophonist and teacher. He went on a deep explanation of why he didn't care for this particular musician using a lot of technical terms that I'm sure were correct, but might just as well have been a foreign language to me. After that, all I could sheepishly respond with was "But he's so exciting!" It's funny now in retrospect, but I felt like a bit of a dope at the time.
I do not feel qualified to post any negative thoughts about a particular album, because there is a very good chance that the album was successful and with my limited knowledge, I may have missed the point entirely. So I think I'm really with Hank Shteamer on this one, I have a deep abiding love for music, especially jazz, and while I do not play an instrument or know a lick (bad pun) of technical music, I think a blog is a perfect format for me to express my enthusiasm about the music that moves me. Most people take blogs, especially those not associated with a professional news organization, with a grain of salt, its understood that like the zine culture of old, the writer is in most cases more of an enthusiast than a professional critic.
So in the end, I'm sure that it is helpful for a paid critic to have an understanding of at least the rudiments of the music, but I think the most important thing to have is an open mind and a deep love for the music: past, present and future.
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Jen Shyu and Mark Dresser - Synastry (Pi Recordings, 2011)
Vocalist Jen Shyu and bassist Mark Dresser are uniquely qualified to perform in a duet setting together. After Shyu began studying with saxophonist and musical theorist Steve Coleman, she was soon invited to join his band, adding a fascinating new dimension to his recent albums. Mark Dresser has had a very successful career in all aspects of jazz and improvisatory music, performing with a wide range of luminaries and recording many albums under his own name, but really seems to thrive in an environment where imagination and commitment to exploring the sound spectrum are key. That is certainly required on this demanding and thought provoking album. Shyu uses wordless vocalization, speech and other techniques as master saxophonist or reed player might use their instrument. In fact, she sounds less like a “singer,” but more like a musician whose instrument just happens to be the human voice. Dresser is much more than a typical bassist, using bowing and plucking techniques, he is able to to engage with the vocalizing in a true partnership. Both musicians bring compositions to the performance, but the real focus of the music is the blending of their particular voices, weaving and blending the hues and colors of sound and occasionally dancing around each other in a hypnotic and unique arrangement that is uniquely improvisatory but calling forth other music from around the world and across time. While this album can be quite a challenging listen, the two musicians represented here are truly trying to break new ground, and ask people to re-think the nature of jazz and improvised music in general. Synastry - amazon.com
Labels: free jazz, jazz, Jen Shyu, Mark Dresser, misc.
Christian Artmann - Uneasy Dreams (Self-Released, 2011))
Flute player and composer Christian Artmann studied classical music intensely before hearing the call of jazz. On this album he is accompanied by Jeff Hirshfield on drums, Johannes Weidenmueller on bass, Rubens Salles on piano, Elena McEntire on voice and Luiz Claudio on percussion. Mixing modern jazz with different musical influences from around the world, the band makes for an intriguing sound. The group specializes in unusual textures and contextualization, like on the tracks where wordless vocals and flute combine to create a beguiling and different sound. The appropriately named “Kafka” is a short blast of disjoined flute and vocals that leaves one with an uneasy and unresolved feeling. The music is woven together in a textile like manner on “Dark State Blue” where Artmann’s flute plays against soft brushes in an interesting manner, developing a mellow meditative sound. The group uses shorter pieces like “Nymph,” a duet of flute and percussion, to break up the flow of the sound and offer interesting commentary on the music. On “Bebe-Vale da Ribeira,” the music moves through several dynamic sections of a surreal mini-suite, anchored once in by locked-in flute and percussion. Putting the light, nimble drums together with the agility of Artmann’s flute makes for a deeply haunted feel on some of the songs including the concluding “Uneasy Dreams.” Altogether, the music on this album worked well. The band has a unique sound that stands out amongst contemporary jazz by incorporating flute and voice on the front line. The rhythm section provides a solid anchor to keep the light sounding music from floating off into the void, and Artmann developed has his own voice and sound on the flute, combining classical and ethnic influences into the jazz flute tradition. Uneasy Dreams - amazon.com
Labels: Christian Artmann, jazz, world music
Of all of the great jazz musicians, it's hard to imagine one whose life was as star-crossed as the great pianist and composer Bud Powell. One of the leading architects of the bebop style of jazz, Powell battled misunderstanding, mental illness, and police brutality and still persevered to become a legendary figure in jazz. The tracks that make up this album come from two different sessions recorded in 1949 and 1950, with Powell backed by Ray Brown or Curly Russell on bass and Max Roach on drums. The music is a mix of Powell originals and standard material that is performed at a uniformly high level. Working at the top of his game in the trio setting, with the occasional solo, Powell absolutely shines on this record, playing with a speed and facility at the piano that is wonderful to behold. Regardless of the tempo, each note or chord is clearly articulated whether tearing through his own compositions like "Tempis Fugit" and "Celia," or a completely unique take on the bebop chestnut "Cherokee," playing with great intensity and extraordinary control. The standards included on the second half of the album feature Powell's more melodic sensibility and his deep understanding of song form and structure. Classic songs like "Body and Soul" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" are rendered beautifully, ably supported by the bassists and particularly drummer Max Roach who is excellent throughout, playing with a deep sense of rhythm that makes this great music truly swing. This was a really fine album, and its relatively short playing length makes it an ideal introduction to the beauty of Bud Powell's music. Jazz Giant - amazon.com
Labels: bebop, Bud Powell, jazz, Max Roach
I Am Maru by mugumogu
It's not impossible not to love the wonderful cat Maru, star of a wonderful series of YouTube videos and even his own blog! The book collects a lot of the blog posts and has interesting commentary form Maru's owner and even the cat himself! Learn all about Maru's favorite toys, hiding places and more. This book is pretty silly, but for a cat lover like me it is wonderful therapy to watch a cat having fun. It's a wonderful addition to the video series and sure to charm cat lovers everywhere. I Am Maru - amazon.com
Reed Trio - Last Train to the First Station (Kilogram Records, 2011)
The Reed Trio is a group consisting of Ken Vandermark, Mikolaj Trzaska and Waclaw Zimpel on various saxophones and reed instruments. For some reason I thought this music was recorded for a film soundtrack, and if so it makes quite a bit of sense. The music moves through a wide variety of textures and nuances in a live setting before a polite but engrossed audience. The musicians blend their sound well on the variety of instruments, and will also step out to solo with their two compatriots riffing in the background. But solos are really not the aim of the music, this is truly about collective improvisation, three musicians creating spontaneously in real time. The overall effect is one of a collective painting or other visual art where the musicians are chipping away at the sounds to find the beauty within. The music that this trio makes is rather different that which Vandermark makes with his other of the same configuration, Sonore. While that band tends to be muscular and dynamic, the Reed Trio moves in the other direction looking for subtlety and the tactile features of the music. This music is about improvised texture and free thinking comprehension about how roughly similar sounding instruments can blend together to make coherent and exploratory music. They do seem a little rough around the edges at times (risk-takers often do) but there is a genuinely unique sound on this album that can be further developed with time. Last Train to the First Station - amazon.com
Labels: free jazz, jazz, Ken Vandermark, Reed Trio
Beast of Burden by Ray Banks
Cal Innes is a private investigator with a past. Ex-con, ex fight promoter and the victim of a drug induced stroke, this once dangerous man is reduced to walking the streets of Manchester with a cane and half of his face paralyzed. But Innes is a hard man, and tough to keep down. He is contacted by Morris Tiernan, head of the local crime family and someone with whom Innes has tangled with many times before. To his surprise, Innes is hired by Tiernan to find his son Mo who has gone missing. The narrative is split between that of Innes and Iain "Donkey" Donkin, a detective suspended from the Manchester police force for excessive use of violence. Donkin is convinced that Innes is responsible for Mo's disappearance and will stop at nothing to get a confession. This was a very well written noir, deep and dark and laced with bone-dry humor. Banks writes dialogue particularly well, using the argot of crooks and crooked cops and the slang of the area to excellent effect. Innes is a fascinating character, even now in his handicapped state, and Donkin takes the cliche of the out of control cop in a whole new direction. While this is an excellent book, it has a lot of back-story needed to fully understand what is going on, so newcomers to the series are advised to begin with the first book in the quartet, Saturday's Child. But those familiar with the series or fans of dark crime fiction are in for a treat. Beast of Burden - amazon.com
The Grateful Dead - What a Long Strange Trip It's Been (Warner Brothers 1977, 1990)
During my college years, the dormitories rocked and rolled with the sounds of Pink Floyd, Bob Marley and especially The Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia was still alive during this period and I have vivid memories of people I knew bailing out of classes if there was a Dead show within 500 miles of campus. While they were a band known for improvisational flights of fancy, they were not free improvisors making music whole cloth from nothing, what the Grateful Dead needed to be at their best was a song with a strong hook and melody. That's where this compilation comes in, one of the first to anthologize their music, it takes some of their most well known studio recordings and some strongly focused live performances and places them in a very accessible package. Fine music for the die-hard DeadHead and the neophyte alike. On the studio side you hear the band's boogie and jug band roots with "New Minglewood Blues" and "Doin' That Rag." While the acoustic music that the band experimented with to great success in the late 60's and early 70's is represented with the stark "Black Peter" and the beautifully melodic "Ripple." The second half of the collection presents the band in their natural element, performing before a live audience. The concise nature of these performances makes then especially enjoyable, split between Bob Wier's cowboy song "Me and My Uncle" and "Playin' in the Band" to Jerry Garcia's slower, more stately and nuanced "Tennessee Jed" and "Ramble on Rose" this is a fine introduction to a much loved American musical institution. What A Long Strange Trip It's Been: The Best Of The Grateful Dead - amazon.com
Labels: Grateful Dead, rock 'n' roll
Chris Potter and the DR Big Band - Transatlantic (Red Dot Music, 2011)
Saxophonist Chris Potter has become one of the leading lights of the mainstream jazz scene, playing with the likes of Dave Holland and Paul Motian, and recording several albums as a leader. But seldom have we had the opportunity to hear him as the featured soloist in a big band. On this project, he is the composer, arranger and principal soloist with the Danish Radio Big Band, and this gives us a chance to hear several different aspects of Potter as a complete musician rather than just a great saxophonist. Standout tracks include "The Steppes" which has a snarling electric guitar solo, like something out of Potter's Underground or Ultrahang bands, giving way to the horns that slowly build in and take over. Potter takes a strong tenor saxophone solo of mounting tension, before the horns return to frame him, before once again breaking him loose for a solo tag ending. "New Years Day" shows the horns riffing at a medium tempo opening. Chris Potter builds his solo like a master architect, piece by piece adding to the music and shaping it into a strong aerodynamic statement over bass and drum support. Punctuating horns from the ensemble add some fire, before dropping back to a low end arrangement that concludes with a sweet buttery trumpet (or flugelhorn) solo. Mellow tenor saxophone with just bass and drums in accompaniment open "Narrow Road" with the arrangement for light and patient horns building in a swirling, brassy manner. Patient tenor saxophone probes around the setting, weaving in and around before taking an unaccompanied break. The potent "Abyssinia" takes its strength from a strong, brassy opening, giving Potter the updraft to power his solo and allow him to soar like a bird in flight with a powerful, confident and very well paced solo. After an electric guitar interlude, powerful horns and Potter's graceful saxophone strike the final blow over strong and agile drumming. This was a well done album, Chris Potter's compositions, arrangements and especially his saxophone playing were uniformly excellent. Hopefully we'll continue to hear him in a variety of formats from small groups to big band, because he is clearly a man of many talents and interests. Transatlantic - amazon.com
Labels: big band, Chris Potter, DR Big Band, jazz
Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orchestra - Trilogy (Mosaic Select 38, 2011)
When composer and multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers (bio in pdf) moved to Orlando, Florida in the early 1990’s, he had no intention of retiring. Soon the cream of the crop of the Florida improvised music scene began to gravitate around Rivers and a big band playing his intricately progressive, yet accessible charts began to emerge. After a brief moment in the sun, recording two star-studded orchestral albums for RCA, Rivers began to concentrate on the Florida ensemble, documenting them on the self-released album Aurora, and now releasing this comprehensive three disc collection of original compositions and arrangements through the specialty label Mosaic Records. Rivers’ large band writing is thoroughly modern and quite frequently explosive with intricate orchestral arrangements making way for powerful instrumental solos. Discs one and three (sub-titled Offering and Edge) were recorded live, and showcase a medium sized band as a powerhouse ensemble, playing with a muscular bravado and soloing with elan, the rhythm section plays with a funky depth, building power from the ground up and giving a firm foundations for the riffing horns and soloists to blast off from. Disc two (sub-titled Progeny) is a special very large version of the orchestra recording in the studio, playing with great depth and texture that that extra musicians supply. The arrangements are particularly lush, nearly Ellingtonian at times with Rivers sticking to tenor saxophone for the majority of his solos, as opposed to playing a lot of soprano saxophone on the live discs. There’s a great quote from the liner notes (typically excellent, up to Mosaic’s high standard) where Rivers says "I don’t know how to explain it, but at 87, I have greater musical powers than I did when I did when I was 21.” Listening to the power and sustained exuberance on this set you will certainly be inclined to agree. Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orchestra - Trilogy: Mosaic Records.
Labels: big band, Sam Rivers
A collective of musicians from the avant rock/free improvisation scene, Aethenor creates some unusual and continually fascinating soundscapes. Consisting of Stephen O’Malley, Daniel O’Sullivan, Kristoffer Rygg, and Steve Noble, the group strives to create a sound that is somewhere in the twilight nether-regions where progressive rock, ambient textures and In a Silent Way type jazz improvisation all combine and coalesce into a unique musical form. The music has a spacious beginning as the musicians grapple for purchase on the wide open sound vision, developing ominous cymbal washes that develop into a growing sound world. Electronics and smears of sound with excellent drum and percussion work move the music inexorably forward, melding in unusual squeaks and squeals of sound. As the album develops its own unique pace as the band moves through dynamic passages of moody electronics and percussion developing a great sense of mystery in the music that is never quite resolved, but hangs in the air like an unanswered question. This is a suite of music that truly defies categorization, but should be of interest to fans of avant rock and free improvisation. En Form for Bla - amazon.com
Labels: Athenor, free jazz
Books: American Gods: Tenth Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman
American Gods attained "all-time favorite" status when I first read it in 2001, and ten years later it has lost none of its charm or sense of awe. It is the story of Shadow, a man recently released from prison after reluctantly participating in a bank robbery gone wrong. While he was serving the end of his sentence, his wife was killed in a car accident. Now adrift and alone, Shadow is approached by the enigmatic man known only as Wednesday, who continualy offers Shadow work as flunky, gofer, driver and all around lackey. After finally taking the job, Shadow enters a world that he scarcely can believe exists, where the old gods from though out history are still alive, working menial jobs like con-men, undertakers and prostitutes, while the new gods, the ones modern Americans worship - dieties like television, the Internet and technology plan a war to kill off the old gods once and for all. Shadow and Wednesday criss-cross the country recruiting friends and enemies alike for the epic war to come, and the skeptic Shadow learns there is much more to the supernatural than meets the eye. The sheer unprecedented uniqueness that made this book such a thrill to read ten years ago is maintained and even added too with extra material that was left on the cutting room floor during the original editing process. Gaiman truly let his imagination run wild, with an Englishman's sense of wonder at America's vastness and strangeness, and the fertile prowess go his own storytelling ability, he crafter a true masterpiece that only gets better with age. American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition - amazon.com
Here are some interesting links I found while trawling the musical blogosphere:
Destination Out has had a series of wonderful posts, with essays and mp3's from Jeanne Lee with Sam Rivers, Sun Ra and Larry Young. Also check out their Twitter feed.
George Colligan reminisces about some of the tough experiences as a young musician that prepared him for his career.
NPR has streamable and downloadable concerts from the recent Newport Jazz Festival.
Hank Stheamer has another Heavy Metal Bebop interview, chronicling where jazz and metal come together.
Vibraphonist Warren Wolf has a light and dexterous sound that makes this album an appealing mainstream jazz experience. He in joined on this recording by Christian McBride on bass, Peter Martin on piano, Greg Hutchinson on drums, Tim Green on alto and soprano saxophone, and Jeremy Pelt sits in on trumpet for a few tracks. Opening with “427 Mass. Ave.” the music is upbeat with a touch of funk and nice drumming. Pelt adds some punchy trumpet to the festivities, and there is a fine elastic bass solo in addition to vibes and drums interplay. The fast paced hard-bop continues on “Sweet Bread” with deeply swinging vibes and strong saxophone. Deeply rounded saxophone and drums with vibes accenting carries “Eva” with potent saxophone and percussive vibe solos highlighted. The dynamic “Katrina” begins appropriately with a haunted melancholy feel, before developing dynamically with fast and percussive vibraphone. Powerful saxophone and a deeply elastic bass feature drive the music through to its conclusion. Full blast bebop oriented jazz is the order of the day on “One for Lenny” opening with a rapid bass solo, and then moving into a lightning fast vibes and bass feature. After a fast and nimble saxophone solo, McBride gets a nice bowed bass feature backed by light mallet accents. This was a fine all around album, sure to appeal to mainstream jazz enthusiasts. The band was comfortable and impressive at any speed from bop to ballads and worked very well together. Warren Wolf - amazon.com
Labels: hard-bop, jazz, Warren Wolf
Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs
WWII veteran Lewis "Bull" Ingram is a fixer and a hard man, when somebody owes a Memphis underworld figure money, they send the Bull to collect. He is offered an unusual job, tracking down a missing record promoter (the novel is set in the Payola days of the early 1950's) and to see if he can locate a pirate radio station that plays the music of bluesman Ramblin' John Hastur, a man whose very voice can drive normally sane men to commit adultery, murder... and raise the dead. The other thread of the story concerns Sarah, an abused wife who escapes he husband to return to her ancestral home in Arkansas, where she is drawn into a mysterious collection of occult literature that her father and uncle had gathered. Bull and Sarah become intertwined in ways they could scarcely imagine, as we learn that Ramblin' John Hastur is actually a lesser god that can inhabit the flesh of human beings to incite murder and mayhem. And he has his eyes on Sarah's daughter as a sacrificial victim to further his plan. It was really interesting to read a noir/horror story with a blues music thread running through it. The scenes with Bull are fascinating, particularly a (literally) explosive scene at a rural juke joint on the Arkansas River with Bull on the run from hoards of the undead. The sections with Sarah and her family machinations drag on a bit too long creating a lull in the action, but when she contacts a local Catholic Priest to help her translate the occult books, she realizes she must team up with Bull before the unthinkable happens, the story builds to a furious conclusion. As a debut novel, this is a very assured work. Jacobs melds the crime and horror genres as skillfully as Tom Piccrilli (on whose blog I read about this book) and I look forward to reading more from this talented author. Southern Gods - amazon.com
William Parker - Solo Bass/Crumbling In the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake (Centering/AUM Fidelity, 2011)
William Parker is one of the premier bassists of modern jazz, and this special boxed set features him in a lengthy series of unaccompanied improvisations. Upright, acoustic bass must be one of the most difficult instruments to play solo, demanding a level of physicality and dexterity to keep the music moving forward. Parker demonstrates total command of the instrument both plucked and bowed, creating buzzing and undulating soundscapes that are hypnotic in their improvisational acuity. There are two CDs of newly recorded compositions and improvisations and the musical portion of the collection is rounded out by a remastered version of Parker’s 1995 solo LP Testimony, which was recorded live at the Knitting Factory. As impressive as the music is, the booklet accompanying the discs is absolutely fascinating. Parker is a longtime writer and poet, and the 48 page booklet of his recent poems and stories is just wonderful. Parker dedicates himself to peace and understanding among all people through music and words, and the poems and short story excerpts here evoke the horror of slavery and warfare and the possibility of peace and reconciliation among all people. It’s a wonderful and thoughtful addition to this unique collection. Solo Bass/Crumbling in the Shadows - amazon.com
Labels: free jazz, jazz, William Parker
Duke Ellington - Meets Coleman Hawkins / And John Coltrane Impulse, 1962-63, Verve Re-issue, 2011)
The great pianist and composer Duke Ellington and some of his regular sidemen made a few albums for the Impulse! label in the 1960's. There is an excellent two-LP set floating around for the crate diggers to discover covering this period, but for the rest of us there's this new re-issue of two well known Ellington encounters with master saxophonists, Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane. Coleman Hawkins is credited with bringing the saxophone into widespread use in jazz during the 1920's, but never rested on his laurels, bringing his massive sound to bear with modernists and traditionalists alike (much like the Duke himself.) This album has the feel of a polite jam session, beginning with a goofy but fun "Limbo Jazz" which gives everybody a chance to get warmed up with some funky danceable music that is echoed in "Ray Charles' Place." A couple of Johnny Hodges co-compositions, "Wanderlust" and "The Jeep is Jumpin'" put one of jazz's creates tenor saxophone and alto saxophone players together. Ellington's "Self Portrait (Of the Bean)" gives the great man a chance to shine and the album concludes with a beautiful version of the Ellington co-composition "Solitude." Saxophonist John Coltrane and his producer Bob Thiele were still stinging from a nasty beating in the jazz press labeling Coltrane as the "angry tenor" and to counteract this, they recorded a series of more accessible LP's, Ballads, John Coltrane and (ballad singer) Johnny Hartman and this meeting with Duke Ellington. It's a small band recording with Duke on piano (I wonder if McCoy Tyner was there) Coltrane on Tenor and Soprano saxophones, and Duke's and Coltrane's bassists and drummers trading tunes. This is a very enjoyable meeting of the minds, Ellington was apparently eager to break Coltrane's perfectionist tedencies and insisted on the first or second takes being used, rather then recording and re-recording the same song over and over. This makes for a wonderfully spontaneous record, with Duke feeding Coltrane spare and evocative chords on "In a Sentimental Mood" and setting a brisk pace for Billy Strayhorn's "Take the Coltrane." Coltrane takes to the soprano with Duke, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones in tow for "Big Nick," his tribute to R&B/Jazz saxophonist Big Nick Nicholas. They wrap up the session with an Ellington co-composed riff called "The Feeling of Jazz," that allows everyone to stretch out in a relaxed atmosphere. Meets Coleman Hawkins / And John Coltrane - amazon.com
Labels: Coleman Hawkins, Duke Ellington, jazz, John Coltrane
Hello - This is Tim. I hope all of you are well, and thank you for reading this blog. I occasionally receive promotional copies of new music, via compact disc or digital download. Sometimes I write about them on this blog, but often I do not. Sometimes it is because music that is outside my comfort zone: I have no tolerance for smooth jazz, vocalists singing standards or other such pablum. I'm sure the musicians concerned are quite talented and I bear them no malice. Hear me now: if you send me a promotional copy of music, via compact disc or digital download, there is a low probability I will blog about it. I bear no malice against you, I wish you only the best. Understand that I am am diagnosed with two forms of mental illness and have the organizational skills of a ninety-five year old hoarder. From this point forward, I will examine all promotional material for possible, though improbable inclusion in the blog, the rest will be donated to the Library or sold at the used CD store for credit. I have felt very guilty in the past for not writing about everything sent to me: I resolve to feel guilt no longer. I thank you for taking the time to read this poorly written screed, and the blog in general. I never intended for it to get this big, I just wanted a place to make a diary or what I he been listening to and what moves me. Please accept my apology if I have let you down. I wish you peace and harmony. Tim
Downbeat Magazine is inviting fans to participate in its annual Reader's Poll. Here were my choices:
Hall of Fame: Sam Rivers
Jazz Artist: Matthew Shipp
Jazz Group: Vandermark 5
Big Band: Orrin Evans’ Captain Black Big Band
Jazz Album: Mary Halvorson Quintet - Saturn Sings
Historical Album: John Carter & Bobby Bradford – Mosaic Select
Trumpet: Peter Evans
Trombone: Steve Swell
Soprano Saxophone: Chris Potter
Alto Saxophone: Rudresh Mahanthappa
Tenor Saxophone: David S. Ware
Baritone Saxophone: Hamiet Bluiett
Clarinet: Anat Cohen
Flute: Henry Threadgill
Piano: Matthew Shipp
Electric Keyboard: John Medeski
Organ: Chris Foreman
Guitar: Nels Cline
Bass: William Parker
Electric Bass: Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Violin: Jenny Scheinman
Drums: Hamid Drake
Vibes: Jason Adasiewicz
Percussion: Giovanni Hidalgo
Misc. Instrument: David Murray (bass clarinet)
Male Vocalist: Mose Allison
Female Vocalist: Leena Conquest
Composer: John Hollenbeck
Arranger: Darcy James Argue
Record Label: Hot Cup
Blues Artist: Joe Louis Walker
Blues Album: Junior Wells & The Aces – Live in Boston, 1966
Beyond Artist/Group – The Black Keys
Beyond Album: The Black Keys – Brothers
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Sonny Rollins - On Impulse/There Will Never Be Another You (Impulse!, 1965; Verve Re-issue, 2011)
The great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins only recorded a few albums for the Impulse! label in the mid 1960's, and presented on this compilation is the On Impulse LP, plus a live album from the same year that was previously unreleased (in the U.S. at least.) The On Impulse album is almost a Sonny Rollins sampler platter, with the many of the aspects of his musical personality on fine display. It's a quartet album, with Rolllins being supported by Ray Bryant on piano, Walter Booker on bass and Mickey Roker on drums. "Hold 'em Joe," was the highlight of the album for me, a great calypso with powerful tenor saxophone and drums. "Blue Room" is a nice ballad featuring Rollins' immaculate articulation backed with fine brushwork from Roker. Fast paced bebop returns with "Three Little Words" which adds potent saxophone trading ideas with drums and a nice unaccompanied section for saxophone. We then shift to the live album (according to Last.fm recorded at the Museum of Modern Art in 1965) with a lineup of Rollins on tenor saxophone, Tommy Flanagan on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass, plus Billy Higgins joining Mickey Roker on drums. "On Green Dolphin Street" has a strong medium-up feel to it and features a great piano solo, before sax and drummers trade strong jabs. "Three Little Words" has live-wire saxophone and drums (mixed high, adding to the bootleg quality of the sound) but strong playing all around especially the ripe saxophone. "Mademoiselle de Paris" is drum heavy and bouncing and has unusual slurs of sax, then bass, setting the stage for "To a Wild Rose" which is a patient ballad. Mid-tempo swing, with nice elastic bass and piano and a soft ballad ending. The title track, "There Will Never Be Another You is an epic, beginning at a medium tempo with overly loud drums. After a rippling piano solo, Rollins enters with a solo of his own, deep & strong, before moving on to trade sax and drums ideas with the percussionists building deeply rhythmic phrases. Sonny steps away from the microphone for an a Capella solo before band rejoins for a strong conclusion. On Impulse! / There Will Never Be Another You - amazon.com
Books: Steve Hamilton - Misery Bay (Minotaur Books, 2011)
Misery Bay by Steve Hamilton
After enduring a sweltering summer here in the armpit of the nation, it was refreshing to read about snow and winter. Alex McKnight, a sometime private investigator in Upper Michigan is sought out one snowbound evening at his favorite bar by his erstwhile nemesis, the town's chief of police. The chief swallows his pride and asks for McKnight's help on a baffling case - the son of a friend and fellow officer has has committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. The chief wants McKnight to do some research to understand what happened. They slowly uncover a string of serial murders, of cops and their children, and are in a race against time to find the killer. A colleague of mine loves this series and has been bugging me to read it, and jumping in at book #8 in the series left me in the lurch regarding some of the back-story but the book reads well as a standalone. Much like James Lee Burke and James Sallis, Hamilton uses the weather, landscape and natural phenomenon to create a vivid setting, where the murders stand in stark contrast to the haunting scenery. Misery Bay: An Alex McKnight Novel - amazon.com
Labels: books, Steve Hamilton
Carrying the torch of the great blues, bop and ballad organ trios of the past, the DBOT plays straight-ahead swinging jazz, that is accessible to fans of Hammond Heroes like Jimmy Smith and Richard “Groove" Holmes. The trio is a deeply integrated unit consisting of Chris Foreman on Hammond B3 Organ, Bobby Broom on guitar, and Greg Rockingham drums. The band has an appealing sound, with Broom’s guitar coming out of the Grant Green school (he’s played with the likes of Sonny Rollins, and has released a nice Monk tribute on his own.) Foreman’s organ and bass pedals keep the music moving on a brisk pace and Rockingham’s timekeeping is as solid as concrete. They keep the music swinging nicely between cookers and ballads, and even a nice touch of righteous rockin’ gospel, “Jesus Children of America” that works quite well. The open the album in a fashion that really hooks the listener with the fast paced and simmering tracks “Tell Me Something Good” and “If You Really Love Me.” The band cuts a fine groove and rides it well, establishing an accessible rapport with the listener. Ballads like the set ending “You Got It Bad Girl” delve deeply into the group’s blues and R&B roots, playing with patience and deeply felt emotion, with deft, light drumming and washes of organ occasionally accented by sparks of guitar. While this group is primarily associated with the fertile Chicago jazz scene, they seemed poised to break out to a wider audience. They have a modern enough sound to capture the attention of groove units like Organissimo and Medeski, Martin and Wood or Marco Benevento, while at the same time appealing to fans of traditional organ jazz. Wonderful! - amazon.com
Labels: Deep Blue Organ Trio, jazz, organ
Pharoah Sanders – Village of the Pharaohs/Wisdom through Music (Originally released on Impulse, 1971-72, Re-issued Verve, 2011)
Although saxophonist Pharoah Sanders made his reputation as a firebrand of “The New Thing” there was always a deeply spiritual and meditative side to his playing and that aspect of his music comes to the forefront on this recently re-issued “2-fer.” “Village of the Pharaohs” is a three part suite, which is particularly interesting because Sanders is playing soprano saxophone rather than his usual tenor. The music is full of rumbling percussion and the introduction of the shakuhachi adds an exotic flair. Vocalizing and chanting are present throughout the music along with bells and shaken hand percussion. Sunrise like piano and percussion open “Mansion Worlds” with soprano and percussion developing a hypnotic groove. ”Went Like It Came” is a bit of a ringer, sounding like a party in the studio with bootin’ tenor saxophone over a powerful bass groove. Vocal chanting and singing is a main component of “High Life” and “Love is Everywhere” where percussion and strong beats keep the music from flying off into the cosmos. “Wisdom Through Music” develops a harp-like sound and wanders through sections of bubbling percussion and overdubbed saxophone. The lengthly “Selflessness” ends the record with more of the same chanting and incanting with percussion and then throws in a much needed twist: Sanders enters strong, blowing hard and breathing some much needed life into the music. The music does seem a little dated and time-locked at times, with bells and chanting recalling the 1970’s in all its hazy glory. Still it’s nice to have these relatively rare records back in print, showing that Sanders was a much more varied and multi-faceted musician than people have given him credit for. Village Of The Pharoahs / Wisdom Through Music - amazon.com
Labels: free jazz, jazz, Pharoah Sanders
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - Bird & Diz (Verve, 1950)
Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie were inexorably linked in the bebop firmament of jazz, cutting a number of remarkable records together during a relatively short time span, releasing a musical revolution (or evolution) in the process. This album was recorded on June 6, 1950 with pianist Thelonious Monk, bassist Curly Russell and drummer Buddy Rich in attendance. What a gathering of talent, can you imagine? This CD reissue is the short version with the red filtered cover, a later CD reissue pads out the disc with false starts and breakdowns almost to the point of absurdity. This disc is short and sweet at LP length and all the better for it. The group in general and particularly the co-leaders are in spectacular form, whether taking bop at a “you’ve got to be kidding me” speed on “Leap Frog” where they cram so many ideas into so little time that you literally expect the music to burst at the seams with the energy being released, it's the musical equivalent of a supernova. Most tracks, including “Leap Frog” come in master and alternate formats, and is shows just how on the ball everybody was on that particular day that there is not drop in quality throughout. “My Melancholy Baby” and “Relaxin’ With Lee” slow the tempo just a hair and listening to the musicians articulate in this fashion is a joy to hear. It’s particularly fascinating to hear Thelonious Monk in this setting. Where his angular accompaniment could throw some musicians (particularly Miles Davis) a little off-kilter, he fits the bill perfectly here and his few short solos are masterpieces of self-editing and craft. This was a wonderful album to hear, and the music presented on it uniquely joyful. There must have been something special in the air that day to create music of such luminosity and beauty. Bird & Diz - amazon.com
Labels: bebop, blues jazz, Buddy Rich, Charlie Parker, Curly Russell, Dizzy Gillespie
Harvey Pekar was most well known as a graphic novelist , but he was also a huge jazz fan and occasional critic. He receives a fine tribute on this album, a strong disc rooted in the bebop and hard-bop firmament of jazz, and played with a passion and joy that is infectious. Ernie Krivda plays tenor saxophone, joined by Claude Black on piano, Marion Haydenon bass, Renell Gonsalves on drums and Sean Jones or Dominick Farinacci sitting in on trumpet. Krivda has a great brawny tenor sound (what is it about these Cleveland tenor players: from Albert Ayler to Joe Lovano, they project a huge well of sound) and it really works well on the selection of mostly well known compositions. They mix uptempo bop based numbers with equal aplomb, “Valse Hot” and “Fried Banana” show the dexterity with which the group can operate, playing complex melody lines and then supporting each other on solo statements. “Darn That Dream” is a nice piano feature for Black, who patiently probes the structure of the tune and then spools out a well constructed solo. Ending with a couple of strutting originals, “One for Willie” and “Blues for Pekar,” everybody makes the best of these blowing opportunities to show off their chops, not in a self-conscious manner, but as a demonstration of their abilities. This was a very fine mainstream jazz album that deserves wide attention. For fans of classic hard-bop tenor along the lines of Dexter Gordon or Sonny Rollins, this would be a worthwhile investment. Blues For Pekar - amazon.com , Blues For Pekar: YouTube promo.
Labels: Ernie Krivda, hard-bop, jazz
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Beef | KRVN Radio
U.S. beef exports posted one of the best months on record in November, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation. November was also a strong month for pork exports, which already surpassed the full-year volume and value records set in 2019.
November beef exports totaled 115,300 metric tons, up six percent from a year ago and the largest since July 2019. Export value climbed eight percent year-over-year to $707.5 million. November beef muscle cut exports were the third largest on record at 91,300 metric tons, valued at $630 million.
November pork export volume was steady year-over-year at 258,800 metric tons, with value down two percent to $697.5 million. Although China/Hong Kong remained the largest destination for U.S. pork in November, momentum continued to build in other markets, including Japan, Mexico and Central America.
January-November pork exports set new annual records for both volume and value. Pork muscle cut exports also shattered previous annual records, increasing 18 percent year-over-year to 2.29 million metric tons, valued at $6 billion.
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A five-part mini-documentary series on raising cattle in America begins on Sunday, January third, and a new episode will debut every Sunday night in January. The series is called “A Rare Breed: Legacies of Excellence,” and it will launch on the Certified Angus Beef Brand Cattlemen Connection YouTube channel.
The new segments premiere at 6 p.m. central time on Sunday nights. Interested people can follow along as the short videos introduce registered cattle breeders, commercial cattlemen, and cattle feeders from Oregon to Texas. It’s a chance to glimpse a little of their family life and cattle philosophy, as well as get new ideas for your operations.
“As we visit with some good cattlemen and women across the country, we often think ‘I wish everyone could see this or hear that,’” says Miranda Reiman, director of producer communications for the Brand. “We get to know their history, their cattle, and their drive, and we hope others will find them to be as entertaining and inspiring as we did.”
To watch the series, people can follow the CAB Cattlemen Connection channels on Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube, or go to www.CABcattle.com. Families from Kansas, Idaho, Texas, Nebraska, and Oregon make up the January lineup.
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A new analysis of independent data for November shows that reported new COVID-19 infection rates among meat and poultry workers were more than eight times lower than the general population.
Data from the Food and Environment Reporting Network says the meat and poultry sector reported an average of 5.57 new cases per 10,000 workers daily in November. Infection rates among meat and poultry workers have declined steeply in the last six months while surging across the U.S. The New York Times reports that during the same period, the average new case rate for the U.S. population was 45.36 cases per 100,000 people per day.
The analysis follows a Centers for Disease Control decision this month to prioritize vaccinating frontline meat and poultry workers. Meat Institute President and CEO Julie Anna Potts says, “This new analysis is encouraging evidence that the more than $1.5 billion in comprehensive protections implemented since the spring have reversed the pandemic’s impact on the selfless men and women who keep America’s refrigerators full and the farm economy working throughout COVID-19.”
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This weeks Cattle Call with Brad Kooima talks on the formula price for the cattle market, mid-week movement of bigger cattle & is it a push to year end. We saw boxed beef below 210. Without Christmas gatherings like in years past, what concern does that bring to the market? We also have a cattle on feed report out on Friday.
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On December 7, R-CALF USA submitted a motion to file a friend-of-the-court brief and a brief to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in an effort to prevent the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) from being interpreted to govern both beef labeling and beef advertising, which the ranch group says would severely limit state’s rights.
According to the ranch group, the FMIA governs beef labeling, not beef advertising. “Our goal is to prevent the court from inadvertently expanding the scope of the FMIA to include advertising, which would render any future claims against the false advertisement of domestic or imported beef all but impossible,” said R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard.
Bullard said the risk of expanding the scope of the FMIA to include advertising claims arose in lawsuits filed earlier this year by New Mexico rancher Michael Lucero and New Mexico consumer Robin Thornton, who each alleged the Big 4 beef packers had violated New Mexico’s Unfair Practices Act by mislabeling beef as a product of the USA when the beef was actually derived from imported cattle.
A federal district court in New Mexico recently dismissed the two lawsuits on grounds that the FMIA administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) preempts any state law that attempts to require labels or advertisements that are different than the labels approved by the USDA.
The court noted that the USDA regulations allow the use of a “Product of USA” label on beef even if the beef is derived from imported cattle. The court determined that because the packers were labeling and advertising beef according to the USDA’s labeling standard, and because federal law preempts states from both labeling or advertising beef in a different manner, the New Mexico Unfair Practices Act did not apply.
On December 1, Lucero and Thornton appealed the dismissal of their cases to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
When R-CALF USA reviewed the dismissal order, it realized something was amiss in the legal interpretation of the FMIA. Although the court ruled that state laws for both the labeling and advertising of beef were preempted by the FMIA, the FMIA does not speak to advertising.
R-CALF USA’s brief focuses on this specific issue and urges the appellate court to reverse the lower court’s inclusion of false or misleading advertisements as falling within the scope of the FMIA.
National legal advocacy organization Public Justice joined R-CALF USA on the brief out of similar concerns. David Muraskin, Litigation Director for Public Justice’s Food Project explained, “a ruling that advertising claims are preempted by the FMIA would take away an important tool consumers use to ensure corporate meat producers do not mislead the public about their products.”
In 2017 R-CALF USA filed a somewhat similar case but alleged instead that USDA violated the FMIA by allowing beef from cattle slaughtered in a foreign country to be labeled as a product of the USA. While the court found that U.S. cattle producers were harmed by the repeal of the mandatory country of origin labeling law (mCOOL), which triggered the agency’s reimplementation of the challenged labeling standard, it disagreed that USDA was operating outside the scope of the FMIA. The court concluded that because the USDA labeling regulations followed Congress’ clear intent, it is Congress and not the court that possesses the authority to change USDA’s labeling scheme.
“This ruling prompted us to draft proposed legislation for a new mandatory COOL law for beef, which we have distributed to several members of Congress in both the House and Senate,” said Bullard adding, “What we don’t want is for the court to establish a legal precedent that would bar us from enforcing false beef advertisements on into the future.”
BeefR-CALFUSDA
MANHATTAN, Kan. — In the midst of the holiday season and the increased access to sweets, many people may be observing a less than ideal change in their personal body conditions.
While people may strive for a skinnier physique, holding a thin body condition over the winter may create deficits for cattle heading into calving season, said the experts at Kansas State University’s Beef Cattle Institute on a recent Cattle Chat podcast.
“Thin cows have a higher maintenance requirement in the winter than cows in adequate condition because they have to work harder to stay warm,” said Bob Weaber, beef cattle specialist and podcast contributor.
To assess the herd, veterinarian Bob Larson suggests ranchers periodically check them and even take pictures of the herd to help monitor changes over time.
“In any group, I expect some variation in the condition, but ideally I want almost all the cows to be in a moderate body condition,” Larson said. “And if they are, then I know that I am managing the group pretty well.”
Larson said if cattle ranchers notice that there are thin cows in the herd, they may need to evaluate the situation further to see if there is a pattern tied to their age or access to feed.
“The number of cows in the herd will creep up if, for example, they are getting pushed out of the feed bunk and not getting the protein supplementation they need,” Larson said.
The experts agree that two feet of bunk space per head is a minimum amount of space needed.
“If you only allocate a foot and a half on a single-sided feed bunk, the big cows will push out the thinner, smaller cows that really need the feed,” Weaber said. He prefers to place the feed bunk in the middle of the pasture so cattle can access the feed from both sides.
Larson added that the amount of bunk space needed will depend on the type of feed provided and how quickly the cattle consume it.
“Big cubes fed on the ground will allow the cattle to have easy access because you can spread it out, but there is more feed waste and sanitation issues that come with that strategy,” veterinarian Brad White said.
Once producers determine why some of the cows are thin, they may need to make culling decisions or form a plan to add condition back on the cows, according to Weaber.
“Identify the commonalities of the problem animals and that will determine the best management strategies to fix it, as well as knowledge for the future,” Weaber said.
White suggested producers look at ways to segregate the thin cows.
“Grouping the thin cows together can be a powerful tool in giving them the extra feed they need ahead of calving season,” White said. The challenge, he added, may lie in where they are located and the ease of separating them for feeding.
Larson said it is important to consider where the cow is in the pregnancy when coming up with the supplementation plan.
“Right now, spring calving cows are midway through their pregnancies and the calves are not pulling that much nutrient demand from them, but as they get closer to calving that demand goes up significantly,” Larson said.
He added: “The cow’s maintenance cost is the lowest it is going to be right now and that makes it a good time to put some weight on her rather than waiting to do it later.”
Weaber advised producers to calculate the days to calving when figuring out the gain needed.
White gave an example: “If I have 100 days, I could target the cows to gain two pounds per day. That will give them about 200 pounds of gain.”
The bottom line, White said, is to “do the math for your herd and then figure out if it is just a couple individuals that need to gain weight or the entire group, because that answer will drastically change the decision you make and what options are available.”
To hear more of the discussion about managing thin cows, listen in to the Cattle Chat podcast online.
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Actors: This is What Happens When Netflix Pacifies Government
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In Canada yesterday (aka the Great White North, aka Hollywood North) Netflix announced they’d be investing $500 million in original production here. Immediate thoughts: Woo-hoo! Happy days are here again! But then the cynic steps in. $500 million? That’s just 2 (count ‘em, two) Hollywood blockbusters. So…Chump change, you say? You’d be right. While the announcement may pacify our government, it inflamed fellow Canadian actors.
My water cooler round-up with esteemed actor colleagues
Tyrone Benskin, a (brilliant imho) actor with over 70 film and TV credits to his name and a former elected Member of Parliament to the Canadian government, was shooting in Shawinigan when I caught up with him yesterday. He said money is a good thing. “Netflix has been operating in Canada under their Canadian subsidiary for a number of years but have not had to play by the rules as other broadcasters. They’ve said they’re not a broadcaster, so shouldn’t have to abide by same rules.”
But Netflix has become a broadcaster. The semantics or delivery (streaming) may be different, but the population they’re reaching is as great (greater in some cases) as broadcast. At first, they were just a streaming company. Content was bought and curated. But as the hunger for more content grew, Netflix began to do two things differently. They began to buy streaming rights to existing series and indie films and call them Netflix “Original” productions. They also began producing their own shows.
Tyrone, who while MP put in a stint as the Official Opposition Critic for Canadian Heritage, said, “One of issues in front of Heritage Minister was she going to mandate American Streaming companies [i.e. Netflix] to pay the same sales tax as other Canadian streaming companies, like Crave, and the defunct Show Me.”
Currently there is no legal requirement for Netflix to collect GST. It’s part of that Internet Loophole that Spotify and Amazon Prime also take advantage of. But little Canadian streaming competitor Crave must charge it. Says Tyrone, “They’re getting Canadian dollars, and not having to pay taxes on that.”
Matt Holland, writer (Toi et Moi, Moose TV, Gone Dark) and actor (Map of the Human Heart, Iqaluit) whose family is in the industry says “My initial reaction was excitement. I was pleased. But then, the devil is in the details. Right? Netflix is a slippery company. It always has been. They fight really hard to maintain that cryptic aspect part of their business. They don’t give out numbers and keep their development choices close to their chest.
“They’re kind of a Wild West entity”
(Credit: Hollywood Reporter)
In my own experience, I’ve found that slippery element to be true. I was recently contacted by a production house in Canada to help on a bid as a supplier to Netflix for Described Audio. We were given no details, no direction and found out later we were just another beefcake in a cattle call of companies. The suppliers they went with were in LA, which should come as no surprise. “8 out of 10 trucks in town are for Netflix productions,” said an LA industry friend of mine this Spring. The streamlining giant renewed their vow to Hollywood announcing they would invest 6 B$ jackpot in tinsel town to create original content. For actors, writers and producers in SoCal this signifies a pretty committed relationship, wouldn’t you say?
Ok. Is the Netflix investment in Canada announcement commensurate with the investment (on a population basis) in Los Angeles (if you say LA = the USA). Um, no. The Canadian investment will be spread over 5 years. The LA 6 Billion? That’s this year (2017) alone.
Yet, even though Netflix is in a promised relationship with LA, this streaming Sultan does have enough swing to support many other city and country wives. Like Narcos, filmed in Columbia, House of Cards in Baltimore, and Orange is the New Black, filmed in New York.
Or maybe they’re just throwing us a bone.
“They operate like regulations that others follow don’t apply to them,” says Matt. “Because of their size, they know how to throw their weight around. They threatened to take their toys and go home if they were going to have to pay tax. So, they announce they’re going to give us 2 weeks of their profit margin devoted to Canadian content.”
Two weeks?
Just how many Canadian dollars are they getting? $650 million with a predicted $820 in 2020 (statistica.com). So, if you figure federal and provincial sales taxes of about 15% for that amount you come up with…uh-huh. $500 million over 5 years.
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“It’s like a get out of jail free card,” says Matt. “And they don’t have to submit to regulations or pay tax.”
Simon Peacock, international improv expert and voice director of more Ubisoft games than you’ve played, agrees. “I think it’s a carefully orchestrated PR event between the government & Netflix. It looks like a win. The government looks like they forced Netflix to give money to Canada, but to Netflix shareholders it doesn’t change their bottom line.”
So, Netflix avoids paying tax, but they will spend money on production here, right? Well….maybe not any more than they’re already spending. They are producing Riverdale here. (Vancouver) And they bought Trailer Park Boys (Nova Scotia) from Showcase. But they’re not producing anything in Montreal.
And if they do produce anything here, there’s really no way of knowing whether it actually will be “Can Con” per se.
Says Simon, “There’s no way of enforcing their ‘investment.’ No way of policing it. How do they define Canadian Content – do they define it as content that is shot in Canada or does that include a percentage of actors or writers who are Canadian? All they did today was tell how much money they plan to spend here.”
Hmmm… News of the fake variety, perhaps?
As Tyrone suggested the timing is fortuitous for Netflix and face-saving for Heritage Minister Melanie Joly. Netflix isn’t really announcing anything new. Their $100 million a year here amounts to 1.6% of their annual expenditures. If you go back to a (US-Canada customer) population comparison, that’s 10-fold less than they should be spending here. The percentage of Canadians to Americans who are subscribers (pop comparison) is also slightly greater here. 14% vs 11% (statista)
What would strengthen the Heritage Minister’s position? Details related to Canadian Content. Can Con, for the uninitiated was a government concept dreamt up in in the 70’s which challenged radio and TV broadcasters to commit to 10% of their content to being Canadian. It worked particularly well in the music industry. As a former Music Director of a couple radio stations in another life I can attest to the early difficulty of finding enough Can Con to appeal to our listeners.
One can only love Anne Murray so much
(Credit: BBC)
But over time, the Can Con model worked extremely well in the music industry, fostering talent like Rush and Bryan Adams, KD Lang, Alanis Morrisette, the Tragically Hip, Feist, Arcade Fire and Drake. Why has the model not worked so well for film and television?
Tyrone chimes in. “The last round with CRTC diluted the definition of Canadian content. Questions we need to ask are is this money going to be used for Canadian content because it is shooting in Canada? Not just employing actors in doorman roles, but in telling Canadian stories? That money should go into supporting our stories and telling them. And not stories about beaver or wheat or poutine. But storytelling from a Canadian perspective. We do have a different perspective vis a vis England , the US, Australia and when we tell stories from our perspective we do really incredible work… The Wedding in White, The Sweet Hereafter, Monsieur Lazhar.”
And let’s not forget my fav, “My American Cousin”
Tyrone adds, “I hope that this is something that will be recommitted and added to much like their commitment to Los Angeles. To their benefit, Netflix and other streaming companies have changes how things are broadcast and we better grasp that this is an ever-changing field. Content is king and those who produce content, superior content…they will survive these changes. My hope is that the powers that be, the Canadian decision makers see the value of Canadian content and stories, and don’t sell out.”
But if we add up CRTC Can Con dilution, Minister Joly’s attempt to put a pretty bow on what amounts to a box of air, and the streaming leviathan’s self-serving secrecy and Snidley Whiplash-esque tactics that hope has about as much a chance of coming true as a Miami mosquito surviving a Banff blizzard.
A female voice actor for 30 years, I’m a warm voice in a cold country, aka our Home and Native Land-eh? What is your take on this?
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Suppressors of cytokine signaling-1 and -3 regulate osteoclastogenesis in the presence of inflammatory cytokines
Masanobu Ohishi, Yumiko Matsumura, Daisuke Aki, Ryuichi Mashima, Koji Taniguchi, Takashi Kobayashi, Toshio Kukita, Yukihide Iwamoto, Akihiko Yoshimura
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Bone metabolism and the immune system have a correlative relationship, and both are controlled by various common cytokines, such as IFNs and ILs, produced in the bone microenvironments. The suppressor of cytokine signaling-1 (SOCS1) and SOCS3 are negative regulators of such cytokines. Although SOCSs are shown to be induced during osteoclast differentiation, their physiological roles in osteoclast differentiation and function have not been clarified. Thus, we examined the roles of SOCS1 and SOCS3 in Osteoclastogenesis using SOCS1- and SOCS3-deficient mice. IFN-γ-mediated inhibition of osteoclast differentiation from bone marrow-derived monocytes (BMMs) was strongly enhanced in SOCS1-deflcient BMMs, but was diminished in SOCS1-overexpressing BMMs. Moreover, LPS-induced Osteoclastogenesis and bone destruction in vivo were suppressed in SOCS1+/- mice compared with those in wild-type mice, suggesting that SOCS1 antagonizes the inhibitory effect of IFN-γ on Osteoclastogenesis. SOCS3 did not alter the inhibitory effect of IFNs in Osteoclastogenesis in both gain and loss of functional assays; however, the suppressive effect of IL-6 on osteoclast differentiation was greater in SOCS3-deficient BMMs than in wild-type BMMs in vitro. In addition, IL-6 significantly prevented LPS-induced bone destruction in SOCS3-deficient mice, although it failed in wild-type mice in vivo. In SOCS3-deficient BMMs, expression levels of TNF-receptor-associated factor-6 and IκB were drastically reduced and receptor activator of the NF-κB ligand-induced IκB phospliorylation was severely impaired in the presence of IL-6. These data suggest that both SOCS1 and SOCS3 regulate osteoclastogenesis by blocking the inhibitory effect of inflammatory cytokines on receptor activator of the NF-κB ligand-mediated osteoclast differentiation signals. Selective suppression of SOCS1 and SOCS3 in osteoclast precursors may be a possible therapeutic strategy for inflammatory bone destruction.
Journal of Immunology
Published - 2005 3 1
10.4049/jimmunol.174.5.3024
フィンガープリント 「Suppressors of cytokine signaling-1 and -3 regulate osteoclastogenesis in the presence of inflammatory cytokines」の研究トピックを掘り下げます。これらがまとまってユニークなフィンガープリントを構成します。
Osteogenesis Medicine & Life Sciences
Cytokines Medicine & Life Sciences
Osteoclasts Medicine & Life Sciences
Monocytes Medicine & Life Sciences
Bone Marrow Medicine & Life Sciences
TNF Receptor-Associated Factor 6 Medicine & Life Sciences
Ohishi, M., Matsumura, Y., Aki, D., Mashima, R., Taniguchi, K., Kobayashi, T., Kukita, T., Iwamoto, Y., & Yoshimura, A. (2005). Suppressors of cytokine signaling-1 and -3 regulate osteoclastogenesis in the presence of inflammatory cytokines. Journal of Immunology, 174(5), 3024-3031. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.174.5.3024
Suppressors of cytokine signaling-1 and -3 regulate osteoclastogenesis in the presence of inflammatory cytokines. / Ohishi, Masanobu; Matsumura, Yumiko; Aki, Daisuke; Mashima, Ryuichi; Taniguchi, Koji; Kobayashi, Takashi; Kukita, Toshio; Iwamoto, Yukihide; Yoshimura, Akihiko.
In: Journal of Immunology, Vol. 174, No. 5, 01.03.2005, p. 3024-3031.
Ohishi, M, Matsumura, Y, Aki, D, Mashima, R, Taniguchi, K, Kobayashi, T, Kukita, T, Iwamoto, Y & Yoshimura, A 2005, 'Suppressors of cytokine signaling-1 and -3 regulate osteoclastogenesis in the presence of inflammatory cytokines', Journal of Immunology, vol. 174, no. 5, pp. 3024-3031. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.174.5.3024
Ohishi M, Matsumura Y, Aki D, Mashima R, Taniguchi K, Kobayashi T et al. Suppressors of cytokine signaling-1 and -3 regulate osteoclastogenesis in the presence of inflammatory cytokines. Journal of Immunology. 2005 3 1;174(5):3024-3031. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.174.5.3024
Ohishi, Masanobu ; Matsumura, Yumiko ; Aki, Daisuke ; Mashima, Ryuichi ; Taniguchi, Koji ; Kobayashi, Takashi ; Kukita, Toshio ; Iwamoto, Yukihide ; Yoshimura, Akihiko. / Suppressors of cytokine signaling-1 and -3 regulate osteoclastogenesis in the presence of inflammatory cytokines. In: Journal of Immunology. 2005 ; Vol. 174, No. 5. pp. 3024-3031.
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N2 - Bone metabolism and the immune system have a correlative relationship, and both are controlled by various common cytokines, such as IFNs and ILs, produced in the bone microenvironments. The suppressor of cytokine signaling-1 (SOCS1) and SOCS3 are negative regulators of such cytokines. Although SOCSs are shown to be induced during osteoclast differentiation, their physiological roles in osteoclast differentiation and function have not been clarified. Thus, we examined the roles of SOCS1 and SOCS3 in Osteoclastogenesis using SOCS1- and SOCS3-deficient mice. IFN-γ-mediated inhibition of osteoclast differentiation from bone marrow-derived monocytes (BMMs) was strongly enhanced in SOCS1-deflcient BMMs, but was diminished in SOCS1-overexpressing BMMs. Moreover, LPS-induced Osteoclastogenesis and bone destruction in vivo were suppressed in SOCS1+/- mice compared with those in wild-type mice, suggesting that SOCS1 antagonizes the inhibitory effect of IFN-γ on Osteoclastogenesis. SOCS3 did not alter the inhibitory effect of IFNs in Osteoclastogenesis in both gain and loss of functional assays; however, the suppressive effect of IL-6 on osteoclast differentiation was greater in SOCS3-deficient BMMs than in wild-type BMMs in vitro. In addition, IL-6 significantly prevented LPS-induced bone destruction in SOCS3-deficient mice, although it failed in wild-type mice in vivo. In SOCS3-deficient BMMs, expression levels of TNF-receptor-associated factor-6 and IκB were drastically reduced and receptor activator of the NF-κB ligand-induced IκB phospliorylation was severely impaired in the presence of IL-6. These data suggest that both SOCS1 and SOCS3 regulate osteoclastogenesis by blocking the inhibitory effect of inflammatory cytokines on receptor activator of the NF-κB ligand-mediated osteoclast differentiation signals. Selective suppression of SOCS1 and SOCS3 in osteoclast precursors may be a possible therapeutic strategy for inflammatory bone destruction.
AB - Bone metabolism and the immune system have a correlative relationship, and both are controlled by various common cytokines, such as IFNs and ILs, produced in the bone microenvironments. The suppressor of cytokine signaling-1 (SOCS1) and SOCS3 are negative regulators of such cytokines. Although SOCSs are shown to be induced during osteoclast differentiation, their physiological roles in osteoclast differentiation and function have not been clarified. Thus, we examined the roles of SOCS1 and SOCS3 in Osteoclastogenesis using SOCS1- and SOCS3-deficient mice. IFN-γ-mediated inhibition of osteoclast differentiation from bone marrow-derived monocytes (BMMs) was strongly enhanced in SOCS1-deflcient BMMs, but was diminished in SOCS1-overexpressing BMMs. Moreover, LPS-induced Osteoclastogenesis and bone destruction in vivo were suppressed in SOCS1+/- mice compared with those in wild-type mice, suggesting that SOCS1 antagonizes the inhibitory effect of IFN-γ on Osteoclastogenesis. SOCS3 did not alter the inhibitory effect of IFNs in Osteoclastogenesis in both gain and loss of functional assays; however, the suppressive effect of IL-6 on osteoclast differentiation was greater in SOCS3-deficient BMMs than in wild-type BMMs in vitro. In addition, IL-6 significantly prevented LPS-induced bone destruction in SOCS3-deficient mice, although it failed in wild-type mice in vivo. In SOCS3-deficient BMMs, expression levels of TNF-receptor-associated factor-6 and IκB were drastically reduced and receptor activator of the NF-κB ligand-induced IκB phospliorylation was severely impaired in the presence of IL-6. These data suggest that both SOCS1 and SOCS3 regulate osteoclastogenesis by blocking the inhibitory effect of inflammatory cytokines on receptor activator of the NF-κB ligand-mediated osteoclast differentiation signals. Selective suppression of SOCS1 and SOCS3 in osteoclast precursors may be a possible therapeutic strategy for inflammatory bone destruction.
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Joel T. S. Greer
Marshalltown, IA Insurance Defense Attorney
(641) 752-5467University of Iowa College of LawUniversity of Iowa8th Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court and IowaUniverisity of Iowa, YMCA-YWCA, Marshalltown Rotary and American Cancer Society Marshall CountyIowa State Bar
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Owen McGrann
Cranberry Twp, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 11 years of experience
(412) 350-9627 20436 Route 19 Ste 620 No 356
Cranberry Twp, PA 16066
Free ConsultationAppeals, Business, Estate Planning and Health Care
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Owen McGrann is the Managing Member of McGrannLAW and focuses his practice on helping small businesses achieve big goals, families prepare for the future, and professionals navigate changing landscapes.
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Robert E. Mielnicki
Pittsburgh, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 30 years of experience
(412) 330-1000 429 Fourth Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
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Duquesne University School of Law
David J. Shrager
Pittsburgh, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 22 years of experience
(412) 969-2540 437 Grant St #617
Frick Building
Appeals, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and White Collar Crime
Attorney David J. Shrager is a widely known, decorated criminal defense lawyer and native Pittsburgher. His Pittsburgh-based law firm focuses exclusively upon defending individuals throughout Pennsylvania charged with felony and misdemeanor criminal offenses at both the state and federal levels. Such offenses include DUI, drug crimes, sex crimes, theft crimes, assault crimes, white-collar crimes and more.
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Frank C Walker II
(412) 212-3878 429 Fourth Avenue, Suite 300 B
Free ConsultationAppeals, Business, Criminal Defense and DUI & DWI
West Virginia University College of Law
Frank Walker is one of the most sought-after criminal defense attorneys in Western Pennsylvania. He stands by his motto of delivering real talk, real experience, and real results. Fearless in the courtroom and tenacious when fighting for his clients, Attorney Walker is highly regarded in criminal defense circles. He has handled many high-profile crimes and serious offenses, developing a proven track record of victories. In addition to criminal defense, Attorney Walker also focuses his practice on civil litigation. Attorney Walker is active in the community and frequently gives talks on education, leadership, and legal matters.
Karissa N. Murphy
Pittsburgh, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 3 years of experience
Free ConsultationAppeals, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
Emily Gomez
Pittsburgh, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer
(412) 378-5854 239 Fourth Avenue, Suite 1602
Free ConsultationAppeals, Bankruptcy, Collections and Consumer
The Law Office of Emily Gomez, LLC is a small consumer law firm located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specially focuses on assisting people suffering from debt and debt-related legal issues. We help financially stressed people take control of their lives, whether by suing aggressive creditors, appealing unjust unemployment compensation decisions, or filing for bankruptcy. Our ultimate goal is to help free our clients from the fear and uncertainty that financial stress can bring.
Brian McDermott
(412) 407-7023 1800 Murray Ave.
Brian McDermott is a former prosecutor from Pittsburgh turned criminal defense attorney and DUI lawyer representing clients in Western Pennsylvania.
If you are charged with a crime or receive a traffic ticket it can be an extremely intimidating situation. It can severely impact your family, job, finances, school, driving privileges, and, most importantly, your freedom.
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Justin Ketchel
Pittsburgh, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney
(412) 456-1212 429 4th Ave
1600 Law & Finance Building
Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Family
Attorney Ketchel is a Pittsburgh native with deep roots tied to Allegheny County. He received his Juris Doctor (JD) from Duquesne University School of Law and is a member of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL), the Allegheny County Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association, as well as the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). I am Attorney Justin Ketchel and I will work to understand your case and your unique circumstances to get the best possible outcome for you. I have a lot of experience and success in winning tough cases and I...
Evan William Wolfson
Carnegie, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer
(412) 928-4995 Wilke Center
Carnegie, PA 15106
Free ConsultationAppeals and Social Security Disability
Attorney Evan W. Wolfson strives to provide quality representation and service to those seeking Social Security benefits due to disability. He genuinely cares about the welfare of his clients and their families, and will assist you in obtaining the evidence needed to support your claim. He has successfully litigated hundreds of claims at all administrative levels and in federal court. He will fairly evaluate your claim, give you candid advice regarding how to proceed, and help you to get the benefits you need and deserve. Evan Wolfson graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law,...
(412) 391-2515 355 Fifth Ave.
Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation, Consumer and Elder
My practice is primarily focused on civil litigation. I joined Behrend and Ernsberger, P.C. as an associate attorney in 2011. I graduated magna cum laude from the University of South Florida in 2008 with two degrees: a B.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in International Relations. I also minored in Economics. While in college, one of my favorite activities was to volunteer as a tutor with the Urban Scholars Outreach Program, a program that provided free tutoring on Saturday mornings to underprivileged children of all grade levels. I also served as an intern for the Honorable Congresswoman Kathy...
Eric N. Barnes Esq.
(412) 963-8495 1384 Old Freeport Road
Appeals, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Family
Kevin Scott Burger
(412) 561-4290 1405 McFarland Road
Appeals, Insurance Claims, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Dennis DiMartini
Beaver, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 43 years of experience
(724) 728-5710 345 Commerce Street
Beaver, PA 15009-0520
Appeals, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Juvenile
Elisabeth Kurlfink Pride
(412) 343-3183 957 Castle Shannon Blvd.
Free ConsultationAppeals, Divorce and Family
Norma Chase
(412) 471-2946 Third Floor
Ryan H. James
White Oak, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 8 years of experience
(412) 977-1827 1514 Lincoln Way
White Oak, PA 15131
I'm a criminal trial and appellate lawyer. I try cases to juries and, if necessary, I take my clients’ cases up on appeal, as far as necessary, to ensure that they've received a constitutionally guaranteed fair trial and adequate due process.
Not all lawyers are both trial and appellate lawyers; the roles are different and require different skill sets. But I believe that my doing both enables me to stand out from the hundreds of criminal-defense attorneys who are all offering either one thing or the same thing. In this dual role, my trial...
Marc Thomas Valentine
Somerset, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 8 years of experience
(814) 701-2835 118 N. Center Ave., 2nd Floor
Somerset, PA 15501
Appeals, Agricultural, Environmental and Family
• Pa Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 2012 to Present
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Bar Pro Hac Vice
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Indiana, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 23 years of experience
(724) 463-3570 682 Philadelphia Street
Indiana, PA 15701
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Joseph Michael Kanfer
Erie, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer
(814) 454-3889 311 West Sixth Street
Erie, PA 16507
Katherine McShane
Harrisburg, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney
(717) 657-3900 3601 Vartan Way UNIT 2
Harrisburg, PA 17110-9440
Appeals, Criminal Defense and DUI & DWI
California Western School of Law, California Western Law Review and International Law Journal and California Western Law Review and International Law Journal
Katherine McShane believes that knowledge is power. By improving her skill set and knowledge base as an attorney, she can better serve her clients. Katherine is also a strong believer in the constitution and protecting the rights of those who stand accused from the strong arm of the government.
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Eric Michael Gibson
Lebanon, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 13 years of experience
(717) 272-7585 279 North Zinns Mill Road
Lebanon, PA 17042
Free ConsultationAppeals, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Family
Eric grew up in Maryland then attended college at Gettysburg. He went on to graduate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Roy L. Galloway III
Harrisburg, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 13 years of experience
(717) 737-3300 4309 Linglestown Rd.
Free ConsultationAppeals, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Family
Roy L. Galloway, Attorney at Law, was born in New Orleans, LA. After graduating with honors from Clark Atlanta University, where he earned his degree in political science, Roy went on to attend Pennsylvania State Dickinson School of Law, which is where he received his Juris Doctor. Now, he's admitted to practice law in every Pennsylvania court. Before he established his own practice, Roy was an associate at a distinguished law firm in Pottstown, PA. There, he focused on all manner of family law. Roy moved up to a larger law office based out of Lemoyne, PA,...
Brian Fishman
Philadelphia, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 18 years of experience
(267) 758-2228 211 North 13th Street
Brian M. Fishman is a trial attorney based in Philadelphia, PA. He is the founder and Managing Partner of The Fishman Firm, LLC. His primary focus is criminal defense. He represents individuals accused of all types of crimes--robbery, burglary, sex offenses, drug charges, firearm offenses, assault, homicide, DUI, violations of PFAs--in Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware, Bucks and Chester counties as well as New Jersey and Federal Court. He also handles Personal Injury matters--car accidents, slip & falls, medical malpractice, SEPTA accidents & Civil Rights Violations--excessive force, police brutality, false arrest and malicious prosecution. Brian is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania...
Virginia Hinrichs McMichael
Radnor, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 37 years of experience
(610) 977-2096 Radnor Financial Center
150 North Radnor Chester Road, Suite F-200
Radnor, PA 19087
Virginia Hinrichs McMichael practices exclusively in the area of appellate law. She appears regularly in the Pennsylvania appellate courts. In the last few years, she has represented appellants and appellees on appeal in cases involving contract disputes, land use, divorce, paternity, child support, and criminal defense. During her career, McMichael has successfully represented clients in complex national and international cases in state and federal courts in a wide range of substantive areas of law — including bankruptcy, civil rights, commercial, constitutional, criminal, employment, family, international, labor, medical malpractice, municipal, products liability, real estate, RICO, securities, tax, and...
Michael J. Duffy Esq.
Philadelphia, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 9 years of experience
(215) 866-0110 1822 Spruce Street
Free ConsultationAppeals, Arbitration & Mediation, Bankruptcy and Business
Rutgers University - Newark
Situated at the heart of Center City Philadelphia, with offices in South Jersey as well, Duffy Law, LLC provides outstanding legal representation for clients throughout the region in a variety of practice areas. Founder and Lead Attorney Michael J. Duffy, Esq. is a former business owner, operating a multi-million dollar international distribution company for over five years, serving tens of thousands of customers in over a hundred countries on five continents. Michael also worked overseas for several years, serving as the Corporate Training Program Director of UNESCO Vietnam from 2008-2010. In that capacity Michael helped multinational corporations engage with and understand...
Karim P. Husain
West Chester, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 23 years of experience
(610) 308-9747 535 N Church St
West Chester, PA 19380
Appeals, Business, Probate and Tax
Villanova University School of Law and University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Karim P. Husain concentrates his practice in the areas of Wills, Trusts & Estates, Bankruptcy, Business Consulting & Commercial Litigation and Tax Controversies & Tax Litigation. Formerly a senior associate with a private law firm and a Big 4 accounting firm, he also served as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Charles A. Lord of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania and to the Hon. Robert A. Latrone of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. A long-time resident of the Philadelphia area, Mr. Husain received his Master of Laws in Taxation from the Villanova University School of Law, Juris Doctorate...
Lauren A Wimmer
Philadelphia, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney
(215) 712-1212 505 South Street
Appeals, Civil Rights, Criminal Defense and White Collar Crime
I am a tireless and successful advocate - let me fight for you! Call (215) 712-1212 to schedule your free consultation now.
After years of experience as the judicial law clerk to a homicide judge in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Trial Division, I developed a complete understanding of how the system works, what tactics the prosecuting attorney may use to put you behind bars, and what weaknesses to look for in physical evidence and witness testimony against you.
Lauren A. Wimmer earned her law degree from Rutgers University School of Law - Camden, where she was the Managing...
Evan Charles Pappas
Lemoyne, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 15 years of experience
(717) 234-4121 2 Lemoyne Drive
Free ConsultationAppeals, Business, Collections and Construction
Mr. Pappas handles many areas of civil litigation, business law and IP, primarily representing commercial and business clients. He represents corporations, limited liability companies, mortgage companies, financial institutions, title companies, real estate developers, manufacturing companies, restaurants, liquor licensees and individuals with a wide variety of commercial disputes including contract, real estate and shareholder disputes. Mr. Pappas handles matters at various stages of litigation, including pretrial and discovery proceedings, trials, mediation and arbitration, bankruptcy court, appeals and enforcement of judgments. His practice also includes representation of liquor licensees with regard to liquor license citations as well as transfer...
Charles E. Dutko Jr.
Kutztown, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer
(484) 648-4500 15525 Kutztown Road
Kutztown, PA 19530
Free ConsultationAppeals, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and White Collar Crime
Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson School of Law
Attorney Dutko is a former police officer that focuses primarily on criminal defense. Attorney Dutko has represented clients charged with attempted murder, drug distribution, aggravated assault, DUI, domestic violence, and rape. Attorney Dutko also handles criminal appeals and PCRA petitions. Attorney Dutko was named Attorney and Practice Magazine's Top 10 Criminal Defense Atttorney for 2020 and is a member of National College for DUI Defense.
Attorney Dutko also represents clients in family law and civil litigation matters. Attorney Dutko has successfully had children returned to Pennsylvania after a parent fled the jurisdiction with the child and has an injunction granted ordering...
Kaitlyn Clarkson
Harrisburg, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer
Free ConsultationAppeals, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Health Care
After focusing on appeals and post-conviction remedies for years, Attorney Clarkson found that the best way to save someone from ineffective assistance of counsel is to be effective trial counsel. Switching now to focus more heavily on trials, she fights for your rights and makes sure every angle is utilized to get you the best possible outcome.
Attorney Clarkson will still handle appeals, post-conviction remedies, and mental health expungements.
Attorney Clarkson will continue to make sure the law is complied with and uphold constitutional rights so our citizenry does not lose them.
She handles everything from summary speeding tickets to murder.
Attorney...
Shippensburg , PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 9 years of experience
(717) 530-0126 34 W. King Street
Shippensburg , PA 17257
Free ConsultationAppeals, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Family
Shawn is a partner with Mooney Law and one of the members of the Mooney Capital Region Criminal Defense team. He has substantial experience in all facets of criminal law practice, and is not afraid to fight zealously on behalf of his clients. While most attorneys shy away from litigation, he embraces it and in doing so has established himself as one of the most well respected criminal defense attorneys in the region and does not hesitate to represent clients with serious criminal charges, including felonies.
Prior to joining Mooney Law, Shawn worked as a solo practitioner in State College,...
Steve Rice
Chambersburg, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 20 years of experience
(877) 339-0011 223 Lincoln Way East
Chambersburg, PA 17201
I am the founder of Steve Rice Law, a firm of criminal defense attorneys serving South Central Pennsylvania. We're different than most firms. It's not because we do criminal defense. What make us special is, we don't do anything else. We do one thing: Defend people accused of crimes -- DUI, murder, and everything in between.
Jeffrey Saul Feldman
Plymouth Meeting, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Collections
I concentrate my practice on the litigation, arbitration and trial of commercial disputes in the state and federal courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. I also represent individuals and entities in disputes involving trusts and estates.
Over the course of my more than 22 years of litigation experience, I have represented businesses, organizations and individuals in lawsuits involving a broad range of substantive areas, including:
* contract law;
* the Uniform Commercial Code;
* partnership disputes;
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Mark Aaron Hinrichs
Kingston, PA Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 13 years of experience
(570) 331-4529 26 Pierce Street
Kingston, PA 18704
As a criminal defense lawyer, Attorney Mark Hinrichs represents and protects individuals facing serious consequences. Mark is privileged and honored to stand with the individual citizen to “level the playing field" against the Commonwealth - an adversary with vast resources and advantages. Every case is important and he always gives 100% to get the best result possible for each client.
In 2000, Mark graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Miami. Following graduation from college, he secured employment as a paralegal working alongside Roy Black, Esquire, and other attorneys at Black, Srebnick, Kornspan, and...
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Brian Zeiger
(215) 546-0340 1500 JFK Blvd, Two Penn Center
Free ConsultationAppeals, Civil Rights, Criminal Defense and White Collar Crime
Brian J. Zeiger, Esquire is a experienced and aggressive criminal defense attorney located in Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Zeiger's practice areas range from criminal defense and white collar to civil rights and appeals. Mr. Zeiger has handled matters throughout Pennsylvania. He is a protector of people's individual rights, and takes his clients' liberty and freedom very seriously. Mr. Zeiger is passionate about jury trials. Contact him now at 215.546.0340 for a free consultation.
Ms. Doris J Dabrowski
Philadelphia, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 45 years of experience
(215) 790-1115 1525 Locust St
Appeals, Business, Elder and Employment
Licensed to practice in Pa. and N.J. Comprehensive knowledge of disability employment and benefit law, federal state and local government employment and benefit claims, private sector employment law, contract negotiations and litigation, professional licensing, ERISA, administrative agency and court appeals.
Allan J Ray Esq.
Wyomissing, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 9 years of experience
875 Berkshire Blvd
Wyomissing, PA 19610
Appeals, Family, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
Allan J. Ray was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania and continues to reside there to this day. Al Graduated from Phoenixville Area High School, and relocated to Idaho to attend the University of Idaho. After graduating with honors, Al returned back to Pennsylvania and attended law school at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law where he was a member of the editorial board of the Penn State Environmental Law Review. During law school, Al volunteered at Legal Aid of Southeast Pennsylvania in Pottstown where he helped indigent individuals through civil and family law matters including child custody and support.
Al...
Katie Yingling Schellenger
Unionville, PA Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 13 years of experience
(484) 266-7974 P.O. Box 70
Unionville, PA 19375
Appeals, Criminal Defense, Family and White Collar Crime
Katie Yingling Schellenger is a freelance attorney who has developed exceptional legal research, writing, and analytical skills through almost a decade of experience as a federal law clerk and litigation associate at two international AmLaw 100 firms. Katie’s broad legal experience allows her to support her clients: solo practitioners, law firms, and general counsel, in a variety of ways. She provides perspective and insight to every matter, while shouldering part of the burden to meet deadlines. No project is too big or too small; Katie attacks every matter with diligence and fervor, and delivers her services in...
Steven Pacillio
(484) 816-6647 16 N. New Street
Free ConsultationAppeals, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Juvenile
Steven M. Pacillio is a founding member and the managing partner of his firm's Delaware County Office. Mr. Pacillio focuses his practice in the field of criminal defense. An Ivy League graduate, Steve earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He went on to receive his Juris Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Mr. Pacillio currently sits on the Alumni Board of Managers of the University of Pennsylvania, volunteers as the Solicitor for the Thornbury Historical Society, and is a member of the Board of Directors of JURIST Legal News and Research Services, Inc., the world’s...
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Jeffrey S Walters
Mount Laurel, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 30 years of experience
(856) 552-1045 3000 Atrium Way Suite 2201
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
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Seymour Wasserstrum
Vineland, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 48 years of experience
(856) 696-8300 205 W Landis Ave
Vineland, NJ 08360
Bankruptcy, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Personal Injury
Christopher A Campbell
Cherry Hill, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 8 years of experience
(856) 651-1600 1949 Berlin Road
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
Bankruptcy, Business, Construction and Insurance Defense
Christopher A. Campbell is an Associate at Goldberg & Wolf LLC. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington and a Juris Doctor from Rutgers School of Law. Christopher’s practice is focused on corporate law, complex litigation, foreclosure, bankruptcy and restructuring. Christopher also has experience in a variety of fields including insurance coverage and defense, labor and employment, and copyright. He has participated in Alternative Dispute Resolution, and he has a diverse background in legal writing and drafting across a range of practice areas. Christopher was a federal law clerk to the Hon. Robert...
Jay B Feldman
Columbus, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 14 years of experience
(609) 298-4280 24622 East Main Street
Columbus, NJ 08022
Bankruptcy, Collections, Consumer and Foreclosure Defense
Seton Hall University School of Law
Amy Lynn Knapp
Browns Mills, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer
(609) 836-5464 6 Juliustown Road
Browns Mills, NJ 08015
Bankruptcy, Foreclosure Defense, Immigration and Real Estate
Warren Jones Jr
Mount Holly, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 41 years of experience
(609) 261-8400 1 Trinity Lane
Mount Holly, NJ 08060
Phillip G. Parker
Voorhees, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney
(856) 375-2875 102 South Burnt Mill Road
Voorhees, NJ 08043
Freehold, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 3 years of experience
(844) 533-3367 1 Broad Street
Freehold, NJ 07728
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Foreclosure Defense, Probate and Real Estate
Why I became a Real Estate and Probate Attorney focusing on Protecting People’s Future Today:
Since founding the firm, I’ve had the pleasure of working with countless families. I take my job as a counselor very serious and take great pride in assisting the families that walk through our doors. Every day, I strive to become a better practitioner and to offer more options and better advice to clients. This makes me very happy and it is one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.
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Stuart Nachbar
Livingston, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 26 years of experience
(973) 567-0954 354 Eisenhower Parkway
Plaza 1, Suite 2025
Livingston, NJ 07039
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Collections and Criminal Defense
For a free initial consultation on your Bankruptcy needs
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I have been representing clients of all types for the past 25 years. We specialize in assisting persons in financial hardship by filing for Bankruptcy in Chapter 7, 11 or 13. We even do loan modifications to help you save your home from Foreclosure. In addition, I have worked on behalf of my own son and numerous others who have a disability, to make sure that they get the proper education. I am ready to assist you, with my 25 years of legal and...
Brad Jonathan Sadek
Cherry Hill, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 17 years of experience
(856) 890-9003 1 Mall Drive
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Mr. John P. Fazzio III Esq.
Hoboken, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 15 years of experience
(201) 529-8024 5 Marine View Plaza
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Business, Foreclosure Defense and Tax
New York University School of Law and Brooklyn Law School
John Fazzio is an aggressive young trial lawyer who is a fierce advocate for his clients in and out of the courtroom. He lives for David and Goliath type contests. John is not afraid to go to trial and has gone all the way to verdict on varied cases including foreclosure, bankruptcy, tax, intellectual property, criminal, and personal injury. John has also prosecuted a number of appeals cases. John regularly practices in the State and Federal Courts in New York and New Jersey.
Charles D. Whelan III
New Brunswick, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney
(732) 214-0300 114 Bayard Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Arbitration & Mediation, Collections and Foreclosure Defense
I have been an attorney in general civil practice for more than 30 years. My firm is committed to excellence.
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Hoboken, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 22 years of experience
(201) 676-0722 330 Washington St., #266
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William H. Bowen School of Law
Jennifer N. Weil, Esq. is a New Jersey bankruptcy attorney. With more than 10 years of experience, she helps individuals and businesses with a variety of debt problems, including credit card debt, personal loans, student loans, IRS tax debt, and credit card debt. Ms. Weil will provide you with a customized debt resolution road map tailored with your goals in mind. If you're facing debt collectors, the IRS, student loans - even if you have been sued - attorney Jennifer Weil can help. Call Jennifer now at (646) 932-1053 or (201) 676-0722 to schedule a free bankruptcy...
Leonard R. Boyer
Freehold, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 36 years of experience
4400 U.S. Route 9 South
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Divorce, Foreclosure Defense and Real Estate
Although my firm practices in several different fields of law, my expertise is primarily in Mortgage Foreclosure Defense,Divorce & Family Law, Bankruptcy, and Mortgage loan modification. In terms of divorce law, I have a unique prospective from both my personal and professional experience that few other attorneys can match. To me, each case is personal, each client is a person, never just a file number.
Warren Levy
Edison, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 31 years of experience
(732) 253-7630 340 Route 1 North
Department of NJ Family Law & Divorce
Edison, NJ 08817
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Consumer, Divorce and Foreclosure Defense
Attorney Warren D. Levy is one of the original key founders of the law firm and is the head attorney behind the Law Offices of Kasuri & Levy, LLC. With over 20 years of experience in various fields, primarily in Divorce & Family Law: (Child Custody, Child Support, Domestic Violence, Domestic Partnerships, Collaborative Law, Protection Orders, Restraining Orders, Men/Father Rights, Female/Mother Rights, International Divorce, Invalid Marriages, Fraudulent Marriages, Legal Separation, Non-Paternal Custody, Adoption, Paternity, Pre-Nuptial Agreements, Post-Nuptial Agreements, Cohabitation Agreements, Name Change, Jewish Gets (religious divorce), Annulments, IVF Donor & Surrogacy Agreements, Family Law Mediation, Parenting Plan Agreements,...
Derek John Soltis
Jersey City, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 6 years of experience
(844) 533-3367 121 Newark Ave
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Employment and Foreclosure Defense
Derek J. Soltis, Esq. is graduate of Rutgers School of Law Newark and an admitted attorney in the State of New York. Mr. Soltis also has an MBA in Management Systems with an International Business Designation from Fordham University Graduate School of Business and a Master of Science in Information and Communication Systems where he specialized in System Dynamics. While at Fordham Mr. Soltis graduated in the top 10% of class and was enrolled in Phi Kappa Phi the Collegiate Honor Society and Beta Gamma Sigma the Business Honors Society. Mr. Soltis's undergraduate degree is a BBA from the University...
Marvin Wolf
Bayonne, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 25 years of experience
(844) 627-8461 561 Broadway, Suite 3
Bayonne, NJ 07002
Free ConsultationBankruptcy
I am a solo attorney with a bankruptcy, consumer, foreclosure defense, matrimonial and small business concentration. Because I am admitted in NY, NJ and PA, I can handle multi-jurisdictional issues - helping clients with problems in different states. Bankruptcy and divorce involves finding creative solutions to sometimes unique problems and personalities. I am very straightforward and cut through the bull to get to the heart of the matter and try to save clients money. I provide discounted legal services to union members through Union Plus, and Local 32B-J.
Filipe Pedroso
Somerville, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 24 years of experience
(732) 200-2300 892 US-22, Fl. 2
Somerville, NJ 08876
Bankruptcy, Consumer, Family and Foreclosure Defense
Over the years I have received many awards and recognitions for exceptional service, client satisfaction and highest ethical standards. The Legal Network has recognized me as “Top Lawyers in New Jersey” several years in a row. I have been invited to join elite Top 100 National Trial Lawyers due to strong qualifications as TOP civil/criminal defense trial lawyers. I was nominated as one of the "10 Best" attorneys in NJ by the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys. Currently, I'm the managing attorney at two successful law firms: eLAWnj.com Pedroso Legal Services LLC and...
Blake Width
Westfield, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 17 years of experience
(908) 233-6800 53 Cardinal Dr
Westfield, NJ 07090
Blake C. Width has a broad spectrum of experience in the areas of bankruptcy, commercial litigation, community associations, construction, creditors' rights, employment, insurance, labor, municipal, and public safety.
Pamela A. Mulligan
Princeton, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 14 years of experience
(609) 557-1045 210 Carnegie Center
Princeton, NJ 08540
Seton Hall University School of Law and Syracuse University College of Law
Pamela A. Mulligan focuses her practice in the areas of Litigation, Real Estate, Community Association Law and Creditors’ Rights. Ms. Mulligan represents secured and unsecured lenders including corporate and banking clients, in Chapters 7, 11, and 13 bankruptcies, contested and uncontested foreclosures, collection matters, and commercial loan transactions. She also represents businesses and individuals including artists and media organizations in copyright, trademark and general litigation matters.
Paul J. Riviere
Jackson, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 11 years of experience
(732) 646-5529 19 North County Line Road
Jackson, NJ 08527
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Business, Entertainment & Sports and Workers' Comp
Our firm is a litigation team of New Jersey Lawyers that provides unmatched personal service for your legal matters. Our lawyers have represented companies ranging from small business to Fortune 500. Our firm has real trial experience and we provide great results. Our track record and customer reviews exemplify that our team of lawyers are committed to your success in the NJ Courts. We look forward to being the lawyer you deserve and fighting hard to win your case! Contact us today for a free consultation.
Tanya N. Helfand
Whippany, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 29 years of experience
(973) 428-0800 575 Route 10 East
Whippany, NJ 07981
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Divorce
Pace University and Union College
Andrew Archer
Collingswood, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 13 years of experience
(856) 963-5000 175 Richey Avenue
Collingswood, NJ 08107
Free ConsultationBankruptcy and Personal Injury
With over 10 years of experience, Attorney Andrew Archer focuses his practice on bankruptcy, foreclosure defense, debt relief and helping you saving your home. At our NJ law firm, Brenner Spiller & Archer, LLP, we represent clients throughout central and southern New Jersey. We currently have four offices, with our main office in Collingswood. We also have 3 additional locations in Mount Holly, Freehold and Vineland. We offer convenient appointments when necessary, as well as free initial consultations.
Natalee Picillo
Freehold, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 35 years of experience
(800) 537-4154 Freehold, NJ 07728
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Family
Call me personally 24/7 at 1-800-537-4154. You will receive VIP attention.
Natalee Picillo is a well respected and experienced New Jersey Divorce & Family Law attorney. She also represents clients throughout New Jersey in connection with DWI & Traffic Tickets.
Jeffrey R. Brown
(732) 613-0066 4400 U.S. 9
Bankruptcy, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Family
Born in 1973, Jeffrey R. Brown grew up in East Brunswick and continues to both work as well as reside there with his wife and son. Jeffrey R. Brown began his legal career in 1998 as a law clerk to Superior Court Judge Vincent LeBlon when Judge LeBlon was assigned to the Middlesex County Family Court. Jeffrey R. Brown went on to practice family law and municipal court law at another East Brunswick law firm until 2002, when he established his own practice. Jeffrey R. Brown’s practice has expanded over the years to include both residential real estate closings as...
Karra Kingston
Union City , NJ Bankruptcy Attorney
(973) 979-9078 3710 Kennedy Blvd
Union City , NJ 07087
Free ConsultationBankruptcy and Foreclosure Defense
Pace Law School
Karra L. Kingston Esq. has helped people from all walks of life start their lives over by getting out of debt. Karra Kingston is a Staten Island Bankruptcy lawyer and New Jersey bankruptcy lawyer. Ms. Kingston began her career as a bankruptcy attorney. She has appeared in front of many federal court judges and has helped many debtors obtain a fresh start. Ms. Kingston understands the complex federal rules for discharging debt. While working as a bankruptcy attorney, Ms. Kingston’s dedication has resulted in settlements of large debts for clients at 20-30 percent of what they owed. She also...
George Benaur
Princeton, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 17 years of experience
(609) 216-6105 170 Christopher Drive
Bankruptcy, Business, Collections and International
George Benaur, the founder and owner of the firm, was born and raised in Moscow, Russia (former Soviet Union) and then immigrated to the United States in 1988. He received his B.A. in English from Lafayette College in 1999, professional degree in acting from the London Academy of Music and Drama in 2000, and his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2004. George has been selected to New Jersey and New York Super Lawyers®.
Mr. Benaur specializes in serving as general counsel for international businesses, and in domestic and international business litigations. He is a recognized trial...
Jonathan Goldsmith Cohen
Tinton Falls, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 13 years of experience
(732) 252-0401 1 Executive Drive
Tinton Falls, NJ 07701
Bankruptcy and Foreclosure Defense
You need me in your corner. Whether you're an individual seeking assistance with a bankruptcy, mortgage modification, or foreclosure defense, a small business looking to reorganize or liquidate, or for creditor representation and counsel. I have successfully represented thousands of clients in bankruptcy court and have helped hundreds of people with successful mortgage modifications. I look forward to helping you.
I am a life-long Monmouth County, New Jersey resident. I grew-up with a father who is a passionate attorney. He set the bar high for me by example. Before law school, in the early 2000s, I was a bankruptcy paralegal...
Britt Justice Simon
(800) 709-1131 4400 Route 9 South, Suite 1000
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
Britt J. Simon is licensed to practice throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and District of Columbia, providing representation to the accused, the injured and other clients seeking quality legal services. He is guided by a commitment to the best interests of his clients and the highest standards of his profession. Offers free consultation.
Justin M. Gillman
(732) 661-1664 54 Hudson Street
William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law
Justin M. Gillman, Esq. has practiced in the area of consumer and small business bankruptcy law, foreclosure prevention and related matters since 1997. He is admitted to the New Jersey and New York State Bars, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the United States District Court for the District or New Jersey. Mr. Gillman received his B.A. degree from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut and his J.D. degree from the Marshall-Whythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Mr. Gillman serves as a member in...
Douglas Tabachnik
Bankruptcy, Business and Collections
Commercial and business Bankruptcy Attorney, certified by the American Board of Certification in business bankruptcy law. AV rated by Martindale Hubell every year since 2000; selected every year since 2007 by the publishers of the Super Lawyers list for New Jersey.
Jay L. Silverberg
Monroe Township, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 33 years of experience
(732) 992-3000 1 Severn Way
Monroe Township, NJ 08831
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Business and Real Estate
Welcome to Silverberg Law Firm LLC! Founded by Jay L. Silverberg, we provide legal services in the areas of business bankruptcy, personal bankruptcy and business law in New Jersey and New York City. We provide cost effective, strategic legal representation to individuals and businesses. We also provide mediation services in connection with corporate, commercial and bankruptcy matters throughout the United States. Our mediation services provide a cost efficient means of resolving disputes that can mitigate or avoid the cost, distraction, risk and publicity of litigation.
For more information, go to www.lawjls.com
Brian Winters
Bradley Beach, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 27 years of experience
(732) 774-1212 Main St & Lareine Ave
Bradley Beach, NJ 07720
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Divorce and Family
I’m a jersey shore guy - born and raised. Tufts, Duke, university college London , and back to N.J.
I’m a certified matrimonial law attorney with 26 years experience. I’m expert in all types of family law cases, including appeals. I’ve handled over 200 cases in the appellate division and Supreme Court
I also have a concentration in bankruptcy, chapters 7 and 13.
Paul Evangelista
Secaucus, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 21 years of experience
(201) 216-1855 110A Meadowlands Parkway
Secaucus, NJ 07094
Bankruptcy and Consumer
Quinnipiac University School of Law
Paul S. Evangelista, Esq. is the principal owner of The Law Office of Paul S. Evangelista, P.C. He concentrates his practice in Consumer Bankruptcy Law and related matters, including debt negotiation, debt reorganization, work-outs, and collection matters. Mr. Evangelista has represented consumer debtors in Chapter 7, Chapter 13 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases successfully throughout New Jersey.
Mr. Evangelista is a member of the Hudson County Bar Association and serves as a Trustee. He is also a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, the Hudson Inn and...
Andy Winchell
Berkeley Heights, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 24 years of experience
(973) 457-4710 100 Connell Drive
Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Business and Consumer
The Law Offices of Andy Winchell, P.C., is a law firm in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, that handles many types of financial issues for both individuals and businesses. We focus our practice on means to help your financial situation through bankruptcy, foreclosure defense, mortgage loan modification, actions against debt collectors and insolvency issues for consumer and commercial clients. We take a personalized approach to every client who contacts our office. We understand there are various types of problems and situations, and each one calls for a different, specialized strategy based on the particular circumstances. It is our goal to...
Leslie Farber
Montclair, NJ Bankruptcy Lawyer with 29 years of experience
(973) 707-3322 8 Hillside Avenue
Montclair, NJ 07042
Bankruptcy, Divorce, Employment and Family
Leslie A. Farber, Esq. has been practicing law since 1991. She received her undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Drew University, and her Law Degree from Pace University School of Law. In law school, she was an editor of the Pace Law Review and participated in Pace's Appellate Litigation Clinic. For the past 29 years, she has represented both individuals and businesses in many areas of litigation in state, federal and municipal courts from initial consultation through discovery, mediation, arbitration, trial and appeal, when necessary. Ms. Farber has lectured and published works in a variety...
Changi Wu
Edison, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 6 years of experience
(848) 219-0909 33 Wood Avenue South
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Business, IP and Patents
Patent application and prosecution, trademark application, patent licensing, corporation formation, copyright registration, NDA, Infringement defense, and Estate Planning. I was graduated from Rutgers School of Law with the award of American Bar Association/BNA Excellence Award in Intellectual Property. My practice is to safeguard your intellectual property rights. I have assisted many startups and solo inventors to prepare patent and trademark applications. Moreover, some of the clients have obtained licensing opportunity since then.
Wayne Jentis
(609) 921-0033 475 Wall Street
Bankruptcy, Divorce, Estate Planning and Family
Seton Hall University School of Law and University of Oxford, Oxford England
Wayne F. Jentis, Esq.
• Member in Good Standing of the State of Florida Bar
• Member in Good Standing of the State of New Jersey Bar
• Member in Good Standing of the State of New York Bar
• Admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
• Member Brevard County Bar Association
• Member Florida Bar Association and Family Law Section
• Member of the American Bar Association
• Member New Jersey Bar Association and Family Law Section
• Member Mercer County Bar Association
• Prior Law Clerk to the Honorable F. Lee Forrester.
(During Presiding Judgeship of the Family Part, Superior...
Richard Sanvenero Jr.
Ocean, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 8 years of experience
(732) 493-9400 1001 Deal Road
Ocean, NJ 07712
Bankruptcy, Business, Civil Rights and Divorce
Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law
Richard Sanvenero Jr. received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in 2010 and his Juris Doctor from Barry University School of Law in 2013. He is an active member of the Monmouth County Bar Association, Middlesex County Bar Association, New Jersey State Bar Association, New York City Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity and the American Bar Association.
While in law school, Mr. Sanvenero served as a Student Bar Association Senator, co-founded the Barry University School of Law Golf Club and held various leadership roles of other on-campus organizations. He has authored a legal article...
Edward Vaisman
Iselin, NJ Bankruptcy Attorney with 18 years of experience
(732) 925-6090 33 S. Wood Avenue
Iselin, NJ 08830
Edward Vaisman founded the Vaisman Law Office in order to provide more personalized bankruptcy representation to debtors all across Woodbridge Township and New Jersey. Mr. Vaisman has over 10 years of experience handling a variety of bankruptcy cases, including Chapter 7, Chapter 13, creditor harassment, and more. He is in court twice a week and is thoroughly familiar with the ins and outs of the court system, bankruptcy trustees, and the legal process. Mr. Vaisman deeply cares about the future of each client because he understands what is at stake. He works hard to deliver trusted advocacy and solutions.
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Leading Resolutions
The business focused technology consultancy
Shining a Light on Shadow IT
Technology is everywhere. Literally. At home and at work, the end-user is becoming so much more than it once was; developer, controller and its own municipal self-serve helpdesk. The dinosaur IT generation (you know the ones, the server-hugging lock-down no social media at work community) need to accept this and embrace a future whereby the central IT function enables its users to adopt the best, most cost-effective application for their needs.
Easy to say, we know. We hear it; the difficulties of unsupported business critical applications, the security risks, the single points of failure. And it’s true – these things represent real risks. But we in the technology community are never going to overcome it so let’s look at how we exploit the benefits and reduce the risk.
IT is about innovation, right, so how can my IT department be kicking me when I just wrote a macro-based spreadsheet that saves my team hours at month-end and cost the company nothing to produce or support? All true. Educate the business on the benefits of documenting the process, backing-up, and so on. Sit down with the author to address any data risks, be collaborative and supportive.
Publicly celebrate the author as an IT whizz, give them a bottle of champagne and talk to them about how to ensure that the data can be integrated centrally. If you time it right you might even get a glass.
Be tough
Make sure that the Shadow IT ground rules are heard and understood. Rather than discouraging it, point out the inherent risks of Shadow IT. If the author of our famous spreadsheet goes off long-term sick, who takes over? If it croaks next month-end, what’s the back-up plan?
We are where we are in the technology evolution. Centralised control will inevitably continue to diminish – let’s face it we will all be talking to our kitchen appliances from our cars before much longer. Managing Shadow IT successfully (like most things in life!) is firstly about recognising it as here to stay. Once that’s accepted, promote good communications, ensure shared understanding of risks and pro-actively work with business functions to harness its power.
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Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana 2015-16
Aman Khare / Dec. 10, 2020
To make every individual skilled in their respective area, the Union Cabinet chaired by Shri Narendra Modi, approved a skill development programme – Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana on March 20’2015. This will be the flagship scheme for skill training of youth to be implemented by the new Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship through the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). Furthermore, it’s planned that PMKVY will be running on National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) and rules & regulations of the industry.
The Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana is targeting 24 lakh youths, primarily focusing new entrants in the labour market and class 10th/12th dropout. On completion of the training programme, candidates will receive the certificate by third party bodies and average monetary reward of Rs 8000 per trainee. The National Skill Development Corporation will play an important role here. The organization has 187 training partners associated with it and 2300 centres pan India.
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana is similar to the STAR (Standard Training & Assessment Reward) Scheme announced by former finance minister P. Chidambaram in 2013-14 budget. STAR Scheme also encouraged skill development for youth with monetary reward on completing the training programme. The only difference is of the budget and the number of youths targeted. The budget was Rs 1000 crores in 2013-14 vis-à-vis Rs 1500 crores in 2015-16 and only 10 lakhs candidates were targeted in STAR scheme which increased by 250% i.e. 24 lakh candidates for the year 2015-16. Dilip Chenoy, the Chief Executive – NSDC said that STAR implementation has improved and the PMKVY, though similar, will be different.
The training programme under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana would be more focused on the soft skills, personal grooming, behavioral change for cleanliness and good work ethics. Sector Skill Councils and the State Governments will be the monitoring body.
The Union Cabinet has divided the fund into various categories –
1). Rs 1120 crore has been assigned for skill training of 14 lakh candidates
2). Rs 220 crore will be for recognizing the prior learning
3). Rs 150 crores for youth belonging to North East region of the country
The skill training will be done on the basis of demand assessed by NSDC for the period 2013-17 during Skill Gap Studies. For spreading the awareness of this Kaushal Yojana melas / fairs will be organized at the local level with active participation of the State Governments, Municipal Bodies, and community based organizations.
One of the major focus of this training programme would be Recognition of Prior Learning. Under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna, prior learning of the candidate will be recognized and candidates will receive the certification and monetary reward on completion of the training. This further facilitates the process of skill upgradation and re-skilling of the existing workforce. For Example – Telecom Sector Skill Council invites candidates for the training programme and provides TSSC certification with Govt. of India logo on successful assessment.
Sector Skill Council will be responsible for smooth implementation of the scheme. To verify and record the details of the training centres, Skill Development Management System would be in place. Feedback during the assessment has been made a critical part of the evaluation process, and grievance redressal system would also be the part of the scheme to ensure complete closure.
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HomeNews and ViewsCollaboration funding for UK researchers to go to India
Collaboration funding for UK researchers to go to India
Staff, Longitude Prize
The Academy of Medical Sciences has introduced an exciting opportunity for UK researchers in antimicrobial resistance to travel to India to collaborate and develop relationships in biomedical research.
The Academy regards this scheme as a particularly timely one given the seriousness of the threat, to human and animal health, posed by antimicrobial resistance.
The call aims to strengthen research links between the UK and India, and the Academy is keen to see applications not just from biomedical scientists, but also potentially from experts working in fields as diverse as agriculture, the environment, and social and veterinary sciences.
Over five years, 25 professors and researchers will be supported in travel and subsistence to visit India for a two-week lecture tour to develop long-term relationships with Indian institutions. The call will be open annually and aims to not only build these relationships, but contribute to the wider awareness of antimicrobial resistance.
“I am thrilled that the Yusuf and Farida Hamied Foundation are supporting concrete actions to address antimicrobial resistance through this exciting new partnership with the UK and India.”
Professor Dame Sally Davies
Applicants will:
be a Professor or senior group leader, based at a UK research institution, wishing to develop a collaboration with a researcher in India in the area of AMR.
need to have a contract of employment that extends beyond the date for which funding is being sought.
need to have identified a suitable host in India to support your planned activities.
Applications for the visiting professorship scheme will be assessed on the basis of their potential to strengthen UK-India research collaborations in AMR, increase awareness, and contribute to the development of robust interventions. The first awards will be announced in summer 2018.
The programme will also support two major international scientific meetings on AMR, one in the UK and one in India.
More info and to apply
Deadline: Friday 06 April 2018, 16.00 GMT.
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The Rise of Xueyue
236 Time Is Escaping
Author :liuxin
© Wuxiaworld
"Let's not keep the guest waiting," Li Chenyang said. He wondered if Xueyue was on her way home now since Yu Zhen was here. He hoped she would return safely and quickly.
Li Chenyang wanted to see her before he would leave for his court duties. He vaguely remembered the Palace Courts were opened to guests today; something about exposing the younger generation to the way inner politics worked.
Nonetheless, Li Chenyang didn't care. It wasn't like he was going to bring Xueyue to tour around the Palace when so many people were after her.
Li Chenyang sighed. There was so much to be done today, and the Court Ministers still had time to bring in people? He scowled. Perhaps it was time he increased their workload.
"What are you doing standing there like a tree? Hurry along now," Duchess Wang Qixing ushered him. She was now standing at the end of the hallway, looking back at her son.
"I'm coming," Li Chenyang said. He hurried in her direction and it didn't take long for the two of them to stop outside of the drawing room.
The Eunuch opened the door for them, loudly announcing, "Welcoming Madam Wang Qixing and our Young Master Li Chenyang!"
Duchess Wang Qixing was the first to step inside the room. She was followed by Li Chenyang who shared the same puzzled expression as her. What was going on?
Seated on the chair was a well-dressed Hanjian soldier. Indeed, he was more equipped and had the aura of someone who was more than a regular soldier. He seemed friendlier but they knew that was just a facade to lead people to lower their guards.
"I apologize for coming here on such short notice," the man said, standing up to greet them. "My name is Hu Dengxiao."
Li Chenyang vaguely remembered seeing him in the Palace with Yu Zhen.
"I've come bearing grave news, my lady." Hu Dengxiao took off his helmet and held it against his chest.
"What is it?" Duchess Wang Qixing asked, sitting down and gesturing for him to do the same. "Please, have a seat and enjoy some tea. It's freshly brewed."
"I'm afraid time is escaping me." Hu Dengxiao glanced at the Prime Minister's son. Even from this distance, he could feel the man's analyzing eyes raking all over him.
"I've come to inform you that something abrupt has happened in Hanjian. Thus, our Commander and every soldier had to return to our homeland as soon as we could."
"What happened?" Li Chenyang asked. "Why isn't your Commander telling us this in person? The disrespect of sending you is astronomical."
Hu Dengxiao bowed his head. "Our Commander had received word of the issue two weeks ago. The Second Prince was supposed to return the exact day he heard of the problem, but he stayed in Wuyi to finalize his business with the Young Miss of this household. Just yesterday, another letter was delivered and this time, the matter can no longer be ignored."
"Finalize?" Li Chenyang hissed. "Your Second Prince tells us he's interested in Xueyue. Then he ups and leaves like it's nobody's business. What do you mean he was supposed to leave two weeks ago?"
Duchess Wang Qixing vaguely remembered what happened. Xueyue had urgently chased after Yu Zhen and had grazed her knee. Luckily, there wasn't a scar.
Duchess Wang Qixing wondered what was so urgent that Yu Zhen had to hop onto his carriage. The Li soldiers conveyed to her the look of urgency on Yu Zhen's face and the speed he left the manor. It was as if he was chased by malevolent spirits!
"We can't disclose any information as it's confidential. However, our Commander wrote her a letter." Hu Dengxiao reached into his pockets and pulled out a neatly folded letter.
Duchess Wang Qixing took it from him, her eyes narrowing onto the wax seal. It irritated her that every male that came Xueyue's way always seemed to have some sort of baggage.
"Very well, I will have it delivered to my daughter," Duchess Wang Qixing said, placing the letter into her sleeve pockets.
Hu Dengxiao bowed a bit. "Thank you, we will truly appreciate that, Madam."
Li Chenyang's lips curled irritably. "You tell your Commander that we've never been so disappointed in him. If he ever wants our Xueyue, he will have to come and fetch her himself."
Hu Dengxiao bit his tongue to refrain from saying anything. He could do nothing but nod his head.
Talking to aristocrats wasn't his specialty. It was Lu Tianbi's. She was originally supposed to be sent here, but he volunteered in her place. She would have to lag behind from the troops, and that was too dangerous for a woman—even if she was a trained soldier.
Duchess Wang Qixing glanced at the soldier, knowing he wasn't an ordinary one. This Hu Dengxiao must've been the Commander's trusted man. Why else would Yu Zhen send this soldier to deliver the important information?
"When will your Commander return?" Duchess Wang Qixing asked.
Hu Dengxiao worriedly turned to look at her. "As soon as he finalizes everything in Hanjian."
"What exactly happened in Hanjian?" Li Chenyang muttered. "The Prime Minister will catch wind of it eventually. Better for you to tell us now than never."
"With all due respect, Minister Li," Hu Dengxiao began. "It will be news that you will never hear."
Duchess Wang Qixing narrowed her eyes. This soldier was getting on her last nerves, but so were they. "Is there anything you can say to reassure us that we shouldn't promise our Xueyue to another man?"
Hu Dengxiao jolted out of panic. Li Xueyue belonging to another man? Yu Zhen would have his head for this!
"Please rest assured Madam, our Commander will rush here on the first opportunity that he can get. Do not promise her to another man. Our Commander is still very interested in her. If not, he wouldn't have sent me, his right hand man."
Duchess Wang Qixing frowned. She wanted to know why Yu Zhen couldn't come here and beg to take Li Xueyue with him back to Hanjian.
This soldier mentioned Yu Zhen was finalizing something. Did that mean the courts in Hanjian were too hectic and chaotic for Xueyue to step foot in?
Li Chenyang let out a sigh. There was not much they could say or do to this man. It wasn't like he was Yu Zhen.
Duchess Wang Qixing placed a warm hand on her son's elbow, hoping to alleviate his annoyance.
Duchess Wang Qixing turned to face Hu Dengxiao. "Tell your Commander that the Li family is extremely disappointed and displeased by his actions, but we will respect the effort he has spent on our Xueyue. We will wait, but not for too long."
Hu Dengxiao felt like a mountain was lifted off of his shoulders. He was so grateful for her actions that he bowed deeply at her words. "Thank you very much, Madam, your decision is greatly appreciated!"
Li Chenyang forced a tight smile. "Anything else?"
��None at all," Hu Dengxiao said. "Everything that must be said is in the letter. Please have it delivered accordingly to the Young Miss of the Li family."
Duchess Wang Qixing reluctantly nodded. She was quite curious about what was inside this letter.
"That is all," Hu Dengxiao said. "Please excuse me, Madam Wang, and Minister Li. I'm afraid I will have to leave as soon as I can."
Li Chenyang took a step to the side. "Have a safe return to Hanjian."
Hu Dengxiao nodded. "Thank you."
Hu Dengxiao left before Duchess Wang Qixing could escort him out.
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'Azzun, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Qalqiliya, Wed 21.9.11, Afternoon
Qalqiliya
'Azzun
Eliyahu Crossing
Palestinian farmers
Karin L., Shoshi A. (photographing), Gila P. (reporting)
Latest Reports Qalqiliya - The city is Open Qalqiliya-closure, Israeli customers buy at the seamzone Corona Times Report: Qalqiliya – the checkpoint is open Falamiya North Checkpoint (914), Falamiya South Checkpoint (935), Kufr Jammal, Qalqiliya Agricultural permit situation in the Tulkarm/Qalqilya area Qalqiliya Qalqiliya 'Azzun, Eyal Crossing, Habla, Qalqiliya Habla, Huwwara, Jit Junction , Qalqiliya, Za'tara (Tapuah) Eyal Crossing, Qalqiliya
Translator: Charles K.
The day after the opening of the General Assembly session in the UN.
13:00 - Habla agricultural gate #1393
Many more soldiers here than we’re used to (nearly ten). One wishes us a nice day and asks us not to photograph soldiers. He does more than ask; he inspects the photos one by one. Five vehicles on line. The same number from the other direction. The gates open and close alternately, allowing a single car to go through. That’s also not according to the usual practice. A tractor driver has to unload what he’s transporting – blue barrels. It’s clear they’re empty. He takes them off one-by-one and then reloads them. The soldiers can’t be expected to help him. A female student in the English Department at the university in Nablus, who lives in the nearby Bedouin village, tells us she wastes hours at the crossings every day. Time that’s stolen from her studies. A man from Beita also complains about the waste of time. “The checkpoint is tough. Life is tough.” A driver passes: “This checkpoint is ok. Go to 109/Eliyahu crossing.” And with growing anger: “They hold every car for two hours. The soldiers here are ok, there they’re garbage.” (It’s the same whether they’re in uniform or civilians. At Eliyahu crossing the inspections are conducted by a civilian security company). S: “Since 109 was transferred to a civilian company things are absolutely terrible. They use dogs for inspections, machines. They pat you down, again and again. Disgusting. The inspection is humiliating. They check water, salt, wheat, flour. They tear sacks open. They check fire extinguishers, propane tanks. My aunt wanted to cross with her son. The inspector let her through, but without her son. But he’s four years old. A four-year-old terrorist? You’d think this was the AllenbyBridge. You’d think we’re crossing from one country to another. Checkpoint 109 is in the wrong place. It should be on the Green Line.” When we tell him we’re impressed by his Hebrew, he says: “Yes. I paint with language.”
13:40 - Eliyahu crossing/109
The surprisingly spacious parking lot testifies to the large number of employees of the Crossings Authority, Defense Ministry staff and staff of the civilian security company. The large number of buildings erected recently on both sides of the checkpoint are evidence of the many people who make a living here. A guard with his dog stand out among them. We asked why it takes so long to cross. “We just started working yesterday. Ask your questions of the spokesperson. You enjoy arguments. Get out of my area. You’re not allowed to be here.” “What are your orders,” we wanted to know. “I’m not authorized to answer.” Who ordered the dogs to be here, we asked. “I’m not authorized to answer.” When we crossed to the other side of the checkpoint, another security person approached: “I’m asking you not to photograph. P-l-e-a-s-e! I’m asking you not to stand in one place. Keep moving.” Meanwhile women who look like foreigners have to get out of their cars to be inspected. A security man, in the best action-film tradition, whispers into his shirt: The woman is trying to photograph. The woman is trying to photograph.
14:05 Qalqiliya checkpoint. Traffic flows freely, no one inspects or interferes.
14:15 Azzun
Here’s something new: two Palestinians soldiers at the checkpoint. This is the first time we’ve seen them in action. They don’t allow us in, concerned for our safety. They even prevent us from making a U-turn. It turned out that settlers tried to provoke residents this morning. We asked whether we could drive toKafr Thulthwe understood from their tone that it would be a very bad idea.
14:45 – Sara
Palestinian and Fatah flags, mainly on public buildings. One resident: “There’s no reason to be happy. Only the big-shots can be happy. When the army comes in – people throw rocks. Otherwise, it’s quiet. Only the big-shots.” (before Obama’s address).
15:15 – Huwwara checkpoint. Traffic flows.
16:20 Shomron crossing. No delays.
Azoun (updated February 2019)
A Palestinian town situated in Area B (under civil Palestinian control and Israeli security control),
on road 5 between Nablus and Qalqiliya, east of Nabi Elias village. The inhabitants are allowed to construct and improve infrastructures. The Separation Fence has confiscated lands belonging to the town's people. In 2018 olive tree groves owned by one of its inhabitants were confiscated for the sake of paving a road to bypass Nabi Elias. Azoun population numbers 13,000, its economic state dire. Its infrastructures are poor, neglect and poverty rampant. In the meantime, the town council has completed paving an internal road for the inhabitants' welfare.
Because of its proximity to the Jewish settler-colony of Karnei Shomron and its outposts, the town suffers the intense presence of the Israeli army, especially at nighttime: soldiers enter homes, arrest suspects, trash the house and sometimes ruin it, as they do in numerous places in the West Bank. At times a checkpoint closes the entrance to the town, so no one can come in or get out.
Qalqilya is surrounded on all sides by the separation barrier. The only exit from the city is in the east of the city on the road that leaves the city in an easterly direction. This is where the checkpoint was located. When the checkpoint was active until 2009 our shifts watched long queues of cars being inspected at the only exit from the city to the West Bank. The checkpoint was canceled, but there is a military presence at the entrance to the city.
Pitzy S
The ornate well house
A corner I loved in a Palestinian home
Sep-3-2020
Shoshi I
The colorful nursery
Rachel Afek
A serious traffic jam
This checkpoint, also known as the Fruit Crossing, is one of the main checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank.
It is located on Route 55 between Alfei Menashe and the turn to Qalqilya and Tzufin, more than 4 km east of the Green Line, in the separation fence, which separates Qalqilya from its lands to the south, thus leaving Alfei Menashe West of the fence - the Seam Zone.
This checkpoint, a few kilometers across the Green Line, is intended for "Israeli settlement in the West Bank and the population of the Seam Zone."
It is managed by a civil company. Palestinians with a special permit for their lands in the seam area are also allowed to pass through it, on foot, and sometimes by car.
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Baten Kaitos Origins
by Overrated Sage
Part 40: The Best Wings in the World
I know I'm not much of a chatterbox to begin with, but for this update and the next I'm really going to be backing off the commentary unless absolutely needed. I think the game speaks well enough for itself here.
Video: The Story So Far
Music: Lord of Pawns
Master Geldoblame informed me of the circumstances. Please, go in.
All right, why don't we take it easy until we hear form Quaestor Verus?
Not so fast, Milliarde. Before that, we ought to take a good look at everything. Where we've been, where we're going...All that's transpired.
Let's start with where we've been. Sagi...Go on, take a seat. Everything began with the emperor's assassination.
Right. That man we ran into at Olgan's residence – that was Shanath.
But wait- wasn't Sagi ordered to assassinate the emperor anyway? Why would Shanath bother killing him? He could have just let Sagi carry out his mission.
...I'm not sure. But it sounded like they were talking before we entered the room.
Mystery number one.
A lot of good it did him. We weren't any help at all. Not once did we manage to stop promachination.
Stop brooding, Sagi. Maybe that's how it turned out. But we did succeed in making each nation's leader aware of the threat machina poses. Vanquishing a machina arma is no simple task. And with all the fuss over Malpercio's afterlings – just be content that you're still alive.
You're right. Thanks, Guillo. Sorry I was being a drag...
I'm not trying to cheer you up. I'm only recounting the simple truth: We've done everything we can. The rest in between Verus and Baelheit, if you ask me.
Wait – you're saying we should back out of helping the quaestor?
That's right. His problems are beyond anything we can solve now. The same goes for that mess with the past and the gods. That's between the afterlings and -
And me, right?
Every time an afterling is defeated, we find ourselves back in the age of the gods. I hear its cries tearing through my mind – and when I wake up, we're in the past.
Don't you see? It's too dangerous to get involved any further. This feels wrong, Sagi.
Sagi!
I don't understand what's going on with the afterlings or being thrown into the past. But either way, I can't forgive what Baelheit's doing. Especially now that I've seen the other islands – how they've all got their own personalities, their own cultures. With promachination, Baelheit's trying to paint them all grey. That doesn't sit will with me.
Even...Even if machina proved to be something people could use?
Even then.
So you're willing to wink at mortal peril just because promachination “doesn't sit well” with you?
Isn't that reason enough? Cleaving continents in two, yanking out people's wings of the heart...It's not OK to do things like that.
All right. I go where you go. If that's your decision, then I'll go with you, no matter how far.
Guillo!
But don't come crying to me later.
It's OK if he cries...'Cause I'll be there to cheer him up! I'm going too. I'm sticking with you, Sagi!
Thank you, guys. You're the best.
Geldoblame's guard enters the house.
Quaestor Verus has returned. He's requested your presence.
Thank you. We'll be right there.
Moving right along...
Music: Parity of Light and Dark
My guardian spirit gave me quite the scolding for letting you down. Really, I'm very sorry.
It's all right. We managed to make our way back, sir. But...did something happen? I've heard you've been very busy.
Yes. Because of the election. Tomorrow they'll be closing deliberations at the Senate.
Tomorrow!? But that's too soon!
The senators claim it would be imprudent to leave the Empire without a leader any longer...But right now most of them are in favor of Baelheit. I'd wager what they really want is to close the election while the tides are with him. His deeds have been noted – both in promachination and in dealing with the afterlings.
If Baelheit is chosen as the next emperor, we'll have a terrible situation on our hands. So far he's used guerilla tactics to carry out promachination. But were that to be made policy – All-out war with the other nations would most certainly ensue!
We mustn't forget the small following of senators and citizens who dissent from promachination. If we could just persuade the council tomorrow of how dangerous Baelheit's ambitions really are...
Oh...That won't be easy.
Tomorrow decides everything. You've all done splendidly so far. I'm grateful for your help. Sagi, will you join me at the council? I'd like you to tell everyone about what you've seen in your travels to other nations, should it come to that.
Go ahead and take it easy today. Geldoblame will look after you.
H-Hey!
What's wrong? You don't like it?
Oh no, it's...lovely.
Until tomorrow, then.
Until tomorrow.
All right, we just have to go back to Geldoblame's spend the night, and then the next cutscene automatically occurs.
Recommended Viewing!
Video: Where the fan meets the shit
Music: None
Today, we live without fear of invasion from other nations. But let us not forget that all such assurances are the fruit of Quaestor Verus's endeavors. When danger sets foot upon the land, who will be your shield? Who will be your sword? I needn't remind you that Quaestor Verus will be both! As if that were not qualification enough, our quaestor is also a spiriter! Being the educated imperial citizens that you are, surely you know that spiriters are a chosen few – whose guardian spirits grant them with sagacity and great strength! Spiriters possess the power to sway the fate of the world. Quaestor Verus possesses that power!
I can cast my vote with confidence – I vote Verus! Honored senators, people of Alfard – I trust that you, too, will make the right choice! For who shall defend Alfard's future and lead it to greater heights? Verus, and no other!
Geldoblame moves off to the right, and Shanath takes his place.
...Empire. But honored senators, if you would be so kind...Recall the sable monsters that have appeared not only in Alfard, but all lands, threatening the safety of their people. In the end, was it the quaestor who defended us from the monsters? Was it the quaestor who erased the monsters from the face of our world? No, it was not. We have Lord Baelheit and the machina he developed to thank for that.
To date, Lord Baelheit has furnished us with a myriad of machina, striven to improve the quality of our lives. But those machina are no longer simple tools of convenience. They are the unpierceable shield that will defend us! They are the ultimate weapon with which to strike down our enemies. Then you have guardian spirits, wings of the heart, magic – the intangible plagues of our world. Tell me – have they done us any good at all? We don't need them! Now is the time to cast away our heart-wings and reap what machina has sown!
Bring her here!
Music: The Edging Away
Two soldiers come on screen, dragging a woman along wi-
Mom?!
Go on! Spread your wings!
The age of machina is upon us! What does she expect to do with such foolish adornments?! If something serves no purpose, then it ought to be discarded!
Now...Tear this heathen woman's wings off!
What are you doing?! This isn't what you promised! Father! Make them stop!
“Father”?! What's goin on, Milliarde?
Step aside, Milly.
Get out of my way! That's my MOTHER up there!
I know. I know, Sagi. Just hold-
All of you, MOVE! Get your hands off my mom!
YOU BASTARDS!
Music: Emotional Blackmail
What's the matter, Sagi? Your mother's right there. Take a good look. Embrace your rage! Let your emotions overtake you!
SHANATH!
About time you showed your face.
Get the machina!
Music: The Dead-End Creatures
I...I was...shot? And...and that sent me to the past...
Nngh...What are you doing, Marno? Watch the enemy's movements!
What's wrong? Are you tired already? Marno! You're barely holding your sword! Get your blade up, or you're going to die!
Urrrrgh!
That's...all of them, right?
What about Wiseman? Did we kill Wiseman?!
Wait...Look at this! We did this? No...No, it can't be!
<sob>
Hey! Who are they?! Something's coming!
For the sake of the Earth, the Sky, and the Ocean – thy life must end!
A strange, familiar figure appears before Seph and drives its arm through his body.
Thoran che Ladra, accursed one...Thy life must end!
Pieda le Monarna, accursed one...Thy life must end!
Ven bo Norco, accursed one...Thy life must end!
...We cannot allow your devastation to continue!
What? What did you just say?! Meemai...What?!
Music: Into the Spiral Tension
Okay...okay...I-I'm dazed and scared, but...but I'm sure we can do thi-
FLY!
FLAIL!
AND SLAUGHTER!
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On Friday evening, Rishi Sunak announced an extension to the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) as well as additional details on the changes announced on 12th May, to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). Please read on for further details and if you have any queries at all, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our team.
June 1st 2020
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From 1st July (a month earlier than originally stated in May's announcement) employers will be able to start bringing furloughed staff back to work on a part time basis, however the scheme will remain in place for furloughed staff until it is withdrawn at the end of October. Below are the details around these changes for employers:
You will have the flexibility to decide hours and shift patterns for your returning employees.
You will have the responsibility for paying your employees.
For any staff remaining on furlough leave:
In June and July, the Government will continue to pay 80% of wages / salaries via the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, up to £2,500 per month per employee, plus National Insurance (ER NICS) and pension contributions. Employers will not need to pay anything.
From 1st August, The Government will pay 80% of wages / salaries up to £2,500, however the employer will need to pay ER NICS and pension contributions.
From 1st September, for any employees on furlough leave, the Government will pay 70% of wages / salaries up to a maximum of £2,187.50 with employers paying 10% up to a combined £2,500, as well as paying the ER NICS and pension contributions.
From 1st October (the last month that the CJRS will be active), the Government will pay 60% of furloughed employees' wages / salaries to a maximum of £1,875, with the employer paying the remaining 20% to the £2,500 cap, as well as ER NICS and pension contributions. For the average claim, this represents 23% of the gross employment costs the employer would have incurred had the employee not been furloughed.
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The scheme will close to new entrants on 30 June, with the last three-week furloughs before that point commencing on 10 June.
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Three people were stopped from going to a Barbecue in Wolverhampton yesterday
Joe RobertsMonday 23 Nov 2020 12:59 pm
The three men were fined for flouting the lockdown rules (Picture: Getty/iStockphoto)
Three men were stopped driving across the country to attend a barbecue in defiance of the lockdown.
They travelled from Gloucester and from London for the gathering in Wolverhampton on Sunday.
During the second national lockdown in England, people are only supposed to travel for essential reasons, and households are not allowed to mix.
Police said the three men were fined as they shared details of the incident online.
Earlier, our officers unfortunately had to issue fines to three males, who had breached Covid regulations, by travelling from London and Gloucester to attend a barbecue at a location in Wednesfield. pic.twitter.com/3Yka5V5QSz
— Wednesfield Police (@WednesfieldWMP) November 22, 2020
The news that some people had attempted to host a barbecue in November sparked a flurry of funny comments.
One person wrote: ‘Who the hell has a BBQ in November,’ while another said: ‘I wouldn’t risk it for some brisket!’
Another joked that it was a ‘bit far for some chicken wings.’
People can be fined £200 for breaching Covid regulations, which can double up to a maximum of £6,400.
Anyone who organises a large gathering can be fined as much as £10,000.
The lockdown restrictions are due to end on December 2 and will be replaced by a tougher system of tiers.
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To ‘negotiate’ with the feds, you have to speak their language
Posted by Thomas Mitchell | Oct 29, 2015 | Opinion | 0 |
Will the real Brian Sandoval please stand up?
This past week the Nevada governor stood virtually alone in rebuking Attorney General Adam Laxalt for joining in a lawsuit seeking to block Interior Department plans to enforce draconian land use restrictions to protect the vast habitat of the greater sage grouse across 11 Western states.
“Prematurely embroiling the state in costly litigation at this juncture threatens to compromise future collaborative efforts to implement the Nevada plan developed over the last four years …” says a statement released by Sandoval’s spokeswoman while he was out of the country. “The governor believes that joining a lawsuit now will chill ongoing discussions …”
How do you chill “discussions” that have been frozen solid?
In July in a 12-page letter to the acting head of the state Bureau of Land Management, the same Brian Sandoval railed that the state had been stonewalled and ignored in efforts to draft plans for protecting sage grouse. He noted that the final 3,500-page land use plan released in May left unresolved, dismissed or ignored issues raised by the state.
Sandoval wrote that the plan “contains many new elements that disregard best science, Nevada’s state and local plans, and federal law. It is disappointing that this process has changed from a collaborative, proactive approach, to a now heavy-handed, federal approach that uses status-quo approaches and relies primarily on information from federal officials in Washington, D.C. …”
The acting director replied within a week with vague promises of clarifications and a couple of “respectfully declines to adopt.”
Sandoval fired off an appeal to the head of the BLM calling the state director’s response “specious in nature and nearly identical to the text used” in previous denials.
Five weeks later the head of the BLM, Neil Kornze, a former aide to Harry Reid, wrote the governor, “I … respectfully deny your appeal,” though he did “look forward to our continued coordination …”
Now Sandoval thinks he can negotiate with the same people who have repeatedly dismissed, ignored, snubbed and denied his every entreaty?
Laxalt is speaking the Interior Department’s language. These Washington bureaucrats live by sue and settle. That’s how we got the September deadline for listing grouse as endangered or not — a settled lawsuit from self-styled conservation groups.
A funny thing happened on the way to the listing. Interior discovered the grouse are not endangered. The agency stated that “the charismatic rangeland bird does not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act,” because its population has stabilized.
Instead, without the legal nicety of listing, Interior immediately announced arbitrary land use restrictions.
The next day Elko and Eureka counties and two mining companies filed a federal lawsuit. This past week Laxalt filed an amended suit that added as plaintiffs the state, seven more counties — Churchill, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Pershing, Washoe and White Pine — another mining company and a Humboldt ranch. An initial hearing is scheduled for Nov. 12.
The suit accuses Interior of violating the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, the General Mining Laws, the Taylor Grazing Act and numerous other federal laws and agreements. The mining companies and the ranch say new restrictions could put them out of business.
In a press release announcing the litigation, Attorney General Adam Laxalt noted that the federal plan bars mineral exploration and development on 3 million acres within Nevada alone and creates restrictions on grazing and public access on more than 16 million acres in the state.
The decision to sue was applauded by Sen. Dean Heller, the state’s three Republican representatives, numerous local elected officials and business leaders.
Rep. Mark Amodei declared, “When the Department of the Interior completely ignores input from Nevada’s Environmental Impact Statement, I believe no tool should be left in the shed, and one of those tools is litigation.”
Rep. Cresent Hardy agreed, “Those who live closest to the land are the best stewards of it. This has been proven particularly true in Nevada, where locally driven conservation efforts helped keep the sage grouse off of the endangered species list. But the federal government is actively choosing to ignore that reality.”
Rep. Joe Heck, who is running for the Senate seat now held by Reid, observed that Nevadans developed a plan to protect sage grouse habitat, but “that plan was rejected by bureaucrats at the Department of the Interior who have no connection to the land and won’t have to deal with the consequences of their land-use plan.”
Laxalt is speaking Interior’s language, governor.
Thomas Mitchell is a longtime Nevada newspaper columnist. You may email him at thomasmnv@yahoo.com. He also blogs at http://4thst8.wordpress.com/.
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EXPEDITION TO THE RUINS OF CASTLE GREYHAWK PDF
In keeping with the spirit of iconic modules, I decided to pick up Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk. It is designed for 8th level characters and takes them through to level While the world has changed and evolved over the years, the foundation stays the same. In Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk, the party travels to the Free City of Greyhawk on the eve of a ceremony that has attracted all sorts of people from around the continent. The Ceremony is a funeral for a cleric named Riggby, who recently died in the dungeons of the ruined Castle of Greyhawk.
Author: Akinoshura Voodootilar
Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk is an adventure book for the 3. The adventure is set in the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting , specifically in and around Castle Greyhawk and its dungeons.
The adventure also provides updates on a number of important Greyhawk personages as well as encounters in the Free City of Greyhawk itself. The Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk adventure puts the adventuring party on a quest into the depths of the Ruins of Castle Greyhawk to save the Free City from the forces of the foul demigod Iuz the Evil - the half-fiend son of the demon lord Graz'zt and the evil archmage Iggwilv.
Iuz built a sinister empire that once held the northern lands of the Flanaess in fear and constantly threatened the surrounding kingdoms in an attempt to rule the entire world of Oerth. Iuz's empire fell apart years earlier after Iuz was captured by the Free City's founding wizard, the mad Zagig Yragerne, who imprisoned Iuz in a device called the "godtrap" as part of a bizarre experiment to achieve divinity for himself.
Decades after Zagig now the Archmage Demigod called Zagyg achieved his godhood, a powerful mage from the Free City named Mordenkainen led an expedition into the depths of Castle Greyhawk.
There, two of Mordenkainen's allies, the warrior Lord Robilar , and Boccobite cleric Riggby , found the imprisoned Iuz and through Mordenkainen's manipulation, released the half-demon believing they could just kill him outright once and for all. Iuz, however, managed to escape the battle and fled back to his kingdom where he could recover his power and plot his revenge against his enemies. Afterward, Robilar, along with the archmage Rary , betrayed Mordenkainen and the Circle of Eight a committee of wizards , by killing the great wizards Tenser and Otiluke , and leaving Bigby clinging to life.
Mordenkainen had expected Rary to betray him sooner or later, but not Robilar, who was his trusted ally for decades. Forty years later, in the Greyhawk realm's Common Year of , the player characters take on the role of adventurers who arrive at the Free City to explore the Ruins of Greyhawk looking for riches and glory.
Under an oath with Zagig, Mordenkainen vowed never to enter the depths of Castle Greyhawk, but through researching Zagig's tomes, Mordenkainen only recently found a possible clue to Robliar's betrayal hidden deep inside the ruins. Mordenkainen, barred by oath from entering the dungeons, recruits the band of adventurers to go into the chambers for him and find the secret behind Robilar's treachery.
Little do they realize they have stumbled upon an epic situation where failure could mean the destruction of the world. This late Greyhawk adventure was set late enough in the timeline to accommodate events from Living Greyhawk.
Unlike most published adventure modules, the Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk is technically an incomplete "open ended" adventure. Rather than detailing every single room of the dungeons below the ruins, only key areas that affect the main plot of the adventure are detailed. In fact, entire dungeon levels are left unmapped and the DM is encouraged to improvise their own encounters to fill in areas not covered by the game with their own content.
The game provides a list of random encounters for each dungeon level, generic dungeon maps left clear of content, and numerous side quests to help the DM along the way and keep the adventure flowing.
Shannon Appelcline notes that Greyhawk Ruins was remade into the 3E-compatible Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk , and while the book was published by Wizards, it was written by Paizo staffers such as Erik Mona and James Jacobs. Tim Janson of mania. Shannon Appelcline called this book "a long-awaited return to the most famous dungeon in roleplaying", noting that it was published as part of a series of nostalgic adventures which suggested that Wizards of the Coast 's original series of 3.
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Milwaukee Public Schools Releases School Reopening Survey
MILWAUKEE (June 30, 2020) -- Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) released its School Reopening Survey for students and families and a MPS Staff School Reopening Survey for its employees to gather input on how to safely welcome back students for the 2020-21 school year.
Amid the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, both surveys will ask for feedback on how MPS can best serve families and staff this upcoming year. MPS administration recently outlined scenarios that will be considered for students and educators returning in the fall.
"These surveys are one of the ways we are giving MPS families and staff a voice in how we can meet the needs of our students and our community," MPS Superintendent Dr. Keith P. Posley said. "We will use this input, along with guidance from health officials and state and local leaders, to come up with the safest plan to provide our students the best environment to learn."
The School Reopening Survey for students and families and the MPS Staff School Reopening Survey were distributed via email and both surveys can be found on the MPS web site. The students and families survey will also be available at the Stop, Grab, and Go meal sites and communicated via other district methods. The surveys will be available until July 8, 2020. The Milwaukee Board of School Directors has called for a special board meeting in July to further discuss the district's reopening plan.
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Rethinking Second Language Learning: Using Intergenerational Community Resources
Edited by: Marisa Cordella, Hui Huang
This book evaluates a project where formal classroom learning of a second language was supplemented with informal, natural interactions with older native speakers of the target language, delivering a number of pedagogical and societal benefits. The authors introduce a model of intergenerational, intercultural encounters which aims to promote the use of community language resources; enrich the experiences of young learners; foster greater understanding between generations; break down cultural stereotypes; encourage appreciation of different cultures and enhance the quality of life and community engagement of older people with a bi/multilingual background. It draws on theories of language acquisition, discourse analysis and psychosocial perspectives to propose a model of language learning for students that can be used for any language or locality. It is therefore an essential resource for graduate students, researchers and language teachers as well as for education, aged and youth care policy makers, practitioners and community services workers who are interested in innovative language pedagogy.
The project this book presents is a rare and beautiful combination of high-quality inter-disciplinary research coupled with a genuine desire to foster cross-cultural and intergenerational understanding in an innovative model of socially inclusive second language learning.
Eva Eppler, University of Roehampton, UK
This deeply humane and well-informed study of students learning a new language from older adults of other cultures has broad implications for education, research and social policy. It shows how one human interaction at a time can enrich individuals' development, bring people of different ages and cultural backgrounds into mutually supportive relationships and, ultimately, create an inclusive society.
Linda Tickle-Degnen, Tufts University, USA
One of the challenges for language study and revitalisation has been generational connections: users and learners, speakers and acquirers, cultural insiders and entrants. Few studies have systematically investigated these critical relationships and their effects on learning, identity and community formation. This book is an important instalment in how to validate and benefit from intergenerational community resources, giving meaning and depth to the adjective 'community' or 'heritage' qualifying the noun 'languages'.
Joseph Lo Bianco, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Marisa Cordella is Associate Professor in Spanish Linguistics at The University of Queensland, Australia. Her research expertise lies in the areas of discourse analysis (e.g. critical discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics), intercultural and intergenerational communication, teaching methodologies, medical communication and translation studies. She is the author of two books on discourse analysis and medical communication.
Hui Huang is Lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Australia. Her research interests and publications cover the areas of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics, particularly the teaching of Chinese as a second/heritage language, ICT in language teaching, cross-cultural communication and immigrant identity.
Marisa Cordella and Hui Huang : Introduction
Section 1. Setting the Scene: Many Cultures, Many Opportunities
1. Marisa Cordella: The Immigrant Potential: Multiculturalism, Language Skills and Community Resources
2. Susan Feldman, Harriet Radermacher and Colette Browning: Contemporary Intergenerational Relationships
3. Hui Huang and Marisa Cordella : Community Resources on Our Doorstep: Language Learning in Action
Section 2. Constructing Identity: The Self-Presentation of Older Native Speakers
4. Marisa Cordella: Taking a Stance: Older Native Speakers with Young Language Learners
5. Brigitte Lambert and Marisa Cordella : The Migration Experience and the Ethos of Self
6. Hui Huang and Yanying Lu: 'Who Are We?' Self-Referencing in Chinese and German Conversations Using the First-Person Plural
7. Marisa Cordella and Cecilia Kokubu: Creating, Maintaining and Challenging Rapport Across Languages and Age Groups
8. Harriet Radermacher, Colette Browning and Susan Feldman: 'I feel very happy that I can contribute to society': Exploring the Value of the Project for Older People
Section 3. Situated Learning: Enhancing the Opportunities for L2 Students
9. Hui Huang: Gaining L2 Self-Confidence in Conversations with Native Speakers
10. Hui Huang: Developing Interactional Competence in Dyadic Conversations: Cross-language Evidence
11. Hui Huang, Marisa Cordella, Colette Browning and Ramona Baumgartner: An Innovative Language Learning and Social Inclusion Model
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Paul McCartney – “Yoko Ono Cheesed Us Off”
Marc Zanotti Mar. 26, 2013
Sir Paul McCartney has illuminated The Beatles’ sentiments surrounding Yoko Ono’s involvement in Beatles recording sessions, describing his feelings, as well as those of George Harrison and Ringo Starr, as “cheesed off”.
Even though McCartney and Yoko have long since buried the hatchet, Sir Paul still recalls the animosity that existed when Yoko entered the sanctum. As McCartney explained to Q Magazine (via NME), Yoko’s presence was seen an intrusion by John Lennon’s bandmates and caused resentment as Lennon looked to explore possibilities outside of The Beatles:
“Because we’d been such a tight-knit group, the fact that John was getting pretty serious about Yoko at that time, I can see now that he was enjoying his newfound freedom and getting excited by it.
“But when she turned up at the studio and sat in the middle of us, doing nothing I still admit now that we were all cheesed off. But looking back on it – [me and Yoko] have talked about this – I think she realises it must have been a shock for us. But lots of things that went down were good for us, really. At the time though, we certainly did not think that.”
Now, though, McCartney has given up blaming Yoko for The Beatles break-up. McCartney instead claims that manager Brian Epstein‘s successor Allen Klein held most of the blame. Sir Paul now credits Yoko for helping Lennon try expand his creativity and write songs such as Imagine.
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Home Article Sharon Horgan Married Husband Jeremy Rainbird in 2006: Happy Couple: No Divorce Rumors: See their Children and Career
Sharon Horgan Married Husband Jeremy Rainbird in 2006: Happy Couple: No Divorce Rumors: See their Children and Career
The stunning actress plus writer, Sharon Horgan is living a happy married life with her husband named, Jeremy Rainbird and still no news about their divorce and is focused both on professional and personal life.
As we all keep on listening about the Hollywood celebrities divorces and separation this time it is all about the good relationship.
Here we are talking about the beautiful couple, Sharon Horgan and her husband Jeremy Rainbird who are married since 2006.
The pair is together for more than decades and still, shares a very strong bond with no divorce rumors. So, today let us discuss their relationship, children, and career.
Sharon Horgan and Jeremy Rainbird's happy married life: No Divorce Rumors
The couple has come a long way in their relationship. 16th October 2006 is the date when the couple came together and tied a knot.
Her husband, Jeremy is a retired advertisement executive and is also a co-owner of The Warbird Company.
"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love", and looks like they are friends more than lovers and it has made their relationship even better.
Obligatory kitchen shot before we left. #baftas2016 photo credit @popsy_cake
A post shared by Jeremy Rainbird (@jezzarainbird) on May 8, 2016 at 9:37am PDT
The Couple is Blessed with their Two Children: Daughters
Children always complete family. The couple also has two children; daughters named Sadhbh and Amer who are the most important person for them.
Both of the children look too adorable and are close to her parents. The parents keep on spending their spare time along with their kids.
A post shared by Jeremy Rainbird (@jezzarainbird) on Feb 17, 2017 at 8:08am PST
Throwback to last week: These two! So proud of these ladies. Growing up to be strong, smart and cool. Unlike their Dad. Photo credit: my brother @jessepooljesse
A post shared by Jeremy Rainbird (@jezzarainbird) on Apr 17, 2017 at 3:10am PDT
Happy Mother's Day. This is my eight year old balancing ignoring me on Minecraft with a full body leg hug
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Sharon Horgan's blissful career
A Thousand miles begins with a single step. Keeping this in mind the actress started working in the call centers, restaurants as a waitress before beginning her career in acting.
After meeting the British writer named, Dennis Kelly she began to work in the youth theater, writing plus producing materials sent to BBC.
Due to their hard work, they won BBC New Comedy Award.
Sharon along with her co-star Rob Daleney, Source: Radio Times
Sharon after that started working in several movies and TV series including Monkey Dust, Absolute Power, Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, and others.
Besides acting, she also worked as voice characters in the movies including Big Babies, Valiant.
Marriage. Catastrophe episode 3 tonight on Channel 4 at 10pm
A post shared by Sharon Horgan (@sharonhorgan) on Mar 14, 2017 at 10:23am PDT
Sharon is not just limited to acting but is also involved in writing as well. Some of her famous writing includes that help her to earn several awards are Pulling, Angelo by Chloe Thomas, Holly Wash, Catastrophe with Rob Delaney and divorce too.
Keeping aside her career, the couple is living a wonderful life along with their children and still no news of their divorce.
My daughter hosted a fundraising dinner for Shelterbox tonight. Friends and family donated time and food and raised money for this great charity. Shelterbox provide emergency light, shelter and other vital supplies to support those in urgent need in disaster zones around the world. They save lives. You can get involved via [email protected], Facebook or twitter #shineforshelterbox @shelterboxuk
A post shared by Sharon Horgan (@sharonhorgan) on Dec 18, 2016 at 2:18pm PST
Quick Facts of Sharon Horgan
Born to Ursula and John in Hackney, London, United Kingdom.
She is of New Zealander descent.
Raised along with her four brothers and sisters.
Attended Brunel University and earned the degree in English and American studies.
Worked as a waitress and work in a call center before being an actress.
Combined with the British writer, Dennis Kelly and started working in the theater along with him.
She also works as a writer and also worked for producing material to the BBC and won the BBC New Comedy Award for Performance and Sketch Writing.
Appeared in the Monkey Dust in 2003.
Featured in Man Up with stars Lake Bell, Simon Pegg, Ophelia Lovibond, Olivia Williams, Rory Kinnear, Ken Stott and others.
Wrote some famous writing including Pulling for which she was nominated for British Academy Television Award and won a British Comedy Award for the writing.
Also wrote a US comedy series named, Divorce starring Sarah Jessica Parker.
Debuted in the direction from the semi-autobiographical film named, The Week Before Christmas.
Sharon also appeared as a presenter and co-presented the eight weeks series of The Friday Night Project along with Lucy Montgomery, Jimmy Carr, and Rob Rouse.
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I've never forgiven Chuck.
At least Bruce killed Chuck. Not to mention Bob Wall and Jackie Chan.
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Raven001 New Member
Hey didnt Jackie Chan kill Bill Wallace in The Protector? Anyway it still should have been called kungfu kid its not like its the 60's when nobody knew what kungfu was and everything was branded "karote"
Raven001, May 11, 2010
When you kill Bill Wallace, he doesn't die. He just gets angrier.
path_one steps taken
I'm thinking of the puzzled look on the faces of parents and their kids when they go to a Karate school after watching the film expecting the same art (Wushu) in the new Karate Kid film.
I can just see it now "... Mum, this isn't Karate, they didn't do this or dress the same in the film!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_remakes
path_one, May 11, 2010
It was a bit like my previous club when Kung Fu Panda came out.
"Mommy, there aren't any giant pandas."
Muawijhe Dreams of Madness
A few of my thoughts on the new Karate Kid film. As my dojo rented out a private screening for it, I'll be seeing it opening day (and would regardless, as I'm a cinemaholic).
First, I think the original is a classic, hands down. Maybe not a great film, especially by today's standards, but it has a lot of great elements, and a lot of bad. In the end, still a classic. And I'm as ****ed off as the next guy with Hollywood remaking the classic, yet I do understand the need for some as it does update them for a newer audience that can't stomach a film that's over 10 years old. Perhaps it'll help to think of this as a mis-named "adaptation" rather than a "remake".
Second, I'm not too happy, as others have stated, that it is being called the Karate Kid even though (insert all the other posts here). But then again, how many authentic martial arts movies have there been in the popular culture? I'll cringe, but I think I'll live with it. I don't have the time and effort to wage a campaign of moderation of American martial arts cinema (and where was all the outcry on Ninja Assassin not showing proper ninjutsu?). Besides, it's for entertainment.
Thirdly, it should be entertaining. It's obviously geared to entertaining younger audiences, families, and not geared to entertaining us martial artists. If you go in expecting one thing and not another you will most certainly be disappointed. That said, it will probably have its fair share of cool moments, groaners, and try to instill its own set of morals and ideas to the audience.
Even if it is not Karate, we can't really blame American cinema for giving the wrong impression of martial arts just on this one movie, lol. I think if it inspires people to actually learn MA, be it JMA, CMA, MMA, or anything else, all the better. Once someone steps foot into a class, if they really want to learn martial arts over learning to do flashy movie stuff, they'll learn what is proper from a good instructor.
I mean, heck, I grew up watching the horribly dubbed Hong Kong Kung Fu popcorn flicks, and Karate Kid, inspiring me to get into martial arts. Though I haven't done any kung fu or karate (instead Judo, Jujutsu, and To-Shin Do), it was these movies that got me to do it, as bad as they were as movies, and I respect the other martial arts for what they are, even if I haven't trained in them yet.
Anyways, the movie will probably suck. But even with its obvious flaws, perhaps it'll be entertaining, and if one doesn't go into the theatre with too harsh of a judgement, they should probably find their money well spent (if anything to give a legitmate reason from having seem the film to bash it)! :hat:
Muawijhe, May 11, 2010
Muawijhe, you posted a reasonable response. That isn't allowed here!
Kidding, good post
El Medico Valued Member
ColaMike said: ↑
Yep, I am Legend has been remade three or four times now.
The original had Vincent Price being chase by Vampire in capes.
I might have seen adverts for two or three movies that weren't automatically recognized as remakes, though most of those were romance films.
No vamps in capes in Price's film,which was only film close to Matheson's book.
Omega Man was about a million miles away from the story.
Smith's was updated for explosions-the look of a contemporary film.Bad "savior" crap at end,too.
El Medico, May 11, 2010
oldyonkyu said: ↑
I'm still upset with Chuck Norris killing Bill Wallace in one of his movies. BAD FORM on Chuck's part.
Hey,Bill asked for it-he was a reeeallly bad man.Didn't he beat Chuck's kid to death?In the film,of course!
Chuck's kid had it coming.
Not sure if the jury can accept your testimony as unbiased!
Mushroom De-powered to come back better than before.
I thought we already had the discussion of "why its still called Karate Kid and not Kungfu kid".
Kung Fu Kid was already a copyrighted title and hence not taken. Also with Will Smith really wanted to keep this as a remake. Chances are the name "Karate Kid" (title) will be used in dialogue terribly like.
"Hey this isn't Karate, kid"
Kind of like how they wrote in dialogue to explain Arnies, Van Dammes accents by either "When I was in the Army in Berlin" or something other.
Mushroom, May 12, 2010
Did Daniel san join the 'Outsiders' before or after he joined Miyagi Dojo? Will Smith needs to keep an eye on his kid since even Daniel San went bad. Only his "connected" Cousin Venny could pull some 'strings' to get him off on that murder rap.
Cousin Vinnie is awesome
Theforgotten Drifting Aimlessly
No, no, no, and no. Where do I start? Calling it "The Karate Kid" when they don't even do Karate, trying too hard to make it "hip" which is a complete turn off for people who have more than one brain cell, using Jackie Chan of all people to be the "Miyagi" persona, and Jayden Smith is no Daniel Larusso so his character loses the whole wussy-becomes-competent-martial-artist effect. I think that this is an insult to the original, and I think it will do more to turn people away from the arts than inspire them to sign up. I wouldn't mind it at all if it wasn't called "The Karate Kid", but the fact that they would dare attach this modern film to such a classic is a slap in the face. Is nothing sacred anymore, lol?
Theforgotten, May 13, 2010
Theforgotten said: ↑
No, nothing is sacred anymore!
But your post brought up a common pitfall with remakes. Just how much do you stick to the original, especially one that is a classic and not even that old (compared to the history of cinema as a whole)?
For example, Jaden is not Daniel Laruso. Chan is not Miyagi. But if they were, had they hired a cast to replicate the original cast, and the story played out exactly like the original, it wouldn't be worth making/seeing as you'd know exactly what was to be said/done. =P
So what does a studio/producer do? They change, or "adapt", it in ways they feel will make it a bit fresher and more akin to the audience. Ever watch a movie and say to yourself, "Man, that was good. But had I made the movie, I'd have done..." Same thing for makers of the new Karate Kid. They want to add what they'd have done if they'd made the movie.
It's one of the main pitfalls of doing a remake of a "classic", especially one whose primary audience is still alive and of relatively sound mind. It's one thing to remake and update a film from the 20s or 30s, or some obscure B-movie that had a sweet premise but never made it on its own. And another to update a film that's old and would honestly benefit from updated special effects technology (i.e. King Kong). But don't fix what is not broken.
So we really have to hope that they keep what we, individually, liked from the original film, whilst adding to it elements we personally would like to see. And that's not easily done. In fact, that's much of the same problem with making a sequel: adding fresh new things that keep an audience engaged, whilst at the same time retaining what made the first installment good without just rehashing all the same elements. I'm sure we've all seen countless examples of either end of these spectrums in sequels, and probably remakes, too.
So when remaking a movie that was already successful, what does one really hope to add but money to their pockets? :bang:
End of my rant. Thanks for reading. :hat:
Taiji_Lou Banned Banned
Umm..... not to mention Hayden Christenson was in Return of the Jedi...
Taiji_Lou, May 13, 2010
This is nothing to do with the producers attempting to add substance to Hollywood by reactivating an already successful franchise. Like they say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
This "remake" is just an attempt on Will Smith's part to turn his son into the next action hero. But it won't work because: a) his son can't act, b) his son isn't skilled enough to even be considered for a martial arts role, and c) his son can't act.
I agree with points "a" and "c", though perhaps with training he'll learn (I won't hold my breath).
As for "b", that's an iffy. He'll never be Tony Jaa, ie, a martial artist in cinema. But, with the way stunt martial arts and their coreography are done for movies, there's chance. There is a difference between real martial arts and stage arts. Similar, and perhaps having a background in one will help with the other.
Still, all they need to do now is teach you what you need to do for the short close-up snap of footage, and you're fine. Not like Ralph or Pat were experienced martial artists. Bullet Proof Monk, anyone? =P
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Here's why Facebook's Internet.org is crumbling in India
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the internet.org summit in New Delhi, India last October.
Image: Press Trust of India/Associated Press
By JP Mangalindan 2015-04-16 19:13:08 UTC
A group of Internet companies have withdrawn support from Internet.org, the buzzy Facebook-backed service that aims to bring people in developing countries online, following a backlash in India over net neutrality.
Businesses such as travel website Cleartrip, news channel New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) and the Times Group, a media company that owns Times of India, all yanked content from Internet.org in India, where they offered some of their content for free.
See also: Zuckerberg: Facebook is 'working on' building lasers and drones
The move comes after a week or so of furious debate in the country over net neutrality, which basically maintains that all Internet traffic must be treated fairly and indiscriminately. Although net neutrality proved a hot-button issue when Internet.org first launched last October in India, the issue came to a head when Airtel, India's largest telecomm company, drew fire from activists over its new Airtel Zero platform, which lets users access select mobile apps for free. (App makers covered the fees instead.)
Net neutrality activists launched an online grassroots campaign, including a massive letter-writing campaign to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, pressuring Flipkart — considered the Amazon of India — to pull out of Airtel Zero.
We at Flipkart have always strongly believed in the concept of #NetNeutrality, for we exist because of the Internet. http://t.co/XTxK9l6cdU
— Flipkart (@Flipkart) April 14, 2015
The brouhaha quickly raised public concern around Internet.org, as well, which partners with Reliance Communications to bring free access to more than 35 services in India, including versions of Facebook, BBC News, Wikipedia and the job-search site Babajob. The list of partners also included NDTV and Cleartrip until they walked out yesterday.
"The recent debate around net neutrality gave us pause to rethink our approach to Internet.org and the idea of large corporations getting involved with picking and choosing who gets access to what and how fast," Subramanya Sharma, Cleartrip's chief marketing officer, wrote in a company blog post on Wednesday.
NDTV co-founder Prannoy Roy put it more simply:
NDTV is committed to net neutrality and is therefore exiting, and will not be a part of, Facebook's http://t.co/r3IZLs9qEJ initiative.
— Prannoy Roy (@PrannoyRoyNDTV) April 15, 2015
Although Facebook says Internet.org has helped more than 7 million people across six countries so far — Columbia, India, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Ghana — critics argue that Internet.org is basically set up to prioritize content from partner businesses, who pay telecom companies such as Reliance for data charges and fees. That effectively defies net neutrality, those same critics say.
Topics: Facebook, Internet.org, mark zuckerberg, Social Good, Social Media
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A Lesson for First and Second Graders
by Chris Confer
This whole-class lesson is adapted from the Math By All Means replacement unit Geometry, Grades 1–2, written by Chris Confer. By folding a square of paper in several predetermined ways, children investigate and record the different shapes they can make. This activity gives children valuable experience with learning about how shapes relate to one another.
To prepare for the lesson, Chris cut squares from copier paper for the children. (The squares were about 4 inches on a side.) Chris also had ready one 12-by-18-inch sheet of newsprint for every pair of children and a large sheet of chart paper to use for tracing shapes for a class record.
After giving each child a square, Chris said, “Watch closely and fold your paper just like I fold mine.”
Chris folded her square in half to make a rectangle. When the children had folded their papers, she had them count to verify that there were four sides and four corners. “What shape is it?” she asked. (See figure 1.)
Most of the children answered, “Rectangle.”
Chris unfolded the rectangle, refolded it in the other direction, and had the children do the same.
“We want to be able to fold the paper easily back and forth, back and forth,” she explained, wiggling the fold to match her words. The children did likewise. Chris then asked the children to unfold the paper to its full square shape.
“Watch first as I fold two corners down the way we do when we make a paper airplane,” Chris said. (See figure 2.)
After the class had folded their papers and counted the sides and corners, Chris explained, “When a shape has five sides and five corners, it’s called a pentagon.” She asked the children to say “pentagon” aloud softly. Then she told them to wiggle the new folds back and forth a few times.
Chris then showed how to fold down the remaining two corners to make a square that was smaller than the original one, but the children had their own ideas. “It’s a kite!” “It’s a dia- mond.” (See figure 3.)
Chris rotated her folded square so one side was parallel to the floor. “What is this shape?” she asked.
“It’s a square,” the students responded. “But I know it’s a diamond,” Steve insisted.
“This shape may look like a kite or a diamond when I hold it like this,” Chris explained, rotat- ing the shape so a corner was up. “But it’s still a square no matter how it’s turned.”
Then Chris introduced the exploration. “Today we’re going to investigate the shapes you can make by folding your paper different ways. The rule is: You can fold your paper on one, two, or more folds, but only on the folds we’ve already made. You can’t make any new folds. Trace the different shapes you find. You’ll work with a partner, tracing your shapes on the same sheet of newsprint.”
As Chris distributed a sheet of 12-by-18-inch newsprint to each pair of students, she asked, “How many shapes do you think you’ll find?”
Children’s estimates ranged from two to ten. (There are actually nine different shapes, if you count the original square; see the diagram below, figure 4.)
Observing the Children
Chris circulated as children began folding their papers and tracing the shapes they found.
Danny asked, “Can we write something in the middle?” He pointed to the pentagon he had traced.
“Like what?” Chris inquired.
“Superman,” he answered. The shape reminded Danny of the symbol on Superman’s shirt.
Other children chose to decorate their shapes. Pentagons sprouted chimneys and bricks, and trapezoids grew wheels and exhaust pipes as the children related the shapes to familiar objects.
Gabriel and Stacy were hard at work and had already traced six different shapes. “Look! I did a pentagon,” Stacy said, trying out a new word. “And upside down it looks like a cat,” she added.
Adrian was also hard at work tracing his first shape. While children’s abilities vary widely, each child can be successful with this shape investigation.
“Can I do this one?” Danny asked, showing Chris a skinny pentagon.
“Is it different from the shapes you’ve found so far?” she asked. Chris and Danny looked at the shapes he had traced.
“Yes,” Danny answered, demonstrating how he had produced two different pentagons by folding his square differently.
Josie and Francisca had traced two identical squares on their paper. Chris said to them, “It looks to me that you have drawn the same shape on your paper two times.”
“But we made one a square and the other a diamond,” Francisca said.
“They look the same to me,” Chris said. “They seem to be the same size and shape, but this one is turned,” Chris pointed to the diamond. The girls nodded and began erasing one of the shapes.
Steve and Javier seemed to be finished. “How many different shapes did you find?” Chris asked.
“Six,” answered Steve. “That’s how many there are.” Steve had initially predicted there would be six different shapes.
“How do you know there are only six?” Chris asked.
Steve shrugged. “We looked and we looked, and that’s how many we found,” he said. But Javier then found a new shape. He showed Steve how to fold all the flaps except one to get a pentagon. (See figure 5.)
Figure 5. Steve and Javier traced and labeled all nine shapes.
A Class Discussion
After the children had had time to work on the activity, Chris began a class discussion. “Who would like to come up and trace a shape?” she asked, posting chart paper. Many children raised their hand, eager to participate.
Javier brought his folded hexagon to the chart and carefully drew around it with a marker. Chris and the children counted the sides and corners together. “It’s a diamond!” “It’s a hexagon!” “It’s a trapezoid!” the children called out.
“A shape with six sides and six corners is called a hexagon,” Chris said and labeled the figure. Chris held up one of the yellow hexagons from the Pattern Blocks for comparison. The children noticed that although their hexagon also had six sides, it was longer, skinnier, and more like a diamond. The Pattern Block hexagon was fatter and more like a circle, some said.
Adrian then showed the class a pentagon. No one remembered the word. Francisca came close. “Pen . . . pen . . .”
“It’s a pentagon,” Chris said. It takes many experiences over time for children to learn new terminology and become comfortable using it.
The class continued tracing shapes, labeling them, and counting the sides and corners. Gabriel pointed to a pentagon and said, “It looks like the face of a clown! Here’s the hair.” Adrian called the trapezoid a shoe. Marcos thought his folded square opened like an envelope. “Look, it’s a letter,” he said.
Chris then told the children that for homework they were to take home their squares and work with their families to find all the shapes. Chris knew that the children would benefit from doing the activity again, and would enjoy doing so. Also, it was an opportunity for them to show their parents the geometry they were learning at school.
From Printed Newsletter Issue Number 22, Fall 1997
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Vought F4U-1 Corsair 'Birdcage'
by: Frank Crenshaw [ FRANKC ]
Few aircraft have been as successful in combat as the F4U Corsair. The innovative “gull wing” design was first introduced in 1938. The design allowed for less drag and a shorter landing gear than the huge prop would have allowed with a straight wing aircraft. However, due to complexities in development and production of this new and innovative aircraft, the Corsair wasn’t used in combat until 1943. Thus the more conventional F6F Hellcat beat it into combat and into deployment on the Carrier fleet. At first the Corsair was difficult to land on an aircraft carrier. They earned the ominous nickname of “Ensign Eliminator” due to the dangerous stall that could occur at slow speeds if the pilot wasn’t careful with the throttle. Thus the first operational Corsairs were given to the Marines and flown from land bases.
The Corsair proved to be a superior fighter to anything the Japanese had and it quickly earned a reputation among pilots as rugged and worthy fighter. Eventually the bugs were worked out and Corsairs were deployed to the fleet carriers of the USN and Great Britain where they served with great distinction. Later variants would serve in the military forces of many different countries up until the 1960s.
This new kit represents the first operational Corsair, the F4U-1. It is easily identifiable by its birdcage style canopy.
Tamiya has been setting the standard for quality WWII era kits in 1/32 scale for a few years now. The Spitfire Mk 9 kit and the P-51D mustang kits were both highly anticipated and didn’t disappoint. This latest release shows that Tamiya has learned some from their previous releases. Anyone who has seen either the P-51 or Spitfire Mk 9 kit will feel familiar with the elegant moldings, and features that Tamiya as provided.
If you got the export version of this kit you are provided a copy of Sprue G molded in clear plastic. This is the tree that holds the parts for the engine cowling.
17 Sprues molded in light grey plastic.
1 sprue molded in clear plastic.
1 sprue that is a copy of sprue G molded in clear plastic (Export version of the kit only)
2 sheets of steel photo etch.
2 rubber tires.
55 page instruction book printed in black and white.
1 sheet of canopy masks.
1 Decal sheet featuring markings for Ken Walsh’s “DaphneC” of VMF-213, another Marine Corsair of VMF-215, and the USN Corsair of James Halford of VF-17.
1 Decal sheet of stencil markings.
Full color painting guild for the camouflage markings of the tri color VF-17 bird.
11 page reference book which features many color photos and descriptions of various models of the Corsair starting with the F4U-1 through the F4U-4.
A PEEK IN THE BOX
Now I am modeler, not a historian. Don’t get me wrong, I’m certainly interested in history, and building my model as accurately as I can. However, I don’t normally compare parts to plans unless something looks wrong. At this point I can’t tell much about how it looks. My only reference on that is other people’s builds. From what I have seen it most certainly looks like a Corsair. I also can’t tell how it all fits together but from what I can see in the box the kit looks fantastic. The first thing you notice when looking at this kit is that the molding quality and level of detail is astounding. The panel line details are very crisp, rivets and screws cover the airframe, but are so finely produced that the modeler will have to take care not to completely erase their presence.
The cockpit appears to look very good right out of the box. Tamiya provides trim tab wheels in clear acrylic, just like the ones on the real plane! Tamiya provides the “main” parts of the pit and have not attempted to model any of the very complex system of hydraulic pipes, hoses, and wires that run all over in the front pit. I’m very glad of this as if one is looking to add this detail, this will be a good place to start rather than scraping off unrealistic molded on lines. If you don’t feel like doing extra work here it should still look pretty good due to the pit being fairly dark. The foot supports also should have an open hole in part that forms the support with the fuselage. The photo below shows the flashed over hole will be easy enough to hollow out.
One thing I do not like is the steel seat belts. I wish Tamiya had just provided the buckles and let me make the belts out of paper. Typically steel belts are extremely hard to use and don’t end up looking particularly good. I will not be using the kits seat belts, your results may vary. The instrument panel is gorgeous and has the same type of construction sequence as was used for both the Spitfire and the P-51. A clear piece forms the dials and a backwards printed decal shows the instruments through the glass and will look great in the assembled pit. I feel the throttle quadrant and some of the other levers are soft and not very complex but I’m sure once painted they will look nice. A won’t complain too much about that though, besides either making your own, or aftermarket will surely be available which will address the worst of these parts if that truly bothers you.
The clear parts are exquisite, and the design of the forward canopy is much like the one in the P-51 kit. It’s molded so that you will join the canopy on panel lines away from the clear parts of the canopy. This is a great design feature of Tamiya kits that I absolutely love.
As nice as it is, there are a few noticeable ejector “pin” marks inside the fuselage where the cockpit and tail gear bay, but nothing surprising or serious there. Filling these little pin holes will be fairly easy as the spaces they are in are not such that you will have trouble fitting a sanding stick to get to them.
One little thing I did notice. Tamiya has provided positional control surfaces, however, the control stick is molded in the neutral position and moving the stick to a realistic position to match the controls won’t be a trivial matter. If you plan on building this kit out of the box only, you might want to plan on leaving the controls at dead neutral.
Tamiya has engineered this kit so it will be fairly easy to position the wings up, or down (or one up and on down – yes they could be positioned like that). Also, a really nice feature is either flaps up, or flaps down. While it’s true that the flaps up position is the most often seen in a parked aircraft, those who want to can just as easily put the flaps so they are in the down (landing) position. While it’s not the most realistic position to have them, I love the look of a Corsair with its flaps hanging down and will build mine like that.
Interestingly enough the gun tubes are not modeled by Tamiya. There are just open holes in the wings. I’m a little disappointed in this as that detail is actually very easy to see in this scale. However, a realistic and easy option would be to use decal strips to represent the tape which was typically used to cover the gun ports on operational aircraft.
The landing gear parts are exquisite and very well detailed. Other than a brake line not much will be required to detail this area of the kit. Also, they engineered the wells to completely eliminate ejector “pin marks”. The landing gear door bays consist of multiple parts to allow you to construct a very realistic copy of the doors without having to have those pin marks which always ruin the detail.
This kit takes a turn from previous 1/32 releases from Tamiya in that there isn’t any armament provided and the wing gun bays are sealed shut. This is good thing for those who complained about the open panels on the spitfire and P-51 kits. This lack of panels to glue and fill will make this kit much easier to build.
Like the missing guns, Tamiya provided a nice engine, but none of the accessory package and super charger that was present in the bay just behind the engine. The only engine panels that can be opened are the ones directly over the cylinders. Again, this will make this kit much easier to build than either the Spitfire of the Mustang because there is so much less to deal with as far as panels and internal details.
So, while this kit is a simpler (but just as costly) than either the Spitfire Mk9 or P-51D kit, there are plenty of parts and details to keep a modeler very busy for quite a while and will result in a stunning rendition of the first of the Corsairs. I can’t wait to build mine.
A PEEK AT THE FUTURE?
In looking over the sprues and instructions it’s entirely obvious that there will be other variants of this kit released. The parts breakdown is such that they could pretty easily do all variants of the corsair if they really wanted to, but for sure we should see a F4U-1D at the very least. I say this because the etched sheet contains the rocket motor vents for 8 5” HVAR’s!
Highs: High points on this kit are the quality of the moldings and details such as the engine, cockpit, and gear bays. The simplified assembly gives the builder the option to build a detailed model OOB and provides a terrific basis for a more detailed effort.
Lows: If you only plan on building one large scale Corsair, most modelers would probably choose the later F4U-1a or F4U-1D variants. Obviously the price is high for this kit.
Verdict: This kit meets all expectations. Tamiya's Corsair is an easy to build (albeit costly) highly detailed gem of a kit - the best Corsair kit in any scale by leaps and bounds. If you appreciate quality you probably won't feel the asking price is unreasonable.
Our Thanks to Tamiya, Inc.!
About Frank Crenshaw (FrankC)
FROM: COLORADO, UNITED STATES
Copyright ©2021 text by Frank Crenshaw [ FRANKC ]. Images also by copyright holder unless otherwise noted. Opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of ModelGeek. All rights reserved.
ludwig113
i suppose its not bad..... i'm sure the odd person will find faults with it.... paul
AUG 27, 2013 - 08:39 AM
Littorio
I feel your pain Rowan but for me a Corsair is a take it or leave it aircraft, and at this time I'd leave it. Don't get me wrong I applaud Tamiya for making it but it's just not for me.
Jessie_C
It's some other place where people go to build models sometime. Don't know why when they've got Aeroscale...
This (among others) is quite "drool worthy". 1/32 _would_ be awesome to work in were it not for one "small" problem. I already have a serious lack of display space. Its so bad that I'm designing and building boxes for long term storage of older models in my collection just to make room for the projects that are currently on my work bench. If not for space limitations I'd already be working on an He-219 or JU-88 in 1/32 scale. Instead its total commitment to 1/48. Cheers, Fred
I will be buying one but not the birdcage version. I have just completed a set of masks for one of these for Jamie Haggo, you can find him on Large Scale Planes, or is it Britmodeller? and it will appear in one of the magazines From what I have seen it is definitely as good, if not better than any of the Tamiya "super kits", and I look forward to further releases.
AUG 27, 2013 - 06:55 PM
Joel_W
Certainly a outstanding kit. Seen it up close and personal. Just don't build in that scale as a general rule unless it's a physically smaller size. Already have built Tamiya's 1/48 scale F4U-1, & F4U-1A. Have the F4U-1D as well. Joel
What I neglected to say, because I was making a blatant plug about my masks, was that it is a very nice review Frank, thanks. Whether I get this version or a later version this review will still be very relevant and it great to have it review so well here; those other sites just have people who have bought the kit gushing over it rightly so but a good review is worth a lot more
pzcreations
I can testify..its a beautiful kit! And the fit of the parts is the best Ive ever seen.
JPTRR
Yeah, the gray styrene is too neutral. And I'm not odd!
OCT 03, 2013 - 03:30 PM
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Stockholm Review: A perfect showing of an absurdly true story
With dark comedic wit and incredibly fun characters, Stockholm not only boasters one of Ethan Hawke’s best performances, but an interesting look at, possibly, the origins of Stockholm syndrome.
Based on the absurdly true story documented in the New Yorker by Daniel Lang, the film follows a 1973 bank heist in Stockholm, Sweden where a crazed gunman (Hawke) takes over one of the biggest banks in Sweden and holds a small groups of bank tellers (Noomi Rapace, Bea Santos) hostage. Once the gunman reunites with a criminal friend (Mark Strong) through ransom demands with the police, the two criminals begin to form a bond with the hostages, and they are slowly seen by the hostages as not so criminal after all. With police making little effort to get the hostages free without the two men having to go to fatal methods, the hostages begin to help the pair of criminals escape so that they can all get out in one piece.
It’s actually interesting how the film utilizes the idea of Stockholm syndrome, a condition where hostages develop a psychological alliance with their captors, as I could feel it kind of afflicting me as I watched the film. Regardless of the criminal acts that Hawke and Strong’s characters were doing or what the situation was like, I couldn’t help but slowly grow more care for them and see them as not so bad. The film expertly blurs the lines between good and evil with some great character building and quieter moments to let writer/director Robert Budreau’s stellar dialogue create a sense of empathy that’s hard to resist.
Hawke plays up Lars’ caring and personal side perfectly and is undoubtedly one of the best parts of the film. PHOTO: Roger Ebert
Nothing, however, compares to the strong performances from Hawke, Rapace, and Strong as their characters are fun, absurd at times, and, overall, complex. Hawke’s performance as Lars is undoubtedly one of his best performances of his already accomplished career as he brings a pure sense of charm, care, and emotion to every second he’s on-screen. While we’re initially introduced to Lars as him being crazy and demanding, his more sympathetic and caring side come to the surface and, thanks to Hawke’s performance, we are given an unlikely hero to root for.
Rapace also puts in a strong performance as Bianca and captures her slowly building trust and care for Lars perfectly. Bianca is definitely the film’s example of Stockholm syndrome and Rapace’s performance really highlights why she is such an effective example. Strong is also effective in creating a small sense of empathy for his character, Gunnar, and create some sequences with Hawke that have me craving to see these two together on-screen again soon. Like Lars, Gunnar is introduced as intimidating and tough, but is quickly shown to not be as hardened as many would expect and with some fun lines, ends up being a solid comic relief that’s mirrored well with Hawke.
As said before, Stockholm does an interesting job blurring the lines between the police and criminals that’s very engaging and fascinating to watch. There’s a small mention that this incident is the first hostage situation this police force has ever encountered, which becomes increasingly obvious due to how they attempt to handle the situation. There’re moments that beg the question of whether the hostages would be safer with the police or the criminals. With the police not really doing much to keep the hostages safe, unless danger actually comes their way, and the criminals being more sympathetic and caring for their safety, it’s easy to relate and understand all of hostage’s feelings.
Lars and Bianca’s relationship is very well developed throughout the film and with the tenseness of the situation growing, it’s hard to blame Bianca for feeling so comfortable around Lars and Gunnar. PHOTO: Twitter
Especially, when you think about all of the absurdity that comes from both the police and criminals. Both sides go to some extreme and darkly comedic methods to make sure they come out on top. Whether it’s faking deaths or seeing how far things have to go for someone to take action, Stockholm is full of fun absurdity that’s thoroughly entertaining to watch.
Even when outside of their horror-sphere, Blumhouse has pushed out another strong film full of great performances, ideas, and creativity in the form of Stockholm. It mixes historic relevance with fun, absurd comedy to create a unique look at Stockholm syndrome in general. It’s an entertaining must-see and features another perfect performance from Hawke that deserves to be highlighted as one of his best.
Watch the Trailer Here:
Comedy, Drama, Thriller Based on a True Story, Blumhouse, Comedy, Drama, Ethan Hawke, Mark Strong, Noomi Rapace, Stockholm, Stockholm Syndrome, Thriller
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Men’s Nationals 2016
November 24, 2016 ~ Kelly Thomas ~ Leave a comment
Class 1: SP43 ASHLEY ROBINSON
2nd ARC38 Danny Hobson 3rd WS20 Jason Saunders 4th SV101 Conner Griffiths
The first final of the weekend only took one attempt to complete. For the first half of the race we saw a three car battle for the lead, this was between defending champion Danny Hobson (ARC38), Josh Fowler (NS697) and Ashley Robinson (SP43). It was Josh who took the early lead, but after swapping and changing and three-a-breast into the corner, it was Ashley who took up the top spot. For the second half of the race this is how it stayed, with Ashley continuously building a gap to those behind. The battle was still on though for the other trophy positions, with both Conner Griffiths (SV101) and Ian Ullathorne (SC25) fighting for those places. On the penultimate lap, Conner made a lunge up the inside of Josh and Danny, this looked like it was going to pay off, but collecting Danny meant the Conner picked up a green flag. This allowed Jason Saunders (WS20) and Alex Hill (SN164) to close the gap down and be in with a chance of a trophy. It was a convincing win for Ashley to take the Nationals title, who was followed over the line by Conner, who was then ducked the two positions to finish in fourth place. Danny managed to hold on to finish second, whilst Jason made the most of the opportunity to claim third place.
Class 2: SN668 OLLIE SOLE
2nd SC126 Craig Conway 3rd PAC21 Matthew Sawyer 4th SR54 Lee Evanson
An even break saw a close thought race for the trophy positions. There were 5 drivers that were the strongest in contention for the positions with positions swapping many times throughout the race. Unbeaten throughout the heats was Liam Bridges (WR147) and Joe Pipe (NS206), but Joe was unable to complete the race and although Liam was amongst the battle for the trophy positions he just missed out with a fifth place. The three cars that made the break to the front at the start of the race was Matthew Sawyer (PAC21), Ollie Sole (SN668) and Lee Evanson (SR54), we saw this trio swap places a number of times on the opening laps, but once Ollie was out in front there was no stopping him. In the later laps Craig Conway (SC126) also came into the mix for a trophy position. Lee crossed the line in second but a green flag saw him drop down to fourth, with Craig taking second and Matthew taking third.
Class 3: NW72 PETE ROBINSON
2nd Y51 Phil Thompson 3rd IK316 Martin Beaney 4th IK19 Chris Allanson
Another final that only took one attempt, saw Sam Gould (NS334), who was unbeaten during the heats, launching out of the gate to take the lead. However Sam’s luck run out a few lap in when he picked up a rear puncture, this allowed the rest of the field to close down the lead that he had built up. It was Pete Robinson (NW72) who took up the top spot, and this was where he stayed until the chequered. Hot on his tail was Barry Almond (SN27) closely followed by Phil Thompson (Y51). Phil got passed Barry on the last lap to claim second place, whilst Barry picked up a green flag, knocking him back to fifth place. Picking his way through the field from the back was Martin Beaney (IK316) who claimed third place ahead of fellow club member Chris Allanson (IK19) who was the last of the trophy finishers.
Class 4: PAC3 ROB CORBETT
2nd H31 Mike Jones 3rd CM7 Huw Jones 4th SR10 Brad Jarvis
There were two favourites coming into this weekend, for the last few years the battle has been between Huw Jones (CM7) and Rob Corbett (PAC3) for the national’s title. Going into the final however, there was only one person that was unbeaten, and that was Darren Grasby (E220). It was Darren who made a storming start, but was passed by Rob quite early on in the race. Rob’s closest competitor throughout the race was Nick Williams (M60), never letting Rob get away and ready to make his move any chance he got, unfortunately for Nick on the penultimate lap he lost a rear wheel making him unable to finish the race. That meant the battle for second place was between Huw and Mike Jones (H31), and it was Mike that took the place on the last bend, with Brad Jarvis (SR10) not far behind to round out the trophy winners in fourth.
Class 5: CY7 JOHN WILDE
2nd PHD7 Luke Jenkins 3rd SC46 Colin Chilvers 4th TA451 Lewis Richards
With an even break from the line, there was no one with a lead going into the first bend, but coming out with his nose in front was Colin Chilvers (SC46), but not for long with John Wilde (CY7) taking the lead a lap later. John held onto the lead all the way to the end, with Luke Jenkins (PHD7) taking second place ahead of Colin, whilst Lewis Richards (TA451) was hot on Colin’s tails. Once these positions were taken up, the field became spread out with no one being able to close the gap to John. Despite being joint qualifier for the final Colin Thorndyke (IK2) had no answer for those in the trophy positions, finishing sixth, with Gary Cheetham (N17) fifth and Kieran Cobb (IK75) in seventh.
Class 6: SL22 JASON BALLANTYNE
2nd P7EM Ben Gadsby 3rd N10 Martyn Janes 4th SN12 Tom Hall
One of the most open classes, it was very hard to pick a list of finalists, let alone a winner. The first attempt of the final was stopped after the first lap, but the second attempt was a clean run. It was Jason Ballantyne (SL22) who took the lead and that was where he stayed, building a gap in the first half of the race, whilst there was a battle of 5 cars for the next position. Ben Gadsby (P7EM) managed to break free from this battle and in the second half of the race closed down the gap to Jason, although ran out of laps to be able to make a challenge for the top spot. The other cars in the battle behind were Stu Thompson (WR133), Martyn Janes (N10), Craig Tovey (SS23) and Tom Hall (SN12). Martyn managed to also break away from this battle to claim a comfortable third place, whilst Tom beat the rest for the final trophy position of fourth place.
Class 7: SC61 ANDY HOLTBY
2nd SC700 Rich Lee 3rd PHD72 Jake Roberts 4th SC950 Abi Mosley
The Super Sevens final didn’t disappoint for action, the race was completed on the second attempt, after a messy first bend in the first run. Flying out the gate was Andy Holtby (SC61) and Abi Mosley (SC950). Andy came out of the first bend ahead, but it was Abi who took the lead in turn 2, the places where reversed again coming out of the next bend with Andy taking up the lead again, this time to stay there, and in true Andy style was away and gone. Abi was then in a race long battle with another Scunny member, Rich Lee (SC700) with both swapping places with each lap. A mistake on the last lap though saw Abi drop down to fourth place with the defending champion Jake Roberts (PHD72) picking up third place, who had been reigning in the top three whilst in a battle with Mike Mackenzie (CA12) for position.
Class 8: ARC4 PHIL COOPER
2nd T5 Stuart Whitehouse 3rd LM17 Jack Gibbons 4th R271 Max Lewis
All eyes were at the front for this final, a clean break saw Dan Thomas (PHD47) take the lead going into the first bend, but taking a wide line lead to Phil Cooper (ARC4) sneaking up the inside to take over the lead, and in true Cooper style this was where he stayed, but not without firstly Dan climbing all over the back of him trying to find a way back past until he spun out. Next to take up the challenge was Stuart Whitehouse (T5), who once he had reeled Phil in was all over the back of him trying to make his move. With no answer it was Phil who took the win, fresh from his class nine victory, which saw him re-write the history books becoming the most successful at the nationals with his 8th title! The battle for third was close between Jack Gibbons (LM17) and Max Lewis (R271), and across the line it finished in this order.
2nd P25EM Phillip Barleyman 3rd LUD80 Jimmy Smith 4th SC4 John Whitehouse
A clean run final saw defending champion, Phil Cooper (ARC6) take the lead from the start. Despite their best efforts the rest of the field weren’t able to make an impact on Phil, who pulled away from the battling field to take a more that comfortable win. It was for the rest of the trophy positions where the real fight was. John Whitehouse (SC4) looked like Phil’s closest competitor at the start of the race, but dropped back whilst battling with Phillip Barleyman (P25EM) and Jimmy Smith (LUD80). This was a battle the continued throughout the race, and it was in this order that they crossed the line, but John had picked up a green flag dropping him back to fourth place. Behind the leading group both Steven Lindsay (PHD1), who was unbeaten during the heats, and Jason Richardson (P5EM) were battling it out and were both hot on the tails of trophy positions.
Class 10: ARC1 LEE SEAGREAVES
2nd PHD2 Phil Rogers 3rd NS120 Liam Evans 4th BC22 Lance Bowen
It was Liam Evans (NS120) who went into the final as favourite, having been the only one unbeaten over the heats, and he was the first to show, taking the lead going into the first bend. However it was Lee Seagreaves (ARC1) and Lance Bowen (BC22) who came out of the bend in front, with many laps being raced side by side, with Lee just holding onto the lead most of the time. There was a battle behind with Phil Rogers (PHD2), Liam and Wes Tinker (Y40). Phil managed to grab second place with a lap or so to go, but this being one of the closest thought finals of the day, coming out of the last bend it really could have been any of the top four who took the win. It was Lee who added another nationals title to his collection, with Phil second, Liam third and Lance fourth.
Champion of Champions: ARC4 PHIL COOPER
2nd CY7 John Wilde 3rd SC61 Andy Holtby 4th SL22 Jason Ballantyne
Nottingham – Winter Series Round 3
November 3, 2016 ~ Kelly Thomas ~ Leave a comment
Well we’ve got to that time of year again, the end of October only means one thing on the Autograss calendar, the end of the season.
Over the course of the 7 month season I have visited many clubs and venues that I had not been to before, we certainly have spent a lot of time travelling this year. For the last meeting of the season I went back to Nottingham, where the season started, both on the calendar and for me.
Traditionally Nottingham Autograss club hosts the season opener and come the end of the season they hold the Winter Series, which consists of three rounds, with the last one being the last meeting on the Autograss calendar across the county.
The winter series runs over the three meetings with each round having three heats with the accumulated points over the rounds determining the trophy winners. Congratulations to all of those that took part over the series and came away as the 2016 Winter Series Champions.
There was only one of Team Concord racing on Sunday, and that was Barry Hathaway (C183E). The trip up to Notts was in order to test the class 7 out before the end of the season after an engine change. Before one of the engines blew up at Wessex in July the car had been flying, and back out there this weekend it was again. In the first run, Barry came out the first corner in second position hot on the tails of first place, but driver error a couple of laps later saw him spinning out of contention. The second heat saw Barry taking the lead right at the start, but a few laps in and the same thing as in the first heat happened, he spun out of contention, with not enough laps to catch the now front runners up. In the third heat, it came together with a second place.
I have to say that the race of the day has to go to the three car battle in the class 6’s between Martyn Janes (N10), Lloyd Elliot (IK64) and Jordan Hampson (P70EM). This battle started with the bungee and continued all the way to the chequered flag, it was great to watch and definitely a battle to keep an eye out for next season.
At the start of the season I never thought that the most visited track of the 2016 season would be Notts, but it wins with three visits over the season. Thank you and well done to the Nottingham Team for another great days racing.
Thank you to Ted Shillitto for the use of his photos, check out his album on the Nottingham Autograss Facebook page for more photos from Sunday’s meeting.
Keep an eye on the blog page for further posts, I am still catching up after a hectic summer, with posts still to come from the Men’s Nationals, Ladies and Junior Nationals, Border Counties Festival, St Nets last meeting, Concord on Tour at the UKAC and a championship round-up of the UKAC.
So that’s it, 2016 is officially over. Fingers crossed for an early kick off in 2017 with a possible trip to the Birmingham NEC for the Autosport Show in January.
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Harvard goes to Washington
Architects in supermarkets
Michael Lewis '93 (left) and Cary Gemmer, assistant director of Classes and Reunions for the Harvard Alumni Association, watched election results at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square. Tuesday night’s national elections sent a number of Harvard alumni and affiliates off to Washington.
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Alumni, faculty win seats in House, Senate
By Katie Koch Harvard Staff Writer
In a tight contest for the presidency, one thing was for certain: a Harvard graduate would occupy the White House come January. But newly re-elected President Barack Obama, J.D. ’91, was hardly the only Harvardian to win a race Tuesday night.
Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, was elected to the Senate, making her the first woman to represent Massachusetts in the legislative body.
Harvard alumni can boast two new senators in Washington. Republican Ted Cruz, J.D. ’95, of Texas, and Democrat Tim Kaine, J.D. ’83, of Virginia, join 10 Harvard alumni in the Senate who were not up for re-election this year. New Mexico Democrat Jeff Bingaman ’65 and Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl, M.B.A. ’58, are retiring.
The House now counts 31 Harvard alumni among its 435 members, among them 19 incumbents and 12 new congressmen. Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank ’61, J.D. ’77, is retiring. (As of Wednesday, three congressional races involving alumni had not yet been called but leaned in the Harvard candidates’ favor, and are represented in these figures.)
In addition, a number of other candidates with Harvard ties — including graduates of executive education programs at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Business School, and former fellows and directors of the Institute of Politics (IOP) — were successful Tuesday. Of those candidates, 14 incumbents and one challenger won seats in the House. (One race remained too close to call.) Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a former professor and fellow at HKS and the IOP, won re-election to the Senate.
Identical twins Teman (left) and Teran Evans, both Harvard GSD alumni, have created a Friday afternoon seminar titled "Paper or Plastic: Re-inventing Shelf Life in the Supermarket Landscape." Their first step was to send students into the aisles of area supermarkets for research. A shelf, they explained, is not a flat space. People move through stores in unexpected and surprising ways.
Photos by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer
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Black history in housing complex at risk of demolition
By Thomas O'Neil-White • Feb 28, 2020
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In between William Street and Broadway on Buffalo’s East Side, nestled among recently built housing units sits a ghost town. Broken glass, ripped out electrical boxes and debris litter the walkways leading up to the boarded up, red brick, three story housing units of Willert Park Court.
Thomas O'Neil-White reports.
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But it wasn’t always this way. Willert Park Court was once a thriving public housing complex - the first of its kind for African Americans in Buffalo.
University at Buffalo Urban and Regional Planning Professor Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. said the complex, built in 1939, was an innovative living space for its time.
“It was one of the first garden courtyard housing projects in the nation,” he said. “And the design itself was unique in the sense of creating art pieces that were symbolic of the African American cultural experience.”
Those art pieces are the relief sculptures built on many of the units. They depict a history of the Black experience in Buffalo, including a wife and husband, a trumpet, and a fleeing slave next to a returning soldier.
So what happened to Willert Park Court?
“That’s a darn good question,” former Buffalo Common Council President and former Willert Park tenant George Arthur said. “I want to say poor management. Neglect on the part of the Housing Authority.”
George Arthur stands outside of Willert Park Court.
The complex was closed in 2009 by the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority, which still owns the property. At the time, residents left, in favor of moving into newer, larger housing units in the neighborhood.
Today, the question stands whether the future of Willert Park has to be tied to its past. And if so, how?
Plans were made in 2014 by the BMHA to tear down all of the housing units and put up larger living spaces.
The group Preservation Buffalo Niagara is fighting to instead get the complex renovated. Preservation’s Executive Director, Jessie Fisher, sees value in restoration.
“We can invest in that again, not just so that we have another piece of beautiful architecture in Buffalo,” she said. “But also so that we continue to invest in families and have housing here on this site that is actually reflective of a community push to build good housing.”
Renovations would include raising the 7 foot tall ceilings in every 512 square foot apartment, and adding elevators and handicap accessible ramps.
B.M.H.A. Executive Director Gillian Brown said Preservation Buffalo Niagara’s plans are not cost effective.
“Our estimates of the cost of preserving every single building on the site exactly as they are, but rehabbing them, would be about double,” he said. “It’d be about $40 million if the plan that we call for is $20[million].”
And Brown said Fisher’s proposal wouldn’t meet the current needs of the community.
“What the preservationists are saying is simply not reflected in reality,” he said.
Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority Executive Director Gillian Brown
The B.M.H.A. has over 1,000 families on waiting lists for housing - most seeking apartments with three to six bedrooms. At its peak, Willert Park’s buildings offered only 172 one and two bedroom apartments. And even fewer are available today.
As for the artwork, Brown said preserving the sculptures are a priority.
“You can preserve history without actually forgetting that actual people have to live here,” he said.
Fisher said she has been talking to the BMHA about solutions which work for the community, preservationists, and the housing authority. And she’s looking for a developer to take interest in the project.
Still, Taylor wondered why there is widespread support to preserve some places in Buffalo, but not others.
“Some people have talked about the cost involved in the restoration and modernization of that unit. But I never heard anybody speak about that when they were doing the Darwin Martin House,” he said. “I’ve never heard anybody say 30-million dollars is a lot to pour into a house nobody is going to live in.”
Stop putting a price tag on preserving the history of the Black community. And that’s what they’re doing. They want to tear this down and put up something that has no history. -George Arthur
There’s no timeline for demolition. Brown still needs approval from the State Historic Preservation Office and has to conduct public hearings to move forward. He says nothing is set in stone, but he is trying to eliminate the backlog of families looking for housing as fast as he can.
So does significant history supersede current housing needs? Or does eliminating vacancy rates take precedence? The answer will determine the fate of Willert Park Court.
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Willert Park placed on list of "Endangered Historic Places"
By Jay Moran • May 31, 2019
Joe Cascio
Though the units at Willert Park Courts have been vacant for a decade, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is taking steps which could restore the 1938 housing project. It's been placed among the "11 Most Endangered Historic Places in the United States." According to Jessie Fisher, Executive Director of Preservation Buffalo Niagara, the Trust has placed over 300 sites on the list in 32 years. Only five percent of the sites have been lost.
Westminster Commons coming to Willert Park
By Mike Desmond • Nov 13, 2017
Carimina Woods Morris, DPC
The thousands of vacant lots on Buffalo's East Side are slowly starting to fill up, with large developments geared to the neighborhoods and the needs.
WBFO's Mike Desmond reports
Buffalo man gets 22 years-to-life sentence in beating, sexual assault
By Marian Hetherly • Dec 7, 2016
A Buffalo man has been sentenced to 22-years-to-life in prison for the beating and sexual assault on a local woman walking home in Willert Park.
Civil rights group alleges improper use of city finances
By Thomas O'Neil-White • Nov 22, 2019
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An East Side non-profit group is alleging conflict of interest issues in the City of Buffalo.
WBFO's Thomas O'Neil-White reports.
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Womantra: Venezuelan women under attack in TT
Stacy Moore
THE NGO Womantra says Venezuelan women are under attack in this country.
Womantra said statistics from a recent joint select committee hearing showed there were 484 complaints of sexual assault by immigrants over a six-year period. For these assaults, no one was arrested.
The group is now questioning why the Police Commissioner has not spoken on the issue.
“Where is Gary Griffith? Why hasn’t he come out and addressed the public in light of these ghastly crimes against the Venezuelan community living in TT? We continue to demand that the police be held accountable for their silence in times of great significance.”
Members said they cannot remain silent when Venezuelan women are being sexually assaulted, kidnapped, and exploited.
In a media release, Womantra said it was standing in solidarity with all the victims, as there now needs to be a shift in consciousness among the local population that not only acknowledges the crimes as a legitimate threat to TT's national security but must also demand justice for these women and their families.
“From misogynistic discourse encoded in soca music to physical acts of violence and the exploit of their labour due to immigrants' status, we recognise and grimace at the ways these women suffer.” the release said.
“In June a Venezuelan woman was kidnapped at a fake job interview and taken to a location where she was sexually assaulted. In May, another woman was at home with her partner when they were robbed and she was sexually assaulted.”
The most recent attack occurred last Tuesday against an 18-year-old Venezuelan woman. The teen got into a "PH" taxi from Fyzabad to be taken to San Fernando where she was abducted and sexually assaulted, stabbed and beaten. She is now at the San Fernando General Hospital.
A policeman was detained in connection with this crime and is expected to be charged.
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How To Raise A Feminist – by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Posted on November 5, 2016 by #mygirlsquad Leave a comment
This is a letter penned by the feminist author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who was asked how to raise a feminist.
Dear Ijeawele,
What joy. And what lovely names: Chizalum Adaora. She is so beautiful. Only a day old and she already looks curious about the world. Your note made me cry. You know how I get foolishly emotional sometimes. Please know that I take your charge – how to raise her feminist – very seriously. And I understand what you mean by not always knowing what the feminist response to situations should be. For me, feminism is always contextual. I don’t have a set-in-stone rule; the closest I have to a formula are my two ‘Feminist Tools’ and I want to share them with you as a starting point.
The first is your premise, the solid unbending belief that you start off with. What is your premise? Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not ‘if only.’ Not ‘as long as.’ I matter equally. Full stop.
The second tool is a question: can you reverse X and get the same results?
For example: many people believe that a woman’s feminist response to a husband’s infidelity should be to leave. But I think staying can also be a feminist choice, depending on the context. If Chudi sleeps with another woman and you forgive him, would the same be true if you slept with another man? If the answer is yes then your choosing to forgive him can be a feminist choice because it is not shaped by a gender inequality. Sadly, the reality in most marriages is that the answer to that question would often be no, and the reason would be gender-based – that absurd idea of ‘men will be men.’
I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that you might do all the things I suggest, and she will still turn out to be different from what you hoped, because sometimes life just does its thing. What matters is that you try. And always trust your instincts, above all else, because you will be guided by your love for your child.
Here are my suggestions:
1. First Suggestion: Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that. The pioneering American journalist Marlene Sanders once said to a younger journalist, “Never apologize for working. You love what you do, and loving what you do is a great gift to give your child.”
You don’t even have to love your job; you can merely love what your job does for you – the confidence and self-fulfillment that come with doing and earning. Reject the idea of motherhood and work as mutually exclusive. Our mothers worked full time while we were growing up, and we turned out well – at least you did, the jury is still out on me.
It doesn’t surprise me that your sister-in-law says you should be a ‘traditional’ mother and stay home, that Chudi can afford not to have a ‘double income’ family.
People will selectively use ‘tradition’ to justify anything. Tell her that a double-income family is actually the true Igbo tradition because in pre-colonial times, mothers farmed and traded. And then please ignore her; there are more important things to think about.
In these coming weeks of early motherhood, be kind to yourself. Ask for help. Expect to be helped. There is no such thing as a Superwoman. Parenting is about practice – and love. (I do wish though that ‘parent’ had not been turned into a verb, which I think is the root of the middle-class phenomenon of ‘parenting’ as one endless, anxious journey of guilt).
Give yourself room to fail. A new mother does not necessarily know how to calm a crying baby. Don’t assume that you should know everything. Look things up on the Internet, read books, ask older parents, or just do trial and error. Let your focus be on remaining a full person. Take time for yourself. Nurture your own needs.
Please do not think of it as ‘doing it all.’ Our culture lauds the idea of women who are able to ‘do it all’ but does not question the premise of that praise. I have no interest in the debate about women ‘doing it all’ because it is a debate that assumes that care-giving and domestic work are exclusively female domains, an idea that I strongly reject. Domestic work and care-giving should be gender-neutral, and we should be asking not whether a woman can ‘do it all’ but how best to support parents in their dual duties at work and at home.
2. Second Suggestion: Do it together. Remember in primary school we learnt that a verb was a ‘doing’ word? Well, a father is as much a verb as a mother. Chudi should do everything that biology allows – which is everything but breastfeeding. Sometimes mothers, so conditioned to be all and do all, are complicit in diminishing the role of fathers. You might think that Chudi will not bathe her exactly as you’d like, that he might not wipe her bum as perfectly as you do. But so what? What is the worst that can happen? She won’t die at the hands of her father. So look away, arrest your perfectionism, still your socially-conditioned sense of duty. Share childcare equally. ‘Equally’ of course depends on you both. It does not have to mean a literal fifty-fifty or a day-by-day score-keeping but you’ll know when the child-care work is equally shared. You’ll know by your lack of resentment. Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.
And please reject the language of help. Chudi is not ‘helping’ you by caring for his child. He is doing what he should. When we say fathers are ‘helping,’ we are suggesting that childcare is a mother’s territory, into which fathers valiantly venture. It is not. Can you imagine how many more people today would be happier, more stable, better contributors to the world, if only their fathers had been actively present in their childhood? And never say that Chudi is ‘babysitting’ – people who babysit are people for whom the baby is not a primary responsibility.
Chudi does not deserve any special gratitude or praise, nor do you – you both made the choice to bring a child into the world, and the responsibility for that child belongs equally to you both. It would be different if you were a single mother, whether by circumstance or choice, because ‘doing it together’ would then not be an option. But you should not be a ‘single mother’ unless you are truly a single mother.
My friend Nwabu once told me that, because his wife left when his kids were young, he became ‘Mr. Mom,’ by which he meant that he did the daily care-giving. But he was not being a ‘Mr. Mom,’ he was simply being a dad.
3. Third Suggestion: Teach her that ‘gender roles’ is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should do or not do something “because you are a girl.”
‘Because you are a girl’ is never a reason for anything. Ever.
I remember being told as a child to ‘bend down properly while sweeping, like a girl.’ Which meant that sweeping was about being female. I wish I had been told simply ‘bend down and sweep properly because you’ll clean the floor better.’ And I wish my brothers had been told the same thing.
There have been recent Nigerian social media debates about women and cooking, about how wives have to cook for husbands. It is funny, in the way that sad things are funny, that in 2016 we are still talking about cooking as some kind of ‘marriageability test’ for women.
The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina. Cooking is learned. Cooking – domestic work in general – is a life skill that both men and women should ideally have. It is also a skill that can elude both men and women.
We also need to question the idea of marriage as a prize to women, because that is the basis of these absurd debates. If we stop conditioning women to see marriage as a prize, then we would have fewer debates about a wife needing to cook in order to earn that prize.
It is interesting to me how early the world starts to invent gender roles. Yesterday I went to a children’s shop to buy Chizalum an outfit. In the girls’ section were pale phenomena in washed-out shades of pink. I disliked them. The boys’ section had outfits in vibrant shades of blue. Because I think blue will be adorable against her brown skin – and photograph better – I bought one. At the check out counter, the cashier said mine was the perfect present for the new boy. I said it was for a baby girl. She looked horrified. “Blue for a girl?”
I cannot help but wonder about the clever marketing person who invented this pink-blue binary. There was also a ‘gender neutral’ section, with its array of bloodless grays. ‘Gender neutral’ is silly because it is premised on the idea of male being blue and female being pink and ‘gender neutral’ being its own category. Why not just have baby clothes organized by age and displayed in all colors? The bodies of male and female infants are similar, after all.
I looked at the toy section, also arranged by gender. Toys for boys are mostly active, and involve some sort of ‘doing’ – trains, cars – and toys for girls are mostly ‘passive’ and are overwhelmingly dolls. I was struck by how early our culture starts to form the ideas of what a boy should be and what a girl should be.
Did I ever tell you about going to a US mall with a seven-year-old Nigerian girl and her mother? She saw a toy helicopter, one of those things that fly by wireless remote control, and she was fascinated and asked for one. “No,” her mother said. “You have your dolls.” And she responded, “Mummy, is it only doll I will play with?”
I have never forgotten that. Her mother meant well, obviously. She was well-versed in the ideas of gender roles – that girls play with dolls and boys with cars. I wonder now, wistfully, if the little girl would have turned out to be a revolutionary engineer, had she been given a chance to explore that helicopter.
If we don’t place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children we give them space to reach their full potential. Please see Chizalum as an individual. Not as a girl who should be a certain way. See her weaknesses and her strengths in an individual way. Do not measure her on a scale of what a girl should be. Measure her on a scale of being the best version of herself.
A young woman once told me that she had for years behaved ‘like a boy’ – she liked football and was bored by dresses – until her mother forced her to stop her ‘boyish’ interests and she is now grateful to her mother for helping her start behaving like a girl. The story made me sad. I wondered what parts of herself she had needed to silence and stifle, and I wondered about what her spirit had lost, because what she called ‘behaving like a boy’ was simply that she was behaving like herself.
Another acquaintance once told me that when she took her one-year-old son to a baby play group, where babies had been brought by their mothers, she noticed that the mothers of baby girls were very restraining, constantly telling the girls ‘don’t touch’ or ‘stop and be nice,’ and she noticed that the baby boys were encouraged to explore more and were not restrained as much and were almost never told to ‘be nice.’ Her theory is that parents unconsciously start very early to teach girls how to be, that baby girls are given more rules and less room and baby boys more room and fewer rules.
Gender roles are so deeply conditioned in us that we will often follow them even when they chafe against our true desires, our needs, our well being. They are very difficult to unlearn, and so it is important to try and make sure that Chizalum rejects them from the beginning. Instead of gender roles, teach her self-reliance. Tell her that it is important to be able to do for herself and fend for herself. Teach her to try and fix physical things when they break. We are quick to assume girls can’t do many things. Let her try. Buy her toys like blocks and trains – and dolls, too, if you want to.
4. Fourth Suggestion: Beware the danger of what I call Feminism Lite. It is the idea of conditional female equality. Reject this entirely. It is a hollow, appeasing, and bankrupt idea. Being a feminist is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not. You either believe in the full equality of women, or you do not.
Here are some examples of Feminism Lite:
A woman should be ambitious, but not too much. A woman can be successful but she should also do her domestic duties and cook for her husband. A woman should have her own but she should not forget her true role as home keeper. Of course a woman should have a job but the man is still head of the family.
Feminism Lite uses inane analogies like ‘he is the head and you are the neck.’ Or ‘he is driving but you are in the front seat.’ More troubling is the idea, in Feminism Lite, that men are naturally superior but should be expected to ‘treat women well.’ No. No. No. There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman’s well being.
Feminism Lite uses the language of ‘allowing.’ Theresa May is the British Prime Minister and here is how a progressive British newspaper described her husband: ‘Philip May is known in politics as a man who has taken a back seat and allowed his wife, Theresa, to shine.’
Allowed.
Now let us reverse it. Theresa May has allowed her husband to shine. Does it make sense? If Philip May were Prime Minister, perhaps we might hear that his wife has ‘supported’ him from the background, or that she is ‘behind’ him, but we would never hear that she had ‘allowed’ him to shine.
Allow is a troubling word. Allow is about power. Members of the society of Feminism Lite will often say, “Leave the woman alone to do what she wants as long as her husband allows.”
A husband is not a headmaster. A wife is not a schoolgirl. Permission and being allowed, when used one sided – and it is nearly only used that way – should never be the language of an equal marriage.
Another egregious example of Feminism Lite: men who say ‘Of course a wife does not always have to do the domestic work, I did domestic work when my wife traveled.’
Do you remember how we laughed and laughed at an atrociously-written piece about me some years ago? The writer – a man small in more ways than one – had accused me of being ‘angry,’ as though ‘being angry’ was something for which to be ashamed. Of course I am angry. I am angry about racism. I am angry about sexism. But I am angrier about sexism than I am about racism. Because I live among many people who easily acknowledge race injustice but not gender injustice.
I cannot tell you how often people I care about – men and women – have expected me to make a case for sexism, to ‘prove’ it, as it were, while never having the same expectation for racism (Obviously in the wider world, too many people are still expected to ‘prove’ racism, but not in my close circle). I cannot tell you how often people I care about have dismissed or diminished sexist situations.
Like Ikenga who once said ‘even though the general idea is that my father is in charge at our home, it’s my mother who is really in charge behind the scenes.’ He thought he was refuting sexism, but he was making my case. Why ‘behind the scenes?’ If a woman has power then why do we need to disguise that she has power?
But here is a sad truth – our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have been so conditioned to think of power as male, that a powerful woman is an aberration. And so she is policed. We ask of powerful women – is she humble? Does she smile? Is she grateful enough? Does she have a domestic side? We judge powerful women more harshly than we judge powerful men. And Feminism Lite enables this.
5. Fifth Suggestion: Teach Chizalum to read. Teach her to love books.
The best way is by casual example. If she sees you reading, she will understand that reading is valuable. If she were not to go to school, and merely just read books, she would arguably become more knowledgeable than a conventionally educated child. Books will help her understand and question the world, help her express herself, and help her in whatever she wants to become – a chef, a scientist, a singer all benefit from the skills that reading brings. I do not mean school books. I mean books that have nothing to do with school, autobiographies and novels and histories. If all else fails, pay her to read. Reward her. I know of this incredible Nigerian woman who was raising her child in the US; her child did not take to reading so she decided to pay her 5 cents per page. An expensive endeavor, she later joked, but a worthy investment.
6. Sixth Suggestion: Teach her to question language. Language is the repository of our prejudices, our beliefs, our assumptions. But to teach her that, you will have to question your own language. A friend of mine says she will never call her daughter ‘Princess.’ People mean well when they say this, but ‘princess’ is loaded with assumptions, of her delicacy, of the prince who will come to save her, etc. This friend prefers ‘angel’ and ‘star.’
So decide for yourself the things you will not say to your child. Because what you say to your child matters. It teaches her what she should value. You know that Igbo joke, used to tease girls who are being childish – “What are you doing? Don’t you know you are old enough to find a husband?” I used to say that often. But now I choose not to. I say ‘you are old enough to find a job.’ Because I do not believe that marriage is something we should teach young girls to aspire to.
I no longer say ‘she had a child FOR him.’ I say ‘she had a child WITH him.’ And I bristle when I hear a man say ‘she is carrying my child.’ ‘Our child’ just sounds better, more accurate too.
Try not to use words like ‘misogyny’ and ‘patriarchy’ too often with Chizalum. We Feminists can sometimes be too jargony, and jargon can sometimes feel too abstract. Don’t just label something misogynistic, tell her why it is, and tell her what would make it not be.
Use examples. Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women. For X please insert inter alia: anger, loudness, stubbornness, coldness, ruthlessness.
Teach her to ask questions like: What are the things that women cannot do because they are women? Do these things have cultural prestige? If so why are only men allowed to do the things that have cultural prestige?
Use examples from the news. Two Nigerian senators quarrel publicly. The woman calls the man a bastard, and the man tells the woman that he will rape her. The man is sexist because he has not insulted her as an individual, but as a generic female and this is dehumanizing. He should have called her a bastard too. Or an asshole. Or so many other things that are not about her being a generic woman.
Remember that television commercial we watched in Lagos, where a man cooks and his wife claps for him? True progress is when she doesn’t clap for him but just reacts to the food itself – she can either praise the food or not praise the food, just as he can praise hers or not praise hers, but what is sexist is that she is praising the fact that he has undertaken the act of cooking, praise that implies that cooking is an inherently female act.
Remember the mechanic in Lagos who was described as a ‘lady mechanic?’ Teach Chizalum that the woman is a mechanic not a ‘lady mechanic.’
Point out to her how wrong it is that a man who hits your car, gets out and tells you to go and bring your husband because he can’t “deal with a woman”.
Instead of merely telling her, show her with examples that misogyny can be overt and misogyny can be subtle and that both are abhorrent.
Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans. Men who, when discussing rape, will always say something like ‘if it were my daughter or wife or sister.’ Yet such men do not need to imagine a male victim of crime ‘as a brother or son’ in order to feel empathy. Teach her, too, to question the idea of women as a special species. The American House Speaker Paul Ryan who was recently reacting to the Republican presidential nominee’s boast about assaulting women, said, “Women are to be championed and revered, not objectified.”
Tell Chizalum that women actually don’t need to be championed and revered; they just need to be treated as equal human beings. There is a patronizing undertone to the idea of women needing to be ‘championed and revered’ because they are women. It makes me think of chivalry, and the premise of chivalry is female weakness.
7. Seventh Suggestion: Never speak of marriage as an achievement. Find ways to make clear to her that marriage is not an achievement nor is it what she should aspire to. A marriage can be happy or unhappy but it is not an achievement.
We condition girls to aspire to marriage and we do not condition boys to aspire to marriage, and so there is already a terrible imbalance at the start. The girls will grow up to be women obsessed with marriage. The boys will grow up to be men who are not obsessed with marriage. The women marry those men. The relationship is automatically uneven because the institution matters more to one than the other. Is it any wonder that, in so many marriages, women sacrifice more, at a loss to themselves, because they have to constantly maintain an uneven exchange? (One consequence of this imbalance is the very shabby and very familiar phenomenon of two women publicly fighting over a man, while the man remains silent.)
Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States. On her Twitter account, the first descriptor is ‘Wife.’ The first descriptor on her husband Bill Clinton’s Twitter account is not ‘Husband.’ (Because of this, I have an unreasonable respect for the very few men who use ‘husband’ as their first descriptor)
My sense is that this is not a reflection on Hillary Clinton personally but on the world in which we live, a world that still largely values a woman’s marital and maternal roles more than anything else.
After she married Bill Clinton in 1975, Hillary Clinton kept her name, Hillary Rodham. Eventually she began to add his name ‘Clinton’ to hers and then after a while she dropped ‘Rodham’ because of political pressure – because her husband would lose voters who were offended that his wife had kept her name. American voters apparently place retrograde marital expectations on women.
Do you remember all the noise that was made after a newspaper journalist decided to give me a new name and call ‘Mrs. Husband’s Surname’ and I promptly told him never to do that again?
I remember how some members of the Society of Ill-Willed Nigerian Commenters insisted on calling me Mrs. Husband’s Name even after I had made clear that it was not my name. Many more women than men did this, by the way. And there was a smoldering hostility from women in particular. I wondered about that, and thought that perhaps for many of them, my choice represented a challenge to their largely-unquestioned idea of what is the norm. Even some friends made statements like ‘you are successful and so it is okay to keep your name.’
Which made me wonder – why does a woman have to be successful at work in order to justify keeping her name?
The truth is that I have not kept my name because I am successful. Had I not had the good fortune to be published and widely-read, I would still have kept my name. I have kept my name because it is my name. I have kept my name because I like my name.
There are people who say – well your name is also about patriarchy because it is your father’s name. Indeed. But the point is simply this: whether it came from my father or from the moon, it is the name that I have had since I was born, the name with which I travelled my life’s milestones, the name I have answered to since that first day I went to kindergarten on a hazy morning and my teacher said ‘answer ‘present’ if you hear your name. Number one: Adichie!’
I like it and will not change it. More importantly, every woman should have that choice. How many men do you think would be willing to change their name on getting married?
As for titles, I dislike the title of ‘Mrs.’ because I think Nigerian society gives it too much value – I have observed too many cases of men and women who loudly and proudly speak of the title of Mrs. as though those who are not Mrs have somehow failed at something. Mrs can be a choice, but to infuse it with so much value as our culture does is disturbing. The value we give to Mrs. means that marriage changes the social status of a woman but not of a man. (Is that perhaps why many women complain of married men still ‘acting’ as though they were single? Perhaps if our society asked married men to change their names and take on a new title, different from MR, their behavior might change as well? Ha!) But more seriously, if you, a 28-year-old Masters degree holder, go overnight from Ijeawele Ude to Mrs. Ijeawele Onyekailodibe, surely it requires not just the mental energy of changing passports and licenses but also a psychic change, a new ‘becoming?’ This new ‘becoming’ would not matter so much if men, too, had to undergo it.
Still on titles, I like Ms because it is similar to Mr. A man is Mr whether married or not, a woman is Ms whether married or not. So please teach Chizalum that in a truly just society, women should not be expected to make marriage-based changes that men are not expected to make. Here’s a nifty solution – each couple that marries should take on an entirely new surname, chosen however they want to as long as both agree to it, so that a day after the wedding, both husband and wife can hold hands and joyfully journey off to the municipal offices to change their passports, drivers licenses, signatures, initials, bank accounts, etc.
8. Eighth Suggestion: Teach her to reject likeability. Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people. Remember I told you how infuriating it was to me that Chioma would often tell me that ‘people’ would not ‘like’ something I wanted to say or do. It upset me because I felt, from her, the unspoken pressure to change myself to fit some mold that would please an amorphous entity called ‘people.’ It was upsetting because we want those close to us to encourage us to be our most authentic selves.
Please do not ever put this pressure on your daughter. We teach girls to be likeable, to be nice, to be false. And we do not teach boys the same. This is dangerous. Many sexual predators have capitalized on this. Many girls remain silent when abused because they want to be nice. Many girls spend too much time trying to be ‘nice’ to people who do them harm. Many girls think of the ‘feelings’ of those who are hurting them. This is the catastrophic consequence of likeability. At a recent rape trial, the woman raped by a man said that she did not want to ‘cause conflict.’ We have a world full of women who are unable fully to exhale because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable.
So instead of teaching Chizalum to be likeable, teach her to be honest. And kind.
And brave. Encourage her to speak her mind, to say what she really thinks, to speak truthfully. And then praise her when she does. Praise her especially when she takes a stand that is difficult or unpopular because it happens to be her honest position. Tell her that kindness matters. Praise her when she is kind to other people. But teach her that her kindness must never be taken for granted. Tell her that she too deserves the kindness of others. Teach her to stand for what is hers. If another child takes her toy without her permission, ask her to take it back. Tell her that if anything ever makes her uncomfortable, to speak up, to say, to shout.
Show her that she does not need to be liked by everyone. Tell her that if someone does not like her, there will be someone who will. Teach her that she is not merely an object to be liked or disliked, she is also a subject who can like or dislike. In her teenage years, if she comes home crying about some boys who don’t like her, let her know she can also choose not to like those boys.
Here’s this bit from the New York Times, about a security agent who was there on the night that gunshots were fired at the White House.
<<Officer Carrie Johnson, who had heard debris fall from the Truman Balcony the night before, listened during the roll call before her shift Saturday afternoon as supervisors explained that the gunshots were from people in two cars shooting at each other. Johnson had told several senior officers Friday night that she thought the house had been hit. But on Saturday she did not challenge her superiors, “for fear of being criticized,” she later told investigators.>>
This fear of being criticized is a consequence of likeability. A man is much less likely to give that as a reason, simply because men are much less likely to be raised with likeability as a central life motif.
9. Ninth Suggestion: Give Chizalum a sense of identity. It matters. Be deliberate about it. Let her grow up to think of herself as, among other things, a proud Igbo Woman. And you must be selective – teach her to embrace the parts of Igbo culture that are beautiful and teach her to reject the parts that are not. You can say to her, in different contexts and different ways – “Igbo culture is lovely because it values community and consensus and hard work, and the language and proverbs are beautiful and full of great wisdom. But Igbo culture also teaches that a woman cannot do certain things just because she’s a woman and that is wrong. Igbo culture also focuses a little too much on materialism and while money is important – because money means self-reliance – you must not give value to people based on who has money and who does not.”
Be deliberate also about showing her the enduring beauty and resilience of Africans and of black people. Why? Because of the power dynamics in the world, she will grow up seeing images of white beauty, white ability, and white achievement, no matter where she is in the world. It will be in the TV shows she watches, in the popular culture she consumes, in the books she reads. She will also probably grow up seeing many negative images of blackness and of Africans.
Teach her to take pride in the history of Africans, and in the Black diaspora. Find black heroes, men and women, in history. They exist. You will have to counter some of the things she will learn in school – the Nigerian curriculum isn’t quite infused with the idea of teaching children to have a sense of pride. Western nations do it well, because they do it subtly, and they might even disagree about having it called ‘teaching pride’ but that is what it is. So her teachers will be fantastic at teaching her mathematics and science and art and music, but you will have to do the pride-teaching yourself.
Teach her about privilege and inequality and the importance of giving dignity to everyone who does not mean her harm – teach her that the househelp is human just like her, teach her always to greet the driver and all domestic staff who are older than she is. Link these expectations to her identity – for example, say to her “In our family, when you are a child, you greet those older than you no matter what job they do.”
Give her an Igbo nickname. When I was growing up, my Aunty Gladys called me Ada Obodo Dike. I always loved that. Apparently my village Ezi-Abba is known as the Land of Warriors and to be called Daughter of the Land of Warriors was deliciously heady.
Teach her to speak Igbo. Not as a project. Too many Igbo-speaking parents today approach this as though it were a project – they reward the children for speaking the rare sentence, enroll them in patchily-organized once-a-week Igbo school and never actually make normal conversation with them in Igbo. Children are intelligent, they can easily sniff out what you value and what you don’t. Once-a-week ventures into some class while not expecting them to actually speak Igbo at home will make it very clear to them that you have little value for Igbo. And it won’t work.
If Chizalum is Igbo-speaking, it will help her better navigate our globalized world. And studies have shown over and over that there are many benefits to being bilingual.
10. Tenth Suggestion: Be deliberate about how you engage with her and her appearance.
Encourage her participation in sports. Teach her to be physically active. Take walks with her. Swim. Run. Play tennis. Football. Table tennis. All kinds of sports. Any kind of sports. I think this is important not only because of the obvious health benefits but because it can help with all the body-image insecurities that the world thrusts on girls. Let Chizalum know that there is great value in being active. Studies show that girls generally stop playing sports as puberty arrives. Not surprising. Breasts and self-consciousness can get in the way of sports. Try not to let that get in her way.
If she likes makeup let her wear it. If she likes fashion let her dress up. But if she doesn’t like either let her be. Don’t think that raising her feminist means forcing her to reject femininity. Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are. Sadly, women have learned to be ashamed and apologetic about pursuits that are seen as traditionally female, such as fashion and makeup. But our society does not expect men to feel ashamed of pursuits considered generally male – sports cars, certain professional sports. In the same way, men’s grooming is never suspect in the way women’s grooming is – a well-dressed man does not worry that, because he is dressed well, certain assumptions might be made about his intelligence, his ability or his seriousness.
Never ever link her appearance with morality. Never tell her that a short skirt is ‘immoral.’ Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality. If you both clash over what she wants to wear, never say things like ‘you look like a prostitute’ as I know your mother once told you. Instead say ‘ that dress doesn’t flatter you like this other one. Or doesn’t fit as well. Or doesn’t look as attractive. Or is simply ugly. But never ‘immoral.’ Because clothes have absolutely nothing to do with morality.
Try not to link hair with pain. I think of my childhood and how often I cried while my dense long hair was being plaited. I think of how a packet of Smarties chocolates was kept in front of me, as a reward if I sat through having my hair done. And for what? Imagine if we had not spent so many Saturdays of our childhood and teenagehood doing our hair. What might we have learned? In what ways might we have grown? What did boys do on Saturdays?
So with her hair, I suggest that you redefine ‘neat.’ Part of the reason that hair is about pain for so many girls is that adults are determined to conform to a version of ‘neat’ that means Too Tight and Scalp-Destroying and Headache-Infusing.
We need to stop. I’ve seen girls in school in Nigeria being terribly harassed for their hair not being ‘neat,’ merely because some of their God-given hair had curled up in glorious tight little balls at their temples. Make Chizalum’s hair loose. And make that your definition of neat. Go to her school and talk to the administration if you have to. It takes one person to make change happen. Also, her hair doesn’t have to ‘last’ – another reason we give for painful hairstyles. I suggest that you make loose plaits and big cornrows and don’t use a tiny-teethed comb that wasn’t made with our hair texture in mind.
Chizalum will notice very early on – because children are perceptive – what kind of beauty the mainstream world values. She will see it in magazines and films and television. She will see that whiteness is valued. She will notice that the hair texture that is valued is straight or swingy, and is hair that falls down rather than stands up. She will encounter these whether you like it or not. So make sure that you create alternatives for her to see. Let her know that slim white women are beautiful, and that non-slim, non-white women are beautiful. Let her know that there are many individuals and many cultures that do not find the narrow mainstream definition of beauty attractive. You will know your child best, and so you will know best how to affirm her own kind of beauty, how to protect her from looking at her own reflection with dissatisfaction.
Surround her with a village of aunties, women who have qualities you’d like her to admire. Talk about how much YOU admire them. Children copy and learn from example. Talk about what you admire about them. I, for example, particularly admire the African American feminist Florynce Kennedy. Some African women that I would tell her about are Ama Ata Aidoo, Dora Akunyili, Muthoni Likimani, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Taiwo Ajayi Lycett. There are so many African women who are sources of feminist inspiration. Because of what they have done and because of what they have refused to do.
Like your grandmother, by the way, that remarkable, strong, sharp-tongued babe. I remember once hearing Mrs. Josephine Anenih speak, and being so inspired by her frank and strong feminism, which I had not expected at all.
Surround Chizalum too with a village of uncles. This will be harder, judging from the kind of friends Chudi has. I still cannot get over that blustering man with the over-carved beard who kept saying at Chudi’s last birthday party – “I have paid her bride price! A woman whose bride price I have paid cannot come and tell me nonsense!”
So please find the few good men that you can, the few non-blustering men. Because the truth is that she will encounter a lot of male bluster in her life. So it is good to have alternatives from very early on.
I cannot overstate the power of alternatives. She can counter ideas about static ‘gender roles’ if she has been empowered by her familiarity with alternatives. If she knows an uncle who cooks well – and does so with indifference – then she can smile and brush off the foolishness of somebody who claims that ‘women must cook.’
11. Eleventh Suggestion: Teach her to question our culture’s selective use of biology as ‘reasons’ for social norms.
I know a Yoruba woman, married to an Igbo man, who was pregnant with her first child and was thinking of first names for the child. All the names were Igbo.
Shouldn’t they have Yoruba first names since they would have their father’s Igbo surname? I asked, and she said, ‘A child first belongs to the father. It has to be that way.’
We often use biology to explain the privileges that men have, the most common reason being men’s physical superiority. It is true that men are in general physically stronger than women. But our use of biology is selective. ‘A child first belongs to the father’ is a common sentiment in Nigeria. But if we truly depended on biology as root of social norms then children would be identified as their mothers rather than their fathers because when a child is born, the parent we are biologically – and incontrovertibly – certain of is the mother. We assume the father is who the mother says the father is. How many lineages all over the world are not biological, I wonder?
For many Igbo women, the conditioning is so complete that women think of children only as the father’s. I know of women who have left bad marriages but not been ‘allowed’ to take their children or even to see their children because the children belong to the man.
We also use evolutionary biology to explain male promiscuity, but not to explain female promiscuity, even though it really makes evolutionary sense for women to have many sexual partners – because the larger the genetic pool, the greater will be the chances of bearing offspring who will thrive.
So teach Chizalum that biology is an interesting and fascinating subject, but she should never accept it as justification for any social norm. Because social norms are created by human beings, and there is no social norm that cannot be changed.
12. Twelfth Suggestion: Talk to her about sex and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward but it is necessary.
Remember that seminar we went to in class 3 where we were supposed to be taught about ‘sexuality’ but instead we listened to vague semi-threats about how ‘talking to boys’ would end up with us being pregnant and disgraced. I remember that hall and that seminar as a place filled with shame. Ugly shame. That particular brand of shame that has to do with being female. May your daughter never encounter it.
With her, don’t pretend that sex is merely a controlled act of reproduction. Or an ‘only in marriage’ act, because that is disingenuous. (You and Chudi were having sex long before marriage and she will probably know this by the time she is twelve) Tell her that sex can be a beautiful thing and that it can have emotional consequences and tell her to wait until she is an adult and tell her that once she is an adult, she gets to decide what she wants sex to mean to her. But be prepared because she might not wait until she’s 18. And if she doesn’t wait, you have to make sure she is able to tell you that.
It’s not enough to say you want to raise a daughter who can tell you anything, you have to give her the language to talk to you. And I mean this in a literal way. What should she call it? What word should she use?
I remember people used ‘ike’ when I was a child to mean both anus and vagina and anus was the easier meaning but it left everything vague and I never quite knew how to say that I, for example, had an itch in my vagina.
Most childhood development experts and pediatricians say it is best to have children call sexual organs by their proper names – vagina and penis. I agree, but that is a decision you have to make. You should decide what name you want her to call it, but what matters is that there must be a name and that it cannot be a name that is weighed down with shame.
To make sure she doesn’t inherit shame from you, you have to free yourself of your own inherited shame. And I know how terribly difficult that is. In every culture in the world, female sexuality is about shame. Even cultures – like many in the west – that expect women to be sexy still do not expect them to be sexual.
The shame we attach to female sexuality is about control. Many cultures and religions control women’s bodies in one way or the other. If the justification for controlling women’s bodies were about women themselves, then it would be understandable. If, for example, the reason was – women should not wear short skirts because they can get cancer if they do. Instead the reason is not about women, it is about men. Women must be ‘covered up’ to protect men. I find this deeply dehumanizing because it reduces women to mere props used to manage the appetites of men.
And speaking of shame. Never ever link sexuality and shame. Or nakedness and shame. Do not ever make ‘virginity’ a focus. Every conversation about virginity becomes a conversation about shame. Teach her to reject the linking of shame and female biology. Why were we raised to speak in low tones about periods? To be filled with shame if our menstrual blood happened to stain our skirt? Periods are nothing to be ashamed off. Periods are normal and natural and the human species would not be here if periods did not exist. I remember a man who said a period was like shit. Well, sacred shit, I told him, because you wouldn’t be here if periods didn’t happen.
13. Thirteenth Suggestion: Romance will happen so be on board.
I’m writing this assuming she is heterosexual – she might not be, obviously. But I am assuming that because it is what I feel best equipped to talk about.
Make sure you are aware of the romance in her life. And the only way you can do that is to start very early to give her the language with which to talk to you. I don’t mean you should be her ‘friend,’ I mean you should be her mother to whom she can talk about everything.
Teach her that to love is not only to give but also to take. This is important because we give girls subtle cues about their lives – we teach girls that a large component of their ability to love is their ability to self-sacrifice. We do not teach this to boys. Teach her that to love she must give of herself emotionally but she must also expect to be given.
I think love is the most important thing in life. Whatever kind, however you define it but I think of it generally as being greatly valued by another human being and giving great value to another human being. But why do we raise only one half of the world to value this? I was recently in a roomful of young woman and was struck by how much of the conversation was about men – what terrible things men had done to them, this man cheated, this man lied, this man promised marriage and disappeared, this husband did this and that.
And I realized, sadly, that the reverse is not true. A roomful of men do not invariably end up talking about women – and if they do, it is more likely to be in objectifying flippant terms rather than as lamentations of life. Why?
It goes back, I think, to that early conditioning. At a recent baby’s baptism ceremony, guests were asked to write their wishes for the baby girl. One guest wrote: I wish for you a good husband.’ Well-intentioned obviously but very troubling. A three-month old baby girl already being told that a husband is something to aspire to. Had the baby been a boy, it would not have occurred to that guest to wish him ‘ a good wife.’
And speaking of women lamenting about men who ‘promise’ marriage and then disappear. Isn’t it odd that in most societies in the world today, women generally cannot propose marriage? Marriage is such a major step in your life and yet you cannot take charge of it, it depends on a man asking you. So many women are in long term relationships and want to get married but have to ‘wait’ for the man to propose – and often this waiting becomes a performance, sometimes unconscious and sometimes not, of marriage-worthiness. If we apply the first Feminism Tool here, then it makes no sense that a woman who matters equally has to ‘wait’ for somebody else to initiate what will be a major life change for her.
A Feminism Lite adherent once told me that the fact that our society expects men to make proposals proved that women had the power, because only if a woman says yes can marriage happen. The truth is this – the real power resides in the person who asks. Before you can say yes or no, you first must be asked. I truly wish for Chizalum a world in which either person can propose, in which a relationship has become so comfortable, so joy-filled, that whether or not to embark on marriage becomes a conversation, itself filled with joy.
I want to say something about money here. Teach her never ever to say such nonsense as ‘my money is my money and his money is our money.’ It is vile. And dangerous – to have that attitude means that you must potentially accept other harmful ideas as well. Teach her that it is NOT a man’s role to provide. In a healthy relationship, it is the role of whoever can provide to provide.
14. Fourteenth Suggestion: In teaching her about oppression, be careful not to turn the oppressed into saints. Saintliness is not a pre-requisite for dignity. People who are unkind and dishonest are still human, and still deserve dignity. Property rights for rural Nigerian women, for example, is a major feminist issue, and the women do not need to be good and angelic to be allowed their property rights.
There is sometimes, in the discourse around gender, the assumption that women are supposed to be morally ‘better’ than men. They are not. Women are as human as men are. Female goodness is as normal as female evil.
And there are many women in the world who do not like other women. Female misogyny exists and to evade acknowledging it is to create unnecessary opportunities for anti-feminists to try and discredit feminism. I mean the sort of anti-feminists who will gleefully raise examples of women saying ‘I am not a feminist’ as though a person born with a vagina making this statement somehow automatically discredits feminism. That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy. It shows us, too, that not all women are feminists and not all men are misogynists.
15. Fifteenth Suggestion: Teach her about difference. Make difference ordinary. Make difference normal. Teach her not to attach value to difference. And the reason for this is not to be fair or to be nice but merely to be human and practical. Because difference is the reality of our world. And by teaching her about difference, you are equipping her to survive in a diverse world.
She must know and understand that people walk different paths in the world and that as long as those paths do no harm to others, they are valid paths that she must respect. Teach her that we do not know – we cannot know – everything about life. Both religion and science have spaces for the things we do not know, and it is enough to make peace with that.
Teach her never to universalize her own standards or experiences. Teach her that her standards are for her alone, and not for other people. This is the only necessary form of humility: the realization that difference is normal.
Tell her that some people are gay, and some are not. A little child has two daddies or two mommies because some people just do. Tell her that some people go to mosque and others go to church and others go to different places of worship and still others don’t worship at all, because that is just the way it is for some people.
You like palm oil but some people don’t like palm oil – you say to her.
Why – she says to you.
I don’t know. It’s just the way the world is – you say to her.
Please note that I am not suggesting that you raise her to be ‘non judgmental’ which is a commonly used expression these days, and which slightly worries me. The general sentiment behind the idea is a fine one but ‘non-judgmental’ can easily devolve into meaning ‘don’t have an opinion about anything.’ And so, instead of that, what I hope for Chizalum is this: that she will be full of opinions, and that her opinions will come from an informed, humane and broad-minded place.
May she be healthy and happy. May her life be whatever she wants it to be.
Do you have a headache after reading all this? Sorry. Next time don’t ask me how to raise your daughter feminist.
With love, oyi gi,
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Nick Page Explains Music
Nick Page Explains Music 5-11-19
Before I share my understanding of music, I will say that I am the son of a scientific father and a creative mother. My father, Bill Page, was very much in his mind and my mother, Janet Fish Page, very much in her heart. They are both in me so any explanations I make must satisfy both mind and heart. I believe there must be scientific explanations for things we do not yet understand. Finding scientific rationales for beliefs of the heart is a challenge, one I inherited from my parents, it’s in my genes. My father stenciled the words WHAT WHERE WHO WHEN HOW WHY on the walls of our home. I was raised to ask questions. So here is my question: What is music?
It is a common misconception that to understand music one must study melody, harmony, rhythm, form and all the elements of music theory. But these are actually the least important aspects of music. A painter uses palettes to choose and mix colors. A composer has five palettes.
THE PHYSICAL PALETTE: How the created sound effects the body and the mind.
THE EMOTIONAL PALETTE: How the sounds affect the heart.
THE CULTURAL & HISTORICAL PALETTE: Whether they know it or not, all composers choose from a cultural or historical palette, a style they are comfortable composing in. The differences between a Bach chorale and a Gospel song are more cultural and historical than they are musical.
THE SPIRITUAL PALETTE: Every faith has a paradigm that shapes the creative process.A composer who believes in a hierarchal God is going to compose differently than a composer who believes that we walk in beauty as the Navajos say (to walk in beauty is to walk in the living circle of all things). Both paradigms will create beautiful sacred music, but they will be very different.
THE MUSICAL PALETTE: The shaping of sound. Form, for example, is the order of repetition.
E=MC2 Energy Equals Music Times Consciousness Squared. My equation only works if consciousness includes the emotions.
Scientists like Richard Dawkins, author of THE GOD DELUSION, believe that consciousness is confined to the brain and that emotions are merely chemical reactions within the brain. Yes, chemicals are emitted with emotions, but I believe that there is much more going on.
St. Paul defined faith as a belief in things unseen. He was speaking of God, but one can apply it to consciousness and the emotions.
The whole history of science finds scientists disbelieving one unseen thing after another. They did not believe Newton’s ideas on gravity because they could not see gravitational waves. They did not believe in electromagnetic forces because they could not see them. The same is true of strong and weak nuclear forces, radio waves, not to mention germs and the whole micro world.
Scientists like Rupert Sheldrake, author of THE SCIENCE DELUSION, believe that the study of consciousness is the next great step in scientific discovery. He speaks of Morphic Resonance, a theory explaining consciousness not confined to the brain.
Energy Equals Music Times Consciousness Squared. The squared part of this equation is the phenomenon that happens when many minds form in community. Singing in a chorus is just one of countless examples of people joining their minds and hearts together to feel, to be fully alive. And singing has the added benefit of being a compassionate act, an act of giving. But there is so much more.
My definition of music uses loaded words, words that take on new meaning when looked at in new perspectives.
MUSIC IS THE CONSCIOUS REUNION OF RESONANCE AND TIME.
Before I explain my definition of music, here are a several new paradigm concepts that have shaped my thinking:
INFORMATION: Information is anything that is “in formation.” The term originated with computer scientists ordering zeros and ones to create our digital universe. The order of those zeros and ones creates digital information. A DNA molecule is in formation that is information. Likewise, computer chips, cities, highways systems, symphonies, trees are all in formation and are all information.
INFORMATION DENSITY: The second law of thermodynamics dictates that energy dissipates as it spreads further from its source. This is called entropy. But information has the tendency to do the opposite, to form ever more complex formations, more dense and more complex. The universe was pure energy exploding from a central unknown source. But the energy did not simply continue to dissipate. The energy formed itself into suns and planets. So far as we know, life began when complex molecules formed increasingly complex formations becoming DNA. More and more dense formations evolved with cells and eventually life forms. People gathering together to sing in a chorus is an example of information density. Even the sound created is made up of a complex collection of interconnected resonances.
SELF-ORGANIZED SYSTEMS: Deists and theists believe that a supernatural being dictates all actions or at least sets all actions into motion. But the direction water takes in swirling down the drain is dictated by gravity and the spinning of the planet. It is a self-organized event. Resonance self-organizes to form a major chord. A major chord is based on pure ratios of ½, 1/3, ¼, and 1/5th. You can test this on a guitar by lightly touching the string at those ratio points. Plucking the string will reveal the notes of a major chord. Brian Swimme poetically explains self-organized systems when he says, “If you leave hydrogen alone for a long enough period of time, it will create great symphonies.”
CREATIVE UNFOLDING: Self-organized systems evolve when it is their time to evolve. Planets and stars evolved simultaneously throughout the universe. The first city states evolved simultaneously in Ancient China, South America, West Africa, Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and Indonesia. The first written languages evolved simultaneously. Scientific discoveries and inventions happened when the world was ready for them to happen. This creative unfolding is manifested in social and political movements from the unfolding of the Italian Renaissance to the rise of human rights movements. The coming together of John, Paul, George and Ringo was part of the creative unfolding of the universe just as was the evolution of jazz, rock, hip hop and other musical genres. Everything comes to be when it’s time for it to evolve. People have a misconception of what creativity is. They think it simply means making things up out of thin air. But creativity is an unfolding of preexisting ideas. The nature of creativity within the universe is not really one of invention, but variation, a creative unfolding.
NON-ZERO SUM: In zero-sum systems, forces compete and eventually nullify each other.With non-zero sum systems, there is the constant give and take between competition and altruism but with altruism being the stronger force. Life is a non-zero sum system. Life began with single cell organisms and eventually the vast web of life evolved. There is a force of compassion within the non-zero sum formula. Behaviorists like E. O. Wilson speak of traits like reciprocal altruism where life forms help other life forms and by doing so, they themselves are rewarded. Singing in a chorus is a non-zero sum experience, an act of compassion.
THE PATTERN THAT CONNECTS: Gregory Bateson (husband of Margaret Mead) was a biologist who looked for “the pattern that connects.”In his book MIND AND NATURE, he asks, “What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all four of them to you and me? And me to you? And all six of us to the amoeba.” 8 He goes on to say, “The anatomy of the crab is repetitive and rhythmical. It is, like music, repetitive with modulation.” pg. 11 One can see that the pattern in a maple leaf is the same pattern in the tree itself. The pattern connects the two as one living self-organized system. Throughout my thoughts I love comparing scientific ideas to a chorus. When we sing in a chorus, we behave like the universe. The patterns in the universe are manifested in the patterns of our harmonies, expressions, rhythms, musical cultures, and shared consciousness.
INTERDEPENDENCE: All these self-organized non-zero sum patterns are connected and part of the same action. Scientists can remove one strand of DNA from a frog and create a whole new frog. All the information for creating that frog is part of the interconnectedness of the DNA. Life abounds with interdependence. Every part of our bodies is affected by every other part as well as by what we eat and by what we do. When we create conscious resonance as a group (sing in a chorus), we are an interdependent gathering of souls, a community of sound. Our emotions sync creating fire. The jazz spirit is a spirit of minds becoming interdependent and interconnected, thinking like a flock of birds, one mind.
GOD IS A VERB, NOT A NOUN: Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, wrote that phrase in his epic poem NO MORE SECOND HAND GOD. Our hands are atoms in the act of being hands. A music stand is atoms in the act of being a music stand. Yes, the word “hand” is a noun, but by calling it a verb as well, it changes everything. The fact that atoms, spinning electrons, are the basis of matter means that everything is an action. This is a huge paradigm shift. I love giving things the verb test. Does a thing have spinning atoms that make it an action that exists? If it does, then it is a verb. If it is does not, then it is a noun only, a concept. Using my definition, we can see that most things are both nouns and verbs. My verb test can show that death, for example, is a noun and not a verb and therefore exists only as a concept. We cannot actually be dead.
LIFE IS ETERNAL: Life, seen in its’ plurality, is eternal. New life arises from seeds, eggs, spermatozoa, but at no point do these life forms begin living since they were already alive. The life that is in us has been alive since the beginning of life. Therefore we, and all living things, are eternal. This is a scientific reality.
LIVING SYSTEMS:The Gaia Hypothesis states that the Earth is a living system, a single cell. There have been several catastrophic events in the Earth’s evolution, times when, due to an asteroid or volcanic ash, almost all life was wiped out. Each time, it was bacteria that brought back the balance. Bacteria create oxygen. Bacteria self-organized to create just the perfect balance of oxygen in our atmosphere; one percent less and we’d suffocate; one percent more and we’d burn up. A chorus is a living system, an interdependent self-organized non-zero sum complex formation of hearts and souls. But there’s always more: The universe evolved from energy becoming matter, matter becoming life, and life becoming consciousness. Brian Swimme says, “We are stars become aware.”(paraphrase) But what if the Universe was a living system all along? What if the Universe was a conscious event all along?
In the movie LITTLE BIG MAN (my favorite movie), Little Big Man’s adopted grandfather Chief Lodge Skins explains the difference between how Native Americans and the white settlers think. He refers to his own people as the human beings.
“Because the human being, my son, they believe everything is alive, not only man and animals, but also water, earth, stone, but also the things from them . . . But the white man, they believe everything is dead, stone, earth, animals and people, even their own people. If things keep trying to live, white man will rub them out. That is the difference.” from LITTLE BIG MAN
For me, seeing all things as a verb is akin to seeing everything as being alive, a living system.
NADHA BRAMHA, THE WORLD IS MADE OF SOUND: At the core of the atom is resonance. Resonance is sound. All things are made of resonance and so, metaphorically, the world is made of sound. This resonance seeks harmony. The oxygen molecule finds harmony by forming with hydrogen to create water. I asked a physicist once about the inherit disharmony of the universe. I asked what would happen if every atom and molecule in the universe suddenly formed the perfect harmony. He said that the resonance would stop and the universe would simply cease to be.
I took a workshop with a physicist named Beverly Rubik, a thinker who has pushed the boundaries of science in her theories. She led us in a guided meditation where I found myself hurtling through space. Her words disappeared as stars and solar systems sped by, becoming blurs. Suddenly I was in complete darkness. I had gone beyond where the light of the universe had travelled. My first thought was that there was nothing there, a void. But the second thought shook me. I realized that this void was the same void in which my known world existed and that the only difference was that my known world had resonance, energy, matter. The universe may actually be the opposite of infinite. It might actually be a void, a void filled will resonance giving shape to atoms, planets and the vast verb of Creation.
When the photons of the sun reach our bodies, they do not bounce off. We absorb the light just as trees absorb the light, transforming the energy into oxygen. Likewise, when sound reaches our bodies, we absorb it. Our bodies are a living resonance. The Eastern practice of chakras is based on understanding the resonance within our bodies. If we tone a low Uh vowel, we will feel the resonance in our groin area. Toning a low Oh vowel will cause our belly area to resonate. The Ah vowel on a higher pitch resonates in the heart chakra. Toning Eh on an even higher pitch resonates in the neck area and a high Ee vowel, for me at least, is like a rocket taking off from my brain, a huge volcano of energy.
When we make music together, we receive a full range of these chakra tones, the Ahs, Ohs, Oos, Ees that make up musical timbres. And we receive a full range of pitches from low to high. Many sound healers believe that we need a full range of high and low pitches in order to be healthy. They theorize that the reason men evolved to have lower pitched voices was so that our singing could encompass a full spectrum of resonance.
Do you let the light in? Do you let the light out?
Do you shine? Really shine?
Do you dance with the light?
Does the light dance with you?
by Nick Page
My little children’s song, DO YOU SHINE, asks, “Do you let the light in?”, but it’s asking so much more. The word light can mean the photons of the sun, but it can also mean the light of love or the light of God. Do we selfishly keep it in or is our reaction the same as every other physical verb in the universe, do we let it out? How alive are we? Do we experience the fullness of Creation firsthand? Do we shine?
There are four ways that we receive resonance. The first, as I have said, is in the body itself, feeling it in our skin, muscles and organs. The second and third way we receive resonance is through hearing, both inner and outer. The outer ear hears sounds created outside our bodies. The inner ear hears internal sound, primarily our own voices. When people hear recordings of themselves for the first time, they react that it doesn’t sound like them. They are only hearing half of what their ears normally hear. They are not hearing the sound that reaches their inner ears through bone conduction, inner hearing.
The fourth way we receive resonance, and this is my unproven theory, is through the resonance of consciousness itself. This brings us back to Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance, the idea that consciousness has a resonance. He leads a global test on dogs where a video camera is aimed at the inside entrance to a home. The owners will return home, always from different directions, always at different times of the day. The dogs in the tests, come to the door when the owners are still a five minute drive away. Yes, dogs have heightened hearing and far more sophisticated senses of smell, but he theorizes that the dogs sense the conscious waves of their owner.
I return again to the words of St. Paul who defined faith as a belief in things unseen. Rupert Sheldrake is trying to prove that the unseen forces of consciousness and emotions can be scientifically proven. Anyone who has ever felt a love for a dog feels a powerful bond. Similarly, a mother feels the love of their baby in her arms. And the baby feels the mothers love. When parents fight in a room far from their sleeping baby, the baby can feel those waves of emotions and begins to cry. I do a test when I’m on an airplane or in a hotel room. If there is a baby crying I hold up my palm and send love to the child. I know I’m insane for making this claim, but the babies stop crying within seconds. Ysaye Barnwell was a guest of the Mystic Chorale. During the concert a baby in the audience began to cry. Ysaye stopped for a moment and said, “I love babies.” The baby stopped crying, feeling the love. They don’t call them good vibes for nothing.
We are born with no wall to keep out the emotions. Babies feel everything. Over time, our cultures help us build walls to prevent ourselves from both feeling and expressing emotions. Emotions can be overwhelming. The walls we build are our survival mechanisms as dictated by our cultures (not all cultures repress emotions). My friend Todd Emmons sings in JOYFUL NOISE, a New Jersey chorus of singers with disabilities, both physical and intellectual. Todd is developmentally delayed but I have learned that I am the one with the disability. I feel only a fraction of what he feels. He has no walls. I wrote a song for him. He cries every time he sings it. He cannot NOT cry. He cannot turn off his emotions.
You have a heart. Use it. You have a heart. Let it out.
Let your heart dance, Let your heart, sing, Let your heart love.
You have to shine with all your might,
You have to shine with all your light,
You have to shine with your love.
YOU HAVE A HEART by Nick Page (published by Hal Leonard)
My father was a confirmed intellectual for most of his life. As dementia set in in his final years, the emotional walls began to come down. A huge, even infinite, heart was revealed. He did not know what to do with a fork, but he had a huge emotional connection the old songs, remembering every word. The songs were in his heart, not his mind.
The brain doesn’t matter, just endless patter.
We forget almost all that we know,
But the heart is the singer, its melodies linger,
The songs are the last to go.
from ATTACK OF THE WINDMILLS by Nick Page
Our bodies and brains are also affected by the pulse within music. This brings us the word “time” in my definition: Music Is The Conscious Reunion Of Resonance And Time. A fast pulse will excite the mind and body, a slow pulse calms us. Music calms the savage beast. The scientific word for this is entrainment which can be defined as what happens when one pulse imitates another. When a car mechanic tunes an engine, they change the speed of the vibrating cylinders, a shaking noisy machine turns into an efficient humming engine with the simple tuning of these valves. They are matching the number of vibrations per second. If you listen to someone tune a piano you will hear the same thing. The out-of-tune string makes a shaky wah-wah sound which disappears by making it match the number of vibrations of the other strings. People walking together entrain their pulses to each other. Audiences breathe in unison to the music. Tibetan prayer bells are tuned almost identically. They are just out of tune enough to cause a wah-wah beat of about 8 cycles per second. This is the same pulse as the brain waves during times of rest. The prayer bells relax us because we entrain to their pulse.
Composers use pulse the same way great public speakers use pulse; to excite us, to calm us, to wake us. They are playing with time and our perception of time. There is only now, but the pulse of this now affects us in profound ways.
Time is relative. We have times when we can get a day’s work done in under and hour and other times when the work drags on and on. Whales live over a hundred years while mice live less than two, but they have the same number of heart beats per lifetimes. So, in relative terms, they both live the same amount of time, the whale just lives it slower. If you take recordings of whales singing and greatly speed them up, they sound like birds.
“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.”
I was with friends on a rocky island as the sun was going down. I said to the woman next to me, “This is going to be a beautiful sunset.” She turned to me and said, “Nick, this IS a beautiful sunset.” She was gently reminding me to be in the present. To my father, in his final years of dementia, there was no concept of past or future, only now, but this now was vast, bigger than all illusions of past or future, an Eternal Now.
“I opened my eyes when I was born to discover the light.
I opened my mouth when I was born to discover my voice.
And the light and the voice will always be new
And the voice of the light will always be true.”
The challenge for me as a conductor of choruses is to make NOW constantly new. It is so easy for us to live in auto-pilot, not really present, not really aware. I can test singers’ awareness levels by asking them to repeat phrases back to me. If their repetition is a blurred version of what I asked them to repeat, then they are not fully present, not fully in the now. But, as always, there’s so much more. How conscious are we of breath, of vibration in our bodies, on how the resonance of those around us are affecting us? How conscious are we of the meaning of the words and the expressions of our hearts? The title of Buckminster Fuller’s epic poem is NO MORE SECOND HAND GOD. Is the NOW we experience first hand or is it second hand?
I was trained to teach good vowels to my singers, but I have learned to teach good emotions instead. Ellen Dissanayake is a behavioral scientist who has developed unique perspectives on the evolution of human behavior, focusing on our creative expression, both visually and musically. The first known art was carved stones buried with the dead. These stones had meaning to the early humans. She calls this “making special,” the idea that the objects we create can be more than what they are. The first sounds our voices made were the expression of emotions from the gentle Ah of a mother’s love to the frantic cries of fear or rage. In a scientific field dominated by men, Ellen Dissanayake’s woman’s perspective is very welcome. She says that singing evolved as a mother/child dialogue. These emotions, expressed through vowels, were sung from mother to child, eventually taking on meaning, language. She points out that these vowels are universal. Every mother, regardless of their culture expresses her love for her child through gentle Ah and Oh vowels. The Oo vowel expresses the same sense of wonder in every language of the world.
As I said earlier, we build walls around our hearts. As a song leader, my biggest challenge is to tear down the walls that prevents people from both feeling and expressing themselves. I will work with middle school singers and there will always be a bunch of them, usually boys, who sit like statues refusing to sing. I will find two or three of them that have some hint of life in them and bring them to the front. I will get them moving to an infectious beat. I will have the rest of the students mirror what these boys are doing. Soon the emotional walls begin to come down. My “volunteers” give permission for the rest of the students to let the light in and let the light out. I cannot do that. It has to be one of their peers.
Barry Green took his book THE INNER GAME OF TENNIS and turned it into a fascinating book on music, THE INNER GAME OF MUSIC. He points out that we are far more heart centered than we are brain centered. If I am teaching the Shaker song SIMPLE GIFTS, I might use his techniques. On the phrase, “Tis a gift to be simple, tis a gift to be free,” I do not say, “I want a gradual crescendo leading up to the second time we sing gift and then I was a forzando,” Instead, I create an image as a guide; “Imagine an angel slowly flying toward you and gently lifting you off the ground on the final gift.” The first explanation was in the head, while the second was in the heart. I ask singers in my choruses to memorize their music so that there are walls between their hearts and the audience.
I asked for a soloist to sing Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender” in rehearsal. He sang the words, but made them sound like driving directions, devoid of emotion. I explained that the first word, Love, has a gorgeous Ah vowel in it. Sing Ah as if you were flirting with everyone in the room, reach out to them with your heart with every emotion of every vowel of every word. He sang it again and everyone screamed with delight.
As my song, THE SONGS ARE THE LAST TO GO says, the heart is the singer. Years ago, I taught middle school music. The students were learning about the Holocaust in history class so I taught them some songs from that time of horror. The teachers invited parents and grandparents to a presentation of stories and songs, but there was something huge missing. This changed when an older woman, a grandmother of one of the students, told of taking a train trip in her native Poland when she was a child. She remembers singing a song similar to the one the middle school students had just sung. She remembers that her aunt and brothers and sisters and parents were there and she remembers being very happy. And then she said to the students, “And that was the last time I ever saw them.” Up until that moment the students understood the songs and stories of the Holocaust in their minds, but they hadn’t understood them in their hearts. There were tears, including mine.
To consciously create sounds is to express our full range of emotions as an act of compassion. In our non-zero sum universe, compassion is a building block. And as always, there is so much more.
“The universe evolved for billions of years to create the child and the voice of the child became the unlimited expression of the universe.”
Brian Swimme
To paraphrase Brian Swimme again, “We are the stars made aware.” Our conscious expression of sound is the conscious song of the universe itself.
When we wake up to the dream we see a world beyond belief
We see the wonder of a child, unfolding wisdom in a leaf.
We see the vastness of Creation, in each moment made anew,
We see the vastness of each moment, The smallness will not do.
In his years of dementia, I would take my father for drives in the countryside. One day we stopped by a field of flowers on a sunny day. I asked him what the flowers were telling him. He thought for a minute and finally said, “Shine.” This naturally brought out a song in me.
The flowers’ simple message,
Shine just like the sun,
Give back the light,
the love that you receive.
And so it is with music,
Songs are like the sun,
We sing because
there’s so much light within.
So sing out with your soul
and sing out with your light,
There’s so much more
than music going on.
This song, SO MUCH MORE, is in my musical, sung by a woman who is a flower beginning to blossom. Her song continues:
I often sing of things unseen
of spirit fire, of love supreme
Is it air? Or is is prayer?
If you cannot see it, is it there?
I’ve lacked the faith in things profound,
Those doubts are gone, my voice is strong,
I’m not the singer, I’m the song.
There’s so much more than what we see,
So much more than what we know,
So much more than me going on.
The resonance of sound changes us, but the resonance of hearts transforms us. We become so much more. A song is so much more than a song. It is the stars crying out. It is the sound of every mother comforting her child.
Before my ashes flow to the sea,
I will sing with the waters,
dance with the sky,
For everywhere there is life, there is music,
Where there is music, there is life.
The song never ends just as life never really ends.
from BEFORE MY ASHES by Nick Page
The final piece of our equation is the word “reunion.” Scientists love to remind us that there are as many molecules of water in a cup of water as there are cups of water in the ocean. In each cup are molecules of water that have been everywhere on this planet, in clouds, in glaciers, in every conceivable life form. In every cup there is a molecule of water that passed through the body of Jesus or Buddha or the first mother of us all in the plains of Africa. And this is true of the water that is in us. Drinking water is a communion with the Universe, a reunion of atoms.
I understand what the brook is telling me.
It is singing a song both ancient and new,
the song of molecules
both mine and the brooks
a reunion of energy,
a communion of consciousness,
a unity of time and spirit.
from I UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BROOK IS TELLING ME by Nick Page
I love to swim. When I am under water it is a reunion of the water in me and the water surrounding me. We are all recycled water and carbon, “million year old stardust “as Joni Mitchell sang. When I swim, I am returning. This vast verb of Creation is constantly reshaping itself, eternal in its creativity and compassion, a constant reunion of atoms. And when we sing, it is a reunion of the resonance, a reliving of the song that is life. It is an eternal song.
My life goes on in endless song;
Above Earth’s lamentations.
I hear the real though far off hymn
That hails the new Creation:
Above the tumult and the strife
I hear its music ringing;
It sounds an echo in my soul,
Hymn by by Robert Lowry and Ira Sankey
We are musical beings, resonant beings, capable of great Magnificence. We humans have created the interlocking wonder of West African classical drumming, the splendor of Bach’s B Minor Mass, the mystery and spiritual inspiration of a North Indian raga. There is wonder in each sound we create. There is so much more than music going on.
And we must never forget what slam poet Regie Gibson tells us, “We won the lottery. We’ve been given the gift of life.”
I end with two quotes forcefully reminding us of this gift.
“By discovering precisely how music is created and appreciated in different social and cultural contexts, and perhaps establishing that musicality is a universal, species-specific characteristic, we can show that human beings are even more remarkable than we presently believe them to be – and not just a few human beings, but all human beings – and that the majority of us live far below our potential, because of the oppressive nature of most societies.” p 116
from HOW MUSICAL IS MAN? by John Blacking, 1973.
“Our Republic teases us with the possibility of Democracy, but citizens are raised like military apple-orchards, pruned down to their predictable minimums, yielding controlled fruits that lack the ecstasy of nature.” from THE ECSTASY OF NATURE by Peter Schumann 2009
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Uncharted Hell
Your guide to the best horror you've never seen
Posted on May 7, 2020 July 4, 2020
Near Dark–the Best Western/Horror/Romance/Family Drama Vampire Movie Ever Made: Part 1
Because the family that slays together, stays together
(Part 1 is a very spoiler-free introduction to a general synopsis of Near Dark, its creator, performers and general trivia for those who have shockingly never seen it; Part 2 will be more in-depth and just lousy with spoilers, so do yourself a favor and see the movie beforehand…and if you are any kind of self-respecting horror fan, you should anyway).
Something I’ll never understand is how people have “favorites”. What’s your favorite color? Food? Music? How do you even answer that? You mean right now? Current mood, time, place, company, circumstances? With all the variations in the world, how can anybody settle for just one favorite of anything? I resent the very question. It puts me on the spot and I feel like as if it’s a shortcut to being labeled. Which is why when I tell you that Near Dark is my favorite vampire movie–by god, I’m saying something.
And yet, so many people–even hardcore horror fans–have never seen it. Then again, it’s a wonder it was ever released at all…starting with the fact that the director was a woman. In 1987, there had only been a grand total of 14 women directors. But then, Kathryn Bigelow is the kind of badass bitch that doesn’t even notice that glass ceiling she’s breaking…and then has the audacity to not only become the first woman director to an Oscar for best picture for Hurt Locker, she didn’t even bother mentioning it in her acceptance speech. She wants to be seen as a director…not a woman director.
With good reason. Do a quick google search of Bigelow and you’ll find a plethora of pearl-clutching articles written by scandalized biddies about her “obsession” with making violent films. In other words, she doesn’t make rom-coms and feel-y movies and just isn’t lady-like in general. Not entirely untrue: she’s a woman, not a lady. As I told my mother when I was five, “I don’t wanna be a lady. They gots too much rules”, and Bigelow is not one to self-hobble. And her movies are violent–Point Break, Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, Detroit–these are all objectively violent, decidedly un-lady-like films. (Fun fact: in Bigelow’s very first film, The Set-up, she insisted that her actors actually fight. One of those actors was a very young Gary Busey. Which explains a lot).
Kathryn Bigelow: 1987 and 2009. Apparently, vampires do exist…
But, ignoring the fact that nobody ever chided Scorsese for being too goddamn violent, Bigelow–surprisingly soft-spoken, private yet fiercely independent—ignored the criticism and defied expectations. And Near Dark was no exception.
Bigelow co-wrote Near Dark with Eric Red (who wrote Bad Moon, Blue Steel both the underrated 1986 version of The Hitcher and the piece of shit 2007 remake) as a western. Producers were unimpressed. Westerns were dead; horror was in. So Bigelow and Red tweaked the story to become a genre-busting, western-horror-family drama-romance or “boy meets girl–girl bites boy–boy becomes reluctant bloodsucker of a roving outlaw vampire family”. Bigelow then approached producer Edward Feldman and told him that either she directed or walked. Feldman gave her five days to prove she knew what she was doing and instead of calling him a sexist shithead and telling him to shove that script so far up his ass he gagged on it, she quietly proved herself instead. Which is infinitely more effective than my way.
She had more than knee-jerk sexism working against her, too. Originally slated to take place in Oklahoma, their entire set was destroyed in a record-breaking flood, then hit by a freak summer snow storm in the second location of Coolidge, Arizona for the first time in 100 years. A sudden windstorm swept up on the day of a pivotal fiery scene. And since they couldn’t film from noon to dusk, the cast and crew spent the entire 40 day shoot living very much like their characters–vampires sleeping in shithouse motels.
Luckily, the cast also resembled the characters in that they were family of sorts…or at least in the incestuous sense. Bigelow was briefly married to James Cameron during his Terminator/Alien years. Lance Henricksen and Bill Paxton both had small parts in The Terminator. Jeanette Goldstein had a small role in Terminator 2 playing John Connor’s foster mother. And all three were in Aliens, as Bishop, Private Hudson and Private Vasquez. In fact, originally Bigelow wanted another Aliens alum, Michael Biehn, to play Jesse. Luckily, he “didn’t understand the script” and the part went to Henricksen instead. Hopefully Biehn went on to get Hooked on Phonics, because the story really isn’t really that fucking hard to understand, guy.
Bigelow chose not to give her characters a lot of the sillier traits of vampires. They don’t transform into bats, there is no fear of garlic or crucifixes, they don’t tote around their own caskets. They don’t even have visible fangs. In fact, the word “vampire” is never even mentioned. Their attributes are superhuman strength, immunity to pain and immortality; their primary weakness, sunlight. And also, the whole bloodsucking thing. As Mae says, “The night has its price”. But it is that very low-tech, gritty minimalism that makes Near Dark great–it’s just almost believable. There is no romance to this family–they drift every night in stolen crap vehicles, they are dirty, unkempt and just skirt the edge of skankiness. They are, for all the world, that vacant-eyed hitchhiker with a straight razor in his boot. With the exception of Larry Fessenden’s Habit, it is the most believable vampire movie then and since. The Lost Boys looks like Peter Pan by comparison.
You can see why people were confused
Unfortunately, the eighties were all about silly, shiny and shallow; it was also about big studios, trendy stars and lots of money to back it up. “Indie horror” wasn’t even a recognized genre…especially when it was released by a bankrupt studio within a couple of weeks of the Warner-backed Lost Boys. De Laurentiis was on the verge of bankruptcy, so the marketing was almost non-existent. Even the official theatrical poster was confusing: an out-of-context burnt Severen, captioned so vaguely that it was impossible to discern what it was even about. Near Dark ended up being released in a handful of theatres, critically panned by all 12 people who saw it, gave a weak chuckle and died, while Lost Boys was a mega-hit and is still loved by silly bitches everywhere. After a short stint of being ignored at video stores, Near Dark almost disappeared.
Somebody got the short end of the genetic stick.
(Fun fact: Lost Boys star Jason Patric is the older half-brother of Joshua John Miller…whose father is Jason “Father Karras” Miller of the Exorcist, which must have led to some tense conversation at Thanksgiving dinner).
But thanks to an elitist cadre of Tarantino-esque movie geeks like me, copies of the VHS survived. And those movie geeks shared it with other movie geeks, who shared it with horror fans until slowly it gained a sort of momentum and became a genuine cult classic.
Meanwhile, Bigelow cashed in with Point Break, Bill Paxton went A-list, starred in many movies (including the fucked-up-in-the best-way indie horror Frailty), did a polygamy series I never watched…and died; Jeanette continued her career as character actor extraordinaire and runs a bra boutique for bodacious ladies (no, really); Lance Henricksen starred in another cult classic, the TV series Millennium, then went on to a undeserved career of being the best thing in bad movies; Adrian Pasdar played the titular anti-hero protagonist in the critically praised Fox series Profit, about a psychopathic corporate shitbag. Unfortunately, it only lasted eight episodes, because a bunch of typically irony-free fundies who had obviously never read the Old Testament, were offended that Profit’s evil deeds went unpunished. Rupert Murdoch reluctantly pulled the plug on his favorite show and, no doubt, grieved over killing his greedy shitbag doppelganger. Personally, I think it’s actually relatively tame compared to say, Breaking Bad, but you can check it out for yourself –all eight episodes are on Youtube.
Joshua John Miller continued playing misunderstood weirdos, until he fucked off acting completely, earned his MFA in creative writing, co-wrote Final Girls with his life partner, M.A. Fortin, and, at least on one occasion, allegedly got funky (IMDb bills him as “Harmonica Boy”). The exquisitely beautiful Jenny Wright starred in another great horror cult classic, I, Madman, had parts in unworthy movies and seemed to drop off the face of the earth. I heard all kinds of rumors–she got sick of Hollywood and fucked off for good, that she married a billionaire, and a few other plausible scenarios. Unfortunately, the truth is sadder and way too familiar: she became another just-say-no drug cautionary tale and doesn’t seem altogether stable, which is actually sort of tragic. Jenny deserved better.
Next time, I’ll go more into Near Dark the movie. Before filming, Lance Henriksen and the other cast members developed fascinating backstories for their characters, and that–along with Bigelow’s mythological interpretation–adds depth and texture to what appears to be a stripped-down, single-themed film. It gave me a slightly different perspective on the film and I appreciate it even more…but if you haven’t watched it (and why haven’t you watched it??), please watch it before you proceed because there will be spoilers galore, and I would hate to ruin the experience. Unless you’re one of those weirdos who reads the last page of a book first, then you might like them. Either way, that’s next. Weirdo.
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Another angle on the Human Brain Project
An important interview with the neuroscience laboratory manager from the Human Brain Project revealing some previously unknown details about the running of this important scientific endeavour.
via @jpeelle
Author vaughanbellPosted on May 30, 2015 Categories Nonsense4 Comments on Another angle on the Human Brain Project
The Psychologist has a great piece by leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on mistakes, mystery and the mind.
When Does Consciousness Begin and End? Interesting piece from PBS.
The Lancet Psychiatry has a great piece on a unique suicide crisis resolution house in London.
Who Are You Now? Brilliant site from Headway East London on life stories of brain injury survivors.
The Dana Foundation discusses research on how ‘cognitive peaks‘ happen at different ages for different abilities.
Cavemen didn’t live in caves. Why we see early humans through modern humans’ eyes. Good article in Nautilus.
BBC Radio 4 has the first part of a two-part documentary on psychology and the origins of the Satanic ritual abuse panic.
Hacking the nervous system through the vagus nerve. Excellent piece in Mosaic Science.
Author vaughanbellPosted on May 29, 2015 Categories Linkage1 Comment on Spike activity 29-05-2015
An alternative history of the human mind
Nautilus has an excellent article on a theory of consciousness that is very likely wrong but so startlingly original it is widely admired: Julian Jaynes’ theory of the bicameral mind.
Based on the fact that there is virtually no description of mental states in the Ancient Greek classic The Iliad, where the protagonists are largely spoken to by Gods, Jaynes speculates that consciousness as we know it didn’t exist at this point in time and people experienced their thoughts as instructions from external voices which they interpreted as gods.
His book is a 1976 is a tour de force of interdisciplinary scholarship and although the idea that humans became conscious only 3,000 years ago is extremely unlikely, the book has been hugely influential even among people who think Jaynes was wrong, largely because he is a massively creative thinker.
Consciousness, Jaynes tells readers, in a passage that can be seen as a challenge to future students of philosophy and cognitive science, “is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.” His illustration of his point is quite wonderful. “It is like asking a flashlight in a dark room to search around for something that does not have any light shining upon it. The flashlight, since there is light in whatever direction it turns, would have to conclude that there is light everywhere. And so consciousness can seem to pervade all mentality when actually it does not.”
The Nautilus article is a brilliant retrospective on both Jaynes as a person and the theory, talking to some leading cognitive scientists who are admirers.
A wonderful piece on a delightful chapter in the history of psychology.
Link to Nautilus article on Julian Jaynes.
Author vaughanbellPosted on May 28, 2015 May 28, 2015 Categories Remembering9 Comments on An alternative history of the human mind
John Nash has left the building
So goodbye John Nash, brilliant mathematician and beautiful mind, who has sadly just passed away after being involved in a taxi crash with his wife.
Nash was famous for many things, but was probably most well-known for being the subject of the biopic A Beautiful Mind – an Oscar-winning production that sugar-coated the details although mainly stayed true to spirit of Nash’s remarkable story.
Outside of the mainstream media Nash is best known for his work on partial differential equations and game theory – and it is this latter development which has had the biggest impact on society.
Nash won the Nobel prize for developing the Nash equilibrium which is the point in an ongoing interaction (the ‘game’ in ‘game theory’) where everyone has nothing to gain by changing their current strategy.
In Adam Curtis’s documentary series The Trap, Curtis famously argues that Nash’s ideas on game theory were taken up by the radical Sixties psychiatrist R.D. Laing who modelled the family as a self-interested struggle in game theory terms.
It’s a neat idea – Laing’s conflict-ridden model of the family was driven by the paranoid ideas of a man who became psychotic – but there’s not much weight behind it.
Laing certainly did describe the family as conflict-ridden and used game theoretic ideas to describe these interactions, in his book Sanity, Madness and the Family, but Curtis seems to have been wrong about the influence of Nash.
Laing drew on Gregory Bateson’s idea of a ‘double bind’ where two conflicting forms of communicated demand are placed on a family member which, according to Bateson, could lead to psychosis as people are forced to come up with an ‘alternative reality’ that satisfies the incompatible requests.
We now know this is wrong but it was influential at the time and set the scene for wider investigations into family life and how it affects people with psychosis which proved genuinely useful.
But reading these theories, what is most surprising is how Nash’s work isn’t mentioned.
Bateson was in regular contact with game theory pioneers like Norbert Weiner and John von Neumann who would have clearly known about Nash’s discoveries, but Nash is not referenced in either Bateson’s or R.D. Laing’s key works.
I find it unlikely that neither knew about John Nash, not least because he had published papers in very well known journals.
It is possible, however, that neither knew about Nash’s mental health, as Nash had begun to become unwell in 1959 and Sanity, Madness and the Family was published five years later, so perhaps the news about Nash’s psychosis had not filtered through.
But it is also possible that they were aware of what had happened to Nash, and opted to avoid his ideas precisely because he was thought to have become unwell.
Either way, it was a missed opportunity, because the idea of a Nash equilibrium makes perfect sense in terms of arriving at an unhelpful stalemate where no individual can seem to make a positive change – exactly what Laing was describing in families.
Fast forward 50 years, and Nash’s ideas finally have begun to have an impact on the science of psychopathology. After A Beautiful Mind was released, based on Sylvia Nasar’s earlier biography, studies emerged applying game theory and the Nash equilibrium to understanding the psychology and neuroscience of schizophrenia.
After revolutionising economics, social science and mathematics, Nash’s ideas are starting to have an influence on the science of psychosis. A form of intellectual closure, perhaps, that Nash appreciated more than most.
Link to excellent obituary in The New York Times.
Author vaughanbellPosted on May 25, 2015 June 17, 2015 Categories Other People3 Comments on John Nash has left the building
No, there is no evidence for a link between video games and Alzheimer’s disease, reports HeadQuarters after recent media bungles. We’re still waiting to hear on SimCity and Parkinson’s disease though.
The American Psychiatric Association has a new corporate video that looks like a Viagra advert.
BPS Research Digest reports on a fascinating study that gives a preliminary taxonomy of the voices inside your head.
What does fMRI measure? Essential piece from the Brain Box blog that gives an excellent guide to fMRI.
New Republic has an excellent piece on the proliferation of ‘trigger warnings’ and puts them in context of the history of PTSD, war and society.
Someone freeze-framed the movie Ex Machina and ran the code displayed on one of the monitors. Here’s what it does.
Atlas Obscura has a series of photos originally taken by pioneering neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing to document the early days of brain surgery.
What Can “Lived Experience” Teach Neuroscientists? asks Neuroskeptic. On why so many of these debates assume scientists are not people with mental health problems.
Reuters reports that a clinical psychologist has been put in charge of one of American’s largest prisons. “When a third of your population is mentally ill, you sure as heck better have someone who understands that at the top”.
Brain implants in the parietal lobe let paralyzed man move robotic arm reports Science News
Irregularities in Science
A paper in the high-profile journal Science has been alleged to be based on fraudulent data, with the PI calling for it to be retracted. The original paper purported to use survey data to show that people being asked about gay marriage changed their attitudes if they were asked the survey questions by someone who was gay themselves. That may still be true, but the work of a team that set out to replicate the original study seems to show that the data reported in that paper was never collected in the way reported, and at least partly fabricated.
The document containing these accusations is interesting for a number of reasons. It contains a detailed timeline showing how the authors were originally impressed with study and set out to replicate it, gradually uncovering more and more elements that concerned them and let them to investigate how the original data was generated. The document also reports the exemplary way in which they shared their concerns with the authors of the original paper, and the way the senior author responded. The speed of all this is notable – the investigators only started work on this paper in January, and did most of the analysis substantiating their concerns this month.
As we examined the study’s data in planning our own studies, two features surprised us: voters’ survey responses exhibit much higher test-retest reliabilities than we have observed in any other panel survey data, and the response and reinterview rates of the panel survey were significantly higher than we expected. We set aside our doubts about the study and awaited the launch of our pilot extension to see if we could manage the same parameters. LaCour and Green were both responsive to requests for advice about design details when queried.
So on the one hand this is a triumph for open science, and self-correction in scholarship. The irony being that any dishonesty that led to publication in a high-impact journal, also attracted people with the desire and smarts to check if what was reported holds up. But the tragedy is the circumstances that led the junior author of the original study, himself a graduate student at the time, to do what he did. No statement from him is available at this point, as far as I’m aware.
The original: When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support for gay equality
The accusations and retraction request: Irregularities in LaCour (2014)
Author tomstaffordPosted on May 20, 2015 Categories TheoryLeave a comment on Irregularities in Science
In the mind of a drone
Longreads has an excellent article on the psychology of drone warfare that looks at this particularly modern form of air-to-ground combat from many, thought-provoking angles.
These include the effect of humanless warfare, how suicide bombers are being dronified, how reducing the risk to soldiers might make civilians a more inviting target, whether remote-drone-pilot PTSD is convenient myth, and most interesting, the reliance of ‘Pattern-of-Life Analysis’ on which to base strikes.
Apart from these “personal strikes,” there are also “signature strikes,” here meaning strikes authorized on the basis of traces, indications, or defining characteristics. Such strikes target individuals whose identity remains unknown but whose behavior suggests, signals, or signs membership in a “terrorist organization.”
In such cases, the strike is made “without knowing the precise identity of the individuals targeted.” It depends solely on their behavior, which, seen from the sky, appears to “correspond to a ‘signature’ of pre-identified behavior that the United States links to militant activity.” Today, strikes of this type, against unknown suspects, appear to constitute the majority of cases…
An analysis of the pattern of a person’s life may be defined more precisely as “the fusion of link analysis and a geospatial analysis.” For some idea of what is involved here, imagine a superimposition, on a single map, of Facebook, Google Maps, and an Outlook calendar. This would be a fusion of social, spatial, and temporal particulars, a mixed mapping of the socius, locus, and tempus spheres—in other words, a combination of the three dimensions that, not only in their regularities but also in their discordances, constitute a human life.
This anonymous death by heuristics is also the type of problem that yields well to statistical approaches and, with enough data, machine learning algorithms such as deep learning.
It’s the sort of problem that cloud-based on-tap-AI systems like IBM’s Watson are designed to help with and you can bet your bottom dollar that there’s research going on to use machine learning to identify terrorists from their Pattern-of-Life. The Skynet of fiction will probably become the Skyapp of reality.
The article is remarkably wide-ranging and genuinely thought-provoking for a subject where much has already been written. Recommended.
Link to ‘Theorizing the Drone’.
Author vaughanbellPosted on May 17, 2015 Categories Integrating3 Comments on In the mind of a drone
What does fMRI measure? Excellent fMRI primer on the Brain Box blog.
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent profile of neuroscientist Sophie Scott and her research understanding laughter.
Time has a piece on how rappers are de-stigmatising mental illness.
A brilliant review of neurosurgeon Henry Marsh’s book ‘Do No Harm’ from The New Yorker also works as a wonderful stand-alone article.
APA Monitor has a great interview with cognitive psychology pioneer Jerome Bruner as he approaches his 100th birthday.
The Brighter Side of Rabies. The New Yorker on how one of the world’s most deadly pathogens is revolutionising brain science.
The Verge has a piece on the ‘engineers of addiction’. Slot machine designers perfected compulsive play now tech wants their tricks.
The first scientific studies have attempted to understand the blue and black / white and gold dress phenomenon and are covered in The New York Times.
The New Yorker has a great non-hagiographic review of Oliver Sacks’ new biography.
Oddly, I’ve been quoted in a trailer for Ex Machina although my name has been spelt wrong which proves that machines aren’t invincible and humans will triumph in the coming robot war.
A less hysterical reaction
There’s a fascinating article in The Guardian about one of the least understood aspects of human nature: experiences like blindness, paralysis and seizures that seem to mimic gross damage to the nervous system but aren’t explained by it. People can experience profound blindness, for example, but have no detectable damage to their visual system.
These difficulties have various names: conversion disorder, hysteria, dissociative disorder, medically unexplained symptoms, functional neurological symptoms, somatoform disorder, or are denoted by adding the word ‘functional’ or ‘psychogenic’ to the disability.
The original concept, usually falsely attributed to Freud but actually first suggested by French psychologist Pierre Janet, was that emotional disturbance was being expressed as a physical problem, potentially as a form of psychological defence mechanism.
This is the origin of one of the modern names – ‘conversion disorder’ – but it’s not clear that ’emotion being converted into a physical symptom’ is a good explanation. We do know, however, that these experiences are more likely in people with a history of trauma, stress or emotional difficulties.
Crucially, people affected by these conditions feel no voluntary control over their symptoms – they’re not faking – but if you understand the nervous system you can often see how the symptoms aren’t consistent with the disabilities they appear to mimic.
For example, in the article, the neurologist tests a patient’s blindness like so:
He took from his bag a small rotating drum painted in black and white stripes. He held it in front of Yvonne and spun it quickly. Her eyes flickered from side to side in response to it, involuntarily drawn to the spinning stripes.
If the patient was blind due to damage to the eye, retina or optic nerve, visual material wouldn’t cause an involuntary eye tracking response, because the visual information would never make it to the brain.
So strikingly, the visual information is clearly being perceived at one level but is not accessible to the conscious mind – and it is this dramatic dissociation between the conscious and unconscious which is at the core of the problem, and is so poorly understood.
Unfortunately, these problems have also been traditionally stigmatised within medicine with people affected by them sometimes treated as fakers or time-wasters.
Similarly, to patients, the problems often feel as if “something has gone wrong with their bodies” meaning it can be difficult to hear that the origin may be psychological – partly of course, due to the common misconception that ‘psychological’ means ‘under your control’.
So this is why The Guardian article is so interesting because it is a little discussed area that needs a wider understanding both clinically and scientifically.
It describes several people with exactly these difficulties and how they are experienced.
Apparently, it’s taken from a new book by the same neurologist which is entirely about ‘functional neurological symptoms’ which could be equally as interesting.
Link to ‘You think I’m mad?’ – the truth about psychosomatic illness.
Author vaughanbellPosted on May 16, 2015 Categories Togetherness1 Comment on A less hysterical reaction
The most unaccountable of machinery
The latest edition of intriguing podcast Love and Radio is on a lesbian who passed as a man to report on masculinity, writing a amphetamine-fuelled stream-of-consciousness biography of Virginia Woolf, and finding hope in suicide.
It’s an interview with writer Norah Vincent and it makes for compelling listening.
Love and Radio is an interesting project that attempts to capture diverse people’s take on relationships. It veers between the rambling and the sublime, but this is definitely towards the sublime end of the spectrum.
Link to episode ‘Eternity Through Skirts and Waistcoats’.
Author vaughanbellPosted on May 13, 2015 May 13, 2015 Categories NewsLeave a comment on The most unaccountable of machinery
Philip Zimbardo has a theory
“Boys risk becoming addicted to porn, video games and Ritalin” says psychologist Philip Zimbardo, which simply isn’t true, because some weekends I read.
Yes, Zimbardo has a theory which says that masculinity is being damaged by computer games, the internet, and pornography without an adequate plot line. A key solution: dancing. He’s done a cracking interview in The Guardian which I thoroughly recommend if you are still waiting for your Ritalin to kick in.
“Boys have never been self-reflective. Boys are focused on doing and acting, girls are more focused on being and feeling. The new video-game world encourages doing and acting and not really thinking. Video games are not so attractive to girls.”
Not really thinking? There’s a man who’s never played Bubble Bobble. And finally some sense in the video game debate. Hang up your coat Anita Sarkeesian.
And pornography? “The relative proportions are hard to come by. But for girls, it’s just boring. In general, sex has always been linked with romance for girls – much more than for boys. For boys it’s always been much more visual and physical…”
“With the old pornography there were typically stories. There was a movie, like Deep Throat, and in the course of some interesting theme people were having sex. Now it’s only about physical sexual contact.”
Oh my God! The washing machine has broken in the cheerleaders’ apartment. Now they’ll never get to the game. [Ding Dong] Wait, who could this be?
“It’s always been difficult for boys to talk to girls because you are never sure what they want or what their agenda is. And now without trying or practice it becomes more and more difficult. So it’s a reason to retreat into this virtual world.”
Phil, I know their agenda. They want quality plumbing without having to pay in cash.
“In online porn, the men are incredibly well-endowed – they are paid precisely because they have those attributes. In addition, some of the men take penile injections so they can perform for half an hour non-stop. When you’re a 10 or 15-year-old kid, you say to yourself, ‘I will never, ever look like that or perform like that’.”
I never thought that when I was 15. It’s been adult life that has made the 30 minute mark seem like an impossible dream.
Indeed, he argues that schools are increasingly ill-suited to boys’ needs – another reason for their retreat into cyberspace. In the US, he says, 90% of elementary school teachers are women, while in the UK one in five teachers is a man. “Female teachers can be wonderful but they model skills that girls are good at – fine motor tuning rather than big physical activity. They don’t like boys running around. And, with funding shortages, they’re eliminating gym classes so boys don’t have the time to do physical activity.” He cites schoolchildren being assigned to write diaries as a compositional task. “Boys don’t write diaries! The worst thing I can imagine giving a boy as a present is a diary.”
Fair point, just look at what happened to Adrian Mole.
What can be done to reconnect boys with the real world? Zimbardo has lots of suggestions: more male teachers, more incentives for men to establish boys’ and men’s groups so that the former can get the masculine mentoring they otherwise lack, welfare reform to encourage fathers to remain in the family loop, crowdsourcing initiatives to fund video games that are less violent and require more co-operation, parents to talk to their sons about sex and relationships so they don’t take porn to represent real life.
All genuinely helpful suggestions and then..
My favourite suggestion is that boys learn to dance. “It’s the easiest thing in the world,”
We’re British Phil. WE ARE BRITISH MALES. We look like two legged donkeys drunk on alcopops when we dance. And that’s *after* the dance lessons.
If you actually want to see someone take on Zimbardo’s claims with evidence, I could do no better than Andrew Przybylski from the The Oxford Internet Institute debating him on the BBC.
And amazingly, the full Guardian interview is full of even more clangers. Can’t wait for the book.
Link to Guardian interview with Philip Zimbardo.
Author vaughanbellPosted on May 10, 2015 May 10, 2015 Categories Nonsense9 Comments on Philip Zimbardo has a theory
An autonomous truck has been cleared to drive on US roads for the first time according to New Scientist. Robot mudflap girl still being designed.
Backchannel covers the recent Facebook filter bubble study. Rare helpful write-up.
Surge in US ‘brain-reading‘ patents reports BBC News. Most of which are junk, concludes article.
Science magazine has an article by NIMH head saying ‘mental disorders’ are really ‘brain disorders’ and fails to understand that different levels of explanation are not mutually exclusive.
A Better Way to Build Brain-Inspired Chips. MIT Tech Review on the memrister.
The Lab Lunch has a piece arguing against the computational view of mind and brain function.
An audio interview with a researcher who spent four years with the internet’s worst trolls is up on Motherboard. Lots of preamble but interview starts eventually.
Science News reports on a fascinating study about the genetics of emotional vividness.
Human trials for bionic eye with ‘wireless brain chip’ to start next year, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. I’ll have two.
The Economist has an extended article on excessive AI fear and the state of the technology.
The ‘immature teen brain’ defense and the Boston Bomber trial. The Washington Post tackles the neuroscience behind the courtroom claims.
BBC Radio 4 had a streaming only documentary on the language of pain.
Author vaughanbellPosted on May 9, 2015 May 9, 2015 Categories Linkage1 Comment on Spike activity 08-05-2015
Sampling error’s more dangerous friend
As the UK election results roll in, one of the big shocks is the discrepancy between the pre-election polls and the results. All the pollsters agreed that it would be incredibly close, and they were all wrong. What gives?
Some essential psych 101 concepts come in useful here. Polls rely on sampling – the basic idea being that you don’t have to ask everyone to get a rough idea of how things are going to go. How rough that idea is depends on how many you ask. This is the issue of sampling error. We understand sampling error – you can estimate it, so as well as reducing this error by taking larger samples there are also principled ways of working out when you’ve asked enough people to get a reliable estimate (which is why polls of a country with a population of 70 million can still be accurate with samples in the thousands).
But, as Tim Harford points out in in this excellent article on sampling problems big data, with every sample there are two sources of unreliability. Sampling error, as I’ve mentioned, but also sampling bias.
sampling error has a far more dangerous friend: sampling bias. Sampling error is when a randomly chosen sample doesn’t reflect the underlying population purely by chance; sampling bias is when the sample isn’t randomly chosen at all.
The problem with sample bias is that, when you don’t know the ground truth, there is no principled way of knowing if your sample is biased. If your sample has some systematic bias in it, you can make a reliable estimate (minimising sample error), but you are still left with the sample bias – a bias you don’t know how big it is until you find out the truth. That’s my guess at what happened with the UK election. The polls converged, minimising the error, but the bias remained – a ‘shy tory‘ effect where many voters were not admitting (or not aware) that they would end up voting for the Conservative party.
The exit polls predicted the real result with surprising accuracy not because they minimised sampling error, but because they avoided the sample bias. By asking the people who actually turned up to vote how they actually voted, their sample lacked the bias of the pre-election polls.
Author tomstaffordPosted on May 8, 2015 Categories Theory2 Comments on Sampling error’s more dangerous friend
A brief and unlikely scenario
The Independent have been running a series called ‘If I were Prime Minister’ where they’ve asked a diverse range of people what they would do if they were PM. I written a brief piece for them where I talk about why we need to make hospital care for people with psychosis much less distressing.
It’s worth saying that I’d make a rubbish Prime Minister (“Exchange rate, yep, are there any snacks in here?”) but before I’d get the Queen to let me off the hook, I’d certainly make transition to psychiatric hospital care a much more positive experience,
Being treated in hospital under section is one of the most serious psychiatric interventions but you may be surprised to hear that it is one of the most poorly researched. We have so little evidence about what works and how to help people in a way that is safest for both their physical and their mental health. So if I were prime minister, I would ensure that the transition to inpatient care, for the most seriously unwell, was also a priority for research, funding and improvement.
It’s not fashionable to talk about gentleness in healthcare but it is exactly what is needed for people in crisis. Through neglect and under-funding, we have created a system that makes the time, consistency and environment needed for gentleness almost impossible to achieve – both for the staff who want to provide it and for the people who need it most. We are using our sanctuaries as warehouses and they need reclaiming.
Link to piece on crisis care in mental health.
Author vaughanbellPosted on May 7, 2015 Categories Togetherness1 Comment on A brief and unlikely scenario
Five minutes with Carolyn Mair
I’ve often seen people on the web who advertise themselves as ‘fashion psychologists’ who say they can ‘match clothes to your personality’. I’ve always rolled my eyes and moved on.
So I was fascinated to meet Carolyn Mair, a cognitive scientist who did her PhD in perceptual cognition, who now leads a psychology programme at the world-renowned London College of Fashion.
They are doing rigorous psychology as it applies to fashion, clothes and the beauty industry and I asked her to speak to Mind Hacks about herself and her work.
Can you say a little about your background?
My first job was as a ‘commercial artist’ (now graphic designer). Alongside this I made a reasonable income from painting portraits and murals. I then moved to Australia for two years where I worked in a cake shop/bakery where I was able to decorate cakes for special occasions. On returning to the UK, I became a mother and continued painting portraits and murals and also began to design and sell children’s clothes as well as cakes.
During this time, I studied on the BSc Applied Psychology and Computing at Bournemouth University in 1992 and then the MSc Research Methods Psychology at Portsmouth University in 1995. I was asked to do a PhD in Computational Neuroscience, a very young discipline in 1999, investigating the ‘binding problem’; specifically short-term visual memory. During this period I spent three months at the centre of Cognitive Neuroscience at SISSA in Trieste which dramatically changed the direction of my thesis from computational to cognitive neuroscience. I completed my postdoc in the Department for Information Science, Computing and Maths at Brunel University and then took up a Senior Lectureship at Southampton Solent University. I left there in 2012 to join London College of Fashion as Subject Director Psychology.
How did you get into the psychology of fashion?
I love fashion! I started making clothes for myself when I was 13 years old and for others during my teens and again when I had children. Following a chance meeting at a conference in 2011, I was asked to give a paper on psychology and fashion at London College of Fashion. I was then invited back to discuss how psychology could be introduced at Masters level. A role was created, I applied and was successful. I have since developed the world’s first Masters programmes, an MA and MSc, to apply psychology to or, in the context of, fashion.
Why does fashion need psychology?
Fashion is about perception, attention, memory, creativity and communication; it involves reasoning, decision-making, problem-solving and social interaction. Fashion is psychology! Although it has been interpreted anecdotally in psychological terms for centuries, applying psychology to fashion as a scientific endeavour is very new.
Psychology matters beyond what our clothes say about us. People are involved in every aspect of fashion from design, though production, manufacture, advertising and marketing, visual merchandising, retail, consumption and disposal. Taking a scientific approach enables us to derive a more meaningful understanding of behaviour related to fashion and therefore to predict and ultimately change behaviour for the better. We know that within one second of seeing another person, we decide how attractive they are, whether we like them and what sort of characteristics they possess. In addition, what we wear can affect our mood and confidence, and interestingly, what we believe about what we are wearing influences our cognitive performance.
However, the ultimate impact and value of applying psychology to fashion goes beyond what we wear. The fashion industry is an important global industry which employs millions of people worldwide and ultimately involves us all. Since the 60s, the fashion industry has promoted a very narrow stereotype of ‘beauty’ which has now become the ‘norm’ through the ubiquity of web and mobile technology. With the increase in exposure to such images, comes an increase in body dissatisfaction across the lifespan. This brings multiple behavioural issues which can be addressed by psychologists.
In addition, psychologists can challenge the status quo and promote a more inclusive and diverse representation of what is ‘beautiful’ by demonstrating the benefits such an approach would bring. The narrow stereotype of beauty is reinforced through the multibillion pound cosmetic industry. The repercussions of this can be seen in the increase in demand for cosmetic surgery and other interventions many of which are conducted by unqualified practitioners on vulnerable individuals. The impact of such practice is yet to be fully realised, but psychologists are concerned at the lack of regulations that currently exist.
The fashion industry has a poor reputation in terms of the environment and sustainability. In fact, sustainable fashion can be considered an oxymoron. However, it is possible to have a sustainable fashion industry which considers the environment and consumers who care more about what they buy and in doing so buy less. Working alongside fashion professionals, the role of psychology in addressing these issues is education.
When I started applying psychology to fashion, I was determined not be a ‘wardrobe therapist’ or a ‘fashion psychologist’. I am often asked to write about what a particular garment or accessory says about the wearer, for example do glasses suggest intelligence or what does a politician’s fashion style say about him or her? My typical response is that deriving deep meaning from a single ‘snapshot’ is unrealistic as it’s more complex than that! I have been surprised about the demand for this sort of information and think the time is right for developing this new sub-discipline of psychology that has the potential to do good at individual, societal and community levels.
Fashion is a multibillion global industry which employs millions of people worldwide. As a result it affects, and is affected by the intricacies, fallibilities and fragility of human behaviour. In addition to those impacted by fashion as employer; fashion influences its consumers at all levels. Even if we consider ourselves not interested in fashion per se, we all wear clothes! Until recently, the scientific study of psychology applied in the context of fashion has been neglected. This important area, which affects billions worldwide, is in obvious need of investigation.
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Author vaughanbellPosted on May 6, 2015 Categories Other People1 Comment on Five minutes with Carolyn Mair
The CIA’s inner circle of white elephant specialists
The New York Times recently covered a report by long-term critics of psychologists’ involvement in the CIA torture programme.
It includes a series of leaked emails which suggests something beyond what is widely noted – that the US security agencies have been handing out key contracts to high profile psychologists on the basis of shared political sympathies rather than sound scientific evidence. The result has been a series of largely ineffective white elephant security projects that have cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
To back up a bit, this new report claims, on the basis of the leaked emails, that there was collusion between the American Psychological Association and the CIA to make psychologists’ participation in brutal interrogations possible through engineering the written code of ethics.
The allegations are not new but as part of the coverage The New York Times includes the full text of the report which includes the full text of key emails.
The APA have commissioned an independent investigation and have released a statement, quite reasonably actually, saying they’re not going to comment until it’s concluded.
But looking at the emails, you can see that the CIA was buddies with a select group of high profile psychologists who later get big money contracts from the US Government. You may recognise the names.
One email from Kirk Hubbard, Senior Behavioral Scientist for the CIA, notes that “I have been in contact with Ekman and he is eager to do work for us”, seemingly with regard to a forum on the science of deception. This is Paul Ekman famous for his work on facial emotions and micro-expression.
Hubbard notes that Martin Seligman, famous for his work on learned helplessness and later positive psychology, “helped out alot over the past four years”. Seligman hosted a now well-documented meeting in December 2001 for “a small group of professors and law enforcement and intelligence officers” who “gathered outside Philadelphia at the home of a prominent psychologist, Martin E. P. Seligman, to brainstorm about Muslim extremism”.
This meeting included James Mitchell, of the now notorious Mitchell Jessen and Associates, who developed the CIA’s brutal interrogation / torture programme.
To be clear, I am not suggesting that Ekman and Seligman were directly involved in CIA interrogations or torture. Seligman has gone as far as directly denying it on record.
But there is something else interesting which links Ekman, Seligman and Mitchell: lucrative multi-million dollar US Government contracts for security programmes based on little evidence that turned out to be next to useless.
Ekman was awarded a contract to train ‘behavior detection officers’ at US airports using a technique called SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques) based on detecting facial expressions – part of a $900 million programme. It was widely criticised as lacking a scientific foundation, there has been not one verified case of a successful terrorist detection, and evaluations by the Department of Homeland Security, the Government Accountability Office and the Rand Corporation were scathing.
Seligman was reportedly awarded a $31 million US Army no-bid contract to develop ‘resilience training’ for soldiers to prevent mental health problems. This was surprising to many as he had no particular experience in developing clinical interventions. It was deployed as the $237 million Comprehensive Soldier Fitness programme, the results of which have only been reported in some oddly incompetent technical reports and are markedly under-whelming. Nicholas Brown’s analysis of the first three evaluative technical reports is particularly good where he notes the tiny effects sizes and shoddy design. A fourth report has since been published (pdf) which also notes “small effect sizes” and doesn’t control for things like combat exposure.
And famously, Mitchell and Jessen won an $81 million contract to develop the interrogation programme, now officially labelled as torture, and which the Senate Intelligence Committee suggested was actually counter-productive in gathering intelligence.
Applying psychology to improve airport security screening, soldiers’ well-being and interrogation are all reasonable aims. But rather than reviewing the evidence to see what’s possible and contracting relevant specialists to develop and evaluate programmes where possible, they seem to have contracted supporters of the ‘war on terror’ for work that lacked an applied evidence base.
The outcome has been expensive and ineffectual.
Link to full text of critical report, full text of emails in Appendix.
Author vaughanbellPosted on May 4, 2015 May 6, 2015 Categories NewsLeave a comment on The CIA’s inner circle of white elephant specialists
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A functional organization on ON and OFF pathways in the rabbit retina
S. A. Bloomfield, R. F. Miller
Intracellular electrophysiological recordings were obtained from amacrine and ganglion cells in an isolated, superfused retina-eyecup preparation of the rabbit. Cells were characterized physiologically, after which cell-staining was accomplished by intracellular iontophoresis of HRP. A computer-assisted image-processing system was used to study the dendritic stratification pattern of HRP-labeled neurons within the inner plexiform layer (IPL). Our results support the concept that the IPL is functionally divided into a distal OFF region and proximal ON layer. ON and OFF ganglion and amacrine cells show dendritic arborizations consistent with this division and ON-OFF ganglion cells have processes in both portions of the IPL. It appears that these functional subdivisions of the IPL reflect excitatory, but not necessarily inhibitory, inputs. Thus, the pattern of dendritic arborization of a cell appears to predict its physiological response polarity, regardless of the type of inhibition it receives.
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Bloomfield, S. A., & Miller, R. F. (1986). A functional organization on ON and OFF pathways in the rabbit retina. Journal of Neuroscience, 6(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.06-01-00001.1986
A functional organization on ON and OFF pathways in the rabbit retina. / Bloomfield, S. A.; Miller, R. F.
In: Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1986, p. 1-13.
Bloomfield, SA & Miller, RF 1986, 'A functional organization on ON and OFF pathways in the rabbit retina', Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.06-01-00001.1986
Bloomfield SA, Miller RF. A functional organization on ON and OFF pathways in the rabbit retina. Journal of Neuroscience. 1986;6(1):1-13. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.06-01-00001.1986
Bloomfield, S. A. ; Miller, R. F. / A functional organization on ON and OFF pathways in the rabbit retina. In: Journal of Neuroscience. 1986 ; Vol. 6, No. 1. pp. 1-13.
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The contribution of faint AGNs to the ionizing background at z 4
A. Grazian, E. Giallongo, K. Boutsia, S. Cristiani, E. Vanzella, C. Scarlata, P. Santini, L. Pentericci, E. Merlin, N. Menci, F. Fontanot, A. Fontana, F. Fiore, F. Civano, M. Castellano, M. Brusa, A. Bonchi, R. Carini, F. Cusano, M. Faccini
B. Garilli, A. Marchetti, A. Rossi, R. Speziali
Context. Finding the sources responsible for the hydrogen reionization is one of the most pressing issues in observational cosmology. Bright quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) are known to ionize their surrounding neighborhood, but they are too few to ensure the required HI ionizing background. A significant contribution by faint active galactic nuclei (AGNs), however, could solve the problem, as recently advocated on the basis of a relatively large space density of faint active nuclei at z > 4. Aims. This work is part of a long-term project aimed at measuring the Lyman Continuum escape fraction for a large sample of AGNs at z 4 down to an absolute magnitude of M1450 -23. We have carried out an exploratory spectroscopic program to measure the HI ionizing emission of 16 faint AGNs spanning a broad U - I color interval, with I 21-23, and 3.6 < z < 4.2. These AGNs are three magnitudes fainter than the typical SDSS QSOs (M1450 -26) which are known to ionize their surrounding IGM at z 4. Methods. We acquired deep spectra of these faint AGNs with spectrographs available at the VLT, LBT, and Magellan telescopes, that is, FORS2, MODS1-2, and LDSS3, respectively. The emission in the Lyman Continuum region, close to 900 Å rest frame, has been detected with a signal to noise ratio of 10-120 for all 16 AGNs. The flux ratio between the 900 Å rest-frame region and 930 Å provides a robust estimate of the escape fraction of HI ionizing photons. Results. We have found that the Lyman Continuum escape fraction is between 44 and 100% for all the observed faint AGNs, with a mean value of 74% at 3.6 < z < 4.2 and - 25.1 M1450 -23.3, in agreement with the value found in the literature for much brighter QSOs (M1450 -26) at the same redshifts. The Lyman Continuum escape fraction of our faint AGNs does not show any dependence on the absolute luminosities or on the observed U - I colors of the objects. Assuming that the Lyman Continuum escape fraction remains close to 75% down to M1450 - 18, we find that the AGN population can provide between 16 and 73% (depending on the adopted luminosity function) of the whole ionizing UV background at z 4, measured through the Lyman forest. This contribution increases to 25-100% if other determinations of the ionizing UV background are adopted from the recent literature. Conclusions. Extrapolating these results to z 5-7, there are possible indications that bright QSOs and faint AGNs can provide a significant contribution to the reionization of the Universe, if their space density is high at M1450 -23.
cA knowledgements. We warmly thank the anonymous referee for her/his useful suggestions and constructive comments that help us to improve this paper. AG and EG warmly thank Piero Madau and Enrico Garaldi for useful discussions. The LBT is an international collaboration among institutions in the United States, Italy, and Germany. LBT Corporation partners are The University of Arizona on behalf of the Arizona university system; Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy; LBT Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Germany, representing the Max-Planck Society, the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, and Heidelberg University; The Ohio State University; and The Research Corporation, on behalf of The University of Notre Dame, University of Minnesota, and University of Virginia. This paper used data obtained with the MODS spectrographs built with funding from NSF grant AST-9987045 and the NSF Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP), with additional funds from the Ohio Board of Regents and the Ohio State University Office of Research. Based on observations collected at the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere under ESO programme 098.A-0862.
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Grazian, A., Giallongo, E., Boutsia, K., Cristiani, S., Vanzella, E., Scarlata, C., Santini, P., Pentericci, L., Merlin, E., Menci, N., Fontanot, F., Fontana, A., Fiore, F., Civano, F., Castellano, M., Brusa, M., Bonchi, A., Carini, R., Cusano, F., ... Speziali, R. (2018). The contribution of faint AGNs to the ionizing background at z 4. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 613, [A44]. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732385
The contribution of faint AGNs to the ionizing background at z 4. / Grazian, A.; Giallongo, E.; Boutsia, K.; Cristiani, S.; Vanzella, E.; Scarlata, C.; Santini, P.; Pentericci, L.; Merlin, E.; Menci, N.; Fontanot, F.; Fontana, A.; Fiore, F.; Civano, F.; Castellano, M.; Brusa, M.; Bonchi, A.; Carini, R.; Cusano, F.; Faccini, M.; Garilli, B.; Marchetti, A.; Rossi, A.; Speziali, R.
In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 613, A44, 01.05.2018.
Grazian, A, Giallongo, E, Boutsia, K, Cristiani, S, Vanzella, E, Scarlata, C, Santini, P, Pentericci, L, Merlin, E, Menci, N, Fontanot, F, Fontana, A, Fiore, F, Civano, F, Castellano, M, Brusa, M, Bonchi, A, Carini, R, Cusano, F, Faccini, M, Garilli, B, Marchetti, A, Rossi, A & Speziali, R 2018, 'The contribution of faint AGNs to the ionizing background at z 4', Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 613, A44. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732385
Grazian A, Giallongo E, Boutsia K, Cristiani S, Vanzella E, Scarlata C et al. The contribution of faint AGNs to the ionizing background at z 4. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2018 May 1;613. A44. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732385
Grazian, A. ; Giallongo, E. ; Boutsia, K. ; Cristiani, S. ; Vanzella, E. ; Scarlata, C. ; Santini, P. ; Pentericci, L. ; Merlin, E. ; Menci, N. ; Fontanot, F. ; Fontana, A. ; Fiore, F. ; Civano, F. ; Castellano, M. ; Brusa, M. ; Bonchi, A. ; Carini, R. ; Cusano, F. ; Faccini, M. ; Garilli, B. ; Marchetti, A. ; Rossi, A. ; Speziali, R. / The contribution of faint AGNs to the ionizing background at z 4. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2018 ; Vol. 613.
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N1 - Funding Information: cA knowledgements. We warmly thank the anonymous referee for her/his useful suggestions and constructive comments that help us to improve this paper. AG and EG warmly thank Piero Madau and Enrico Garaldi for useful discussions. The LBT is an international collaboration among institutions in the United States, Italy, and Germany. LBT Corporation partners are The University of Arizona on behalf of the Arizona university system; Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy; LBT Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Germany, representing the Max-Planck Society, the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, and Heidelberg University; The Ohio State University; and The Research Corporation, on behalf of The University of Notre Dame, University of Minnesota, and University of Virginia. This paper used data obtained with the MODS spectrographs built with funding from NSF grant AST-9987045 and the NSF Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP), with additional funds from the Ohio Board of Regents and the Ohio State University Office of Research. Based on observations collected at the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere under ESO programme 098.A-0862.
N2 - Context. Finding the sources responsible for the hydrogen reionization is one of the most pressing issues in observational cosmology. Bright quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) are known to ionize their surrounding neighborhood, but they are too few to ensure the required HI ionizing background. A significant contribution by faint active galactic nuclei (AGNs), however, could solve the problem, as recently advocated on the basis of a relatively large space density of faint active nuclei at z > 4. Aims. This work is part of a long-term project aimed at measuring the Lyman Continuum escape fraction for a large sample of AGNs at z 4 down to an absolute magnitude of M1450 -23. We have carried out an exploratory spectroscopic program to measure the HI ionizing emission of 16 faint AGNs spanning a broad U - I color interval, with I 21-23, and 3.6 < z < 4.2. These AGNs are three magnitudes fainter than the typical SDSS QSOs (M1450 -26) which are known to ionize their surrounding IGM at z 4. Methods. We acquired deep spectra of these faint AGNs with spectrographs available at the VLT, LBT, and Magellan telescopes, that is, FORS2, MODS1-2, and LDSS3, respectively. The emission in the Lyman Continuum region, close to 900 Å rest frame, has been detected with a signal to noise ratio of 10-120 for all 16 AGNs. The flux ratio between the 900 Å rest-frame region and 930 Å provides a robust estimate of the escape fraction of HI ionizing photons. Results. We have found that the Lyman Continuum escape fraction is between 44 and 100% for all the observed faint AGNs, with a mean value of 74% at 3.6 < z < 4.2 and - 25.1 M1450 -23.3, in agreement with the value found in the literature for much brighter QSOs (M1450 -26) at the same redshifts. The Lyman Continuum escape fraction of our faint AGNs does not show any dependence on the absolute luminosities or on the observed U - I colors of the objects. Assuming that the Lyman Continuum escape fraction remains close to 75% down to M1450 - 18, we find that the AGN population can provide between 16 and 73% (depending on the adopted luminosity function) of the whole ionizing UV background at z 4, measured through the Lyman forest. This contribution increases to 25-100% if other determinations of the ionizing UV background are adopted from the recent literature. Conclusions. Extrapolating these results to z 5-7, there are possible indications that bright QSOs and faint AGNs can provide a significant contribution to the reionization of the Universe, if their space density is high at M1450 -23.
AB - Context. Finding the sources responsible for the hydrogen reionization is one of the most pressing issues in observational cosmology. Bright quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) are known to ionize their surrounding neighborhood, but they are too few to ensure the required HI ionizing background. A significant contribution by faint active galactic nuclei (AGNs), however, could solve the problem, as recently advocated on the basis of a relatively large space density of faint active nuclei at z > 4. Aims. This work is part of a long-term project aimed at measuring the Lyman Continuum escape fraction for a large sample of AGNs at z 4 down to an absolute magnitude of M1450 -23. We have carried out an exploratory spectroscopic program to measure the HI ionizing emission of 16 faint AGNs spanning a broad U - I color interval, with I 21-23, and 3.6 < z < 4.2. These AGNs are three magnitudes fainter than the typical SDSS QSOs (M1450 -26) which are known to ionize their surrounding IGM at z 4. Methods. We acquired deep spectra of these faint AGNs with spectrographs available at the VLT, LBT, and Magellan telescopes, that is, FORS2, MODS1-2, and LDSS3, respectively. The emission in the Lyman Continuum region, close to 900 Å rest frame, has been detected with a signal to noise ratio of 10-120 for all 16 AGNs. The flux ratio between the 900 Å rest-frame region and 930 Å provides a robust estimate of the escape fraction of HI ionizing photons. Results. We have found that the Lyman Continuum escape fraction is between 44 and 100% for all the observed faint AGNs, with a mean value of 74% at 3.6 < z < 4.2 and - 25.1 M1450 -23.3, in agreement with the value found in the literature for much brighter QSOs (M1450 -26) at the same redshifts. The Lyman Continuum escape fraction of our faint AGNs does not show any dependence on the absolute luminosities or on the observed U - I colors of the objects. Assuming that the Lyman Continuum escape fraction remains close to 75% down to M1450 - 18, we find that the AGN population can provide between 16 and 73% (depending on the adopted luminosity function) of the whole ionizing UV background at z 4, measured through the Lyman forest. This contribution increases to 25-100% if other determinations of the ionizing UV background are adopted from the recent literature. Conclusions. Extrapolating these results to z 5-7, there are possible indications that bright QSOs and faint AGNs can provide a significant contribution to the reionization of the Universe, if their space density is high at M1450 -23.
KW - Dark ages
KW - first stars
KW - general
KW - Quasars
KW - reionization
U2 - 10.1051/0004-6361/201732385
DO - 10.1051/0004-6361/201732385
JO - Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Land Commercial for sale in Plot At 133 Findhorn, Findhorn, Forres, Moray, IV36
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Full planning permission was granted in July 2017 (Ref: 17/00865/APP) to create a superb, architect designed house in what is thought to be one of the last remaining central village plots. The house has been carefully designed to make full use of the entire plot and includes three bedrooms, two public rooms, two bathrooms, one en-suite and a cloakroom, over one and a half storeys. Located in a conservation area, the exterior of the house is designed to be in-keeping with the existing surrounding properties with the skill of an architect who has won many awards for working on projects where compliance with conservation criteria is essential being very evident. The generous plot size also allows for a garden, courtyard and parking area. Services are already on site however purchasers are advised to satisfy themselves as to the provision of services. A building warrant was obtained in March 2018 (ref: 17/00251/BW).
Findhorn, with its sheltered bay providing excellent sailing and water sports, is one of Scotland's most desirable coastal villages enjoying a superb climate. The village is home to the Royal Findhorn Yacht Club and has good basic amenities with a local shop/Post Office, cafes and highly regarded Inns. The world-famous Findhorn Community, an eco-village and popular retreat is located on the outskirts of the village. There is a bus service to Forres (about 5 miles) which provides a comprehensive range of shops and amenities whilst the surrounding area offers some excellent hotels, restaurants and historic local attractions. Schooling up to secondary level is available in Forres and also at Gordonstoun Independent School, about 12 miles away. Primary schooling is in Kinloss about 3 miles away. Inverness (about 32 miles) has all the facilities of a modern city including its airport (about 24 miles) which offers regular flights to the south and summer flights to many European destinations.
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Rugby League: England edge series over World champions Kiwis
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England 20-14 New Zealand
England beat New Zealand to win series
Two tries from Elliot Whitehead
First triumph for coach Steve McNamara
England announced to the world of rugby league that they are back in style, after a thrilling encounter in the third Test match at the DW Stadium, beating New Zealand 2-1 overall.
Eight year wait
Not since 2007, when Great Britain (now just England, Wales and Scotland) recorded a 3-0 series win over New Zealand achieved success, in the years after often losing out to Australia or the Kiwis.
However, it is perhaps the best squad of players that they have had, over the last three matches and there is still Sam Tomkins to come back from injury and more than likely, Sam Burgess who has just completed his switch back to rugby league.
After two intensive matches, it came down to a decider in Wigan and the occasion didn’t disappoint.
Defensive dominance
As it has been all series, England’s defence was simply sensational, withstanding a wave of Kiwi attacks,a s Steve McNamara’s men held out to the last and dug deep. Taking an 8-0 lead, England raced out of the blocks, a converted Elliot Whitehead try adding to a Gareth Widdop penalty, however just before the interval Jason Nightingale crossed in the corner to make the match even more interesting.
However, Whitehead, who is bound for the NRL, raced through to score again, before Warriors skipper Sean O’Loughlin crashed over in front of a sold out and delighted home crowd. The Kiwis though kept coming. Roger Tuivasa-Sheck and Jordan Kahu touched down in quick succession to set up a nervy final few minutes, though England stood strong.
England: Z Hardaker (Leeds); J McGillvary (Huddersfield), K Watkins (Leeds), J Bateman (Wigan), R Hall (Leeds); G Widdop (St George Illawarra), M Smith (Wigan); J Graham (Canterbury Bulldogs), J Hodgson (Canberra), C Hill (Warrington), E Whitehead (Catalans Dragons), L Farrell (Wigan), S O’Loughlin (Wigan, capt).
Subs: J Roby (St Helens), T Burgess (South Sydney), M Cooper (St George Illawarra), B Ferres (Huddersfield).
New Zealand: R Tuivasa-Sheck (Sydney Roosters); J Nightingale (St George Illawarra), J Kahu (Brisbane), D Whare (Penrith), S Kenny-Dowall (Sydney Roosters); P Hiku (Manly), K Nikorima (Brisbane); J Bromwich (Melbourne), I Luke (South Sydney, capt), S Moa (Sydney Roosters), K Proctor (Melbourne), T Harris (Melbourne), A Blair (Brisbane).
Subs: M Taupau (Wests Tigers), B Matulino (NZ Warriors), A Glenn (Brisbane), L Brown (Penrith), I Liu (Sydney Roosters)
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Cobhams Asuquo - Starlight (Prod. Johnny Drille)
By DonBoye
"This song is for that Starlight in your life. Starlight is light reflected from the stars that illuminates your way.
It never goes out, it's there, day and night (the Sun is also a star).
This song speaks to that. It's my love letter, my 'thank you' for always being there. To the one who stayed when things were rough, to the one who encouraged when i was glum, to the one who noticed when i was off and to the one who caused me to hum (just so you know, stars hum).
To the Starlights in our lives."
Wow! So Johnny produced this one? It's so wonderful to know that.
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F1 – Barrichello Escapes This Time
May 19, 2010 May 19, 2010 Shaun
Amongst the driver antics at the Monaco GP, Rubens Barrichello was set to incur a penalty or at the very least a fine for his unprofessional conduct at a mechanical failure caused a heavy crash. The Brazilian pilot threw his steering wheel onto the racing line which is in direct violation of the sporting regulations. It has now been revealed that the Monaco stewards have overlooked the tantrum due to the Michael Schumacher pass on Fernando Alonso.
There has been a lot made of the Rubens action this past weekend with some even saying he endangered his competitors by throwing the steering wheel onto the racing line. I am not going to go that far and blame him for that, but I think this excuse by the FiA is ridiculous as well. The Rubens accident happened well before the Schumacher incident and the stewards should have rendered judgment immediately. It was a cut and dry case which could have been dealt on the spot. Rubens claimed that he threw the wheel because he was turned the wrong way and the car was on fire so he needed to escape quickly and not worry about the $10,000 piece of equipment. Last time I checked the replay, yes you were turned the wrong way but the car was NOT on fire. The safest place he could have been was in the car. Had he tried to get out and got hit in that process, then it would have been even worse. The only thing in that car that was on fire was Rubens Barrichello’s temper as he is visually frustrated with his new residence and expects more from the team.
The real problem here is the FiA and there slow response as well as their amateur approach to governing a sport. As soon as Rubens began to walk away from the car with the wheel not intact you penalize him or issue a fine. There is no sense in waiting for the race to conclude to issue it. Who is to say at any given moment that another incident (Schumacher) could take place? Why procrastinate on the problem? Issue the penalty and be done with it and we move on. What we have is two sporting regulations being broken, one that was debatable and one that was not. The problem is that only one person was penalized and the other was not. There has to be some kind of standard in place for these things. First we saw reprimands handed out for conduct at the season’s start and then this weekend people just walk away off the hook because the governing body of the pinnacle of motorsport FORGOT to render a judgment on a situation that was as clear as the Monaco harbor on Monday. I am not new to F1 and I know these things happen, but I thought that things like this would have went away when Max Mosley left.
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ULIS to launch 12 µm pixel pitch sensor family at DCS show
Volume producer of microbolometer devices says technology will add flexibility to low-cost thermal imaging product design.
ULIS' Atto320 sensor
Infrared sensor company ULIS is set to unveil its first family of products based on a 12 µm pixel pitch at next week’s SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing (DCS) event, offering the prospect of dramatically reduced cost and more flexible design options.
The French firm, part of the larger Sofradir Group, makes the microbolometer devices at its wafer fabrication facility near Grenoble. It claims that its new “Atto320” uncooled thermal sensor will cut the size of associated imaging optics by up to half, and overall cost by 20 per cent.
“The 12 µm pixel pitch is the new industry standard in thermal image sensors for market applications where reducing the overall size and cost of the camera are important,” announced the firm.
Integrator flexibility
Target applications for the technology include the outdoor leisure/observation, thermography and surveillance sectors, which are tipped by at least one market analyst for rapid growth over the next few years, largely because of the cheaper and smaller sensors now becoming available.
ULIS points out that its stand-alone component will give system integrators a high degree of flexibility in configuring designs to meet specific performance requirements, enabling them to offer differentiated products to end-users.
That is in contrast to other 12 µm products, which ULIS says are typically sold either as modules or thermal camera cores, where access to the thermal image sensor’s performance parameters is restricted.
For example BAE Systems, which launched its first 12 µm pixel pitch products back in 2014, sells its “TWV640” product as a camera core, while FLIR Systems unveiled its “Boson” core at the SPIE DCS event last year, when it was held in Baltimore.
Stand-off distance
ULIS says that its 320x240 pixel device allow users to view fast-moving objects and to observe scenes at distances of several hundred meters. It claims that a person could be recognized from a distance of half a kilometer, by using it in conjunction with a 40 mm lens.
Operating at a frame rate of 60 Hz, the Atto320 consumes less than 220 mW, translating to a battery life of more than 10 hours for a handheld system.
Sebastien Tinnes, the ULIS marketing manager, said of the Atto320: “It showcases our expertise in developing innovative products for camera makers seeking more compactness and performance attributes that bring greater competitive advantages. This is a major step forward in our ability to fulfill our customers’ needs in optimizing the cost, compactness and performance of their systems.”
• ULIS says that it will be showing off Atto320 by invitation only at the SPIE DCS exhibition in Anaheim, California, next week. The company will be at booth B314.
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Ribonucleotides as nucleotide excision repair substrates
Yuqin Cai, Nicholas E. Geacintov, Suse Broyde
Biology and Genomics
The incorporation of ribonucleotides in DNA has attracted considerable notice in recent years, since the pool of ribonucleotides can exceed that of the deoxyribonucleotides by at least 10-20-fold, and single ribonucleotide incorporation by DNA polymerases appears to be a common event. Moreover ribonucleotides are potentially mutagenic and lead to genome instability. As a consequence, errantly incorporated ribonucleotides are rapidly repaired in a process dependent upon RNase H enzymes. On the other hand, global genomic nucleotide excision repair (NER) in prokaryotes and eukaryotes removes damage caused by covalent modifications that typically distort and destabilize DNA through the production of lesions derived from bulky chemical carcinogens, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites, or via crosslinking. However, a recent study challenges this lesion-recognition paradigm. The work of Vaisman et al. (2013) [34] reveals that even a single ribonucleotide embedded in a deoxyribonucleotide duplex is recognized by the bacterial NER machinery in vitro. In their report, the authors show that spontaneous mutagenesis promoted by a steric-gate pol V mutant increases in uvrA, uvrB, or uvrC strains lacking rnhB (encoding RNase HII) and to a greater extent in an NER-deficient strain lacking both RNase HI and RNase HII. Using purified UvrA, UvrB, and UvrC proteins in in vitro assays they show that despite causing little distortion, a single ribonucleotide embedded in a DNA duplex is recognized and doubly-incised by the NER complex. We present the hypothesis to explain the recognition and/or verification of this small lesion, that the critical 2'-OH of the ribonucleotide - with its unique electrostatic and hydrogen bonding properties - may act as a signal through interactions with amino acid residues of the prokaryotic NER complex that are not possible with DNA. Such a mechanism might also be relevant if it were demonstrated that the eukaryotic NER machinery likewise incises an embedded ribonucleotide in DNA.
Electrostatic and hydrogen bonding properties
Lesion recognition and verification
Prokaryotic nucleotide excision repair
Ribonucleotides
10.1016/j.dnarep.2013.10.010
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Cai, Y., Geacintov, N. E., & Broyde, S. (2014). Ribonucleotides as nucleotide excision repair substrates. DNA Repair, 13(1), 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dnarep.2013.10.010
Ribonucleotides as nucleotide excision repair substrates. / Cai, Yuqin; Geacintov, Nicholas E.; Broyde, Suse.
In: DNA Repair, Vol. 13, No. 1, 01.2014, p. 55-60.
Cai, Y, Geacintov, NE & Broyde, S 2014, 'Ribonucleotides as nucleotide excision repair substrates', DNA Repair, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dnarep.2013.10.010
Cai Y, Geacintov NE, Broyde S. Ribonucleotides as nucleotide excision repair substrates. DNA Repair. 2014 Jan;13(1):55-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dnarep.2013.10.010
Cai, Yuqin ; Geacintov, Nicholas E. ; Broyde, Suse. / Ribonucleotides as nucleotide excision repair substrates. In: DNA Repair. 2014 ; Vol. 13, No. 1. pp. 55-60.
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abstract = "The incorporation of ribonucleotides in DNA has attracted considerable notice in recent years, since the pool of ribonucleotides can exceed that of the deoxyribonucleotides by at least 10-20-fold, and single ribonucleotide incorporation by DNA polymerases appears to be a common event. Moreover ribonucleotides are potentially mutagenic and lead to genome instability. As a consequence, errantly incorporated ribonucleotides are rapidly repaired in a process dependent upon RNase H enzymes. On the other hand, global genomic nucleotide excision repair (NER) in prokaryotes and eukaryotes removes damage caused by covalent modifications that typically distort and destabilize DNA through the production of lesions derived from bulky chemical carcinogens, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites, or via crosslinking. However, a recent study challenges this lesion-recognition paradigm. The work of Vaisman et al. (2013) [34] reveals that even a single ribonucleotide embedded in a deoxyribonucleotide duplex is recognized by the bacterial NER machinery in vitro. In their report, the authors show that spontaneous mutagenesis promoted by a steric-gate pol V mutant increases in uvrA, uvrB, or uvrC strains lacking rnhB (encoding RNase HII) and to a greater extent in an NER-deficient strain lacking both RNase HI and RNase HII. Using purified UvrA, UvrB, and UvrC proteins in in vitro assays they show that despite causing little distortion, a single ribonucleotide embedded in a DNA duplex is recognized and doubly-incised by the NER complex. We present the hypothesis to explain the recognition and/or verification of this small lesion, that the critical 2'-OH of the ribonucleotide - with its unique electrostatic and hydrogen bonding properties - may act as a signal through interactions with amino acid residues of the prokaryotic NER complex that are not possible with DNA. Such a mechanism might also be relevant if it were demonstrated that the eukaryotic NER machinery likewise incises an embedded ribonucleotide in DNA.",
keywords = "Electrostatic and hydrogen bonding properties, Lesion recognition and verification, Prokaryotic nucleotide excision repair, Ribonucleotides",
author = "Yuqin Cai and Geacintov, {Nicholas E.} and Suse Broyde",
note = "Funding Information: This research was supported by NIH Grants CA-28038 and CA-75449 to S.B. and CA168469 to N.E.G. We appreciate the computational resources and support provided by NYU-ITS. This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) grant MCB060037. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Cancer Institute or the National Institutes of Health. ",
doi = "10.1016/j.dnarep.2013.10.010",
journal = "DNA Repair",
T1 - Ribonucleotides as nucleotide excision repair substrates
AU - Cai, Yuqin
AU - Geacintov, Nicholas E.
AU - Broyde, Suse
N1 - Funding Information: This research was supported by NIH Grants CA-28038 and CA-75449 to S.B. and CA168469 to N.E.G. We appreciate the computational resources and support provided by NYU-ITS. This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) grant MCB060037. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Cancer Institute or the National Institutes of Health.
N2 - The incorporation of ribonucleotides in DNA has attracted considerable notice in recent years, since the pool of ribonucleotides can exceed that of the deoxyribonucleotides by at least 10-20-fold, and single ribonucleotide incorporation by DNA polymerases appears to be a common event. Moreover ribonucleotides are potentially mutagenic and lead to genome instability. As a consequence, errantly incorporated ribonucleotides are rapidly repaired in a process dependent upon RNase H enzymes. On the other hand, global genomic nucleotide excision repair (NER) in prokaryotes and eukaryotes removes damage caused by covalent modifications that typically distort and destabilize DNA through the production of lesions derived from bulky chemical carcinogens, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites, or via crosslinking. However, a recent study challenges this lesion-recognition paradigm. The work of Vaisman et al. (2013) [34] reveals that even a single ribonucleotide embedded in a deoxyribonucleotide duplex is recognized by the bacterial NER machinery in vitro. In their report, the authors show that spontaneous mutagenesis promoted by a steric-gate pol V mutant increases in uvrA, uvrB, or uvrC strains lacking rnhB (encoding RNase HII) and to a greater extent in an NER-deficient strain lacking both RNase HI and RNase HII. Using purified UvrA, UvrB, and UvrC proteins in in vitro assays they show that despite causing little distortion, a single ribonucleotide embedded in a DNA duplex is recognized and doubly-incised by the NER complex. We present the hypothesis to explain the recognition and/or verification of this small lesion, that the critical 2'-OH of the ribonucleotide - with its unique electrostatic and hydrogen bonding properties - may act as a signal through interactions with amino acid residues of the prokaryotic NER complex that are not possible with DNA. Such a mechanism might also be relevant if it were demonstrated that the eukaryotic NER machinery likewise incises an embedded ribonucleotide in DNA.
AB - The incorporation of ribonucleotides in DNA has attracted considerable notice in recent years, since the pool of ribonucleotides can exceed that of the deoxyribonucleotides by at least 10-20-fold, and single ribonucleotide incorporation by DNA polymerases appears to be a common event. Moreover ribonucleotides are potentially mutagenic and lead to genome instability. As a consequence, errantly incorporated ribonucleotides are rapidly repaired in a process dependent upon RNase H enzymes. On the other hand, global genomic nucleotide excision repair (NER) in prokaryotes and eukaryotes removes damage caused by covalent modifications that typically distort and destabilize DNA through the production of lesions derived from bulky chemical carcinogens, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites, or via crosslinking. However, a recent study challenges this lesion-recognition paradigm. The work of Vaisman et al. (2013) [34] reveals that even a single ribonucleotide embedded in a deoxyribonucleotide duplex is recognized by the bacterial NER machinery in vitro. In their report, the authors show that spontaneous mutagenesis promoted by a steric-gate pol V mutant increases in uvrA, uvrB, or uvrC strains lacking rnhB (encoding RNase HII) and to a greater extent in an NER-deficient strain lacking both RNase HI and RNase HII. Using purified UvrA, UvrB, and UvrC proteins in in vitro assays they show that despite causing little distortion, a single ribonucleotide embedded in a DNA duplex is recognized and doubly-incised by the NER complex. We present the hypothesis to explain the recognition and/or verification of this small lesion, that the critical 2'-OH of the ribonucleotide - with its unique electrostatic and hydrogen bonding properties - may act as a signal through interactions with amino acid residues of the prokaryotic NER complex that are not possible with DNA. Such a mechanism might also be relevant if it were demonstrated that the eukaryotic NER machinery likewise incises an embedded ribonucleotide in DNA.
KW - Electrostatic and hydrogen bonding properties
KW - Lesion recognition and verification
KW - Prokaryotic nucleotide excision repair
KW - Ribonucleotides
U2 - 10.1016/j.dnarep.2013.10.010
DO - 10.1016/j.dnarep.2013.10.010
JO - DNA Repair
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By Philip Howard
Recent news about Ocracoke Island’s new Little League baseball team, the “Raptors,” reminds me that Ocracoke has a long and fascinating connection with America’s national pastime.
Most of Ocracoke’s first settlers came from the British Isles. Young men in England and Scotland had developed an early folk game, “Cat and Dog,” which involved a piece of wood (a “cat”) that was thrown at a target, often a hole in the ground. Opposing players defended the target by hitting the wood away with a stick (a “dog”).
Two holes were used in some versions of this game that resembled cricket. A batter would hit the cat, then run between the holes while the opposing team would try to put the runner out by knocking the cat into the hole before the runner got to it.
Other manifestations of “Cat and Dog” evolved into a stick and ball game similar in many ways to modern baseball. In one version the “cat” was carved from a piece of wood about six inches long and two inches in diameter. Each end was tapered. The cat was placed on the ground, and either struck with a stick or stomped on with a foot. This would “catapult” the stick into the air so it could be hit with a stick.
In later versions, a ball was substituted for the piece of wood, and launched from a simple lever mechanism. Still later, a pitcher replaced the mechanical lever.
By the time Ocracoke was first settled, in the mid-1700s, “cat-ball” or “cat” was a popular outdoor recreation in colonial America, including Ocracoke.
Because folk games had no official rules, they changed over time and from place to place. No one knows exactly how “cat” was first played on Ocracoke Island. By the late nineteenth century Ocracoke boys played cat with a homemade ball, typically a core of string covered with old shoe leather. A stick of wood served as a bat.
In most ways “cat” was identical to modern baseball, with two teams, four bases (including home plate), a pitcher, a catcher, outfielders, and a batter. As in baseball, a batter would be “out” after three strikes, or if his fly ball was caught in the air.
On the other hand, “cat” had no designated boundary lines. If a batter hit the ball, no matter how hard, or in what direction, it was considered in play. Sometimes a batter would just “snick” the ball. (“Snick,” meaning to hit the ball with a glancing blow off the edge of the bat, a term used in cricket, has survived on Ocracoke since the colonial period.) If the ball flew off to one side, or even landed behind the batter, it was still in play.
Runners could be tagged out in the conventional manner, but generally the ball was thrown at the runner. If a runner was hit by the ball he was “out.”
During the first half of the twentieth century “cat” was played on Ocracoke with a soft rubber ball. Traditional baseball bats were used whenever they were available, though a simple wooden stick sufficed if necessary. Baseball gloves were almost unheard of.
The establishment of a Coast Guard station in Ocracoke village in 1904, and the construction of a naval base during World War II, brought a contingent of young men to the island. They often brought bats, balls, and gloves with them. By the late 1950s softball had replaced “cat” as the primary sport on Ocracoke. But the colonial ball game “cat” probably survived longer on Ocracoke than anywhere else in the United States.
For many years Ocracoke boys played “cat” on the school grounds, on the beach (near Loop Shack Hill and at the South Point), and in the grassy area beside the National Park Service Visitors Center.
Today, “cat” is a game remembered only by older islanders. But “cat” is a legacy that connects one of the island’s earliest traditions with a growing interest in Little League baseball today.
Let’s play ball!
Philip Howard enjoys researching island history which enriches his avocation as a story teller. Philip and his daughter, Amy will be doing a new version of their popular program at Deepwater Theater at 8 PM on Monday evenings called “You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet, Strange Stories & Quirky Tales of Ocracoke Island.” They also lead Ghost & History Walks on Tuesdays & Fridays.
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debt, Featured, Gold Dome, Sherrie Peif, TABOR
Bed tax law suit gets new life
July 15, 2018 By Sherrie Peif
DENVER — Ongoing litigation against the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing, among others, over a 2009 program that raised taxes via a “hospital provider fee,” has new energy after Cause of Action Institute announced earlier this month it would take on the representation of the plaintiffs in the case.
Cause of Action is a Washington D.C.-based 501(c)(3) organization that according to its website advocates for “economic freedom and individual opportunity advanced by honest, accountable, and limited government.”
Plaintiffs, who were originally represented by Mountain States Legal Foundation, had 60 days to find new counsel after Mountain States withdrew for reasons not related to the case or the plaintiffs.
Lee Steven and James Valvo are the lead attorneys. The Colorado-licensed attorney is Michael Francisco, who while working in the Colorado Attorney General’s office helped to write the defense of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) in Kerr vs. Hickenlooper, which claimed TABOR was a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of a republican form of government. That argument lost.
This case was initially filed in 2015. It asserts the state’s Hospital Provider Fee is actually a tax enacted in violation of the TABOR.
TABOR requires voter approval for any new tax, tax increase or tax policy change that causes a net tax revenue gain, the suit argues. TABOR also limits the amount of revenue the state can keep each year. Any revenue above that amount requires a refund to taxpayers,unless an election is held allowing the state to keep the excess.
TABOR exempts “fees” that are collected as part of enterprise funds, which are essentially government run businesses that do not have the authority to levy taxes, among other things.
The suit argues the state “violated Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (“TABOR”) by using a hospital provider tax to artificially increase costs and then collect higher reimbursements from the federal government under Medicaid.”
“TABOR requires that the state get consent from the people before raising taxes. But for the past eight years the state of Colorado has been taxing hospitals by hundreds of millions of dollars to fleece the federal government without the required TABOR vote. The TABOR Foundation is rightly pushing back on the sweetheart deal that leaves taxpayers stuck with the bill,” Valvo said in a news release.
Plaintiffs amended the original suit last year after the legislature passed Senate Bill 17-267, that created an enterprise fund specifically to move the Hospital Provider Fee out of the general fund and increase the revenue cap. That move “violated the Colorado constitution’s single-subject requirement and failed to comply with the state excess revenue cap, which limits the amount of revenue the state can keep and spend,” the suit says.
Plaintiffs in the suit include the TABOR Foundation, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, and two individuals, Rebecca R. Sopkin, a resident of Jefferson County and James S. Rankin, a resident of Weld County. Both individuals say they received outpatient and/or inpatient services provided by hospitals that pay the charges at issue in this case and would have received a taxpayer refund under TABOR in 2018-19, except for the enactment of Senate Bill 267.
“The people of Colorado are confronted with actions taken by the legislature and the governor to damage their constitution,” said Penn R. Pfiffner, Chairman of the TABOR Foundation in the release. “The Hospital Provider program was built on a lie, then made much worse. The people should get a final vote on tax increases and new government debt, but that was taken from them in a dishonest power grab by elected officials. The TABOR Foundation is grateful that Cause of Action Institute has stepped in to allow this lawsuit to go forward. Its participation supports all the citizens of Colorado to reverse the corrupt government actions and to allow the people once again to control their state government.”
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Tags: Colorado Union of Taxpayers, Rebecca R. Sopkin, Scott Rankin, TABOR, TABOR Foundation, Taxpayer Bill of Rights
Author: Sherrie PeifSherrie Peif is an award winning, veteran reporter covering Colorado politics and the 2018 Governor's race. She enjoys baseball, football, the mountains and cooking. She has one child and one husky.
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COVID-19 infections among Filipinos abroad now 8,417
Jun 28, 2020 Joyce Ann L. Rocamora
Most of the active cases are concentrated in the same region at 2,114, followed by Europe with 456, the Americas with 148, and the Asia Pacific with 82.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Friday the total number of confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections among overseas Filipinos has reached 8,417 with 56 new cases recorded mostly in the Middle East and Africa.
As of this posting, 5,081 have so far recovered from the overall tally – 511 in the Asia Pacific, 420 in Europe, 3,777 in the Middle East/Africa, and 373 in the Americas.
The DFA also reported that 23 more Filipinos succumbed to the disease, raising the death toll to 536.
“Given these developments, the DFA assures its steadfast commitment to monitoring the status of our people abroad and effectively facilitating and coordinating the safe repatriation of our nationals affected by this pandemic,” it said. (PNA)
Tags: Asia Pacific, COVID-19, DFA, Filipinos, Philippines
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VARIATION IN POLYSTICHUM ACROSTICHOIDES
THE FIRST PLANT - Photosynt...
NOTE: This post replaces 10 January 2021, whose errors were corrected. Also, a few links were added or replaced. [Most Recent Update: 16 January 2021]
The Christmas Fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, in the un-glaciated lower Piedmont and Triassic basin of North Carolina, exhibits the diversity of color and form indicated below. erwin_pteridophilos (@erwin_pteridophilos) advised that the source of the variation may at least in part be due to the expression (phenotypic re-emergence) of ancestral genes. This appears to be corroborated by observations of individual Polystichum acrostichoides with completely separate fertile fronds (unlike the usual situation in Polystichum acrostichoides where the fertile section is located at the end of an otherwise sterile frond), and in individuals with twice-divided fronds (unlike the usual once-divided fronds of this species).
What variation occurs in previously glaciated realms? Are populations there more diverse? Less diverse? Differently diverse?
I have not encountered (observed) individuals with long, wide pinnae (leaflets) outside of the Triassic Basin, and then only in lowland mesic areas. They are absent (or scarce?) in adjacent uplands where usual forms still abound.
LEAFLET COLOR
(1) Green https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67675217
(2) Darkest Green https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67971542
(3) Blue-green https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67326452
(4) Bicolor
a. Blue-Green blade with green central vein https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66442425
b. Bright Edge https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67855800
PHYSICAL FORMS OF LEAFLETS
(1) EDGES
a. Shallow Serration https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67326452
b. Shallow-Lobe https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67538429
c. Lobed https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67673243
d. Twice Divided, lobes which themselves are lobed https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66804039
e. crested/fasciated leaflets, edges terminate in multiple divisions https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67855570
(2) PLANE
a. Straight-ish; usual https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67807301
b. Curved, sometimes doubly so (recurved) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67537716
c. Undulate (“crisped” in old parlance) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67634628
(3) LENGTH
a. Short: less than 2 inches https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67854694
b. Usual: about 2 inches (5 cm) long https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67675217
c. Long: much longer than 2 inches https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67673345
(4) WIDTH
a. Usual: leaflets about 3/8ths inch (1 cm) wide when 2 inches (5 cm) long https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67872751
b. Narrow (relative to length) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67312460
c. Wide relative to length https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67544636
a. Acute, pointed – usual case for mature plants https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67673345
b. Blunt, rounded – all young plants https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67311024 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67156829
c. Divided, also called “crested” https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67673880
(6) EAR, auricle: located near the stem-side of the leaflet, points toward the stem tip.
a. Short - wider than tall https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67591938
b. Usual - about as tall as wide
c. Tall - taller than wide https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67538230
d. Separate - as a lobe, usually restricted to lower (basal) leaflets https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67592332
(7) GAP (between adjacent leaflet edges)
a. Slight gap, usual https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67591938
b. Wide gap https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67635552
c. Overlapping, or touching along long edge https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67569071
STERILE FROND FORMS
a. Miniature: plants fertile when small, remain small in old age https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66415414
b. Short https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66923628
c. Usual frond length https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67855528
d. Long, larger plants https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67924419 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67855428
(2) DISPLAY
a. Various, upright & lateral https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67855528
b. Upright https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67855364
c. Lateral https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67855428
(3) BRANCHING
a. Unbranched, usual condition https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67872751
b. Branched near apex of frond https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67634975
c. Branched at base of frond https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68123292
FERTILE FROND FORMS
(1) Combined with sterile frond
a. Fertile portion of frond constricted in comparison to the infertile leaflets of the same frond; fertile portion of frond restricted to the top of the frond; fertile portion of frond shorter than the sterile portion https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67857342
b. Fertile portion of frond gradually blends into the lower infertile portion of frond; fertile portion of frond equals or somewhat exceeds length of sterile portion https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67675090
(2) Separate fertile frond https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67673670
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History Of Governments To Today World History Essay
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Learning and understanding our history of ancient civilizations is most importantly a tool we should use to prepare ourselves for a better future. I believe this to be true because after going through the different ages of time and seeing the outcome I have a better understanding of history than those who were in it and could not see the world today. I will elaborate on how the ancient civilizations like that of the Roman Empire and Medieval period laid the structure of our modern governments and militias. To learn from all the mistakes they made to make sure the next society didn’t do the same things while trying to replicate the good. But in order to do this we must examine to see what these groups of people did right and wrong. In our case we look at the fore fathers of the United States and the way they set up our democratic system to succeed more than those before it. The importance of studying ancient cultures all comes down to making the right decisions to provide a better life for everyone inhabiting this earth together on this journey called life.
The first civilization that brought all of this too my mind is Greece and their creation of the democratic government around 500 B.C. in Athens. Looking at the Greeks government you will see some similarities to our modern times but a lot of differences that helped us progress as a world moving towards equality for everyone. First example of this would be how the Athenians only allowed certain groups of people to vote and have there thoughts heard. Men eighteen and older were the only ones allowed to ask questions and even fewer of them allowed to vote. Women and foreigns that weren’t directly from the city were not allowed to vote or have a say in the decisions made for the society, as it was in early America the women could not vote nor the slaves. Even though this was the same circumstance when the United States democracy was being created it later change and developed so everyone could vote as it should be, this is how history taught us a lesson and the world has changed. Only men were allowed to hold office in any of the governing positions.
The Athenians also operated there laws and voting different from the way it is currently done in the United States system. The men would all gather at a designated area to simply raise a hand and vote for new laws and regulations that came up. Once again women, slaves, and children were not allowed to participate. But not all men were allowed to vote most were required to either own land or have previous military training. To get more voters the government eventually started to offer rewards to those who came out to listen and vote. This was appealing to those who lived further away and couldn’t take time out of their day to attend. If the United States government were to offer a reward for everyone who came out and voted this election in November we would have a record setting turnout. Our curr...
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The ByTowne Cinema closes, porch pirates target Kanata and Ottawa stars in Christmas movies: Top stories in Ottawa this week
Published Saturday, December 5, 2020 2:55PM EST
OTTAWA -- Ottawa's Pure Country 94 morning co-host Jeff Hopper is recovering after spending time in hospital with COVID-19, thieves play the Grinch in Kanata, and Ottawa takes centre stage in Christmas movies.
CTV News Ottawa looks at the top stories in Ottawa this week on CTVNewsOttawa.ca
'It seems like a miracle!' Ottawa's Pure Country 94's Jeff Hopper released from hospital after testing positive for COVID-19
Ottawa residents sent well wishes to Ottawa's Pure Country 94 morning co-host Jeff Hopper this week, after he spent a week in hospital with COVID-19.
"Well, it seems like a miracle but I'm home," said Hopper in a statement on Facebook Friday afternoon after being discharged from hospital.
"Four days after fighting for my life in a hospital bed and I couldn't be happier to be home. I wouldn't be here without the medical staff and the incredible nursing staff at the (Ottawa Hospital General Hospital) 6 Northwest in the COVID wing, doing amazing work everyday saving lives."
Hopper was admitted to the Ottawa Hospital on Nov. 27, five days after his father Robert Hopper passed away after contracting COVID-19. He said he contracted novel coronavirus from his dad.
Hopper says it will be a "bit of a recovery" at home, but "I couldn't be happier to have shaved and be home with the family."
"Please take care of yourselves out there, stay safe, lots of love."
You can spot Ottawa in these Christmas movies this holiday season
Tis the season for holiday movies and Ottawa is taking centre stage in several Christmas films airing over the holiday season.
Seven movies filmed in the Ottawa area will be airing on TV, including five on CTV Drama.
The films are Midnight at the Magnolia, Christmas Unwrapped, Christmas at Maple Creek, Unlocking Christmas, the Christmas Setup, Rock N' Roll Christmas and a Christmas Carousel.
Ottawa Film Office Film Commissioner Bruce Harvey tells CTV News Ottawa ten Christmas movies were filmed in Ottawa this year. Harvey says the snow is an attractive pitch to lure productions to Ottawa.
"Certainly, when you need snow in the wintertime, it is a great location to film," said Harvey Thursday afternoon.
"I know that one of the networks did a survey of their viewers to see what they liked about certain movies and what was attractive to them, and the real snow in some of the Christmas movies that had been shot in Ottawa that were on their service was something that came up a number of times."
She's a hero:' Winchester Grandmother recovering after limbs amputated following Hawaii trip
One year after a trip of a lifetime to Hawaii with her daughter and granddaughters, Gale Ramsden was able to leave the Ottawa Hospital and move to the Perley and Rideau Veterans Health Centre to continue her recovery.
When Ramsden returned home in November 2019, she says she started feeling like she had the flu and innocent-looking bug bites became infected.
It was a rare case of necrotizing fasciitis or flesh-eating bacteria. By the time Ramsden arrived at a Winchester hospital, she was crashing. She was transferred to the Ottawa Hospital as sepsis took hold of her body.
On Dec. 1, 2019, Ramsden was rolled into surgery. The original plan was to amputate a leg to save her life. After consultation with her grown children, doctors made the decision to amputate both legs, one below the knee, the other above.
Ramsden would have nine surgeries in an effort to contain the effects of sepsis, including surgery to remove fingers from her right hand. On Christmas Day, she had the rest of her left hand amputated at the wrist.
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'I need a date': Ontario premier to ask drugmakers about COVID-19 vaccine delivery timeline
Premier Doug Ford continued to demand more details about the COVID-19 vaccine arrival in Ontario this week.
"I have to get answers. I've been asking the federal government. We need to know when we're getting it, how much we're getting and what we're getting," Ford said on Monday. "There's different vaccines out there so, to be perfectly frank, I'm not any more comfortable than I was last week."
Ford spoke with Pfizer and Astra Zeneca about the respective COVID-19 vaccine candidates this week.
On Thursday, Medical Officer of Health Dr. Vera Etches admitted there are many unanswered questions about the COVID-19 vaccine when asked if Ottawa will be ready to administer the shot.
"I think we will be. There are a lot of unanswered questions right now. We need to know exactly which vaccines, how much is coming, but we do have the basics underway in terms of identifying the proper storage sites and who could do the immunizing," said Dr. Etches.
"It will depend on the populations; if it's in long-term care or in hospitals. I think the strategy is going to change over time."
Canada is expected to receive six million doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines by the end of March, enough to vaccinate three million Canadians.
ByTowne Cinema closing after more than 70 years
After more than 70 years of showing films to Ottawa audiences, the curtain is set to fall at the Bytowne Cinema for the final time.
In a statement, ByTowne owner Bruce White announced the cinema will be closing on Dec. 31, citing fewer customers and fewer films available during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The cinema has been losing money every day since the pandemic hit. Even when we've been allowed to be open, audiences are dramatically smaller," said White.
The ByTowne on Rideau Street opened its doors on Feb. 10, 1947 as the Nelson cinema. According to the ByTowne website, Local entrepreneur Hyman Berlin built the cinema through the fall and winter of 1946. The first film was called "Johnny Frenchman."
Porch pirates target homes in a Kanata neighbourhood; several packages stolen on Wednesday
Ottawa police say there has been an increase in porch pirating, especially in urban areas.
On Wednesday, residents at several homes in a Kanata Lakes neighbourhood reported stolen packages from their front doors.
"At 6 o’clock we came out to get the package, but it wasn’t there, but Amazon said it was delivered already,” said Wei, one of many who reported stolen items from their properties.
"We checked the video, seems to be some boys came by and picked it up."
According to the Kanata Lakes Community Association, porch pirates targeted several homes; with the thefts happening fast and while people were at home.
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Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra - To Me You're A Song / What, Where And When Album
Ralph Flanagan His Orchestra Rca Victor
Performer: Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra
Title: To Me You're A Song / What, Where And When
# Catalog: 20-3795
1 To Me You're A Song
2 What, Where And When
47-3795 Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra To Me You're A Song (7", Single) RCA Victor 47-3795 US 1950
47-3795 Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra To Me You're A Song (7", Single) RCA Victor 47-3795 Canada 1950
20-3795 Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra To Me You're A Song / What, Where And When (10", Promo) RCA Victor 20-3795 US Unknown
Tenderly - Ralph Flanagan and His Orchestra. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей. Harry Prime - You're Breaking My Heart. Посмотреть сведения об участниках альбома, рецензии, композиции и приобрести альбом Vinyl от Dance To The New Live Sound Of на What A Beautiful Morning. Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra. Dancing Down Broadway. Look at Me Now. Dance to the New Live Sound Stereo Version. People Will Say We're In Love. Vintage Dance Orchestras No. 294 - LP: Oklahoma . The recording on the other side of this disc: To Me You're a Song. Technical Notes: Disc worn Popping, wow throughout. 78 what-where-and-when ralph-flanagan-and-his-orchestra-the-ralph-flanagan-trio-cy-co gbia0078322b 02 2. 3 CT download. 78 what-where-and-when ralph-flanagan-and-his-orchestra-the-ralph-flanagan-trio-cy-co gbia0078322b 03 2. 8 CT download. Another version of the song was recorded by the jazz pianist Sonny Clark on his second studio album as a leader for the Blue Note Records label, Sonny's Crib. The album features many prominent jazz musicians of the Hard bop era, such as John Coltrane, Donald Byrd, Curtis Fuller, and Paul Chambers. Opera singer Joyce DiDonato's Grammy-winning crossover album Songplay included the song, arranged by Craig Terry. The album was released on Warner ClassicsParlophone in February 2019. Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra-Snap and Clap. Dance to the New Live Sound, Поп2019. RALPH FLANAGAN & HIS ORCHESTRA-Nevertheless. Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra-Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child. Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra-Medley: Let's Get Away from It All, Oh Look at Me Now. Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra-Opus One. Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra-Medley: There Goes That Song Again, I've Heard That Song Before. Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra скачать mp3 в хорошем качестве, либо слушайте песню Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra - Hot Toddy, Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra - Hot Toddy, Ralph Flanagan and his Orchestra - Washing Machine, Tex Beneke - St. Louis Blues March, Ralph Flanagan and His Orchestra - St Louis Bluffs March, а также рингтоны на звонок и все новые треки. Скачай Ralph Flanagan And His Orchestra - Street Of Dreams mp3 02:14 320 kbps Flanagan was a famed big band leader, conductor, pianist, composer, and arranger for the orchestras of Hal McIntyre, Sammy Kaye, Blue Barron, Charlie Barnet, and Alvino Rey. During World War II he served in the Merchant Marine, from October 1942 to 1946. In fact, five of his first six hits are here, all with featured vocalist Harry Prime, starting with Youre Breaking My Heart which, released on the old Bluebird label which RCA was attempting to revive, wound up at 14 in October 1949 on Bluebird 30-0001. A couple of months later they were back with Dont Cry Joe Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go, a 9 in NovDec on Bluebird 30-0007
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Gas Pipeline Project Headed to Suwannee River Leaks Into Georgia Waterway
From the Jacksonville Times Union:
Posted November 14, 2016 05:35 pm – Updated November 14, 2016 11:48 pm
Gas pipeline project headed to Suwannee River leaks into Georgia waterway; sparks environmental worries
A leak in the shaft for a natural gas pipeline beneath a Georgia river has reinforced environmental worries at Florida’s Suwannee River and other waterways in the pipeline’s path.
The leak into the Withlacoochee River near Valdosta, Ga. underscored earlier concerns about twin hazards from the Sabal Trail pipeline: that pipeline shafts could leak contaminants into rivers, and let river water escape through cracks in the area’s sinkhole-riddled bedrock.
“What they said couldn’t happen did happen,” said John Quarterman, president of the WWALS Watershed Coalition Inc., a group fighting work on the 515-mile pipeline planned to cross three states.
The aquifer feeding North Central Florida’s signature rivers and springs already faces long-term supply strains, and pipeline critics argue that underground drilling could compound those if it accidentally opened routes for water to drain into underground voids and caverns.
The leak last month didn’t cause any harm, but the pipeline was already controversial.
Fourteen people – five from the Jacksonville area – were jailed over the weekend in Gilchrist County, west of Gainesville, after a demonstration protesting the project’s use of water from the Santa Fe River.
Another demonstration, opposing both Sabal Trail and the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota, is planned Tuesday outside the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office on Jacksonville’s Southbank.
A contractor for Sabal Trail Transmission, the company building the pipeline, told Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division last month that material it described as “drilling mud” appeared in the Withlacoochee west of Valdosta, Ga., while workers were drilling a pilot hole under the river, a first step toward installing the pipeline.
Drilling mud is made with bentonite, a clay containing aluminum that reduces friction and is used in some construction for waterproofing.
But it wasn’t waterproof enough last month.
As a crew drilled Oct. 20 under the Withlacoochee, near U.S. 84 between Valdosta and Quitman, Ga., an environmental contractor emailed regulators that “some kind of substance” floated to the river’s surface, and workers put up a barrier to keep it from moving downstream. The next day, the same contractor told the state drilling mud was found on the riverbed in about 2 feet of water.
Georgia officials didn’t return messages left by phone and email Monday.
A Sabal Trail Transmission spokeswoman, Andrea Grover, said the state and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission “have reviewed and are satisfied that the work and containment is appropriate.”
Quarterman said he learned of the contractor’s emails Friday, when a state employee working through the Veteran’s Day holiday forwarded them to him as part of a public records request.
Quarterman said he didn’t know how the state reacted to the leak last month, but that two members of his organization checked the river Saturday and found a barrier still looping around a section of the waterway that was discolored.
The contractor’s emails to the state said drilling for the pilot hole was about 400 feet short of being complete on Oct. 21, but a construction progress report filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said that by Oct. 30 the pilot hole had been completed.
The report to the commission, which regulates gas pipelines, didn’t mention a leak.
“There was never any danger to human health or safety, and no harm to the environment,” Grover said.
But pipeline opponents had warned about risks before and said the leak shouldn’t have happened.
“I am so angry because this is what we said would happen and we were assured the rivers wouldn’t be affected because they were drilling under them,” Deanna Mericle, a member of WWALS, said in a release from the group describing the river Saturday.
“… We told them it was likely because of our karst geology and we got patronized and patted on the head. You can guarantee they will downplay it and just drill another hole,” Mericle said in the weekend statement.
Karst geology is the pattern of limestone bedrock and unpredictable voids that happens in a lot of Florida where water has gradually washed away porous rock.
That process leads to sinkholes, and water management officials questioned whether underground drilling for the pipeline could create problems.
“We were considering the crossings of the rivers. … The porosity in the area is pretty high,” Carlos Herd, director of the Suwannee River Water Management District’s water supply division, said during a videotaped hearing last year about a challenge WWALS brought last year to fight approval of the pipeline by Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection.
An administrative law judge concluded the group, which advocates for several watersheds near the Florida-Georgia border, didn’t show it had legal standing for the challenge. The judge said concerns the group’s members couldn’t enjoy rivers like the Suwannee or Santa Fe if they were damaged was “speculative.”
A spokeswoman for Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection said the federal commission will regulate the pipeline, but state regulators inspected work as it progressed, the most recent time being last week. No problems were found, said the spokeswoman, Dee Ann Miller.
State officials will examine the Santa Fe by boat this week for water-quality violations or problems with construction runoff or other debris making the river too cloudy, Miller said.
Demonstrators arrested over the weekend were protesting the fact that water from the Santa Fe was being loaded into trucks for work on the pipeline project.
Protesters blocked a truck as it tried to move into a work area, with some climbing onto the trailer truck or getting under it, said Gilchrist County chief deputy Jeff Manning. He said one person used a bicycle lock around his neck to attach himself to the truck.
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IMF chief tells central bankers to not dismiss bitcoin (Update)
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Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, left, talks with Christine Legarde the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, during the Bank of England 'Independence 20 years on' conference, which marks two decades of operational independence from the UK government, at Fishmongers Hall in the City of London, Friday Sept. 29, 2017. (John Stillwell/PA via AP)
Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, has a message for the world's central bankers: Don't be Luddites.
Addressing a conference in London on Friday, Lagarde said virtual currencies, which are created and exchanged without the involvement of banks or government, could in time be embraced by countries with unstable currencies or weak domestic institutions.
"In many ways, virtual currencies might just give existing currencies and monetary policy a run for their money," she said. "The best response by central bankers is to continue running effective monetary policy, while being open to fresh ideas and new demands, as economies evolve."
The most high-profile of these digital currencies is bitcoin, which like others can be converted to cash when deposited into accounts at prices set in online trading. Its price has been volatile, soaring over recent years but falling sharply earlier this month on reports that China will order all bitcoin exchanges to close and one of the world's most high-profile investment bankers said bitcoin was a fraud.
For now, Lagarde said, digital currencies are unlikely to replace traditional ones, as they are "too volatile, too risky, too energy intensive and because the underlying technologies are not yet scalable."
Christine Legarde the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, gestures during her address at the Bank of England 'Independence 20 years on' conference, which marks two decades of operational independence from the UK government, at Fishmongers Hall in the City of London, Friday Sept. 29, 2017. (John Stillwell/PA via AP)
High-profile hacks have also not helped, she noted. One notable failure was that of the Mt. Gox exchange in Japan in February 2014, in which about 850,000 bitcoins were lost, possibly to hackers. Following that, Japan enacted new laws to regulate bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies.
But in time, she argued, technological innovations could address some of the issues that have kept a lid on the appeal of digital currencies.
"Not so long ago, some experts argued that personal computers would never be adopted, and that tablets would only be used as expensive coffee trays, so I think it may not be wise to dismiss virtual currencies," Lagarde said.
Mark Carney Governor of the Bank of England, left and Christine Legarde the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund listen to a speaker, during the Bank of England 'Independence 20 years on' conference, which marks two decades of operational independence from the UK government, at Fishmongers Hall in the City of London, Friday Sept. 29, 2017. (John Stillwell/PA via AP)
Lagarde's comments appear at odds with the views of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who this month described bitcoin as a fraud and said he'd fire any of his traders if they caught dealing in the digital currency.
In a speech laying out the potential changes wrought by financial innovations, Lagarde also said that over the next generation, "machines will almost certainly play a larger role" in helping policymakers, offering real-time forecasts, spotting bubbles, and uncovering complex financial linkages.
"As one of your fellow Londoners—Mary Poppins—might have said: bring along a pinch of imagination!"
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DC Collectibles Says “Bring Home The Justice League For Batman Day” 2018
September 14, 2018 Ken Pierce Leave a comment
We received this bit of news just before “Batman Day” which is tomorrow if you haven’t already heard the news. Check this out, and bring the Justice League home with you.
New DC Collectibles 6-inch Action Figure Line Will Be Available Exclusively on DC Universe Subscription Service. Straight from the screen to your shelves, DC Collectibles is gearing up to release an all-new 6-inch action figure line based on the acclaimed Justice League animated series that aired from 2001-2004. The new figures will be available exclusively for DC Universe members and can be purchased starting Batman Day, September 15, timed to the launch of the DC Universe subscription service.
The new line is an expansion of DC Collectibles’ bestselling animated action figure collection which also includes figures based on popular DC animated shows “Batman: The Animated Series”, “The New Batman Adventures” and “Superman: The Animated Series”. On September 15, DC Universe members can watch the entire Justice League animated series and then head over to the “Shop” tab on the DC Universe app to purchase Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman and more of their favorite characters from the show in 3D form. Here is the official release schedule:
Batman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern and Hawkgirl will be available to purchase at launch and ship in September. Aquaman and Wonder Woman will be available to pre-order at launch, to ship in October. The Flash and Superman will be available to pre-order at launch, to ship in November
All figures are priced at $28.00 each. For a limited time only, members who purchase all eight characters will receive the whole set in November at a discounted price of $194.00. This promotion will end on November 30, 2018.
So what are you waiting for? Pre-order the service at www.dcuniverse.com for the chance to get your hands on these figures!
About DC Collectibles: DC Collectibles is the award-winning line of collectibles directly from the source—DC Entertainment. The collection includes limited-edition statues, action figures, prop replicas and busts inspired by DC’s iconic characters and stories. Based on unparalleled access to the source material, DC Collectibles delivers master designs and exceptional workmanship. For 20 years, DC Collectibles’ commitment to quality and authenticity has been recognized by DC fans worldwide.
About DC Universe: DC UNIVERSE is a standalone digital experience designed for the DC fan. Showcasing DC’s iconic characters, DC UNIVERSE offers new original live-action and animated series, legendary films and series, and epic animated movies, as well as a fan community, a curated selection of comic books, and exclusive merchandise. DC UNIVERSE is operated by Warner Bros. Digital Networks in collaboration with DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Digital Labs. DC UNIVERSE offers access to exclusive content and experiences not available anywhere else. To learn more, visit www.dcuniverse.com.
PiercingMetal Thoughts: Folks who’ve been watching my posts from the Toy Fair are well aware of the DC Collectibles line and its truly one of my favorite visits during the massive convention. Since I loved the “Justice League” animated series, I might have to look into these action figures for my personal collection. What do you think of these items? Will you be seeking some of them out during “Batman Day” tomorrow? Please chime in down below in the comments section below. I’ll see you again soon and don’t forget to get to the comic shop and support this fun day. You’ll even get a free copy of “Batman: White Knight” Special Edition while supplies last if your retailer is participating in the program.
Update 9/15/2018: Hello from “Batman Day” where I snagged a copy of this free comic book from Galaxy Comics in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Don’t miss out on something cool for free as you will hate yourself otherwise. As you can see I posted this visual on our Official Instagram and if you aren’t following us yet, we hope that you will click the image and start digging into our account.
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Architectural medal – Ethnographic Museum
Great for lovers of architecture!
Hungary’s finest buildings on a series of medals.
Ethnographic Museum The plan to create the Museum was born on 5 March 1872, when János Xantus was named to head the Ethnographic Division of the Hungarian National Museum. The Museum moved to its current location in 1973, taking up residence in the former Palace of Justice built for the Hungarian Royal Curia in 1896. The palace was designed by Alajos Hauszmann in 1891. Plans were completed in following June. In his description, he called the style of the building Romanesque. Due to the upcoming Millennial Celebrations, the building was to be completed by 1 May 1896. Construction started on 16 August 1893 and the building was finished on time! One interesting note is that the finishing document written on parchment was built into the structure itself. Alajos Hauszmann was awarded the title Pro litteris et artibus for his efforts.
Front: The front of the medal depicts the building of the Ethnographic Museum.
Back:The back shows Museum’s main staircase.
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October 23, 2020 by Athena Dakota
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ServiceTitan’s new reputation and direct mail marketing features equip users to generate, monitor, and manage online reviews and listings and create and distribute targeted direct mail campaigns, all from a single integrated platform.
“With these new marketing channels, it would typically take two to three separate applications to do everything that Marketing Pro is capable of now,” said Ershad Jamil, chief growth officer of ServiceTitan. “Not only does Marketing Pro automate tasks like managing mailing lists, sending follow-ups, and tracking reviews, it’s all integrated so it saves time and effort. And because it’s connected to existing revenue data, there are real, actionable insights and ROI information.”
With ServiceTitan’s new reputation and direct mail marketing tools, users can:
● Monitor online reviews, increase the number of total reviews, and generate more positive feedback.
● Maximize and streamline online business listings by providing consistent information across over 60+ websites and platforms.
● Generate targeted mailing lists of existing customers.
● Automate the direct mail campaign process so that businesses can trigger postcards to send at the right time.
● Close the loop on performance metrics and see which campaigns are profitable and which techs bring in the most reviews.
“For years, contractors have known that marketing is important, but they may not have had the experience or tools necessary to identify or implement the most effective strategies and practices,” Jamil said. “We want to lead the way not only in showing that marketing is critical to success for trades professionals but empowering them to build it into their workflows. We think the new enhanced Marketing Pro can be a real difference-maker for ServiceTitan users.”
The reputation and direct mail marketing functions complement the email marketing capability of the original Marketing Pro, launched in 2019. For more information, visit www.servicetitan.com/marketingpro.
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Photo Gallery: UF Gymnastics vs. Auburn, 1/16/09
For the second consecutive year, the No. 1 University of Florida gymnastics team (2-0, 1-0 SEC) needed a big performance on the final event to take the win in its dual meet with No. 4 Auburn (1-2, 0-2 SEC) on Friday night at the O'Connell Center. Last year, Florida used a six-for-six balance beam set to take the win at Auburn. This year, the Gators needed to hit their floor exercise routines to overcome the 0.175 deficit after the third rotation.
A less-than-stellar beam set put the Gators in the negative position heading into the final rotation.
Florida’s floor set total of 49.45 – the nation’s highest of this young season – moved the Gators past the Tigers for a 196.50-196.25 win. Four Gators finished among the meet’s top three floor performers, including the event winner Corey Hartung. She matched her collegiate best of 9.95 for the sixth time of her career to win her second consecutive floor title. Smith matched her collegiate-best set a week ago of 9.90 to take second. Three shared third at 9.875 – Florida’s Melanie Sinclair and Elizabeth Mahlich and Auburn’s A.J. Mills.
The Gators opened up the meet with strong performances on vault and uneven bars. Smith, making her first appearance in a competitive vault lineup since her freshman season at UCLA in 2006, turned in a collegiate-best 9.90 for her first vault win. Sinclair and freshman Nicole Ellis shared third at 9.85, helping UF to a season-best total of 49.225.
The top event total of the evening was turned in by the Gators on their next event, the uneven bars. Florida’s total of 49.50 – also the nation’s top total so far in 2009 – was boosted by a three-way Gator tie for first at 9.925. The score was a collegiate-best for two-thirds of the bar winners – sophomore Alicia Goodwin and Hartung. Sinclair was also among the top bar performers, sharing her second consecutive bar win of the season.
Although no falls were used toward Florida’s balance beam total of 48.325, the event total reflects several balance checks and wobbles. Sinclair was Florida’s top performer on the event, taking fourth at 9.80. The Tigers swept the beam in the final standings – Puckett (9.90), Rachel Inniss (9.875) and A.J. Mills (9.85).
Hartung picked up her 13th all-around title as a Gator Friday with her season-best total of 39.475. Sinclair edged her season-best up to 39.45 to take second.
The Gators were without junior Rebekah Zaiser, who is out for the season after breaking a bone in her right foot while practicing her floor routine Tuesday. Zaiser led off the UF beam set in every meet last season and also was UF’s first performer on beam and floor last Friday in the 2009 opener versus Oklahoma.
Next week, Florida travels to No. 5 Arkansas for its first road meet of the season. Meet time is set for 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 23.
photo by Tim Casey
Florida junior Amanda Castillo earns a 9.475 on the balance beam during the No. 1-ranked Gators' 196.50-196.25 win against the No. 4-ranked Auburn Tigers on on Friday, January 16, 2009 at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center in Gainesville, Fla.
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What "Sex and the City" gave me
Posted on April 11, 2011 June 22, 2012 by Christine Macdonald in Christine Macdonald
Answering an “Open Call” essay series on Salon.com, I wanted to share my submission.
I was in my late twenties and staring a new sales job in San Francisco when I first heard of the HBO series, Sex and the City. As a former stripper, I was open minded and attracted to shows with the word “sex” in them. When my new boss Lori, a thirty-something, fun-loving gal from Sacramento told me about the show, I was more than a little intrigued.
I grew up with HBO. As a pre-teen in the late 70s, I often sneaked late night viewings of B-movies like Rock ‘n’ Roll High School and The Swinging Cheerleaders. By the time I was 13 in 1981, HBO provided many sleepless nights with reruns of The Deep, Piranha and of course, Jaws.
To watch HBO was a guilty pleasure (in every sense of the word), luxury, and no small feat. Back in the early days, there were parental control locks on the cable boxes. My mother always hid the key in the same spot on top of the breadbox and inside a red coffee mug with white lettering proclaiming she was a #1 Mom. Excitement always trumped guilt when it came to mischief for me. With cable key in hand, I possessed the one thing every teenager covets: a golden ticket to Adulthood. I was the shit.
Purchasing HBO as a young adult was never a question. It was part of my DNA and I just had to have the latest blockbuster movies and comedy specials streaming through the small TV in my studio apartment. When money was tight, I cut corners in other ways. I did laundry at my mom’s house, took the bus instead of cabs and anything else I could do. I would burn candles and eat Ramen for a month instead of cancel my cable, dammit!
When I made the move from my hometown of Honolulu to San Francisco in the late 90s I left everything and everyone behind. An exotic dancer for nearly a decade, I was worn out and tired of the party scene. I needed to make a new life for myself and because I knew of only one person on the mainland and she lived in San Francisco, well that was place I needed to be.
A friend since our club-hopping days just out of high school, Kim was a Godsend and our friendship truly stood the test of time. She never once judged my choices as a stripper, and rather than give me a lecture about morals, she simply told me she loved me and wanted me to be safe.
After convincing me to move away from the island for a fresh start, Kim graciously gave up her living room floor as I settled in to my new town. I quickly found work, waiting tables at night and answering phones at a hair salon during the day. Not long after that I found a fantastic room for rent in a house up the street. Within months I met Gerry, a computer science geek who thought I was out of his league. We fell madly in love and for the first time in my life, I felt like a grown up. My world seemed to be falling in to place.
When Gerry graduated college he was offered a job up in Portland. I immediately began mentally packing and fashioning what outfits would go with the shiny yellow raincoat I was sure to buy. There was just one small thing. Gerry moved away without me. I was never factored in to his equation for the future. Heartbroken and deflated, I talked myself back to the virtual stripper pole and decided all men were scum.
One night, drowning in a bottle of wine, between drunk-dialing Gerry and crying over old photographs, I turned on the TV and caught a repeated first episode of Sex and the City.
It was a match made in heaven.
The series begins with Carrie’s voice-over narration giving it a somewhat fairy tale feel:
Once upon a time an English journalist came to New York. Elizabeth was attractive and bright, and right away she hooked up with one of the city’s typical most eligible bachelors. Tim was 42. A well liked and respected investment banker who made about two million a year. They met one evening in typical New York fashion – at a gallery opening. It was love at first sight. For two weeks they snuggled, went to romantic restaurants, had wonderful sex and shared the most intimate secrets.
One warm spring day, he took her to a town house he saw in Sunday’s New York Times. That day, Tim popped the question.
“How’d you like to have dinner with my folks Tuesday night?”
On Tuesday, he called with some bad news.
“My mother isn’t feeling very well, can we take a rain check?”
When she hadn’t heard from him in two weeks she called.
“Tim! This is an awfully long rain check.”
He said he was up to his ears and that he would call her the next day.
“He never did call of course. Bastard.”
Carrie segues her narration from voice-over to conversing with us on screen:
Then I realized. No one had told her about the end of love in Manhattan.
More voice-overs from Carrie:
Welcome to the age of un-innocence. No one has Breakfast at Tiffany’s and no one has Affairs to Remember. Instead, we have breakfast at 7:00 am, and affairs we try to forget as quickly as possible. Self-protection and closing the deal are paramount. Cupid has flown the co-op.
And we are back to her speaking to us on screen:
How the hell did we get in to this mess?
Carrie Bradshaw, played effortlessly by Sara Jessica Parker, is a thirty-something writer living in Manhattan. Her best friends are Charlotte (Kristin Davis) an art-loving Pollyanna who dreams of marriage and kids, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), a feminist attorney with intimacy issues and Samantha (Kim Cattrall), a sexually adventurous blonde who eats men for breakfast.
When I started watching Sex and the City I did what every woman did – I compared myself to the characters on the show. Was I more like Carrie, or did a little Samantha creep through from my days on stage? Too risqué to be “a Charlotte”, but perhaps the cynic in me could relate most to Miranda. The characters were brilliant. Every woman I knew could say they had a little bit of least one of those women inside them.
As the title implies, the Sex and the City television series entails a fair amount of naked playtime, but the show is so much more than that. It’s a well written tale of four women looking for love in the big city who eventually find so much more.
Throughout the show’s entirety, these gals have their ups and downs. Falling in and out of love, surviving frenemies, toxic bachelors, losing loved ones, and even becoming fashion road kill.
Still licking my wounds from the split with Gerry, I began to lose myself in every character. I started watching religiously and made sure my friends were close by.
When Carrie spoke of the exquisite pain after her first break up with Mr. Big, I cried in empathy thinking SHE GETS ME! I wanted to write a personal Thank You letter to Michael Patrick King and Darren Star – the men behind creating what was shaping up to be my life on screen.
The episodes and years floated by and my love affair with the show continued. When Miranda’s mom passed, not only did her girlfriends meet her in Connecticut for the funeral, but Aidan and Steve (Carrie and Miranda’s boyfriends at the time) surprised her too. I sat on the couch bawling at the display of selfless love radiating from the screen.
But it was more than just the story lines that got me – it was the feeling of unwavering love and support threaded through each friendship. No mater what, they were there for one another. Through breakups, marriages, babies, miscarriages and death – each one of those women were there, just like Kim was there for me. Mr. Big says it perfectly when speaking to the gals, trying to win Carrie back in the final season:
“You ladies are the loves of her life. A guy’s just lucky to come in fifth.”
Finally. A man gets it. Tissue please.
Through time, the sting of Gerry’s absence subsided and I began to date. There were some great men and not so great men in the mix – none of them stayed. And just like Carrie asked in the final episode of season three, I wondered:
What if everything isn’t the man’s fault? After a certain age and a certain number of relationships, if it still isn’t working and the ex’s seem to be moving on and we don’t, perhaps the problem isn’t the last boyfriend or the one before him or even the one before him. Could it be that the problem isn’t them, but horror of horrors, it’s us?
I started seeing a therapist immediately.
As a child from an unbalanced home (you don’t end up working the pole without a story), I was no stranger to therapy. But this time it was different. Rather than trying to work through why I didn’t like or trust men, I began to take responsibility and sought reasons why I always picked the wrong ones. Like Carrie (the early years), I was only attracted to men who were unavailable.
Sex and the City became therapy too.
This show helped me realize that men aren’t the have all/end all factor in my own equation of life. They are the icing on the cake but, what a revelation, I alone am the cake! Even though I wanted one, I was realizing that my life was still fulfilling and happy without a man. Then something amazing started happening – I began not settling and it felt really great.
Carrie didn’t settle for Big when he couldn’t commit and for a while she was single and happy, even throwing a bridal shower for herself in the episode that causes us to ask “where is the flatware for Congratulations, you didn’t marry the wrong man?”
When Charlotte and Trey broke up because she didn’t back down with her dream of having a baby, I was impressed. There was Miranda, who finally realized she really loved bartender Steve, not the perfect on paper Doctor Robert Leeds. Even Samantha taught me about self worth when, after she took Richard back, she left him because she knew he would stray again.
“I love you Richard, but I love me more.”
Strong words for someone who was hell bent on making her multimillion-dollar power couple work.
Although the series is long over (and two successful movies have been made since it’s last airing in 2004) I won’t spoil any more specifics about these characters. Sufficed to say all four women end up far away from where they started or even thought possible.
Sex and the City not only gave me the gift of entertainment (wrapped in a bow of laughter and tears), it helped me see I was worth more and gave back a piece of myself I had sacrificed in my pursuit for the perfect man. Through watching the relationships on the show, it opened my mind and helped me choose curtain number three – where I eventually found a great man who is not the male model type guy I used to seek out, but he’s kind, honest and loving. He treats me better than any man I’ve ever dated. He’s Harry to my Charlotte.
In the last scene Carrie is reunited with her girlfriends at their familiar coffee shop.
Her final voice-over:
Later that day, I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic – those that are old and familiar – those that bring up lots of questions – those that bring you somewhere unexpected – those that bring you far from where you started. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the YOU, you love – well —that’s just fabulous.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. Yup. Definitely think I’m a Carrie.
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8 thoughts on “What "Sex and the City" gave me”
I'm totally a Carrie, too and her quote about the most important relationship is the one you have with yourself is one of my favorites ever. It's written in the front of my current journal.This post was really great. You reminded me why I love SATC so much.
Thanks Abby! I had a blast watching old episodes while writing this. 🙂
I have video tapes or DVD's of each season except the last one. I need to find that and buy it.I watch them when it's a dreary or cold day. Love it!
Oh you must! Thanks for the comment Charlene. 🙂
loved everything you had to say and totally agree – feeling like its time to re-watch sex & the city.
Wonderful, awesome, amazing post! I actually just finished catching up from Season 1 all the way to the end of the 2nd movie. I lived and laughed and cried with these woman and I just loved the show. I am probably somewhere in between Charlotte and Carrie, myself =)
Thanks ladies! I appreciate you taking the time to read and comment. 🙂
VanityofVanities says:
"I couldn’t have said it better myself. Yup. Definitely think I'm a Carrie"I'm more like Charlotte, since I believe in marriage and having kids. And a little bit of Miranda, too. This post makes me remember the time that I really want to watch TV just to have a peek of Sex in the City. haha.Thanks for the post, eh,Cathy@home medical equipment
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Home Dispatches After the Standing Rock Victory, What Next for Water Protectors?
After the Standing Rock Victory, What Next for Water Protectors?
by Andy Pearson
Image by Paulette Moore
On Sunday afternoon, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied the easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under the Missouri River at Lake Oahe, just north of the encampments at Standing Rock. This is amazing, virtually unprecedented, and a movement victory—and the water protectors who have led the fight are right to claim it as such.
It's also likely temporary and by no means the end of this fight. Here's some context, and ideas about paths forward as best I understand right now.
The Corps denied the easement and ordered an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), a formal study that will compare various route alternatives. Denying the easement was a stepping stone to getting to an EIS. It doesn't mean that the pipeline won't be built in its current alignment near Standing Rock eventually. The Corps is essentially hitting the pause button and initiating further study.
How does an Environmental Impact Statement work?
There are usually three phases to conducting an EIS: Scoping, Draft, and Final. The public can generally comment during each phase. The purpose of scoping is to identify what should be studied. Then the Corps and their EIS contractor prepare and release a draft, which the public is invited to comment on. They then rework the draft in light of public input and release a final version, which the public can generally also comment on. The process usually takes several months, and can last for years depending on the project's complexity. A generic timeline would be about nine months, but we don't have any actual guidance yet on the timeline for this particular EIS.
Will the ACE decision actually stop construction?
This is debatable. It would be illegal for Energy Transfer Partners to drill under the Missouri, but that's not to say they won't do it and opt to pay whatever legal penalties they incur. That would be a fairly shocking move on their part but they've hinted they may be open to doing it. It's easy to imagine that an incoming Trump administration would do their best to make the penalties as minimal as possible.
Why is it important for Energy Transfer Partners to drill right now?
Contracts with oil shippers. These contracts, called take-or-pay contracts, obligate shippers to pay money to the pipeline company over a committed period of time regardless of whether they have oil to actually send or not. It's a great deal for DAPL but not so good for the oil shippers, especially now that the Bakken oil boom isn't so hot. These contracts expire if the pipeline isn't substantially complete by January 1, and there's some chance that some shippers will choose to drop out at that point due to changing economics in the industry if the pipeline isn't complete. Sunday's decision by the Corps means that the pipeline won't be complete by January 1 unless ETP breaks the law and drills anyway.
What about Trump?
Oh, you had to ask. Once Trump is president, he will be in a position to stack the deck at the Army Corps so that the EIS is weak or biased in favor of DAPL. He might be able to stop the EIS process and reinstate the permit, though I don't know the legal specifics here yet. It's very doubtful that we'll see a full and robust EIS with Trump in office.
The upshot of Sunday's decision, assuming that ETP chooses to follow the law, is that it delays approval of the line until after Trump takes office, giving time for the contracts to expire and letting the worst of winter slide by without the need for full forces at the encampments.
What can we do in the meantime?
We can continue the work we've been doing, because it's all still relevant and helpful, and will become urgent again in just a few months.
We can go after the banks harder than ever to cut off funding to DAPL.
We can continue to spread information, lobby elected officials, lobby the Corps, hold events, train for direct action.
We can engage in the EIS process once it begins.
This isn't the end of the fight by a long shot, but it's a brief respite between battles and a sign of how far we've come thanks to the indigenous leadership and water protectors at Standing Rock.
Let's celebrate and reflect and keep fighting. #NoDAPL
Andy Pearson is Midwest Tar Sands Coordinator at MN350 and lives in Minneapolis.
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Covercentric: Will Young Reinterprets Kate Bush
UK’s mum-friendly pop crooner Will Young delivered a lovely piano cover of Kate Bush‘s classic “Running Up That Hill” for Dermot O’Leary’s Saturday Sessions on Radio 2 yesterday. His cover cemented the fact that he’s still one of Britain’s best contemporary male pop voices. His forthcoming album, the Richard-X-produced “Echoes”, will see him heading for a long-awaited dance-pop direction, and if lead single “Jealousy” is any indication, pop fans will be in for a real treat, even those who weren’t fans of his music before. You can download the balladry performance below. “Jealousy” drops on August 21, and the album follows a day later.
MP3: Will Young – Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush Cover)
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August 14, 2011 | Categories: Covers, Live, Mp3s, Pop, Singer/Songwriter, UK | Tags: kate bush, will young | 4 Comments
Covercentric: Noah And The Whale Cover Robyn
Radio 1’s Live Lounge seems to revolve around Robyn these days. A couple weeks ago, she was on the show to perform her new single “Call Your Girlfriend”, and now Noah And The Whale has picked it for their mystery cover. The alt-folk band totally transformed the ebullient original into a Tom Petty-style track. They shouldn’t have bothered changing the words though, it could make a cool twist. Stream/download their take below.
Noah And The Whale – Call Your Boyfriend (Robyn Cover)
I don’t have much to say about their own output, except that “L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.” was quite a guilty pleasure of mine.
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August 11, 2011 | Categories: Alternative, Covers, Indie, Live, Mp3s, Rock, UK | Tags: noah and the whale, robyn | Leave a comment
NEW VIDEO: Oh Land – White Nights
The music video for Oh Land’s “White Nights” has finally arrived, and it is so worth the wait. When I heard the directing collective CANADA was at the helm, and that she had a 5-day shoot in Barcelona, I expected a collage of trippy and stunningly-shot visuals. Well, it’s safe to say the end product is nothing short of astonishing. The Danish songstress took us through her fantastical world of glittery hands, headdresses, and impractical animal-head shoes! Apparently, her midsummer daydream consists of surreal scenarios involving lagoon jumping, forest frolicking, horse riding, and lots of dancing (her ballet dancer background certainly helps). I especially like the Kylie-esque bit when she does the robot. For me, the video feels like a proper old-school MTV music video, fast-paced, fun, refreshing, and delightfully bonkers. This is undoubtedly one of the best pop videos I’ve seen this year. I’m glad her label believes in her enough to commission this.
Her self-titled album is still one of 2011’s highlights for me. It’s a carousel of enchanting, whimsical magic-pop that you should not miss out on. To celebrate the video premiere, 2 free remixes of “White Nights” by Twin Shadow and Max Tundra are yours to keep after the jump.
August 9, 2011 | Categories: Denmark, Electronic, Mp3s, Music Videos, New Singles, Pop, Remixes, Scandinavia, Singer/Songwriter | Tags: oh land, twin shadow | 1 Comment
Popforward: SoundGirl
Of all the new girlbands popping up in UK lately, I found myself rooting for SoundGirl the most. There is just something fresh and likeable about the London-based trio that distinguishes them from the rest. Maybe it’s the girl-next-door appeal that’s part of the charm. Olivia, Izzy and Nicole appear to be just 3 teenage girls who are genuinely having fun, not at all concerned with building a hefty multimedia branding empire, or becoming overstyled tabloid figures just yet. Comparisons to Sugababes 1.0 are duly noted. Their debut single/free buzz download “I’m The Fool” was passable, but “Don’t Know Why” is the one that reveals their potential for me. While it’s not the first song to sample Carly Simon’s “Why”, the involvement of songwriter Miranda Cooper really gave it that fondly-missed Xenomania pop kick. The single might have come and gone in the charts with less recognition than expected, but it’s truly a fun summer hit that should have been. Check out the video below, and get a ’90s-styled remix after the jump.
August 1, 2011 | Categories: Dance, Mp3s, Music Videos, New Singles, Pop, Popforward, R&B, Remixes, UK | Tags: soundgirl | Leave a comment
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Roman Holiday: The Cole Porter Musical Eyeing B’way
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Will this new tuner be easy to love? Roman Holiday—The Cole Porter Musical is aiming for Broadway in the fall of 2017. The show will premiere as part of SHN’s 2016-2017 season and is scheduled to play a limited engagement May 24, 2017 through June 28 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre.
Based on the classic 1953 film that starred Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, Roman Holiday—The Cole Porter Musical will feature Cole Porter classics such as "Night and Day,” “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye” and “Easy to Love.” The book will be by Kathy Speer, Terry Grossman and Paul Blake.
In the midst of a whirlwind tour of European capitals, a young princess yearns to experience life—to explore the world beyond diplomatic dinners and Royal balls. Enter an American reporter, who, almost overnight, goes from covering the royal family to covering up her great escape. And in the span of 24 unforgettable hours, they discover the magic of Rome, the promise of love, and a secret they will share forever.
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Do You Know These 10 Profound 70’s Songs?
These 70's songs not only stirred up the people, they changed culture as we know it. Do you know the prominent 70's songs that mattered most? Take these 10 questions and put your knowledge to the test!
START THE QUIZ!
Which 1970s song included the lyrics, "Father, father, we don't need to escalate/You see, war is not the answer for only love can conquer hate?"
"Let it Be" by The Beatles
"What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye
Which 1979 song by The Clash spoke of the frustrations of urban life?
"London Calling"
"Brand New Cadillac"
Which feminist anthem included the lyrics, "I am strong. I am invincible?"
"I Am Woman" by Helen Reddy
"Respect" by Aretha Franklin
"Midnight Train to Georgia" by Gladys Pip
Which anthem of the gay rights movement included the lyrics "Girls will be boys and boys will be girls?"
"Benny and the Jets" by Elton John
"Lola" by The Kinks
Which 1974 David Bowie song featured the lyrics "she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl?"
"Modern Love"
"Rebel, Rebel"
"Diamond Dogs"
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Which 1979 song is credited with bringing rap into the main stream?
"It's Like That" by Run DMC
"Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang
"Fight the Power" by Public Enemy
Which 1977 song married techno and disco into one song?
"I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor
"I Feel Love" by Donna Summer
"Super Freak" by Rick James
Which 1970 environmental anthem included the lyrics "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot?"
"Hungry Planet" by The Byrds
"License to Kill" by Bob Dylan
"Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell
Which 1971 song proved a moving tribute to rock n' roll?
"Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night
"The Trees" by Rush
"American Pie" by Don McLean
Which classic song about friendship includes the lyrics, "I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on?"
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel
"Lean on Me" by Bill Withers
"Let's Stay Together" by Al Green
Much like this 1971 song by Marvin Gaye, your knowledge is a great influence on those around you. You knew these 7 songs of the seventies with ease and skill. Well done!
What's Going On Great
Much like this 1979 song by the Clash, your knowledge can bring about great changes! It’s obvious that these important songs of the 1970s have stuck with you through time. Well done!
London Calling Lucky
Much like this 1971 song by Helen Reddy, your knowledge is wonderful and vast. You clearly know about all of the changes and moments that this 7 songs helped to inspire!
I Am Woman Wonderful
Much like this song by the Kinks, you’re no one trick pony. Not only is your knowledge vast and varied, but it hones on on the facts and moments that matter most.
Lola Lovely
Much like this song by the Sugarhill Gang, your knowledge is pretty dope! When it comes to the music of the 1970s, no one can hold a candle to your knowledge!
Rappers Delight Dope
Much like this song by Donna Summer, you possess a knowledge so vast that others can’t help but marvel. When it comes to the songs of the 70s, you’re pretty much an encyclopedia.
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Much like this beloved Joni Mitchell tune, you possess a knowledge that can bring about the big changes in the world. Not one to focus on one thing or another, you’re well rounded and truly inspiring.
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Instagram, Puffin Browser, Offline Gmail, More: Monday Afternoon Buzz, December 25, 2017
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Tubefilter: Instagram Adds Direct Messaging Feature To Help Users Promote Live Streams. “Instagram wants to make it easier for users to gather viewers to their live broadcasts. An update within the latest version of Instagram enables users to send their friends — or groups of friends — a link to an in-progress live stream via direct message.”
Neowin: Page-compressing Puffin browser arrives on Windows. “The little-used, but still popular Puffin browser is now available for Windows in the form of a beta release, bringing with it many features it’s known for on mobile. On the product’s landing page, the Puffin beta for Windows touts speed, privacy and security; all features possible through the cloud back-end which compresses website data.”
MakeUseOf: How to Use Gmail Offline: The Complete Guide . “Anyone who deals with emails knows that processing emails require an active internet connection. A spotty internet connection could leave you with limited or even no access to your emails. What if you could set up Gmail offline and access all your emails without internet?”
Make Tech Easier: 7 of the Best Alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint. “Gotten a new PC and in dire need of some alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint? Your needs not met on Microsoft PowerPoint? This article is right for you. Microsoft PowerPoint has carved out a niche for itself in the sphere of presentation. If you’re reading this article, you’re probably one of over 200 million buyers of Windows 8 licenses. With a household penetration of 85.1 percentage for PCs in the United States in 2014, finding alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint is becoming the in-thing.”
Conde Nast Traveler: A Grove of Redwood Trees Is Being Ruined by Social Media. “Located in Jedediah Smith State Park, about nine miles east of Crescent City near the border of Oregon and California, the ‘Grove of Titans’ is reportedly the largest community of redwood trees ever discovered. It’s lesser known than other California redwoods, like those in Big Basin and Humboldt State Parks, but what makes it extra-appealing is its unmarked location north of the park’s trail. The researchers who discovered the grove in 1998 kept its exact spot a secret, so tourists who went in search of the area found it through unofficial park sources, like Google maps. A few years ago, someone posted a photo of the grove on social media with its GPS coordinates, drawing in thousands of tourists to look for the spot.”
The Verge: 2017 Was YouTube’s Best Year Ever. It Was Also Its Worst.. “2017 was a wild year for YouTube. It continued to extend its dominance as the world’s biggest video platform: in June it announced that 1.5 billion people now log in each month, a user base second only to Facebook’s and one that can earn successful creators a substantial windfall. According to recent analysis by Forbes, the top ten channels on YouTube earned $127 million in 2017, an increase of 80 percent from the year before. But in terms of its public image, 2017 was also the worst year YouTube has ever had.”
Quartz: The Yule Log: A Pagan Ritual Turned YouTube Phenomenon. “When the weather outside is frightful, a video of burning logs in a fireplace may not generate actual heat, but it sure makes a room feel delightful. The yule log has its roots (and often simply was a root) in Norse mythology, and from there it was all up and up. It became a symbol of Christmas, morphed into a delicate holiday dessert, made TV history, and is currently racking up views by the hundreds of thousands as a sensory experience minus the pesky fire-starting.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Search Engine Journal: Brute Force Password Hacks on the Rise . “A report earlier this month revealed that an easily searched database of 1.4 billion password credentials has been leaked and made available in dark web communities. These passwords can be used to automate the search for admin level server and CMS access to websites, regardless of platform. Earlier this month a Bitcoin subReddit was compromised. That hacking highlights that it doesn’t matter if you’re using WordPress, Joomla, phpBB or even hand coding your own CMS. If your password is weak or compromised then your site is under risk.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Digital Trends: Obsessive selfie-taking is now a mental disorder called ‘selfitis’. “Selfitis was a term originally coined in a fake news story but that didn’t stop psychologists from actually researching the possibility. A group from Nottingham Trent University and Thiagarajar School of Management recently confirmed that selfitis is an actual mental behavior that leads to obsessive selfie-taking, publishing a research report on its findings in the International Journal of Mental Health Addiction.”
The Next Web: From Compton to Google: How to fix tech’s diversity problem. “Where I come from, folks survive with minimal resources, persevere despite daunting adversity, bring a wealth of diverse viewpoints, and work incredibly hard. They have the grit to succeed even if their skills are, for the moment, lacking. I know plenty of people who are eager to learn how to code or work at a startup. They would be more grateful for the perks and privileges companies offer than the more well-to-do (I know I am). For better or for worse, I feel these are some of the same reasons why companies have sent jobs overseas. Yet, they have bypassed the incredible talent in their own backyards. Why can’t we have a tech boom born in America’s long-neglected hoods and ghettos?” Good afternoon, Internet…
Television Commercials, Finnish National Bibliography, National Parks, More: Monday Buzz, December 25, 2017
Ski Trips, Social Media, Visio, More: Tuesday Buzz, December 26, 2017
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the hands of an artist — COSTAIN : greenwich house pottery, new york city (2008)
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get your hands in it!!!
one of the great myths in the NEO american empire of the misled is "the forever man".
this myth is literally crammed down the throats of the tiniest children in much the same way that people shove cornmeal down the throats of ducks and geese and cows to make them taste sweeter while killing them softly, lol.
the princess syndrome is so out of control now that any sense of an actual republic is long gone.
but "the forever man" myth hasn’t changed.
young children are still taught that they must become parents, and i think we all know that parenting is one of the most BASIC TOOLS that the usurers can use to create loan debt. parenting is a very thankless job as well, so you get debt slavery and sht hours and there’s that baby that you can’t get rid of… or maybe you like your kid. lucky kid!!! but even though you like that kid, you will NOT be there in every moment and they will be neglected and abandoned to fate. so pray that your little one becomes a real princess or a true knight.
i’m not sure what the male dynamic is because little boys are so weaponized to create hostility that they always go for the swords and the guns to wreak havoc. nice work, parents!!!! way to create fake gender separation. pat yourself on the back for that one.
but we all got stuck with the breakage and wreckage of the "love that never dies" obligation to seek and find. i was oppressed by it as a child. it actually seemed like the coolest thing about the western dogma from religion — faith and love and unionizing.
of course, my strange and "briefly but permanently" mangled childhood proves how easy it is to destroy a child in really a mere matter of seconds. way to go, mom!!!
so naturally i have been weirdly taken with aldous huxley’s beautiful utopian dream that does not actually take place in his bitter and sad criticism of "the jews" (not to be confused with the jewish people in the same way that radical islamists are not a reflection of true path of the muslim journey — i note this because anti-semitism at that time in europe post wwi was at an all time high with printing criticism and outrage. anti-semitism was like a genre in a modern day bookstore it was so popular and had so many writings. picture that cowboy western section and the science fiction section and then the anti-semetic section.), fascist/idealistic germans and the north american noble savage.
all of that was a bitter pill for me. i literally was physically ill through sections of the book. it was a visceral experience that went beyond reading. it was an education.
but on the sidelines of the book was this curtain that had been pulled back on monumental ideas. it was like we were on the willy wonka factory tour and we’re in that massive cathedral of candy with an eternally churning chocolate fountain that sucks up agustus gloop and swooshes him away. and right at the moment every single person on the tour starts to formulate the actual "dangers" involved in this strange sugary fantasyscape.
but i was ready for the camera to ditch the sugarland phenomenon. i wanted to see where augustus gloop had gone and just how deep did this playland of machinery and artificial replication go. i was ready for a different kind of tour of the factory. talk about a psychotic dystopia…
plus, in huxley’s world, the glimpses that we get are very grown up and cool. they are not the childlike entrapping of a story for kids.
it’s older, it’s stabilized.
people of all people get along as one through class separatism. and a history of fulfillment through separation.
we are told that each caste is trained to be content with their occupation in life and some are even dumbed down with alcohol in the birthing jars.
and this was an inceptive vision of the dawning corporate heirarchy/caste system of order/need.
we are starting to experience its arrival.
but in the novel, these were birth classes.
everyone was born into their position.
further, these "corporatized classes" were arranged with the "controllers" and/or philosopher kings at the top and the class system below it with the alphas at the top of the class system. the alphas were all male and they were NOT clones. the betas are the female member of the caste which the alphas belong to in the novel and are NOT clones.
but all the other caste systems were bred and manufactured to maintain different aspects of the system’s needs. they were all clones.
throughout the novel huxley continuously promotes the virtues of the THREE FOUNDATIONS for a great society:
identity, community, stability
and huxley presented ideas that blatantly/openly stated how evil it was to separate kids from self discovery and liberty and that by not allowing them to explore each others bodies and touch one another we were creating a repressed/suppressed curiosity that would grow like a monster inside the child — a childish expression that is encouraged through taboo.
and that’s pretty bold philosophy.
further, and logically, he presented a society that wasn’t afraid of children never having parents but rather, cherished the idea of each one growing up protected and looked over by people who loved their job of caring for little ones and they didn’t abuse them or prohibit the kids from discovery themselves.
and each one was genetically crafted and modified to fit perfectly into their role within the greater whole. this was the utopia. the novel, however, skitters all over the place like a drunken car crash. the passengers are not reflective of the society. instead they are are a TRINITY list of the "unusual suspects", the "anti-society types" through no real fault of their own, the anomalies, those who didn’t fit in — as explored through the sexual relationships of one woman. she bangs all of them.
which is weird because you never hear anyone talk about that. so my version™ would put her into the HERO BOX™ of the what used to be called a PROTAGONIST — see how lost we are?!??! a hero and a protagonist are not the same thing. and a soldier and a hero are not the same thing. unless you literally change the meaning of the word. a hero is someone who accomplishes a series of strange feats/tasks or labors. a soldier is someone who is willing to kill in exchange for commodities/livelihood.
take it up with the dictionary. i’m not making this up.
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anyway, the "star" of this series™ is not a hero because there is no such thing as heroes in BRAVE NEW WORLD.
the mantra of IDENTITY, COMMUNITY, STABILITY is so deep that the society requires no heroes, no vigilantes, no protectorates, no nuclear arms.
and it would be the same story but it would be seen through her world and the experiences she was having simultaneously during the novel. like the film about jesus’ younger brother Agape who was away at college when jesus was a killed™ and the netflix film series™ would dive away from the very tiny blip of interest huxley’s novel provides.
not that it isn’t a great novel, it’s just that huxley was an intellectual surgeon and his storytelling feels very sterile, but the magnificent visions of the future that he is able to relay through description and attention to detail is brilliant even if it’s not the best writing.
and it is this world that is the skeleton of his novel. and the skeleton needs to be studied.
he’s given us the foundations and he’s created his own maps and he’s acutely aware of the beauty of the new mexican landscape and topography.
so instantly we know he’s got a crush on the noble savage whereas, personally, i’m more interested in hanging out with a beta and seeing what her best expectations are like in this fantastical land™. and the story was kind of about a beta in a very backward kind of way. and it was also about two types of failed alphas and then a hippie jesus guy from the "reservations".
but the novel does some time skipping and the tour doesn’t really take us much further than that disturbing garden that the the tour creeps up on.
aldous kind of magically skips from age four to the adults, so that’s a bit too fast on the timeline for me — where’s the COMMUNITY?!?!?! he picks up on this concept later in his book ISLAND — but i still kind of agree with him that really little kids should be allowed to discover each other physically and without the judgement parents impose and overimpose so fast. we are mistaken in sexualizing this curiosity. we make it rapey. we use our adult minds to be like "OH!!! RAPE, my baby’s a rapist", or "oh no, that little baby boy played with another little boy".
aldous suggested that this form of exploration was essential to humans understanding and experiencing themselves EARLY ON without the sexual element being present or worse, present and mature. further, that this exploration would lead toward a differnt developmental attitude which would in turn allow a society to bypass future rape and sexual misconduct breaches.
but his ideas were too radical for people in his time.
they still are.
considering what a powerful novel it is, when it was written and the brilliant ideas that are tossed around like a juggler who is bouncing balls and torches and chain saws of the walls of a racquetball court while teaching you squash at the same time, it doesn’t get much play.
he was, after all, such a BRIT who had been notoriously kicked out of his social life circle in england for writing hilarious tell-all novels about the people closest to him. so they’d given him the outcast card and he’d fled (as fast as a mostly blind man with a lesbian wife can flee) to new mexico in the post wwi era, near the future site of the u.s. secret city/laboratory, los alamos.
and from there, hollywood by 1932, i think.
what a great story he lived as well, not just tripping out on acid as he died, but also his first wife hunting beautiful women for the two of them to share, and the screenplays, the vast library of single print editions by other famous poets and playwrights and novelists sent to him for his approval. and then his second wife, the beautiful violinist who escape that terrible canyon fire that obliterated all those never-to-be-written-again books, all those manuscripts, all those precious writings that vanished beneath the terrible heat. and she, taking only her Stradivarius, walking out knowing everything would burn. letting go. giving it up to the fire.
forever people.
we wish.
but there is no forever man.
there is no living jesus.
all things die.
and true love is more like paying attnention.
like that nun says in "lady bird".
true love isn’t sexual.
true love may not even know itself.
true love might just be paying attention and feeling joy?
the joy of paying attention.
and i know how much we all long to feel joy when paying attention. and in an age of POST-DISTRACTION awakenings, isn’t it time you told your daughters that marriage is an OPTION. that having kids is an OPTION. that giving up your life to fulfill some fake darwinian NONSENSE is an OPTION.
but so is living your own life and having no one else that you’ve created. and so is fighting for new models of PROCREATION that don’t involve failing parents, parents that never wanted kids and people who can’t afford kids.
parents are most often the worst thing about kids.
so don’t be afraid to tell your kids that you failed and how.
maybe they even remember it and have blamed themselves.
and if all you can give your son is a gun or a truck or a logic game, you’re definitely part of the problem. it’s vastly unfair to use gender foolishness to masculinize a child. it distorts the idea of masculinity like a mental disorder in the same manner that physical sexual abuse destroys young children. they are both attacks against the child’s being.
we do our best to protect kids against the predators of the body, but we do very little protect our children from the predators of the mind and the consumer usurers who are taking the kids earlier and earlier.
who knows, maybe one day the movie of the book will be made.
we live in a perfect time for it to just skip straight away from the book and into the BRAVE NEW WORLD right after the visitors on the tour see where the little kids are intermingling without any kind of ADULT IMPOSED intrusions.
the great thing about the BRAVE NEW WORLD was that the rapey issue had been addressed and fully considered. the society was developed around the understandings of sexual co-mingling without parentalizing adults.
since most of humanity ALLEGEDLY has a very low intellectual focus & MOST people don’t actively seek to better and improve their intelligence — this is not my fact, it’s how "they" talk about the 99%ers — it is easy to distract the general populace with "material gain" greed games and after life myths and unfulfillable promises like the forever man.
even now, fully ready to fall asleep again after being "awake" for so fking long, even now i still want the person i thought of to be my forever man.
i want him so bad.
but he was never that man in real life.
he was never the fake version of him that was presented.
and that’s what kills me the most.
i supported the lies without knowing it.
i felt misled and bushwacked.
not victimized,
just super aware that i had participated in the set-up and had no grounds for complaint. i spent my liberty and freedom of time and it was gone. and he felt stronger and freer (which is good and i’m glad of that).
but in the process we burned through each other and the lies and the falsehoods and the deceptions and the weaknesses all became exposed and destroyed in the fire.
he was never the forever man in the first place.
and that’s the rub. the forever man isn’t a person.
there is no forever man.
in that moment the forever man became a concept for me, a trap that so many others fall into as well.
and then we fall out of it.
a lot of people return to it, but that’s usually because they can’t see the permanent break.
so now, suddenly, there was this permanent break and it was known to both of us.
granted, at first i found this confusing.
naively, i had always assumed the permanent break was already there. didn’t everyone know this intuitively?
i hadn’t realize that this wasn’t a universal understanding.
but, i only say this because i learned it from people who are born alone. they say it over and over again.
i was born a twin and i don’t think that the "born alone" perspective is "all there is" as much as it is "all that most people have access to, therefore"…
but i learned about the "permanent break" from people born alone. twins are generally super optimistic. and i’m guessing on this because i can imagine a family that takes joy in their twins and understands that they might be a little different. my parents made a permanent break with me. an unrecoverable intentional break.
and then, through a long process of hop-scotch education through the west coast public and private christian schools in north and south california, voila! aware of humans and how they formulate their kindnesses and their goodnesses.
so when i heard about the permanent break thing AT THIS STAGE IN THE GAME, i was a bit taken about. it was one of those horrible realizations where your mind goes all bird’s eye view and geomapping and speeds through all manner of timelines and conjugations and starts the "murder board" with the new thread.
you can visually see the wasted time as chunks of LIFE.
tetris LIFE chunks filled with remembrances just "disappearing" the value of memories instantly. a radical cross-platform devaluation of emotional assets. worse than zero. worse than no memories at all.
and that’s when you realize that a rug has been pulled out from under you and your grand designs. it’s the dreadfulness of false manifestations, the celebrants of what you thought was genuine were really bound up in a bottomless sadness and a burning flame with their own downward spiral dance.
it’s that startling and irreversible moment when you realize that your eyes and your heart and the assurances of another had been used quite shamelessly to proliferate a bizarre and untrue fantasy.
and worse, it was TRULY the revelation that i had wanted but not with a ghost!!!
not with a dancing apparition!
not the hollow man!!!
oh fk, not the hollow man!!
and so now i’m doomed to still want the forever man that i had created with my expectations and then with my desires and then was slowly filleted by…
or maybe it was more like the sides of my neck were slashed open to make gills. because i do feel lucky.
the charade could have taken longer and bigger chunks of my life. and i had a great time in the delusion and i liked working for a relationship.
sometimes the process of aging is a vinting metaphor and sometimes it’s a venting metaphor. sometimes it’s all about the air and the breath.
either way, it wasn’t my first relationship and it gave me an opportunity to see whether or not relationshipping was even in accordance with my nature and liberty. could i be happy without unionizing?
and the answer is yes.
or, at least, it’s a great position to be in.
there is a freedom to participate in life that comes from being a part of it without being forced to protect offspring and develop those kinds of natural enmities against your "greatest predator", men. that’s a lovely start to things.
almost as fun as the fake "virigin" girl claiming it’s god’s baby.
or worse, everyone forgetting that "god’s baby" meant bastard offspring.
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whatever, it doesn’t matter, i feel lucky to have had a forever man and to be able to write a more complicated story of "royal romance" than the childish ones we tell other people’s children and even our own children.
the corporatized children’s engineering factories are already in their late pre-testing phases.
BUT, a bit of forewarning to those who would be wise when it matters, i was punished for my childish expectations. i lost everything i gave. and i lost the time it took to give it. there was no reward. no dividends. no happy ever after. it was just business in the end.
and the whole time i had believed my eyes and my ears and listened and had tried to hold up the "we".
but it was hard. there was permanent breakage from the start, not the end.
he was full of grief and loss.
he was too needy.
but i thought he was consciously aware of all these things.
so when we were dating, i thought he knew about the permanent break. he was so far away from everybody.
he was deep in the valley of the permanent break trying to find his way to sea-level.
like a crushed flashcard on the side of the road in death valley.
in that there was the permanent break.
we were choosing to try to have a relationship despite the permanent break that existed between people.
he had come to me and plied me with the tale of his sister’s suicide. he pulled me into his sorrow spiral because i had told him several months before she killed herself that he should come out to her. she was a lesbian and felt entirely alone in the world and i begged him to reach out to her and share with her that he was gay.
he had this way of never doing anything i suggested and then blaming me later about "advice" that he would get when he had come back to ask for "advice" after not doing what i had suggested after being asked.
it was all a bit dislocating for me
and i give him credit for being clear and levelheaded about it in the end, but he couldn’t undo the damage that i was doing to myself for being such a fking fool.
no version of "sorry, i used you" or "let’s be friends" would ever replace the amount of time he took from my life while the veneer of his "forever man" status diminished in front of me until finally it occurred to me to ask him on the phone one day, long after we’d broken up if his current boyfriend was okay with these calls. i asked because it had also dawned on me that he’d specifically asked me to give him a call and do check-ins every couple of weeks, "are you allowed to talk to me? is your man okay with that?"
and he admitted that they had agreed that he wouldn’t call me. at which point i was like, "oh, i see, so this is like cheating. great, gotta go, man. i just wish you’d be honest. and free. you know that’s what i always wanted for you. i told you that over and over."
and we’ve never connected since.
such a drag.
and this is the danger of relationships.
you can lose years of your life, but even more important, you can lose WINDOWS of your life.
the years are just time, but the windows are specific ages where wonderful and amazing things can happen that cannot happen during other windows of your life.
besides, relationships TAX you.
they TRULY add surcharges and time-penalties to your existence. there will no end of speed bumps and dependency is anti-liberty at its core, so the struggle to be free cannot be achieved unless all parties of the relationship are unionized.
and that’s business contracting, which is an artifice.
grammatically speaking, relationships are duty bound and come with obligatory submissions of personal liberty.
who’d sign up for that?
as if that isn’t enough, relationships will steal your experiences and replace them SHARED memories. and on the surface this sounds great. but that depends on the how the shared memories end up affecting the relationship.
shared memories are indeed precious and the best ones are the ones that you cherish. but after a separation, the best memories are the ones that work as triggers for your sorrow or anger or grief or devastation. the best memories become the worst.
i knew a woman in grad school who had come out as a lesbian. her name was ceebs. and she was a quirky writer with an irish background and we we’re both from san diego where her dad had been police chief or something along those lines. and she’d grown up repressing a lot of stuff. i’d done the same thing until i decided that living a lie was so ordinary and that NO ONE in the whole history of western writing had ever said, "just be a liar. lie to everybody. tell them what they want to hear. then lie about that later."
she used to often say that the thing you really liked about a person and were drawn to about them would become the thing you ended up resenting them for and perhaps even disliking about them.
so it sucks if you hear a bunch of lies up front and then they unravel around you to become the thing you end up resenting. that’s a tough one. and the irony is that lying never ends. it just keeps reinventing itself.
on the other hand, in total fairness, ALL western literature has been littered with the ruins of people’s lies and the horrible effect that lying had on so many people’s lives. and not inadvertently, heaven becomes this place where the lies are all put back together in front of you.
contemporary christianity became so zealous it started to formulate this notion (an entirely post-television & televangelistic fantasy) about how you’d stand in judgement and your entire life would be played back to you.
and you thought andy warhol’s film "SLEEP" was long and boring:
"John Giorno has said Warhol asked him to star in Sleep over Memorial Day Weekend in 1963, when the two retreated to the countryside and Warhol spent the night watching Giorno sleep. “I looked over and there was Andy in the bed next to me, his head propped up on his arm, wide-eyed from speed, looking at me,” Giorno later relayed. "
born a twin, i think my big one wish would be that i DO get to this illusory JUDGEMENT ZONE where god and his posse replay my life to see if i was good enough to get in the the party called heaven.
but, typical me, i could give a sht about the party called heaven. i want access to my unknown life.
i want to watch my birth and everything after like a fking drone camera that i can move around and zoom in or rewind.
i want to see what happened to me when i was left unattended.
i want to see the things i already have been told happened and then re-lied to about it.
i have the cobwebs of all these weird myths that humans create in order to justify PARENTHOOD.
we don’t need parents.
science and the bible have proven that parents are unnecessary and obsolete.
unfortunately pedophiles and religious structures/foundations/corporations and "neo colonist governments" will want to self-protect against this accord.
they want you debt-enslaved with college loans, home loans, bundled family plan phones and car loans.
but that won’t pay for the loans after the entire shipping and distributing INTERCONTINENTAL economy lays off all the drivers and starts running AUTOKAR in a color-coded lane that only AUTOKAR (pilotless vehicle) can use.
that’s a lot of truckers nationwide all hopped on speed and suddenly without jobs??
is this part of the MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN strategy?
shall we name that condition/state right now?
maybe we could call it THE AUTOKAR METH SHADOW.
so keep your eyes open.
maybe it will never, ever, ever, ever happen.
or, give that "new utopia glimpse" a try.
read huxley’s book BRAVE NEW WORLD.
it’s a deeply fascinating look into miranda’s query:
"O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in’t! (5.1.215-218)
— the tempest
i hope you’re free and happy.
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Nye County Commission poised to nullify 600% parcel fee hike
The Nye County Commission is poised to overturn the 600% per parcel fee increase recently approved by the Nye County Water District Governing Board, following the commission’s Dec. 17 meeting where there was an inundation of area residents unified in their anger over the increase.
December 20, 2019 - 7:00 am
Updated December 20, 2019 - 11:40 am
Robin Hebrock/Pahrump Valley Times The Nye County Commissioners' Chambers were filled on Tuesday, Dec. 17 with residents out to make known their opposition to the Nye County Water District Governing Board's decision to increase the per parcel fee on Pahrump properties from $5 to $35.
Robin Hebrock/Pahrump Valley Times The Nye County Commission is shown listening to the public speak against the per parcel fee hike during its Dec. 17 meeting. The commission plans to have an item on its Jan. 21 agenda to formally address a request that it overturn the increase.
The reversal of that fee hike appears to be a given outcome, with a majority of the commission offering statements during the meeting that made it clear they were not in support of the increase either.
The per parcel fee is a charge that appears on every Nye County property owner’s property tax bill and that funding goes toward the operation of the Nye County Water District.
The water board voted unanimously to raise the per parcel fee charged on Pahrump properties, roughly 50,000 lots, from $5 to $35 at its Dec. 9 meeting, in order to fund an exploration project intended to determine if there is additional water available in the deep carbonate aquifer of Pahrump’s Basin #162 that could support continued development in the valley.
That decision sparked immediate backlash from the community and Nye County Commissioner Debra Strickland, obviously frustrated by the move herself, took action to have the issue placed on the Dec. 17 agenda so the commission could discuss the water board’s decision in a public forum.
Nearly two dozen area residents took the opportunity to express their thoughts on the matter. A vast majority of the statements made that morning were staunchly against the parcel fee increase, although a water board member was in attendance to voice his support for the action.
Amargosa resident John Bosta, who has been following the water board and local water issues for many years, started things off by declaring that in his interpretation of the law, the water board did not have the authority to impose any kind of fee in the first place, let alone raise it. He argued that a fee is charge for a specific benefit to the payer and he felt that the water board did not provide any direct benefit to him or other parcel fee payers throughout the county.
Private Well Owners Cooperation Association President Matt Burg and director at large Helene Williams spoke as well, reading into the record a letter prepared by the cooperative which included a request for the commission to, “Deny this project completely as an irresponsible and cumbersome project that has no benefit to the property owners within Basin #162 and the matter be closed with no further action.”
Williams also made sure to enter a “grievance” into the record, stating, “I, Helene Williams, under Nevada Revised Statute Chapter 542 section 9.3, am aggrieved by the decision of the Nye County Water Board on Dec. 9…”
Pahrump resident Dwight Lilly asserted that while he would support a deep carbonate aquifer exploration project, he simply could not agree to a project that proposes to look for water over the county border in Clark County. His fear, he said, was that Clark County would attempt to take control of any water that might be found, leaving Pahrump residents high and dry after paying out millions.
It was a point with which Ralph Hushbeck seemed to concur. He stated that the valley does need to find additional water but he too did not think the exploration should be done in Clark County, nor that the funding portion had been done to the satisfaction of the citizens.
The complaints and criticisms just kept on flowing, with Greg Dann, a former water board member himself, proclaiming his belief that the increase was criminal and Kenny Bent, who has also been following local water issues for many years, contending, “There is still this contention that you can take and put a straw at the bottom of the glass and suck down there and the top’s not going to go down. It’s just amazing, the fraud.”
“Who exactly is it who benefits from this $30 increase? In my opinion, it’s developers,” resident Vince Clark said. “I have absolutely no interest as a parcel owner in this county to have my pocket picked for the benefit of developers. I have no animosity toward developers but I do object strongly to the concept of me paying, in part, for the construction of new housing …”
Another former water board member, Michael Lach, who owns hundreds of Pahrump parcels, slammed the fee hike as well. He remarked that if the water board wants to redistribute pumping in the valley, it should look to the valley fan where water levels have been rising, not over the border in Clark County. Or, Lach said, the water board could use the $4 million proposed for the exploration project to purchase existing water rights and remove them from the books.
Wade Hinden, Sam Jones, Robert Adams, Mike Darby, Teresa Moran, Elaine Baumstark, Walt Turner, Nye County Treasurer John Prudhont and former water board member Dr. Ken Searles all expressed opposition to the increase, too, with Adams asserting that Pahrump property owners were being asked to make an expensive bet that wouldn’t benefit current area residents even if water is found.
Current water board member Walt Kuver was the only person to speak for the fee increase, telling the crowd, “The 8,000 acre feet of water is mandatory if Pahrump is going to continue to grow. Period.”
Kuver also attempted to correct what he felt were misunderstandings by the public, stating that the exploratory project would take place in Basin #162 and he did not believe Clark County’s Southern Nevada Water Authority would be interested in any water found there. Finally, Kuver said he felt the $35 per year parcel fee, which breaks down to $2.92 per month, was not a big deal.
Once the public had its say, the commissioners took a few minutes to air their thoughts as well. Koenig said although he understood that a solution must be found, he couldn’t support the parcel fee increase. Commissioner Donna Cox said she didn’t support the water board’s existence at all and also couldn’t support the fee increase while commissioner Leo Blundo called the increase “egregious”.
The commission plans to address the possibility of overturning the increase at a special meeting set for Tuesday, January 14, 2020, set to begin at 10 a.m. in the Nye County Commissioners’ Chambers, 2100 E. Walt Williams Drive.
Contact reporter Robin Hebrock at rhebrock@pvtimes.com
Author’s note: This article has been updated to reflect a change in date for this meeting.
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Opinion – 2020 Was Difficult; It Was Not the Worst Year Ever
By Ryan Young | Inside Sources
Humans don’t rule the world, it turns out. COVID-19 is too small to see, as President Trump pointed out. It has still killed more than 300,000 Americans in less than a year.
It also ended the longest economic boom in American history and threw millions of people out of work. Millions of people who kept their jobs had to adapt to working at home — while also making sure their remote-schooling children paid attention to their on-screen teachers. COVID-19 meant people were mostly unable to go to movies, concerts or sporting events in 2020. And yet, by historical standards, it was a good year.
COVID-19 is a novel disease. No human caught it before 2019. Scientists created effective vaccines in about a year. By comparison, smallpox has been around since at least Ancient Egypt in the third century B.C. The earliest evidence of inoculation dates to 10th century China. That’s more than a thousand years between smallpox’s first appearance and its first effective treatment — for a disease with a 30 percent fatality rate. But inoculation was rarely practiced until the 18th\ century, so it didn’t help very many people for its first 900 years or so.
When Abigail Adams had her children inoculated in 1776, it was still a scary, new technology for most people. It was an act of courage for her to set a positive example like that. And it took an additional two centuries for smallpox to be eradicated altogether, in 1977. Our generation’s COVID timetable is unimaginably better than with which our ancestors had to deal.
That does not mean COVID is not a serious disease with serious economic and social consequences. Yet, it does mean that 2020 was not the worst year ever. Not even close.
COVID has taken a huge toll on millions of lives. For people who didn’t get sick, isolation was often the hardest part of 2020. Depression, suicide rates and addiction problems all worsened in 2020. Stress from falling behind on bills and rent could have lasting consequences for millions of people.
But we also have ways to stay in touch and give comfort to each other that previous generations never had. Telephones existed during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, but phone companies limited them to emergency use only, because the women operating manual switchboards in crowded offices kept getting sick. Radio, television and email did not exist. The Postal Service was even slower than it is today.
Today, isolation is still hard. But at least we have Zoom, Netflix, Facebook, text messages and operator-less cell phones. Online food, grocery and retail delivery were all growing before the pandemic hit. Thankfully, some of that infrastructure was already in place coming into 2020, because we needed all we had and more.
Go back just a few generations, and the best you could do was the Sears catalog. Thanks to the removal of net neutrality regulations in 2017, an explosion of investment in networks generated enough new capacity to handle exploding new bandwidth demand from widespread videoconferencing and streaming.
It is important to learn the right lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. If we do, we can ensure that 2020 will be the worst year any of us have to face in our lifetimes.
The most important lesson is that openness is important. Scientists need to be able to communicate across national borders without restrictions. Supply networks need to be as open and frictionless as possible, without trade barriers and nationalist chauvinism getting in the way. Regulatory agencies need to be more open to new innovations and approaches. The FDA’s rapid COVID vaccine approval should be the norm, not the usual process that averages a decade of waiting and $1.3 billion per drug.
For ordinary people and small businesses that need to adapt to quarantines on short notice, it is important for regulators to get rid of excessive permits and other requirements. If a regulation is not needed during a pandemic, it was probably never needed in the first place. Some heavy regulatory housekeeping is in order as we emerge from the pandemic.
This was a difficult year. The new year will have its own challenges. But previous generations had it far worse. Our job going forward is to make sure our pandemic experience is far worse than anything our grandchildren will have to endure.
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Ryan Young | Inside Sources
Ryan Young is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
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Vector Control Unit
Vector Control is mainly focusing on (1) Coordination of Indoor Residual Spraying, (2) Quality Control of existing and new vector control interventions or tool, (3) Entomology surveillance including insecticide resistance monitoring, (4) Vector control and Entomology capacity building
Malaria Case Management Unit
Malaria Case Management Unit ensures that the entire population in need have access to quality early malaria diagnosis and treatment at both community and Health facility Level.
Malaria Epidemiology Unit
Malaria Epidemiology Unit coordinates (1) Data Collection and Analysis of Monitoring and Evaluation of Malaria Program interventions for decision making, (2) Malaria Surveillance for Response.
Neglected Tropical Diseases and Other Parasitic Diseases Unit
Neglected Tropical Diseases and Other Parasitic Diseases Unit plans, coordinates and monitors decentralized prevention, diagnosis, treatment and surveillance activities countrywide for the most common Neglected Tropical and Other Parasitic Diseases in Rwanda.
Social Behavior and Communication Change (SBCC) Desk
This cross-cutting desk supports the Division to ensure that the general population and targeted groups receive relevant information around malaria, NTDs and OPDs prevention and diseases related services availability at all levels.
Vision:Rwanda free from malaria, NTDs and OPDs as a way to contribute to the socio economic development.
Mission:The MOPDD is responsible for prevention, vector control and case management for malaria and curbing morbidity and mortality of NTDs and OPDs. The mission for the program is to contribute towards the social- economic development of Rwanda through malaria, NTDs and OPDs control by strengthening and implementing appropriate interventions and quality health delivery services in partnership with stakeholders.
Dr Aimable MBITUYUMUREMYI
Malaria, Neglected Tropical Diseases and Other Parasitic Diseases Division
Email: aimable.mbituyumuremyi@rbc.gov.rw
Zero Malaria Starts with Me Currently Community Health Workers properly diagnose and treat malaria at community level
Personal and Environmental Hygiene and One Health Approach Are Key to NTDs Elimination
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Issue: RPHB Vol 1 Issue 1 March 2019
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This Issues's Articles
Determinants and reasons for low coverage of modern family planning in the Mugonero District Hospital catchment area
Factors associated with preventable hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in term neonates
Prevalence of occupational noise induced hearing loss among wood and metal workers of Gakiriro, Kigali city
Medical citizen outreach programs as Rwanda Defense Force homegrown solution for health challenges in Rwanda
National Study in Rwanda Family planning barriers
Accelerating Fertility Decline to Trigger the Demographic Dividend in Rwanda
Working with community malaria action teams (CMATs) contributes to malaria control
The Public Health Bulletin – Rwanda, Volume 01, Issue 1, March 2019
Online ISSN: 2663-4651, Print ISSN: 2663-4643
By: Dr. Mutagoma Mwumvaneza
Effective birth control is a key intervention in developing countries to achieve sustainable development goals. The United Nations (UN) reported that in 2015 the percentage of married couples using any form of contraceptive was 64.0%, and the average in Africa was 33.0%. This study aimed at assessing and determining factors associated with the low uptake of Modern Family Planning (MFP)
Factors associated with preventable hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in term neonates at Kacyiru hospital, Rwanda - a retrospective study
By: Dr. Ishimwe Sage Marie Consolatrice
Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a type of brain injury that occurs when the brain doesn’t receive enough oxygen or blood flow occurring during pregnancy, labor and delivery or in the postnatal period. This study aimed at determining factors associated with preventable HIE at Kacyiru Hospital in Rwanda.
By: Bukuru John, MD, MMed
Occupational noise-induced hearing loss (ONIHL) is described as an acquired hearing deficiency caused by excessive workplace noise exposure. Little is known about cases of SNHL in our developing country where excessive noise working areas are more prominent.
By: Kayondo King, MD, MMed
Rwanda Defense Force (RDF) Medical Citizen Outreach Program (COP) is a product of a longterm cordial relationship between the Rwandan population and its army from the early 1990s in the liberation struggle to now. This was part of a long plan of social economic development agenda of the government of national unity to deal with complications of genocide and a very low healthcare provider to- population ratio and the need to take medical services to the disadvantaged. A yearly intervention has been on, and its effects in uplifting the healthcare of the population are being investigated.
By: Rugigana Etienne, MD, MPH, MSc
Over the last two decades, Rwanda has registered tremendous improvement in family planning (FP). The contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) in the country has tripled from 17% in 2005 to 53% in 2014-15. However, the 2014-15 Rwanda demographic and health survey (RDHS) showed a slow increase in the use of modern FP methods compared to the previous five years (only around a 3% increase), and the unmet need for contraception remains unchanged at 19% compared to the previous five years. The drop-out rate of FP users is high for unknown reasons, and yet, over the years, many strategies have been put in place to speed up FP uptake in order to reap the “demographic dividend.”
Therefore, there is a need to generate evidence to inform new strategies to address the challenges affecting the FP program, including the identification of the barriers to FP uptake and exploration of the factors associated with the low increase in the modern CPR.
By: Rwanda - United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Rwanda’s fertility rate declined slowly up to 2005 when the country initiated one of the fastest fertility declines in human history over a five year period. The total fertility rate fell markedly from 6.3 to 4.6 children per woman between 2005 and 2010, buoyed by an impressive increase in contraceptive use. However, the rate of decline decelerated between 2010 and 2015, with the fertility rate dropping by less than half a child to 4.2 births per woman1. The infant mortality rate declined from 86 per 1000 live births to 32 per 1000 live births, while under five mortality rate declined from 152 to 50 deaths per 1,000 live births between 2005 and 2015.
By: Marie Chantal Ingabire, Msc, PhD
Maximization of existing malaria preventive measures through active community participation is a high priority for malaria control and elimination [1-3]. Elimination of malaria should not be the responsibility of health professionals alone. Rather health professionals should work with the community to promote their participation in malaria elimination initiatives [4, 5]. This brief shares findings from the Malaria Elimination Program for Ruhuha (MEPR). This program was funded by WOTRO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research/NWO Science for Global Development). It aims at showing the multifactorial conditions of malaria in a community and the role of community participation in the elimination of malaria. Specifically, the program worked with community malaria action teams (CMATs) to sensitize the community about malaria elimination and to identify and facilitate community-based solutions for malaria elimination.
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